A New Years Wish, From Me And Mine To You And Yours . . . . .

 

Happy New Year 2011

Throughout all of 2011..
May you always make the right moves.

 

May your cup runneth over with love.

May you always find shelter from any storm.

May you remain good looking and looking good!

May you find the perfect diet for your soul.
(If this face doesn't make you want to stop eating sausage, nothing will.)

May you find perfect balance in the company you keep.

May you have as much fun as you can before someone makes you stop.

 

May the worst thing that happens to you come in slobbery pink and furry tan.

May you manage to make time for siesta.

May all the new folks you meet be interesting and kind.

 

May your accessories always harmonize with your natural beauty!

Should your mouth be bigger than your stomach, may you have a chewing good time!

May you always know when to walk away and know when to run. 

And may your friends always bring you joy!

MAY YOU HAVE A

WONDERFUL NEW YEAR

 
FILLED WITH LOVE,

HAPPINESS, AND HOPE.

From Me And Mine, To You And Yours . . .

Merry Christmas To All With Peace On Earth And Goodwill Toward Men!

Opinion polls . . . . Just whose “OPINION” do they reflect anyway?

 

 

Has anyone ever called you to ask you to participate in one of those so-called “Opinion Polls”?

If they have, have you listened to just how the questions are worded to elicit a specific answer?

Back during the campaign time for this last mid-term election, John McCain was really worried about losing his long held U.S. Senate seat.  So he had all the registered republicans in the state “Polled” via telephone and each of the questions began with “Do you agree or disagree with Senator McCain's position that . . . . . “ and each question was very pointedly finished in a manner that any Republican would agree with, that is unless they weren’t really a true Republican.  After each so-called “Poll”, about three days later, the local news stations and newspapers would run a story on how more Arizonans agreed with John McCain’s position on one thing or another than his opponents.

I am a registered Republican and I received about a half dozen of these calls, and since I do not like talking to an automated phone polling machine I would ask if I could talk to a real person, which confused the machine so much that it would eventually hang up on me and never did get MY personal opinion on Senator McCain’s performance since he has been in the Senate.

I have some, but not many, liberal friends and they tell me that most of the liberals have received polling questions in almost the exact same manner.

So, MY question is this – JUST WHO’S OPINION ARE THEY LOOKING FOR ANYWAY?

Arizona . . . We have a REAL problem!!!!

After all the votes have been finally counted, it seems that proposition 203 has finally passed . . . even after all but three counties defeated it.

What?  Only three counties passed it, and those three counties had enough votes to override the rest of the state?  What is wrong with THAT picture?

It was just last weekend that Fox 10 Phoenix ran a story on how the ballots were being counted, and as I recall the person in charge of the ballot counting stated that the people counting the ballots were instructed to determine what the voters intent was if the ballot was unreadable.  There in lies the problem.  These ballots are huge paper ballots that you fill in an oval next to the choice that you want – one next to the yes, and one next to the no.  Even a six year old child could do that, so to me if it was “unreadable” then it should not be counted at all.

I just do not understand how ANYONE could be confused over that initiative since it received more local and national publicity than Obama did when he ran his two year campaign for president! 

Here is how it came out;  If you wanted to get high with a doctors prescription, vote YES.  If not, then vote NO.

How confusing could that be?

I think that Arizona DPS needs to start an investigation into just HOW these ballots were counted. 

One other thing;  Just WHAT is a “Provisional” ballot, and WHY do we have them?

FYI – Smoking MJ does NOT cure anything.  It just gets you high.  And to my knowledge there has NEVER been an FDA scientific study to determine the benefits (if anything other than getting someone high if you want to call THAT a benefit) of smoking MJ.

My thoughts on this last midterm election

In the next few days, I will be posting my take on what happened on November 2nd 2010.

Just now getting settled into our winter digs, and a brand new laptop computer . . . my trusty old HP DV9000 series croaked this summer . . . .

Here is an idea to prevent our currant political disaster from ever happening again . . .

Congressional Reform Act of 2010

1. Term Limits.
   12 years only, one of the possible options below..
   A. Two Six-year Senate terms
   B. Six Two-year House terms
   C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms

2.  No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

3.  Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately.  All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.  Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.

 
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.  Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.  The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

The Election Is Coming . . .

Please watch this video . . . . .