annewandering

Snow is a dirty word unless it is a screensaver. I have vowed not to go out if there is snow this year. There are some advantages to being old!! My husband measured it. 6 inches of very heavy snow. Any one who llikes it is welcome to come haul it off. Free even.

Trust the government to take care of kids.... If we dont trust them with our money how can we trust them with our kids? Or are they all of a sudden good caring loving people. Cant have it both ways.

if the mother is in danger dont they care that she is safe? They leave her out there saying she isnt important but only the kdi are? She is STILL in danger isnt she even though the kids are not there?

This type of thing has little to do with seductive, sexy clothes or sex for that matter. It is strictly power. It is apparent that he not only has power to rape but power to convince people he has the right to it.

There is a petition in hollywood for him to be released. Amazing who is pushing it. It is not just whoopi. Here is the CNN report on it: Filmmakers demand Polanski's release - CNN.com ZURICH, Switzerland (CNN) -- Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar and Martin Scorsese have "demanded the immediate release" of fellow filmmaker Roman Polanski, who was arrested in Switzerland on a U.S. arrest warrant related to a 1977 child sex charge. A supporter displays a "free Polanski" tag on his shirt during the Zurich Film Festival. They were among 138 people in the film industry who signed a petition against the arrest. Polanski was on the way to the Zurich Film Festival when Swiss police detained him in response to the American warrant. The filmmaker pleaded guilty in 1977 to having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor but fled before he could be sentenced. He settled in France, where he holds citizenship. Investigators in the United States say Polanski, then 43, drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl. The filmmakers objected to his being arrested en route to the film festival, which held a tribute to him this year. "It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, is used by the police to apprehend him," said the petition, backed by France's Societe des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers). Watch report on Polanski's detractors among the Swiss » "The arrest of Roman Polanski in a neutral country, where he assumed he could travel without hindrance ... opens the way for actions of which no one can know the effects," said the signatories, who also included actresses Monica Bellucci and Tilda Swinton and directors David Lynch, Jonathan Demme, John Landis, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Wim Wenders. In the United States, powerhouse movie producer Harvey Weinstein is trying to recruit more supporters for Polanksi. "We are calling every filmmaker we can to help fix this terrible situation," his company told CNN in a statement.

Oddly enough some people think that is ok if the guy is famous. Even for their own kids. Sick isnt it?

Moksha, I was just wondering what was new about this. If the government didn't subsidize most of them we would have a whole lot fewer universities around.

I laughed at the idea that a person who has undergone stress can not be creative. Ha. Most truly great creative works draw from the artists agonies in life. My husband read me some opinions in Europe that nearly made me gag. Rich creative people are not the new 'aristocracy. Long ago the so called upper class was not held accountable for anything. I thought we were to the point that no longer was done or at least not openly. If found out that is usually grounds for scandal not approval. To be honest this mans creativity is not all that hot either. It is almost always, if not always, depictions of perverted and degrading aspects of life. It might be artistic but it is hardly wonderful.

Why would we not be 'allowed', anatess? If they cant be implanted then they can't be. I dont really know what would be recommended. I do know it is general practice to have a number fertilzed since the success rate is no where near 100% My guess is that most would come back for another try later, if at all possible.

You read it wrong. The biological parents are Shannon and Paul Morell. I can see how easy it was to make the error though.

Hmm I cant see the name of the biological parents in the article. Fox news does have it though. If they do like maternity hospitals they dont go so much by name as identifying numbers so I would hope that is not the case.

Well Bini you need to repent and go get a nice laz-e-boy!!!

You may well be right about medicare. It is scary to give up a sure thing for what might end up being nothing. We know the foibles of medicare but trying out a new program is scary when your health depends on it working properly. It might be that we need to change it for the people not on it yet and leave the ones on it alone unless they change voluntarily. Until greed is no longer a factor we are never going to have the best or maybe even a good plan for healthcare. (or anything else) Lobbyists and self interest are wrecking our country. We wouldn't even have to worry about National Health Care if people cared about other people. Since it is a fact of life we do have to deal with it and try to work around it. So what is pelousie's husbands job? Please do not tell me insurance.

update on this. The baby boy was reported born today. I am so impressed with this couple giving up the baby. The biological parents were afraid the 'implanted' woman would have an abortion when she found out but the woman said that she had worried that the baby would be the last chance for his parents to have a child. The baby does have a 2 year old sister so that was not the situation but it was impressive she worried about the family even not knowing them. The woman who can not have another child has a lawyer but they are going after the clinic not the biological parents.

It would have to be hard to even want to date again after that. Do you have any hesitations because of trust issues? If not wow. You have kids. Go places with them. Women love men who love their kids.

Its going to be hot. Do we get icees?

ahhhhhh I think I will not protest.

Eeeck halloween means summer is over and its going to be cold. I hate halloween!!! How about a scrooge costume for me?

I cant believe it grandma but we are in agreement for once. I think it is unconscionable to propagandize our children. Either way. Schools are to teach not convert. It seems that every side has used them for the purpose of propaganda for generations though. Patriotism is good. We should teach our kids to support our government and why. We should teach them to take sides of a discussion and be able to say why they pick that side and my parents said so is not a good reason. (its hardly a good thing for us, as parents, to tell our kids what to think either.) Schools are to teach facts and teach kids how to learn, not what to think.

Nephi's wife.

It was interesting that she was the one that kept stabbing Sharon Tate over and over. It may have had some root in the fact she had a baby from incest when she was young and that baby disappeared. She leaves us with a bit of a mystery. I do not envy her day today. Sometimes death is scarier than anything we can imagine.

Well Gwen if that is the song the ideas it puts forth are pretty good. I would guess the obama part was to give them an easy chorus to remember. It was probably illadvised but I dont really see anything horrendous about it. When I was a kid my brother whispered to me that his teacher told him that we were to watch out for pinkos and fellow travelers. I asked what those were then told him I didnt know anyone like that. He then told me that it was our responsibility to watch out for anyone who said anything that might be pinko. In fact his teacher told her students that the kids were to hide under the bed and listen to our parents and their friends and then report to the proper authorities if they heard anything suspicious. Now we lived in a very small town and even now I doubt there are any pinkos here. Unless its me and my husband and I dont regard us as anything like that. Now on a comparative scale which do you think is worth of worrying about? The song or the idea that kids should spy on their parents and friends?

The misheard song is pretty funny. I wonder what it was really saying.

In the story I read it mentioned that this has happened before and the courts always rule in favor of the biological parents. The birth parents are looking into having a surrogate parent for a child of their own. Frankly the biological parents ought to offer to do it for them in return for their kindness in how they have handled this.