I had the opportunity to see various of my well loved friends this weekend. Some traveled distances to get here. It made me wish that I had the ability to make everyone I wanted to see regularly be magically with a short commute from me. Another ability I would need is keep in touch and make events for us to get together. When I get to spend time with you guys it makes me just want to spend more. Okay enough mushy talk. Peace out

The Anaheim White House an amazing restaurant is being boycotted because it has named one of the private dining rooms after our 44th president Barack Obama. One comment the restaurant has gotten is that I don't mind an African-American as president but I won't support a Marxist. How about we support the Anaheim White house and book that room? The food is marvelous.

I am sending my positive thoughts and asking all my friends do the same. The last 8 years have been sad, scary, depressing and alarming. I am going to pray that whoever gets elected will be the right person for the job. I have a very strong opinion on who that is. We all do. Whoever gets the White House has a big mess to clean up. The country has a bad economy, a stupid war and has lost prestige with the rest of the world. Domestically we are so divided. There is so much anger and hate out there. If we want to leave a better world for the children we have a lot of work ahead of us. So take a minute and think positive.

I am curious what political signs you have seen? I live in a very republican county and I see mostly local election signs, a few Obama and a 2 months ago Ron Paul signs.

What have you seen?

Grab the nearest book.

Open to page 56.

Find the fifth sentence.

Post the text of the sentence in your journal with these instructions.

Don't dig for the coolest book or the intellectual one; Pick the closest.

My find:::

The dog appraised him as well.

1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

Selenesue gave me L. I am ashamed to admit I found this tough.

1. Lucy from Peanuts. Strong tough girl who went after what she wanted. Not the nicest person.

2. Luke Skywalker goofy kid who yearned for adventure.

3. Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter. A girl who looked at life from a different angle than everybody else. I loved her in the movie version.

4. Lucy Steele from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. A pushy sly girl who did not care who she hurt to get what she wanted. Not a good person at all.

5. Linus also from Peanuts. A dreamy artistic musician whose music was a revelation.

I was watching "Real time with Bill Maher". Someone asked what value a small town mayor could bring to Washington. The answer was what was wrong with a small towns? Listening to that I was stumped. You feel that you cannot answer that without insulting all those who live in and love small towns. I wanted to know the answer. What are small town values and how can they be a benefit in a larger setting?

I think I have a reply. I feel that when someone answers with such a statement that effectively ends conversation that should be called on the fact that they don't have an answer. I am not from or do I currently live in a small town. I want to know what small town values are. If someone is going to have an effect on my life I want to be able to ask questions and really get the answer.

A woman who states that sex education should be just "say no" and abstinence only teaching should be questioned when her child has an (I assume) unplanned pregnancy when she runs for public office.

I am so tired with political spin. Or is it that I wish my side was better at it?

K and I visited family in Arizona. The weather was 80 at night and 100 or so during the day. K decided to rent a convertible, a Spyder Mitsubishi. Now as most of you know I burn very easily. I have been teasing him that he is using his (sorry babe) middle age crazy on rental cars with me. He rented a red Mustang in March. The car was too small for us but boy was it fun. Especially at night. The wind in our hair, the views, the moon and great music blasting from the radio. During the day it was kinda cool but too hot. We wondered what Top Gear would say about it and how fast the Stig would get it around the track.

Some say he can drive so fast that a sunburn would never find him.

This is in response to SashaKhan's request for anti-torture blog.

I love America. I love the ideals that are written into the Constitution as I understand it and the Declaration of Independence. This is a country that is founded on ideals of equality and justice. I am grateful for the opportunities and life that I have as an American 21st century women.

I feel that as an American it is my right and responsibility to disagree with the bad policies of my government. If I disagree it does mean I am not patriotic. Stolen from Frederick Douglass. To be a patriot means to love my country for its good traits and acknowledge it's sins and transgressions.

Sooo..... I do not think America is perfect. I do not think everything this country has done is right. We are not the good guys 100% of the time. I think we can be but like a normal human we have a long way to go. This country is self righteous, money grubbing and to involved in people's private lives. If Americans had been treated like the prisoners of Abu-Grabh or water boarded the President and the nightly news would be up in arms for the inhumane treatment.

I think my great nephew's grandchildren will still be dealing with aftermath of the past 5 years.

Sorry Sasha this may not be a blog against torture it is just a rant.

El Munadi came back from a business trip in Vietnam ill. He had fever, cough, headache and body aches. I followed 2 days later. I actually missed 3 days of work! El Munadi and I went to the doctor on Tuesday and I am very glad we did. Something about K's cough had the doctor checking his oxygen levels. So he gets this respiratory treatment. The doctor sort of fits me into the treatment by sort of looking at me from a distance. I I coughed several times during the visit and ended up with the same treatment. I am sure if more was wrong he would have checked. The expectorant was annoying but I could feel the effect shortly. K and I have not been this sick in quite a while and I hope to never have this again. Both of us have not had much of an appetite and probably have lost a little weight. Unfortunately this is not long standing. I know Joeguppy has been sick but I hope nobody else is.