Happy Birthday, Your Ocean's In Trouble
A blessed Sunday to one and all!
Well, my birthday party went off without a hitch yesterday! We had it at the local pizza fun center, and everything went swell! My band and I even played at my party, now how cool is that?! And my birthday cake was a dream, a pure lemon supreme. It was a lemon cake with lemon icing and lemon filling, which was served with lemon-lime ice cream. I'd got a lot of gift cards as presents, as I said I would last week: gift cards from Best Buy, Forever 21, Target, Red Robin (yum!), JC Penney, Old Navy, and even one from Pet Smart, since they all know I have a pet Yorkie and all. But I did get a couple of "actual" gifts: a new backpack and a Spongebob pencil case (both school related, wouldn't you know?). Yeah, I'd have to say that yesterday's party was a great success.
I feel that I should touch on two recent items that have been in the news for about a couple of weeks now. The first is that ill-conceived anti immigration law that was recently signed into law by the very narrow-minded governor of Arizona. Now, from what I understand, this law would only affect those who don't have, say, light skin, blonde or red hair, or blue or green colored eyes. Because you know as well as I do that there's a lot of European immigrants who are here illegally, but this law would only touch those who only look like they come from south of our boarders. Kind of reminds you of the kind of things that went on in Germany and, later on, the rest of Europe starting about eighty years ago, to anyone who didn't have, say, light skin, blonde or red hair, or blue or green eyes, doesn't it?
The second thing is the terrible environmental tragedy that's going on in the Gulf of Mexico, when that oil rig exploded and sank into the ocean, taking the remains of 11 crew members with it and uncapping its undersea oil well in the process. No one can cap that oil well, from what I hear, and the oil slick is so widespread, it reached the shores of Louisiana late Friday night. I talked to one of my relatives who still lives in New Orleans, and they say that the news there is not good: They say that this latest "bad thing" to happen to the Gulf Coast could kill off their seafood supply and do irrepatriable harm for decades to come. So, if you ask me, it looks like not only America, but the rest of the world, is in for a bumpy ride because of this.
Well, that's all for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and don't forget the earthquake survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
Well, my birthday party went off without a hitch yesterday! We had it at the local pizza fun center, and everything went swell! My band and I even played at my party, now how cool is that?! And my birthday cake was a dream, a pure lemon supreme. It was a lemon cake with lemon icing and lemon filling, which was served with lemon-lime ice cream. I'd got a lot of gift cards as presents, as I said I would last week: gift cards from Best Buy, Forever 21, Target, Red Robin (yum!), JC Penney, Old Navy, and even one from Pet Smart, since they all know I have a pet Yorkie and all. But I did get a couple of "actual" gifts: a new backpack and a Spongebob pencil case (both school related, wouldn't you know?). Yeah, I'd have to say that yesterday's party was a great success.
I feel that I should touch on two recent items that have been in the news for about a couple of weeks now. The first is that ill-conceived anti immigration law that was recently signed into law by the very narrow-minded governor of Arizona. Now, from what I understand, this law would only affect those who don't have, say, light skin, blonde or red hair, or blue or green colored eyes. Because you know as well as I do that there's a lot of European immigrants who are here illegally, but this law would only touch those who only look like they come from south of our boarders. Kind of reminds you of the kind of things that went on in Germany and, later on, the rest of Europe starting about eighty years ago, to anyone who didn't have, say, light skin, blonde or red hair, or blue or green eyes, doesn't it?
The second thing is the terrible environmental tragedy that's going on in the Gulf of Mexico, when that oil rig exploded and sank into the ocean, taking the remains of 11 crew members with it and uncapping its undersea oil well in the process. No one can cap that oil well, from what I hear, and the oil slick is so widespread, it reached the shores of Louisiana late Friday night. I talked to one of my relatives who still lives in New Orleans, and they say that the news there is not good: They say that this latest "bad thing" to happen to the Gulf Coast could kill off their seafood supply and do irrepatriable harm for decades to come. So, if you ask me, it looks like not only America, but the rest of the world, is in for a bumpy ride because of this.
Well, that's all for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and don't forget the earthquake survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
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