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First story was a 6 year old boy was suspended from school for 45 days for bringing a knife/spoon/fork that he got from the cub scouts to school. Now during the child's 45 day suspension he is supposed to attend an alternative disciplinary school. Seriously? the kid gets straight A's and he has never been in trouble before, and on top of that he's a cub scout. He didn't bring it to school with the attempt to harm someone and if his parents trust him with it why not just confiscate it and give it to them?? Someone posted on a facebook what kind of parent allows their child to have that? A parent responsible enough to teach the child how to use it. I had a teacher last year who used to teach at a disciplinary in upstate New York. Now these kids make the delinquents in my school look like cranky kinder gardeners throwing a temper tantrum. Now where they grow up hunting is a way of life, according to my teacher there was a two week period in which the students didn't come at all because it was hunting season. These kids have open access to the guns in their home and they are taught how to kill with them, guess how many were in that school for gun related altercations???? None. These kids were raised with a respect for guns. They were taken out on hunting trips when they were as young as 3 years old so they know its not a toy, they're parents would never accept them playing around with a gun or another humans life.
Story number two involves some elementary school kids learning a song about Barrack Obama and his policies. A group of protesters think that politics should be kept out of the classroom and that the song teaches the kids to idolize the president. That is just about the dumbest thing I've heard all week (so far, its only Wednesday). What happened to current events?? When I was in elementary school I had to do current events every night and I learned a song about Martin Luther King Jr (not exactly the same thing but stick with me here people). The song informs the students of what's going on today politically, they cry and whine about how younger generations are so unaware and how we (younger generation) are choosing to stay blind to these things but a catchy song is just the thing we need to jump start little kids interest in politics and news. I know that doing current events at first was the most tedious thing in the world to me but by the time I reached 3rd grade I would stay up til ten to watch the news because I had an after school program. I liked being informed and feeling smart, I liked being able to discuss my political stance with adults and them telling my parent I was a very bright child. Most adults aren't aware of Barrack Obama's political policies are, shouldn't we be applauding the students and not chastising them and their teachers because we may not agree????
And I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist so the whole Michael Jackson dying story seems a little fishy to me. Ok so if he is dead and someone did murder him, who and why? Who stood to gain the most from Michael being dead? I don't know what his relations were like with his brothers but I'm pretty sure he was closest to janet and his mother so they wouldn't see to much gain from it: Janet makes her own money and he'd give his mom the world if she asked so I pick Joe. If anyone wanted Michael out of the way most it'd be him. Joe is no longer the belligerent jerk we all know him to be but the grieving father and I'm sure there is money to be had in there some way some how. His brothers are also suspect, honestly who here can name all of the other Jackson 5 members?? Not me. But, would one of them really kill their brother over jealousy and money, not likely and I'd know, I have a younger sister I'd sell if they'd let me. Then there's also the possibility he's not dead at all and hiding out somewhere. Michaels music and style has always been popular and probably always will be, but he hasn't been. People have songs, and jokes and comedy sketches dedicated to the fall of Michael Jackson. I don't give a shit dead or alive the guy is weird and I'm not going to take back my statements about him because he's dead. I do still believe he had the tendencies of a pedophile and I do believe he must have lost his god damn mind to destroy his face the way he did. I'm not falling for that "lost childhood" bull shit the Jackson's have been trying to push on people for years. Day after day kids in America are forced to grow up at younger ages because of situations that they are put in, now whether it makes you crazy or pushes you forward is up to you. Michael was going forward for awhile and then something broke in him, but they need to realize that's a reason not an excuse. I can't just go around punching people in the face, later telling them that I came from a broken home and expecting them to be less mad at me, now can I?? They want us as the American Public to rethink the way we treated him because he was the king of pop, but how would they feel about a math teacher touching on their child's goodies? We shouldn't feel guilty about our statements because they hurt his feelings and now he's dead, it was true, Michael for the past two decades has been the epitome of a freak. We (or at least, I) never said we hated Michael but its hard to accept him knowing what he'd become, it wasn't that we didn't understand him, it was that we were finally beginning to understand him personally and not liking what we were seeing.
I am really annoyed at one aspect of the car program that is going on right now.
You know I'm not much of an Obama fan... Well, this CARS program is something I was looking forward to. I was torn within, should I look into it further? Should I write it up as wastefull government spending? Is it just another hand-out??? I mean it, I was really torn up about it..I drive an older vehicle.
My 1994 Ford e-150 has over 300k miles, needs transmision work, needs suspension work, needs to stop dripping oil on everyones driveway, needs to get better gas mileage. It gets 11.5 mpg on a good day.
My wife had an older Caravan which she was happy to drive, until the transmission went out the second time. If it had not broke so soon, perhaps we would have taken it for a trade in when this CARS program opened up. Instead, we traded it for a not so old Windstar. Still, not a new car, but perhaps better in many ways. Some things we like, some things we don't like.
So, we have a payment on a vehicle for the next two years or so. (maybe three, I don't recall.) And we can't afford another payment on anything, never mind a car payment.
So, I get stuck. I could take my old van for a trade in on a brand new vehicle, get $4500 off, and also a dealer cash-match, and still end up owing perhaps $10k, leaving me with a payment for several years. And, while I would love to take advantage of this, I would not be able to feed my kids.
I would be happy to trade my old van for something maybe 5 years old which easily gets at least 5 mpg more, which is one of the guidelines for the klunker upgrade. Should a used gcar dealer throw in a cash-match or rebate of any kind, I could be left owing less that $2k on a newer pick-up truck, or smaller van, which I actually need, since I both work in construction and own my own small home repair business on the side.
My point is, that when this CARS program was first thought of, why didn't they consider people like me? In my house, we strive to keep current on bills and payments, my wife goes to college in hopes of furthering her employment and a better sallary, I work a full time job (though hours have been cut to 32/wk), and I do side jobs. We can't afford to get a new car, no matter what the cash-match and government rebate is.
Perhaps if my 1994 e-150 with the troubled transmission and poor handling could hold out until we pay off my wifes mini-van, in another 2 years, and if it lasts at least untill it has 350k miles, and the government realizes that it forgot to help people like me, in my boat, and any program they might come up with permits me to get a used car that is less than (say) 7 years old, maybe I' could be a fan of a government hand out.
Until then, Mr. Obama and the other liberals have forgotten a group of people... We can't afford a new car payment because we try to avoid government hand outs, and we try not to live on credit that digs us deeper into the hole your handouts are going to push our kids into. We work hard for what little we have, and we work even harder to keep the things we worked so hard to get... Our bank accounts are empty and your CARS handout is a carrot dangled on the string of credit before our noses, leading us into the valley of the shadow of death. If we go after the CARS, we could forfeight our homes and our futures, and the only things we have. But, hey... they're just things, right?
Mr Obama said that he recieves letters from people crying out for help, concerning medical bills.
In my estimation, the problem is not so much that they want the handout he is proposing, unless they are handicapped, elderly, or lazy. Most people, while not really desiring to work too much, are willing to work to pay for anything they get or have. The problem is the bills themselves.
Healthcare reform should not begin by giving everyone insurance, but by examining the billing practices of doctors and hospitals, examine the cost of prescription medicines... discover why these things are priced so high and cap the amount a hospital can charge, or a doctor...
I recently went fro an exam at an ENT. The co-pay was $10 more than a regular visit, because he is a specialist. Okay, I can deal with that. He also put a rather uncomfortable probe up my nose and then down my throat during this same visit. I didn't know until we recieved a letter from the insurance company that this probing was considered as a surgury, and was billed seperately from the regular visit at around $430 for a five minute procedure.
I also was given a prescription for an acid reducer, and a coupon for $50 off the price. I told him I didn't want his prescription, and asked if he could recomend something else. He did. And he explained that the reason he wanted me to use the script was because it was a new medicine, and he hoped it would give me very quick results concerning the issue I was having. $50 off!!!! How much is the script? I have a short stack of the sample he gave me, unused. Maybe I could sell them on the street to pay the $430 surgury bill!!!
My point is that I went in for one visit and was billed twice.
This is where healthcare reform MUST begin, not by giving people handouts, so we can continue to line the pockets of the practitioners and drug manufacturers.
He gets an A
37%
He gets a B
7%
He gets a C
4.8%
He gets a D
13%
He gets an F
39%
Obama get's an A+ because at least he has the balls to admit that he can't make change on his own, that we need to help him. We can't look to our leaders as magical super beings able to change everything at the simple snap of the finger.
Until everyone get's their act together and makes some sort of a half-assed effort at least, then and only then will our problems start to clear up....
I don't see how it's that hard, bitter republicans just need to pull their heads out of there asses, and the wacky lefty nutjobs need to stop smoking weed long enough to realize they need to help out too instead of pointing out what needs fixed!
We finally get a president willing to make changes in our country and everyone's too goddamn retarded to take the offer!~ GAHHH! I hate humans!!
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