tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20044600926147714322011-12-24T19:55:25.076-08:00Free Range Grannieswriting about the state we're inKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.comBlogger551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-36323882688023466762011-12-24T19:55:00.000-08:002011-12-24T19:55:25.091-08:0010,000 Egyptian Women Tell SCAF to Suck ItImages of Egyptian soldiers savagely beating unarmed female demonstrators has enraged women globally. One widely disseminated video of a young woman who was half stripped and stomped on by soldiers on Dec. 17 (dubbed "blue bra woman") inspired 10,000 women in Cairo to march against military rule which has virtually excluded women in post-Mubarak Egypt.
The attacks against these revolutionaries Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-32625129007536997242010-07-11T08:05:00.000-07:002010-07-11T08:11:21.109-07:00Growing old is nothing more than winning the gene poolby Randy GrannyThere’s nothing laudable about growing old. It doesn’t deserve a round of applause or audience approval. It really doesn’t deserve any acknowledgement, because it‘s nothing you strived for or worked hard for, such as finding a cure for all deadly diseases; bringing about world peace; becoming a world-famous actor; becoming Father-of-the-Year, President of the United States, a greatSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-81676661429642917442009-09-08T03:56:00.000-07:002009-09-08T04:01:06.061-07:00Grouchy Granny Makes Bomb Threat at Grandkids’ Schoolby Sandy SandMost grannies will do what it takes to visit the grandkids, be it hopping on a train, plane or bus, or even making a phone call, but not this kind of call: A bomb treat to the kids school. Velma Gladys Brewster, 51, of San Antonio, Texas, was booked on charges of making a terrorist threat to Windcrest Elementary School in northeastern San Antonio. She is free on bail.After receiving Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-85820205768234895982009-08-15T07:49:00.000-07:002009-08-15T08:00:29.275-07:00The Death of Death PanelsIt’s usually hard to kill of something that doesn’t exist.There may not be any death panels, but the rumor that there are such panels just won’t lie down and die no matter how many people from the president on down say it “just isn’t so.”It’s like trying to stop any rumor, like Elvis lives, which then becomes urban legend, which too many people believe.If there really were death panels, I be the Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-41852362481201795092009-07-28T09:44:00.000-07:002009-07-28T09:49:43.825-07:00Italian Nobel scientist is going strong at 100The Nobel Prize-winning Italian scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini celebrated her 100th birthday this spring.Sandy Sand wrote a tribute article: "At 100, Levi-Montalcini said her mind is sharper now than it was when she was 20.Her experiments led to identification of the growth factor of neuronal cells (nerve growth factor, also known as NGF) for which she and American Stanley Cohen shared the Nobel Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-55034432597615753412009-01-07T07:36:00.000-08:002009-01-07T07:42:18.917-08:00Actress Patty Duke Tells Boomers if She Can Learn to Apply for Social Security Online, So Can Theyby Sandy SandBoomers aren’t the only ones who are terrified of these new-fangled computer contraptions.I was nowhere near “boomerage” when I was forced to learn how to compute for my newspaper job.I stalled kicking, screaming, wailing, moaning and flailing my arms right up to the last class my company offered and I no choice, but to attend.Without a wink of sleep the night before, I tip-toed intoSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-38218607693512667882009-01-05T07:07:00.000-08:002009-01-05T07:10:59.573-08:00Come One, Come All. Get Your New People Partsby Sandy SandFor more than forty years physicians have been replacing worn out knee and hip joints.Internal organs are replaced even though they are riddled with rejection problems.External flaws, the ravages of aging and excess fat have people lining up at the body sculptors’ workshops.According to CNNhttp://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2009/01/03/connery.uk.bionic.knuckles.cnn scientists haveSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-76971013656080181532008-12-31T05:49:00.000-08:002008-12-31T05:51:40.896-08:00California Astronomer to Leap Into 2009 at 3:59:60 p.m. PSTby Sandy SandThis might be the last time to celebrate the adjustment of atomic clocks if scientists, who think it’s a waste of time get their way.The quiet high desert town of Valencia in Southern California won’t be so quiet around the home of Skip Newhall this afternoon.Seventy-year-old retired astronomer Newhall plans to celebrate with a number of friends to equal his age when the clock Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-48886802740529193902008-12-24T04:53:00.000-08:002008-12-24T04:56:55.619-08:00Bad Economy Trickles Up; Good Economy Does Not Trickle Downby Sandy SandAaaaaw. Isn’t that just too bad. Even the wealthiest are tightening their belts.Welcome to the real world.According to SpendingPulse, luxury sales dropped nearly 35 percent at the beginning of December as compared to the same week last year, and were also down 23 percent for the five previous weeks.High-end stores and the manufacturers of the brands they carry are feeling the pinch, Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-35368125175849964512008-12-22T07:28:00.000-08:002008-12-22T07:30:57.970-08:00One Potato, Two Potato. 100 Potatoes to Cook Up Super-sized Chanukah Latkeby Sandy SandOnly in Southern California. A beach town Jewish congregation creates a super-sized potato pancake to make McDonald’s proud.Southern Californians like to pride themselves in being innovators and concocting new ideas that the country soon follows.Members of Temple Isaiah in Newport Beach combined a green Chanukah with the traditional blue and white celebration making it into a light Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-47139432019073583522008-12-20T03:41:00.000-08:002008-12-20T03:44:25.887-08:00Cook’s 5,111 Nights Offby Sandy SandPoor baby, Laura forgot how to cook.No one forgets how to cook, it’s worse than and more engrained than bike riding, which no one forgets how to do either.If Laura Bush has forgotten how to cook, as she told Fox News in a recent interview, she better reach of the bottle of Arecept.The plastic-faced wonder with the permanently tattooed smile that never changes, also told Fox that Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-81801129511895013142008-12-17T05:31:00.000-08:002008-12-17T05:39:43.346-08:00No Double Life For This Young Womanby Sandy SandThere’s a fascinating profile in today’s Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-muslimgay17-2008dec17,0,1438523.story about a young woman of Indian descent, who is no longer living the double life of denying her gayness to her devout Muslim family.Aliyah Bacchus, 22, a transplant from Guyana, is an exotic looking young woman living in New York City whoSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-31345335064454818362008-12-16T10:55:00.000-08:002008-12-16T10:58:00.507-08:00Fed to Lower Interest Rate to Minus 0.50 Percentby Sandy SandIt’s a topsy-turvy world.The Fed began a two-day meeting yesterday to discuss the economic crunch and came up with a solution to stimulate the economy. “Our economy is like a dying patient,” said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, “so we’re going to try drastic experimental surgery to see if we can save its life.”Interest rates dropped to an all-time low of one-percent during theSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-11851644925529606892008-12-14T06:08:00.000-08:002008-12-14T06:11:16.943-08:00The Day the Music Diedby Sandy SandIf not died, at least silenced a bit.Even music has fallen victim to a crumbling economy. Work holiday parties, too, but maybe that's a good thing.But this is about entertainment, and heaven knows that during tough times we need a little excapism.= = = = =Santa Clarita, California -- Due to slow ticket sales and limited fundraising, the Santa Clarita Symphony was forced to cancel itsSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-20071179122179175472008-12-14T05:56:00.000-08:002008-12-14T05:59:28.582-08:00In Retrospect, My Job From Hell Was Funnyby Sandy SandWhen I look back on one of my jobs from hell, I can laugh about it.It’s amazing how time can alter one’s perception of things.All I could find was an awful boring part time job to take while looking for a real job. I had construction experience and went to work for a general contractor, who was in the middle of an acrimonious divorce from his wife of thirty or more years.She wasn’t Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-63068163248785980362008-12-07T10:32:00.000-08:002008-12-07T10:35:18.125-08:00African-America women and AIDS. We must change this.by Kathlyn StoneHIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death for African-American women between the ages of 25 and 44.Take a moment and let that sink in.During the ages when the more fortunate among us are starting, then advancing in our careers, and frequently balancing work and families, a generation of American women are getting sick and dying from a preventable disease.In her article, "This era of Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-46050956787612030522008-12-07T10:30:00.000-08:002008-12-07T10:32:38.997-08:00This era of black women and HIV/AIDS - Rev. Irene MonroeDecember 1st was World AIDS Day and Black women are dying of AIDS. And is anyone doing anything about it?Right here in the nation’s capitol, the HIV/AIDS epidemic rivals that of many Third World countries. Washington D.C., affectionately dubbed as “Chocolate City,” is approximately 60 percent people of African descent. And of its residents, one in 20 is thought to have HIV, one in 50, AIDS. Of Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-64573008229484328162008-11-27T06:59:00.000-08:002008-11-27T07:14:44.398-08:00Another Silly Study. If Only I Remember What It Was Aboutby Sandy SandOkay. I do remember. I was being as silly as the study.Where do they come up with these nonsensical studies and who are the fools who pay for them? And why do newspaper editors allow their lazy reporters to get away with blindly rewriting press releases with no thought to the efficacy of the study, who paid for it or the study's conclusions?I read this study with my usual skepticism Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-77130670102426913292008-11-26T06:17:00.000-08:002008-11-26T06:21:39.207-08:00Woman Who Kept Slinky Alive Died at 90by Sandy SandWho can forget?Ev'ryone knows it's SlinkyIt's Slinky,it's SlinkyFor fun, it's a wonderful toy.It's fun for a girl and a boy.Betty James, who named the Slinky toy and rescued it from falling into oblivion after her husband abandoned his toy company, died at age 90.Her determination to save the company and the toy paid off with Slinky becoming a household word.It didn’t hurt either Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-3521067174232675732008-11-21T05:49:00.000-08:002008-11-21T05:58:52.240-08:00Speculation Runs Rampant on the Future Who’s Whos in the Obama Administrationby Sandy SandVegas odds makers are probably in on the spek-a-latin’ act, too. Maybe we should check them out; they were correct in calling Obama’s election.Before we go all nutzy over the new same old faces in the Barack Obama administration, and some of his rumored picks don’t thrill me either, we should always keep in mind that those who have served in previous administrations, or are currentlySandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-89145181333405267372008-11-09T08:59:00.000-08:002008-11-09T09:03:27.425-08:00Credit Crunch: Bringing Back an Old-fashioned Christmasby Sandy SandMerchant greed may be out, consumer sanity and the real meaning of Christmas in.For years I’ve been bitching about merchant greed, especially during the holidays.It’s not that I want merchants to go bankrupt, it’s that I want to see some sanity restored to the holiday shopping season. They're going to have to learn to tighten their belts and get along with less, just as we have Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-75264541775794584752008-11-04T09:00:00.000-08:002008-11-04T09:03:59.856-08:00Actual Weather in Southern California on Bellwether Election Dayby Sandy SandWhat never happens is happening in Los Angeles and environs; it’s raining on election day in sunny Southern California. Never happens. But it is and it’s an historic weather event on this bellwether election day.Rumors started by local morning KABC radio guy, Doug McIntyre, are flooding the internet that Karl Rove was seen flying over the area seeding clouds.Why would Rove do such a Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-15850144578351314532008-11-02T05:37:00.000-08:002008-11-02T05:40:37.882-08:00Voter Apathy Equals Election Board Apathy, Long Linesby Sandy SandChanges are needed in how we conduct all elections.This headline in today’s Los Angeles Daily News, combined with pervasive voter apathy might reveal the answer [or part of the answer] to long lines at polling stations: Experts Concerned System May be Overwhelmed by Big Voter Turnout.I’ve been stunned every time I see excruciatingly long lines at polling places across the country on Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-43700720524978515902008-10-30T06:47:00.000-07:002008-10-30T06:51:38.434-07:00DST: Springing Forward, Falling Back is Bad/Good For Our Healthby Sandy SandBeing a devout hater of Daylight Savings Time, I always knew DST is bad for one’s health and psyche, and a study by Swedish researchers proves it.Daylight Savings Time turns our body clocks inside out and backwards.According to the Associated Press, the findings, which are reported in today’s New England Journal of Medicine, Swedish scientists discovered the following after reviewingSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-30055292033364504222008-10-27T05:25:00.000-07:002008-10-27T05:27:45.126-07:00Single Digits Narrow Obama/McCain Raceby Sandy SandElection day is almost here.The race between presidential candidates Barack “Change” Obama and John “More of the Same” McCain is eight days from now and counting…These are the only single digits I want to see separate these two candidates.The election cannot come soon enough.Or as Obama said, “ENOUGH!”Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-17487924153601127142008-10-26T08:11:00.000-07:002008-10-26T08:14:05.840-07:00Sarah Palin is Going Off the McCain Reservation and Staking Out Her Own Territoryby Sandy SandThe first hints of Sarah Palin separating herself from John McCain came last week from Rachael Maddow and Keith Olbermann; now it’s all over the Web.As I write, it’s the first topic on Howard Kurtz’ Reliable Sources on CNN.But the most prophetic analysis of Palin’s inner self came from the woman who beat her out in the Miss Alaska pageant 24 years ago, Maryline Blackburn.If you havenSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-72948834293318448222008-10-24T03:52:00.000-07:002008-10-24T03:54:06.988-07:00Hallowe'en Masks Pick the Presidentby Sandy SandAnd the winner is…..….. Barack Obama!I wouldn’t take it to the bank, but pre-presidential election sales of Hallowe’en masks have been accurate predictors of who will be our next president.Tracking of sales by Amazon.com showed that Barack Obama masks are outselling John McCain masks by a margin of eight percent; 54 percent to 46 percent, which more or less reflects the national Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-64395337776683974372008-10-22T05:53:00.000-07:002008-10-22T06:01:20.417-07:00Free Range Grannies Own Sandy Sand is Running For President. Must be True, I Got the Emailby Sandy SandSandy for President!I got the funniest, if not the most important email of my life yesterday, informing me that I’m a presidential candidate.Wow! How good does that get? And I haven’t done a thing or raised one deflated penny.Once informed of my party-of-one candidacy, I immediately went into platform-forming mode.Sandy's First Fiat: All health insurance companies will be outlawed Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-79928713504862978582008-10-21T06:21:00.000-07:002008-10-21T06:29:18.180-07:00John McCain is the New Monster Frightening Our Kids to Deathby Sandy SandJohn McCain is the new bogeyman, ghost, vampire and worst kind of monster rolled into one, who's scaring our kids.Now we know that McCain truly hates children.It wasn’t bad enough that he voted against the S-Chip, which provides health care for children, but now if they don’t die from a preventable disease, his robocalls accusing Barack Obama of being a terrorist will scare them to Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-32714406968973161622008-10-17T05:46:00.001-07:002008-10-17T05:47:56.986-07:00FOX to Delay World Series Game 6 Due to Hurricane Barackby Sandy SandProving that money speaks louder than ideology, the Fox Network has asked for and received permission from Major League Baseball to delay game six of the World Series by 15 minutes.That is…if there is a game six.The Obama campaign has made a major television buy on all the networks on October 29th to air a half-hour special.Sports events are never pre-empted except in the case of a Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-82172572527631191332008-10-14T11:59:00.000-07:002008-10-14T12:06:31.385-07:00Any Sane Granny Will Say This is Quote by John McCain is Insaneby Sandy SandBehind by six: McCain said he “Has ’em where he wants ’em.”What’d he say? Talk about needing some mental health care.Calling Dr. Phil!It might take one assh**e to cure another.Quote of the young century by John McCain:We’re down by six points. We've got 'em where we want 'em!How many other things can we apply to McCain's losing illogic of “we've got 'em where we want 'em?* The Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-61969499470132125592008-10-12T06:23:00.000-07:002008-10-12T06:31:09.897-07:00Progressive Grannies Should be so ProudSEE/HEAR UNCAMOUFLAGED BOOING LINKED BELOWExcept it doesn't work and I have no idea why, and being technically computer illiterate, I can't make it work. So to see the video, which is well worth viewing, go to steveyoungonpolitcs.com.SJSBy Steve YoungPhiladelphia Flyers owner and major Republican donor, Ed Snider piped in the loudest music he could, but it couldn't camouflage the Philly boos Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-15632038782858666882008-10-10T12:35:00.000-07:002008-10-10T12:41:01.159-07:00For All You Hockey Grannies Out ThereThe Stupidest Political Move in History - Palin To Drop Puck At Philadelphia Flyers Openerby Steve YoungGiven enough room, Kate Smith has to be turning over in her grave.In what has to be the most brainless moves in political and sports history - other than Texas Ranger managing partner, George Bush trading Sammy Sosa to the White Sox for Harold Baines - National Hockey League Philadelphia FlyersSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-57567349514510963872008-10-09T03:50:00.000-07:002008-10-09T03:53:31.679-07:00Sarah Palin to Return Tainted Contributions, Sort Of…by Sandy SandRepublican V.P. candidate Sarah Palin, who professes to be unscrupulously clean and above it all when it comes to political corruption, has decided to return $2,030 contributed to her 2006 gubernatorial campaign by allegedly corrupt Alaskan politicians.Give the money back? Not exactly. She giving it to an as yet unnamed charity.How convenient. Odds on that Palin, who says she holds Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-26232892954278804442008-10-03T06:11:00.000-07:002008-10-03T06:25:14.544-07:00The Perkiness Factor: Why Joe Biden Lost the Debateby Sandy SandThis piece by Steve Young is such dead-on satire that after reading it twice, I still don't whether to laugh or cry.The Perkiness Factor: Why Joe Biden Lost the DebateIf you’re gonna run a town, it’s better to be perky than smart.” Mayberry Sheriff Andy Taylor*I know the liberal mainstream media will try to spin the vice presidential debate as a win for Joe Biden, but that’s becauseSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-90327231667287515782008-10-02T09:26:00.000-07:002008-10-02T09:31:43.434-07:00Food For Thought: What to Cook Up For Tonight's Veep Debate Partyby Sandy Sand What to whip up to satisfy our need for nourishing our bodies, while nibbling on something to quench our thirst for knowledge at our debate watching party?Come to think of it, why aren’t all the newspaper food sections filled with debate recipes like they are for Thanksgiving or the Super Bowl?I know. Combine them.First, we’re thankful that kickoff for the debate is almost here; andSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-56046239385325753042008-09-29T04:54:00.000-07:002008-09-29T04:58:07.695-07:00McCain Blinked. The Debate Happened. He Placed His Bet and Lostby Sandy SandMcCain’s his name; craps his game. By his own admission John McCain likes to gamble, and now the gambler wants to be President; McCain thinks the presidency is a crap shoot.When asked if he’ll be at the debate Friday night, he said he’s betting that there will be enough of a bailout bill together to allow him to debate.There wasn’t and he welsh on his bet and showed up to debate Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-85819227497798735292008-09-26T11:16:00.000-07:002008-09-26T11:19:45.527-07:00Ma Barker is Looking Up and Smiling at Long Beach Momby Sandy SandLong Beach gangster’s mom rivals Ma Barker for Mother-of-the-Year AwardEva Daley. What a mother! You gotta luv her. Not!She really loves her son. She will stop at nothing to give her son, Mauricio "Smiley" Rivera, everything in life he needs.Everything in life he needs for financial security, food on the table everyday, a roof over his head, and a lifetime supply of friends who will Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-72466490664544516442008-09-24T05:02:00.000-07:002008-09-24T05:05:51.756-07:00Being a Mom: Dumbest Qualifier to be a World/Political Leaderby Sandy SandYou cannot make up this crap.Quote. Los Angles Times, Sept. 24:Standing outside the Midtown hotel where (Sarah) Palin was meeting with (Hamid) Karzai, Tamara Sverdlov, a business analyst, said the vice presidential nominee's experience as a mother of five probably made up for her lack of foreign policy chops."If she can manage five kids, she can run the politics of the world," said Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-8334317032212598282008-09-19T05:31:00.000-07:002008-09-19T05:37:02.461-07:00Punxsutawney Bush Sees Shadow. Experts Predict At Least Six More Weeks Of Hellby Steve YoungPicture this: President Bush being held up by VP Dick Cheney in The Rose Garden.President Bush, who has been hibernating over the past months -- either to keep from ruining John McCain’s presidential chances or so that he won’t royally botch up something else -- emerged from the White House yesterday to comment on the broken economy announcing that “The American people can be sure Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-31593229777140319782008-09-17T03:42:00.000-07:002008-09-17T03:45:38.205-07:00Where’s the National Guard When We Need Them?by Sandy SandThey’re not under Bush’s desk. They’re not behind his desk chair. They’re not behind the drapes. They’re in Iraq!Metaphorically, we might say the National Guard units have been swept under the rug in the Oval Office, and rolled up for a magic carpet ride all the way to Baghdad where they’ve languished, died and been turned into desert dust.While thousands of National Guardists, on Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-34902930865817269152008-09-17T02:20:00.000-07:002008-09-17T02:23:39.359-07:00In Los Angeles It’s All About the Mayor. What About Your City?by Sandy Sand=====================In Los Angeles It’s All About the Mayor. What About Your City?Is your city suffering from mayoral egotism that’s destroying your city?Three years ago the idiot electorate of Los Angeles voted for Antonio Villaraigosa, an egomaniac who used every public office to step up to the next one as he was term-limited out of each office.Villaraigosa makes wild promises andSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-6295808258056510792008-09-07T17:30:00.000-07:002008-09-07T17:32:56.280-07:00Barack Can Attack Sarah on the Issues and Not be Called Sexistby Sandy SandIf Barack Obama can go after Sarah Palin on the issues, then Joe Biden shouldn’t have any problem facing her down in the one and only, one-on-one vice presidential debate.Speaking to a crowd of about 800 people yesterday at Wabash Valley Fairgrounds in Terre Haute, Ind., Obama ripped John McCain and Palin for calling themselves ‘agents of change.’When McCain says ‘change,’ the only Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-14815695346379910522008-09-06T05:38:00.000-07:002008-09-06T05:47:17.336-07:00Elder Abuse Isn’t Only Physical. It’s Financial, TooThis is a story from the Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008, Los Angeles Daily News by Susan Abram. http://origin.dailynews.com/ci_10394250It’s horrifying to think the are people with no conscience who are ‘snatch and grab’ thieves who prey on the defenseless aging population, from which there is very little protection.They are in the same class of heartless sub-humans who swipe wheelchairs from the Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-45896994740530154392008-09-05T07:20:00.000-07:002008-09-05T07:25:32.865-07:00Hospitals are Using Scare and Loss-leader TacticsBy Sandy SandBusinesses, especially super markets, are famous for using loss-leaders to draw us into the store to get a bargain or two, knowing that we’ll buy enough stuff to more than make up for what they lost on selling a few cases of mayo or canned beans at a slight loss.Now hospitals in the Los Angeles area are doing the same thing, only they’re adding scare tactics to the loss-leader Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-77983641973920817942008-09-03T17:39:00.000-07:002008-09-03T19:10:56.939-07:00Maureen Dowd's storyboard for "The Sarah Palin Story"Dowd makes me laugh even when it hurts. Read her column "Vice in Go-Go Boots?" and dream about the possibilities.Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-43700913874294666342008-09-02T06:37:00.000-07:002008-09-02T06:43:11.998-07:00Criticize the Mother, Not the Daughterby Sandy SandWhile Bristol Palin must take responsibility for her actions just as we all must, don’t get me wrong from a piece I wrote yesterday http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=8962, which some interpreted as a condemnation of Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old pregnant, out-of-wedlock daughter.The converse is true. I have utter contempt for her mother and her skewed family values that Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-84153931560650291662008-09-01T05:28:00.000-07:002008-09-01T05:31:28.305-07:00Tropical Storm Gustav Agrees To Fill In For President Bushby Steve YoungIn what is being called a brilliant move by most political pundits and Al Roker, Tropical Storm Gustav has promised to fill in for both President Bush and Vice President Cheney at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis today.“We had a last minute choice to make. Bush or Gustav,” said Republican National Committee Chairman Robert M. “Mike” Duncan. “We went with the less Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-9700133094558447932008-08-31T06:00:00.000-07:002008-08-31T06:06:37.985-07:00When Your Number’s Up, It’s Up, But What a Way to Goby Sandy SandIf I were younger and not approaching codgerhood, I probably couldn’t say this, but I know I’d think it.Our ultimate demise is as sure as the moon rise, and any of us can leave this world at any time by having a bland, old, unnoticed heart attack that will only get an honorable mention in the newspaper if a family member bothers to pop for an obituary.Not so for Eugene Caldwell, 78, Sandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-15172337822923484162008-08-29T21:24:00.000-07:002008-08-29T23:16:30.708-07:00McCain's choice of Palin. Oops! (Yes, the cover is real. Alaska Magazine, February 2008)McCain's campaign team may think they have scored a coup with the selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the Republican nominee's running mate. Yes, it was a shocker and even those of us who vehemently oppose four more years of McSame, have to admit it was, on the surface, a brilliant move -- for someone who has no record to run on and no Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-76065944891257553202008-08-28T06:19:00.000-07:002008-08-28T06:23:12.234-07:00Hillary Supporters! What Part of “Supreme Court Life Term” Don’t You Not Understand?by Steve YoungSo your candidate lost.The one who would fight for the rights of women and minorities. The one who would never allow Roe vs Wade to be overturned. The one who would fight for the just due for our veterans who were forgotten by the President and the Republican legislators the second their service was done.The one who the talk radio Lords of Loud lambasted for years, and did so with Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-26447982905515652972008-08-25T14:24:00.000-07:002008-08-25T14:26:28.067-07:00White Paper Justifying Iraq War Written Three Months before Intel Report ArrivedWhite Paper Justifying Iraq War WrittenThree Months before Intel Report Arrived A war based on deception and fraud Worldpassion cc National Security Archive Stunner Michael Collins"Scoop" Independent NewsWashington, DC The National Security Archive released a report Friday Aug. 22, 2008 that sheds even more light on the premeditated lying and deception that took the United States to war in Michael Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01336853097045285513noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-65459337635062998682008-08-22T13:13:00.000-07:002008-08-22T13:19:13.992-07:00Bravo! Annie of Miami Got Her First Tattoo at 80by Sandy SandBravo for Annie of Miami. She knew what she wanted and she went for it.Crazy, that at age 80 Annie's wanted to get a tattoo? No. Her reasons were most practical, sensible and came as a total surprise to the tattoo artist, who must have heard it all.A petite, active, intelligent, witty, wise and forward-thinking senior, Annie said she wanted a "tasteful" 'A'" with pizzazz on her upperSandscriptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242515894454275961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-25175167036076176642008-08-22T12:31:00.000-07:002008-08-22T12:36:11.993-07:00Can you blame her for being angry?Harriet, age 26, is one of three bald eagles in permanent residence at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, MN. The eagle study and rehabilitation center is located along the banks of the Mississippi and the raptors’ migratory path. While recognizing their regal bearing, bald eagles have always seemed to me to have an angry or disapproving look about them.Harriet, who came to live at the Center Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004460092614771432.post-36929898107242620872008-08-22T10:21:00.000-07:002008-08-22T12:30:50.375-07:00P' off and not taking it anymoreWhat are the chances of this happening here?The Gulabi Gang of Uttar Pradesh in northern India have been taking matters into their own hands since 2006. Members of the gang, whose numbers range from 200 to a thousand, depending on your sources, wear pink (gulabi) saaris and carry sticks and other implements in an effort to protect their sisters from violence and occasionaly wreak revenge on male Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413075337171871021noreply@blogger.com0