Reni

thanks for making the contacts Robin - I am going to start working on my preemie hats today!! I am going to use some of what you sent with me - but, I couldn't resist a beautiful skein of cashmerino lavender baby weight when I stopped at knitorious on my way out of STL

:w00t Happy Birthday!!!

agreed. it moves me more with every reading. thanks for posting a report Robin

Portland memorial service is today. Sooz is in Portland and will be attending.

Donna, as you might have been able to see from the other photos, your card and poem arrived just in time. They were beautiful. Clouds, I loved your sculpture and we also really enjoyed the ginger bears you sent. Everything, besides the candles (the river would just swallow them on contact) were set into the river. The flowers were so lovely, and came from the McCormick family. Thank you to everyone to sent their love and spirit.......you were all there.

a friend of mine sent me this link: http://www.purlbee.com/ great site.

it just boggles my mind how much the illegal immigration issue gets people so heated up. It's like you are all just being snowed...... it's like, "hey, lets whip the people up in a frenzy over poor immigrants who are trying to survive, so we can do a lot more sinister shit like go to war with Iraq and Iran, make billions of dollars on non-bid contracts, and continually get away with fraud, corruption and unconstitutional bullshit. If we paint the poor people as the villains, they won't even think to look at what we're up to!!" Your anger just seems so misdirected. Your government has s

plus isn't there an issue here of simple human decency......if you came across a person who dying and needed your help, would you not try and help them? Just because someone doesn't have a document, doesn't make them less human. If they show up at a clinic for medical care, should they not receive care?? Hell, you can even bend the argument into a self serving one - public health concerns. Wouldn't you rather have everyone around you immunized, healthy, etc and less of a risk to you and yours?? Also, do you not realize that most illegal immigrants to the U.S. work hard and are desperate

Edie sent a beautiful Native American prayer.....if anyone would like to post prayers, thoughts, etc in this post - please do. We will take photos, too.

yeah, I was thinking the same thing - that picture isn't even recent. I'm sure it's from the night he gave that amazing speech.

So, what if much of the material wealth you have is afforded to you because of the crass exploitation of foreign labor, imperialist wars, the oppression of people through puppet governments and brutal regimes and institutionalized racism and sexism? Welcome to the Republican Party.

oh bless. thank you for that.

that makes me so f'in sick...... the rampant misogyny that has surfaced over Hillary is nauseating.

well, he's not very good at much of anything he does. He adds pure comedy gold to the debates though.....I love how he answers questions......he's kind of like, "yeah, whatever." That's his schtick apparently

Remember that little bill that suspended habeaus corpus and gave the power to the executive branch to define what constitutes torture. We all know Bush and Co. do not define waterboarding as torture......so, to have supported that bill was basically letting the torturer decide what is torture. McCain had stood strong in that debate for some time, if I recall correctly, but folded in the end and supported the bill. Shame on him. I don't have time to pull up details, as I am on my way out the door.

this was posted on Natalie's livejournal today: Dear friends- Natalie Jane Jacobs passed away on January 3rd, 2008. She had been ill, and though she went to the hospital, it appears that she was discharged without appropriate care. After receiving no response to their phone calls, concerned friends found her in her apartment, apparently asleep. We are still waiting for the medical examiner's conclusions on the cause of death. As everyone on her friendslist knows, Natalie was an amazing woman. She struggled with depression, but in the past few years she was winning that fight and she bri

no shit - he lost me on the torture issue. I used to have some respect for him.....but now? no f'in way.

Tracy - here is the one I am making for myself......I also wanted Robin to see it. I thought I would show you the results, in case you liked that color. (Tracy is going to make me some homemade buttons in trade for one of these!! I am really excited!!)

me too A-Man (oops I meant an Obama/Edwards) I read you wrong

would rather see Obama and Edwards crushing Clinton

Early exit polls: Dems' feelings toward Bush admin. Posted: 05:39 PM ET Which comes closest to your feelings about the Bush administration?: New Hampshire Democratic primary voters Enthusiastic

I saw that on the news yesterday - he was speaking in Chicago - I think Rahm Emmanuel's head was about to explode.