Okay it's late here in Texas and it's been a long day. Somehow when it hits 100 degrees every day, the days are just longer. The upside? It keeps all the hipsters from moving to Texas. They hate the heat...
As I'm scrolling through a few websites to see if I want to comment on something, this caption caught my eye on Worldnet Daily: "Smithsonian wants Trayvon's hoodie..."
If THAT doesn't say it all, I don't know what does...
Every year I mention that the 'Dog Days of Summer' isn't just a legend. During these last days of July, there are more murders, child abuse and suicides than any other time of the year. Just sayin...
The last week has been a blur. DD was at camp. My good friend died, had funeral, et al. Finished selling a Back to School section by myself. Had a garage sale in the 100 degree heat. Now DD is at dance camp.
Whew.
Here are my tweets in the last 24 hours:
-- Obamacare mandatory RFID chipping now being implemented in Wyoming. It's coming. The Mark of the Beast. We are in the last days people. Wake up.
-- Obama signs executive order, sends $500 million to terrorists. Blah Blah Blah. It's so serious, but we're all so callous to this administration leading us down the Highway to Hell, that we don't even react anymore.
-- White House tours still closed, but Obama finds cash for endless private parties. Again. See above. And try to remember the $100 million dollar trip last month for Obama and family's trip to Africa.
-- Apple's new iPhone 'has fingerprint sensor.' The article isn't even a politcal one; I'm just making the observation of how convenient this would be for the government.
-- Islamists demand death penalty for Christian's 'blasphemous' text message. Wow. Just wow...
-- Purse snatcher picks wrong woman - viral video. This is the feel-good video of the day - watching a small woman work her self defense on a large man.
And just remember this -- I've read the end of The Book...
We win.
It's been a rough week... mainly because my lifelong friend died, who I dated for 8 years and have known since third grade.
Sigh.
This one hit a nerve. Somehow you know (although don't like) that your parents will probably precede you in death. And you know that accidents unfortunately happen. But it's so hard when it's one of your "core." What do I mean by "core?" Well, like most people, we have a small core of people who really love us - unconditionally. They don't want something. They have our back. They accept us with our faults. They love us anyway. My mother was in that "core," and now David - he was in the core too. That's two less people on this planet who actually loved me - and there aren't that many left. And yes, I know, I'm being really self-centered to even bring it up...
The other thing - the MAIN thing bothering me? I'm afraid that David did not go to heaven. Yes, he had a big heart, and yes, he was Catholic. But he was a bad alcoholic and drank all day for the last 15 years or so. In 1 Corinthians 6: 9-12, Paul says, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate by perversion, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God." (New American Standard version)
When I read this, I get so terribly sad!! I did talk to David a few times about God over the years, but he believed that his baptism and Catholic upbringing would get him through the gates.
Oh, I'm hoping for a loophole....
Tonight was the visitation for my high school boyfriend/ life long friend... Tomorrow is the funeral.
It was like something out of a movie to me - so surreal. It's so funny/strange/yet good when you "go home" and you talk to people you haven't talked to in 20-30 years, and you can pick it up like it was yesterday. Old friends are always the best to me. They knew me in my formative years, and we're like a big family. First love bonds are unbreakable. The passion you feel as a young person can never be surpassed.
Last night I got "the phone call" that you know you'll get someday. David died....
I met David in third grade when their family moved into the house catty-cornered across the street from ours. He was in fifth grade. I used to spend the night across the hall from him with his sister, who had my same name. But I would get afraid at night, and knock on his door, and he would walk me home in the dark. He was an altar boy at that time, and seemed angelic.
He went to Catholic School and I went to public, but I would see him often. After the awkward, gangly years of junior high, I would walk our dog around the block every day. I had just gotten my braces off, and was starting to finally develop. And David noticed. He started waiting for me every day to talk to me as I walked the dog. I was just about to start (public) high school, and he decided to leave Catholic School and go where I was going. We waited for the bus together every morning, and rode together. He started asking me out because he had just started to drive, and would pick me up in his father's HUGE car. We had a somewhat fiery relationship - I'm outgoing and live out loud and he was shy and stubborn. It made for a John Wayne/ Maureen O'Hara relationship where we argued a lot, but not in a bad way. My sophomore year at Thanksgiving he broke up with me, since a few seniors his age were interested, and he went out with them for awhile, but by Christmas wanted to get back together. We did, but I always had my guard up after that.
When he went to college the following year at Texas Tech, he started drinking heavily. He drank in high school but it got worse in college. And he got extremely depressed. I began dating other people, and he would call and say he was suicidal. I called his mother, but she would hear none of it, and dismissed it immediately. David and his two siblings were adopted, and this affected him negatively his entire life. His parents worked those kids like they were hired hands, but many did in those days.
In my senior year, I started dating Todd, and David was extremely jealous. I found out later that he even followed us on dates, and watched us bowl.
When I started the University of Texas, David switched there because of me and his two best friends were there as well. After Todd and I broke up, I dated David again on and off for a couple of years. Then after I graduated, I moved to Dallas and started dating Paul, whom I married. David and family came to our wedding, which was at my home, across the street. He never really got over me, not because I'm special, it was just him. He had a hard time moving on. And he kept drinking more and more. He called me every two or three months my entire life, and once a year would ask me to marry him after I was divorced. Even my older children remember David drunk calling me fairly often. It was sad.
Two years ago, I got a call that he had a heart attack. I tried to call several times, and it was apparent he did not want to talk to me. He had just gone to rehab, and both nearly killed him. We had not spoken in the last two years....
His best friend John called me last night. Through a broken voice of tears, he said David never stopped loving me and never stopped talking about me. He said he had become bitter the last few years, and just wanted things to go back to how they were in high school. David never married, although when girls found out he inherited a lot of money, they would try. Too, his alcoholism was really bad over the last 15 years, and he was married to that.
It's already weird knowing he's not on this planet. I always knew he had my back and would do anything for me, and my children for that matter. And I would have for him as well. I wish I could've gotten to talk to him one last time...
Rest in peace, David....
I'm so disgusted, I thought I would share Miley Cyrus' new song/video, "We Can't Stop" with you, so you can see what I'm talking about. I noticed on social media that some were mocking Miley and then I saw her live performance on Jimmy Kimmel and about fell out of my chair. She is BEYOND "pushing the envelope" and has "jumped the shark" from where I stand. She's a rich punk who has never been disciplined since she's the family's cash cow, and it has ruined her. Completely. Last year her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, lashed out at Disney, saying that he wished he had never let her do the Hannah Montana show but within a few days had rescinded his words. No doubt under some kind of pressure, but it was too late. We all knew what he was talking about. Miley's mother seems to condone this kind of behavior and lives vicariously through her daughter, in my opinion. And the saddest thing?? There are hundreds of thousands of young girls all over the world watching her and using her as their role model. Now she's dry humping men, women, herself, and plastic dolls. She's referring to drugs overtly in her songs, and she's symbolically flipping off Disney. Way to go Miley.
You've now achieved loser status...
Today Rush was talking about an article that discusses the "Hookup culture in colleges" that ran in the New York Times.
Ahem.
I've been discussing that here over the past year, only I contend, IT'S IN HIGH SCHOOL TOO. And yes, I'm not in huge New York City. No, we're in a conservative small town in Texas, although we are sophisticated. I've been noticing how aggressive the girls are here in DD's high school. It's the girls that push the boys to have sex, and although some guys think it's great and take full advantage, there are a good number who are trying to be responsible and wait until they are older. Too, there is the scare of having the responsibility of a baby as a teenager, and the boys seem more scared than the girls are. I discussed with DD today, that once God has been pulled out of the equation, then what is stopping them?? She has shared with me that oral sex in her school is nothing - and hardly considered something that is wrong. As a matter of fact, since it's all relative to them, if they are not having sexual intercourse, they pat themselves on the back if all they are doing is oral sex.
There is no love - no committment - no attachment - and no emotion really. I'm one of the few moms on Vine, where most of them make inane videos of themselves cussing or doing something stupid to impress their friends. It's pretty eye-opening. And it's all public, so is not private like Facebook and Instagram can be, if desired.
What all this seems to lead will be unsatisfied adults some day. They will be used to multiple partners, and won't know how to be faithful to one person. Nor care I suppose. How did this all happen? Influences. Movie stars. Rock stars. God removed from everything. Even TV shows like "Friends," where they play and date tons of partners, and have sex with multiple partners, and not have children, and basically delay adulthood for most or all of their twenties, has influenced the next generation to eat, drink and be merry and put off "real life" (responsibility) for as long as they can.
And, I've been saying for two years that these kids are all way too busy. But they are told if they are not uber active, and have a ton of activities, and aren't "winners," then they won't get into good colleges or get scholarships to good colleges. So, they burn they candle at both ends, and busy themselves into exhaustion trying to reach their goals. And say they don't have time to invest in a relationship.
Let's not forget social networking because one of the goals is popularity, and with kids these days (and everyone else too) perception IS reality, so the end game is not having fun as much as it is photographing or videoing each other to make it LOOK like they're having fun.
Ugh.... it's a brave new world....
Most people delight in saying that phrase -- I do not... I mentioned a few weeks ago that liberals work overtime in the summer when they think most conservatives are taking time off and spending time with their families. But this summer libs are working at break-neck speed. Maybe they've seen that the line, "Pass it so you'll know what is in it" has worked with their false sense of urgency. And they are also well aware that a) the next election for 2014 is coming quickly and b) that while they have the first black president in office, they want to pass as much as they can and accuse opposers of being racists. And the Trayvon case is the perfect distraction from the other critical issues facing this country.
Sigh.
Racism is a problem in this country and will not be going away any time soon. So really we should be concentrating on more pressing issues, like national security or Benghazi. The current administration is trying to push through amnesty for illegals while we're "asleep," and keep us from concentrating on what's really important. And as I say until I'm blue in the face, the mainstream media are the accomplices that make all of this possible.
I get frustrated, that unless you have cable/satellite, you don't have access to alternate television news. And those who don't have cable, usually don't have internet. So... many of the uninformed are only able to access ABC, CBS and NBC - the partners in crime, who try to appear that they are impartial, yet are the most partial of all.
As someone who has been in media all of my life, I can tell you that the problem is deep and wide with liberals running most information sources, with most television conglomerates and all internet providers and social media, i.e. Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter. Conservatives' only bastion of hope is in talk radio but I'm sure the libs will try to figure out a way to silence them. Already many conservatives keep getting banned from Twitter, and Facebook is watched closely, with conservative pages being shut down often.
We have lost so many freedoms and it is alarming at how fast we are careening into communism/socialism. Check out the lead story on today's Breitbart.com about the latest New York Times bias.
The media is the first thing to go...
The verdict on George Zimmerman is in -- not guilty...
I haven't followed this case blow by blow but have read some things about it from the beginning. And I also know that the mainstream media has really pushed the race agenda on this case from the get go. Heck, even the president said, "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon." THAT got things going...
Yesterday it came up with my 16-year-old, who had only heard Trayvon's name. (May I also add here that we have very few blacks in our small Texas town, and the ones that do go to DD's high school are popular and well-liked.) I gave her the quick overview and she asked why this trial was such a big deal? She said this sort of thing probably happens a lot, so why THIS case? I responded that in the beginning, George Zimmerman was not charged with anything, and the police had ruled it as self-defense. My recollection was that his parents went to the media and cried foul, and the media ran with it. But I also added that Zimmerman thought of himself as a vigilante, and had a gun with him, and took it upon himself to patrol his neighborhood. DD asked why he didn't just call the cops? I responded that Zimmerman followed Trayvon since he thought he was up to no good, and didn't think the cops had time to get there? I mentioned to DD that Trayvon was 17 and they found there was pot in his system, and she said, "Mom, MOST kids at my high school would test positive for weed in their system." I said it came out in the trial that Trayvon was the aggressor and on top of Zimmerman, so she asked how did he get shot then? It's my understanding that Zimmerman's gun was in a high holster, that he pulled it out and shot Trayvon at extreme close range.
Sigh.
Zimmerman should have called the cops and then we wouldn't be having this conversation. Was he racially profiling? Probably. But then the majority of people in our prisons are young, black males, so there is a history there. Still though, he shouldn't have taken the law into his own hands, as he wasn't a policeman, and too, Trayvon wasn't breaking into his house, so it wasn't his personal battle. He followed Trayvon because he looked suspicious? A mistake he will probably regret the rest of his life. A teenager is dead, it cost him a ton of money for lawyers, and he will be hunted for years.
I looked at Facebook, and my one black friend of a friend is furious and has been posting pro-Trayvon things for days. Others are saying, "Good, justice was served." But most are silent. They can see how it went to trial, and as with all cases in this country, have to leave it to a jury of our peers.
It's all tragic though, and highlights the racism problem in our country continues...
If you haven't noticed, there's a war going on. And no, I don't mean in Afghanistan. It's right here in the United States. Good versus Evil. And the side that has the most people who are the most passionate, are the ones who are going to win. My best friend says we've already lost the war, but I'm not surrendering yet. I've gotten very aggressive on Facebook, and as a very evangelical Christian, even my fellow Christians are backing away. No one wants to offend anyone. No one wants to make any waves.
These are not the types that are going to win a war.
My niece (whom I love) is on the opposition. She is pretty much PRO everything I am CON. She works for Planned Parenthood in Washington D.C. and is an extreme liberal. She just had a baby, yet is here in Texas to help fight the abortion war. I read on Facebook today on the Texas Alliance to Stand for Life post, that they have heard that the pro-choice people have been told to get aggressive and physical and in-your-face today. They were asking that the pro-life people leave their kids at home because of this. Yes, and these are the same people that last week yelled "Hail Satan" over the people singing "Amazing Grace." The ones that had signs that said, "Hoes before Embryos." They were the "unruly mob" that our Lieutenant Governor referred to, and unruly they are.
The picture that is with this post is very 'telling...' The opposition "gets it" that this decision DOES go back to faith, and religion and ultimately Jesus. I've said all along that the opposition is not arguing anymore that it's a baby (like they used to call it a blob of tissue when Roe vs. Wade passed.) No, they agree it's a baby - a person. They don't care. They don't have God and they don't want to be told they can't do what they want to do (murder.) I found this out when I argued with them on traditional marriage. They kept saying they didn't want me imposing my beliefs on them, and most said they don't believe in my God. Yeah, I can see that.
Heaven help us...
Just a lot of random thoughts - maybe I'll call it, "Random Thought Monday..."
-- On the Asiana Airline crash... It's even sadder for the parents of the 2 Chinese teenagers because China only allows one child. These girls were only 16 years old and heading to church camp. I cannot imagine the pain of their parents losing their pride and joy. So very sad...
Responses to my tweets today,
-- Soccer Insanity: Brazilian fans storm field, stone referee to death...They then quartered him, decapitated him, and stuck his head on a stick. Is THIS where we are heading?! I cannot imagine this kind of savagery! When I was growing up, that sort of story was only spoken of in African tribes by voodoo witch doctors. Now, we are hearing it more with the rise of radical Islam. And now Brazil? And the story acted like it was no big deal. Just another average news story in Brazil? I've crossed THAT country off of my Bucket List...
-- Third Amendment violated? Nevada police allegedly invade family's home to use during SWAT call, arrest two for obstruction -- Police state, 'nuff said.
-- 'My blood boiled':4th of July DUI checkpoint video goes viral after officer's comment.-- More police bullying law-abiding citizens. Many law enforcement think they are above the law. Here was a young man who knew his rights, and since he did not lower his car window low enough for the officer's satisfaction, the officer said the police dog had a "hit" on the vehicle, which he said made him legal to search his vehicle. The young man was only at a checkpoint and had not broken the law. Just another case of our government public workers intimidating us and bullying us.
-- Michael Hastings cover-up confirmed - San Diego 6 - Investigative report on Hasting's "crash" -- Duh.
-- 3 US Presidents visit Africa and conduct secret meetings in the same week -- This cannot be good.
-- 'Anti-bullying' bill could jail people who criticize politicians -- Oh, you mean the people that are above the law like police officers? The ones that vote themselves raises and don't want to be on the Obamacare that the rest of us have to be on? Some of the most crooked people in the nation? The ones who are voted in? Yeah... makes all the sense in the world...
-- Parental Rights Act: Congressman are selling you and your kids out to big government. - Of course they are. Do we expect anything LESS these days??
It's a tradition here in Texas to go dancing on hot Texas summer nights, so here are DD and friends dancing the Cotton Eyed Joe, Cupid Shuffle, the Wobble, the Chicken Dance, Texas Two Step, waltz & more at a famous outdoor dance hall under the stars.
