Crazy

Watching a National Geographic Show about Gang Lockdown...what the hell?! These guys are still controlling their gangs in cities 400 miles away from inside the walls of the prison. Prisoners are still stabbed, killed, guards threatened. We are way too freaking lenient...send these fools to Antarctica, give them nothing. Why are we wasting time, effort and tax dollars on these freaks? Why are we making them comfortable? Can you say electric shock collars? Hey call me crazy.

If this wasn't enough video craziness for one evening, earlier I watched a news segment on Sixty Minutes about Mental Illness. It points out how easy it is for people who have been involuntarily committed to a mental hospital to buy a gun or any type of firearm after they have been released. How can our laws be so screwed up? Are we collectively that stupid?

Here's another crazy item. As someone who is recently unemployed, we are quickly discovering the nightmare of no health insurance benefits. The monthly COBRA payment is 1200 dollars. After six months or close to 8,000 dollars coming out of savings we are seriously considering stopping COBRA. According to the law we have another sixty days and if we do not have some sort of temporary health insurance then our "continuous coverage" lapses and Health Insurance Companies in the future will have the right to deny us health insurance if we have pre-existing conditions for up to one year or more...in other words, you're screwed and will be forced to pay full boat on all health costs which for most people is astronomical. God forbid you have some sort of chronic illness like Cancer, COPD, Diabetes, Asthma, IBS or AIDS. Vision and Dental? (Laugh here). It will be cheaper for you to just die and be buried in the ground. What? That's CRAZY!

And then again, there is still IRAQ, a bill passed by both the House and Senate to fund our troops with the caveat to begin troop withdrawal in October and we have a President who is about to VETO this bill...it doesn't get any crazier.

Come over here and tighten the belts on this straight jacket.

Change

We need to change our ways. We are involved in IRAQ because of weapons of mass destruction...there are none. Are we stupid? We are still in IRAQ after four years. Young men and women come home missing limbs, some will never come home; still others have not come home outside of a coffin or body bag. The IRAQI people will never appreciate our personal sacrifice, afterall, they have been at war for a thousand years and their war will continue for a thousand more.

Do we just follow like lemmings to the cliff and jump off? Do we allow people like Dick Cheney and Dubbayah to have the final word? Or do we just say NO!

We need to say enough and we need to say enough loudly so that the stupid people can hear us. Do you really want to go on each day with a headline about bodies being blown to bits in the name of Allah? Insanity. We keep doing the same thing but expect different results. Insanity.

We are a country where MONEY trumps everything.

We are a country that is fascinated by American Idol, LOST and Dancing with the Stars...hello?! How stupid is that?

We are a country fascinated with Twitter...our life is sooo boring that we need to know what the other person is doing right this second...hello?! I don't want to know that you just popped a zit.

We are a country that pays money to watch Borat on the BIG Screen.

We are a country that gathers in large coliseums to watch organized violence. Sound familiar?

We are a country that is hypicritical...we have hypocrisy down to a fine science when it involves racism, class society, politics, religion, education, money and power.

We are a country of losers because there is only ONE winner and if there is only one winner, then logic dictates that everyone else lost or DID NOT WIN! How does it feel to be a loser?

We are a country where it's o.k. to tell a lie.

If the world ended today, there will be many in our country who don't make the cut. Think about that for a moment.

Change is our only alternative.

Change is our only choice.

Change will allow us to survive, adapt and move on.

Are you willing to change?

tears

There are no complaints in my life when I realize there are people like Ty and Renee in the world. I do have genuine tears for those who make sacrifices in my behalf. I cry as I write this and hope that others will share in my disbelief and appreciation...bring them all home-now. This young man, Marine Sgt. Ty Ziegel is truly a hero and is blessed with a family and a fiancee' who stood by him and supported him through a very tough time..I wish I had such strength and courage.