There has been so much in the last few days that has needed to be in my blog subjects that I think I’ll start another round of this.
Signatures flowing in to recall Davis. This really scares me because they’re doing well. Thing is… Davis was *NOT* a bad governor. Wilson was ten times worse. Davis hasn’t done much for education other than oppose vouchers (which would literally drain the school system of needed funds) but Wilson turned down $40 million with NO STRINGS ATTACHED from the feds for education. Davis is getting blamed for the power shortages but they were due to the deregulation of electricity passed in 1996 under a Republican governor and were supported by the voters of the state. This led the way for no regulation of Enron (and we all know how credible they are) to jack up the price of electricity during the power shortages. In other words, the citizens of California voted for this, having been warned by multiple TV ads (which I remember) about what deregulation would mean. (And yes, Crystal, I know that people hate him for more than that.) He also won the governor’s race against Bill Simon fair and square (which is more than I can say for *some* politicians). Would Simon, who even alienated himself from his own party, be a better governor? I seriously think not! Y’all elected Davis — you’re stuck with him for the next few years. So… tell Darrell Issa (the impetus for this recall who LOST the Senate campaign in 1998 and is bitter about it) and his fascist thugs to kiss off! *sighs* If only we could recall presidents…
We have a few laundry baskets in our bedroom and Finian has claimed the big white one. Yesterday morning, he came and mewed at me. I followed him and he stopped at the laundry basket and mewed very loudly… because his brother was curled up in it. It was a “MOMMY!!!! Cullen stole my laundry basket!!!!” kind of mew. I had to explain to Finian that he needs to share and give Cullen a turn. I’m not sure if he understood the concept of sharing because he is a cat, but Cullen soon jumped out and Finian claimed his rightful throne.
Jon and I attended the installation of one of the local pastors of the Other True Church (the one that doesn’t ordain women) on Sunday afternoon. We were treated very well and were able to rub elbows with some clergy we know from Columbus. (Jon attended the church for a few months and one of the pastors is the father of my worship team leader at my home church in Bexley.) Doug was happy to have us there and asked if we could do lunch on Tuesday. We spent two hours talking about seminary stuff, the colloquy process in the Other True Church, politics in the
One True Church, theology, our churches… We had a great time and if we can squeeze it in, we want to do lunch next month as well. As someone on my blogroll IRREVERENTLY (!!!) put it, “it was nice of him to hang out with [us] flaming liberals.” To this person, I’d say, “yeah… but we’re right-wing flaming liberals.” 😛
I’m a huge fan of David Horsey, a Seattle P-I columnist that I got addicted to while spending time with my “godmother” during my summers in college. He is an equal opportunity cynic, like myself, and has some good cartoons. Some highlights of recent weeks:
–Today’s (ripping on Tom DeLay)
–June 5th (Hilary now vs. Laura Bush later)
–June 3rd (the stupidity of the hatred of the French)
–May 25th (the tax cut)
–May 23rd (Whitman’s resignation)
–May 21st (peace in Israel)
–May 11th (Bush’s lame publicity stunt on the air craft carrier)
–Something on Slick Willie
–Slick Willie’s Pardons
–Slick Willie’s Legacy
I had a job interview on Tuesday with the Holiday Inn Express to be their front desk person. The promise was part to full time and the assistant manager wasn’t sure how many hours she could give me. She said I’d know by Friday. The pay is low but hey… it would be something. I’m also still waiting to hear about the library job and the receptionist jobs from last week; but I won’t get answers on that until July. If I get the Holiday Inn Express job, I’m hoping I can work it around VBS…
VBS for this year is “Zoom Zone” — a time travel back into Biblical times. It’s as lame as Augsburg curriculum stuff normally is but… they have a prayer component this year which I’m getting to teach. It’s at the same time as drama, so I’m having to limit it a little bit (shorten 1 or 2 of the activities) but hey… at least the One True Church is recognizing that we need to be teaching our kids how to pray. I’m also helping to do some of the music which will be good because I have no shame when song-leading.
***My use of One True Church is purely tongue in cheek, so please refrain from giving me grief about it in the comments. The management thanks you.
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Jen,
I’m having a bit of tentatio trying to communicate with this blog. Came across your blog just now and got a kick out of it. Our politics and theology seem to be similar. Check out my blog and give me some feedback. Today’s entry is about the exciting stuff going on in Alabama.
Allen
the tentatio with the site was my fault. i accidentally deleted your last comment in addition to someone who had posted a really hateful one. thanks for re-commenting.
i’ll check out your site in the next few days. currently my office assistant (who has four legs, whiskers, a plumey tail, and enough fur for another one of his kind) is demanding attention and tribute. *sigh* CATS!!!
Gotta remember though, Jen: California has had movements to recall every single governor since 1960, and a total of 34 in the history of the state. It’s like the victory lap, almost, but different.
Allan posted something on my site as well. Why is it, do you suppose, that I keep running into liberal, gentle Christians on the web, and 3/4’s of them are Lutherans?? 😉
It’s all about grace_, Chris A. And after all, we Lutherans may have discovered it – but we sure don’t have a monopoly on it. 🙂
Agreed, Jon. I couldn’t think of a nice church to be in communion with. 🙂
whoa whoa whoa. davis did nothing bad for education? how about screwing up the budget terribly so that now the schools are getting cut to shreds? many teachers are losing their jobs despite the fact that we have more and more students. the community colleges are not going to be able to support their student base in the fall because davis has cut so much funding, so now people that could have gone to college despite having financial troubles will be stuck. the education budget is a HUGE deal and meanwhile, he RAISED his budget. yes raised it. (in his proposed budget i mean).
he is being recalled on the basis that he misled the voters in his campaign. he withheld budget information, for example.
also, i don’t know the story behind the money from the feds that wilson turned down, but i know that i have never seen the u.s. federal government give away a cent without strings of some sort attached.
as far as de-regulation, the same people who voted for that, voted for davis. i don’t see how we can blame davis or wilson for that. what we can blame davis for was how he acted during the power crisis. declaring war on texas. buying extra power we didn’t need at inflated prices and selling it back far far far below market value. that screwed up our budget royally. then he pisses oregon off at us by turning around and practically demanding they give us their power. i was proud of oregon’s governor for refusing.
*we* didn’t elect davis. only san francisco and los angeles did. it was as fair as any election i’m sure, but, as usual, the rest of us were screwed by them. they also elected all of his buddies. so we have a mini-federal government here. everybody from the same party.
simon is a moron too. per usual, the republicans didn’t give us a decent alternative. thanks a lot. gah.