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Circular Logic
I think my friends are trying to tell me something.
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Maybe Hope
There is so much boogling around my brain right now. It is a quarter past eleven P.M. and I have nothing to offer my "maybe" readers other than hope.
My girls have broken into my secret stash of embroidery floss and are making these little beauties by the dozens. The organization, Craft Hope, is offering hope to the orphans of Russia by sending them "friendship bracelets" of every shape, size and color.
This will be the 12th project from this amazing charity. You can learn how to get involved by reading this page.
Maybe together we can offer a little hope to children in need.
Edited to add:
Craft Hope has just added Project 13 to the rolls. This project will benefit the tornado survivors in the Southeastern States. Please, if you can participate do so. All the info you need to get started is on the Craft Hope website.
(photo courtesy Craft Hope)
My girls have broken into my secret stash of embroidery floss and are making these little beauties by the dozens. The organization, Craft Hope, is offering hope to the orphans of Russia by sending them "friendship bracelets" of every shape, size and color.
This will be the 12th project from this amazing charity. You can learn how to get involved by reading this page.
Maybe together we can offer a little hope to children in need.
Edited to add:
Craft Hope has just added Project 13 to the rolls. This project will benefit the tornado survivors in the Southeastern States. Please, if you can participate do so. All the info you need to get started is on the Craft Hope website.
Sharing
It seems that since I last had the interweb many of my favourite bloggers have decided to call it quits. Call me silly but this breaks my blog loving heart. All the time I was blog-less, I longed for the day when I would be able to indulge all of my voyeuristic pleasures. I dreamt of blogs. Lots and lots of blogs.
My reader is sadly on the empty side. Too many of my old faves are taking it easy, living the good life.... without me. They are off having fun and not sharing it with lil' ole me. Really how could they? Didn't they have faith that Katie would return?
Sniff.
In an effort to stave off some of my sadness I would like those of you still blogging to share some of your favourite places with me. Sharing is good. Although not in the case of germs. Keep those to yourself, please.
Anywho.
You can share (please share!) via comments or shoot me a note, my email's around here somewhere...
My reader is sadly on the empty side. Too many of my old faves are taking it easy, living the good life.... without me. They are off having fun and not sharing it with lil' ole me. Really how could they? Didn't they have faith that Katie would return?
Sniff.
In an effort to stave off some of my sadness I would like those of you still blogging to share some of your favourite places with me. Sharing is good. Although not in the case of germs. Keep those to yourself, please.
Anywho.
You can share (please share!) via comments or shoot me a note, my email's around here somewhere...
You are what you eat...
Good day Citizens, today's guest blog is brought to you by Progressive policies, First Amendment Protection Insurances, and the letter Y.
Y is Dick Daring daring to trespass on Katie's divine blogosphere? Because she told me to. And I always do what she wants. That makes me a genius.
Now that my status as a Genius has been irrevocably established, I can now feel free to engage in Socratic Philosophy with My Fellow Citizens.
Y use the philosophy of Socrates?
Because (I know I must never begin a sentence with because, Mrs O'Fallon, but, (Mrs. O'Fallon being the Spirit of my 8th, 10th and 11th Grade English Lit teacher,
who severely disapproves of parenthetical writing, and I'm sure putting parenthesis in parenthesis has really got her bunched) anyhow I am not writing in True Paragraph Form, and that makes it OK)
because, Socrates always answered a question with a question; and in so doing avoided answering the question. Genius!
Y has my own Blog languished of late?
Y would Dick Daring dare be relegated to wacko fringe status by asking questions and or criticizing our newly, duly elected; by an overwhelming 52% majority of my fellow citizens, Obama Administration?
Who could oppose His message? Not I. Who can fault His rhetoric? Not I. I want to believe. I choose to submit to his leadership.
He opposes the demands by Corporate systems for little government intervention, opposes Wall Street's unequivocal support of free trade , opposes the super rich Elite's support for free international movement of capital, and opposes capitalism's support of individual wind fall profits.
However, I REFUSE to submit my intellect and my Liberties. Subvert them if you will, take them if you can, but Iwillnotsubmit.
Y would anyone advocate for less freedom? Y have free people throughout history chosen to live with fewer liberties? The answer is always the same, you know it and I know it.
Safety. Security. Painful realities deferred. In my ever so daring opinion, fear.
We cede our liberties on a daily basis. Little bits, nothing worth going to war over. I don't fight my managers when they say my freedom of speech does not exist at work, since anything I say at work can be construed as official policy. Stuff like that happens to us all the time. And we allow it.
Enough about me though, Katie asked me to Blog today because at breakfast I was attempting to put some perspective on $1,000,000,000,000.(I think I got that right, lets see six o's for a million, three more for billion, and then...).
As in the Bush Administration initiated, Obama Administration advocating, Trillion dollar stimulus plan.
Came up with some interesting things while researching this.
A one thousand dollar bill, laying on the side walk in Tokyo would not be enough to buy the space it occupied. It was once said that Bill Gates generates so much wealth every moment that he would lose money taking the time to stoop and pick that $1,000 bill up. One Trillion dollars is equal to $1,000 bills, stacked one atop another to a height of 72 miles.
Or altitude, since Space is only 6 miles away!
Ladies, consider this- (if I haven't already lost you as an audience). Think about spending $1,000,000 a day.
Every day. Since Christmas. Could you finance your own island paradise, complete with complacent manlings to do your every bidding?
Oh, and by the way, I don't mean last Christmas, I meant to say the first Christmas, in Bethlehem, 2,008 years ago. One million dollars a day, and coincidentally, 70 years left in the old check book.
I love America! All that money is generated by good old honest folks, going to work, doing their business, every day. And paying their taxes. Which, apparently, the architect of our $300,000,000 Bailout (buyout?) of America's 'to big to fail' banks, chose not to do. Still, our new Treasury Secretary is the only person in America capable of distributing $1,000,000,000,000.(I think I got that right, lets see six o's for a million, six more for billion, and then...) Because his plan worked so well on the first plan called TARP: you know Troubled Asset Relief Plan.
I think they called it tarp 'cause that's what you need to cover up such a stinking pile of manure!
Time to face reality folks.
Government control of the financial markets, setting up a Bank of the United States, (in addition to the Federal Exchange Commission) Government purchasing controlling interest in corporations and then setting controls is FASCISM.
I know that's not what our brilliant people in our government and media call it but that is what it is. If fascism, or socialism or an Island Paradise, is what you want in America, lets debate that, choose a new path and get on with it.
Don't package it as something else,tell me to swallow it whole, and hurry up about it so we can all save ourselves from ourselves.
Uber genius G.W. Bush says we need to abandon the principles of capitalism to save it. Riiight. Obama say's it's time for a change. All of this crap has been said and done before. Awe inspiring government spending didn't end or even shorten the Great Depression, but WWII sure did. Anyone up for another one of those?
Our economic slide is not Obama's fault. Nor is it W's. It's ours. We borrowed the money, got the interest only loans and refinanced our homes to buy vacations and Ski Doo's. WE ate too much and and now WE have a bellyache. Pepto and time will cure it. Instead we want to mortgage our childrens future to pay for the doctor to give us a stomach pumping, or tracheotomy, or a new lawn on the Capital mall. Anything to end the suffering.
My parents survived the Great Depression. So can we, if we must.
.
The question is, what kind of bitter pill are we willing to swallow so we can avoid it?
Truly and Sincerely yours,
Dick Daring
All photos courtesy of Google
Y is Dick Daring daring to trespass on Katie's divine blogosphere? Because she told me to. And I always do what she wants. That makes me a genius.
Now that my status as a Genius has been irrevocably established, I can now feel free to engage in Socratic Philosophy with My Fellow Citizens.
Y use the philosophy of Socrates?
Because (I know I must never begin a sentence with because, Mrs O'Fallon, but, (Mrs. O'Fallon being the Spirit of my 8th, 10th and 11th Grade English Lit teacher,
who severely disapproves of parenthetical writing, and I'm sure putting parenthesis in parenthesis has really got her bunched) anyhow I am not writing in True Paragraph Form, and that makes it OK)because, Socrates always answered a question with a question; and in so doing avoided answering the question. Genius!
Y has my own Blog languished of late?
Y would Dick Daring dare be relegated to wacko fringe status by asking questions and or criticizing our newly, duly elected; by an overwhelming 52% majority of my fellow citizens, Obama Administration?
Who could oppose His message? Not I. Who can fault His rhetoric? Not I. I want to believe. I choose to submit to his leadership.
He opposes the demands by Corporate systems for little government intervention, opposes Wall Street's unequivocal support of free trade , opposes the super rich Elite's support for free international movement of capital, and opposes capitalism's support of individual wind fall profits.
However, I REFUSE to submit my intellect and my Liberties. Subvert them if you will, take them if you can, but Iwillnotsubmit.
Y would anyone advocate for less freedom? Y have free people throughout history chosen to live with fewer liberties? The answer is always the same, you know it and I know it.
Safety. Security. Painful realities deferred. In my ever so daring opinion, fear.
We cede our liberties on a daily basis. Little bits, nothing worth going to war over. I don't fight my managers when they say my freedom of speech does not exist at work, since anything I say at work can be construed as official policy. Stuff like that happens to us all the time. And we allow it.
Enough about me though, Katie asked me to Blog today because at breakfast I was attempting to put some perspective on $1,000,000,000,000.(I think I got that right, lets see six o's for a million, three more for billion, and then...).
As in the Bush Administration initiated, Obama Administration advocating, Trillion dollar stimulus plan.
Came up with some interesting things while researching this.
A one dollar bill measures about six by three inches.
A one thousand dollar bill is ironically the same size.
A one thousand dollar bill, laying on the side walk in Tokyo would not be enough to buy the space it occupied. It was once said that Bill Gates generates so much wealth every moment that he would lose money taking the time to stoop and pick that $1,000 bill up. One Trillion dollars is equal to $1,000 bills, stacked one atop another to a height of 72 miles.
Or altitude, since Space is only 6 miles away!
Ladies, consider this- (if I haven't already lost you as an audience). Think about spending $1,000,000 a day.
Every day. Since Christmas. Could you finance your own island paradise, complete with complacent manlings to do your every bidding?
Oh, and by the way, I don't mean last Christmas, I meant to say the first Christmas, in Bethlehem, 2,008 years ago. One million dollars a day, and coincidentally, 70 years left in the old check book.
I love America! All that money is generated by good old honest folks, going to work, doing their business, every day. And paying their taxes. Which, apparently, the architect of our $300,000,000 Bailout (buyout?) of America's 'to big to fail' banks, chose not to do. Still, our new Treasury Secretary is the only person in America capable of distributing $1,000,000,000,000.(I think I got that right, lets see six o's for a million, six more for billion, and then...) Because his plan worked so well on the first plan called TARP: you know Troubled Asset Relief Plan.
I think they called it tarp 'cause that's what you need to cover up such a stinking pile of manure!
Time to face reality folks.
Government control of the financial markets, setting up a Bank of the United States, (in addition to the Federal Exchange Commission) Government purchasing controlling interest in corporations and then setting controls is FASCISM.
I know that's not what our brilliant people in our government and media call it but that is what it is. If fascism, or socialism or an Island Paradise, is what you want in America, lets debate that, choose a new path and get on with it.
Don't package it as something else,tell me to swallow it whole, and hurry up about it so we can all save ourselves from ourselves.
Uber genius G.W. Bush says we need to abandon the principles of capitalism to save it. Riiight. Obama say's it's time for a change. All of this crap has been said and done before. Awe inspiring government spending didn't end or even shorten the Great Depression, but WWII sure did. Anyone up for another one of those?
Our economic slide is not Obama's fault. Nor is it W's. It's ours. We borrowed the money, got the interest only loans and refinanced our homes to buy vacations and Ski Doo's. WE ate too much and and now WE have a bellyache. Pepto and time will cure it. Instead we want to mortgage our childrens future to pay for the doctor to give us a stomach pumping, or tracheotomy, or a new lawn on the Capital mall. Anything to end the suffering.
My parents survived the Great Depression. So can we, if we must.
.
The question is, what kind of bitter pill are we willing to swallow so we can avoid it?
Truly and Sincerely yours,
Dick Daring
All photos courtesy of Google
I'd like to thank the academy....
The lovely Affectioknit Teresa has bestowed me with a great honor, an award....
and I am so very honored! Really, it's an honor just being nominated...hehehe
Proximidade is described as:
'This blog invests and believes in PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships. These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes for self-aggrandizement! Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers!'
This blog award should be sent to your favorite eight bloggers and they, in turn should forward to eight of their favorites. You should include the text for Proximidade (above) in your announcement blog.
Here are my 8 PROXIMITY bloggers:
Jade
Miriam
Alexis
Barb
Tracy
Jolene
Mrs. B
Nora
Congratulations you all deserve it!
You can view this and all my other awards here.
and I am so very honored! Really, it's an honor just being nominated...hehehe
Proximidade is described as:
'This blog invests and believes in PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships. These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes for self-aggrandizement! Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers!'
This blog award should be sent to your favorite eight bloggers and they, in turn should forward to eight of their favorites. You should include the text for Proximidade (above) in your announcement blog.
Here are my 8 PROXIMITY bloggers:
Jade
Miriam
Alexis
Barb
Tracy
Jolene
Mrs. B
Nora
Congratulations you all deserve it!
You can view this and all my other awards here.
Where have all the green backs gone? Part Deux
In a effort to make my self feel better help other folks out, I am going to start posting a helpful hints column at least once a month-more if there is interest.
As I am not sure what you, dear reader, would deem helpful, I need your input. In an effort to make the blog O' sphere a better place for all, won't you help me, help you?
I would like to share recipes, helpful tips and in general, creative ways to stretch our already gymnastic dollar.
In the comments for today, let me know what types of info you might find helpful, regarding this area.
You can read Where have all the green backs gone? the first chapter here.
As I am not sure what you, dear reader, would deem helpful, I need your input. In an effort to make the blog O' sphere a better place for all, won't you help me, help you?
I would like to share recipes, helpful tips and in general, creative ways to stretch our already gymnastic dollar.
In the comments for today, let me know what types of info you might find helpful, regarding this area.
**********
You can read Where have all the green backs gone? the first chapter here.
Bloggers help eachother out
Well friends, my dear, farm sweet friend is under the weather. She is ill with the nasty flu/cold/who-knows-what bug. She is home suffering and writhing in pain resting quietly on her chic new sofa, sweetly sipping her red wine tea, whilst her engineer husband puts out the fires adeptly handles life on a hobby farm. And, of course her children are behaving like perfect angles.
Fellow bloggers, the only thing standing between Miriam and certain death is comments. It's all about comments, I tell you. Won't you head on over to the Suite and give the girl a little comment love? Let her know she is missed. Cuz honestly I can barely blog for my own dang self, let alone TWO people.
Fellow bloggers, the only thing standing between Miriam and certain death is comments. It's all about comments, I tell you. Won't you head on over to the Suite and give the girl a little comment love? Let her know she is missed. Cuz honestly I can barely blog for my own dang self, let alone TWO people.
Lame excuse and a cause
Since my last computer tragedy, I have had a really hard time getting my groove to well, groove.
And...
start saving your pennies so you can buy10 20 of these babies and send them to everyone you know...for Christmas!
Alright, off you go!
I sit and stare, vacantly at the screen and nothing comes.
This night is no different. I have spent an hour adding some tunes to my play list, rocking out to the Across the Universe Soundtrack...still nothing. Surely the Beatles would inspire...
***
NOT!
***
I am feeling stressed out (and quite sad frankly) about not having an original piece to submit to the 'Some Times Life is Funny' book fund raising project for NieNie. Why is my brain not working? I sent in some old stuff but, ya know, I would really like to help the cause with some fresh wit. NieNie deserves at least that much.
Hello? Brain? Work with me here...
OK folks, there is nothing to see here. Move right along. Go send something to Sue for this amazing book. You only have until the 30Th.
This night is no different. I have spent an hour adding some tunes to my play list, rocking out to the Across the Universe Soundtrack...still nothing. Surely the Beatles would inspire...
***
NOT!
***
I am feeling stressed out (and quite sad frankly) about not having an original piece to submit to the 'Some Times Life is Funny' book fund raising project for NieNie. Why is my brain not working? I sent in some old stuff but, ya know, I would really like to help the cause with some fresh wit. NieNie deserves at least that much.
Hello? Brain? Work with me here...
And...
start saving your pennies so you can buy
Alright, off you go!
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