http://leftisright.today.com Giving you the left side of things. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:02:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In our economy? We've all heard experts say that it will get worse before it gets better. I have heard about how it will take Obama at least 18 months in the White House to make a noticeable change in our day to day lives. We've heard about the check that ... http://leftisright.today.com/2008/12/05/how-long-before-obama-makes-a-difference/ I'm told that I'm anti Christmas by my girlfriend. She is all about the lights, decorations and tree and I would rather not bother with it. I'm not sure if this makes me the scrooge that she claims I am but more of someone who hates bothering with all the ... http://leftisright.today.com/2008/11/30/i-guess-im-anti-christmas/ Not too long ago, before I had my girlfriend and son I would eat a little dinner all by myself on Thanksgiving. It consisted of of some veggie turkey slices, instant mash potatoes, bread and gravy for my traditional open faced "turkey" sandwich. Now I have things a little better. ... http://leftisright.today.com/2008/11/27/yummy-vegan-thanksgiving-dinner/ This coming Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year has been designated now as two things that are the complete opposite of capitalism, buy nothing day and fur free Friday. To be honest I'm not sure when buy nothing day started but I remember fur free Friday starting back ... http://leftisright.today.com/2008/11/26/fur-free-fridaybuy-nothing-day/ I'm not religious but DEAR GOD can these people shut up. I've read some of the dumbest comments about those in favor of drilling the life out of mother earth. People honestly think that the thought of offshore drilling dropped the oil prices giving us the lower prices we see ... http://leftisright.today.com/2008/11/23/i-hate-the-drill-here-drill-now-people/ Make sure that when planning your Thanksgiving dinner this year you think of the life that is most affected, the Turkey. This country (The United States) slaughters around 300 million turkeys a year and about 46 million of those are for this time of year. Turkeys are amongst the most ... http://leftisright.today.com/2008/11/19/thanksgiving-is-murder-on-turkeys/ A couple people obviously did not understand my blog about how fake and sickening these politicians are. I talked about how I felt about Obama playing nice with the Bush family. People would like to know what I would like him to do. Well how about when you meet act ... http://leftisright.today.com/2008/11/16/my-second-what-phonies-blog/ Here it is nearly a week after getting Merlin the Pug. He has entered our family and fit right in. My son loves having a dog around seeing as how he is a natural born animal lover like his mom and dad. I was worried about how much of a ... http://leftisright.today.com/2008/11/13/my-new-dog-update/ these politicians are. Obama and his wife kissing and hugging with the Bush family like they're planning a camping trip together. I know I know, it's politics and he/they must act this way. I'm telling you that I don't buy it. I voted for Obama against my better judgement. I ... http://leftisright.today.com/2008/11/11/what-phonies/ Well he is not exactly a puppy, he's 6 to 7 years old but I still will call him a puppy. We are adding a new member to the family in the form of a little flat faced furry guy. We contacted a pug rescue and found a guy named Merlin ... http://leftisright.today.com/2008/11/08/getting-my-new-puppy-today/