Tuesday, August 17, 2010
First Day of School
Today was the first day of Kindergarten for my 5 year old son. Where does the time go? It seems like it was just yesterday when he was learning to walk and eat on his own. Now he has to start doing homework and paying attention in class. My little man is getting older and he is already wanting his independance. His mom is all emotional because her baby is growing up and I had to comfort her today after she dropped him off. I always heard to enjoy your child because time goes by fast, I just didn't realize it went by this fast. Next think you know he will be looking for a date for prom.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
A Complex Emotion
Love is a funny thing. We (people) do crazy things in the name of love. We move across the country, quit jobs, get married, have children, write poetry and even commit crimes. Love is so strong an emotion that it can cause us to turn on our family. Love is so complex that the Bible has multiple verses, chapter, & books to describe it. If you type "what is love" in the google search engine you get numerous pages with various definitions and descriptions. Different religions cannot even agree on the definition of love. Love can be firm and at the same time be compassionate. We have different opinions on how soon love is developed. A woman can give birth to a child and have "love at first sight" and this is acceptable. Yet a man can see a woman across the street and profess to have "love at first sight" and be criticized for acting to hastily. We can fall out of love as fast as we fall in love, but that doesn't mean that we didn't or don't still love that person. Being "in love" is different from "having love" for someone. It's still love, but apparently it isn't as strong. It is strong enough to still care, but not strong enough to go out of your way. If someone says they love you and you don't reciprocate, you can be called selfish, childish, or mean. But if you say I love you too early, you can scare a person off because they may not be ready to say it. In the days of old, daughters were "given" to men to marry and love had to be developed. Now, people are criticized if they marry for any reason other than love.
Yesterday was my birthday and I turned 32 and I honestly don't know if I understand what love is even after being married for almost 7 years. Love use to be enough to keep a marriage together. Now I hear that it takes more than love for a relationship to work. Again, love is so complex an emotion that it truly takes a lifetime to understand it. No matter what you believe in, love plays a factor in your life. Love is the one thing that unites all beings on the face of the Earth. Parents love their children in all walks of species, yet some beings are considered less than others. If all creatures have the ability to love, what makes one species better than the other?
This post isn't written to define love or give my opinion. It was written just to show how complex an emotion is and the effects it has on our everyday lives.
Yesterday was my birthday and I turned 32 and I honestly don't know if I understand what love is even after being married for almost 7 years. Love use to be enough to keep a marriage together. Now I hear that it takes more than love for a relationship to work. Again, love is so complex an emotion that it truly takes a lifetime to understand it. No matter what you believe in, love plays a factor in your life. Love is the one thing that unites all beings on the face of the Earth. Parents love their children in all walks of species, yet some beings are considered less than others. If all creatures have the ability to love, what makes one species better than the other?
This post isn't written to define love or give my opinion. It was written just to show how complex an emotion is and the effects it has on our everyday lives.
The People With the Power
This is long, but I swear it is worth the read!!!!
545 PEOPLE--By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them..
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.... . The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace
545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power..
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
545 PEOPLE--By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them..
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.... . The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace
545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power..
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
Long Time
It's been a long time since i've written on this blog. In fact i actually forgot i had it. i was checking stuff on my google account and clicked on the blogger button and it brought up this page. So i figured i would update it. This is what's been going on in my life since the last post:
-finished my MBA
-found out i had a blood clot disorder, thanks to a clot in my lung
-got a new job with the same company
-got a new car (new to me)
Sure there were other things, but these are the most significant. I will try to do better at updating this thing. I'm sure there aren't that many people reading it so it probablydoesn't matter.
-finished my MBA
-found out i had a blood clot disorder, thanks to a clot in my lung
-got a new job with the same company
-got a new car (new to me)
Sure there were other things, but these are the most significant. I will try to do better at updating this thing. I'm sure there aren't that many people reading it so it probablydoesn't matter.
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