The Future

Hello all!

 

Sorry I’ve been neglecting you. All 7 of you!

 

I go in to have my tonsils out tomorrow.

 

WOW!

 

I know, I know, it’s not that big of a deal but there’s always that possibility I won’t come out of it. It’s very small, but still, it’s there. Other than my wisdom teeth this will be my only other semi-major medical surgery, or procedure for that matter. I’m usually healthy and have been lucky enough not to break any bones or have any other major problems.

 

But damn, I have three kids in my house and one out of the house to worry about. I love them all very much and no matter what happens to me I want them to know that. They would be left with a little something in a life insurance policy but nothing too great. Hopefully that would help sometime down the line.

 

But I think I’ll be fine.

 

So what will I be coming out of surgery too you ask?

 

HAHAHA! DRAMA!

 

First, my mother is here from California and extended her stay until Monday to help a little.I’m sure some of you have those kind of parents that you love to death but can’t stand for a second. Yeah, she’s one of ’em!

 

Of course there’s thirty years of war stories but I’ll spare you all this time. I’m sure sooner or later we will get into my childhood but not now.

 

See, I have to pull through now! I can hear all you guys whining that you want to hear my stories.

 

God, Jehovah, Allah, or whatever else may be out there, don’t let these people down!

 

Anyway, back to my mom. She is THE BOSS in her world (yes, aren’t we all) but when she’s in my world she can’t stand that I am BOSS KING! This is MY house. These are MY kids. These are MY rules. I don’t have to pick that up, or clean this up. I’ll do it when I want to. I am, after all, an adult. She comes in for 1 week and thinks she knows how to run my house. She wants to tell me all the things that need to be changed around here because she doesn’t do them that way.

 

Look B, I run this house day in and day out and whatever gets done, gets done.

 

I pretty much take care of all three of the kids. I have a one year old with me damn near 24/7 and a five and six year old with me when they aren’t in school. My wife works mostly 1-9pm.

 

I try to let her sleep in, in the mornings and take care of the kids getting off to school, feeding the baby and getting her back to sleep for a bit. Very shortly after that I get up and spend time with the baby so my wife can get up and get ready for work. She leaves and I spend more time with the baby.

 

Then begins changing of the pee pee and poo poo diapers, making bottles, transferring the baby from crib to high chair, high chair to downstairs, back upstairs, into the high chair, and so on and so on. In between the baby transfers I try to clean a little. Oh shit, baby is crying. Diaper change. Well I’ll have to finish cleaning later. Maybe I can do some dishes while she eats. Hey, success. One thing down. Can I study a little? Nope, why would I get to do something that can further our situation. Bottle and diaper time.

 

Ok the older kids will be home soon. I can study when they get home! The older kids come home and that’s a process in and of itself. Ok can I study NOW? PLEASE?

 

Sorry pops we got homework. Fine. Let’s get this ball rolling.

 

Wait, diaper time.

 

Ok good job on the homework guys! You’re so smart, funny, cute, blah blah blah.

 

Can I study a bit now? Sure dad. Thank you.

 

Alright everything is set. Bring up the pdf I need to read. Ok page 1, again.

 

Daddy we’re hungry.

 

AHHHHHHHHH!!!

 

Fuck it. Who needs to learn anything that will help us have a better life? Obviously I don’t.

 

Make dinner, feed the kids. What time is it? Fuck, kids get ready for bed. Take turns, go potty, wash up, brush your teeth, get into jammies, pick out a book, end the fight of who gets to pick it out, read the book, make a bottle, change a diaper, hugs and kisses, wind up music boxes. GO TO SLEEP!

 

Ok where’s my MacBook? There it is. Where was I? There I was. Page 1.

 

*door opens*

 

Hi honey! Glad you’re home. I’m just about to do some work.

 

What? You wanna spend time with me? Ok. I love you so down goes the MacBook. Sexy time? No, you’re too tired? Ok put in Friends. Yes, Friends. All ten seasons. Here we go… Again.

 

PASS OUT.

 

Everyday is the same. How am I ever gonna do this? I have to find the time but there never seems to be enough.

 

My business is not doing shit. I’ve tried to advertise but the town we live in is nowhere near needing a full time car audio and security shop. So the time and money we spent for me to go to Arizona to Mobile Dynamics is a waste. Not to mention the school going bankrupt half way through my course which kept me from getting my certification at that time. Then after completing the rest with the online class and never receiving my diploma even after countless phone calls and emails, leaves me with nothing to show for it but knowledge. Great. That really pays the bills.

 

So all the hoops I jumped through to get my business license basically was for nothing and leaves me standing here with a thumb up my ass! I just wish it was a thumb I wanted there!

 

So now we are left with half the income we had before and very little choice of other ways to bring in money. It’s hard to find a job that will let you cart around a one year old everywhere you go. That’s why the home business seemed so enticing.

 

I know. Wah wah wah. Crybaby.

 

Now it gets real. The landlord is not happy because even though we are paying everything we can it just isn’t good enough. We got two months behind and even though we’ve been making rent we haven’t had anything to pay towards the back rent.

 

So after I get my tonsils out tomorrow I have to start the search for somewhere else to live. If the property manager we’ve been going through won’t put us up in another one of their properties we’re screwed.

 

We filed bankruptcy last year because the hospital was gonna garnish our wages which would have killed us faster than we’ve been able to kill ourselves! So who wants to rent to a couple with three kids, a cat, no money and no credit, with a reference from a landlord that isn’t happy with us and who we owe money to?

 

We have NO family within a hundred miles, so we have no one to turn to and even if we did they probably wouldn’t be able to help us in any way, anyway. They all have their own problems and own debts.

 

The only good thing in this is that we will all be together. We will do what we have to to survive. We will get through this as a family.

 

As long as I don’t die from some wack ass freak accident that seems to happen to the best of us. I have faith in my doctor and am counting on him to get me through this. I can’t leave my family like this. They need me and I need them.

 

So if this is my last post don’t forget to pour a little liquor out for me!

 

And if this isn’t, well, then, I might just be back to update you and vent a little more.

 

Until then stay safe my friends and give your families hugs and kisses. Enjoy your time with them. You never know when it will end.

 

And I promise next time won’t be so sappy. I’ll be back to my asshole self!

 

Stay up!

Guns And Our Rights

Guns kill people, people kill people, people with guns have more of a chance of killing people!

People SHOULD be allowed to have guns to protect their property but they should not be able to just roll around with guns to look “cool” or to be able to “protect” themselves from whatever or whoever they deem as a threat. That’s too subjective.

To say guns don’t kill people is ignorant. How many people do you think this kid in AZ would have been able to choke before being stopped?

Making it legal to have a concealed weapon WITHOUT a concealed weapons permit is just flat out crazy. Something the AZ governor signed into law THE MORNING OF THIS SHOOTING!

No matter how crazy this kid was if he did not have access to guns this would never have happened.

If the laws were stricter there would be greater consequence for those that use guns in the commission of a crime.

I’m also not saying we shouldn’t have a right to protect ourselves and property from intruders but that’s where the buck should stop. The only time it’s necessary to take a gun out of the house is to go hunting or to go to war.

Last time I checked there was no war going on, on American soil.

Last time I checked there was no hunting season for people!

I hope that people realize it’s not about outlawing guns. It’s about protecting ourselves and having recourse against people that use guns for heinous crimes.

People with a concealed weapons permit are not going to refrain from shooting someone so they can keep their ability to have weapons on them at all times. It actually means they want to have a gun on them in case they do want/have (again pretty subjective) to shoot someone.

That is why we have law enforcement. They bring the guns. You just call it in.

I have yet to hear about the many cases where a regular run of the mill everyday citizen was hailed as a hero because they used their concealed weapon to stop a crime.

Do the police let you help them once they show up just because you have a gun? If you see the police in a shootout with a criminal do they welcome you into the gunfight because you have a concealed weapon permit?

NOOOOOO!

So in reality concealed weapons are unnecessary in everyday real world life.

Before you say I’m against guns I will remind you that I fully agree that the second amendment that states you can possess guns to PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY is useful and people should be allowed to possess them AT HOME, and possibly even in their vehicle or for hunting purposes with a permit.

But with all the alternate non lethal forms of protection out there we simply no longer need guns outside of our homes for protection. Tazers, pepper spray, stun guns are all safe and just as effective as a gun. The difference is, not many innocent bystanders are killed by stun guns or tazers or pepper spray.

We are not a vigilante society and if anyone that had a gun outside of their home was held accountable there would be less crime involving guns.

Yes criminals will act however they want and if they want to obtain a gun I’m sure they would be able to but if the laws were tougher there would be less people taking the chance of importing or selling illegal guns, or at the least those people would be locked up for longer periods of time when caught. Not to mention the increase in prices would make it a lot harder for low level criminals to get guns and the higher end criminals are not mugging people on the streets.

If you think tougher laws are pointless then why have laws at all? For anything? If you think laws won’t stop these criminals why have them?

Why? Because the laws themselves are deterrents and are there to hold people accountable for their actions. So why would tougher laws on something that can kill people (and for those of you that think people kill – these weapons make it possible for them to kill people) be a good thing? After all if you aren’t randomly shooting people then you’ll never have to worry about the law.

I forgot, your “FREEDOM” is more important than other people’s safety. Well then you can’t bitch too much when your “FREEDOM” helps others violate you and your “FREEDOM”! It’s a vicious cycle that nobody seems to want to end.

I’m sorry but I’d rather be safer. And my children as well.

How i feel

I did not write this but I fully agree to this and am have great hope others can see that this a very real and smart way of dealing with the debt we all have been so careless with.

This is addressed to the president:

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There have been (admittedly unclear) indications from your administration that you may accede to the Republicans’ demand to extend the Bush tax cuts for everyone. I urge you not to do this.

The question is: Is it better to extend the tax cuts for everyone or for no one? The answer is to extend them for no one.

The Bush tax cuts have always overwhelmingly benefited the rich, not the middle class, and that is no less true today than when they were enacted. They were bad policy then and they are bad policy today. Extending the tax cuts would dramatically enrich the wealthy relative to everyone else. 65.5 percent of the total benefit would go to the top quintile by income, 26.8 percent to the top 1 percent, and 14.7 percent to the top 0.1 percent.*

Leaving aside discredited, Reagan-era theories about trickle-down economics, there are two main arguments for extending the tax cuts:

1. You shouldn’t “increase”** taxes during in tough economic times.

It is true that tax increases would have a modest first-order negative impact on economic growth. But that impact will be small (per dollar of net fiscal impact) for exactly the same reasons that tax cuts are a poor stimulus. The multiplier for tax cuts is far lower than the multipliers for virtually every other type of government spending, especially aid to state and local governments. In particular, the economic impact of tax increases is smaller when they go to the rich rather than the middle class, because the rich consume a smaller portion of their marginal income. In addition, letting the tax cuts expire would have positive second-order effects because it would improve the government’s fiscal balance, which is widely (though perhaps incorrectly) perceived as a source of risk to the economy.

Now, it might be preferable to extend the tax cuts only until the economy recovers and then let them expire. But that is probably politically infeasible, and in any case creates the risk that, at that point, Congress would then make the tax cuts permanent.

2. The tax cuts will help the middle class.

Yes, but they won’t help very much. If the tax cuts are extended, the average benefit for tax units (roughly speaking, households) in the middle income quintile will be $880 per year.*** By contrast, tax units from the 80th to 99.9th percentile will gain $6,094 each, and the top 0.1 percent–those with over $2 million in annual income–will gain $339,473 each.

Now, $880 means a lot to a middle-class family, and I will no doubt be called heartless for saying we should extend the tax cuts for no one rather than everyone. But letting the tax cuts expire will be better for the middle class, for one big reason–actually, 3.7 trillion reasons.

$3.7 trillion is the figure that is generally cited as the projected ten-year impact of the Bush tax cuts. Letting the tax cuts expire will eliminate $3.7 trillion from the projected national debt with one stroke. Why does this help the middle class? Because Social Security and Medicare are currently under assault. The national debt is being used as a bogeyman to frighten politicians (and the people who elect them) into agreeing to significant reductions to Social Security and Medicare.

Yet middle-class households need Social Security and Medicare far more than they need $880 of current-year income. Our country faces the very real threat of a retirement security crisis, since saving via 401(k) plans is shockingly low; in 2007, the average retirement account balance for a household where the head of household was between ages 55 and 64 was only $63,000 (Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances, Table 6). That figure is surely lower today, after the financial crisis. And your administration knows very well the problem of health care cost inflation, having done more to attempt to solve this problem than any other administration, ever.

The single most important thing you could do to protect the retirement and health care security of the vast majority of Americans would be to let the tax cuts expire. The CBO (full document, Table 1-7) projects the cost of those tax cuts in 2020 at $368 billion, or 1.6 percent of GDP. The tax cuts mean the difference between a federal deficit of 3.0 percent of GDP (probably sustainable) or 4.6 percent of GDP (probably unsustainable). Removing that enormous wedge from the structural deficit would reduce the current pressure for “entitlement reform” and give the cost-saving provisions in your health care reform bill time to work.

In short, letting the tax cuts expire would be better for the middle class (and even more so for the poor–the lowest quintile would gain only $45 from extension), and for the country, than extending them for everyone.

Since you have a reputation for putting the welfare of the country before your political fortunes and those of your party, I hope this should be enough to convince you. But I believe this would also benefit you politically. If the American people want to know why their taxes will be higher in 2011 than 2010, this is what you can say:

“We face a grave threat to our nation’s future prosperity. That threat is a ticking time bomb set by my predecessor’s administration. In 2001 and 2003, my predecessor pushed through enormous tax cuts for the very wealthy, using small tax cuts for the middle class as a fig leaf. Instead of being honest about the impact this would have on our national finances, his administration timed the tax cuts to expire on December 31, so they could pretend they were smaller than they actually were.

“The Republicans want to let this time bomb explode. They want to make these tax cuts for the wealthy permanent, meaning that families making more than $2 million would save $300,000 in taxes, while ordinary families would save less than $1,000. This is at a time when our governments–federal, state, and local–lack the resources necessary to provide basic services to our citizens, secure our borders, educate our children, provide health care to the elderly, and invest in our economy.

“My proposal is to extend the tax cuts for the middle class, but not for the wealthy. The Republicans, who control the House of Representatives, insist on permanent tax cuts for the rich–tax cuts that load debt onto our children and grandchildren for decades to come. They are willing to sacrifice our future prosperity so that millionaires can save hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“I refuse to force future generations to pay for our own failure to make hard choices. I refuse to allow an enormous hole in the national budget that will threaten the long-term health of Social Security and Medicare. Because this is the price that the Republicans are demanding that I pay in order to extend the middle class tax cuts, all of the tax cuts will expire on December 31–under the law passed by the Bush administration.”

I’m sure your speechwriters, pollsters, and strategists can come up with something better (and didn’t you once say that you were a better speechwriter than your speechwriters?) than I came up with while lying in bed last night. But come up with something.

* All figures, unless otherwise noted, are from the Tax Policy Center. These figures also assume extension of the AMT patch. Note that these figures exclude the impact of making permanent the repeal of the estate tax (a permanent repeal is assumed in both scenarios); including that impact would skew the benefits even more heavily toward the rich.

** Of course, it is President Bush and the 2001 and 2003 Congresses that are increasing taxes on January 1, 2011.

*** The actual figure is probably slightly less than $880, since the Tax Policy Center’s analysis also includes extension of the AMT patch, so some of the $880 is due to the AMT patch, and some of it is due to extending the Bush tax cuts. Extending the AMT patch does not benefit the very rich (since they are above the AMT threshold in any case), so all of their benefits are due to extending the Bush tax cuts.

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If you do not agree or would care to debate let me know. You are either too rich to understand the only real losers if these continue is the middle class, or you don’t think you are gonna need to use social security or health care. Both scenarios lead me to believe you are selfish and don’t care that there are people that need these programs. I understand you might want to fight this on principle. Yes government sucks. Yes I wish I didn’t have to pay taxes. But where would this country be without either? We would be ran by England or china or some other country that would easily come in and overpower you and rape your family and then kill you all if you opposed them. The go government isn’t perfect but at least their threat alone is enough to help keep us safe most of the time. Imagine if they weren’t there and tell me what you think this country would be like.

The Tax Problem

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39936024/ns/politics-white_house

Either way this article states that REPUBLICANS are holding up tax cuts for the middle-class and small business to protect the RICH people that can afford to give more. And then trying to blame Obama for fighting to do what is best for the country.
It is completely in our best interest for the top 2% to pay back into the country that is making them so “wealthy”. Why do you ask? Because who really is in the top 2%? Bankers (yeah they fucked us), Insurance CEO’s (yeah they continue to fuck us), politicians (once again fucking us)! So why does anyone in the middle class care about them paying a 4-5% increase! It’s not really that much!

You cannot deny that something to help the people that need it the most needs to be passed. Even if the rich have to pay what they were paying 10 years ago, which was what had to be done after reagan cut taxes and ran up the debt and needs to be done again after the trillion+ debt incurred by Bush.

I’m sorry but that is NOT SMALL in my book! You simply cannot pay for things the people were behind while decreasing the responsibility of the people to pay for them.

Unfortunately people then believe government needs to be smaller and stay out of our business. Say that to the people that are scraping by to pay the CEO’s and bankers and wall street and insurance fat cats! We need to make these things affordable and obviously the good people at all these corporations, most of which send the jobs they should be paying Americans to do to other countries simply to make more profit for their pockets, do not intend on taking cuts in their pay to make this a better country.

Please government step in and fix this. I am all for the regulation of companies that continually rape the American people because they have a service that people have to pay for. Supply and demand is a bitch! But that does not mean we should all be at their mercy in order to obtain those services. Not when they are things like insurance that we should all be able to have whether we can afford them or not.Yes every human being should be able to get medical attention and not go broke doing it.

Don’t get me wrong that doesn’t mean everybody should be entitled to cheap tv’s or cars or non necessity items. But we should not be going broke paying for necessities!

Once again the republicans want to decrease taxes which never does anything but give people false belief that they are making more money. In actuality it just makes it more likely that a future generation will have to have huge taxes to make up for the lack of revenue created by tax cuts.

The problem is nobody wants to pay taxes but everybody wants to bitch about the debt. Where do we all think the money for our country to thrive comes from? The people! And it is our responsibility to pay to keep our roads paved and our water drinkable and our sick to get healthy so they can be productive again. What about defense or education? Research and development to stay relevant in the world? It takes a lot of money to do these things. Where do you all think it comes from?

I encourage you all to think about what your life would be like if you were at a ceo’s mercy to pay for education. Or Road repairs. Or if they were in charge of the welfare system. Holy shit you think it’s bad now!

What about the elderly? Anyone that thinks social security should be privatized should forfeit their social security payments. That is the insurance we get as productive members of society to not have to worry about what we are going to do when we can no longer work. If it is privatized people that get sick will watch their retirement savings get frozen or garnished to pay for their illness. Something they cannot do to your social security. If you think it’s so easy to live without social security then give it up! But you won’t. And things might be tough right now but at least these people are getting something to help.

It is even our responsibility to take care of the people that cannot take care of themselves. That’s why it is important to pay for education and not cut it to pay for wars or congress’ paychecks. The more educated our kids are the more likely they are to not need welfare or continue in a depressing cycle of hopelessness and the outcomes of said depression.

No welfare programs that I know of will let you indefinitely collect benefits  without actively searching for work or being involved in some kind of active program. The only exception is food stamps and those are even limited by household income. To believe that people just get free money every month without participating in work search programs or such is ridiculous. It just shows the lack of knowledge people have when it comes to welfare if they have never had to use it themselves. You don’t just walk in and get free money. It’s actually a huge process with all sorts of verifications involved.

The bottom line is the richest people in the nation, most of whom do not complain about increasing their taxes, are not in any worse position then they ever have been. In reality they have been given a break the last 10 years that frankly they should never have gotten or gotten used to. And from what I have seen many of the richest people such as movie stars and sports players and musicians all back Obama and do not mind paying more taxes because they know for the most part it is going to benefit us all and future generations to reign it in now and not keep passing off the buck.

This “factual” article states in plain view that the republicans are holding up help for 98% of Americans! Simply to protect many of their backers and friends that are making it worth their while. We must pay for the damage that has been caused to this country and if the republicans can get rid of their all or nothing attitude we could get a lot more done.

Frankly I support Obama vetoing this if they try to cover everyone with it. Not to screw the little people but to show that if the little guys want to stick up for the big wigs and fat cats, most of which are screwing the shit out of the middle class, that they can be just as liable for the debts this country approved. If they don’t want to at least compromise and start to work their way out of the hole starting with the people that can afford it then it’s time for a hard hand to smack sense back into the people.

You cannot lower taxes and then approve a trillion + $ war and not expect to ever have to pay for it. Well you can but it just means our kids and our kids kids will have to pay for it with interest. I don’t think anyone making less than 250000 a year should even be able to bitch about this. It simply does not affect them. In actuality it affects them more to have it pass because we get NO relief in any form and continue to pass along the debt to future generations.

None of the tax rates will be higher then previous taxes. They will be the same as they were under Clinton when the country was thriving and growing and actually saving money. So to say this is unheard of or it will kill these people, it won’t! It will more than likely help everyone and maybe if we can get a surplus back up and get our debts taken care of. Then maybe we can consider lowering taxes again.

But it will take the strength and will of the American people to be selfless and willing to do what may hurt us a little, to save future generations from hurting A LOT!!!

I know it goes against most of our personal beliefs and human nature to be selfless and not want something for nothing but if you care about your kids and the future of this country we must come together, pay our debts and get this country back on track.

WE ARE THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH! We can do this but it’s going to take compromise. And that does not mean that we have to agree to everything to compromise and if we agree to half we are not compromising. Actually that defeats the purpose of compromise. Meeting halfway in the middle is ok. We can always reevaluate things and change them accordingly as long as there’s a foundation and you should always start with what everyone agrees on and iron out the rest later. Not just screw everyone until you get your way.

They all agree middle class should get help. Start with that and figure out the rest as you go while at the same time gaining more money to take down some of this debt.

Or we can go on believing we AREN’T in this together and to each their own. In which case things will only continue to get worse in this country.

Good luck to all and hopefully you do your research and find your own facts to go on. Please do not base your beliefs off the many extremist news corps and go to people you trust.

And most importantly no matter what side you are on go vote! If not shut your mouth and take your lumps!!!

November

Just voting republicans back into office will not make everything better again unless they are no longer living in the old world.

We must evolve and try new things or we will end up with the same results. The definition of insanity: Dong the same things over and over expecting different results!

We must provide for our needy and help them up not ignore them and continue to help the rich guys.

Until Americans are given the work force back that republicans and democrats gave away through tax breaks and allowing them to ship jobs over seas we will continue to have a need for welfare. Other nations and ceo’s, not working people, will continue to reap the benefits that we should be reaping.

I don’t see the republicans saying they will end the shipping away of our jobs and that’s the only thing that I think will bring the economy and the American pride back to this country which with great opposition Obama is trying to do.

If we had good paying jobs we’d have incentive to work harder. But slaving over a job that doesn’t even meet basic needs is discouraging at the least. Especially to buy all the cheap foreign crap that we have to constantly replace with more poor quality foreign goods while watching our hard earned money fly over seas.

I think the rich getting richer helps no one but them and I don’t feel bad that they might lose their precious tax breaks.

Most of them did not work hard. They were bankers or politicians both democrat and republican or sports idols or musicians or insurance fat cats.

Although they should get what they earn they should not be getting more then teachers and American backbone workers like the steel workers or assembly line workers. Or even the little people like fast food workers or muffler people! They are the real heroes that keep America moving and should be paid appropriately.

Not some fat cat that jacks prices up while shipping away jobs for cheap labor so their profits rise while our pay and savings get raped.

97% of us will never see the taxes they are asking the upper 3% to pay and frankly they are the ones that can afford it the most. It infuriates me to see people that would never be touched by this bitch about it and say it’s not right or lay false claim that it will effect them.

Please don’t be fooled by thinking if we repeal health care so that only 3 million vs 33 million will get coverage that that will help. That will still keep us in the same boat with the insurance agencies and continue to have taxes go up to cover the people that still have no coverage.

You can pay a little now or continue to pay more and more forever. And you will either way that’s just the way a humane society works.

Taking away funding for abortions will only lead to even more children that are a burden to this country because their parents don’t want them or can’t afford them. Can’t anyone see that? And if you think it’s their problem you’re wrong. It becomes yours the minute they go on welfare or that kid becomes a ward of the state or gets dropped off at the nearest church or police station.

Maybe if there was answers to these questions and not just a general denial that it is a social problem and not just an individual one I’d be able to get on board.

We can all go on believing that our side is right but we suffer as a whole because of seperatism and religious belief.

How can you say you don’t want welfare but require people to take responsibilty for things they know will lead them down that path? Because your God says so? Well then your God can pay your taxes!

But he/she won’t so let’s all realize that we are in this together and until we come up with solutions like until we have more adopters then abortions then we still give the mother the option. Until someone can use their body to carry to term a baby for a person that doesn’t want to have their body go through that then we still give those people a choice.

Until prices reflect the product let’s remember that most minimum wage jobs which a lot of people have do not cover basic living expenses.

Just because some of us have parents that were able to give us more than others, or because we had a better shot at making a life does not mean that those that do not should suffer even more than they already do in their every day struggle.

It is greed in the upper levels that have forced us to go from single income happy homes to multiple income not even making ends meet homes. Not democrat or republican, but special interest groups that have padded pockets of politicians so they could send their jobs over seas to boost their profit. All the while taking our good paying American jobs and replacing them with all the crap jobs.

We are building everyone elses economies in the meantime and if a single person would just come forth and say they are going to change this I would vote for them whatever party they are.

Until then I will stick with the democrats and let them tax big corporations and try to help the people who need it. If they can’t lower their profit margin and give us back jobs then I say to hell with them! They are not employing us anyway and the ones that still do have a job with them here are the greedy bastards that have sent our jobs away in the first place.

I hope someone out there will realize this and see that I’m not a staunch democrat.

I am a staunch American and I have seen what the republicans have done to sell us regular folk up the river so they can pad their own pockets and the pockets of their buddies.

I’m sure democrats are to blame as well but the majority of my life has been republicans in office and it’s only gotten worse.

I do see at least an attempt, whether right or wrong, by the democrats and that is why I stand behind them. Not necessarily because they are right but because at least they are trying something new.

I think a grave mistake will be made if we vote republicans in just to vote them in.

If you don’t know what they stand for you are doing a disservice to your country.

Yes I have voted for republicans as I will continue to do IF they have some sense of fighting for the American people and not just the top 3%! As I will NOT vote for democrats just because they are democrats.

I encourage all of you to become better informed and make an educated decision.

Chances are if your candidate is only talking about what they don’t want they have no idea what they are gonna do if they win!

Hopefully you get a better picture of why I get so frustrated at all the bullshit that goes around and people believing that the solution is to revert back to how we were.

We will be in this same position over and over again if change is thwarted every time it starts simply because it does not move fast enough for our liking.

Our country did not deteriorate over night and neither will the rebuild be ready when you wake up in the morning. We have all been called on to help now and if you don’t want to take part either by paying taxes OR getting off your ass and doing something other than wasting taxpayer money then you don’t belong here.

Our wonderful world

This is based off an article about the french outlawing burqas (muslim headdress)

This goes to show the ignorance of people as a whole. Taking the choice away from the women who want to wear them is unbelievable.

I do however support the penalty for anyone making them wear them against their will.

When will the persecution end for a people who in their core are decent people but have been plagued by extremists?

I am disappointed in France, Germany, Spain and anyone else that would support such a movement.

Muslims are not to blame for the actions of individuals claiming to be part of their religion. Just as not all Germans were Nazis and not all Russians were KGB communists (by choice). Not all Christians were part of the crusades and not all English attacked Indians.

I am however questionable that 2 out of 3 Americans don’t approve of this ban. Not because I don’t have faith in Americans as a whole but with all the propaganda and undue hatred for Muslims and the reports of people vandalizing mosques and profiling Muslims as terrorists it’s hard for me to believe that.

I do however want to believe that 2 out of 3 of my fellow Americans REALLY do NOT approve of this ban and that all the anti Muslim propaganda and negative slander is NOT as widespread as the media and many republican brainwashed biggots claim it to be.

I for one don’t have any hatred for a people that have been given a bad wrap because an amount of other people claim to be associated with them and their religion.

Muslims as a whole and the religion itself are not anti American but just as we invaded a country or two because we did not agree with their tactics or direction or were worried for our safety we MUST respect others for wanting to protect their religion and their liberties just the same. Whether or not we agree with them.

If not we become the Nazis. The communists. The Christian crusaders.

We become the people we pretend to be against.

We become hypocrites.

That is why a lot of Muslims are worried because they see their religion being torn to pieces and are offended just as most of you would be if someone tried to tear apart yours.

All religions have had periods of history where they tried to convert the masses and usually by force. If you think I’m wrong do some research and get back to me.

We are a country founded on religious freedom and all you religious fanatics that think this is a Christian country need to go back to school and re read why this country was founded.

The number 1 reason was to escape religious persecution and obligation.

Which means this county has no religion but what it’s individuals individually believe in.

That is a fact.

We as Americans need to stick together. If you know someone that is a religions biggot remind them that their religion is not free of having blood on it’s hands and that they have no more of a right to have churches or synagogues or mosques or crosses or rosaries or yarmulkes or burqas or any religious idols, clothings, verses, bibles, qur’an, torahs whatever than anyone else in this country.

We are Americans and religion does not change that.

Unfortunately religious battles will never end until all religions embrace their basic rules of peace and love which they all have.

Why does trying to prove your religion has the most peace and love always lead to the most hate and destruction?

Because individuals dislike other individuals and then blame it on religion or they just truly and deeply do not believe and practice the words they preach.

It’s too bad.

I’m glad I’m not part of any group or religion that would teach me or require me to hate anyone for any reason.

Especially under false pretexts and hidden agendas.

I will continue to promote love and acceptance.

Good luck to the rest of you!

Where To Begin?

I haven’t been on in a minute or two so here goes the newest rant…

I officially hate walking! I would love to invent some easier, quicker form of movement. That would be great! I started thinking about this last night and this is what I came up with…

Nothing.

There is no way to go through life without walking.

Even if you had a teleporter or some shit you’d still have to walk to it I’m sure.

Plus the way your body would mangle itself and all those gross bedsores from not stretching or moving much! No thanks.

Which leads me to the problem. It’s got me by the balls. I have to walk.

It’s like being married to a woman you despise and are completely not attracted to. Then going out and slaving at a job you hate for 12 hours and coming home and being forced to have sex with her. EVERY DAY! TWICE A DAY!

All the while knowing if you hadn’t cheated on her with your sexy little secretary (your car) you’d probably have the stamina to stomach the bitch. But you didn’t and since you have a couple of kids and all the bills are in your name you know she’s gonna get all your shit and you’ll still be stuck with the bill.

So you begrudgingly stay.

That’s how I feel about walking.

Yeah, yeah. I’m a lazy asshole.

So I went to Vegas with my best man and his cousin. It was great. I only walked about 500 miles in 4 days. And even though I hate walking I would walk 500 more.

If you’re scratching your head saying that sounds familiar you are an idiot!

We tried to see just about everything we could. It was my first time in Vegas and I had a BLAST! Thank you Scott, my bestie! Ha Ha that’s gay. I’ll stop.

We stayed at THE Hotel at Mandalay Bay.

Pretty nice place overall but if you’re going to offer “european bathing” you better be willing to have at least one token naked chick! Not one chick had enough balls to bare breast! Aw who am I to say anything? I wouldn’t want my breasts out with all the balls floating in that pool either! I’m just saying one of them could have at least borrowed a set and let it ride.

Other than that: Great place.

Hit a couple of wins and pretty much paid for the whole trip. Awesome.

Craps. Game of champions. That’s where I spent most of my days! It’s funny how people love you when you’re rolling hot but once you get a bad roll they gloss over and wonder why they thought it would last forever.

They act like you didn’t just lose them 1000 dollars but you know it hurts. Not that the 3000 I just made em didn’t count for nothing but still. 1000 dollars man. Yeah well I got over the guilt real quick when I realized I had 150 bucks. So cry me a river, right? Ah, they’ll get over it. It does have to be one of the most awkward ways to be mad at someone.

I did get to experience one of my new favorite drinks. KC Tea. Thanks Tech!

Hennessy, Sprite and lime.

Good drink but be prepared to keep a cup in your hands at all time. Either the casino’s were giving me cheap shit or they aren’t that strong. I guess for me that’s a good thing since I’m not a big fish.

Once again if you’re scratching your head… You are an idiot. Talk to more fish.

I would recommend them to anyone that wants to have a good time without the shitty taste and extremely annoying back end (ie. puking, etc.). For that I went with Patron! Well at least at the casinos that weren’t so cheap they wouldn’t comp it! Not many by the way.

I would not trade those four days for anything.

Spending time with two people I’ve known the longest out of everyone that isn’t family, and having fun the entire time! I really couldn’t have asked for more.

The one thing I’m going to take a minute to bitch about are all those mother fuckers lining the street with flyers for hookers. C’mon people lets call em like we see em. Okay, okay. “escorts”. Whatever, they’re hookers!

You can’t walk 1 foot without them trying to cram a card down your throat! I’m sorry I don’t need to pay for your “friendship”. Are all the women in Vegas hookers? No of course they’re not! So why do we need to be harassed while we’re out trying to enjoy ourselves? I’m already fucking walking! As stated before it’s fair to say those poor non english speaking people were at a deficit with me.

Surprising amounts of kids were all over the place. Apparently it’s cool to take small children to a place called Sin City.

And boy did they get it crammed down their throat. I’m sure there are confused young boys everyday secretly taking home hooker cards and defiling themselves. Great family vacation mom! At least they got to do all that gambling before picking up those hookers.

While I’m at it I’m going to get a little off topic here.

If what you are about to read offends you go back to my first blog. If you’re still offended: LEAVE ME ALONE!

I understand that there isn’t a lot of grass in Vegas so to a point I understand why 98% of the hooker card givers were mexican, or Honduran as they liked to say, but really?

There’s nothing better to do then hand out hooker cards to people? How do you get paid for that anyway? Is it by the booking? How do you know which one of them gets the check. They are all handing out the same fucking cards. Do they get freebies? A little from column a and a little from column b? What the fuck?

I hope that someday someone with a shred of human decency puts an end to those grubby street pussy peddlers. At least for all the kids’ sake.

Mom, Dad, I’m going to move to vegas to be a pussy peddler!

Well Johnny you better work on your tan and your accent because I think you’re more likely to be punked out and turned into Joanna the Tranny. Deadliest Dick in the Desert! Try peddling THAT stick pussy.

Good luck!

Enough. ENOUGH!

Just be prepared if you ever go there. They literally line the streets and all you hear is snap, snap as they snap those pussy peddling cards at you!

And the walking. Oh for Christ’s sake be prepared for the walking!

Actually I advise anyone who can’t run the mile in under four minutes to step your game up.

I walked and walked and walked until I was wobbling around on bloody stumps that could barely hold my fast ass up anymore. I looked like one of the weeble wobbles.

Maybe it was from the dancing? Yes, dancing like a jackass when you have no previous experience might seem fun when you’re drunk but it hurts in the morning. Especially to an old ass fart of 28! Just maybe it was the dancing…

No it was all the walking.

I officially hate walking…

Being at home

I am realizing more and more each day that I totally enjoy being at home.

For those of you that don’t know, and I assume most of you probably have no clue who I am, I quit my job in March. I made a decision to goto school and try to get a better grasp on where the future was leading me.

Great right? Yeah you’d think so wouldn’t you?

Let me back up and start from the beginning.

I live in a butthole little town in WA. I did not move here by choice but have been somehow locked into this shithole for 5 years.

Holy shit. 5 YEARS!!!

Through those five years I have been through the birth of a beautiful baby girl, a bitter divorce, a newfound love, a new addition to the family with her son and now another beautiful baby girl. To top that off I have a son in Idaho that I rarely ever get to see because of time/money issues and one of the craziest ex’s ever known to man.

With all this on my plate I had to reevaluate where I was heading. I’m no spring chicken but I have a few deciding years left in my life.

I had been working at a NAPA auto parts for the last 4 years. This in itself was a good, steady job but it simply is not for someone with so much responsibility. How do you provide for three kids in-house and a child support suit on 11 dollars an hour? Especially in the land of overly high rent and living expenses. It just didn’t add up. Shit my other half has a pretty decent job too and we were still sinking faster than the titanic chock full of the biggest, fattest face stuffers on earth!

So one day we were at the nearest car stereo shop (20 miles away) doing some research to make the rattling boom in my trunk louder and an innocent dialogue opened up between my girl and the shop manager. She asked if they were hiring, and of course they were not. So what would it take? 2 years shop experience and an MECP certification.

Is there anything special that helps you through the door?

HERE IT IS: You could goto a stereo installer school.

The words that changed our lives.

I’d recommend Mobile Dynamics. They’ve been around the longest and deemed the best. That would teach you everything you need to know and definitely look good on a resume. But you’d still need 2 years shop experience or you could try best buy.

Okay, closing time. See ya later. Bye!

On the way to the car my girl says maybe we should look into sending you there.

Stop the wordpress!

What What WHAT?

I could never. What would we do? Who’s gonna help with the kids? Oh yeah did I mention this school was 1300 miles away in Tempe, AZ?

We got home and looked it up. Financing available. Great.

Called and had an informational packet sent to me. Sounds awesome.

Can’t get financed though. Sucks. One more dream being flushed down the toilet.

But wait, there’s more. Act now and we will in-house finance you if you can come up with half of the 7500.

Now for the discussions with the woman about how it just won’t work because all the money we have is gonna go towards our wedding. These of course were not easy discussions. To your disbelief I was actually the one saying that we should maybe wait or ditch the idea altogether. All the while wishing there was someway to make it all work.

See I am not usually one to commit to something and not follow through. I usually try my hardest to keep things moving on course and I try not to back out of things if at all possible. Even though I have been wanting to gravitate more towards the working on cars side and not just watching parts go out the door so someone else could do what I wanted to do.

In the end we decided to try to give our future a boost and we’d somehow forge together a wedding.

After that it was on like donkey kong!

Got everything signed and taken care of for school. Check.

Put in my notice at work. Check.

Get fucked over by my crazy ex re: being served paperwork with deadlines 2 days before I uproot to AZ. Check.

Then comes the actual trek. 1 day to Sacramento. Short layover there with friends and family. Oh yes I am driving this whole time.

Then off to Tempe to stay with, what turned out to be a very great lady and her son, whom I met on, you guessed it, craigslist! That took another day.

Finally there. Hot as fuck. Not knowing ANYONE! Showing up at 230 or 3 in the morning to someone’s house I didn’t know short of 3 or 4 emails. Crazy!

School starts 1 day later. Yes 8 weeks and I’ll be home and MECP certified with the knowledge behind it to start my own business. Or at the least get a job at best buy and work for next to nothing until I get established.

So I get there and there’s 2 other people in the classroom with me.

WHAT THE HELL? There’s supposed to be like 30 to 60 people. Nope just 3. And the class before me: 4. Cool less stupid questions. More access to teachers.

Right.

It did not take me long to make friends with the guys. One from Spokane, right next to Coeur d’ Alene where I spent some of my formative years. And one from Canada. Yes we poked fun at him for the way he talked! Cool kid though.

Just when we are breezing through and getting to do some cool shit we get a summons to the classroom.

Here it is 3 weeks in and Friday. We’re all excited for the weekend and ready to relax. Looking forward to Monday and starting on home stereo installation and satellite dish installation techniques then on to the last 4 weeks of classroom instruction. Feeling good about everything and doing great and what comes next?

Bad news guys. Today’s the last day we can keep the doors open.

WHAT???? You gotta be shittin’ us fool.

Funny joke. HAHAHAHA

No joke. We have to declare bankruptcy after 20 some odd years of doing this. Next class size was gonna be maybe 1 and that was still iffy. 22000 dollars a month for shop space not including supplies and electricity and payroll.

Guess that was just a drop in the bucket with 30 to 60 people rolling through every 1 to 2 months.

SON OF A BITCH.

So what are our options?

Stay and be instructed out of someones garage. Not the best but an option. Too bad I had already spilled the beans to my girl who wanted me to come home right away. Option off the table.

Second option: Tom would call in a favor to the Installer Institute in Texas.

HELL NO! Sorry to all you Texas folk but fuck that. WAIT. BUTTFUCK THAT! Paul Wall fine. Bun B great. Texas… Sucks my balls. By the way shameless plug: FUCK GEORGE BUSH. Option off the table.

Option 3: Go home and do the online course previously set up by my school.

DING DING we have a winner. Unfortunately that meant not having an instructor in front of me to explain everything in greater detail then what a computer screen can offer. Crappy hands on experience using a take home lab kit that for all intents and purposes did what it was supposed to do until I left some batteries together with wires touching! Almost set our couch on fire. Luckily our baby expels liquids in every form and fashion so I just pointed her towards it and out that fire went!

So home I go. Lying  Skillfully omitting to my woman that I’m rushing home to surprise her. Pissing off my best friend in Sacramento because he thought I was staying more than just one night. Getting a refund for the second months rent from my very gracious landlady. Getting a warning ticket for speeding through northern California and almost letting him cause me to crash us both into a semi. Holy shit is that a whole other blog!

And finally walking in on my woman as she’s breastfeeding. What’s the big deal you might ask? She thought I was my father who was there helping and started to freak out even after she saw it was me! It didn’t quite register with her. She wasn’t expecting me for another 2 days!!!

On a side note: My father was pretty surprised too when I just pulled up. They all thought I’d be home 2 days later!

Which leads me to now. I’m home. I have finished the online course and am still awaiting my diploma and whatever else they are supposed to send me. It won’t be everything I would’ve gotten had we finished there but I’m sure Paul will do his best. As long as I get my Rockford discount I’ll be happy. No MECP cert yet. Have to wait til next month after the wedding.

The wedding… That’s a whole different blog as well so you can wait.

Now I’ve started to jump through hoops to start my own business and am on track. Permits and licences and all sorts of shit. All this costs money which we have none of. I do have my garage set up and have had a few jobs but I’m looking forward to really diving into this business. It’s something I love to do and am passionate about.

Until then I stay at home with my baby girl and on alternating days and weeks the other two great children that somehow make the walls talk although the walls never seem to talk as much as the kids do! I know this because they will have one-sided conversations when they think we’re not listening. I think it’s creepy. My girl thinks it’s “paranormal activity”.

Fuck that creepy ass movie. I keep waking up at 3 in the morning expecting the screaming woman on top of me to throw me into the wall and stab me to death. She does of course throw me into the wall. And I proceed to “stab” her to death!

God I love being home!

I’m gonna blog now

So my other half has decided to blog about her “issues” so I figure I better balance out the cyberspace continuum! Just to warn you everything you are about to read is subject to being extremely offensive! It by no means is a reference for how I actually live but I am trying to freely express my internal dialogue.

My writing is part fact and part fiction. If you’re not sure which one you’re reading then feel free to ask me for clarification. If you ask me stupid questions about why I say or do things be prepared for an equally offensive response. Most people will know the difference between a crazy rant and things a normal person would never act on. That being said I don’t really eat babies nor do I cut my own balls off and eat them. As a matter of fact I don’t each much but Oreos and ice cream. Google me bitch!

So whether you like it or not you’re about to travel into another dimension. One where sanity is void and my logic rules all!!!

What’s my first blog gonna be about? What else… Babies puking! Everyone loves that topic don’t they? More specifically babies puking on me!

Why do babies always feel the need to poop or pee or puke right out of the bath? Is there a reason that all those words start with a P? Possibly. Here we go again. P words are banned from this household effective immediately!

I love my babies. All of them. But there’s nothing more aggravating than having a baby throw up all over you. It’s never something you can prepare for. Sometimes you think it’s coming and just a burp. Other times you’re hoping it’s just a burp because you’re holding the baby off to one side, trying to do something, when you notice your arm and possibly entire side are wet and dripping some nasty clear fluid with chunks of white curdle in it! Where does it come from she’s not even drinking real milk yet???

Your first instinct is to throw the baby and freak out most likely puking on yourself, and possibly the baby, in revolt.

Oh shit now there’s puke all over us!

Gross.

Then run to the bathroom and away from the source of the pukefest.

Clean up yourself you little puker I got shit all over me! Ew it’s dripping off upper parts of me onto lower parts of me!

Just great.

But we all know that doesn’t really happen. We suck it up, find a safe place to put the baby and thank whatever’s out there that those little ears have no idea what we are actually saying. Once the baby is cleaned up we tend to ourselves, tail tucked between our legs, wishing it happened at the bar. At least then we could have throttled the shit out of the drunk asshole that puked on us.

I wonder if alcohol would have a reverse effect on a baby. Kinda like Ritalin has on kids with bad parents. Maybe babies would stop wobbling when they walk. Maybe they’d stop drooling when their next bottle is coming. Maybe they’d only puke when they were sick. And maybe, just maybe, they’d quit making you pick them up and carry them everywhere!

On a side note: To all you Ritalin parents out there you’re not all bad you are just too scared to reach out and spank that little butt. Sure puts a kid in their place if done with love and an ounce of respect.

If we are so worried about meth addiction why are we basically giving it to our children? I’d rather ration out spankings appropriately and hopefully the worst they get out of that will be some weird spanking fetish. Much better to be addicted to that than meth!

Nowhere do I condone beating a child but with the amount of disrespectful little bastards out there today I’m not afraid to do what many won’t. I don’t care who’s watching or where I am. I will instill discipline in my children so they grow up to be, at the least, respectful of the dangers of society. Not everyone out there will ignore the asinine actions of todays youth. We need to teach them that there are people who don’t care who you are, what you have or your status in society. They will fuck your shit up!

And the fastest way to have that happen is to puke on them!!!!