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Why Lie?

News and Politics, Sights & Sounds /

So Lynne Cheney wanted to talk about her children’s book and only her children’s book. I get that but when you meet with the press, you answer what they ask you – TRUTHFULLY, particularly if you are the wife of the VP. What really bugs me though is what is wrong with Sisters or Body Politic that she has to talk around it or out and out LIE about what she wrote? Nothing. Not a single thing, whether you are liberal or conservative. She wrote fiction. Some of it sexy. Some of it not so much. Some of it straight and some of it queer. So what? You can still be a conservative “family values” republican and write fiction. You just can’t LIE and say it isn’t what it obviously IS. Well I guess you can, since Lynne Cheney did it.


The Cheney’s have never said they are for a ban of gay marriage. They have said out loud that they disagree with the amendment to “protect marriage”. So “Sisters” isn’t telling anyone anything that they should not already know. The left making a big deal of it isn’t really helpful either, except of course that it causes Mrs Cheney to lie, that part – that’s helpful, I suppose. The left trying to point out the Mrs Cheney has written steamy fiction isn’t all that helpful either. I somehow doubt any conservative is going to change his/her mind and vote liberal simply because the VPs wife wrote some steamy passages in Body Politic.


Politics, sheesh.

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Good Grief People

5 Comments / Pet Peeves /

I understand you people just HAVE to know what’s going on with Sweetney but for goodness sakes could you just let it go.  If you know, then you know and if you don’t then it’s probably not important for you TO KNOW.  Even if you mean well and you want to be supportive, you can do that without searching all over the internet and the blogosphere for the gorey details, can’t you?

Oh maybe you can’t.  Maybe you can say you’re supportive but you don’t mean it and that’s why you have to go and find all the nasty bits you can find.  Is that it?

Just stop it.  Go back to your own blogs and play nicely.  And be nice to Sweetney too.  If she wants to share every detail with the blogosphere then she will.  If not, then leave it and respect her wishes.  Geez. Geez. Geez.

52 hits today for people looking for information about this mess.  52 and I doubt Sweetney reads my blog (and I don’t read hers, now that I think about it).   The drama.  Bah.

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Daily Dose of Done

7 Comments / Daily Dose /

This little blog was started for weird reasons.  It evolved into something I never intended it to evolve into.  After that, it DEvolved into something that wasn’t even ME.  And now, now it’s just floating along doing not much of anything. 

So, time for some changes.

First change – no more boring and incredibly SEO helpful titles.  From there, the sky’s the limit.  OK it isn’t, because mean people suck and I’m too busy for the sky anyway.   But yea, stuff will change and some stuff will stay the same.  I’m not sure which stuff is which but I’ll keep you posted, k?

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Crocodile Soup

2006, Books in Bed, Fiction, GLBT /

Crocodile Soup is a weird lesbian coming of age sort of tale. I didn’t find it as weird as weird as TW did, which makes me wonder. Am I weird because it made sense to me – or is TW weird because it didn’t make sense to her?

Dysfunctional family, of course. Gert and Frank are twins. Both have some serious emotional issues, though Frank’s are just a wee bit more serious than Gert’s (and Gert’s may be more related to the dysfunctional family and her twin brother’s issues than anything else). They live in a haunted historical home. The ghost, of course, is a poet. A woman poet. A lesbian woman poet. And she drives Gert a little more nuts than her family is already driving her.

Interesting. And yes, a little weird, but not THAT weird.

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Daily Dose of Kids and Construction

1 Comment / Day to Day, Kid Talk, Pet Peeves /

The house next door is getting an addition.  I thought at first it was going to be a swimming pool.  Then I thought it was going to be a fence (they are one of the few houses without a fence).  But then construction got going and no, it’s an addition.  Which doesn’t make sense to us because the people are old, there don’t seem to be many people who live in the house, and the house is already very large.  (And no, we’ve never met them even though we have lived here for 5 years.  Oh except Chris who met the old dude when he fell on the sidewalk and could not get up.  Chris helped him up and since then the dude rides a motorized scooter around.)

So that construction.  It is bugging the big kids. 

Michelle ranted last week that there should be laws preventing construction noises at 7am when she is trying to get another half hour of sleep before school.  She ranted and ranted.  I reassured her that it wouldn’t take long because they got a TON done and it looked like it just needed a roof and some finishing on the outside and then surely the inside construction would not wake her.

This week, they are in fact working on the roof.  And now Chris is disgusted.  Not with the noise of the hammers and stuff but with the ridiculous chatter of the construction workers.  His room is right next to the construction site and apparently these men talk about the DUMBEST stuff.  And he simply cannot take listening to their idiocy any longer.  So he left to hang out with people who don’t talk about dumb stuff.

I’m finding the whole construction thing sort of amusing simply because of the angst it is causing the big kids.  Too loud when she’s trying to sleep – ha.  Dumb conversations – ha.  Payback in the form of construction workers.  Who knew?

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Daily Dose of Stuff

6 Comments / Day to Day /

Here are some recent topics of discussion around our house, in no particular order:

1) I saw the Virgin Mary in our neighbor’s window.  TW saw it too so I’m not crazy.
2) Jane Wyatt is dead but Joni Mitchell is not.
3) Glen Close is too old to play Marie Antoinette.
4) Did we get hit by the same truck (aka sassymonkey) or were there two different trucks?
5) Upgrading IE.
6) Ponytails.
7) The weather – it’s cold today, after being surprisingly warm, and getting colder.  We are going to freeze tomorrow.
8)  There is such a thing as too many tomatoes.
9) Who owns that blue car and why does he pull in there all of the time and then pull out again?
10) It’s hard to tell the difference between TV and video games, just by the sound.

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Daily Dose of Cupcake Toppers

1 Comment / Cupcake Toppers /

swharrypotter6.jpgIn honor of our library’s Friends of the Library Sale, let’s top our cupcakes with miniature books. You can go all out and grab some special, miniature books – they’re expensive but very cool. You could get the Harry Potters or the Tolkein books, if you are having one of those themed paries. If you aren’t picky, you can get a “library assortment” (16 assorted for $24). Thankfully, there are inexpensive dollhouse miniature books that would work just fine.

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Daily Dose of Pet Peeves – Side Walks

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I have been ranting for several years about walkers and joggers in my neighborhood.  And over the last six months or so I’ve taken to ranting about a couple of joggers in my town for the same reason.  None of them use sidewalks.

We have sidewalks in this neighborhood.  Why do single walkers and joggers and groups of walkers and joggers and moms walking with strollers and men walking their dogs not use them?  What makes them walk in the road at all hours of the day and night?  I don’t understand it.  At. All.  It’s annoying and it is dangerous. 

Sometimes, early in the morning, I have to drive someone to work and when I do I always see a jogger on NW 8th Ave.  And I do mean ON NW 8th Ave.  He isn’t on the sidewalk.  He is in a LANE like he’s a car or something.  He isn’t even crossing from one side of the street to another, illegally, he’s simply JOGGING in the MIDDLE of a lane.  Does he not realize it is dark at 6:30am and CARS use the road?  It’s a four lane, very busy road, at 6:30 and 7am – particularly on weekdays when it is a prime thoroughfare to the University.  What is this man thinking?  Why isn’t he on the sidewalk?  Does he have a deathwish?

Pedestrian deaths are a problem.  I wouldn’t be surprised if that jogger or some folks in my neighborhood became one of those nasty statistics sometime soon.  I don’t think the Florida DOT is getting their message out very well – or maybe these people just don’t think it could happen to them – or their children.

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