Last minute Halloween ideas!

Halloween is tomorrow, are you finding yourself scrambling around trying to come up with some last minute ideas? Try utilizing some of what you might already have! Try dressing the little one up as a farmer using already purchased overalls with a button down collared shirt. Top it all off with a straw hat, and you're good to go! Do the kids have any sweatsuits? You can make a bunny costume in no time using a white sweatsuit by attaching a ball of cotton or fuzz by safety pin to the bottoms. Then make ears out of stiff paper or cardboard and attach to a headband! Use face paint to complete the look. One year, my daughter went as a black cat. We used a black leotard, a feather boa pinned to the bottom for a tail, and completed the look with a store purchased cat ears headpiece. I painted on some whiskers and a nose, and she was so cute! You'd be surprised with what you can come up with last minute just by utilizing old clothing items and things around your house. Look around and see what you come up with!

Ughhh... kids...

This has been a heck of a day! My little one decided to stick a jingle bell in her ear! She is the youngest of three, and somehow, I managed to escape this type thing with the older two. Now, I could see the bell, and it was positioned in the ear in a way that I knew would make it easy to remove, but, I was just too afraid to do it myself. SOooo, to the ER we went. We were literally there all of 30 minutes, and $610.00 later, we were on our way out the door. The nurse removed it in under 2 seconds. Thank goodness it didn't make its way any deeper in the ear canal. Don't think I'll have to worry about her sticking anything in orifices again! I hope anyway...

I was listening to a talk radio show caller...

And she mentioned doing online searches and coming across P.U.M.A sites and how the "once upon a time" Hillary supporters were really trumpeting all Republicans to keep up the good fight against Obama. I thought I'd share a letter written by a PUMA pundit. It's kinda long...

Dear Members of the Republican Party,
Like millions of other PUMAs, the only thing I’ve decided about this election is that under no circumstances would I be voting for Barack Obama. However, like millions of other PUMAs I have also realized that the only way to ensure that Barack Obama is not elected President is if John McCain wins on November 4th.
In the last few months, I have watched with amazement as you have worked hard to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the Presidential election. In your public and private utterances you have been pessimistic, downcast, fatalistic and have shown signs of being mentally out of the game.
How easily you forget that compared to Barack Obama, in John McCain you not only have a candidate who was legitimately elected by your party, but you have a better candidate, a better message, and a better connection to Main Street, USA. Despite all this you carry on like the election is over and Barack Obama has already won.
It is sad that compared to the rank and file of the GOP, PUMAs are more steadfast in their belief that an Obama presidency is not inevitable. All over the MSM, in the blogosphere and in conversations with people everywhere, members of the GOP who should still be fighting the good fight are talking like a party that has already lost. Why should this be so?
As PUMAs, during the primaries we took the Obama machine on and won, we kept our faith and acted from the realization that no matter what our contributions were, doing something was infinitely better than doing nothing. Either way we knew that sink or swim, till it was over, it iwas not over. The GOP needs to come to this same realization in regards to this election immediately.
The reason Hillary prevailed till she chose to give it all up for the sake of party unity (my a..) is because those of us in her corner supported her candidacy against all odds. Despite all of Hillary’s flaws, and believe you me, there are many, when it came to supporting her candidacy we never showed hurt, never showed fear, never backed down, and never gave up. You can do the same.
As PUMAs we worked our butt off to ensure Hillary Clinton won the Democratic Party’s Primary, against all odds, including being outspent 4 : 1, the MSM being in Obama’s corner, charges of racism and blatant displays of sexism by Obama and his surrogates, and last but not least, electoral fraud perpetuated by ACORN. Folks, indeed the more things change the more they stay the same, nothing has changed, except John McCain has taken the place of Hillary Clinton.
How dare you back down, how dare you give up on John McCain and Sarah Palin? Right now they are the only two people in the world standing between the America we love and cherish and a society remade in the image of Barack Obama. Obama is a man whose political ideology is more in line with that of Daniel Arap Moi, a founding father of Kenya who thrived on the cult of personality, than it is in line with that of our founding father, George Washington, a man who put it all on the line so that our country would truly be greater than any one man.
Is it going to be hard to do this, but you must fight. You must stop griping, complaining and talking about how the deck is stacked against your candidate and your party, yes, life isn’t fair, but it has never been. Instead get in the trenches to fight for McCain/Palin. There must be no retreat, there must be no surrender, till it is midnight in Hawaii and the election is over in all parts of the United States, the election is not over.
Go out and talk to people, educate people on McCain and Palin’s strengths, also educate people on Obama and Biden’s extremely obvious character deficiencies. Nobody who truly loves America and the American way of life can compare the candidates and give any sort of edge to Obama/Biden.
Not everybody is going to listen to you, but who cares? If people don’t want to listen to you, go talk to someone else, if they don’t want to listen to you, go talk to yet another person, eventually, you’ll find someone who has been waiting just to hear your message, and that person will at the minimum NOT vote for Obama, even if s/he does not vote for McCain/Palin. Every single not cast for Obama is a vote that keeps Obama out of the White House, it is that simple.
None of this is going to be easy, pleasant or maybe even enjoyable, because hard work is required, but guess what? The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Lastly, Republicans, you can count on PUMAs to work till the bell is rung to prevent Obama from being elected, you must do the same!
Posted by PUMA Pundit

If that's not great motivation, I don't know what it!!
http://www.puma08.com/about-puma/

When did Christianity become such a dirty word?

During the course of this tiring election campaign, I've been saddened by the way people seem to freak out over the word, "Christianity." As a country we're told constantly to be a respector of persons, which seems like a good way to be, respector of others' religious beliefs, which, I've never had a problem with doing. But during the past few months, Christianity has been mocked in an unbelievable way. Whether it be by talking-heads in the media, SNL skits, cartoon illustrations, etc. Christianity has taken the brunt of many jokes. I don't know if others feel like Christians think they are perfect, judgemental people, but it's quite the contrary. Most Christians KNOW they're imperfect, that's the first stepping stone to becoming a Christian. When did it become such a bad thing to stand on your moral principles and values? When did it become acceptable to mock others' religious beliefs? This is just something that has been weighing on my mind, and I wanted to get some others' perspectives on this.

Vote for your presidential pumpkin pick!

You can vote for your top presidential pick at the Better Homes and Gardens site.

http://www.bhg.com/app/voting/index.jsp?id=/templatedata/bhg/voting/data/1222705728805.xml&sid=3

That one on the bottom is a tad bit scary! ;-)

Who says conservatives can't have fun?

Here's Sarah Palin on SNL -- drill baby drillah!

Just who were the Weather Underground and why should you care?

If you cared about 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing, or the unabomber -- why would you NOT care about the despicable acts of the weathermen? I guess you might say they considered themselves to be "community organizers" of sorts, but they were a radical left organization founded in 1969 who took their name, "weathermen" from a Bob Dylan song. They bombed the United States Capitol, the Pentagon, Army recruitment centers, and Supreme Court Justice Murtagh's home(where his family was present and in bed at the time). They were also investigated in several other bombings, namely one detonated at a San Francisco police station, taking the life of a police sergeant.
William Ayers helped to cofound this despicable, radical organization in 1969. He and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, who was also a prominent member of weather underground, both went on to become professors. Ayers, at the University of Illinois, and Dohrn at Northwestern. In an Interview given to the New York Times in 2001 Ayers was quoted saying:

''I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.'' Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago.

Yet, this man got away with his terroristic acts, and now teaches college -- just amazing?! Maybe people should ask the victims of the weather underground their feelings as to whether or not the WU is just no big deal. I can see why Obama would want to lie about these associations, who wouldn't? But, is this the type of person we want running our country? The kind of person that associates with terrorists? I think not!
Here is an excerpt from an article written by John M. Murtagh, who was 9 years old at the time, when the weather underground bombed his home while he lay in bed sleeping.
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0430jm.html

Republicans need to take charge!

As you can tell, I've really been slacking at my blogging! The summer kept us super busy, but now with school starting again, things are getting back on track(as well as they do around here anyway)
With the fast approaching election there have been some things weighing on my mind -- like, the entire future stake of our country. I'm scared, scared to death, as I am sure many of you are as well. The economy -- you bet we're feeling it. In more ways than one. Who really is to blame for this unimaginable crisis? Some say the greedy lenders, some say the individuals who pursue loans. I'm not sure any one element can accept full blame. I think the better question in all of this is -- WHO are we going to trust to fix it? Many things have surfaced regarding ties between members of the Democratic party and FM/FM. We know about campaign contributions received by Barney Frank since 1989, not to mention his "oh so cozy" relationship with FM executive, Herb Moses. Now, you tell me, is that the party we want controlling vital economic areas of our government? I think not, at least I know that I don't! We NEED to, as Republicans, stand up and cheer louder, be more vocal, and put more information like this on display to help educate those undecided voters. I wish so badly that my party would get more fired up, we're about to hand over our White House! When I say hand it over, that's basically what we're doing. We need to stand up for our conservative values and principles. We need to support our ticket with passion. I'm afraid of what November may bring, and if it happens, it may just be MY fault...