Archive for January, 2009
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President Obama, man that still sounds good doesn’t it, has only been in office 6 days as of this post, and already the conservative mouth piece, Rush Limbaugh, is talking trash. The “pill-popper” said this past week that he hopes President Obama fails because the Republican party is working with the Democratic led government to get America out of the financial mess we are currently in. I doubt that anyone in their right mind, and not in some pill fueled haze, could say that the last 8 years has been a success. The policies of the past administration has not only plunged this country into the worse DEPRESSION, EVER, but because we are the biggest consumers in the world, the rest of the global economy, is hurting as well. Anyone who says that they want “Obama to fail” is Anti-American. Where is Joseph McCarthy when you need him?
It is reported that we are spending 1 BILLION DOLLARS a day financing the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq. A billion dollars a day that could have gone to building and maintaining roads, bridges, and our transportatiom infrastructure, provide reserves for the upcoming Social Security deficit, upgrade our educational system, or to get people who don’t have health care, the ability to see a doctor if they get sick. But noooo. We were “led astray” by the lies and decit of weapons of Mass Destruction. And slowly our economy went down the drain.
We watched as Wall Street, the Mortgage Industry, the Banking Industry, and now the Auto Industry MILLIONAIRES, come with their “hats in their hands” asking for handouts. And they got them! This bailout was done so quickly, and with so little oversight, that executives who left these “sinking ships” were able to take millions of tax payer’s dollars with them. Gee, who didn’t see that coming? Am I to believe that no one has ever heard of a “Golden Parachute!!!!”
And now we have a President who can see the bullshit through the trees, and is trying to undo 8 years of fiscal, political, and social mismanagement. And we have a loud mouth with a microphone, saying he hopes America fails. That statement is Un-American. Since Mr. Limbaugh is fond of popping pills, maybe he needs to take a “CHILL PILL.” Now is not the time for divisiveness. We need all hands on deck. Because if this ship sinks, we will all go down together! Republican and Democrat alike!
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Let me say this first. I have always loved school and loved, and still love, to learn new things. I’ve been fortunate in my life to have the ability to learn things fairly easily and the subjects that didn’t come naturally to me, the brains to figure it out. Why I am certainly no genius, I could have done whatever I wanted to do. While my father was DEFINITELY one of the biggest assholes god ever created, he was no dummy. Any my mother was one of the first African American women that I knew personally, who refused to “play dumb” to make anyone feel better about themselves. The second was a teacher that I had at Lemon Grove Junior High, named Mrs. Coleman, who was my English teacher. She would always tell me that I was being very “loquacious” today. Not knowing what that meant, she told me to look it up. It meant that I was talking to much. Go figure. Me talking too much! LOL The confidence that I acquired from these two women is immeasurable and I thank them both! While I certainly had teachers who had “been on the job too long“, I have been blessed to have sat in classrooms with teachers/professors who loved what they did and it showed. That, beginning in elementary and up through college, is the reason I have love school and respect teachers. So it pissed me off to no end that THREE IDIOT JUDGES in Washington State said that it was OK for a teacher to have sex with a student if that student is over 18 years old!! WTF!!
The teacher, Matthew Hirschfelder, YUP I have no problem calling his sorry, triflin ass out, was initially charged with First Degree Sexual Misconduct with a graduating senior in 2006. What was his explanations for his actions? Not that as a teacher, he had NO RIGHT to even go there. Not that he was in a position of power whether expressed or implied over her. Not that what he did was UNETHICAL and IMMORAL. His defense? She was over 18. At the time, he was 33 years old. Yeah, OK. What a loser! Oh, and did I mention that one of the judges is a woman????
My former high school, Helix High School in La Mesa, CA, has had at least four incidences of teachers or coaches who have had sexual relationships with students in the last two years alone! A kid who lives on my block and attended Helix in the last two years, a neighbor, and I were talking and he said that those four were just the “tip of the iceberg.” That many other teachers quit or moved before they could be charged for their actions. YIKES!! At Lemon Grove Junior High, a teacher was arrested for having Child Porn on his computer. My high school basketball coach was alleged to have had “relationships” with many of his players. While I have no proof of this, I did hang out with him and other teammates where alcohol was around. And he did eventually marry a former player after she graduated from high school. So how far of a leap does anyone need to take???
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First let me say this. I’ve been a Charles Barkley fan since his days at Auburn University. Having been overweight and playing basketball myself, I saw a lot of myself in how his game and weight played into how people treated him. And while I don’t always agree with everything he says, at least he is willing to say something. Far too many African American athletes “take the money and run” only to come back to the community when they get in trouble. And I guess his protestations about “not being a role model” is correct. Because I don’t want a role model who drives drunk putting innocent lives in jeopardy. That shit ain’t cool at all!!
On December 31, 2008 or January 1st, 2009, Barkley was arrested for Driving Under the Influence in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona. In the arrest photo, he is sweating so much it looks like he just got finished playing a basketball game. I’d hate to try and read his mind but it looks like he is either laughing, smirking, or seriously amused, at this situation. And his reason for running the stop sign that got him stopped in the first place? He was going to pick up, and did pick up, a women who was going to give him oral sex. According to Charles, this was a repeat performance that was the “best oral sex he has ever had!” Considering his alleged affair with Madonna, that is saying something!