Funny email I got today

July 8, 1947

Many will recall that on July 8, 1947, witnesses claimed that an
unidentified object with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and
cattle ranch just outside Roswell , New Mexico . This is a well known
incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and
the federal government.

However, you may NOT know that in the month of March 1948, exactly nine
months after that historic day the following people were born;

Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.,
Hillary Rodham,
John F. Kerry,
William Jefferson Clinton,
Howard Dean,
Nancy Pelosi,
Dianne Feinstein,
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer

See what happens when aliens breed with sheep?

This piece of information may clear up a lot of things

Republican primary debate

Well I caught the debate last night (missed the dems b/c in-laws were in town), and there actually seemed to be some pretty good guys up there. Unfortunately, there was 10 of them so you only got to hear from each of them a couple times, but none the less is was encouraging. I hadn't heard of a couple of them, and after hearing there responses I can guess why.
Ron Paul seemed to only be able to answer a question by attacking both parties...I don't think that's going to get him anywhere.
Mike Huckabee had an awesome answer when asked about our greatest moral dilemma...he said that the rep. should focus on the sanctity of life not only from conception to birth, but from conception to death. That was basically the umbrella he used to cover abortion, poverty, war, and health care. I really liked his answer.
Former Sec. of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson has a very thoughtful and stat filled answer for health care questions (and I would expect no less), so when asked about his forte he showed great clarity, but I don't think he could do that for every topic.
When asked about conservation in the rep. agenda Sam Brownbeck's answer definitely hit his base, he said make it profitable and the free market will do the rest. This was spot on for a capitalist society.
Tom Tancredo kinda came off looking like a jerk. I agree with him on some things, but I think he has the same problem Pres. Bush has, he's not a great communicator.


Now for the big guns...


I just don't like McCain, he maybe the most moderate, but I don't really know because he seems to hide a lot of things. I did however like his answer on govt. spending. He said he "would veto any bill with a pork barrel project and make the authors famous". I think accountability is good and much needed right now.


Rudy Guliani was probably the most poised with some of the best answers, but I do expect that of him, he's been on a national platform for a long time. My only problem with him is that he's pro-choice. Mitt Romney put it best when he said the Rep. party will ultimately vote off of principal not personality(i.e. Pres. Bush). So I think in the long run we would loose the White House due to this.


Then there's Mitt Romney, I like this guy. He's already made a good impression with the masses, and that's impressive for someone who was virtually unknown. He's very diplomatic and gracious (we could use some of that with foreign policy), he knows his base, and he seems really honest. When asked about airing adds in Spanish, he very honestly said, "I want them to vote for me". I don't think he answered one question where I had a gut jerk reaction, and I can't say that of anyone else.


So I'm still listening, hopefully you are too, because I think this next election is gonna be a doosy!

I'm not a zealot, no really, I'm not!

Yesterday I read Patch's blog and got a bit of a slap upside the head. Let me step back a bit and say that I got a phone call and two emails about Rosie being fired. That compiled with Patch's 21 commandments made me realize that people must think I'm some kind of zealot. Which honestly, about 1 issue I am, but on the broad spectrum I'm not. I think we all have that issue that hits so close to home for 1 reason or another that we refuse to compromise, but for the most part I'm willing to at least see the other side, even if I don't agree with it.

I stil hate Rosie and am SO glad she's gone. They said the ratings went up 16% while she was on the show, but I would rather watch another year of Star planning her wedding then suffer through one more day of Rosie. She's rude, loud, & obnoxious. I think ratings only went up because people like watching the train wreck. Seriously (this is a stereotype) the women who are at home to watch the view aren't really Rosie's bag, if you get my drift. I guess I've just become gun shy because after the '04 election you can't turn on the tv without some celeb spouting off their opinion, and I'm sick of it! I have younge kids who shouldn't hear half of the stuff they have to say, but in flipping through the channels you get bombarded. And they act like anyone who dosen't agree with them must be some uninformed, hillbilly, idiot. So let me just say I'm not an idiot, a hillbilly, or uninformed, I just wholeheartedly disagree.

I'm more granola than you know

Some of you know what my mother does for a living but most don't. She is a Naturopathic Doctor. No, she wasn't a hippie, she was married to a Baptist minister during the 70's-80's. Most of her (and my) beliefs about health come from the fact that God designed our bodies to be perfect and when it faulters he has designed something just as perfect to correct it.

Now, I grew up with this stuff, so I don't think it's cooky or weird. I have done it all, iridology, reflexology, herbs, homeopathy, tinctures, muscle testing, infared saunas, acupuncture, essential oils, healing prayer, natural birth...etc. Ya, this white bread girl is pretty granola. That's not to say that I don't take tylenol or antibiotics if needed, I just don't think they should be first on the list of things to try. So where am I going with this...the FDA is now wanting to regulate all areas of Complimentary and Alternative Medicines (CAM). Most people think this is a long time in coming, but the document is written in such a way that it would put all practioners like my mother out of business. Not only that but in it there is actually a provision for "mind-body medicine", which includes spirituality...that means prayer. Read the excerpt below

D. What Is "Mind-Body Medicine?"
NCCAM describes mind-body medicine as focusing on "the interactions among the brain, mind, body, and behavior, and the powerful ways in which emotional, mental,social, spiritual, and behavioral factors can directly affect health."13 It states that mindbodymedicine "typically focuses on intervention strategies that are thought to promotehealth, such as relaxation, hypnosis, visual imagery, meditation, yoga, biofeedback, taichi, qi gong, cognitive-behavioral therapies, group support, autogenic training, and spirituality."14

I just think this is uncalled for. Why in the world should a government agency try to regulate things that have been around longer than government itself. Asian contries have been using these methods for centuries and none fear their safety. I just can't imagine gyms advertising that their new yoga program is FDA certified. The vote for this bill is on April 30th. Think about it, pray about it, and if you feel like I do write a letter to your representatives. Here's the link for the full document.

Small step forward

This has been a big week for politics, today the Supreme Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. If you read the actual document you have to wonder why this was ever considered an option by anyone. No matter how pro-choice you are there is nothing more despicable than the way this procedure is preformed. It makes me wonder how future societies will view us. If you have ever read "A Modest Proposal" by Johnathan Swift, to me this rings of the same absurdity. The only difference is that this was a satire and unfortunately we have actually commited these murders.

I understand that there are always going to be gray areas when it comes to this issue. What to we do to a ten yr. old girl who gets pregnant by rape or incest? I think only God really knows what the right answer is in this situation. But can't we at least be humane in these instances? Do we really think that this could somehow endanger womens' rights to ban this kind of thing. I just don't see the connection. If for some reason you do make it to the 2nd or 3rd trimester of your pregnancy and just decide you don't want the child, isn't there a better way than this. I mean really what's the opposite of life, I don't think the word "choice" would be the first to come to anyone's mind.

1st & 2nd ammendments under attack

Okay let's start off with Don Imus....not the brightest guy, he should have never even uttered the words "nappy headed hos" stupid stupid stupid. But since he did it seems to have opened a Pandora's box of sorts. And because he is old and white it is a huge deal, the younge white Eminem has been saying stuff far worse than this for a decade and most of us can recite verbatim a few of his songs. He didn't get fired, he got rich! I don't know if Imus should have been aloud to keep his job, I'm not smart enough to figure all of that out. He's a jerk, but is he the victum of a witch hunt?

To put it in perspective let's talk about the good ole Al Sharpton, who has publicly in his speeches described whites as "diamond merchants" "white interlopers", he's called the mayor of New York a whore, and used the phrase "Greek homos". Now I guarentee that 99% of engagment rings, no matter the color finger it is on, is a diamond. I can also bet that a black person or two would claim to be gay. So why oh why is this alloud???? And why is it that on Oprah yesterday Jesse Jackson was talking about the scurge of the rap industry, but he has publicly used the word "nigger" on many occasions. Not only that but Barack Obama has said that if anyone on his team used this word that he would fire them, oh, but his number one finacial contributor is David Geffen, who owns Interscope records (Timbaland, Eminem). Doesn't this all seem a little backwards?

So what's the real problem, racism, sexism, libralism, conservatism, where do you fall? Because I guarentee that someone will find fault with you. To be politically correct is to just be fake. Politicians are politically correct because they want your money and they will LIE to get it. Politically correct=LIE. Unfortunate but true. So why can't we tell the truth, durrogatory words are bad, don't used them, if you are trying to hurt someones feeling, you will. The problem isn't a bunch of old men, the problem is that two white girls will great each other with terms of endearment such as slut and ho. Or that two white boys will say "what up my nigga" and no one slaps them, not only do they sound stupid but it's just not okay. What's going to happen when a generation that says these things out of habit not hate is running the country?

Okay problem nuber two...2nd amendment. After yesterday's shooting at Virginia Tech the gun debate is brought to the forefront again. Now, I'm all for the right to bear arms. Always have been always will be, but what are we to do when it is now normal to have children dragging guns into school 3,4,5 times a year. When did this become a trend, there is some kind of cultural undercurrent that has yet to be found, we are at a loss.

I will admit a deep dark secret, I sometimes watch the view, mainly because I'm waiting for the day when Elisabeth stands up and slaps the crap out of Rosie, but until then I will listen to the drivel that spills from Rosies mouth. Now to me, personally, Rosie is far worse than Imus. She spews conspiracy theories and libralism into concious thoughts of millions of people a day. She is actually trying to take away our first amendment rights while abusing it herself...but I digress. She actually thinks that the university staff should have pulled the fire alarms when the shootings started. Okay, every woman has been taught that when you are approached by a stranger to yell "fire" because everyone wants to watch a fire. So by pulling the alarms the students would have run into the hallway and been put in the direct path of the gunman. So again her stupidity is overwhelming.

So how do you stop a comakazi gunman, how did he get a gun into the dorm, metal detector? I have no idea how we are going to stop these shootings or how we make this okay for the hundreds of children and heroic adults who have died at the hands of these people. It seems like this is just an unfortunate new sector of our society. It definately makes me want to homeschool my children. It makes me fear people who in anyway look dastardly or depressed. It does not however make me fear men in camo or big shiny buckles, or even the ones that have the bumper stickers that say "John Wayne is my president".