hey friends!  i have a new blog and will no longer be blogging here after today.  and i should say that i am blogging under my own name which is KATE.  yes, zoey is retiring!

i have moved to this address: blatheringsblog.com.  i think you will like it alot better.  unfortunately, i was not able to move any of my wonderful comments from all of you over with the posts!  i will miss those… especially the ones from you on the left! 

if you link to me will you please change the link over to my new address? 
so come on over!

sarah has drawn a massive crowd in florida.  it seems 60,000 people showed up in a state which many say is still in play. let’s hope sarah puts it into the mcpalin column.

Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told wildly cheering, flag-waving, chanting supporters that John McCain is “the only great man in this race” and promised Sunday he will fix the nation’s economy if voters give the GOP four more years in the White House.

“He won’t say this, so I’ll say it for him,” the Alaska governor said in an almost confidential tone at the close of her first Florida stump speech. “There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you. John McCain wore the uniform of his country for 22 years — talk about tough.”

“Sa-Rah! Sa-Rah!” they chanted at every mention of her name, applauding loudly and waiving tiny American flags that were distributed — along with free water bottles — by local volunteers. The fire chief estimated the crowd at 60,000.

Admiring throngs mobbed the Palin family’s arrival and departure, snapping souvenir pictures. Autograph seekers thrust campaign signs, caps with the McCain-Palin logo and copies of magazines with her face on their covers, and the Palins responded warmly.

you can watch a video of the rally here from one of the local stations.

by now you know Sarah and Todd Palin have unusual names for their 5 kids:  track, bristol, willow, piper and trig.  if sarah were your mom what would she name you?  go to the “sarah palin baby name generator” and find out!

mine is clever i think:  strike chipper palin.  at any event, it sounds very alaskan and very palin!

they just don’t get it. 

may i say first off, it really takes a woman with stones to criticize another woman for being too opinionated especially when you’re in the line of work that randy rhodes is in.

now, this regular “smearer of cow dung” has launched a despicable rumor against sarah palin with absolutely no basis in reality and no evidence to back it up — anything to make palin look bad, right? who cares how baseless an accusation it is.  is there ‘no low’ that randi rhodes won’t go?

here’s just a few of her other smears:  her pow smear against john mccain.  her fake mugging to cover up the fact that she was drunk (although she always sounds like she’s hammered to me). she’s joked repeatedly about assassinating president bush. 

but wait!  she also smears those on the left:  she calls hillary and geraldine ferraro lovely names.

randi rhodes.  a living example of the unhinged far left who try to silence and intimidate those who disagree with them; smear and insult those with different opinions.

go get yourself one here.  buy a couple extra for friends.

you can go here to see where it got it’s start.

it’s been 7 years since the attacks of September 11th, 2001 and i still feel a certain kind of anxiety each year as this date approaches.  i have an intensity about what happened, a righteous anger against the kind of religious ideology that says it’s ok to come in and kill us all in the name of god.

the events of that day solidified something in me and millions and millions of other americans:

we are not afraid.  we continue to live our lives the best way we know how. we work, we play, we laugh, we live. we don’t waste one moment, nor sacrifice one bit of our beloved freedom, because of fear.

we are not afraid.

oh, and in the middle of all of our living, we are hunting down the ones who did this to us all over the world and either killing them (my preference) or bringing them to certain justice.

translation?  “i will not submit”.  we have prevailed.  let freedom ring.