I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY DON'T WANT TO KNOW!
Friday, April 07, 2006
Uncanny Resemblence
I was pretty busy yesterday and didn't get a chance to capture the blog photographs of the man who stood up and challenged Bush in North Carolina yesterday. In case you missed the story, here's a linky-thing.
A poster on Democratic Underground.com found a striking resemblence between this man and a Norman Rockwell painting and pasted them together for
comparisom.
Pretty scary huh?
Actually, when I saw it, I got a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye.
Like many of you I was raised in classrooms with those prints hanging on the wall. There were several of them ,if I recall, depicting the freedoms spelled out in the Bill of Rights but the picture on the right, depicting Freedom of Speech, and another depicting Freedom of Worship are the two I remember most vividly.
Those pictures harken us to remember the time when we learned how prescious and sacred our rights are and how we need to be constantly viligent to guard them from assaults by demagogues and would-be usurpers coming to us in the guise of "protectors".
Lump in the throat?
Tear in the eye?
You bet.
e
A poster on Democratic Underground.com found a striking resemblence between this man and a Norman Rockwell painting and pasted them together for
comparisom.Pretty scary huh?
Actually, when I saw it, I got a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye.
Like many of you I was raised in classrooms with those prints hanging on the wall. There were several of them ,if I recall, depicting the freedoms spelled out in the Bill of Rights but the picture on the right, depicting Freedom of Speech, and another depicting Freedom of Worship are the two I remember most vividly.
Those pictures harken us to remember the time when we learned how prescious and sacred our rights are and how we need to be constantly viligent to guard them from assaults by demagogues and would-be usurpers coming to us in the guise of "protectors".
Lump in the throat?
Tear in the eye?
You bet.
e
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Knee-deep, knee-deep
No that's not a frog call, that's where I am after only 48 hours after the election.
The phone has been ringing off the hook and I think I'm going to be knee-deep in issues for a long, long time.
....people are STARVING for leadership
...people are STARVING for just one person in government who will even LISTEN to them.
I suspected these things but I never knew I was actually right....
Oh yes, one more thing. I got an object lesson yesterday in why I ran for public office the first time. I'll bore you with the details:
I had to pick up a prescription at a local drug store. Being the organized (not) person I am at times, I didn't call it in ahead of time so I had to wait. While I was waiting, there was an elderly woman at the counter who was very troubled about the cost of her perscriptions. I won't say how much, but I will say that the amount was much more than my monthly mortgage payment.
Her Medicare Part D wouldn't pay for it and the pharmacist's assistant had to explain that she had reached her "donut hole" in the part D Contract....that's the part of the Prescription drug program that goes from $2250 to $3500 where Part D pays NONE of the prescription drug costs until after the $3500 and then it pays 100%. In the meantime this elderly lady had to pay a huge amount of money. She kept asking if she should call her health insurance carrier and the pharmacist said she could but it wouldn't do any good because by law no carrier can "fill" the donut hole.
I don't know the elderly woman. Maybe she's better off than any of us and can afford the big bucks for her perscription, or, maybe she can't. Maybe she'll have to go to the food pantry for the rest of the month. I don't know.
I just know what was happening to her was wrong.
We've got to fix it.
You and me.
Together.
e
The phone has been ringing off the hook and I think I'm going to be knee-deep in issues for a long, long time.
....people are STARVING for leadership
...people are STARVING for just one person in government who will even LISTEN to them.
I suspected these things but I never knew I was actually right....
Oh yes, one more thing. I got an object lesson yesterday in why I ran for public office the first time. I'll bore you with the details:
I had to pick up a prescription at a local drug store. Being the organized (not) person I am at times, I didn't call it in ahead of time so I had to wait. While I was waiting, there was an elderly woman at the counter who was very troubled about the cost of her perscriptions. I won't say how much, but I will say that the amount was much more than my monthly mortgage payment.
Her Medicare Part D wouldn't pay for it and the pharmacist's assistant had to explain that she had reached her "donut hole" in the part D Contract....that's the part of the Prescription drug program that goes from $2250 to $3500 where Part D pays NONE of the prescription drug costs until after the $3500 and then it pays 100%. In the meantime this elderly lady had to pay a huge amount of money. She kept asking if she should call her health insurance carrier and the pharmacist said she could but it wouldn't do any good because by law no carrier can "fill" the donut hole.
I don't know the elderly woman. Maybe she's better off than any of us and can afford the big bucks for her perscription, or, maybe she can't. Maybe she'll have to go to the food pantry for the rest of the month. I don't know.
I just know what was happening to her was wrong.
We've got to fix it.
You and me.
Together.
e
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Funniest Pic Ever!!!!
Here's Marshfield Mayor Mike Meyers when he was told that there had been an error in tallying the votes and instead of LOSING BY 19 VOTES he actually WON BY 81 VOTES
This appeared on the front page of the News-Herald today.
Here's a more dignified picture of the "good Mayor".....
I told Dave earlier this evening that Mike better get used to that expression because I'm going to be on the Council for the next two years....ROFL.....
e
A Picture = 1,000 words
Gotta be one of the best pictures a Democrat could hope for.
Other blog reports seem to clarify why Delay stayed in the race so long. It seems that it's legal for Delay to use the campaign money he raised to pay for his legal fees. Imagine that. Staying in the race long enough to raise his defense money. This guy wrote the textbook on sleaze. Read the Post's Story here.
Oh yeah, one more thing, if you needed any additional proof about Chris Mathews bias this should just about cinch it. Take a look at the "pre-interview" with Tom Delay here.
Later.....
e
Marshfield Has New 5th Ward Alderman
Congratulations to Ed Wagner who is now alderman in Marshfield's 5th Ward.
Monday, April 03, 2006
Delay Retiring!
The big news on Daily Kos just now is that Tom Delay is retiring. Apparently both MSNBC and CNN have confirmed this. I hope this is true; I haven't been near a TV all day. The painters have kept me busy emptying closets. The link is: http://www.dailykos.com
The author is "kos" and the comments are funny. "Kos" was giving his son a bath and blogging simultaneously, so of course people wanted to know how one can blog from the bathtub. One blogger claimed he was making toast from the bathtub and then concluded with appropriate keys to indicate he got "toasted" himself!
The author is "kos" and the comments are funny. "Kos" was giving his son a bath and blogging simultaneously, so of course people wanted to know how one can blog from the bathtub. One blogger claimed he was making toast from the bathtub and then concluded with appropriate keys to indicate he got "toasted" himself!
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