Hubby and I called and emailed our representative prior to the vote on the bill to tell her that we wanted her to vote no. Hubby had called, and I had emailed. Then Friday, Hubby emailed her again. She still voted yes. Following is the text of the email that Hubby sent:

Madam Congresswoman,

I left a message yesterday regarding my desire for you to vote no on two legislative matters, National Energy Tax Bill (Cap and Trade) now under discussion and Healthcare reform coming up soon.

With the healthcare measure I am concerned with the strong possibility that we are revisiting the mistakes of the “Great Society”  which gave us generations of welfare and the corresponding debt to the nation and damage to the family structure it created. Government participation/control will most definitely lead to a single payer system creating the same damage to the nation. Perhaps Congress should consider tort reform so doctors are relieved of the need to order unnecessary testing to cover their backsides and possibly reducing their malpractice liability costs.

With regard to Cap and Trade, I am watching C-Span at this moment and I am appalled at the behavior of your colleagues. A bill is not present on the floor containing at least 300 pages added in the middle of the night. What I am seeing is a food fight by individuals unworthy of the role of dog catcher, much less responsible for crafting laws that will ultimately impact everyday Americans.

Please do the responsible thing and save myself and the rest of your constituents the crippling tax and living expense increase to obtain a dubious .01 degree reduction in temperature in the next 91 years. We see this argument day in and day out, and to be frank, the data driving the debate is a statistical outlier when taken in context of the age of this planet. One century of data is insufficient to predict global patterns that typically span thousands to tens of thousands of years.

I welcome your feedback and trust your vote will reflect the will of your constituents and the ideological path of your colleagues.

Best Regards,

I don’t know how much writing and calling our Senators will do. We’re stuck with Dick Durbin and Roland Burris…

Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson both passed away yesterday. Both too soon. Farrah after a long battle with cancer at 62, Michael after a sudden heart attack at almost 51. Hubby is only a week or so older.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families and friends.

May the Lord bless thee, and keep thee:

May the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

May the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

Numbers 6:24-26

Yep, he (the guy from AARP) did say that.

Starting at 3:30 or so…

I have the opportunity to introduce the leader of the free world, our president, our beloved president, President Barack Obama.

Is “Dear Leader” so far away?

It’s been busy again. I got a new laptop on Thursday at a really good price and have been busy transferring stuff from the old laptop to the new. It’s been nice to be able to take my time with the file transfers instead of trying to salvage what I could from a fried drive. I am now also getting used to Vista versus XP…

Saturday was the opening of our village Festival and our Scouts were part pf the opening ceremony along with members of the US Armed Forces, one each from Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Army (go Army).

On Fathers’ Day we went to go see Up.

Up Trailer (couldn’t embed)

Loved it. We decided not to see the 3-D version because The Little Guy has been known to get a little scared when things “come at” him from the screen. We’ll watch the 3-D version when it comes out on DVD. There’s a really cute short film, Partly Cloudy, before the movie. Previews for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs look great.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Trailer (couldn’t embed)

Dad and me and that’s probably Mom’s thumb in the bottom left corner.

Miss you Daddy.

Yep, it’s my birthday…

I’m trying to decide what to order in for dinner.

served up in the afternoon in the Central and Eastern time zones today…

Mr. Right has a funny photoshop here.

Ann Althouse has an interesting question on a recent Gallup poll.

Ed at Hot Air asks, “Did Iran concoct election results before the election?”

We had a busy weekend. Saturday at Six Flags went beautifully. It rained all morning so we went at 1 pm and there were no lines even though the rain had stopped. It was an amazing Saturday. We got to ride so many rides. The guys had no lines for the rides they love, Superman, Batman, Dark Knight, Iron Wolf, Viper, Demon, Whizzer… Even the smaller rides had no lines. Straight on the bumper cars. Amazing. Sunday was a day at the Forest Preserve for a cousin’s high school graduation party. The day was sunny and upper 70’s, lovely weather. Kites were flown, hot dogs were eaten, fun was had by all.

Absolutely beautiful! Kudos to the photographer.

You have to click the link to see them…

Up way too early because of a thunderstorm, I’m seeing a commercial for a “neckline slimmer” (sound at the link), the first resistance exercise for your chin and neckline! That’s a new one. Better than the penis pump or the pill that promises it will “increase the size of a certain part of the male body.” Yeah, right.

I agree with Virginia Postrel on universal healthcare.

Think about this for a moment. Medicare is a huge, single-payer, government-run program. It ought to provide the perfect environment for experimentation. If more-efficient government management can slash health-care costs by addressing all these problems, why not start with Medicare? Let’s see what “better management” looks like applied to Medicare before we roll it out to the rest of the country.

Go read the whole thing.

Today’s the first day of day camp. The Little Guy is going three days a week again. This year he’s old enough for archery too.

We went fishing with the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts on Saturday. The Little Guy said, “Mom, since I don’t like bugs, will you put the worms on the hook for me?” So of course I did. But I let a Boy Scout do it whenever I could. I’m glad I had that bottle of hand sanitizer with me too.

Little Guy caught the first fish, a bluegill, and then two more. He also caught a tree and Mrs. B. He only caught the edge of the cuff of her jacket, but there was a worm on the hook. Yuck. I’m sure she got that in the washer as soon as she got home.

It is the 65th anniversary of D-Day and Google’s logo looks like this:

The mouseover tooltip says:

Celebrating 25 years of the Tetris Effect – courtesy of Tetris Holding, LLC

Added: Also at Don Surber, and through him, Lawhawk