At least he is trying...

Did you see the movie, One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
Or read the book... do you remember the part about how Murphy
made bets that he could put up the water fountain off the floor?
And he tried for about and hour. Red faced, sweating, groaning,
but kept on trying. Then finally gave up. As he walked off all the
other inmates made fun of him, and called him names. And then
the Big Indian, said..."Well, at least he tried". Which is more
than you guys do.

Well, that reminds me of all these Republican's naysayers.
Hitting every idea that Obama has, and tries to get into force.
Yet they themselves, after 8 years, never came up with anything
to fix the economy and in fact it went down on their watch. Yet
there they are with no ideas of how to fix it, but the old tax cut
idea, that hasn't done much in the past.

So in the words of the Big Indian... using it about Obama...
"At least he is trying".

Some times you have to question....

I think I wrote before that in the 1970's or 80's I read a book called
Looking out for #1.

It was a very interesting and the jiff of it has stayed with me all
these years. And that is to not take things at face value.
What is the old saying? Only believe half of what you see,
and a quarter of what you hear.

It taught you to question what you read, and what people
say. It if says, "THEY SAY" question who said it. Not just
a committee..but who the people are on the committee and
is it a direct quote. Always question so called facts.

So when they talk about global warming it is hard to get
excited. Especially when you are freezing your butt off.
And when you see pictures taken up in Alaska that has
bergs replenishing themselves daily. And it runs back miles
and miles. My daughter saw it when she was on a cruise.
I have seen many climate changes over the years that I have
been here, and that is just a dot in time to what has already
happen. So no, Mr. Gore, I can't say I believe you.

Now they say women will be at risk to get cancer by drinking.
Even one glass of wine daily, the headline scream, can cause a
women to get breast cancer. THEY say. I forgot who came up
with this idea. Reason why it is hard to swallow, no pun intended,
is what about the women in France?

Anyone who has been to France, knows full well, they drink wine
with each meal. Like you and I have a glass of water with our
meals they drink wine. so are THEY telling me that most of the
women in France have cancer? Sorry... that just doesn't fly
with me.

3rd time a charm?

Here we go again. The Senate has a bill in process called
Idaho Senate bill 1112.

This is the STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS18664

This legislation amends Title 39 Chapter 11 of Idaho Code to revise and extend the State's
licensing requirements for child care providers.

The current code provides minimum health and safety standards for day care centers with thirteen or more children, but does not provide licensure for providers with fewer than thirteen.

This legislation would extend licensing to all providers who receive compensation and care for four or more children, with specific exceptions maintained.

Basic requirements include: criminal history background checks, health, safety and fire inspections and restrictions on firearms, alcohol and tobacco use.
Minimum standards for infant CPR and first aid training are specified.
This act establishes staff child ration recommendations consistent with
nationally accepted standards and provides for fees to be established based
upon the number of children.

The Health and Welfare Department will serve as the portal or administrator for the program. The Department will contract for the inspection services, receive and compile complaints and provide for a one stop application process.

FISCAL NOTE
There is no impact to the General Fund. There will be additional oversight from the Department of Health and Welfare but this legislation provides for the actual costs of administration to be passed.

Seems simple enough. What can be questionable? Yet this is the 3rd try? for the
Idaho Congress to get one thru. Each time losing the fight. Do you know how many
rules and regs there are for taking care of the elderly? That was written by the Idaho Congress as well as the Federal?
Yet, in Boise the protection of children seem to be secondary to some...
enough to kill a bill time after time... Why is that?
If you care, write to your Senator in Boise NOW.

Can you do it?

I was watching a show on Saturday or
Sunday morning, that was about a town in India...
and the movie Slumdog Millionaire, that
was made in that town. It showed how they
lived. The housing, going to get water, as there
isn't any in house. The mud in the rainy seasons,
the horrible heat in the summer.

I wondered, could I live like that? While my first
thought was yes, I could.. it would be hard, but
I could. Then I thought, wait a minute, I better give
this more thought... so I did...
Could I give up what I have and the way I live?

And as I looked around me... and thought, I
believe I could. There is nothing in my house that
I believe I could not live without. Don't get me wrong,
it would be hard, I don't take it lightly.

I am not asking, would I like to live that way.
I am not saying, I would like to live that way.
I am saying, IF I had to live that way..I
would and could survive.. and after adjusting
to having so very little, I might even find some
happiness in life itself. The sunrises, the sunsets,
the relationships, the things that are in life that
makes life doable.

Maybe that is why these times and economy
don't have me scared, or depressed. Only
concerned. Because if I lost it all, it would not
be nice, but I would still survive.

Guess I got that from my folks, as they
refuse to dig a hole in the ground for shelter
during 1950's. Mom's take on it was, if a
bomb was to hit the USA, you might just
as well, bend over, kiss your butt goodbye,
because it would be over in seconds, and
no shelter was going to save you. So we
lived each day with no fear.

Friendship, nothing like Friendship

Alice of North Carolina
Winnie of Rhode Island
Pat of France
Cherie of Washington State


All mighty fine women.
All have never met the other..
well, maybe the last two have.

All of them my friends for over 30 years.
Alice and I keep in touch thru emails.
So does Winnie and I, off and on, mostly off.
Pat, emails, and when she comes state side,
like yesterday...
Cherie, thru emails, and I got her started with
doing a blog.

Each one is a very special lady in my life.
Alice and I met in 6th grade.
Winnie and I met at my first real job.
Pat and I go back to 1970 and we were both
were pregnant.
Cherie and I got back to Roslyn.

All of them, we have had great times together,
some of those could almost be stories for
a book. And they themselves could be stories
for what they have done with their lives. Almost
like the gals in Momma Mia movie.. Oh, the
stories we could tell...


Each one of them, no matter how long it
has been... we can sit down and have a
cup of coffee... and it is like yesterday
when we left off..

With Great pride we see # 17

With great pride and joy, our newest... #17 grandchild... Sweet little girl

She joins two big brothers.... and brings great joy to her parents as well as the boys.

Isn't computers great... where you live 8 hours away, yet get to see your new grandchild

within 24 hours. Congratulations...B.P.U. and A.

Who's got the door??

As we head towards Spring, and the
furniture starts to spin in the rooms.
I wonder in the bedroom, who has the
door?

Be it Spring cleaning with the changes
or turning of the bed to a different direction.
or staying at a friend's house..Who has the door?

And then there is the motel, where
sometimes it is hard to tell who has
the door.

To make sense of all of this.. the
question of who has the door...
When you go to bed, who sleeps
near the door? And does that change
if you go to a friend's house. Is it
important to be on the door side or
is it left or right of the bed to sleep.

Or even West or East or South or
North? Which side do you claim?

Some things are stranger than truth

I have been reading a book called THE ILLUMINATI
by Larry Burkett. A friend loaned it and told me I should
read it.

It kind of reminds me of the Da Vinci Code.
You know that it is fiction, but as you read
it ...you can imagine it could be true.

The Illuminati is a political story. What can
happen if the wrong people get into control.
Not in office, mind you, but the ones who pulls
the strings of the people in front.

One of the programs that the government was
putting in force was a thing called the Data-Net.
It was a system that was put in to get rid of cash.
There was to be no cash what so ever. Only the
card. You had a card which was like our ATM.
All the money would be in the banks. (now that
could be scary considering how things are today.)


The way the government talked the people into
wanting the system was... if there was no money,
only the card. The drug cartel would fall apart, as
there would be no money to exchange hands.
So the criminals would not be able to operate.
Which wasn't quite true, as the petty criminal
would, as he/she would barter. Steal property
and barter for drugs and etc.

All cash, coin or paper, was to be turn in to the banks.
The government would know who had how much money.
AND could control your money, because if they thought
you were a terrorist or what ever.. they would have your
account disappear from system. Also they could tell
where you spend your money. Knowing where you
travel to, and what your purchases were and where.

But as in all things.... things go wrong. I won't tell you
how and why. You will have to get the book and read it.

Dementia in Rhapsody

I have mild dementia, I am sure.
I have room dementia... you know where
you go in to get something or do something
and for the life of you, you can't remember what.
So you go back to the first room, to restep what
you were doing, before you headed out of that room.

Then there is electronic dementia.
Every time I get a new electronic object, I
lose every piece of common sense there is.
Even if the object is one I have own before.
Because the company has decided the old
one no longer applies and they bring out
the new and improved. New wires, new
colors, and different connections.

Yes, I do have mild dementia and I resent it.

My Head Hurts...

I watch TV news magazine like 60 minutes and
etc. I read the paper, I listen to commentators.
And I think, maybe I should stop, as I don't
understand the logic and it is giving me
headaches too boot.

On 60 Minutes had a story about how the
Stimulus package is going to have a stipulation
that the companies that build the buildings and
roads, will have to use US Steel only.

Now that makes sense, to help our own companies.
But according to the story, this is not good. Seems
the theory is ... if they make it so only US Steel is
used, the other countries will retaliate and shut off
their buying our products. Even Caterpillar was upset over
this, as they would lose a contract to China for their
monster mining trucks and etc.

Then you have those who say it is bad for business,
if the CEO's get their wages and bonus cut to
the bone. Because... then they would have to
get rid of their extra houses, and help. Putting
a hardship on real estate and those helpers into
the unemployment line. And it would put a hardship
on the families in Mexico and etc.

I had said one time, that one of the things I would
like to see, was the empty buildings have
the call centers for all the companies, so that we
American's can understand the person on the other
end when we call for information on a product and etc.

I was told..no no, you can't do that. That would put
millions of Indians or Chinese, and other countries
persons out of work. I might a hard person, but I
don't care... I care about American's.

All of this hurts my head...