WAYWO: Holiday gifts

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Sunday December 18, 2011 · 5:02 PM PST

2011/12/18 · 17:02

Hi, I am your guest host for this week. WAYWO, What Are You Working On, is a community diary series for all things crafty, in a variety of mediums and techniques.

You may volunteer to guest host by signing up at this yahoo group ( http://groups.yahoo.com/...), which is checked from time to time. Also by joining this group, you will receive one email a week when the diary is posted.
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Looks like the old tags don't work like they used to....Oh well.

Personally, I have always preferred homemade gifts. It is like giving a piece of yourself. I have always enjoyed handmade items and love to receive them as they are more unique and less commercialized.

Unfortunately, not everyone feels the same...so now I am selective in who receives my handmade items and who gets the ubiquitous "gift certificate".

My sisters and my friends seem to enjoy my handmade items, so that is what they receive.

My in-laws and my one daughter-in-law have explicitly told me that they don't want the handmade "junk".

Oh well.....gift certificates then.

So, for my friends and my sisters and their families...homemade jelly and jam!

Some will receive my handmade pottery teapots and cups this year.

A couple will even get doilies.

Temmoku

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Monday June 06, 2011 · 11:38 AM PDT

2011/06/06 · 11:38

For those who may remember, a few years ago, we were adopted by a stray cat.

We called him "Outside cat" for lack of a better name.

He was not cuddly or friendly and would run if you approached him in any way.

People suggested I catch him and have him "fixed". A good idea but in practice, impossible. He was very shy.

He was a gray tiger with weepy eyes. I did not expect him to stick around. I figured once he found out my female pooties were not gonna be available, he'd leave.

Temmoku

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Wednesday June 01, 2011 · 7:44 AM PDT

2011/06/01 · 07:44

Yesterday, I received a phone call from someone who said he was an Independent voter.
OK.

He wanted me to be aware that Independents don't get a chance to vote for a party candidate in the Primary elections. Yes, I know that.

He said that other states are moving toward open primaries and that he is campaigning for Illinois to have an open primary election too. At least 10 states have or are moving toward Open primaries.

He added that there are at least 40% of all voters who are really Independents.

I told him that there aren't any real Independents since they vote either Democratic or Republican in the election. Every person that I've met out here who claims to be an Independent usually just says that so they won't have to discuss politics . They also tend to vote Republican anyway, kinda like Libertarians.

He did not dispute that.

I: I'm calling to ask your support for Open Primaries.

I asked him, how would that work?

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Does your State have Open Primaries?

15 votes Vote Now!

Does your State have Open Primaries?

Yes

4 votes

10 votes

It will be on the ballot

0 votes

There is a movement for it.

0 votes

pie

1 vote

New Budget addresses Library Privatization!

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Friday April 01, 2011 · 6:44 AM PDT

2011/04/01 · 06:44

Today Congress passed a new bill promoting the Privatization of all Public Libraries by the year 2020.

This is one of the main cost-cutting proposals offered up by the Republican Caucus in the House.

Estimates say that this will save over $20 million from the Budget this year alone and will totally eliminate all government expenses by the year 2050. Critics complain that this just is not enough and that Libraries should be eliminated immediately.

"The Beauty of this pork-barrel rider to the Budget Bill is that no books need to be purchased for public libraries now that books can be downloaded for "free" on the internet," according to Rep. John Boehner (R).

More facts below the jump!

Temmoku

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Thursday March 10, 2011 · 9:07 PM PST

2011/03/10 · 21:07

I received a robo call yesterday afternoon and this time I didn't hang up.

I was invited to attend a Public Forum featuring our School Board candidates monitored by Dan Proft.

Dan Proft, who was the spokesman for the town of Cicero and the Morton High School District of Berwyn and Cicero. Dan Proft who ran for Governor of Illinois in the Republican Primary and lost. Dan Proft who invited Alan Keyes to run against Barack Obama for Senator. Dan Proft whose name is like a "dog whistle" to my ears.

So I went to "teh" Google and did a little research.

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The Great Blizzard of 2011

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Thursday February 03, 2011 · 7:50 PM PST

2011/02/03 · 19:50

Well, I remember the Great storm of 1967 in Chicago....and this wasn't as bad.

But it had its moments.

1967 was 27 inches. I made it to school, one of a few hundred students in a High School that had close to 4000.

My bus driver(I lived more than 3 miles away) was a crazy Italian guy who managed to plow that bus through the snow drifts at 7 am and still get me to school ON TIME! For That - I thank him.

Of course, hardly anyone was there so I attended Physics(Mr. Rush lived across the street from the school and he was never absent!) and P.E. My other teachers wisely stayed home. Physical Ed was memorable because I finally had an opportunity to play volleyball with people who meant it. Boys!
Spiking and slamming, it was so exciting. Girls' Volleyball was all wimpy, screaming, dropping the ball, avoiding the ball or hitting it with a fist so that it flew high into the rafters.

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Sunday July 25, 2010 · 10:06 AM PDT

2010/07/25 · 10:06

I am your guest host for this week. And I thought I'd share what I am working on right now. I am the Summer Jam/Jelly Queen for my family and friends! Making your own is way so much better than buying that processed stuff in the stores. BTW. I love to make jam and jelly and always make too much.

What Are You Working On is a community diary series for all things crafty, in a variety of mediums and techniques.

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Sunday August 30, 2009 · 8:11 AM PDT

2009/08/30 · 08:11

Finally! At Last! I just can't hold off any more!

Besides, my son finally got a babysitter for the grandson for 2 weeks!

Yes, we are going off for 2 weeks. Abandoning our responsibilities to bask in the glorious enlightenment of the old world, of "old Europe", if you will.

I know it will be difficult.

No American(Chicago) pizza(?)
No politics(?)
No internets(tubes?)
No potting(?)
No English!!!!!!

Temmoku

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Wednesday August 12, 2009 · 4:20 PM PDT

2009/08/12 · 16:20

Surprise! and Surprize!

At the beautiful, luxury, Hotel Arista at the CityGate Centre in Naperville, Judy Biggert and Mark Kirk had a "Roundtable" scheduled for 11:30 to 1:00 on Wednesday, August 12. Ticket registration required. The topic was to discuss Health Care reform. The use of electronic recording devices, audio or visual, is strictly prohibited.

So I went online and registered with the Naperville Chamber of Commerce and got me a TICKET!!!!!! Whooo OOOO! I'm registered.

I went to her website and read her comments to prepare myself. I especially liked her comment about how frivolous lawsuits were crippling Health Care costs. She has a particularly insipid Op Ed about "Reform, not Revolution" that makes for lite reading. If you are really interested, you can read it on her website at judybiggert.house.gov.

Temmoku

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Monday August 10, 2009 · 8:34 PM PDT

2009/08/10 · 20:34

That's right! Judy Biggert had her Townhall meeting tonite from 6:30 to 7:30!

I bet you didn't believe she would have one! Ha....I guess she fooled you!

She explained her position and took questions from the polite and orderly audience. No one was rowdy and no one yelled or demanded attention. After all, it was a "gated" community in wealthy Hinsdale(technically it is in Willowbrook- It is called Hinsdale to attract those who want the prestige...and there is no lake there) just down the street from the Arabian Knights Stables in DuPage County, Illinois. (The percent of Democratic voters is 45% and rising!)

However.....there was a catch. Naturally.

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What is it that a Congressman is most concerned?

26 votes Vote Now!

What is it that a Congressman is most concerned?

Each Congressman has two ends, a thinking end and a sitting end, and since the Congressman's whole position depends upon his seat...

22 votes

Your opinion

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Your welfare

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Your support

3 votes

Your being informed

1 vote

The Public Health Care Experiment in the 1950s

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Thursday June 18, 2009 · 10:54 AM PDT

2009/06/18 · 10:54

We once had a Public Health Care Program.

It was in the 50s.

We needed it because our children were dying. And those that didn't die were often disfigured and horribly crippled.

And it affected rich and poor alike. Those with and without insurance, jobs, and money.

In fact, it is still a threat in the third world.

As you can tell, that Health Care Program was a failure....because nobody remembers.

It was Polio, Infantile Paralysis.

Temmoku

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Wednesday June 17, 2009 · 7:01 AM PDT

2009/06/17 · 07:01

There was a time when most Americans had no medical insurance. It was as recently as in the 1950s. You got sick: you dealt with it. You treated yourself. You lived with it.

My mother was born in 1918. She got polio in the same year as Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Her Medical provider was Shriner's Hospital in Chicago. They tried the latest techniques to help her walk and stand. My grandmother even begged them to take the muscles from her own legs and give them to my mother so she could walk.. Modern medicine still cannot do that.

This is not to denigrate Shriner's or any hospital, but the theory was that since one of her legs was weaker than the other, it would be a good thing to strengthen the weak one. They did this by breaking it and setting it so that the bones would thicken and strengthen. They broke both long bones in her leg. Unfortunately, the next day it was discovered that the wrong leg had been broken, So they broke the bones in her other leg and set them. The scars on her thighs resembled huge railroad tracks from all the surgeries done to get her to be able to stand.

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