Posted in Turkey Day on November 26, 2009 by Nunly
Happy Thanksgiving to all my blogger friends! Wait…what are you doing reading this blog? Don’t you have some work to do in the kitchen?
Well, as long as you’re here, I just want to tell you how thankful I am that you’ve found your way to Bad Habit this past year. I wish I can have you all sitting at my table today…and I wish I can have all of you in my kitchen, helping me wash the dishes too.
Of course, I will be saying a special prayer for our soldiers who are away from their families this Thanksgiving, and for all those who have been unfortunate enough to be hit hard with the bad economic times our country is experiencing. Hopefully, next year we’ll see some improvement.
Enjoy your day…enjoy the time you are spending with your family and friends, and most of all…enjoy your tryptophan induced coma.
Posted in Cats!, Fun on November 24, 2009 by Nunly
Don’t ever say that Nunly isn’t looking out for you….here’s a deal you can’t pass up! Want to get rid of that old wedding band your ex-hubby gave you? How about those ugly earrings that Aunt Martha gave you for Christmas last year? Time to trade in that old gold for a real treasure! Click on image so you can see the details.
Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2009 by Nunly
As I put in a post last week, I would be happy to take any prayer requests my bloggers might have and petition the Father for those intentions in my daily prayers, and most importantly, while I am visiting the Adoration Chapel on my regular hour on Saturday mornings. If there are candles available, I will light one candle specifically for my bloggers who ask for prayers.
I put my new Bad Habit e-mail address on the sidebar of this blog, so if you have any prayer intentions to give me, or want to remain private, feel free to send them my way. I will assure you that whatever you ask me to pray for will remain between us and God, you can trust me on that.
If by chance that your prayer has been answered, let me know so I can also be sure to give thanks to God for that blessing! Of course, I always give thanks before I even ask, but it’s nice to remember to thank Him always.
God Bless,
Mary Ellen
(P.S. : If anyone has trouble accessing that e-mail address, please let me know, I’ve never used gmail before. Also, you can also e-mail me at that address if you have anything else you want to discuss with me…it’s not just for prayer intentions, I want to use it as my all-around blog e-mail address. )
Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2009 by Nunly
Oh yeah…Obama thinks that all he has to do is go on tour and tout about being a “Pacific President”, all the while ignoring the fact that he has a job right here in the U.S. as our President, a job where he is failing. What did that trip to China gain? Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
ELIZABETH C. ECONOMY
C.V. Starr senior fellow and Director of Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
President Obama put his money on Chinese leaders, betting that by playing nice early on there will be a big payoff down the road. He allowed Beijing to stage-manage the visit in such a way that it displayed virtually nothing of what makes him a rock star internationally. No hoops with Chinese basketball stars; no mingling with the Chinese people; and no round-tables with NGO leaders or activists. It was, optically, one of the worst U.S. presidential visits to Beijing in memory.
Substantively, the visit was no better and no worse than any other recent presidential summitry. There was a laundry list of issues for future discussion and cooperation and a few subtle hints of change to come on issues such as climate change. Lots of talk, little action — just the way the Chinese like it.
Although I’d like to back the president, I’d place my own bet that being nice to the Chinese leadership isn’t going to get us very far. It never has. What works is bringing others to the table to play. Our ace in the hole is that most other countries want the same things from China that we do: progress on reining in Iran, movement on the Chinese currency, greater transparency on Chinese military issues, improved food and product safety, etc. Our strategy should be to stack the deck with our friends and allies. That’s our best chance for a winning hand.
In the meantime, let’s start planning for President Hu’s return visit . . . with lots of press conferences, town halls and media opportunities. It’s their turn to play nice.
Obama is a one trick pony, the only thing he knows how to do is campaign, but his campaign rhetoric is getting old and stale. The media knows it, and slowly….very slowly, his own supporters are seeing it.
While Obama sits back waiting for someone else to figure out what to do with our troops in Afghanistan, our soldiers continue to die in a war with no exit strategy. His long wait has been dubbed by some as “dithering”. But to me, “dithering” is too nice of a word. Dithering is when someone is taking their time while shopping in the grocery store, stopping to look at every item. Dithering is what a school kid does when he doesn’t want to do his homework or to go to bed at night. Dithering isn’t something that you do when men and women are dying in a war. What he’s doing is contributing to the death of our soldiers who are under his command.
For a President of a country who is experiencing massive unemployment, he seems to be pretty quiet on the subject. He keeps banking that his so-called health care reform is going to pull us out of this financial mess…all the while, ignoring the elephant in the room which is the thousands upon thousands of people who will never see those jobs they lost coming back. All of these people who are unemployed or under-employed cannot afford to be forced into buying health insurance. Obama says that those who can’t afford it will get subsidies from the government, but no one knows how much of a “subsidy” they will receive? Will the government pick up the tab of all those who are receiving unemployment benefits? Currently, that would be up to or over 10% of the American people. Where is the money for these subsidies going to come from? Is it written somewhere in that 2,000 page tome they call a health care bill?
Look at this map of the unemployment rates by county from January 2007 to today. Do you see any slow down from the time we gave billions of dollars in T.A.R.P. bailouts? Where are all those “jobs saved” that Obama keeps talking about? Where is the new job growth that was to come from hiring for the repair of our infrastructure?
You know, as much as I rag on Obama about his short-comings, the last thing I want him to do is fail. We are a country that is in crisis, we need leadership. We need a man in the Oval Office who will demonstrate that he and his family will not be living the life of luxury while people in this country are being kicked out of their homes, going to food pantry’s so they can feed their children, or skipping their medications in order to pay their heating bills this winter. Maybe the Royal First Lady could give up a few of those highly paid “Attendants” and pick out her own clothes for a change. Maybe she can fix her own hair, make her own phone calls, or better yet…find something to do besides playing in her “victory garden” or reading story books to school children. Maybe Barack can skip some of those golf games he plays at the elite country clubs. Perhaps he could skip those bi-monthly vacations at Camp David and do what most families do on the weekends with their families…stay home an watch TV, play board games, or take their dog for a walk instead of having the dog’s “handler” do it for them.
I don’t know that Obama will get anything from “Foreign Policy for Dummies”…or even “Domestic Policy for Dummies”, but he might find something in the Bible…Proverbs 29:18, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
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