Coming up for air

I just started using Google reader to manage the blogs I read and I've noted after 2.5 days with our company, that I have seventy unread messages. But we are determined to show our guests the entire Black Hills as well as the Badlands in 4 days, which is insane, and really not doable. But, it is fun, but tiring, to try. I'll scan the blogs another time.

I wish I was as brave as Fran, though, when T's step sister's SO calls people derogative labels such as "Chinks" instead of proper names of Japanese, for example. I'm wondering if there was a way to connect one's political leanings (this person is a Republican) with the willingness to use insulting labels.

Can't stay and chat, as much as I'd like--gotta serve company dinner!

Blame the Democrats

For the failure of the SCHIP legislation? That is what Mike Leavitt, secretary of Health and Human Services, says.

I don't.

I've already written Sen John Thune, R-SD, to tell him how disappointed I was in his vote on the issue and unless he voted to override the veto, I certainly would remember his heartless act when he runs for re-election in a few years.

Again, I didn't leave the Republican Party. They left me.

(Sounds familiar, doesn't it?)