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The INDEPENDENT, August 7, 2003 By Jacqueline Ramsay L if e goes on. I’ve been gone; ca m e hom e, still hot, c le a n e d house. I must be fe e lin g better? It’s been three weeks since I last wrote you. Well kids, only about six weeks left before school starts. Have you noticed the gleam coming back into your mother’s eye? I’m on my soap box this week. Did you even try to buy a $2.00 item to fix a piece of clothing that cost ten dollars to fifteen dollars to replace? Only to find “Oh, we don’t carry those any more and no, I don’t have any idea where you can get it”. Have a nice day. They cost more if it’s Victoria’s Se cret brand. I’ve been running so late lately that I’ve had to stay up for the 11 o’clock news - A pro gram after the news caught my eye. “Who’s fault is the obesity factor in today’s society?” 1. The companies that make and advertise? 2. The fast food folks that en tice you to “Buy Me, I’m Better"? 3. School Boards for allow ing in junk food machines? 4. Parents? 5. Kids? 6. Lawyers who accept clients who wish to line their pockets by blaming anyone but themselves for not being able to control their hand to mouth action? Inner feelings don’t count here. Kids at a summer camp for overweight teens all said no one forced them to eat, eat, eat junk foods. Here’s 10 cents worth from my soap box, and I’m offering no apologies for my view. We all have a brain and ears, also eyes. Doctors for years have said - watch your weight - eat fruits, vegetables, cut down on fried (deep fat included) meats - Do the parents listen? Not re ally - because this is where a child learns - Mom and Dad can say No and mean it - Fast Food joints can “STOP” push ing upsize for only $1.00 more and STOP giving away junk toys if you order this, this or this. One other thing, water tastes good. Pop was not in vented to replace it. True, some of us are born with fouled up genes and we have to get medical help at an early age and watch our weight for health reasons - so - most of us are what we eat. If you develop your “Will Power” - by whatever means, you won’t have to pay the fat farm money takers. OK, I’ve said my piece, so put me in the stocks, tell me I just don’t understand baloney. I can gain five pounds overnight with just one day of careless eating, with no trouble at all. I wasn’t in town for the Ore gon Trail Rally event, but when I left town that Saturday morn ing, I met every car that came into town - all the way to the Sylvan Hill exit. Those cars were something to see for miles. As I turned onto 26, I watched in my rear view mirror the string turning onto 47. It chilled me when I read in the Aug. 17 paper of the accident claiming two lives. But, for those left behind, the men chose their own paths and when they passed away, they were doing what they enjoyed doing. 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Well, there was a cabbie decided to cross the Longview in the parking lot, so I tell him Bridge and go up the Washing what she says - he shakes his ton side to Long Beach - sim head, smiles, says - this corner ple, you say - ho ho so had light, left turn, straight ahead to go forward into traffic, past park and school, highway stopped at the Burger King for sign Big One - turn left and “simple” directions - Gal says you’re on your way - How long, “go over the Bridge, turn right, says I? Oh, ‘bout an hour and a go to Astoria, cross Bridge, half. Thanks, says me. Beauti hook left and bla bla bla. Said I ful drive, different view of the - No, I just came across the Columbia - yes - one and one bridge. “But it's faster”, she half hours, and that’s what it says - says me - I want to go takes on the Oregon side from up the Washington side - “Oh", Rainier. Thank heaven, I she says. “Well, go to this light, thought, she was wrong, or I cross, go straight for three wouldn’t be home yet - ho, ho. miles - turn left and you’re at By now, you should all be the highway intersection - left well fed and foot sore from the to Long Beach." How long does Jamboree. it take, I say, with doubt in my Thank you, Lord, for the mind and a dumb look on my good weather and good Page 9 friends. Feeling Blue? Blame it on the air conditioner. It removes negative ions from the atmos phere, the ones that make you feel good. P. S. Just got my Social Se curity and Medicare Advisor for July and August. In 2004, Medicare Premiums are ex pected to go up to at least $66 a month - Oh! Joy. And, our members of Congress got a 3.4 percent raise in 2002. In 2003, they got a 3.1 percent raise, while we got a 1.4 percent COLA raise - who is caring what happens to the general public? We all eat, sleep, pay bills and have medical costs (but they are not the same). 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