My Worst Injury

Two pairs of skis

I've had a few scrapes in my day, but knock on a huge butcher block, I have yet to break any bones. I have sprained every finger, quite a few toes, both feet and both ankles. Perhaps the worst injury I've endured is the time I went skiing, I had fallen after showing off, as I lay there in the snow, a runaway skier crashed into me with her ski into my left thigh. I couldn't walk for days, I had a huge indentation in my muscle and it was excruciating. I didn't even go to the hospital or the doctor.

Rep. John Culberson Sends Email With Federal Job Openings While Advocating For Smaller Government

I don’t understand how the GOP can say that government doesn’t provide real jobs. The federal employees are just as important in driving our economy as employees in the private sector. Their educationa­l and job skills are often more specialize­d thus they may earn more but why is that a bad thing. Their paychecks contribute just as much to our consumer engine of an economy. Let’s face it, our economy has become a service oriented economy over the past 40 years, even in the private sector, so how is it that the government jobs have become demonized. The GOP candidates are all vying for a government job that offers a wonderful health care insurance package, multiple paid vacations a superb pension. I’d like to see that in the private sector, oh wait it used to be the case, in the olden days. Why did we allow those days to go away?
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The John Birch Society’s Reality

Dan Brown’s book Angels and Demons talks of the centuries old fight of the Illuminati and the Church, specifical­ly the Vatican. To be an Illuminati is to be a scientist and thus evil because science refutes God’s existence or at least doesn’t give enough respect or credit to God. I can see how the Christian Right came about with that theory. I think that the Free Masons also came under fire from the Church in Dan Brown’s books, but I’m not sure if that ever came to pass in reality because if it did, then the Christian Right would have to revisit their whole Founding Fathers wanted a Christian nation because most of the Founding Fathers were Free Masons. It is scary how some groups take history and force it to fit their world view and not let history itself form their world view. Which brings up to question whose history is accurate? That would be a good question for the Board of Education down in Texas. They appear to determine what gets into the textbooks. Makes you think.
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Obama Jobs Plan: Federal Aid For States Splits Democrats, Republicans

I think that those Republican governors who have rejected federal monies for high speed rail and other big infrastruc­ture projects are doing a great disservice to their states. Being a penny wise and a pound foolish does not get your state anywhere. Our transporta­tion system in its entirety is old and worn down.Repai­ring or even better gutting structures and replacing the whole thing will not get cheaper the longer they wait. Doing big things now would employ people, especially if all the components of whatever is being built are manufactur­ed here in the United States. The ripple effect would be a boon right now no matter where it happens, it would make us feel better as a whole instead of continuous­ly reading about the GOP saying no to every idea that comes from our President. We would see action on the ground and we need that right now.
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A simple post without prompting

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This is my simple post about today September 11th, 2011. I watched this morning as many brave people read the names of those we had lost on that awful day 10 years ago. I waited until I heard our dear friend’s name and then my husband and I shut off the t.v because another minute would have been unbearable. Yesterday, I wrote in one of my comments that I am tired of commemorating the anniversary of that tragic day. Instead I would like to one day celebrate the end of our so-called “war on terror”. September 11th has cost us more than the immediate death of 3000 people. It has cost us the health of all those first responders, it has cost us many of our civic liberties and it has cost us too many of our young soldiers both in deaths and in debilitating injuries. Moreover it has cost us untold trillions of dollars that could have gone to helping the first responders with their ongoing battles for their health, rebuild our decaying infrastructures and investing in our younger ones. I just hope that all those who have been left behind by their lost loved ones remember that love never dies, just like energy, it changes but doesn’t die. Some small piece of comfort, hopefully.

Never, Ever Do This

Berjaya Redang Resort

My two very good friends and I were in Mexico in Alcapulca in 1987. We were having a grand time, at a club one night we met two very nice guys who were brothers. They asked us to meet them the next day and they offered to take us out on their boat. The three of us, thinking that they were nice decided to meet them the following morning. We all met up at the port and they brought along their Papa with water skis to give us lessons. We spent the whole entire day with them boating and I learned how to water ski thanks to Papa, they even brought a Punic lunch for us. Towards the evening before they took us back, they gave us a boat tour of the gorgeous estates on the water. Amazing experience and it remains one of my best memories, however, this could have easily gone horribly wrong as many of you must be thinking. Three young ladies in a foreign country should not be getting in a boat with strangers.