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I haven’t posted here for quite a while, but politically, it seems time to voice an opinion again.

Makana

The song is a good one, the message even better. The “Powers that be” in the banks, and the legislature, seem to have turned deaf and blind. At least to those of us who are just a part of the general populace. I may have more to say on the subject, just wanted to share the song!

This is an excerpt from CNN, I have got to say I am so glad I didn’t vote for this vapid, insincere believer! Anyone who is so completely critical and complaining of others, is no believer in the path of Christ, she may believe in the magic pill of Christ, i.e. belief without obedience to his teachings, but she is no saint on any scale.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Some of Sarah Palin’s former campaign aides are frustrated with the Alaska governor for remarking in a lengthy, freewheeling speech that she had refused to pray with them before last October’s vice presidential debate.

Palin told the story in a speech to a GOP dinner in Alaska last Friday.

“So I’m looking around for somebody to pray with, I just need maybe a little help, maybe a little extra,” she said of the moments before the debate. “And the McCain campaign, love ‘em, you know, they’re a lot of people around me, but nobody I could find that I wanted to hold hands with and pray.”

As the audience laughed, Palin noted that she meant no disrespect to the McCain campaign and that ended up saying a prayer with her daughter Piper.

A handful of the McCain campaign staffers who traveled with the former vice presidential nominee nearly every day for two months caught wind of Palin’s remarks on Thursday morning — and they aren’t thrilled with her quip.

“We all talked this A.M.,” said one former Palin aide in an e-mail. “This set off a nerve for sure with a lot of people.”

“It’s yet another example of the few staff still loyal to Palin questioning their loyalty and ardent defense of her over the several months since the campaign,” said the aide, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about campaign colleagues.

Jessica ~

Gads! I never do seem to get in on the commentary for the CNN articles, which is why this unused thread got hijacked for my own silly comments on the “newsworthy” stuff of the first 100 days of our new prez. When I saw the title of this one, I thought, well, we do know that he is quite capable of sarcastic humor, and, gosh, he wasn’t even guilty, What’s up with that?

And, why is a woman’s battle with weight the kind of news that preempts anything? We all struggle with that problem, some more than others, and some in opposite ways from each other. I am a round rubber ball, and a dear freind has as much trouble keeping weight on as I have keeping it off.

Oh My,

Oh my, to ask folks not to listen to this commentator, of whom I have the impression that he is to the right, politically  of AH, well, that is simply asking for a bit of common sense. . . .

I needed a good laugh this morning, and this was it, hahahahahahahahahahaha, ROFLMAO, Yeah, Obama is frightened of this ghoul. Sure, Uh-huh, and I wear a size 3, OK!

Good One, Rush, Good one, keep the laughs coming, ol’ boy. 50,000 comedians out of work, and we have Rush. Gads!

John Kerry ~

I voted for Senator Kerry when he ran for president, yes I am a liberal, though I didn’t used to be. When I was part and parcel of the fundamentalist movement, I voted Republican as I was encouraged to do. The same things that opened my eyes spiritually, opened my eyes politically. Though one of the things that I do try to do is to keep my political comments seperate from my spiritual comments, the reason is that, though my politics are influenced by the path I walk, I do not consider my political stance necessarily one my fellow pilgrims must take.

When everyone else was moaning and groaning about Bush but voting for him because Kerry was too liberal, or didn’t smile enough, or was too aloof, I did my homework. I looked at his record, those things he had not only done while in the senate, but those things he had done before becoming a senator. He was a prosecutor who fought corruption. I wanted him in the White House. Instead the people voted in anohter Good ‘ol boy from Tayaksas, and we got a war and Halibutton (not a Freudian slip) for another 4 years.

Well, there is no guarantee this new president will do all the right things, but he is certainly making a good start.

Just so ya know ~

Commenting on the news and the new President just happened. I am finding some of the foolishness mildly irritating but not unexpected. My POV is that of an old woman whose life is on hold for health reasons. We have had a president who seemed not to care about the little people. That president’s tenure in office was questionable because of the scandal associated with ballot fixing, so no one knows who would have served if Bush’s connections had let everything work itself out.

I am not sure Obama wouldn’t have gotten the same margin if he’d gone up against any of the former presidents, simply because the time was right. Barack Obama is well spoken, intelligent, and I hope he does what he told us he was going to do. I have seen indications that that is exactly what is going on on the hill. I’m not foolish enough to think he cannot be compromised, though I certainly hope it has not happened and doesn’t. I wish him and his family the very best.

The President and the Press ~

The question posed by a CNN commentator was regarding a question that is “substantive” and it’s being asked when the President was on an impromptu tour of the press area. Was it unfair?

Well, yes, when he obviously dropped in for a get acquainted session, it is not necessary to put him on the grill and roast him, but, to be completely fair, it was foolish of the new President to expect that the sharks in the tank would act like anything else, even if they’d just been fed.

Shirt-sleeves ~

I Googled  ~ Oval Office ~ and found that the only times presidents have allowed pictures in that office in their shirt sleeves seem to have been at times of national crisis. So this says very little about what President Obama is going to allow in a formal office except work.  And maybe that we should have seen “W” in his shirt sleeves, working on how to make things better.

Who knows, there is much to be said for both ways, as there is that about not wanting the people to panic, and seeing their elected leader in shirt sleeves might have paniced the masses. That’s almost too funny to contemplate, since watching the ball drop on Wall Street might have been a bit more panicking for most than seeing our president working on solutions. I’m inclined to like the look.

Playing ~

Hi! Sorry to have neglected this site for so long. I am a bad girl. Anyway, I have been playing around with designs that are in the public domain, so as to not get into trouble with the copyright laws. I need, of course, to get myself around to doing original work, but in light of the fact that at this point I do not feel well and the brain seems to only want to fire on a couple of pins at a time, I will take what creativity I can muster. Play time is, of course fun, the original of this Celtic Knot is quite green and it is indeed called St. John’s Knot, since I have always considered St. John my patron, finding this was wonderful indeed.

You are welcome, of course to see the rest of my play efforts at Cafepress. I am happy with most, though there is one that on closer inspection I will be changing, as it has rough edges I want to take care of, the pink rose. I have done a couple of animals that I need to photograph so I can use them, one is a lion, one a tiger. The originals turned out pretty well, so I am hoping the digital version looks good, too. Working on a hummingbird at this point, (watercolor) which is intended to be a belated Christmas present for a dear friend. I have a few small works I need to get around as well. I need to get myself in gear, that’s all there is to it! Thanks for stopping by. Happy New Year!

Names ~

I have been thinking about names recently, most specifically the naming of children that come into the world. I do believe in reincarnation, but I also believe that there is much to be said for living each life as if it were the only one we have, because it is, for the moment, the only one where we can make any changes that we need to make in our character. I find myself wondering about why a parent would name a child, a new being, something like Patches Wequit, that’s a real name, BTW, a name a parent gave a 10th child born to them. Gads! If they ran out of decent names, wasn’t it time to quit before you named a child that? I wouldn’t even name a child Michael, not because the archangel is a bad entity, just the opposite, so it’s an incredible name to live up to.

The same goes for names like John Jacob Jinkleheimer Jr., you see it, a lot more than you would think. Come on, Dad, was it an easy name to deal with when you were young? Why do you think it will be an easy name for your son to deal with, or is that the point? Building “character”, at the expense of a child’s early self esteem does not seem to me to be a good plan. It isn’t the adults that will make the child cringe at his name, though I have met my share of adult crudenics, it’s the children. Why deliberately do that to your child? And children will find ways to make fun of the simplest names, like Smith or Jones, if they are so inclined, so why deliberately bait them?

And, while we are about it, let’s look at the tradition in families of Jr. or II or III, I understand the wish to honor parents and men in the family who have done wonderful things. Is handing a child a name that is a carbon copy of yours a good thing to do? I would hope you would think about that long and hard. If the name is one of fame or extreme honor, you are loading the child with quite a karmic payload before they even get started, is that kindness? If the name is one of infamy, why would you do that? Why not let the child make his own way in the world?

You cannot protect your child from all injury that will occur in the world, would G-d that we could, but you can give your child a leg up by giving them a name with strong meaning and little family history. Even naming them after famous characters of the time may not be the best favor one can do for them, learn the meaning of the name, learn the name’s history before you do that, not just the character of the person you are honoring with the naming. Love your children enough to give them good names that can be lived with for a lifetime, please!