It's All About Spin

The rain finally stopped for the most part although there were a few sprinkles here and there. We are thankful for the rain but some got a bit too much and are experiencing floods, wind damage and power outages. Not me. My pond in the back has disappeared and the grass just keeps growing.

My Mom saw an orthopedic surgeon today and found out that her shoulder injury is not a torn rotator cuff, dislocation or injury to a ligament, tendon etc. The joint is just swollen and she was treated with a shot and steroid pills. She needs to move it to avoid a frozen shoulder. Hmm....is that what you get when you give someone the cold shoulder? Hopefully she will heal soon and no major treatment will be necessary. What a relief for her and for the family.

The good news, my table at the Harvest for Habitat gourmet dinner is now half full. My coworker, Chris, and her husband,Rodney, will be joining Ruth and I. I only need four more hungry generous people to join us. Here is a link to more information: http://www.habitatlansing.org/

Now for the SPIN (I came across this the other day):

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight...

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.
If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.