TOMORROW IS VETERAN'S DAY....SO LET'S TALK !!!

We see homeless people all the time even though we usually pretend that we don't.
We walk by with our eyes averted and sooth our conscious' by saying things like "if they weren't so lazy they would not be on the streets".
Then maybe once a year, around the holidays, we might donate a little food, or time to a homeless shelter just so that we can puff out our chests and tout our humanity.
But other than that we pretty much ignore them.

But just for a minute lets talk about who those homeless, forgotten, ignored, "lazy" people really are.....
The United States veterans represent about 11% of the adult civilian population.
However these vets also represent about 25% of the homeless population in this nation, and according to the Veteran's Affairs Administration more and more of those numbers include US military personnel from the wars in Iraq and Aphganistan.

Men who have gone to war and fought for YOU when you asked them to are coming home alive but often lost.
The statistics say that the lives of 90% of the US military personnel who are injured in Iraq and Aphganistan are saved.
But then what???

After spending extended tours in Iraq and Aphganistan they often come home to find they have lost the jobs that were promised would be waiting for them when they returned, they often find they have lost the women who promised to be waiting for them when they returned, they are missing limbs due to the sheer brutality of war, and they have the mental scars that war can't help but create.

I really don't know how the generation before us could hold their heads high after the way they treated the men who served in Vietnam.
I was so very young then and did not understand what the war was all about but even then I completely understood that what the "grown ups" were doing to our troops was wrong in every way possible ....and I know that I could not live with myself knowing that our generation did the same thing to our own vets!!!

We were pissed after 9-11 and we demanded that somebody pay and so our most precious warriors were sent out to do just that.
They suffer the terror of war, something the rest of us could NEVER understand, they watch their friends die, they deal with an enemy who can be defined as nothing more than animals, and then if they are lucky enough to get out of it alive...this is how we are going to repay them??????

So the next time you see a homeless person, do the honorable, human thing and give them a second look...take the change out of your pocket and hand it to him with a compassionate smile on your face & a kind word from your lips, so that he might eat that day. Even if you think he might just buy a beer instead, give him the money anyway.....
God knows, if he is a Vet, he deserves a drink after what we've put him through!!!!

GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, THEN STAND IN FRONT OF THEM!!!

I GUESS CHINA FIGURES THAT LEAD IS NOT KILLING US FAST ENOUGH !!!

Just a couple of weeks after the toy industry promised that this would be the safest holiday season EVER we have yet another recall of a product produced in China!!

AND THIS ONE REALLY TAKES THE CAKE!!!



This time it is a product for children, which if swallowed, metabolizes into the equivalent of GHB "the date rape" drug.
This product when swallowed can cause vomiting, convulsions,
loss of consciousness, seizures, respiratoy distress, coma,
and even death.

It seems that the Chinese factory making these things substituted a toxic chemical for a safe glue.

The "toy" is called AQUA DOTS
and the basic component is small beads. Using a smart-looking applicator, kids arrange the beads on a grid in little crafty patterns.
Then you spray the beads with water and, voilà, they fuse together.

"Aqua Dots" which have been heavily promoted since April and are already on Walmarts top selling toy list here in the US, were also named the top selling toy of the year in Australia.

Now however this "toy" has put at least 2 children in the hospital,
in critcal condition, in Australia where this health hazard was first discovered.

4.2 million Aqua Dots are being recalled at this time in the U.S.

SO MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS FOLKS!!!!!!!

THE BLOOD BATH THAT IS OUR DEFICIT !!!

This week the United States deficit reached $9 Trillion.

To help you understand just how bad things are.....
It took from George Washington (1789-1797) til Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) to reach a $1 trillion deficit.

Thats right, 200 years for America to go into debt by $1 trillion dollars and only 18 years for us to get to the now $9 trillion dollar mark!!! And this is after the deficit was reduced during the Clinton presidency.

And who are our biggest lenders?
Countries like China, India, Mexico, Japan, and Brazil.

Which may explain why our government continues to allow toxic product imports, massive outsourcing of manufacturing and research & development jobs, uncontrolled borders, etc....

Think about it!!!!

IT'S A THINKER !!!

When asked this riddle,
80% of kindergarten kids got the answer,
compared to only 17% of Stanford University seniors.


What is greater than God,
More evil than the devil,
The poor have it,
The rich need it,
And if you eat it, you'll die?

Do you know the right answer??

Guess us your best guess!!!

GOING SOUTH !!!

U.S. farmer, Steve Scaroni, owner / operator of Valley Harvesting
& Packing company has moved his $50 million a year business to Mexico because he says he can not find enough workers here in the U.S.
Mr. Scaroni employs approx. 500 people in his company and says quite simply "Americans are not raising their children to be farmers", and adds that he has been to Washington 6 times himself to lobby congress to ease restrictions on legal migrant workers.

The other side of the story comes for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture who says lack of workers comes from the fact that the average farm worker wages have only increased 3% in the last 7 years.
The average farmer makes $9/hour which is lower then farm wages were 10 years ago.
Also basic health care is left to the federal government, and there are no benefit packages to speak of.
The Dept of Agriculture also states that part of the agriculture industry problems come from their overall refusal to mechanize.

It should be stated that Mr. Scaroni says it costs $10 million a year to run his business.
So if you do the math......
He makes $50 million/year
It costs $10 million/year to run the business
Which, if my math is correct, gives him and his investors a
$40 million/year profit!!!

So the reality is....If business' like Mr. Scaronis would take less profit, they could pay better hourly wages, benefits, and healthcare packages, and I doubt that they would have any problems at all in finding American workers.

But once again Corporate America is NOT going to cut into that almighty profit margin now are they!!!!!!

IF ONLY WE WOULD HAVE ASKED ???

Well, well, well 6 years after 9-11 the Saudis announced this week that it could have all been prevented had the US only asked them.

According to the Saudis they had been tracking the activities of the militants who would later be the "9-11 hijackers" and had the US only consulted with them the attacks would never have occured.

In other words, since we didn't ask them they just let it all happen apparently!!!

I guess they couldn't have possibly told us an attack was coming without us having to ask them first huh?

Allah, I mean satan, must be so pleased with them!!!

WHO IS MINDING THE STORE??

Billions of toys a year are shipped to the US from China.
Toys that you buy for your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, etc....
Now how many inspectors would you say there are to inspect the safety of all those toys?
100? 500? 1000? More???
Actually there is only one person, yes that's right, just one person incharge of inspecting tens of billions of toys.
So if you think the millions of recalls that have already happened is a good thing, just imagine how many more millions of toys are getting through and endangering the health and welfare of our American children!!!
I do not have any children myself, however I have many friends with kids whom I buy for every year and I do not want to be the cause of any harm to them.

Now I have heard that 80% of all of our toys come from China/Taiwan, which means somewhere here in the US are the other 20% of the toys that do NOT come from China and I plan to buy those toys for the children on my shopping list this year.
However I must confess that so far I have been unable to find any toys that are not made in China!!
I have even looked at clothes and jewelry and such, as an alternative to toys, but found that the large majority of those are also made in China.
So what are my choices?
Buy defective toys & clothes from China and hope no one gets hurt or poisoned with lead?
Or maybe not buy toys or clothes for the kids at all this year??

I could use some ideas..so please help me out here!!