Obama drops the charges on a case that was already won?

Everyday this joker is in office this country comes closer and closer to total collapse.

Charges that were brought against three members of the New Black Panther Party of Self-Defense have been dropped by the Obama Justice Department..... despite the fact that the case had already been won.

Bartle Bull, who worked as a civil rights lawyer in the 60's was a witness to the entire incident and he stated

it was the most blatant form of voter intimidation he had ever seen.

The three black panthers, Minister King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Jerry Jackson were charged in a civil complaint in the final days of the Bush administration with violating the voter rights act by using coercion, threats and intimidation. Shabazz allegedly held a nightstick or baton that prosecutors said he pointed at people and menacingly tapped it. Prosecutors also say he "supports racially motivated violence against non-blacks and Jews."

In his affidavit, obtained by FOX News, Bull wrote "I watched the two uniformed men confront voters and attempt to intimidate voters. They were positioned in a location that forced every voter to pass in close proximity to them. The weapon was openly displayed and brandished in plain sight of voters."

He also said they tried to "interfere with the work of other poll observers ... whom the uniformed men apparently believed did not share their preferences politically," noting that one of the panthers turned toward the white poll observers and said "you are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker."

Is there anyone out there that can stop this man from destroying this country before it is too late?

Remember when you thought.....

that there were certain things that would NEVER be taken away from us. Well folks you are in for the ride of your life. There are two stories in the news today that will make your face turn red and steam come out of your ears.

The first one comes from San Diego, CA. Pastor David Jones and his wife have been told that they cannot invite friends to their home for a Bible Study. They have received a written citation that states "unlawful use of land". The Jones said that they invite friends to the home, have a meal, pray and study.

They are not playing loud music, drinking, or causing a ruckus. The "permit" that the city wants the Jones couple to purchase costs tens of thousands of dollars.

There is just NOTHING about this story that seems reasonable. The couple next door to us had a Memorial Day party at their house this past weekend. There were about seven to eight cars, twenty kids, and even more adults. Are you saying that they should have to apply for a permit to invite people to their house. What is next? Is the government going to tell us how many people we are allowed to invite to our house.

The next story is just as bad.

Debbie McLucas was told that displaying a 3 x 5 flag in her office at work was offensive and had to be removed. When she entered her office to willingly remove the flag she found it wrapped around the pole and sitting in the corner on the ground.

Mrs. McLucas has a very good reason to be very proud of that flag. Her husband and both of her sons served in the US military and her daughter is currently deployed to Iraq on her second tour.

The Texas hospital - Kindred Hospital in Mansfield Texas stated that they received several complaints that people found the flag very offensive. A US flag being displayed by a women that has given up more than most of us could ever imagine and that is offensive?

I find it very offensive that she should have to work with such horrible people and . Mrs. McLucas stated that one of her colleagues, a woman who immigrated to the US from Africa 14 years ago is the person responsible for the "complaint". I have a suggestion: why don't we all start a fund to raise money to send this women back where she came from. A place that is less offensive. This sound like harassment in the workplace to me.

CAL came home

with a video from the bus. We took it to school......... the result....... CAL should not have been videotaping and that is what caused the teasing.

I love these

Found this at Luna Nina

Week 330

2 days, 15 hours ago

I say ... and you think ... ?

1. Lisa :: Marie
   
2. Hope :: I have it
   
3. Irene :: Goodnight
   
4. Tony :: Orlando
   
5. Anna :: Nicole
   
6. Dolly :: Parton
   
7. Laura :: Ingalls
   
8. Debbie :: Gibbon
   
9. Wilson :: Pickett
   
10. Paula :: Abdul
    

Just received an email.....

Teacher email:

Today when CAL returned from lunch he came to me and said that (a certain child that CAL has had issues with all year) pushed him while lining up at the end of recess. I had him tell his other teacher who has "certain child" currently and I sent him down to guidance. I don’t have the full details but I wanted to let you know that something happened today at recess. Unfortunately, today is not a Starfish day to have lunch/recess duty so we did not see the incident

My response:

CAL has been complaining about this child almost daily. He will not say anything about bullying unless it turns physical, that is why I am hearing so much and you are not. He had a rough weekend and I am sure his tolerance level is lower than most days. I just want you to know that CAL is being bullied on a daily basis.


Teacher Response:

When CAL came back from guidance he said that Mrs."soandso" talked to both himself and the other child and it appeared that this time it was a miss understanding. Other child was playing tag and running away from someone else. When he bumped into CAL he apologized and CAL said that was true. I am on lunch/recess duty tomorrow and I will keep eye out for any funny business

I am going to talk to Guidance about this daily bullying issue personally

My Response:

Yes most of these kids are VERY GOOD at bullying in the name of a game. CAL is scared...... he is scared because the last time he had an issue he lost all of his friends and had to deal with harassing texts and phone calls for a couple days. The other day on the way to Tech Ed. this child accidentally pushed him into MM. Then hoodlum number two said that CAL must be gay because he didn't "enjoy" it.CAL is at his wits end and frankly so are we.



Are these teachers and counselors that out to lunch that they don't understand how this entire thing went down. In the name of the game certain child "accidentally" runs into CAL (and it must have been hard for CAL to report it) and then gives a "sorrrryyyy", and CAL is suppose to be OK with that.

It starts at the top

I have not blogged about CAL's bullying issues very often because for the most part it is embarrassing for both him and us. Let me just say that it is a daily issue. I have talked to the teachers who "assure" me that it is NOT as bad as we think and that it is "boys being boys". They have claimed not to know about most of the issues, but when I come back with facts they suddenly remember "a little".

This School District has a HUGE problem with bullying. I have been talking to a teacher at the high school and she fills me in..... it only gets worse.

How serious is it for us. We are again talking about moving. If we move it won't be out of NH but just out of this district.

This weekend was horrible. We have new neighbors and those neighbors have decided to become friends with the horrible boys that live on the road in back of us. According to CAL this one child is the biggest "source" of giving him crap. He has an older brother that is mean to CAL one day and then hangs out with CAL until 10:30 the next. It is hard. The Hubby and I want to forbid CAL from hanging around these kids but honestly he is going to have to learn that lesson on his own.

So back to this weekend. I will call the one neighbors the Robbie family and the new neighbors will be called the Quick family.

The Robbies were having a bom fire and the Quicks were invited. CAL said "can I come" and the Robbie boy said "YEAH, sure", and then a few seconds later said "oh wait, you can't because we can only have five at the fire and we already have five, sorrrrry". CAL just said "ok" and walked away.

On Saturday on the Quick boys came to the house and CAL answered the door. "Can we borrow your bat, we are having a wiffle ball game and we want your bat", CAL said "Sure I will be over in a few minutes". The boy then said "Oh your not invited, we just want to borrow your bat."

Yesterday the Quicks had a party. They invited several mutual friends including the Robbies. We were not invited, which is ok with me, they are all a bunch of jock wanna be's. But they could have invited CAL since there were about ten kids that CAL is friends with. Late in the day they came to the door and asked CAL to come play. I really wanted CAL to say no but he was sure they would be nice. I watched from the bedroom window. When CAL went out they immediately asked for his bat. CAL said "No" and they they proceeded to get in his face and tell him "we are going to kick your butt (they used another word) unless you get the bat." CAL stood his ground but they became increasing more hostile as he did. At one point the ball went into a big bush and the one Robbie boy was trying to get it. He couldn't "find" it so CAL went to help. When CAL leaned over to look in the bush the kid pushed him from behind.

I have talked several times to the Robbie parents. She admits that her kids are bullies, assures me it is wrong, but then doesn't do anything about it. Now I know that she has bad-mouthed us to the Quicks. This puts me in a difficult position. I feel like I cannot complain about the bullying to the Quicks or that would be proving the Robbies right.

The only time that I have demanded that something be done is when they attacked CAL in gym class, threw him to the ground and he came home from school with a 2 1/2 inch goose egg on his head. The problem with that is when the school took action several children then accused CAL of being a snitch (CAL actually lied to us about the situation so that these kids would NOT get into trouble) and they harassed him for days. I then demanded that something be done to this group of kids and about five or six, were given lunch detention - together - what a party that must have been. I think that one of the Robbie boys was involved in this situation - but CAL never mentioned his name. His name was actually used by another kid that I accused of being the ring leader. That kid sang like a canary and accused several other kids that I didn't even know about. I believe that is when the Robbie mother became very angry with us.

Everyday there is something. I told CAL to take his phone and video tape when the kids are being mean. He tried that on Friday. CAL took a video of a kid slapping him repeatedly on the back. The problem is in the video because CAL was trying to protect himself and his phone you cannot tell what the kid is doing.

What is that smell

I am very thankful that the sense of smell shuts down when you go to sleep. At some point in the middle of the night I woke up to the call of nature. My mouth tasted horrible and I was more disoriented than usual. It didn't take me long to fully wake up and notice the horrible smell. I thought "great one of our neighbors let their dog out and it found a skunk." I crawled back in bed and wished that I had the energy to get up and close the windows.

Last year we had a resident skunk that I swear spent the night directly under our bedroom window - which is right by my head. The smell was never this bad. Later in the morning I woke up again and this time it was not nature but the fact that I felt like I was being smothered. I was having a hard time breathing. Now I was awake enough and was determined to close the windows. I pulled up the shade to find the window closed. I walked to the other one - closed. How could the smell be this bad if the windows were closed?

The Hubby was in the bathroom getting ready for his day. He gets up an hour before I do. I asked if he had closed the windows - he said "they were never open". "Do you think the skunk might be in the house - under our bed?" He was quite certain that it was not but honestly I slowly lifted the bed skirt and peered under the bed fully expecting to see a black and white object peering back at me. I was in a panic. The other day I opened the back door that leads into our screen house (that doesn't have a roof because it broke last year and we cannot afford a new one this year) and for some reason didn't close the screen, I thought maybe during that time a skunk entered the house. It was unlikely but I am telling you this smell was so strong I thought I was being suffocated. I searched the house high and low and I have not found a skunk. The smell outside was better than inside so I opened all the windows. Our room seemed to be the worse by a mile. It was the strangest thing.

I think I have a new idea for weight loss - skunk smell. It is well past the time for breakfast in our house and neither the Hubby or myself has any desire to eat. I am not sure how well it would sell, maybe I just better stick to Liporexall and not try my hand at skunk trapping again. Several years ago I tried trapping a family of woodchucks that were living under our shed. I forgot to block the trap open at night and caught a skunk. It took me all day to release the silly creature. I threw a blanket over the cage and tried to open the door the skunk would get all upset and I would decide to "let him rest". That was before I started blogging.......

You're Sick of Hearing It,

I know you must all be sick of hearing about my computer issues. Seriously it seems like everyday there is a new exciting experience with either The Hubby's computer or mine. Last Monday it was his. All data files were gone, G-O-N-E. All the programs worked but there was no data. He must have picked up a virus. We sent it to our computer guy and waited. I finally called only to find out that my friend (acquaintance - who is a super lady and would give the shirt off her back to help me and everyone else she knows) was rushed to the hospital. She has some rare cancer and I thought she was winning the battle but apparently NOT! I was so upset. I was upset that I called and talked to her about the computer and she never said a word about being sick. She is such a great lady and does not deserve to be struggling with this.

Several days ago while I had my computer upstairs, CAL didn't notice my stick for my wireless mouse sticking out and bent the USB insert. I thought the computer was ok, but then Friday it started acting funny. The mouse would stop working every time I shut my screen. Today I thought I had it solved - I just would not shut the screen. But, of course, there were other issues. I could not get the machine to turn on. It took me 90 minutes of booting and rebooting to get the computer working. NOW, the USB ports (all four of them not just the one that I thought CAL might have damaged) are not working. That means that I have no mouse and have to use the pad on the laptop. I hate using that, it slows things down so much. Also I have noticed that when the ports stop working my computer will not shut down properly. It will get to the "windows is shutting down" screen and freeze up.

Have I mentioned that I hate computers. This morning what finally made the computer start working again is my temper. Funny but not very often does my temper work in my favor. I became so upset that I just took my hand (open) and slammed it down on the keys. Oddly that started the USB's working again. I don't think I should try that too many times.

Updating

OK within the next few days I am going to be updating my blog roll. This has not been done in years. If you read my blog please leave a comment so I know who to keep and who to discard.

How goes the fight?

Well....... I was doing really good with my overeating issue. Until....... the other day I was dying for chocolate. I bought the small candy bars hoping that would force me to eat less. It didn't, it just made me justify eating more of them. "Well they are small so I can eat three."

I have been exercising more and I have been eating small portions. The problem has only been a day or two. I felt like I ate constantly the other day. I just craved everything from salty to sweet. I find that the best diet supplements are to keep all food out of the office. Something as small as sunflower seeds, can throw my whole day off. I try not to snack between meals.

Here we go again.

An Obama supporter gives a "hate filled" speech and there sits Obama in the background shaking his head with a crap-eat'in grin on his face. This "man" reminds me of a stink'in bobble head doll.

How many times do we have to see this type of behavior from our President.

Wanda Sykes, who thinks she is a comedian, gave a speech at The White House Correspondents' Dinner and she decided to attack a private citizen. Yes, Rush Limbaugh was her target. She likened him to Usama (I don't think I have ever seen that spelling before) bin Laden, and said she hoped he died - all the while liberals giggled.

I have never seen an administration go after private citizens like this one. They attacked Joe the Plumber, Rush Limbaugh, and others that dare to speak out against them.

Do any of you remember the mother of a fallen solider, Cindy Sheehan. She was one of Bush's biggest critic. Do you remember the Bush administration "attacking" her, of course you don't. They didn't. She had her rights and she was allowed those rights without fear.

You asked for it America - CHANGE! Obama has certainly delivered on that campaign promise.

The game of his life.

CAL is playing baseball this year. He took last year off, but missed it so much there was no way he was going to sit out another year. It has been a difficult year so far. Our team is pretty good but CAL has yet to "prove" himself.

We have three coaches and they have four kids, and then there are two kids that are no-doubt-about it good, so that only leaves four positions open. CAL has not been able to secure one of those spots.

Friday night we were playing the team that won it all last year. There are four kids on that team that are CAL's friends. He was very nervous about playing. He knew that he would be stuck in the outfield, or worse ride the bench, and then get teased endlessly at school. The age in this league goes from 10 to 12. CAL would be on the older side so riding the bench is just a tad bit humiliating. Then to ride the bench in front of your friends is about the worst thing that can happen to a 12-year-old.

The game started and it was worse than any of us could have thought. CAL was on the bench for the first three innings. The coach started 10-year-olds before him. I had a feeling that he was in the dugout on the verge of tears. I said to the husband that I was glad it was Friday because if it had been a week-day game I would have kept him home from school the next day, these kids would pick on him for weeks about this game.

Finally when CAL came into the game, he went into the outfield. Usually when you think about bad things happening, they are not as bad as you thought. This game was worse. None of us thought that he would sit and then play outfield.

His first at bat and he had two strikes on him. His team was winning 3 to 2 at this point with a man on. My boy gets up to the plate and nails the ball. It was only a few feet short of a homerun (I have not seen a homerun in this league yet). CAL is not a fast runner so he got a double out of it. He also earned a RBI. Now his team is winning 4 to 2.

When it came time to go back on the field CAL was rewarded and played third base. We are now in the top of the sixth. The first ball hit by the other team is a hard shot to third. My boy grabs it like a pro and throws the guy out at first. The team went wild. It was a nice play. The very next play another hard hit ball with a strange bounce. He again snagged it like a pro - looked the runner back to second and then fired the ball to first. The kid was out. No runs scored. The next batter the ball was hit to the first baseman for an easy out. The team rushed CAL he recorded two of the three outs in the sixth and final inning. His team won 6 to 2. I am not even sure how the scored ended up that way. We went from being so depressed - to such a high in just a matter of minutes.

The frustrating thing about baseball is that you cannot take pictures of the big moments. You never know when the ball is going to your kid. I guess that is ok because I would have taken so many of him the other day that I would have had to purchase a micro sd card to handle the thousands of pictures.

It was the best game that CAL has ever played. Today he had a game at 10:30 am. He started at third and played the entire game there. He struck out and flyed out. The ball never came to him once in the field. Strange what a difference a day makes.

I think he proved himself on Friday but in these leagues unless you are a coaches kid, your spot is never secure. We will have to see what happens......

Peterson FINALLY arrested

Drew Peterson who has a history of dead wives has finally been arrested in connection with one of them. Drew came into the spot light (which he seemed to love and crave) when his fourth wife Stacy Peterson disappeared. Finally authorities started to look into his past.

A grand jury finally indicted Peterson in the murder of Savio, whose death had been ruled an accidental drowning. Savio was wife number three.

I usually steer clear of the following subject.

I don't think I have ever blogged about homosexuality. It is not a topic that I like to discuss. I have SEVERAL people from my past that I consider very special and I love them very much. That being said it doesn't take a genius to figure out on what side of the fence I sit.

But, it doesn't matter what side you sit on this is just not right. I warn you that this material might be very disturbing and not appropriate for work.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health produced The Little Black Book, Queer in the 21st Century, this disgusting booklet was distributed to KIDS at Brookline High School on April 30th 2005. If you look above I told you that the material might not be appropriate for work yet Brookline School gave this to teens.

Had this sex guide been aimed at heterosexual students I would be just as outraged. The language and descriptions in this book should be considered p0rn. The people responsible for distributing this material should have been arrested.

What do you expect?

I am trying to sell my two Oriental Chests that my husband and I purchased before we were married from a furniture store in Syracuse, NY.

I advertised the chest on Craigslist and immediately received five people saying that they wanted to purchase them site unseen. I was so excited until email number six came in and it was almost verbatim as email number one. I emailed all six and said that I would only sell the chests to a local person for cash. I never heard from them again.

Two days ago I received an email from a local person. She immediately wanted to know if I would take less. I told her that the chests were over 17 years old and in good condition and no I don't think I would be interested in taking less. For crying out loud at least look at them before you ask for a discount.

The lady arrived today. She was in the process of counting out the $300 I was asking when I said to her I wanted to go over the units. I showed her everything that was wrong. Every chip, bump, and bruise. She became quite annoyed! She said why didn't you state all this in your ad. I said "They are 17 years old, and I did state that there were other bumps and bruises although I didn't spell out each and every one." She said "I don't think I want to pay $300" I said "OK". She looked at me and said "thank you for your time" and stormed out of the house.

Exactly what do you expect on furniture that is 17 years old?

Freedom of Speech

I had to explain this to my son last night and I thought there might be others out there that would benefit from my wealth of knowledge.

Freedom of Speech does not mean freedom from consequence. You are allowed to say what you wish without fear of being arrested. It does not mean that there will not be consequences that come from your words.

You can be fired from a job for what you say. That is NOT violating your Freedom of Speech. Words are like a tube of toothpaste, once you squeeze that tube and the paste comes out there is no way to put it back.

When will they learn?

I have to laugh every time I hear that A-Rod is still out with an injury. That is what happens when you abuse HGH. After you stop abusing it your body will begin to break down. The same thing happened to Giambi. I just cannot understand the logic that the Yankees are using, these guys should have been sent packing. You abuse drugs you lose your job. This type of activity seems to run rampant in the New York organization.

This type of behavior also gives legitimate products a bad name. There are several very logical reasons that a normal everyday person would use HGH.

The Flip

This weekend the Hubby and I decided to take matters into our own hands and removed the snowblower attachment from our John Deere and put the mower deck on. We had never done this before. We have always hired our local John Deere dealer to come make the flip and charge us $150.00 for this service.

This year we just don't have that $150.00. Both of us had accepted that fact that we might be mowing our yard with the small push mower this year. I had done that job for many years and while I was not looking forward to that three hour job, I knew that it was not a huge deal.

On Saturday I said to the Hubby "I am going to give it a try, if we cannot figure it out then we will try to scrape up the $150." He agreed and we were committed to the job.

This entire process scared the bejeebers out of us because we had been in ear shot of the man who did the flip in the past. He would cuss and swear the entire time and it took him about an hour to do the process. The Hubby and I promised that we would not fight and argue.

I pulled the tractor to the front and grabbed a blanket and looked underneath. Now I was even more scared. I had not a clue. I laid there for about 10 minutes looking at everything and finally it all started to fall into place. What I didn't understand the Hubby seemed to figure out (now this is a miracle all on its own, because the Hubby is mechanically challenged.)

The snowblower came off so easily both the Hubby and I looked at each other and thought the worst. It cannot be this easy. See, we are both very positive thinkers. The easier the job we know the longer it will take. If I think a job is going to take me five minutes, it will take me an hour.

Now was time for the mower. This was a little more of a challenge. I kept going from tractor to computer trying to follow the instructions (which are worthless). In the end it took us about an hour, the hardest thing was lining things up because you had to make sure that the leavers and switches were in the correct position. I had one rod that I knew where it had to attach but it was not reaching that spot. This was the most time consuming thing. The Hubby finally realized that we had to lower the entire deck via the tractor.

The bottom line is that the next time it should not take us more than 15 minutes to do the entire process that takes a John Deere "professional" an hour. Gee do you think they take people to the cleaners on that little service.