Happy Mother’s Day!
Posted by Michelle Moquin on May 12th, 2013
Happy Mother’s day!
I have been wondering what to post on this special day for mothers. And really all I want to say is that I HOPE all mothers around the globe are being treated with kindness, LOVE and respect. Remember you wouldn’t be here if it were not for your mother. And believe me, I am happy to be here.
My mother and I get along pretty well most of the time…and although she usually says, “We have our moments,” and we do, I am grateful that she is my mother. I LOVE her and I wouldn’t chose any other.
If I had to choose 3 words that best describe my mother I would say, “Funny, Stubborn, Caring.”
What 3 words would you chose to describe your mother? Blog me.
That is it for me today. Have a beautiful day spoiling your mother on her day.
Peace & Love….Give it to Moms all over the world.
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)
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May 12th, 2013 at 1:44 pm
Malo, welcome to the MM blog, please don’t start by misquoting me though, I never said squat about Brazil. I merely made some incorrect observations about S Africa and as usual, Alycedale, corrected me, no problem, I can handle the heat if I post something about whites that doesn’t hold much water under scrutiny, then again, I think the word I used, ‘civilized’ got bandied about without my meaning attached to it, it’s all good, I’m a big girl and I can handle it. Again, welcome but let’s not start by throwing me under your Brazilian bus. Thank you.
Mischa, et al, Have a lovely Mother’s day : )
Luv, Zen Lill
May 13th, 2013 at 6:22 am
Some of that describes my mother, not all.
May 13th, 2013 at 6:40 am
Hafa adai;
The liklihood of a shark attack on Guam is roughly equivilent to a North Korean missle strike on Guam. I’m an active diver with in excess of 600 logged dives in Guam waters beginning in 2005, with the bulk of those dives after Jan. ’09.
I have noticed an increase in Black Tip, White Tip Reef, and Nurse Shark sightings. These sharks generally seem more afraid of human encounters than the other way around. I’ve had one close encounter with a Gray Reef Shark in Guam waters and have never spotted a Tiger Shark. Some of the comments in the article in the PDN are laughable, IMO.
May 13th, 2013 at 7:37 am
Kia ora koutou
Hafa adai Guam people. You are not the only ones who read this blog. Here’s a little fact about New Zealand. More than 30% of the greenhouse gas produced by New Zealand comes from the burps and farts of the country’s 45 million sheep and 10 million cows.
In fact, agriculture accounts for 14% of greenhouse gases emitted worldwide every year. Also, most of these emissions are methane, which is 23 times as powerful as carbon dioxide. The average cow releases 100-500 liters of methane into the atmosphere EVERY DAY.
The problem is especially bad here in New Zealand. But Michelle, we are trying to be responsible to the rest of the world. A flatulence tax was proposed in 2003.
We are about 150 further than Hawaii. But the flight time about 8 hours is the same.
Nāku, nā
May 13th, 2013 at 7:38 am
Hafa adai
There’s always been a fair amount of sharks on Guam but never noticed due to lack of chatter on the internet. No one cared about sharks until the over publication and reporting of a few encounters. For years us instructors/tour guides have seen all kinds of things but there was no interest.
Not so long ago my friend and I during a tour saw a huge hammerhead swimming between us at Barracuda Rock. Another time I had 4 sharks swimming around me and a group of 3 tourists. This is only a few of the hundreds of other sharks spotted during thousands of dives.
A few miles South at Santa Rosa Reef I made a dive at the Blue Hole out there on Real World’s boat and we saw 20 to 30 sharks in one dive with one I had to shove away. Don’t think an increase in sharks is a bad thing, on the contrary, a rise of the shark population means our waters are getting healthier.
May 13th, 2013 at 7:41 am
Hafa Adai:
Is this about the tourist who is supposed to have died from drowning after getting bitten on the shoulder by a shark?
It seems illogical that a shark would bite the victim on the shoulder then he drowned. More likely, he drowned and then the sharks ate him post mortem, which is normal shark behavior.
The only witness to this is the sharks and they ain’t tellin’
The only sharks I’ve seen in Guam are those 15-senators, and the governor.
May 13th, 2013 at 7:41 am
While snorkeling at family beach in piti yesterday we came across a shark at the drop off point. Luckily it didn’t attack. It was at the bottom of the ocean. Thank god we made it out to shore safely.
Hafa adai
May 13th, 2013 at 7:42 am
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY
Mom. I know you read this blog. Debs told me. Today.
May 13th, 2013 at 7:44 am
So now we can fly without delays.
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Are Planes More Important Than the Poor?
12 Programs Congress Refuses to Save From Sequestration
As they were rushing to board their flights home for the weekend, Senators and members of Congress pushed through a bill to allow the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to reshuffle funding in order to avoid the flight delays caused by FAA furloughs due to the sequester.
Unfortunately for millions of Americans who cannot afford to get on a plane, Congress has yet to repeal the disastrous and devastating cuts to important programs for the poor, mothers, children, and many others.
A flight delay is inconvenient, not being able to receive your cancer treatment is a matter of life and death. Here’s 12 important programs that Congress has so far refused to save from the sequester’s automatic cuts, even though they’ve been in place for nearly 2 months. By contrast, the FAA furloughs caused flight delays for just four days.
1. Long-term unemployment: There are 4.7 million Americans who have been unemployed for longer than six months, but sequestration cut federal long-term unemployment insurance checks by up to 10.7 percent, costing recipients as much as $450 over the rest of the year. Those cuts compound the cuts eightstates have made to their unemployment programs, and 11 states are considering dropping the federal program altogether because of sequestration — even though the long-term unemployed are finding it nearly impossible to return to work.
2. Head Start: Low-income children across the country have been kicked out of Head Start education programs because of the 5-percent cuts mandated by sequestration, as states have cut bus transportation services and started conducting lotteries to determine which kids would no longer have access to the program, even though the preschool program has been proven to have substantial benefits for low-income children. In all, about 70,000 children will lose access to Head Start and Early Head Start programs.
3. Cancer treatment: Budget cuts have forced doctors and cancer clinics to deny chemotherapy treatments to thousands of cancer patients thanks to a 2 percent cut to Medicare. One clinic in New York has refused to see more than 5,000 of its Medicare patients, and many cancer patients have had to travel to other states to receive their treatments, an option that obviously isn’t available to lower-income people. Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) proposed restoring the funding, but the legislation so far hasn’t moved in Congress.
4. Health research: The National Institutes of Health lost $1.6 billion thanks to sequestration, jeopardizing important health research into AIDS, cancer, and other diseases. That won’t just impact research and the people who do it, though. It will also hurt the economy, costing the U.S. $860 billion in lost economic growth and at least 500,000 jobs. Budget cuts will also hamper research at colleges and universities.
5. Low-income housing: 140,000 low-income families — primarily seniors with disabilities and families with children — will lose rental assistance thanks to sequestration’s budget cuts. Even worse, the cuts could likely make rent and housing more expensive for those families, as agencies raise costs to offset the pain of budget cuts, and sequestration will also cut from programs that aid the homeless and fund the construction of low-income housing.
6. Student aid: Sequestration is already raising fees on Direct student loans, increasing costs for students who are already buried in debt. The budget cuts reduce funding for federal work study grants by $49 million and for educational opportunity grants by $37 million, and the total cuts will cost 70,000 college students access to grants they depend on.
7. Meals On Wheels: Local Meals on Wheels programs, which help low-income and disabled seniors access food, have faced hundreds of thousands of dollars in cuts, costing tens of thousands of seniors access to the program. Many of those seniors have little access to food without the program, but Congress has made no effort to replace the funding.
8. Disaster relief: The Federal Emergency Management Administration will lose nearly $1 billion in funding thanks to sequestration, jeopardizing aid for families, cities, and states right as the spring storm season begins. The aid package Congress passed for Hurricane Sandy relief will also see more than $1 billion in reductions.
9. Heating assistance: The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) helps nearly 9 million households afford their heating and cooling bills. Sequestration will cut the program by an estimated $180 million, meaning about 400,000 households will no longer receive aid. These cuts come on top of $1.6 billion in reductions since 2010.
10. Workplace safety: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has long suffered from a lack of funds, which means its staff is so stretched that many workplaces go without an inspection for 99 years. The fertilizer plant that exploded in West, Texas, for example, hadn’t had a visit from OSHA since 1985. That will get worse, as sequestration will cut the agency’s budget by $564.8 million, likely leading to 1,200 fewer workplace inspections.
11. Obamacare: Sequestration cuts a number of important programs in the Affordable Care Act: $13 million from the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan Program, or CO-OPs; $57 million from the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control program; $51 million from the Prevention and Public Health Fund; $27 million from the State Grants and Demonstrations program; and $44 million from the Affordable Insurance Exchange Grants program, or the insurance exchanges.
12. Child care: Child care costs can exceed rent payments or college tuition and waiting lists for getting assistance are already long. Yet sequestration will reduce funds even further, meaning that 30,000 children will lose subsidies for care. For example, Arizona will experience a $3 million cut to funding that will force 1,000 out of care.
May 13th, 2013 at 7:46 am
Michelle, I be female and you be a fine sweet looking young thing.
May 13th, 2013 at 7:51 am
Canada weights in with, yes mom I missed saying it yesterday, but it is non the less meaningful. Happy Mother’s day.
Now will you please stop pouting about me being in Canada. The rest of the brood can’t afford to leave Ohio so they just move around the state to get away from you.
At least I was honest and moved the fuck to Canada. You always were a “I don’t give a fuck about you mother” if giving a fuck meant you had to sacrifice something you wanted to do. So how do you expect us to be different?
Sure I love you in my way. But let’s not go overboard and act as if you were a stellar or even a good mom. You were there and thats about it.
May 13th, 2013 at 7:54 am
So Zen Lill, what did you do for mother’s day? I was in LA and thought about you. It’s nice to think that since I read you almost daily, we are friends.
I work for a magazine that promotes Russian travel.
May 13th, 2013 at 8:04 am
Check engine light has been on for about 200,000 miles. My dad put a piece of black electrical tape over it, but that fell off two summers ago, and a bumblebee got stuck on the piece of tape when it was laying on the dashboard and carried it away.
Fortunately, there are “good” qualities:
If you’re a parent considering buying and fixing up this car for a teenager in your house who imagines they’ll use it to go to the local drive-in theater with a cute boy / girl and let their hormones run wild, rest assured, this car is an automotive chastity belt. I mean, look at it. Every part of the car is shaped and styled like the least attractive parts of the human anatomy. The back is too small to lay down in, the rear seats are contoured in such a way as to make love-making impossible, and the center console is loaded with enough protuberances and jagged edges that necking could lead to a visit to the emergency room. This car is the anti-boner, its pastel paint job and fabric interior dousing any hormonal flames. Trust me on this, I drove this car for four years. Your teenager will experience a baffling streak of abstinence when they drive this car, to their frustration, and your relief.
The car also smells like blueberries, has been known to turn vegetarians into meat-eaters and has “The Godfather” soundtrack stuck in the tape deck. What a rare find.
Do you have what it takes to steer this teal, rusty “automotive chastity belt,” previously owned by the seller’s hippie parents? Check out the original ad on Craigslist or head to the “non-scary part of Detroit” to see The Toad in all its magnificence. Be warned though: if you pester the poster with questions answered in the ad, you’re going to get a surprising email in response.
May 13th, 2013 at 8:10 am
You have it wonderful in New Zealand Luie. Here is what it is like to live in my country, Uganda. Over 75% of Uganda’s population lives on less than $2 per day.That places Uganda among the worst countries in the world for average wages.
In addition, less than 10% of our workforce in Uganda has as much as a secondary-school education. The extreme poverty and widespread disease in Uganda has reduced the average life expectancy here to 53 years.
The majority of the country is age 15 or younger. The economic, educational, and health problems in Uganda have gotten so bad that a member of our parliament once proposed giving college scholarships to girls who kept their virginity as a means to combat AIDS.
Michelle, he situation in Uganda is particularly hazardous for us females. Uganda has the highest percentage of women in the world (40%) who agree that wife-beating is acceptable when a woman argues with her husband about anything.
Me, I’m for maiming or killing any asshole who touches me.
May 13th, 2013 at 8:14 am
Luie, that was funny. I am a biologist. Did you know that The majority of oxygen on the planet is produced by algae and other marine plants!
Nearly all aquatic plant life is some variety of unicellular algae, the most commonly known of a group of organisms called phytoplankton. These creatures get their greenish color from chlorophyll and dwell on the surface of the water so they can absorb plenty of sunlight and carbon dioxide for photosynthesis.
You wouldn’t think it, but there are over 7,000 different species of algae. In addition to the familiar green variety, these eukaryotes also come in shades of red and brown.
Brown algae is actually the most common, with green algae forming on land and in freshwater areas and red algae only appearing in dimly-lit locations and temperate to tropical climates.
Believe it or not, that “pond scum” is responsible for about around 70 to 80 percent of the oxygen on Earth. This comes to about 330 billion tons of oxygen each year!
Just thought I try to fill the absence of Howie with a little science. Where are you Howie?
May 13th, 2013 at 8:21 am
I’m from Tokyo. My interest is in the comments by “aliens” concerning our Sun orbiting some point in our Milkyway Galaxy.
I looked it up. It seems either the aliens or our scientist has the speeds wrong. My article says:
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Astronomers have calculated that it takes the Sun 226 million years to completely orbit around the center of the Milky Way. In other words, that last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. In fact, this Sun orbit has only happened 20.4 times since the Sun itself formed 4.6 billion years ago.
Since the Sun is 26,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way, it has to travel at an astonishing speed of 782,000 km/hour in a circular orbit around the Milky Way center.
Just for comparison, the Earth is rotating at a speed of 1,770 km/h, and it’s moving at a speed of 108,000 km/h around the Sun.
It’s estimated that the Sun will continue fusing hydrogen for another 7 billon years or so. In other words, it only has another 31 orbits it can make before it runs out of fuel.
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Howie who is correct?
May 13th, 2013 at 11:09 am
Let me take care of Howie’s light work. There is no problem Chitose. You used Kms they used miles. The answer is still the same.