Happy New Year

Can't believe it's 2008!

Johnny and I went home to Louisiana early this year. Here we are on the banks of the Mississippi... we're on the Mississippi side near Vicksburg.



But, it's been a rough year, and I now look like this.

CONSTITUTION DAY

WE THE PEOPLE of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

~ The Preamble to The Constitution of the United States of America

U.S. Constitution

Constitution

Constitution

I'll Never Get Over It

I'm still so heartsick.

Louisiana will always be my real home.


Pay Heed to New Orleans' Plight
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070826/D8R8QMAO2.html

New Orleans Is Us
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070910/sothern


Dinah Shore "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xli7a2bTxiY&mode=related&search=


Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong - do you know what it means
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROEWiNsb754&mode=related&search=


Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMbR658XBRg&mode=related&search=

TRUTHINESS

It's the Merriam-Webster's #1 Word of 2006, and I love it.

Merriam-Webster's #1 Word of the Year for 2006

'Truthiness' is Named Word of the Year


I really do love Colbert (he's a cutie and he has Irish ears like my hubby) and his "Colbert Report" hits the nail on the head, especially when some poor, unwitting politician doesn't GET IT!

The Vulcanization Process and the Penis

It's been a pivotal month, so I thought I would end it with the interesting article linked below.

I just have one question.

Why would any man "insert his penis" into a can to undergo some weird kinda business resembling both a car wash and the process of vulcanization?

I'm just sayin'...

German Sex Educators Plan Spray-On Condom

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN

Our House of Representatives was specifically designed to be reflective of the voice of THE PEOPLE every two years, and I believe THE PEOPLE have sent Washington, D.C. a message.

Yes, there are many wrongs which must be set right, but today, I am in awe of our Founding Fathers because I believe our U.S. Constitution is proof of their combined and individual genius.

The United States Has Been Rated

by Reporters Without Borders. I've looked at the ratings, and all I can say is Where is My Country? Is My Country Really Alongside Botswana, Croatia and Tonga behind Panama and Mozambique?

The Washington Post is also reporting: U.S. Rank on Press Freedom Slides Lower

Truthfully, I find many stories in the Canadian and British Press that I never see in our American press.

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Today, I'm so outraged by so much going on that my sweet husband doesn't even want to be near me at this moment. He says he can feel my anger and it's hurting him.

It may be hurting him, but it's killing me.

Where is my country?