Monthly Archives: March 2008

FBI: Improper Tactics Used In Terror Probe

**I meant to post this last time, but with all the other items I missed it.  But I am not surprised by this….sadly.  This administration has done everything it can to remove our protections from things like this.  That is why we have joined the ACLU…….an organization whose goal is to protect our Bill of Rights and the Constitution.

Well….unfortunately it has been another few days since my last post.  =(  It has been the normal busy as heck kind of thing the last few days.  I don’t even get the chance to surf my news and politics as much as I use to.

Harold has been surfing and researching national parks for us to visit, we have been watching a lot of National Geographic shows on them.  Part of the reason why we joined a gym is to get into shape so we can go hiking and camping, without killing ourselves.  One of our goals is to camp at Denali.  I don’t mean the park with a camper and camp type thing, I mean the one where you take the bus in, they drop you off and you hike about half mile and set up…..very, very basic.  You can’t leave any trace of yourself behind……no fire, you have to use MREs, and there are no latrines…..so you have to clean up after that.  No firearms……so you have to have a whistle, maybe an air horn and research ahead of time how to deal with the possiblity of meeting a bear.  But hopefully it gives you the opportunity to see nature at it’s best.

Now I like camping, I am girly enough that I miss my toilet and it takes me a day to get over my ickness over things…..but we haven’t done it in so long that I feel like moron on planning.  Harold found that some of the community colleges around here give classes on things for that…..just as how to pack a backpack and some will take you on a few rough camping trips in the surrounding mountains.  So we are thinking once we start getting some basic camping gear we will start on that and hopeful by 2009 we will be ready for rustic camping in one of the best and wildest parks that the US has to offer.

So that is what is going on in our heads….parks.  We love them and that is one of reasons why we moved out here.  There are just too many of them out here not to enjoy.

My mom called tonight……wasn’t expecting any phone calls, so when my phone went off it scared the shit out of us…..lol  Anyhow, mom is flying down to the Tampa area to visit with my great aunt, who will be turning 90 this Thursday.   Mom hasn’t flown in a long time and is just packing a carry on and she had questions on what she can have.  Even through she has her state DL and her Military ID, I told her to take her passport……just because she paid for it and mis well use it to get her money’s worth…..I told her we are going to start using ours, we spent the money and stressed over the paperwork that damn it we want to use them……LOL….she busted out laughing at that.

Excerpt: ‘Cheer!: Three Teams on a Quest for College Cheerleading’s Ultimate Prize’

**For those who still seem to think that Cheerleading is not a sport.  They have done studies that cheerleaders go through more injuries then football players and yet, in a lot of areas people seem to think that it is easy.  Trust me, has a former cheerleader, who was no way near the level talked about in this article, it was never easy.

If you saw Harold’s post earlier, you will see that we have new car. It was totally unexpected and unplanned. We spent 6hrs there at the dealership. It was exhausting. But we got a really good interest rate and everything and really too good of a deal to pass up.So I was totally stressed from all of that and came home to piles of work that totally did not help. My goal for Friday was do to nothing by work….so it made it even worst not to catch up on it.

So I was up late and had to start early Saturday…..then spent Sunday playing catch up. Monday was running around and trying to get my work done around it. I really didn’t get a moment until Tues evening with everything. Today I didn’t plan on spending too much time with my online job, want to work on other stuff, but that didn’t happen. =(

We did find a Japanese steak house Monday…..could only find one and it was on the other side of Portland. We haven’t had that since we left Florida and we craving it something bad. So we meet up with our friend and went out. It was good and will be heading back. Then we got home so late, I was so exhausted yet I couldn’t settle down to sleep. I ended up breaking down and taking half a PM….oh boy, I felt like crap when I got up. I could barely do ride the bike at the gym.

This was my 1st week with my personal trainer. She is young one, but nice encouraging girl. Easy to talk to which is great on distracting me from some of it. I meet with her 2 days a week, Mon & Wed, and on the other 3 days that we go to the gym, I work on cardo. I’m sore, which doesn’t surprise me. What surprises me is that the hour goes by pretty quick, the exercises don’t seem too be hard starting out and we don’t do many of them……but damn, do I sweat and hurt with them.

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard that one of the greats is retiring :

Favre to discuss retirement on Thursday

**I’m not sure what to think. I would’ve loved to have seen him get another ring. He always made is so much fun to watch a game. Never loss his love of it. So many of of the new stars are so into the money that they don’t seem to have the love and the heart…..he never loss it.

Atheist soldier says Army punished him

**This so pisses me off. The military, overall, has always had a conservative feel to it and its issues. But the extreme bible thumpers has been over stepping the lines for years, since W has been elected, and is now poisoning a great institution. What pisses me off most is that they have no respect someone believing different or not believing at all.

Group labels PSU class dangerous, anti-American

**More of the idiotic right wingers who wish to smash free speech and thinking. I forgot, you aren’t a true American if you disagree with them……well, according to the foundering fathers…….that is bullshit. You are Unamerican if you DON’T question your government.

Moses Was High on Drugs, Israeli Researcher Says

**I just find this funny and I honestly would not be surprised.

Choice

**This is a great reflection of how far women have come and how much farther we still have. Just by looking as what choice Justice O’Connor didn’t have when she got out of law school.

Clinton Chips at the Glass Ceiling in Primary Victories

**This is a good article on the inner turmoil that older women are having with this primary and I am having. I would love it if gender and race didn’t matter. But it still does…..sexism is still accepted…..racism isn’t. Look at just how the media writes and covers her. If she does whatever any other male politician does (most of it I never agreed with to begin with………I hate dirty politics), the treat her even worst then if it was from a male. A woman can’t be strong and aggressive without being considered heartless and a bitch. And that is such bullshit!

What makes it hard for me is that I love what and how Obama speaks……but it is true the press isn’t has hard on him as Clinton, when it comes to questions on his plans. She actually has plans, not just flowery words. The dream ticket is if it was both of them, it would balance them out…….but with their personalities and Bill….it probably won’t happen. Sadly, I’m kind of grateful that OR is a closed primary and I’m not affiliated, because I have no idea who I would vote for. But we did send money to Obama, I personally feel that he would actually do a better job of uniting the country and do the best against McCain.

Well, I think I made up for not posting the last few days. =)