Stepping Aside

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. My husband is a disabled Vietnam veteran who receives benefits from the Veteran’s Administration each month. This is what happens when something goes wrong while in service to our country. We promise to take care of our veterans. They take…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. So just when I think the Koch brothers couldn’t go any lower, they do with this ridiculous ad that suggests that Obamacare is like being sexually assaulted by your government. I’d love a couple of minutes with these two pathetic…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. When my boys were at the end of 7th and 4th grades respectively, we decided to homeschool. I didn’t like the environment they were in. The older boy was in a junior high school that had become so violent that…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Evidently CPS workers don’t understand the idea of legal cannabis users. So let me explain this to you.States pass laws. Sometimes they involve cannabis. Get used to it. We’ve been lied to all this time about the safety and efficacy…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. It’s interesting. Every time I either stand up for myself, or do what someone in authority tells me to do, I’m viewed as a bad person. It’s as if as long as I’m doing everything that everyone else wants, then…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Well, cool. We’re not going to bomb Syria. At least not yet. So that’s something. Syria has apparently agreed to hand over their chemical weapons (we’ll see). Russia is on board. And everyone on MSNBC seems reluctant to be happy….

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Evidently someone somewhere decided that there were some things that we as a people just wouldn’t tolerate. Using chemical weapons on people is one of those things – that it’s a bridge too far. But here’s my problem with designating…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. An interesting opinion piece appeared in the Washington Post on August 30 by Betsy Karasik, a former lawyer. She was writing about her views on the Montana case where a teacher and student engaged in a supposedly consensual sexual relationship. The teenaged…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I listened to Melissa Harris-Perry as she read her letter to G.Todd Baugh, the judge in Montana who stupidly blamed the 14 year old child for her teacher raping her. Although he subsequently apologized for his misogynistic statements, his apology…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that as long as states don’t let it be a free for all, they can move forward on recreational use of cannabis. And apparently, this applies to the states with legal medical cannabis as…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. So my husband had a root canal scheduled yesterday at the Portland VA Hospital. He’s a disabled VietNam vet and the VA takes care of him. I know all the problems that exist with the Veteran’s Administration, particularly now, but…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. So around 8pm this evening, someone knocked on my front door. Now, we have five acres and our home sits down at the bottom of it..over 700 feet off the road. No one comes to my house without my knowing…