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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Disaster America-the Reality Show

Can anyone forget the carnage of 9-11? Bodies falling from buildings? Brothers, sisters, wives, sons, daughters, grandparents, beloved family members lost in one morning?

Riveted to the TV, not wanting to look at the disaster, horrified?

The legacy we brought from it?

One massive disastrous America.

The emotional climate in America is leading us to our greatest disaster yet.
One huge carnage, where the fallout will be our children, our families, our elderly parents and those most vulnerable without our love and care.

Help thy neighbor?
Show thy papers.

Educate they children?
Not on my dime.

Support those hurting in today's America? Unemployed? Homeless? Disabled? Uninsured? Without food or shelter?
Regard those people with suspicion. Their misfortunes are self induced.

America sees the world as one big conspiracy and they plan to defend it from unseen evil.
The white race, the supreme ones, those with income will lead the foolish citizens , if ever there was a conspiracy, it is the raping of the naive and foolish middle class citizens who follow the rich at their own peril./

Many bright and enlightened minds have written fact ladened articles regarding the lemming like direction of American citizens.
What they do not realize is the citizens of America have stopped listening to the truth. Sensationalized journalism has courted them for the past twenty years and the results are people believe Fox News and Entertainment Tonight are credible sources.
We are an America demented, having lost the ability to think critically. Entertained by Survivor, seduced by Reality Shows and   filled with junk food media reports  between our bouts of stupid tv..

It is a disaster of the bloodiest, goriest kind. I keep trying to turn my face away from the carnage-stop looking, I tell myself!
But the horror of it is too great. And I don't know how to prepare for the aftermath or
and the absolute, deep, profound grief of losing my America, the land of possibilities and opportunity.
It is a deep, deep dark hole we are falling into, America.
Far worse than Alice's fantasy-land.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

A Nation of Stupids

It used to be kind of amusing. That people bought the Bush lies. Rush Limbaugh could get people going on the dumbest things.
Glenn Beck was a joke and so was Fox News.
Now Fox News is truth to many people,
It is like having the old version of the National Enquirer, with its freak shows, aliens and area 51 cover ups only now half the citizens of our country are stupid enough to believe the outrageous garbage.
Media track Lindsey Lohan like she is something we care about.
We are a nation of stupids.
And come November, the stupids deserve what they vote for.
Perhaps there are people out there still hoping America will come to its senses.
Don't hold your breath.
Ignorance and stupidity are so popular in this country we will make  the Iranian form of government look like something out of "It;s a Small Small World."

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Ponderings of Insomnia

Should you put the cream and sweetener in the coffee cup and then the coffee? Is it possible to do it in a way a spoon would not be needed?
Is there anything symbolic about dreaming of a white cat escaping your house and a black cat sneaking in?
Does a short heavy rain have more density than a longer light rain?
What is a good substitute for egg in a recipe?
If kids are coming to school less intelligent should it still be possible to teach them all that is required on a grade level? Should they just "be able to learn it", even if they come in dumber than 20 years ago?
Is sex still as exciting now that all but the inside of the vagina is shown on all medias? Was sex more exciting when certain things were considered taboo?
Do you think the next generation will have to deal with challenges our earth has never experienced in all it millions and millions of years? Or do you think finite is a myth?

Do you think we are all just going to be obliterated by antibiotic resistant germs or will we just blow ourselves up first?

Will money ever become obsolete?
What would  be the next currency ?
Will we ever get past the gasoline engine or the use of oil?

Will Captain Crunch cereal still be around in ten years?
What can you buy for fifty cents?
A quarter?
What is the Tooth fairy giving out nowadays?
Should we outlaw trick or treating on Halloween?

Should we outlaw any holiday that is not considered a Christian holiday?
Should American businesses be punished for hiring illegal aliens?

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Has President Obama Jumped The Shark?

President Obama came out strong after the election. Stepping into the maelstrom of a melting economy and the dogsh*t of partisan politics, he gathered some of the best and the brightest to address the financial meltdown, the corrupt and negligent federal watchdogs of Wall Street would be tamed and leashed . It was working. The stimulus money seemed to plug the leaks on wall street and the three big auto dealers were salvaged. The banks, although many have failed over the past two years, were also bailed out . Profits for banks, wall street and private enterprise have soared in the past year.

That is where it ends. The middle class paid for the bail outs with retirement funds, small investments, their jobs, homes and any additional small luxuries they may have earned over the lifespan of their employments.
Those hit the hardest, workers fifty and over have been left holding the emptiest bag, after losing high paying jobs, using up those 401K's( Bush was so proud of )to sustain them while job hunting, discovered they were no longer considered employable. A new class of poor, those over fifty but under sixty five, having exhausted savings, retirement and unemployment, have no options.

In addition, the competition for employment is so fierce, those single woman on assistance, once the desirables for the low paying jobs in fast food, nursing homes and temporary work, live under a four year deadline requiring them to find employment-or what? Starve?

While citizens across the nation continue losing jobs and homes, President Obama seems to have gotten in with the "Let Them Eat Cake Crowd", ignoring all the indicators which tells us corporations, banks and finance have raped the citizens of the country, continue to do so by busting unions with concessions, cutbacks, whittling away at workers full time status with benefits and leaving many on the street.
Eventually who buys what industry produces, farmers grow, businesses serve up and banks seek?
It won't be the consumers of 2007 or 2010 will it?
Oh, President Obama no longer seems concerned about it.
Now we have two choices, the crazy Republicans- at least honest about supporting the rich and raping the country's workers or President Obama's crew, having gone half the distance and decided to join the uber-comfortable top 4%, I guess. Because he isn't speaking to me lately.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Our Country-The Reality Show

Dumbing down is putting it mildly. Bristol's ex, Levi is now planning to run for mayor of Wasilla and has a reality show in the works to follow him. Sarah has her Alaska show and Bristol is running an ad against teen pregnancy.?? wtf?

We all act as if this parody and mockery of our political system is just another "pretend" "yawn*" day in the life of an American citizen.
There are days when I read the news and am ashamed to tell people I am a teacher.
Life is not a reality show and the vulgar the better wasn't exactly the motto I had hoped we would be proud to hold out to other countries.
The 14th Amendment scare, along with the unknown FBI informants is another example of the dumbing down of our country.
Watching the word stupidity become an action, a reality, is such a painful process.
I keep hoping we will come to our senses and stop all this craziness.
Will we or are we doomed to prove that the lowest common denominator in humanity is well and alive in the United States?
PS All the while the top 2%- the wealthiest- are laughing all the way to the bank.

Monday, August 09, 2010

The Mudslides of Motherhood

I have a new grandson. He shed his newborn old man look and is slowly transforming into a chubby little baby with dimples. He has my crooked smile, my daughter's pretty face and his dad's ears.
The first thing he learned to do was smile.
Nature does that for a reason. Babies require so much time and work, if they didn't smile, it could be a little hard to keep going.
I just finished the 3:30 feeding and it is almost 6:30. He's a gourmet feeder-liked to try a little, smile and coo, eat a little more, smile and coo, gaze around the room, taste a little more.
I'm glad he already likes the finer things in life.

My daughter will be 18 in 5 months. She sat with me last night and told me taking care of a baby is the hardest thing she has ever done. She is exhausted and it shows. The pregnancy wasn't wasy but all the time she was pregnant I kept reminding her this was the easy part.
I raised my daughter by myself. Oh, her dad came to visit her and he has always been good about child support generous with her if she needed other things.
Bu the knew he did not want to be a full time parent at the stage in his life when I became pregnant. I definitely wasn't "the one" so that left me with a decision to make.
When I decided to keep my daughter, I was thirty nine. I had a son graduating from high school.
Raising her was never easy, but my love for her is steadfast, always there, she knows this.
For her motherhood is a huge, huge responsibility. She no longer feels connected to her friends. She is too tired to hang out. She feels isolated at home. One day she told me the hardest day is Monday when we all go back to work.
Motherhood comes in all sizes. From teen age to middle age, middle class to poor, motherhood stands, hung with expectations, traditions and assumptions.
Some things never change. woman bear children and bear the responsibility for them as well. The occasional bottle feeding, diaper changing and "willing to help out when asked" is about the limit for men.
Women spend thousands of hours caring for children. Over the past 50 years women have not only continued this job, they have taken on the additional role of breadwinner often alone, with a mate, it means triple the work.
My daughter and I talked frankly about motherhood. So I am going to say the words women never say out loud for fear they will be condemned as not only horrible mothers (omg!) but terrible human beings.
1. Motherhood is a thankless job at times. The demands can suck the life out of a woman and the only thing really motivating her is the need for sleep! Oh what sweet sleep five or more hours can be to a woman sleep deprived, exhausted and feeling terribly hormonal. Of course, men have to go to work, so they can't possibly awaken to take on all three night feedings. Many women are alone and have no choice.
As a society we all know what sleep deprivation feels like. Light headed-dizzy, spots before the eyes, dry skin, heavy limbs, zombie like brain.
Most of us know we can make it through one day-and then sleep for 12 hours.
New moms get no break. Constant sleep deprivation.
2. The rewards are intrinsic-great. Everyone tells you the rewards are intrinsic, society is so intent on sending the message to woman being a good mom means love it or your horrible-but the rewards are sparse, actually, and the love one has for a child has little to do with the actual chores of parenting. Yes, we love our kids. No we don't like being tethered to a human being with needs so great is controls the entire household. Yes, it is thrilling to see the changes, the first smile, the first step, no it isn't grand to work all day and be up with a crabby baby all night, and then go to work again.
Reality is-a baby needs the care of at least three full time caretakers.
Who invented the rule that the mom is responsible for triple duty?

3. Money IS everything. Money provides women more choices. It is the differences between a caretaker one worries about each day and a sense of security. Money provides respite care for mom. Money allows women choices about the level of work required outside of the home.
Money also provides choice. Poor women receiving cash assistance from any state in the US is required to place their child in day care 8 hours a day five days a week and do SOMETHING-even if it is cleaning up trash at the county dump 40 hours per week.  Poor woman cannot stay home and raise their kids in infancy-at six weeks they are required to place their kids.
Money talks.

4. Have men become worthless to the woman who does it all?
"Helping out" ? Why do woman still accept this? Men should share equally in the child rearing process. Woman are equal partners in the work world. In today's world, I would not have a child unless I had a commitment from my spouse to provide equal care for our child. If he reneged, I would divorce him.
Seriously. I would be doing all the work anyway, so why keep him around?

5. The above observations do not cancel out the fact my grandson is cute, he has a great smile, and he is hungry again..:}