NO CLINTONS IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Think about it - who the hell wants the Clintons back in the White House? It isn't just Hillary, it's Bill, too. Now Obama and Hillary have united "for change" two people who hated one another, it is sickening to realize shemight be up for the vp role- ick!!!! Keep them away from the White House completely.......... more sooon

MITT ROMNEY QUITS FOR BENEFIT OF PARTY

MITT ROMNEY QUITS FOR BENEFIT OF PARTY. IN A SPEECH AT CPAC CONVENTION, MITT GAVE HIS BEST SPEECH EVER - A BIT LATE IF YOU ASK ME - AND TOLD THE GROUP HE WOULD STEP ASIDE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PARTY AND SO THAT OBAMA AND CLINTON WOULD NOT WIN THE WHITE HOUSE, RETREATING FROM IRAQ AND ENDING THE WAR ON TERROR. IT WAS HEARTFELT AND HONEST AND HIS REASONS VERY CLEAR. HE DOES NOT WANT A DEMOCRAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!

TOO BAD MIKE HUCKABEE DIDN'T FEEL THE SAME WAY. IF PEOPLE KNEW WHAT MIKE HUCKABEE WAS ALL ABOUT, THEY WOULD NOT VOTE FOR HIM. HE IS A DEVIL IN DISGUISE AND IF HE GETS HIS WAY, WE ARE ALL IN TROUBLE AND IF HE STAYS IN THE RUNNING, THE DEMOCRATS WILL PROBABLY WIN THE WHITE HOUSE. THAT ALONE WOULD BE A REAL SHAME.

MY OPINIONS

In the NH Primary, I voted for John McCain. What got me is when he said "I'm older than dirt and have more scars than Frankenstein." I certainly do not want a Democrat in the White House and the idea of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton being there makes me sick to my stomach. Barack does not have the experience needed and I sure as shit do not want the Clintons living back in the White House.

Romney is an ass. Watching all the debates, each person is asked a question and has so much time to answer it. Without fail during each one, Mitt Romney interrupts and argues with whomever is talking while everyone else waits their turn. He's arrogant and he thinks he's the answer to mankind - like a "god" which is far from the truth. Mike Huckabee, as personal as he makes himself out to be, wants to overturn Roe vs Wade, which is already law and I believe in pro-choice and instead of IRS, he wants to make everything we buy 23% in sales tax which will kill all of us especially those of us who are poor making it difficult to buy anything. So as far as I'm concerned he's out of the running. The most experienced candidate for President but probably the most unknown was Bill Richardson but he has pulled out of the race.

The Democrats have not done anything in the year they've been in Congress except to change the menu in their cafeteria and have fought against funding for our troops overseas. We cannot leave them over there without funding. They need to be paid, they need the money to improve what they have over there to protect themselves and we cannot pull out in a year or less. If we did something like that, the country would fall apart and Iran plus Al Queda would take over immediately and that part of the world would become unstable and dangerous for everyone concerned including the United States.

President Bush was over in the mideast for the last nine days; the only thing I did not approve of is his sale of 20B in sales of arms to Saudi Arabia and I hope it does not happen. I do believe that Israel is a bully and needs to pull back and let the Palestinians have their own state and I wish Hamas would realize that they are the roadblock to peace.

more soon..........

FOR THOSE WITH DISABILITIES

FOR THOSE WITH DISABILITIES

CLICK ON DISABLED PASSIONS ON THE SIDE BAR IF YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE FRIENDS OR FIND A ROMANTIC LOVER. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE COMPLETELY FREE.

I WANT TO COME HOME AND I NEED A PLACE TO LIVE, PREFERABLY WITH A ROOMMATE

This is my dream and my request: I want to come home to Woburn, MA. I am chronically ill and disabled and need help on occasion. I have asked Woburn Housing Authority for an appltication for low-income housing but after a year, they still have not sent me an application. If anyone knows what I can do to get back to Woburn and spend the rest of my life there with or without someone special but at least with a roommate and my own bathroom, I sure would appreciate it. I miss my friends and family and I just plain miss having anyone to talk to and chat with. If you can help, I'd be forever grateful.

BREAKING NEWS ON DALE EARNHART, JR

Today, Dale Earnhart, Jr, a Nascar Nextel Favorite, has decided to leave DEI at the end of the 2007. What he'll be driving and for whom has not been decided yet.

I knew this was coming; his stepmother is not going to make him owner/driver which his father wanted all along.

TIGER WOODS WINS THE WACHOVIA CHAMPIONSHIP

Last weekend, Tiger Woods, won the Wachovia championship. It was a difficult 4 days and a tough weekend but he pulled it off by 2 points over the entire field. It was great!!!

I used to think that golf was boring until I got into it, the skill and athleticism of the players, how hard they work and what scores they finally end up with. Even Tiger was pleased and happy at his win. It was supberb.

I'M TRY TO QUIT SMOKING

After 42 years of smoking, I'm trying to quit. I finally called the doctor to see if there was anything I could do with the withdrawal symptoms and he prescribed this new drug that cost $120. So far the medicine hasn't made much of a difference. I eat Commit lozenges and have a cigarette occasionally and have cut down to ten cigarettes a day but it has not been easy. I've bought hard candy, gum and lollipops for they say to keep something in your mouth at all times but it looks like I get up during the night, sleep walk, sleep eat, sleep smoke and don't remember it at all. I have sleep apnea and it's affecting my memory big time.

If anyone has any idea what else could be helpful, please let me know. Thank you.

VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTINGS

I have not written a word regarding the Virginia Tech shootings. First off, it's been overcovered by the media 24/7 for a week and more so I felt there was no reason for me to cover it.

What I do know is that it's brought out all the crazies is this country since with shootings all over the place. No one can tell me that a kid like Cho didn't show signs of what was to come; I am sure there were lots of signs and people were just not paying attention and for the media to give him so much attention was disgusting. My anger made me not even commit a comment.

BOYCOTT CITGO

Boycott CITGO - we do not need Chavez's oil and should not use it.

Even in Alasca where oil and gas is way over the $5.00 mark, has turned down free and discounted oil for their homes and whatnot. If they can do this, then we should be able to get along without "THE DEVILS" oil. The man is scum, his so-called fascist government is scum and even if that means people like you and me need help with the bills, don't get your heating oil from him. BOYCOTT CITGO!!!

PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE AMBER ALERTS

Just a quick note to remind you to pay attention to the AMBER ALERTS that are at the beginning of my blog page.

I DO NOT HAVE LLAMAS ANYMORE

I don't have llamas anymore; in place of animals I could no longer handle, I traded them in for a motorized wheelchair. We had to give them away and hopefully they all went to good homes; haven't heard otherwise.

so my property is up for sale and I need to find a place to live that I can afford on Social Security Disability and Medicare.

Hope everyone else is doing better than I am. Big Noreaster coming. Last one I remember was the blizzard of 1978 - boy was that some story.

ZACK JOHNSON WINS THE MASTERS

Zack Johnson wins the MASTERS!! Tiger Woods ties for 2nd place with two others. It was a difficult course for everyone that two cuts were made. Zack won it with one over par. The entire tournament was amazing; no one was doing well but this steely kid did better than all of them. It's pretty bad to be a pro and get a 25 over par on the leader board, so I hope they fix the course for next year in Atlanta.

But congrats go to Zack for sticking with it.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF IRAN'S HOLDING THEN RELEASING 15 BRITISH SAILORS?

What do you think about what Iran did to the 15 British sailors they kept in captivity for over 2 weeks? The show they put on and the reality that the sailors told after they were released and back home where they could tell the truth about what really happened to them??

HAPPY EASTER TO EVERYONE

I would like to wish everyone a very Happy Easter! May God bless you all and our troops everywhere.

SADDAM HUSSEIN GETS DEATH PENALTY

NO MORE TRIALS - JUST HANG THE BASTARD; HE DOES NOT DESERVE TO BREATHE ANY MORE AIR

I saw all the videos regarding Saddam's hanging, which can be found at mypetjawa.mu.nu and I have to say the Iraqi's don't know much about hanging. As a matter of fact, when they did the next group of hangings that included Saddam's brother-in-law, he was actually decapitated. Good thing there are no pictures of that.

GET OUT AND VOTE

GET OUT AND VOTE - EVERY VOTE COUNTS!!!! NO EXCUSES!!!!!

EUROPEANS RETAINS RYDER CUP

I love golf and watched every second of it on TV; I would have loved to have been in Ireland, just outside of Dublin, for the whole thing and of course spending time there on vacation if I had known about it long beforehand. I also saw the guy rip off his clothes and run around in the buff!! :-)

It really was exciting to watch the players but I have to say that Tom Lehan did a lousy job of pairing up people; I would have done better as a coach! Europe won 18 1/2 to 9 1/2 and worth every second. I'm in love with Darren Clarke and would give anything to meet him!

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON?

A woman kills her friend and cuts out her baby with scissors. Egads and they've been looking for her other 3 children. It seems she drowned the other three children, then threw them in the dryer. Huh? I'm reading the scroll on Fox but they don't tell you more than that, so as soon as I can, I'll do a search on this story. Hopefully I can update it for your information.

CENTCOM INFO

I received this today in the mail and thought I would pass it on.

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I HATE ISRAEL: THEY'RE BULLIES!!!!!!!!

Let me explain my reasoning. Israel has an army, tanks, gunships, other tyes of helicopters, ships and much more unlike anyone else in their area of the world. From day 1, if something happened, they would go into the West Bank and Gaza and just destroy it. Not only are they doing that now what they did to Lebenon was uncalled for and they went too damn far. They blew up the airport right after some journalists arrived, they blew up builings, uncaring of whom was in it; they blewup roads and bridgers and the Lebenon people suffered because of what Israel did. They are a mightily military and they use it for any excuse. It is unfair of them to use such actions against the people of another country whom cannot take care of themselves.

At one point, the PM of Lebenon said that Israel should pay for the damage they caused, the clean up and the rebuiling: I totally agree. To me, Israel went too far.

THE BOSTON MARATHON

No, I didn't watch it today; not even sure if it was covered. BUT back in 1991, my oldest son and several friends decided to go because one of them named Scott decided he wanted to run in the marathon. So they drove to Hopkington, MA, dropped Scott off and they stayed there until he ran by. Then they drove to Boston,had to park in a parking garage and spread themselves out along the finish line. My son at on a mailbox.

Anyway, the gruesome marathon was finished by Scott in three and a half hours, including a half hour rest once he got over the big hill. If he hadn't stopped, he would have done it in three hours and 15 minutes. I found his timing was phenomenal! And it was not that much different from the winner. It was damn good for a first try and his only try.

Because my son was out of school, they called me and I told them that Scott was running the Marathon and the names of the kids who went with my son and Scott. The following day the school made a big deal over Scott's achievement.

When he crossed the finish line, all the boys were at his side in seconds. They literally had to carry him blocks to the car; he was in agony. By the time they reached the house, he was really in pain, so I ran a tub, put special stuff in the water to help him relax, added my whirlpool addition, gave him a couple flexeril and a wine cooler to get him feeling better.

Now his parents lived across the street for me. Not once did they call; they didn't even bother coming over and congratulations. What asses. He ended up sleeping where he spent most of the time - on my couch.

When I got up the next morning, I fully expected him to still be on the couch but he went to school. How he could possibly walk is beyond me. Over the loudspeakers during the marathon, the rest of the students knew what he had done and when he went to school, they make a big deal over it because it was kind of a special thing he did.

It was phenomenal! And I'll never forget it; too bad his parents didn't give a damn. I was excited for him and proud of him for doing the marathon in a fairly record time. It's not like he prepared for this; he just did it and his timing was excellent. Very exciting.

WILL BE GOING TO MAINE MEDICAL CENTER SOON

Hey Folks,

Will be going into Maine Medical Center within a few weeks to have a hysterectomy (no real big deal) and a full and complete colostomy (very big deal). It will be agonizing for awhile but once healed should improve my health, some of my pain and improve the quality of my life.

Once done, I can get back to work here. Wish me luck!

Cindy aka FirstbrokenAngel

I'M SORRY

I just wanted to say that I'm sorry I have not kept up with this blog. It's not that I've lost interest - quite the opposite. I watch the news; I keep up with what is going on in the world and probably could discuss any subject with you.

My problem is that I am very sick and have been for some time. I'm hoping to get past that and back to work here soon.

I could use some help if anyone, including military personnel, would like to use this blog to keep it running and up-to-date until I can get on my feet. Life has been hitting me hard lately and all I can do is pray it gets better.

Thank you for being patient with me; I appreciate it.

Cindy aka Firstbrokenangel

LOST LOVES

I have loved two men in my entire life; neither were my husbands. My first husband died as a result of brain death in 1978. At the time, I had a five year old son that I had to bring in to see his father to say goodbye and that was the most difficult thing to do. When I came in the room with my son, my husband sat straight up in bed and it took 6 nurses to hold him down. He had brain stem death so I have no idea if other parts of his brain were still firing and he knew we were there.

But I digress. After my husband passed on, I met a man the following year that I was absolutely crazy about and who was crazy in love with me. But it scared him so he put me through hell and in our third year, he cheated on me and I didn't know it for quite some time. He finally told me and I remember that when he left, I was leaning against the wall and I just slid down the wall in such grief and pain and stayed that way for quite a long time. Shit, I thought we were going to get married and I'd be the mother of his two kids who adored me. They hated his father for what he did to me and cried when they left my house. Me, on the other hand, was in shock. I could not believe someone I loved so dearly and was so close to, could possibly walk away from me. I loved those kids as much as I loved my own. It was just horrible. Occasionally, I keep in touch with them; they are all grown up now, married with their own families and children. Last year, I even saw HIM and we sat around a fire chatting and had a good time and I found that it actually hurt me to see him and that I'd even be "the other woman" if he so desired. I guess I was really never over him and that was 25 years ago.

But mostly, the person who swept me off my feet and whom I loved beyond comprehension and he felt the same. Every night I'd write a note or a mini-novel and stuck it in his car for his reading pleasure the following day. I couldn't miss a night because he looked forward to them; they made his day and it was our way of learning about one another and working things out. But it sure was a wonderful relationship that I still miss sorely. We never fought and all he wanted, especially on weekends, was to spend time with me. When I was sick, he didn't want me in bed, so he'd set me up on the couch, just so he could be near me - asleep or awake. For the first time in his life, he learned what love was and it was amazing, absolutely amazing. I'm thankful for the time we had together and still damn wish he was with us.

He had blood clots in his legs with filters at the top of each leg and one in his abdomen just in case a clot got through. Finally, instead of ignoring it, he decided to go have surgery on his legs because he wanted to live a long life with me. So we went to see his doctor, who put him on aspirin (what a stupid thing to do) and did a stress test on his legs. I went everyway with him and I was the calming force, the comforting force whenever he had to have tests or for whatever reason. Our love transcended everything; it was magical.

And it will never happen to me in my life again. This I know. Between the aspirin - and I don't believe in blood thinners because they broke up his clots and pieces of clots were getting through his protective screen. One day he had a hard time breathing so brought the truck back to work, got in his car and headed for Winchester Hospital in MA. He made my friend David drive me down so I could use his car because he wanted me to be safe. I noticed things were wrong and I tried finding his doctors and since I complained about one of the pills he was taking, he stopped taking them altogether. The thing I was not aware of and would have have a flipping fit over was he did not have just an IV of fluids but of IV HEPERIN. Big mistake for heparin was breaking down the clots and they were going through his lungs, into his heart and into his brain, so he had a few TIA's. I noticed his speech was off, he walked the hall like a drunk and when I brought him home, he seemed to get better.

He came home on Saturday, had that breathing attack again which was caused by a clot in his lungs. When they released him, they told him they did find something but it wasn't anything to worry about. He did well on Sunday and Monday which was the evening he asked me to marry him. I figured that was a given since we were living together and had asked the doctors for two weeks off so he could close his apartment for good. We went to bed Monday night after an extremely passionate love-making and fell asleep in each other's arms.

About 4:30 an, he got up to go to the bathroom. I had a bathroom attached to my bedroom, so it was like two steps from his side of the bed. He goes into the bathroom, shuts the door, turns on the light in one swift movement, then I heard the bang of him falling. I ran around the bed and was in there in seconds. He was dead. Dear God, I howled as I grabbed a robe, turned on lights, opened the front door, grabbing the phone and dialed 911. That took about five seconds and it was only a short 2 minutes before the ambulance arrived.

In the meantime, I rolled him over onto his back and started CPR but all I was getting was blood. That howling noise stayed with me - sounded like a wounded animal. The EMT' arrived and they were big but my bathroom couldn't fit us all. After setting stuff up, they picked him up and brought him out to the kitchen to work on him. I knew they couldn't get an airway and in came the orange bucket where they put him and the equipment they had on him and out the door they went, telling the cop to bring me up the hospital. I tried getting over my doggie fence and fell, knocking over all kinds of glass cutting my knee to shreds for I wanted to get dressed before they left.One of the EMT'S yelled at the cop saying he was supposed to watch me and was I allright? So as soon as they left the house, I ran back into my room, got dressed faster than lightening and was out the door with the cop.

When I reached the ER, the ambulance was gone because they could not face me and there had to be 50 people in that OR but once the doctor saw it was me, he waved me through. I rattled off what had happened over the past week and they asked "why didn't they keep him?" What happened was the blood clots built up in the pulmonary artery till it burst. I stood there awhile and I know they were going through the paces, so I asked them to stop and leave him in peace.

In the meantime they wanted to cut my jeans to get at my knee, so I asked them please to clean him up and I went into another room where they stiched up my knee in a few places and had to have a tetanus shot. I pulled up my pants and walked back to the room he was in and the place was spotless and he was lying on a bed wrapped up like a mummy, peaceful, his face looking 20 years younger and radiant.

I had already called his brother, then went back to stay with him. I kissed him on the forehead and as I was about to kiss him on the lips, the doctor poked his head in to tell me to be careful but I already knew that. While I was being stitched up, I had called my friend, David and he was on his way up to the hospital. They found a minister to keep me company, so we went outside, had a cigarette. I asked why HE did this to me and saw David pull in. Together we walked back to the room and when he came in and saw my fiancee' he was taken aback, came over to me, kneeling down beside me visibly shaken telling me how sorry he was and more. It's shocking to see a person like that.

About 6 am, the doctor poked his head in and said to say my goodbyes because they had to move him before the hospital woke up. The people that worked there were making busy work so they didn't have to look at me. He was only 46 years old but still in shock. When he brought me home, I walked my neighborhood in my socks and David went to clean up the blood. His brother showed up to take his stuff and his car that I was using and surely wanted me to have but I gave him the keys and nothing else.

The ultimate, unconditional love of my life was dead. But I knew where he was...........

More later.

MAINE NEWS I HEARD TODAY.

After taking out a movie today, the Maine news comes on NECN, they had several pieces on three different individuals, I had to watch, it got so much of my attention.

There was an American Iraqi war veteran who lost all his troops in an IED but he also got hurt but except for a sprained ankle, isn't even allowed a job at the post office. Here is a kid who went to Iraq, is in perfect shape, runs daily and the post office won't give him a job. No reason except previous injury that does not bother him but they will not hire him. He defended our country but he's not good enough to be a mail carrier?? Unbelieve.

The second Iraq veteran hung himself. The family tried desperately to get him help from the VA but they didn't receive a letter from the VA until three weeks later. He was heavily drinking and the family was really concerned. They spend time at camps for children with deadly illness and one day the father went home and found his son had hung himself with a hose down the cellar. He said the look on his son't face showed he was at peace. (I've seen that look myself.) He got his son down, called the police, then returned to the cellar to keep his son company. He was 23 years old.

The third was killed in Iraq and his funeral is tomorrow and a group against the war plans on being at his funeral. This is abominable and they have no place at a funeral for a soldier who died in Iraq and the family does not need this. All I can say is they better not show up and leave the family in peace so they can bury their loved one in peace and quiet. Demonstrators against the war have no place in this rememberence.

NO MORE "BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES"

I received a notice the other day from Kevin of Wizbang saying there will be no more Bonfire of the Vanities. He has many pots boiling in the kitchen and even started another blog where you can post anytime you want.

Just passing on the information.

SORRY I'VE BEEN OUT IN PARADISE

Sorry I've been out in Paradise...:-). Only kidding, I've been out of commission. This is a terrible time for me and I do not function well in the cold and man, it has been cold. We had zero degree weather, major snowstorms, temperature and baromometric changes from day to night, our pipes froze and then when we finally got water back by unfreezing the pump the toilet took extra days before those pipes unfroze. Then we lost the heater and had to have that fixed. It's just been one thing after another.

But the worst part is all the losses I've had have had something to do with these months and I get very depressed. My mother died in September of 97 but her birthday is in late December. My brother took his life on early March 18th after a long day of partying on St Patrick's Day of 1982 and his birthday was February 2nd. My fiancee died in September a year after my mother but his birthday was late January and my father died a year ago on Valentines Day. This all culminates into major pain that matches my physical pain and all I do is cry. I forget sometimes then I realize what makes my heart ache. I'm very emotional and I'll be watching TV and a particular scene will be played out and I find tears pouring down my face.

This year, the last weekend of January, my oldest son, age 33, went and got married in Florida without so much as me knowing about it and I wonder what I ever deserved such treatment. My sisters and a brother, few cousins flew down. It was the sister that didn't go who called me on his wedding day to tell me. My younger son, age 22, wasn't included either. And that hurts.

My roommate and my son were laid off in October and neither has a job and no income and the phone calls are endless that I'm ready to change the phone number, I can't take it anymore. My mealsy disability income is what we've been living off of; it looks like I'm going to have to give up food for Lent.

I've been to doctors galore, had tests galore and the fear I have of choking to death -- the same fear my mother had when she had lung cancer -- seems the end I'm going to be stuck with and I would rather end my life on my terms, not my disease's terms. I'm losing control of what happens to my body and I do not want to live that way. I still have accidents like the other night when I crashed to the floor, knocking over my chair, stool, with ice cream in my hands, loudly, shaking the whole house and not remembering a thing but waking up in the morning wondering why one side of my head hurts. The other accidents I don't want to discuss for it digusts me to no end.

All these things and more are just piling up on me and I know I'm going to lose everything I worked so hard for all these years. It gets to me and there's nothing I can do about it. I live in a desolate road, so I'm very lonely and I was never meant to be lonely - too much of an extrovert. Except for my roommate, I'm very much alone, so he's no help. And we have llamas that have just got to go because he too is disabled to the point, he can barely take care of them either. The most he can do is feed them at night and have hay bales out there for them to eat day and night.

I will tell you all the stories but be aware I'm still a newshound and I know everything that's going on world wide. It was easier before when I would find information for other bloggers and send it to them but when it comes to mine, it's barely newsworthy and definitely more personal.

I need a hand wheelchair with pneumatic tires if anyone knows of an unused one.

I'm just very very tired of the whole thing.

IT'S ALMOST 4:30AM AND I STILL CAN'T GO TO SLEEP!!!

HANDICAP WHEELCHAIR VAN WANTED

Every once in awhile, you come across something that you may not need but another does, so I'm going to ask all of you to keep your eyes open for a wheelchair van. If you find one, send me the info and I'll make the call. I'd be really appreciative; sometimes people actually give them away free for those of us who need them, so keep your eyes open for me, please.

Thank you very much.

Disability Housing would come in handy, too; I'm willing to move.

THE OLYMPIC SCORING

The Olympic Scoring has changed this year into points like 99.00 supposedly to be more fair but I think they forget to tell Denmark. When Sasha Koen was skating tonight, depite several falls in the beginning, she did a fantastic job with the rest of her program. Gosh, she's good. No one can match her. While waiting for the scoring from the jugded. She got numbers like 98.60, 97.00 from rhat list of judges and a 1.0 from Denmark. A 1.0? what the hell is that? I see marks like that again, I'm going to complain to the Olympic Board and if I see that this judge gives normal reccords to everyone else expept people lke Sasha Cohen, I'm still going to report that unfair behavior to the Olympic too - because Denmarkis is totally wrong and unfaiar

I'M TRYING TO QUIT SMOKING

Yes, I am trying to quit smoking after 40 years and man, it's not easy but I intend to do it one way or another. For those who have made it after so many years, any ideas to help? Sure could use it.

I'm on oxygen at night but I don't sleep well. It's when I finally shut off the damn machine, I can sleep all day if I wanted to. For those who are chronically ill and disabled, quit, no matter how hard it is. I'm on the oxygen because I have restricted breathing from the fibromyalgia crushing my chest. My biggest fear is choking to death and it seems the pulmonologist knows that is exactly what is going to happen. Also had minor heart attack tonight, too. I'd say it's been a bad day all around - it still hurts.

BANK ROBBERY IN THE UK

Over the weekend, an unprecented bank robbery took place in the UK where the robbers first kidnapped the bank manager and in police uniforms, kidnapped his family and stole an equivalent of $43M of US dollars in pounds and took off in a dark van when they were done. There are no leads to these people or any arrests..........

Kinda reminds me of the new movie out with Harrison Ford called "Firewall."

UPDATE: Amount stolen has finally been figured out to be $84 Million dollars. They have two people in custody. There is a reward of 3.4 million for the money.

SACRED HOLY MOSQUE BOMBED IN IRAQ

When even Al-Sadr was held up at the most sacred mosque in Iraq, even we (the military) could not touch this particular mosque BUT it was blown up by insurgents over the weekend. This has caused the Sunni's to attack Shiites mosques throughout the country. Insurgents blew up the mosque but the Sunni's are taking it out on the Shiites, which makes no sense to me whatsoever. Why are the Sunni's destroying 27 Shiite mosques, killing 19 clerics when it was insurgents that blew up the holy mosque? Why aren't they going after the insurgents instead? And put an end to the insurgency?? That's whom to blame, not the Shiites, so why aren't the Sunni's as well as the Shiites going after the insurgents? After all. it was not the Shiites who did the bombing of the holy mosque. Why can't the Sunni's put their anger towards the people who blew up their holy shrine? If both groups went after the insurgents and Zarqawi, they could stop the insurgents in their tracks and not destroy each other's property. Now that makes more sense to me than what is happening in Iraq right now and avoiding a civil war. I mean they know who did it and it was not the Shiites, so why blame the Shiites? Don't the Sunni's know they are being played by the insurgency and not sectarianism? That what is being done is to cause a civil war between the two facftions when the two factions should come together and put an end to the insurgency and Al Quada? Gosh, too bad they could not think straight and realize the truth and do something about it, not letting their religious differences get in the way; that they are being played? The US has offered to help rebuild the holy shrine with the golden dome. What are they doing over there?

If they are going to go into civil war, right or wrong, I'd say that get our guys out of there asap!! Because no matter what we do, it's not going to change what's happening between the Sunni's and the Shiites. If they go into civil war, there is no sense for our troops to be there.

Over 111 people have been killed since yesterday; the Ammans are trying to calm the people. It's not Shiites vs Sunni's but that's how it is ending up. A curfew has been set to try to quell the violence. If that many people can get out there to protest, why don't they go after the insurgents and Al Quada, Zarqawi instead of their own people? 90 odd Sunni mosques have been destroyed, 111 people killed. Why fight one another when it's Al Quada who bombed the Golden Dome?

WHAT ABOUT AL GORE?

There is only one word for Al Gore and his speech in Saudi Arabia: TRAITOR

Jimmy Carter isn't much better.

And Clinton putting down VP Cheney? People in glass houses should not throw rocks.

NASCAR IS BACIK!!!!!!

NASCAR IS BACK!!! HO-AH!! Love it! Missed it. Junior has been running in both series - Busch and Nextel and then at the very end, somehow he doesn't even end up in the top ten. And both races over the weekend had incredible crashes including right at the very end of even the Daytona 500 which Jimmy Johnson won.

My dream: to be at the Daytona 500, meet all the drivers, even those who got cut and see it close up. Although the best seats in the house are in my bed or rocking chair or on the couch where you see everything, including replays. Maybe someday...

MY SON NEEDS A JOB!!!!!

Son #2 needs a job and can't find one. He filled out forms for unemployment where he'd get over $200 and up to $5500 totally - initially. He's my major stress factor and the money would pay for fixing his truck, get it inspected, pay rent somewhere (we've given him enough money already for having no income but my own disability) and he does nothing about it - like pick up a check every week. How hard can that be?
And I ask that he not cuss in the house for every other word out of his mouth is F**k which I hate. We even went fists to cuffs.
Plus how hard is it to fold blankets and put them in the closet during the day and take them out at night? Although my house is a pig pen, I still like it neat if possible, but he just piles everything here and there and it takes maybe five minutes to fold the bedding and put it in the closet. We had a huge fight the other day and because of his mouth and attitude, I wanted to slap him silly but couldn't - he's a lot stronger than me. So alas, he has no place to lay his head and it's been really cold here in NH. He may be 22 years old but acts like a 12 year old and has no memory of his first 15 years with me before he was kidnapped by his father. He doesn't see it that way but that's when the drugs and alcohol came into play. He's loud, fights and argues constantly, thinks he knows it all, sticks a knife in my heart and twists it. Everyone else likes him but has he ever heard "charity begins at home." I treat everyone the same, no matter who they are or where I am and I know I don't deserve this kind of abuse.
When he's here, all he does is sleep on the couch, sits at the computer or is on the phone, argues and fights with me constantly. He never helps, never does a damn thing but expects everything.
Now it seems if he can't find a place to sleep at any of his friends, he's probably sleeping in his car.
It's been colder here than the weathermen say. We've hit 2 degrees, 6 degrees, 7 degrees and tonight, it's about 14 degrees. I didn't throw him out, he walked out because he couldn't stand arguing with me any longer.
I worry but is it bad enough to say "come on back?"
I'm a great mother but even this mother has limits. I can't really explain it.....but am I wrong? There's more but you can't hold his hand forever. At his age, I had a 2 year old son, worked every day, paid daycare and went to school nights. What is wrong with our kids today?

THE UAE TAKING OVER PORTS ON THE EAST COAST

I know there's been mass news lately, so much so that it's hard to keep up. But there is one situation we should have known about before this - a company from the United Arab Emerites is going to take care of ports on the east coast and Louisiana. The President sees nothing wrong in this; the longshoremen will still work there, the Coast Guard will still patrol the ports but......and I mean BUT the UAE is going to control the ports. For some reason this makes absolutely no sense to me at all. Come on, we are fighting terrorists worldwide, aka Iraq, Afghanistan, and we're going to allow an Arab nation control our ports??? Do you have any idea how easy it would be for a terrorist to infiltrate such a company and attack us from within? Sure, Bush says the company checks out but why can't an American company handle the job? And even if the company checks out and works in different areas around the world, including places that have been hit by terrorists, isn't this like inviting them to dinner? I'm sorry, but I do not agree with the President on this issue; it gives me a bad feeling all over. After all, we ARE at war! Why take such a chance? I don't like it; I fear it's a huge mistake and we're somehow going to pay dearly for it sometime in the future. The whole idea makes me nervous and I hope the deal does not go through but as of March 2nd, UAE has the job of handling our ports on the Eastern coast. There's got to be a way to stop this before it starts.

The President has extended the time before the EU takes over the ports - seems he really didn't know about it till the media got ahold of the story. So there will be time for an investigation.

Why was Britian operating our ports to begin with? AMERICAN companies should be operating our ports, no foreign company!