On the second fifty years: traditional food, vibrant health, fitness, love, sex, kids (I think that's the right order), work, aging parents, and raising chickens. Here's to keeping the second fifty as interesting and alive as the first!
I always opt out of the scanner and go for the grope. In my not-so-humble opinion, anyone who walks thru that scanner is not smart enough to parent. Hopefully, they don’t already have kids because, after a few trips, they won’t be able to parent. Small comfort. I can’t keep my mouth from hanging open while I watch parents send their kids through a machine that irradiates them and shows them naked to the pervs behind the curtain. Who’s the sicker party?
To date, I’ve been groped about 10 times and, really, nothing to write home about. The waistband . . . → Read More: TSA Pervs Gone WILD!
S510, the Monsanto GMO Protection Act, passed the Senate on Sunday night. Sunday night. They waited till a Sunday night when no one but they knew they would meet or that this would be the agenda.
“Wait,” asks little Virginia, “There was no vote. How did it pass?”
Correct, Virginia, there was not a vote. It passed by what is called Unanimous Consent. Which is actually a misnomer because there was no unanimous consent. There was unanimous keeping their mouths shut and their hands in their laps. And, hopefully, their eyes glued to the floor in shame. (I am such a . . . → Read More: It Doesn’t Get Any Dirtier Than This
I’m doing our annual budget using the accrual method of accounting* because I like seeing the big picture. I’m a realist. Except when I’m actually writing checks in, say, a clothing store, which is when fantasy takes over. Which explains why I don’t carry a checkbook anymore. Or a credit card. We all have our tiny flaws.
First, let’s look at what we owe. Since we don’t have any car, house or fund payments, our part is easy. That leaves accounting for our household’s share of government debt, which we’ve also figured using the accrual method, meaning it includes unfunded mandates.** OK, . . . → Read More: Planning for 2011: The Budget
Go to DownsizeDC.org here. If you are a member of DownsizeDC.org, login. If you are not a member, you need to enter your address (you have to for any correspondence to Congress) and the system will automatically enter your Congress persons’ names.
Here’s my letter which you can copy and paste for ease, or edit, use freely:
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Dear Chandler/McConnell/Bunning:
STOP S.510. It will crush family farms and small businesses with excessive regulations and criminal charges — even if no one gets sick! And even though they were NOT the source of ANY food safety problems in recent history.
Believe it or not, this is in danger of happening. If you and I don’t do something to stop the march, it will happen as surely as night follows day. If Monsanto is given the reins, bye bye God’s green earth, hello GMO.
Here are two things you can do right now that will turn the tide:
“Bloom where you are planted.” Remember that? I heard it back in the late 70s, during my tortured soul searching days. Good advice, even when you’ve planted yourself in a freezing cold city where it will eventually snow and nothing else is blooming. Especially then, eh?
Honestly, I’m such a frickin’ Pollyanna, if a nuclear device exploded in my back yard, I’d find something good about it.
So here’s the silver lining du jour: we love this house.
It fits us perfectly, it’s not so big it requires a truckload of furniture (and an Early Bucket Shop decor is pretty durn cheap). . . . → Read More: Blooming.
Last Saturday, I was at the Freedom Rally in Frankfort, KY. Yay, freedom! One of the best things for me about being back in the states is getting to participate in the political process. I am a political junkie right now. I must like frustration and being angry, eh?
Christina Tobin was there, too. She is the founder of FreeAndEqual.org, an organization dedicated to making sure all candidates have access to the ballot so the voters know their choices for representation. She is a dynamo, a go-getter and doesn’t let ANYTHING stand in . . . → Read More: Costa Rica: On 7,000 Marines, Legalizing Marijuana, and Forcing GMOs
Only YOU can stop FDA tyranny. Please donate $5 or more to one or both of these family farms. If you don't help, they will be bankrupted by the FDA. With NO evidence of harm to anyone.
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