I  miss Robinson’s and Bullocks and the Broadway in S. California. They were my favorite stores. In AZ I miss Goldwaters. Why is it all the great stores disappear, and the not so great still remain?

You forgot Verse 9. That says it all!

All of this about 2 magazine covers. Petty,petty,petty. In several weeks these magazines will be in the trash anyway, and forgotten. Who ever remembers who is on what magazine cover in the whole of things? I cannot ever remember such a furor over any presiden’s picture on a magazine, or the relatively innocuous picture of the lovely Sarah. It will do her worlds of good, which is what she seeks anyway….and why all the fighting? 

I had a lump surgically removed and a fine needle biopsy, so will continue to get them as regularly as I can because I still take Estrogen

If she is all the Republicans will have to offer it’s time to change parties after all these years. I am also quite surprised when I find that people I always thought were intelligent seem to prove the opposite when it comes to her. Perhaps we all should start worrying about the emergence of bumper stickers & tee shirts with Psalm 109 on them. That is something to fear, even if you really hate the president.

Well, in case you forgot - Obama is the president, and Michelle is his wife. They do have to be  "all over the place" as presidents usually are. Presidents do not take their children with them, and who better than their grandmother to be with them. She is not exactly an old  lady, but it is a ridiculous subject anyway. Anything said will always bring out the contrarieties.

Margo, you said it so well. Now just wait for all the Sarah defenders/lovers  to come out and start attacking you and all the other nay sayers. Sarah is a joke, a bimbo who is better suited for a talk show, as her life is already a reality show. Who’s minding the kids while she runs all over the place making speeches and now a book tour?  Bet McCain is fuming, with his temper, as he knows he made a big mistake. He lost my vote, and a LOT of others too when he dragged her out. How many Republicans are huddled together pondering how to get rid of her? A LOT, I am sure. So, all you Sarah lovers come on out and convince us that she would be fantastic as our president with her huge intellect…you betcha!

Oh, my dear Patsy. Haven’t you done something about that chin yet? I’ll give you the name of my surgeon on Harley Street.

The computer. Days I am not working I sleep late. I get up, get online, read my emails and the rest, then end up eating breakfast at 1PM. Then after dinner it is the same, and the books I wanted to read sit unread on the table, because here I am again. If I did everything I’d like to do on the computer I’d probably never leave it. Sometimes I think life was sweeter before computers….sure got a lot more done then.

Of course it is. I just put that in to be a smart ass, since some men are so rabid over this entire subject. Soooo, I always say "sex for procreation only." Then there wil be no need for these abortions that are inflaming so many…especially men. Statistically it has been proven that abortions are not primarily used for birth control and most women seeking one are older, and the necessity for this is their need, and none of anybody’s business but the afflicted woman. People seem to get more incensed over abortion than they do over child abuse, which is rampant. Their energy would be better placed into working to protect the children who are born who will have no chance at a decent life, rather than meddeling into another’s life and trying to deny their actions.

Here is an interesting editorial by Paul Krugman. Pay attention to the last 2 sentences.

 

Don’t laugh at GOP’s angry right — fear it Opinion by Paul Krugman NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE Last Thursday there was a rally outside the U.S. Capitol to protest pending health-care legislation, featuring the kinds of things we’ve grown accustomed to, including large signs showing piles of bodies at Dachau with the caption "National Socialist Healthcare." It was grotesque — and it was also ominous. For what we may be seeing is America starting to be Californiafied. The key thing to understand about that rally is that it wasn’t a fringe event. It was sponsored by the House Republican leadership — in fact, it was officially billed as a GOP press conference. Senior lawmakers were in attendance, and apparently they had no problem with the tone of the proceedings. True, Eric Cantor, the second-ranking House Republican, offered some mild criticism after the fact. But the operative word is "mild." The signs were "inappropriate," said his spokesman, and the use of Hitler comparisons by such people as Rush Limbaugh, Cantor said, "conjures up images that frankly are not, I think, very helpful." What all this shows is that the GOP has been taken over by the people it used to exploit. The state of mind visible at recent right-wing demonstrations is nothing new. Back in 1964, historian Richard Hofstadter published an essay titled "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," which reads as if it were based on today’s headlines: Americans on the far right, he wrote, feel that "America has been largely taken away from them and their kind, though they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion." Sound familiar? But while the paranoid style isn’t new, its role within the GOP is. When Hofstadter wrote, the right wing felt dispossessed because it was rejected by both major parties. That changed with the rise of Ronald Reagan: Republican politicians began to win elections in part by catering to the passions of the angry right. Until recently, however, that catering mostly took the form of empty symbolism. Once elections were won, the issues that fired up the base almost always took a back seat to the economic concerns of the elite. Thus in 2004, George W. Bush ran on anti-terrorism and "values," only to announce, as soon as the election was behind him, that his first priority was changing Social Security. But something snapped last year. Conservatives had long believed that history was on their side, so the GOP establishment could, in effect, urge hard-right activists to wait just a little longer: Once the party consolidated its hold on power, they’d get what they wanted. After the Democratic sweep, however, extremists no longer could be fobbed off with promises of future glory. Furthermore, the loss of both Congress and the White House left a power vacuum in a party accustomed to top-down management. At this point, Newt Gingrich is what passes for a sober, reasonable elder statesman of the GOP. And he has no authority: Republican voters ignored his call to support a relatively moderate, electable candidate in New York’s special congressional election. Real power in the party rests, instead, with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin (who at this point is more a media figure than a conventional politician). Because these people aren’t interested in actually governing, they feed the base’s frenzy instead of trying to curb or channel it. So all the old restraints are gone. In the short run, this may help Dem-ocrats, as it did in that New York race. But maybe not: Elections aren’t necessarily won by the candidate with the most rational argument. They’re often determined, instead, by events and economic conditions. In fact, the party of Limbaugh and Beck could well make major gains in the midterm elections. The Obama administration’s job-creation efforts have fallen short, so that unemployment is likely to stay disastrously high through next year and beyond. The banker-friendly bailout of Wall Street has angered voters, and it might even let Republicans claim the mantle of economic populism. Conservatives may not have better ideas, but voters might support them out of sheer frustration. And if Tea Party Republicans do win big next year, what already has happened in California could happen at the national level. In California, the GOP has essentially shrunk down to a rump party with no interest in actually governing — but that rump remains big enough to prevent anyone else from dealing with the state’s fiscal crisis. If this happens to America as a whole, as it all too easily could, the country could become effectively ungovernable in the midst of an ongoing economic disaster. The point is that the takeover of the Republican Party by the irrational right is no laughing matter. Something unprecedented is happening here — and it’s very bad for America.