Taser “ware” Parties

Not long ago the owner of a local sports and gun shop was telling me that more and more women were now purchasing handguns, including nurses, teachers and other professionals. The female membership in area gun clubs has also increased where they can get training and practice. The reason behind all this is personal protection. If you check gun owner statistics they generally tell you that female gun ownership has gone down.  Most people, especially women will not admit to gun ownership and the federal government is prohibited by law from maintaining any kind of registry of ordinary firearms (rifles, pistols and shotguns). Very few states have gun registries, and most that do,   have only pistol registration. Today I was reading about Tasers now being sold at home parties for women just like Tuperware and other such items.  Read for yourself about Taser home parties or watch the video  from the Today Show. 

In a few states such as New York, owning a taser or even pepper spray is illegal. It is not easy to get a handgun permit in NYS, nor should it be. Taser ownership should be subject to the same registration and guild lines as handguns anywhere it is within the law to own one. They can be abused in ways I don’t even want to think about. I believe women should be able to defend themselves and that tasers are much better and safer then guns, but to have them demonstrated at home parties seems a bit over board to say the least.

Edwards dropping out………….

“DENVER – Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while grappling with family hardship that roused voters’sympathies but never diverted his campaign, according to The Associated Press and NBC News.”  Read   Edwards dropping out of presidential race

This is sad news, but not unexpected. I had hoped much better for him  as he was one of two democrats that brought hope for truth, new politics and a new direction in our goverment.

Time for Change

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
—John F. Kennedy

 

Music to Obama’s South Carolina Victory Speech 2 of 2

Moving Along

It’s been just over a month since I started my new blog here at wordpress.   The holidays have long passed, I am greatly anticipating the reawakening that happens when Spring makes it’s first debut and our Summer camping reservations are nearly made for our outings in the Adirondacks.    There was a time when we slept in leaky tents with the kids running around in the mud.   We graduated to sleeping in our van when it came down to just the two of us and that made it much easier on our backs.   Now it’s the van on weekends and a cabin for a week’s stay.   Somehow changing clothes and moving around in the van to get comfortable became a chore.  I am going to be making changes here on my blog over the next few days.    I might even do something with the blank “About” page.    After all, at 58 I am not a blank slate!

Morning spousal greetings…….

Me:  Don’t take all day in there!

Him: Why you gotta go somewhere?

Me:   I gotta go all right,  and it may be on top of you!

10 minutes later………..

Me: You going to die in there?

Him:  Nope,  I’m not into population control today.

Me: Damn, I am!

20 minutes later as he walks out of the bathroom..

Him:  You happy now?

Me: Nope

Him:  Good! 

Me: It’s toxic in here!

Him: I’m alive, whatcha complaining about?

Me:  Thats exactly what I’m complaining about!

Peace!

Duh……. Who’s Dumb?

Jonathan Alter, a Senior Editor and Columnist for Newsweek wrote today, “Obama’s best hope is that Democratic voters aren’t as dumb as Hillary and Bill Clinton think they are. The outcome of the primaries depends on whether, amid their busy lives, voters can get a general fix on who is more often telling the truth about the barrage of charges and countercharges.This is ironic, because the way Bill Clinton survived impeachment was by betting on the intelligence of the American public. Now he’s betting against it.” Here is the full article ‘The Clintons’ Patronizing Strategy’

Personally I find Hillary and Bill Clinton embarrassing and highly insulting to all Americans, especially African-Americans. The USA must be the laughing stock around the world as these two play their dirty games. Hillary goes off like a little angel while Billy boy is told to stay back and fight for her. Just before each caucus or primary she sends her attack dog out just in time to make Obama look bad even if they are lies or half truths. Hillary certainly is not the woman I want my granddaughter to see as first woman president!

Chelsea Clinton has my sympathy. I can’t help but wonder why a 27 year old adult can’t speak for herself. But then maybe I do know, I grew up in a very dysfunctional family too. Is she afraid of her parents rage if she says the wrong thing? Makes one wonder what more they are afraid of. Chelsea Clinton is the only child who would not speak to children reporters from Scholastic News. Newsweek ran a nice article about what the other candidates children had to say.

Read “Kids interview candidates’ children “

I’m happy that Barak Obama has shown he has the gumption to fight back. Now I wish we could get back to hearing what Barak Obama and John Ewards have to say. Hillary Clinton has said enough. I really don’t want to see how many more times she can change her mind. She changes her mind like most woman change clothes getting ready for a date! I would love to see a good debate betweenBarak Obama and John Edwards. I know too many woman now who will NOT vote if Hillary gets the nomination. Wouldn’t the republicans like that?

Peace!

To ‘Think’ is to ‘Be’

Beware the righteous man that talks,
a straight and narrow path he walks
His mind is set in a concrete block,
he’ll  chain your’s  with a  stout lock.

Peer between the rigid lines
think for yourself and you’ll be fine.
Stand up, be proud, be yourself,
don’t place your mind upon a shelf.

Beware the evil that walks the land,
he’ll take all, if you don’t make a stand
He walks a crooked twisted road,
your soul he wishes to erode.

Greed lives for naught but strife,
it cherishes not a single life.
Stand up, be proud, be yourself,
don’t place your mind upon a shelf.

Not all is black not all is white,
sometimes gray is what’s right.
We each come from a different seed,
not all live for the same need.

Take a path with turns and curves,
your senses are a shield that serves.
Stand up, be proud, be yourself,
don’t place your mind upon a shelf.

~Mary Blu~ @  2008  

  (revised from a poem written in 2004)

Millitary Warned About Bogus Email

“WASHINGTON – The  US military has warned soldiers not to use official computers to forward a chain e-mail that falsely accuses Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama of being a Muslim who attended a radical Muslim school, saying distribution of the information is a violation of Army regulations and constitutes unlawful political activity. “     Read the full story here. 

It’s a shame that people have the need to spread lies to get what they want.  It’s a greater shame when people believe without looking for the real truth themsleves.  

…..Now who is that man that always says  “Question Everything.  That’s where the Truth resides!?”   Could it be the Capt.?

The Sun Reigns High Behind the Clouds

Happiness is something you acquire when you become in touch with yourself and who you are.  

Laughter is the sign of the joy that’s in a heart that can make light of burdens,  and a conveyor of sunshine on a cloudy day.

Sunshine is the warmth and light that shines in a positive ray of energy and hope even in the dark of night.

I recently made this comment,  “We will grow old together in happiness, laughter and sunshine.”   I might add, even if it’s my own  “happiness, laughter and sunshine”  that holds it all together,  or perhaps just holds me together. 

He showed a side of himself this weekend that I haven’t seen in a long time.

Commitment, Infidelity and Interfering Selfish Children

A headline that read,  “Children try to deal with mother’s affair,”  drew my attention to Annie’s mailbox in todays’ paper.  I usually skip right by this advice column but I was curious thinking that it may have referred to young children.  Was I surprised!

An adult daughter and son found out that their church going mother was cheating on their father and consulted with their minister about the situation.  They then told their father and gave him pictures they had obtained of their mother in the company of her lover.   According to the letter,  the parents have been married nearly 50 years,  the father is 71 years old and in poor health.  Also,  the mother did not have a history of multiple love affairs,  but one that had been on going for 25 years according to another sibling who apparently knew about the situation.  The daughter who herself is at least approaching middle age if not older is upset because her mother is still  “lying”  and  “cheating”  while  professing to be a Christian and asks,  “where do we go from here?”

My answer to the daughter,   “You’ve already gone too far!”   I don’t pretend to know the dynamics of this mother and child relationship,  but apparently the adult children saw her as hypocritical in her life style,  and commitment to the church and her marriage,  all of which broke their ideal of who their mother was.  They didn’t act out of concern for their father or for their mother’s  “salvation,”   but out of anger due to the fractured image they now have of her.  They may have struck out to hurt their mother but it was the husband,  their father,  they hurt the most.  Just think,  at 71 yrs. of age and with 50 yrs. of marriage,  “daddy” and “mommy” are going for marriage counseling because the  ‘”babies” are furious after finding out about mother’s infidelity!  I do know the whole incident of the mother’s affair  is none of their business.   I won’t even comment on the role their minister may have played in handling this situation in such a way as to hurt the husband. 

Chances are their father knew about his wife’s affair or had suspicions for a along time.   Even if he didn’t,  all the so called “adult” children did,  was succeed in creating an unpleasant mess in their parents last years of life,  all out of their own selfishness.  These adult children are the ones who need counseling to understand why they had the need to hurt two elderly people,  their parents, so bad.

Any thoughts on this?

It All Comes Out in the Laundry…………

The inner city hospital where I was employed for 30 years will no longer exist within several months as it is taken over by another hospital.  Some employees will lose their job.  The news announcement was the only notice the employees received.  I wonder if they had the ER ready for the shock victims! 

A win for democracy and common working folk today when a federal judge ruled that the Democratic party can go ahead and set up “at-large” precincts for this weekend’s Nevada caucuses in nine casinos on Las Vegas strip.  It goes to show that dirty politics doesn’t always win!  Does Bill and Hillary think we are all stupid or don’t they trust the intelligence of the working class and Hispanics and other minorities? After all,  they might choose someone besides Hillary! 

I’ve discovered the fate of the missing sock. While in the laundromat this morning I noticed a tyke switching peoples laundry between different dryers. I think he was in cahoots with the gremlin sock snatchers!  I swear I heard whispering as the tyke walked by me!

From dirty politics to insensitive employers,   the gremlins at least give life some humor!

Personally I prefer the gremlins and tykes of this world.    Gremlins are fantasy and tykes aren’t afraid to ask why and explore for truth of what is.   It all comes out in the laundry in the end.