http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__Embedded/I wondered if anyone was reporting from the frontlines of American Society, embedded with the poverty stricken and reporting on what happens each day when you live in the greatest country on earth and earn enough to survive and not much else. I wondered if anyone was explaining America to others and thought that, since I was already embedded in this ongoing cultural experiment, I might tell what it's like.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__Embedded/567637I don't know how many people who were not Republicans watched the RNC on t.v., but I watched the major speeches on my computer. I threw out my t.v. about six months ago when I just couldn't take the NOTHING that it had become even one more minute. I saw, at the Republican National Convention, old...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__Embedded/567487Am I the only one who remembers the 80s as a sad and a tortuous time for Americans? The sharks changed all sorts of economic policies and then ran rampant using and abusing banking, lending, savings and loan institutions, until their financial houses of cards fell under their new and greedier...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__Embedded/567485I remember as a child helping my father to put flyers on cars at the grocery store, papers that asked Arizonans to get to know and to vote for Jack Kennedy. Our particular group, and I was only twelve or thirteen at the time, our group was on fire. We wanted to hand Kennedy our Republican state on...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__Embedded/565545continuing fairly stable political process of my nation. When I look at other nations and the chaos that their citizens endure, I thank the forefathers for doing an excellent job of defining us, controlling us, soliciting co-operation from us, allowing us a somewhat fair means of seeking justice...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__Embedded/563326So, thirty-four years ago when lightning struck my first little home, I was sure that I had done something to anger the gods. And though there was just a tiny chink in the corner of one brick in the facade outside, the bedroom wall had been totally blown open inside the house. I had just taken...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__Embedded/561371This three minute video speaks volumes and also feeds you, food for thought. Click on the link if you have a minute.... McDonough talks about Earth and peoplehttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__Embedded/560855Someone made a file called The Entire Bush Administration and then tried to delete it. The bumper sticker, a screen capture showed that little window that opens to ask you, YES or NO, "Are you sure that you want to delete The Entire Bush Administration?" Yes No I giggled all the way home...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__Embedded/559888Legal Technology - At the Border, Your Laptop Is Wide-Open At the Border, Your Laptop Is Wide-Open By David E. Brodsky, Timothy M. Haggerty and Tamara J. Britt The National Law Journal July 22, 2008 After two of its executives had their laptops and other electronic devices seized and searched at...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__Embedded/558257San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora— El próximo 1 de agosto el Frente Cívico Sanluisino participará en el bloqueo de la garita internacional de Sonoyta, población que se une a la lucha en pro de tarifas eléctricas justas, así lo anunció Alberto Becerril, líder de la agrupación civil. Electric rates are...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__Embedded/557998Here is what she wrote, after I cleaned up grammar, etc. as best I could....she uses no paragraphs anymore, and she was an English teacher for decades. "Penny (my head shaved in a friend's cancer solidarity, sister) and I went off early this morning, up by the turn off to Pima Canyon where we...