Politics Democratic Style

I just love the crap that's been going on this week. First Geraldine Ferraro with her comments which were taken completely out of context in my opinion. I understand what she meant, but then I'm not 30 something or 20 something. Neither here nor there she's now resigned from her "volunteer" position on the finance committee, never to be heard from again.

Now we have on the scene Obama's problem minister, who is retired from the pulpit, but not before he delivered some fairly fiery and racist sermons. Now will Obama be spanked for that by the media? Betcha .10 cents he won't. He's the media darling. Besides he didn't say it now did he? His pastor did. Used the "N" word, said Hillary could never understand what it's like being black.....well you know what Obama could never understand what it's like to be a female, now could he? If you're too tough you're a bitch, if you're too soft you can't handle the job. If you smile too nicely then you're flirting and you're sleeping your way to the top, What's the name for that? OH YEA a WHORE.

I'm anxious to see how this one plays out if it plays out at all, which it probably won't unless it makes SNL which plays both sides of the democratic opera.

Discrimination - What a laugh that word is, no one understands until it happens to them. Remember some of us came before all the wonderful things that have been put into place to get rid of that nasty little word.

I remember when:

A woman could be asked if they were engaged and if so when were they getting married.
A woman could be asked why they weren't engaged
A woman could be asked when they were going to have children
A woman could be asked if their husband would understand if they had to work late or have a job that required some overtime.
A woman could be hit on by her boss, her co-workers, etc and had no where to go to complain.
A woman could be told that if she didn't sleep with her boss she'd lose her job and she did when she didn't
A woman could be beaten to a pulp by her boyfriend, her fiance or her husband and nothing could be done except for" You shouldn't make him so mad"
A woman was told in high school by her counselor, you could be a secretary, nurse or school teacher
And yes women were discriminated against when it came to getting jobs.
Part of a woman's job if she were a secretary which so many of us started out in that capacity was to wait on her boss, get coffee, pick up dry cleaning, pick up their lunch, god forbid pick up the kids, pick out the wife's presents, order the flowers, make the reservations.

Now tell me about discrimination?

I feel like I paid the price (see list above by the way it's not complete) so that my daughter didn't have to go through the intolerant behavior that I had to withstand and suffer through. Just like all the women that came before me and went through or suffered through much worse than I had to or the women that suffered along with me.

Metabolism Sucks at 50

I have to say, I quit smoking back in Jan but officially in February. I started going to the gym faithfully. Gave up drinking except on Friday nights with my group of friends and normally I drink water most of the evening.

My eating habits haven't changed a bit. We eat well, lots of greens, healthy vegies, etc.

My husband looks like Jack Sprat and of course you can guess how I look.

Anyway, I work out 6 days out of 7 for at least 30 minutes of tough cardio with my heart in the 80% of what it's supposed to be.

I've not lost one ounce of body fat, not one pound, and barely 1/2 inch at my waist. It's so frustrating to try and be healthy, it's not all it's cracked up to be mind you.

What's up with that? When I smoked like a freight train I could take weight off with no problem, drank like a fish and always ate healthy but now.......forgetaboutit!

But hey I'm healthy now aren't I? Working out every day, not smoking not drinking just being a little health nut, but I have to tell you it really sucks. But I'll get through IT, maybe.

I'm hoping that my quitting smoking and working out are on some kind of curve trying to get to each other somewhere in the middle and some of this fat will dissipate or flat melt away when they cross each other. Otherwise when I turn 85, I plan on smoking again!

Rants at 49-1/2 no wait 49 3/4

Why does everything upset me these days? I asked myself earlier this morning.



The state of politics - Clinton and Obama and McCain and how we all have to be politically correct. Who decided what's politically correct? Who was in Charge of making those decisions? No one called me and asked my opinion or what i thought or asked for my input but here we are all adhering to someone's who made the decision what's correct politically and what's not. That's enough for today on this subject.



Quitting smoking (I contribute to a blog) What a royal pain in the ass that's been(quitting not contributing) but I've managed to make it almost 2 whole months without cheating, the first time in my life. There's ad after ad telling me I'm going to die if I don't quit, that others are suffering from 2nd hand smoke......I just gave in and got pissed off and decided to quit.



How to dress at 50! This pisses me off. For the first time in a long time, I've stopped to take a look at how I should dress at 50 - again with someone else deciding how 50 year olds should dress and making the world believe this is the way it should be done! Look at the shows that are on out there! Fact is - no one caters to this group of women that I can find any way. MORE Magazine is the only one that comes close to even making sense.



Make up or no make up, flawless skin or flawed skin.......Get with the program people, everyone has flawed skin unless we can all be airbrushed before we leave the house.



Gray hair vs dyed hair. I flat give up. I now have a Jamie Lee Curtis type hair cut all my gray shows and you know what? I love it!



P.S. Here's another news flash for you - Men don't really ever look at your hair anyway! Took me until I am almost 50 to learn that one! What will I learn by the time I'm 60?



Reality TV - what happened to sitcoms? or dramas? Why in the world is there a show called Clean House? Who gives a crap what someone elses house looks like cluttered or uncluttered?



Rules for Blogging? Why are there rules? IT's my blog, I'm not blogging to make others happy, I'm blogging because I want to, for some reason it relieves stress for me.



More rants for later - Swimsuits now there's a rant!