Oooooops and Another Soap Box
Had to pull out of my dance performance on the 19th, this mo, but I hope that you will all still go. I will probably be there supporting my troupe and enjoying the atmosphere, but I smashed my toe, so I can’t dance this time. The toe was just getting better when I came down w/ Strep Throat, last night. (The night of the 14th). I’m using my essential oils, and some Chinese herbal tablets from my accupuncturist to get over it, instead of making a costly and nuisanceful trip to my doc for a throat culture, and even more costly anti-biotics.
This will be the 3rd or 4th time, that I’ve warded off/cured my own Strep Throat with my own oil blends, this yr. I’ve always been quite prone to Strep Throat, so I know the signs and symptoms. This is why I’ll be teaching a class on Essential Oils, this Spring, if all goes as planned. I’m just waiting for approval of my class, by the woman in charge, at Petaluma Adult School.
My son is loving Kindergarten, and it’s improved his behavior, and made him eager to be more independent. I just wish that I could get him to do his homework.
As always, we’re working hard, to make ends meet, like everyone else. Things have gotten more difficult, of late, thanks to congress pushing thru the Wall St. Bail-Out Bill, w/ out giving us “commoners” a chance to vote on it. They probably knew that we wouldn’t be fooled into believing that bailing out Wall St. was actually a real solution.
If they really wanted to solve the problem, they would have done something to put money back into the small communities, that they’ve been misappropriating for a long time, because when people have enough to do more than simply survive and feed their families, they feel more free to sock away their extra funds in the stock market, and IRAs and Savings accounts, and bonds. The more we do that, the more money the govt. has to play with until they have to pay it back to us with some interest.
And it’s not only the cost of housing that’s stifling our desire and ability to sock away funds that we need to live on; it’s the hugely inflated prices of just about everything: Gas, groceries, water, electricity, schooling, school supplies, cars, car maintenance, car registration, etc.
This is why I’ve started up a Bartering directory for Petaluma. If we are trading good and services, under the table, then there’s nothing for the govt. to tax. What are they doing with our tax dollars? Not putting them back into our communities. Can you say “Schnorer”?!
A schnorer is the Yiddish term for someone who takes without ever giving back- kind of like our govt. Lots of outsourced work in these past couple yrs. that could have gone to needy family folk here at home, and lots of money that went into fighting battles outside US borders, and the worthiness/correctness of those battles is quite debatable in each case. The money that got put into each of those ventures wasn’t getting put into the US school system or affordable housing or elder care, here in the US. How badly do we want more of the same old same old?
How badly do we want to take a step back toward the dark ages, when certain types of people were not given the same rights as certain other types of people?
Sarah Palin would take away a Woman’s right to choose to abort a fetus or keep the baby, no matter what the circumstances. Putting a Republican in off. would guarantee the squealching of the rights of gay people to marry. Even if you don’t like gay people, or have no opinion as to whether or not they should be allowed to marry, why not vote Democratic? If you don’t like “their kind” then voting democratic would give them the freedom to flock together, there-by leaving you less at risk of being the recipient of a gay person’s pick-up line in what-ever public places you frequent for fun.
I happen to know some gay folks myself, and have found them to have great senses of humor, and I have found some of them to have been wise in counseling me when I was troubled.
But my opinion won’t sway those who have already formulated their own opinions. I simply hope that everyone will use their heart and their common sense, when they vote. Their common sense should prod them with the query that if rights can be taken away from one group of people then what group of people will be next in line to have some basic right taken away? Their hearts should tell them that every one deserves the same compassion/treatment by our govt/justice system.
So that’s my political rant from a soap box for Today. I hope that I’ve offended no one, or if I have, than I can only hope that I’ve offended everyone equally. If you feel that you need an apology, then please consider yourself apologized to.
Now go back to a blog of mine that you enjoyed, re-read it, and mention it to me when you come in for a massage, and you’ll get a discount on that massage.
After you’ve re-read one of my other blogs, click on two of the links that I’ve mentioned in my blogs. Hopefully there will be info. there that you haven’t seen yet, that will lead you to some fun for the week-end. Enjoy that, and consider it my gift to you.
Your’s Truely.
Sue Hirsch, CMT Extraordinaire.