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I have been trying for about 15 min. trying to get into this and you'd think it was Fort Knox!!!! And when I opened it originally all my few followers were gone! I know I haven't been here for about 4 or 5 days, but gee whiz! Give me a break! I am "tied up" w/Twitter! As I have said, it is running my life! I am up - as of this minute - to 632 followers! I had 500 on Sat. and over 600 Sunday! Of course you lose some here and there and a lot of them are selling something but most are legitimate, angry Democrats fighting for their lives in states like WI, IN, OH, N.J. FL, MI - especially Michigan where the Gov. is really insane! New law - you won't believe this one - ready? Foster children are not allowed to buy their clothes in retail shops! Only in resale shops! I kid you not!!! God, am I old! Jack Paar used to say that. But do you believe this crap? This guy is running Michigan like he is their Emperor! They have got to get rid of him. Hopefully, they will, but I believe it has to be a year and then it will start like a wall of dominoes, with Walker of WI, Scott of FL, etc. etc. etc.
Now, this being Spring Break for Congress, these Republicans had to go home and they are holding Town Hall Meetings (some of them) and are they getting it from their constituents!
Re Medicare! They have shown films on TV with a senior saying, "you didn't say anything about this when you were campaigning, about cutting Medicare" and the Rep saying "We are not cutting Medicare" - Question: Did you vote yes on Ryan's Budget", Answer: Yes, I did. But we are not cutting Medicare. Liar, Liar, Pants on fire!!!!!! They want to give vouchers! A friend of mine has been diagnosed w/mild lymphoma that fortunately is treatable and is starting treatments tomorrow, the lst one is 6 hrs. Now, if he has a voucher, it would probably be gone as of tomorrow! This is still April, what would he do the rest of the year? Die? Sell his house? Unbelievable! Vouchers! Half of these teabaggers don't know what voucher means! It's a coupon, dummy! I may have spoken about this last time. If I did, forgive me. I'm old!!!!! Also, I am angry! I guarantee half the country doesn't know what deficit means and the other half couldn't care less! It's jobs, it's economy, it's war, etc. etc. etc. Hopefully, if Obama sticks to his word, the tax cuts for the rich will go back to where they were when Bill Clinton was Prez and that should take care of the deficit.
BTW, the Republican debates are starting next week. Just shoot me now! I hate them. I know, I don't have to watch them but I will. Just to torture myself and get my blood pressure up! Fortunately, my blood pressure is very good and I can get as mad as I want!
Trump is still all over the news. Now he is attacking Robert De Niro, why, I don't know. I saw the article but didn't feel like reading it. He thinks he is hurting Obama but he is an embarrassment to the Republicans and they all say he is actually helping Obama.
Now, re Palin. There are all kinds of rumors going around. One that she did not give birth to Trig and after what I am reading, I believe that could be true. New one, the oldest, Track or Trump or whatever, is not from Todd. I like that one. Now, normally, I couldn't give a hoot whose baby is whoever, but because she is always preaching about her morals, and her religion, this is why I care. I also (and of course, I could be wrong) don't think she will run for prez because a lot of the little nasties she has done in her previous life could come out and I don't think she would like that.
Another BTW, I got an e-mail from President Obama, thanking me for my e-mail(s) and assuring me that nothing is going to happen to social security! Hopefully, he is right!
On this Gang of Six, it seems that the 3 Dem Senators are caving to the Republicans. Now, what they are caving on I do not know. Just heard that they are caving. I will try to find out and hopefully I will get back to this without waiting a week!!!!

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Mouthing off: Again, sorry for the lapse! The twitting is taking over my life! I think I'm up to about 430 followers - occasionallly you lose a couple - what I think happens is once in a while you get a conservative following you. You get an e-mail that tells you who is following you (which means everytime you tweet, it shows up where they are) and you can check them out and every so often it comes up that someone is following me who is "conservative, anti-Obama, " whatever, so I do not follow them. Now, what's happening!
Last weekend Sarah Palin gave a teabagger speech in Madison, WI of all places! The crowd was ENORMOUS!!!! BUT, not for her! There were quite a few less teabaggers there
(Bill Maher said he would stop callling them teabaggers when they stopped saying Obamacare!) than WI protesters against Republicans, especially Palin who was saying beautiful things about Walker! That's not the place to do it! Evidently, they were booing so loudly (I have seen films on UTube) that she had to screech (that's her nickname, by the way!) In fact, one of the newsmen, while reporting, said he was standing a few feet from her and couldn't hear her! Also, it was snowing! I can't remember if it was Sat. or Sun. but Sat. here, it was 98 deg. in Tarzana! It was so hot in the house that I couldn't imagine it had gotten so hot out but it did. Hot again on Sunday and Mon. it dropped in the 60's. Normally it doesn't jump around like that out here. Well, back to Wisconsin. As I said, it was not a place for her to be. She made $100,000 for that "speech". Can you believe that? I just don't understand it! They fawn over her - you can see the people behind her with adoration in their eyes! I spotted her for a phoney almost the minute she stepped out on that stage during the Republican convention! I would think men would be taken w/her but that women can see thru other women! Guess not!
Well, I believe 4 recalls petitions have been put in. They are getting well above the amount of sigs they need which is amazing! The Republicans started a petition for Lena Taylor, Democratic Sen. in the Milwaukee district, I believe. They got 2 signatures (that many?) and gave up! Now, I think that is funny! I cannot believe that Gov. Walker has a future in Wisconsin!
BTW, Prosser, I believe, gave an acceptance speech and told them to stop the foolishness of checking the ballots from Waukesha. Well, I tell you, there is a terrible smell out here and it is coming from Waukesha, Wisconsin! Something is very fishy there and I cannot and will not believe that whatever happened was legitimate! It is very stranges that it took her over a day to "remember" that she didn't put 14,000 votes thru! No, I refuse to believe it! I tweet w/a lot of Wisconsinites and they are amazing! Every Red state should take a lesson from them!
Now, on to the next red state: Michigan. Unbelievable what is going on there! Rick Snyder, Gov. (another bastard like Walker, but perhaps even worse!) had a put in a law (how this is legal is beyond me!) that if a town was having financial difficulties, he could replace someone and put in his own man, just anyone he wanted, whether they had experience or not or whatever! Well, last Friday (I believe it was Fri.) he fired the whole town of Benton Harbor. All the elected officials, that is! Can you believe something like that? I remember Benton Harbor, in fact, we spent a weekend there for our 1st anniversary, that was 52 yrs ago! It was, I believe if I remember correctly, a resort town. Now it is a poor town, changed like everything else. But I heard something yesterday that there are plans to develop it for rich people, something like that. There is always a deeper meaning for these things that these corrupt politicians do. I will follow up on that.
Ohio- Kasich, another bastard, you can look at these guys and they actually look mean. His "2nd in command" was yelling about the former governor (this was probably during the campaigning) mis-using the state airplane. Well, Kasich now has spent more $$$ using this plane in his 1st 3 1/2 mos. than the previous governor used in 13 mos.! Kasich has been going from city to city, some like a 3 hr drive away. But he flies! Now, no one would care except for the fact, he is firing left and right and cutting everything in sight to "save money" but not when it comes to his comfort.
Now, the Obama administration has formed a group they call the Gang of Six - 3 Republicans and 3 Democrats. The Democrats are Dick Durbin (IL) and Mark Warner - don't know where he is from and I forgot the 3rd. Doesn't matter. But people are very upset w/Durbin & Warner. The Gang of Six is there to go over the "entitlements" - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. This is making me ill. And it seems like Durbin & Warner are leaning over to the "right" and seem to think they are Republicans! I haven't been following it too much and maybe I should. So I could get a little more aggravated. Now, Social Security had 2.6 trillion dollars in it.But, evidently, right now it is filled w/IOU's! Well, they needed the $$$ for the wars, etc. Not that it won't be paid back, if we can't trust our government who can we trust. So, with this Gang of Six (what a name!) who knows .
Now, Obama's rating has gone down, I don't know why, and it also has gone down w/Hispanics, I don't know why that, either. But, not to worry! I think that every senior and their families, in fact everyone, should be made aware of the fact that should we get a Republican president in 2012, and the Senate turns Republican, that sure as shootin' we will have no more Medicare, Social Security or Medicaid! And - if the rich taxes haven't gone up as Obama said they would, they will go down, down, down, under a Republican regime. You can mark my words on that!!!!
One more thing - Donald Chump, er, I mean Trump! He is sort of planning to run for President. He doesn't say yes or no. He is too involved in running his mouth every day on every possible talk show, that Obama was not born in this country. Yesterday, Bill Price (Or Press, I am never sure of his name) used to have a show w/Buchanan, was on w/him yesterday and Bill said - Ok, 49 yrs ago a woman had a baby in Kenya, and an hr after he was born, she thought that maybe he would grow up to become president of the USA, so maybe she should put a birth notice in 2 American newspapers so she put 2 notices in the Honolulu papers! It was funny! So Buchanan said why doesn't he say something, show the birth certificates, etc. and Price (or Press!) said he's got more important things to do, jobs, wars, economy, etc. And he's right! But Lawrence O'Donnell says that on May 16 when NBC announces the shows that are going to be renewed for next yr and they will renew Trump's show, that will be the end of the "birthers" for Trump! He makes a ton of money from that show (God only knows why) and he needs and wants the money. Someone saw a bumper sticker that said Trump/Palin 2012 - You're fired/I quit! Quite funny!
Well, I'm sure that there is more, but as I said last time, it will have to wait!!!!!!

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So sorry for the lapse but I have been sitting & twitting (I have a pinched nerve that is affecting the sciatic nerve & when I sit where I sit & tweet it is the worse & I am in terrible pain but I still sit & tweet - or twit!!!) Anyhow, that's what I am doing w/my I-Pad. Someone tweeted that Palin got an I-Pad and said "It's not all that absorbent"! Lots of Palin jokes! Lots! Well, it looks like Obama's budget went thru but who knows! I sent a few e-mails & I like to think that they actually helped. The House voted 235 I believe - for Ryan's "Road Map to Hell" - 4 GOP's voted against it. Now, it ends Medicare altho they say it doesn't. Believe me, it does! One thing they don't say and I found out about it on Twitter and I looked it up - between the ages of 65-67 you cannot get a Medicare voucher or anything so basically you are uninsured! Now these people, many of them, must have seniors in their district and I don't care how rich you are (except for the top 1% or 2%) you want that Medicare! When I worked, I worked for a couple who are millionaires and cheat on their taxes like crazy! Like crazy!!! I could tell you stories but I won't . Not at this time, anyhow! They loved their social security checks and their Medicare! They just about drooled everytime the checks came! So, if my Congressman voted to end it I believe I would think twice about voting for them again. However, if Obama does not win the election and the Senate falls into the GOP's hands, Social Security & Medicare will just be fond memories! And Ryan was so upset yesterday! He looked like he was going to cry! Had to ask the Weeper of the House for a hanky! He expected Obama to hand him an olive branch - instead he got thorns! The Prez gave a beautiful speech yesterday. A lot of people are saying that is why they voted for him and I can say that, also. Of course, I wasn't going to vote for McCain especially w/the Screech running w/him. She is in Wisconsin today, God knows why! I Speaking of WI, I loved the films of Walker in court yesterday - under oath - it was beautiful! He thought he was getting a free trip to D.C., good restaurants, nice hotel, easy questions by Republicans! Wrong! He was actually sweating and it seemed to me, at least what I saw, they were mostly Democrats questioning him and it was brutal! But you couldn't feel sorry for that creep and creep is what he is!!! If he lasts longer than the one year I will be surprised! I don't know what is happening with the judicial votes, but I saw somewhere that Prosser is still ahead w/over 7,000 votes but it just seems so strange to me. Heard there is a blizzard or something in Nebraska - hope it isn't all over the mid-west. It was cold here last week but warmed up but they were talking on Twitter about a blizzard. BTW, Trump is leading in the Republica Prez poll. However, they are such losers in that list that I can't even think it is important that he is winning. Really an icky list this time. I personally don't think he is serious about this, I believe it is all about his show but who knows and seriously, I really don't care! I have Sen. Chuck Schumer following me now on Twitter! That means that everything I tweet (and I tweet a lot!) shows up where he is. I have almost 340 followers last time I looked and it is very exciting. I have my I-Pad glued to me! Well, that's about it. I'm sure I will remember something later but it will have to wait!

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Well, I ended last time w/the government not closing. Chances are, it could close this Friday. Who knows! This country is getting a little too crazy for me! First of all, I read yesterday that Obama is going to cut something from Medicare and possibly do something to Social Security. Saw someone on TV yesterday, the head of The Nation Mag. Katrina Vanden Heuval , who said they should leave Soc.Sec. alone (I would abrieviate it to S.S. but that is what the GOP does, so I don't!) as it is working so well. Everyone - everyone that I watch of course, you know I am biased - says that it the top 1% or 2% paid the taxes they are supposed to pay AND if G.E. and B of A, etc. paid taxes they wouldn't have to cut Soc.Sec. or Medicare or Medicaid! Or Planned Parenthood! (which they don't have to cut anyhow, it's just the name that offends them!) However, I have been hearing quite a lot of people saying that the country is not broke and I believe that. Well, tomorrow we will find out just what is going to happen, maybe, if the Teabaggers (or as someone on Twitter calls them - the Teacrappers) agree to go along. BTW, no one knows just what was cut last Friday. I imagine we will find that out, also. Cong. Mike Pence of IN, the one that made the slip of the tongue that I wrote about in the last blog, he was interviewed last Fri I believe and asked about closing the govt down just because of not defunding P.P. and he said "yes, he would" and then afterwards when they didn't close the govt and didn't defund P.P. he was asked again and said they wouldn't close the govt down just because P.P. wasn't defunded. He is such a liar and I sent him an e-mail today - not exactly calling him a liar but said he lied. Is that the same thing? On Twitter, I re-tweeted something about Kathy Nicklaus the woman who made the big "mistake" about 7,000 votes she forgot to put in, a whole day later when she didn't really tell anyone about it but called the press, I believe. I could be wrong. Won't be the lst time. Anyhow, someone tweeted that they should look at all her e-mails and I re-tweeted that and some idiot right-winger tweeted me personally and said something like they should look at my e-mails. My e-mails? Really funny, I don't write too many of them as I text a lot, but my e-mails would put you to sleep! So I tweeted him back and said my e-mails are an open book, something like that, and he tweeted back but I never saw it until later that he wanted my e-mail address to check (WHAT????) but I did'nt see that until today and then he tweeted that I wouldn't give him my e-mail address and called me - are you ready for this? "a typical liberal ass wipe". Gave me a laugh! I tweeted his name and said what he called me and asked if ass wipe was 1 word or 2 and someone tweeted me back saying it was hyphenated and laughed! It was funny! I get people following me on Twitter (If you don't know Twitter, if you follow someone you see all their tweets) who are GOP, gun-toting, Obama haters, etc. I can't do anything about it, I think I could block them but don't know how but do not follow them back. 90% of the tweeters in my group are like me. I love it! It has taken over my life and now w/my I-Pad I can keep it in my lap & when I watch the news I can tweet while watching. It is really affecting me, I cannot get anything done, and I love it! Donald Trump is going crazy w/exposure! Is he running or is he not running? Now they are saying he will run but hopefully this crazy country won't nominate him or actually, maybe they should nominate him because I cannot and won't believe he would actually be elected. Palin's ratings are dropping as they should but she is still around. Someone on Twitter calls her Screech, because of her voice. When she speaks to me it is like someone running their nails across a blackboard! But it is Bachmann that we have to watch out for. She raises money like crazy! She raised over l3 mill for her campaign in a small district in MN who I am sure she never visits, probably doesn't even know where it is. She has that crazy glare, someone on TV called it a Laser Look - which it is. Well, tomorrow is the big day with Obama's announcement. Let's just wait and see!

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Yeah, I know - I haven't been here for a while. But here I am! Watched last nite until I was sick of it all. Well, as you must know now, the government is open and everyone (almost) is sort of happy. Not me, of course. Well, it's only a temporary open! Same crap next week. Nobody knows what was given in the billions - lost track of how much - really, no one is telling what cuts were made. However, we know for sure that they didn't cut funding for Planned Parenthood as the Teabaggers wanted! Can you believe that they were holding out only because of Planned Parenthood? Someone at Huffington Post wrote that "a pap smear" was making the government shut down! Now, retiring Sen. Kyl (R-AZ) said that P.P.'s work is 90% abortions! Lie! They did 3% last year! They gave almost 1 million mammograms! They give pap smears! They give birth control pills! 1 out of 5 women go to P.P. Lawrence O'Donnell on his show read an e-mail from a woman that was so emotional that he couldn't read anymore and they went into a commercial. He was so broken up by her letter. I won't go thru the letter but she did say that birth control pills cost $90 a month and w/insurance cost, I think it was $73 a month. And later a Dem. Congresswoman from CA spoke about an abortion she had to have which was devastating and she said that $90 a month was a lot of money when you are out of work as this woman was. Well, $90 a month is a lot of $$$ even when you are working because that is only one little thing you are spending your money on, there is food, rent, clothing, etc. etc. These Teabaggers are not rich people. You must have seen some of them on the news. They mostly look (to me) like street people! But they are crazy! They are fanatic! Anyhow, Karl Rove sent a letter around telling his fellow Republicans that when Newt Gingrich closed the govt down it helped Clinton and then Clinton was re-elected! That kind of scared the Reps - they certainly don't want to help Obama. But Obama is driving everyone crazy! Whatever they ask for he gives them. His Democrats in the Senate are not too happy about that. Now, Boehner was really in a bind because he was being driven by the T.B. (teabaggers from now on) and they said after the agreement was made by Harry Reid the Senate Majorty Leader & Boehner, the Speaker of the House, that Boehner kind of screwed them (they did not use those words)and they were going to get back at him. One of the T.B. Mike Pence of Indiana gave a speech and he said and I quote "We are doing this to help the Republican people ....I mean, the American people!" He actually said that! Now Eric Cantor, the whip of the House, gave a speech and he was at the mike and he said something like this "Now, let's talk about how all this really started" and there was a chant behind him - BUSH! BUSH! BUSH! BUSH! and he looked around bewildered and finally even he had to laugh! It was humorous at a troubling time. Now, this is not over. It will go on this coming week and again with the threat of closing next Fri nite. They will discuss Cong.Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget which I call "The Final Solution" (original title belonged to Hitler) He wants to get rid of Medicare and give the rich permanent tax cuts AND cut their taxes down from 35% to 25%! Just shoot me now!!!! It was almost comical! It is comical! Without Medicare it will cost seniors (me!) about - well, I can't figure that high! It will be thousands and thousands and no one I know can afford it. I sent an e-mail to Pres. Obama (I've done it before - never hear back from him) re Medicare. Without Medicare my husband & I would probably be dead! We pay a lot of money to Blue Cross - we have the best insurance possible - but it costs us. And we thank God for Medicare (and Lyndon Johnson, I believe). The Reps want to cut funds for the EPA, because who cares about the air we breath, they want to cut funds for air controllers, stuff you can't believe! Well, enuf about them. Let's see what happens this week. Now, On Wisconsin! When I woke up (we were at the beach in Avila, right by San Luis Obispo) Wed. a.m. I found out that Joanne Kloppenburg had won the election by a hair! Literally by a hair! I got all this by Twitter and a little news. Then on Thurs. I found out about Waukesha County and the l4,000 votes that had mysteriously not been put into the system. Yesterday they had a whole thing on this Nicklaus woman who used to work for Prosser (the opponent) and had screwed up a number of election ballots and how the hell she kept her job is beyond me! Oh yes, it is politics! You're not supposed to be partisan in that job! But she said "It was a human error" - he won by 7,000 votes!!!!!!! Now, the day before they were having a recount. But w/7000 votes you don't have a recount. There is going to be a recount done by Kloppenberg people but it will cost and they are asking for donations. It is sad. I don't know, I don't understand it. I was up Tues nite and tweeting and the WI tweeters were going crazy. The votes were up and down. He was winning - she was winning - it was really crazy. Someone tweeted - I feel like throwing up! There never was a voter turnout ever for a judicial vote! This was an important judicial vote, it was the "break the tie" judicial! They are supposed to have an investigation by the Federal Govt. We shall see! Meanwhile, Donald Trump is going crazy!!!! He is most likely going to run for Prez when his show is over, he can't do it now while the show is running and evidently, his rating are so high, they are skyrocketing, on NBC (I wouldn't watch it if it were the only program on) He has become a "birther" and he is nauseating! He hired people to go to Kenya and to Hawaii to check out Pres. Obama's birth. He said his people spoke to Obama's grandmother and she said he was born in Kenya and she was right there. Well, let me tell you about her! She is his step-grandmother and no way was she there when he was born! Most likely didn't even know his grandfather 49 yrs ago! Obama has a birth certificate! End of story! But Trump (or as someone called him - Chump!) is not letting go. He held a meeting in NYC yesterday for birthers! Someone keeps tweeting that they want to see the birth certificate for that thing on his head! He was in the news so much yesterday that I got sick. He was on the Today show w/Meredith Viera and they played it over and over and over.Blich!!!! Now, better news. Glen Beck is out - well, technically he is not gone yet! But he will be. He was either fired or he quit - my $$$ is on fired! He is an animal. He was fired because of his bashing Obama constantly and of course, he was losing sponsor after sponsor and audience, too! I can't say I'll miss him because I never watch him but they do show bits of him on the news I watch and he really is crazy! Well, I am exhausted. I will try to keep up to date. Sorry about the lapse!

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Well, I actually do not know what is happening in the world, not that I ever really knew what is happening all over. In Wisconsin, tomorrow is the big day - Prosser vs Kloppenberg (I think I got that right!) Sarah Palin has endorsed Prosser - don't know if he is too thrilled w/that. It really is a bigger election than it would normally be. Hopefully, the Democrats will really make a showing and I know that there will be a lot of Republicans voting Democratic as should be. This will be happening all over the country. I just hope in 2012 people will not forget what happened this year and of course, so many of them unfortunately will be suffering financially, it will be hard to forget. These Republican Governors are unbelievable. It's like one after the other. I tweeted something about Rick Scott, Gov. FL and someone tweeted back asking if he was the same one that defrauded Medicare & Medicaid and I knew he did something shady in his past but couldn't remember what. Well, I googled him and got back to her and sure enuf he was the same one. How the hell someone like that gets elected to be governor of a state is beyond me. Now, I don't remember all I blogged so if I repeat myself , sorry. This same Rick Scott is cutting funds from the handicapped! Can you believe that? AND he ran in the run for getting $$$ for Special Olympics. How do you cut funds for handicapped people? Now, in the House budget they are cutting funds for poor people's heat in the winter. They are cutting from education all over the place and at the same time they are cutting from the poor, they are also cutting from the rich - TAXES!!!! Everyone I have watched on TV that discuss this, are saying that if they got tax $$ from corporations and from the upper 2%, it would get rid of the deficit eventually. But, however, they are still talking about "entitlements" - which we know are Social Security & Medicare & Medicale - now the word ENTITLEMENTS means exactly what it sounds like it means - something you are entitled to. I just don't understand that there aren't poor people or people in the Republican party that need these "entitlements". Now, the teabaggers that are holding up the whole thing, are mostly middle income people, who need social security and medicare. It is very confusing to me. I know I spoke about this before but it is still going on and the way it looks right now, as I said the last time, the government will closed down in 4 days! Today commemorates the day Martin Luther King was shot, it is also my birthday! Now, the same year, it was 1968, on my son's birthday June 6, Bobby Kennedy was shot and I believe he died the next day. When MLK was killed, it was spring vacation and we lived in Chicago and we were taking the kids to Springfield for vacation (I am pretty sure it was 1968) and we had to call the highway patrol to see if the roads were safe because the southside of Chicago was burning. Then, when Bobby Kennedy was shot, I was listening to the radio and was wondering why they were talking about JFK again and didn't realize it was another Kennedy that was killed. Bad times! But it is still bad times. I have never seen this country like this before. It's actually like a war between the 2 parties, or actually, 3 parties now! Do not know what is happening in Libya. Obama said we will not have soldiers on the ground there and so far we have not. It has been turned over to NATO but I don't think they are doing too well there. Japan - it is very bad there re the radiation. Just the earthquake and tsunami were very bad and would have crippled the country but the radiation is something else. It looks like no end in sight! Well, as I said, it is my birthday and I am going away for a couple of days and will get back w/more news hopefully - soon.

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Breaking news!!!!! Dan Kapanke - 1st Wisconsin Republican Senator to be recalled!!!!!! They had over 100% of the signatures needed and a new election will be scheduled for his seat. I actually didn't know how that worked but now I do! I thought that they went to court and that it was a long drawn out thing and had to prove that they did something, etc. etc. So, evidently when Gov. Grey Davis (D-CA) was recalled started by Cong. Darrel Issa (more about him later) all they did was collect signatures! I never signed anything! Oh, I have to assume they only collected Republican signatures, duh! Anyway, I think that is very exciting w/Wisconsin. Hopefully, they will recall all that they are trying to recall and hopefully, the Senate will be held by the Democrats. Wow! Very exciting for Wisconsin! Now, I know they are trying to recall some of the Wisconsin 14 but most likely, I hope, they will not be able to get the required signatures. Now - Issa! He is under investigation in D.C. I haven't really been following it but I did learn something on the news yesterday. Issa, who was against "earmarks", (earmarks are something like asking for $$$ for your state - for repairs, etc. and most of them are supposed to be against earmarks) they showed a film of couple of yrs ago when he was ranting against earmarks. Well, he asked for 2 mil. for widening a road in Vista, CA and bus stops by a medical bldg. He rec'd I believe 800,000 and it so happens that he has a business in that medical bldg. and the road he wanted to widen is the road in front of that bldg. and, oh yes, he wanted more parking space for that bldg. To sum it up, the $800,000 he rec'd is all for his own personal business! How about that? Now, he should be recalled for that! I don't know what is going to happen but I certainly hope something does happen. Who knows how long he has been doing that? BTW, he is currently trying to get Pres. Obama impeached. He has been bad-mouthing Obama for months now trying to get him out. He is bad news and I have hated him since the Grey Davis affair. Speaking of lousy Republicans - which is most of what I do - Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan is right up there heading my list. He is doing so many bad things to the poor state of Michigan but his latest is vile - he is cutting unemployment checks for people collecting them - 6 WEEKS BEFORE THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT EXPIRES!!!! I don't know how that works and I never really thought that a governor had control over that, but evidently they do. Now, Michael Moore lives in MI, and it has got to be killing him. He was and is a big advocate for Wisconsin,was out there giving speeches, etc and I know he did that in MI, also, but it is getting worse. In Ohio, Kasich is another bad apple, very,very, bad! He is cutting so much that there will be thousands out of work in that state. Oh, BTW, Michigan has probably the highest unemployment of all of them. Now, Kasich just signed the "no collective bargaining" bill and if they can get enough signatures in - I'm not sure of the time - 6 wks or something like that - then the bill will not go thru and it will be voted on in November. Back to Wisconsin - the judge had turned down the bill that Walker presented as they voted on it "sneakily" (is that a word? Or is it something Palin would say?) and they can present it again after they do it the right way. Well, that wasn't good enuf for Walker so he decided he would enforce the bill anyway, even tho the judge rejected it. Judge rejected it again and after much back & forth, he finally went along w/the judge's ruling. Well, good for him! (yeah, right!) Japan - The Tokyo Electric Power Co. has not been able to stabilize the plant's dangerously overheating reactors since cooling systems were knocked out in the tsunami on 3/11. One of the reactors contained iodine concentration that were 10,000x the government standard for the plant. Seems to be an error in the computer program used to analyze the date and the recent figures may be wrong. But then again, they may be correct. The don't know. Radiation is still streaming out of the plant and the Japanese have asked for help from all the countries. They are waiting for giant pumps from U.S. They say it is unlikely that radiation seeping would affect drinking water. But "unlikely" is different from "definitely"! It is going to be endless. Now they find that the radiation is in the milk in Washington state. Very little, in fact, I read that there is radiation in everything. Great to hear that, no? Budget - the House Reps have asked for a 100 billion in budget cuts and the Senate Dems are giving, giving, giving. They are making me sick. Well, the Reps were satisfied as the Dems gave more and more - HOWEVER, and this is a big HOWEVER, the Tea Partiers (I call them teabaggers - on Twitter someone calls them teacrappers!) want more. They had a demo in D.C. yesterday - couple of hundred turned out which is really not a lot. If they don't get what they want the government will closed down on 4/8/11. And they will blame the Democrats. Now, the real Republicans - the ones w/John Boehner, the Weeper of the House, are ok w/what the Dem. Senators have offered but the T.P. are not ok w/it. It's like having 3 political parties in office. One of the things they are cutting is heat for the poor elderly! Can you believe that? Meanwhile, B of A, G.E. and many, many more ARE NOT PAYING TAXES AT ALL! Now only are they not paying taxes, here's an example of what is happening in this country - let's take G.E. - not only do they not take taxes - THEY GET BILLIONS IN TAX REFUNDS!!!!!!! Now, can someone please explain that????? If all these major corporations paid taxes, and all the big oil cos. paid taxes and the super rich paid the taxes they are supposed to pay, then - only then, can the poor people get heat in the winter!!!!! I can't talk about it anymore - it literally get me ill! IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!!!!!