MEET ARIZONA STATE SENATOR RUSSELL PEARCE

On his own web site, he describes himself as::"As you know, I have served in the Legislature for 10 years, 8 of those years as Appropriations Chairman, making the tough decisions with our limited dollars and promoting strong fiscal accountability in the process. I served as Chief Deputy for America’s most famous Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, the 4th largest Sheriff’s office in the nation. I was the Director of Arizona’s MVD, and I also served as a Judge. In every one of those positions I have been vigilant in service to our citizens, in reducing cost, improving efficiencies, requiring accountability and operating with transparency. I promise to be as committed and vigilant, while serving as the Senate President."

This gentleman, like Michelle Bachmann seems not to understand the Constitution.  He has introduced a bill proposing to decide which Federal laws Arizona will choose to follow.  The 10th Amendment reads as follows: Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.  He seems to have missed that if one does not like a Federal bill,. there is recourse in the Justice system up to the Supreme Court, but not at the whim of state's own electorate, panels, or committees..

I cannot but wonder what part of United in United States this man misses.  Just because the media puts on people who spout opinions and fantasies, paranoid and otherwise, do people really think they run the country?  The power of the individual is expected to follow a chain of command.  Contact your Senator and Representative who was elected to represent you...though that seems not to be the way some people in Congress behave.

GLENN BECK, QUIT WITH YOUR FANTASIES

Glenn Beck is talking some pretty paranoid phrases with nothing to back up his accusations.  How can media allow him to do this.  Apparently January is his worse rating month on Fox,.and I might add, for very good reason.  There may be a lot of stupid followers in this country, but it seems as though even they are getting smart..

He has been compared to Father Coughlin, the demagogic priest of the 30s..

Today on his radio show, "Glenn played a video from The Blaze that showed Andrew Breitbart interviewing protesters at a rally in Palm Springs, CA last week. The rally, which was sponsored by leftist’s organizations, including Code Pink, had attendees making violent and racists threats against a Fox Execs, a Supreme Court justice, and Glenn.
“They’re calling for revolution.", Glenn said,.“And it’s not just one person.  It’s several people. All white.”  Note the word several, proving that every group has some kooky hangers-on.

“So you have this real rage and real hate.  And remember, this is what Frances Fox Piven is saying:  Find your rage, find your anger, blame it on your boss, blame it on the capitalist system.  This is what’s being fomented right now.” says Beck, the pacifist?":

He said , "This is your life.  Prepare."  He personally has said and done more to foment a revolution than any one I have heard, though Palin, Bachmann, and Limbaugh run neck and neck.

Will it take even more people to stop watching and listening to him to finally quiet his revolution verbal support?.

WONDERING JUST WHERE TAXPAYER MONEY GOES

When I heard that Egypt has been getting American aid, it seemed to me to be a large amount for our privilege of having a place to torture people without our own citizens being generally aware. 

Apparently our government has not been watching the money closely, either.  Today MSNBC talked about the corruption, bribes, doubling in cost of food, so many poverty stricken living on $2 a day, and many reasons why the money given may have been better spent for our homeless and poor at home if not for the many other needs in healthcare, infrastructure, education, and so many other domestic needs..

Why has it never been mentioned that foreign aid might be cut, along with the many useless subsidies we provide people for not growing or doing things.  There was a time, quite a few years ago, when our legislators were a bit more knowledgeable as our fiscal affairs were less complicated; when we had  more money to be altruistic towards our world neighbors and allies.  Those days are long gone.  It does not seem right that we should have to borrow money to to pay corrupted leaders elsewhere. .Supporting Wall St. CEOs should be altruistic enough!

Additionally, the people of Egypt have made it very clear they would like us to keep our noses out of their revolution.  I also believe we should and think that Obama and Clinton have handled themselves well, publicly, as far as I can see.  I for one would like to see some other subjects in the news as well.

WHEN LIFE DOESN'T GO AS PLANNED

That there is no place to put new snow should come as no surprise.  After all, this is New England weather.  Everyone gets the old 'PhD' in shoveling...piled higher and deeper, that is.  I heard that Logan Airport was melting the snow plowed off the runways.  With no salt in it, it was apparently given dispensation and allowed to join the water in Boston Harbor.  The thoughtless guys caught dumping road snow in the Merrimac River were violating all sorts of environmental laws, caught, and I am not sorry for them.  To kill the river like that is murder to the fish just as clearly as throwing a hand grenade into the river would be, only fish life in the river would have a slower, more painful death.

While I am still perfectly capable of shoveling snow, there is no way that I would last piling up the mountains which each snowfall has required.  The berms piled up by the sadistic street plows has been beyond me for each of our several storms this season.

Since the weather reports indicate that tomorrow will be another lost day, I thought I would try to beat my own record at the Japanese game, Kumika.  Thinking to make life easy as I watched  a news program, I chose the 'easy' version.  My best score was 40,460, my worst 630.  I'm an example of practice makes perfect, sort of.  It didn't occur to me that I had improved so much that it seemed I could not end the game.  I played so long, I began begging the God of computer games to set me free.  My prayers were answered three hours later as my eyes were crossing.  I knew I had beaten my old record; only my pride in winning kept me playing.  Then the voice in my head began to lecture.  I heard, "How can you waste so much time?" , "You could have read a whole book in this time you have thrown away." .The worst of it was that the voice was right...naturally, since it was coming out of my own head.

Then rationalization set in.  I remembered the snow days off from school in my childhood which were days when one didn't have to work and could (with clear conscience) goof off.  I even remembered why it is so important to 'goof' off occasionally.  My body was relaxed and I was finally ready for bed after a day in which nothing I had planned when I awakened is what I did. during the day.   I loved it!   Try it yourself, you may like it.

HOW IS DECIDED WHAT ONE'S TIME IS WORTH?

Recently, I downloaded some software.  One was free, presumably to help maintain a clean registry.  The second was a $40 download that had a screen which whizzed by suggesting that I make a CD of the program...the screen was gone before I could do that little chore. This was Golden Records,    a program to convert vinyl LPs to CDs.

The registry program took over so that I was unable to delete it nor run regedit to get it off my computer.  so I could get it out of the registry.  As most of you have guessed,  restoring my computer to two days prior, got rid of both programs.  I assumed I might be able to contact NCH, the Australian company which readily took my credit card payment but with whom I have been unable to make any contact through their web site.which is all that is available to me.  I believe I did find an address for their corporate offices but doubt that any snail mail correspondence will reach someone who would be likely to take action from the corporate offices.  It would take my composing and printing the letter, taking a trip to the post office to get it mailed to Australia and waiting for who-knows-how-long for a reply. 

Now I am faced with a dilemma...for $40, how much time and effort am I willing to spend to get back what I legally own but had not yet even used,   I can be sympathetic to companies who market some insignificant software as compared to other of their products.  However, I had no plan to cheat anyone though I feel cheated. That my being forced to restore my computer should not allow me to get my $40 investment back the day after my download, or be allowed to download again since the company has proof of payment and that I was given a license number..

THERE ARE MANY THINGS WE NEVER GET TO DO OVER AGAIN

We do not get to be infants again but it does not mean that we must give up all elements of childhood.  Once you have been young, you know what youth with its limited responsibilities and great opportunities for fun are which remain as happy memories..  For some of us, childhood lives within us always.  'Been there, done that' remains a familiar part of memory bank.  We never give up the love of laughing, the excitement of learning new things, the meeting of and making  new friends,

You just don't get to do old age all over again.  Old is the last chapter.  It can be short, or be very long for some.  My Dad was over 65 for 42 years.. He learned to do old age very well though it took him a long time to accept and perfect it. Old age is the last stop before oblivion. You don't even get to practice everything you've learned before you forget much of it.!

We don't  get to return to the past or treat those in our lives, whom we've lost, as we have retrospectively decided they probably deserved. All this points out how imperative it is to get it right the first time.  Waiting to have perfection in Heaven is not a realistic goal.  Life, you may find, is your only chance to be whom you want whom you want to, since you only get to do it once.

It doesn't matter how full our lives have been, there will always be things we will wish we could have done, places to have seen, experiences to have felt,  professions to have tried, hobbies in which to have indulged, and so much more!  Nevertheless, those thoughts do not necessarily diminish the lives we feel we have lived.  They only serve to underscore how much we get out of our lives and that is still worth living.

Just as the second chance to catch the 'fish that got away' would be considered rare, so,often, is the love that got away...Though we sometimes hear the miracle of someone who reconnects in later life with a long lost love of their youth,  in the scheme of things, this is not something for which one should spend a life waiting to happen.

People who find it hard to accept change in their worlds, also find it difficult to look in the mirror of old age.  They are blessed by plastic surgeons, con artists with their anti-aging creams if they are  unable to accept there is beauty in old age. They create bored friends and family, tired of hearing about what they did and accomplished in their youth.

There is an art to growing old gracefully.  It comes with accepting reality, changing the things in your control and accepting those which are not.  To me, growing old is a great relief.  For those of you who remember the poem, WARNING by Jenny Joseph I will refer you to the last line, "When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.". Let me warn you differently.  There is nothing sudden about old age. It creeps up on you and is a 'wedgie' of reality.  Realization is sudden if your denial and resistance is strong.  I differ with another line in the poem. ("But maybe I ought to practice a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.) in that I have shocked people my whole life, so doing so in old age is somewhat expected and is not associated with my age.  Similarly to the poem is that I don't care people's expectations of old age.  I simply repeat, I didn't come with a manual; no one has taught me how to be old.  I have to get it right by my standards because I can only do it once .

THERE IS CORONA BEER, CIGAR, BUT THE SUN'S CORONA TOPS IT ALL

Corona Extra, better known as Corona and labeled as Coronita in Spain,^[2] is a brand of pale lager owned and produced by Cerveceria Modelo at a number of breweries in Mexico. It is one of the best-selling beers in Mexico and is one of the top-selling beers worldwide.^[3] Corona beer is available in over 150 countries.^{[4]
Pronounced: Corona.}

^{Corona cigars:}  [from La Corona, a trademark] : a long cigar having the sides straight to the end to be lit and being roundly blunt at the other end. 


All of these coronas, crowns, are nothing as compared to the sun's corona, seen only when there is an eclipse.

In August, 2010,  Global Eruption Rocks the Sun: Scientists Re-Evaluate Ideas About Solar Storms, appeared as a headline in Science Daily. We know that activity of the sort interrupts radio signals and satellite communication.  What does not seem to have been adequately studied since we know the sun effects get changes within its solar system to our planet.  It effects weather patterns, temperatures, people's affective moods, plant growth, in fact, all of life itself as we know it.  Click here to read about this phenomenon in more detail.  (The picture of the sun is better in the article, as well).