Pawprints From Space

Okay, I have been trying to get to my blog for over a week STUPID security program won't let me because STUPID web site's certificate isn't up to date. Or so I'm told. I question this because all of a sudden every web site I visit that requires a log in is supposedly having problems with their certificates. every. single. one. Coincidence? I think not. I have been wondering when did cute freckles become STUPID age spots? They look the same, they form the same way. But for some reason after age 30 they aren't freckles any more according to "them", the little brown specs are now STUPID age spots. I think not. Especially since they are the same spots that have been on my face since I was a child. New ones, maybe... old ones, not so much. Another case of STUPID society making women over 30 feel bad about themselves. I order quite a bit of plant material for my garden online. Normally there is no problem. STUPID company this time took my order in late June, cha...

Okay so there's this huge storm almost as big as Texas, heading for Texas and even though warned of "certain death" somewhere around 90,000 people decide to ride it out. Knowing that the emergency teams are not going to be able to get to them once the storm hits until after it is over. How dumb can you be? Even though the cost per barrel of crude continues to drop gas prices suddenly jump up by a minimum of 30 cents in fear of refinery shut downs due to Ike. Uh-huh and isn't it supposed to be that we don't feel the fluctuations at the pump for four to six months because it is a futures market? Supposed to and what is are apparently two different things. The economists etc say one thing (won't feel it right away) while the oil companies and the gas stations come right out and say nope, we're boosting prices in anticipation of problems. Which is the truth? Off-shore drilling, setting the environmental issues I have with that aside, is in trouble every time a...

Okay it is stupid to vote for someone "just because". Just because you are female and the candidate is female; just because you are Latino and that candidate is Latino; just because you are black and the candidate is black just because... well, you get my drift. So into the silliness and excitement of the out-of-touch vs. the "celebrity" comes Caribou Barbie. And people are ga-ga. Men 'cuz she's pretty and knows how to use a gun effectively (probably won't make you clean the fish either, she'll do it) and women because she's... a girl. Or at least that's the idea. We'll vote for her because she's a woman. We women like that you know, never mind the issues she's a girl... count us in. Oh. Come. On. She's been a beauty pageant princess, a sportscaster, a very small community mayor (one resident claims the city administrator actually did all the work), and briefly governor of a state with a relatively small population given its l...