Walk Away From That House...go on do it...

Okay-so the government bailed out Bear Stearns-shored up Sallie Mae and made a few new rules that are supposed to help us save our houses.

Yeah, right. The only people who benefit from the new rules are the banks and the mortgage companies. Great job, assholes in Congress. Thanks for nothing.

And you wonder why people walk away from their houses, handing you the keys.

Oh, then there are the moralists who talk about OBLIGATION and HONOR.

Remember that old saying-There is no HONOR among thieves??

Three months before the bottom of the housing market fell out I bought a townhouse in Las Vegas, NV. haha Yeah, keep laughing.It is now worth half the price of what I paid for it.

Guess what? The county raised my fucking taxes anyway!!!!!

I used to believe in honor and obligation. For thirty years I have paid my bills on time. I have owned four houses before this one.Never late on a payment.

I had credit cards. Never late on a payment.

Utility bills on time.

Car loans paid in full-never a late payment.

I work two and three jobs now. I support four people on my salary.

I don't need to tell you how credit card interest and fees from banks, even late fees from utility payments and the rising cost of groceries have placed us in victimized positions.

We have no say anymore. Even a threat to discontinue service has no sway.

Since decentralization of services and goods, building of monopolies once again, prices are skyrocketing and we are screwed,

So. I say. screw em. Walk away from that house. Pay your bills at the edge. Screw em

If enough of us say, Screw credit ratings. Screw bank charges and overdraft fees, screw em-walk away.

No one will be a "good risk" and they just might have to change the tune of "Screw the masses"

Thanks Bush. For freeing us of our moral obligation to feel responsible anymore.

You started it.

Giving free reign to corporations to screw us over means Bear Stearns, Sallie Mae and a host of credit card companies are going to take it in the a..

Your buddy Ken Lay started this screwing with Enron employees. With your blessing.

Watch how the American people deal with it.

I'm putting my money under the mattress from now.

I don't trust anyone.

One Pissed Off Old Lady: Update: Teacher Witch Hunt

One Pissed Off Old Lady: Update: Teacher Witch Hunt

Update: Teacher Witch Hunt

A new school year! The fad this year is same sex classes! The latest gurus of education are telling us brain research is on the same page.

Kids learn better in elementary school if learning is geared toward how males and females learn. Differently.

I'm excited. I teach to the energy of 18 seven year old boys.

I bought a pogo stick for my classroom.

Do you think it will make a difference? :)

An observation:

A solemn one, actually-

During our three day orientation a discussion about why so few men in elementary schools ensued-

men stated they don't teach young children anymore because they are automatically considered pedephiles by many.

That is too dangerous.

They also don't like teaching middle or high school girls. Too risky,

The men at my school are more comfortable teaching boys classes-in the older grades.

They say there aren't too many teaching jobs for men where they feel safe anymore.

Art, P.E., music, library or special education. Coaching.

Do you think the media has made a difference in how parents think?

When will we stop sensationalizing the abnormal when overwhelmingly the norms point to dedicated teachers operating in your classrooms?

One Pissed Off Old Lady: The Teachers Witch Hunt

One Pissed Off Old Lady: The Teachers Witch Hunt

One Pissed Off Old Lady: High Schools are obsolete

One Pissed Off Old Lady: High Schools are obsolete

One Pissed Off Old Lady: George Bush telling Russia what to do???????

One Pissed Off Old Lady: George Bush telling Russia what to do???????

One Pissed Off Old Lady: McKenzie Phillip's -Everyone's Public addiction

One Pissed Off Old Lady: McKenzie Phillip's -Everyone's Public addiction

McKenzie Phillip's -Everyone's Public addiction

McKenzie Phillips. Addict.
Watching public persona's struggle with addiction-falling, without the grace of privacy is so painful.
Having experience with addiction not related to drugs but to gambling, I understand the components of addiction and the struggles and cycles.

Avoidance-not of the addiction but of painful realities of our weaknesses has to be the most destructive aspect.

Sometimes accidental death is preferable than the shame and remorse one feels.
I say accidental because most addicts are already dead emotionally. We are not suicidal just feeling hopeless.

All the step and inpatient programs in the world can't pull an addict from the self delusional logic inherent in addiction.

Even the moments of clarity and spans of clarity can't take away those little voices in your head that infuse the insanity of addiction.

I can't imagine how public humiliation would contribute to the well being of anyone.

Of course, it can be considered an intervention-a wake-up call.

For those of you who have never experienced an addiction, try this on for size:

Take all the secrets-and secret thoughts you would never share with anyone-(try being honest about this-don't tell me you tell everyone or someone-everything..please) take all that shame based stuff inside your heart and imagine it printed in the local paper and well as on the 6pm news for a week. Enough so the world knows your "otherness" instead of your "togetherness"
Imagine-really imagine how that feels inside.

An addict lives with that daily. It just doesn't disappear. Recovery is a way of reminding an addict that otherness can be lived with and controlled.

But no addict, deep down, inside, believes that otherness hides. It what makes an addict so vulnerable.

Recovery programs and meetings are a way connecting with others "otherness" to feel sameness.