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things that make you go hmmm...

So the guy who was arrested for indecent exposure in his own home was interviewed on Fox yesterday and I was full of righteous indignation on his behalf for most of the piece: it was 5:30am; he was making coffee in his home-- not standing at the window; the person that called the police on him was cutting across his lawn...

And then he said something which didn't sit well with me. He said he went back to bed, but he put clothes on before he got into bed. And I was all, "Say WHAT?". Because, in my experience, people that run around nude do so for one of two reasons: they are an exhibitionist, or they find clothing physically uncomfortable, and restrictive. The people I have known who find clothing uncomfortable enough to prefer being nude at home always --ALWAYS-- sleep nude. The fact that the guy put something on to go back to bed makes me think he might have some 'splainin' to do. And apparently the local police think so too.

FWIW, he's probably not as bad as the guy who used to live across the street from me when I was a kid. He used to stand at the front window with a flash light in his fly and he would turn the light on and off to get the kids attention before he flashed us.

NBC News Sponsors for October 19th 2009

NBC News Sponsors for October 19^th 2009

Advair-- GlaxoSmithKline

Thermacare-- Pfizer

Activia-- Dannnon

Allstate Insurance

Progresso Soup—Product of Betty Crocker, a General Mills Division

Disney (Tinkerbell and the lost treasure)

Lipitor-- Pfizer

Zantac-- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Ford

Walgreens

Tena

So the DVR is back on the job, but I realized that I had been avoiding watching the news recordings, partly because the watching the fringe media causes me to yell at the t.v., and partly because after watching the drivel and listing the sponsors, I was feeling a tremendous amount of pressure to get the sponsor contact info posted quickly. As I am supposed to avoid stress at all costs right now, I'm going to skip the last step and just post the product/company.

I'm assuming that most people don't actually need me to spoon feed them this information, and that someone who is going to write a boycott letter already knows the proper place/person to send it. If I'm wrong, here's what let's do: leave a comment, or send me an email and let me know which contact info you're looking for and I'll be happy to share.

Thanks for understanding!

another word from our sponsors

I’d like to thank everyone for their keyword submissions for the Ad generating experiment. There are several posts brewing and the fun should begin soon. In the meantime, here are some additional thoughts on the whole topic of ads, and of liberal ads.

If a reader’s opinion of a political topic is swayed by seeing an ad on this site, they either shouldn’t be online without parental supervision, or they aren’t on a site that expresses their views and won’t return anyway.

If readers are angered or offended by seeing liberal ads, they don’t have to click on them. They have a choice. When I see the ads, I just remember that ads cost the advertiser money, so all I’m doing is helping THE FREE MARKET SYSTEM re-distribute some of George Soros’ money.

separated at birth?

They say that in families, politics is thicker than blood, and as an adult I can see that is true of my own. But as a kid, I had no idea what party my parents belonged to, nor did I care. Like most kids, I cared more about issues than partisanship . At least until I got to college, when I first asked my parents which party they supported. And then I got confused

See, we lived in a big house in a nice suburb and went to church regularly, which could make one think we were upper middle class conservatives. But evidence suggested otherwise:

• We went to a hippie school that offered electives such as modern dance and fencing.
• We focused on issues, like the treatment of migrant workers, and how to run a successful boycott.
• My mom grew most of our vegetables in a big garden that took up half of the backyard.
• We bought bushels of other veggies at the farmers market and “put them up” for the winter.
• My grandma made most of our clothes.
• The rest were hand-me-downs passed around by various cousins.
• We had a huge compost pile in our back yard, and the ONLY compost pile in the neighborhood
• For fun in the summer, my mom would organize night crawler hunts whenever she needed to restock her worm farm.
• My mom helped start a town recycling center—and we RECYCLED—in 1976.
• My mother had an “ecology” bumper sticker—the kind where the “o” was a peace sign or a globe or something-- on her Suburban
• On family vacations we went camping.
• My dad grew bean sprouts under the kitchen sink, and made his own yogurt.
• My mom baked bread and made her own granola.

So when imagine my shock and confusion when I learned that we weren’t hippies at all. WE WERE JUST CHEAP.

I’m foot stomping mad about the direction our government is steering our nation, and want to do something to help change it. There are so many paths to follow and because they all look promising I don’t know which to take first. It doesn’t help that I’m easily distractible and it feels as though I’m running in circles. This little ditty by Sean Morey pretty much sums it up.

RE: Obama's vendetta against Fox News: You can always joke about a big man that is really big, but don’t ever kid about the little fellow that thinks he is something, cause he will get sore. That’s why he’s little.

~Will Rogers

Found the answer

And the reason we're inundated with H1N1 hype while not keeping track of how many kids actually have it is:

Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals # 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself.

Riddle me this

Here's one for the Answer Man:

One of my friends works at the local middle school so I jokingly asked her if they were having an H1N1 outbreak yet.

"oh, we know kids have had it, but "they" (the State?the CDC?) has told the pediatricians not to test for it anymore".

So, Mr. Answer Man, where is the CDC getting their data? From ACORN?

knock me over with a feather

Take 2 min.to read the NPP acceptance speech Obama SHOULD give. It was written by Thomas Friedman of the NYT. There is hope for us yet.

What does a republican look like?

I had a great bumper sticker on my last car. It read “Republican women make great leaders… you’re following one now”

Even though I live in Southern Maine amongst millions of Kerry, and now Obama stickers, I received relatively few comments about the unusual display of conservatism, and any comment was usually preceded by asking if it was my sticker—as if making sure that someone hadn't put REPUBLICAN GRAFFITI on my car. Admittedly, there were times when, if the asker looked like they might be secreting a rock or some other missile, I simply said that it came with the car when I bought it used. Which is not a lie—it was on the car when I bought it from my mother.

Once, an elderly woman was walking past my drive with her old, graying black lab, and she stopped me and asked if that was my sticker on my car. Confident I could outrun the aged, drooling dog, and not seeing any clubs or rocks in her other hand, I said Yes. It was my sticker, on my car. “Really!” she said—obviously disappointed in my political affiliation “because you don’t look old enough to be republican. “

I'll say it again

The following is an Excerpt from the Investors Business Daily article embedded a few posts down. It details the miserable failure of Maine's Dirigo Health plan.

Writing on our op-ed page last Friday, Kerri Houston Toloczko, senior vice president for policy at the Institute for Liberty, gave quite an account of those states — including Snowe's Maine — where health care has been taken over by the government. All are a "mess," she says, but Maine's universal coverage takes the prize.

Rammed through in four weeks in 2003, so-called Dirigo Health was supposed to cover all of Maine's 128,000 uninsured by now. But six years after its passage, it covers just 3,400.

"By 2007," Houston Toloczko notes, "the system was so broke that it closed to new enrollees. It still has not reopened and has also cut and capped benefits. The 'streamlined' bureaucracy has cost the state's taxpayers $17 million in administrative costs to cover 9,600 people, leading one to wonder if there are more bureaucrats in the system than enrollees."

Systemwide insurance costs have increased 74%, Houston Toloczko also points out. And here's the kicker: Maine's plan is "the most similar to the plans circulating on Capitol Hill."

Too much info?

You may have noticed the ads. I know that in the blogging world they are frowned upon, and I’m sorry for their clutter, but hear me out:

I’ll try to make a long story short. They’re there because I am a work-from-home single mom whose ex is hiding in another state doing menial work under the table to avoid paying $50,000 in back child support. (You know who you are and yes, I found your MySpace page and am WATCHING you, asshole). For the last 15 years I’ve had an undiagnosed disease which has ever so slowly eaten away at my time, energy and body until the sudden realization that only being able to work 2 hours at a time without resting WAS NOT NORMAL. No need for details, but I’m dressing as the pirate “One-Lung-Lassie” this Halloween. Arrggh, Matey.

So, part of fixing all of this is finding better ways to support my family, and since I feel very strongly about the issues I ramble about on AngryMobof1, I’ve added ads.

I believe that most people are wise enough to know what ads are, and avoid them if they wish. It’s also quite ironic that many of the ads, which are chosen by Google based on keywords in my posts, directly oppose my opinion (right now you are probably seeing ads to HELP OBAMA WITH HIS HEALTHCARE BILL… I don’t think so, thank you anyway). It may be fun to try to play with this i.e. what keywords generate the weirdest ads? The most conservative ads? The most liberal ads? I would love to hear your suggestions. Or, anything thing else you have to say.

How to reach the Senate Finance Committee

	First Name	Last name	Party	State	PHONE
Senator	Max	Baucus	D	Montana	202-224-2651
Senator	John	Rockefeller	D	West Virginia	202-224-6472
Senator	Kent	Conrad	D	North Dakota	202-224-2043
Senator	Jeff	Bingaman	D	New Mexico	202-224-5521
Senator	John	Kerry	D	Massachusetts	202-224-2742
Senator	Blanche	Lincoln	D	Arkansas	202-224-4843
Senator	Ron	Wyden	D	Oregon	202-224-5244
Senator	Charles	Schumer	D	New York	202-224-6542
Senator	Debbie	Stabenow	D	Michigan	202-224-4822
Senator	Maria	Cantwell	D	Washington	202-224-3441
Senator	Bill	Nelson	D	Florida	202-224-5274
Senator	Robert	Menendez	D	New Jersey	202-224-4744
Senator	Thomas	Carper	D	Delaware	202-224-2441
Senator	Olympia	Snowe	R	Maine	202-224-5344
Senator	Susan	Collins	R	Maine	202-224-2523
Senator	Kay	Hagan	D	North Carolina	202-224-6342
Senator	Tim	Johnson	D	South Dakota	202-224-5842
	First Name	Last Name	Party		FAX
Senator	Max	Baucus	D	Montana	202-224-9412
Senator	John	Rockefeller	D	West Virginia	202-224-7665
Senator	Kent	Conrad	D	North Dakota	202-224-7776
Senator	Jeff	Bingaman	D	New Mexico	202-224-2852
Senator	John	Kerry	D	Massachusetts	202-224-8525
Senator	Blanche	Lincoln	D	Arkansas	202-228-1371
Senator	Ron	Wyden	D	Oregon	202-228-2717
Senator	Charles	Schumer	D	New York	202-228-3027
Senator	Debbie	Stabenow	D	Michigan	202-228-0325
Senator	Maria	Cantwell	D	Washington	202-228-0514
Senator	Bill	Nelson	D	Florida	202-228-2183
Senator	Robert	Menendez	D	New Jersey	202-228-2197
Senator	Thomas	Carper	D	Delaware	202-228-2190
Senator	Olympia	Snowe	R	Maine	202-224-1946
Senator	Susan	Collins	R	Maine	202-224-2693
Senator	Kay	Hagan	D	North Carolina	202-228-2563
Senator	Tim	Johnson	D	South Dakota	202-228-5765