December 9, 2024

Omg...

I love it! I needed that laugh!

November 7, 2024

"...that's what they want..." Sorry...

but I strongly disagree. This is not what America wants, at least those of us who care about it.

My parents fought in WWII. Both were in the Army--my mother was a nurse stationed in the Philippines and my dad was a soldier in Europe. They and many others who fought for this country are rolling over in their grave. They fought for this country--for us--their children and grandchildren. They wanted us to have a better life than they did, but all they got were a bunch of spoiled brats.

It makes me so sad and I can't stop crying today, because of how disappointed my parents, and many others who fought and died for this great nation, would be feeling right now, if they were still alive. They didn't give up and neither should we.

Yes, we need some time to deal with this nightmare, but out of the ashes, we rise. As my dad used to say to me when I would get my feelings hurt by a bully, "you've got to toughen up...". I always hated it when he said that, because I thought he was just brushing my hurt feelings aside. But, as I've gotten older, I see what he meant. Lick your wounds for a day( or for ever how long it takes), but get back up and get back in there. People are depending on you. Some people need your help. Some people aren't as strong as you--and make no mistake--YOU ARE STRONG.

I know it feels like this is what America wanted, but America doesn't know what it wants until they don't have it anymore.

December 28, 2016

I just wonder how deep this thing goes

I knew on election night that there was something weird going on. I even said so to my daughter. To see PA, then MI and WI go red, I knew. And with such a slim margin in all 3 states. But, enough that there wasn't a mandatory recall.

Never in my life did I ever think we would have a foreign country involved like this in our election.

July 19, 2012

white priviledge is something that "whites"

often take for granted.

As a white child growing up in the south during the 60's, I never knew what it was like to have to fear that I might be harrassed just for the color of my skin. I never had to worry about having to drink from a seperate water fountain or go to the back of the bus because I was "colored," or get my food at the back door of a resturant since I couldn't go in.

It wasn't until I was much older that I realized that I had a very "priviledged" life even though my parents were "blue-collared" workers. I can't imagine what it must have felt like to be shunned for the color of my skin, but today,I certainly try to see it through different eyes. Many still don't. I'm not sure what brings someone to that point where they can "see" the plight of others, but I suspect it's a combination of how you were raised and "walking a mile in another's shoes."

March 21, 2012

I have no doubt that Zimmerman will be arrested

but it won't happen because of the Sanford Police Dept., or the DOJ finally stepping in, but because of the many who have risen up to this senseless and very sad murder.

Martin Luther King Jr., said:

" He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."

MLKjr., would be very proud to see what is NOT going to be shuffled under the rug. I can't help but wonder if history would be telling a different story if more "good" silent people had spoken up years ago before the Civil Rights Movement.