Lena Dunham: Your First Time PARODY

U.S. Senate Candidate Criticized by Both Parties for Pro-Life Comments

U.S. Senate Candidate Criticized by Both Parties for Pro-Life Comments

Murdoch was definitely misunderstood, and opponents took full advantage of the knee jerk reaction that the public tends to have whenever a pro-life candidate speaks out about the issue.

CHOOSE LIFE!

US Third Party Presidential Debate (Moderated by Larry King)

Ready for a Real Debate?

Click here for 2012 Election Central Article on the Debate

Here in Oregon, folks have already received their ballots. Tonight was the last debate between the two major party candidates President Obama and Governor Romney. But tomorrow night is something that has never been done before! Four minor party candidates will square off in a debate moderated by Larry King. It is sure to be a real educational experience. As you can imagine, the Green Party, Constitution Party, Libertarian Party, and Justice Party are going to have drastically different answers to questions. I think this is a real fantastic chance to get to know the four most popular minor parties, and what their candidates stand for. See the link above for more details. And happy voting! :)

Grunts and Grumbles - A Real Post to Follow Soon

In the last week Zoe (age 5) has started to read pretty well, and has learned to whistle (finally!! and anyone who has heard her fake whistle before is probably cheering). I have been putting together a top secret anniversary surprise for my parents, and of course all the political stuff. I seem to do these things very well. They make me feel needed, and happy, and like I might have a brain in there somewhere.

School has been another story. Yes, I have A's (for now), but I feel like I am blundering through this quarter with all the grace of a large hippopotamus. What is my problem!? School is keeping me from all the things I love to do! From my activism that it is supposed to be augmenting. I am frustrated. I can't count the number of times I've threatened to quit this quarter. Maybe next quarter I will have classes I enjoy again. Well, really it's just one awful, annoying class that is eating up all my time and energy: BIOLOGY. Many of you reading have heard my belly aching about it. I am really enjoying Philosophy and MacroEcon. But Biology is keeping me from being able to study in my Econ class, or really participate in my philosophy class....and I'm going to get my PPE (or at least that is the current plan). The PPE stands for Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics...notice no Biology or Science in that list of studies.

So, for now I am hanging on and trying to not feel like a total idiot. I am trying to enjoy all of life's pleasures - like making pumpkin muffins (and I told Garren there'd be no food in my blog! :P) Thankfully I have a wonderful husband, who doesn't grumble when the living room is dirty or when the laundry is backed up. What would I do without him?

Anyways, since you've read this far into my complaining rant enjoy some photos from the project I am working on (and don't worry, I know the ballots are out - and there will very soon be a post about voting =D )  ~Liberty and Peace~

Zoe was a flower girl this weekend in my Uncle's wedding. Here is flower girl Zoe at age 5 :) 

Me age 4 :)

Our little family :) Most don't know that my mom, sister, grandparents and I all moved up here so my parents could get married. :) Yes, my dad is my "stepdad" but I don't think of him as a step anything at all. I feel so fortunate that this wonderful man chose to be my father, and that I've been able to call him dad.

You may kiss the bride :)

I love this picture of my parents!

21 years later :)

This one was just fun!

Romney's Got Jokes!!!

Just watched this speech (I'm sure the full video is easily found), but this was SO FUNNY! And I thought many would enjoy a good laugh so close to election day.

Mitt Romney's female lieutenant governor: Hours with ‘binders’ - Katie Glueck - POLITICO.com

Mitt Romney's female lieutenant governor: Hours with ‘binders’ - Katie Glueck - POLITICO.com

All joking aside, check out the story behind all the binder story.

Politics - the Master Art

Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what is right? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is, and of which of the sciences or capacities it is the object. It would seem to belong to the most authoritative art and that which is most truly the master art. And politics appears to be of this nature; for it is this that ordains which of the sciences should be studied in a state, and which each class of citizens should learn and up to what point they should learn them; and we see even the most highly esteemed of capacities to fall under this, e.g. strategy, economics, rhetoric; now, since politics uses the rest of the sciences, and since, again, it legislates as to what we are to do and what we are to abstain from, the end of this science must include those of the others, so that this end must be the good for man. For even if the end is the same for a single man and for a state, that of the state seems at all events something greater and more complete whether to attain or to preserve; though it is worth while to attain the end merely for one man, it is finer and more godlike to attain it for a nation or for city-states. These, then, are the ends at which our inquiry aims, since it is political science, in one sense of that term. - Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics ca 350BCE

Another Large Co. May Shrink or Close Due to ObamaCare, Higher Taxes

Another Large Co. May Shrink or Close Due to ObamaCare, Higher Taxes

This goes exactly with what my husband, a small business owner, was recently ranting about on Facebook. Except we aren't lucky enough to throw in the towel and retire in style. Most of us will just be screwed.

Bye Facebook

Facebook is a double edged sword, so after much contemplation I realized that facebook greatly wastes my time and interferes with my inner peace. So I have said PEACE OUT! to Facebook. I didn't realize though that people would assume that meant I was somehow keeping my mouth shut all of a sudden. YEAH RIGHT! Anyways. I plan to set aside 30 minutes a day to blog. Check it out here. :)

Liberty and Peace!!