Instead of New Years resolutions I would rather have hopes and wishes. People make resolutions all the time and for the most part end up following to the wayside before spring hits, so this year there will be no resolutions for me only hopes and wishes to what 2008 will bring. At least this way there will be no personal failure just my dreams and with times the way they are seem more important then a personal resolutions.
For 2008, I will (and this is not a resolution but a fact) love my husband more and thank God everyday for bringing us together. My life has been so much better and richer since the day I met him and I have never regretted and feel very lucky to have him in my life. For me, I feel very lucky that I am married to my best friend and feel I owe every bit of respect and love I can give him. He never has tried to change me or judge me, he accepts me for who I am and believes in me. For the first time in my life I feel trust and real love and he has made me greedy for more of what he gives me and I never want to lose that and will do everything in my power to let him know how much I love him. When my husband married me, he took on a very big task; he became the stepfather to my three children and brought my oldest daughter out of her shell and gave her the biggest gift he could give a child, a chance to call a man her father (something her real father never did and my second husband could never be to her due to the way he treated her). He also gives my son and other daughter a stable male figure to look up to and learn from. In the years we have been together he has helped me give my son maturity beyond his fourteen years and taught my son to slow down and think before reacting. KC has told me of his deep respect for him and his hopes to be like him. I know with time my husband will teach my youngest daughter that life is more than material things and the value of a dollar (lord knows he tries but both him and I have to battle my ex-husband and his new wife teaching Morgan it’s all about brand names and what you have along with spending money as fast as you can get it), and with time I know my husband will prevail because determined is part of his being. I believe if there was ever a candidate for father and/or husband of the year, my husband should win it hands down after all it is not easy going from being single to instant family man with no experience basically overnight but Jeff did do it and still to this day does it as if he was born into the husband-father role and in my opinion puts some real husbands-fathers to shame with the way he took on the job with style and finesse. My hope and wish for my husband this year is that he sees how truly wonderful he is and knows how much he is appreciated and love by his instant family and I hope he knows what a big difference he has made in our lives.
I hope and wish for the new coming year that my family and friends have continue good health. I hope my mom will become more optimistic (with her that would be a really big feat and I know may be I am hoping/wishing for too much but hey I can dream can’t I?). I want Pa Fidd to have his surgery on his sinuses because I want him to feel the joy of breathing normally again (he better do it because he is the only father I have left!). I want Ma Fidd not to worry about the chance of breast cancer coming back to haunt her again. I also want her and I to go out shopping again, of course we can’t go every other weekend due to the distance that we live but at least a bit more than we have done. Besides we need to get back to scrapping like we use to, them damn pictures are piling up and need to be put into scrapbooks. Basically I want Ma Fidd to feel pure joy and happiness like she did when we went out all the time in the past, she misses it and so do I (every woman deserves those girl outings where we can be as nutty and have fun without the pressure of being rushed around).
I hope and wish for a better job, one where I can make the wage I deserve and a job that doesn’t take me for granted. I also want this year to bring the beginning of my husband and I seeing the debt we have start to diminish and to see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel and living from paycheck to paycheck a thing of the past. (If any wish could come true then let us win the lottery! Yeah, yeah, I know dreaming but at least I can hope can’t I?)
I hope and wish that 2008 would bring a new President that will restore America and put the nation back on track and not a President whose personal agendas are the priorities. I hope and wish that our government starts listening to the people and they start to do real work on restoring the economy, ending the war, and stop the flood of illegal immigrants by building the fence and deporting all that are illegal in our nation by upholding the law. Now more than ever Americans want their government to do the job they were elected to do and for the government to listen to the needs of it’s citizens.
Finally, I wish for everyone to have a safe and happy New Year and I hope whatever you may wish or hope for comes true.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
FAITH AND HOPE
When it comes to faith and hope I believe I have lots of it. I believe in God and am not ashamed to say so. I pray to myself daily for guidance, strength, and for my little piece of the world to be better. For me it really gets me through the good and the tough times. I know that no matter how bad things may get I have the faith and hope that everything is going to be okay. Some people may accuse me of not being realistic or that I am living in a dream world but I see it as the power of believing that things happen for a reason and if you have faith and hope you will prevail in the end.
One thing I can’t stand is when people are negative and all they see is doom and gloom. They walk around carrying heavy burdens on their shoulders and feel they have nowhere to turn for help but the sad part is they really do and they don’t realize this. No matter if you believe in God or not, pray! Pray to whomever you believe in and release those burdens, ask for help or guidance but most of all have faith, have hope. Don’t ever think for one minute you are alone or that no one cares because if you have faith and hope then you are never alone. The most important thing to remember is not to give up and to stop feeding into the negative. The saying goes if you say it enough then it will become true, so start thinking positive and then positive things will happen, that is just the rule of nature.
Today our society is a complete mess with hatred, no values or morals and high crime rates. Why, because as a society we have forgotten about God and the teachings of the bible. We have the politically correct wanting God out of everything because they feel it is offensive. To me I find it offensive that they want to strip people of having faith and hope. I find it offensive they won’t let a child pray in school or that they want God taken out of the pledge of allegiance. Our society is a mess without God and that is what is wrong with people today without religious teaching, depending on which God you believe in, there is complete chaos. I feel as a society we should turn on the politically correct and say the hell with them because obviously their way is not working and God’s way has and will always work.
I am not the type to cram religion down anyone’s throat but I do believe that everyone needs to believe in some kind of higher power or at least have faith or hope in some kind of higher power. I believe it really does bring the good out of humans when they feel as though there is a higher power to answer too. I also believe that prayer can be very powerful when you believe but prayer does not work if you don’t believe or have faith. Our nation needs hope and as a society we need faith but what we really need is God brought back into the light and through that only then will our nation’s sickness be cured. We need to believe!
One thing I can’t stand is when people are negative and all they see is doom and gloom. They walk around carrying heavy burdens on their shoulders and feel they have nowhere to turn for help but the sad part is they really do and they don’t realize this. No matter if you believe in God or not, pray! Pray to whomever you believe in and release those burdens, ask for help or guidance but most of all have faith, have hope. Don’t ever think for one minute you are alone or that no one cares because if you have faith and hope then you are never alone. The most important thing to remember is not to give up and to stop feeding into the negative. The saying goes if you say it enough then it will become true, so start thinking positive and then positive things will happen, that is just the rule of nature.
Today our society is a complete mess with hatred, no values or morals and high crime rates. Why, because as a society we have forgotten about God and the teachings of the bible. We have the politically correct wanting God out of everything because they feel it is offensive. To me I find it offensive that they want to strip people of having faith and hope. I find it offensive they won’t let a child pray in school or that they want God taken out of the pledge of allegiance. Our society is a mess without God and that is what is wrong with people today without religious teaching, depending on which God you believe in, there is complete chaos. I feel as a society we should turn on the politically correct and say the hell with them because obviously their way is not working and God’s way has and will always work.
I am not the type to cram religion down anyone’s throat but I do believe that everyone needs to believe in some kind of higher power or at least have faith or hope in some kind of higher power. I believe it really does bring the good out of humans when they feel as though there is a higher power to answer too. I also believe that prayer can be very powerful when you believe but prayer does not work if you don’t believe or have faith. Our nation needs hope and as a society we need faith but what we really need is God brought back into the light and through that only then will our nation’s sickness be cured. We need to believe!
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
FOOD THAT CAN KILL
When you go to the grocery store did you ever stop and think that what you might buy could make you sick or even kill you? I am sure many have but if you think about it the food we buy today is far more dangerous now then it was some twenty-five years ago. The danger to American consumers can come from pesticides, unsafe packaging, and from the people that handle our food. To some extent it could make anyone want to become a hermit and grow their own food and really today that may be the safest bet you could have.
Within the past few weeks I heard on the news that meat is being packaged and sold to us that uses carbon monoxide so the meat can retain its pink coloring. Now this can present a lot of problems to consumers because by doing this practice meatpacking companies can hide a multitude of things from us such as how old the meat is to hiding the growth of pathogens such as Clostridium botulinum, Salmonella and E. coli. In the news story it also said they found meat being sold that was two years old! This is scary to think that you may have something like that in your refrigerator. The only advice the story could give the consumer was to check the sell by date on the package but can you really trust the sell by date?
I also wonder with fresh produce if the E. coli scare we had back in the summer of 2006 is really behind us. What guarantee do we have as consumers that head of lettuce we are buying is safe? How do we know it is not carrying the deadly E. coli O157:H7 that causes kidney damage and death and how do we know it wasn’t sprayed with deadly pesticide? I would, as a consumer would like guarantees to know what I am buying is safe. It would be nice if the government would make a law that enforces companies/growers to disclose what has been sprayed on their produce and as well what was done to test the produce to see if it has any type of bacteria to ensure consumers are buying a safe food product.
Yesterday I sent an email to Tyson Foods in regards to their hiring illegal immigrants, Tysons happens to be one of the largest offenders of this hiring practice. To me this should be a real concern to consumers, by hiring illegals they are subjecting us to a variety of diseases due to the fact illegals come into our country without having a health screening. You now stand a chance of contracting TB, Chagas, leprosy, hepatitis, typhoid and a host of other communicable diseases. I for one am now boycotting Tysons. Tysons did have the gall to send me their standard response and if you email them you will get the same as I did, which is:
Thank you for your message. Contrary to what you may have heard or
Read on the internet, we have zero tolerance for employing people who are not authorized to work in the U.S. We use the government's Basic Pilot program, now known as E-Verify, to help verify the documents of the people we hire. In addition, we train our hiring managers on employment documentation procedures and work to increase their awareness of identification fraud. We regularly audit our hiring process including work authorization documents and also use an independent, outside company, which conducts its own audit of our hiring practices.
If we learn one of our workers may not have authorization to work in this country, we take immediate measures. If they are unable to correct any discrepancies in their documentation, then they are released from employment.
Now if you do research on the net you will find this about Tyson Food and this is how I responded to them:
So sorry Gary but I wasn't born yesterday and this crap you sent me is unbelievable. I see this is a standard email you send out to all in regards to hiring of illegals. The group in which I spoke about yesterday posted this garbage you sent me, I guess you are too busy defending your company's hiring practices of illegals to have time to write a personal email. So as far as your ZERO TOLERANCE on hiring illegals then why would a Federal judge give permission for employees to bring suit against the company for hiring illegals? Oh please explain the following:
Tyson Foods Can Be Sued For Hiring Illegal Immigrants
Workers have been told that they can file a class action lawsuit against Tyson Foods for depressing wages through the hiring of illegal immigrants. A federal judge has given workers the go ahead to file the class action suit against the food company, which means that thousands of workers from eight plants will be able to get involved with the litigation.
A number of similar cases have been filed against other companies in relation to the hiring of illegal immigrants, where worker have lost out on wages due to the illegal hiring process. It is estimated that up to 20 million illegal immigrants are living in the United States, many of whom are taking up work with companies that hire illegal aliens to keep costs down.
One lawyer working on behalf of plaintiffs in these cases stated: "You can't bring these cases unless they get certified as class actions. An individual person can't bring one -- it's not economically viable to do it. So it's important that it gets certified as a class action."
The Homeland Security Secretary has already made an announcement earlier this year in relation to a crackdown on employers that knowingly hire illegal immigrants to save money, as well as a crackdown on those helping the illegal immigrants to find work.
Topic Added October 24th, 2006
http://www.lawcore.com/legal-information/10-24-06.html
More proof Tysons supports illegals:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611661/posts
The word is spreading and I am still boycotting your company as well as many others. You see Gary, we Americans have ZERO TOLERANCE for companies that hire illegals and support amnesty in other words the proverbial buck stops here!
Now I wonder just what type of response I will get back from Tysons today?
In the end it is the consumer that must be weary of what they buy because as it stands today our government is not concerned with the safety of its people. Extra thought must go into what is being put into your grocery cart. Extra thought needs to go into what companies you support by buying their product because in the end the only way to make change is by sending the message you will not buy if a company does not hold the consumers safety as their number one priority.
Within the past few weeks I heard on the news that meat is being packaged and sold to us that uses carbon monoxide so the meat can retain its pink coloring. Now this can present a lot of problems to consumers because by doing this practice meatpacking companies can hide a multitude of things from us such as how old the meat is to hiding the growth of pathogens such as Clostridium botulinum, Salmonella and E. coli. In the news story it also said they found meat being sold that was two years old! This is scary to think that you may have something like that in your refrigerator. The only advice the story could give the consumer was to check the sell by date on the package but can you really trust the sell by date?
I also wonder with fresh produce if the E. coli scare we had back in the summer of 2006 is really behind us. What guarantee do we have as consumers that head of lettuce we are buying is safe? How do we know it is not carrying the deadly E. coli O157:H7 that causes kidney damage and death and how do we know it wasn’t sprayed with deadly pesticide? I would, as a consumer would like guarantees to know what I am buying is safe. It would be nice if the government would make a law that enforces companies/growers to disclose what has been sprayed on their produce and as well what was done to test the produce to see if it has any type of bacteria to ensure consumers are buying a safe food product.
Yesterday I sent an email to Tyson Foods in regards to their hiring illegal immigrants, Tysons happens to be one of the largest offenders of this hiring practice. To me this should be a real concern to consumers, by hiring illegals they are subjecting us to a variety of diseases due to the fact illegals come into our country without having a health screening. You now stand a chance of contracting TB, Chagas, leprosy, hepatitis, typhoid and a host of other communicable diseases. I for one am now boycotting Tysons. Tysons did have the gall to send me their standard response and if you email them you will get the same as I did, which is:
Thank you for your message. Contrary to what you may have heard or
Read on the internet, we have zero tolerance for employing people who are not authorized to work in the U.S. We use the government's Basic Pilot program, now known as E-Verify, to help verify the documents of the people we hire. In addition, we train our hiring managers on employment documentation procedures and work to increase their awareness of identification fraud. We regularly audit our hiring process including work authorization documents and also use an independent, outside company, which conducts its own audit of our hiring practices.
If we learn one of our workers may not have authorization to work in this country, we take immediate measures. If they are unable to correct any discrepancies in their documentation, then they are released from employment.
Now if you do research on the net you will find this about Tyson Food and this is how I responded to them:
So sorry Gary but I wasn't born yesterday and this crap you sent me is unbelievable. I see this is a standard email you send out to all in regards to hiring of illegals. The group in which I spoke about yesterday posted this garbage you sent me, I guess you are too busy defending your company's hiring practices of illegals to have time to write a personal email. So as far as your ZERO TOLERANCE on hiring illegals then why would a Federal judge give permission for employees to bring suit against the company for hiring illegals? Oh please explain the following:
Tyson Foods Can Be Sued For Hiring Illegal Immigrants
Workers have been told that they can file a class action lawsuit against Tyson Foods for depressing wages through the hiring of illegal immigrants. A federal judge has given workers the go ahead to file the class action suit against the food company, which means that thousands of workers from eight plants will be able to get involved with the litigation.
A number of similar cases have been filed against other companies in relation to the hiring of illegal immigrants, where worker have lost out on wages due to the illegal hiring process. It is estimated that up to 20 million illegal immigrants are living in the United States, many of whom are taking up work with companies that hire illegal aliens to keep costs down.
One lawyer working on behalf of plaintiffs in these cases stated: "You can't bring these cases unless they get certified as class actions. An individual person can't bring one -- it's not economically viable to do it. So it's important that it gets certified as a class action."
The Homeland Security Secretary has already made an announcement earlier this year in relation to a crackdown on employers that knowingly hire illegal immigrants to save money, as well as a crackdown on those helping the illegal immigrants to find work.
Topic Added October 24th, 2006
http://www.lawcore.com/legal-information/10-24-06.html
More proof Tysons supports illegals:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611661/posts
The word is spreading and I am still boycotting your company as well as many others. You see Gary, we Americans have ZERO TOLERANCE for companies that hire illegals and support amnesty in other words the proverbial buck stops here!
Now I wonder just what type of response I will get back from Tysons today?
In the end it is the consumer that must be weary of what they buy because as it stands today our government is not concerned with the safety of its people. Extra thought must go into what is being put into your grocery cart. Extra thought needs to go into what companies you support by buying their product because in the end the only way to make change is by sending the message you will not buy if a company does not hold the consumers safety as their number one priority.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS DEMAND RIGHTS
Can you say oxymoron! Illegal immigrants demanding rights have to be the biggest oxymoron of our time. Why should we give them rights in our country, did we tell them to come here illegally? If memory serves me correctly I don’t remember sending out those invitations to them but yet here they are in our country demanding rights as if they were citizens of our country. Some and for the most part, all are claiming that the United States is there country. Funny I believe when the pilgrims landed here American Indians and not Mexicans greeted them. To me this is very interesting that they have the gall to claim rights because despite what the politically correct want you to believe that illegals are “undocumented worker”, “undocumented immigrants”, or the newest one by Nancy Pelosi, “undocumented tourist” (now that one is a real hum-dinger), they are in fact ILLEGALS. This means to those that cannot grasp the meaning is they came into our country illegally or came into our country not the legal way (I know, mind blowing isn’t it).
Let’s talk about rights. What about the rights of all the immigrants trying to come here legally, the ones that fill out the paperwork and wait patiently sometimes for years to hear back from the United States on whether their application has been accepted? What about the rights of the immigrants that are now citizens of the United States how do you think they feel about illegals wanting rights? And what about the legal citizens of the United States, what about their rights not be taken seriously or heard? Why is it that we have to have the illegals, government, media, and special interest groups shove down our throats almost on a daily basis the rights of illegal immigrants? Call me a realist but this is wrong. Lets say we give illegal immigrants rights, then what is next? Will we have to give terrorist rights that come to our country after all aren’t they illegal, don’t they have rights? The mindset here today is backwards, why would anyone even entertain the idea of giving someone that came to our country illegally rights, where is the logic in that? Of course you have the politically correct telling you that illegal immigrants are hard working folk looking for a better way of life and we have to give them rights because after all they are human and we need to show compassion, to that I say what a bunch of bologna. I don’t argue the point that they are human or may be hard working but what I do argue is that they want everything we have and more. Illegals are crying for more benefits, having a voice in our political system, and the right to live here without the fear of deportation, they want all this and more. I just want to know if any of these illegals ever shed blood for our country or would they to deserve the rights that they want so much, the ones that our countrymen did for so many years to give us the freedoms we enjoy today. I would also like to know just how many illegals pay income tax to the IRS legally (you know the ones that claim they pay taxes but only do so with fake social security numbers), I mean if they are demanding rights then at least they should be paying income tax right?
Rights in the United States should only be given to the citizen’s period. There is really no debate on the subject, there is no gray line it is just what is it, right versus wrong. If the United States caves into illegal immigrants and gives them rights then it is opening the proverbial Pandora’s box not only will they have rights but the United States will be opening itself to letting other groups claiming they have rights such as convicted felons or anti-American groups. It is bad enough now that we have illegal immigrants protesting in our streets threatening the takeover of American, waving their country’s flag, and even threatening to kill us but still our government believes illegal immigrants are a value to our country. I would ask that our government furnish to the American people the real money value illegal immigrants are to us because I do not see their value, I see them as part of the problem why our economy is so horrid now.
I am sure I am one of the many Americans that has had it with illegal immigrants claiming they have rights, evidence in polls shows I am right. Illegal immigrants plain and simple do not have rights in our country. If they want rights then they need to go back from whence they came and demand that their rights be heard from their own government. From where I stand, for the most part Americans are done with listening to their demands, sob stories, and their threats. They are the ones that have abused are system to the point that most Americans are fed up with them. All we want is our laws enforced, for them to be deported, and for them to stop bleeding the American taxpayers. These are rights of the American citizens and we demand our rights be heard after all we are the ones that are here legally, therefore we take precedence over illegal lawbreakers that don’t have a legal voice within our country.
Let’s talk about rights. What about the rights of all the immigrants trying to come here legally, the ones that fill out the paperwork and wait patiently sometimes for years to hear back from the United States on whether their application has been accepted? What about the rights of the immigrants that are now citizens of the United States how do you think they feel about illegals wanting rights? And what about the legal citizens of the United States, what about their rights not be taken seriously or heard? Why is it that we have to have the illegals, government, media, and special interest groups shove down our throats almost on a daily basis the rights of illegal immigrants? Call me a realist but this is wrong. Lets say we give illegal immigrants rights, then what is next? Will we have to give terrorist rights that come to our country after all aren’t they illegal, don’t they have rights? The mindset here today is backwards, why would anyone even entertain the idea of giving someone that came to our country illegally rights, where is the logic in that? Of course you have the politically correct telling you that illegal immigrants are hard working folk looking for a better way of life and we have to give them rights because after all they are human and we need to show compassion, to that I say what a bunch of bologna. I don’t argue the point that they are human or may be hard working but what I do argue is that they want everything we have and more. Illegals are crying for more benefits, having a voice in our political system, and the right to live here without the fear of deportation, they want all this and more. I just want to know if any of these illegals ever shed blood for our country or would they to deserve the rights that they want so much, the ones that our countrymen did for so many years to give us the freedoms we enjoy today. I would also like to know just how many illegals pay income tax to the IRS legally (you know the ones that claim they pay taxes but only do so with fake social security numbers), I mean if they are demanding rights then at least they should be paying income tax right?
Rights in the United States should only be given to the citizen’s period. There is really no debate on the subject, there is no gray line it is just what is it, right versus wrong. If the United States caves into illegal immigrants and gives them rights then it is opening the proverbial Pandora’s box not only will they have rights but the United States will be opening itself to letting other groups claiming they have rights such as convicted felons or anti-American groups. It is bad enough now that we have illegal immigrants protesting in our streets threatening the takeover of American, waving their country’s flag, and even threatening to kill us but still our government believes illegal immigrants are a value to our country. I would ask that our government furnish to the American people the real money value illegal immigrants are to us because I do not see their value, I see them as part of the problem why our economy is so horrid now.
I am sure I am one of the many Americans that has had it with illegal immigrants claiming they have rights, evidence in polls shows I am right. Illegal immigrants plain and simple do not have rights in our country. If they want rights then they need to go back from whence they came and demand that their rights be heard from their own government. From where I stand, for the most part Americans are done with listening to their demands, sob stories, and their threats. They are the ones that have abused are system to the point that most Americans are fed up with them. All we want is our laws enforced, for them to be deported, and for them to stop bleeding the American taxpayers. These are rights of the American citizens and we demand our rights be heard after all we are the ones that are here legally, therefore we take precedence over illegal lawbreakers that don’t have a legal voice within our country.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
ON YOUR MARK, GET READY, NOW STUFF YOURSELF!
I love Thanksgiving, who wouldn’t? Here is a holiday where everyone here in the United States celebrates what they are thankful for and gets a huge meal to boot. I look forward to going to my mom’s where she always makes way too much and can’t understand why she has so much left over. Some us have very formal Thanksgivings, while others have a Thanksgiving that is very laid back where everyone sits around the TV watching football and eating until their clothes are about ready to burst off them. Thanksgiving also marks the official start of the Christmas season with the dreaded black Friday (a day in which you will never catch me at a mall). So I sit here typing my blog with visions of turkey, stuffing, mash potatoes, and gravy dancing in my head anticipating the big meal that will be forthcoming today.
I have a pretty good idea how my Thanksgiving is going to be since I have spent many with my mom but this year will be a little different and should be an exciting on at that. I plan to bring my camera to document this Thanksgiving because today my youngest brother (the one I swear is adopted) will be bringing his wife, their daughter, and I can’t remember how many kids from her previous marriage over to my mom’s for Thanksgiving. To put it to you bluntly my brother is not the sharpest tool in the shed, in fact if you look up the word “stupid” you will see my brother’s picture next to the word. When it comes to common sense that is something he knows nothing about. Let me give you an example of his sheer intellect. When he was young, talking teenage years here and old enough to know about what I am about to tell you, he needed a money order for $75.00 and had asked me to drive him to 7-11 to get one. No problem I thought. We get to 7-11 and he jumped out of the car while I sat and waited for him. Well about five minutes later he comes out looking all dejected and when I asked him what was wrong, he precedes to tell me that when he plopped his money on the counter and told the clerk he needed a money order for $75.00 the clerk told him no. This point I was ready to be the big sister and go in and ream the clerk until my dumb brother tells me the rest of his story. He thought in order to get a money order all you had to do was pay the fee for it, which at that time I believe it was .75 cents, and tell them how much you needed and they would just give you the money. After he tells me this, I was like you idiot but really with him I shouldn’t have been surprised he is known for doing stuff as such.
My brother is now in his thirty’s and you would think he had gotten a bit smarter over the years but he hasn’t, in fact I believe there is a leak in his brain (that is if he has one) and what brain matter he does have has been leaking out over the years. He is now married to this girl who loves kids, or at least that is what she says and she proves this point by having so many of them. The sad thing about this is she can’t support these kids. My brother met this one when he worked for a cable TV company and his job was to go over to her house and disconnect her cable for nonpayment. Well as things go with my brother he fell head over heels in love with her and before you knew it she was pregnant with his baby. My brother is very well known for falling in love with every woman he meets, in the past his woman he has fallen in love with have for the most part been certifiably nuts, used drugs, or are in a bad marriage and want to get back at their husbands. My brother has made it an art of finding these loonies and falling in love with them. Now he is married to one. She has I think five kids counting the one she had with my brother and all of these kids are like wild animals according to my mom. They run around her house when they come over destroying it and when it comes to sitting down and having a meal my mother states it’s like feeding time at the zoo. They don’t know how to use forks, spoons, or knives (with knives I guess this is a good thing) and they can’t sit still and on more then one occasion have told my mom to shut up when she corrects them. Lord help these kids today when I am over there, have too much of my father in me to have a child tell me to shut up (my kids don’t call me drill sergeant for nothing). My brother has no control over these kids and his wife wants even more kids that they can’t support!! They live in section 8 housing, on welfare, and collect food stamps. I think she needs to get her tubes tied and stop being a burden to the welfare system.
So today I will go over to my mom’s with camera in hand to document the cluster f*ck of a life that my brother has created. Wondering why my brother hasn’t learned a thing over years he has been alive and why he feels that being married is the solution to all of his problems. His family is very ecstatic about today’s big feast, as they should because according to my mom they eat hotdogs with mayo on it during the week so they are looking forward to having real food (this is because my brother’s wife doesn’t know how to cook and hotdogs are her specialty). I know my mom will be thankful for one thing today, she will not have to hear shut up from one of those kids because I will be there to stop them and of course I will let my brother know that he better get control over his new brood, after all we were not brought up to disrespect our parents. I just wonder though how thankful those kids are going to be meeting their new aunt today? Hehehehe! I see a scrapbook page in my future on this Thanksgiving!!
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
I have a pretty good idea how my Thanksgiving is going to be since I have spent many with my mom but this year will be a little different and should be an exciting on at that. I plan to bring my camera to document this Thanksgiving because today my youngest brother (the one I swear is adopted) will be bringing his wife, their daughter, and I can’t remember how many kids from her previous marriage over to my mom’s for Thanksgiving. To put it to you bluntly my brother is not the sharpest tool in the shed, in fact if you look up the word “stupid” you will see my brother’s picture next to the word. When it comes to common sense that is something he knows nothing about. Let me give you an example of his sheer intellect. When he was young, talking teenage years here and old enough to know about what I am about to tell you, he needed a money order for $75.00 and had asked me to drive him to 7-11 to get one. No problem I thought. We get to 7-11 and he jumped out of the car while I sat and waited for him. Well about five minutes later he comes out looking all dejected and when I asked him what was wrong, he precedes to tell me that when he plopped his money on the counter and told the clerk he needed a money order for $75.00 the clerk told him no. This point I was ready to be the big sister and go in and ream the clerk until my dumb brother tells me the rest of his story. He thought in order to get a money order all you had to do was pay the fee for it, which at that time I believe it was .75 cents, and tell them how much you needed and they would just give you the money. After he tells me this, I was like you idiot but really with him I shouldn’t have been surprised he is known for doing stuff as such.
My brother is now in his thirty’s and you would think he had gotten a bit smarter over the years but he hasn’t, in fact I believe there is a leak in his brain (that is if he has one) and what brain matter he does have has been leaking out over the years. He is now married to this girl who loves kids, or at least that is what she says and she proves this point by having so many of them. The sad thing about this is she can’t support these kids. My brother met this one when he worked for a cable TV company and his job was to go over to her house and disconnect her cable for nonpayment. Well as things go with my brother he fell head over heels in love with her and before you knew it she was pregnant with his baby. My brother is very well known for falling in love with every woman he meets, in the past his woman he has fallen in love with have for the most part been certifiably nuts, used drugs, or are in a bad marriage and want to get back at their husbands. My brother has made it an art of finding these loonies and falling in love with them. Now he is married to one. She has I think five kids counting the one she had with my brother and all of these kids are like wild animals according to my mom. They run around her house when they come over destroying it and when it comes to sitting down and having a meal my mother states it’s like feeding time at the zoo. They don’t know how to use forks, spoons, or knives (with knives I guess this is a good thing) and they can’t sit still and on more then one occasion have told my mom to shut up when she corrects them. Lord help these kids today when I am over there, have too much of my father in me to have a child tell me to shut up (my kids don’t call me drill sergeant for nothing). My brother has no control over these kids and his wife wants even more kids that they can’t support!! They live in section 8 housing, on welfare, and collect food stamps. I think she needs to get her tubes tied and stop being a burden to the welfare system.
So today I will go over to my mom’s with camera in hand to document the cluster f*ck of a life that my brother has created. Wondering why my brother hasn’t learned a thing over years he has been alive and why he feels that being married is the solution to all of his problems. His family is very ecstatic about today’s big feast, as they should because according to my mom they eat hotdogs with mayo on it during the week so they are looking forward to having real food (this is because my brother’s wife doesn’t know how to cook and hotdogs are her specialty). I know my mom will be thankful for one thing today, she will not have to hear shut up from one of those kids because I will be there to stop them and of course I will let my brother know that he better get control over his new brood, after all we were not brought up to disrespect our parents. I just wonder though how thankful those kids are going to be meeting their new aunt today? Hehehehe! I see a scrapbook page in my future on this Thanksgiving!!
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Saturday, November 17, 2007
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE?
It could happen but then again it may not, depends on which side of the fence you are on. My oldest brother told me once I should learn Spanish since that is going to be the language of our future but I am not budging, I am too old fashion for that. Will it hurt me in the long run? I don’t think so because I have faith that America is not going to let that happen. Today we see more and more how mostly the language of Spanish is taking over our culture, everywhere you turn there is a sign, product, or job classified that has something in regards to Spanish. Now being that we are a country for the most part is English speaking why are we more and more catering to the Spanish language? Is it because it is the most politically correct thing to do, to help people that come into our country that can’t speak English? My belief is that as a culture we have become lazy and accommodating to the point that anyone that comes into our country that speaks Spanish we are going to bend over backwards to make them feel welcome thus enabling them not to assimilate to learn English.
Face it, today you can go to any grocery store and on every isle and on most products you will see Spanish written on the labels. Years ago that wasn’t the case but today when going to the grocery store you may wonder if you are in the United States or not. Even in the stores or even if you are out and about you will see signs in Spanish to help our Spanish speaking friends through the maze that is America. Why is it we as a culture have allowed and endure this for so long? Most countries you go to will have the main language they speak on products and signs, they don’t cater or enable anyone coming to their country by speaking our language. They for the most part take pride in their culture and their language and expect people that come to their country to assimilate not the other way around but in America today that is not the case.
You can go into any government building in the United States and see signs in English and Spanish, now this coming from a government that has stated English is the main language but not the official language. Okay, so it is not the official language but it is the main language and it should be made the official language. Some states have made it the official language of the state such as Virginia but that doesn’t stop the signs being in English and Spanish. There should be only one language if it is the official language. The government can’t have it both ways but one knows they will not change because the government doesn’t want to alienate people that speak Spanish because they will loss votes and have groups such as La Raza and the ACLU all over them claiming discrimination. This I find humorous with La Raza and ACLU claiming discrimination based off of what our culture has been, English and when did speaking English become discrimination?
Spanish has also cause many Americans to lose out on job opportunities because in a lot of job ads companies want people that can speak Spanish as well as English. Companies in themselves as well as the government has turn our nation into an enabler nation by not making Spanish people that come to our country learn English. When you call a business today and get the standard recorded greeting you have the opportunity to press 1 for English and 2 for Spanish, what will scare me is when English becomes 2. The general consensuses today with people in America is they can’t stand the fact that they have to press a button on their phone to hear English but yet companies are and will not conform to what the general consensuses wants because that means losing money and lord knows they can’t have that.
Why as a nation have we let the liberal think tank takeover the use of our language? Why have we let them make us bend over backwards to cater and enable people that speak Spanish? If I was from another country that didn’t speak Spanish and came here to live I would find it insulting how no one catered to me, after all America is a melting pot of many languages therefore shouldn’t we cater to all of the languages and not just one? English should be the official language here in the United States since we are a melting pot of many cultures, it would be easier for all to have just one language. Becoming a bilingual nation cannot and will not work because of the diversity we have here. I am sure I have insulted those that speak Spanish but you need to stop and think how you insult us every time you speak Spanish in front us because in a nation that is mostly English it is insulting to us. I have even been yelled at by a few Spanish speaking people at a former job because they came into my office not be able to speak English and cursed at me for not knowing their language, how absurd is that!
My message to Spanish speaking people is learn to assimilate and learn English because this American will not cater to you and learn your language. It was you that came here to live not the other way around so threatening people that speak English to learn your language because your people are taking over our country is just not going to jive with Americans anymore. If you don’t learn our language my friend then it will be you that will be left behind and if you can’t deal with that then you can choose to go back to where your language is spoken.
Face it, today you can go to any grocery store and on every isle and on most products you will see Spanish written on the labels. Years ago that wasn’t the case but today when going to the grocery store you may wonder if you are in the United States or not. Even in the stores or even if you are out and about you will see signs in Spanish to help our Spanish speaking friends through the maze that is America. Why is it we as a culture have allowed and endure this for so long? Most countries you go to will have the main language they speak on products and signs, they don’t cater or enable anyone coming to their country by speaking our language. They for the most part take pride in their culture and their language and expect people that come to their country to assimilate not the other way around but in America today that is not the case.
You can go into any government building in the United States and see signs in English and Spanish, now this coming from a government that has stated English is the main language but not the official language. Okay, so it is not the official language but it is the main language and it should be made the official language. Some states have made it the official language of the state such as Virginia but that doesn’t stop the signs being in English and Spanish. There should be only one language if it is the official language. The government can’t have it both ways but one knows they will not change because the government doesn’t want to alienate people that speak Spanish because they will loss votes and have groups such as La Raza and the ACLU all over them claiming discrimination. This I find humorous with La Raza and ACLU claiming discrimination based off of what our culture has been, English and when did speaking English become discrimination?
Spanish has also cause many Americans to lose out on job opportunities because in a lot of job ads companies want people that can speak Spanish as well as English. Companies in themselves as well as the government has turn our nation into an enabler nation by not making Spanish people that come to our country learn English. When you call a business today and get the standard recorded greeting you have the opportunity to press 1 for English and 2 for Spanish, what will scare me is when English becomes 2. The general consensuses today with people in America is they can’t stand the fact that they have to press a button on their phone to hear English but yet companies are and will not conform to what the general consensuses wants because that means losing money and lord knows they can’t have that.
Why as a nation have we let the liberal think tank takeover the use of our language? Why have we let them make us bend over backwards to cater and enable people that speak Spanish? If I was from another country that didn’t speak Spanish and came here to live I would find it insulting how no one catered to me, after all America is a melting pot of many languages therefore shouldn’t we cater to all of the languages and not just one? English should be the official language here in the United States since we are a melting pot of many cultures, it would be easier for all to have just one language. Becoming a bilingual nation cannot and will not work because of the diversity we have here. I am sure I have insulted those that speak Spanish but you need to stop and think how you insult us every time you speak Spanish in front us because in a nation that is mostly English it is insulting to us. I have even been yelled at by a few Spanish speaking people at a former job because they came into my office not be able to speak English and cursed at me for not knowing their language, how absurd is that!
My message to Spanish speaking people is learn to assimilate and learn English because this American will not cater to you and learn your language. It was you that came here to live not the other way around so threatening people that speak English to learn your language because your people are taking over our country is just not going to jive with Americans anymore. If you don’t learn our language my friend then it will be you that will be left behind and if you can’t deal with that then you can choose to go back to where your language is spoken.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
IS IT MORE BLESSED TO GIVE?
The bible teaches us that it is more blessed to give and true to some point it is. I myself love to give to people because I love to see the joy on their faces and the happiness it brings to them. Christmas is the time of the year I let myself go and give and it really feels good. But lets stop and think about as a nation, the United States and how much we give. It seems to me that as a nation we have taken this whole more blessed to give and gave it a new meaning. Now we have people living here that take and expect to be given more at the cost of taxpayers. The American debt is spiraling out of control; no thanks to congress with frivolous spending they do with earmarks, pandering to corporations, special interest groups, and illegal immigrants. So when as a nation, do we say ENOUGH! Are we going to let America turn in to a debtor’s nation? We seem to be heading down that dismal road if we don’t change our ways. Scary thought for our future generation to deal with.
In 2006 29 billion dollars of taxpayer’s money was used for earmarks, which shows our government has no problem spending our money. That takes this whole more blessed to give thing and make you want to become a real scrooge. To be honest, that is what the government needs to do is become more of a scrooge with our money. Wasteful spending does not help our cause as a nation it is only hurting it. Why is it these politicians get to take our money and spend it on things like letting under privileged kids getting golf balls? How many kids do you see or hear wanting to learn to play golf? To me it is a crime and in no ways charitable. Then we have corporation that are asking congress for more HB-1 visas, so they can import more workers at lower wages thus keeping Americans out of work. Bill Gates asked congress for an infinite amount of HB-1 visas because he claims that there are not enough Americans to fill these so-called high tech jobs. That in itself is a lie. We have too many kids that are graduating college and can’t get high tech jobs because of corporations hiring and outsourcing jobs to save money. I wonder if Bill Gates remembers when he was starting out how tough it was to get ahead. Just giving away jobs to people who are not Americans is hitting our economy hard, how can we be a productive nation if corporations are not willing to give jobs to people that are citizens of this country? Bottom line, jobs need to stay in America if we are to be a strong and productive nation. What these corporations fail to realize is that if they hire the American worker and pay them a fair wage, they win by having a nation that has money to spend thus giving them the ability to make more money (gee, I ain’t even an accountant and I know that).
Special interest groups such as the ACLU are killing the American people. They are suppose to be helping Americans, hence the big ole A in front of their name but instead they have taken up the cause for people that aren’t even citizens of our nation. What is wrong with that picture? Why is their money going to help illegal immigrants? Why has our government and special interest groups forgotten about the American people they say they serve? We have people losing their homes to foreclosures by the millions and we have the ACLU screaming about rights for people that are not even legal citizens. To say the ACLU has loss it grip on reality is to put it mildly. They as a group need to worry about Americans not people who broke the law by coming into our country illegally and putting a strain on our economy. They need to stick up for Americans that can’t get jobs due to illegals and outsourcing corporate America. To me that would be a more blessed way to give.
Illegal immigrants are hurting us as a country, I have said this before and I hate sounding like a broken record but it is so true. Illegals are putting hospitals out of business, causing wages to be driven down below the cost of inflation, and putting the biggest strain on our welfare system. People that come into our country illegally that take, take, take, and expect even more from us. How much do we have to bend over and give to these people that aren’t even citizens? It is bad enough that we have the President of Mexico getting involved with our affairs on their behave stating they have a right to be here. It is very simple if you are not a citizen you do not have rights here, you do not get to vote, you do not deserve benefits from our government, and you are not allow to protest and spew anti-American sediments and wave your countries flag on our soil. I have heard illegals sob stories and I am not buying into it and from what the polls are saying neither are most Americans. They have bled us dry by taking and we, as citizens are tired of it. Illegals are in our country and if they don’t like how we run things then they can go back home and try to change what is bad about their home but do not expect to come here and demand you have rights because the truth is you don’t, you have to be a citizen of our country to have rights.
It is more blessed to give but when someone gives too much and gets nothing in return then who loses, the giver. I am sure God never intended for someone to give to the point they have nothing and that is what America is doing, giving it all away and for what, to be politically correct or because we can’t say no and look like an uncharitable nation? The time has come for America to put the brakes on giving before there is nothing left to give. The bleeding of America needs to stop.
In 2006 29 billion dollars of taxpayer’s money was used for earmarks, which shows our government has no problem spending our money. That takes this whole more blessed to give thing and make you want to become a real scrooge. To be honest, that is what the government needs to do is become more of a scrooge with our money. Wasteful spending does not help our cause as a nation it is only hurting it. Why is it these politicians get to take our money and spend it on things like letting under privileged kids getting golf balls? How many kids do you see or hear wanting to learn to play golf? To me it is a crime and in no ways charitable. Then we have corporation that are asking congress for more HB-1 visas, so they can import more workers at lower wages thus keeping Americans out of work. Bill Gates asked congress for an infinite amount of HB-1 visas because he claims that there are not enough Americans to fill these so-called high tech jobs. That in itself is a lie. We have too many kids that are graduating college and can’t get high tech jobs because of corporations hiring and outsourcing jobs to save money. I wonder if Bill Gates remembers when he was starting out how tough it was to get ahead. Just giving away jobs to people who are not Americans is hitting our economy hard, how can we be a productive nation if corporations are not willing to give jobs to people that are citizens of this country? Bottom line, jobs need to stay in America if we are to be a strong and productive nation. What these corporations fail to realize is that if they hire the American worker and pay them a fair wage, they win by having a nation that has money to spend thus giving them the ability to make more money (gee, I ain’t even an accountant and I know that).
Special interest groups such as the ACLU are killing the American people. They are suppose to be helping Americans, hence the big ole A in front of their name but instead they have taken up the cause for people that aren’t even citizens of our nation. What is wrong with that picture? Why is their money going to help illegal immigrants? Why has our government and special interest groups forgotten about the American people they say they serve? We have people losing their homes to foreclosures by the millions and we have the ACLU screaming about rights for people that are not even legal citizens. To say the ACLU has loss it grip on reality is to put it mildly. They as a group need to worry about Americans not people who broke the law by coming into our country illegally and putting a strain on our economy. They need to stick up for Americans that can’t get jobs due to illegals and outsourcing corporate America. To me that would be a more blessed way to give.
Illegal immigrants are hurting us as a country, I have said this before and I hate sounding like a broken record but it is so true. Illegals are putting hospitals out of business, causing wages to be driven down below the cost of inflation, and putting the biggest strain on our welfare system. People that come into our country illegally that take, take, take, and expect even more from us. How much do we have to bend over and give to these people that aren’t even citizens? It is bad enough that we have the President of Mexico getting involved with our affairs on their behave stating they have a right to be here. It is very simple if you are not a citizen you do not have rights here, you do not get to vote, you do not deserve benefits from our government, and you are not allow to protest and spew anti-American sediments and wave your countries flag on our soil. I have heard illegals sob stories and I am not buying into it and from what the polls are saying neither are most Americans. They have bled us dry by taking and we, as citizens are tired of it. Illegals are in our country and if they don’t like how we run things then they can go back home and try to change what is bad about their home but do not expect to come here and demand you have rights because the truth is you don’t, you have to be a citizen of our country to have rights.
It is more blessed to give but when someone gives too much and gets nothing in return then who loses, the giver. I am sure God never intended for someone to give to the point they have nothing and that is what America is doing, giving it all away and for what, to be politically correct or because we can’t say no and look like an uncharitable nation? The time has come for America to put the brakes on giving before there is nothing left to give. The bleeding of America needs to stop.
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