I saw this ad on TV this morning and thought it was PERFECT for John McCain. Even though I knew it was a Hillary ad I kept thinking John McCain during the ad. He is who she is conjuring up with this. Honestly, the person I would trust most to keep my kids safe … the person I want answering the phone at 3:00 a.m. when danger is lurking outside …. is John McCain.
What about you?
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I just thought the photo above was beautiful, so I figured I’d add it. Something about it seemed to me to fit with the mysteries of Leap Year. I know, leap year is not all that mysterious, but the photo seems to me to be. I shamelessly grabbed the photo from DHAVAR Y PUNTO. Unfortunately, my Spanish is not good enough to really read what he has written and its late enough for me to be too lazy to run it through a translation program. I will just say, who knew that the Mayans had electricity! (just kidding).
Some more links of interest ………
Conservative Beach Girl - Boycott Berkeley - Semper Fi
Rant It Up - Sex and Youth…Who do we blame?
Conservative Thoughts - Your Story Is Important To Me
The Spanish Pundit - El terrorista de la silla de ruedas
McCain Blogs - links for 2008-02-28
The Pink Flamingo - Abuse of Power
Leaning Straight Up - Something to consider: Is McCain ineligible to be President by virtue of his birthplace?
Wake Up America - Nancy Pelosi’s Congress Responsible for John McCain being Trusted More on National Security
A Flyover Blog - Red Friday, February 22
Dumb Ox Daily News - Remembering William F. Buckley
Wind Rose Hotel - Don’t Forget Burma
An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings - Morning Coffee 02/28/08
Captain’s Quarters - Geldof: The Unexpected Bush
Basil’s Blog - Hussein in the membrane
Hot Air - Joint Chiefs Chair: Preparing for Chaos
Admiral Mike Mullen, chair of the Joint Chiefs of the Armed Services, issued a warning to the Democratic presidential hopefuls today. The kind of rapid withdrawal from Iraq that Hillary Clinton has suggested and Barack Obama has demanded would lead to chaos and a breakdown of the gains achieved over the last year. He would carry out such an order, but cautioned against it:
Chas’ Compilations - Obama & Democrats want American weakness
Webloggin - All lawbreakers, please come to San Francisco
Born Again Redneck - Daily duh: Democrats’ gloomy economic outlook is a “self-fulfilling prophecy”
Southern Sass on Crime - Ohio teens spend hours torturing disabled girl
The Violence Worker - Congress Strikes Out
Planck’s Constant - Nothing Wrong with what Michelle Obama Said
Right Girl - Multiculturalism means more than interesting new restaurants:
The Tygrrrr Express - My Interview With Bruce Herschensohn
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This video is excerpts from the new Celtic Thunder show. I suppose Celtic Thunder is the masculine answer to Celtic Woman. Heh! I like the bald headed guys songs (I don’t know his name … yet). I’m looking forward to seeing the whole show.
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I was just talking with my daughter via IM when I found myself wondering when it was that I became ‘The Mother’. Its one thing to be the young mother of two little adorable rug rats, its a whole other thing to be The Mother of two grown children.
When my kids were little I didn’t think of myself as ‘The Mother’. I was still Beth …. with two little kids. I still had my whole life ahead of me and the kids were a great little addition to things.
I was still my mother’s daughter. I was still my daddy’s little girl. To make matters even worse for me, I was the youngest daughter in a large family with a lot of girls. I was the young one and that was just fine with me. That all meant that I told my mother about how things were. I picked out gifts for her to give and wrapped them for her. I was better at cleaning her house than she was. I knew more about style and fashion than her. I knew more about marriage, children and life in general than she did. I advised her. I worried about her. I hooked up her VCRs for her. She needed me to take care of her and help her. At least in my mind she did. She let me do it because she’s not crazy and it was free labor … when I was in the mood and not involved in my own dramas at least. I did my caretaking job with more than a little bit of condescension and at my convenience. I’m not sure how she managed the biggest bulk of the time when I wasn’t available. She was ‘The Mother’.
I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older that she’s much more capable than I ever gave her credit for. She also knows more than I ever admitted she could possibly have known. She had actually lived a few years longer than me and had learned a few things along the way. I didn’t know that then because I hadn’t lived long enough to know it.
Now I’m ‘The Mother’. It hit me suddenly this evening when my daughter’s im popped up. ‘Hola’, she said because that’s how she usually starts an im. As soon as I replied she asked, ‘Have you been to the doctor yet?’. I’ve been sick this week and she’s told me a couple of times to go to the doctor and I haven’t gone. I actually sidestepped the question at first, as though I was in class and didn’t have my homework ready and was trying to avoid letting the teacher know that. Then I caught myself. This is my daughter!! She’s supposed to be sidestepping my questions, not the other way around. ‘No, I haven’t been yet,’ I explained, ‘I’m feeling better today. I don’t think I really need to go.’ See what I did there? I didn’t avoid the question but I’m EXPLAINING TO MY DAUGHTER WHY I HAVEN’T MINDED HER YET!
She didn’t accept my explanation. She started in on me, ‘Mama, you need to go to the doctor. You’ve been sick a week … yada, yada, yada.’ I found myself feeling guilty and reprimanded. That’s when I realized that I had become ‘The Mother’.
I’ve sensed it before with both of my children. Its been increasing over the last few months, especially since my son has been out of Iraq. At some point in time things changed. I can’t pinpoint when it was. I don’t even know if there was a particular point in time that marks the second in which the scales tipped more in one direction than the other. But it most certainly happened because things most certainly changed.
Apparently the two of them discuss me from time to time. There was the time that they both approached me at different times to tell me that they had been discussing me and what they had decided I needed to do about a job situation I was in. They were discussing me. They had decided what I needed to do. They had decided how to approach me about it. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE and WHY are they telling me what to do!!! I can practically see them shaking their heads in sad disbelief on the other end of the telephone. I can only blame myself. I’m the one that taught them to talk.
Sigh. They are me twenty years ago. I hope my mother enjoys this because I know that she knows exactly how it feels. Its all coming back on me. They were me as teenagers and now they are me as young adults. Fortunately, they really are smarter than me and better than I ever thought of being.
We all know that we live in a very litigious society. Everybody sues for everything. Except me. My husband and I were laughing earlier that we just aren’t the type of people who get compensated for things. The conversation started because of someone I know that makes a living suing people. This isn’t someone I know well, just someone I know of. She does things like takes an umbrella into a well-known department store and lets water drip on the floor, falls down then claims negligence on the part of the store. Those kinds of accident claims cost us all more money in the long run. The store has to pay someone like her off and they pass the cost on to the consumer.
That sort of things irritates me because it makes it more difficult for people who have legitimate claims to be properly and rightfully compensated. If you have a reasonable claim than you have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get the compensation that is due you. Thats thanks in part to the lady with the wet umbrella who makes false claims!
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You are probably thinking this is just fluff - but it seriously takes some guts to back a Republican candidate in Hollywood. I figured I’d give Angie Harmon her due for coming out publicly and supporting John McCain.
“There are a lot more people in L.A. voting for McCain than you think,” Harmon said in the newest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now. “We have an underground Republican Party!”
Its so much easier to assess how much a Senator has accomplished when he’s been running for President ever since he’s been in the Senate. It just makes it easier on the rest of us to see what his record is. Unlike John McCain who has a long record that would take a while to analyze, you can analyze Obama’s in just a couple of minutes.
Sphere: Related ContentI’ve had a number of friends and relatives over the years who have undergone the agonizing and often lengthy process of Infertility treatments. I admit that my knowledge about is is pretty sparse. Most of what I know is what I have heard from my relatives and friends who have had to undergo the treatments.
I was reading about the progress that has been made in the area of infertility at the IVF1 website. IVF1 has clinics in Chicago and Naperville, Illinois. It is an in vitro fertilization and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) center operated by fertility specialist Dr. Randy Morris. Dr. Morris helps couples diagnosis their specific problems with conception all the way through treatments that are appropriate for the diagnosis including, but not limited to IVF treatment. The website was a wealth of information on all aspects of fertility issues. It is well worth the read, especially if you find yourself in need of this kind of assistance.
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Jessica Simpson is getting ready to go to Kuwait to entertain the troops. I was looking for a link because I thought I had written about that before, maybe I just read it some where and meant to post it cause I couldn’t find the link. Anyway, she’s been there before, I’m pretty sure. She wrote about her upcoming trip on her website Sweet Kisses ….
“Hey ya’ll, I just wanted to say hi, and let you know that I am hard at work on my country record, and I can’t wait to share it will all of you.”
“I am heading to Kuwait to do a show for the troops, then back in the studio.”
“I love you all and am so blessed by the support and love you show me everyday!! xoxo jess.”
She may very well be a complete airhead and as shallow as they come, but at least she does do something for our Troops. I understand she gives back to our country in several ways (ie: charitable donations, etc). So good for her. I’m sure that’ll cheer the guys up just fine! I imagine my son would have been thrilled if any of these stars had made it over there while he was there.
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A panel will examine “the right age to begin teaching what the key messages are and content that young people should receive at each key stage”.
The group will make recommendations to the Government later in the year without first consulting the public.
They’ve apparently come up with about 5-years-old. In other words, as soon as the State gets their grubby little hands on the little tykes.
Of course there are interests groups that are pressuring the committee to sneak in more requirements for more explicit sex education at a younger age. There are also groups that are angrily pressuring the committee not include options such as waiting until you are married for sex. For that matter, even that perhaps you might want to have a long-term committed relationship. Well, even that you might want to know the guys last name. That sort of thing is just not to be taught. Of course, teaching all about all the ‘alternative’ lifestyles is a-okay though.
I don’t know about you, but I had some really good teachers and some really bad teachers over the years. So did my kids. Some of them had good common sense and some just thought that since they knew more than a 3rd grader that meant they knew more about everything than anyone. Some used their classrooms to further their own personal agendas. Point being, I don’t want them teaching my kids about sex. I certainly don’t want the state deciding through some committee that’s already got their own agenda when, where and how the children will be taught about sex. And they are doing this without any sort of public hearing.
This is what Barack Obama has mentioned would be something our society would benefit from.
Personally, I think this strays much too far from one of the time honored traditions of our culture. There is just something not right about having an adult teaching young children about sex. They should be given misinformation and weird ideas about sex when they are in middle school by the all - knowing - older - kid - in - gym - class. That’s why there’s an all - knowing - older - kid in every gym class. Duh!
That’s the way its always been and its worked perfectly well for generations of Americans. In fact, it was probably passed down from our British ancestors. Really, its better to get be emotionally screwed up by the older - kid - in - gym - class than by a teacher anyway,
Its the American way and I really don’t think you should mess with proud traditions.
Sphere: Related ContentI guess I’m a dinosaur. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me to spend so much on a wedding that you start your marriage off in debt. I would think that it would be more important to start your marriage off debt free and to spend the money you would spend on a big fancy wedding on a down payment for a house or even just to put it away for a rainy day.
I know, when you are young and in love you aren’t thinking like that! But give it some consideration. If you are taking out loans to pay for a wedding that costs anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000 then you might want to step back and give it another thought. Perhaps you can find some ways to make the cost more in line with what you can afford. At the very least, if you are going to take out loans give as much consideration to the Secured Loans you take out as you do to the color of the bridesmaids dresses.
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“There are only approximately 2,500 SEALs in the Navy and they really are a brotherhood,” said Naval Special Warfare spokesman Lt. David Luckett. “This is another unfortunate reminder of the risks and sacrifices these amazing warriors and their families make on a daily basis.”
Koch leaves behind his parents and a fiancee. He enlisted in July 1998 and entered SEAL training in January 1999, according to The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk. He received the Bronze Star, Joint Service Commendation Medal and three Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals.
Navy SEAL Michael E. Koch died Feb. 4 after being wounded by small-arms fire during combat operations in Iraq alongside fellow SEAL Nathan Hardy, who was profiled last week.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
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