tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186532592024-03-14T03:45:54.809-04:00Tales of a Biker Chick with Pointy SticksWhere else can I put all the stuff that gets stuck in my head and my heart and my life! This is where you'll find knitting and more knitting and my harley and the love of my life and my family and not in any particular order. Mostly you'll find me.SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-66445102694781034832009-03-20T11:48:00.003-04:002009-03-20T11:52:16.716-04:00Showing her inhumanity again, Sarah Palin Calls in the Helicopters for Sweeping Wolf Massacre -<a href="http://www.eyeonpalin.org/news/press_releases/031809.php">Palin Administration Calls in the Helicopters for Sweeping Wolf Massacre - Eye On Palin - Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund</a><br /><br />Press Release<br /><br />Legality of program challenged as state personnel in helicopters aim to kill hundreds of wolves despite objections from the National Park Service<br /><br />WASHINGTON − The Palin administration considerably escalated its aerial wolf killing spree this past weekend, with full details only becoming clear in the hours after the killing initiated. At least 58 wolves have been killed in the Upper Yukon/Tanana area of Alaska over the past 4 days by Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) staff, which indicates that their target of approximately 250 wolves will be easily met.<br /><br />The key ingredient is the decision by the governor and her appointed Alaska Board of Game to use helicopters as part of the state's wolf killing program in this region. The Board of Game approved the use of agency helicopters and personnel at its most recent meeting, which ended March 9, 2009, but those new regulations are not yet in effect, making the current helicopter wolf killing program in the Upper Yukon/Tanana region illegal. It is on these grounds that the board now faces a law suit, filed today by Defenders of Wildlife calling for an immediate injunction on the aerial wolf killing occurring in this area<br /><br />“While the media obsesses over Governor Palin’s private family life, she is getting away with illegally slaughtering large numbers of wolves from the air,” commented Defenders Action Fund president, Rodger Schlickeisen. “The governor is even encouraging the killing of wolves that reside and den mostly on federal land, which belongs to all of us, not just Alaskans. There is no biological emergency in Alaska that warrants such measures.”<br /><br />The ADF&G gave the National Park Service just a few hours notice before the killing began and as of Tuesday morning, at least 58 wolves were already known to have been killed, in addition to at least 27 that had already been killed by private hunters. According to the National Park Service’s March 15 briefing statement (attached), if ADF&G is successful in reaching its goal, “this would leave one-to-two wolves per 1,000 square kilometers in the Upper Yukon Wolf Control Area, approximating the lowest known wolf population densities in Alaska.” Upon learning of the state’s plans, the Service requested a no-wolf kill buffer zone around the preserve, but the state refused, putting at risk many of the members of seven wolf packs that reside mostly within the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, many of which are part of an ongoing wolf study conducted by the park, at federal taxpayer expense.<br /><br />“The Palin administration has created the least scientific Board of Game in the state’s history and this board will stop at nothing to reach its arbitrary and overblown goals for moose and caribou populations. They don’t even play by their own rules!” continued Schlickeisen. “Removing such huge numbers of predators from a region will do untold damage to all the wildlife that depends on that habitat. Governor Palin is recklessly pursuing policies that could turn America’s last frontier into nothing more than a large game farm.”<br /><br />During the recent spring Board of Game meeting, the board also approved a proposal to allow to the use of gas bombs to kill wolves and wolf pups in their dens. The consistently unanimous votes for unprecedented and increasingly extreme methods of killing wolves have caused many to question the make up of the board and the magnitude of their vendetta against wolves. Each of the seven members have been appointed or re-appointed by Governor Palin, who has consistently chosen her appointees from the hunting lobby, excluding all other interests from the board.<br /><br />###<br /><br />The Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund (www.defendersactionfund.org) provides a powerful voice in Washington to Americans who value our conservation heritage. Through grassroots lobbying, issue advocacy and political campaigns, the Action Fund champions those laws and lawmakers that protect wildlife and wild places while working against those that do them harm.<br />Contact:William Lutz (202) 772-0269 Jessica Brand (202) 772-0239SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-74489980050055968222009-03-09T02:59:00.000-04:002009-03-09T03:00:18.788-04:00I'm a Born Again American<object width="480" height="295"><param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vBZSBGHm0RY&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" name="movie"/><param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"/><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"/><embed allowscriptaccess="always" width="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vBZSBGHm0RY&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" allowfullscreen="true" height="295" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-4392216336680874452009-02-09T05:21:00.004-05:002009-02-09T05:52:05.554-05:00KnittingOk, so it's been a whole long time since I posted anything about knitting, and I've been doing a bunch of it lately! So look!<br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><a title="DSCN2401 by sueknits4fun, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sueknits4fun/3264751467/"><img alt="DSCN2401" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3297/3264751467_27cae0d94d_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" /> </a><a title="More Christmas knitting by sueknits4fun, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sueknits4fun/3163810589/"><img alt="More Christmas knitting" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1053/3163810589_dd870a7c9a_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" /></a><br /></p><p align="center"><a title="DSCN2291 by sueknits4fun, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sueknits4fun/3164641586/"><img alt="DSCN2291" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1149/3164641586_ba7105bd0f_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" /></a> <a title="Charlie's baby ole sweater by sueknits4fun, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sueknits4fun/3036126950/"><img alt="Charlie's baby ole sweater" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3157/3036126950_563053ea47_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" /></a><br /></p><p align="center"><a title="DSCN2317 by sueknits4fun, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sueknits4fun/3163811995/"><img alt="DSCN2317" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3110/3163811995_60c003a6c8_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" /></a> <a title="Christmas knitting by sueknits4fun, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sueknits4fun/3164645830/"><img alt="Christmas knitting" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1076/3164645830_8bd93d3a4e_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" /></a> </p><p align="center"><more><p align="center"> </p><br /><p align="center"><a title="Christmas knitting by sueknits4fun, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sueknits4fun/3164645830/"></a> </p>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-73841733392375666742009-02-07T11:13:00.002-05:002009-02-07T11:15:53.307-05:00Thank you Fran!<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sueknits4fun/3260781986/" title="Sockmark from Fran by sueknits4fun, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3502/3260781986_7a7dbba5cc_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Sockmark from Fran" /></a>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-15824445944159277482008-11-24T14:59:00.002-05:002008-11-24T15:08:35.588-05:00Dad's are supposed to be supermanOne always thinks of our parents as being larger than life, even as we grow to adulthood. This year has been a telling one for the man who gave me life and who taught me how to live life to the fullest. He's always been healthy as a horse, he's survived a bout of bladder cancer a few years ago with seemingly no repurcussions, but this year has been a hard one for him and for me. This spring he had a mild heart attack and found out he had arterial blockages, and had stents put in where possible. It wasn't until fall that he said to me that he finally felt strong and healthy again, better than before his heart attack. <br /><br />But this past weekend, he had a stroke, possibly brought on by a tumble he took at home last week, but a stroke nonetheless. He doesn't remember short-term anything, including the events leading up to the stroke, nor even a week or more before. He's home, thankfully, and recuperating. Still, I am concerned - maybe, hopefully, needlessly. I hope he'll return to his vital and strong self quickly. <br /><br />I get to visit him in a few weeks. It's been several months, and that was a quick visit, so I'm anxious to see him and talk with him.SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-76450494526661950402008-11-05T05:45:00.002-05:002008-11-05T05:48:31.876-05:00YES WE CAN!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7HZW2BtjkRU2BL_JkzhX8fqteJZdkTe_w-_kNqIVNUSr5LYV0YgmsrpNIRBVTwOtaUL6HYlwcmlAsGZNhTtt-Q4pzIrfnsl1p5_tLVhNJr35EgLTdhJwx36Kk5T46zv5Yu_cZ/s1600-h/Thank_you.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 147px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7HZW2BtjkRU2BL_JkzhX8fqteJZdkTe_w-_kNqIVNUSr5LYV0YgmsrpNIRBVTwOtaUL6HYlwcmlAsGZNhTtt-Q4pzIrfnsl1p5_tLVhNJr35EgLTdhJwx36Kk5T46zv5Yu_cZ/s400/Thank_you.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265123536140396514" /></a>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-90819514685459858522008-10-28T02:56:00.001-04:002008-10-28T02:58:02.097-04:00Watch Barack Obama in Ohio<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XDw5_d0M-wc&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XDw5_d0M-wc&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-85021240909286575162008-10-24T22:01:00.002-04:002008-10-25T11:48:06.956-04:00I am pissedSomeone stole my Obama lawn sign today.SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-79876171430105675102008-10-24T21:58:00.001-04:002008-10-24T22:00:43.500-04:00Opie Andy & Fonzie want to talk about the election!<object width="464" height="388" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://www2.funnyordie.com/public/flash/fodplayer.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value="key=cc65ed650d" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed width="464" height="388" flashvars="key=cc65ed650d" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" src="http://www2.funnyordie.com/public/flash/fodplayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><div style="text-align:center;width: 464px;">See more <a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/ron_howard">Ron Howard</a> videos at Funny or Die</div>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-41063555065301397522008-10-10T22:23:00.002-04:002008-10-10T22:26:00.868-04:00Get to know Barack Obama<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eCeNPAaGVVY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eCeNPAaGVVY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-63504396403875748222008-10-10T22:21:00.001-04:002008-10-11T06:51:55.712-04:00Palin's Wolf-Killing Program Results in 14 Illegal Wolf Pup Deaths<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-HtNXlShAvU&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-HtNXlShAvU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-47437778705992575242008-10-07T15:07:00.000-04:002008-10-07T15:08:20.050-04:00McCain's You Tube Nightmare<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GEtZlR3zp4c&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GEtZlR3zp4c&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-74600467717274699502008-10-07T15:02:00.000-04:002008-10-07T15:03:30.837-04:00Sarah Palin is Anti-American!<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6eu9Z2hXky0&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6eu9Z2hXky0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-47829066873437515762008-10-07T14:46:00.003-04:002008-10-07T14:51:27.354-04:00Women voters must send a message: Palin isn't qualified<p>Robyn Blumner (Tribune Editorial Salt Lake Tribune)</p><p>Women will decide this presidential election, so say the political experts. We vote in greater numbers than men and when we even marginally abandon our Democratic-leanings, Republicans win. </p><p>The big question is whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's two X chromosomes and morning-anchor mien will be the thing that drives women to the McCain-Palin ticket this November. </p><p>Palin personifies the overscripted, jab-laden, plasticized rhetoric of the modern presidential campaign. One might even say she was born to the sound bite. But you get the impression that all she's got to offer are about two lines on each issue, parroting what she's been told or what has been written for her. </p><p>In Palin's now well dissected interview with Charlie Gibson of ABC News, her answers were shallow and at times barely cogent. On Iran's nuclear ambitions, Palin said three times that she wouldn't ''second-guess'' Israel if it attacks Iran to eliminate its nuclear facilities. </p><p>This is probably the most significant national security issue the next administration will face, yet her answer was devoid of the slightest depth. </p><p>On our sputtering economy and how she would diverge from President Bush's economic policies, she said: ''We have got to make sure that we reform the oversight also of the agencies, including the quasi-government agencies like Freddie and Fannie, those things that have created an atmosphere here in America where people are fearful of losing their homes.'' </p><p>Huh? </p><p>If she wanted to discuss the foreclosure crisis, Palin could have talked about an end to predatory lending practices or the need to assert regulatory authority over the investment-banking sector. </p><p>If she wanted to talk about Freddie and Fannie, Palin could have referred to them properly as ''government-sponsored enterprises'' and described the way they used lobbyists to keep their capital ratios dangerously low. </p><p>But what she said instead was nonsensically broad - just a platitude really, and a mangled one at that. </p><p>On Iraq, Palin has conflated what happened on 9/11 with going to war there. Is she really still confused about this? </p><p>What we have heard from Palin scares me. I want the first woman vice president to be up to the job regardless of her party. </p><p>I may not be a fan of anyone in Bush's inner circle, but I know that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is prepared to be vice president. I know that Bush's former EPA chief, Christine Todd Whitman, could do it. There are a number of women on the Republican bench who are able, but Sen. John McCain chose a someone who is - to put it bluntly - not smart enough. </p><p>I'm not a school snob. You don't need a Harvard or Yale degree to be qualified as vice president. Bush has an undergraduate degree from Yale and a MBA from Harvard and yet he's one of the dimmest bulbs to live in the White House. But it took Palin six years at six different schools to finally secure an undergraduate degree in journalism at the University of Idaho. </p><p>That's indicative of someone who either can't cut it in the academic world or doesn't want to. Either way it's a problem for a potential vice president. </p><p>Palin reminds me of Bush's pick of lightweight Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. Those on the ideological right, such as former Bush speechwriter David Frum and conservative activist Linda Chavez, knew that Miers didn't have the intellectual chops for the job and harangued the administration until she withdrew. </p><p>This time, there are no anti-Palin ad campaigns coming from the political right. It apparently cares more about who sits on the Supreme Court than who sits one-malignant-melanoma away from the presidency. </p><p>It is not partisan to say that a vice presidential candidate needs to understand this complex, dangerous world with nuance and depth. Palin doesn't. And it is up to women to vote her back to Alaska, where she can see Russia, but thankfully not attack it. </p>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-83558696171766060862008-10-07T14:17:00.002-04:002008-10-07T14:18:50.051-04:00Betcha not all 'down-home' women love Sarah Palin By ROSANNE HEMONDArticle published October 7, 2008 in the Toledo (Ohio) Blade <br /><br />I CAN honestly speak from the experience of a woman who is a wife and a mother who also has been a working mother for most of her married life.<br /><br />"Down home," "Joe Six pack," "hockey mom," "gotcha," "betcha," "maverick" - what nave terms used by someone seeking second seat to the most powerful person in America. I cannot begin to describe how offensive I find Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.<br /><br />Well, yes, I can. And I shall.<br /><br />First, she wants to present herself as being the consummate working mother to appeal to all women.<br /><br />This offends me in so many ways. When I decided to have children I opened my arms to my babies, regardless of health, as have all the women I know. That she did not abort or give away her son with Down syndrome tells me that she is not totally self-serving, but this does not make her special; it makes her a mother.<br /><br />But as a mother, I felt then and now that the first and most critical responsibility as a parent is to be there to raise that child, to make my family my priority. She understands all about special-needs children, and to some degree, so do I. The first rule of parenting is to be there. Mrs. Palin promotes herself as everyone's ideal of a mother, yet she obviously cares more about her career than her family or she would not have dragged her children into the limelight, especially her pregnant daughter. She would have done what most mothers' instincts would dictate: protect her family first and foremost.<br /><br />As governor of Alaska, she can do that. She can be home and be there for her children. As a political candidate for vice president, she and her husband are continually on the road. Who is there for that baby, and who is there helping her daughter through a deeply personal situation? The teenager is there, living in the public eye.<br /><br />Mrs. Palin keeps saying that her daughter is going to get married. Why? To protect whose image? The father is 18. They are just children. While I respect Barack Obama for saying that the family is off limits in the campaign, as a voter, it is not off limits to me.<br /><br />I was not a hockey mom. But I've been a baseball mom and a swimming mom and a theater mom and a band mom and working mom, as well as a wife. I also was a teacher and, afterward, ran two successful businesses, one a large child-care center, and the other a travel agency. None of the above would qualify me for political office.<br /><br />I will certainly give her credit. She was, let's see, in parent-teacher organizations, so was I. She was a mayor of a small town. I come from a small town, and although I have never been in politics, I am well aware of how much power that position generates, especially when it is a part-time job. She was a business owner. I'm curious about what business she owned.<br /><br />Now my husband and I are one of millions of families of retirees who are worried about myriad things. We are deeply concerned about the cost of medical care. My husband and I have already lost a portion of what was his automotive pension package. Our investments are bottoming out. I live in fear that our teenage grandsons may end up going to war. I worry about my children being able to support their families and themselves.<br /><br />Under previous administrations, we have had the good fortune of traveling to many parts of the world and we have friends in Europe. With the experience of extensive travel and ongoing conversation with people from other countries, I guess in the context of international communication, this means I have more experience than Mrs. Palin.<br /><br />My degree is in education, hers in journalism. I suspect we are almost equals in our government preparation.<br /><br />As for her being governor of Alaska, I will give her the benefit of the doubt. She may be the best governor Alaska has ever had. So that's where she should stay.<br /><br />People who are responding to her social conservativism must wake up and realize this self-described maverick's hypocrisy. She can talk down to people and make them feel that she is just like their neighbor, not putting on airs, but her money is not where her "good-old girl" mouth is. She insults our intelligence with her "down home" rhetoric, but perhaps this is just her inability to communicate on a higher intellectual level.<br /><br />How can anyone begin to imagine Mrs. Palin dealing with Vladimir Putin and the Russian increase in aggression? Maybe she could float a note across the Bering Strait from Alaska, saying, "Now Mr. Putin, that's not nice."<br /><br />Why, considering the long history of nuclear situations, can she not be taught to pronounce "nuclear"? And all the "betchas" and "Joe Six-pack" idioms will certainly go a long way toward destroying any possibility of global acceptance of her intelligent leadership. We need a leader. We need a communicator.<br /><br />We must understand that although we are voting for president, there have been too many times when the vice president has needed to take over the job. And those people who fall back on the idea that we are voting only for a president are frighteningly nave. It is a serious package deal and both candidates are equally important.<br /><br />I like that she is gutsy, pretty, and presents herself well. She means well too - I think. But, electing her to a position that could result in her running a country at war, suffering the worst economic crisis since the Depression and the loss of respect from allies, and dealing with leaders of other countries is tantamount to going into an operating room and finding out that your surgeon just finished a two-month course in basic pre-med.<br /><br />She has been coached, but she cannot hide her naivete and lack of knowledge. When she doesn't have an answer, she simply refuses to do so. She did this a number of times in the vice presidential debate.<br /><br />During the debate, Mrs. Palin scolded Joe Biden for looking to the past. Did she miss his important comment that "past is prologue?" When we disregard the past, we are doomed to repeat it.<br /><br />People must understand that if they vote for John McCain, they are voting for a ticket that could catapult an inexperienced, nave, "hockey mother" of five into the position of becoming this nation's leader.<br /><br />Remember, too many people deemed the "good old boy" George Bush qualified to run this country, and look where that "down-home" guy got us.<br /><br />I just don't get it.<br /><br />Rosanne Hemond, of Clinton Township, Michigan, is a former teacher and a concerned constituent.SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-221623483266888972008-10-06T12:06:00.000-04:002008-10-06T12:07:04.813-04:00McCain's Keating problem - it's a real problem not just a made up one.<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HAzDEbVFcg8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HAzDEbVFcg8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-48709161546100717762008-10-01T13:35:00.002-04:002008-10-01T14:50:01.404-04:00Obama's ideas for a changed economy!<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KXqMAnv2Ans&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KXqMAnv2Ans&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-13733164176563308922008-09-25T10:38:00.001-04:002008-09-25T10:39:44.494-04:00Dear John....As you aspire to be President of the United Sates and the de facto leader of the free world, I just wanted to tell you that as President, you would be required to provide leadership on the following issues<br /><br />World Peace <br />Nuclear deterrence <br />Global economy <br />War <br />Health Care <br />Middle East peace <br />Job growth <br />Taxes <br />Education <br />Energy <br />Housing <br />Transportation <br />The Supreme Court <br />Guantanamo <br />Environment <br />Social Security<br /><br />ALL AT THE SAME TIME.SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-58210215659290599192008-09-23T11:21:00.005-04:002008-09-24T12:28:44.661-04:00Why should I have pay for their greed and avarice? Why should American taxpayers bail those guys out?I'm not a happy camper. Why does the American taxpayer have to foot the bill for their underhanded and capricious actions? We aren't the ones who blew it! They are, punish them! Dock their salaries, make them pay for their mistakes, fire them! Help the people who have been caught in the middle of the scam, who were hoodwinked by these sleazeballs. Ok, they can't keep the home, but they shouldn't have to pay for a mortgage that was coerced and underhanded!<br /><br />I'm so fed up with the Bush Administration always helping out his rich cronies! I'm so disgusted that the average citizen is yet again paying for their dishonesty and greed! It's not my job to fix that. Send 'em all to prison for cripes sake!<br /><br />I hope Congress pays attention!SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-89738864661236303142008-09-10T13:27:00.001-04:002008-09-10T13:27:39.859-04:00<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="425" height="325" id="oilymystery" align="middle"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.oilchangeusa.org/oilmystery.swf" /><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><embed src="http://www.oilchangeusa.org/oilmystery.swf" quality="best" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="425" height="325" name="oilymystery" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></embed></object>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-46644189821189389072008-09-09T11:06:00.002-04:002008-09-09T11:08:08.882-04:00More of McSame<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NBtbG5xjFBY&rel=0&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NBtbG5xjFBY&rel=0&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-25162708835380992472008-08-20T15:12:00.003-04:002008-08-20T15:15:27.258-04:00Did McCain get illegal oil money?So how sketchy is this?<br /><br />Right after John McCain switched his position on oil drilling, a bunch of top Hess Oil Company execs gave $28,500 each to help elect him.<br /><br />But so did a Hess office manager and her husband who's an Amtrak track foreman. They probably didn't have that kind of money lying around, and if oil executives funneled money through them to help elect McCain, that's very illegal.<br /><br />Turns out, another oil industry exec gave McCain multi-thousand dollar checks allegedly from a Taco Bell manager, an auto mechanic, and a discount studio store owner.<br /><br />McCain returned $50,000, but over <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">$450,000</span></strong> in suspect money is still out there.<br /><br />I signed a petition urging the U.S. Justice Department to investigate John McCain's potentially illegal contributions from the oil industry. <br /><br />Can you join me in signing at the link below?http://pol.moveon.org/mccain_oil_donors/?r_by=13439-4344308-N_TJ4Wx&rc=comment_paste<br /><br /><a href="http://prezoilmoney.oilchangeusa.org/index.php?type=search&can=P80002801&v=graphs&congress_num=total">Check this out</a>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-50658912690245054472008-08-05T10:21:00.000-04:002008-08-05T10:21:09.118-04:00NRDC: The True and False of Oil Drilling<a href="http://www.nrdc.org/energy/drillingtf.asp?gclid=CIW-lqLw9pQCFQKaFQodxAurqg">NRDC: The True and False of Oil Drilling</a>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-20125923283104963862008-08-04T09:38:00.000-04:002008-08-04T09:39:39.650-04:00The Prosecution of George W. Bush for murder<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/45f1Riv_z1I&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/45f1Riv_z1I&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18653259.post-44672231231401830852008-07-29T14:36:00.006-04:002008-07-29T15:21:28.126-04:00Vacations should never start like this!So last week, the DH and I went on a vacation. Let me just say that I don't need vacations to start the way this one did. The first Sunday, we took the bikes down to Dover, DE for his mom's family reunion. We've been several times, it's always a fun time, and a chance to renew acquaintances with people we seldom see. It was a scorcher of a day, so we waited til late to leave, preferring to ride home after dark when it's cooler, but as we're headed north, we're seeing lightning off to the west and just know we're about to get drenched. Actually we made it most of the way home, but the last 40 miles we had to travel due west, right into the storm and baby did it ever. I couldn't see the road in front of me. We're on Rte 78, moving from the express to local lanes so we can ride slow in the far right lane. Mike is in front of me, and then suddenly, he's not... and then I see sparks and I'm screaming because he's gone down, and I can't see him, can't stop fast on the wet highway in this downpour, and I'm terrified! After what seems like an eternity, I finally get safely stopped, run back to see him up, (thankyou God thankyou), and trying dodge speeding traffic to get his bike off the roadway, but of course NO ONE WILL SLOW DOWN OR STOP!!!! Finally he flags down a car who stops traffic--whoever you are thank you so very very much for your kindness and care! He's safe, the bike is safe, and he can take inventory. He's hurt, but the 2" of water on the road has really been a blessing. Even though he slid 250', he's got minor roadrash, the bike is ride-able. We need to get off the travel lanes of the highway, so we get on the bikes, get over to the far right and flashers running, head home, going even slower than before. When we finally get home, I took him to ER to be sure he was ok, broken pinky, pulled chest muscles and a few abrasions!!! I'm so grateful!!<br /><br />When we went back the scene the next day in the sunshine, we could both see how lucky he was. He was thrown into the local travel lanes when he ran over either a truck mudflap or a truck tread (Truckers, do you even realize how dangerous it is to other travellers letting those treads flap off all over the road ???? Do you even care??) - we found both along the side of the road where he fell, and we found a gouge in the curb where his forward controls slammed the cement.<br /><br />I never want to see that again!<br /><br />So, Tuesday, we leave for the real vacation, this time in the car, because it's supposed to be a rainy week up in Maine. It is, but not while we're out and around too much, though if we'd been on bikes, we wouldn't have seen or done as much. We went first to my sister's home in Freeport, greeted by Gus & Lily, their new 4 month old yellow lab pups...full of energy and as cute as can be! A short visit this time, we head out on Wednesday to the <a href="http://www.watchtide.com/">WatchTide B & B</a> - Pat and Frank are wonderful Innkeepers, and the place is right out of the old days. We spent the next 3 days exploring towns like Castine, Searsport, Belfast, Mt Desert Island, enjoying the scenery, visiting lighthouses, eating in the local diners, and just enjoying ourselves and Maine. I was born and raised there and know some of the terrain, but these were places I'd never had a chance to visit, so Mike & I both had a chance to see something new. And we shared the B&B with 2 wonderful couples from the Atlanta area, the men had entered the <a href="http://www.nationalboatbuilding.com/">National BoatBuilding Challenge</a>.<br /><br />On Friday, we ambled our way back to Freeport, enjoyed the ride, stopped to see some soggy lighthouses, and then met my sisters and their husbands and my dad & his partner for dinner. Good food, good company!<br /><br />Saturday was the family get together, my sisters, our neice, and her 1yo son, and her fiance, our nephew, family friends, our step sister and her soon to be 1 yo daughter, and Morgan, the 9yo black lab, and Gus & Emily. It was an awesome day - full of laughter and conversation and too much food. I don't get a chance to visit like this very often, and I'm glad we were there.<br /><br />I have pictures, I'll post them tonight!<br /><br />Oh yea, knitting! I made hats for Rog and Brian, and socks for sister Gail, and started hats for Sarah & Madyson. And I have pictures of the FOs<br /><br />And now I'm back to the ol' grindstone!SueKnits4Funhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17929005884844466845noreply@blogger.com0