I am so tired lately. Well, lately, I have become accutely aware that I have Lupus. I know that I have had it for 30 years, but when I was working, it took a back seat to life. I worked, took my medicine and played. Now that I am retired, I tire more easely. I take more medicine and I can't do what I once did. I am just so tired today.

Stuff

1.The Tea Parties have been an excuse for some people to subtly let their racist attitudes show. The signs and the disrespectful taunts are not necessary in a debate. Terroristic tactics such as coercion, intimidation and yelling are not a part of a debate. They are tactics used to scare the populus. The health insurance initiative is dead as we know it. All of the sound and fury has scared the politicians. They want to get re-elected, so I won't have the coverage I need to buy all of my prescriptions.
2. Thank you President Carter. when you were in office, they discriminated against you because you practiced you faith. You saw/felt the subtle stabs at you. Now they are doing it to Presdient Obama. The awful signs and the loud rhetoric are getting in the way of his vision. The louder and more awful the oppositon are, the real facts cannot get out.
3. Civility is not dead. It is just waiting for really patriotic Americans and Christians to speak up and speak out. Vote for change and act on American principles. Pray much,long and specifically for the health of the country. Continue to keep our president in prayer. He was elected. He will be with us for until 2012, so no matter what, HE IS THE PRESIDENT. He was given the vision. He needs some Nehemiahs "with a mind to work" to get his initiatives past the "sound and fury" and into the public. Read the proposals. Ask pertinent questions. Make up your own mind.

Lesson plans

I have been sick, so lots of good stuff passed me by. First, the president put out a guide to his speech to Americas's youth. Then the critics went crazy. They didn't want the President to talk to their children. They thought he was going to be political. Well, the speech came out and there was only positive statements. Did they apologize. No! The fact is that in this area of the country, students don't come back to school fully until Thursday. And when they come to school lockers are given out, books are given out, and the first assignments are given out. Students are worried about getting to class on time(especailly the Freshmen).
Imagine, if you can, my childhood with Ike as president. He was white and old. Then JFk brought youth into the White House, BUT, they killed him. Then I had old LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Nixon, and Reagan. They looked old and they did not look like me. Clinton brought a breath of youth and sunshine. And, he knew me as a race. Then look, Obama is me. Imagine young people looking at themselves. I can be president. I can be Secretary of State. I can be Attorney General. Yet, they don't want us to see what we can be.