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President Obama's biggest Challenge..Not the Economy
The economy is not President Obama's biggest challenge. It is how he will handle the memos released about torture. It will define his posture with his own base. If he is not part of the solution,
Vetwife 04/16/2009 26 16 1 20
My Way or the Highway..Now we are in a Ditch !
Republicans: My Way or the Highway..They put us in a ditch ! I think back to the days that Bush would stand up and lie through His teeth as he described the threat would come in the form of A ...
Vetwife 04/29/2009 5 8 1 9
Georgia. Authority...and all of those Uppity Blacks !
Someone needs to get this to people who can stop this nonsense down here in Ga. Al Sharpton has been here before. Is this any way to treat a veteran? Solitary confinement, terminated, for ...
Vetwife 05/05/2009 7 1 - 16
So when do we call it Treason?
What line has to be crossed? When does free speech dip over into the uncharted waters of treason? When does a person on the airwaves get to opine about service men and women (broadstroking to ...
Vetwife 05/08/2009 33 4 - -
Some everyday people call out the real news !
I watched the White House Correspondence Dinner and felt really good that Wanda Sykes took on Rush Limbaugh. I remember the day I got my shot at Katherine Harris and how great it felt to finally ...
Vetwife 05/10/2009 6 2 - 21
Troop kills 4 then self in Iraq
US Troop Kills 4 and self in Baghdad We have got to get these guys out of Iraq !!!!! PTSD troops are being re deployed over and over and anyone who know squat about the illness knows people ...
Vetwife 05/11/2009 13 8 - 7
Cheney talking is causing us real danger..Prosecute !
His daughter gets on the airwaves and declares that President Obama is aligning with Terrorists. What kind of talk is that? All of this talk about something as plain as outlined by the ...
Vetwife 05/12/2009 13 8 - 7
So how many dems knew and who is the Prez really protecting?
I have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. This is not about National Security. This is not about whether torture is wrong or produces results. IMO, this is about some Democratic folks ...
Vetwife 05/13/2009 136 13 - 27
Everybody sane..Turn off the spin cycle !
Now let me get this straight !!!!!!!! According to the turncoats who are now spinning like a top....The Bush Administration committed war crimes like torture but because Nancy Pelosi knew ...
Vetwife 05/15/2009 18 8 - 2
Are you just sick and tired?
Who is just tired of trying to figure out what to do with their economic, educational, healthcare, mortgage, and continued downsizing situation, every single day? People are just IMO, average ...
Vetwife 05/17/2009 17 9 - 10
Remembering Memorial Day....it isn't about picnics
I have worked with veterans and lived with a combat veteran for more than 20 years. Let me be clear. Veterans Day and Memorial Day are two separate days of honor. Veterans Day is for the living ...
Vetwife 05/24/2009 14 9 - 137
What do you think is wrong with America?
I personally think that accountability and cowards and greed is the main problem with America. Can you imagine today, a MLK and millions of people marching for equal rights? Can you imagine any ...
Vetwife 06/24/2009 19 3 - 2
Socialized medicine...  The VA...and it works
Over the Bush years it has been a mess at times but the Atlanta VA has come a long way just since November. My husband is treated for several service connected disabilities at the Atlanta VA and ...
Vetwife 06/30/2009 8 4 - 8
My open letter to the Blue Dogs
My husband fought in Vietnam with the 101st. We have the VA. Our son who lost his job does not have insurance or a business anymore. The VA is very overcrowded due to all of the veterans who ...
Vetwife 07/25/2009 14 17 1 19
Corporations and GOP trying to Sheet you.
That is right . The DNC is being too nice because the truth is the so called conservatives and corporations are trying to wrap all the ignorance and hatred intro a real white sheet and not call ...
Vetwife 08/05/2009 4 2 - 8
Let me count the ways
Now Let me count the ways of the POLITICAL Hypocrisy regarding the republican and conservative viewpoints against healthcare reform and have demonstrated lately with their hyped up rhetoric of ...
Vetwife 08/14/2009 3 2 - 6
What is the military healthcare if not Socialism..are they saying no to the Military?
I find the hypocrisy so overwhelming until it fatigues my mind. We have a military that the conservative movement claims to be behind. Really?
Vetwife 08/15/2009 12 2 - 17
OK  I concede for argument sake !  If they get what they want !
OK for the sake of argument let us just agree with the republicans and see how ridiculous their argument is. NO MORE GOVERNMENT IN OUR LIVES. The first thing we do is scratch the Fire Dept. We ...
Vetwife 08/17/2009 10 2 - 25
Operation Health Cost !
Well here is an idea. The blue dogs, the republicans, conservatives, none want a public option or any type of real reform. Ted Kennedy spent his whole life trying to pass Universal ...
Vetwife 09/03/2009 5 4 - 10
What does the party of NO really want?
I am serious about this question. Do they think they can obstruct and act treasonous enough that we will have a revolution or that the president will resign? Do they really think besides with ...
Vetwife 09/23/2009 26 2 - 20
Hey Jane, you have been replaced by Palin
Jane Fonda was an actress with an attitude that went to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War which was part of the NVA and funded by Communist China. Jane was never on a national ticket as a ...
Vetwife 09/24/2009 10 11 - 27
The red conservatives believe in bailout if it is in their backyard !
Suddenly Conservatives believe in Bailout....In their backyard ! I am sitting in one of the reddest areas of the country. I also am sitting where the flood waters are rising. Carroll, Paulding,...
Vetwife 09/26/2009 2 5 - 104
You Die ! The Republican plan.
That is so much more truthful that You Lie. Finally a democrat with a backbone and a mouth to back it up. Joe Wilson and his YOU LIE was a huge success among the losing side, but I believe ...
Vetwife 10/02/2009 1 2 - 12
Why is Harry still in charge of the Senate?
Is the base and grassroots going about this healthcare and all other issues the wrong way? Should we not be demanding that the Senate appoint a new Leader who can do the will of the American people?
Vetwife 10/20/2009 74 11 - 25
At least every rich man was not Mr. Potter
Today I went on a sentinmental journey. Why? I have no idea. I looked up Christmas in the sixties and the fifties, even the 70's and I really thought of what is wrong with America today. Don't ...
Vetwife 10/22/2009 6 4 - 18
Jerk Joe's chairmanship ! Are you listening Harry?
Quite a little buddy you have there Harry. He not only wants to make you look like a fool but take American lives down the rabbit hole while you are in control of the senate. Harry..... get rid ...
Vetwife 10/28/2009 20 1 - 53
The elephant in the room is an enemy of the state
Remember when GWB stated after 9-11, you are either with us or against us. The democrats were locked out of meetings on capitol hill to the point of having to call the capitol police. This was ...
Vetwife 11/06/2009 26 - - 115
As this vetwife deals with vet's pain..Nero Coburn fiddles !
I thought a Dr.'s first task was to do no harm. Let me tell you something, I am one of those caregivers who walks the jungles of Vietnam during nightmares of a 100 percent disabled veteran. I ...
Vetwife 11/11/2009 19 15 - 131
Palin envies Hillary with a passion !
I heard on the news that Hillary said something to the effect that she would be happy to sit down and have a cup of coffee with the Rogue one and Palin was fishing for a coffee date and ended ...
Vetwife 11/15/2009 29 6 - 161
Veterans are you aware you have single payer?
OK..Another fine mess the right winged extreme has flaunted, is, "We don't want socialized medicine" ! No public option ! No single payer! For those yelling this to the tops of their lungs, are ...
Vetwife 11/21/2009 39 4 - 296
I am more important than Sarah Palin !
I am more important than Sarah Palin (You betcha) I think we should start a thread of our works, our advocacy, our truths, our creativity and maybe all build up our egos to say it loud and ...
Vetwife 11/22/2009 20 16 1 463
Separation of church and state my butt? As a Christian, I am offended !
School breaks the law and as a christian I am offended ! If the law truly is separation of church and state. The Villa Rica High school has been getting pretty dumb and dumber each year but ...
Vetwife 12/09/2009 45 7 - 94
Remember when Gingrich shut down the govt.?
How come the people who want single payer demand a shut down until we get what we want from this HC Bill? What did Gingrich do to just shut it all down?
Vetwife 12/16/2009 7 1 - 24
5 soft drinks bottles filled with....honey?
OMG...The turrorists are winning from all of this fear mongering. Someone on the news just referred to the incident at Bakersfield,Ca. as Chicken Little Syndrome. This is embarrasing.
Vetwife 01/05/2010 48 4 - 40
What do you think this country will look like in 2020?
As the snow started to fall in Georgia today, a rare treat, I thought how in years past before climate change, it was not that rare. I wondered about what 2020 would be like with the tech ...
Vetwife 01/07/2010 48 4 1 24
I am surrounded by Idiots.....and embarrased...
I am surrounded by idiots...and embarassed No I cannot afford to move. Look and point and laugh at how the locals 10 miles down the road brought in the new year. Yes, I am a cultural snob ...
Vetwife 01/11/2010 43 17 - 24
Remembering Dr. King
Oh yes, I had heard of Dr. MLK. I heard a lot of negatives, being from the rural Ga. town and surrounded by superficial Christians. Things have changed but not much. Not as much as I would like.
Vetwife 01/17/2010 3 1 - 15
Tim Kaine is a terrible DNC leader
The main has neither the passion or vision to lead or run national elections. As far as I can see, he does not have any organizational skills as well. Where is Kaine on the pundit circuits? ...
Vetwife 01/19/2010 78 13 1 22
Go Left Young Man, Run Left !
Go Left Young Man..As fast as you can ! If the Obama administration has not gotten it yet..listen up. YOU run left fast and furious. Drop the cool. It ain't working. We got fired up, now ...
Vetwife 01/20/2010 3 1 - 7
Term Limits for Justices....Like Immediately !
How is it someone can be placed in a lifetime position without any qualification of being a judge and not have any accountability? How is this even rational in a 21st century world? When these ...
Vetwife 01/23/2010 54 - 1 43
Class warfare and a conservative agenda in Ga
Yes there are school uniforms being pushed on schools but what this principal, Dennis Brown is proposing is beyond the realm of sanity. Where we live is Rural Ga and with a HS enroll data of ...
Vetwife 01/25/2010 19 9 - 87
Conform, sleep,consume, Wake up !
I posted several weeks ago about an outrageous school ban on blue jeans and tee shirts. That fight is still on going. I want some of you to remember the movie "They Live". A (B) movie at best ...
Vetwife 02/17/2010 5 2 - 11
The We Party
The We Party There has to be a counter for the Tea Party bowel movement. How about The We Party for We the People? We have been against the patriot act for years. We have been against big ...
Vetwife 02/21/2010 10 1 - 12
And the kids don't matter in this mess !
I have always thought that a person and their private dysfunction should not be public and yet every single player in the Edwards saga is going public and I feel really bad for the kids. All of ...
Vetwife 03/16/2010 4 - - 22
What next for the nutjobs when this passes !
Just wondering what your thought are. Will Rush really move? Doubt it. Seriously, what will they do when their heads explode? Will they take to the streets, to the courts, riot, be just as ...
Vetwife 03/20/2010 44 7 - 30
A wicked smiled crossed my face tonight
You know the kind of smile. Like you just ate the last piece of pie and glad your glutton brother didn't get it this time. There was plenty of things about the HC bill I did not like but it is ...
Vetwife 03/21/2010 9 8 1 15
My exchange with a Big Tea Partier and Faith
Now I have a facebook and found out some of the old classmates were into the tea party. One of my largest regrets in the 60's was remaining silent even though I was just a mere teen. I have more ...
Vetwife 03/23/2010 24 18 - 26
Neglect? Where are the Wasilla Child protective Services?
The average person would be facing a juvenile court judge for neglect. This time it is Willow. Here we have the Hot Mama from Wasilla out on a public platform telling strangers to stop vehicles ...
Vetwife 03/30/2010 130 20 2 58
Maverick...Myth like meets reality
I thought about John McCain saying now that he has never claimed to be a Maverick. He has claimed to be a maverick more than Brett, Bart, and the whole Warner Brothers rerun team. But, he ...
Vetwife 04/07/2010 3 6 - 24
My speaking requirements.....
Yes, I have a few. None Like Sarah Palin's but I decided to list a few. I am a Public Speaker, but obviously have gone about it all the wrong way. I am an outspoken activist for social ...
Vetwife 04/14/2010 10 5 2 24
Time to raise taxes..NOW
What is with the democrats with no guts. Gov. Rendell just spoke of what has to be done if we plan on every remotely getting back to some level of middle class and IMO not becoming some sort of ...
Vetwife 04/21/2010 13 4 - 10
It's a depression....
Why is this meltdown being called a recession? I do not see it as a recesssion. When banks fail and people are broke and soup kitchens are set up and unemployment is sky high, how is that a ...
Vetwife 04/27/2010 33 10 1 92
Ga,Tx.,Utah, and other talking Papers Please like Az.
OK Pluto was dead on this Jim Crow Like racial profiling spreading like some dread disease. This has to stop right here and right now. Listen up people. I lived through the horrors of the ...
Vetwife 04/28/2010 13 8 - 28
Bubba Joe and me can't figure out a motive
I was watching the local news and got very angry, at the local police spokesperson. Oh no, they cannot think of a motive at all. Not at all. A 7 year old could put this together. Mexican ...
Vetwife 05/02/2010 14 5 - 28
A way to handle the oil and unemployed !
I thought about this and Roosevelt had a Works program. We have how many unemployed? We have a major corporation and Keystone RICH cops making big bucks with an oil gusher. My idea is this. ...
Vetwife 05/21/2010 17 7 1 43
Big as Both Wars combined !
This man made disaster is as big IMO as both wars combined and should absolutely be nationalized. We cannot let a corporation run a war on nature. Iraq and Afghanistan is devistating lives to be ...
Vetwife 05/25/2010 3 4 - 52
Update from real Boots on the ground in Gulf
I got a comment from family on my FB from some relief workers and it is a huge moranic mess. The BP people are clueless according to some people who have been put on notice for the relief boats ...
Vetwife 06/02/2010 14 13 - 26
Talk me down, because I don't get it !
Why is it that the Gulf gusher is being treated like it is not really that big of an emergency? That is how I am perceiving it. What if buildings were still falling and planes were still ...
Vetwife 06/07/2010 102 14 - 42
Joe Barton jumped the dead shark
I am furious as you should be. During the hearings of BP's Tony Haywood, this congressman, obviously Tea party spokesperson has jumped the shark along with Bachman. He actually apologized to ...
Vetwife 06/17/2010 28 9 - 30
OK..Now there is Oily kids...SHUT DOWN THE BEACH
I have been very distraught about the Gulf and the wildlife and the sand but there is clearly child endangerment going on in Destin. I am posting this so people will see just how ignorant ...
Vetwife 06/24/2010 135 59 1 50
Kill to Drill
Some of you may say this is all in my imagination but I can not come up with a logical one other than this. No matter what the hearings are producing. No matter that no one is seriously in ...
Vetwife 06/30/2010 14 9 - 53
Suspension of the 1st amendment and the Oil...This is freedom how?
On this 4th of July, someone is going to have to explain to me why Anderson Cooper is reporting from the gulf about a complete violation of the 1st amendment regarding Freedom of the Press. I do ...
Vetwife 07/03/2010 40 20 - 62
Arsenic anyone with that tea...Time Bomb Poison..The Oil !
I guess, till I die be posting about this horrible sickening situation in the gulf and the hits keep coming. Today I find out the Arsenic levels are up to the point that it WILL get into our ...
Vetwife 07/06/2010 12 7 - 23
BP goon or Macho cop? Bullying just the same.
Well, they are really serious about not wanting videos or camera shots of what is happening down in the Gulf. Now the little lady in the video, the one referred to I am sure as the small people by ...
Vetwife 07/09/2010 17 21 1 39
I AM WOMAN  ..here me Lie..Bachmans and Angles
She claims she became a republican after reading the book Founding Fathers but since she was in college, it sounds about right that she switched sides politically over some issues of her own. She ...
Vetwife 07/11/2010 7 6 - 32
Why is stupid so popular?
I have given this a great deal of thought. Why is ignorance and just plain stupid so popular? The dumbing down of America has reached an epidemic level ! There is the whole Gulf Mess and the ...
Vetwife 07/18/2010 101 33 - 46
The KKK and why I am an activist ! Sherrod reminded me.
This whole race thing has sickened me. I tried so very hard several years ago to figure how why I am so hard nosed and bull headed and get angry over racist comments. I know that I am a vet's ...
Vetwife 07/21/2010 15 4 - 21
Quick Lassie, go get Gramps..America fell in a well !
Well, some of you may be too young to remember the Lassie series but Gramps always ran and told Daddy and Mama there was a dangerous situation and Gramps was basically the messenger. Today in ...
Vetwife 07/31/2010 28 15 1 39
Oh Yes I did ..and You can too...every chance you get !
I just posted on a blog that I have posted on for years and the person was just amazed that I am a progressive living in Newt territory. Yes, yes, I know, I am surrounded by idiots. Today was ...
Vetwife 08/04/2010 3 3 - 68
When Small town Cops discriminates against disabled veterans !
First of all, I want to say, all who know me, know I advocate for the disabled and especially know that disabled veterans are high on my important list. In Novemeber, I had some business to do ...
Vetwife 08/07/2010 157 111 6 378
The tea party battle cry and the reason behind it !
I wanted the younger generation to think about something. If you are wondering where all the hate is coming from, then just examine a few of the things I uncovered about the tea party folk's ...
Vetwife 08/14/2010 95 6 - 44
War on Terrorism.....Really?
I have given this a great deal of thought and many here may be light years ahead of me on this thought. How can people so casually throw around the preception and words..War on Terrorism? We are ...
Vetwife 08/17/2010 24 6 1 26
Why you get propoganda on Fox
I never really could understand how Fox could get away with all they do for the teabaggers and vomit spewed by the right wing until I went searching down the Wikepedia and other sources and my ...
Vetwife 08/20/2010 32 6 - 32
GUS and Middle of the Storm
Ready tto quit. Well now is the time and in the middle of a storm makes no mind. I am Vetwife. I am not sure how to write this diary but I will start with with telling people the support ...
Vetwife 08/31/2010 123 13 - 35
The Rabid Bachman and my Vet..ROFL
My husband has had a great deal to contend with lately. Me in the hospital. Me & Gus. He fought that battle along with many others over the decades. Now August and every August is a month if ...
Vetwife 09/01/2010 7 8 - 13
 Gus and Let's have a party .. It's .Friday Night
Well we all know why most or all of us are here. We started smoking and now we are choosing to Give Up Smoking. Be ever so sure, it will be your decision or someone else's but ...
Vetwife 09/03/2010 144 10 - 28
God in a Box
This Jones character reminds me of Jim Jones, Eric Rudolph, and David Koreish all wrapped in one. This is Osama's best friend. I know Gainesville, Florida and this is not representative of ...
Vetwife 09/08/2010 35 6 - 15
Break the Broken Media..Shut em down !
I have given this a great deal of thought. The media is a problem. Breaking news is not Breaking news. A fire in California is not Breaking news to a Pittsburg couple trying to dodge a traffic ...
Vetwife 09/10/2010 23 2 1 78
Think things are bad now....go ahead let GOP take it back
No one on this site could be more disappointed than me in the lack of progress we as democrats have made since we have had the house, senate and the WH. Yes I am disappointed in the bending over ...
Vetwife 09/13/2010 39 12 1 33
When veterans were gunned down in DC
I heard Arlen Spector talking today on Washington Journal this morning and it got my attention. I had never heard this story. Republicans have been screwing over veterans a very long time and ...
Vetwife 09/15/2010 32 16 - 45
What in the devil is a conservative supposed to be?
I just took one of those little tests to see how progressive I was. How accurate it was, I don't know but I scored a 400 and 205 was average so I must be a socialist. Now sitting here in the ...
Vetwife 09/17/2010 21 8 - 27
Battle Cry..I want my WHITE country back !
I am taking the fringe serious as they are influencing mainstream and they are the New Dixiecrats. Be afraid of them and know they are more than fringe. They harbour the most seemingly logical ...
Vetwife 09/19/2010 20 15 - 83
The Republican Plague to America
Learn that slogan..not the original but the true one. It is a plague and it is coming to a city or town near you soon if you sit this election out.
Vetwife 09/23/2010 10 3 - 73
To the Young Voters...Shakers and Movers
This diary is to all the young bloods out there who came out in 08 for the democrats. I would start off normally by saying, "Let's talk kids". The truth is, you are not kids, you are young ...
Vetwife 09/29/2010 94 19 1 62
GOP strategy.....Turn the USA into the Deep South
The TEA party and the conservative movement is nothing more than an extension of the Bible belt and good ole boy mentality. We are not talking about the southern hospitality that used to be a ...
Vetwife 10/04/2010 65 16 2 53
The insane is so out there, they hate Andy
I have to tell you, that anyone who hates Andy Griffith or his message has got to be nuts. I don't know what happened to this generation of fruitcakes but anyone and I mean anyone who didn't take ...
Vetwife 10/05/2010 37 19 - 64
Is the entire country suffering from PTSD?
I am really serious about this. We have had two wars go on for such a long period of time. We have had a complete economic meltdown. We have had family and friends turning on each other and no ...
Vetwife 10/10/2010 36 15 - 65
A Republic Regime of Republicans
I am going to keep this diary short but I have got to have some answers on this one. My husband yesterday was walking through the house and the TV was on one of the media talking head shows and ...
Vetwife 10/11/2010 17 2 - 21
No COLA = big win for Republicans..
I know for a fact that more people on fixed incomes are helping their out of work children. Many by the hundreds of thousands are raising their grandchildren. How do I know? I am one of ...
Vetwife 10/12/2010 93 19 1 77
When the Melting Pot meets the Tea Pot
The United States of America is a huge melting pot and that is supposed to be a good thing. The principles of opportunity and freedom for all is of course a myth but it is still the agenda ...
Vetwife 10/20/2010 6 7 1 50
Qualifications to be a GOP candidate
Well it is Saturday night and let us look how many of us could have ran on the GOP ticket and gotten rich, famous and influencing with the pull of a lever. Here are the qualifications IMO and most ...
Vetwife 10/23/2010 16 9 - 41
A perfect description...."I am surrounded by Idiots"
I was watching the Lion King the other night with my 5 year old and realized old Scar and I had one thing in common. Put aside that he is a Disney Character and the bad guy, he did make a rather ...
Vetwife 10/26/2010 16 17 1 81
I seriously want to know...what do they want?
I am serious here. Are the tea party folks getting violent to keep us away from the polls? I want your ideas and thoughts. Are they wanting to start a revolution? They certainly do not have any ...
Vetwife 10/27/2010 139 19 1 51
They want to take us here !
I had a diary up several weeks ago addressed to the Movers and Shakers, which would be the young people. As the weeks have flown by the election has gotten uglier and uglier and my worst fears are ...
Vetwife 10/28/2010 11 8 - 33
PT Barnum vs Will Rogers in 2010 campaigns
There is one thing that has become ever so clear to me in the last several months but especially clear regarding this elction cycle this year. The spirit of PT Barnum is alive and well in every ...
Vetwife 10/31/2010 17 6 1 62
I don't like the view from under the bus !
I have tried and tried and tried to put some sanity into the reasoning of President Barack Obama. We get our butts handed to us which is not unusual in midterms but to let the right start ...
Vetwife 11/04/2010 69 10 - 49
Turn your clocks back and also your life !
I have no clue which century the majority in the house think they are in, but be ever so sure we will feel their hate and consquences. The catfood commission I am sure is in full force and while ...
Vetwife 11/06/2010 10 5 - 29
Remembering Veterans....
As the wife of a veteran and a veterans advocate I know too well how little respect in so many ways a veteran receives. Old men start wars and young men and women fight them. It is so ...
Vetwife 11/10/2010 51 25 1 279
Ball of Confusion
I do not think I can top the righteous rant of last night from one of the diaries but we had better start trying to influence legislators,from the local to the federal decision makers. We are in ...
Vetwife 11/12/2010 3 3 - 51
How that trickle down thing worked out for me
Well we know that Reagan is the Republican hero, I expect one day soon to be raised to Sainthood but the trickle down thing of Reagonomics sure cost me my kid's future and their kids future and hard ...
Vetwife 11/17/2010 28 19 - 2922