Apr 07 2008
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
My apologies. My brain appears to be suffering a 404 page error, today. Maybe it’s the lack of caffeine. Maybe I’m suffering from “John McCain Syndrome”. Not good for a lass of my age.
Of course, it could just be that I am still recovering from my usual work-weekend. During the rest of the week, I wake early and bed down early. But, since I work bar hours, and still find myself getting up early to IM with my darling husband in Iraq, my aging body can’t cope with the bedtime disparities (early to rise, late to bed). It’s hard on this morning person. I feel bad for sleeping in when there is so much blogging and housework to be done.
I guess I need a wake-up song: ACE OF BASE - BEAUTIFUL MORNING
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Let this Ten Post Round-Up serve as your wake-up call:
1: Puh-leeze! Taxes are for the little people! Please leave those poor business execs alone to enjoy the fruits of YOUR labor…
“We’re paying executives like successful entrepreneurs, without asking them to take entrepreneurial risks”–AMERICAblog
2: But will anything worthwhile come of this?…
Common Cause calls out McCain on Campaign financing–Crooks and Liars
3: Well, if you can’t afford health care, then maybe you just aren’t supposed to have it…
McCain Health Care: Social Darwinism For All, Especially The Already Haves–Firedoglake
4: The fraud was not the exorcisms, it’s the performing of exorcisms without a license?…
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No kidding, it’s April Fool’s Day and there are a whole lot of April Fools in the news and, alas, none of them are very funny.
My husband asked me what was up in the news, today. I told him, “same schtick, different day” (or words to that effect). I continue to stand by that assessment.
We got snow for Easter, in my neck of the woods. As the snow began to melt, today, I could see the first signs of Spring, sprouting up out of the brown ground; the first sprigs of green grass. I think we are going to need another decent snowstorm, to saturate the ground, to boost the colors of Spring; something I am looking forward to, along with the 60-plus degree temperatures.
Got some time on my hands, so I thought I would churn out a round-up, for you.
Basketball, Springtime, and Peeps! Oh, my!
Yesterday, marking the 5th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, was far from a somber day, for me. I have to somewhat disconnect from my feelings about the war because I live with it, on too many levels.
So much interesting news, so little time. So, let’s jump right in, why don’t we?
A late edition of the Ten Post Round-Up…life has a curious way of keeping you from your scheduled plans (know what I mean?).With the five year anniversary of the Iraq invasion, I am spending more time than usual thinking about the enormous changes that have happened in my life due to the three Iraq deployments of SSG Dizzy. Namely, I am having a recurrence of chest pains not felt since a vehicular incident that happened right before his first deployment. I spend a lot of time doing the work of two people and since I am just one person, that means that other guy’s stuff piles up until it can no longer be avoided, especially when I am in pain.
Proper planning leads to Thursday Round-up! Well, that is news!
Another day, another Round-up, and boy is it a doozy. I came across some updates and some new tidbits of interest.
A lot of wild women in the news, this week. A bigot gets a standing ovation, in Oklahoma. Mary Ann stands in a line-up. And, Madonna gets inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The blogosphere is abuzz about the latest political sex scandal and the new list of sins published by the Vatican.
The time has come for me to begin my “Diva-fication” for my work week (”Diva” is my work name, kind of like “Diddy” without the annual variations. I was actually given that alias by my early blogosphere friends and I have worn the moniker proudly for more than 5 years). In any case, that means I’ll be on radio silence for a couple of days.