My middle name is Lurlene

I look at the diary board.  I have already recommended Kerry and every non-candidate diary I could find.  I have tried to write what is in my heart as I struggle to settle on a Primary candidate, but see no sense in setting myself up for the Hillbots and the Obama zombies.  See as a red, winner take all in the general, state Texan, the only presidential election I vote in that counts is the Primary.  I wander about at work, while I wait for my software that connects me to the China servers so very slowly, on kos and try to comment fairly on whatever side I see not being treated fairly or thank someone for something pithy.  And I am called....whatever.  

I listen to NPR on the way home.  And at 6:30, it is Market Place, which is even less heartening than kos.  Let me see, what did I learn today?  That a 1% increase in the national debt is nada compared to the recession roaring its way in.  

I wonder if it is at all fair to saddle Obama with the hell the next presidential term is bound to be.  The Rethugs have made such a mess of things.  There is no way anyone is going to be able to set aside tax dollars for health care of do much of anything but damage control and be a one termer.  If he is the man many people say he is, it seems a waste to bring him into play in this world.  

The only good news about the bad economy is that Market Place says the economy will push people to vote for Mittens as he is the strongest economically.  But I don't think that will happen because I don't think the south will vote for him.  And even my Rethug friends want a more liberal voice in the White House which for them is McCain.  Depression deepens.  I think of the vicodans I have saved for when my teeth get really bad longingly.  

And I say the only thing really left to say.  

I have pooties.  

I have 5 pooties and the great dane.  I will post more pics when I have more energy.  And some day, maybe even tell you more about being named after Lurlene Wallace.

•  tips

  for pooties

  by crazyshirley2100 on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 07:12:47 PM PDT

  •  oh heck, why not vote for Edwards.

    Your economic heart and your justice-lovin soul want to, and we get a better deal the longer this goes on.

    It's hard to stay depressed with five cats, anyway.

    by kate mckinnon on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 08:20:58 PM PDT

•  Were you really

  named after Lurlene?  I want to hear more

  by a gilas girl on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 07:31:14 PM PDT

  •  Absolutely

    Shirley Lurlene...say it aloud.  Imagine it ringing across the trailer park at dinner time...from a farm bred Mom with a cajun accent.  Oh yeah.  Shirley Temple and Lurlene Wallace.  And when we moved into the trailer, it was so grand.  We had air conditioning for the first time.

    by crazyshirley2100 on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 08:54:03 PM PDT

    •  I love the shirley temple part, too

      hey you don't have to tell me trailers are grand, I loved em when I was a kid, always wanted to spend the night with the aunts who lived in them.

      by a gilas girl on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 09:18:01 PM PDT

•  If you "knead" me....hah! Thanks for that:) n/t

  by SDChelle on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 07:41:16 PM PDT

•  I had chili tonight

  not talkin about pooties.

  by pseudopod on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 07:41:28 PM PDT

•  They said exactly the same thing in '92

  I wonder if it is at all fair to saddle Obama with the hell the next presidential term is bound to be.  The Rethugs have made such a mess of things.  There is no way anyone is going to be able to set aside tax dollars for health care of do much of anything but damage control and be a one termer.

  That's what a lot of Dems said in 1992...maybe we don't want a Democrat to win, because the country is surely going to hell over the next several years, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. If a Democrat is in the White House, they will just get the blame.

  Seemed to work out okay for Bill.

  by Free Spirit on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 08:04:42 PM PDT

•  There's nothing wrong with being named after

  Miss Lurleen. She did some really good things in addressing the state of mental health care in Alabama during her term as governor. Contrary to popular opinion, Miss Lurleen and George were not interchangeable.

  by LynneK on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 08:05:59 PM PDT

  •  I LOVE your comment, and not for the content

    I love hearing someone referred to as "Miss".  It's how I was raised, and I am proud to have trained all my friends to use honorifics when referring to one another, beloved children, and their respected elders.

    by oortdust on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 08:19:07 PM PDT

    •  That was how I was raised, as well

      and how I have raised my two daughters. It's second nature to me to refer to someone who was a respected elder to me during my childhood as "Miss" or "Mister". My grandfather worked on Miss Lurleen's campaign, and I remember sitting in her lap one evening during a political meeting that Papa and Grandmother were hosting.

      by LynneK on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 08:24:25 PM PDT

  •  Mom said

    She saw her speak in Beaumont, TX and was so impressed.  She had never heard such an educated, graceful woman speak so purty.

    She wanted her youngest daughter to get an education and speak up, just like Miss Wallace.

    by crazyshirley2100 on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 08:59:43 PM PDT

•  For your pooties :)

  On days when all around you seems to bring nothing but despair...those warm eccentric little friends, with their soft motors humming, staring you hard and straight in the eye while soothing the soul (both yours and their own) with alternating massaging steps...pooties can assure you, in their mysterious determined way, that things really will work out OK.

  Especially if a woofer's stretched out nearby quietly lost in dreams of the chase.

  by 417els on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 08:14:03 PM PDT

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