Resolution 2008

Everyone needs a fight song and this does it for me! What's your fight song? What gets you pumped? When things suck or when they are so great - words fail you, that my friend is when you need a fight song. Citi posts a $10 BILLION loss, Bank of America is buying that great example of stellar underwriting principles- Countrywide- Fight song!
When your blood sugar is high and you haven't had a gram of sugar in days - you bloody need a fight song!
When you look in the mirror and you looook goood! You can hear your fight song playing- You KNOW what I am talking about !

So HAKA like a Maori, I do and laugh if you must, I sometimes HAKA naked !! HA!

I just cannot take myself seriously when things suck, because I have the simmer and implode gene. Unfortunately I have a deactivated explosion gene although many people actually think that they have seen me angry- phfff..f .

Anyhoo, I need a fight song for this year, because I aim to finish all of my BIG projects this year. Yes - all of them. This is when my mentor - a certain Ms. Bakker would interject with a "ahem, Dionne, did you say 'all' of your BIG projects?" and I would have to say- Yes.
I'm a shoot for the stars kind of girl, I dream big, I win big and I often fail big, HEY - but let me tell you about the wins! Yeah :-)
Happy 2008 People, Dream BIG, Rock out harder and even if you fall on you tushie you are guaranteed to bounce!!

Life is sooo funny!

This bit is so funny and I find that it reflects the annoying drama of our current 'run for the white house'. While I am no fan of Hilary Clinton, I am more than annoyed at the questions regarding her ability to "control her husband". When has it ever been a woman's job to control her husband. The fact that many of those asking the question are also chicks- really pomps my poodle. Sheesh. So it is not enough that a woman may have to take executive charge of the United States- she must also see to it that her husband a grown man is being controlled. What is even more shocking- is the fact that Madame Hillary has answered in the affirmative!! Yes apparently she can and she will control former President William Clinton. Surprisingly, no one has asked Senators Obama or McMcain if either man planned to control their wives. It is probably a question that we should pose to the men because as a wife and a chick - I know that I have often said some pretty outrageous things. Yes - things that if they left our bedroom would give my husband pause on any podium. Why? because I am human and I am a woman and it it my job to shake things up-Period. Now Michelle Obama is a really bright woman and she will probably say what's on her mind- but will that be a problem. Men are often treated with kid gloves, 'let us not worry their pretty little heads, they have man business to tend and to grow'
Women are required to do everything therefore even a tenure as chief executive of the world most hard working republic- she still needs to multi-task. Why did she not inquire of the reporter if such control exists in her own home. These are questions that people ask without concern for the realities that we mothers, wives and house chicks face. We are too busy controlling our own real estate that we would be hard pressed to control our husbands.
Marriage is a partnership, and often our husbands offer their opinions, if it is a good marriage we are never annoyed at the opinions. If one is charged with controlling an entire country - well- the more well presented opinions the better. But the idea that a woman in control of the United States would be so weak that her husband would just run roughshod over her presidency is remarkably stupid. The reporters and the news organizations that continue with these stupid questions reflect an America more stupid than the clods in Saudi Arabia.
Marriage is a partnership with the one you love, the presidency is a love affair with the American people- it's a partnership, and it it opinionated input that make partnerships great- well, at least in our house.

Just over a fortnight ago my Hubby had a man cold, with a fever and everything!!!! I felt so badly for him, I made him soup and tea and I was so in charge - HEEEE HEE he he heeee. He's better now.

Pregnant and missing. Marine Lauterbach is dead.

So what do you do when you tell your Mother that you were raped by a fellow Marine. In a world that cares for it's women and it's daughters, that mother would fight for justice and do everything to return her daughter's life to one that understood the word security.

This was not the world of Lance Cpl. Maria Frances Lauterbach. In her world, her 'mom' would tell investigators that she was "bipolar" and that she was a "compulsive liar". This would then prompt the brilliant, caring and local sheriff Ed Brown to make statements that implied ( at least to my ears) that she had done something and that she should just come home. Now she's dead! DEAD. MURDERED. I wonder what her helpful mother is saying. Perhaps she's not dead- perhaps her state is simply a compulsive lie. I read a few message boards and the majority of what I read was beyond disturbing. People were more concerned that this poor woman who was raped, had a male roommate than over the fact that she was in her ninth month of pregnancy and missing.

The mother considered her a compulsive liar- so of course everyone believed that. And of course compulsive liars can never be raped - PIFFLE!!!!!!! Why do women add to the destruction of other women? Why do so many mothers hate their daughters? How sooner would Maria Frances have been found had her 'mother' chosen not to assassinate her character?
Why is it that we complain about the treatment of women in foreign countries, when women are treated similarly in the United States.

According to the last story- her body has not been recovered, but she was allegedly buried in a shallow grave- seems fitting for a girl who cried for help to a family that ignored her and left her for the maggots of lies. I pray for us all, and I weep for all the young girls who live out their lives with secrets, fear and shame in their hearts BECAUSE- they know that no one will believe them.
Filled with sadness and anger

Politics 2008 Change to What???

Ordinarily, I am a political hog. I love politics. It was therefore quite perplexing that I have had a an oppressive sense of ennui for the past two years. It is possibly due to the fact that I twice voted for the current administration, only to have to admit that I have voted for 'Republicans' who have no idea what being a Republican is. I am a strict constructionist when it comes to the Constitution, and it has therefore been quite disheartening to see the President's use of fear and other heavy handed tactics turn our Constitutional protections into a box of used tissues.
I do not regret my vote, I am just angry, and I am even more angry to see the pool of idiots that are currently hoping to claim the spoils of President Bush. I am a Republican- this cannot change because the Republican party is the only one that truly represents the plan of the people. As an immigrant, I have always viewed America as a shiny box of parts. Everything is here, every dream can be realized with proper planning and the understanding that if the dreams fall apart- we can still start over and eventually succeed. The Democrats have no such understanding of what America stands for. Theirs is a party of divisions, of the poor and the inner city, of the down trodden and those privilege enough to lend a hand. Theirs is the party that allows for filthy racial quotas and lowered test scores. In short the Democratic party needs it's members to remember their place.
As an immigrant- I choose my place and I will change it through planning and hard word. I know what it feels like to fall, to fail and to rise and to win, so no I know who I am. The problem though is that every nominee is desperate to be Barack Obama. Everyone is offerng 'CHANGE'. The problem is that no one - especially Obama has expressed what that change is. What's going to happen? What will they change? what needs changing? I happen to like Ron Paul, but it seems that so far, he can raise massive amounts of money, but he had never been able to capture a top three position. It is quite disheartening because his inability to gain traction has everything to do with the general population inability to understand basic economics and basic political facts. Ron Paul is correct- we cannot sustain this war for the long term- three years - ten years- are you kidding me?
I like Mitt Romney, who is currently having to deal with religious bigotry from the Christian right, and he's a Christian. It's bloody insane. Pat Roberts - a big guy in Christian circles endorsed Giuliani -AHRRRGH. Giuliani who thinks it's OK to be gay and have the full protection of the society, kill babies (yes the unborn are babies) and well, make so many thoughtless decisions that he is now on his third or fourth wife. Sheesh I get it, you know he fall in love easily or he get bored or whatever! When a Christian endorses Giuliani it's pretty hard to hold that 'christian' in high regard.
Huckabee - wow, well who wouldn't like him, this is a man who has proven that he can make a commitment and stick to it (I'm referring to his massive weight loss) um he's a Baptist minister and he too seems to have a problem with Romney's Mormonism.
Then there's on the left- Hilary. Do we want the Clintons back in the White House. Last time they held court in the oval office, there was a 'breakdown' in discipline. While I do not believe in holding the past against those who may have changed, there is still the talk of socializing every bloody thing. I cannot seem to muster the strength to wail! Perhaps I'll be thrilled com Super Tuesday.
Bye!

All I want for Christmas!

It's finally 2008! Who hoo! I had a great 2007, my family was so blessed that I have no complaints. I was able to say a prayer of thanks everyday ( I may have missed forty or so) Sometimes forgetting that God is blessing you occurs when you are overwhelmed with blessings. Everything is wonderful- but I still feel that there is something missing...
Superficially, I am thinking that I am missing the Kindle from Amazon.com. The kindle is a wireless reading device- Wireless? - yes! you don't have to sync a thing!!

I really am a book girl- but I have to give in to technology and the Kindle is only 0.7 inches thick and well, who could look away from such a light reading facilitator. I suppose I am getting a little tired of waiting on Amazon and B&N to send my books in 2 days! Sheesh!
I decided to buy my own Kindle and they are sold out at Amazon !!! I'll wait.

Spiritually I think I am missing my mission- I have a book that I have been editing for such a bloody long time it is beginning to feel like dinner with extended family members- you know...
I feel like I am ripping of my own dream because this book seems bigger than the box that I brought to put it in. Crazy, because I know that I can handle it and I am never afraid of the things that I write, but I question weather I can make a difference sometimes. So ready or not I am going to publish in April of 2008- there I've said it.

Like Mondays, a New Year is a great beginning and I am frothy with buoyancy as that one voice in my head like to say. This year comes loaded with possibilities and wonderful probabilities and my heart is wide open. I will have prayers of thanks everyday and a big wide smile in my cockles!!! Love