Pauline's Happenings

Got my ass worked off by my trainer today.  Got bombard with things from work as soon as I got home.  Which is normal for Monday.

We did do much for the weekend, we rarely do.  We don’t like dealing with weekend crowds and such, so we try to do things during the week.  What I find is weird is that even though I have worked weekends for 20yrs, I don’t feel like working that much on them….even if I do some.

Divorce costs former Beatle McCartney $48.7 million

**This woman does not deserve to get that much, if any.  She wasn’t with him that long….those are earnings that he got rolling years ago with his 1st wife.   He should take care of of his kid, that is no questions…..but that was never the issue….  The issue is that she is a greedy, greedy person….she makes it harder for women who actually deserve to get funds from their ex-husbands.

Dirty Words 

**I love the fact that the FCC was called on their double standards.

Parents Turn to Police When Daughters Have Sex 

**This is the issue with the sex offender registries.  They do not make a difference from sex among teens from actually rapists and child molesters.  Teens DO NOT think of it legally.  I do believe that some need to have the book thrown at them for a wake up call, BUT they should not be marked like that for the rest of their lives…..the majority of them do not become rapists and child molesters, but it totally destroys their future.

On Tibet Frontlines, Protestors ‘Shot Like Dogs’

**This may be messed up, but I have a strange satisfaction that this is happening to Chinese government.  I would LOVE if all the outlining providences, that were never apart of China at the beginning of the 1900s raise up and make them look like shit for all their human rights violations.

Obama set to deliver speech on race, Wright 

**Now I really don’t have an issue with what his pastor say.  You know why, because this highlights the race issue, the timing can be better.  But overall whites just can’t see and don’t want to see the problems that the black community faces…the fact that more and more young black men are disenfranchised into our jails and IF the economic differences were addressed that would be a HUGE help in reducing that. Many black churches have had sermons as fiery as the one he gave…..he is expressing what the overall black community feels about how the US treats them, which overall is crappy.  The US is controlled by RICH, corporations……and they have it set where the richer get richer and the poor, get poorer….which effects people of color more then the whites.  You can thank Bush/Cheney and their shitty cronies for the last 8yrs of making it worst….the jackasses.

FBI: Improper Tactics Used In Terror Probe

**I meant to post this last time, but with all the other items I missed it.  But I am not surprised by this….sadly.  This administration has done everything it can to remove our protections from things like this.  That is why we have joined the ACLU…….an organization whose goal is to protect our Bill of Rights and the Constitution.

Well….unfortunately it has been another few days since my last post.  =(  It has been the normal busy as heck kind of thing the last few days.  I don’t even get the chance to surf my news and politics as much as I use to.

Harold has been surfing and researching national parks for us to visit, we have been watching a lot of National Geographic shows on them.  Part of the reason why we joined a gym is to get into shape so we can go hiking and camping, without killing ourselves.  One of our goals is to camp at Denali.  I don’t mean the park with a camper and camp type thing, I mean the one where you take the bus in, they drop you off and you hike about half mile and set up…..very, very basic.  You can’t leave any trace of yourself behind……no fire, you have to use MREs, and there are no latrines…..so you have to clean up after that.  No firearms……so you have to have a whistle, maybe an air horn and research ahead of time how to deal with the possiblity of meeting a bear.  But hopefully it gives you the opportunity to see nature at it’s best.

Now I like camping, I am girly enough that I miss my toilet and it takes me a day to get over my ickness over things…..but we haven’t done it in so long that I feel like moron on planning.  Harold found that some of the community colleges around here give classes on things for that…..just as how to pack a backpack and some will take you on a few rough camping trips in the surrounding mountains.  So we are thinking once we start getting some basic camping gear we will start on that and hopeful by 2009 we will be ready for rustic camping in one of the best and wildest parks that the US has to offer.

So that is what is going on in our heads….parks.  We love them and that is one of reasons why we moved out here.  There are just too many of them out here not to enjoy.

My mom called tonight……wasn’t expecting any phone calls, so when my phone went off it scared the shit out of us…..lol  Anyhow, mom is flying down to the Tampa area to visit with my great aunt, who will be turning 90 this Thursday.   Mom hasn’t flown in a long time and is just packing a carry on and she had questions on what she can have.  Even through she has her state DL and her Military ID, I told her to take her passport……just because she paid for it and mis well use it to get her money’s worth…..I told her we are going to start using ours, we spent the money and stressed over the paperwork that damn it we want to use them……LOL….she busted out laughing at that.

Excerpt: ‘Cheer!: Three Teams on a Quest for College Cheerleading’s Ultimate Prize’

**For those who still seem to think that Cheerleading is not a sport.  They have done studies that cheerleaders go through more injuries then football players and yet, in a lot of areas people seem to think that it is easy.  Trust me, has a former cheerleader, who was no way near the level talked about in this article, it was never easy.