Hi everyone! I've not had a chance to visit the forum here for almost a month now.....feeding about 300 cats and working my "real" job almost 60 hours/week! My husband got word that he will be permanently layed-off from his job very soon, so my plans to go to Texas are cancelled :( I just want to say a great big THANK YOU to everyone that has supported my book and website. It's not easy for a first-time author to get people to take notice, but y'all have been a HUGE help to me!!! You're the BEST! ~ Judy

No, it doesn't add up. And it seems an odd statement considering how many people in the world are starving. But starvation is really more of a politcal issue that a supply issue. We can and do grow and produce enough food to feed everyone on the planet. It's a matter of getting the food to the people whoe need it most. What's a great way to subdue a people? Keep them hungry. Keep them dependant on every scrap that is meted out by their government. And it's not just the so-called "third world." It's right here in the good ol' USA. Do we all realize that this administration has literally written off New Orleans? I have a friend who travels to what used to be New Orleans regularly on business. He says that what they show on the six o-clock news as being the tremendous growth and rebuilding of this gem of a city is simply smoke and mirrors. Half a block out of camera range is the real New Orleans - decimated, the population reduced by nearly half, out of work, starving, living on the streets. It's a national shame. And it lies squarely at the foot of our president. Because it never had to happen to begin with. Yeah, there will be a "healthy" economy again in "New" New Orleans. And it will be based on population growth. A population that has the economic means to purchase the million-dollar homes that are going up in the areas that are written off to the people who used to live there; condemned as unliveable, irretrievable. The 21st Century carpet-baggers with their bags filled with money. And when you say to yourself "it doesn't make sense," think about what "Deep Throat" told Woodward and Bernstein - "Follow the money." Follow it all the way to Haliburton - and the Texas White House.

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I love this post. I read so much as a kid, I remember throwing down a spare mattress on our basement floor (where I could find some peace and quiet from my large and loud family) and reading entire books in one sitting. My favorites: The Secret Garden The Boxcar Children A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Little House in the Prairie series Charlotte's Web (also loved Stuart Little and Trumpet of the Swan, I still all three of my originals, it was a set). Loved all the Ramona Quimby books. Choose your Own Adventure books...the where you get decide which route to take in the book, and each one leads you to a different ending. Many more, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head. I still have a bunch of books from my childhood. My Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes is another favorite.