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If Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is ticked off enough at a country to threaten to send troops to return to power a leader that by most accounts has ignored his country’s constitution, then why would an American president side with Chavez on the argument. It’s well-known that Chavez believes the voice of the people is annoyance that continually threatens to side-line his agenda, and it is totally transparent that the voice of the American people is something for Obama’s speeches to run “will-nilly” over…sounds like a man afraid his political agenda of socialism might fail. Obama barely mustered opposition to the government’s treatment of their citizenry in Iran, and now, he is condemning the actions of those in Honduras who have removed their non-constitutional leaning president. Where’s the outrage at our wanker-in-chief who supports regimes that would have the people’s needs follow the needs of her governing powers?

Poor ‘ole’ Hillary is hard-pressed to speak in her boss’s favor, and has some trouble promoting the idea that crushing rebellions is the path for the American government to follow. Unfortunately for Obama, his rule as the “Supreme Rock-Star” president may be coming to an end. The tea parties scheduled across the nation, the weekend of the 4th, will only serve to irritate his supreme “idiocity”-not yet a Webster term-more. The would-be king of the world is watching helplessly as his co-hearts fall, giving way to the rights of humanity, can we get an “awwwe?”

As we rise to watch our news, weekly now, we see the peoples of third world countries taking back their rights as citizens against their governments, and we question; how long before America follow suits? We were not born to watch the George Soros-like government aided by the unions control our lives, taxing us to death, and gaining lucratively from our labor. It’s time to question who is charge, and when we will truly celebrate our independence as a nation? With our government talking a possible second stimulus package, a $9 billion plus health care package, and an $800 billion green package (cap and trade), it’s time to make sure that the voice of the people is heard, and stop the runaway government in her tracks. To heck with worrying about Zelaya’s plight, the Hondurans, and the Iranians, they’re fighting to gain control in their countries, we need to be following suit in our country.
 

Attend a tea party this weekend, July 4^th and let freedom ring! If you have to worry that the FBI will be at tea parties taking pictures and writing down names to add to list as terrorist, then you know that the tea parties are necessary. It’s better to be on a list with hard working Americans who believe in freedom and rights, than to be on the list of whiners who saw it coming and did nothing to stop it.

I’m not even sure how to spell “kaboom” the way that Billy Mays would utter the word, but it will be forever linked with the unexpected death of the world’s best-known pitchman and Oxyclean. There is some speculation that a bump to the head that Mr. Mays suffered during a bad landing may have played a part in his death. A Florida coroner’s office should have answers sometime this afternoon.

While the Jackson family discusses arrangements for Michael Jackson’s funeral, questions are swirling around the doctor who was in attendance at the time of Michael’s death. The doctor’s lawyer appeared on Fox News, this morning, and has made assurance that his client acted in a professional fashion. He said that the doctor was not prescribing Oxycontin, or Demerol for Michael Jackson. So far, pigs haven’t begun to fly either…that should put your mind to rest.

It’s Monday, June 29, 2009, in Texas, and the skies are weeping. As is our norm, with satellite service and the electric company for small rural areas, we have already experienced the loss of both and may have more of the same to come before the skies clear. It is with some relief that the flowers that needed water, yesterday, are getting a torrent of rain today.

I did not sign up for the bing.com search engine, I merely typed in a search request and it came back quickly…a nice change from other search engines that have failed in the past. This, we can assume, was Microsoft’s answer to yahoo not selling to them. (That’ll teach them…wonder if Microsoft could fix my email too?) Anytime you see an ad on television, repeatedly, you just have to check it out; we are living in an Internet age, aren’t we?

In the early 1990s, when Tim Berners-Lee (not Al Freaking-Gore) invented the software for the World Wide Web to allow the sharing of information easily among scientist, he could not have guessed what the service would provide for peoples of all cultures and in all walks-of-life. The past two weeks, with Iran in a state of disarray, have proven it’s worth and uses as many have found a way to stay connected with those suffering from oppression in Iran. It’s a wonderful tool for keeping in touch, for finding out truths, and for entertaining the lonely, bored, or inquisitive people all over the globe.

It has proven to be a way for people to either avoid social interaction or to bloom as people with others interacting in social chat rooms. We can communicate with relatives far away, or just send an email to someone we love each morning, as a reminder that we care. We can send pictures, alter pictures, or just search out pictures of someone that we have never seen, with little or no effort. We can read news, entertainment, history, drama, comedy, fiction or non-fiction, and not have to go to outside sources to obtain the information. We can watch videos, for all the same purposes, or just something that another person found entertaining and posted on YouTube, or one of many other sites that post videos.

What did we do before the Internet? Honestly, we watched televisions, we went to libraries, movie theatres, lectures, symposiums, museums, zoos, art galleries, and for walks, believe it or not. When we all join the unique, among us, and no longer feel compelled to shop, we will find the only interaction that we have will be on the job, or through the computer…and they thought that Logan’s Run, Soilent Green, and Legend, were just movies…hah!

While most of the world mourned the passing of Michael Jackson on Friday, the House of Representatives were busy passing a bill that will, most agree, increase the cost of food and utilities once it is passed in congress and takes affect. Those who watch Fox News were given two numbers to call and express their feelings about more waste and money being thrown into half-baked ideas and projects; however, it was impossible to get through on the 1-202-225-3121 or 1-202-224-3121 numbers, so the bill was passed. Now, as it goes to congress without the voice of the people being heard, and while disregarding the 700 plus scientist around the world who say the bill is worthless and unnecessary, the next step in the process of spending $800 billion begins.

WorldNet Daily is reporting on another story of interest to tax payers in Georgia. The Tea Party scheduled on the 4^th of July at the Gwinnett Place Mall has been cancelled due to property owners using their rights of easement laws. It’s no surprise that the Simon Property Group that had donated $1 million to multiple democratic nominees, including Obama, spearheaded the move to shut down the tea party. While that tea party has been cancelled, the WorldNet Daily web site has listed a large list of tea parties in Georgia and the United States.

If you’re tired of the government spending “willy nilly” and want to have your voice heard, go to the web site and find a tea party in your state to attend on the 4^th of July. Let congress know that we still wish to be free and can no longer allow them to spend our hard-earned dollars.

Sad and strange, this week has seen the passing of three icons in the entertainment business. The first, of course, Ed McMahon on Tuesday, then on Thursday Farrah Fawcett lost her battle with cancer and Michael Jackson was pronounced dead of a suspected coronary (an autopsy is scheduled for today in Los Angeles). However, as the rumor mill will, it spun with rumors of Jeff Goldblum having died in a fall during a movie he was shooting in New Zealand. Jeff Goldblum is very much alive…and grateful we’re sure.

Last evening, as we were getting ready for supper, my oldest grandson called to tell me that Michael Jackson had passed away. I had spent the majority of the afternoon playing games with my grandchildren or watching cartoons and had not seen any news, so it was a shock to hear such news. Many in my generation remember a really cute little boy who sang I’ll be There in what would become the voice of a genius in the music industry; Michael Jackson “The King of Pop.”

It was natural to draw parallels to another “King” of music, Elvis Presley, who was also in the beginnings of a renewed music come back that promised to put him back on the throne when he died. Michael, like Elvis, had been out of the public eye and off the music scene for several years when his new beginning became his end. Mourners had already gathered in many places around the world, last night, as news personalities sought to make sense of the sudden passing of one of music’s largest and most enigmatic stars.

Though we really do not know them, we will miss them.

Jeff Goldblum

Farrah Fawcett

Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson

According to the Washington Post, Farrah Fawcett died in a Santa Monica hospital today. She has battled cancer for a long period, and had sought treatments abroad. She was 62-years-old. Ms. Fawcett, a Texas native, is probably best remembered for her role in Charlie’s Angels.

Unlike Bill Clinton and the pre-dipped cigar scandal, Governor Sanford is likely to get canned and that’s not the worst of his worries. The government and the people may be cruel, but the angry wife is a real threat; her punishment will no doubt sting for years. It was apparent in the days leading up to the newly discovered mistress and the trip to Argentina that things were not right in the Sanford household, but did anyone really think he went hiking on a whim? To be honest, there was some skepticism in our household as to why a man would leave his wife and kids around the holiday (especially the one designed to celebrate the man of the household) and just go hiking…but a mistress in Argentina. Well, you know what they say, “If you’re going to do it, do it with flare.”

The Sanford’s have had a night to sleep on it. We didn’t see the weather report for South Carolina this morning, but it’s easy to guess that the kitchen of that household is the coldest place on earth today; the coffee is bitter, the eggs won’t be sunny side up, and the conversation, if there is any, is dry and testy. There’s nothing like the confession of a husband having a mistress to really rankle the feathers of a wife, and she, more than anyone is capable of punishing her man in such a way as to take the wind from his sails, and knock the bearded veil of conspiracy off his face. Ah, just makes a woman proud to be married to a man who does not share his personal life with the nation.

It’s been well over a decade since Willy Bill had his fling with Monica Moose and the public still remembers, but has he had a moments rest from Haggering Hillary? From a female perspective, there have been many pleasant days since the event, but every time that Monica Moose makes the news there is a twinge of pain and disgust that wafts through Hillary’s whole being and it’s justified. For Sanford, fortunately we don’t have a name like Monica Moose to go with the illicit affair, and perhaps her name will never be known, which might spare Mrs. Sanford some of the pain of having had her husband publicly admit to an affair.

Will Sanford have to resign his post? Probably, he’s a republican and therefore not above the laws of nature. However, if he is smart, he will resign and forego the imminent impeachment hearings that are sure to drag he and his family through a month or two of pain and disgrace. No matter what the reason a politician comes to impeachment, the thing that brought him is rarely the only thing that is made public. Resignation, in a quiet and expedient fashion, means no need to spring clean the family closet.

For future reference, any woman looking for a stray husband might think of South America first. Yep, the Internet has made all types of communication a possibility.

Did you ever have a fight with the wife, get mad, get in the SUV and drive to the nearest airport…change your mind, call a friend and just go hiking for 4 or 5 days? Well…maybe it only happens to governors who are fed up with federal run slam and scam games, and have maybe eaten the wrong thing for dinner. Governor Sanford of South Carolina went missing, not dead, not nuts, just missing for a few days and the rest of the politicians went after him for not advising others of his whereabouts. It’s the main problem with politics and voting for politicians, we forget that these are human beings with emotionally charged issues and expect them to be some sort of infallible super being.

Many men and women know that stress on the job filters into the home and adds to emotional issues that cannot be differentiated, at times, from our personal problems and our vocation. From a female perspective, it’s easy to see a man getting angry or tired and just wanting to get away from everything for a few days, so what if he is the governor of one of the contiguous United States. He’s still a man, he still has all the emotions that cause conflicts in his piers, and he is likely-like it or not-to act in a very human fashion by sulking, stalking off, or going hiking. Leave the man alone, he’s human, that’s more than can be said for numerous politicians all over the nation, especially on those on Capitol Hill.

In other news, Perez Hilton-okay is this news-got hit in the nose for uttering an ugly gay slur to a member of a rapper band. He’s suing; however, before he called the cops he took time to tweet on twitter, and make a web video. It was, we’re sure, a very emotionally charged 911 call with Perez worrying about the punch to his nose ruining his career as a blogger. There should be a warning label put on people like Perez Hilton, but what would it say? “Warning: This human barely viable.”

People like Hilton are the very reason that UFOs avoid contact with Earth’s atmosphere.

New ad campaigns in Mexico will read, “Go to the United States, get employed by a less than reputable contractor, fall off a roof, and bring back millions.” This after an illegal immigrant working for a contractor in New York fell off a roof and sustained serious injuries. Since the job was for less than $100,000 to the contractor, the taxpayer footed the bill for the injuries sustained and the illegal walked, limped, and hobbled away with a measly $5 million in change. Who says we’re not making progress?

Makes you want to shoot your alarm for waking you up to such trivial news, doesn’t it?

There was a time when certain sectors of the community were held to a higher standard (pastors, lawyers, doctors, teachers) than what exist now. Pastors were men of the cloth and not to be found in motel/hotel rooms with hookers. Lawyers were men that saw to it that the system of justice was upheld, not the men most often breaking the law. Doctors were the gods that people looked to for guidance in health matters, and praised for their bedside manner, not the men who were seducing their patients, and teachers were the people with whom every adult entrusted their children for eight-long hours a day, and certainly not the men or women that would be the worst influence in a child’s life. For so many people, all these illusions of up-right citizenry have been replaced by vulgar, insensitive, and detestable people.

This morning, yahoo news featured a piece on the 700 teachers that exist each day within the rubber rooms of our school system. It wasn’t really news, as Fox news had a feature as early as October of 2007, but it indicates another sector of the population that has fallen to the dark side while reporting on what is news and what people should know. Sadly, these are 700 individuals out of thousands that serve as educators in school districts around the country. These 700 stand as examples of the lack of morality that has become the face of a once great nation. The 700 are also a black eye to every teacher who has ever wanted to educate children. The same thing that happens to the great teachers in our nation happens to many in different walks of life; there is no news unless it can be sensationalized and will ignore those who serve well and true.

Many of us love history because of that one teacher who took the extra time while designing her assignment to understand that history can be exciting. She sat a few long hours thinking how best to explain and educate children about something as simple as Washington crossing the Delaware. She applied the same amount of time to lessons that gave insights into the Native American culture, so that we would understand and appreciate the plight of those who had been molested harshly in pursuit of land and wealth. And finally, with that great love she held for history, she bestowed in each small heart a flame that would burn forever, as we too became adults. These are the teachers that should be remembered, should be in the news, and should be held as examples of educators, not the wastelings in rubber rooms who sit daily contemplating their fates for several million tax dollars, yearly.

There will always be those who came to a fate that they did not deserve, but for those who are in the rubber rooms across this country, we can only hope that their time as a teacher did not damage to the young, fresh minds that sought education.

Several small towns in Texas, encompassing hundreds of thousands acres of land, exist due to over-farming. The top soil stripped away, the land becomes useless; sold off in small acres, sometimes 1-100 at a time, where houses are erected or moved to land that can no longer support crops. Our home sits on approximately an acre and a quarter of land that once grew corn or wheat, and the flowers around our home fight for the sun and water to survive. It’s virtually a miracle that the Gladiolus and Cannes return every spring…but somehow through stubborn pride or the need to be showy they push up from the hard soil winning the battle to live one more year. They’re not all pink, red, purple, or yellow, but variations that create a rainbow of color tempting the rabbits, birds, and the occasional stray cat to taste their nectar, or pluck their blooms for nourishment in a world of hard bitter clay and Johnson grass.

  If you look closely at the picture, you can spy the one lone rabbit that teased me as I was taking these pictures late yesterday evening. She seemed somewhat annoyed that I had interrupted her supper of grass and was reluctant to leave although she could see that there was little hope of winning a battle of wills. She inched a short distance away with each move that I took following the line of flowers. Finally, as if to say, “Sure, go ahead, I’m just eating here,” she moved to the other side of the driveway. I didn’t look back, but felt that she was relieved that I was going away…as I was relieved to find that she was munching on the gray green grass instead of my flowers.