Truthful Politics

Spring Fling 2010

I was extremely lucky and made The Loopy Ewe Spring Fling 2010 lottery this year.
 

I took a class with Jared Flood
OMG he was amazing. I learned so much during my seamless sweater workshop I was ready to start making my own sweater. He explained Elizabeth Zimmermann's percentage system so well that even if anyone is math challenged they will understand it. He really is a wonderful teacher and if you get a chance to take a class with him definitely do it. 

I also took a class with Anne Hanson, sweater fitness workshop, but unfortunately I did not get a picture of her in class. Anne's class was the day after Jared's and between these two classes I can say with confidence that I am ready to tackle a sweater either that I design or one from a pattern and make it to fit my dimensions. Yeah both the instructors were that good.

My roommate was CinBen (Rav ID) from Texas and she was awesome. We actually hooked up on the Ravelry forum for the Fling and picked each other as roomies before Sheri assigned them. 

Here are pictures of the fling

Cupcakes, I think they said 12 dozen were ordered by us Loopies.

  
Socks knitted with Vesper yarn. Not sure why Vesper was picked because Sheri doesn't sell this yarn. I love the way it stripes up. Mine is the brown pair and the yarn was a gift from Lisa (HomesteadMom on Rav).

Loopy group singing the loopy song. This is a song sung to a popular tune with the words changed. It was great.

Full house

More Loopies

Cindy, my roommate behind the red purse.

Hopefully I get in again next year it was a definite blast and I made a lot of new friends. The Fling ended on Sunday with a breakfast and the room left open until 5 p.m. so we could sit and knit as long as we needed. I was going to the Quality Inn and share a room with Mel (MelThomas - Rav) and Angie (LucyToo - Rav) and fly out on Monday. Turns out a couple more girls were staying there also and heading out on Monday. I was sad to go home and wish we could do this forever, this seemed to be the overall feeling.     

Hugs!!!

Namaste!!!!

Week One on Jenny Craig

Yesterday was my first week consult after being on Jenny Craig's food for a week. I did not alter the menu and bought the foods recommended for the week, this way I can try the variety of foods and see which I like and don't like. The food was good and some of it was absolutely delicious; like the turkey panini, OMG that was a great sandwich.

There were a few meals I did not eat, Friday's liunch and dinner was one day. I went shopping for gas fire logs and then to Hillsborough Yarn Shop and did not figure HYS had a microwave for my lunch so I did not bring anything with me. I realized I was getting hungry and instead of skipping lunch I stopped and picked up a chicken breast at Smithfield's and an unsweetened tea. I knew dinner was going to be Saurbraten and potato dumplings as we had started marinating the meat earlier in the week and I did not want to be starving and pig out on it, hence my major reason for eating lunch. I did do good for dinner I had a small piece of meat and about 4 golf ball size dumplings. Saturday we did our errands and for lunch I had a garden salad with grilled chicken and unsweetened tea. Those were my only meals off the plan and I really thought about what to eat and did not do my usual.

Since we are allowed unlimited salsa and certain veges I bought some celery and carrots and am using that to dip into salsa. My first two days I did not have any of the unlimited veges in my fridge and surprisingly I did find myself hungry. The reason I say surprisingly is that I would normally eat 1 maybe 2 meals a day and I thought I would be eating way more than normal so I would be overly full. LOL was I totally wrong. My portion control was way out of bounds and now seeing the portions I should be eating I was really overeating and all in one sitting. This was causing my body to store fat because it thought I was starving it and causing my brain to say I was very, very hungry, so by the time dinner rolled around I would pile on the food. 

I did not do my normal walks as I am still getting over that nasty cough and any exertion causes me to hack. However, as soon as that goes away I will go back to my 30-60 minute walk every other day.

So after all that my weigh in revealed that I had lost 3.8 pounds. YEAH!!!!!!!!!

Hugs!!!

Namaste!!!

Major Concern - Very Scary Giving One Man This Much Authority

Am I the only one who has read the small four page Text of Draft Proposal for Bailout Plan dated September 21, 2008?

It is some scary stuff. It gives the Secretary of the Treasury carte blanche to do anything without any oversight. Without a single person, entity or group to keep an eye on what he can do until "three months of the first exercise of the authority granted in section 2(a) and semiannually thereafter."

What is section 2(a)? "Authority to Purchase. The Secretary is authorized to purchase, and to make and fund commitments to purchase, on such terms and conditions as determined by the Secretary, mortgage-related assets from any financial institution having its headquarters in the United States."

Not only that but it also prevents any review of his decisions. In "Sec. 8. Review. Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency."

It gives the Secretary "authority to purchase mortgage-related assets under this Act...limited to $7000,000,000,000 outstanding at any one time."

Please people read this proposal. See what Nancy Pelosi is talking about on C-Span. This is no small authority we are giving the Secretary of Treasury Henry Paulson to do as he pleases. It is very scary stuff.

Shame on NC's Two CBS Stations - WRAL & WFMY

** UPDATED Monday, September 29, 2008 - I made a very big mistake. I stated originally NBC when I should have stated CBS in my title.

I went to an awesome Change We Need Rally where both Senator Biden and Senator Obama came to speak in Greensboro NC. According to Greensboro's Police Department Captain J. E. Wolfe "he estimated about 20,000" attended. ¹

I was a press volunteer and was stationed with the local news. I met Dan Bowens of WRAL (a Raleigh station with CBS affliation station) and WFMY (CBS affiliate station out of Greensboro) set up their camera in front of me, so I know both stations were there, among others. These two stations are NC's popular stations for the triad and triangle areas. I tend to watch both as I am located in the middle of Greensboro and Raleigh and I like their format, but not their views all the time so I do go to CNN and MSNBC and also read a lot of news stories on the Internet.

So why SHAME on these two stations?
Let us start with WRAL's 11 PM news on Saturday the 27th of September - Dan Bowens did report on the rally. However, during his news clip he interviewed a representative of the Republican party who gave his views yet he did not interview a Democrat representative. One sided politics?

WFMY did not even mention the rally on their 11 PM news segment. Not one single word?

Unfortunately I did not think to tape another station just the two CBS stations. I'll remember next time.

**I do need to mention that WRAL which is a CBS station also does the news for the local FOX station WRAZ.

Websites searched on Sunday September 28, 2008:

ABC11- WTVD Raleigh - not one single comment on the rally. I went through Local, National and Politics - not one mention of the rally.

ABC45 - WXLV Greensboro - not one single mention in their small news video area.

NBC17 - WNCN Raleigh - found link right away on front page.

NBC - MSNBC Winston-Salem - no mention.

FOX8 - WGHP - Front page

FOX50 - WRAZ - link found under News and then Politics link.

CBS5 - WRAL - link found on front page, scroll all the way down under Local News.

CBS2 - WFMY - link found under News and then Elections 2008.

WXII12 (in partnership with CNN) - found on front page.

¹ WXII 12 NC

Sen. Biden firing every one

Sen. Biden firing every one up.

Travelling press arrived w/Obama &

Travelling press arrived w/Obama & Biden.

At rally in Greensboro. AT&T

At rally in Greensboro. AT&T Band warming up.

NC Important Election Dates

Friday Oct. 10
Voter registration forms must be postmarked or delivered in person by 5 PM.

*Important - you can still register to vote at One-Stop early voting locations.

Wednesday Oct. 15
Deadline for submitting originals of faxed voter registration forms.

Thursday Oct. 16
One-Stop voting begins. List of locations by county.

Locations in Alamance County:
Youth Services Building
201 W. Elm St. Graham

May Memorial Library
342 Spring St. Burlington

Mebane Arts and Community Center (Begins Monday Oct. 20)
622 Corrigidor Rd. Mebane

Tuesday Oct. 28
Last day to request mail-in absentee ballots in writing (exception due to sickness or disability).

Saturday Nov. 1 at 1 PM (some counties 5 PM)
One-Stop voting and registering ends

Monday Nov. 3
Mailed absentee ballots must be received in Board of Elections office by 5 PM.
Deadline to request absentee ballots for sickness/disability is 5 PM.

Tuesday Nov. 4
Election Day - Polls open at 6:30 AM and close 7:30 PM

REMEMBER TO VOTE

Oxymoron?

Is the title Truthful Politics an oxymoron? Some might seem to think so. My goal for this blog will be to report on local, state and national politics in a non-partisan way. I intend to look at and research issues, statements and voting history and bring these to you in a clear way.

I am a registered Republican who does not vote party lines but truly looks at issues. I watch TV ads, debates, read newspapers, magazines and anything else, I then look up and research the information to see how true they are. Once I am done with my research I then decide who I will vote for.

I truly wish more people did this but I know we all don't have that kind of time, so I am hoping this is a place you can come to and read up on what you hear and find out the truth. I will be doing the research for you.

I look forward to getting to know you!