Housing Crisis
Why Doesn't the Media Report the Facts on Where the Blame Belongs on Financial Crisis?
Newsbusters 09/22/2008
Biden
Biden Misleads That Al Qaeda Forced His Helicopter Down in Afghanistan... Where is Media Exposing This Lie?
Newsbusters 09/22/2008
The Story Behind Biden's Emergency Helicopter Landing in Afghanistan
ABC News 09/22/2008
Palin
AP Writer Spins Like a Top on Troopergate; Ignores Obvious Bias in Legislative Probe
Newsbusters 09/23/2008
Bill Clinton says he understands Palin's appeal
The Seattle Times 09/22/2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
After Ike
Well, we survived Ike. Actually we slept through his visit. I heard some wind around 4am, but went back to sleep until 7am.
We woke up to find quite a mess. It rained and rained and rained, but we finally were able to survey the damage around 4pm. We were very lucky.
Our back fence was knocked down and we had a huge mess of limbs and debris in the yard. The pool was completely full and disgusting. Thankfully I can let the pool dude handle that one.
We did get to drive around The Woodlands and soon realized just how lucky we were. Several streets, including cul-de-sacs, were blocked with massive trees that had been pulled up by the roots and laying across the roads. The streets that weren't blocked usually had major flooding. The rivers and drainage ways were full if not overflowing.
Several houses had trees that had fallen on them. The worst was just off I45 were a giant metal billboard had fallen onto an apartment complex and smashed the top floor.
We took several pics of the mess in The Woodlands which I will post tomorrow.
The electricity was out when we woke up at 7, causing us to have no news of what was going on around town. The radio stations gave very little real information because they concentrated on callers complaining about this or that. You know, I hate to sound harsh, but I really don't care if Jim Bob's tree fell in his back yard. I want to know when the electricity is expected to come on, when we will hear about schools resuming, where the storm is, etc.
We stuck it out until 5pm then decided that it was stupid for us to just sit there in the heat while the freezer defrosts and we go stir-crazy. So we left for Dallas, electricity and sanity.
You all probably know more than I do of what happened with Ike. I still have not had time to seriously google the storm. We have been kicking our feet up and eating real food.
I'll try to spend some time tomorrow getting some details and post ASAP.
We woke up to find quite a mess. It rained and rained and rained, but we finally were able to survey the damage around 4pm. We were very lucky.
Our back fence was knocked down and we had a huge mess of limbs and debris in the yard. The pool was completely full and disgusting. Thankfully I can let the pool dude handle that one.
We did get to drive around The Woodlands and soon realized just how lucky we were. Several streets, including cul-de-sacs, were blocked with massive trees that had been pulled up by the roots and laying across the roads. The streets that weren't blocked usually had major flooding. The rivers and drainage ways were full if not overflowing.
Several houses had trees that had fallen on them. The worst was just off I45 were a giant metal billboard had fallen onto an apartment complex and smashed the top floor.
We took several pics of the mess in The Woodlands which I will post tomorrow.
The electricity was out when we woke up at 7, causing us to have no news of what was going on around town. The radio stations gave very little real information because they concentrated on callers complaining about this or that. You know, I hate to sound harsh, but I really don't care if Jim Bob's tree fell in his back yard. I want to know when the electricity is expected to come on, when we will hear about schools resuming, where the storm is, etc.
We stuck it out until 5pm then decided that it was stupid for us to just sit there in the heat while the freezer defrosts and we go stir-crazy. So we left for Dallas, electricity and sanity.
You all probably know more than I do of what happened with Ike. I still have not had time to seriously google the storm. We have been kicking our feet up and eating real food.
I'll try to spend some time tomorrow getting some details and post ASAP.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Probably not a Good Idea
Picking up our son from school today, my husband snapped this pic. Now, I'm not a genius, but I think that it is probably not a good idea to leave all of this trash laying around right before we are scheduled to have 75+mph winds.
I think that if I lived across from the school I would make a few phone calls!
Pre-Hurricane Madness
Like any good host, we went out today to prepare for Ike's visit. There were groceries to be purchased, cars to be filled with gasoline, blah, blah blah. After all, this is our first hurricane and we want to do it right.
It is a mad-house out there! The highways were bumper-to-bumper at noon with cars heading north. The gas stations were reminiscent of the 1970's with lines of cars idling gallons of gas waiting to pump more in. There was still bottled water everywhere, but the isle of canned foods in Wal-Mart looked like the candy isle on Halloween night. Nada! I have never seen anything like it. You would have a better chance of finding a bag of ice in the Sahara.
Thank goodness Walgreens was still stocked. They even had sales going, go figure.
So with our hard found provisions, we dug out our camping equipment from the mountain of boxes in the garage. Here we struck gold: Flashlights, propane stove, ice chests, first aid kit and more!
This girl is shopped-out! But I think that we are ready. (I hope)
-From Hurricane Central, Amy Sue reporting
Hurricane Ike's a-comin'
For all of our friends and family who may be remembering that we did move to Houston and are not in glorious Colorado: yes, Ike is heading toward us; no, we are not leaving; and yes, we are crazy (but you knew that!)
It looks like Hurricane Ike will make landfall just to the west of Houston. Seeing that the strongest part of a hurricane is on the east side, we should see some action. That's right, I said action. We want to see some excitement out of this. Of course I don't want anyone in the area to be killed, injured or lose their homes; but I'm a storm-chaser at heart and can't seem to get in the middle of anything good.
My daughter and I took a trip to Florida in 1999 and were there when Walt Disney World closed for the first time in history. Hurriane Floyd decided to turn away at the last minute so we missed the show.
This year Tropical Storm Edourdo gave us a nice steady rain all day, but no wind. Hurricane Gustav didn't even do that much.
Floyd, Edourdo, Gustav: I'm not having much luck with men!
Regardless of the fact that we are crazy to WANT a hurricane, we aren't stupid. We are north of Houston and not in a surge zone. So we aren't in any danger.
During Hurricane Alicia in 1983 (cat 3 and a direct hit to Houston), the area that we have moved into did not evacuate and had no significant damage. There were even evacuation centers located here for the residents living south of Houston. This is were the evacuees go!
We have pulled out our camping gear (in case of power failures), are hitting the stores to stock up on non-perishables, and filling our cars up with gas just in case. The schools are out tomorrow, and Donna in Dallas has offered us a place to run to if needed. We will be fine.
I am going to post to this blog as often as possible during the storm to let you know what is going on. Maybe I can even send pics.
Love to all,
Amy
It looks like Hurricane Ike will make landfall just to the west of Houston. Seeing that the strongest part of a hurricane is on the east side, we should see some action. That's right, I said action. We want to see some excitement out of this. Of course I don't want anyone in the area to be killed, injured or lose their homes; but I'm a storm-chaser at heart and can't seem to get in the middle of anything good.
My daughter and I took a trip to Florida in 1999 and were there when Walt Disney World closed for the first time in history. Hurriane Floyd decided to turn away at the last minute so we missed the show.
This year Tropical Storm Edourdo gave us a nice steady rain all day, but no wind. Hurricane Gustav didn't even do that much.
Floyd, Edourdo, Gustav: I'm not having much luck with men!
Regardless of the fact that we are crazy to WANT a hurricane, we aren't stupid. We are north of Houston and not in a surge zone. So we aren't in any danger.
During Hurricane Alicia in 1983 (cat 3 and a direct hit to Houston), the area that we have moved into did not evacuate and had no significant damage. There were even evacuation centers located here for the residents living south of Houston. This is were the evacuees go!
We have pulled out our camping gear (in case of power failures), are hitting the stores to stock up on non-perishables, and filling our cars up with gas just in case. The schools are out tomorrow, and Donna in Dallas has offered us a place to run to if needed. We will be fine.
I am going to post to this blog as often as possible during the storm to let you know what is going on. Maybe I can even send pics.
Love to all,
Amy
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Camille Paglia: A Thinking Liberal
Finally, I have found a liberal that is using his/her brain instead of blindly following the rhetoric. Camille Paglia wrote a fantastic column today concerning Palin and feminists.
Now that's the Sarah Palin brand of can-do, no-excuses, moose-hunting feminism -- a world away from the whining, sniping, wearily ironic mode of the establishment feminism represented by Gloria Steinem, a Hillary Clinton supporter whose shameless Democratic partisanship over the past four decades has severely limited American feminism and not allowed it to become the big tent it can and should be. Sarah Palin, if her reputation survives the punishing next two months, may be breaking down those barriers. Feminism, which should be about equal rights and equal opportunity, should not be a closed club requiring an ideological litmus test for membership.
Paglia also discusses the "witch-trial hysteria" of the Democrats and media toward Palin, abortion, the death penalty, and the "disturbing trend" of the Democratic Party in becoming "judgmental and intolerant".
Conservatives are demonized, with the universe polarized into a Manichaean battle of us versus them, good versus evil. Democrats are clinging to pat group opinions as if they were inflexible moral absolutes. The party is in peril if it cannot observe and listen and adapt to changing social circumstances.
Just as Paglia "may not agree a jot with [Palin] about basic principles", Paglia and I disagree also. But it is refreshing to find a Democrat (or Republican for that matter) who looks at issues logically and not emotionally.
Camille Paglia's column is a must-read. Trust me on this!
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Jan David Clark Update 9/9/2008
According to the Ector County Court docket, David Clark is scheduled to begin his trial this week.
http://www.co.ector.tx.us/district/Dockets/CrJD09-08-08Trotter.pdf
I don't know exactly what day the trial is scheduled to begin.
Obviously Chris, David's son, did not get the funds together to hire his dad a lawyer, so he will have to continue with the court appointed attorney Lawrence Barber. Maybe he had trouble raising funds because everyone around David loves their money more than him. Barber believes that David has enough personal funds to pay for his own attorney. Looks like even David loves his money more than himself.
I will post anything that I can find relating to this case, but even the local newspaper The Odessa American doesn't seem interested in David Clark.
http://www.co.ector.tx.us/district/Dockets/CrJD09-08-08Trotter.pdf
I don't know exactly what day the trial is scheduled to begin.
Obviously Chris, David's son, did not get the funds together to hire his dad a lawyer, so he will have to continue with the court appointed attorney Lawrence Barber. Maybe he had trouble raising funds because everyone around David loves their money more than him. Barber believes that David has enough personal funds to pay for his own attorney. Looks like even David loves his money more than himself.
I will post anything that I can find relating to this case, but even the local newspaper The Odessa American doesn't seem interested in David Clark.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
No HFCS List
I have not personally checked the ingredients on each item. This list is a combination of lists from several sources. Please check for yourself to make sure that there are no HFCSs. Any additions, deletions or corrections would be appreciated.
Baking and Cooking Ingredients
· Betty Crocker 7-Layer Bar(mix)
Beverages
· Bolthouse Farms C-Boost Smoothie
· Accellerate Sports Drinnk
· Archer Farms brand Natural Italian soda
· Bawls Guarana Soda (most varieties)
· Blue Sky Soft Drinks
· Bolthouse Farms Vegetable Juice
· Boylan’s Sodas
· Calistoga Juice Squeeze
· Capri Sun ALL NATURAL 100% Juice
· Cheerwine (the glass bottle varieties)
· China Cola
· Cytomax Sports Drinks
· Diet 7up
· Dublin Dr. Pepper (Dr. Pepper from a bottling plant in Dublin, Texas)
· Goose Island
· Hansens Natural Soda
· Honest Kids Juice Pouches
· Horizon Flavored Milks (chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry)
· Jones Pure Cane Soda
· Minute Maid Orange Juice
· Nantucket Nectars
· Nestle NesQuik Chocolate Milk Mix
· Northland Cranberry Juice
· Ocean Spray Grapefruit Juice
· Ovaltine (dry chocolate drink mix)
· Simply Juice (orange, limeade, and lemonade)
· Slimfast Optima Creamy Chocolate shake
· Sobe Life Water
· Sweet Leaf Tea
· Tropicana OJ
· Virgil’s Sodas (the cream, cherry and root beer varieties)
Bread
· Amana Multi Grain Bread
· Aunt Millie’s Old Fashioned Butter-Top Wheat
· Brownberry’s Arnold Natural Health Nut Bread
· Country Hearth 12-Grain Bread
· Earth Grains 100% Natural 7-Grain Bread
· Ezekiel 4:9 sprouted grain breads (in freezer section)
· Francisco Sour Dough bread
· Franz “McKenzie Farms” Old Fashioned Buttermilk Bread
· Martin’s Breads & Rolls
· Milton's Wheat and Multi-grain bread
· Nature's Own -Healthline SugarFree Wholewheat
· Nature's Own -Honey 7 Grain
· Natures Own 100% Whole Wheat bread
· Oroweat Mult-Grain Bread
· Oroweat Whole-Grain White Bread
· Pepperidge Farm Honey Wheatberry
· Pepperidge Farms 100% Natural Breads
· Pepperidge Farms whole grain honey oat
· Pepperidge Farms Whole Grain Wheat Bread
· Rudi’s Organic Bakery Buns
· Thomas Hearty Grain Honey Wheat English Muffins
· Thomas' “light” english muffins
· Thomas's Low Carb English Muffins
· Vermont Bread Company breads
· Wheat Montana breads/rolls
Breakfast Cereals
· albertsons brand cheerios
· albertsons brand rice chex
· Cheerios
· Giant brand Instant Oatmeal - most flavors
· Honey Nut Cheerios
· Kashi (most, if not all)
· Kellogg’s Reduced Sugar Froot Loops
· Kix
· Life ceral (regular and cinnamon)
· Life Cereal/Cinnamon Life
· Nature’s Pride Organic (most, if not all, varieties)
· Post Grape-Nuts
· Quaker Oatmeal
· Trader Joe’s Graham Bites Cereal
Candy
· Cadbury - Most Varieties
· Dove - Most varieties
· Hershey’s 100 Calorie Wafer Bar
· Hershey Skor Candy Bar
· Hershey Special Dark Candy Bar
· Hershey’s Symphony
· Lindt Lindor truffles (balls)
Condiments
· Annie’s Naturals Organic Ketchup
· Annie’s Naturals Organic Honey Mustard
· Annie’s Naturals Smokey Maple BBQ Sauce
· Cascadian Farms Sweet Pickle Relish
· Consorzio Bbq Sauce Organic Original
· Farman's pickle relish
· French's Mustard
· French's Worcestershire
· Frenchs Honey Dijon Mustard
· Frontera BBQ Sauce
· Gates BBQ Sauce
· Heinz Organic Ketchup
· Heinz organic tomato ketchup
· Hellman’s Mayonaise
· Meijer Organic Sweet Relish
· Mt. Olive Hamburger dill chips
· Nature’s Best Organic Tomato Ketchup
· Trader Joe’s Hot and Sweet Mustard
· Vlasic Sweet Gherkins
· Woeber Sweet And Spicy Mustard
Cookies and Cakes
· Archway’s Molasses Cookies
· Destrooper Almond Thins Cookie
· Destrooper Butter Crisp Cookies
· Keebler Pecan Sandies Cookies
· Keebler Simply Sandies Cookies
· Lu Le Petit Beurre Cookies
· Lu Scottish Recipe Shortbread
· Mi-Del Snaps Ginger
· Nature’s Best Chocolate Sandwich Creme Cookies
· Newmans Wheat Free Fig Newton Cookies
· Newmans Own Ginger Os Ginger N Creme Cookies
· Newmans Own Alphabet Cookies
· Pepperidge Farms Butter Chessman Cookies
· Pepperidge Farm 100% Natural Varieties
· Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies
· Voortman's Vanilla Wafer Cookies
Crackers
· Dare Vinta Crackers
· Milton’s (most, if not all)
· Nabisco Original Triscuits
· Pepperidge Farm Goldfish
· WalMart Great Value Saltines
Dairy
· Breyer’s
· Brown Cow
· Brown Cow vanilla yogurt
· Cool Whip Sugar Free
· Dannon Activa Yogurt
· Dannon All Natural Coffee Yogurt
· Dannon All Natural Vanilla Yogurt
· Dannon Lite & Fit Vanilla Yogurt
· Dannon Plain Yogurt*
· Great Value Light Nonfat Yogurt (most varieties, if not all)
· Horizon Organic Fat Free Yogurt
· Nancy’s Whole Milk Honey Yogurt
· Nancys Reduced Fat Plain
· Southern Home Nonfat Plain Yogurt
· Stoneyfield Farm Yobaby Yogurt
· Stoneyfield Farm Yogurt
Fruits and Vegetables - Canned
· Motts Natural (No Sugar Added)Apple Sauce
Frozen Dinners
· Lean Pockets Philly Steak and Cheese
Ice Cream
· Ben & Jerry’s (most, if not all, varieties)
· Breyer’s All Natural Ice Cream
· Breyers - All Natural Cherry Vanilla
· Breyers - All Natural Coffee
· Breyers - All Natural Mint Chocolate Chip
· Breyers Pure Fruit Strawberry Fruit Bars
· Dreyers/Edys Strawberry Fruit Ice Cream Bars
· Haagen Dazs Dark Chocolate Ice Cream Bars
· Luigi Italian Ice
· Stoneyfield Farms
Jam, Jelly, Syrup, Spreads
· Bonne Maman Preserves
· Hero Jams & Jellies
· Jif Peanut Butter
· Karo Brown Sugar syrup
· Karo Dark (with Blue label)
· Pretty much any actual maple syrup is devoid of hfcs
· Skippy Peanut Butter
· Smuckers Natural Peanut Butter
· Smuckers Organic Strawberry Preserves
· St Dalfour Preserves
· Trader Joe’s Creamy, Unsalted Peanut Butter
· Trader Joe’s Organic Maple Syrup
· Trader Joe’s Reduced Sugar Organic Strawberry Preserves
Meat
· Spam
Salad Dressings
· Annie’s Roasted Red Pepper Vinaigrette
· Annie’s Naturals Goddess Dressing
· Blanchard & Blanchard (Country Italian & Caeser Parmesan)
· Blue Plate Mayonnaise
· Brianna’s Blush Vinaigrette Salad Dressing
· Double Dave's (restaurant) Ranch Dressing
· Drew’s Salad Dressings
· Great Value (WalMart) Zesty Italian Dressing
· Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise
· HIdden Valley Ranch Old Fash.Buttermilk
· Ken's Sweet Vidalia Onion dressing
· Olde Cape Cod Traditional Caeser Lite
Sauces
· Acadia Naturals Tuscan Grill Marinade
· Classico (Most varieties)
· Consorzio Brand Marinades
· Ken's Steak House Honey Teriyaki Marinade
· Kikkoman Soy Sauce
· Ragu OldWorld Traditional Spaghetti Sauce
Snacks
· Kashi Granola Bars
· Quaker Simple Harvest Bar
· Nature Valley Oats & Honey flavor granola bars
· Frito's corn chips
· Orville Redenbacher's Smart Cakes Caramel
Soups
· Campbell's 25% Less Sodium Chicken Noodle Soup
Baking and Cooking Ingredients
· Betty Crocker 7-Layer Bar(mix)
Beverages
· Bolthouse Farms C-Boost Smoothie
· Accellerate Sports Drinnk
· Archer Farms brand Natural Italian soda
· Bawls Guarana Soda (most varieties)
· Blue Sky Soft Drinks
· Bolthouse Farms Vegetable Juice
· Boylan’s Sodas
· Calistoga Juice Squeeze
· Capri Sun ALL NATURAL 100% Juice
· Cheerwine (the glass bottle varieties)
· China Cola
· Cytomax Sports Drinks
· Diet 7up
· Dublin Dr. Pepper (Dr. Pepper from a bottling plant in Dublin, Texas)
· Goose Island
· Hansens Natural Soda
· Honest Kids Juice Pouches
· Horizon Flavored Milks (chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry)
· Jones Pure Cane Soda
· Minute Maid Orange Juice
· Nantucket Nectars
· Nestle NesQuik Chocolate Milk Mix
· Northland Cranberry Juice
· Ocean Spray Grapefruit Juice
· Ovaltine (dry chocolate drink mix)
· Simply Juice (orange, limeade, and lemonade)
· Slimfast Optima Creamy Chocolate shake
· Sobe Life Water
· Sweet Leaf Tea
· Tropicana OJ
· Virgil’s Sodas (the cream, cherry and root beer varieties)
Bread
· Amana Multi Grain Bread
· Aunt Millie’s Old Fashioned Butter-Top Wheat
· Brownberry’s Arnold Natural Health Nut Bread
· Country Hearth 12-Grain Bread
· Earth Grains 100% Natural 7-Grain Bread
· Ezekiel 4:9 sprouted grain breads (in freezer section)
· Francisco Sour Dough bread
· Franz “McKenzie Farms” Old Fashioned Buttermilk Bread
· Martin’s Breads & Rolls
· Milton's Wheat and Multi-grain bread
· Nature's Own -Healthline SugarFree Wholewheat
· Nature's Own -Honey 7 Grain
· Natures Own 100% Whole Wheat bread
· Oroweat Mult-Grain Bread
· Oroweat Whole-Grain White Bread
· Pepperidge Farm Honey Wheatberry
· Pepperidge Farms 100% Natural Breads
· Pepperidge Farms whole grain honey oat
· Pepperidge Farms Whole Grain Wheat Bread
· Rudi’s Organic Bakery Buns
· Thomas Hearty Grain Honey Wheat English Muffins
· Thomas' “light” english muffins
· Thomas's Low Carb English Muffins
· Vermont Bread Company breads
· Wheat Montana breads/rolls
Breakfast Cereals
· albertsons brand cheerios
· albertsons brand rice chex
· Cheerios
· Giant brand Instant Oatmeal - most flavors
· Honey Nut Cheerios
· Kashi (most, if not all)
· Kellogg’s Reduced Sugar Froot Loops
· Kix
· Life ceral (regular and cinnamon)
· Life Cereal/Cinnamon Life
· Nature’s Pride Organic (most, if not all, varieties)
· Post Grape-Nuts
· Quaker Oatmeal
· Trader Joe’s Graham Bites Cereal
Candy
· Cadbury - Most Varieties
· Dove - Most varieties
· Hershey’s 100 Calorie Wafer Bar
· Hershey Skor Candy Bar
· Hershey Special Dark Candy Bar
· Hershey’s Symphony
· Lindt Lindor truffles (balls)
Condiments
· Annie’s Naturals Organic Ketchup
· Annie’s Naturals Organic Honey Mustard
· Annie’s Naturals Smokey Maple BBQ Sauce
· Cascadian Farms Sweet Pickle Relish
· Consorzio Bbq Sauce Organic Original
· Farman's pickle relish
· French's Mustard
· French's Worcestershire
· Frenchs Honey Dijon Mustard
· Frontera BBQ Sauce
· Gates BBQ Sauce
· Heinz Organic Ketchup
· Heinz organic tomato ketchup
· Hellman’s Mayonaise
· Meijer Organic Sweet Relish
· Mt. Olive Hamburger dill chips
· Nature’s Best Organic Tomato Ketchup
· Trader Joe’s Hot and Sweet Mustard
· Vlasic Sweet Gherkins
· Woeber Sweet And Spicy Mustard
Cookies and Cakes
· Archway’s Molasses Cookies
· Destrooper Almond Thins Cookie
· Destrooper Butter Crisp Cookies
· Keebler Pecan Sandies Cookies
· Keebler Simply Sandies Cookies
· Lu Le Petit Beurre Cookies
· Lu Scottish Recipe Shortbread
· Mi-Del Snaps Ginger
· Nature’s Best Chocolate Sandwich Creme Cookies
· Newmans Wheat Free Fig Newton Cookies
· Newmans Own Ginger Os Ginger N Creme Cookies
· Newmans Own Alphabet Cookies
· Pepperidge Farms Butter Chessman Cookies
· Pepperidge Farm 100% Natural Varieties
· Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies
· Voortman's Vanilla Wafer Cookies
Crackers
· Dare Vinta Crackers
· Milton’s (most, if not all)
· Nabisco Original Triscuits
· Pepperidge Farm Goldfish
· WalMart Great Value Saltines
Dairy
· Breyer’s
· Brown Cow
· Brown Cow vanilla yogurt
· Cool Whip Sugar Free
· Dannon Activa Yogurt
· Dannon All Natural Coffee Yogurt
· Dannon All Natural Vanilla Yogurt
· Dannon Lite & Fit Vanilla Yogurt
· Dannon Plain Yogurt*
· Great Value Light Nonfat Yogurt (most varieties, if not all)
· Horizon Organic Fat Free Yogurt
· Nancy’s Whole Milk Honey Yogurt
· Nancys Reduced Fat Plain
· Southern Home Nonfat Plain Yogurt
· Stoneyfield Farm Yobaby Yogurt
· Stoneyfield Farm Yogurt
Fruits and Vegetables - Canned
· Motts Natural (No Sugar Added)Apple Sauce
Frozen Dinners
· Lean Pockets Philly Steak and Cheese
Ice Cream
· Ben & Jerry’s (most, if not all, varieties)
· Breyer’s All Natural Ice Cream
· Breyers - All Natural Cherry Vanilla
· Breyers - All Natural Coffee
· Breyers - All Natural Mint Chocolate Chip
· Breyers Pure Fruit Strawberry Fruit Bars
· Dreyers/Edys Strawberry Fruit Ice Cream Bars
· Haagen Dazs Dark Chocolate Ice Cream Bars
· Luigi Italian Ice
· Stoneyfield Farms
Jam, Jelly, Syrup, Spreads
· Bonne Maman Preserves
· Hero Jams & Jellies
· Jif Peanut Butter
· Karo Brown Sugar syrup
· Karo Dark (with Blue label)
· Pretty much any actual maple syrup is devoid of hfcs
· Skippy Peanut Butter
· Smuckers Natural Peanut Butter
· Smuckers Organic Strawberry Preserves
· St Dalfour Preserves
· Trader Joe’s Creamy, Unsalted Peanut Butter
· Trader Joe’s Organic Maple Syrup
· Trader Joe’s Reduced Sugar Organic Strawberry Preserves
Meat
· Spam
Salad Dressings
· Annie’s Roasted Red Pepper Vinaigrette
· Annie’s Naturals Goddess Dressing
· Blanchard & Blanchard (Country Italian & Caeser Parmesan)
· Blue Plate Mayonnaise
· Brianna’s Blush Vinaigrette Salad Dressing
· Double Dave's (restaurant) Ranch Dressing
· Drew’s Salad Dressings
· Great Value (WalMart) Zesty Italian Dressing
· Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise
· HIdden Valley Ranch Old Fash.Buttermilk
· Ken's Sweet Vidalia Onion dressing
· Olde Cape Cod Traditional Caeser Lite
Sauces
· Acadia Naturals Tuscan Grill Marinade
· Classico (Most varieties)
· Consorzio Brand Marinades
· Ken's Steak House Honey Teriyaki Marinade
· Kikkoman Soy Sauce
· Ragu OldWorld Traditional Spaghetti Sauce
Snacks
· Kashi Granola Bars
· Quaker Simple Harvest Bar
· Nature Valley Oats & Honey flavor granola bars
· Frito's corn chips
· Orville Redenbacher's Smart Cakes Caramel
Soups
· Campbell's 25% Less Sodium Chicken Noodle Soup
Monday, September 1, 2008
Journey to the Center of the Earth
We just got back from seeing Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3D. It was fabulous!
I was first impressed with the quality of the glasses. When we saw NASCAR 3D, the glasses were 1st rate, but they had to be returned. The glasses for Journey were not your old cardboard and plastic. They were similar to cheap sunglasses and it really helped view the movie better. Plus you get to take them home to watch the 3D movies that you have there.
The movie itself was great. The actors did a great job, the script was not hokey and the special effects were good.
Though there are a few scenes that are slightly scary, the little girl next to me (approx. 5 yrs old) never seemed to mind. She kept me giggling as she continued to reach for the floating objects.
Overall, I would say that it was well worth the money. A real family film. The ending left an opening for a sequel which I hope that they make. I only wish that it had lasted longer. How many movies can you say that about?
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