Thank You

In my first year of this micro-blog Cooking With Dee has accrued over 17,000 hits.  Thanks for being here and weighing in on topics and recipes.  Thank you, Jim, for creating this for me and making me write.  Thanks to family and friends for reading and contributing.  And thanks to our dog Zoe for having dinner a few moments late some mornings and evenings while I was writing.

Pyro Paula

So we need a congratulatory salute, let’s look at my shot last year of the Houston fireworks.  Pyro Paula runs the show and is good friends with Zoe.  We wish her luck this year as the corporations are cutting back and we won’t be there to say hi every day and see the event from next door.

No matter what one is able to achieve, there is another who deserves encouragement and kudos.  And don’t always look up, look to the co-workers you can mentor help up the ladder.  That goes with families as well, except for the ladder part.

As we prepare for our nation’s birthday, there are a lot of things we can do to make our families stronger, first off being involved in discussions about the nation’s health care debate.  I haven’t read those 850 pages yet, but they may be kindling before I do.  We hire our representatives through elections and usually go vote for the name we know.  As the people who hire the people who are spending our money, we have to do better.

Every time we bail out a bank or insurance company, we’re taking money from our grandchildren.  People who’ve been let go have no clue what to do to continue their families’ health insurance through COBRA because everything is in GOVSPEAK and no-one in their former employers’ health insurance plans/outsourced compliance firms will answer the damn phone.  They lie that you don’t have to pay up the last four months until next month, but you’re not insured unless you do!

Our nation and world is in a financial meltdown because we let the Madoffs and Stanfords run amok.  You also failed to regulate our major banks and insurance companies and allow everyone to defraud the American people.  Then you took from us to give them to bail the companies out.  I don’t feel comfortable with Congress owning banks and insurance companies.

There is much work to do and this is supposed to be a cooking and household blog.  So once you let me get off this topic I’ll get to oatmeal cookies and other items.  Sorry, I got sidetracked.  Two days with Jim.  Go figure.  Cheers, Dee