Posts Tagged "Reflect"
Palin hits Obama for ‘terrorist’ connection – CNN.com
ENGLEWOOD, Colorado (CNN) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday slammed Sen. Barack Obama’s political relationship with a former anti-war radical, accusing him of associating “with terrorists who targeted their own country.”
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lashed out at Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to controversial figure William Ayers.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lashed out at Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to controversial figure William Ayers.
Palin’s attack delivered on the McCain campaign’s announcement that it would step up attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate with just a month left before the November general election.
“We see America as the greatest force for good in this world,” Palin said at a fund-raising event in Colorado, adding, “Our opponent though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”
Palin made similar comments later at a rally in Carson, California. CNN Fact Check
Obama’s Chicago, Illinois, home is in the same neighborhood as Bill Ayers, a founder of the radical Weather Underground, which was involved in several bombings in the early 1970s, including the Pentagon and the Capitol, and the two have met several times since Obama’s 1995 campaign for a state Senate seat.
How does that not reflect poorly on the McCain group? I mean, really, how does it not?
Obama is over here saying “look at his record, he did this, this and this” and McCain is over on the other side saying “when he was 8, he lived in the same neighborhood as an accused, but not convicted bomber.” They are grasping at straws and I cannot understand how so many people can’t see this.
I also didn’t realize how young Obama was (48 whenever that statement was made!) and I would think that more people would vote for someone younger. I mean, I can see the seniors voting McCain, he’s their age, supposedly on their side (ha!) but…
As I said a few posts ago, I want someone who is going to inititate the change we need, not bring us four more years of decline. I don’t need the US to be a world supoer power, but I certainly don’t need it to become a third world country either, where our children are broadcast on European televisions as needing a few pennies a day for rice. In my world, we get that country, we send them food, and while I have always believed we should help our own homeless, our own hungry, I have never in my life thought that our country as a whole would turn into that hungry little girl.
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No, not sex toys. Get your mind up outta there. Last year I posted a list of 10 things I want right now (OK, two Novembers ago) Here is that list:
gift card(s) to Circuit City. I want to buy this camera, and I only have 100$ towards it right nowgot it fairly close to when the list was originally posteda new iPod. I have a 4gig mini, and I’d like one with a larger hard drive.Got a new one for Channukah this yeara 30gig or larger external harddrive for our PC. This one is really for my husband.He got one, though I can’t remember when, and I have one as well.stylish storage bins for my yarn and its accouterments.Kind of. I got a metal and canvas bin4 drawer stand from BB&B. Not exactly stylish, but functional and … functional.a new phone (I love this one). THe RAZR sucks, don’t get one. Really.Got a new phone in… November of last year (so about a year after posting the desire for a new one). It is a samsung, but not the model I linked to.- gift card(s) to Hanna Andersson so I can go clothes shopping for my kids.
- make a donation to UCP, Chabad or Komen.
yarn, of the natural fiber varietyI’ve gotten oodles of yarn, and sold oodles of yarn I never used. Michael says it’s a sickness.- anything from my amazon wishlist. my battery is about to die, so no link just yet.
- make a wish. any wish. just make sure it’s one right from your heart. everything on here is material. yes, they are things i’d love to have, but in the end, whatever your heart wishes for the most, that is what i want for you.
So, ten more things I wish I had right now are:
- a maid, once a week or every other week to come do the bathrooms and floors.
- a second car, even a beater, so Michael can take it to work and leave me the van
- a fenced in yard
- health insurance
- a gift certificate to my salon
- a room to turn into a studio, any kind of studio.. a studio that can be changed from one kind to another
- gift cards to hanna andersson – i love her stuff, i can’t afford it more than once a year, and only a few items then
- my youngest to be potty trained
- indestructible furniture
- peace in my home
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Read MoreToday was the day
The last day.
Dorian came home with all of his supplies, books, everything we’ve paid for and less than half of which he will need at the new school. When I picked him up from his carpool this afternoon I was just told she was sad she heard it from D first. Well now, I tried to pin you down for a week to tell you. I didn’t want to tell you over the phone. It just would have meant more convincing anyway. I didn’t need convincing. I needed a shoulder and a friendly voice telling me it was the right thing for everyone. Instead I got admonished about the mistake I was making, and that public is not as good as private. I told you yes, yes it is. I thought the same thing, until my sister almost failed out of the very same private, and is flourishing in public. My son, in public K this year is reading as well as my other son who is two years older. It is just as good. Maybe it’s better. Maybe not for everyone, but it seems to be for us.
If I had to have this conversation with my mom, my mom who is the only reason I stuck it out this long, why I fought to keep him in that private school in the first place, would have nodded, and told me if it was what I felt was right, and given me that supportive shoulder. Even my mom, who loved that school, loved it’s administrators and loved it’s students, would have seen that her children, her grandchildren, were thriving outside of that school. She would have nodded, and told me that sometimes the best for one isn’t the best for all, and she would have known from experience.
Michael dealt with most of this, because I couldn’t, because I felt like I was letting down my mom, some ideal of my mom. But in reality, I was letting down myself for hiding behind that idea. Always supportive, she would have stod behind me and given me the push to take of it myself. Well, I made the final decision, I walked in with Michael to tell them we were thinking of taking him out, and I went in with him when we told them his final day was the thirtieth. I did not go in all this week, or this morning when we paid for a missing book and to make sure his supplies would come home.
When I picked him up I could have just gotten him and left, but I went in to talk to Erin. We spoke, and she is saddened by my choice. I don’t see it as a loss. I see it as a gain. I am gaining at least three hours a day to play with him. I am gaining a more leisurely morning. No more rushing to leave by 7:30, but by 8:10. No more making dinner so early in the afternoon it’s barely past lunch time, because I don’t have to pick him up at 4 or 5 or 3:30. Everyone will be home by 2:45ish and that leaves our whole evening free.
I am losing things, but by my lists, by my weight system, I am gaining so much more.
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Your Brain Usage Profile:
Auditory : 47%
Visual : 52%
Left : 68%
Right : 31%
You are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant with a balanced preference for auditory and visual inputs. Because of your “centrist” tendencies, the distinctions between various types of brain usage are somewhat blurred.
Your tendency to be organized and logical and attend to details is reasonably well-established which should afford you success regardless of your chosen field of endeavor, unless it requires total spontaneity and ability to improvise, your weaker traits. However, you are far from rigid or overcontrolled. You possess a degree of individuality, perceptiveness, and trust in your intuition to function at much more sophisticated levels than most.
Having given sufficient attention to detail, you can readily perceive the larger aspects and implications of a situation or of learning. You are functional and practical, but can blend abstraction and theory into your framework readily.
The equivalence of your auditory and visual learning orientation gives you two equally effective sensory input systems, each with distinctive features. You can process both unidimensionally and multidimen- sionally with equal facility. When needed, you sequence material while at other times you “intake it all” and store it for processing later.
Your natural ability to use your senses is also synthesized in your way of learning. You can be reflective in your approach, absorbing material in a non-aggressive manner, and at other times voracious in seeking out stimulation and experience.
Overall you tend to be somewhat more critical of yourself than is necessary and avoid enjoying life too much because of a sense of duty. You feel somewhat constrained and tend to sometimes restrict your expressiveness. In any given situation, you will opt for the rational, and learning of almost any type should be easy for you. You might need certain ideas explained to you in order to fit them into your scheme of things, but you’re at least open to that!
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