It's homecoming week at Doane, so Steve and I spent half the day with Meghan. I'm not much for football and neither is Steve, so we opted out of the festivities tomorrow, but today we had fun. Steve took a half day and it was my regular day off this week, so we made it down to Doane by about 1:45 or so. Meg took us all over campus and showed us what she's been working on and where her classes are - when she's not student teaching at the high school, that is. I still can hardly believe she's actually out there student teaching...
Today was another gorgeous day. A bit warmer than it has been. Just enough to make the bees and wasps nice and crabby. This is the worst time of year for them. Steve got stung in the finger by a bee just putting his truck in the garage the other day and Meg got stung by a wasp on the arm at school. I'm just staying away from anything that flies!
I got some pictures while we were in Crete today, so I'll try to get those on either my Picasa or Flickr site tomorrow. Two whole days off... Yay!
I was so proud of myself for finding my brother a birthday card about a month ago, so I wouldn't be running around like Henny Penny the week before his birthday, trying to find a card. Guess what? I couldn't find it. I looked everywhere and can't remember what I did with it, so I had to go get him another one. Just as well, I think the second one is even better!
We cut our festivities short at Doane tonight. I hurt my hip getting out of the behemoth truck and can you believe it, I forgot my pain pills. I had planned on taking them anyway since we were going to walk around Crete during a break we had this evening, but that didn't work out. We went to a barbecue they were having and then Meg had to go work at the play being presented at the college. We had 3 hours to kill before the show at the planetarium, but by that time I was really hurting and Steve didn't want to get home so late, so we went ahead and came home early. Me's roommate Katie is a treat to visit with, I really enjoy her. One of the RA's rooms with them, but she has a room to herself, and we only caught a glimpse of her today. He's nice enough, but I really like Katie! Steve, Meg and Katie climbed the bell tower this afternoon, I think Steve got some good pictures from up there. I got a lot of other pictures around campus. What a nice campus they have! Everyone is sooooo friendly and I think Meg knows absolutely everyone. She was always having to stop and chat with someone everywhere we went. My social butterfly! She gets to go to Washington DC for the inauguration - it's that cool? The only journalism student selected to go. I'm so happy for her. The school pays part of the cost, all she has to pay is $175 for 2 weeks in DC - I want to go...! No matter who wins this stupid election, it will be history making and I'd love to see it. Of course I'd love to see it more if McCain and Palin win, but still...
Speaking of which, I got to watch the VP debates Thursday night. They both did well. Really. I have to laugh at people who make fun of the way Sarah talks. Really? If that's the only thing wrong with her you should be grateful. I realized Biden toned himself down a bit (thank God), but while watching I kept comparing him to Obama in the presidential debate last week. Biden is a lot better speaker and comes off a lot better than Obama does, that's for sure. I'm thinking
maybe the dems picked the wrong candidate. But Obama just gives me the heebie jeebies anyway, so maybe it's not fair to compare him to anybody except the devil... In which case the devil would win. I just cannot stand that guy...
I had such a good time with Meg today. I wish I would have taken the opportunity to go to college when I had it. I was at that point in my life however, when making good decisions was just not possible. ha ha ha... What a blast it would have been.
On that happy note, good night and have a good weekend!
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
It's a new week!!!
I worked the weekend, and I'm so glad it's over! There's just something about spending 8 hours hammering away at a computer when the weather is nice and there are things do... But at last, Monday is here! I have to work today, but I start my new (tentative) hours - 7 p.m. to 3:30 a.m., so maybe I'll actually have time to do things. So far today I've found out that I can't get into Facebook because of maintenance, unstacked and stacked the dishwasher, baked a cake, made the bed, and folded laundry - and it's only 2 o'clock! Still time to work on some scrapbook pages and print some pictures. Or maybe take a nap.
The weather is absolutely gorgeous today! You can tell a cold front came through, it was 68 when I got up this morning at 6:30, but it's only 66 now. Breezy, but wonderful! I shut off the air conditioner and am basking in the breeze from an open window. The only reason I don't like this time of year is the bees and wasps are feeling particularly grumpy and we have a lot of them in our yard. Nasty things. I'm more worried about Heidi than I am myself, she's been stung once and had a bad reaction, so I don't want her to get stung again. Of course silly dogs don't know enough to stay away from the flowers in the back yard!
This is homecoming week at Doane, so Steve and I are going down to visit Meg on Friday. We're going to a barbecue and then the planetarium on campus is having some sort of program that we're going to. We can't stay all night because of the dogs and really on Saturday the big deal is the football game which I really don't care about, so Friday's the day for us!
Nothing else going on of note around here. Same old stuff, just a different day. I'll be glad when the elections are OVER! Gah! I'm so sick of political ads on TV. Not working turning it on even in the day time anymore. I've watched more Bloomberg and MCNBC than anyone should have to watch in the past week. I'm glad the bailout didn't pass today, this should prove interesting. I was listening to a guy this morning on MSNBC saying that now that other countries are having problems with their banks we need to figure out how to help them. BS! We need to take care of ourselves first. Because their non-capitalistic form of government didn't work for them, we're surely not expected to help them bail out their financial institutions too! I'm not even going to go there. I'd like to go to bed and wake up next spring... Doesn't that sound like a good idea?
Five homicides in Omaha this weekend. Sounds like we're becoming more and more like the big city that the mayor wants us to be. I'll just stay in after dark, thanks. And stay west of 72nd Street. Gotta love the Big O.
The weather is absolutely gorgeous today! You can tell a cold front came through, it was 68 when I got up this morning at 6:30, but it's only 66 now. Breezy, but wonderful! I shut off the air conditioner and am basking in the breeze from an open window. The only reason I don't like this time of year is the bees and wasps are feeling particularly grumpy and we have a lot of them in our yard. Nasty things. I'm more worried about Heidi than I am myself, she's been stung once and had a bad reaction, so I don't want her to get stung again. Of course silly dogs don't know enough to stay away from the flowers in the back yard!
This is homecoming week at Doane, so Steve and I are going down to visit Meg on Friday. We're going to a barbecue and then the planetarium on campus is having some sort of program that we're going to. We can't stay all night because of the dogs and really on Saturday the big deal is the football game which I really don't care about, so Friday's the day for us!
Nothing else going on of note around here. Same old stuff, just a different day. I'll be glad when the elections are OVER! Gah! I'm so sick of political ads on TV. Not working turning it on even in the day time anymore. I've watched more Bloomberg and MCNBC than anyone should have to watch in the past week. I'm glad the bailout didn't pass today, this should prove interesting. I was listening to a guy this morning on MSNBC saying that now that other countries are having problems with their banks we need to figure out how to help them. BS! We need to take care of ourselves first. Because their non-capitalistic form of government didn't work for them, we're surely not expected to help them bail out their financial institutions too! I'm not even going to go there. I'd like to go to bed and wake up next spring... Doesn't that sound like a good idea?
Five homicides in Omaha this weekend. Sounds like we're becoming more and more like the big city that the mayor wants us to be. I'll just stay in after dark, thanks. And stay west of 72nd Street. Gotta love the Big O.
Oh wah, wah, wah, Mr Obama
Obama Wants NRA Ads Banned
Saturday, September 27, 2008 8:10 PM
By Newsmax Staff
The Obama camp has been threatening television and radio stations to keep them from airing anti-Obama ads.The latest target is the NRA and stations in Pennsylvania. Earlier this week, the National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund released a series of radio and television spots to educate gun owners and sportsmen about Barack Obama's longstanding anti-gun record. In response to the NRA-PVF ads, a clearly panicked Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) are doing everything they can to hide Obama's real record by mounting a coordinated assault on the First Amendment.They have gone to desperate and outrageous lengths to try to silence your NRA by bullying media outlets with threats of lawsuits if they run NRA-PVF's ads.The Obama camp is particularly angry with an NRA ad entitled "Hunter" which lays out Obama's record on gun control.You can see the "Hunter" ad -- Go Here Now.Other NRA ads include "Way of Life" and another focusing on Joe Biden's record, "Defend Freedom, Defeat Obama."This week, Obama's campaign general counsel Bob Bauer wrote seeking to censor the ads at stations in Pennsylvania."Unlike federal candidates, independent political organizations do not have a 'right to command the use of broadcast facilities,'" Bauer writes. "Moreover, you have a duty 'to protect the public from false, misleading or deceptive advertising.'""This advertising is false, misleading, and deceptive," Bauer continued. "We request that you immediately cease airing this advertising."The NRA says Obama's camp are sending out these "intimidating cease and desist letters" to cable operators and television stations, threatening their FCC licenses if they run the ads.The NRA charged that "Obama and the DNC have been using strong-arm tactics reminiscent of Chicago machine politics to try and cover up the truth and silence NRA by forcing the stations to assist them in hiding Obama's radical anti-gun record."And now, Obama and the DNC have opened a new front in their assault on your First Amendment rights by calling on their followers to contact these station managers to demand that the stations not run NRA-PVF's ads.NRA stands behind the accuracy of these ads, and NRA attorneys have responded to the Obama campaign's despicable and abusive attempt to trample on the First Amendment by sending a thorough rebuttal to station managers. This rebuttal clearly and conclusively refutes the Obama campaign's fallacious claims that the ads are inaccurate.The NRA has set up a web site detailing its position on Obama at www.gunbanobama.com.A copy of the NRA's letter to station, written by its counsel Cleta Mitchell, follows below:MEMORANDUMCLIENT-MATTER NUMBER999100-0130TO: Station ManagersFROM: Cleta Mitchell, Esq.Counsel to National Rifle AssociationDATE: September 25, 2008RE: Documentation for Advertising by National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund ("NRA-PVF")This firm serves as counsel to the National Rifle Association (“NRA”) and the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund ("NRA-PVF"), which is the federal political action committee of the NRA and the sponsor of certain advertising purchased and soon-to-be purchased on your station. It has come to my clients’ attention that the Obama for President campaign is engaging in an effort to prevent or stop the airing of certain ads by NRA-PVF, falsely alleging that the ads are ‘inaccurate’. The Obama presidential campaign apparently relies on an article appearing in the Washington Post on September 23, 2008 to support its contention hat the NRA-PVF ads should not be aired.The Washington Post is hardly an objective news source on any subject related to the issues to which the NRA is dedicated, having spent decades attacking not only the NRA but also fighting against the legislation and policies NRA supports to protect the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, as well as supporting every conceivable government proposal or policy any officeholder or candidate suggests to weaken and disrupt the guarantees of the Second Amendment. It is therefore no surprise that the Washington Post would now attack the NRA for advertisements which truthfully disclose the anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment record of Barack Obama, the candidate supported by the Washington Post.Attached please find the point-by-point refutation of the Washington Post’s article about the NRA-PVF ads regarding Obama’s record on the Second Amendment, as well as an article disclosing the bias of the decidedly not neutral “FactChecker” on which the Washington Post article is ostensibly based.The NRA devotes 100% of its time and resources to protecting the Second Amendment and fighting for government policies and legislation furtherance of the rights of the American people to keep and bear arms.The legislative and policy record of candidates and officeholders such as Barack Obama are well known and documented by the NRA on an ongoing basis. NRA-PVF’s advertising during the 2008 election cycle is based on that extensive research and documentation, which is being furnished to you with this Memorandum. Accordingly, we respectfully request that your station disregard the shamefully false assertions from the Obama campaign and its attorneys regarding the NRA-PVF ads and that the ads run in accordance with the purchase(s) made by NRA-PVF in the media buy.
© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
Oh, and I wonder where he learned those "Chicago strong arm tactics"???
Saturday, September 27, 2008 8:10 PM
By Newsmax Staff
The Obama camp has been threatening television and radio stations to keep them from airing anti-Obama ads.The latest target is the NRA and stations in Pennsylvania. Earlier this week, the National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund released a series of radio and television spots to educate gun owners and sportsmen about Barack Obama's longstanding anti-gun record. In response to the NRA-PVF ads, a clearly panicked Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) are doing everything they can to hide Obama's real record by mounting a coordinated assault on the First Amendment.They have gone to desperate and outrageous lengths to try to silence your NRA by bullying media outlets with threats of lawsuits if they run NRA-PVF's ads.The Obama camp is particularly angry with an NRA ad entitled "Hunter" which lays out Obama's record on gun control.You can see the "Hunter" ad -- Go Here Now.Other NRA ads include "Way of Life" and another focusing on Joe Biden's record, "Defend Freedom, Defeat Obama."This week, Obama's campaign general counsel Bob Bauer wrote seeking to censor the ads at stations in Pennsylvania."Unlike federal candidates, independent political organizations do not have a 'right to command the use of broadcast facilities,'" Bauer writes. "Moreover, you have a duty 'to protect the public from false, misleading or deceptive advertising.'""This advertising is false, misleading, and deceptive," Bauer continued. "We request that you immediately cease airing this advertising."The NRA says Obama's camp are sending out these "intimidating cease and desist letters" to cable operators and television stations, threatening their FCC licenses if they run the ads.The NRA charged that "Obama and the DNC have been using strong-arm tactics reminiscent of Chicago machine politics to try and cover up the truth and silence NRA by forcing the stations to assist them in hiding Obama's radical anti-gun record."And now, Obama and the DNC have opened a new front in their assault on your First Amendment rights by calling on their followers to contact these station managers to demand that the stations not run NRA-PVF's ads.NRA stands behind the accuracy of these ads, and NRA attorneys have responded to the Obama campaign's despicable and abusive attempt to trample on the First Amendment by sending a thorough rebuttal to station managers. This rebuttal clearly and conclusively refutes the Obama campaign's fallacious claims that the ads are inaccurate.The NRA has set up a web site detailing its position on Obama at www.gunbanobama.com.A copy of the NRA's letter to station, written by its counsel Cleta Mitchell, follows below:MEMORANDUMCLIENT-MATTER NUMBER999100-0130TO: Station ManagersFROM: Cleta Mitchell, Esq.Counsel to National Rifle AssociationDATE: September 25, 2008RE: Documentation for Advertising by National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund ("NRA-PVF")This firm serves as counsel to the National Rifle Association (“NRA”) and the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund ("NRA-PVF"), which is the federal political action committee of the NRA and the sponsor of certain advertising purchased and soon-to-be purchased on your station. It has come to my clients’ attention that the Obama for President campaign is engaging in an effort to prevent or stop the airing of certain ads by NRA-PVF, falsely alleging that the ads are ‘inaccurate’. The Obama presidential campaign apparently relies on an article appearing in the Washington Post on September 23, 2008 to support its contention hat the NRA-PVF ads should not be aired.The Washington Post is hardly an objective news source on any subject related to the issues to which the NRA is dedicated, having spent decades attacking not only the NRA but also fighting against the legislation and policies NRA supports to protect the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, as well as supporting every conceivable government proposal or policy any officeholder or candidate suggests to weaken and disrupt the guarantees of the Second Amendment. It is therefore no surprise that the Washington Post would now attack the NRA for advertisements which truthfully disclose the anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment record of Barack Obama, the candidate supported by the Washington Post.Attached please find the point-by-point refutation of the Washington Post’s article about the NRA-PVF ads regarding Obama’s record on the Second Amendment, as well as an article disclosing the bias of the decidedly not neutral “FactChecker” on which the Washington Post article is ostensibly based.The NRA devotes 100% of its time and resources to protecting the Second Amendment and fighting for government policies and legislation furtherance of the rights of the American people to keep and bear arms.The legislative and policy record of candidates and officeholders such as Barack Obama are well known and documented by the NRA on an ongoing basis. NRA-PVF’s advertising during the 2008 election cycle is based on that extensive research and documentation, which is being furnished to you with this Memorandum. Accordingly, we respectfully request that your station disregard the shamefully false assertions from the Obama campaign and its attorneys regarding the NRA-PVF ads and that the ads run in accordance with the purchase(s) made by NRA-PVF in the media buy.
© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
Oh, and I wonder where he learned those "Chicago strong arm tactics"???
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