Yesterday, it was the shooting in New York. A day or two before, the shooting at the nursing home. We're almost immune to the consistent violence in the news, unless it happens around the corner, or to our loved ones.
This may seem harsh, please don't take it personally. Look past any reaction you may have to see if there is truth contained herein. You may know that my second book, Women-The Gods of Wisdom is nearing completion.
~ Prologue ~ "Son, sometimes I just almost hate you!" Six hours later my mother was gone - to be with God (my hope) - though I didn't know this til the next morning.
Fla. DCF Shuns Blame In Boy's Death
Source: theledger | local
The Florida Department of Children & Families says it did nothing to contribute to the March 13 death of Zachary Johnson, a Lakeland toddler shaken and dropped while in the temporary care of his aunt and uncle.
Day 55 -- RESPONSIBILITY (Mar. 25) The quality of your community starts with you. Take responsibility for the quality of your community wherever you are. Today, pick up trash that is not your own, whether at home, at the office or on the street.
Fed knew of AIG bonuses, failed to tell Obama
Source: Raw Story
US Federal Reserve officials knew about the controversial AIG bonuses but did not tell Treasury or White House officials for months, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
The AIG buck stops at Obama's desk
Source: dcexaminer.com
American taxpayers are in a justifiable rage over news that executives of insurance giant American International Group (AIG), which has received $180 billion in federal bailout money since October 2008, gave themselves $165 million in bonuses they obviously do not deserve.
G.O.P. Rift on Need for Alternate Budget
Source: The New York Times
The party of NO doesn't like the budget but they won't offer an alternative budget. If they do offer one, they will do it just before voting on the budget begins and will want, cry, whine and stomp their feet because no one will take them seriously.
It seems everyone is bent on chastising President Obama re his constant commentary on The Markets.
Some odor-----and this little piggy
Source: Chicago Tribune
Democrats were pushing full speed ahead last week for the $410 billion bill to finance the government for the rest of the year. That's the one that increases discretionary spending by 8 percent and is loaded with 8,570 earmarks worth $7.7 billion.
"...in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.
Responsibility and Free Press 3-2-09 Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603659-6217 Whom should take responsibility? Do we the people have any responsibility to the U.S. and it's future. I, yesterday was volunteering help to a friend snow plowing.
Last night the President of the United States of America - let's rephrase that: the awesome new President of the USA - gave the most stirring and thoughtful speech to Congress.
President Obama I am with you. I hear your words, I watched your speech and I am with you. You speak of good clear objectives that I understand and for the most can support.
Obama slams Bush budget 'dishonesty'
Source: Politico
President Barack Obama took aim at the "casual dishonesty" of Bush administration budgets Monday, saying he'll abandon accounting "tricks" used to hide the ballooning deficit and pledging to cut a $1.3 trillion federal shortfall in half during his first term.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. Eleanor Roosevelt It is time to stand back and take a look at our lives and try to put everything into perspective.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. Eleanor Roosevelt It is time to stand back and take a look at our lives and try to put everything into perspective.
The time is upon us where the terms "right" and "left", "Dem" and "GOP" are somewhat irrelevant. With the dawn of the Obama presidency it seems more appropriate to shape a backdrop that falls into "individualism" and "collectivism".
Serf's Up!
Source: The New Media Journal Headline News
Once upon a time, in a nation called the United States of America, people who were sturdy, hardworking, innovative, God-fearing, country-loving and – if not uniformly prosperous – had most of their needs and wants met.
Father Dies After Saving Children From Fire
Source: The Louisville Courier-Journal
Excerpt from article:A 27-year-old Jeffersonville father died this morning after dropping his two young children to a person waiting below a second-story window.
Now how many of us saw it coming? This woman isn't unlike many welfare mom's. I am sorry, but I was on welfare back in the 80's for one year until I got my life together, went back to school and that was the end of it. I had two children to raise.
City Puts Landlords On Notice
Source: ThePittsburghChannel.com
Public safety officials in the city of Pittsburgh are ready to start cracking down on landlords who repeatedly fail to reign in disruptive tenants.
Democratic accountability in Gaza
Source: JPost.com
"TOWARD THE end of World War II it was mostly women and children that became the primary victims of the allied bombings of Berlin and other German cities. In the aftermath of the war, nearly a million German civilians died of famine alone.