Our flight was totally uneventful. YAY! We are waiting for calls from family. Hope we can get in a walk today sometime. They are awfully busy in the middle of the week.
We head out for Mexico tomorrow. It is so silly that I have never been there! My "condition" is under control, so I'm not worried. The heart medicine is working fine, and I feel a lot better.
I liked this cartoon from the Star Advertiser:
And here is how they keep the birds off the monitors in Honolulu Airport:
Phil Donahue has always been one of my favorite media people. Maybe because I'm a Donahue on my mothers side? But no. I share his point of view on most things, especially on the evil folly that was Iraq II, now celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Here he is on Democracy Now, talking about how the higher-ups fired him at the behest of General Electric and a Republican focus group. And everyone involved continues to lie about it all, because they want to keep their jobs at all costs to the truth.
Sickening isn't it Hattie how the lies breed more lies and 3 trillion treasure wasted in a land of no universal health care....
Good luck on your trip, safe health and try and see Frieda Kahlo's place.
XO
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Posted by: wisewebwoman | March 21, 2013 at 11:05 AM
I'm not a bid Donahue fan but thank you for stopping by my blog the other day. I finally located you via Kay. Dianne
Posted by: Dianne | March 21, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Wow, that is dynamite news about Phil Donahue! I thought it was a ratings thing. He got his start in Dayton, Ohio. (actually Erma Bombeck was also active at the same time--twin "towers" of good thinking from the same place) My daughter, Georganne, was on one of his early shows where Robin Morgan, who had written a feminist book, was the guest. The show came from Dayton before Chicago. They arranged all these high school girls sitting on the floor around Robin. It was very early in the show's history and it was visually rather naive. He was extremely Catholic at the time. I'm going to watch the video, but I'm off to see the tax accountant soon!
Posted by: Henry Butler Chapin | March 21, 2013 at 12:57 PM
That's not a Big Fan. Yes, I can spell.
Posted by: Dianne | March 21, 2013 at 12:58 PM
Wisewebwoman: Imperial powers don't make the well being of citizens their top priority!
Dianne: The whole idea was to make Donahue look like a hothead with dubious and maybe even subversive ideas. Worked pretty well, I think.
Hank: I knew his ratings were good and figured he was being dumped for not backing the war, but it is nice to know the whole truth at last. So that is cool about Georganne being on the Donahue show with Robin Morgan! I heard her speak in Portland years ago. And Erma Bombeck. One of the funniest women who ever lived!
Posted by: Hattie | March 21, 2013 at 01:41 PM
@Henry: Could this be the episode?
http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=donahue&f=all&c=tv&advanced=1&p=1&item=T86:1647
Posted by: Brandon | March 21, 2013 at 01:52 PM
I would have thought the same thing happened to Ed Schultz because he is so hard hitting, more so than any of the rest (after Keith left); but when I saw he lives in Minnesota and had to stay during the week in NYC to do the news show, I could see where he really did want the change. We get so suspicious because in reality our paranoia is often not far off base.
Hope you have a good trip.
Posted by: Rain Trueax | March 21, 2013 at 03:41 PM
I would be curious what most Iraqi's think about our invasion and removal of Saddam. The stories from the soldiers that were in Iraq say that Iraqi's are happy we did what we did. I am sure that the national soccer team is happy they no longer get beaten by Uday Hussein if they play poorly.
Posted by: Ingineer66 | March 21, 2013 at 08:44 PM
Rain:Schultz knows better than to offend the military. That's the big taboo.It's also what makes media liberals ineffectual no matter what else they say, because it's the military industrial complex that is at the heart of our national problems.
Ingineer 66: No. Our leaders set up a tin-pot dictator and got rid of him when he was no longer useful. Americans don't care about Iraqis or their country. We know nothing about them.What a surprise when they fought back! Our military wrecked the country. It's in pieces. There is not a single good thing to be said about that war.
Posted by: Hattie | March 21, 2013 at 09:03 PM
Bon voyage!
I want you to go see the five Franciscan missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro, not far from San Miguel. You have to have a car to visit easily.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1079
They are very important because the Mission in Santa Barbara is based on them.
Posted by: Z | March 21, 2013 at 09:39 PM
Z: We had a lot of success hiring drivers in Peru. I'm not sure if Terry's cousin has a car. I would like to do this, especially since my friend we went to Peru with was so church phobic that we did not see many interiors.
Posted by: Hattie | March 21, 2013 at 09:55 PM
I saw that political cartoon too and sighhhed. Ain't it the truth?
Posted by: Musings | March 27, 2013 at 02:52 PM