Weekend Chew & Stew - Saturday, July 18 & Sunday, July 19, 2009

Weekend Chew & Stew - Saturday, July 18 & Sunday, July 19, 2009

by Marilyn Mackenzie

Whether you agree with the concept or not, everyone needs to be able to vent from time to time.  That's especially true if you're one of the many who suffer from an invisible illness.  We have whines and rants about pains, medical professionals and prescriptions, just to name a few.  Perhaps our families listen; perhaps they don't.  Even if they do, they get tired of our complaining, even if they claim to understand our struggles.  Or if they don't get tired of our "negative energy" we think they do or will.

Do you need to rant about something?  Tell us about it.

Do you have some celebration or victory youneed to share?  This is the place.

What's happening in your world today?  Are you grumpy about something?  Or so angry you could spit?  Tell it here.  Here at the Daily Whine & Shine , it's acceptable to rant, vent, complain, stomp your feet, throw a tantrum, and shout, "Oh shuckie darn!"

Wait!  Don't go away!  Do you have some good news to share?  Great.  This is the place for that as well.  If you're celebrating, dancing, and yelling, "Yippee Skippy!" please share.  Sometimes knowing about someone else's happiness gives us a bit of hope for ourselves.

Whether you're shouting, "Oh shuckie darn!" or yelling, "Yippee skippy!" - this is the place to be.  Pull up a rocking chair, and let's talk about it.

Now, let's celebrate!!!

Monthly Observances In July:

Air-Conditioning Appreciation Days (7/3 to 8/15)
Bereaved Parents Month
Bioterrorism/Disaster Education & Awareness Month
Blueberries Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month
Family Reunion Month
Herbal/Prescription Awareness Month

National Anti-Boredom Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Month
National "Doghouse Repairs" Month
National Grilling Month
National Ice Cream Month
National Horseradish Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Make A Difference to Children Month
National Recreation & Parks Month
National Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month
National Wheelchair Beautification Month
Sandwich Generation Month

Weekly Observances in July

National Parenting Gifted Children Week (13-19) 
Rabbit Week (15-21)
National Ventriloquism Week (16-19)
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: (18-25)
National Independent Retailers Week (19-25)
National Baby Food Week (21-25)
Lumberjack Week (23-25)
World Footbag (Hackysack) Week (27-8/2)

Daily Observances in July

July 18 is National Caviar Day, National Hot Dog Day, Toss Away The "Could Haves" and "Should Haves" Day, Woodie Station Wagon Day

July 19 is National Ice Cream Day, National Raspberry Cake Day

July 20 - Moon Day (On July 20, 1969, the first man walked on the moon), and Ugly Truck Day (it's a guy thing), National Get Out of the Dog House Day, National Hug Your Kid Day, National Lollipop Day

July 21 - National Junk Food Day, Legal Drinking Age Day (don't ask me why)

Food for Thought:

Never spend your money before you have it. ~  Thomas Jefferson (Our government would be wise to follow that one, as would each of us.)

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. ~  Thomas Jefferson (I wonder if he meant to never trouble the government for what you can do yourself also.)

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. ~  Barry Goldwater

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. ~  Edward R. Murrow

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government. ~  Franklin Delano Roosevelt

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.  ~ Hubert H. Humphrey

The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. ~  Mark Twain

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government. ~  Thomas Jefferson

A government big enough to giveyou everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.  ~ Thomas Jefferson (Note:  Some argue that Jefferson never said this.  Perhaps he did not.  But the quote has been used by politicians for years and always attributed to Jefferson.  And it is one that Harold Zieger, the man from East Germany who speaks at Tea Party rallies and warns about the signs that a government is taking too much control of our lives uses in each of his speeches.  Wherever this wisdom originated, it is still wisdom.)