White House to Disabled Kids: We can’t keep you out, but just you try to get there.

My mother is a lifelong Democrat.  The first presidential candidate she remembers supporting was John F. Kennedy. She was six.  She remembers waking up in the middle of the night as a teenager to hear that Bobby had been shot.
So what with prominent members of the Kennedy family, including brother Teddy, supporting Barack Obama, one might think that she would be inspired by the reflected glow of the Kennedy aura, to support the Senator from Illinois.
A huge part of who my mother is, as a person, is the result of spending the past thirty seven years as the mother of a severly disabled child.  My brother reached school age during the Carter administration
“Educators nationwide are protesting a Bush administration move to curtail hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funding for disabled students that could force some schools already in budget straits to trim health services or cut back instructional programs.”
in other news,  underfunded districts are cutting special-ed services to homeschooling kids

Just so we don’t forget

In all the hullaballo surrounding the very important question of WHO gets to move into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. next January, let’s not overlook who we send to DC to work with her(or him)

The following senators’ terms expire this year.
Check them out & see who’s worth re-electing, and who needs to get fired.

Democrats
Baucus, Max (D-MT)
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. (D-DE)
Durbin, Richard (D-IL)
Harkin, Tom (D-IA)
Johnson, Tim (D-SD)
Kerry, John F. (D-MA)
Landrieu, Mary L. (D-LA)
Lautenberg, Frank R. (D-NJ)
Levin, Carl (D-MI)
Pryor, Mark L. (D-AR)
Reed, Jack (D-RI)
Rockefeller, John D., IV (D-WV)

Republicans
Alexander, Lamar (R-TN)
Allard, Wayne (R-CO)
Chambliss, Saxby (R-GA)
Cochran, Thad (R-MS)
Coleman, Norm (R-MN)
Collins, Susan M. (R-ME)
Cornyn, John (R-TX)
Craig, Larry E. (R-ID)
Dole, Elizabeth (R-NC)
Domenici, Pete V. (R-NM)
Enzi, Michael B. (R-WY)
Graham, Lindsey (R-SC)
Hagel, Chuck (R-NE)
Inhofe, James M. (R-OK)
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY)
Roberts, Pat (R-KS)
Sessions, Jeff (R-AL)
Smith, Gordon H. (R-OR)
Stevens, Ted (R-AK)
Sununu, John E. (R-NH)
Warner, John (R-VA)

You can find your Representative here
The House website wasn’t as cut-and dried easy to find who was elected when, but when I get a chance to do some looking, I’ll try to post a link.

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Lisa D. Hull
Myth_Lisa@yahoo.com

“What does the Lord require of you but to do justice,
and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8)

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…And There Was Much Rejoicing

The lights are back on at the Red Queen’s Palace,(YAY!!!)  however, the Royal Computer-Thingy has been severely wounded, and is currently out of commission.  Problem with the power supply, she’s taken it apart and made valiant attempts to fix it, to no avail.

But she has Lights! and Heat! and a working stove!
So she’s happy about that.
She asked me to convey her thanks to everybody out there in readerland for all your support, and thoughts, and donations and all that cool stuff, and she’ll be back to posting as soon as she has a working computer available to type stuff on.

My previous post did not originate in my cerebral cortex

Rather, somewhere south of my brain stem.

My sciatic nerve, to be exact, which has lately been causing my left leg & foot to feel like they’re trapped under a 2X4.
I haven’t seen the Dr yet cause I’m scared i’ll end up shelling out a couple hundred bucks I don’t have just to be treated like a drug-seeking hypochondriac. Even though the source of my pain is likely a disc that is about to go south for the winter. That runs in both sides of my family.
I’m extremely reluctant to take the pain pills very kindly offered to me by people who need them a whole lot more than I do, ’cause it’s not best practice, doesn’t actually fix the problem, and it’s, well,  illegal. That and I’m job-hunting, and it would be kinda hard to explain on a drug test.
I don’t usually get personal here, but that’s what’s going on with me right now.
So this, and some other family experiences have informed my opinion about the dangers of, OMG the scary pain pills!!!!   you could get addicted!!!1!!!11!
I don’t take it back, 
I just felt like explaining.

I no longer believe there is an epidemic

Of prescription drug abuse.

I think it’s just another made-up way to shame people for being sick and in pain, with the added bonus of punishing people who can’t afford to or can’t convince a doctor to, actually treat what’s wrong with them, and are therefore stuck treating symptoms.

I Have Officially Seen It All.

I was looking at the SkyMall catalog online today and came across this little gem:

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s POOP FREEZE.
I’ll just let the catalog description speak for itself here:


Pet waste removal made easy!

Poop Freeze is an easy, earth-friendly way to do your “dooty” and clean up after your dog. It chills animal waste to -62°F, creating an outer “crust” that enables you to quickly place in a bag and dispose. Makes picking up loose stool and diarrhea easier. Effective for all kinds of pets, including dogs, cats, birds, etc. Indoor or outdoor use. Safe for humans and pets when used as directed.

My sister says this is for people who think their shit doesn’t stink.

What I’m Reading Right Now. (or Monday Night Multi-tasking)

Just for kicks, I thought I’d give you peeps a little peek at what-all i’ve got open on my computer:

first of all, it’s 1:48 AM where I am, and my sister’s iPod is for some reason blaring Eminem. WTF?

Cincinnati Arts Association – Sent to me my a local friend here in OH this is the Performing Arts hall.

Physics for Poets – I started to read this in a library years ago – thought it was interesting

I thought to look this up because I was reading wikipedia articles on Quantum Physics, Which I got to from a program listing for the WP entry on the History Channel show Decoding the Past.

I saw an epsiode of this show earlier this year – and decided to google one of the people on the show – this a professor (then at Pepperdine, now UCLA) named Robert Cargill — turns out he’s working with the San Diego Natural History Museum on comething called the Qumran Visualization Project, part of its Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit

The Museum promtes the most well-known hypothesis regarding the Dead Sea Scrolls – that they were produced by a sect called the essenes, who lived at Qumran. Turns out the popular theory about the Qumran being home to the Essenes is not without its detractors.