Tag: people
member name: Carolyn G.
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June 07, 2007 10:10 AM EDT --
Well, so much for justice equally administered. Paris Hilton was apparently released from jail last night. I heard something on the radio yesterday that her psychiatrist had gone to the jail because she . . .
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January 17, 2007 11:59 AM EST --
Whatever happened to common civility? I remember as a child my parents working hard to make sure I had good manners. Adult men did not even swear in the presence of women and children. Using bad language . . .
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April 19, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
Something came to me yesterday. I am not sure what it means, but it certainly make me stop and think. The musings began when I saw the President of South Korea on television apologizing on behalf of his . . .
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June 29, 2007 12:18 PM EDT --
Some alert paramedics responding to a call noticed a car that appeared to be smoking. They called the police who found a car packed with gasoline, explosives, and nails. It was in a very high foot traffic . . .
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April 12, 2007 03:21 PM EDT --
Seattle is considering joining the ranks of sanctuary cities, so today on one of the talk radio shows there was a discussion of the right/wrong of this. I was driving around running a variety of errands . . .
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June 28, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
Today in a vote falling 14 votes short of the number required to cut off debate, the Senate effectively killed the amnesty bill that was being pushed so hard by Democrats and the President. Billed as a . . .
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April 02, 2007 03:40 PM EDT --
We have a situation here in the Seattle area that I find disturbing. There is a school district that is largely minority students. It's a failing district with kids not learning what they should be . . .
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June 04, 2007 01:02 AM EDT --
The past few weeks I've been noticing a volume of things being reported that have nothing whatever to do with the basic story. This latest flap about whether that TB patient got married in Greece is . . .
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June 21, 2007 01:36 PM EDT --
This quilt is my latest labor of love. I honestly love quilting. Unfortunately I get really lazy when it comes to piecing and that happened with this one. I got about a third of the way done and just didn't . . .
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December 14, 2006 10:28 AM EST --
I'm more or less horrified by the response to Senator Johnson's medical problems. Most Republicans bill themselves as compassionate and as good Christians, yet what I see is a feeding frenzy of . . .
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April 15, 2007 12:58 AM EDT --
While watching CNN today I was struck by the diversity of the newscasters there. There are men and women, people of a variety of ages, ethnicities, even accents. The majority don't fit the conventional . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:27 PM EDT --
In another thread on Gather I was reading someone defending Mr. Bush's decision to not get Osama bin-Laden by saying the same sorry old "but Bill Clinton could have gotten him too." In the . . .
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June 24, 2007 01:06 AM EDT --
Today has been one of those days. I went out early to run my errands and get some odds and ends done. It was cell phone hell out there. First some dumb woman in an SUV all but runs me off the road because . . .
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January 15, 2007 12:19 PM EST --
Have you noticed that these days if you disagree with a politican or his/her policies you automatically hate that person as far as many people are concerned? When did political or philosophical differences . . .
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January 18, 2007 06:37 PM EST --
I just heard that President Bush has promised to review the case of the two border agents who were railroaded into prison for daring to apprehend a drug smuggler in the act. He has not ruled out a Presidental . . .
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March 14, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
Once again Mr. Bush has uttered these three meaningless words in a press conference. What is it that makes him incapable of saying "I made mistakes" or "Mr. XYZ made mistakes"?
This . . .
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April 18, 2007 12:21 PM EDT --
We hear a lot from people these days regarding their rights. Lawsuits abound over infringements on one right or another. The Imus case brings the right of free speech to the fore, and the massacre in Virginia . . .
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April 19, 2007 09:20 PM EDT --
What is the Administration up to now? We all know that Mr. Bush finally managed to force himself to admit that Iraq had absolutely no connection to Osama bin-Laden and the 9/11 attacks. He resisted a long . . .
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May 28, 2007 05:09 PM EDT --
I've been reading a lot on Gather today and something struck me. I'm not sure if it's funny or just plain weird. Democrats, as we all know, took control of both houses of congress last November . . .
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June 09, 2007 01:38 AM EDT --
After having read the mess of an immigration reform bill that recently died in congress, it was my impression that anyone could do better. So I decided to try. The results are a series of steps that would . . .
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