Stepping Aside

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…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I have to confess, I’ve always liked Sanjay Gupta. I remember something about him assisting in brain surgery with the Devil Dogs in Kuwait or somewhere over there. He was there as a journalist I guess, but it didn’t matter….

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Mercy sakes. What the hell is going on in Texas? Why are cops doing cavity searches on women by the side of the road? I read yesterday, that a female cop who did this was reinstated on the force because…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Here we go again..only now it’s the DEA who is spying on us. So much is making sense now. The deck has been stacked against us for so long now that they think nothing of trampling on our civil rights….

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Well folks, Illinois just became the 20th state to legalize medicinal cannabis. August 11th, Sanjay Gupta will air a documentary on cannabis on CNN that he’s been working on for a while now. We have an important ally. Imagine that!…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. What if we decided to let undocumented immigrants just stay here? Sign them up. Document them. I know folks get all excited at the thought of amnesty, but why not? It would certainly be the compassionate decision. It would be…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. When I attended a lecture by His Holiness The Dalai Lama in May, he emphasized the role of mothers in creating a better world. He said that mothers had a special responsibility to make their children feel loved. Boys, in…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I love it when President Obama has an unexpected conversation with the nation. Even the White House Press Corp. had no idea he would pay them and us a visit today, and his remarks continued for seventeen minutes. It felt…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Oh my God. Where do I even start? First of all, I didn’t watch this trial. Instead I read accounts. I couldn’t watch because I had a bad feeling from the start about it. When I heard the judge had…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. You know the GOP in Texas has completely gone “off the rails” as they say when they instruct the police to confiscate all the tampons women in the gallery have with them. I guess they finally stopped, but good night…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Does the GOP care about anyone else besides those people who fill their election coffers? I really have to wonder. The GOP controlled House just passed the Farm Bill without extending food stamps. The Senate had passed their own bill…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. So I’m reading the news and I see an article about Oregon temporarily banning pesticides that kill bees. We had a huge amount die in a Wilsonville parking lot a short time ago. Today I read something that seems to…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. So I just read an article from Think Progress (link to great article about an idiot) about a letter John McCain wrote in response to a situation involving sexual harassment and rape at a college in Montana. He is apparently siding with…