I do not do resolutions for the New Year. That said, I spend a focused amount of time towards year-end to think about priorities, goals, and intentions for the coming year.
On January 1st I listed 9 random accomplishments and some things I will be focusing on in honor of 2009. Becoming active in advocating the Pickens Plan is a big part of that!
I don’t want to just read, although I’ve spent a good amount of time reading the plan and looking at how the community is gearing up. I want to DO! I’m asking you to join me!
Indeed, we have seen history made, once again, in our lifetime.
I tend to keep pretty quiet about my political views. For the most part, it is that they are my private thoughts, and an ingrained desire to stay out of heated, emotional debate. I grew up with politics, the daughter of a political activist, election judge, fund raiser-extraordinare, and state party official. I have seen more than my share of the inside of the great political machine.
Two things strike me as remarkable, and it has nothing to do with the history the media pundits are finally feel free to report. And, no. I’ve misspoken. I do find it remarkable, and feel a great sense of satisfaction in, the fact that we have elected our first African-American President, and that race was not a formal campaign issue.
I came across this while researching. Still torn by choices in 25 days.
Yes, it’s skewed. No, you don’t hear all of the testimony, and the highlights are selective. However, when we take the blinders off, this has been brewing for a very long time. And none of us did anything about it.
I’m thinking they have everyone’s attention now. It’s up to us. All of us. Who has the best answers?
This is a follow-on to Nicki’s thoughts on a digitally-inept McCain, and my own response below.
I just had to look at Google.
Google McCain. Notice that the sponsored link goes straight to his donation page. Notice, also, that there is a distinct link to continue on to the website.
Goggle Obama. His sponsored link also goes to a donation page. Notice anything missing? Want to get to any content, you better go back to Google and click on the actual link.
In McCain and the 21st Century, Nicki wonders what the backlash will be of McCain’s admission that he doesn’t know how to get online, and is he that far off average?
Hard to tell. I probably am, that’s for sure. Like Nicki, I telecommute on a regular basis, have been online-with-website for more years than I care to disclose, and, no, I don’t remember the IBM portable, but I had a similarly cumbersome Compaq portable – with a pretty black and orange screen.
Bristol Motor Speedway began enforcing Tennessee’s Smoker Protection Act at the NASCAR races this past weekend.
Yes. You read that right. At a NASCAR event. The same motorsport that was bankrolled by RJ Reynolds for 33 years (you remember the Winston Cup?). NASCAR, who has all that tobacco money and marketing know-how to thank for its phenomenal growth.
…of Freedom of Choice is being celebrated today, on the 35th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision.
Thanks to Diana, one of my former Mod Squad buddies, for bringing the Blog for Choice campaign to my attention!
This freedom for a woman to choose when and how to use her own body is so fundamental; and, yet, it took 200 years for its declaration.
Yes. It is a controversial issue – perhaps because of its deeply personal nature. And it is personal. Precisely why I support CHOICE, and why I choose to speak out today. I do not want our Government, our lawmakers, making a unilateral decision that is not theirs to make.
Well, the day is over, and my first born is no longer a teenager. It sure doesn’t seem like 20 years ago that I couldn’t sleep and kept wandering down to the nursery to sit with my new baby. They wouldn’t let him stay in the room with me, and nearly broke my heart when they wouldn’t discharge him right away.
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