Etiquette question

Well I don't know if it's etiquette per se, but here goes...

Is jewelry an appropriate gift for your boyfriends mother for Christmas? She's given me several pairs of earrings and a nice necklace, if that makes a difference.

Thanks for the input! =)

NOOOOOOO. I though Ah-nuld was better than that.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to veto gay-marriage bill.

Because it's going to "undermine families."  THAT IS BULL.  Where does it say that a family is a man and a woman raising their own children???  Full House was a family...no women there til Aunt Becky came along.  Family Matters had lots of family.  We see grandparents raise kids, people adopting other people's children, yet we still say that's an acceptable family.  Why?  Why is that any different than two men or two women giving a child so much love.  It's not.

Katrina thoughts

Failure has its uses. Among other things, it can teach us about the human condition. It took a certain kind of cold arrogance to come up with the evacuation plan that New Orleans devised: Get everyone out of town. But what about those who could not get out of town? What about those with no cars or those already living on the streets? In other words, what about the very poor?

The poor? It's as if the idiots up and down the line never heard of them. It's as if no one at the top of the Federal Emergency Management Agency or at the White House knew they existed. Check that. They knew, but it was theoretical: Oh, they'll manage. The thinking was summed up in the sorry remark of Barbara Bush while she was visiting flood evacuees at a Houston relocation site. Since the refugees sent to Houston were poor to start with, she said, "this is working very well for them." Madam, bite thy tongue.

-Robert Cohen, OpEd for washpost.com