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....................
Friday, April 15, 2011
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
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......
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......
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
so much to say....
and so little time to formulate the thoughts appropriately for maximum reader comprehension....let's just say I am wrapping a roll of duct tape around my mouth to keep from blurting out how I really feel about things at the moment......
like, for example, the TSA, Obamamama, Dept of Homeland Nonsecurity (motto: we frisk everyone but the actual terrorists, and we enjoy it...), people who come into a store the week before Thanksgiving and still gripe that "I can't believe you have all this Christmas stuff out already...", people who refuse to read signs, slow drivers, tailgaters, no turn signals, no headlights when appropriate (like when it's freaking dark outside), and those who seem to think that Bristol Palin is the Anti-Christ.....(no, but his flunky is in the White House)....
See why the duct tape?
sheesh...
I am going to bed.....
like, for example, the TSA, Obamamama, Dept of Homeland Nonsecurity (motto: we frisk everyone but the actual terrorists, and we enjoy it...), people who come into a store the week before Thanksgiving and still gripe that "I can't believe you have all this Christmas stuff out already...", people who refuse to read signs, slow drivers, tailgaters, no turn signals, no headlights when appropriate (like when it's freaking dark outside), and those who seem to think that Bristol Palin is the Anti-Christ.....(no, but his flunky is in the White House)....
See why the duct tape?
sheesh...
I am going to bed.....
Friday, October 15, 2010
thoroughly disgusted
(The below is a copy of the email I sent to the local school superintendent and the local paper last night.)
I am absolutely, completely disgusted at this school district. First,
ramming Jamie Oliver's "healthy foods" program through the schools,
now taking out the swings because a couple kids goof off and get hurt.
Number one, there is not a kid in the world who has not fallen,
scraped a knee, gotten bruised and banged up while playing on a school
playground. I know I did, and I lived to tell the tale. Are we going
to take out the even more dangerous monkey bars? How about the little
balance beam type things that are about 6 inches off the ground that
some playgrounds have? This school system is not protecting the kids,
it is protecting itself from frivolous lawsuits that any judge worth
his/her salt would throw out. This is not about the kids, it is about
money.
Number two, when taking out the swings, why was not the whole set
taken out? Why was the frame of the swingset left behind to be used as
an even more dangerous set of monkey bars? This is happening at my
child's school...she has seen it.
If this was about protecting the children, then someone with some
sense would be ensuring that it would be done right, instead of
halfway, as usual.
This school system makes me laugh at the way it thinks sometimes. I
have 3 children of my own who are either in or have graduated from
Cabell County schools, and overall, although I do have several
complaints about the number of teacher inservice days and the fact
that while policy states the school will supply any required
materials, yet I am still having to purchase my honor student's
reading materials for the summer, my kids have done very well and have
actually had teachers who have challenged them and driven them to
succeed. Yet it can't even take a swingset down without endangering
kids more.
I guess I just don't understand priorities. Mine is to teach my child
to think about consequences...you fool around on playground equipment
and get hurt, well, I guess you learned not to do it again. You fail
to study for a test and fail, well, I guess you'll study next time.
Surely I am not the only parent who does this. Maybe I just feel like
it, but that's the way it is.
Maybe this makes sense to you, maybe you think it's a rant. Either
way, I feel you need to know how this parent feels about what to me is
a pretty senseless decision on the part of the school system.
Thank you.
I am absolutely, completely disgusted at this school district. First,
ramming Jamie Oliver's "healthy foods" program through the schools,
now taking out the swings because a couple kids goof off and get hurt.
Number one, there is not a kid in the world who has not fallen,
scraped a knee, gotten bruised and banged up while playing on a school
playground. I know I did, and I lived to tell the tale. Are we going
to take out the even more dangerous monkey bars? How about the little
balance beam type things that are about 6 inches off the ground that
some playgrounds have? This school system is not protecting the kids,
it is protecting itself from frivolous lawsuits that any judge worth
his/her salt would throw out. This is not about the kids, it is about
money.
Number two, when taking out the swings, why was not the whole set
taken out? Why was the frame of the swingset left behind to be used as
an even more dangerous set of monkey bars? This is happening at my
child's school...she has seen it.
If this was about protecting the children, then someone with some
sense would be ensuring that it would be done right, instead of
halfway, as usual.
This school system makes me laugh at the way it thinks sometimes. I
have 3 children of my own who are either in or have graduated from
Cabell County schools, and overall, although I do have several
complaints about the number of teacher inservice days and the fact
that while policy states the school will supply any required
materials, yet I am still having to purchase my honor student's
reading materials for the summer, my kids have done very well and have
actually had teachers who have challenged them and driven them to
succeed. Yet it can't even take a swingset down without endangering
kids more.
I guess I just don't understand priorities. Mine is to teach my child
to think about consequences...you fool around on playground equipment
and get hurt, well, I guess you learned not to do it again. You fail
to study for a test and fail, well, I guess you'll study next time.
Surely I am not the only parent who does this. Maybe I just feel like
it, but that's the way it is.
Maybe this makes sense to you, maybe you think it's a rant. Either
way, I feel you need to know how this parent feels about what to me is
a pretty senseless decision on the part of the school system.
Thank you.
Monday, October 11, 2010
the Democratic National Committee
So in the course of seeing who had called while I was sleeping earlier, I took the caller ID back a few days to make sure I hadn't missed anything important, and found several numbers I did not recognize. So as is my standard practice, I "googled" them, and lo and behold, 3 out of 4 are related to the DNC.....kind of funny as I am a registered Republican. Kind of funny as if you know me, I am the furthest thing from everything that the DNC stands for...mainly because I abhore being lied to (that means I can't stand it, for those who don't have a vocabulary).
What I would like now, is since I have these numbers in hand, would be a way to let them know how I really feel about the direction they have taken this country since the Clinton era.....that was the start of a huge downhill slide. Good ol' Clinton, having taken advantage of the economic policies Reagan (gasp, a Republican) put into place, as well as taking advantage of his interns (although Monica couldn't have been so stupid as not to see some advantage for her as well). No wonder Hillary always looked so sour......
Anyway, I digress.......the DNC has pushed its candidates and gotten them elected to create chaos in this country. Most of us live paycheck to paycheck and now that is threatened too. I so love it when it is preached that all these new taxes and laws are for our benefit and "for the children" when they clearly couldn't give a rat's rear end about the children or anyone else.
That's why I am voting for anyone even resembling the Tea Party mantra. I want everyday people in office, people who have been there and done that. Who have struggled to make ends meet, who have lived in the real world. More importantly, as stated by the Jack Ryan character in Tom Clancy's "Executive Orders" novel, I want people in office who don't want to be there...who do not look at the position as their personal way to wealth...who simply want to do the job they are asked by their constituents to do and then go home.
And before one of my oh-so-brave anonymous chain letter style commenters decides to deride me for my naivete.......go back and read the Constitution, and the Federalist papers and so on and so forth by those who founded our country. Yes the evil white men, as our kids seem to be taught these days.....the post of senator and representative were not meant to be lifelong positions.....
What I would like now, is since I have these numbers in hand, would be a way to let them know how I really feel about the direction they have taken this country since the Clinton era.....that was the start of a huge downhill slide. Good ol' Clinton, having taken advantage of the economic policies Reagan (gasp, a Republican) put into place, as well as taking advantage of his interns (although Monica couldn't have been so stupid as not to see some advantage for her as well). No wonder Hillary always looked so sour......
Anyway, I digress.......the DNC has pushed its candidates and gotten them elected to create chaos in this country. Most of us live paycheck to paycheck and now that is threatened too. I so love it when it is preached that all these new taxes and laws are for our benefit and "for the children" when they clearly couldn't give a rat's rear end about the children or anyone else.
That's why I am voting for anyone even resembling the Tea Party mantra. I want everyday people in office, people who have been there and done that. Who have struggled to make ends meet, who have lived in the real world. More importantly, as stated by the Jack Ryan character in Tom Clancy's "Executive Orders" novel, I want people in office who don't want to be there...who do not look at the position as their personal way to wealth...who simply want to do the job they are asked by their constituents to do and then go home.
And before one of my oh-so-brave anonymous chain letter style commenters decides to deride me for my naivete.......go back and read the Constitution, and the Federalist papers and so on and so forth by those who founded our country. Yes the evil white men, as our kids seem to be taught these days.....the post of senator and representative were not meant to be lifelong positions.....
Saturday, October 09, 2010
I love it
I love pissing off liberals. They sputter and spout. They, on rare occasions, will start throwing numbers and statistics and all that stuff at you, mainly just to try and confuse you and get you to say, "well, maybe..."
I'm waiting to be called a whore. Like Meg Whitman in CA....you know, if I were her, I think I would laugh about it. After all Jerry Brown has been certifiable for years. Anyone remember him in office in CA back in the 1970's? Yeah, he is a nut. A cracked one. I've got no clue if any of the charges he has leveled against her about currying favor are true, but I'm quite sure while he is pointing the finger, at least one if not more is pointing back at him.....sheesh....pots call kettle black... CA will just have to worry about its own....I have too much going on here in WV to worry about CA right now.
What is the deal with the Democrat candidates, ie.Ted Strickland of OH, not using the Dem logo or admitting they are Dems on their websites? I thought my source had to be kidding me, so I checked it out. Not one Dem ID on the whole page......cheap trick.
By the way, did anyone happen to catch the speech or whatever Pelosi gave where she equated food stamps and unemployment benefits with a jobs program? WTH? Because a jobs program creates jobs. Not entitlements. The goal should be to get people working at productive jobs that they can support themselves and their families with, not to keep them getting handouts. But go figure, this administration can't seem to figure that one out either.I guess their goal is to get all of us under their thumbs so they can tell us how to live, what to eat, what to drive, etc.....all I can say is they can kiss my butt.
I quite enjoy the fact that I get to see Spike Maynard commercials on tv...thanks to the stations who thumbed their nose at Mr. Rahall. Turn about is fair play, right....if Rahall gets to run ads against Maynard like the ones he has done, then it is only fair Maynard get the same chance.....BTW I still see 3-4 Rahall ads for every ONE of Maynards....on radio it seems a little more evenly split....
And while on the subject of ads, anyone seen the one for Raese that is causing such controversy? The one the national committee did, where they advertised for "hicky" looking actors to portray West Virginians? Hey I think they did a pretty good job of casting.....these good old boys look and sound like people I see every day. My only objection to the ad is they probably should have hired actual WV people for the parts. I know plenty who would have been more than happy to appear in an ad against Mr. Open For Business Manchin. Yeah Joe how'd that logo work out for you?
Anyway, gotta go and get back to the business of getting ready for work.
I'm waiting to be called a whore. Like Meg Whitman in CA....you know, if I were her, I think I would laugh about it. After all Jerry Brown has been certifiable for years. Anyone remember him in office in CA back in the 1970's? Yeah, he is a nut. A cracked one. I've got no clue if any of the charges he has leveled against her about currying favor are true, but I'm quite sure while he is pointing the finger, at least one if not more is pointing back at him.....sheesh....pots call kettle black... CA will just have to worry about its own....I have too much going on here in WV to worry about CA right now.
What is the deal with the Democrat candidates, ie.Ted Strickland of OH, not using the Dem logo or admitting they are Dems on their websites? I thought my source had to be kidding me, so I checked it out. Not one Dem ID on the whole page......cheap trick.
By the way, did anyone happen to catch the speech or whatever Pelosi gave where she equated food stamps and unemployment benefits with a jobs program? WTH? Because a jobs program creates jobs. Not entitlements. The goal should be to get people working at productive jobs that they can support themselves and their families with, not to keep them getting handouts. But go figure, this administration can't seem to figure that one out either.I guess their goal is to get all of us under their thumbs so they can tell us how to live, what to eat, what to drive, etc.....all I can say is they can kiss my butt.
I quite enjoy the fact that I get to see Spike Maynard commercials on tv...thanks to the stations who thumbed their nose at Mr. Rahall. Turn about is fair play, right....if Rahall gets to run ads against Maynard like the ones he has done, then it is only fair Maynard get the same chance.....BTW I still see 3-4 Rahall ads for every ONE of Maynards....on radio it seems a little more evenly split....
And while on the subject of ads, anyone seen the one for Raese that is causing such controversy? The one the national committee did, where they advertised for "hicky" looking actors to portray West Virginians? Hey I think they did a pretty good job of casting.....these good old boys look and sound like people I see every day. My only objection to the ad is they probably should have hired actual WV people for the parts. I know plenty who would have been more than happy to appear in an ad against Mr. Open For Business Manchin. Yeah Joe how'd that logo work out for you?
Anyway, gotta go and get back to the business of getting ready for work.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
He did not just..oh yes he did...
Driving to work yesterday morning, I am listening to the radio and on comes a political ad. Not surprising since it is election time. In our congressional district, we have incumbent Nick Joe Rahall (D) and challenger Spike Maynard (R). Both are running negative ads like crazy. Rahall has actually file cease and desist orders against several tv stations for running an ad by Maynard which Rahall says is false..(Now personally I think he is crying wolf b/c as far as I can see, everything it says is true.) But the radio stations are running Maynard ads like crazy. HMMMM.....So anyway, they had both run against each other before, and I swear Rahall pulled one of his old commercials out of his rear and was running it...all about how Maynard is in the pocket of Massey energy CEO Don Blankenship.....and his time as WV Supreme Ct justice....
yeah yeah yeah, blather on.......So Maynard is corrupt...and Rahall is pure as the driven snow? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA........Rahall has voted for everything Obamamamma has pushed through. Even to the point of stating outright in public "I will vote for xxxxxx bill, even though my constituents don't want me to" Ummm, hello? Are you not supposed to REPRESENT your constituents, not screw thm up the butt without benefit of dinner and a movie and vaseline in quantity?
'Nuff said.
yeah yeah yeah, blather on.......So Maynard is corrupt...and Rahall is pure as the driven snow? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA........Rahall has voted for everything Obamamamma has pushed through. Even to the point of stating outright in public "I will vote for xxxxxx bill, even though my constituents don't want me to" Ummm, hello? Are you not supposed to REPRESENT your constituents, not screw thm up the butt without benefit of dinner and a movie and vaseline in quantity?
'Nuff said.
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