high hopes dashed to hell

Yeah, I had high hopes that those in Congress would have more flipping sense than to screw the country more than they already have...I mean, just rape us and get it over with already.....So they pass the stupidest monstrosity of a bill today for health care which has nothing to do with health care and everything to do with creating another entitlement, another set of f'd up laws and so on that will add to the f'd up current health care system, adding more pork than anyone has ever seen on a bill......I hope each and everyone who voted for this excrement of a bill gets voted out of office and run out of town on a rail.

And to the people of this country...once again, who did you vote for? What did you vote for? Did you vote? Or did you leave it to your neighbor to make up your mind for you? Do you follow your chosen party's line or do you think for yourself? Do you let the union tell you who to vote for? This bill is an example of how when the majority of the country lets others tell them what they should want and twists it to suit their purposes...

This bill should have been presented to the general public, in terms and language they could understand. We should have been allowed to see each clause, each line that adds to our tax burden and that of generations to come..For this will never go away.. Did welfare? Does any entitlement program ever go away? No it just exists to continue ballooning into horror beyond anyone's ken.

I will not go quietly into the night over issues I feel strongly about. I do not ask others to agree with me. All I ever ask is for everyone to use their God-given intelligence to ask questions, to ask them of their representatives and senators, of their parents and teachers and neighbors, to research for themselves and not accept simply because someone says it is right or wrong.

My question is, what did Obama and Pelosi have on the members of the House to make the no votes into yes votes? Who did they bribe or blackmail? Who in the House made backroom deals to shove this through?

I end this rant with, as I have said before, you get what you pay for.....and in this case, the cause of a few will make the rest of us pay dearly.......

And as I get more details of the vote and what it all means as the week goes on, I'll be back on here, a little more reasoned maybe......

meanderings.....

If all this rain were snow, I may as well live in Pennsylvania....oh yeah, been there done that.....

If it weren't for "Criminal Minds", weekday afternoons would be mighty boring.....

If a public figure "misspeaks" and is forgiven instantly even when what they said is just completely rude and horrible, is the general population given the same treatment......uh no......

They may be retards...which I think is rude---the proper word is retarded, for that is what their development is-----but I do not think the F bomb should EVER be used in relation to the rest of the description, and I think Ron Emmanuel or whatever his name is should be drummed out of town on a rail, preferably one sticking up his arse.....

If you don't know what an arse is, use a dictionary.....that's a book with words and definitions, not a google destination.....

If all the electronics of the world fried themselves somehow, how would teenagers keep themselves occupied?

Never mind, I don't want to know.....

If wishes were fishes we'd be neck deep in carp....

I wish I could remember what I wanted to say on this; I'm sure I had a good rant built up, but I've lost it now....

Oh well it'll be back...

Time for boys to get home....

Bye bye....

in shock

I am in shock...the voters of Mass. actually elected a Republican to fill the spot that Ted Kennedy held for decades......hallelujah someone in that state finally got some sense!!!!!! I must retire to my sewing table to contemplate the end of the world, b/c I never thought the GOP would pull it off...what a way to tell the world you are tired of the same bullshit!!!!

isn't life interesting?

I swear, the older I get the less tolerant I am of rampant stupidity.....hence why I have not been on the online forum of the local paper in about a year or so......

Listening to the babble about the Mass. election today....hate to tell them up there in Stupidville, but Ted Kennedy is dead...it is no longer his seat....Coakley or whatever her name is needs to really think twice about aligning herself with Kennedy and Obama and that nut crowd......I have no clue who her opponent is, but the man seems to talk a little sense anyway.....will be interesting to see the returns and see whether or not old party politics wins again or if the voters up there have decided enough is enough......

And can someone tell me, again, why we are sending aid to Haiti when we aren't feeding our own? When there are people here who have been devastated by loss of home or job due to "acts of God" and, well never mind...I guess I said it all when I said "our own." It's selfish to take care of our own first, fut it is wonderful to send our tax dollars to some other country to help them out......I am very sorry for those in Haiti, just as I was for the tsunami victims.....but people, please think when you are demanding our govt do more for those in need....if we cannot take care of our own, what right do we have to demand that our govt take care of the rest of the world? And when we do try to help others, we get blasted from the likes of Hugo Chavez, who honestly needs to mind his own business b/c his country is liable to enact a coup on his head if he keeps it up......he can't run his own country yet he blasts ours for everything.....he should pull his head out of his ass and realize he doesn't run this country.....

I also think that when the Hollywood types like brad Pitt and all of them start demanding we help other countries out, they should have to pull out of their pocket first.....simple economics, Brad darling-----you demand our govt send millions and billions to other countries in need, fine....understand this....more money out of the average consumers pocket, less money for them to spend on going to see your horrible little movies.......no, not a fan....sorry.....put your money where your mouth is...

away from politics for the moment....has anyone noticed how much it costs to have a high school senior in the house??? Jiminy crickets, when I bought his announcements and stuff, I thought I was looking at the national debt.....and I only ordered exactly the amount of items needed.....

oh well....must clean up for work........

one more time....

Once again, we are seeing what happens when those in power are there too long....what the hell is Sen. Snowe from Maine thinking???? To vote for the health care bill????? Who the hell does she think she is to break ranks and vote for something so fundamentally stupid and wrong and burdensome to the very taxpayers she is supposed to be taking care of? What a dumbass!!!!!

So she votes for a bill that REQUIRES every American to carry health insurance, but employers do not have to provide it. Well fine, where is the average American, living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to feed their families in this government backed recession, going to come up with the massive amount of money required to keep the premiums up? Hell I have insurance thru my employer and I can tell you if my premiums jump by more than they usually do each year, I'm done. I already lose a huge part of my check to my insurance b/c I carry the family plan---3 kids, I gotta.

Are they not thinking up there on Capitol Hill? Has it really been so long since they themselves had to struggle to keep a job and take care of their families that they can't remember what it was like and what is facing people these days? (Of course I mean those who were not born with the silver spoon in their mouths, like our own Sen Rockefeller.) The biggest reason my husband holds onto his job is due to the fact his employer covers his insurance premiums. That's a huge benefit.

I just don;'t get it. I do not understand why anyone would vote for what, in essence, amounts to a huge attempt to bankrupt this country's citizens and in effect put us as a country into a socialist, if not outright communist, state.

How f******* stupid.....

some delayed thoughts on a radio snippett

Traveling to my sons' school the other day to pick them up for an orthodontist appointment, I was listening to my favorite radio station. It carries a national feed of music with no commercials. Generally it is a very enjoyable station to listen to, and musicwise that day it still was.

But one brief clip just got my goat. It was from the Focus on the Family institute. Now a lot of times they talk good sense, and I'm not saying there was not good sense behind the clip of the day, but I don't think they took their study far enough to really know what they are talking about.

It was on divorce. Their study states that less than 25% of families in this country are nuclear families---mom, dad, kids under the same roof. The lowest it has ever been. Ok, since I wasn't one of those asked to take part, I won't quibble with their statistic. I really don't figure it is that far off.

But in their discussion they brought up that increasingly counselors are seeing children of broken homes and that the parents excuse was that they divorced for the sake of the kids. Well, I usually hear it the other way around--that you stay together for the sake of the kids, but be that is it may, I have also seen the occasional relationship where once the last child hits 18, parents head to divorce court.

Their solution at Focus is to stay together for the sake of the kids. To go to counseling or whatever it takes to keep the family unit intact. That splitting up does way more irreparable harm than good to the kids in all cases. The only reason to divorce is physical or emotional abuse. Otherwise it is just selfishness on the part of the adults.

I give. I see that. I have heard way too many couples who enter a marital relationship with the "well if this doesn't work out, we'll just divorce and move on to the next" attitude. And they do. Several months or years down the road, one or the other decides they are "just not happy anymore" and split, leaving behind their spouse and kids for their own selfish motives.

But then there are those of us who have lived the nightmare of divorce that could have been avoided if only......if only the other person would have attended counseling with us, if only the other person were willing to change the behavior that sundered the relationship, if only the other person would give up their "thang" on the side.......

My husband and I have both been through it. My ex left claiming he just wasn't happy. Now I fully admit that we were not good for each other and marriage was probably not our smartest move.....although we would never have thought so at the start....and I have my suspicions as to what the true source of his feelings were.....and my husband now divorced a wife who was cheating on him and refused to stop. In each case we tried to pull the marriage back together and the other party refused to change the behavior in any way, even though we were doing all we could to facilitate it. It comes to a point where when Mom and Dad have reduced themselves to the point of screaming epithets at each other and that is conversation, it's time to get out. FOR the sake of the kids..

I did not want my kids to grow up in an unhappy household. Day to day bickering, arguing, downright fighting, and the constant tension and all beats a kid down faster than the parents splitting up. I saw it in my relationship with my ex, and I see it in the relationship of a good friend and her husband....when even the kids say it's time for and end to it, then what do you do? When the kids' grades and attitudes start to plummet with all the tension and fighting and sniping in the house, and it spills over to them.....it's time to go.

Sorry Focus on the Family, I usually do not have a problem with your viewpoint on a variety of things, but on this one I do.....I have lived it, therefore I know of what I speak. Apparently, and fortunately, you haven't...and you should thank God for it......

Obamabobama speech to the kids

First let me say that I could not give a rat's rear end if the president speaks to schoolkids on a national level....so what?

What is this: he and his like don't want any opposition. They do not want anyone to say anything against what he says in his speech. Now fine....you want to give a general "hey kids stay in school, don't do drugs, stay out of trouble" speech...wonderful....thousands of politicians do this all across the country in venues from school to rallies to whatever....

But when you speak to a captive audience, especially one filled with MINORS who are easily influenced, then you need to be careful what you say....and I don't think this bozo of a mutt has it in him--or his speechwriters and handlers don't anyway---to not go political and start pushing his agenda on an unsuspecting group.....

I have 3 kids in high school...all are smart and capable of making their own minds up about how they feel about stuff. All are perfectly capable of seeing past any bullshit anyone throws at them. Speak away to them....give them the ammo (knowledge) they need to be able to debate you back. my oldest is a genius at debate--he can argue any point...I've seen him do it..He is good. So are the other kids when they want to.

But if what I am hearing is true, that the speechifying is aiming more at the elementary group, then shame......this is a group still under their parents wings. Still influenced by what they see and hear on tv more and more. I do not feel this group should be exposed to the likely politicking that they will hear. My husband and i have seriously debated whether to send Shellie to school on Tuesday, because at 7, though she is extremely bright and capable of all kinds of complex thought and reason and logic, we do not feel she should have to be exposed to what is rightfully an adult debate. Now, once the advance copy of the speech is made available, if they follow through on their promise, then I will read it and decide from there. And woe be if a switcheroo on the speech is pulled...and I do not put it past them....

By the way...here's some food for thought---when Lenin and Stalin and Hitler and the like all began their little coups and whatnot....who did they begin influencing to their side first?

The youth of the country, that's who....

Think about it......