Like Thelma and Louise......

**Please note that there are hyperlinks to sources with information pertaining to what I explain here**

Well readers, here we go again.

WE are about to do like Thelma and Louise, and go over a cliff. This cliff, however, will not kill us in the physical sense, it will kill what we have come to know and love of this country called America.

Our politicians claim to be scrambling to get us to a resolve before we reach the barrier, and tumble over, so they say.

WE hear it day in and day out "cut medicare/entitlement reform, Cut planned parenthood, cut this cut that" then we hear from another side, "raise this tax, eliminate these loop holes, revenue this revenue that". It does get quite tiresome does it not?


But there is one thing that you never hear them discuss cutting, their salary. The whole government shut down thin we hear is really them not getting paid, there for they won't "go to work".

Did you know the average congressman makes about 200k/year? The senate (for example) has 2 per state, in 50 states.

2x50= 100 x 200,000 = 20 MILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR!!!

The average salary in the 1950's was between 33-45k. That is what most teachers begin to make in their first couple of years....

Take the presidential salary:

400k X 4 years is 16million!!

Not to mention they actually get that for life!!! On top of 10 years of secret service protection and other perks I am sure. And I'm pretty sure the same goes with congress that their salaries are for life!

In the house they get about 150K, and with there being nearly 450 of them, well you do the math for just one year of pay roll.




Brace yourselves America, this is going to be one HELL of a New Year in 2013!!!!

It's your right... DO IT TOMORROW!!!

Tomorrow is the big day.

The day we can use our voice to choose who leads our country and, in some cases, state and how our state will lean towards a certain policy.

It is Election day.

I encourage everyone to vote, I don't care who you vote for, really I don't.

The beauty of this country is we are allowed to differ on opinion, despite any disagreement, or lack thereof. Use your power to vote.

Now there are technicalities to your vote and how it is counted. This varies by your state. Some states require the Electoral College to follow the popular vote. There are some states that do not require it, and if the delegate is a GOP member, they are allowed to "change" the vote per new GOP rules enacted in the previous convention.

Understand that no matter how it could be 'wasted' ie:

• blindly voting, "straight party" or uneducated
• voting for one simply because you do not like the other.
• voting 3rd party because they ARE the right choice FOR YOU

Your vote is still not a total waste, it is your opinion and voice.

Between the two main parties we may not have a decisive winner, it is possible. Both Romney and Obama are nearly tied at this point (depending on the poll you look at). Thousands have turned out for early vote, and some states (including those affected by Sandy) are on a provisional and email-ballot system due to problems with power and locations to vote. 

Keep in mind to be declared an official winner, one must have a certain number of electoral college votes.

You should also know, there are people that will try and intimidate you to vote certin ways, or not at all. THIS IS 1000% ILLEGAL!!!

See this video to understand how you can combat it. You can also contact your local DA's office for problems.


Regardless of this, USE YOUR VOICE AND VOTE.

Obama AND Romney cannot stress this enough, and neither can I.

It's your vote, use it!

BE INFORMED IN YOUR VOTE

Just remember america, you do not have only two choices in your vote for President.

There is NEVER only TWO candidates to choose from. We may get screwed with by the Electoral College, but if enough people push towards these 3rd party people we can essentially gain the change we really want. I appoligize but yes, I did link that to Wikipedia, shame on me, but it gives you the information I want you to have.

I personally missed the debates for the 3rd party candidates (another source, not wiki :)  ) this year, but they are all viable contenders for my vote. The only media outlets that appear to be covering these candidates are RT News andAljazeera


Frankly, these two news sources are more reliable than our own Big Biased 5 in the US (Fox, ABC, NBC, CNN, CBS)

About the Media Bias from RT News:

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Just in case the embed code does not work (major problems with my browser lately) you can see the YouTube video here.

The problem with our elections *Update10/16)

In light of the heating argument and debates in this Presidential electino season. I would like to take a moment to discuss one of our problems:

America, we have a problem with our elections.

Our votes mean nothing!

We may vote and choose who WE THE PEOPLE want but it does not matter.

In MOST states the Electoral College is NOT bound to the popular vote in the state.

We need to stand up for our rights as citizens and disband the electoral college, out vote needs to be the one that counts!

Join the movement and be heard!

A liberal POV, but it is the truth either way

Based on the GOP holding a majority of congress, and their flip flopping the last few years there is no doubt this is right.

They are the ones blocking a balanced budget, yet they are the ones who have the power to push it.

And to be clear it is not just the GOP, the Dems are equally at fault.

Popular Vote act

Now this is what I am talking about!

We need to get rid of the electoral college, we need our vote to actually mean Something not getting changed by the whim of this supposed "college".

They do not speak for us, the link below is for PENNSYLVANIA, however you can get to the home page easily.


HTTP://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pa/

Stand up to this and let your voice be heard

Mitt Romney is not the answer

Republicans, if you are focused on Romney at this point them you need to rethink your options!!

Romney is not the official nominee of the GOP yet!

The others dropped out (except Ron Paul) because they were not ready yet among other things.

Your party still needs to hold their convention for him to be official. On top of this, he doe not have all of the delegates yet!

So do not settle for someone who claims he is better because he says he is, look at who you still have as options, even a write in.

If you want someone in your party that will not push agendas and truly believes in the US Constitution then Ron Paul is your guy!!!

If I were to endorse any republican candidate he would be my guy, not a guy who goes back on his word an accuses others of the same tricks he plays.

Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy... Another Bush Era rolling in?

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This weekend, Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney visited Israel (second source Washington Post) during his overseas tour looking for supporting votes and donations.


*note I am no expert in Jewish-Hebrew customs, I was only aware that today marked an important day from the news reports*


Today was the first day of a three-day visit to Israel. His first mistake is visiting during a very solemn day on the Jewish calendar, the Tisha B'Av. If I were to travel for his intended purpose, a day of mourning is not the best day to visit and "show that we need to stand by Israel".


I am all for standing behind Israel, although I do feel that we take it upon ourselves as a country to to dedicate 100%of our resources to one country. While the US did "found" Israel in the 60's, it is NOT soil of the US.

**correction, I misspoke: The modern nation o Israel was founded by the UN but the US was the primary backer. A brief summary of why can be seen here: http://www.theocracywatch.org/christian_zionism_israel_forms.htm


This visit to Israel brought out some very, very scary words out of the Republican presidential hopeful. In his speech Romney said, "We should employ any and all measures to dissuade the Iranian regime from its nuclear course, and it is our fervent hope that diplomatic and economic measures will do so," and "In the final analysis, of course, no option should be excluded. We recognize Israel's right to defend itself, and that it is right for America to stand with you. "
"any and all measures, no option": I don't know about you, but that sounds a little like a threat of WAR. I thought Romney was AGAINST wasteful spending? Would provoking a war with Iran NOT be wasteful spending? 


Obviously he did not learn from his 2000-2008 counterpart George Bush and his endeavors in Iraq and Afghanistan. 


Yes, I know Obama spent about $5Trillion during this term, but a lot of it was towards IMPROVEMENTS to our country and its internal workings, including our infrastructure ( S.1926 (110th) and H.R. 4268 (111th)) and a beginning step towards fixing our broken health care system.


George Bush spent over $10 Trillion on two wars that did what for the US? What did it accomplish other than removing our enemies. 


On top of this Romney contradicts him self in policy. 


He spoke of us being the "peace-makers", yet an hour prior to the speech "one of his senior foreign policy advisers- would support Israel's right to launch a unilateral military strike against Iran" (W.Post)


How can someone claim to not want to use military force say "any and all means necessary", while supporting ones "right" to launch a military strike?


I also encourage you to read the Washington Post article on Page 2 at the end about the "Arab Spring", and think about how hypocritical it is for us to not defend the people of countries (i.e. Egypt) who are pushing for a less oppressive dictatorship towards a more democratic government than what they had. Just another thing to use to press  for an un-necessary military action against countries like Iran who "do not like us."






In short America, please really think about our decision in about 100 days. 


Do we re-elect a president that will try to keep us in peace and improve our broken insides?


OR


Do we go back to militaristic Ideals that compleetly contradict the ideals our country was founded upon? Ignore OUR people while focusing on OTHERS freedoms while our own people struggle day to day?




The choice is yours America, 


Choose wisely!

NO NO ITS TIME TO GO NCAA!!!

First I will admit, I am not a HUGE sports fan. Yes I follow my NASCAR, my Drum Corps, my Philadelphia Phillies and Philadelphia Eagles.
I am a Band-Wagon Philadelphia Flyers fan... I find sports entertaining, but I am not a nut!

That does not mean I cannot weigh in on the NCAA's sanctions against Penn State University, because I feel it hits a little close to home for me.

If you have read my other blog "The Days of Our Lives..." you would know that my son is a patient at Penn State Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa.

The pediatric cancer unit at PS-HMC is joined with The Four Diamonds Fund, which though the efforts of many students across Penn State, raises money to:

• raise awareness pediatric cancer
• treatments
• new experimental research
• expansion and research of current treatments
• pay portions not covered by families insurance
• spread love, courage and hope to patients and families

What does this have to do with my feelings on the sanctions? A-LOT!

The hospital is also the medical school for Penn State University. This hospital is also a Children's Miracle Network hospital, and one of the biggest medical networks in Central Pennsylvania. Patients from all over the world have come to PS-HMC for many ground breaking treatments. 

One of the biggest supporting student groups is the athletics department. There is even a "pep-rally" where all the sports teams dress in costumes and do some sort of lip-sync/dance to a song. 

See this video of the PSU Football team during the pep-rally!

Picture from THON. See full album here.

But any-way, enough of the personal linkage.

The NCAA has way over stepped the lines.

I was quite interested in Glenn Beck's reaction.

The NCAA is the self-appointed "ruling body" of collegiate sports. According to their website, they were founded "to protect student athletes".

Honestly with their fines and penalties, against Penn State, will have nothing but a NEGATIVE EFFECT, and will be truly hurting student athletes. Most of these students were never a part of the program when any of these child abuse incidents occurred.

Now, I know many of you are thinking, "well the school is the one who covered it up". OK, well maybe that may have been the case, there were A TON of things that probably could have been done better (i.e. TOM CORBETT initial investigation) HOWEVER, it was the faculty and staff of the school who was wrong, NOT THE STUDENTS!!

The president of Penn State has taken it upon himself to accept the penalty. Where does he get this right from? Tom Corbett says that this will not be paid out of the tax payers pockets.

Tom Corbett says a lot of things but that means nothing. It does come out of our pockets, and you want to know how?

The loss of tuition, the loss of scholarships, the loss of enrollment, it will HURT us more than "help" anything.

A BIG BOX OF CUDDOS to the students, who will be hurt the most by this, for standing up and staying with Penn State.

A BIG BOX OF CRAP to the NCAA and those that think this will ONLY hurt Penn State.

As for the NCAA, Who are they... really WHO THE HELL ARE THEY?!?!?!?!? 

Where do they get off thinking they can impose any sort of fine? 

Are they the US Government?

NO!

Are they the STATE of PENNSYLVANIA???

NOO!!!

Are they any legal entity that belongs to any sort of government that CAN legally impose any sort of fine against a STATE entity?? 

HELL TO THE NO!

The NCAA has too much power, just as the NFL, MLB, and any other sports related "governing body". The main difference is that the "pro" bodies are technically private franchises, that is O.K. but for a non governmental entitiy to fine a STATE EDUCATIONAL BODY is WAY out of line!! WAY OUT OF LINE NCAA

IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO GO! YOU NEED TO BE DISBANDED, YOUR EXISTENCE IS TRULY UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!! Leave the fining to the US GOVERNMENT NOT PRIVATE FIRMS!!

OF course though... I am merely one little human being, I am a TAX PAYER  to the State of Pennsylvania, my words mean shit... or do they??

People we need to stand up to these idiots, write the NCAA let them know they mean SHIT to us, and they have no place!!

It's time for the NCAA to go!

Shameless unrelated plug sorry guys!!

Sorry for this shameless, unrelated plug, but I am on a mission!!


Walmart is having a contest, The store with the most likes on Facebook will win a visit from Pitbull (the one and only!!), Singer of the song "Give Me Everything Tonight"

I would love to see the store I work at win a visit from Pitbull!!!

All you have to do is go to Facebook and LIKE OUR STORE!!!


My stores zip code is 19401. 


We are at:


Walmart 3565
53 W. Germantown Pike
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Thanks a bunch everyone!!!

Anderson Cooper and Occupy both came out this week

An easy one tonight.

So this weekend brought two things out.... Anderson Cooper of CNN and the return of the Occupiers.

All I have to say about Mr Cooper is congratulations on accepting who you are. I don't know much about him other than that and that he has a show on CNN. I wish you and your boyfriend many more happy years and A happy marriage in your future.


On the Occupiers.....

So they're back. After one year I understand only that they are a bunch of frustrated American citizens like you and me, but they have it all wrong. It is obvious these long drawn out protests have no clear direction, they mumble, their mixed messages, mumbled lack of organization mumbled.....


Just like I just did there.

They're a bunch of pussies... I was watching some of them talk on the news after some of them were arrested in Philly for a round of protests durring the week we celebrate our independence. They want change why don't they try and act on it instead of protesting.

They even joined with the striking Verizon workers. LIKE THAT IS GOING TO HELP THEM OUT ASS HOLES!!

Cant find a job? Look harder or maybe you're too stupid. Did you know most of the jobs that are out there are not filled because people are not qualified enough or are just too lazy or proud to take a job that may be beneath them??

When you have a family or responsibilities there is no job beneath you, get out there and do something.

Public Welfare..... Test or don't Test for the leeches

Recent controversy has taken shape around the idea of testing for drug use as part of the application process for receiving public welfare, especially food stamps.

Why is this such a big deal? Public welfare systems were designed primarily to help those American citizens who were down on their luck on a temporary basis until they could pick them selves up.

Personally I think that if you got the money for drugs, and by drugs I am talking hardcore narcotics (Heroine, LSD, etc) that are not intended for medicinal purpose (ie. cannabis).  Am I right or am I right? Now going out of your way like the linked story (including in states where medicinal is legal) for the health of your child or family member is one thing, but to get high or feel good is another. 


Think about your last job that you were hired for. Did you have to get a drug screening? Why should drug screening for employment be less frowned upon than drug screening to receive something funded out of our tax dollars??

I don't want to be paying for YOU getting high while paying for YOUR food! I want to be using that money on my food, my bills, my home, my car, my family!

Come to think of it.... I have a need for some of that money you are getting too... I can barely afford my bills and I work full time!

I am tired of you buying junk food with your food stamps, buy real food that will nourish, and full you not sugar junk shit that is going to keep you hungry and send your newly diabetic ass to the doctor once again on my dime with your lesser deserved welfare Medicaid.

There are good honest hard working people out there (my self included) who need a little help and cannot because maggots like you are sucking our coffers dry.

So this could go well into the whole idea of Welfare reform...

More to come on that later on....

What do you think America?

Let the madness begin

Let me give you the short:

I a 23 year old, American Citizen from Pennsylvania. I have one amazing boy, just graduated college while working full time, and am trying to make it by.

I am also pissed.... Sooo damned pissed at how our country is looking between the hypocritical knock-knocks running for office, those in office and people who lack the concept of working together for change in a POSITIVE direction!

I plan to use this blog, primarily to rant about something that is irking me, but also to spark something. Spark it into peoples heads we need something, a revolution, policy chance, just something to change stepping forward to make America great again!

Yes most of my rage may be from listening to the likes of Shawn Hannity, Rush, Glenn, Savage, but it fires me up!

So pardon my French in the up coming posts, but I gotta get it out there....

I am one angry American!