I’ve been going about my day trying to ignore the foolishness and uproar in this country by some folks because a sitting U.S. President was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. We have looked like buffoons around the world for the last 8 years with the Clueless Cretin of Crawford running our country into the ground. I for one am proud that our President was recognized and awarded for his efforts.
At any moment, at any time,
My life can be turned completely upside down,
At any second on any given day,
Material possessions may simply go away,
Friends come and go, others hang on strong
Some just want to see what you’re doing wrong,
Why do I fret and why should I fear?
When I can simply whisper in God’s unchanging ear,
Do I really trust him as I say I do?
Or am I simply reciting words as the preacher told me to?
He hears my plea, He knows my pain,
It is He who gives me strength thru life’s floods and torrential rain
People will laugh, lie, talk and play,
Never bothering to ask “ Sister-How was your day? Are you ok”
What is it then that I know is mine?
It is not my life, family, possessions or friends,
It is not the love people claim to give,
What is it then that I know is mine
It’s the smile on my face when God says yes child you’re surely mine.
And I am his.-Authored by AJ
These fools have lost their minds. Why is it an employer can buy a policy on my life without MY permission. I guess they figure if they work you hard enough from doing the job of 5-6 people you’ll keel over in no time – simply more money in their greedy pockets. – cha-ching.
UPDATE: For some reason this popped in my head while rereading this post. It contains cursing (it’s Samuel Jackson) so if offended don’t click on the link and keep it moving.
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Last night my husband and I went to a football game. While there we saw friend of ours who happens to be Asian and of course has a Asian name. As he got closer we heard someone refer to him as “Bob”. We looked at each other with disgust. Later on the friend made his way to our bench and sat with us during the game. I asked him who the gentlemen was that referred to him as “Bob”. He told me it was his boss. My heart sank as this reminded me of the scene in Roots where LeVar Burton refuses to take his slave name “Toby” until beaten into submission.
While my friend doesn’t seem to mind (I’ve heard other’s refer to him as “Bob”)- I find this to be insulting and disrespectful. Why can’t folks be bothered to pronounce his real name? While it took awhile for me to learn to pronounce his name correctly – I did until I got it right. It’s not rocket science – it just feels like the right thing to do – call someone by their given name.
Yes, you read it right. It seems the criminally insane folks up in Washington are taken on field trips. How many degrees/common sense/experience would it take for you to realize that sending a mentally disturbed, known killer on a field trip is just not a good idea? I imagine with all the budget cuts occurring across the country, that many more people that should not be walking our streets will be released back into society. That’s kinda of what happens when folk decide they don’t want government intervention. I wonder how many tea baggers would like for this individual to live next door to them?
SPOKANE, Wash. — A criminally insane killer who escaped during a mental hospital field trip to a county fair remained on the run Friday, and furious residents and officials wondered why such a dangerous person was out in public.
Authorities believe Phillip Arnold Paul, 47, is heading to the Sunnyside, Wash., area, where his parents and many siblings live. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office used a helicopter to search Friday, and officers also searched transient camps along railroad tracks in the area. The public was urged to call 911.
“He is in a bad mental state,” his brother, Tom Paul, told The Associated Press. “Why would they load him on a bus and take him to a fair?”
That’s a question many are asking.
Authorities at Eastern State Hospital are being criticized for allowing Paul to visit the fair despite his violent criminal past and history of trying to escape. Spokane County Commissioner Mark Richard has called it unacceptable, and the state Department of Social and Health Services ordered an immediate end to such trips and launched an investigation into the practice.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/19/phillips-arnold-paul-insa_n_292135.html
Yes, I know – I’ve not posted in awhile-but I just had to say something about this one. Nine states allow insurance companies to deny coverage by considering domestice violence to be a pre-existing condition. WTH?
When I heard about this I thought it must have been incorrect. Surely the insurance company is not this callous and cold right? Think again. These inhumane, bloodsucking crooks will not only pull the plug on Grandma but they won’t even help a woman that is being abused by her spouse – because it cuts into their bottom line. And to think “Tea Baggers” and their ilk are actually going to rallies to cut their own throats by supporting private insurance.
Insurance companies have used the excuse of “pre-existing conditions” to deny coverage to countless Americans. From cancer patients to the elderly suffering from arthritis, these organizations have padded their profit margins by limiting coverage to patients deemed “high risk” because of their medical condition.
But, in DC and nine other states, including Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming, insurance companies have gone too far, claiming that “domestic violence victim” is also a pre-existing condition.
Words cannot describe the sheer inhumanity of this claim. It serves as yet further proof that our insurance system is broken, destroyed by the profit-mongering of the very companies who’s sole purpose should be to provide Americans with access to care when they need it most. In 1994, an informal survey conducted by the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee revealed that 8 of the 16 largest insurers in the country used domestic violence as a factor when decided whether to extend coverage and how much to charge if coverage was extended. Source
A man was so desperate to get money owed him by another that he attacked him with a coconut and a variety of other things.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Authorities say a suburban West Palm Beach man trying to get money from his roommate hit him with everything but the kitchen sink – including a coconut, a porcelain bowl and a wooden carving.
Joseph Lovett is charged with robbery with a weapon and false imprisonment in Saturday’s incident.
Lovett spent his 44th birthday Tuesday at the Palm Beach County Jail, where he remains held in lieu of $4,000 bail.
According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s report, Lovett’s roommate of 12 years, Alvan Cohen, 64, was at their home in the 3400 block of Rossi Court – near Haverhill Road and Okeechobee Boulevard – when Lovett came home drunk.
I found a very interesting article about the negative coverage regarding Michael Jackson. Seems they’ve nullified the juries decision on his innocence. Seems the justice system is only valid when the defendants are white.
Here’s a snippit:
Yet, these journalists insist that their news product is superior
to that of bloggers. (Journalistic bottom feeder, Diane Dimond, a Sneddon fan and Jackson stalker was invited by MSNBC to weigh in during which she was allowed to engage in doofus speculation much of it ugly about Jackson’s life and death)
G. Q. s Mary Fisher accused her colleagues of lazy journalism of the sort that defamed Jackson in life and in death. Maureen Orth from Vanity Fair didn’t read Mary Fisher’s findings. She was on the Chris Matthews Show accusing Jackson of “serious felonies” involving pedophilia. Another reporter who seemed to nullify the 2005 Jackson jurie’s decision was “Morning Joe’s” adjunct bimbo, Courtney Hazlett. She said that there would be no pilgrimage to Neverland and as there was to Graceland, because “bad things happened at Never Land.” We are led to believe that Presley and his entourage spent their days at Graceland drinking milk and reading each other passages from the scriptures.
All of these opinions seem to indicate that Cable’s talking heads have taken it upon themselves to nullify the judgment of juries whenever they please. This all white electronic jury has placed itself above the law.
Sometimes it’s best to agree to disagree. RIP Michael – this is a time to focus on the positive.
MIAMI (Reuters) – A fight broke out on a Florida bus when news of Michael Jackson’s death sparked debate over whether he should be remembered as a great musical talent, and one passenger was charged with assault, police said on Friday.
The bus was moving through the city of North Lauderdale on Thursday when passenger James Kiernan received a text message about Jackson’s death on his cell phone, and he read it aloud on the bus, the Broward County Sheriff’s Department said.
The unidentified bus driver opined that “Michael Jackson should have been in jail long ago,” prompting Kiernan, 60, to retort that “the world just lost a great musical talent,” the police report said.
It said the last remark enraged another passenger, Henry Wideman, who started a swearing match with Kiernan, then pulled out a knife and chased Kiernan down the aisle with it.
The driver called his dispatcher and pulled over near a convenience store to wait for sheriff’s deputies, who arrested Wideman, 54. He remained in jail on Friday on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
(Reporting by Jane Sutton; Editing by Pascal Fletcher) source
