"Home" for the Holidays?

Nov 21, 2009 - Most of my life I've often wondered why Thanksgiving seemed to be for many families a trigger word for family dysfuction.  Why individuals couldn't just let that disagreement with another family member go for one bloody day and enjoy some good food and conversation with more pleasant family members.  I have to keep reminding my self that I'm pragmatic by nature and that is apparently unusual. I found an article with some helpful tips.   Holidays are meant to be happy, joyous and life-affirming times. - 3 Comments

Delta Flight Attendant Serves Up Journals for American Troops

Oct 26, 2009 - In between keeping her passengers safe and comfortable, Delta flight attendant Robin Schmidt tends to another mid-air mission -- passing journals among the rows so passengers can help her thank American troops. Over the last five years, Schmidt has filled hundreds of passenger-written journals and sent them to the troops she "adopts" in Afghanistan and Iraq. Not connected in any way to the military, Schmidt said, "This is just part of who I am. - 2 Comments

What is "Actual" Cheating?

Sep 24, 2009 - Another thread was discussing one rather questionable website which facilitated and promoted actual cheating on a spouse.   I found myself really angry because I felt what this man was doing was tarnishing the marriage vows.  I was angry because he was married and had children BUT chose to do this for notoriety.   This morning while having coffee with a few of my BFF's we discussed this and my anger was perhaps valid BUT we did find that what was the largest dilemma was the vast differences in interpreting what actually cheating on a spouse is.   There was a stance that online flirting was cheating but another felt it was harmless.    There was a feeling that as long as nothing becomes "physically" exchanged then it isn't cheating...but another disagreed.    One friend felt that anything her man did, whether it was flirting in a chat room, looking at porn online, or sending an email to another female with content not work-related was actually cheating. - 32 Comments

Obama and the CIA: Making the Terrorists' Day

Sep 03, 2009 - Obama and the CIA: Making the Terrorists' Day By Peter Ferrara on 9.2.09 @ 6:08AM President Obama has decided that the CIA is a greater threat to America than Al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism. If that decision turns out to be wrong, with thousands of Americans dying in another terrorist attack, President Obama and the Democrat Party will end up paying a grievous political price, which would be well deserved. As former Vice-President Dick Cheney said on Fox News Sunday this past week, We had a track record now of eight years of defending the nation against any further mass casualty attacks from Al Qaeda. - 4 Comments

Shop at Whole Foods

Aug 28, 2009 - The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit.   By JOHN MACKEY "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." —Margaret Thatcher With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly running out of other people's money. - 15 Comments

THE REAL REASON AMERICANS ARE ANGRY

Aug 23, 2009 - THE REAL REASON AMERICANS ARE ANGRY IT'S THE BIG GOVERNMENT, STUPID By MATT WELCH  (NY Post) It's been a hilarious August, watching media supporters of President Obama's health care package puzzle over the obscure motivations of the noncompliant Americans rallying against it. "Racial anxiety," guessed New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. "Nihilism," theorized Time's Joe Klein. - 11 Comments

A U.S./U.N. Plot Against Anti-Communist Honduras

Jul 08, 2009 - By Cliff Kincaid July 1, 2009 The people of Honduras are pleading for media fairness and understanding of how they saved their democratic system of government from an international conspiracy based in Venezuela and Cuba. In desperate messages to the outside world, Hondurans want America to know they do not want former President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya returned to power through the intervention of the United States and the United Nations. On Tuesday the leftist governments of Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez sponsored a United Nations resolution that condemned the people of Honduras for resisting the spread of communism by evicting a would-be dictator. - 4 Comments

Remarkable Wonderment

Jun 21, 2009 - Do you think others see you quite differently as you see yourself? As time has past I know I view myself as my much younger self. In my mind I am still that 20 year old that danced on SoulTrain---SO many years ago. - 9 Comments