Today is July 4th, 2011, the 235th anniversary of the United States of America. Some thoughts for this Monday: Fireworks are an amazing invention. Mosquitoes are as annoying as fireworks are beautiful. I think people should listen to more John Phillips Sousa music and less Lady Gaga. Fox News claims their twitter feed was “hacked” and that an outsider posted the tweets saying that President Obama had been shot and killed in Iowa. First, whoever tweetedread more…
Former Arkansas Governor, Mike Huckabee alerted the media yesterday that he will announce on Saturday, May 14th if he will run for President in 2012. The announcement will be made live during Huckabee’s weekly Fox News television show (8pm Eastern time). If you want to know more about why I support Governor Huckabee, please read My Visit with Mike Huckabee. Personally, I want him to run, but I don’t think he will, not this time.read more…
Regarding the case of the Georgia USDA Rural Development employee, Shirley Sherrod, I say there is plenty of shame to go around. Shame on the conservative blogger who chose to post only part of the video. Shame on the media outlets for choosing to run the tape without checking the “whole story” (it wasn’t just Fox News, because I saw it on CNN). Shame on the NAACP for condemning her without knowing the facts. Shame onread more…
If you watch “Huckabee” on Fox News this weekend, there is a brief shout out to the OneMom blog on the show. Gov. Huckabee runs a little contest during the show and has three audience members select the names of famous people and then go and select a book as a gift for that celebrity. The person that selected the “CEOs of the big three auto companies” is my husband’s middle child from his first marriage.read more…
As most of you know, my husband is taking construction work where he can find it, and this week that puts him in South Carolina. Convenient, because it afforded him the opportunity to go to a Mike Huckabee book-signing event in Columbia this afternoon. He went to the bookstore early this morning to get a number for his place in line this afternoon (he has number 4) and he found out that Gov. Huckabee would beread more…
