I was just in a arts/crafty type store yesterday and was actually tempted to buy a pair of 'bunny ears' ala the faux bunny chomping carrot above. Thankfully the moment passed. I DO have an image to maintain.
But not online. I have posted one video here, and no current pictures for a very good reason-there is too much personal information available on the internets. Facetwitter and other social sites allow a person to put ALL of their 'life' online, and private should remain private. I mistrust the alleged security of the social media sites as I have studied computering. I was thinking at one time of going into I.T., went to uni, got a...but I was just saying that one shouldn't divulge too much personal info on line, so never you mind about the uni thing.
'Oscars' night of a thousand egos erupts this Sunday. For a non-drinking game, I will not take a drink every time a Conservative/Christian/Republican gets slammed by a shamlibrity. I'll be sober all night.
I haven't seen any of this years Oscar contenders anyway. But I do LOVE Turner Classic Movies, and have bunches of fine films siting on my shelves and on my DVR.
Random thoughtfully I will touch on politics for just a mome: I think that President Obama is doing everything he can to NOT be re-elected. The latest kerfluffle, demanding that religious schools and Christian hospitals hand out birth control, even if their religious beliefs make them reject some forms of 'death control', isn't the act of a man seeking re-election. When the uproar roared up, he off handedly said, "Okay-then the insurance companies can pay instead."
Ruling by whim? I think he loves the prestige of the Presidency but has no stomach for the job. He may vote for Romney, crying "Mister Wizard, get me out of here!"
Yes, I said Romney. I don't care if he is a Mormon-I think he will win. If he were to ask Sarah Palin to join him as the Veep candidate, I think they might win 48 states. With Santorum as Veep? 47.
Enough of that stuff.
One of the common refrains of 2012: "I have internet on my phone." No-the internet has YOU programmed and processed and dressed out to be stressed out. My 'cell' is so cheap it doesn't even make calls. I went for years without a cell phone, was proud of my non-cell self...until the phone companies started pulling pay phones out of my hometown. I had to keep in touch with my family, so for $15.00 a month I have a cheap cell. Which I dislike.
A friend has the Kindle Fire, and has been encouraging me to get one. He loves it just fine, and I may get a 'reader' someday, but the Fire doesn't yet warm me to buying one.
Amazon is cool, though. I buy more stuff through Amazon than I do going to the big city and seeing the stores, so if I do get a reader, it will probably be the Kindle Fire.
Is this Random Enough? I have to bake cookies. See you on the podcast.
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Chocolate chip cookies to be precise.
Yumm.
Now there's something we can agree on. I've been decadently enjoying a chocolate zucchini cake I baked for a party last night. I was skeptical, but it is yumm indeed.
I think you're right that Romney will be the nominee, but I don't think either Palin or Santorum would help him. Knowing Romney of the calculator mind and cash-register heart (and I do know him: it's thanks to him that my state had universal health care before it was the ACA), I think he'll pick someone who can help him with the base without looking certifiably insane to independents. Trouble is, I don't know who that would be. Bachmann is crazy, Biden would eat Perry alive in debates, McDonnell is backing away from the hard line on ultrasounds. Rubio or Christie, maybe, but they have baggage too. It should be interesting.
I don't think birth control will hurt Obama as much as you hope. Thirty-seven states already have the very same law in place, and something like 95 percent of Catholic married women have used birth control at some point to say nothing of non-Catholic women. It's not 1960 any more. (Death control? Would you care to elaborate on that?)
"(Death control? Would you care to elaborate on that?)"
certainly, Lu. Abortion doesn't control Life-it controls death, it makes babies dead.
I have no problem with birth control which does not have abortifacient elements. I believe that Life beings when an egg is fertilized.
Birth control which does not allow an egg to be fertilized is fine.
But any "birth control" which destroys a fertilized egg is, in fact, death control.
I know that protecting Abortion as a 'right' is one of the main planks in the Democrats platform. I think that it is wrong, and a global shame.
I grew up in a Democrat family. I would have voted for Jimmy Carter had I been old enough to vote in 1976-by 1980 I was a Christian and voted for Ronald Reagan.
Shortly after that I read a book by a Catholic priest called, "Abortion-the Silent Holocaust" and it helped me to refine my beliefs about Abortion. So there you go.
OK, you seemed to be lumping everything together. In any case, I'm not debating this one with you.
Thank you, Lu, for not debating me on this one-another case of us not accepting the validity of the others
position.
As I just wrote on an "Oscar Night" post on another site...
Baseball is almost back! How cool is that?
Baseball? Not very. I am still disgusted enough with the Red Sox' debacle last September to want nothing to do with them this year, especially when their first move during the off season was to trade Marco Scutaro, one of the few players still actually playing as the team melted down. My husband, of course, thinks that's all water under the bridge, so I will be watching a lot of games willy-nilly.
Bummer about Varitek retiring, but I guess it was time-will they go without a captain this year, or until someone steps up?
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