If I were Sarah Palin, and I had accepted the VP nomination…KNOWING that my unwed, teenage daughter was pregnant…KNOWING what a media shit-storm that would incur…I would kind of expect inappropriate things to be said about my kids. Because having accepted that nomination…I became a public figure, and my family along with me.
And if Sarah Palin were really about her kids…she would have kept her mouth shut about David Letterman…because the only reason the majority of the world was even made aware of his comments (which I do think were inappropriate) was because SHE drew the nation’s attention to those remarks through her protest in the media.
If you lie down with dogs…you get up with fleas…and if someone in your house has fleas…so will you.
Sarah Palin…prominent, maybe. Hell…lots of people are prominent. Beyonce, Britney Spears, David Beckham…this list could go on and on.
Articulate? (Yes, I KNOW her name is spelled incorrectly in the link - at least - until they correct it)
Um….no.
We looked at our then 6 and 9-year old sons and told them about Columbine - in a way appropriate to their ages. We told them it would never happen to them but just in case…there were some things we wanted them to know. We felt like it was important to tell them that if they ever heard something that sounded like gunshots at school - NOT to look around, just hide. At school. Gunshots.
We also told them to be kind. Not to pile on the different kids. Not to help create this kind of problem.
I still can’t believe we talked to our young kids about guns in school. In school. Sort of made a mockery of those “Safe Haven” signs they passed every day on the way in.
I hope the Columbine survivors have found some kind of peace in their lives. I hope the rest of us have learned to be kind and more forgiving of the ones who are different. The ones who don’t fit in.
I hope.
How the hell can you live in a democratic nation…and NOT expect to pay taxes? What pays for your kid’s public school? What pays for your roads? What pays for the infrastructure of your entire life? Birth certificates, death certificates, hospital regulation, food safety (ok…this one is grossly underfunded thanks to Reagan), regulation of your work safety, prescription drug regulation - this list could go on for hours.
What do these people want…a free-for-all? An anarchy? Move to Somalia…that seems to be the system of choice there - you’ll love it.
I HATE paying taxes, but I understand why I do. And I pay self-employment tax - so I’m bearing even a greater tax burden than many of those whining TEA Party idiots.
This must be the most selfish nation on the planet.
the elderly one who lived down the street from you? Who lived in the tiny house and had 14 cats because she was so lonely? And her whole house smelled like cat pee? The one they found starved to death because she couldn’t afford to feed herself and all those cats? So she fed the cats?
Let’s just hope Nadya Suleman uses that food stamp money to feed the cats kids. Because she is just batshit crazy.
just copied straight from Facebook…because it’s been two months since I’ve posted anything and I feel like I’m totally wasting the hosting fees.
1. I was a vegetarian for 15 years, through two pregnancies. And then we realized we had spawned carnivores instead of herbivores.
2. I don’t watch television. I used to have a vanity plate that read BLOPYRTV. Like the line from the John Prine song. My mother calls this “biting the hand that feeds you.”
3. My 4th grade teacher said using profanity proves that you are ignorant and do not have an large vocabulary. I’ve been trying to prove her wrong ever since.
4. I can recite the entire dialogue of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” and “Blazing Saddles.”
5. I drive a 1995 Saab convertible…with a stick. I LOVE my car. Yesterday I put the top down even though it was 55. Sometimes…you just need to have the top down.
6. I read. I read all the time. I read Booker and Pulitzer prize winners, but I read a lot of trash too.
7. I read the encyclopedia and the dictionary when I was a kid, and now I’ve substituted the internet.
8. All that time I gain by NOT watching television…I totally waste it on the internet.
9. I started smoking on a church retreat when I was 15. I quit the day I found out I was pregnant with our oldest son. I haven’t had a single one since. He will be 20 in August.
10. I still dream about cigarettes. If I knew I was going to die tomorrow…I’d have a cigarette.
11. I have lived in my dream house since I was 33. Thanks Richard!
12. I love being from the South. If I had to leave North Carolina…I would move to Tennessee or Texas.
13. Music keeps me sane. I don’t think I could live without it.
14. I once realized I couldn’t marry a man I had been with for 2 years because he didn’t care that John Lennon had been shot.
15. I can sew. Like really sew. Like drapes and clothes and elaborate Halloween costumes. I wish I had time and a better sewing machine.
16. My husband had to teach me how to change a diaper.
17. I had one of the best mothers-in-law in the world, and I still miss her.
18. I was a competitive gymnast for 6 years. A cheerleader for 1 year. A diver for 1 year. An aerobic instructor for about 3 months (when I still smoked!).
19. I was almost drowned when I was a kid by this obnoxious girl who belonged to some friends of my parents. I’m not real fond of being in water. (When I called home to tell my parents I was going to be on the diving team…my mom said “but…you can’t SWIM?”) I can actually swim - but I do tend to sink instead of float.
20. I hated my sister until I was 21. Now I would fall apart without her.
21. I can’t do math. I skipped 4th through 6th grade math…so whatever you learn then - I don’t know it. (It was learn at your own pace…so I read instead…for 3 years)
22. My greatest hope for Barack Obama is that he and his family make it safely through the next 8 years.
23. I miss Thompson (my grandmother) almost every day of my life. I try to love my kids like Thompson loved me.
24. When I was about 7, I convinced my Granddaddy Poole to let me fire his German Luger pistol (which probably hadn’t been cleaned in about 20 years) at the garage (made of concrete blocks). We took a huge chunk out of it, and it is one of my favorite childhood memories. My mother was livid. It was awesome.
25. I have a tattoo on my left ankle, and a daith piercing in my left ear.
This song was written in 1988. I probably wouldn’t have heard it lately except that Richard uses it on his playlists. Last night it was playing while we were making dinner and I really heard the one line: “the power to dream, to rule, to wrestle the world from fools…” This would have been a great campaign song for Obama/Biden. You can read the entire lyric here. And remember to vote!
(I can’t embed it without messing up the whole template, but here’s the link”
http://www.youtube.com/v/EgXdJqWc1U4&hl=en&fs=1
of the totally screwed mind. This will come in SO handy if Obama/Biden do not win.
from the National Enquirer? Who could have guessed the National Enquirer was
just another liberal media outlet that exists for the sole purpose of
libeling the Republicans?
perhaps we could elect HIM?! On the 14 mile drive to pick up C. from school today, as I passed 15 gas stations - all out of gas - this song was running through my head. What a bunch of idiots we all are…almost 30 years ago, this man wrote this song about a poor economy and gas shortages. Those who do not remember history….blah blah blah…
“Who needs a car and a seven-forty-seven
When you can’t buy a gallon of gas
Who needs a highway, an airport or a jet
When you can’t get a gallon of gas
There’s no more left to buy or sell
There’s no more oil left in the well
A gallon of gas can’t be purchased anywhere
For any amount of cash
You can’t buy a gallon of gas.”
(copyright 1979 Ray Davies - buy the album cd…it’s great)