This is my first blog posting on this website. I wanted to welcome the Obamas to the White House. The White House belongs to all of us and we choose who gets to live in it. I am honored beyond belief to have the Obamas do just that.
I am also anxious to follow the selection of the new pup. I am a huge lover of dogs and I do a lot of work in basset hound rescue. My personal blog is:
bassethoundtown.com
This is going to be so much fun. I am so excited. Thank you for this wonderful site. What a nice thing to do for the USA!
Cat Rudert
To view this blog post with music and Barack Obama messages taped on his podcast in the past access this link
By Daniel Kurtzman, About.com
"They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.'" (Watch video
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'Eye Without A Face' by Mark Bellinghaus, Copyright 2008
Life is all about signs...seeing the signs....understanding the signs...acting upon the signs
--Mark Bellinghaus
Extract & Photo caption/description posted on OUR MARILYN BLOG - you can find the entire blog article here: blog.ourmarilyn.com/2008/08/31/marilyn-monroe-would-have-voted-f .. and also here: my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/markbellinghaus/gG5W75 Ella Fitzgerald & Marilyn Monroe, in 1955 (above) and in 1962, (below), the year Marilyn Monroe passed away. In 1955, when racism was still a big issue in the United States of America, Ella Fitzgerald became the first African-American to perform at the Mocambo, after Marilyn Monroe had lobbied the owner for the booking. The booking was instrumental in Fitzgerald's career. Marilyn would promise the owner that she would appear every night (and be on time), and this way also fill the house--and she did, she was there every night, and she filled the house and: she was always on time! Their close friendship lasted for many years and Ella would sing Marilyn Monroe's famous 'My Heart Belongs To Daddy' in honor of her wonderful friend Marilyn Monroe, who died almost 34 years before she passed on in 1996, at age 79. Barack Obama Quotes: 'They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.' 'I have nothing to hide, I enjoy being myself. I'm not going to change who I am just because it's Halloween." -appearing as himself on Saturday Night Live as part of a skit that featured Hillary Clinton dressed as a witch at a Halloween party * 'It's like I was shot out of a cannon. I'm so overexposed that I make Paris Hilton look like a recluse.' 'Hillary is not the first politician in Washington to declare 'Mission Accomplished' a little too soon.' Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday to President John F. Kennedy, who was a Democrat
You remember the Bill 'n Ted Scream? They go into it and hold it for almost a minute screentime, punctuating the scream with a couple looks at each other in the very midst? I just did that with my cat.
And while Bill 'n Ted did it out of sheer terror, I'm doing it out of a mixture of elation, stress and a little bit of terror. For tomorrow, my friends, the Circus Is Coming To Town.
I should have taken warning when Courtney Hight, Regional Manager from the national campaign, landed in Eugene last week. Now, don't misunderstand me, she's lovely and her presence has given our local grassroots group a shot in both arms and the croup, and frankly I'm thrilled that things are finally HAPPENING. But ya gotta understand my position here:
Saturday Market is coming up the first weekend in April, and I have inventory to produce. Unlike most of Saturday Market's vendors, I don't have a family to lend hands to it so furnishing and stocking an 8x8' booth entirely with handcrafted goods from scratch, is entirely on my shoulders.
Furthermore, the HORSE SHOW SEASON is starting next weekend with the NW Horse Fair & Expo and I'm embroiled in a breed presentation. My job is to create the stall and hospitality decorations, plus I have to practice on my horse Meritage and get our riding pattern and my cues down. He's a wonderful, patient, loving boy, but he's a horse. Have you ever tried balancing on top of a 1300-pound beast while it attempts to dance with four feet? Anyway, I have to schedule my practice time between training sessions, because my trainer is getting two girls ready to ride him in the Regional circuit and the Nationals this summer/fall. (Yep, the Nationals are two big weeks before the election...fuuuuuuunnnnn...)
All this, and the bloody Circus is coming to town...tomorrow!
Bye-bye, Oestara.
No more writing. I have my work cut out for me. Volunteers meeting in an hour and a half and I have a MILLION things to do...
I'll report back on the other side of the river, assuming I survive...
I really love animals if you can't already tell.
Meow Bark