What are we missing that may be right in front of us, right in front of our eyes, present front and center to our ears?
Dear young President Obama has fallen onto a list so low in my esteem that near only George Stephanopoulus so resides.
There are some words I try to avoid, especially when earned. I had to turn off President Obama’s press conference today just half way through.
Did he just arrive on our planet? Such would explain his limited conceptual around political "inheritance".
Should we talk about "inheritances" outside his blame Bush… - take from the uber-rich… - that tends to belong more to states and local government taxation arms?
How did he come today to talk about American - Islam relations so as if Kuwait invasion and Desert Storm never happened and like with him the first president to ever administer to help Muslims? What ever happened to the positive images of Bush "friendship" with Saudi royal family members and with air of friendship, much Muslim?
Well, this is a blog after all and I am still of wondering on my 60 mile bike ride yesterday and if it actually is now the bicyle ride of - most hills climbed in a day - since back in 1984 ride from New Haven to Berkshires with full panniers, then the second year so touring such route. I didn’t look before I took off to ride into Stratford and then up through Trumbull and Stepney and Monroe to Newtown and then south along the Housitonic through Oxford and Derby back then to Milford. I didn’t think I had picked a route to heights of 700+ feet above my residence near sea level but then I did set out to look at a hill someone said was at least two miles long and so from routing to finding its peak from the other side. Such riding doesn’t "stimulate" the economy much for I stayed off my touring bike enough years since 1982 purchase for it still to be paying for itself and now with parts from atleast twelve different part stores. I would need a new bike and its current "marketing" support to be out stimulating the economy. I do hope your bikes are still holding up. I do my own maintenance, you?
Well, that said: Now back to Obama and "inheritances" on this the eve of his day declaring "a wonderful opportunity for…" him to talk about Islam - American relations as if he just landed on our planet and is the first president to ever brave such he seems to be quite dramatic about: So tomorrow is the day better than any that reminds us what the "inheritance" the Clintons left President Bush was/is.
Buttercup’s Ark??? Surely "don’t ask, don’t tell" controversy rests necessarily upon its own keel? What is the name, best, for an ark where room for only one of each sex in each species isn’t the issue?
Yes this is a blog and with a sole blogger who turns any channel near immediately upon noticing a broadcast including George Stephanopoulus - for I still think that no one is getting enough of any story from him and maybe less useful "historical relevance."
So Noah didn’t have room or luxury to address other than survival of species. So the story goes, right? Surely others built their own maybe "Buttercup’s Ark" just to see to living another day, and being a proud generation, right? Was there really only one ark during the flood?
Maybe it was President Obama’s avoiding that whole "9/11 is the inheritance the Clintons left President Bush" more than that claiming around the whole "Spain’s green stats" that his economics were about like doing all he can to grow the economy and create jobs. But? But? But, Mr. President you do remember that when you started towards "green economy" it was clear that such approach, even less ambitious by Spain, did lead to at least two jobs lost for every "green job" created?
How do "front-line" deciders get past the "don’t ask - don’t tell" issues around survival of the species and next gens that force tasking around who takes point may effect?
Hello again! Before the copper wedding anniversary of my friends, we also had something to celebrate :) A few days before our trip to NL, the bf and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary!! OMG I can't believe it, definitely a very long time :)
With all the planning for both the NL trips and our medieval summer, I didn't have a lot of time (or energy) to arrange much for this, but the bf came through with flying colours :)
As we're getting more and more disappointed with the service in restaurants, we decided to stay in and celebrate at home. I stayed up late the previous night to cook goulash for dinner (no pics as it's really not a very photogenic dish), and we organised some nice starters. Yes, the usual cheapo caviar was also included :)
The bf had organised dessert in the shape of this wonderful mushroom cake. Not entirely sure if this is related to the Smurf movie we watc…
Hi again everyone! At the moment 'my busy craft life' is more like 'my busy organising life' so I'm not having too much time to craft. I'm trying my hardest to change that and now that two weeks of major events have successfully passed, I actually have time for that again! And time to blog also :) Of course there will be a few posts showing you what I've been up to, I'm sure you're going to enjoy them as it may not be crafty but it's still inspirational and so much fun :)
First of all, my lovely hat has been worn only once in public for the football EU Cup. Unfortunately, the Dutch is no more in this cup and the hat has been put safely away for future games or Dutch days. Shame really as I love how it came out, but it wasn't meant to be.
One of the major events happening was my friends' Victorian copper wedding celebration. In Holland, 12.5 years of marriage is copper and quite a milestone, so they decided to celebrate this in style wi…
Hi everyone! I just seems to be getting busier and busier... and strangely enough not with crafting! This whole loving London is backfiring a little bit hihi! Nah just kidding, am exhausted yes but also enjoying myself and that's always good :)
It's that time again, the orange feeling has bubbled up and the football is on. Not that am a great fan, but as you may know I do follow the Dutch matches for the cups. For Queen's Day I asked my best friend to send me over this cute little Dutch hat that I saw in the shop over there online and she was a total sweetheart and actually got it for me and sent it over :) Sadly when it arrived it turned out to be a bit big and in need of some serious restyling and I just didn't have a chance (or a clue on how) to proceed. But then Euro 2012 started and I insisted on wearing the hat for that so on Saturday I got up really early, defrosted my freezer which was also in serious need of doing, and finally worked on the hat. Check it out…
Hello again everyone! My my what a busy couple of days! Well, ok I did spend ALL of yesterday on the sofa watching telly and in the evening the Jubilee concert. Who knew that you could just show up and enjoy the concert from very far away and have a great time? Or that you could register to have a chance of free tickets to attend? Sadly enough, not me. So the sofa was my last chance to see it and I got all teared up when Prince Charles made his speech about the Queen making everyone proud to be British (in my case to live in GB), though I did had to giggle when he called her Mummy on national tv :)
So this morning I really wanted to be part of the final day of the celebrations. My plans for a British baking day went out the door and as my friend sadly cancelled any street party plans, off I went into town to join the masses to see the Queen in her procession. Right on schedule, I arrived at Charing Cross at 1pm (yes I realise not exactly early). As was to be expected, millions of peo…
Good morning everyone! First good news of the day: I fixed the blog and it should load normally now :) It was the counter that seemed to mess everything up and cause the blog to take forever to load... But all should be fixed now.
I was going to blog about our lovely pirate adventure yesterday but I was just too tired to be honest as it was an extremely busy day. Yes, we went to the Diamond Jubilee Flotilla! And it was so much fun :)
As you may know, every year we have a PirateCon where we all dress as pirates and just have a good time. This year is just happened to coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. On Sunday (that's yesterday) there was a huge flotilla in honour of her Majesty where they had arranged for 1000 boats to sail down the river Thames after being inspired by a painting of lots of boats on the Thames during Henry VIII's reign. I found the picture! I couldn't find it this afternoon, but if you click here then you'll what inspired the…
Reader’s Digest conducted a study to determine the most and least honest cities in the world. The test was simple: researchers dropped a dozen wallets in 16 different cities and watched to see if the people who picked them up kept them or turned them in to an official. Each wallet contained the equivalent of $50, along with pictures and contact information.
Helsinki, Finland can now add most honest city to its tourism brochures because that city led the way, with 11 of the 12 wallets returned. Lisbon, Portugal, meanwhile, brought up the rear – only one wallet was returned.
Out of 192 total wallets dropped, slightly under half were turned in, while men and women were equally likely to keep or hand back the wallets.