I can’t believe we are midway thru July. The last ten days have flown; it’s probably the lack of sleep.
The Schmooze is doing pretty well, but she has to go to the bathroom alot and that means sleeping in 2 hour stretches, if you’re lucky.
I am still working really hard on the nipping.
She’s a terrier, so she’s naturally mouthy but it’s the one characteristic I hate and especially upsetting when you have a puppy who will grow up to be a strong English Bull Terrier. We’ve been trying different toys to distract her and alot of discipline. Hopefully the penny will drop soon, before she’s bitten holes in more of my shorts.
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I was quite amused by the fuss made over the cover of The New Yorker magazine showing Barak Obama in muslim dress and his wife sporting a machine gun. The whole point of the article was to dispell the silly myths about the Democratic Presidential nominee-in-waiting.
This is part and parcel of the problem the press has with Obama. Some say they are being too easy on him but anything negative can be taken as racist.
Even the producers of the Letterman show say they can’t find anything funny to say about Obama and hope he selects a comedy-rich running mate.
Jon Stewart made a joke about Obama a week or so ago and the audience didn’t respond so Stewart reminded them, “It’s okay to laugh at Obama.”
Nobody really has yet…and I wonder if the same would have been true if Hillary Clinton was the nominee. Would comedians be as willing to tip toe around allegations of sexism as they are around allegations of racism? And whatever happened to freedom of speech anyway?
Just wondering…..
Mary Ellen Beninger
