Sunday, January 31, 2010
Considering deleting this.....
Yep, I'm considering deleting this blog. Too many jerks are posting crap on some very sensitive posts...how to get rich by contacting them...pornography links...and the such on notices of people who were close to me and have passed away. this is sick. i don't want to have to make friends and family have their posts approved by me when they want to post something, yet, at the same time I am tired of having to delete all those unwanted comments to these posts. Let me know if you would mind having all your messages approved before they are posted.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Root of all evil
If money is the root of all evil, then why do we have in God we trust on all our currency? And why do Christians fight so hard to keep it there, when basically we are saying God is the root of all evil? Just my thought for the day.
Friday, January 15, 2010
A sad way to start the year
My sister-in-law, Susan Rivas, passed away yesterday at the age of 56. Although I knew she had been ill, not being in Erie with the family, I didn't realize how ill she had become so her death was a bit of a shock to me. There is an online obituary and guest book for anyone who would like to send Vinny and her son Chas a message.
Susan B. Rivas, 56, of Erie, passed on to a greater place on Thursday, January 14, 2010, at St. Vincent Hospital. She was born February 23, 1953, in Erie. She graduated from East High School. She was employed at Twinbrook Nursing Home and did private duty nursing care for 25 years. She loved and enjoyed flowers and plants. Susan was a loving and dedicated wife and mother. Preceded in death by her mother, Kathryn Schuster Bojack, and father, John Bojack. Survivors include her husband, Vincent L. Rivas, and son, Charles V. Rivas, both of Erie; brother, John Bojack and wife, Beth, of Richlands, N.C.; half-sisters, Kathy Sanguliano, of New York, N.Y., and Shirley Marchal, of Erie; and many nieces and nephews. Friends are invited to call at the John J. Quinn Funeral Home, West 9th & Liberty St., Friday, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. only, and are invited to attend Prayer Services there Saturday at 9:30 a.m. followed by a Mass of Christian Burial Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Andrew Catholic Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Memorials may be made to St. Andrew Catholic Church, 1116 West 7th St., Erie, PA 16502.
Monday, January 11, 2010
For my husband :-)
My husband has been complaining I haven't posted anything new here for the past couple months. Here I was trying to spend less time on the computer and more time cleaning the house and doing things for him. Oh well... so what's new....
The bitter cold weather here in the south for one thing. Generally my northern friends get to gloat in the summer when we are roasting in 100 degree temps, but I get to gloat in the winter when they are freezing their asses off and we are having temps in the the 60's. HA!! it's been in the teens in the morning here and up to the 30's and maybe 40's by afternoon. So dang! not fair! we are going to get a bit warmer come mid week though and get temps in the 50's.
The cats! We have a new saying. For those who saw the movie Jaws there's a line where on character says that's some bad hat Harry. Well, we now say, that's some bad cat Harry. I wrote a poem that I will post today called Homage (From a Cats Point of View). It will be on gotpoetry.com
On Jan 20th I go apply for my social security!!! Yikes! While I'm glad that we will be getting a little more income, it doesn't seem possible that in a few weeks I will be 62!
Okay, enough updates for now. I'll try to post at least once a week, but dang, I also enjoy having the house clean..well, cleaner that it was when I spent a lot of time on this computer.
The bitter cold weather here in the south for one thing. Generally my northern friends get to gloat in the summer when we are roasting in 100 degree temps, but I get to gloat in the winter when they are freezing their asses off and we are having temps in the the 60's. HA!! it's been in the teens in the morning here and up to the 30's and maybe 40's by afternoon. So dang! not fair! we are going to get a bit warmer come mid week though and get temps in the 50's.
The cats! We have a new saying. For those who saw the movie Jaws there's a line where on character says that's some bad hat Harry. Well, we now say, that's some bad cat Harry. I wrote a poem that I will post today called Homage (From a Cats Point of View). It will be on gotpoetry.com
On Jan 20th I go apply for my social security!!! Yikes! While I'm glad that we will be getting a little more income, it doesn't seem possible that in a few weeks I will be 62!
Okay, enough updates for now. I'll try to post at least once a week, but dang, I also enjoy having the house clean..well, cleaner that it was when I spent a lot of time on this computer.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
The Cowardly Terrorist of Fort Hood
I wasn't going to write anything about this because I figured the media would be all over it and it would be a 24/7 update on all the news stations. Instead they are molly coddling this cowardly terrorist who opened fire on a roomful of UNARMED people. Some are even trying to make him the victim and not even mentioning the 31 he injured and 13 he killed. Does anyone know their names? It's poor Nidal Malik Hasan. He was so upset over the thought of being deployed to Afghanistan and posted on the web he could not kill fellow Muslims. That he believed in their cause and felt the suicide bombers were doing the right thing.
He purchased the guns days in advance. He gave away all his belongings to a neighbor saying he would no longer need them. He passed out the Koran and preached Muslims as in the right. He entered the base with his military identification and carried unauthorized weapons with him. He stood up from his desk and proclaimed Allah is good and opened fire. This is not a random act of a man who suddenly cracked as some are trying to say, but the planned act of a terrorist who knew what he was doing and planned on dying a hero in the eyes of fellow Muslims.
Thank goodness for the bravery and forethought of a young female police officer, who even after having been wounded herself by this coward, had the guts to fire back and wound him to put him out of commission.
U.S. News "Cone also said that a female officer who was thought to be the first responder shot Hasan and was herself wounded and had undergone surgery at a hospital. It was not clear if the officer was a military policewoman or a civilian officer."
Oh, and what was resident Obama's response to this horrible tragedy? To this massacre of brave American military personnel, on American soil, on an American base?
Don't jump to conclusions. Oh wow! gee... like he didn't when Sgt. James Crowley (a white cop) was forced to arrest Professor Gates (a black man) because Gates himself made such a scene when the officers responded to a call by a neighbor of a possible break in at his home. The snippet is he was new to the neighborhood, had been away, returned home late, the lock didn't work so he broke in. When asked for identification he threatened the officer asking do you know who I am? Screaming actually and calling the cop a racist. Okay... so Obama immediately sides with the black professor and when he find he was in the wrong does he apologize? No, he calls a beer conference. HUH???
So, what are you going to do now mr. don't jump to conclusions obama. call a beer conference between this cowardly murderer, if he survives, and the brave people he killed...oh wait...their dead...I guess it would have to be the grieving familes of the brave people he killed. And what? Ask them to understand this poor misunderstood muslim coward and forgive him for the cold blooded murders of their children?
Addendum: I wanted to respond to Victoria stating that the majority of news stations were reporting this as a terrorist act and stating this coward was a muslim here so I could post the link showing this is not true. Of the networks reporting 85% never mentioned the word terror or called it a terrorist act and only 28% mentioned the muslim connection. We heard this on the news last night and I also found a link here on the internet. We watch many different news reports and were shocked to find out how little coverage this actually got.
He purchased the guns days in advance. He gave away all his belongings to a neighbor saying he would no longer need them. He passed out the Koran and preached Muslims as in the right. He entered the base with his military identification and carried unauthorized weapons with him. He stood up from his desk and proclaimed Allah is good and opened fire. This is not a random act of a man who suddenly cracked as some are trying to say, but the planned act of a terrorist who knew what he was doing and planned on dying a hero in the eyes of fellow Muslims.
Thank goodness for the bravery and forethought of a young female police officer, who even after having been wounded herself by this coward, had the guts to fire back and wound him to put him out of commission.
U.S. News "Cone also said that a female officer who was thought to be the first responder shot Hasan and was herself wounded and had undergone surgery at a hospital. It was not clear if the officer was a military policewoman or a civilian officer."
Oh, and what was resident Obama's response to this horrible tragedy? To this massacre of brave American military personnel, on American soil, on an American base?
Don't jump to conclusions. Oh wow! gee... like he didn't when Sgt. James Crowley (a white cop) was forced to arrest Professor Gates (a black man) because Gates himself made such a scene when the officers responded to a call by a neighbor of a possible break in at his home. The snippet is he was new to the neighborhood, had been away, returned home late, the lock didn't work so he broke in. When asked for identification he threatened the officer asking do you know who I am? Screaming actually and calling the cop a racist. Okay... so Obama immediately sides with the black professor and when he find he was in the wrong does he apologize? No, he calls a beer conference. HUH???
So, what are you going to do now mr. don't jump to conclusions obama. call a beer conference between this cowardly murderer, if he survives, and the brave people he killed...oh wait...their dead...I guess it would have to be the grieving familes of the brave people he killed. And what? Ask them to understand this poor misunderstood muslim coward and forgive him for the cold blooded murders of their children?
Addendum: I wanted to respond to Victoria stating that the majority of news stations were reporting this as a terrorist act and stating this coward was a muslim here so I could post the link showing this is not true. Of the networks reporting 85% never mentioned the word terror or called it a terrorist act and only 28% mentioned the muslim connection. We heard this on the news last night and I also found a link here on the internet. We watch many different news reports and were shocked to find out how little coverage this actually got.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Yeah, yeah, yeah....
I know, I know! I haven't posted here in a long long while. Not because things haven't been going on, but just nothing worth writing about.
I did record one of my poems on dvd and am now trying to see how to get it up on youtube.
Tomorrow I take two more cats to the vet for their annual shots and then later take my husband to another doctor appt.
Let's see...what other exciting things are going on... somehow October got past me and I never saw it coming or going!
Well, I'll try to live a more exciting life. Actually my previous years have been exciting enough and it's about time I had some time that isn't all thrills and chills.
until something exciting happens... zbird
I did record one of my poems on dvd and am now trying to see how to get it up on youtube.
Tomorrow I take two more cats to the vet for their annual shots and then later take my husband to another doctor appt.
Let's see...what other exciting things are going on... somehow October got past me and I never saw it coming or going!
Well, I'll try to live a more exciting life. Actually my previous years have been exciting enough and it's about time I had some time that isn't all thrills and chills.
until something exciting happens... zbird
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