Pepe

I love Pepe. He's fun, he's funny, loving and intelligent. He looks quite tasty. Most shrimp are. But should we eat him? I think this one is just too nice to eat. If I ate him, we wouldn't have Pepe any more.

Looking For Others For Networking...

I have gone on several people's profiles and blogs by clicking on my own interests and have left comments introducing myself. Only one kind stranger has responded. What is up with this Blogger?? It seems very dead around here!!

If you are interested in connecting, leave a comment and I can visit your blog as well. Blogging is great. I was told about this by a friend. I see in the instructions that you can promote your blogs by setting up a certain feed but I just cannot figure this darn thing out.

This is my last ditch effort. I will be posting this question in The Coffee Shop forum as well with a link to this blog. If I don't get any replies, I am going my account here. I have a MySpace account and a Yahoo 360 account and am doing very well there. I just thought that I could reach additional people through this.

I don't get it. Why are people blogging if they are not interested in meeting new peope. The one person who did reply, after I replied back, she still has yet to reply. That was a few weeks ago. The same goes for the girl I met through The Coffee Shop. From what I'm seeing so far, it seems Blogger is mainly not being used for networking but just for blogging, in which only the blogger's current friends go and read the blogs and leave comments. Well, since I already have the other two accounts elsewhere, they can just go there.

If you leave a comment, it's nice to meet you and I assure you, I will reply as soon as I see it. But I do not sign into this accoutn every day. It may be a few days. :)

Shelly

Voting Day is Coming Soon- How in the World Should I Vote??

Voting day is tomorrow. I have gotten in the habit of preparing at the very last minute. Yes, I most certainly will be voting. It's the least I can do in my own way for my country.

Bush does need to go. There are rumors that he will stage a national emergency to hold onto his seat in office. It is possible. When we were first having problems with Afghanistan, searching for our ever formidable foe, Osama bin Laden, whom our government succeeded in making us hate and even fear, a few of my peacenic/protest friends said that it was all over our fight over oil and they have lots of it. This makes a bunch of sense to me.

When our military went after Iraq, they said, "Next, it's going to be Iran." I thought, "How in the world do they know that? Why not Yemen or Saudi Arabia?" They know a lot more about the politics and history of it all than I do. I just took it with a grain of sand, said, "Maybe it's true- maybe not." and went on with my own thing. I mean, just how much time can you devote to protesting anyway?? But I am actually quite suprised. They were right on the money. Our presidents are set in office to represent the best interests of the people of the country. But that is not what ours is doing. Is it really patriotic to support Bush or his administration?? LOL That is what he would like you to believe. George Bush himself is not very patriotic. Neither is Colin Powell, Condoliza Rice or the rest of them. I think the ones who resigned may have had their consciences get to them. These politicians are greedy, yes, but not patriotic at all.

So, we can agree that Bush and his team have to go and none of his colleagues should replace him. But should we put a Democrat in office?? Not according to Cindy Sheehan. She has appealed to the Democrats in the house to vote against the military presence in iraq and lots of them actually voted to keep US presence there. Come on, guys! Do you really think we need to be there? How dangerous are they? Really! But this is actually much bigger than a handful of people. I believe that many of the Democrats are on the fence and can see how keeping US presence in Iraq with a puppet government benefits them (that is the themselves- not the Iraqis). The last election we had, was definitely rigged, and definitely in Florida, where George W's brother was governor. No brainer there! Now, many of the Democrats have partnered with the Republicans.

And what about the home front? Where are the environmentalists?? Jennifer Granholm (our Michigan governor) said she was a Catholic but she is for abortion. Hmmmmm.... (scratching my head) She ran for the Democratic party. But what are the Democratic values? Is she even supporting unions with laws she helps put in effect? I heard not. Democrats are supposed to protect the environmnet. Not her. Most people in office seem to care more about protecting businesses and the gross national product and keeping up the value of the dollar. But when the value of the dollar becomes more important to the average citizen than the air we breathe, we have a real problem on our hands.

So, should we not vote at all? Is it just one hopeless mess? I say no. It is our duty to take a stand for what we believe in and use our God-given mouths. If we don't, we haven't done our part and can't complain when things go wrong. But oh who to vote for?? Who's for the environment? Not the Republican candidates. Not the Democrat candidates either, or at least not too many. And none of the Democratic presidential candidates have a history of actually protecting the environment. To the Democratic party, on the whole, businesses are higher on their agenda. Now, when many of the factories along the rivers and coast lines become flooded out, then they might adjust their agenda a little. But then too much damage will have been done. And where will be the Federal funds for these easily avoided natural disasters? Remember what happened to New Orleans? Yeah, guys. That could have been avoided too. We, as a nation helped make that mess. And yes, it was very sad.

Now, you may be saying, "Boy am I glad it didn't happen over here." Well, the truth is, sea levels are actually rising equally all over the world. So, who knows? You might actually be next. I, myself live not too far from the Detroit River in Detroit. So, we, in Detroit, Windsor, Ohio, etc can expect something similar in the next few years if this isn't turned around.

But there is a solution. You may say, "How, when the Republicans don't have our best interests and neither do the Democrats? I may vote for the guy I dislike the least or not vote at all and just brace myself." How can we possibly vote for a presidential candidate who actually cares and truly plans to do whatever he can do curb carb emissions and punish dumpers, etc. and also get military presence out of the Mid East instead of fighting for loyalties to drill for more oil? Oh that's right. It's a little known fact, (very little known, unfortunately) that there are more US parties out there at the moment than the ever popular elephant and donkey bearing parties. That's right, folks. There is also the Libertarian party, which calls for radical changes and perhaps a revolution, if I'm right. And then, there is the Green party, whose main priority is our precious and delicate Earth which keeps us alive. They also have on their agenda the very serious vow to do what they can to remove all US presence from the Mid East.

There you have it, folks. I, myself am going to vote Green from now on. No more games. I am really tired of them. I am tired of watching the Democratic and Republicans lips move on the screen as they go "blah blah blah blah", but you know it's all just for show and really just a waste of our time. Also, the Communist party is alive and well in Europe, but of course, we can't vote for them. LOL Just thought you'd like to know.

Here is a link I found on the internet with more helpful info, for Michigan citizens anyway.

http://publius.org/

Cheers and happy voting! ;) Or not, if you're like me and hate doing research and put it off until the last minute. :P

Until my next blog, Flower Power. :D

Learning More :)

I figured out how to edit my video bar.

You don't embed codes like in MySpace. But you don't get to choose the videos you want up. You just type in a key word and the most popular ones with that key word will pop up.

Well, this will do, because the most important thing is the blogging. Everything else is extra. ;)

This will be my secondary profile in addition to Yahoo 360. The backgrounds there are great. But there are so many glitches. This will do to get extra readers.

Post a comment, so I know who you are, seeing as you cannot simply leave comments in general here to say hello. then, I will go check your profile and blogs out. :D

Take care. Signing out.

Getting Over the Kinks

Now, I have a few questions.

If anyone would like to help. ;)

How do I edit my blog? I usually type it all up first, then post and see how it looks. Then, I go back and edit. I, actually did pretty good, considering I only found one typo. (so far. LOL)

Can I have videos of my choosing up on my profile? I did not pick the ones that are up now. But I have seen some really cool ones on YouTube that I would like to share here.

The profile part looks very plain and I love design and color. I also love lots of different kinds of art and layouts like in MySpace. Can I pump up my profile a little? It looks like a plain sheet of paper. I guess I'm just spoiled by MySpace and Yahoo 360. LOL

Also, I would like to have a photo album here with tons of really cool shots that I would like to share with all you guys. How do you do that here? I already have an account with Rock You. Now I have to get one with Photobucket too? I tried to embed the url from RockYou and it didn't work. Hmmmm... :P

I know things will get better in time and I am just starting out. I'm putting up the blog with these questions, because from my experience with these things, tutorials usually do not answer my questions and the staff that there is, are usually swamped. I learned all the stuff I know now on MySpace from other very friendly users who were very happy to show me. :P

Thanks in advance. :)

My Blogs

I just created this account. I have a Yahoo 360 page. I have had it for a couple of years and have blogged a lot. I enjoyed it very much and had many friends. But for those of you who are familiar with Yahoo's antics, you know how tired we all have grown of them.

I have a MySpace profile as well. I like it there and am not leaving. But a friend has invited me to Blogger and since I would like to have more blog views, I thought, "Why not?" :)

I can continue to read her blogs, then. They are always so informative and great info. Plus, I imagine, here, with the emphasis on blogging, even the most mundane blogs of mine will get comments. LOL On MySpace, my average blog and I do not put up more than one in a wekk or even sometimes two, and the average blog usually only see three comments at best- usually just two. I have over a hundred friends at the moment. but most of them are businesses and are very busy with recognition. It's great to work with them, though.

I guess this is my form of volunteering at the moment, until I find my nitch.

Well, this is starting off here.

We shall see how this goes. Looks like fun so far. :)

I just think it would be neat if I could also put up photos, etc like on MySpace.