Hello 2010 !

I am so happy to see you, 2010. You are all nice round numbers, evenly divisible.
2010, you look optimistic to me.

2010 will be the beginning of the decade - I hope - of honesty. No more trying to rip each other off. No more lies. Just tell the truth to one another. Talk. Tell. Truth.

I am happy to see you, 2010. I know you won't let us down.

Speak Truth to Power.

As Joseph Campbell says...Follow Your Bliss. Do Good for Others.

Goodbye to the 2000's Good, Bad, Ugly "The Big Zero"

Let's start with The Good
-I fled to the Right Coast and reunited with Family
-dropped my son off at Rutgers University, where after 7 years of Higher Education, he earned a JD
-met my wonderful husband
-advanced my career to Director level, helping to run a 300-employee construction company
-got to meet David Sedaris in person (thanks to Ronnie)
-bought a house
-acquired the most amazing and wonderful daughter-in-law
-adopted my Bichon, Dolly
-went to Italy

The Bad
-witnessed 9/11
-failed to stop the beginning of Iraq war, failed to defeat GWB in term 2, and the war escalation in the latter part of the decade
-lost a house
-lost a job, twice

The Ugly
-stood by my man as he lost his job and home
-thought that Enron was the worst thing that could happen to the US economy (after 9/11)
-was a witness to the near collapse of the entire US economy due to the snakes on Wall Street and a thing they invented called Credit Default Swaps


Op-Ed Columnist
The Big Zero
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: December 28, 2009
Let’s bid a not at all fond farewell to the Big Zero — the decade in which we achieved nothing and learned nothing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/opinion/28krugman.html

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Who imagined Obama was possible?

I did. I could imagine and hope that Obama could be The Leader of The Free World. But just barely. Who can imagine a health care system where everyone is covered ? It's hard to imagine but it can happen. You have to make it happen. Watch: http://tinyurl.com/p2fw96

What are YOU doing to help us ALL get health care coverage?

If YOU have health care coverage but your mother or father or sister or daughter does not, what are YOU doing to see to it that Health Reform passes? Call the the RNC and tell them to stop blocking reform. Phone: 202.863.8500

Your health care is already rationed

For those of you who say you don't want a universal health care system because care will be "rationed" I will be the first to inform you that pharmaceutical treatments are already rationed.

To wit:

"The US private insurance companies ration high cost drugs through co-pays and coverage caps. Biological and other high cost drug are often classified as “level 4” with little or no reimbursements. The result is that doctors must limit patient access to one high cost drug at a time without knowing if the one they picked would be effective."

http://tinyurl.com/nx6asb

Write to President Obama and tell him we need Health Care Reform now. Do not wait until you get your pink slip. You need to do this now, today. Stop what you are doing and email: http://tinyurl.com/lzo8y6

http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/ tell him to support HR 676

or call:

White House Comments: 202-456-1111
White House Switchboard: 202-456-1414

Al Franken wins

We now have a majority. Write to President Obama and tell him we need Health Care Reform now. Do not wait until you get your pink slip. You need to do this now, today. Stop what you are doing and email: http://tinyurl.com/lzo8y6

http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/ tell him to support HR 676

or call:

White House Comments: 202-456-1111
White House Switchboard: 202-456-1414

What Can You Do To Help Obama?

http://tinyurl.com/lgts8g

June 29, 2009 | Someone recently approached me at the cheese counter of a local supermarket, asking, "What can I do?" At first I thought the person was seeking advice about a choice of cheese. But I soon realized the question was larger than that. It was: What can I do about the way things are going in Washington?

People who voted for Barack Obama tend to fall into one of two camps: Trusters, who believe he's a good man with the right values and he's doing everything he can; and cynics, who have become disillusioned with his bailouts of Wall Street, flimsy proposals for taming the Street, willingness to give away 85 percent of cap-and-trade pollution permits, seeming reversals on eavesdropping and torture, and squishiness on a public option for healthcare.

In my view, both positions are wrong. A new president -- even one as talented and well-motivated as Obama -- can't get a thing done in Washington unless the public is actively behind him. As FDR said in the reelection campaign of 1936 when a lady insisted that if she were to vote for him he must commit to a long list of objectives, "Ma'am, I want to do those things, but you must make me."

We must make Obama do the right things. E-mail, write, and phone the White House. Do the same with your members of Congress. Round up others to do so. Also: Find friends and family members in red states who agree with you, and get them fired up to do the same. For example, if you happen to have a good friend or family member in Montana, you might ask him or her to write Max Baucus and tell him they want a public option included in any healthcare bill.

Flea market for the jobless - and, of course, age is an issue

This is what we've come to. Flea Markets for the jobless. Hoovervilles can't be far behind. If you're too young to know what that is, check Wikipedia.

More than two dozen out-of-work members of a Hackensack Baptist church set up flea market tables Saturday to earn some extra cash during what many there described as the worst economy in memory.

JoAnn Hilton, 53, lost her job as a telecommunications manager at ABC 16 months ago. Since then she hasn’t been able to get an interview. She’s now considering becoming a chaplain in the federal prison system.

“When they see my qualifications and how much money I was making, nobody wants to hire me,” she said. “And of course, age is an issue.”

http://tinyurl.com/lopmbf

Sustainability in Village Greenes Marlton NJ

So I go to introduce sustainable lawn care practices in my HOA-controlled Active Adult community of Village Greenes in Marlton, NJ. I invited a representative from the NJ Environmental Federation to come and speak to the Maintenance Committee on the sustainable practice of IPM - Integrated Pest Management. And guess what? The old guys (not to be ageist - I'm married to a lovable old guy) go You Can't Do That...You Can't Just Go Introducing New Things Like That. Get this: This codger on the Board actually emailed me and said "I thought you had experience in the Business World". Too funny. I'm like, Dude, it appears you have been out of the Business World for some time. When I was in the Business World, I was rewarded quite handsomely for taking initiative. Of course, in this old guy's Business World, women were secretaries and didn't solicit bids from anyone except the tampon vendor for the Ladies Room.

My tutee is smarter than me

I had my third meeting with my tutee from China (I just love saying "tutee"). She has been here for 3 months and has placed in calculus at the community college. She can read and write English really well but just needs help with conversation.

Happy Birthday Nicky

Love, Beth and Dolly

Divided We Fail

http://tinyurl.com/2h6l8y

Support Helath Care Reform HR 676

HR 676

Affordable Health Care is not just for the LUCKY or the WEALTHY. Tell your WA Reps to end the gridlock and pass Health Care Reform NOW. Support HR 676.

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