Early Morning Blogging

So I'm browsing around where I get my news, and I happen to wander off on a random link and find this article that says "If you lose your home, you lose your right to vote"!

The Republican party is pushing it to become law! What the heck is going on in this country? Our leaders have lost their ever loving minds! Mind you, I don't have a mortgage on my house, and I'm one of the fortunate few who don't, but this really ticks me off.
If you lose your home, and you are told you cannot vote, tell them to shove off and exercise your right! This is still a free country, and we are American citizens.

These are Your Voting Rights:

"In a September 17, 2008 news release, NoVoterLeftBehind.net emphasized the four things every American going through home mortgage foreclosure needs to know about their vote:

• Voting is an inalienable right that you can’t lose due an inability to meet mortgage payments. If any Republican tries to tell you don’t different, don’t listen to him or her!

• If you are in the foreclosure process – but still living in your home – you still vote where you live. The foreclosure process itself does not bear on your right to vote or where you exercise that right.

• If you are forced to move due to foreclosure before the voting registration deadline, you should reregister at your new home location. Go to http://novoterleftbehind.net/knowrules.cfm to find your states rules on voter registration.

• If you move due to foreclosure after the voting registration deadline -- but before the election -- go to vote where you were last registered to vote. Keep in mind the following: You have the right to vote by signing an affirmation (or similar form) if your right to vote is challenged for any reason; and if your name isn’t on the registered voter list, you have the right to vote by provisional ballot." (NoVoterLeftBehing.Net, 2008).



Make it count, America - We need you at the voting polls on November 4th!

Ancestory - I've been interested in mine for quite some time. I'm researching not only my father's side of the family, but my mother's as well. I am a Heinz 57. On Dad's side, there's Cherokee, Welsh and English ancestors. On Mom's side, I'm 1/2 Swedish.
Mormor, which is grandmother in Swedish, was one of 22 children. All of them lived up into their late 80's and mid 90's. Mormor was 95 when she passed away. She came to this country on the Kungshold in 1915 with her mother and 7 brothers and sisters. Eleven children stayed behind in Sweden, and her mother had 3 more children once they were settled in America.
For years, I was told that Mormor's maiden name was Wolsey. After finally getting my mother to get out the documents that was needed to come to America, I have learned that just the last three children were Wolseys. Mormor and the other 18 children had the last name of Gustafsson. The eight that crossed to America were adopted!
Anyhow, Mormor and her family were from Stockholm, from the Katarina Region. Check it out on Google Maps - and be sure to use the satellite view It really lets you get close up!
Following are a few family photos, taken before Mormor and her youngest brothers and sisters came to America. This really is a large family!




Does anyone look famaliar? I'm looking for the rest of my Swedish family.

With the economy now spiraling out of control, and knowing my children and grandchildren - and great grandchildren will have to pay for the mistakes the lenders have made by offering loans to anyone that asked over the past few years, Obama has my vote. And here's why - the man just has common sense. He's believable, and regardless of his religion (which is Baptist, not Muslim), or the color of his skin, Obama has more sense in his little finger than Dubya has in his gray matter - and I'm not talking about his hair either.

Budget cuts are necessary. Now that the current government has just pledged $700 billion dollars of taxpayer money to bail out the big boys on Wall Street, there is a huge need for change.



Personally, I'd like to see the end of NAFTA - That's a program that has crippled not only America, but Mexico, as well as having more sweatshirt like businesses operating overseas. What we cannot see, we are blind to, but we must stop and think about what is going on across the globe, not just in our back yard.

We've always imported and exported products, but once the the American companies started moving into Mexico, they simply upped the business there and sent the jobs on to India and China, where they can get away with paying the people less and less, but make them work longer hours. Do you know why we have so many illegal aliens crossing the borders? It's because there is no work in Mexico! Unfortunately, there's not much work left here in the states either. But I digress.

Government spending does need to be cut. This is the proposed 2009 budget. Billions of dollars assigned for so many programs that it just boggles the mind, but the Department of Defense, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury Department is where most of our taxpayer dollars are being spent.

But more than that, rather than hiding in our dens, we as American taxpayers, must insist that corporate welfare come to an end. Corporate businesses need to pay their own taxes. Do you know that when you buy your new car, that you're paying all the taxes that the auto dealer and manufacture is supposed to pay? And that $100 dollar shirt that says "Made in China" on the tag - You're paying for the taxes on exporting the cotton to China, and on the taxes for importing the finished product back into the country. Think about it, and then write to your representatives - demand that they change the laws. America is being run into the ground. We can no longer afford to keep bailing out the corporations that keep screwing us over.

In January, 1993, total public debt was $4,167,872,986,583.67. Shift forward 15 years, and the public debt is now $9,791,569,244,675.95. That's an increase of $5,623,696,258,092.28.

What does your candidate for the Presidential office say about economics? McCain has stated that he doesn't know much about it, but he's insisting on keeping our men and women fighting overseas - costing us billions of dollars every year they are there. Obama wants to work on bringing them home - a smarter choice, I think. Sure, we need to help rebuild Iran, but the new government needs to start taking care of things.

On the issues, here is McCain's views, and this is where Obama stands.

I went over to my brother's today - the one that lost everything in a house fire this past Friday, and we went to pick up a few chairs that people had offered him. Anyhow, as I was leaving, my niece ran up to me with a porcelain doll that they'd found and asked me if I would take it home and see if I could clean her up.

Thank goodness for the internet - 3% hydrogen peroxide and baking soda cleaned the porcelain with no damage, except now the doll needs new eyelashes, and new body, because I can't get the smoke smell out.

Does anyone have a doll pattern for a porcelain doll that's 15 1/2 inches tall? I have to remake the body, and I'll also have to find a new set of clothes for her - or sew them. The dress is all lace, and the doll also had a veil. I've been looking online, but as yet, haven't found anything.

I would really appreciate your help so I can repair Courtney's doll. It's the only thing she has didn't burn up in the fire.