GOOD GRIEF, I MUST BE GAY!!!

We have Obama’s latest nominee
for the Supreme Court.

A nice looking lady called Elena Kagan.
Which, of course, brings on the open season
from the Republican party in particular, but
from others as well.

She has never been a judge, but she has been
The Dean of Harvard Law School and a
solicitor general and she is a lawyer.

Which has made it hard for the opposition
to come up with dirt on her. So hard that
they had to reach … really reach for an
old picture. A picture of her in pants, jeans,
I guess, and shirt, with a bat in her hand
swinging.

AND FROM THIS…some idiot has decided
SHE MUST BE GAY!!! Well, I hate to tell
you dear readers, but I have been in such
clothing many times. I played ball as a kid.
I played softball on tavern teams in Roslyn
Washington….. So by their account ……
I MUST BE GAY. Can you believe such an
assine assumption? Why haven’t they accused
the man who is not married as being a Homosexual?

I tell you these people are really bellying up below
The limbo stick for sure.

And just for the record, if she does turn out to be gay,
that is no big deal….that is her business. And it can’t
effect her decisions if she makes it to the court, than
the straight ones who are already there. Does any one
accuse them of being biased when it come up to married
couples?

Them against Us song

People get upset from time to time when others
give the them and us attitude... You know the
rich against the poor/middle class attitude.

But it is hard to keep a happy face, as those of
us who work hard. Pay our taxes, obey the rules and laws...
And others who don't have so much.
And the media keeps telling us we are all hurting..

But


How can we be in a recession if....College Presidents
ask and get a Million or more for wages?
CEO's get millions for bonus's?
Sports players are still demanding and getting multi-millions for wages?
Truman Capote's house is selling for $18 million dollars? And some
one will buy it at that price.
Say nothing of the Picasso picture that just sold to someone
with $18 million dollars.

And then there are those who are on the commercial, I owed the
IRS over $400 thousand dollars in back taxes... and I went to
(who ever the commercial was for) and they got it cut down
to $40,000. What is with that? You and I paid in full all of our
taxes. Heck, in 10 years I didn't make $400 thousand dollars.


For those of you who made it big... I am happy for you,
but I wish life was a little more fair. When police officers,
firemen, and the troops who do a life and death job...get
a quarter or less than what a CEO gets for a wage, never
mind his bonus. And please don't try
the deal of we could have done it too...No, we couldn't.
We didn't have the family with money, we didn't have
the one in 20 shot of being a great sports person.
And opportunity doesn't knock on every door.

And for those who did make it big and did really great in
life AND gave back by helping others with health issues,
education and such... THANK YOU...

Not all profiling and carding is wrong...

I know I will get screams from this post.
and even talk of how insensitive I am.
Or how can I even know what it is like,
being I have always been the average
white female.

But what is really wrong with profiling? If you
look like a Iranian, I don’t mind an officer stopping
you and find out if you are actually here legally and
running your name thru the records to see if you are
on the list. After all, we Americans are having this
done to us. My neighbor, who is 5 foot tall, white
woman, a teacher, an American citizen… was held
up at the airport for 4 hours, missing her plane,
because HER NAME flashed up on THE LIST.
Why not you?

If you look Mexican and they stopped you because you ran
a red light, I think they have the right to asked you to product
a green card, when your accent is pretty obviously Mexican.
WHAT? BE CARDED? HOW DARE WE?????

Well, tell me… when you were 16 and started driving, and you
looked 12 or 14… did the police stop you to make sure you had
a driver’s license? You don’t think he had the right? Well, then I
guess you figure any 12 year old can drive and not be stopped
unless the 12 year old acted improper and broke the law.

How many of you at the age of 21, but you looked 16 were carded
at any pub, dance hall, bar and etc? Or in a restaurant and ordered
a drink? Heck anyone in their 30’s or even 40’s who look 18 has been
proudly been carded.

So why can’t we do this for those who can do us bodily harm? You know
sometimes if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck… it is a duck.

What I have trouble with is the over zealous authorities, be it a FBI
Officer or who ever, who is willing to bang down a person’s door
because someone said they might do bodily harm. Why not just observe
them, and if they are suspicious then asking them some questions?
By that time they have all kinds of information that might make the information
Is true or not.

I don’t know what it is like? Well, no, I don’t. But my ancestors were German on
one side… and they did, during WWI and WWII. But I was carded a lot because
I looked 16 at 21 and up to my 30’s looked 18. And because I was short, I was
stopped to see if I had a license. I was not insulted at the time. It was a safety
issue.

Hand turn signals and frustrations...

Last Wednesday, I was getting ready
to go get the mail. Usual routine is the
dog gets to go for a ride, so when she
came to the car, and didn’t jump in I
went to pick her up. Except, I lost my
footing, which sent me between the
door frame and steering wheel. I heard
a snap. Nope, not me…but my shoulder
hit the turn signal switch. And it was hanging
like a wet noodle.
Long and short of it is… my husband can
fix it. So he goes to the Ford dealer to see
about the part. $300 !!!!! FLAMING DOLLARS!!

So he calls Spauldings in Spokane and they
thought they might have one and it is $17.75!!!
Thank you, thank you. So the King puts it together
the best he can so I can use it the next day to go to work.

Frustration… I hate it when you turn the key
and nothing happens, so you can guess how it
was when I couldn’t get the key to turn at all.

Made phone calls to cancel work. And as it
happen the King called to tell me that Spaulding
did in fact have the part. I told him my newest
dilemma and we went thru the “did you try this and
that. Which I had. But told him I had cancelled
work so we will deal with it later. After he gets
off work.

I sat there for a moment and thought if he comes
home and tries what I already did, and the car starts
I am going to look like a fool. So I got out there to
try one more time. Still nothing. One of the things he
mention was jerking on the steering wheel. Well, it was
not moving. So I thought, well, I can just get out of
the car… or jerk on that wheel like a man would…
With my luck it would strip out something in the steering
column… But what the heck I can’t be in much more
trouble than I am in. So I jerked on that sucker… bam…
it made a crack sound and it moved. It moved back and
forth several times… AND THE KEY TURNED!!… oh,
Thank heavens for small favors…. I tried the key 4 times and
it started. Called work, said I will be there and it worked…
Friday we went to Spauldings, $18 (w/ taxes) the King changed
it and we had turn signals… and high beams and low beams.

By the way, when I was coming home on Thursday, I was using
hand turn signals… you should have seen the weird looks I got. Don’t
people use turn signals anymore?
Do those under 30 know whathand turn signals are?

Happy Mother's Day

look who is in the neighborhood

Phone calls home to your elderly parents

Here we have Mother’s Day coming fast and furious.
And just a month behind is Father’s Day. The time of
phone calls. Be it the obligation kind or the grateful kind.

When your parents are younger and you are in your 30’s
40’s or even 50’s. it usually is a fun time to catch up. And
many subjects to talk about.

But when your parents hit 70 plus, how do you do? Yes,
You have the, “how are you”? “What have you been doing lately”,
Answering the questions of how is your job going, and what are the
kids up to these days? You talk about the weather. And then what?

If you have a sibling living in your town, then you might talk about
how they are doing. Even if you think that sibling is going to be
going thru the same conversation. And then there is the health report.

Then there is the “I love you, and take care of yourself Mom/Dad, and
the conversation ends. I know there are those out there, who would give
their eye teeth to be able to have one more conversation. But what more
than I love you…would you say?

Living nearer to the parents helps, you are updated most of the time,
and you take them out to dinner, and things seem to go smoother.
But calling, sometimes, no matter how much you love them, it is strained
with nothing to say after the first few lines.


HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all the women who are mothers,
grandmothers, and step mothers...

Habits are hard to...

I am mostly a creature of habit.
I didn’t think I was but I guess I
really am. I really realized this today.

See, normally I work on Tuesday mornings.
But it was postpone to Thursday.
So I figured I would do today what I normally
would do on Wednesday. And do tomorrow,
what I would do on Thursday, so I would still
be on schedule with household duties.

Best laid plan of mice and women….
As I was doing so well pretending it was
Wednesday, that I got every thing done that
I would have done tomorrow…

So much so, that when the King came home,
He gave me a kiss and then asked… why is the
garbage cans out by the road. You see we don’t
usually put them out until Wednesday, so they
will be picked up really early Thursday morning.

And the wind blew....

The wind blew and the antenna stayed. Surprisingly after last
week it was waving in the wind.
The flag blew so hard the bottom wrapped around the top and
then straighten out as the storm started to slow down. Here is
the rain, and yet sunshine up on the mountain....


Rokon got up on the back of the couch to watch things blowing around and then
got down and sat on the couch looking very disgusted....

As I went to take the second picture of this position, she looked at me as if to say...

What are you looking at....

Guess we both aren't really happy with this weather....

Pay for it, heck no....

The question has come up about newspapers and Facebook,
would you pay to use what you are getting for free now?

My first reaction is, no… I would not pay for newspapers or blog or
Facebook online. But then I said the same thing about television and
I also have paid the $3 for coffee called latté’s. And have in the past
paid for cable and satellite.

But now it is coffee and antenna’s in our downsize life. And we
really don’t miss it… Yes, it is kind of like driving a Mercury as opposed
to driving a Lincoln. May not have all the bells and whistles,
but still gets us from point A to point B just the same. Which is our main purpose.
Down sizing makes you able to do that.

So now that I have time to think about it, would I pay for Facebook, blogs that I
go to now? Or newspapers? The Facebook and blogs, the answer is no. Sorry,
gang. Newspapers? If I lived in Spokane, I might…depending on the price.
But pay for the Daily Bee, no way… the Bee runs a shadow of their paper type
of newspaper. No pictures 99% of the time. Only a few of the articles are on
line. And a lot of their daily sections are not online.

And as long as there is paper newspapers that I can take in the car or where
Ever else… I have no need for online newspapers. After all I can’t get it on
line in my car and other places. I don’t have the free wireless or a phone
attachment. Too spendy.
So I guess the answer for me, is no…