Happy Birthday
Hope you have a good day off September 3rd!
Quien es este hombre?
This is a presentation that I wrote for the beginning Spanish class I am taking. I am not sure how this sounds to the Latino ear, but I suspect like a fifth grader’s report. I’m just now learning to use past tenses. I’ve discovered that Spanish has at least two past tenses while in English, if it is past it is past.
Yo tengo mucho interés en este personaje histórico, porque su hermana, Hanna, es mi abuela hace seis generaciones.
Él tiene tumbas de los estados de Missouri y Kentucky, y ambos de los estados afirmaran que está enterrado allí.
Él nació en 1734 (mil setecientos treinta y cuatro) en el condado de Berks de la colonia de Pensilvana. Sus padres eran cuáqueros. Una de sus hijas se casó con un hombre que no estuvo cuáqueros. Porque del matrimonio fue una controversia en la comunidad de cuáqueros. Se desilusionó con la religión. Él paró a ir a la iglesia. Sin embargo consideraba sí mismo un cristiano todavía y bautizó a todos sus hijos.
Él había poca educación formal. Continue reading “Quien es este hombre?”
The Raping of America
Now That’s Rich – New York Times op-ed piece by Paul Krugman
From the article:
“We need to pinch pennies these days. Don’t you know we have a budget deficit? For months that has been the word from Republicans and conservative Democrats, who have rejected every suggestion that we do more to avoid deep cuts in public services and help the ailing economy.
But these same politicians are eager to cut checks averaging $3 million Continue reading “The Raping of America”
Does Ice Cream Cause Breast Cancer?
Is Your Favorite Ice Cream Made With Monsanto’s Artificial Hormones? – Huffington Post Article
Why my title? It is a quick synopsis of the article by John Robbins in Huffington Posts. Basically rBGH, artificial growth hormone that is so prevalent in our milk supply was developed, pushed through FDA approval, and promoted by Monsanto Chemicals. One of the effects in cows of rBGH is increased IGF-1 in their milk. Monsanto’s own research showed Continue reading “Does Ice Cream Cause Breast Cancer?”
Did Ya Hear…
Rosemary was two-thyming Basil? Many folks were wondering how sage this was.
High Cost of Cheap Eggs
Lessons From the Egg Recall: Cheap Food Makes You Sick – Huffington Post Article
I moved to cage free and preferably free range eggs a while back. I’ve given up mayonnaise because the eggs in it come from such places. While the eggs are pasteurized it would be an economic vote for such places as the Iowa factory farms producing the tainted eggs to buy such a product.
And eggs are not the only cheap food that has a high cost. Just about all the meat (chicken, turkey, beef, and pork) in the supermarkets of this country comes from industrialized farms. It has been well documented why these are not good places, and definitely not good places to get the food that nourishes your body. As much as I love a good steak, I cannot in good conscience eat one anymore.
This is a capitalistic society. Dollars are economic votes. Is seemingly cheap more important than the environment, the workers in such places, the animals welfare, or if self interest motivates, your health? Is it really ethical to sustain such places with your continued participation by buying their product? Unfortunately, for so many of these corporate operations, the bottom line is what matters. It should be different, but they only change when they see their bottom lines headed the wrong way.
How are you voting?
Sexy Defined
Another story for the grandkids…about grandkids.
When my son was around 3 or so we were all at my mother’s house for dinner. My mother is very strict about manners and all the grandkids knew that unquestionably. They all tried their darnedest (at least at that point in their young lives) to avoid a run in with Grandma about manners. My son burps, and we all look at him expecting an “excuse me”. He looks back at us and says, “It was the burp bird in my pocket.” What you do after that?
We did not know it then, but that incidence was a good foreshadowing of my son’s future personality.
Fast forward 30 some odd years, Continue reading “Sexy Defined”
Oui, Oui
This is for the grandkids…
When my son was but a wee laddie, say around 4 or 5 I told him the following joke:
An American was driving in France. He sees a pretty, young French woman walking besides the road. He stops besides her, opens the passenger door and asks her Continue reading “Oui, Oui”
Rev. Joe stumbles
I am not religious. I do not even consider myself spiritual. I made the last comment a while back and I had a couple folks arguing with me as they thought I was very spiritual. One problem with the word spiritual is that it has an old school dictionary definition, and common usage that is of a more new age derivative. The dictionary definition, to me, is not that much different than the dictionary definition for religious . Spiritual in this context seems to imply a less structured version of religious. I have trouble getting my head around the new age definition. It is very much like E=mc2. I understand the parts, but the whole is another matter.
My goal is to live an ethical and a genuine life. However, most of the time I fail miserably at these tasks. Continue reading “Rev. Joe stumbles”
A Big Grin
My short (5’ 3”) and short legged girlfriend was so tickled. I’ve lost enough weight that she can wrap her legs around my waist and cross them at the ankles…