javaz

I am a retired aerospace engineer, happily married for over twenty-four years. My hobbies include blogging on PPOV, reading mystery/romance novels, playing guitar, learning the piano and writing. My husband and I love to travel in our camper/trailer, and have visited 45 states, besides having lived in France for 2 years and seeing most of Europe. "Today is the first day of the rest of your life? Well, that's true of every day but one - the day you die." American Beauty "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." Mark Twain "A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar." Mark Twain
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Spring Training and a Tea Party

Yesterday my husband and I attended a spring training game - the Oakland A's vs the Chicago Cubs - down in Phoenix near the zoo. It is a tradition for...

Arizona Politics – A history of crazy

One of Arizona's most famous son's is Barry Goldwater, a five term Senator known as "Mr. Conservative". Republican Senator Goldwater launched a bid for President of the United States against...

A Friday rant about the Tea Party, Psychics and tiny biting flies

Had the cutest and strangest experience this morning on the way home from our walk. It was another miserable sweaty walk this morning and there are these tiny little gnats...

And the winner is?

The Blackhawks! What an exciting game that went into OT! And the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup away from home! Trivia questions for hockey fans - What are they going to do once...

One For The Money

Janet Evanovich is a writer of women’s fiction, aka romance novels, except for her ‘By the Numbers Series’, which also appeals to men, teens, adults, and the elderly. The series...

One Small Step

This morning as I was watching last night’s Craig Ferguson Show that we tape since we can’t stay up that late, his monologue struck a chord with me. He stated...

Abuse of Power – Tale of a Red State

A Federal Grand Jury has been investigating Sheriff Joe Arpaio for abuse of power in Maricopa County, Arizona since January 7th, 2010. The investigation is in regards to Sheriff Joe’s...

Americans United

We need to start a movement, a splinter group from the Democratic Party. I am not talking about “media” or...

Choice under new attack from Operation Rescue

Choice under new attack from Operation Rescue, led by Troy Newman, the president of the organization. Operation Rescue has launched a new anti-choice campaign by offering $10,000 reward for the...

Tea Party Conventional Wisdom or Nightmare

As everyone probably knows by now, the great Tea Party Convention is in full swing this weekend in Nashville. A whopping 600 teabaggers are gathered to hear their leaders, and...