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Time Out for OT – Vol 8

I have no idea what Alpine hiking is, but must ask, besides the energy bars – what do you do for food?

I used to carry the energy food, but also tortillas and hard-boiled eggs and pre-cooked bacon, and also coffee with a pot to make the coffee.

I carried pre-cooked rice and beans, for easy eating.

And I agree!

Climbing up is easier than going down.
Going down can be scary, and there were times I did it on my ass using the pole and crab-crawling down.

Oh, to be young again!

Do it while you can!!!

» Posted By javaz On May 19, 2010 @ 5:16 pm

Did you carry water, food and a pup-tent and camp out?

Tell us more.

Do you carry a water-purifier for drinking from streams?

Do you use a walking-stick?
And do you think that walking uphill is easier than walking down?

I’ve only done overnighters for a 2-day hike and cannot imagine a 7 day hike.

» Posted By javaz On May 19, 2010 @ 4:59 pm

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but Arizona voters passed the 1 cent sales tax yesterday.

Apache Jct sales tax is 8.9% so now it goes up to 9.9% and that’s fairly steep to pay nearly 10 cents in taxes for every dollar spent.

I feel sorry for the businesses here, even though Apache Jct and Gold Canyon don’t really have very many businesses except for 2 grocery stores and Walgreen’s, but there is a Ford Dealership and I think those businesses will be hurt.

People will drive into Maricopa County and Mesa now to buy a vehicle and I know that we’ll be going to Mesa to buy certain items to avoid the higher taxes and we’ll definitely be shopping more now on-line.

People realize now that they were duped, if they’ve been paying attention and if they haven’t, they’ll learn it soon enough.

Yesterday they came out and said that all the promises of cutting of education and public services will still be cut and the penny tax is going to pay-off what’s been owed.

So, all the people who believed they were doing it “for the children” will still see their schools closed, teachers laid off, health care for the poor cut-off and police and firemen laid off.

The local newspapers were trying to explain it all, but every article against the tax was regarded as ‘liberal’ media, including the Arizona Republic, which is definitely not a liberal-leaning paper at all and the local television stations never told the truth until yesterday.

Turn-out was low on the voting, but more people did do early mail-in ballots and there are some that started screaming yesterday, once they discovered the truth, that they wish they could rescind their vote.

With the state losing millions due to the boycotts, my guess is that the state is going to use the penny-tax for the lawsuits, 5 have been filed so far and this thing is going to go on for years.

They are still going to have to issue the IOUs and it’s all such a mess and why in heaven’s name our state had to make things worse with the SB1070 law is perplexing.

Our tourism industry was just starting to recover from the recession, and now it’s sunk and sinking lower every single day.

And one of our great leaders is threatening to cut off electricity to LA, which is an empty threat since LA owns 25% of APS and the Palo Verde Nuclear Plant, but it makes my state look even worse and I hate that we are all hated for living here.

I’ve been reading the blogs and people are outraged with Arizona and initially even people like my husband and myself were forgiven, but now we’re being lumped in and blamed for Arizona’s leadership.

I agree with the boycotts and understand the anger completely, because I am angry, too, but I did not vote these asshats in!

LOL

» Posted By javaz On May 19, 2010 @ 3:07 pm

Was yesterday “Free Museum Day” nationwide or just in Arizona?

We went to the Superstition Museum not too far from our home.

The museum used to be in the Goldfield Ghost Town, which is not a real ghost town, but a tourist attraction, but it’s still a fun place to go, if you’re a tourist.

They built an actual museum a few years back and then-Governor Janet Napolitano even showed up on opening day back then and gave a speech.

We’d always wanted to check it out but never got around to it until yesterday.

It’s very well done and covers a lot of the mining history and history of Jacob Waltz – The Lost Dutchman – and Elisha Reavis – a well-known mountain man that lived up in the Supers alone and had apple orchards and vegetable gardens, and he’d trek down to Phoenix twice a year with his donkeys to sell his produce.

It also has a wonderful gift shop, and I am a gift shop connoisseur!
LOL

On the property are also 2 buildings left from the movie-set Apache Land – the only two buildings that survived 2 separate fires and they moved them to the museum grounds.

It was fascinating reading all the movies and TV series that were filmed at Apache Land – Charro starring Elvis, several John Wayne movies and many more, plus Paladin TV series.

They have quite the collection of old black-and-white stills, black-and-white photos of the stars and even slabs of sandstone with the stars’ hand-prints and footprints reminiscent of Grauman’s Chinese Theater out in Hollywood but nothing as fancy and the stars used sticks or something to sign their names.

It’s pretty cool for what there is of it and glad we finally drove over and saw it all.

» Posted By javaz On May 19, 2010 @ 2:39 pm

I guess I’ll close this now and go to bed by saying that I am on the side of the immigrant, because both of my parents were immigrants, and they knew how unwelcoming America can be.

My father was illegal, my mother legal because she was born here, but that didn’t stop the government from using my dad and his brothers to fight a righteous war, and my mother understood the shame and fear from being German during World War II.

My father and my uncles volunteered to fight during the war after Pearl Harbor, and somehow they all became legal after that, but they fought against the Nazis and Japanese, and somehow after that, they got social security numbers and were considered Americans, but let me say that every single time we went into Canada, my dad was held up at the border going in and coming out.

I mean hours so we never went over more than 2 or three times.

And when my husband was asked to work in Canada for Bombardier a couple summers ago, they held us up again, and did not allow us over, and it was because of my passport, even though I am an American citizen and was born in Detroit.

But the company had to get us a custom’s lawyer and they put us through so much, and it was a nightmare, but they did allow us entry into Canada and us to stay for 4 months.

Sheesh, we went over to France and lived for 2 years, and that was easy-peasy compared to going into Canada.
And remarkably, my great-great-great grandfather actually came over from Paris to Quebec and was a fur-trader and married a Canadian Indian.

Now things have changed, and I can actually get a Canadian passport and have dual-citizenship, if I so desired.

I grew up hearing the stories from my immigrant grandparents, and that is the reason that I am against SB1070.

That, and just because it’s wrong and makes Arizona a police state.

Good night all and am joining Kalima in lighting a candle for b’ito.

» Posted By javaz On May 17, 2010 @ 6:43 pm

My mother suffered from severe migraines, and my father – long, long ago – took my mother there and then after he died, she went again by herself with a tour group.

She loved Hawaii and said that she never experienced a migraine there.

If there’d been a way that we could have moved there, we’d have done it for her, but reality is not what dreams are made of.

My dad had been to Hawaii after joining the Navy following Pearl Harbor, and I am so glad that he went back with my mom in the 80’s.
He died shortly after that, but that was such a wonderful thing for them to do and so unusual, since my father was very frugal.

I still laugh at the memory of my dad, who never wore anything but a blue dress shirt tucked into navy blue slacks, getting off the plane and him and my mom wore matching Hawaiian shirts of bright red and covered with flowers with leis around their necks.

My dad complained of the prices of everything, especially food, and food for them meant McDonald’s.
They did go to a luau though and loved that.

But my parents both couldn’t stop talking about how all the women, the young women wore bikinis everywhere, and my father especially liked that!

LOL

» Posted By javaz On May 17, 2010 @ 4:35 pm

Welcome back, Cher!
Or should I say aloha?

I’d really like to add a snark and use a word that rhymes with ‘witch’ to express my envy.

Did you go snorkeling?
Which island did you visit?
Have you been there before?
Have you or did you visit the WWII museum and the underwater ship?
Did you go to a luau?
Did you go sight-seeing and visit the active volcano?
Or did you lay on the beach and sip Mai Tai’s or other drinks with little umbrellas while surreptitiously watching tanned, young guys with ripped muscles?

We need pictures!
For those of us who have never been to the state of our president’s birth, we need pictures!

» Posted By javaz On May 17, 2010 @ 3:50 pm

Hello Kalima, and thank you for posting this.

Khirad says it all and says it all very well.

It’s all so discouraging.

» Posted By javaz On May 16, 2010 @ 7:10 pm

Here’s another interesting article about the cost of implementing SB1070 and the confusion of the law.

This could really place a burden on the courts, but I suppose odds are that certain police agencies will simply turn over the alleged illegals to ICE.

Sheriff Joe won’t though and the courts have a hard enough time getting jurors for trials, so this is going to be fascinating to watch.

Arizona’s new immigration law raises questions regarding costs, trials

Arizona’s controversial new immigration law raises questions about who pays to bring the cases to trial, how defendants will be tried and how authorities will ensure they actually make it to court.

Senate Bill 1070 and House Bill 2162, which fine-tuned the law, define three new crimes. The bills, signed into law by Gov. Jan Brewer, make it illegal to:

» Posted By javaz On May 16, 2010 @ 6:56 pm

The link to your comment on the morning blog says not found.
I’ll look for it later though.

» Posted By javaz On May 16, 2010 @ 6:51 pm

Hey Khirad!

I saw that and went back in and commented on another article headline from the Arizona Republic – “Sarah Palin says that Obama would like to take your guns IF he could” –

I don’t remember what I wrote now, but that thread seems dead-in-the-water.

Anyway, there were at least 23 pages to that thread and I read about a dozen or so, and very few comments were in support of Sarah.

The funny thing about that thread though, was that so many very angry Republicans were accusing the Republic of being a “liberal paper” – LOL – and accusing the ‘libtards’ of always bringing up Sarah Palin to make the Republican Party look bad!

Can you believe that?

I’ve actually read comments like that before and I do wonder if Sarah is as popular as the media likes to portray.

» Posted By javaz On May 16, 2010 @ 6:39 pm

Women of child-bearing age should heed this story before checking into a Catholic Hospital to give birth –

Nun at St. Joseph’s Hospital rebuked over abortion to save woman

A Catholic nun and longtime administrator of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix was reassigned in the wake of a decision to allow a pregnancy to be ended in order to save the life of a critically ill patient.

The decision also drew a sharp rebuke from Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, head of the Phoenix Diocese, who indicated the woman was “automatically excommunicated” because of the action.

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In a statement, Suzanne Pfister, a hospital vice president, said that the facility adheres to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services but that the directives do not answer all questions.

“In this tragic case, the treatment necessary to save the mother’s life required the termination of an 11-week pregnancy,” Pfister said.

Pfister issued the four-paragraph statement on behalf of the hospital, its parent company Catholic Healthcare West, and the Sisters of Mercy, McBride’s religious order.

McBride was part of the discussion about the surgery, described as urgent. It involved a serious illness, pulmonary hypertension. The condition limits the ability of the heart and lungs to function and is made worse, possibly even fatal, by pregnancy.

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James J. Walter, professor of bioethics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, a Catholic university, said that is a tough argument to make. He said a pregnancy may be terminated only in limited, indirect circumstances, such as uterine cancer, in which the cancer treatment
takes the life of the fetus.

Catholic teaching, he said, is that a pregnancy cannot be terminated as a means to an end of saving the life of a mother who is suffering from a different condition.

Asked if the church position prefers the mother and child to die, rather than sparing the life of one of them, Walters said the hope is that both would survive.

Not all faith groups see things the same way. The Jewish tradition, the Mormon Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are among the groups that frown on abortion on demand but permit it when the life of the mother is at stake or if the mother is impregnated by rape or incest.

McBride declined to be interviewed. She was the highest-ranking member of the Sisters of Mercy at the hospital, which the order founded in 1895.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/05/15/20100515phoenix-catholic-nun-abortion.html

Both the woman and the fetus would have died had the abortion not been performed, and it appears that the Bishop of the Phoenix Diocese believes that is God’s will.

Women beware when choosing a hospital to give birth.

» Posted By javaz On May 16, 2010 @ 3:18 pm

I used the name happyhomemaker and this is my latest response – LMAO –

“happyhorsepooh: I bet rent is real cheap in Nogales, Sonora right now, … so why don’t you carry your gigglin’ butt down there and help with the local color? … maybe you can get a job as a burro fluffer for their fine culture shows. Let the real Americans work to get AZ back under control after MACK-Daddy in the White House has so conveniently neglected his job. Hey, while your makin’ bus reservations, maybe you can save a seat for Rev. Al and his mush-mouthed minion Rev. Jesse?, they can carry your towels and hand lotion. ”

LMAO

And they just keep coming in!

» Posted By javaz On May 14, 2010 @ 7:28 pm

I made an account today for the Arizona Republic and left ONE comment on ONE board concerning SB1070 and the backlash is hilarious.

I wrote this –

I don’t understand the big deal. The KKK, Aryan Nation, John Birch Society and other family friendly Christian groups are coming to Arizona in May and June in support of SB1070.

These warm and wonderful people will bring money to our state.

White sheet sales will soar, along with rope, crosses, gasoline and matches.

The new song of Arizona – We’re All White!

The new motto of Arizona – The Show Me Your Papers State!

Enjoy your Tea Party!

My in-box has been inundated all day long with so many replies that I’ve lost track but they are truly hilarious.

I forgot what a toxic environment message boards can be, although I suppose my comment was a provocation, but WHOA.

People are threatening me with physical violence, accusing me of being an ‘unwashed-disease-carrying-dirty’ illegal and having at least 3 children before I was 25 years old, and accusing me of being a racist and unAmerican and a traitor and accusing me of being part of La Raza and hating on ‘whitey’.

And those were the nicer replies!

Oh yeah, and one person even told me that the Nazis were the SOCIALIST Party, and urged me, in not very nice terms, to educate myself and how can I compare the Nazi Socialist Party to the KKK, Aryan Nation and John Birch Society just proves that I am an ignorant ‘spic’ that can’t read English!

It truly is hilarious, but to be fair, I have received 2 replies that played along in support.

YIKES.

That was fun, but don’t think I’ll be partaking on those boards anymore and think I will shut off the replies from going to my email.

LOL

» Posted By javaz On May 14, 2010 @ 5:57 pm

Okay, so did anyone else have an imaginary friend while growing up?

My BFF imaginary friend was named Judy London, and that imaginary friend helped me get through grade school and junior high.

I was a NERD, and the teacher’s pet and it was never a good thing, because my classmates hated me, and they hated me with a passion.

Were you ever placed in that position?

It was when the teacher left the room for meetings and then they called on you to watch the room while they were gone?

I was that stooge.

I never reported anyone, and I just hated it when they’d appoint me, because I knew that it would make my classmates hate me even more.

I was an A-student, and very quiet, believe it or not, and I went to a Catholic School for 12 years, but due to the grade school, I didn’t exactly have a lot of friends.

I did have friends though, but they always thought of me as the NERD and even hated me, too.

Oh God, why teachers did that, well, it was so wrong.

When it came to sports, I was the last one chosen, because I suck at playing sports.

Is it any wonder that at 54 going on 55 that I am fucked up?

I’m the youngest in my family, and my brothers all turn to me and want me to fix them?

NEWS FLASH

I will not allow any of you, no matter how much I love you, to ruin my life.

I am your sister.
The youngest.

You should be taking care of me!

Get your shit together, and STOP counting on me.

» Posted By javaz On May 12, 2010 @ 6:38 pm

B’ito!
If you are reading this, you know that I am being my normal bad self!

I am trying to rile things up, because that is what I do!

I miss you horribly.

» Posted By javaz On May 12, 2010 @ 6:00 pm

BOO!

Gee, but it’s great to be back home!
Home is where I wanna be, yeah!

Nice to get home and find out Brewer also signed the law so that fireworks are now legal in Arizona.

Oh, the dry desert, the drought conditions, I don’t see a problem with that, do you?

As for the one cent tax – I am so looking forward to that outcome, in that it will most likely pass, but how do you suppose all the people that voted it in will feel when they see that they will still make the same cuts to education and DPS?

Good times.

In Pinal County, it’ll bring us up to 10 cents on a dollar sales tax, and that includes food and medicine.

I’ve no problem with the tax, except for the fact that it will not stop the cuts in education and DPS.

~Sigh~.

» Posted By javaz On May 12, 2010 @ 4:45 pm

For some reason I cannot find Hope signing off, but let me say this – don’t be a stranger!

We miss you and it was wonderful to see you again.

I read a book recently called the Berghdorf Blondes – and if I’ve written about this previously, I apologize, as my short term memory is shot.

It was a silly book, but it was enlightening.

The author works for Vogue, and thanked the woman of Vogue – Anna Wittnour?
Something like that, and that woman from Vogue that inspired the movie – The Devil Wears Prada.

That book, for as silly as it was, was an eye-opener.

It was a look into the lives of the very rich, and children of the rich, aka Paris Hilton types, and what they go through in their very rich lives.

They are shallow people and worried about fashion and men, and it was an amazing journey through their eating disorders and drugs and alcohol.

Life is not easy for them either.

I can’t explain it, as you would have to read the book, and I must say that I wasn’t jealous of them at all, but pitied them.

It really was an excellent book, but there were things in that book that just pissed me off.

Like how the very rich can hold charity events, and escape taxes by having their very rich lifestyles written off.

Their clothes and even renovations to their homes can be written off tax wise, and I am talking about millions of dollars.

The very rich, they are not happy, yet they feel entitled in that they truly believe that they deserve all the breaks, and only the little people should pay taxes.

When you see on Yahoo front page news about 2 actresses showing up at an event wearing the same dress, that is very big for them.

And they hate Hollywood, because that’s new money, and they feel slighted when an actress gets more perks than them.

The book went into engagements, and how that is all for show, and then even when marriages happen that no one believes will last, because it’s all for show.

They are not happy.
They live their lives for show and showmanship, and they know that they are living an illusion, and they feel that they are entitled and better than the rest of us, because they are the elite and ruling class.

As silly as the book is, it is worth reading.

It’s an introduction into the very rich and their shallow lives, but better yet, it is an opening to their world and their very unhappy lives.

I found no joy in it. but I have to say that I would not change my life to be one of them.

» Posted By javaz On May 9, 2010 @ 8:15 pm

oops. and I forgot the big boobs.
They all got the big boobs, and even I wonder and wait for a nipple!

LMAO

» Posted By javaz On May 9, 2010 @ 7:32 pm

Khirad, my husband and I watch wrestling on occasion on Friday nights when nothing else is on, and let me tell you, we both love the show.

My husband really likes the women wrestlers, and really, it is quite amazing that our FCC allows all that.

Have you ever watched?

The women wear skimpy outfits, as do the men, but the women when they do their wrestling thing, well, it shocks me.

LOL

They jump from the ropes with their legs spread wide and in them skimpy outfits, and their crotches smack into the other woman’s face and then they wrap their legs around their head and take ’em down.

LMAO

Maybe I really am one or two drinks away from being a lesbian!

LMAO

Seriously, have you ever seen the women wrestlers?

» Posted By javaz On May 9, 2010 @ 7:16 pm

Glad to hear all your good news!

It sounds like you’ve got it going on!

We have missed you, Hope.

I do remember Soap, and my favorite part was when that one character thought he was invisible because no one ever noticed him.

I forget the actor’s name, but he was also in another show after that that was funny.

I think that actor died – oh, what was his name?

Oh, and when it comes to the Young and the Restless, there’s a character named Lily, I think?

In real life, as I have seen her on talk shows, my God, is that woman a total snob bitch that thinks her shit doesn’t think.

LOL

» Posted By javaz On May 9, 2010 @ 7:07 pm

Is it true that the birth control pill turns 50 years old today?

Or did I imagine hearing that on the CBS morning show this morning?

I think what I heard was something about Margaret Sanger’s mother dying in childbirth during birth for her 18th child, and Marge went on a mission to give women a choice.

You all know that besides overturning Roe v Wade that the religious right is still on a mission to take away the pill?

Us women are evil, and we are only meant to be vessels for procreation.

We are chattel, we should never have control over our bodies, and even when we are raped, it is our fault, and we must carry the child to term.

Men are men, and remember the bible?
Genesis?

It took the devil to lure Eve, but all it took was a mere woman to make Adam bite that apple.

Evil, I tell you, EVIL, we are, and we must bow to men that are weak and allow them to control us for the good of the world.

Soon, we’ll be like China, where baby girls are killed because we are EVIL.

EVIL, I tell you – think about it – Eve is the root of the word EVIL.

LOL

» Posted By javaz On May 9, 2010 @ 6:55 pm

Good to see you Hope!!!

I do hope that you are well, and it’s only me talking soaps, but aren’t they fun?

I remember when the Young and the Restless first came on and my mom and I watched that for awhile, and I do admit that once in awhile I peek and Victor is still a major figure on that show!

Did he ever get back with Nikki?

LMAO.

I mean, he’s always been old enough to be her father, and is the Nikki character even still on?

Gosh, it’s good to see you again, Hope!

How are you?

» Posted By javaz On May 9, 2010 @ 6:37 pm

Yep.

While the BP guys were partying and celebrating their safety record, there were N Koreans that somehow sneaked on board and caused the crisis.

Yep.

You know, it’s the same thing as Obama not being an American citizen and he’s a Muslim intent on taking the USA to ruin using SOCIALISM.

Gasp!

And then there’s the FEMA camps and how Obama is going to take everyone’s guns away and that’s proven true somehow because HCR passed.

And watch out for them Mexicans or anyone that has a Spanish name, Spanish accent, and is brown-skinned.

Yep.

We are doomed, I tell you, DOOMED.

It’s in the bible dontcha know, and so we have to arm ourselves to the teeth, and pledge to the Oathkeepers, so that we can take our country back – back to the 1950’s when men were men and women stayed barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.

» Posted By javaz On May 9, 2010 @ 6:29 pm

Does anyone else watch soap operas?

I used to watch them with my mother and back in them days, there was the Guiding Light and Search for Tomorrow, and they were 15 minutes each with commercials for Ivory Soap and whatnot.

My mother used to iron then and back then, I had an iron meant for a child that was an actual iron with the cloth cord and the small ironing board.

My mother had me iron the pillowcases and handkerchiefs and right after the soaps, my mom would flip the channel for Bill Kennedy’s Afternoon Movie at 1:00 and that was broadcast from Canada.

We saw the soaps go from 15 minutes to a half hour and then to an hour, and my gosh, when Dark Shadows came on, as kids, we’d hurry home from school to watch that.

My mother and I quit watching the Guiding Light, and all the others – The Secret Storm, The Young and the Restless and General Hospital – some time in the 70’s, when I moved out, finished college and got a real job.

Well, during our stay in Canada, I actually got back into a soap – The Bold and the Beautiful – because there was nothing on in that half-hour before Judge Judy and they played Judge Judy for an hour in Montreal.
(I’ve since quit watching all the judge shows!)

Anyway, even my husband is addicted somewhat to “The Bold and The Beautiful” and it’s only a half-hour soap, which is enough for us both – but what a silly, stupid and incestuous soap – yet we’re hooked.

The fun thing with the Internet is that they have spoilers now, so I can read what’s going to happen before it does, and what’s even more fun is that they have message boards.

Really, I do not watch it everyday, but I can keep up with the boards.

It truly is a silly, and very guilty pleasure, but every man on that soap is such a weakling and whining a-hole, and I can’t believe that that show is so popular.

I love reading their message boards, because I am not alone in thinking that the men on that show need to grow a pair.

But the most hilarious thing about that board is how very seriously most of them take it.

I mean, you’d think that you are reading a blog about politics – the passion runs high and there are cliques and there is the nasty that you see on regular blogs like HP or Dailykos.

It’s hilarious and I love it all, because it helps put things into perspective for me.

I mean, these soap people act as though the soap people are real and there’s anger and it’s so typical of political blogs.

It’s an escape and soaps are on their way out and I can understand that, but they’re really not that bad of a thing.

Stupid, yes, but they are fun.

» Posted By javaz On May 9, 2010 @ 6:05 pm

Hey Emerald!
It’s always such a pleasure to see you.
Your greeting always lifts my spirits and lightens the load.

I do understand about the Gulf and the politics and every darn thing, but I am making a concerted effort to try to ignore it all and not think too much.

I’ve enough of a load on my shoulders with my family and my husband’s family and it’s all just too much, but I’ve been getting back into the Karma thing and practicing the breathing in and out and spiritual and it does help.

I cannot change the world, but I can change certain things.
I can offer a smile to everyone I meet, and give a dollar to a person holding a sign begging for help.

I can listen to people and empathize with their problems, while accepting that there is nothing in reality that I can do to fix it or fix them.

Some times you just have to accept what is and I am learning that no matter how badly I wish that I could fix it, that I cannot.

I must learn to accept that not every cloud has a rainbow.

Life truly is a journey and I like to think an adventure, but as we all know, there is much pain and much sorrow and somehow we have to keep forging on because tomorrow is another day.

Life also has much joy and happiness and I am luckier than most but it’s when the dark times come, it’s hard to remember that.

I love the article on the Planet about – I Shall Not Hate – because that touches me on so many levels.

I think that my lot in life is to try to bring people up and never down, no matter how hard it gets.

And yeah, I know that there are millions of people that would change places with me in a heartbeat, but I would not change my life for anything.

My mother always said to me that she learned something new everyday and told me that I think too much, and my father always told me to roll with the punches, because life has more ups than downs.

It’s just when the downs come that it’s hard to remember that.

I think my parents were very wise and I am honored that I knew them.

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone.

My mother was my best friend and I miss her horribly.

» Posted By javaz On May 9, 2010 @ 5:36 pm

Hey Boomer!

Like the new avatar but admit that I do miss the baby from the Simpson’s – is her name Maggie?

I’m a bit overwhelmed myself and feeling a tad fragile, too, with everything that’s been going on in my personal life.
It does make all the politics seem trivial by comparison though, and thank God for my husband for being supportive and just being dr’graz.

Some times real life totally sucks.
And whoever appointed me the person of reason – well, a pox on that person – and yeah, I get that it’s probably me that did that, and I don’t need anymore poxes!

LOL

(besides, I am the last person that even possesses the capacity of stability or reason!)

LOL

» Posted By javaz On May 7, 2010 @ 3:58 pm

That’s exactly what I think, too, Kes.

Freedom of speech and freedom of expression only applies if you agree with the dark side.

With the most liberal gun laws in the country – I mean, imagine anyone 21 years old and older able to buy a gun without a background check and carry concealed without a permit – well, nothing to worry about with that, right?

LOL

» Posted By javaz On May 7, 2010 @ 3:17 pm

Hiya Em and Kes!

It’s great to see you both!

Here’s an article that should make you laugh and lower that blood pressure –

Florida Legislature Fails To Ban Sex With Animals

» Posted By javaz On May 7, 2010 @ 3:14 pm

It’s a great idea, e’cat, for people outside of Arizona.

There are far too many horror stories about Arizonans that place a bumper-sticker on their vehicle that goes against the grain and this is a particularly polarizing issue at this time.

I do applaud those who are brave enough to stick this on their bumper in Arizona, but caution people about the consequences, because you will be confronted and not in a pleasant manner.

» Posted By javaz On May 7, 2010 @ 10:56 am

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