I’m going to get on my soap-box, so bare with me. I just love these non-profit organizations that want you the TV-viewer to send your money to some poor children who are starving in some poor country. Don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t hesitate to send money to them, but I think these non-profit organizations need to ask us the television viewer to send our money to help feed the children and families who are starving right here in the United States, everyday hundreds of children, women and men go hungry and there aren’t enough soup kitchens and there isn’t enough money in these soup kitchens to feed everyone 3 times a day, 7 days a week, or 365 days a year.
And one of the many reasons these families go hungry in the United States is because of companies like the Big 3 automakers, and K-Mart, JC Penny, Sears and yes—even Walmart who outsource the products they make to poor countries where the labor is cheap! And we as a society in general need to stop expecting to payless for better quality merchandize. We want more for less and yet we still expect people to perform work for less pay and yet at the same time don't seem to mind if College baseball, football and basketball players demand huge-huge-large amounts of money in order to play a game and to entertain us. I think it's ridicious to pay someone 10 million dollars just to entertain us in a game of football, basketball, baseball, or even golf. Even though Michael Phelps did not initally receive any money in order to perform as well as he did in the Olympics--he did recieve huge amounts of money in endorsements after he won his gold medals and look at what has happened to him. The same could be said for CEO's, Presidents, Executives who receive big salaries on top of the big bonus' they receive for either saving the company money or by saving investors money and by keeping stocks from dropping. Believe me if I were hired by AIG today to be there CEO and I had the qualifications to do the job--I would do it for a lot less than the one currently employed by AIG--I would be happy to have the job and do it for about million salary, but then of course there comes the taxes one has to pay for having that high paying job and I'm not sure I would want to make that much money.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
George W. Bush to write memoir about 'decisions'
I am sorry if this is going to sound kind of cynical about our last President but if there ever was a book that I never wanted to read it certainly would not want to read his memoirs or any book that First Lady Bush wrote. I'm not sure why ex-President George W. Bush would even think anyone would be interested in reading anything he had to write, much less want to understand why he made the decisions he did. No explanation he could ever make would ever justify what he did. I feel that he could make all sorts of excuses to justify his and his administrations actions and it still will not change the fact that he ran our economy and our nation into the ground. Here is a quote that was written by the Associated Press from ex-President Bush's office in Dallas-"I want people to understand the environment in which I was making decisions. I want people to get a sense of how decisions were made and I want people to understand the options that were placed before me."
Let me say that I didn't vote for him for President and I certainly didn't vote for him when he ran for Governor of Texas and what I didn't understand and still don't understand is why the people of Texas after 8 years of having to deal with him as Governor, why they would ever resort to putting him into office not once but twice as President. What I don't get is why he thinks he needs to explain or why he believes we as a society need to understand the environment in which he made the decisions he made, as if we were asleep or not living in the good old USA.
I'm just sorely disappointed in the fact that a book publisher would pay an enormous amount of money to even consider publishing his or first lady Bush's book, based on the pretext that it will become a best seller. I only hope that I didn't offend anyone who happens to believe that ex-President Bush was a good/great leader and who just happens to be a Republican.
Let me say that I didn't vote for him for President and I certainly didn't vote for him when he ran for Governor of Texas and what I didn't understand and still don't understand is why the people of Texas after 8 years of having to deal with him as Governor, why they would ever resort to putting him into office not once but twice as President. What I don't get is why he thinks he needs to explain or why he believes we as a society need to understand the environment in which he made the decisions he made, as if we were asleep or not living in the good old USA.
I'm just sorely disappointed in the fact that a book publisher would pay an enormous amount of money to even consider publishing his or first lady Bush's book, based on the pretext that it will become a best seller. I only hope that I didn't offend anyone who happens to believe that ex-President Bush was a good/great leader and who just happens to be a Republican.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Turning 50 yrs old- & No Jobs in Sight!
I know that this subject doesn't really affect many of you, but it does affect your parents! It isn't easy to start over at any age, especially after you've turned 50 yrs. old, because there are added challenges older workers will face. I only hope that when you all become 50 yrs old there will be an overabundance of jobs available to you!
I know what its like to past 50 and wonder if there will be any available jobs once I graduate from this University and I have come to the conclusion that I must enter into a field that will not discriminate against me because of my age. That’s why I chose to go to Law School and I am considering getting my teaching degree in a single subject like government/politics and teach at the Jr./High School or College level. I was reading an article in the newspaper that was talking about how scary it will be to be 50 yrs old and have to start over in the job market, especially with the economy being what it is and so many businesses’s closing down.
The reason I bring the subject up, is do you all think that President Obama should put some kind of restrictions on companies taking there business’s and outsourcing them to countries like Japan, Indonesia, Mexico where labor is cheaper instead of keeping those business here in the United States so that people who over the age of 50 won’t be fired or laid off because the company pays them a much higher salary and it’s either cheaper to fire them or easier to replace them with someone younger who will work for less money.
I personally think it would be good for the economy if President Obama imposed some type of restrictions or sanctions on corporations/business’s that were inclined to move there companies aboard and close plants down here in the U.S., which would in turn create a great deal of hardship on the economy and society in general.
I’m going to get on my soap-box again, so bare with me. I just love these non-profit organizations that want you the TV-viewer to send your money to some poor children who are starving in some poor country. Don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t hesitate to send money to them, but I think these non-profit organizations need to ask us the television viewer to send our money to help feed the children who are starving right here in the United States, everyday hundreds of children, women and men go hungry and there aren’t enough soup kitchens and there isn’t enough money in these soup kitchens to feed everyone 3 times a day, 7 days a week, or 365 days a year. And one of the many reasons these families go hungry in the United States is because of companies like the Big 3 automakers, and K-Mart, JC Penny, Sears and yes—even Walmart outsource the products they make to poor countries where the labor is cheap! And we as a society in general need to stop expecting to payless for better quality merchandize. I also think that if we as a whole society decided to stop buying or purchasing foreign made products this could impact the companies in a big way—some of you are to young to remember a slogan or ad that ran almost daily on the TV back—might have been in the early 70’s & 80’s – it simply stated “Made In America or U.S.A.” So the next time you decide to go and vote ask your congressman/woman and legislatures what are they going to do to improve your chances of succeeding in Corporate America even after you’ve turned 50 yrs of age.
I know what its like to past 50 and wonder if there will be any available jobs once I graduate from this University and I have come to the conclusion that I must enter into a field that will not discriminate against me because of my age. That’s why I chose to go to Law School and I am considering getting my teaching degree in a single subject like government/politics and teach at the Jr./High School or College level. I was reading an article in the newspaper that was talking about how scary it will be to be 50 yrs old and have to start over in the job market, especially with the economy being what it is and so many businesses’s closing down.
The reason I bring the subject up, is do you all think that President Obama should put some kind of restrictions on companies taking there business’s and outsourcing them to countries like Japan, Indonesia, Mexico where labor is cheaper instead of keeping those business here in the United States so that people who over the age of 50 won’t be fired or laid off because the company pays them a much higher salary and it’s either cheaper to fire them or easier to replace them with someone younger who will work for less money.
I personally think it would be good for the economy if President Obama imposed some type of restrictions or sanctions on corporations/business’s that were inclined to move there companies aboard and close plants down here in the U.S., which would in turn create a great deal of hardship on the economy and society in general.
I’m going to get on my soap-box again, so bare with me. I just love these non-profit organizations that want you the TV-viewer to send your money to some poor children who are starving in some poor country. Don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t hesitate to send money to them, but I think these non-profit organizations need to ask us the television viewer to send our money to help feed the children who are starving right here in the United States, everyday hundreds of children, women and men go hungry and there aren’t enough soup kitchens and there isn’t enough money in these soup kitchens to feed everyone 3 times a day, 7 days a week, or 365 days a year. And one of the many reasons these families go hungry in the United States is because of companies like the Big 3 automakers, and K-Mart, JC Penny, Sears and yes—even Walmart outsource the products they make to poor countries where the labor is cheap! And we as a society in general need to stop expecting to payless for better quality merchandize. I also think that if we as a whole society decided to stop buying or purchasing foreign made products this could impact the companies in a big way—some of you are to young to remember a slogan or ad that ran almost daily on the TV back—might have been in the early 70’s & 80’s – it simply stated “Made In America or U.S.A.” So the next time you decide to go and vote ask your congressman/woman and legislatures what are they going to do to improve your chances of succeeding in Corporate America even after you’ve turned 50 yrs of age.
Abusive Men & Relationships
Have you all been watching the TV or reading on the web about what’s been happening with Rhinna and her boyfriend/spouse and his abusive behavior towards her. The reason I bring this subject to light is again here we are in a very public world, where in the media—like Oprah, Dr. Phil in the next coming day’s they will be discussing why women like Rhinna will take back the husband/boyfriend after he has reportedly beaten her. It isn’t a question of why can’t she leave or that she won’t leave. What society still doesn’t get that’s not that she can’t or won’t leave him, it’s that she’s terrified to leave him. I know I was in a very abusive relationship—and my family asked the same question why didn’t I just leave or call the police and report his abusive behavior—sometimes when you call the police and they arrest him, because in some States if you rent or own a house with a spouse or even a boyfriend if his name is on the lease—he has just much right to be in the apt as the woman does, especially even after he gets out of jail.
The police can ask him to leave or see if the woman wants to leave, but with the man there holding on to her—she won’t leave for fear that he will kill her and some women who do leave end up dead. How many of you in class think it’s just that easy for a woman to walk away from an abusive relationship! Let me tell you for experience it’s not that easy—for one he has manipulated her into believing that without him, no one in this world will ever want her and he’s got her believing that she can’t survive without him and that no one but him loves her and if she’d just not do the things he asked her to do he’d never have to hit her. He’s convinced her that it’s her fault and she’s bought into it and she’ll be the first to apologize after he’s hit her and he never will say he’s sorry—what he will say is if you’d just done the dishes, or had dinner on the table when it got home-I wouldn’t had to hit you!
She also believes that if she’d only done what was asked instead of talking back to him or if she’d just not started a confrontation with him, he’d never hit her. Women who are in a abusive relationships walk around on pins & needles—sort of like on egg shells feeling around the men they live with, and we are afraid of opening our mouths to say anything for fear of being berated or beaten within an inch of our lives. Two if he hasn’t already tried to kill her, he will try to do it and sometimes succeed if she does leave him. As in my case all these things occurred my ex-spouse not only tried once but three times to kill me and on the third try was arrested for the last time before he was due to go to trial for attempted murder he fled the state, he was finally caught and now sits in a prison, he got 25 to life and I believe he has to serve a 25 years before his eligible for parole.
I guess what just pisses me off most is that society as a whole thinks it just that simple—all a woman has to do it leave, in reality it really isn’t that simple at all—it’s more complicated than that. What some people in our society don’t understand is that—the physical abuse doesn’t initially start with the hitting—it starts with the verbal abuse and then escalates to the physical abuse.
So girls if you’re in a relationship with a guy and he hits you just once-leave immediately before he really gets his hooks into and you can’t leave and what I mean by that is once he hits you and you don’t leave then you actually have given him permission at least in his mind to continue hitting you whenever he wants too! I don’t mean to imply that you have given him permission to hit but he believes you have because hit you once said he was sorry and it won’t happen again and you didn’t leave immediately—in his mind that was his go-ahead to do it again and again, whenever he fells like it—after all you won’t dare leave now! If he is talking trash and is verbally abusive—leave before he starts hitting you! Sorry about getting on my soap-box!
The police can ask him to leave or see if the woman wants to leave, but with the man there holding on to her—she won’t leave for fear that he will kill her and some women who do leave end up dead. How many of you in class think it’s just that easy for a woman to walk away from an abusive relationship! Let me tell you for experience it’s not that easy—for one he has manipulated her into believing that without him, no one in this world will ever want her and he’s got her believing that she can’t survive without him and that no one but him loves her and if she’d just not do the things he asked her to do he’d never have to hit her. He’s convinced her that it’s her fault and she’s bought into it and she’ll be the first to apologize after he’s hit her and he never will say he’s sorry—what he will say is if you’d just done the dishes, or had dinner on the table when it got home-I wouldn’t had to hit you!
She also believes that if she’d only done what was asked instead of talking back to him or if she’d just not started a confrontation with him, he’d never hit her. Women who are in a abusive relationships walk around on pins & needles—sort of like on egg shells feeling around the men they live with, and we are afraid of opening our mouths to say anything for fear of being berated or beaten within an inch of our lives. Two if he hasn’t already tried to kill her, he will try to do it and sometimes succeed if she does leave him. As in my case all these things occurred my ex-spouse not only tried once but three times to kill me and on the third try was arrested for the last time before he was due to go to trial for attempted murder he fled the state, he was finally caught and now sits in a prison, he got 25 to life and I believe he has to serve a 25 years before his eligible for parole.
I guess what just pisses me off most is that society as a whole thinks it just that simple—all a woman has to do it leave, in reality it really isn’t that simple at all—it’s more complicated than that. What some people in our society don’t understand is that—the physical abuse doesn’t initially start with the hitting—it starts with the verbal abuse and then escalates to the physical abuse.
So girls if you’re in a relationship with a guy and he hits you just once-leave immediately before he really gets his hooks into and you can’t leave and what I mean by that is once he hits you and you don’t leave then you actually have given him permission at least in his mind to continue hitting you whenever he wants too! I don’t mean to imply that you have given him permission to hit but he believes you have because hit you once said he was sorry and it won’t happen again and you didn’t leave immediately—in his mind that was his go-ahead to do it again and again, whenever he fells like it—after all you won’t dare leave now! If he is talking trash and is verbally abusive—leave before he starts hitting you! Sorry about getting on my soap-box!
Obama overturns Bush policy on stem cells
I personally thought it was ridiculous that Bush would limit the use of taxpayer money only to the 21 stem cell lines produced before he implemented his policy on stem cell research in 2001. I am grateful that President Obama is keeping his word and undoing what Bush had done and research can begin to help the many ailing people who suffer from diabetes to paralysis, much like I do. Even though it doesn’t look like I have a form of paralysis. I have two unknown causes or types of paralysis’s both are in my face and body. So for me the use of stem cell research to find cures that will help someone like me better deal or handle the paralysis that has been dealtto me seems like an obvious choice for President Obama to implement. For me doctors still have no clue why my left/right side of my face crashes/slides sort of a like I’m having a stroke, but not having one at all. Maybe with the research being done on stem cells, doctors might learn how to best handle or hopefully find a cure to my disorders; which could give me a new lease on life at least one without pain medication and possibly free of pain. So how do you guys feel about President Obama reversing what Bush signed into law back in 2001? I’ve also included the article for you to read and the website if you want further info about it.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Monday he is allowing federal taxpayer dollars to fund significantly broader research on embryonic stem cells because "medical miracles do not happen simply by accident," and promised his administration would make up for the ground lost under his predecessor.
Fulfilling a campaign promise, Obama signed an executive order expected to set in motion increased research that supporters believe could uncover cures for serious ailments from diabetes to paralysis. Obama's action, before a packed East Room audience, reverses former President George W. Bush's policy on stem cell research by undoing a 2001 directive that banned federal funding for research into stem lines created
Bush limited the use of taxpayer money to only the 21 stem cell lines that had been produced before his decision. He argued he was defending human life because days-old embryos — although typically from fertility clinics and already destined for destruction — are destroyed to create the stem cell lines.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090309/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_stem_cells
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Monday he is allowing federal taxpayer dollars to fund significantly broader research on embryonic stem cells because "medical miracles do not happen simply by accident," and promised his administration would make up for the ground lost under his predecessor.
Fulfilling a campaign promise, Obama signed an executive order expected to set in motion increased research that supporters believe could uncover cures for serious ailments from diabetes to paralysis. Obama's action, before a packed East Room audience, reverses former President George W. Bush's policy on stem cell research by undoing a 2001 directive that banned federal funding for research into stem lines created
Bush limited the use of taxpayer money to only the 21 stem cell lines that had been produced before his decision. He argued he was defending human life because days-old embryos — although typically from fertility clinics and already destined for destruction — are destroyed to create the stem cell lines.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090309/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_stem_cells
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