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Friday, April 8, 2011

If you can't get it right, just shut up...

Okay, here they go again... partisan politickers holding the economic well-being of the People hostage over idealogical differences, though 'well-being' may be an over optimistic term... Still, it is heartening to see that the 'journalists' of the day are still getting their exercise, repeating and rerunning and basically milking the situation for every penny--because it is about the pennies--they can get. Okay, that's a lie. I am fed up with the idea that this kind of crisis is the only thing... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Some music to raise the heart...

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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Love’s Not Always Pink

Love’s not always pink-- It’s what you feel and live not what you think. Sometimes it’s what you give or are allowed to take or nothing you can have for someone else’s sake. Love’s not always song-- its voice not always heard or clear and strong. Sometimes it’s just absurd and makes no kind of sense Or it speaks without a word, has neither rhyme nor tense. Love’s not always glee-- It has its moods and swings and doesn’t see. Sometimes imaginings turn into fear and doubt or expectation clings to... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

If you are celebrating thnkfulness today

Don't forget to raise an appreciative glass to the men and women overseas particularly those in the war zones that have put their lives between us and those who would be thankful to see us dead. That's a truth that transcends politics or philosophy, prejudice or opinion. Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Love Pats?

Okay, so a noisy percentage of everyone is complaining about having to either display their goodies to airport security e-ray vision... or have those unsmiling, unfriendly security hands all over their person... How... undignified! How... unpleasant! Well... I just have to wonder, has anyone considered the plight of the airport security employee? Imagine what they have to look at, by the hundreds, day after day! Imagine what they have to touch, likewise? By the hundreds! Day after day! Maybe... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Speaking of the Haves and Have-nots...

as our TAPS recently did... In Washington State, we get to vote on a question regarding the application of a new tax to be levied against the richest of the state's population. It amounts, as many have pointed out, to a state income tax, and in 2 years, could be adapted to apply to everyone in the state. We already have nearly the highest sales tax in the nation, and a state income tax has been rejected time and again, despite the great regressive unfairness of the sales tax which gets worse... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

A reading theme today

As I spent some time today wandering the blogscape in territory never or seldom or not recently explored, I found myself following a thread of thought. The greatest failing of this grand experiment, the United States of America, is that we have ceased to learn, we have been voluntarily sliding, like the kids who don't want to be called on, to the back of the class. Or like the kids who think they know enough, and don't need to pay attention to where the rest of the class is going. Or like the... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

OMG can you believe the news?

Have you seen the news lately? Watched CNN, maybe? There is a new trend in news delivery which I find appalling and disgusting. Vocal tonalities of excitement and horror and enthusiasm and dismay... in case we have no sensibilities of our own... Smart aleck asides and comments on the stories... good lord!! Apparently we need more emotional judgement and less neutrality in our journalists. Bodycounts alone are not sufficiently entertaining, we have to see these people as our friends and mentors?... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

You have to be old enough...

(I didn't write this, my daughter sent it to me... no idea where she got it from ) You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, and too old to REALLY understand computers, to fully appreciate this. For those of us who sometimes get flustered by our computers, please read on... If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, 'Who's on First?' might have turned out something like this: COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT ABBOTT: Super Duper computer... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Now and then I follow a trail through Blogit...

and today found the final posts of gomedome posted almost exactly a year ago, as he was packing up to go. I am sorry for the loss in this community of his wit and knowledge, and understand well his views on religion and tolerance, and lack of tolerance where he finds it. What he has said about the American Christian paradigm dominating this forum seems also to me to be true. But I am not sure that it actually is true. (I am wondering now where in all that he placed me, if he considered my... Sign in to see full entry.

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