Ever wake up naked and not know how you got there?
Trying to figure out how Obama got into the white house is about as fruitless.
How we got here isn't important. We are here.
I'm not proud of where we are, but there is no going back, only going forward.
These next few years would be tough no matter who was in office. We have to give this guy a chance to see what he can do. He has everything he should need to be successful.
I'm not one to spend alot of time looking backward - let's put our panties on, grab a drink and see where we end up next.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The "It's not my fault" generation
Remember the "Me" generation? Remember the Gen X'rs or Generation Y?
I believe all those titles have given way to the new generation. This generation is called the "It's not my fault" (INMF) generation.
From the reason I'm fat to I'm unhappy to I don't have enough - IT'S NOT MY FAULT.
The T.V behind me is telling me that it's not my fault that I'm fat. It's stress. I can't help it. If I just sent them 67.75 (plus shipping and handling) they will send me a pill that will take away my belly fat. I can continue to believe that if only I wasn't stressed and would order the pills, I'd be that skinny girl on T.V. The realization is that if I would stop eating that pan of brownies I made with my kids last night and work out, I'd probably loose that belly fat. I'd not only loose the fat, I'd feel good about myself. I'd feel like I'd earned those great abs.
The problem with saying things aren't my fault, blaming the world or stress for my problems is that it means that the situation is out of my hands. It means, I have no control over how to make it better. That also means, that if I'm successful that I didn't earn it. It means that it just happened to me. I'd rather fail miserably and own that failure than I had for one minute believe that someone else was responsible for successes I'd never earned.
Those who embrace INMF, embrace failure and doom. They have given up one of their rights as an American to pursue happiness. Because if you can't own your situation and how you got there, you have no ability to change it.
I believe all those titles have given way to the new generation. This generation is called the "It's not my fault" (INMF) generation.
From the reason I'm fat to I'm unhappy to I don't have enough - IT'S NOT MY FAULT.
The T.V behind me is telling me that it's not my fault that I'm fat. It's stress. I can't help it. If I just sent them 67.75 (plus shipping and handling) they will send me a pill that will take away my belly fat. I can continue to believe that if only I wasn't stressed and would order the pills, I'd be that skinny girl on T.V. The realization is that if I would stop eating that pan of brownies I made with my kids last night and work out, I'd probably loose that belly fat. I'd not only loose the fat, I'd feel good about myself. I'd feel like I'd earned those great abs.
The problem with saying things aren't my fault, blaming the world or stress for my problems is that it means that the situation is out of my hands. It means, I have no control over how to make it better. That also means, that if I'm successful that I didn't earn it. It means that it just happened to me. I'd rather fail miserably and own that failure than I had for one minute believe that someone else was responsible for successes I'd never earned.
Those who embrace INMF, embrace failure and doom. They have given up one of their rights as an American to pursue happiness. Because if you can't own your situation and how you got there, you have no ability to change it.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Ohioans can't afford meat - but twinkies must be cheap
Today, I noticed the the headlines: "For some Ohioans, even meat is out of reach." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92592545 Wow - I thought, things must really be getting bad if people can't afford to eat meat. I suggest that you take a look at this article. These 2 women seem to have fallen on some hard times and that is making their lives harder. They have to live on public assistance and food stamps. Please note that these women are each easily 150 pounds OVERWEIGHT. I suspect that there are few salaries out there, hard times or not that could fund this grocery basket without government assistance.
People tell Nunez her daughter could get more money in public assistance if she had a child. "A lot of people have told me, 'Why don't your daughter have a kid?'" - OMG - is this really advice people are giving? You can't afford to live, and you can't get a job why not bring another poor soul to suffer with you?
This article is written in such a way to convey that this could be anyone. The sad fact of things is that, yes, it could be anyone. But it doesn't HAVE to be. There are places in this country that are growing and thriving. There are places that are shrinking and dying. That is the way it has always been and that is the way it will always be.
You are sitting in your car and it runs out of gas on the rail road tracks. A train appears in the horizon - it's coming at you slowly at first, but then gaining speed. What do you do?
1. Stay in the car and pretend the train isn't coming.
2. Stay in the car, recognize the training is coming - but hope someone else will push you off?
3. Sit in the car and complain that the government should send someone to help you?
3. Get out of the car and run as fast as you can?
4. Get out of the car and push it off the tracks so on one else is impacted by your situation?
The economy is the same way. The problem with those on the dole is that they forgot they were sitting on the tracks. So when things change in the city they live, they don't see it. They never see the (neg. economic) train bearing down on them because they aren't impacted by it daily. They only become impacted by it, when everyone else in the city has left and there isn't anyone around to push them off the tracks (or give them money by way of taxes).
The truth is - that the successful are always looking for ways to be more successful and those who are unsuccessful often are lookging to blame someone else for their situation (It couldn't be their fault, right?)
People tell Nunez her daughter could get more money in public assistance if she had a child. "A lot of people have told me, 'Why don't your daughter have a kid?'" - OMG - is this really advice people are giving? You can't afford to live, and you can't get a job why not bring another poor soul to suffer with you?
This article is written in such a way to convey that this could be anyone. The sad fact of things is that, yes, it could be anyone. But it doesn't HAVE to be. There are places in this country that are growing and thriving. There are places that are shrinking and dying. That is the way it has always been and that is the way it will always be.
You are sitting in your car and it runs out of gas on the rail road tracks. A train appears in the horizon - it's coming at you slowly at first, but then gaining speed. What do you do?
1. Stay in the car and pretend the train isn't coming.
2. Stay in the car, recognize the training is coming - but hope someone else will push you off?
3. Sit in the car and complain that the government should send someone to help you?
3. Get out of the car and run as fast as you can?
4. Get out of the car and push it off the tracks so on one else is impacted by your situation?
The economy is the same way. The problem with those on the dole is that they forgot they were sitting on the tracks. So when things change in the city they live, they don't see it. They never see the (neg. economic) train bearing down on them because they aren't impacted by it daily. They only become impacted by it, when everyone else in the city has left and there isn't anyone around to push them off the tracks (or give them money by way of taxes).
The truth is - that the successful are always looking for ways to be more successful and those who are unsuccessful often are lookging to blame someone else for their situation (It couldn't be their fault, right?)
Friday, June 27, 2008
Potential Bumper stickers
Obama for Change? That's all you'll have left in your pockets!
Obama won't change me -- I'm voting GOP
High gas prices? Thank a Democrat this November
Barack Obama? Liberal like McGovern, Prepared like Carter
Barack Obama -- The Audacity of HYPE
Obama won't change me -- I'm voting GOP
High gas prices? Thank a Democrat this November
Barack Obama? Liberal like McGovern, Prepared like Carter
Barack Obama -- The Audacity of HYPE
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Where is Sean Penn when we need him?
A couple questions from The National Review:
- Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods?
- Where is all the media asking the tough questions about why the federal government hasn't solved the problem? Asking where the FEMA trucks (and trailers) are?
- Why isn't the Federal Government relocating Iowa people to free hotels in Chicago?
- When will Spike Lee say that the Federal Government blew up the levees that failed in Des Moines?
- Where are Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks?
- Where are all the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes and big screen television sets?
- When will we hear Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to rebuild a 'vanilla' Iowa, because that's the way God wants it?
- Where is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with reports of cannibalism?
- Where are the people declaring that George Bush hates white, rural people?
- How come in 2 weeks, you will never hear about the Iowa flooding ever again?
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Letter to the Texas Governor that was never responded to
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, TX 78711-2428
Dear Mr. Perry,
Illegal immigration has been a problem in this country for many years, though it has only become a topic of real discussion by the people in the last few. I am very disappointed in the lackadaisical attitude of our government when it comes to securing our boarders from illegal entry. As a citizen of this country, who abides by all the laws, policies, taxation, etc., it is appalling to me that it isn’t also required/mandated by those that are not citizens.
Job opportunities are sometimes offered only to individuals who speak both English and Spanish, but when a mandate to speak English is suggested the city will back down because of a fear of lawsuit from LULAC. Isn’t this America, where English is the language? Why is it wrong to say that all business will be done in English, that ballots will be written in English, that schools will be taught in English? Why are those of us that are doing the right thing being punished in order to cow taw to those who broke the law to come here? Why has common sense given way to political correctness and the fear of offending someone? When will some one be strong enough to say ENOUGH!! I shouldn’t have to defend myself by saying that I have no problem with someone who comes to this country legally. Of course I don’t. This country was made great as a “Great American Melting Pot”. But the immigrants that came here did so legally. They tried hard to become Americans. They learned the language. They wanted to BE Americans. So many of those that come here illegally don’t want to be Americans, they want to make American Mexico.
I think we have a serious problem with the way our government is run today. It is my belief that our forefathers had a very different idea of how people would participate in the government. The concept was that a person who saw a problem they shared with their family, friends and community, would run for office, strive for change, then return to their jobs back in that community. They would be close enough to the problem to know how changes would affect the community. They would know that whatever changes they made, they would have to live with when they returned to that community to face their friends and family. They would have to live with those changes when they went back to their job or business. Today we have career politicians who have no memory of what it was like to have a real job and answer to the common man. You have people who are only worried about staying elected and therefore how they appear in the media. As proof, your comment: “There can be no Homeland Security without border security. If the Federal Government won’t act to protect the Texas border, I will.” That was nice for election time, but clearly just talk for the media to pick up.
The media talks all the time about disenfranchised voters. The voters that couldn’t get to the polls because of no transportation or they couldn’t understand the ballot. They harp on the injustices of the electronic voting booths or bad directions to the polls. Well, I have a news flash for them and you. There is a different type of disenfranchised voter. I am one of them. I can drive myself to the booth. I can read the ballot. I can wrangle the new electronic stations. I however, have no one to vote for. I have no one that represents me.
Mr. Perry, I am a republican so I voted for you. But honestly, you haven’t done anything to earn my vote other than be a republican. I wouldn’t count on that getting you much further in your career as politician.
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, TX 78711-2428
Dear Mr. Perry,
Illegal immigration has been a problem in this country for many years, though it has only become a topic of real discussion by the people in the last few. I am very disappointed in the lackadaisical attitude of our government when it comes to securing our boarders from illegal entry. As a citizen of this country, who abides by all the laws, policies, taxation, etc., it is appalling to me that it isn’t also required/mandated by those that are not citizens.
Job opportunities are sometimes offered only to individuals who speak both English and Spanish, but when a mandate to speak English is suggested the city will back down because of a fear of lawsuit from LULAC. Isn’t this America, where English is the language? Why is it wrong to say that all business will be done in English, that ballots will be written in English, that schools will be taught in English? Why are those of us that are doing the right thing being punished in order to cow taw to those who broke the law to come here? Why has common sense given way to political correctness and the fear of offending someone? When will some one be strong enough to say ENOUGH!! I shouldn’t have to defend myself by saying that I have no problem with someone who comes to this country legally. Of course I don’t. This country was made great as a “Great American Melting Pot”. But the immigrants that came here did so legally. They tried hard to become Americans. They learned the language. They wanted to BE Americans. So many of those that come here illegally don’t want to be Americans, they want to make American Mexico.
I think we have a serious problem with the way our government is run today. It is my belief that our forefathers had a very different idea of how people would participate in the government. The concept was that a person who saw a problem they shared with their family, friends and community, would run for office, strive for change, then return to their jobs back in that community. They would be close enough to the problem to know how changes would affect the community. They would know that whatever changes they made, they would have to live with when they returned to that community to face their friends and family. They would have to live with those changes when they went back to their job or business. Today we have career politicians who have no memory of what it was like to have a real job and answer to the common man. You have people who are only worried about staying elected and therefore how they appear in the media. As proof, your comment: “There can be no Homeland Security without border security. If the Federal Government won’t act to protect the Texas border, I will.” That was nice for election time, but clearly just talk for the media to pick up.
The media talks all the time about disenfranchised voters. The voters that couldn’t get to the polls because of no transportation or they couldn’t understand the ballot. They harp on the injustices of the electronic voting booths or bad directions to the polls. Well, I have a news flash for them and you. There is a different type of disenfranchised voter. I am one of them. I can drive myself to the booth. I can read the ballot. I can wrangle the new electronic stations. I however, have no one to vote for. I have no one that represents me.
Mr. Perry, I am a republican so I voted for you. But honestly, you haven’t done anything to earn my vote other than be a republican. I wouldn’t count on that getting you much further in your career as politician.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Men should not wear capri pants
I was traveling recently to San Francisco. While at IAH i noticed an inordinate amount of MEN wearing capri pants. First, let me say that capri pants are not pants. They are a confusion between pants that are simply too short and well..... shorts. Real men wouldn't wear them, and those masquerading as men shouldn't wear them.
I hear regularly that the US is too macho. That we flex our muscles and make grunts.... uh uh uh.... like Tim Allen from Home Improvement. Not physically of course, but the talking heads on the boob tube has the US shirtless (or in a wifebeater) standing on top of the world beating its hairy man chest.
I personally believe that the US has never been more "wussyfied" because of the desire to avoid hurting any one's feelings. We have baned the word loser from our vocabulary. We have taken the red pen away from the teacher and replaced it with something "less offensive". We've baned dodge ball and tag on playgrounds... and the list goes on.
Without any way for our children to learn from their mistakes or, in some cases how to deal with humiliation we are left with a weaker bunch of people and... men who wear capri pants.
I hear regularly that the US is too macho. That we flex our muscles and make grunts.... uh uh uh.... like Tim Allen from Home Improvement. Not physically of course, but the talking heads on the boob tube has the US shirtless (or in a wifebeater) standing on top of the world beating its hairy man chest.
I personally believe that the US has never been more "wussyfied" because of the desire to avoid hurting any one's feelings. We have baned the word loser from our vocabulary. We have taken the red pen away from the teacher and replaced it with something "less offensive". We've baned dodge ball and tag on playgrounds... and the list goes on.
Without any way for our children to learn from their mistakes or, in some cases how to deal with humiliation we are left with a weaker bunch of people and... men who wear capri pants.
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