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Liars, Politicians and Jocks - Oh My!

Morons Among Us Who Procreate

I caught a snippet of an interview Dr. Phil was doing with the octuplet mom (Suleman) and she was trying to tell him that she was on welfare and that she was going to avail herself of it for her new 8 children, as well as the other 6. In my opinion, she is in serious need of either a swift kick in the butt, sterilization, or a frontal lobotomy. Maybe all three. And my feelings about the doctor that she had do the fertilization? Yup, HE can pay for those children's needs for the next 18 years. 

President Obama, Your Constituents Are Hopeful But Cautious

For the past 8 years I hadn't been able to listen to any speech made by our President because I vehemently dislike George Bush so much. It was a pleasant experience to watch President Obama's State of the Nation address last night, not only because it filled me with some (cautious) hope, but also because he is an exemplary speaker. 

It occurred to me as he was listing all of the things his administration is going to try to do in the next four years that it is almost like a lawsuit for damages. I mean, he is/was an attorney, and don't they always ask for the highest sum the suit will allow, knowing that most likely they won't get anywhere near that, but a goodly sum all the same. Who knows what they can get done? I have a feeling the American public is in a wait-and-see mode though, clutching their wallets and holding on for the bumpy ride ahead. 

I still think they should sell some sort of "Recovery Bonds" like they did in WWII for War Bonds. I thought I heard him say something like that last night, but he didn't elaborate. 

Maybe some of you are like me. I feel like an abused child who has no trust in anyone and so I remain cautiously optimistic. My government has crapped on me more that it's ever helped me. I just feel like if you get that many bureaucrats and politicians together with trillions of dollars it is such a temptation to "misdirect" some of it. 

The Return of Ken "Arrogant" Griffey To the Mariners Frees Up My Summer

As much as I like to watch baseball in the summer, I have a feeling my summer won't be spent watching the Mariners now that they have Griffey back in the lineup. After reading the sports section this week and some of his quoted comments, it's obvious he is still a conceited jock and he is going to go out on the field with his cockiness and I just can't stand to see the fans eat that up. I think he's arrogant and a poor example to kids. Yeah, yeah, he has lots of home runs, but when he starts posing up there at the plate for the PR shots when he gets a home run, that's when I will call it quits.  

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Stay tuned! I'm sure one of these days I'll find something positive to write about! Actually, if you want that, you should visit my genealogy blog iPentimento. Here's some of my latest posts:

How To Share A Small Family Group In Family Tree Maker

The Home Friend 1909 - Ohio Carriage Mfg Company

Dual Citizenship Through DNA Results?

The Market Is Up At Entrecard

The Market Is Up! Well, at least at Entrecard.

As if it could, Entrecard just keeps getting better and better. For those of you who haven't (yet) put Entrecard on your blogs, what are you waiting for? Your traffic will explode. You'll find some really interesting blogs and make some new friends. And now, if you have something to sell, you can do it in the Entrecard marketplace. Take a look at this video and you'll see what I mean.Thanks Graham!

In the mean time, I'm going to be thinking of what I can add to the market...

One More Plea For Wolves

If there is anything you can do to help stop this senseless slaughter of wolves, please do so. Bush may be gone from office, but the killing of wolves still is slated in several states. We humans need to be better earth stewards and not allow states like Montana, Alaska, Wyoming and Idaho to kill these animals. Who is promoting this senseless killing? Powerful ranching and hunting interests.

Once their status as an endangered species is taken away, those states plan a massive kill off. Please add your voice to our plea for the lives of these animals who are necessary for the balance of nature. This isn't just about money and donations (I have donated $10 today and in the past) but about common sense and doing what is right. Please make your voice heard!

Your donation to the NRDC Action Fund is worth every penney.

		President Bush is gone. His wolf-killing policies are not.   Help us mobilize America in an all-out campaign to keep Greater Yellowstone’s wolves protected under the Endangered Species Act.

While Idaho Suffers Governor Otter Plays Politics

I received this email from my friend Sheryl who lives in Idaho in response to an email I forwarded to her from MoveOn.org. As you can imagine, she is furious with her elected officials and has voiced her opinion to her Senator Walt Minnick. The "them" she refers to is MoveOn.org. Here is what she said:

I sent them $10.  Hopefully, everyone can scrape up $10.  This is exactly what I want to see plastered all over all the TV channels, all the time.  I hope they show the ******** with a big red A on their foreheads or whatever would be appropriate for ******** that cut education, school construction and aid for states so that states can keep fire fighters, policemen, and state offices open, or whatever. 

Or, worse yet, Democrats that we voted into office WHO DO NOT SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT THAT WE OVERWHELMINGLY VOTED INTO OFFICE!!!  In Clearwater County, our unemployment rate is 15.5% and the children are attending school in crumbling buildings and/or temporary trailers with sad equipment.  Our county officials and the school board do good work and make the hard decisions and they are frugal. 

We pay our taxes and we donate to the school on a regular basis, but we need this infusion from OUR government.  How any elected official, especially a Democrat, could vote against help for our state is mind boggling and criminal.  Perhaps they are Republicans, just calling themselves Democrats, just to get elected.  We ARE going to suffer if our state has to make deeper cuts in services. 

Thanks for sending this to me  I thought we were past all this and, the Dems, at least, would get on with supporting our DEMOCRAT President and doing the people's work.  Oh, well.  I have put my.barackobama.com

 and MoveOn.org back on my monthly auto pay list and I recommend that you all do the same.  Remember to donate books and computer equipment to your local school library, they all desperately need the help!  Thanks for blogging this for me.  Sheryl Finley

I have seen the schools in Sheryl's area and they are a disgrace. In fact, a couple years ago two of the schools had to consolidate just to keep the children enrolled. This isn't the slums. This is rural Idaho where people are too poor to move anywhere else.

The Latest Insult

Now, tonight, I saw this new article

. If ever there was a doubt in your mind that politicians care more about their jobs than the people they serve, reading this article would dispel it once and for all.

GOP governors consider turning down stimulus money

Port Orchard Is Not Under Grenade Attack

We have helicopters flying over our house all the time. Usually though, they're on their way to or from somewhere or something like a hot news story or headed to Harborview hospital in Seattle with an accident victim. Yesterday, they were just hovering at treetop level off to the west of our house. Truthfully, I didn't pay attention to it much because I was busy doing something on the computer.

When it finally did get my attention I went out on the deck with my camera and the binoculars well in hand. The pictures make it look like they were checking out that 50 foot fir tree on our street, but it's just my amateur picture taking.

What was all the flap about? The story is that a retired Marine at our local Walmart saw something under a car that looked like a grenade. He called 911 and South Kitsap Fire and Rescue responded immediately. So did the local news helicopter from KOMO Channel 4. After sending in a robot to retrieve the 'grenade', it turned out to be a paintball grenade that had been painted to look more like a real grenade.

No, this kind of event doesn't happen here all the time in Port Orchard. I am just thankful that the Marine called it in, and that we have a great explosives response here in our area. You can read the whole story at the Kitsap Sun site.

QUESTION TO MY READERS

My question to you is, if you saw something that looked like a grenade under a car, would you call 911?

Martha Stewart Living Helps You Die Fat and Diabetic

Today, I received an email from a friend who is canceling her subscription to Martha Steward Living. Why? Because this month the magazine carried an advertisement for High Fructose Corn Syrup! Well Martha, when your well-informed readers get wind of this, you can probably expect to lose some more subscribers.

As all of us parents are trying to keep our families healthy by avoiding too many sweets, chemicals in our food and other unhealthy ingredients, promoting something unnatural like HFCS is a veritable slap in the face when it's done in a high profile magazine. This is NOT a "good thing" Martha and you and your staff should know better.

No doubt you have seen those lame commercials where they try to show that HFCS is "ok", haven't you? They irritate the you-know-what out of me, and not only that, they insult our intelligence. If you are seeing those rebuttal commercials, then you can bet that we have hit them in their pocket by not buying the products that contain it.

As never before in the past, we have an epidemic of childhood and adult onset diabetes in this country, as well as more obese children than ever before. We don't need to make it worse, and we surely don't need to promote high fructose corn syrup in an influential magazine like Martha Stewart Living. Shame on you Martha!

If you feel the same way I do about this deceptive advertising please make your voice heard by contacting Martha here or here: Questions/comments about one of our magazines.

I'm Doing My Part For MoveOn.org

Dear Readers,

I'm not flush with disposable income any more than the rest of you. I didn't even have the $25 to donate to MoveOn.org that they asked for. But I did have $10, and you betcha I donated it. Every time I get an extra $10 I'm going to do it. And, here's what else I would like to see:

• Prominently displayed everywhere on TV, Internet, etc., the voting records of all elected officials so that the poor, hungry, displaced and out-of-work can see who is on their side and they can vote accordingly next time and every time.
  

We need to keep sending clear messages to our government that we want our country back! If you like this idea, then feel free to copy the below message on your blog and get the word out. We got Obama in office to clean house and bring us back to prosperity. This is a way you can help and it's as easy as a small donation and copy/paste. I'm for this. This I can do. Can you?

All American - Carol

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Dear MoveOn member,

You'd think after bankrupting our country, Republican leaders would rethink some of their ideas.

Guess again.

They actually tried to replace the whole stimulus bill with tax cuts for the rich. And the worst part is, they were partially successful—they gutted funding from some of the most progressive programs, like school construction and affordable health care.

We need to make sure voters back home know what these Republicans are up to. Because if we don't, they'll do it again. They'll weaken or block every important piece of legislation this year.

If you want health care for all, if you want to stop climate change, if you want to end the war, can you help run ads letting voters know that their senators and representatives stood in the way of change? Since yesterday, thousands of contributions have been coming in. But we're still $100,000 short of our goal. Can you chip in $25 to put us over the top?

https://pol.moveon.org/donate/jobs.html?id=15570-3527654-3mLBmWx&t=3

 

President Obama and most of the congressional Democrats spent the last month working hard to craft a plan that would help keep hundreds of thousands of teachers from being laid off, invest in vital green-energy technology, and provide health care for folks who lose their jobs.

What did conservative Democrats and Republicans bring to the table? Rehashed Bush policies and tired talking points. The very same things that got us into this mess in the first place. The stimulus will still create millions of jobs, and it's an important first step, but it could have been even stronger.

People are really suffering across our nation, yet Republicans are continuing to play the same old partisan games—and they're being helped along by conservative Democrats. Don't worry: We'll hold both Republicans and Democrats who stand in the way of change accountable with these ads.

We need to make it crystal clear to their voters what they're doing. If we don't, these senators and representatives will stand in the way of every bit of progress we try to make this year, from clean energy to affordable health care for all. Can you chip in $25 to help us run hard-hitting ads exposing this conservative obstructionism?

https://pol.moveon.org/donate/jobs.html?id=15570-3527654-3mLBmWx&t=4

 

Thanks for all you do.

–Noah, Karin, Marika, Joan and the rest of the team

Republicans tried everything they could to block Obama's stimulus. They'll keep at it all year unless we tell their voters back home that they're standing in the way of change. Can you chip in $25 to get some hard-hitting ads on the air?

 

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Postal Prices Increase Again May 11th

Just in case you haven't heard, the price for first class mail in the USA is going up again on May 11th.

♥ Mother's Day is May 10th ♥
Father's Day is June 21st

Check here for other 2009 holidays!

Pentimento Friends and Family Update

I hope all my friends know how much I appreciate how often you visit this blog. Sometimes though, real life interrupts blogging and that is what happened a few days ago. On Friday, my brother went in to the ER with pain in his stomach and yesterday we went down to Olympia because he had decided to go ahead with the surgery his doctor had suggested. I had been kind of "out of it" mentally (more than usual?) since Friday and so not posting much or dropping Entrecards. I am aware that it isn't the end of the world if I don't update this blog.

My brother came through his surgery very well, which is always a relief for everyone concerned. Since he is my only sibling and we actually have a very close relationship, you can imagine that I was happy everything went well for Dave.

In the mean time, I just want to say, "It's good to have friends and family". Thanks everyone.

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