I will admidt we need health care reform, but is Obama’s plan what we need?  I just don’t know, I have to admidt.  I’d like to get some opinions from some of you, what do you think of health care reform?  What do you think of Obama’s plan?  Do you think that Medicare will survive?

The parents in the faith healing case were found not guilty.  I can’t believe it.  How did this happen?  Were there all religious memebrs of the jury?  Must have been.  I am angry about this.  So now, the next time, and there already is a next time, the parents won’t have to go take their childto the doctor and another child will die.

Yes, there is already a next time, I just heard there is another case going on now.  I didn’t getthe details, but hopefully the child isn’t already dead!  What is wrong wirth some people?

I am a little young to really remember Walter Cronkite’s news reports, I believe he was still on the air when I was a kid.  But I know, unfailingly who he is.  I think we all did.  He was more than a newsman, he was an American icon.

I wonder why that is?  Because he was a trustworthy man?  Because he was a class act?  All of the above?  I heard his report on the moonwalk, and on the Vietnam war on rememberance shows after his death.  I understand that even the president took notice of his Vietnam report.

I doubt we’ll ever have another news reporter that can ever touch him, although, nothing against Brian Williams, but he was one of a kind.

So, I say Goodbye to a man I never met and don’t really remember, but with a strange sadness nonetheless.

Well, the political unrest in Iran hasn’t died down, but it looks like we do not have a change of leadership nonetheless.

I am not too surprised by this, I kind of figured this is how it would turn out.  I am sad though.  Would have been nice to see some real democracy in action there.

So Michael Jackson died.  Everyone is bemoaning the news and talking about “the king of pop”.  I’m not, I’m relieved.  The man was a child molester for pete’s sake!  Okay, yes, he was found not guilty; but you know that is because of who and what he was, not because he was innocent.  The evidence was overwhelming.  He did it he just didn’t get caught and punished like he should have.

Just my two cents.

An Oregon City couple is on trail for manslaughter in the death of their baby daughter.  The child had pneumonia, and, rather than take her to a doctor, they decided to pray for her.

What is wrong with these people?!?  How many times does it have to be in the news before they get that praying for someone doesn’t work, you need medicine!  I will never understand how anyone can think for a minute that they should not take their child to a doctor when they are ill.  ”No, we’re going to pray.”  A lot of good that will do.

I was very surprized when Iran decided to launch an investigation into allegations of fraud in the recent election.  I am also happy to hear it.  From the looks of things over there, and not to my surprize at all, there was some definate funny business going on.  I had really hoped that the election would have been run honorably and that the other candidate would win.  It was very good to see an Iranian man campaigning with his wife, and I think she would have made a great first lady for their country.  Maybe shown Iranian women that they have a voice in the world.

Either way, I am glad to hear that an investigation is being launched.

So on the news this morning is the story of a octor who performs abortions (late term) being killed in his church.      

Aren’t these the people who preach the sanctity of life and church?  WTF?!  How does this happen, and how do these people justify the killing of an innocent man, at his church yet?  Not that I have a big thing about church, but these people do, these “right to lifers”.  Appaently the right to life stops once you are born.  They will fight to the death for the rights of a fetus, but kill a living, breathing human being?  And people wonder why I have a problem with these idiots?!  This man probably had children of his own, he certainly had a life and a wife, she was at the church too.  What about his right to life?  What about his children’s right to have their father to raise them?  What about his church’s right to hold a religious ceremony without being accousted?  I may not believe in religious ceremonies, but they do have that right by law.  As I said, appaently your right to life ends once you are born…

in changing tis from a diet blog to a political views one?

There is the Korean missle crisis, the poor economy, the risisng unemployment rate, and so on and so on.

In local polotics, Mayor Sam Adams has said he will not take a pay raise.  He may be a liar, but he’s decent enough to say that other people are doing without and so will he.  He admits it’s a token gesture, but I have to say that he just went up a couple notches in my opinion.  With the Oregon unemployment rate at 12.1%, it’s the least the politicians can do.  Randy Leonard, on the other hand, says he will take the pay raise.  Shame on him.  He’s dropped a couple notches in my opinion.  So, yes, it is a token gesture, but make the token gesture, do they realize how hard it is out here for the rest of us?

August 5:

breakfast: nothing

lunch: sweet and sour chicken (small portion)

dinner: salad

snack Special K Cinnamon Pecan

August 6:

Brekfast: rice cake

lunch: small portion chicken fried rice

dinner: Special K Cinnamon Pecan, nectarine.