Author: macattack56

Age 69 Navy Veteran- 16 years military, three branches Writing is my thing! Do Poems and stories and Blogs Also use social networks and chat sites MyYearBook-Domct2002 Twitter-@BillMcCurrach

Cancer the Deadly Killer Strikes


      I will be 56 years old if I reach January 25th, 2012 and I have lived through many things here in America,but somethings you just wish didn’t happen at all to the ones you love and care about. My life has been filled with people I have loved, hated and sometimes just put up with, but the ones you care about always count most.

       Way back in the 1970’s I first heard the word Cancer. A deadly word and a deadly disease, sadly it kills millions a year across the globe. They have so many forms of it, it is hard to imagine, but yet there it is. Progress has been made fighting cancer but not enough as  some shall see here.

         In the 1970s I was a  teenager still in High School when I first heard the word Cancer. It came up in a conversation about the first girl I was ever attracted to. I found it hard to believe but it was true for her and still is today. So that was my first hearing of cancer, but far from the last for sure.

          Joining the cancer victim list, next came my real father in 1983, he died of lung cancer smoking too much and he left behind 9 kids and a wife. Sadly, I didn’t know him that well although I did meet him a few times, but his death took him away at 55, my age currently.

           In 1990 after spending 16 years in the military serving my country I came home. When I did I found another cancer victim in my family, my step-father God Rest his soul. He was diagnosed with Cancer in February of 1990 and by October of 1990 he died in a hospital. He refused anything except pain medications, and died in a hospital bed. But Cancer wasn’t done yet, was it?

      While my step-father was dying of cancer we received a phone call from the Doctors, and had to meet in a hospital board room. As we stood there we watched mom as her Doctor explained she had cancer and was dying too. She died one year and 1 day after her then husband. Cancer had now ravaged one girlfriend and three parents on me, was it finally over? Nope!

        1993 I met my second wife, who was healthy, and fine and we became very happy together. We married 7 years later in our new backyard of the home we bought, under the beautiful willow trees, the year 2000. by 2004, we headed to Doctors something was wrong with her. After trips to Doctors, and Hospitals and even New York for specialist we found out she now had Breast Cancer, it struck again.

        We spent a year  with my wife in and out of chemo treatments and then radiation treatments, I ended up shaving her beautiful hair from her head. But she survived this bout and overcame having to take medications and survive. Today is now 2012 as we all know, this is now going on our 12th year together, come September, hopefully we will make it that far.

       January 7, 2012, the phone rang again, the Doctor called my wife had her MRI done a few days before. The Doctor told her on the phone, something is there, three nodes have shown up and two are lighting up the MRI. Instant depression set in for her and for me, what now, where do we go and what do we do? I have no idea and neither does she really. She will need biopsies again to determine if it is cancer or fatty tumors. Once we know we of course will do what ever is necessary to try to save her life. Cancer what a nasty word, cancer it cripples, it destroys, it injures and in the end it kills. I just hope for me, and for my wife it doesn’t take her from me!. I know without her, I would crumple and she knows it too!. So Pray for her and lets hope for the best and stay positive is all I can do.

FIght of the Year, 2012 Election


      Monday has arrived for many it is a new week of work beginning and the constant struggle of survival goes on. I know here in America these days it is becoming harder and harder to survive and get what is needed to survive. Politicians live like fat cats at a large open can of food and endless supplies of money. They get paid no matter what they do, they are indeed the one species or personnel group that can actually do nothing and get paid still. Why?

     As the year goes a little further and i get closer to my 56th birthday this month, I look back and wonder what President in my lifetime really accomplished anything in Office?.

      I come up with only a few names really, I lived through the end of Eisenhower’s term as a baby so I know not much of him. Kennedy as many know was a big racial equality man and did stop a war between us and Russia, so he do accomplish somethings in his short time in Office. Johnson carried on Kennedy’s Civil Rights acts and ran Vietnam and lost the damn war for us all.

      Richard Nixon, held the economy in check, took us off the gold standard, and kept prices in reach for the American People. He also took us out of the war and got his ass caught in Watergate. But he had one hell of a policy for  affairs, opening up Russia and China.

      In between what Presidents really did much for the USA and it’s people, can you tell me really. Ford nope, Carter tried but he was held back and stomped out by Congress like Obama is getting now. Reagan, every one wants to honor Reagan and be him right, why? Well he did survive the assassination attempt, he did take credit for getting the Berlin Wall down and Rescuing Hostages but what did he really accomplish, showing a strong face to the world, the economy, prices started their climb.

      President Clinton even with his infidelities and personal problems did what few Presidents could do, he actually balanced the budget and took us from the red to the black during his terms in office. Shouldn’t someone ask him how he did it and get his advice now?

          The Bush Presidencies hurt America in many ways, the father not as bad as the son and it is sad they ever occurred in my book. The son only ran to try to repair his father’s reputation and record, and ended up being five times worse than his dad.

           Now Obama is in and everyone wants his to clear up the economic mess that took BUsh 8 years to make, in four years in office, come on America wake up. No one can do that in four years, you felt ok about Bush and his wars and gave him four more to get us out which he failed to do, we should give Obama four more years just based on the fact he is working on the economy got us out of Iraq and carries himself well in office. Wake up America, the election is coming in November you better study well these candidates for the Republicans versus President Obama. In The end sometimes it is easier to stay with what we have and it works best!

 

Apology/ Election Rumble Ahead


      Welcome back Internet World! After days of problems with my Internet connection I am back online again. Sadly, I blamed Comcast for the failure of my connection and found out in the end it wasn’t all their fault, so I owe them an apology, which I am offering here and now.

        That now said and done, lets discuss these Republican Debates in New Hampshire last night. Did anyone really challenge the leader Mitt Romney, nope!. Mitt stood there took the hits and swung back so to speak and it matters not what the rest said, he was standing tall at the end.

           The problem with this field of Republican Candidates is simple, not a one of them has no faults or problems. They are all flawed in someway it seems and the least flawed is Romney at this stage. The rest it seems have problems or a lack of experience in their own ways.

            Jon Huntsman tried to fight back last night but in the end he didn’t attack Romney at all, he backed off at the critical moments. His working for President Obama in China was brought up and in the end he let Romney get away with that crap.

            Ron Paul is the senior statesman of the group here, but he is also the most liberal unrealistic one of all of these candidates. Really now, we shouldn’t fight any wars no matter what? We should mind our own? I believe like many we have fought wars we don’t belong in, but total isolation, nope can’t happen.

        Rick Perry, in my opinion needs to saddle up his horse and ride on back to Texas. He is ridiculous in his answers and his actions in this run for the Presidency and at this time he really is not a viable contender.

         Rick Santorum, comes up next in my mind to contend with Romney and he is not capable at this time on this level. While Santorum wants to combine religious beliefs with political beliefs he is wrong on too many issues and not prepared at this time to run America. Mr. Santorum is a nice enough person, but between his earmarks while in office and his slightly racial tint he has been painted with, well, you get the idea.

        Newt Gingrich the proud once Speaker of The House. His baggage is big from 3 marriages and infidelity to political swamps so deep, he couldn’t swim through them if he was a teenager again. He is too rough, too self-centered and while he would make a Secretary of Defense or a Secretary of State, he will not make a President.

      So the choices left for the Republican Party are very few who they will Nominate and run against President Obama in my opinion and I believe we shall see a Obama, Romney nationwide election happen. If I were Mitt Romney I would study Obama’s record more closely, update myself on all issues needed to run this country through good advisors, and get ready to rumble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Cable Companies Lie to Customers!


     This am I woke up feeling pretty good, until, I sat down at my computer to check the news online over my computer and through my Comcast connection. It goes in and out and in and out on me, then I call Comcast and tell them it’s them, no unplug the router, unplug the modem, shut down the computer, wait two minutes plug it all back in, lol. This happens six times in 3 hours, so I say the hell with it and go to bed.

          I awaken the next morning and stumble out of bed and down to my kitchen to get coffee, to get ahead. Getting my coffee I sit down to blog and the computer won’t go online still, what the hell!. Now I am pissed so I go and unplug the modem, unplug the router, and wait two minutes, plug-in one after the other once more and poof the internet is back!. When a company the size of Comcast tells you in a phone recording their lines are busy and are slow to answer, their service is screwed up and they are working on it. People tend to ask them is something wrong and Comcast’s technicians on the phone don’t know how to reset a modem or connection except what they are told. Sadly Comcast and Charter and other cable providers are not smart enough to just tell their customers we have a problem and are working on it, dumb indeed. It is how they lose customers and piss us off, don’t lie to us ok!

        If you are having a problem providing the service you give to customers at least tell the truth and work to fix it, even if it is in a recorded message!. Services are counted on by millions of people daily to write blogs, stories, check e-mails, play games or whatever some would like to do online. Be honest with us all and we will indeed be honest with you and forgiving and cooperate. It makes the whole situation that much easier to stand, ok! Besides Cable Companies, do you really think all customers don’t know DNS Server  not present, or can’t be found, is not your server, it is and we all know it is. So just admit the problem and fix the damn server and we can all move on ok, lying doesn’t make us customers happy at all.

 

Iowa Caucuses Ends


      The end of the Iowa Caucuses s took place this am, in the closest contest in history, Mitt Romney won by 8 votes over Santorum. One win does not pave the way for Mitt Romney nor is it much to brag about, he needs to fight a lot better in New Hampshire and South Carolina to get himself on a roll. Being an Independent myself, I don’t really care who wins the Republican Nomination, I always wait till the choice is between two candidates to pick.

        As the primaries continue next in New Hampshire, where the people speak their own mind and make their own choices, no one should bet they have it won in any way. New Hampshire is a proud state and it’s people will tell you if you listen, we don’t care what others say, we are going to pick our choice our way!. So, if I were Romney, Santorum, Paul, or Gingrich, I would get my tail there and speak with a straight tongue and intelligently.

       The Future of America, does not only belong to the Presidential Race and these candidates and President Obama it really belongs to the American People. Listen up folks, While who is in the White House is important to represent the American People, we need to look at the Senate Races and The House of Representative races also. These parts of our Government are screwing the America, and pointing at each other and saying no, he did it, no he did it like children in the cartoon strip in the Sunday Paper in the Family Circus. They need to be woken up and slapped across the face, and told to get off their asses and do something for us. While many Americans finished 2011, hungry, broke,homeless, on the streets, and out of work, these politicians lived in big homes, lots of power and heat and food and gifts to give!. Are they to continue staying in office living off of the money we Americans pay them to help us, when they don’t do a thing for us?.

       The American people suffer without jobs, without food, without homes and no place to turn for help and these politicians get fatter and laugh at us. We need to replace each politician who didn’t do their job in the Senate, in the House or in the White House if need be. Just be carefull who you vote in, because we don’t need more nay sayers, we don’t need no more me, me, me people, what we need is more We, We, We People!. Fight back Americans!