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No. 1) Employee Free Choice Act.

No 2.) Restore full funding to PBS, plus some (tired of some corps dictating policy).

No. 3) National Health Care including expanding teaching facilities.

No. 4) Carbon Policy.

No. 5) National Service for all able 18-26 year old youth.

No. 6) New Food Policy Not Designed by Corporate Agri or cereal companies nor fast food interests.

No. 7) Woman's Right to Choose.

No. 8) Science Programs commensurate with JFK's call for re education of America.

No. 9) Infrastructure renewal including light rail.

No. 10) National Fitness Policy

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Ah corporal punishment... brings back memories.

There was the paddling for fighting. Deserved and fairly handed out. Too bad that's not the only story I can tell.

Let's see there was the PE teacher who bragged that kid ever made it through his class without being paddled. I nearly made it but late in the Spring seeing that I was close to making it through along with a few others, it was noticed that our shirts weren't fully tucked in. Funny how that happens after running and doing jumping jacks and sit ups. We were lined up and paddled for breaking the tucked shirt rule.

Then there was the shop teacher who loved recounting his paddling exploits. He too preferred an audience and did his paddling with the class as his witness rather than another teacher. To add to the show he would hold his paddle up to space heater hung from the ceiling to "get it warmed up". After a student was paddled there was much gloating if he had managed to "lift 'em off the ground" and shear ectasy if someone fell over from the blow. Must say I was so terribly disappointed when he got skimming from a school fund-raiser and was fired.

I must say....if I hadn't been whipped a few dozen times, I would probably be the new Charles Manson of the '00s. I've only whipped my girls once each, at the same age, the terrible 2s, and for the same reason, hitting their mother. But after all....they are girls. A girl getting paddled at school was a very rare thing, and I think it's because girl babies come out of the womb automatically more civilized than baby boys.

Though I can list every whipping I got that I didn't deserve, I also remember dozens that I did deserve and probably should have got worse. I am glad we've evolved into people who at least promote a smack-less world. I thought a lot of my relatives and neighbors were too damn smack-happy in the 60s. I got a cousin they'd smack any ole time someone was near enough to him. He's now 45 and as worthless as a human can be. I think they probably smacked a few brains out of his head.

Parenthood is also a process of civilizing a wild animal. Now and then, especially with boys, you have to cause a little pain to get their attention. Look where we are today. No one has paddled Bush or Cheney and they've been setting newer and newer records in behaving badly...and lordy they got 26 days to go!

It's plain to me that their mother's were failures as parents. The world would be a better and safer place today if Mrs. Cheney and that old sow Barbara Bush had laid the strap on some little boy's asses about 50 years ago. So the next time you encounter one of those "we don't spank" mothers...just start screaming Bush & Cheney at them as loud as you can. Bush & Cheney! Bush & Cheney! Bush & Cheney! Bush & Cheney! Bush & Cheney!

Once on the Simpsons, the teachers were all on strike so the locals had to take over the classes. Here's Jasper, the old geezer with the long beard:

"Talking out of turn...that's a paddling. Looking out the window...that's a paddling. Staring at my sandals...that's a paddling. Paddling the school canoe...ooh, you better believe that's a paddling."

If health care is not number one, then you obviously don't have love ones without health care.

Peace out....Merry Christmas

I've never understood how hitting a kid just because you're bigger and stronger and an authority figure is supposed to teach him not to hit other kids. How does that work exactly? Just shut up and do as I say, not as I do?

health care would be nice too. If I have a slow month sometimes I have to choose between food and medicine. You can only stretch a dollar so many ways. I get a couple of my medicines free from the drug companies, thank God, or I'd have to do wtihout those, since one is $478 a month and the other $180. I have a prescription for another that's $817 but its patient assistance program is closed, and I dont have to have that one to get by and work anyway.

All Im trying to do is live a semi-normal life here, where I work and take care of myself. I dont qualify for and would not accept food stamps or anything else that could benefit a family with little kids when I am lucky enough to have a job. its just sometimes I dont feel like working those 8 days a week, and when I dont work days 7 & 8, I can usually count on having to make some hard decisions. But overall life is good and Im just lucky that I still have a job I can do, after all the illness I've lived through, and manage to get by somehow. Those 2 drug companies will never know how much I appreciate their help.

And now Im going back to work. merry christmas to all and to all a good night. hope you all have a wonderful time with your families.

A couple of thoughts...

1) Employee "Free Choice" Act - this way, the union will know who voted against them and will get their revenge. How can you have "free choice" without a secret ballot? (The issue of the secret ballot is my only problem here... keep the secret ballot and I'll support this.)

2) PBS - yawn. The Discover channels are MUCH BETTER. And their programs are supported by advertisers instead of government handouts... what a thought... I grew up on Nova, but dang, it's boring now compared to "The Universe".

3) National Health Care. My experience working in the field is that government medicine is a wasteful disaster. Medicare will go broke in 2019 due to incompetent management. Medicaid is just as bad in the 6 states I consult to. The only "good" part of government health care is the VA system... but many attorneys say it is NOT 100% HIPPA compliant and cannot be used for the general population. (If you're interested in the details, feel free to email me separately. I'll find the CMS memos that describe the problems.)

Let's CLEAN UP the existing problems with Medicare and Medicaid first before we screw up everybody else.

(To eark and tina... not to belittle you at all... but we already have Medicaid for low income people. But the rules to qualify are a joke... the programs themselves are mismanaged... the existing programs should be fixed, not new ones thrown in to spend more money.)

8) Science programs -AMEN!!!!! And while we're at it, dump "No Child Left Untested". Le's hold back the ones that don't pass. Let's downplay football and praise the Geek! GEEKS RULE! (Okay, I'm biased... I was a band geek not a football player. The football players got laid.)

9) Light rail - another big AMEN! We could easily drop 50% of the diesel trucks off the highway (or convert them to local service) if we would use the rail system again. It would be an adjustment, but rail is VERY economical for bulk cargo, especially non-perishables.

Finally... from a moderate Catholic who respects all your opinions... and shares a few (grin)... Merry Christmas everybody.

Obama's Top Ten, from Sanford:

#1--Mandate that all phones, blackberries, iphones and bluetooth devices work off the very same identical exact a/c chargers from here on out starting June 30.

#2--All car gas caps to be located on the left rear of the car

#3--All big trucks carring strange large objects have a sign on them stating what the object is, and what does it do

#4--All local TV Station owners be required to have a big semitransparent State of Arkansas weather warning map in front of them for 30 days 24/7 so they can only see 50% of what they want to see...at the mvie, church, theater, driving down the street, at their desk...whereever.

#5--Don't cancel King of the Hill (this would broaden obama's base immediately)
#6--Rap Music must come with english sutitles
#7--Quit televising Congress and the Little Rock board so maybe they would get down to serious business instead of performing
#8--Institute a Job Program that gives Max 100 cub reporters and a daily newspaper
#9--Find out when the mother ship is returning for the grown up ET (walter hussman)
#10--Make Vic Snyder King of the House

Obama's Top Ten, from Sanford:

#1--Mandate that all phones, blackberries, iphones and bluetooth devices work off the very same identical exact a/c chargers from here on out starting June 30.

#2--All car gas caps to be located on the left rear of the car

#3--All big trucks carring strange large objects have a sign on them stating what the object is, and what does it do

#4--All local TV Station owners be required to have a big semitransparent State of Arkansas weather warning map in front of them for 30 days 24/7 so they can only see 50% of what they want to see...at the mvie, church, theater, driving down the street, at their desk...whereever.

#5--Don't cancel King of the Hill (this would broaden obama's base immediately)
#6--Rap Music must come with english sutitles
#7--Quit televising Congress and the Little Rock board so maybe they would get down to serious business instead of performing
#8--Institute a Job Program that gives Max 100 cub reporters and a daily newspaper
#9--Find out when the mother ship is returning for the grown up ET (walter hussman)
#10--Make Vic Snyder King of the House

Obama's Top Ten, from Sanford:

#1--Mandate that all phones, blackberries, iphones and bluetooth devices work off the very same identical exact a/c chargers from here on out starting June 30.

#2--All car gas caps to be located on the left rear of the car

#3--All big trucks carring strange large objects have a sign on them stating what the object is, and what does it do

#4--All local TV Station owners be required to have a big semitransparent State of Arkansas weather warning map in front of them for 30 days 24/7 so they can only see 50% of what they want to see...at the mvie, church, theater, driving down the street, at their desk...whereever.

#5--Don't cancel King of the Hill (this would broaden obama's base immediately)
#6--Rap Music must come with english sutitles
#7--Quit televising Congress and the Little Rock board so maybe they would get down to serious business instead of performing
#8--Institute a Job Program that gives Max 100 cub reporters and a daily newspaper
#9--Find out when the mother ship is returning for the grown up ET (walter hussman)
#10--Make Vic Snyder King of the House

Obama's Top Ten, from Sanford:

#1--Mandate that all phones, blackberries, iphones and bluetooth devices work off the very same identical exact a/c chargers from here on out starting June 30.

#2--All car gas caps to be located on the left rear of the car

#3--All big trucks carring strange large objects have a sign on them stating what the object is, and what does it do

#4--All local TV Station owners be required to have a big semitransparent State of Arkansas weather warning map in front of them for 30 days 24/7 so they can only see 50% of what they want to see...at the mvie, church, theater, driving down the street, at their desk...whereever.

#5--Don't cancel King of the Hill (this would broaden obama's base immediately)
#6--Rap Music must come with english sutitles
#7--Quit televising Congress and the Little Rock board so maybe they would get down to serious business instead of performing
#8--Institute a Job Program that gives Max 100 cub reporters and a daily newspaper
#9--Find out when the mother ship is returning for the grown up ET (walter hussman)
#10--Make Vic Snyder King of the House

ooops, times 4

1). Mandate a collegiate football playoff system to determine the National Championship.

2)-10)....Ditto

DBI,

You just explained loads about Bush/Cheney.

John Rosemond, in the Family section of today's demozette, would disagree. ". . . When asked why this should be, liberal parenting pundits will inevitably say things like . . ."

Ol' John believe that not spoilin' the child by spaing the rod is purely moderate/conservative pundit statement. DBI, I didn't know you were a conservative/moderate pundit!

If it's the MoveOn voting we're talking about (it may not be), my top three priorities that I voted on mirrored the national results:
- Health Care
- Employment
- Green Technology