YIPPI......spring is here!!!!!

Nothing from the news this week. I just want to blog about how wonderful it is to have nice weather. My daughter and I are having a blast playing outside. The other day she rode her bike around, which we found out is getting a bit too small for her and we are going to have to go bike shopping. All the flowers are starting to come up and the feeling you get from this weather is just undiscribable. I absolutely love spring and the warmth of the sun on wintery dry skin is so soothing. I just LOVE it. I just wanted to share with everyone how grateful I am for the great weather lately. Let me know if you are feeling the same or if you like other seasons better.

Health care.....

I would really like to have the nation mail the facts about what this health care bill is really about. I am so confused about it that I want to cry. Why is it that they are deciding our future with healthcare and not really letting anyone know the exact details in what we will actually get out of it. I have read a lttle about what other countries go through with universal healthcare and it scares me a bit. They say that the waiting time on average is out of control and that just makes me not want to go to the doctors at all. I know they are already crazy just from experience already. I don't want to think of what it will be like when we have the universal health care. I just really wish since it is our healths future on the line, they should involve us a bit more. At least inform us better. What are your thoughts?

Cats and dogs, the new dinner menu?

So, this weeks blog is going to be very hard for some to read, it was a bit disturbing for me at first, but then started to toss the idea around. In China, they have cats on dogs for sale, not for pets, but to be sold as food. They are trying to get the laws passed to get this illegal. Alot of chinese are very upset with the eating of cats and dogs, but others are ok with it and prefer the taste. I started to think about the reasons for why this is acceptable and decided that in the whole scheme of things, this is really not all that bad. Cats are dogs are animals just as horses and pigs are, and yes, these are some peoples pets too. In many countries and our own, we eat them. So what makes cats and dogs different, because they become domesticated? They are still animals, and when we put them to sleep in animal shelters, we just waste them and do nothing with the bodies. Seems like a waste to me. Now I know I sound horrible and as if I do not own pets or care about them, but I do. I have a cat and a dog and used to have horses and love them very much. I could never imagine eating them, but if they died, it is still meat to some and if you were dying and had to eat, would you not eat that meat? I know that the people in China are not dying and have other choices, but again, it is meat. Here is the link to the story, and what are your thoughts on this. And don't just yell at me and say how disgusting I am, think about it logically.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/09/china.animals/index.html?hpt=C2

wieght in the spotlight....

I could not help but watch Jessica Simpsons interview with Oprah, and thought to myself, you go girl! I have to say, I really do not like the girl because of how stupid she always seemed to be on her tv show when she was first married and other occasions. She just seemed to be a big ditz. I have to say that I am happy for her and kind of impressed for the new show that she is doing with how the world sees beauty. I think this world does become very obsessed with beauty and how thin our women are suppose to be to be considered beautiful. I think that our society thinks that women should look anorexic just to be considered normal and beautiful. That is a bunch of CRAP. Marilyn Monroe was a size 12, yes a 12. That is the average for most women now. In todays standards though, that is now considered to be over weight. What is with this world that makes us want to be a stick to think better about ourselves. The media and celebrities are not helping when it comes to our children. They are starting at very early ages thinking they are fat and trying eating disorders. We need to start giving our children better images to compare and look up to. What are your views on how we see beauty?