Fight for Women’s Rights: Women’s Suffrage Part 2

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetWomen in America have had a long hard struggle to get to where we are today. It is easy for the current generation to think the rights of American women have now has always been true in America. It hasn’t. Even when our founding fathers wrote the Constitution, a few women were [...]

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A Letter to My Granddaughter on Women’s Rights, Part 1

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetMy granddaughter called asking questions about my childhood memories of my status as a woman in a man’s world. It was for a class project on women’s rights. I answered her questions off the top of my head, but I feel my childhood was atypical of the average American girl growing up [...]

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Great Depression and Now: Is Obama Another FDR, Part 2

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetPresident Obama said on 4/14/2010 that even though MANY may not like it, America is a superpower. We may not like it. We may not like it? Good godfry. What in bloody blazes is Obama wishing for our great country. He seems to want America to fall into mediocrity, to lose our [...]

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How Different Is Today’s World from That of the Great Depression?

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetPolitical issues such as health care reform have a history and we can start by looking at the vast changes that have taken place over the last 80 years or so. This is going to be a series over some of these top political and social issues that have developed. The America [...]

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The Health Care Law: Is it the First Step to a Dictatorship?

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetLast Tuesday, President Obama signed into law the Democrat’s Health Bill. It took the rest of the week, but by Thursday late at night, the House passed the last dregs of all the wind-up odds and ends that remained to be done to make this the law of the land. To make [...]

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Obama’s Government Health Care Bill: Do or Die Week

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetRED FLAG = PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES ASAP AND LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE AGAINST THIS BILL: TO FIND THE PHONE NUMBERS YOU NEED, GO TO Call Congress Now DO NOT WAIT; CALL IMMEDIATELY! This week, starting on March 14, 2010, has been called the “Do or Die Week” as [...]

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Healthy Living: Controlling Sodium Intake Part 3

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetWhen you read how much sodium is in prepared foods, you probably will be shocked. So many products we eat have so much salt added, that it is easy to see why Americans get more salt than is healthy for them. Study the chart below. These are products that I often use [...]

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Healthy Living: Salt Intake, Part 2

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetSalt’s ability to preserve food was one of the foundations of civilization, and was as important as the discovery of fire and the invention of the wheel to humankind’s development. One of my favorite books as a teenager was, “Below the Salt”, by Thomas Costain, copyright: 1957.  “Time was strangely rolled back [...]

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Healthy Living: Government Control of Salt Intake Part 1

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetOur various governments from State to Federal, are hell-bent on controlling as many aspects of our lives as they can by passing law after law after law. Among other things, individual food selection is especially vulnerable in today’s world. The food police, fat police, fast-food police, chocolate police, condiment police, you name [...]

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The Economy: Meanwhile Back at the Ranch Part 3, Family C

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetThis is the third part in the series on the struggles of the average American citizen in this recession. (Check blog of 12/16/09 — Economic Issues: “Out in the Trenches for Part 1; and blog of 1/19/10 — Economic Issues: “Folkland Suffering” for Part 2) The massive spending of Washington in the [...]

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Obama’s State of the Union Speech: “THE BIG I”

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Be Sociable, Share! Tweet “Oh, Lord, it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way…”* President Obama’s first State of the Union Speech on January 27, 2010 was simply a regurgitation of his campaign promises he gave before he was elected President in 2008. A few new ideas, such as off-shore drilling, were [...]

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Democrats’ Reaction to the Massachusetts’ Election: ANGER AND FRUSTRATION

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetIn a special election in the bluest of blue states, Massachusetts’ voters filled Senator Edward Kennedy’s seat with an Independent Republican, Scott Brown. This not only shocked the nation, but Washington D.C. itself. By the next day everyone was in a furor.  The Democrats, themselves, were in disarray. According to Peter Johnson, [...]

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Economic Issues: Folkland Suffering, Part 2

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetThis is the second part in the series on the economic plight of ordinary Americans. To read the first part, go to my blog of 12/16/09 called: “Economic Issues: Out in the Trenches, Part 1”. While the Washington Fat-cats spend money like crazy,  there is suffering out in Folkland.  Obama is among [...]

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Attacks on Christmas In 2009: “And a Happy Solstice Day to You, Too”.

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetI can find it in my heart to feel sorry for non-believers, for those with no religion at all in their lives, not necessarily Christian, but any religion at all. Their existence must be so barren, so empty, so lacking in meaning that I personally cannot understand why these people are so [...]

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Christmas: Still Strong in the New Decade

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetNot only are we in a brand new year, but also in a brand new decade. For several decades now, there has been a concerted attempt by atheists to take Christ out of Christmas, to turn this hallowed holiday into a secular celebration. In my opinion, this effort has not worked, and [...]

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Senate Healthcare Bill: Merry Bleeping Christmas from Mean Uncle Harry Scrooge

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetPlease note: The remaining parts of the message on the economic problems of everyday folks will be continued later, being interspersed with other blogs. Harry Reid has proved to his fellow Senators that he is, indeed, Scrooge in disguise. First he has denied the Senators the right to go home for Christmas [...]

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Economic Issues: Out in the Trenches, Part 1

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetNancy Pelosi spent $35,000 in three months for incidentals such as flowers and donuts. She spent $3000 alone for one funeral. John Boehner spent $24,000. All together, Congress spends a total of nearly 1 ½ billion dollars a year for such trivial items. Meanwhile, out in the trenches, folks are hurting. For [...]

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Conservative Issues: The Fearsome Foursome, True Megalomaniacs

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Be Sociable, Share! Tweet“A Traitor is everyone (sic) who does not agree with me.”* Make an educated guess on who said this quote. Was it (1) A person from the liberal press? (2) Nancy Pelosi? (3) President Obama? (4) Harry Reid? (5) All of the above called “The Fearsome Foursome.” (6) Or none of the [...]

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The Senate Healthcare Bill: Harry Reid, Magician in Chief

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetRush Limbaugh is fond of using the expression, “Smoke and Mirrors,” This is what the Senate Healthcare Bill, unveiled on Wednesday evening, November 18, 2009 is — just smoke and mirrors. This bill, which combined healthcare legislation that passed through committees, is another legislation boondoggle over 2000 pages long. It was not [...]

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The Afghanistan War: How NOT to Win a War Part 2:

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Be Sociable, Share! TweetI have often thought that it is a good thing that America did not have to fight World War II under the same criteria as the War in Afghanistan is being fought.     AMERICA WOULD HAVE LOST. Why? Well, for one thing, we went into the war with one thought in mind [...]

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