Wall Street protesters

If anyone wants to know how I feel about this topic, let me re-direct you to a blog I subscribe to.......

http://thechambersofmymind.blogspot.com/2011/10/give-me-give-me-give-me.html?showComment=1318738741818#c34448186345968644

Yeah that's about right........

just for the record...

I think Obama needs to grow up and take his Chicago style politics back to Illinois.

I think the Republican party better embrace the Tea Party in a big way and quit putting them down and blocking their way if they want to have a prayer of winning in 2012.Because as they stand right now, I think I'm going 3rd party.

And I think the GOP and the media need to quit treating people who speak their mind, like Gov. Perry (although I don't see a lot different with him than the other candidates), as nutcases.

And Jay Carney needs a real job, b/c as the Pres's press flunkie, he sucks........

And I now return to my regularly scheduled vacation......

Dumbocity

Yeah, I know it's not technically a word, but my dad likes it, so hey.....

So, which political party is for the people? Not the Dems; they want to tax us all into a welfare state. Not the Republicans: they can't seem to find the gonads to stick to the stands they make. This whole debt crisis fiasco is just that, a fiasco, a snafu.....as in situation normal all f'd up. The normal state of affairs in DC. And I am sick and tired of it.....

Stupid idiot politicians think we are dumb as bricks. I've got news for them---I am not stupid. I know right from wrong. I know that if you spend more than you make, you end up in debt....and in the real world, there are real consequences...you lose your home, your car, your belongings...if you took it far enough, you get to stay in jail for a while......you can lose your job if it goes far enough.

There's a thought--they should all lose their jobs---every single member of congress who voted for the no debt reduction bill.....and Obama should lose his job. Now. Impeach his ass. Impeach Biden's as well---I think he qualifies as a seditionist. Calling those who disagree with his party's agenda domestic terrorists......dumbass.....go back to plagarizing your speeches, they were better then.....

All I know is, my sons could not get jobs this summer due to the economy. Businesses all around us are closing down or struggling to survive. I work for a national retail chain, and some days it gets tough....if people don;t have the money or if they are afraid to spend what they have, we have an off day.......duh.....

"It's the economy, stupid." Ring a bell for anyone? Someone needs to whap someone upside the head with it b/c no one in power gets it......no jobs, no spending, no taxes, no money.......see where it's headed?

Sheesh......

not moving to Indiana

Just saying.....not that I had any intention of doing so, but in light of their asinine supreme court's decision to vacate the 4th amendment to our Constitution....well let's just say "never" has occurred

How can a State supreme court vacate an entire section of the Nation's law????Not to mention something that has been around since the Magna Carta??? Are they lunatics??? Temporarily insane?

No, just more of Nobama's toadies......watch out America, coming soon to a courthouse near you.....

Meantime, I think I will follow an Indiana friend's example and post a copy of the aforesaid document to my front door and say "double dog dare ya!!!!"

Dumbasses....

To Bin or Not to Bin..Laden that is....

So this past Sunday, if we believe the govt..which I don't usually have a tendency to do, a team of Navy SEALS at the direction of our beloved hack cough puke President, took out enemy # 1 Osama Bin Laden......ok, wow, woo-hoo.....

Now that the celebrating is done, let me explain the slight skepticism and sarcasm you may have already detected (you're good!!)....

Yes, I am glad that as world threats go, he is no longer around. No I do not rejoice in the death of others, even if they may have been spawned by Satan himself..... (no I have no proof that this is true, bear with me)....I am just simply glad that he himself no longer poses a threat. It's past time we got at least a little payback for 9/11, the USS Cole, our embassies, and so on......(Yeah Mr. Clinton, if you hadn't been so busy getting busy with the intern, you could have done this too).

My sour note comes from being unable to discern which official party line we the people are supposed to believe. First we are told one thing, then another, then yet another. It happened last week, no the go-ahead was given last week, no the go-ahead was given just prior to the action......it was a bomb, it was  a drone, it was a bullet to the head.....we'll show you the pics as proof, no we won't ...etc...you get my point.....

Just saying......

the Nanny state and other opinions

So since my last post, I've been doing a lot of reading, watching, 'net news surfing, and just simply thinking about a lot of stuff that goes on in the world....and most of the conclusions I come to are not very flattering to people in general.

First, as a rule, we are sheep. We like to be spoon fed our information. This is so wrong on so many levels, it's hard to enumerate them all. But to put it simply, if you rely on one source for your information, you become afflicted with the bias or viewpoint of your supplier.....and the credibility of journalism went out the window long ago. There is no longer an unbiased viewpoint (Sorry, Foxnews, even you guys skew it your way. At least, it is a refreshing change from the CNN bullshit). No longer can you pick up a newspaper and be assured that what you are reading is "just the facts, ma'am." I can't pinpoint when exactly it happened, but I first started noticing it in the mid 1990's, and it progressively gets worse with time. This is why I began teaching my kids to question everything they hear, see, or read, and to verify the veracity of the information by using a variety of sources.

Next, we are hard-headed and close-minded as a group. If you say something that someone else disagrees with, suddenly you are stupid, irrational, uneducated, and just plain wrong. Free speech is fast becoming a thing of the past, because suddenly you can't disagree with what the President or any of his cronies say or do. If you do, you are guilty of at the least, misunderstanding them or at the worst you are considered seditious. Forget the First Amendment, because in so many's eyes, the Constitution does not exist. We need to open our eyes and our ears and listen to what is actually being said, and see what is actually going on around us. And we need to open our mouths, use our pens, and our keyboards, and speak out against what is wrong and support what is right. Or it will get worse, and suddenly little obscure blogs like this one will be outlawed.

We need to quit abdicating our responsibilities, both as citizens and as parents, to others. Quit letting others make our decisions for us. If we continue to allow this, sooner or later it won't even be our decision when or what to eat, or how to dress, much less how to vote or discipline our kids. We are told by our govt and our teachers and so on that our kids are fat and lazy and stupid, and they, the enlightened ones, are the answer to solving these problems. Only they don't...they make them worse by not holding them accountable for their actions. By not teaching the subjects they are paid to teach, instead showing movies during class time and teaching solely so the kids might score well on the state's standardized tests, so that it looks like the teachers are doing their jobs. They  expect us to abdicate our parental duties at the school door and let the school system teach them that alternative lifestyles and condoms are the greatest thing since Liza Minelli...... and we the parents who try to teach our kids right from wrong and that certain actions have certain consequences and so on are told we are in the wrong, that we are warping our kids.

Everything is leading to a huge Nanny State. Where the govt is our daddy and provides for us and our needs. Where we don't have to make decisions for ourselves. Where we are told what to do and who to be and what to do with our lives.

Yeah. Ask the USSR how well that worked for them......oh you can't? They no longer exist as such? Well, folks, guess where our reality is headed....................

introspection

Being introspective isn't such a bad thing...the last few days, I have been doing a lot of thinking about my life and that of my family. Probably spurred on by the changing of the old year to the new and the funeral of my uncle.

I am a mouthy person, opinionated, sarcastic, tell it like I see it kind of person.....sometimes I think I am a hard person too.....I love deeply and passionately when I love....my husband and my family and friends all know this, but sometimes I feel that side of me gets lost in the everyday mundane routine of work and home.....Lots of times I feel as if all I do is order and command others to do stuff, and yell and scream and pout if they don't....not how I want to be. I don't like to yell, and I don't like to order people around; I do enough of that at work.

So I've got a plan, sort of....first we start by cleaning and organizing the house and our lives.....and downsize as we do....if we haven't used it, don't wear it, won't play with it, then out it goes.....if we have to load down both trucks several times and haul the crap away, so be it. My thinking is that the simpler we make our home life, the more hassle free it will be. There is too much stuff in the house, and the garage and the shed and our lives in general......all it does is clutter and get in the way.....which then aggravates various members of the family, generally the adults, and it's all downhill from there....I don't like it. So I must work to change it.....

Hopefully that will end up taking care of some of the frustration I feel around here. Hence, less yelling and more fun......

Next, I feel a very real need to get my spiritual life back in line. It's been over a year since I went to church, probably that long since I opened my Bible. I listen randomly to K-Love radio when I am driving, and it helps, but I need a spiritual meal, not just a snack....if church is not something I can feasibly do, then I must read and study my Bible like I used to when I was first saved, back in college...Back then I couldn't wait to get home from class or work and just dig in to my Bible study. Campus Crusade was a wonderful outlet also. Now I have a big case of "no time", when actually I just need to make it a priority. Which is more important, Facebook or my relationship with God?   Yes, that was a rhetorical question.....

I need to make time for each of my children, and truly listen to what they have to say, instead of relying on the sound bites as they race for the school bus or as we rush around in the evenings between dinner prep and bedtime prep and everything that occurs in between.....my oldest is already in college, and thank goodness for email and facebook--we do talk pretty regularly, but my younger son is halfway thru his junior year of high school, already doing the college tests and so on, and my youngest child, well heck she is smarter than all of us put together, and doesn't hesitate to tell us so....LOL.....

Everything I want to do to try to better our lives, I need help with....prayers, too....my family has to pitch in and just do without waiting for me to tell them what to do.....I need to just do, instead of simply coming in from work and collapsing into the nearest unoccupied piece of furniture......