Archive for January 5th, 2009
Just Because
January 5th, 2009
This was one of my Grandmother’s favorite songs, I suppose that is why it became one of mine.
I happened to stumble across this rendition by The Three Tenors and found it to be absolutely beautiful.
Enjoy!
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Honesty Is Always The Best Policy (Updated)
January 5th, 2009
Ann Coulter has been banned for life by NBC.
Will this honesty cost them viewers? Who knows.
But one network insider claims it was the book’s theme — a brutal examination of liberal bias in the new era — that got executives to dis-invite the controversialist.
“We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now,” a TODAY insider reveals. “It’s such a downer. It’s just not the time, and it’s not what our audience wants, either.” (emphasis-mine)
I’m no Ann Coulter fan but I do feel she has her right to express her opinion. She is a bit to the extreme but so is Keith Olberman (who chose to tell a sitting President to “shut the hell up” and NBC offered no apology or reprimand.)
Did any major network at any time object to those who called the current sitting President a liar or Hitler? Hmmm..don’t think so.
Like I said in a previous post..not the America I know.
*(Update) NBC is denying this story. I’ll let you be the judge based on their own words.
Time will tell which story is correct, but if I were a betting person, well I’d probably go with Drudge on this one.
More thoughts on this denial at Hot Air.
(Update 2) Honesty really is always the best policy but this story has now gained so many legs that it is tough to follow..
For Aunt Jean
January 5th, 2009
Last night, a little after midnight, I received a call from my Aunt Pat informing me that Aunt Jean had gone home to be with the Lord.
I can’t say it was unexpected as she has had bad health since my father died four years ago. She had heart bypass surgery, her large toe on her left foot amputated and then all the rest of the toes on that foot amputated, congestive heart failure when upon testing it was discovered she also had liver cancer.
The liver was operated on last summer and the cancer was removed, but she never really got back home except the week or so her husband rescued her from the nursing home where she had gone for rehab and had ended up with a terrible bedsore on her bottom and drugs not prescribed given to her.
Her home nurses suggested she go to the wound center, and she was shortly transferred to the main hospital because her heart was surrounded by fluid.
All this time she wouldn’t/couldn’t eat, and just before midnight last night she went home with no family there with her. She was speaking and her husband and daughter were ever so faithful, but that’s what happens many times. People wait until their loved ones are gone and then they leave.
She announced excitedly yesterday she was going home today. Today was her father’s birthday and she had seen him and my father while she was so sick from the heart operation. She said then she was no longer afraid to die.
I met her only a bit over six years ago, but it’s amazing how someone can work their way into your heart in such a short time if we but give ourselves the opportunities offered us.
Many of us will miss her, but for her, she is now home forever and we’ll see her again one day.
She is basking in the glow of Jesus, and now has ten toes, a good liver and a good heart again, and she is with those who left her behind in the past.
In the meantime, our hearts ache and our stomachs feel empty as we walk around with our memories and in a daze.
Please pray for her entire family; especially her husband, who has driven over 80 miles each way daily to be with her.
This is for you, Aunt Jean, with love and sweet memories.
No Surprise Here
January 5th, 2009
There are several reasons why I have chosen to stay away from political posts and this is just another:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to re-write House rules today to ensure that the Republican minority is unable to have any influence on legislation. Pelosi’s proposals are so draconian, and will so polarize the Capitol, that any thought President-elect Obama has of bipartisan cooperation will be rendered impossible before he even takes office.
Pelosi’s rule changes — which may be voted on today — will reverse the fairness rules that were written around Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.” (emphasis-mine)
Perhaps this is what the majority of our citizens want. One party rule with no dissent whatsoever.
This is not the America I know.
Here is something you can take to the bank though..if this was a Republican Speaker making the same move, there would be screaming from the rooftops and I would be right there with those objecting.
Very, very, sad to say the least.
