Rove and McCain-America speaks????

After all we have experienced-the lies and deceit of the Bush Administration-Karl Rove's insidious manipulations of our government-

He is one of the masterminds of the McCain campaign??!

My country must be out of their collective minds.

What is wrong with Americans?

This is not reality TV folks-it is for real.

There isn't going to be any finale where you all get to turn off the set and go about your lives.

Well, I suppose you will have LOTS more time to watch it since you won't be employed, have health insurance that will care for your family or even the luxury of Social Security when you are old.

You make me sick.

Vote for Rove/McCain and the trophy chick willing to throw her family under the bus for her political aspirations.

Shame on your stupidity. Shame, shame shame..

You deserve what happens next.

The bitter divorce presidential race....a grey party?

I scour the Internet to see if there are others out there feeling this same feeling.
The ugliness we seem to be feeling as we arch away from one another like magnets exposed to polar ends.

This isn't a political race about "family values", it is an emotional race about our worst and best qualities.

It is a race about race-about sex-about motherhood-feels like an all out war -pitting our most internal beliefs and, yes, our deepest fears.

I wonder why political parties do this?

At a time when we need each other the most, our country has a chasm miles wide and deep.

In times of trillion dollar debt, unemployment, the greatest divide between the rich and the rest of us, an energy crisis, global warming, educational crisis, inflation and financial crisis, our emotions have become almost murderous when it comes to politics. Our country's future is not one big assed photo op filled with sound bites.

Isn't there someone out there who can pull us back together again?

As I always said in my marriage(now long gone) Do you want to be right or married? Compromise goes a long ways in life.

We need to work with the grey to get the black and white.

One Pissed Off Old Lady: Bristol Palin, Why would your mom do this to you??

One Pissed Off Old Lady: Bristol Palin, Why would your mom do this to you??

Bristol Palin, Why would your mom do this to you??

My sixteen year old daughter is not pregnant. My little sister was at age 16, and so was my niece.

They come from a small town, not unlike many in Alaska. Teen pregnancy rates are high in small towns. Communities tend to help raise the children when we all know each other.

My sister married her boyfriend and divorced a few years later.

My niece waited until her daughter was four before she married another man.

Life happens life that.

I really feel for Bristol. You have to understand seventeen year old girls.

To become a matter of national debate has to be a horrible nightmare for her.

If she had any doubts about wanting to marry the father of her child, do you think she feels as if she has a choice now?

While her picture is played across the nations papers, where is his? The same old victimization garbage.

Shame of Bristol's mom.

She had to have known her daughter's pregnancy would become a major focal point if she were to take the vice presidency nomination.

There is no money or power in the world that would compel me to put my daughter through the media insanity that enthralls our nation in a feeding frenzy of glee -devouring and purging other's dignity as if it were the finishing touch of a gluttonous meal.

Bristol, if you need a quiet place to hide, where privacy and nurturing is important, and where we will protect you, as families have been shown to do, with their children, in the past,

You are welcome in my home.

Walk Away From That House...go on do it...

Okay-so the government bailed out Bear Stearns-shored up Sallie Mae and made a few new rules that are supposed to help us save our houses.

Yeah, right. The only people who benefit from the new rules are the banks and the mortgage companies. Great job, assholes in Congress. Thanks for nothing.

And you wonder why people walk away from their houses, handing you the keys.

Oh, then there are the moralists who talk about OBLIGATION and HONOR.

Remember that old saying-There is no HONOR among thieves??

Three months before the bottom of the housing market fell out I bought a townhouse in Las Vegas, NV. haha Yeah, keep laughing.It is now worth half the price of what I paid for it.

Guess what? The county raised my fucking taxes anyway!!!!!

I used to believe in honor and obligation. For thirty years I have paid my bills on time. I have owned four houses before this one.Never late on a payment.

I had credit cards. Never late on a payment.

Utility bills on time.

Car loans paid in full-never a late payment.

I work two and three jobs now. I support four people on my salary.

I don't need to tell you how credit card interest and fees from banks, even late fees from utility payments and the rising cost of groceries have placed us in victimized positions.

We have no say anymore. Even a threat to discontinue service has no sway.

Since decentralization of services and goods, building of monopolies once again, prices are skyrocketing and we are screwed,

So. I say. screw em. Walk away from that house. Pay your bills at the edge. Screw em

If enough of us say, Screw credit ratings. Screw bank charges and overdraft fees, screw em-walk away.

No one will be a "good risk" and they just might have to change the tune of "Screw the masses"

Thanks Bush. For freeing us of our moral obligation to feel responsible anymore.

You started it.

Giving free reign to corporations to screw us over means Bear Stearns, Sallie Mae and a host of credit card companies are going to take it in the a..

Your buddy Ken Lay started this screwing with Enron employees. With your blessing.

Watch how the American people deal with it.

I'm putting my money under the mattress from now.

I don't trust anyone.

One Pissed Off Old Lady: Update: Teacher Witch Hunt

One Pissed Off Old Lady: Update: Teacher Witch Hunt

Update: Teacher Witch Hunt

A new school year! The fad this year is same sex classes! The latest gurus of education are telling us brain research is on the same page.

Kids learn better in elementary school if learning is geared toward how males and females learn. Differently.

I'm excited. I teach to the energy of 18 seven year old boys.

I bought a pogo stick for my classroom.

Do you think it will make a difference? :)

An observation:

A solemn one, actually-

During our three day orientation a discussion about why so few men in elementary schools ensued-

men stated they don't teach young children anymore because they are automatically considered pedephiles by many.

That is too dangerous.

They also don't like teaching middle or high school girls. Too risky,

The men at my school are more comfortable teaching boys classes-in the older grades.

They say there aren't too many teaching jobs for men where they feel safe anymore.

Art, P.E., music, library or special education. Coaching.

Do you think the media has made a difference in how parents think?

When will we stop sensationalizing the abnormal when overwhelmingly the norms point to dedicated teachers operating in your classrooms?