Category Archives: News & Politics

Feeling much better today.  Actually felt normal.  Spent the day working.  The 1st and the 15th are the work intense days of the months.

Don’t really want to be in front of the pc anymore, but don’t feel like anything else.  I put “O’ Brother, Where Art Thou?” in.

Tomorrow we are thinking of heading to Sears to get our rear tires taken care of, did the front ones about 6 months ago.  We put sand in the back of the truck a few weeks ago.  Just trying to get it ready for winter.

Catholic Principal Cited for Prostitution Charge 

**Now I don’t care what consenting adults do and enjoy.  But you have got to love the hypo critics………..lol

Rumsfeld’s Snowflakes

**After reading this, how can you not say that this administration uses fear to get their way.  After watching the movie V for Vendetta They really sound like that, creepy.

Which this story goes to prove how much they use “war” to get their way : Bush: No Attorney General if Not Mukasey 

Other then the news flash, I have nothing tonight.

The Halloween Party was interesting. Not use to going to actually parties where people really dress up. So our outfits worked. =)

The blue dye made my roots looked grey and the adding the purple made my hair look black…………strange…..lol But our bathtub is blue. I’m going to wait a week for our hairs to bleed out before scrubbing again. Plus I need to get some different soft scrub, I picked a lemon one for the smell and read later that it is bleach free. Well, I can’t have that and get rid of stains.

I’ve been meaning to make this observation for a while, but I don’t know what has gotten into our cat Alexis. She use to be a little bit chunky, but now she has lost weight……looks like she did when she was younger. I don’t know if the cross country trip did it. She is also acting more like a kitten and her spazing out, more ballsy. And what really throws me is she has been yelling at me when I’m in the kitchen. This is a cat that never would drink milk (I haven’t tried it lately), barely lick the juices off of tuna and would have nothing to do with human food. Now she’ll nibble on a very small piece of cheese, tried a piece of chicken and luncheon meat………..and eat some tuna! It is all so strange! She is like a different cat………I was worried that she was sick, but as much as I clean out the litters everything seems normal………she still has her strange fetish of constant water.

Today was just get things back together in terms of laundry, trash and whatnot. I got a few things done online. Trying to think where I need to start tomorrow. I know I have errands 1st thing.

This article is music to my ears : The Evangelical Crackup

There are many related ways to characterize the split: a push to better this world as well as save eternal souls; a focus on the spiritual growth that follows conversion rather than the yes-or-no moment of salvation; a renewed attention to Jesus’ teachings about social justice as well as about personal or sexual morality.

Wow, what a concept………..Christianity focusing on the teachings of Jesus! About time! It is a very interesting, but long read.

I will say this for the NY Times, they really explore an issue. Just wish more papers did that.

Of course, that article made me think of the music from O’Brother, Where Art Thou? I hate the extreme right-wingers that preach hate, but I like simple bluegrass gospels that harmonizes and has heartful feeling. But then when I use to go to churches of my choice when I was a kid it was the spirited gospel ones of the Black Baptist. Boy, if you didn’t feel the lord and spirit during one of their sermons then you were in the wrong church………lol Those were fun.

I think I’m going to surf for some more news.

I should be doing some work, but really don’t feel like touching it.   I may get my brain on it……..but I’m not holding my breath.  =)

I’ve finally been able to listen to some of the new music we picked up the other day. We picked up the new Bon Jovi (a given with me), John Mellencamp, The Legend of Johnny Cash, & Queen Latifah……….I know I like variety.

I really enjoyed the political statements that Mellencamp made with his Jim Crow, stating it hasn’t died just hiding and we have more to do to kill it off.  I really liked in Our Country the line that says :

“There’s room enough here
For science to live
And there’s room enough here
For religion to forgive
And try to understand”

But then I’ve enjoyed songs that reflect the issues we face as a society, Johnny Cash was always good for that.  Bon Jovi is always about everyday life that speaks to in ways to us of hair band days really relate.  Oueen Latifah’s newest one is a jazzy one.  Makes you feel as if you are at a club.

I’ve always admired her…….a curvy strong woman of color making her mark in a predominately male industry, what is there not to admire, but was never that familiar with her rap music.  When she was hitting I was really into my hair bands.

I still enjoyed rap, after growing up with  LL Cool J and Run-DMC in the neighborhood that I lived in Maryland……there just wasn’t many artists that caught my ear until I was slowing down on the hair bands.  I was always a huge fan of Salt-Pepper…..got into them before metal, but I really liked the hip-hop sounds that seemed more back to basics in content….like Arrested Development.  I’ve always enjoyed the sounds of soul and the art of harmony………so many people can not do that…….so I was always paying cds of En Vogue & Boyz to Men.  Now I’ve been trying to get familiar with some of the hip-hop again…….now that I may actually have time, but where to start.  In the last year I picked up some Black Eyed Peas, Lil’ Kim, Pink (love her feminist statements), Outkast and some Usher……I love my Christina Aguerlia, who has the soulful voice of the past with the hip-hop flavor.  Miss Elliot is next on my list.  =)

I think what I’ve always liked about hip-hop is the beats……..gets you moving and dancing.  When I lived in Alaska, my H.S. use to have lots of dances (what else are you going to do when it is 20 below) and I rarely, rarely sat down unless I had a blister on my foot……everyone did that, we danced our asses off.  And I know that I can’t dance, when it comes to rhythm I really am a cracker………sadly.   When I got stuck at H.S in Indiana that was full of nothing but white folks…….it is was horrible in that barely anyone danced, they just stood around.  But then they rarely had dances………I really think it was the area of Indiana that I was in.

We filled out our passport apps online today.  The government actually got smart and has it set up where it has a web page that asks all the questions that is needed and then it gives you a filled out version to print out.  It is perfect for those who rarely hand write anything and screw it up.  =)  So we are going to head over Tuesday to the government center to turn them in.  I’m so hoping that they aren’t that backed up anymore.

While avoiding work, I have a habit of surfing news sites. I came across a very interesting and disturbing article about a guy who risked everything to try to do what is right :  Naming Names at Gitmo

It is a long article, but if you care at all about what this Administration is doing to the Constitution and how they have ruined our standing in the world, you really need to read this.  They are turning the DOJ in the KGB and yet have the BALLS to lecture other governments on their conduct……that is screwed up.

We don’t watch “Meet the Press“, we watch “This Week”, but I came across the video clips from this weeks interviews with Stephan Colbert and Bill Crosby.  Colbert is just entertaining, but Bill Crosby really gives you food for thought.  I’ve always loved the way he has always pushed the importance of education and taking responsibility.  It has usually been in the context of black issues, but it is something that should be applied universally.  Especially with the way this society is today……….no personal responsibility.

I did get out for a walk today.  Did a horrible attempt of dancing while making the bed……I hope that it is nicer this week, I really would like to go to a park and get some pictures that don’t have houses in the way.  =)