Don’t you just hate it when you pour your morning cup of coffee and, as you head back to your bathroom to make yourself presentable to the world, you sneeze and slop coffee all over yourself and the floor? You know a day that begins with you half asleep and on your hands and knees wiping up spilled coffee from the floor is NOT going to be a good day.
Are the terrorists winning?
By now, just about everyone has heard this quote, or some variation of it, from Benjamin Franklin. “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” It’s probably been quoted more since 9/11 than just about any other Franklin quote. And the good lord knows this man was nothing if not a quote machine. So to rise to the top the way this quote has is an impressive accomplishment.
Despite the vast chasm that yawns between my Catholic schoolgirl childhood and my current totter into old age, some parts of me
Earthquakes
The quake in Japan has me freaked. I’ll admit that freely. I don’t know how I’d ever cope with getting all my birds and dog to safety but I do know this. It will be all of us or none of us. I can’t imagine ever leaving them behind.
Bird TLC auction
Since today is my shift at the Bird Center, it seems like a good time to remind everyone about the For The Birds auction this Friday at the Hilton hotel. Tickets are available through the office or go to the website http://www.birdtlc.net/ and get a ticket online. If you don’t live near here, you can always make a donation even if you can’t come to the auction. And remember, we ALWAYS can use salmon and red meat. Nothing processed, please. Has to be raw. And no halibut. But I know Alaskans are starting to empty freezers out as the next
Ah the joys of aging
Not only do I spend an inordinate amount of time faking that I know why I walked into a specific room, but it is now glaringly obvious that no fried or fatty foods will ever again be digested in my body with the help of a bottle of tums and a lot of moaning.
If there was a god…
She would make an exception in my diabetic condition for Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies.
Note to self
Next time you go East, get tickets for the new musical, The Book of Mormon, by those same wonderfully insane people who bring you South Park. I mean seriously, what’s not to like?
Are we at last ready to admit this?
Clarence Thomas is simply the biggest embarrassment to sit on the Supreme Court… ever. To say nothing of also being possibly the dimmest.
Have we really become so callous?
The same people attempting to balance the budget on the backs of America’s poor and middle class were protesting not long ago that we couldn’t take away tax breaks from people making over $250,000 a year because they could hardly be considered rich in today’s economy. Yet somehow, public employees and teachers making – if you include benefits – about $70,000 a year are fair game to have their income reduced.
One argument made was that we couldn’t restrict the amount of obscene compensation the people on Wall Street, the ones who tanked our economy, receive because they would quit
Because it gives Juneau time to cleanse its air
Some people complain that, despite swearing they don’t have enough time to do the people’s business in a 90 day session, our legislature finds it ok to shut down for a week so they can fly to DC and meet with their sponsors… the oil companies. I think that Juneau deserves this break to cleanse all the hot air flowing through it before the final push towards adjournment.