Sea Life

Mommy (the Beadshaper) has opened a new gallery on her website devoted to presenting glass beads in the shape of fish and turtles (maybe other sea life in the future). So far no dog beads. I guess fish and turtles are more exotic.
Anyway, to see the new gallery on the web, go to http://www.beadshaper.com/ , scroll down to the Galleries, and select the Sea Life link.

The Real Obama Has Come Forward

Hi American Humans,
Hooray for the President. With extending the tax cuts, he has shown wisdom, pragmatism, and the ability to make a deal. The extremist idealogues on the Right and Left are having a fit, but Obama is acting like the Obama that the majority of the American Humans elected, a leader who can lead us through the center to get things done. Maybe the richest people shouldn't get a tax break, but if that's what it takes, so be it for now.
Chloe

Air Travel Safety

Hi Humans,
I see in the news that some people are complaining about screening of passengers at airports. They claim it violates the rights of individuals. How stupid can those humans be? Isn't arriving at one's destination safely more important than one's privacy. I think getting blown up by a terrorist is a greater invasion of privacy than anything the TSA can do. We dogs would never get unglued if an inspector saw our private parts on a monitoring screen. Big deal!! We dogs go naked all the time. When I fly with Mommy and Daddy on a trip to Chicago, I want to actually arrive there, not be killed on the way by a terrorist because some stupid humans pressured the government to tie the hands of the people who are there to protect us (humans and dogs).
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By the way, Mommy has a lot of her new viking knit jewelry on her web site, www.beadshaper.com as well as her lampwork glass beads. Check them out.
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Chloe

Insults

Hi Humans,
I'm glad I'm a dog and not a human. You humans seem so hung up on sensitivies. You are so easily insulted. You care so much about who says what to whom. You get unhappy if someone looks at you the wrong way or says something using words that you consider offensive. You care so much about that stuff that you often miss what's really important.
As a dog, I'm happy if I am fed, my basic comforts are attended to, and I feel safe. Then you can call me whatever you want. Who cares?
Chloe

Hooray for California

Hi Humans,
Hooray for California. For once you California humans have shown yourselves to be smarter than the the humans in the rest of the USA. While the rest of the country was swept along blindly by their emotions because President Obama and the Democrats hadn't completely fixed the economic problems, California recognized that the problems were created by lack of financial oversight and wild borrowing to support wild spending by the preceding Republican administration. Instead of being clever in fighting our enemies, President Bush drained our treasury with an all out frontal assault on the wrong battlefield in Iraq, without an exit strategy, without consulting and engaging our allies sufficiently, and without a good plan for after the initial battle ended. The Wall Street melt down occured because of the Republican fantasy that markets will regulate themselves without government interference. The stimulus actually began in the last days of the Bush administration when the Bush people realized at the end of an 8 year learning curve that they needed to change course.
Perhaps the Republican victory in the House of Representatives might actually help President Obama get re-elected in 2 years. After all, the economy is beginning to turn around because of the stimulus and should result in a good job picture by the time of the next election. Obama's important legislation has already been passed by the Democratic Congress in the past 2 years. The Republican House won't be able to stop it because they don't have the Senate or the President's veto power, not to mention the lack of public support when people start finding it easier to get a job.
Well anyway that's what this doggie thinks. But what do I know? I'm just a dog.
Chloe

Obama

Some people who supported President Obama in the last election have become foolishly disillusioned with him. People on the extreme Left are unhappy because he is too moderate, but they just never listened to him. He always has been a moderate. Other people are unhappy because he hasn't solved all of the county's problems. But the economy really is beginning to turn around. What do you expect from humans? They don't have the patience and moderation that we dogs enjoy.

Preserving High Wages

There was an article in the paper recently about how people from Vietnam are going into China illegally to find better paying jobs. Sounds familiar? It seems that when a lower paid community beats out a higher paid community by being able to offer cheaper prices, they will eventually rise up to become higher paid than someone else. If the high paid community wants to remain high paid, high tariffs to artificially keep their wages up might work temporarily but not in the long term. Instead, the high paid community has to continually offer new products and services that others can not (at least until the others figure out how to do it or make it themselves). That is the challenge for you American humans. Your strength is in your ability to innovate, and in your ability to attract and integrate immigrants from all over the world to bring new ideas to America. If an American dog like me can see it, hopefully enough of you American humans can see it too.