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I call myself Bad Mom because at the time I came up with it, I was learning about the assumptions we put behind our words. I was following the pattern of not believing that my kids are okay, and speaking to them from that basis. I changed that, and it made a big difference. I am from Utah and my people are still living there. My husband was in the Air Force and we rattled around until we saw Colorado, and we stuck.

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Utah State in the 80's
Contributed by: Lisa Arata   on 8/25/2008

It was freshman or sophomore year at Utah State. The college was small but the fun was big-time.

There had been an anonymous posting of a mock special event: "Dog f-ing on the Quad!!" showing a stick figure of a human doing piggie things to a stick figure dog. Nick nack paddy wack, give a dog your bone! The perpetrators of the deed were in trouble if they could be found.

We loved a white-boy reggae group called Little Women that played a couple of times while I was there. I'd never heard reggae before that, except Eric Clapton's "I shot the sherriff" and Johnny Nash's "I can see clearly now" so it was new, way-out, awesome cool and the dudes had dreadlocks and, wow.

This was not very Mormon-like, let me tell you son.

That year, I think it was, though my memory is hazy... The studentbody elections took place as usual. But I will never forget this election.

We were in the mood for somebody different. There were many candidates. I think there was a girl, some white guys and a black guy. The female candidate didn't make it through the primaries (I don't know how accurate this particular memory is and wouldn't know how to look it up) but the two who we ended up making the choice of were a regular, square white guy and a cool, intelligent black guy.

We elected the black guy. He was different. He made everyone feel good. I don't know a better way to say it.

Well, as the term got underway, all did not go well. He stopped showing up in his office. Whatever decisions a studentbody president is supposed to make, were not being made.

In the student newspaper the story went that he thought it was all a joke and he didn't have to play along. There were other reasons given that sort of made sense but sort of not, given that we wanted to see that man running the studentbody. We wanted to know what he had to say! But we didn't get to. He stepped down and the second choice guy stepped in.

In subsequent elections I used this experience as a lesson. I wouldn't vote for Perot, for example. I didn't think he could hack the leadership of the country.

I'm happy to say that I think Obama is not another example of this story. I think he could do well enough. He could lead.

The thing is, I don't like the Democratic party so much, mainly for where its allegiances run. They talk about what "we" can do with the millions of dollars "we" could spend. That's so very irritating to me. We who?

They want to require major industries to spend their profits in proscribed ways.

They favor universal preschool that wouldn't be optional.

They are against school vouchers and in favor of a teacher's union dictating what to teach in schools, hence our kids are being taught little about our great history, andthat global warming is proven,when all they should be learning is the basics of a good education.

My kids were both shown "An Inconvenient Truth" twice in one year, during school! How could you argue that schools aren't propagandizing and indoctrinating our kids instead of teaching them science? And, it was shown during social studies and homeroom!

I don't like any of the celebrities who yammer against Bush and in fawning favor of Obama and Democratic attitudes.

I think the war is a big, nasty mess and that there's much to be gained from pushing through, even though the private contractors making huge profits from the war are not so good.

I'm not real proud of my political party right now, but I'm hoping it will someday once again let individuals have power over their own lives and money, and get back on solid footing.

I want a president who will lead, not be a good buddy to the establishment. I don't know which candidate can.


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Submitted By: Michael Rule
posted on 8/26/2008 @ 7:09:29 AM
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I once voted for John Belushi for president. He didn't show up either, just went on some cocaine bender that killed him. Oh well.
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Greeley , CO

Lisa Arata has posted 182 blog entries and 282 comments since joining on 4/18/2007. Lisa Arata 's average blog rating is 4.74.
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