We also live a healthy lifestyle. We don’t drink, smoke, or take drugs that have a zillion side effects! We excercise daily, and teach our kids to do the same. We’re an active family. there HAS to be a happy medium. I was embarrassed with Joe Wilson’s outburst, and do not agree with it at all. On the other side, Grayson was way overboard. Lets’ create a standard and stick to it.?

Prejean will strip for God. she’s a religious nutcase who claims she was just trying to get her career started with nudie photo’s. Yup. that’s a GREAT role model for my daughters. Standards are for others. It’s OK to preach abstence, while doing your boyfriend who may or may not have put a ring on your finger, so long as you both attend the ‘right’ church.

On another note, I read (I think at Huffpo) that the “conservative” woman (can’t remember her name) who put together the calendar said, We pray that Palin will join us next year.

OMG, gag. So, did Palin NOT get the cover that she wanted, so didn’t do it? Maybe Palin thought she should be paid big money for the use of her iconic image. Once again, blowing off conservative women. What a diva.

Anyone remember the Vanity Fair cover that Tina Fey did last year with the little Red-White and Blue outfit? Only, Tina is much prettier than Sara and I’m really not interested in seeing Scarah in an outfit that shows that much leg.

Wow…she’s just a deep thinker

Another point I forgot to mention, is that the Seattle Times (staunch Repub-leaning) is NOT a Rudolph Murdoch owned publication.

WRT the media ignoring many issues and people wondering why? A couple weeks ago, I’m not sure which blog I was reading (thought it may have been here) someone commented. Have you noticed just how MANY & how LONG the pharmaceuticals have advertisements on TV @ every station? Listing every side effect possible, spending so long with all the side effects, you just want to ask WHY they are advertising when the product is bound to kill you?

That poster said it was part of dumping pharma money into their programming. When the station is so reliant on the income from those advertisements, they will surely hesitate to write/print anything critical that might stop the money flows from the pharmas.

Since then, I’ve been watching. Now, here in our recently One Newspaper town, the Seattle P.I. (Dem-leaning) went out of business a few months ago. The Seattle Times (staunch Repub-leaning) has had to tone down their rhetoric, loosen up their editorials, report more of the news for fear of losing us P.I. subscribers they inherited. Yep, no need to subscribe, they automatically switched our newspapers the following morning, unless we had called to cancel.

Over the past couple months I’ve started noticing blownup fullpage ads, totally colored & huge font size to take up the entire page – sometimes 2-3 of these ads in the “A” front section for this pill or that pill. Listing all the side effects, etc. In the front section, you KNOW that has to be expensive advertising!

With all this Healthcare debate going on, I just have to believe it’s part & parcel of the same program as that Poster mentioned. Make the newspaper so dependent (at a time their sales are slipping) so that they don’t DARE take a strong stance for the Public Option or offer any criticism of the status quo.

Sorry this is so long, but I’ve been mulling it over in my head and needed to put it out there.