Mom and I went and voted this morning. This is the first year I have been old enough to vote. Mom always votes and has made sure I understand how important it is to exercise our right to vote. She said that women had to fight for that right and if we as women don’t vote, it’s like spitting in the faces of all those women that fought so hard for us to have the right.
Mom also says that our country was built on fighting for freedom and this is the one freedom that we have that helps to keep the other freedoms alive. I didn’t realize just how important it was until my mother opened my eyes. It’s not just a right, it’s an obligation as an American to help chose who we want to run our country for the next 4 years. I just hope I made the right choice no matter who wins.
I listened to all the speeches and debates, I read all their plans, and I stopped and looked at what I thought was important for me and my family and voted for the candidate that I thought would best serve not only my family, but our country. I hope everyone else cast an informed vote too instead of just marking the party they always vote for. That’s one thing Mom taught me too. Don’t vote for the party, vote for who you think is the best candidate no matter what party they represent. Mom is a smart woman and I am lucky to have her for my mother.
Alabama announced that if it’s obese workers don’t lose weight, they are going to start charging them $25 a month for otherwise free insurance. Do I smell a lawsuit for discrimination? Sounds like grounds for a lawsuit to me. They tried this with smokers and had limited success so why would they think this would work with obese people? Both are an addiction. The world has to realize this and accept it. However there are some obese people that are overweight way because of medical reasons like a thyroid that is out of whack so what are they to do when medications haven’t helped so far? Are they to be punished too?
Southerners have always fried everything or seasoned it with fat back so what do you expect? It’s a southern tradition the way they cook. What the insurance companies are asking the people of Alabama to do is to change their whole way of cooking and eating. That’s going to be hard for them. I don’t think the state of Alabama should punish these people which in all reality is what they are doing. It’s almost like they are telling them they have to deny their heritage or pay a price. Wasn’t this country founded on freedom? So where are all of our freedoms going? They’re slowly being taken away by our government officials all in the name of ‘for our own good’. I guess they’ll start charging skinny people for being too skinny next.
I found an article about a disabled turtle finding romance. This is news? This is something important in today’s world? I honestly don’t think so. There are far more important things that need to be addressed other than a turtle that lost the use of it’s back legs and after someone attached a skateboard to it’s underside, was able to find love.
We have monsoons that have killed many people. We have oil prices that are slowly draining not only our way of life but out pockets too. We have wars and injustices that need to be brought to peoples attention to hopefully stop some of it and yet a turtle made headlines in Jerusalem of all places. The most Holy city in the world and this animal was the most important thing on that day. I don’t think so. Just check out http://news.yahoo.com and see for yourselves.
Sexual Predators can be anywhere at anytime and you have absolutely no idea that they are there. Megans Law was written to help prevent that. Thanks to laws like that and the national registry for sex offenders, we can now simply go to their web site, put in your address with your zip code and they will give you a complete list of all the registered sex offenders within your area. You just never know who might be living next door or up the street and you should.
Parents have long been a source of embarrassment to their children just as my father is to me but the younger of the two Jessie Jacksons has the double duty of trying to distance him from a father that continually embarrasses not only him but the entire country in all reality.
His latest comments about Barrack Obama are just one more case of the Rev. Jessie Jacksons inability to share the spotlight, if you will, with anyone else including another black man. His comment about castrating Obama was not only crude but not exactly something you would expect to hear from a preacher. His son, Rev. Jessie Jackson Jr. surely wishes his name was anything but what it is after that comment I bet. Even Jessie Jacksons son chastised his father for such a comment.
Sen. Obama only spoke the truth and I feel it was important to not only black fathers but to ALL fathers. There are far too many children growing up in homes with just a mother and no father present or helping support their children in too many cases. This is a growing problem that should be addressed but when someone tries, there’s an uproar, especially if it’s a black man talking to other black men just like it was when Bill Cosby spoke on the same subject. It’s time for ALL men to wake up and smell the coffee and take their responsibilities seriously when it comes to fathering children. IF they don’t want the responsibility, then take the proper precautions to keep from fathering children then. That’s just my opinion and hopefully the opinion of many others that will be willing to voice their opinions too.
