Where Patriotism Has Gone
Nuff said!
When the extreme right loses it…
The man accused of a gun attack at a church that killed two people and seriously wounded five others apparently selected the congregation because of its liberal social stance.
As far as I’m concerned, this is another prime example of just how some of those on the extreme right lose it, attempt to control with fear and when that doesn’t work they go completely apeshit and people really get hurt.
What’s the big deal about a church being on the liberal side?
Did it never occur to this man or his family that it might be his mental instability that prevented him from finding work?
I’ve been asked several times if I’m conservative. I guess to a degree I am - but there’s a much larger portion of me that leans toward the liberal side and that’s the part of me that doesn’t seen to control or manipulate the decisions of people.
My father happens to be one who believes John McCain is our only hope and honestly, I say either way we go in this next election, we’re screwed.
And everyone thought the last election was bad!
All I have to say is I see a crazy conservative as being MUCH more scary than a crazy liberal.
Racial Divide - The American Way
Below you’ll find a post that was submitted to me by my mother. I’ll let her have her say here and post my own position as a follow up.
A special on CNN is going to be on what it is like to be black in America. I have never been prejudice in my life. None of my family on either side ever owned slaves. We have always been hard workers and tried to help everyone that we could regardless of color.
My great grandfather came to America from Ireland he worked all of his life in coal mines to pay off the people that brought him here. I know that his family had a hard life but they never blamed Americans here before him.
My great grandmother on my mother’s side was Cherokee and again she wasn’t filled with hatred; she was a loving person according to my grandmother. My grandmother was proud of who she was and chose not to hate, but to love. Grandma always said,”if God can forgive them, so will I.”
Grandma never talked about the horrible things her people suffered in the Trail of Tears she said it would just open old wounds.
While watching The View on TV I saw Whoopi and Sherry get bent out of shape while declaring that it was fine for them to use the N word but white people are not allowed.
We now have black colleges; private schools that are all black, black magazines, and black Miss America. Whites did NOT create this divide - blacks did. It seems to me that some of the African Americans want to the rest of us to pay for something that happened hundreds years ago to people that today’s generations didn’t even know and that we were not a part off.
Red, yellow, black or white we are all Americans.
Jessie Jackson was angry with Barack Obama for not saying just what he wanted him too. Jessie needs to step aside and let Barack try to start a healing between all Americans.
Let me tell you what it is like to be white in America. When your job is outsourced or given to illegal, and you don’t know how you are going to feed your family or keep a roof over their head it is frightening. When we apply for a job we are told that they have to hire minorities first, qualified or not because of EEOC. I think that all companies should have to hire Americans of any color and not give American jobs to illegals.
Our government jobs are outsourced or given to the illegals also. We hear the politicians say the illegals are God’s children well guess what so are we.
We are losing our homes, health care, and families torn apart just like all Americans. Do I think one nationality deserves better treatment then others? The answer is no. Let us put the blame were it lies with the politicians.
What does it say about us, as a country when going to church on Sunday is a time to spew hatred toward our neighbors? Do you not know that this weakens the very foundation of our nation?
Let us all pray one for the other and for our nation.
How can you hate me so when you have never met me? When you hate white people you hate a part of yourself because we are a nation of mixed races. I am proud to be an American are you?
Happy 4th
Just a note to say happy 4th all. I am taking a trip down memory lane today remembering how excited the 4th was when I was a little girl and when my kids were small.
I come from a family of six so therefore we did not travel much except to go to Kentucky for the holidays where my folks were from. July the 4th was extra special because there was always a fair in the little town where my grandmother lived. My sisters and brother and I always saved everything we could so that we could go to the fair and see the fireworks.
I always loved the fireworks when my kids were small they would get so wide eyed over and excited over them. After Gayla’s twins came along it was just as exciting.
Now that I live in Canada I miss the celebrations so would you all have a great time tonight and let me know what you did as a family.
Love Grammy
Love through a child eyes
How do you prepare your child for heartache? Is there really a way to do that? I’m not talking about the heartache that your teenager gets from a high school sweetheart, I’m talking about the heartache that my four year old is going to feel when her best friend has to leave to go back to her moms, thousands of miles away.
My little girl Tay has a huge heart and she never meets a stranger and just this last week when she met Jacie she found a little girl that she will have a very hard time living without. Sense the two of them have been together they share everything, they go to bed and wake up at the same time, they eat the same meals and play the same games. I love that the two of them are so close but it breaks my heart to think about the pain that they are both going to feel when they have to be separated from one another.
How can you make it easier for them?
Tay has many friends and cousins that she plays with all the time but with her and Jacie it is different these two little girls love each other so much that it hurts me to just think about what the two of them will have to go through.
How can you ease the pain that they feel and teach them that they will see each other again in the future even though it hurts right now?
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