The Best Part is in the Middle

Wednesday…….the day in the middle of the week; this is really a literal translation when you consider Sunday the first day of the week as do most of our calendars.  Or maybe you’re one of the working people who begin their work week on Monday; then Wednesday Continue Reading »

Hard to believe it has been a year since Barack Obama was elected President of the U. S. of America.  Tomorrow evening, President Obama will stand before a joint session of Congress and deliver his first State of the Union address outlining where he thinks we are and where we’re going as a Nation.  In preparation for this annual address, he asked his Cabinet to take a moment to prepare a similar report for the American people. Continue Reading »

Email from Obama

I’m feeling important again today.  You guessed it; I got another personal email from Barak Obama.  It’s a pretty fancy message too with a video right in the middle; they must have a cracker jack tech team at the white house.  No invites to a cabinet meeting yet, but I’m on the email list.  I also got a notice that I won the Canadian Lottery, an offer for a free cell phone, and a message from a widow in Africa that needs my help getting her money out of the country and away from all the corrupt people trying to cheat her out of her fortune, it’s so bad she has offered me half her money if I will just help her.  I’ll deal with those other opportunities later, but first I need to tell you what the President wanted in his email. Probably the easiest way to do that is just to share it with you, (notice it starts “Dear Friend”, I must be important to be friends with the president) so here it is: Continue Reading »

Email from the President

I just wanted to let you know how important I feel today.  I got an email from “The President” yesterday, yes really Barack Obama.  Well, okay maybe you would call it an “eblast” because it went to a few more people than just me.  But my point is not everybody got one, (Did you?), and he’s got some good stuff to say that you might want to know about. If you want to get on the list so the President will email you all this important stuff too here’s how you do it. (Okay, maybe he did have a little help sending it)

To sign up for these very special and personal emails from “The Real President of the United States” all you have to do is go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/EmailUpdates.

In case you didn’t get this email and want to know what it says read on Continue Reading »

President Obama had an internet town hall meeting today.  I tuned in and was impressed to see the newest version of the FDR fireside Chats.  There were almost 100,000 questions submitted and over three and a half million votes from all over the country to decide what Americans want to talk with their president about.  In case you missed it but are interested you can go to whitehouse.gov to read their blog entry about the town hall meeting which even has a full transcript if you want detail.

One of the questions that hit home for us here in California was about legalizing marijuana to create revenue.  Last month Democratic State Assemblyman, Tom Ammiano, introduced a bill that would legalize pot and allow the State of California to regulate and tax its sale.  His thought was that it would bring billions of dollars to our cash strapped state.  President Obama didn’t agree with that theory.

Courtesy of YouTube here is his response to the question about legalizing marijuana:

 It’s a new day for America and we hope all the grand plans and the “Yes We Can!” attitude filter down to help California and Sacramento back to a stronger economy. 

The Inauguration of Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States……well that too, but what I was really talking about was that this is the largest temporary restroom event (port-a-potties) in the history of the united states.  There will be 5000 port-a-potties from 10 vendors…..Don’s Johns, Mr. John, Johnny Blue, Johnny on the Spot, they’ll all be there.  Park Services says the appropriate number is one for every 300 people, at this ratio there will be enough for about 1.5 million people.  If more people than that show up let’s hope they all follow their mom’s advice and “go before you leave home”.  The Presidential Inaugural Committee, a privately funded organization, is picking up the tab for all this.  Here’s hoping they can answer nature’s call, if not Don’s Johns says they will have trucks standing by to handle the overflow.  Almost makes me glad that golden ticket didn’t come in the mail; I can hit the pause button and I don’t even have to stand in line.

Port-a-potties near the Capitol in Washington