You can find me at Shatter Nicely or All Things Hold Together (a craft blog).
Thanks for reading She’s Right!
[...]
You can find me at Shatter Nicely or All Things Hold Together (a craft blog).
Thanks for reading She’s Right!
[...]I have prolonged this already for far too long, so I am just going to jump right in. This is my official “good bye.” For real this time. As I already told you way back in June, I am no longer going to be known in the internet world [...]
Since I am no longer going to be your go to site for conservative political opinions, I figured I would share with you some of my favorite conservative sites. I recently purged most of the political blogs I was following from my Google reader because my sanity necessitated it. But, [...]
The moment you have all been waiting for … drumroll, please … here is the link to my new blog home, Shatter Nicely.
It is not primarily a political blog, but I just did my first political post about none other than Sarah Palin.
I have two more posts to [...]
I re-opened the comments on the Losing My Religion post. I promoted the post a little, so I wanted to let people comment on it. You know, if someone wants to tell me that I wasn’t a “real” Christian, congratulate me on finding reality, or just tell me to [...]
November 9, 1989.
I still can’t believe that we are having 20th anniversaries of world events that I remember happening.
The picture on the Berlin Wall wikipedia page shows the stark contrast between East Berlin and West Berlin.
I thought this was a very powerful line, from a [...]
Did you know that phrase means losing one’s temper? I just read it on wikipedia, so it has to be true. Still, it was the obvious choice of title, the one that seemed all at once too easy and yet apropos.
If you are a long time reader of this blog, [...]
I was rummaging around in my virtual attic and I found this dusty old blog. It looks like someone just forgot about it and left it lying around. What a shame.
I really had the best intentions about wrapping up She’s Right with a series of posts about things I wanted [...]
That would make a fun feature. Here’s today’s entry: “We have come to the point where the right wing in America simply denies the legitimacy of any election in which the Democratic candidate wins.”
I kid you not. Someone honestly made that statement after 8 years of “He’s not my [...]
Once Bill Simmon said, on his local radio program, Poli-Sci-Fi Radio, that I was “spectacularly wrong.” I loved that quote so much, it earned a place of honor at the top of my “What people are saying about She’s Right” section in the side bar.
What exactly was I spectacularly [...]
Today, Dr. Donnica Moore was on The View and the topic was preventing bone loss in women. One of the ladies asked her about the recommendation that women should get a bone scan at age 30 as a baseline, since bone loss can start that early.
She replied that she agrees [...]
I just wanted to update you on what is going on with the blog. I know I said I was done at the end of June, but I also said there were a few things I wanted to post before the end. Well, I didn’t get to those posts and [...]
I just realized that Tuesday is the last day of the month. That means I only have three more days to do the posts I want to do before She’s Right closes up shop for good. I had better get cracking!
[...]I was out today and every place I went was playing Michael Jackson. Even Small Dog Electronics (an Apple store in So. Burlingon, VT). And Barnes and Noble Booksellers was playing some instrumental version of “Smooth Criminal” with a violin. It was surreal.
I tried to find the violin [...]
No, I did not watch the infomercial for Obama’s health care reform, but I have been wanting to say this.
According to President Obama,
“If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your [...]
The Burlington Planning and Zoning Office refuses to issue a Certificate of Occupancy to a landlord who replaced rotting wood siding with nice new siding.
“It was a distinct loss when the original siding was replaced,” [Mary O’Neil, a historic-preservation officer with the city’s Planning and Zoning Office] said of [...]
The first two “Top Headlines” on my Google homepage:
Iran police ‘use gas’ on protesters
Obama tells men what kind of dads they should be
That reminds me, the ever-funny right-wing humor blog IMAO has a list of the “Top Ten Reasons Obama Hasn’t Spoken Out About Iran.”
My fav is [...]
This is a post that I have put off writing for weeks now. I am not sure where to start, so I’ll start at the beginning. That is always a good place to start.
Back in 2001, I wanted to start a website to post my political rants. The first name [...]
Green Mountain Daily has a post this morning about the upcoming health care reform battles. It, of course, misrepresents the opposition to the “public option” because how else can the left win a debate on any issue other than mischaracterizing the opposition? (You’ve gotta give them credit for being [...]
I’d better get on that, eh?
I am having a really hard time blogging about politics these days. And I don’t mean just because I have to wear these blasted wrist braces that go more than half way up my forearm.
I guess I heard one too many times that old saying, [...]
I am sorry that I left you all wondering what happened to me. Thank you, those of you who e-mailed. I really should have posted something.
As I mentioned, I have been having hand pain recently. I did see a rheumatologist about it and I have hypermobility, which is putting [...]
It seems like everyday I wake up in backward world. Up is down. Down is up. People who pay their bills on time and spend within their means are the bad guys, and people who don’t are the victims. And it’s the government’s job to rescue people from their own [...]
The Vermont Legislature will be back for a special session next month to deal with the state budget.
In the meantime, certain members of the legislature would be well served to read the WSJ piece, Soak the Rich, Lose the Rich.
As the title implies, the column focuses on the [...]
I have another blog called, All Things Hold Together, where I post about cooking, crafting, soap making, and other things near and dear to my heart.
One of the perks of that blog is that people sometimes send me books to review, and it’s a mighty fine perk if you [...]
Sometimes, if I have a long drive to take in the afternoon, I will put on Rush Limbaugh to see what he’s talking about.
One day, he was talking about the Obama personal finance plan, or something like that. He said that you should not try to get your spending under [...]
This is a little old, but I thought it was interesting. A teacher challenged her homeroom students to spend a week without their electronic devices and journal about it with good old fashioned pen and paper.
It’s amazing how accustomed to the constant stream of electronic media kids are these [...]
I haven’t been blogging much the past week because I have some kind of weird joint flare-up in my right hand and it hurts a lot after I have been on the computer for any length of time, even a few minutes.
It’s kind of freeing to be out of the [...]
A group of college students said they are lucky to be alive and they’re thanking the quick-thinking of one of their own. Police said a fellow student shot and killed one of two masked me who burst into an apartment.
No wait, that is why we need citizens to be [...]
When I saw the headline on my news feed, I thought, this must be FOX News. But, no, it was the AP.
FACT CHECK: Obama’s job, deficit claims are iffy
Could it be that the ban on reporting anything that might cast the president in a negative light has been lifted [...]
So, Arlen Specter is now officially a Democrat. Big deal. I have been reading the polls for weeks showing that he was losing heartily against his conservative primary challenger. This is not really surprising.
What is surprising, although I guess it shouldn’t be, is that everyone is saying this is bad [...]
They Hate Him Because He Is “Black,” reads the headline of a post from Daily Kos, reprinted on the blog Green Mountain Daily.
I was about to dismiss it entirely, as I think is the proper response at this point to the accusations of racism that follow every single criticism [...]
I mean bites of news. Not that Burlington actually bites. I should probably change that title. Done.
On to the news…
First up, SAVE LEDDY PARK! I read in the Front Porch Forum that we need to “Save Leddy Park.” From what, you might ask. A strip mall? A parking lot? An [...]
I want to wrap up the Tea Party talk and, hopefully, address all of the issues that I left out of the last post and touch on the ones that were raised in the comments there.
I found out this morning that Bill Simmon and Steve Benen talked about [...]
I do not have video of the homeschoolers day at the State House. I was not feeling well, so I did not make it down there. I read that there were over 300 homeschooling parents and children in attendence. Go homeschoolers!
[...]I was away for the weekend and decided to stay offline. I appreciate that there were no inappropriate comments while I was gone. You guys are great.
I am still slogging through my e-mail, but I will get back to the discussion in the Tea Party myths post as soon as [...]
So says Brian Austin Green, on a possible third season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
“There were no intentions of this being a series finale. It was absolutely a season finale. There’s a plan where this can go and it’s so good.”
FOX maintains that no decision has been made [...]
There is a lot of anger and hatred around the internet about the Tax Day Tea Parties. There is also a lot of misinformation. Most of it started as a deliberate mis-information campaign to discredit the movement, but it has taken on a life of its own, being repeated as [...]
I was in Montpelier today for one of two tea parties in Vermont. The crowd was a little bigger than the “23 confused looking folks” predicted by VDB.
Here’s a look at the crowd, via video. I have to warn you, it is a little shaky. I was trying to [...]
Tomorrow is the season finale of Terminator: SCC. I meant to blog about last week’s episode, but I never got around to it. I really hope FOX renews this show. They would be foolish not to. This summer’s Terminator movie could very well spark interest in the series, especially if [...]
I was just reading a couple of summaries of a debate between William Lane Craig and Christopher Hitchens on the existence of God.
One of the arguments against the existence of God that Christopher Hitchens kept coming back to boils down to: God would have done things differently.
Just as there are [...]
It’s a strange day when Ace of Spades HQ and Vermont Daily Briefing both have posts expressing the same opinion on an issue. But then, it’s a strange day when Congress is trying to give the president power over the internet.
Politics makes strange bedfellows, indeed.
There is one notable [...]
Burlington City Councilor Bill Keogh (D-Ward 5) wrote a balanced summary of IRV in Burlington, summarizing the different opinions that are out there. Here’s what he had to say, in his own words, reprinted with permission from his post on the Front Porch Forum.
Did you like the Instant Runoff Voting [...]
The Burlington School District designated the two city schools in the high-poverty area of the city to be magnet schools, intended to draw students from other parts of the city from a higher socio-economic class.
I think magnet schools can be a good thing, though I am disappointed that they chose [...]
Conservatives and libertarians around the country have been organizing protests against the government bailouts and stimulus plans - and mounting trillion dollar debt obligations - called “Tea Parties,” in homage to the Boston Tea Party. The mainstream media is for the most part not covering them.
There are tea parties planned [...]
The mantra of the Obama administration.
And they don’t intend to let the AIG crisis pass without using it to justify expanding the powers of the federal government.
“Our system failed in fundamental ways. To address this will require comprehensive reform. Not modest repairs at the margin, but new rules [...]
A friend of my husband called his representative to share his opinion on a bill. The representative spent the entire conversation trying to convince him he was wrong! What are we electing these people for?
What do you think? Should a representative vote the way his constituents want him to, or [...]
