It’s a disease … I can’t help myself … my acerbic tongue and liberal sense of humor gets me into trouble ALL the time! LMAO

You bet’cha! ;)

Dear Edith Ann, It is difficult to be small in a big person’s world, isn’t it? I am sure your mom didn’t intend to hurt your feelings or to be mean. But, she has a lot on her mind. The country’s economy is not doing so well, and the election for President gets dirtier every day. You have one side who keep using scare tactics to try to win votes from people like your mom—people who are interested in where her tax dollars are going and when are our soldiers going to get out of Iraq. They also make up lies and say that the terrorists will attack us if we don’t vote for their guy. So, I am sure you mom is worried. Here is a saying by Benjamin Franklin to tell your mom: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety… It may not make much sense to you now, but it will to her and it will to you one day. You need to go to the library and check out a book on Ben Franklin. He invented a lot of things we still use today, like the harmonica! Did you know that Mozart wrote tunes for Ben to play on his harmonica? Oh, and Edith Ann? Remind your mom and dad and all your grandparents to get out and vote!!! Your friend, Rita

crap … my fingers are not working or the brain is not spelling today!! Haven = given!!!

Mr. Ayers has apparently given a lot back to his community since his WU days, Micki. A lot of people did a lot of things back in the ’60s that haven the chance to go back, they would not do again. Oh, and people like Sarah Palin and George Bush think they are above the law and rules don’t apply to them. I have a feeling she will go down like a ton of bricks for her abuses of power after they lose the election and she loses a lot of power back at home.

What is really sad, Sandbee, is the ignorance of the people telling the lies and their lack of any sort of human decency. I tend to view them as gnats at the beach — annoying as all get out, but the best way to make them go away is to ignore them.

Sandbee, honey … you will have better luck pouring freshwater into the Gulf of Mexico in the hopes of making it unsalty then you will in changing people minds like the one you are responding to. Those mean, hateful, lying, grab-at-straws-cause-I-am-losing-at-the-polls will say and do and make-up anything to make their candidate look better. You know, I have been on committees at the Chamber of Commerce before with about 100 people on them and I could no more tell you what any of their backgrounds were than a man in the moon. Rational people understand that you cannot hold a person responsible for those who serve on community groups with them. And sane people understand that Obama was a small child when the Weather Underground was doing their political protesting. McCain’s involvement with the Keating 5 and how threw his buddies under a bus is common knowledge as is his adultery; same with the fact that he has voted to raise taxes and de-regulate the financial section.

Soapbox Sarah … hhhhmmm Steve, I think you just came up with a better name than Caribou Barbie!!

or break … sheesh! My spelling has gone to crap!

Oh, I don’t literally flush them … I just dispose of them in the trash. It has been my experience that a lot of people want nothing to do with meds after they have left the store. When my daddy died, he had a huge cache of drugs that the VA had sent him, but that no one would take. The only thing we could give away were the sealed eye drops. And you are right about the exercise. Walking and yoga have done wonders for me, so has relaxation and biofeedback tapes. I used to carry my walkman around with me to listen to tapes before I had them put on disc so I could put them on my mp3 player.

Marjorie, you are right, a debate is not an interview. In a debate, the moderator asks the questions and the debaters answer what they are asked and they respond to their opponents responses. They do not answer mysterious questions in their own heads that only they can hear.

My doctor gives me 30 25 mg. pills a year … I flush probably 20 or 25 of them when I get the new ‘script. Panic attacks are an odd thing, you know? I would guess in the last ten years, I have had maybe 3 full-fledged, I-think-I-am-going-to-die attacks, and yet … the fear of one remains. Now THERE is a good topic for the powers that be here at WOW … the lingering efforts of panic and how to cure them.

I have way too much crap in mine! I managed to BRAKE a strap on my favorite summer Aigner bag. So, in my black leather medium-size Aigner (have you noticed a trend here for Aigner?) favorite winter bag, I have rosary beads and my pill box (with tylenol, xanax, and inderal) in the little zipper part, in the main part I have my wallet, box of altoids, lip balm, lipstick, business cards, checkbook, work ID, tums, work keys, home & car keys, spray hand sanitizer, and about seven pens and pencils; my cell phone goes in a side pocket. When I go out, I switch to a tiny bag just big enough to put cash, license, credit card, and pill box. Instead of American Express, I just can’t leave home without my Xanax … just in case!

I am so glad to read that I am not the only person who carries around an emergency “stash” of Xanax just in case of a panic attack! Thanks for sharing that …

Carol, the RNC would only agree to allow Gov. Palin to debate based on the rules Gwen followed. It was a joke of a debate! And the poster above was correct: had Joe Biden grinned, giggled and winked like Sarah Palin did, ALL the news channels would have gone on and on about it. Imagine if Hillary Clinton had carried on like that during the Democratic debates, what would FoxNews have said about her behavior? Certainly it would not have been the praise they gave to Gov. Palin.