My birthday has come and gone once again.
I have turned the good old age of 33.
I know, that isn’t old.
It even still considered young in many ways.
The fact of it is though, it’s 1/3 of a century.
With all likely hood I am more then 1/3 of my way toward my death bed.
That being if the end of the world doesn’t happen in 2012 …

A lot of things popped into me head on this birthday.
Lots of things I never really thought about before.
A lot of things that kind of bothered me and made me think.
Things like, I guess I will live past 21.
I should start thinking about the future?
I guess retirement is more likely?
If I am this broken now, how bad will I become?
How much longer until my memory loss becomes some form of full blown Alzheimer‘s?
Did I make the right choice as to a line of work?
What future have I forced a pone my wife?
We all look toward the future, but now I guess I actually have to look forward to one.

I have made little plans that will pan out to small things, but I guess I need to start putting more away towards that dark ideal of being old, crippled and lost within my own mind.
Yea, fun topic.
This is what’s on my mind, so now you know.

Let me start with this Blog entry is not exactly young child friendly.
I am not going to say anything crazy, but the topics are topics that most people might not want to try and explain to there children.

Now I kind of feel bad because La Wife has already heard me rant about most of this … then again La Wife needs to work on her section so I don’t feel to bad.
Yea, pointless little jab but it made me feel better … Love ya hun!
I don’t watch the news.
I can’t help but listen to it at work.
Well I guess I could but then I would be so bored it would be insane.
So let me tell you about some of the stuff I have heard about this last week alone.

1) The teenage high school student in Mississippi who wanted to bring her girlfriend to the prom.
OK, so we all know that some parts of the Bible Belt are a little off, but …
First they say that she can’t come to the prom.
Then they the courts say that they can’t stop her form going.
Next the school says that if she is allowed to go that they will not hold prom.
This causes all kinds of trouble for the girl in school with other students and also her family from the other students families.
The court intervenes and come out saying that they must still have prom.
That was the first part of all of that … nice right?
That part made me really upset and helped me to loose faith in a lot of mankind and humanity as a whole.
No one needs to be discriminated like that!
But low and behold the court system did what was right and backed up the minority in this tragedy!
I guess humanity still stands a small chance …
So, prom is on … our little lady gets to go … gets all dressed up, grabs her date and off to a wonderful night full of magical memories and good times!
Nope, some of the parents of the other students got together and paid for a separate prom for all of the outcastes and freaks.
That’s right, our little heroine who fought to have a prom for everyone didn’t get to go to it at all, but had her own with some other people that have been declared outcastes and freaks and also a few handicapped students.
OMG!
How did something like this happen in this modern day here in the USA?
Do they not realize what they did?
This is possibly the meanest, cruelest, nastiest and all around WRONG’est (<- had to keep the flow going) thing I have ever heard done to someone.
O before anyone even goes there I am talking about of the nonviolent crime types.
ACLU and so many other organizations are going to riot I am sure.
If it was me, I would be suing everyone.
I am the first person to say that this country is sue happy and how I will not do it for stupid things … unless it happens on Disney property that is!
This one though, everyone is getting named!
First in a criminal and the each person in a civil to boot!
The City, County, District, State, teachers involved, counselors, principal, superintendents, school board members, the parents who paid for it and the anyone else attached to it.
People need to learn that this is wrong!
If not, that they need to at least behave for fear of consequences!　

2) La Wife told me about this one, so even though I trust her completely I still had to look it up just to verify it to be as bad as I heard … it was!
It starts off as a sweet little thing.
A 15 year old girl was going to a party and her 7 year old sister who was a little worried about her tagged along to make sure she would be ok.
After some time there the 15 year old pimped her 7 year old sister out and the little girl was assaulted by multiple men.
As all of this was going on, the older sister sat and watched … yea, faith in humanity is dropping again!
Once done the little girl left and the older sister decided to stay behind selling herself next.
27 people, including the older sister, have been arrested as of the time of me writing this.
Um, what can be said?
SHE WAS 7 YEARS OLD!
First how can someone, let alone a group of people do that to a child?
But then also how can a person do this to another for money, let alone a family member?
The long term effects of this, the physical and mental damages done … again, OMG!
Talk about one of the situations that if I as there I would be in jail for multiple murder charges!
How is it that the father has not gone on a killing spree?
If he does, and I was the Judge I don’t think I could prosecute him.
I would pull him aside and tell him to go for a temporary insanity plea and help him get it!　

3) 2 High School seniors (boys) are out on a date with there freshmen girlfriends.
The two boys are stars of the local baseball team with a bright future and collage scholarships waiting for them.
The parents of the girls know that there daughters are dating the boys and allow them to go out on dates with them.
One night though the police pull up on a couple of trucks and low and behold the 4 are hurriedly getting dressed with signs of the four hitting a few homeruns.
The officer contacts the parents and low and behold the girls parents want to press charges against the two boys for rape.
Because they had both just turned 18.
The boys are suspended form school, kicked off the baseball team, have lost there scholarships and now might have sexual predator tags thrown on there names for the rest of there lives.
Yes, they technically have broken the law … but how many of us have done something like this?
The girls are fighting on there defense saying that it was consensual and that they did nothing wrong.
Yes, the girls don’t have a say in the matter but come on parents, you didn’t think it was a possibility?
Blame yourselves for not raising your child to know not to do this.
Stop risking ruining these guys lives because you are a bad parent!　

So, this is why I don’t watch the news.
This is also why I think there should be tests for people to see if they can and/or would be good parents.
Some people just shouldn’t be allowed to have kids … but that’s a whole another subject.
I just wanted to vent, sorry if this was a downer …

On a side note, I got this new job, well same old job but a new position.
I now only work 4 days a week with a 3 day weekends and all I do is watch 5 guys cut grass.
I know, how do I keep going from job to job where I do nothing, to jobs of doing even less?

I am the first one to say that I don’t work for a living.
Or that I am nothing more then a glorified babysitter.
Mind you, I, unlike the children who do the same job, have insurance, retirement benefits and also do not need a ride home from the creepy father figure who always volunteers to take me home when he and his wife get home and he has to much to drink … sorry … hehe I am cracking up right now at that one but only because it is sick’ish and I am sleep deprived!

Back to I don’t do anything at work …
I sit around and, well, I baby-sit a bunch of grown men doing things like, watching TV, sleeping and when the weather is nice they might do yard work.
I know all of my little babysitters out there are so happy because there is hope for them to get a chance to stay in the field they love!!!
Some times though, just every once and awhile mind you, I actually do something.
Not often though mind you, otherwise I would have to find some other work!
We as corrections officers play it off like our job isn’t to bad.
And honestly most of the time where I work it isn’t.
Then again there are other camps that are crazy.
Fighting every day, and also just the people who are crazy!
We have both physically and mentally impaired inmates.
Elderly, youth and my favorite group of people the ones who are on drugs or going through detox.

So, back to the point I guess.
But first …
We have special teams in the prison system that have a special job.
They are called the CERT teams.
They are basically SWAT but without guns … ok some of them have shotguns but they shoot rubber bullets and wooden dowels.
When ever something goes wrong, we send in the CERT team … we then sit back and giggle as we watch them march in saying how silly they look … then we watch them do there thing and our jaws might drop a little … then they march back out and we all stand back and try to look away because we don’t want to make eye contact with these evil sadist's!

Well, Friday night the CERT teams got activated to go to an institution for a problem.
Then there back ups got called out to go to another camp for another problem.
Then we had another problem at another camp … and most of the help was already on the road.
So who did they call?
ME!
They knew that I could single handedly go and take care of the problem!!!
Yea right … I was a warm body who doesn’t have children and/or a life.

So I get a call 15 minutes before I was supposed to go home from my LT. and he said they needed my help … so me being the man I am decided to go … not because of loyalty, but the overtime pay of course!
No it also did not have anything to do with La Wife having plans to go out with her friends and I was going to be home all alone with the dog crying into some sparkling water wishing I had friends and a life!
I met up with 11 other people who where also picked to go on this mission and we got all of our gear, jumped in a van and drove away on a short little 2+ hour drive.
Once we arrived we where informed of what the mission was.
Another prison got a phone call that 2 inmates where planning on escaping … no big deal right Osceola County Florida has it happen all of the time … I know low blow but some of you smirked and you know it!
No, this camp has some bad guys in it and they don’t need to be getting out.
The other part to the phone call warning was that they had guns.
We all know that guns are bad.
In a prison it’s really bad though.
If a gun is on a compound it can very quickly turn into, well the old saying ‘like shooting fish in a barrel.’

It was so strange to be a part of this.
It either had to be bad or they must have been really desperate!
We all knew it had to be bad, I mean they pulled me and I am the worst babysitter around!
We all joked around laughing and playing, then we got hit with what was going on.
To say somber and silence is an understatement.
People who do nothing but joke around and cut people off in conversations left and right started raising there hands to ask questions.
Groups started forming automatically with senior officers moving around and grabbing up new officers pulling them into the folds.
Younger officers being forced to talk and say what was on there minds for the reasons of helping them to realize the realizations of what was going on, and also to get input from a new mind into this type of situation.
It was kind of strange because I got pulled into one group because of my experience and time with the department, then I was pulled by a few other officers who knew me because they knew I had the time but not so much the experience.
It helped the situation knowing that my coworkers knew me, knew I was reliable, but also respected that this wasn’t my field of experience per say.
We got all of the information, figured out what all we had to do, how we where going to do it, when and what to expect.
After everyone had the plan down they made us all sit down for about ½ an hour and the joking started right back up.
Some would say it was like a split personality switch.
Now that I have been in it though it was more of a tension breaker and a way to let the stress out and get to know the new faces with us.
We had people from all over Central Florida after all and most of us had never meet, let alone been threw anything like this with each other before.
That being said, in a situation like this any joke is fair game, disrespect didn’t exist, sexual harassment … well things got said that in any other situation would have gotten people fired … but not right then.
The feeling of comradery was so intense.
We became a family at that moment if only for the few hours it was going to take to take care of this problem.
Personal differences got thrown out the window, grudges didn’t exists, and you knew the person next to you that you just meet a ½ hour earlier would have your back.

So my group got the confinement cells.
That group is the group of prisoners who have been bad and need to be separated form the rest of the population.
These are the guys who could have done anything from back talking an officer, to trying to beat up an officer.
So, we had no clue who or what we where going to deal with in each cell … I know FUN!
We did what we had to do, found what we could and luckily had no situations.
We found some stuff, nothing to special.
We did not find any weapons though.
So, after all of the inmate living areas where searched we got to go home.
We got home at 2am.
The next group left out to go back at 6am to finish the searches of the other buildings out there.

So to my fellow corrections officers …
We are the group who only get the bad press.
We tend to be the lowest form of law informant … mind you most of the others not only can’t do it, but also will not even try our jobs … afraid to play law man without your guns???
The group who is looked down on because we are abusing peoples children.
We are looked at as the scum of the world on a lot of different fronts.
We are also the group that watches the people no one else wants to.
We are the group who walk into a cell with 100+ inmates of all sorts of crimes with only our minds and bodies as a defense.
We are the people who although trained to use weapons, don’t get to use them when we need them most.
We are the ones who are so understaffed that if and/or when things go south it is almost 30+ to 1 … in the inmates favor.
We all know that I am supper ninja and can take 30 inmates at one time, but some of my brothers and sisters in this uniform might not be to par … so those odds are kind of scary …
We don’t get the respect we should, or have earned, but we know that what we do is important.

So, I just want to say, to my fellow officers out there who might have happened across this silly little Blog …

Thanks you all!

So over at Barsnstripes.net I posted a few things that confuse me.
I have posted them here before, you know like how a concrete boat can float and some other things too.
One I didn’t mention there because I figured I would save it for over here is.
Drum Roll please ….
Why did the US government send out a letter telling us that the Census was going to be being mailed to us soon?
There are presumed 120,000,000 houses in America back in 2001.
In the Orlando area there are about 900 apartments complexes with how many apartments in each?
How about all of the mobile home parks around the world?
We are talking about Hundreds of Millions of residents across America.
So, lets take some stupid pull out of my bum numbers and say that they are official numbers but God knows I think I am shooting so low it isn’t even funny.

120,000,000 houses
240,000,000 apartments (Remember New York City only has apartments and townhouses)
60,000,000 mobile homes (Sure, why not the South has a lot of them, right?)
_________
420,000,000 Sure, that’s a nice number right?

OK, so that’s a lot of homes to mail stuff to!
Lets take it a few steps further shall we before we figure out costs for this?
Let’s throw in envelopes, we will say 1 cent each for easy math thinking that the government got a good deal while knowing better?
Can’t forget paper, we will go with 1 cent again but this time we are throwing in the ink cost to that as well to try and make it all work out.
So for envelope, paper and ink it‘s about $8,400,000
We can’t forget the stamps though …
.42 cents for a stamp that’s another $176,400,000
That’s roughly $184,800,000, we will round up to $185,000,000

So we just spent One Hundred and Eighty Five Million Dollars to tell all of us that in a weeks time we will be getting another piece of mail.
Um, how and why did we just let this happen?

Here is another fun fact!
A Gold Bar in Fort Knox weighs ruffle 27.5 pounds.
That means 440 ounces each …
Gold goes for $1,125 an ounce … so each bar is worth $495,000
That’s 373 and 3/4 bars of gold?
That's 10,278 pounds of gold
Also known as 4.58 Metric Tons, or 5.13 Standard Tons of gold.

So, my math might be off because I am still ½ asleep and math is not my strong point, but yea that’s government for you, just throwing money away like we have plenty.
That’s not even including the manpower costs to mail all of this out …

Just throwing this out there for you all.
Talk to you all next week.

Friday I started under my new supervisors.
I was given a stupid project that was pointless in a lot of ways because it will just have to be redone in about 2 weeks once they realize it shouldn’t have been done in the first place the way they asked to have it done.
This project had me outside all day standing, crouching and walking for over 6+ hours with no place to sit down, eat or even get a drink.
I got a wonderful sunburn and at the end of the shift once I finally got to sit down my supervisor came over looked down at my feet, kicked a small rock and said I needed to work over and pull a double.
This was my first day … all I want to know is what in the world I did to deserve this?

So, that was my Friday … Thursday was fun though.
I had to go recertify and practice beating people up all day.
Wednesday and Tuesday I got to train my replacement.
Monday, well I took it off … I knew it was going to be a stressful week.

So, lets pick up the warm and tingly feeling shall we?
Wednesday I got an e-mail from my old Blog site saying someone has posted a message.
Here is what it said “Enjoy reading your Blog....how the hell u made something so mundane interesting enough to keep reading about it is a mystery....you are a great writer that is clever and funny....keep up the good work!!”
I don’t know who posted it, or how to get back to them.
So, thanks random person who made my day a little brighter!
It doesn’t seem like a lot, but that made my day!
It was in reference to a Blog I wrote about my Hotels.com experience when I left my wife to spend a fun filled weekend with Kermit in Atlanta … wow, when I put it that way it doesn’t sound so good does it?

So that made me think, I don’t write that way anymore.
The few of you who read this know I jump subject’s in strange ways but over the last few months I haven’t really pushed the issue of making sure that every few seconds, or minutes for my slower readers, you might giggle.
How can I fix this?
My mind just hasn’t been in the same place over the last few months?
I could post fun pictures like I used to, but I think I have found every thing funny on the web … I know I need to look harder don’t I.

Speaking of searching the web, I have a coworker who only uses the web to better himself.
Looking up how to be a better farmer and things to try and help him understand his kids.
He says that the internet is for education, but purely it is much more for our entertainment.
I just don’t get his mind set?
I mean other then when people like me decide what we have to say is important enough to take up space on the web and ruin it for others that is, the web is for FUN!!!
See an attempt at humor that just missed … well to me anyway you all are the sadistic people who might just get it and smile a little …

So, let me tell you all something, there is all kinds of stuff on the web.
All kinds of fun and funny stuff.
But as some of you know, I try and keep this site at a low PG rating.
That isn’t as easy as one might think to do though.
I mean I am sure that my sister doesn’t let her children read this, but if she did I don’t want them running off to a web dictionary site searching up things I am talking about and finding out about the sick real world we live in.
Why tarnish the innocence any sooner then we have to after all?
Do we really want our younger generation learning the truth about crime in the world?

Or about how adults sometimes dress up and play pretend sometimes too?

Something is upsetting me.
That’s actually putting it very kindly.
I am down right bothered to tell the truth!
About what you might ask?
Well, let me tell you!
About a month ago I was in a meeting, that was by mistake it seemed because it had nothing to do with me, and was informed that things in that section where going to change.
So, that very day I find out that my supervisors supervisor was being transferred.
OK, that king of sucked.
I mean I had know and worked with this person for years now and we had a good working understanding of each other.
Then, about 2 weeks ago my supervisor got moved to another position against his will as well.
This one was a shocker, I mean he had been doing the job for about 10 years.
All of this leads us to me saying that we have new management … we all know how that works out don’t we?

So now we have to bounce back about 2 weeks … this would be a lot more fun if we had like a magical time traveling trampoline now wouldn’t it?
I am going through my morning list of opening things up and a blue car I have never scene pulls up and is just sitting in the parking lot.
I assume based on my, well exceptional knowledge of the Departments fleet as I worked over it for 7+ years, that this is a civilians vehicle and they are waiting for there loved one to get out of prison and made a wrong turn ending up here.
They said hello, and I said hello back life goes on as I walk away.
I walk into my building and do the rest of my morning jobs about 70 yards away from and with a building between us from where this person is.
Low and behold, I find out latter that this person was in fact in an unmarked department car and was honking her horn trying to get my attention after I had entered the building because she didn’t want to pump her own gas and wanted me to do it for her.
Um, sure, if I had known I would have because that’s the kind of guy I am.
But once I am inside a solid poured block building 70 yards away with another building between us … well it gets a little hard to hear you.

Well, it turns out that this person was a high ranking person in the region, and also dating another high ranking person.
So, I got an ear full and was told to be nicer because I was rude and unhelpful.
Yep, everyone who has heard this story laughs because they all know me at work and rude is not something I am.
Even the inmates say I am a nice guy.
OK, though, one verbal smack on the wrist in 10 years I can deal with.

So, yesterday I am getting ready to go back to my office when my boss’s boss says he needs to talk to me.
He then calls my new immediate supervisor in and the door gets shut.
Yep, what in the world is going on now?
So the bigger boss looks up and says that starting Monday I will no longer be helping out in automotive.
He said I have helped them out long enough and that I need to come back over and work with them again.
OK I think that he just slipped up and said Automotive instead of Maintenance
I look over to my immediate supervisor who has a slight jaw drop and look of shock.
I am immediately asked if I have my CDL and if I would like to go to a very good position that is in my ways not only a raise but one of the best jobs at the Prison.
I said no and was then told I would be staying on my shift and would get to figure out what I wanted to do.
Um, OK, am I in trouble or not?
I then asked why I was getting moved and the only response I got was “We have already spoken about one of the reasons.”
So, I say my farewells and let them know if who ever gets the job needs my help to just have them reach me and I walk out.
I am walking around in a daze and people are asking me what’s wrong and I just say stuff on my mind but I go to a couple of people and ask if they knew about it.
The answer was no all around and a look of shock and surprise.
Here is why …
1) The Maintenance Superintendent is out for another month on medical leave
2) We have a Big Audit on Tuesday and I am the only one who knows what’s going on down there.

So, I put on my good employee face and did what anyone in my shoes would have.
I went down and got everything ready for the big audit, got back and then packed up all of my stuff.
I called my boss and told him I was leaving early, taking Monday off and reminded him I was going to school on Tuesday.
I then walked up to the Administration building and informed all of the Wardens staff of the situation, who had no clue about any of this I might add.
I told them what all I did as preparation, what all still needed to be done, and then walked in and turned my keys leaving for the day.

I don’t know what is going on.
I guess I am not in real trouble being that once again nothing on paper and I am not under investigation.
My job was done well and so much so that it should even be covered for the next guy for some time.
But, I liked what I did.
I injoyed the people and the freedoms it allotted.

I will keep you all in the loop, but it looks like I will be watching inmates push lawnmowers for now on.
Still not a bad job, just not the best job at the prison.
Yea, that’s right, I will still not be working for a living!

I can’t wait to get back Wednesday and see what the heck is going on, and possibly why?
I have some suspicions, and if they are right I feel bad for the people I just left because I am afraid they are trying to burn them … I have always been the guy who kept them out of the fire … now I am gone.
This might get really ugly really fast …

Big surprise, something is on my mind.
I know that for the last few weeks and/or months I really haven’t said to much about anything but as you all know I was busy working on a few other projects.
So now that I am slacking on them, I will come back to you and this!
You all know, I have ADHD I can’t do that many things at once!
Speaking of that, it really is a cop out for some.
Yes, there are certain people that have it and have difficulty functioning.
Me, and I am guessing 90+ percent of the rest of the world who have been diagnosed with it are just lame lackluster’ers if you will … hehe so not a word but I am so making it work aren’t I!
I mean the truth is, I can sit and play a video game for 4 hours or read a book I injoy for 4 hours and low and behold I don’t go crazy bored.
Put me in front of Paula Dean for 30 seconds and I am ready to leave the house.
That might just be because it is her though.
So, my thoughts on this are simple.
That is other then bad parenting all around, a government that has made it so we can’t even give our children bad looks, teachers/counselors who think they understand the child in there class better then everyone else because they spend an hour a day with them, doctors who are looking only for more visits and injoy handing out pills, big drug manufacturing companies who love pushing pills who then pay off congress so that they can, the truth of the situation is that we suck as parents and as a people.
Look around the world and tell me another country that has it’s kids on pills like we do.
Find me another country that has child as obese and un-educational as we are.

Everyone always says it’s all about our children, how they are the future.
Well, I am having a problem with people raising children who can’t do anything for themselves.
How can I as a parent teach my child advanced math when I don’t know the basic?
How can I teach them proper English when I speak so bad that I can’t even get a job as a drive threw operator at McWorld’ly?
We have lost so much in the last generation or so.
It used to be that one parent stayed home and helped the kids become people.
That changed, now the kids are lucky to have two parents in the same house.
Yea yea yea, I know I have said all of this before but I promise I am about to take it into another direction.

I have also said this before so don’t be surprised, we need to set up limitations on the aid we give to our people too.
How many people are getting government aid because they are overweight now?
I understand that in some cases it is a thyroid condition, or something else.
To put it bluntly, being fat is not a disorder, it’s a case of the lazy!
It’s because we, myself included, sit down for dinner and eat a whole pizza by ourselves immediately followed up by a sleeve of Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies … yes my murderers it is that time of year again!
So, because I am now fat and lazy and can’t find a job I get to now go and collect food stamps to get fatter … money to pay my bills because no one will hire me because I am a fat slob … and of course free medical care to cover the bed sours on my bottom I get from watching TV all day.

Everyone says that this is only for a little while thought and that we are helping them to get back on there feet until things get better.
When are people going to learn that things will only get better for these people once they pop out another child as so that they can get another 18 years of financial assistance from good old Uncle Sam?
I mean I just got my Social Security statement and it says that in 2032 I will only be paying $0.75 on the dollar of what is owed.
So let me get this strait, not only are my schools, Fire/Police/Corrections and every other local government agency taking a hit … but now I am in the long run as well?
This is going to far!
I have worked and put into this fund and it is MY G Gosh Darn Money, not some 400 pound single mother who has blown out the springs of the test sofa at Rent-A-Center on her first sitting.
It’s mine, give it to me!
Let’s do like China, if you are a burden of the state, charge the family!
Find out who is there next closest relative and take from there Social Security.
That way they might go smack the stupid lazy ingrate around … wait, they can’t do that because then the person working will go to jail and the person who got smacked will be diagnosed with something else making it so hat they can’t work for 2 more years.

Everyone needs help at some point.
I myself have been on the system, then I got a job and look at me know … I know, not much better.
We need a better process and better time lines.
You should only be allowed to receive so much money … O something like a low interest loan.
You have to earn so many points before you can collect it, or pay back so much into it as so you can get full use of it again if it is needed in the future.
Something like SOCIAL SECRITY … you know the thing I pay into but am not going to get but the illegal immigrants can and will … wait, that’s a whole other subject and topic …
These people sit around and tell each other who to talk to and what to say as to get the most money and benefits … we really need a better system!
Something like a double blind operation.
You bring in your information, documentation and verifications then you put it into a computer and someone in another place looks over it and verifies it then accepts and/or denies it.

Or, lets go the other direction I was thinking … that’s right GOVERNMENT WORK ASSIGNMENTS AND WORK FARMS!
That’s right!
We have all of these empty factories and open farm land.
Let’s open them back up and have work locations.
We take these people who just can’t find a job for years on end and say that they need food and clothing and move them out to the camps.
We have them making clothing and growing food for government aid.
We will supply housing and minimal wages as because there food and rent is now free.

Once we get this up and going we move over a few miles and low and behold we have the next set of factories that make things for other people such as, well, anything!
We start producing our own things again and stock the shelves of Waly-World with good old fashioned American Made products … just like it was originally designed to be.
Wait, we can’t just do this over night so how do we get the money for all of this you ask?
We put a darn import tax on incoming products form other counties.
Take a look at how many MILLIONS of items come into America every day.
Lets throw just a simple $0.01 tax on every item coming in and we will be rich in no time.
We will become a Nation of self supporting producers again and strengthen our own economy.
We also institute a rule that if you can’t support yourself enough to pay back what you have cost and/or projected burden that you will be on the State, you get booted out.
Yea, that sounds a little bad but if we don’t have consequences we will not have the positive effect we want.
And, although I am against abortion but am pro-choice because the government doesn’t have the right to tell us how to live, (Except in my future work camps that is) a mandatory birth control program will be enforced as well.
Something in the water s so people can’t cheat and not take it.

So, that’s what’s on my mind this week.
Aren’t you glad that I keep my mouth shut most of the time now?
We do though need to tax imported goods, give tax breaks for American Made products, put stipulations on Government aids, and take better care of our children.

Till next week …

Another commercial holiday forced a pone us by big business and hypocrites to make us point out that we love the significant other in our life.
This tends to bother me.
Last night for instance at 12am when I am at Wally-World picking up a few things I get stuck in line with 2 different groups of people.
The first was the group that I am forced to spend my tax dollars on so that they can feed and take care of there children, then spend there money on beer.
Then the second was all of the last minute shoppers who forgot that it was a special day and had to go buy things to prove that they do in fact love the current person of the moment that they are with.
It was a little crazy and took us 45 minutes to get through the line and only hade 3 groups of people in front of us … I hate people!
I also hate how rude people are now.
They where not to bad, everyone in line was so tired that no one talked, except the woman behind us who kept cursing into her phone very loudly.
I am talking more about how rude people in crowds are.
We went to the State Fair yesterday, that used to be a family tradition that no one does anymore but me but I will save that for another time … mind you I will probably get hate mail just for commenting about it this much …
The people there don’t seem to look around and or care at all about others.
I an be walking along and attempt to move out of the way of a person who isn’t looking and they still run into me.
Then they get upset and give me a dirty look.
We could be looking at something and then someone else walk right up and in between us and the thing that we are looking at and never say a word but stand there for a few minutes as if we are the bother.
I hate people.
It used to be that people form the South where known for kindness and being respectful, then we got invaded by Yankees and Illegal’s so much so that the true Southerners here in Central Florida seem to have died out.
People are always amazed that I, and La Wife, are actually from Florida because there are so few natives left.
Where did all of the Floridian’s go away to?
Because I think I want to go there too!
So, that’s it, I know my blog’s have been sucking lately and truthfully I don’t care to much at the moment.
I am so tired form walking around yesterday in the cold, and problems with Bar’s & Stripe’s.
I will try and be more witty and entertaining next week
Until then, watch YouTube!

Hard to believe isn’t it?
The first month of 2010 is now at an end.
How are everyone’s New Years resolutions coming?
How is life in general going?
Mine’s good, thanks for asking … well you didn’t but I know you wanted to.
My resolutions seem to be going well also … again I know you wanted to know

So far 2010 hasn’t been that bad of a year.
Not a lot has changed, so not a lot to talk about.
Just sitting here listing to Johnny Cash sing ‘Sunday Morning Coming Down’
Trying to think of hot topics to talk about, and or something important in the news.
Hum, politics have been kind of boring, news even more so.
I guess that leaves me with hot topics?

OK then, Hot Topics … how is it that we have a store for people trying to dress outside of the norm?
I mean, in most areas there is only the one store that sells stuff like that so how original are you when you buy something form there and go out in it.
Yes, to the other 95% of us we all look over and ponder how nice it must be to have so much excess money that we could go but clothing that no one else really wants.
If that is your ultimate goal, let me take you to ROSS and we can hook you up for less then $5.

I would like to think that I understand the Goths and some of the other sub-cultures in some way or another.
Even though they will say that I just can’t understand them because I have not been touched by the soul of Jim Morrison or the pain of the life lessons of some other singer.
That being said, you ever notice that most of these people these other people are looking up to don’t do the same things that they expect there fans to do?
(I think that sentence is right …)
Yes, some of the performers do get full body tattoos and piercing, but the majority of them don’t.
They also don’t shop at Hot Topic …
Why is it that we can’t convince people now and days that this is an act?
(Cough Pro Wrestling, cough cough)
This is what they do for a job.
I am pretty sure that when Amy Lee of Evenescene goes on vacation to spend our well spent money, she is not all upset and thinking about killing herself.
I mean as she is sitting there on a world tour drinking champagne looking over her vista of Paris.
Yep, that’s when I think I would think about killing myself.

I read a quote once and it has stuck with me veer since.
“I want to be different, just like everyone else!”
That’s what Hot Topic is to me.
A store for people to go and be different, just like all of there friends and idols.
All of this being promoted by big business and capitalism to help promote sadness and suicidal thoughts in our youth.
So, thanks big business!
The next time a musician dies, and then a child takes there life because they felt that this artist was the only one who understood them and is now gone because of the music you wrote for them and pushed a pone our society.
Well, I hope that you not only get dragged to the funeral to bare witness, but also into the court room to be forced to face your punishment.
Because something tells me that this worlds punishment would be better for you then the next life’s …

PS: I hate lobbyist‘s!

I am trying to come up with something to talk about.
That being said, I don’t think I will be able to.
I am to tired.
I stayed out with some friends last night for what seems like it might be the first of many ‘Worst Movie Ever Night’.
That kept me out till after midnight, then I sat down to work on Bar’s & Stripe’s and next thing I know it was 2am.
Then of course, my body not loving me that is, I awoke up nice and early as if I would have to go to work.
The worst part was, I thought I did have to work.
Imagine my joy as the first realization of I was not in fact late for work, but I had the day off.

So now I am awake, the dog has been walked, Bar’s & Stripe’s is updated, my Blog will be updated shortly and then I might just be able to go take a nap.
Aren’t naps wonderful?
As children we hated to take them, and now as adults we long for them.
Kind of strange how aspects from childhood change over time.
As children the boys didn’t want to be touched by girls, now they long for it … ok some boys anyway …
Girls wanted prince charming to come take them away, as adults they are pleased if a man doesn’t have alimony, child support and/or a police record.
We all wanted nice houses and cars, now a roof with A/C and a small car with good gas mileage is the goal.
School, O who wanted to waist our time going there, now we pay large sums of money to go to it … we still try and stay awake through it though because now we all have full time jobs to boot.
Hanging out with our friends was a great day, and don’t get me wrong it still is … but a nice night alone is such a wonderful thing now too!

We all had the world before us at one point.
Now, even though we still do, we sit back and settle with what we have and the lots we have been given.
It’s sad actually.
I have a job that will pay for me to take 2 collage classes a term.
If I only took 1 a term in the 10 years I have been there, I would and could have a full degree.
Even if I didn’t leave my job, they would pay me more just for having that degree.
So, knowing this, that’s why I try not to complaint to much.
I have a Job in today’s market.
On top of that most of the time I injoy it.
I have benefits and job security.
The only reason I am not doing better is simple because I am lazy … or like so many others possibly scared of change?
I did just take a big step doing the job change I did last year … wow over a year already since I came back to security.
At the same time though, I didn’t.
I know what I was getting into and knew I would be OK.
Yea, that’s why I will never be anything to big or special I guess.
I am happy doing what I do, having what I need and doing as I please when and how I want to.
I am so lucky!

I am not going to go to deep into anything because, well, this is my site and I don’t feel like it right now!
So, why not cover some things I saw, and thought over the week?

First, the Earthquake in Haiti.
Wow, have we ever seen such graphic footage of a disaster before?
Have the networks really made it so that we as a people are so unaffected by some of these pictures?
I personally don’t watch the news because it normally is very upsetting and I would rather watch things that make me happy.
That being said, I DO NOT watch the news to see a young girl face down in a pool of water missing a leg.
How have we become such a desensitized group?
Why do the networks think it is OK to show things like this as well.
If they truly think it needs to be seen link it to your website so people can see it.
Your little “The following scenes might be to graphic for some” doesn’t help when I turn on the TV after you have said that!
Is it possible for people to get PTSD from that?
If so I have something I need to talk to Mr. Turners attorneys!

Next, I was flipping thought TV and saw on the Tyra Banks show a strange story.
Brooke Greenberg is a 16 year old stuck in a 6 month olds body.
Her body for some reason doesn’t age correctly.
It is a sad story but made me think in a different light.
I do believe that we all have an expiration date.
The big planer has things we need to do, and we get to stick around until we have done it.
It doesn’t always have to be good, or even have to show it’s effect in a generation or two.
Things like Hitler, he was evil, but because of him we came so far in our medical knowledge.
Because of some of the serial killers out there and there horrific actions we have been able to see how others would and will work making them easer to stop.
So, to help me sleep better at night, I go back to this way of thinking that for the greater good these horrible tragedies had to happen.
So, back to the expiration date.
Was this little girl only supposed to live to 6 months?
Is her soul stuck in this broken little body because it has been forced past its expiration date?
She is happy though, and in a loving home, so that is all that matters.
It is an interesting story and if you Google her name you will find video’s of her.

Bar’s & Stripe’s seems to be doing well.
The people I have shown it to seem to think it is injoyable.
It is getting a lot of hits too.
Well, about 10 a day, but every day.
So I guess it is getting some advertisement, and that’s good.
Once I get a few months worth of strips up I will attempt to take it to the next levels.
Hopefully by then I will have a better grasp as to how to do work everything by then too.

I, like La Wife and so many others, have a three day weekend for Martin Luther King Day.
Would he be classified as a Martyr?
Also, isn’t it strange how people listen more to what someone has to say after they die?
Isn’t it strange how we can learn so much form the dead?

Lets go back to Tyra Banks for a second, wow she is a pretty woman!
Speaking of pretty things, we hade a cute puppy running around at the prison this week.
It was a mutt with a pit bulls face, a labs coloring and a weimaraner’s eyes.
I almost brought her home, but someone else grabbed her up because she was just to darn friendly and cute to not want.

I was also introduced to Mr. Keith Obermann this week.
Well, not actually what I mean to say is I had my eyes opened, and my ears too, to this gentleman.
I like what I have heard so far.
Google his ’Quick comment about Haiti, Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh’ on you Youtube.
All I will say is, I think I agree with him.

So, that’s what’s on my mind today.
I’m off to go injoy the rest of my long weekend with La Wife!
As it is Sunday, there is also a new Bar’s & Stripe’s up.

I know, happy Sunday Morning to you too!
What the heck is on my mind to bring up those two words as an opening ideal?
Maybe it is just a snag line like the TV news people use to make you watch something thinking it is important when in fact it isn’t?
Like yesterday on Good Morning America when they made a big deal about frozen diet meals not actually having the amount of calories listed on the box as was in the box.
OMG, tell me it isn’t true … a margin of error?
So it says it has 500 calories and it actually has 20% more then that that in it making it 600 calories!
Wait, that means that if you eat 3 of those a day that’s only 1800 calories.
That’s still less then 2000 …
Shouldn’t we be talking about how lazy you are if you eat 3 microwavable meals a day?
I don’t think that your obesity is because of this 300 extra calories a day?
I think we can fix this by you simply walking down more isles in the grocery store then jus the frozen one.
Or, just throwing this out there, cooking burns calories too!
I know, I know, who is this guy and is he actually saying I should cook … and walk?
No, I am over weight too and have been fighting it for years now too.All I am saying is go cook a home cooked meal.
It’s better for you, and tastes SO much better!
If you don’t know how to cook, E-mail me and I will break it down all real simple like for ya.
VEVA LA GRAVY!!!

This though, I am afraid, is not a posting about the joys of gravy.
… I so want smothered pork chops right now …
This, as most of my posts, has something to do with the above aforementioned topic line.
I was listening to some news about how the terrorists said something that just kind of opened my eyes … well ears I guess more so then my eyes but I am sure you will get the ideal.
The leaded of this terrorist group said that they can win this war without firing a bullet.
How is that you ask?
Well, he said that every time America tries to leave an area they just fire off a few more rounds of ammo and run so that the troops keep looking for them.
He said that this was how they defeated Russia, and took full credit for destroying that country because they bankrupted there economy by forcing them to keep fighting and spending more money.

Yep, opens your eyes a little doesn’t it?
No, not the part of how they are using this very same tactic on us right now and it is working, very well I might add.
It’s the part about how they are going to win the war without firing a single bullet.
Then in the next sentence say that as we leave they will in fact shoot at us!
It just goes to prove one of two things to me.
1) They can not be trusted because they openly lied about there battle plans
2) They are not very smart to tell us there battle plans
3’ish) They are smart enough to have a plan that is in fact working

Basic IQ tests say that I am smarter then most … OK some … animals.
That being said, if I have a really cool gun, the best camouflage in the world, all of the tracking equipment to know right where that animal is, and years of training, I can still go out hunting and get nothing.
Then again, I can go another rout too.
I can have all this cool stuff and then try and go into a cave with a bear.
I am better equipped then the bear, smarter then the bear, and dead because the bear killed me as it was protecting it’s cubs.
O, that’s right, we can have all of this stuff but are missing one very important factor.
As the Kids who brought us Captain Planet showed us, we must have Heart.
If a person can lift a car when they hear a child’s screams from under it, or knows in there heart that if they do this one thing they will be sent to a better place because they saved others lives they do amazing things.
Every parent, grandparent and or anyone else who knew that there one action, even if it caused them great bodily harm and/or death, could save the lives of a person and/or ideal that needed support can and would do what was needed, and somehow find that strength to push on even after they shouldn’t be able too.
We are not fighting people, we are fighting an ideal … we can’t win.

I know how to fight an ideal though, lets prove it wrong!
I have said it before, it will not happen because to many White Wigs injoy that lobbyist money.
Pull our people back, set up and close the borders, tax imported cargo, tax companies who outsource, open up the factories again, stop giving out government aid (Except to Jerusalem that is) and help heal out selves.

That being said, what would it be like if we did that?
We would have jobs, money, our children back in the states, a government that was not as corrupt … OK that will never happen but I figured I would throw out at least one joke in here.
We would become a country that was self sufficient though.
We would shut down the middle east because we wouldn’t need there oil.
Causing them to go find the terrorists for us because they want our business back.
We would destroy China because we wouldn’t be buying anymore little plastic bobble head toys.
China would then of course want all of the property that they own, but we shut the borders and will right them an IOU like California is planning.
Then in 6 months, when they are broke we will offer them twenty five cents on the dollar for our land back because we are nice and wish to help stimulate there economy.
The only problem here is if we do tax the outsourcing of jobs, India will be shut down too.
They haven’t done anything bad to us, and are from what I have scene a nice enough people, so that will kind of suck.
We must break eggs to make a cake though … OK I know the saying is an omelet but I don’t like them … I also know that you can now make a cake without eggs but come on, they aren’t that good!

So evil terrorists, even though I try and see things through your eyes in an attempt to understand you, I shake the bottom of my foot in your general directions, but know that I will also offer you my right hand.
Not because it is a great insult, but because I still have hope that this can be resolved all of this before your home gets turned into a giant glass parking lot
Also, I have put up with your poo for so long now, what’s a little more on my hand?

Wait, I said this was about Communism too didn’t !?
Remember I mentioned Russia before?
What, you don’t think that’s enough to mention it into my topic line?
Fine, how about this then …

Yea, I am not all Red or anything, but doesn’t Communism look good on paper?
It really is the fault of man, and the greed in our souls that makes it not work.
People all over the world say that it doesn’t, but look into smaller locations like villages in Africa, Native Americans and Eskimos.
Yes they have a leader/king/priest who speaks for the them, but look at how they run.
Just saying, in places where the people care about each other it seems to work.
Isn’t Communism just like a giant family structure?
I mean in the 50’s style family that is.
1 person goes to work, 1 stays home and takes care of the house, 2 children work at being better then there parents, so that when there parents can’t take care of themselves any longer the children can then take care of them, as they took care of them when they where younger?

Sounds kind of nice like that doesn’t it?
Makes you almost wonder how in a country of Christians that doesn’t seem to work?
It almost seems like it should be the way America is no matter what form of government we elected to have?

Then again, it didn’t work in Russia.
Mainly because it was negative degree’s thought out most of the year and everyone wanted the other guys parka and vodka in attempts to stay warm.
It works in China, but then again we all know that it isn’t Communism there either.

I have gotten phone calls, e-mails and messages asking what is going on and why I haven’t posted in so long.
Well the short answer, I didn’t want to.
After the raving reviews I got from the Thanksgiving Blog I just didn’t feel like wasting my time anymore.
I figured when it was all in my head, people couldn’t say anything negative about it.
Once I put it into a visual word, people could take it the wrong way, and then say what they wanted.
People seem to forget that I used to be the guy who would tell you how it was, I guess I need to go back to being that jerk again?

This little break did give me a chance to get my comic strip up and going though.
It isn’t good, and God knows it still needs a lot of work, but it is up and going none the less.
I also sent off an ideal I had to a patent company.
The guy called me laughing at and loving the ideal and couldn’t wait to talk to me more about it.
I guess that’s a good thing?
So, I guess something positive did come out of all of this in the end?

Christmas has come and gone, it was a good one BTW, and now it’s New Years.
I am going to be the better person and I will forgive and try and forget some of the things that have happened to me over the last year.
As most of you know I, like so many others, didn’t have the best year.
Started the new job, problems rolling over from my old job, bills and just normal life.
That being said, I have it GREAT!
I still have a new house, 2 working vehicles with both having radios and A/C, I am in an enjoyable marriage, I have friends and I have family, I have enough money to pay all of my bills, then even enough to go out once and a while, I have satellite TV and internet, I even have little vacations once and awhile, but one of the big things is … I have a job to complain about!
All of the problems that other people are having in the world right now, well, I for one am not going to forget how good I have it and the blessings I do in fact have.

So, what do I have to complain about, right?
Yea, some people said some stuff that upset me.
Guess what though, I wonder how much of it was based from other peoples own guilt?
I am just saying, I normally don’t get offended or upset when someone says something negative and it has nothing to do with me.
So guess what, if it did upset you, that more then likely means that there is some thought of guilt within yourself, making you feel like it was about you, when in fact it might not have been.
We all lash out at others when they say something to hurt us though.
It is human nature after all to not wish to get hurt.
Well, human and animal … and vegetable too.
I mean plants do grow away from negative environments, and then also toward positive ones.
Hum, all this time I have been trying to figure out how to be more like a dog.
Yea, let me throw a little more into that dog comment real quick, they love unconstraint and forgive in a heartbeat.
We should all long to be more like dogs in my mind.
I have said in the past, (Yes I know I did not say this first) I only hope to some day be the person my dog thinks I am.
Now though, I am wondering if I need to be more like a plant?

So, I am going to wrap this up.
This is the last I am going to say about the Thanksgiving issues.
You say I am petty, I say you are guilt ridden, we can only agree to disagree.

It’s a new year, and guess what, I forgive you all.

For those of you who think I need to be apologizing, I have in E-mail, over the phone and on this very Blog.
We all have flaws, we will all upset each other some times.
The other person I tried to talk to and apologize to, well, they never called me back so if you still read over my site, that’s the best you are going to get I guess?
So, as I have been told of late, I WILL BE childish!
I will remember what they tried to teach me in school.
Forgive, forget and play nice.

Bar’s & Stripe’s Goes live 1/3/2010, so please go take a look at … and forgive the first strip, I know it sucks!

http://www.barsnstripes.net/

I am not so sure what to say on this.
Part of me wants to try and explain myself … it’s getting over ridden though right now.
Part of me says I should wait to respond and cool down … it’s getting over ridden right now too.
I will say this though, the part about how often I talk to people was not a negative thing per say.
It was more of just, well, that’s a lot more then most people I know talk to there families.

Mom and I already spoke so I guess I just need to address her husband and my sister.

The last Blog was, well an eye opener for me.
I am sure you will say the same thing about it being one for you as well.

Fine one of you thinks I am a baby, and the other thinks I am not worth visiting anymore.
Say and think what you want.
I have been hearing I am childish and a baby a lot lately.
It must be true.
As childish as I am though, I am not going to bad mouth you all so openly, publicly and negatively with hurtful things on purpose to a place where your co-workers, church friends and real life friends can see it.
Even if the first stone was thrown by another, I might have called or E-mailed my assailant.

Most of that Blog wasn’t even about anyone in my direct family.
As my post comment said, there where more people involved in my day that day.
Looking back I can see how and why that Blog can and or would have had this effect though.
I wasn’t in a good place and my mind was wondering into someplace even darker.
The moving to Tonga was a joke.
That was supposed to be the strange and funny part of the Blog.
It didn’t come out that way.
I’m sorry …

I did have fun visiting everyone on Thanksgiving.
Yes, technically it had been years by a calendar’s standard but we only missed one Thanksgiving.
I hope that you can look past me and still injoy the memories of everyone else.
If I did move to Tonga, it is nice to know that because of my actions someone has thrown not only the people of Tonga, but my wife as well, out by saying that they don’t like the attitudes of the people there, and not just of one person.

I am not going to say the last Blog was taken the wrong way, I will say it wasn’t written the right way.
Words are a powerful tool.
They can be used and taken both good and/or bad.
They can also be as clear as a bell to one person, while as muddy as a swamp to another.

Happy 4 year anniversary honey!
I was going to write out something wonderful, and now you get this.
I can’t believe that I have once again ruined a day I worked so hard to make perfect for, with actions from my past yet again.
And no, I am not blaming anyone else other then myself.
It is 100% my fault, and my choice to leave this as it is.

That’s it, I’m sorry, take care, I’m done!

As I said in my Veterans day Blog, I left a lot out.
I deleted about a page of stuff that I wanted to say, but felt it didn’t pay tribute to the people it was about.
To be honest, I wasn’t happy with that whole writing effort at all and should have deleted more.
What I mean is, I had an ideal as to what I wanted to talk about, but never really got around to it I feel.
That being the current military personal who are fighting for our freedom even as we speak.
The freedom they provide, and the respect they deserve.

That is all in the past now though so lets talk about the stuff I left out, yea lets take a look at that.

I am, as most of you all know, a little more patriotic then some.
I understand that we as a people need people to help … no more like to tell us, what we need to do sometimes.
I understand that freedom has a cost.
I also understand that we truly are the most free people in the world.
That being said …
I, on the flip side of the coin, also understand that many people think that the Government has to much control, and I agree.
I understand that the cost of freedom has of late been very costly.
Then also that if we are so free, why can’t we do what we want when and how ever we want?
Not being able to do as we wish when we want makes many people think that we are not in fact free at all.
O how wrong my flock or murderers who believe that you truly are!

A lot of you do say though things like get our children home and out of that dessert.
Then some of you say that we need to be over there helping.
Then some others of you say things like me that are some amalgamation (Dear God I not only used that word correctly but also spelled it right on the first try!) of the two.
That being that we should be helpful but enough is enough.
We also have the group that says drop a BIG bomb in the desert already, build a trench to the ocean and open up the worlds larges Sea Park.
OK, I am the only one who might think the last part …

The point is, do we need to be over there?
I don’t think so.
Let me point out why though.
We are searching for a group of people by going door to door, this never works on TV in a small area, so why on earth would it work in a small country?
Not everyone over there is a member of this resistance so we have to treat everyone in good faith, that is until they pull that proverbial dagger out and then try and shove it in our backs.
Yes, some of them do wish us to be over there, but I think it is safe to say from all of the deaths of our troops that some of them don’t either.

So, I have an ideal.
It isn’t all politically correct, or even right in most people eyes, but I think it might work anyway.
We go and figure out where the best sand is.
You know the all around best section to try and live in/on with water and only the finest of caves.
We build a small city with buildings, wells, even irrigation systems so they can grow crops.
We open schools factories and then do an all call to the people of the land saying come to this place to live.
Drop off a bunch of livestock and then build a wall.
This will give all of the ‘good’ people a place to thrive and an escape from the terrorists.
We will have to implement some type of secret handshake but that can be figured out during construction.
Just make sure it isn’t the left hand …

I am joking of course, well actually no, in a lot of ways this would help the people and save us a lot of money in the long run, but lets think about the facts.
We, as Americans are getting tired of hearing from some random person knocking on our door that our child, spouse or parent will never get the chance to see us again.
We are getting tired of government leaders who worry more about a re-election vote and there own children’s lives then the people they send to war, making our decisions for us.
Sure, they have an inside scoop, lets put there child over there though and see how quickly they might vote differently.
(I also say, on a side note mind you, that we need to institute a mandatory military term for everyone.
It will teach discipline, respect and a bunch of other things too.
Plus, it will get the good old Wig Heads a chance to know fear as there own children are put in danger.)
These Wig Heads are making all of the decisions on what is best for them and there own, and not so much thinking about us anymore.

We are fighting in a war that was started because we stuck or noses in other peoples business.
We continue in this war because … I don’t know the real reason other then I guess so we can say we won?
Enough is enough!
Guess what, we can not win!
These people fight for a religious cause.
We are trying to convince zealots that they are wrong.
Yea, hasn’t worked so far I am sure if we keep fighting it might sink in …
What would happen if people came to America and told us that Christianity was wrong and started attacking us because we had different believes?
Would we not fight back as well?
Dear God we would fight back and then, well, I guess we would go to there country and attack them as well … is that what this is about then?
Separation of _____ and _____?

I joked about building a city for them, I do think it would be a wonderful thing but as we found out only a few generations ago in Africa that this ideal isn’t necessarily the best.
What I do think we need to do is to back off, bring our troops home and close the borders for a time.
All of these other countries have said that they support us but they have stopped fighting because the looses are just to great.
We have bankrupted our own country funding this conflict.
We have tortured and lost so many of our countries children’s souls that the pain will be felt for decades!
So, enough is enough already.
Pull out and take care of our own.
This country is broken and in need of aid.
I know that other countries need our help, but don’t we need it now too?
Don’t even give me that different founds and different budgets stuff.
Pull from the foreign aid funds and help our own already.

We keep trying to tell others how to live, how to help others and to do what is right.
We don’t do it ourselves though?
We keep judging these other people by a standard we ourselves have not meet?
Doesn’t the Bible say something about not judging others?
“Judge not least ye be judged thy self”

People, we need to take care of ourselves first and we need to do it soon!
Who are we to try and fix others when we are in fact so broken?
Does this ring a bell anyone?
Matthew 7:3-5
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

That’s it for now, and once again I kept a lot back in an attempt to stay civil and polite.
The real question is, why do I keep holding back?