momcat54's Blog

I just read this very interesting article in Newsweek.I found it very moving and more, I found essential truths in it, We have a great many here who decry gay marriage and gays in general . They usually quote the same Biblical passages over and over which is why I found this thoughtful article so interesting. Read it and tell me what you think http://www.newsweek.com/id/172653

Oh have Mercy,,, DISD has managed to shoot it's self in the foot yet again. They handed out ,some no doubt well deserved, bonuses  and then said "Ooops,  We gave  you too much. Give it back, " Doesn't anybody do oversight?  Do they not have a Financail director, a CPA ,anyone with a lick of common sense ?Hinijosa must  come home and bang his head on the wall every night. .It has become so bizarre, I just turn on the news and woat for the next DISD revalation. I could call it a cluster #*#*# but that wouldn't begin to cover it. They just need to desgnate TEA "s office space and get it over with.

OJ Simpson has been sentenced ,he will have to serve at least six+ years, before he is eligible for parole. I think 33 is the longest time possible.The wheels of justice, karma , fate whatever have finally caught up with him. I hope the Brown and Goldman families sleep a little better tonight.OJ will be an old,old man when he gets out. With any luck he may die in prison.

Has anyone else heard this one? They have banned bake sales in California schools. Holy Smoke! I must have baked thousands of cookies, cakes, pies and ,Lord help us,  Rice Krispy treats for my children';s schools. For that matter I've bought a few thousand too. Evidently the onus behind this is that the children might get more fat and sugar in their diet than the state of California thinks they should.. I suppose they feel the parents of these children are incapable of making this decision or teaching thei rchildren how to make the decision themselves.  Am  Ithe only one who feels this is just silly?

This is just beyond the pale. The New York times reports Gov Palin's MAKEUP ARTIST is one of the highest paid staffers.

Ms.  Amy Strozzi, who was nominated for an Emmy award for her makeup work on the television show "So You Think You Can Dance?", was paid $22,800 for the first two weeks of October alone, according to the records. The campaign categorized Ms. Strozzi's payment as "PERSONNEL SVC/EQUIPMENT."

I"m sure she is doing  Cindy's and John's makeup too but ,Holy Smoke,  22,000  for two weeks work. How much Max Factor is that campaign using?  Given my limited math skills and  I could be wrong, but it seems Ms Palin's clothing and makeup, this doesn't count  clothes for her husband and family, has cost nearly 200,000.  If I was giving money to the Republicans,( this would mean *** froze over,) I would be seriously ticked off. Further Ms Palin, with her usual veracity, claims she didn' spend that much money on clothes. This is at the same time John McCain is saying yes we spent it but it was always going to go to charity. I think the decision to give it to charity was made the same instant it hit the news. But then again I'm just a little cynical.

Thank you Jeebus, If they had actually listened to any classroom teacher  they would have gotten rid of it years ago. It is too late for so many kids who worked hard passed classes but froze on TAKS. 

Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school about what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously argued that the Vice President is “in charge of the United States Senate“:

Q: Brandon Garcia wants to know, “What does the Vice President do?”

PALIN: That’s something that Piper would ask me! … [T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.

Article I of the Constitution establishes an exceptionally limited role for the Vice President — giving the office holder a vote only when the Senate is “equally divided”:

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.

Moreover, the U.S. Senate website explains that the modern role of Vice Presidents has been to preside over the Senate “only on ceremonial occasions.”

In modern practice the Vice President doesn’t really control the Senate.

Oh, my this is painful. Is she just totally lost?

AM I the only one who feel the electoral college is antiquated and need to be revamped or removed?. I feel a popular vote would be far better. Our founding fathers had no way of knowing that how large we would grow or that we would all be literate and able of casting votes without someone to decide for us.I want my vote to count.

I attend a very small church. When I say small I mean we are excited when there are double digits in the pews. We had a great sermon on Sunday though and I wanted to share it with some of you here, The lesson was that God 's love encompasses us all. and  that we need to reflect that love in our daily lives. Not just to love each other but to love ourselves as God made us. I see so many people each day who are filled with self loathing, they are fat, gay dumb what ever, who have   no confidence in themselves. We are all God's children and his love for us should be reflected  in our lives. We are made in HIS perfect image our souls reflect  HIS. Self acceptance is part of the reflection because if we do not accept our selves we cannot accept others. A wonderful sermon that I wish more people could have heard.

I know the ACORN thing is hardly news but....Am I the only one who hears banjo music in the background? They obviously didn't have a mom like mine , and probably yours, who said two wrongs don't make a right

from the LA times
Dozens of newly minted Republican voters say they were duped into joining the party by a GOP contractor with a trail of fraud complaints stretching across the country.

Voters contacted by The Times said they were tricked into switching parties while signing what they believed were petitions for tougher penalties against child molesters. Some said they were told that they had to become Republicans to sign the petition, contrary to California initiative law. Others had no idea their registration was being changed.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Four people have been indicted on charges of voter fraud in Kansas City, officials said Wednesday.Investigators said questionable registration forms for new voters were collected by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a group that works to improve minority and low-income communities.The four indicted -- Kwaim A. Stenson, Dale D. Franklin, Stephanie L. Davis and Brian Gardner -- were employed by ACORN as registration recruiters. They were each charged with two counts. I Federal indictments allege the four turned in false voter registration applications. Prosecutors said the indictments are part of a national investigation.ACORN and Project Vote recruit and assign workers to low-income and minority neighborhoods to register people to vote.

SO we are down to less than three weeks.Predictions?Reactions? What will you  do if Obama wins, what will you do if it's McCain? If Mc Cain wins , after I have screamed, cried torn my hair and beat my breast in public I will put all my money in the mattress and may take it to  a beach in Mexico. WIth my luck there;ll be an off shore drilling problem and I'll have oil soaked creatures washing around my ankles. Just a thought

I used to admire John McCain, I never felt he was suited to the office he aspires to but I did admire his service. Lately that admiration has slipped away totally. That he has people like Karl Rove, who engineered the whispering campaign that led to his own loss in 2000, is just sad. He wants the job so badly that he has hired the biggest slime balls in their profession. Who can forget the rumor that the McCain's adopted child was his own illegitimate mixed race child? Obama , while he has his own faults God knows, hasn't stooped to the level I see coming out of the shadow campaign. No one has dragged out CIndy McCain's drug problems or John's wandering eye, and  the Keating five has skated by..Obama has tried ,at lest on the surface ,to stick to the issues. I will be glad when this election is over and the nasty underbelly of American Politics slithers away for a while.

I know I am not the only one who has noticed this but... John Cornyn , is doing his darnedest not to come out and say he is a Republican incumbent.I am sure he is not the only one , nation wide, but it does strike me as an indicator. I think Republicans are so anxious not to be identified with the current administration that they  are leaving party affiliations out of their advestisements as much as possible. 

I've been called a variety of names lately, Liar being one of the nicer ones. I've passed on my thoughts or news I've picked up from various sources and for that I have been classified as a a radical socialist, try that one out on some of my former student, and a left wing anti Christ. I am not alone in this . I have never seen such vitriol in all my life. I think it is because we don't actually see each other . People feel free to be rude insulting and down right vicious to people they know little or nothing about. It's like email or voice mail there is no barrier of breeding or decency, good manners are a thing of the past. There are a great many of you here who I disagree with VIOLENTLY I do not call you nut jobs, ignorant rednecks, liars or delusional fanatics. That would be bad manners and I just don't have it in me to stoop that low. You have your opinions, that is fine I respect that.  I fel like some of us are so frantic at seeing the posible loss of their candidate  and he does represent what they feel is RIGHT that they are loosing it. Please stop and think before you hit Post to blog those you insult and demean are mothers, father sons church members who have thoughts and feelings and often do not deserve the abuse you heap on them

I know McCain  and his staff are hitting the panic button but this is just ridiculous..

The McCain campaign is now broadening their attack on Obama's past association with William Ayers to include Michelle Obama -- even though McCain has repeatedly said spouses should be off limits during the campaign.

The attack? Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers' wife and fellow former Weatherman, went to work in 1984 for the major Chicago-based national law firm of Sidley & Austin, and three years later, Michelle joined the mega-firm as well.

That's it . That's the best they can do that two women  worked in the same firm that employed over 500  people. They did not work on the same floor work or  on a single case together they just worked for the same firm.

How sad and desperate is that.?