LaBruzzo considering plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have tubes tied by Mark Waller, The Times-Picayune Tuesday September 23, 2008, 10:40 PM Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied. “We’re on a train headed to the future and there’s a bridge out, ” LaBruzzo said of…
The true thing about aging is that as the world speeds up around you, other things seem to take longer and longer. Getting over an injury, getting over a heartbreak, and so on. In all the things that should be in reverse, you’d think for life’s lesson purposes you should experience these extended, thoughtful getting over periods when you’re young and have plenty of time – instead, it is given to us later in life,…
I’m trying to find balance in my life between job demands, physical exercise, fun, girlfriend, family, friends, and ME. Lord knows it is not easy. I keep laying out a plan, I’ll do this first, then this, and then schedule this for this day, and well the whole thing just comes crashing down as soon as you have got everything all laid out like a grid and Person #1 changes their time, then Person #2…
I took mom to the airport so that she could go see my sister. On the way, she told me that a psychic had told her a while back not to put her money in the banks because there won’t be banks in the future and now, see.
PBS has a poll that asks: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be VP? Let’s turn this around….. You don’t have to give your name or email address in order to vote. It’s very simple – one click. PLEASE DO IT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!!!! Just click & vote… NOW.
There is a saying in Croatian for getting up on the wrong side of the bed and that’s getting up on your left foot. I did. Loca did. Loca tried to attack my yoga teacher’s dog.
This from my neighborhood email list: At 5:45 p.m. this afternoon, my next-door-neighbors encountered a man in front of their house. He was a light-skinned African man, in his 40’s or early 50’s, incoherent, and wearing plaid pants. My neighbors asked him if he needed anything, and then he took a wad of money out of his pocket and started to eat the money. They called the police. If you don’t believe me, there are small…
Daily Affirmation September 22, 2008 I enter into the fall season with joy in my heart as I accept the colorful scenery, knowing it is blessing my life with its abundance and glory.
There are a lot of reasons to be down – I could start counting them – the industry that I write about is in turmoil, the industry that I work for is in turmoil, the city I live in suffers from hurricane-itis, my truck needed repair, shall I continue? Why bother. Really, these are all external factors that try to ruin your joie de vivre. Today is the first day of Autumn. My favorite season.…
I’d go back to bed. Both Loca and I were sick for the latter part of the weekend – she went down first on Saturday night with horrible diarrhea, then I got up Sunday morning and thought that two glasses of wine was too much for a hangover, and by the time I was crying my eyes out over an article in the Sunday NYT about a man who wrote about his baby who died…