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July 22, 2008
Julips visit Breyerfest in Kentucky
I met a friend down in Indiana when we both attended the model horse convention, Breyerfest. (Mel is the skinny one!) Her husband, Victor, took the photo of us by the pool along with our Julips.
I figure that this will probably be my last Breyerfest, at least for awhile. The economy is terrible, and we might lose our house, but, by god, I had a vacation!
I needed a vacation because the previous weekend I had been a bridesmaid at the wedding of Bridezilla. I don't drink, and I had four glasses of champagne that night. The bride called me the following day and told me that her uncle had called her a (insert word for female dog here.) She wanted to know whether it had been true!
Anyway, I needed a vacation! So I went down to Kentucky, stayed in a cheap hotel, and enjoyed meeting with friends.
Mel and I are the only American Julip collectors that I know of. I'm sure that there are others, but I don't know them personally and I've never heard of them being mentioned. The only other Julip collectors in America I know of are transplanted Brits.
So Mel and I brought our Julips down to Kentucky. I brought five of my Julips along. (Arien the AC, Isabeau the Farm Cob, Navarre the Clydesdale foal, Gremlin 2 the Pit Pony, and Ranger the Cob Stallion.) The other two Julips (Bob the Cob and a chestnut Family Horse) belong to Mel.
Mel painted Farm Cobs on our hats so that we could pose for photos with them, but you can't see the paintings in this photo.
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July 01, 2008
On the Wrong Track!
A public opinion poll released by the Pew Research Center in April found that 81 percent of Americans say they believe the country is on the "wrong track." The response is the most negative in the 25 years pollsters have asked the question.
Why are we on the wrong track? There are so many reasons that it's hard to list them all.
1)We need universal healthcare instead of a for-profit system of "health insurance." The US's economy is going down the tubes, jobs are being eliminated at an ever-increasing rate. We cannot rely on a health care system that expects people to remain in the same job for their entire adult lives. They most assuredly won't. We need a system that will cover everybody all the time so that no American ever goes bankrupt because they became ill.
2)We need a sustainable system in which to live. Our current American lifestyle is based entirely on CHEAP OIL. Because of cheap oil, Americans could move from the cities and live a "suburban" life miles away from everything useful, driving their cars everywhere instead of walking or using public transportation. Cheap oil is OVER. We all need to figure out how to live without driving cars everywhere. People working at Wal-Mart and McDonalds are not going to be able to continue working when half of their paychecks are going to buy the gas to get them to work. I don't know why there isn't more of a discussion about this going on, service workers are either living off their credit cards in the hopes that gas will come down in price-it won't-or they are living with some wealthy relatives who are still employed in "real jobs."
3)"W" is a moron, spending billions of dollars on the war in Iraq when the economy here is imploding, our schools lack funding, the cost of higher education is exploding through the roof, and new college graduates can't find work, though they must now repay the huge student loan debt they accumulated.
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