Thursday, January 29, 2009

Illinois Governor ousted... peanut products still on recall

Governor Rod Blagojevich has been voted out by his state representatives, the vote was 59 to nothing. And the man tried so hard on all those NYC talk shows Monday to be so charming and likable, so much for saccharine sweetness, I guess there is no fooling a true New Yorker. I watched as sweet Barbara Walters questioned the man and she was not at all easy on him, no tree questions at all, even Joy Behar got him nearly to do an impression of Nixon’ s famous line, “I am not a crook!” These TV interviewers are not, by any means, easily fooled, which is so refreshing.

Now to that notorious horrendous deadly recall on peanut products over five hundred ill and 8 dead.
Peanut Corporation of America out of Georgia knew for two years that they had bad unhealthy products that tested positive for salmonella, rats and roaches were found within the plant, and did nothing, criminal.
Fortunately, Lance cheese and crackers and others of those product’s line are not affected, neither is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups or even peanut butter in jars, and when I think about it those would be the only peanut products I would be using.

Just in: a woman in Naples Florida of the age of 90 years young was just reunited with her six digit lost money situation, stocks that she sold back in 1993, but forgot about when she moved. When asked what she would do now with that found monies she said that she would pay her taxes, remodel her kitchen and then go gamble at the Seminole Casinos. My husband asked did she say she was giving it away charitably, he shouted from the other room and I said she said she was going to gamble at the casino, and I said yes, she is giving most of it to the Seminole Indians, isn’t that nice?

Back on the home front the weather here was just beautiful today, sunny and still in the 80’s, but not for long supposedly tonight we are getting another cold front coming with a possibility of much needed showers; tomorrow the prediction is for only mid 60’s, brrr. The low on Saturday morning will only be in the upper thirties!
This is the coldest winter that I can remember in Florida in all the years that we have been here!
Makes you wonder about Global warming, and I am sure most of my northern neighbors are questioning the concept now too. Below are two sites that may help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/

Any-who, the 819B was passed yesterday in the senate; now it goes to the house, and so was the law to be able to sue for pay discrimination, to gain equal pay for equal work no matter who you are. 'The Lilly Ledbetter Law', based on her problem with her salary and where Lilly worked in Alabama for Goodyear who paid her less than her male counterparts, her own case was thrown out due to it being filed too late. The old deadline of 180 days from when she took the position was how it had to be filed, but now it's from when you received your last paycheck. Consequently, Ms. Ledbetter did not profit from the new law but many others now will.
Well, that’s all for tonight.

And so good night to all and to all keep in touch with everything around you the world seems to be changing nearly in a blink of an eye!

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