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I watched a TV report today that makes me think that the politicians have no brains even more than I have thought at other times.

There is a school in Waco, Texas, that has had failing grades for 5 years. They keep wanting to close it, so the children can go to another school that is getting passing grades. A couple of the people on the council are fighting this as they have done so for the past 5 years. I wonder how the children are doing? They after all, are the ones stuck in a school that is NOT teaching properly, the students are not passing the Texas Assessment tests, which means that they are not learning. Yet, these people on the council cannot see that the school needs to be closed. The teachers are not doing what they are being paid to do, which is teach. There is $8,000 per student being spent, while in a school with passing grades only $4,000 per student is being spent.

I wonder where the extra money is going, for it obviously is not going for the students to learn. One of the council members says he does not want the students to be bussed. At another school they would have a chance in life, a chance to be educated, not to pass time.

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I was recently reminded of the old axiom - The squeaky wheel gets greased.

It is a fact of life that most people do not notice things when everything is going along smoothly. We have a tendency to ignore the things that work, and only pay attention to the things that cause us to notice them. Therefore the idea of the squeaky wheel being noticed, that something is wrong. Found another site on the internet (isn’t the internet a lot of fun!) that proved that old axiom. It remarkably is called, The Streisand Effect.

Over and over things get noticed only because someone made noise about what was going on. When living in Florida, the National Inquirer newspaper put an article in its pages that Carol Burnett had a drinking problem. She of course protested that lie. The paper put in a retraction article back in its rear pages. Right where someone would NOT notice it. Carol Burnett of course did not like the hidden retraction, after all the original article was put in the front of the paper, in a very public manner. She took the paper to court and sued. She only asked for 1 (one) dollar and a very public apology, which of course was only right. The jury agreed with her that the paper did wrong. They however awarded 1(one)MILLION dollars to her instead of the original single dollar which she asked for. If the paper had been as public with its retraction as it had been with the original lie, the court case could have been avoided. As it ended, trying to hide what it did wrong created more noise than if it had just done the simple thing.

We ourselves should become squeaky wheels when we see something wrong. We should not let only the arrogant noise makers be noticed. I’m talking about the Silent Majority here. Being silent has its uses, but not when things are wrong though.

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How much do we know about the people who are running for the office of President of the USA?

The obvious of course is black, white, male, female, married, ambitious, outgoing and in the public eye. What are their histories? How closely do we examine what they have done or tried to do in their lives? There are many points of view about what is or is not appropriate to know about our candidates.

Found a point of view today that I hadn’t thought about, their professions. What they do for a living DOES effect what they do, and how they accomplish what they want to do. This point of view is on a site with the Multiply Network. It is called Ron’s Site. If you are curious, you might check it out. The more we understand the candidates, the better we can choose how we vote. It is after all OUR country, OUR choice.

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Recently here in Texas we have had a lot of storms, with the resulting damage to the areas around.

The authorities are trying to clean up what was brought down, and trying to reconnect downed power lines. However, on the other side of the world, the country of Myanmar (formerly Burma) still has bodies floating around in streams, inside the wrecked houses, in lakes. The supposed ruler has focused his attention on the capital city and is ignoring all the rest of the country.

I know that our government messed up when Katrina hit in the south of the US; but, nothing like this blatant disregard for what is morally needed. Any people that need food in the country have been getting spoiled goods. The list goes on and on. Those people need our prayers.

The BBC online has been keeping an eye on the goings on there and it is horrific.

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I am for the Right to Bear Arms. The constitution, through the 2nd amendment gives citizens that right. Many states and cities have tried to limit that right. The ones who suffer are the law abiding people that live there. Gun control advocates have misstated the statistics when they talk about ‘gun crimes’, all to make their opinion known. I just found a few sites that expose the lack of accuracy in those ’statistics’. One such site is

Union Leader.com

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We all have a vested (important for self) interest in the US Bill of Rights.

When was the last time you actually read what they say? How familiar are you with them? I remember in school having to study them and getting bored with the teacher for thinking that they were important, after all recess was coming up. Now, after a few decades (no I won’t say how many) I find myself wanting to know them. This time not for school, but for myself.

Many countries are not bad to live in, but I like mine… a lot.You should check out a web site that has this info on it. It is very easy to read.

Bill Of Rights

I had forgotten just what we are protected with. This document is for our protection after all.Maybe you should check it out and re-learn what helps us to keep on blogging.

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Many candidates running for office make promises in their speeches. How many actually carry through with their promises?

One candidate talks about improving health care…..and yet opportunities to do that before have been bypassed. This candidate’s home state has people who get extremely ill—for lack of doctors. After all the doctors want their money up front or else NO SERVICE. Where’s the health care there? It ain’t.

Another candidate pushes change; but, what change–where are the details? This candidate talks big, but what has been done so far.

Another candidate spent over $80 million to run, yet has been proven to be a bully when people don’t do what he wants. He has practiced deceptively to control others in other states that have never met him, or even done business with him.

Have the people ever kept track of all the promises made, but never kept? I understand that officials will sometimes block the effort of those who are elected. What I wonder about are all the promises that were never even acted upon.

Talk is cheap. All it costs is a lot of hot air.

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Have you ever noticed how complicated that politics has become? When a goal is in sight, the only way to it is confusing?

Well, having recently acquired a new cat for our house, my husband and I have had a chance to watch Kitty Cat politics in action. These politics in some ways resemble human politics. It was truly eye opening to watch it in action.

It all started with hiding. Not too long after there was hissing and growling involved. Each day, it was a very uneasy situation. My husband and I couldn’t interfere, because they to settle matters themselves. Glares were constantly exchanged. One cat (the new one) remained hidden under the bed. The other cat would sometimes slip under the bed and we’d hear growling. This went on a couple of days without any change.

Well, my husband and I had to bring things out into the open. We broke down the bed, got the cat out, then closed in the box frame so there was no longer an entrance. New kitty now found a new hiding place. Hunger lured her out; but, that was only temporary. Soon she would make more appearances for longer times. Soon there were open face offs between the new kitty and the older kitty. Slapping and hissing occurred when face offs happened. Soon however, curiosity got the better of both babies. When one was out, the other would hide or check out the other’s hiding place. Of course, face offs happened. Strangely enough, no fur flied, no blood flowed. As things progressed; there was less hissing, no more slapping.

As things stand now, the two cats play together, sleep together and eat together. There are even instances where tail tackling take part of both sides. I guess a wiggly tail is too hard to resist. There is general peace and acceptance.

Now, wouldn’t it be nice if people could negotiate differences as nicely as cats. There wouldn’t be blood shed. Why are people so hard to please? Being “catty” isn’t as bad as people make it out to be.

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