musing minds

I was watching the news the other day and there was a sound bite from some woman who said that the only reason a man strays is because a man has needs, and those needs are not being met at home.

She also said something about it being the wife’s job to find out what needs she wasn’t meeting in order to then meet those needs and keep him from straying.

What a load of BS. 

Wedding vows for the husband don’t generally say something like, “I’ll cleave unto you unless you don’t meet my needs, in which case I’ll go find someone else even if I have to pay for it. All the while exposing you to unknown sexually transmitted diseases and spending our community property in order to satisfy my own selfish ‘needs’.”

Mayhap, if the husband is finding that his “needs” aren’t being met, he might ask the wife how she’s doing, what is going on in her life. Is she overwhelmed? Is she working a full time job, cleaning the house, caring for the children, and cooking dinner every night when she gets home after her hour commute? Could she maybe be feeling a little under appreciated?

Ladies: If your husband strays it is not your fault.

Men: If you feel your “needs” aren’t being met, find out what’s going on with your wife. You may find that a little attention, appreciation, perhaps a small gift, some flowers, a love letter left where she can find it may do wonders. And it can save a lot of money and worry over possible health issues.

It’s Pi Day. Celebrate Pi!

Without pi we can’t calculate the circumference of a circle. Therefore we can’t evenly divide up a pie.

How many digits can you calculate?

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Headlined:

Spitzer resigns after stunning fall from power
N.Y. governor was repeat prostitution customer, may have spent $80,000

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned on Wednesday, completing a stunning fall from power after he was nationally disgraced by links to a high-priced prostitution ring.

“I cannot allow for my private failings to disrupt the people’s work,” he said with his wife at his side at his Manhattan office. “I’m deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.”

My question is: If this was going on while he was Attorney General, does it affect any of his prosecutions?

Who would want to be Hillary Clinton’s Vice President? Constitutionally, the Vice President has two functions. One: back-up if the President becomes incapacitated or dies and two: Serve as President of the Senate to break ties. Any other things that the Vice President does is at the pleasure of the President.

Now how much do you think a President Hillary Clinton will allow a Vice President to do? How much credit do you think a President Hillary Clinton would want to give up? And by giving tasks to a VP, she gives credit for that task to the VP.

Who would want to be number 3 in a second Clinton Administration? And how are we to really know if it’s Bill or Hill in the number 1 position. We’ll know who is officially in that position, but who’s really there?

Today is Electric Venom‘s Fifth Blogiversary! Yay! Congrats Venomous Kate!

Flash, Slobokan’s Golden Retriever succumbed to cancer. Slobokan’s written a very touching tribute at his site.

Our condolences Slobokan.

Remember back when the Fairness Doctrine ruled and for every editorial opinion on the evening news there was also an editorial response? And remember when both of those had a disclaimer saying something like “The views expressed in the preceding/following are not necessarily the views of this station.”

Now Samantha Power, formerly one of Barack Obama’s foreign policy advisors, tells the Scotsman that Hillary Clinton is a monster (off the record). As it was in the middle of the interview, the Scotsman decided to print it anyway.

Then she apologizes including this statement:

These comments do not reflect my feelings about Sen. Clinton, whose leadership and public service I have long admired.

And I wonder how what she said doesn’t reflect what she feels. It seems a little contradictory.

So taking the old Fairness Doctrine type disclaimer and the apparent contradiction in what Samantha Power said and what Samantha Power said, I came up with a new disclaimer:

The Samantha Power Editorial Disclaimer
The views expressed in this weblog are not necessarily those of the author.

She’s now resigned as well.

It’s that time once again!
Time to “spring ahead” with our clocks! At 2:00 a.m. local time Sunday set your clocks ahead one hour to 3:00 a.m. unless you are in Hawaii, Arizona, or Puerto Rico who don’t participate in Daylight Saving Time.

There is no “s” at the end of Saving by the way. It is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight Savings Time.

This is also a good time to change the batteries in your smoke detectors!

Had them all up on the sofa with me the other day. It was so cute. The black ball is Bitsy, Raven’s in the middle wearing the sweater, and Liath is on my leg.

The City of Chicago is considering a law banning tiny plastic bags because drug dealers use them for transporting and selling small amounts of drugs such as heroin, cocaine, crack, and methamphetamine.

Of course! That’s the answer! Ban the little tiny bags and the dealers won’t have anything to transport their drugs in! Why didn’t anyone think of this before?

It’s the Question of the Day at The Capitol Fax Blog (on my Daily reads list – great for Illinois state politics!).

The Chicago Sun Times has this:

Lt. Kevin Navarro, commanding officer of the Chicago Police Department’s Narcotics and Gang Unit, said the ordinance will be an “important tool” to go after grocery stores, health food stores and other businesses. The bags are used by the thousand to sell small quantities of drugs at $10 or $20 a bag.

Navarro referred to the plastic bags as “Marketing 101 for the drug dealers.” Many of them have symbols, allowing drug users to ask for “Superman” or “Blue Dolphin” instead of the drug itself, he said.

I don’t know about you, but I am very scared by Lt. Navarro. He wants to go after grocery stores, health food stores, and other businesses?

And grocery stores, health food stores, and other businesses are involved in the selling of illegal drugs in what capacity?

I use these little tiny bags all the time. I use them to hold and ship jewelry, to hold beads and gemstones, to sort buttons and hold and store many craft items.

I also use them for my children’s medication when we go on day trips or on longer trips. Doses can be easily separated by time to be taken and child and take up so much less room than medicine bottles. The little bags can easily be carried in a pocket or wallet, try that with prescription bottles. I use them for several doses of over the counter analgesics too. It’s a lot easier to carry a tiny bag with 2 or 3 doses of Excedrin Migraine than it is to carry the 100-pill bottle around.

This is so incredibly stupid that I can hardly believe it’s true, except that it’s Chicago and that explains a lot.

Winter, the dormant season, dies and rebirth comes with spring. We watch for the temperatures to rise, the snow cover to melt, and the green of new growth to show peeping from the earth or budding on the trees and bushes.

We may also start to think about life changes. We grow up, get married, have children. We start to think about our own mortality. As we accumulate more and contribute more to our families, we have a need for life insurance, to compensate – if only somewhat and only financially – for our loss.

Some of us have life insurance through our employers,  our employer insures our lives for a multiple of our salary. We may have the option of purchasing more insurance through our employer as well. But generally that doesn’t cover a non-working spouse, and that insurance doesn’t follow you if no longer work for that employer.

So while employer paid life insurance is a great benefit, it isn’t offered to everyone and, of course, those that aren’t employed don’t have employers to pay it. That’s where cheap term life insurance can come in. It’s an inexpensive way to cover a non-working spouse, or a working spouse whose employer doesn’t offer paid life insurance. It’s also a way to supplement an employer paid insurance policy. Peace of mind is priceless.