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Leave Medicaid, Medicare, VA Benefits and SS ALone!


Leave Medicaid, Medicare, VA Benefits and SS ALone!.

Leave Medicaid, Medicare, VA Benefits and SS ALone!


       Again and Again, I turn on CNN and other news services on my television, and I hear how Congress and the Republican Party wants to cut Medicaid and Medicare programs and prescription payments too. Then I get hints of Congress and the Republicans wanting to go after Social Security and borrow more from it and not repair it?  Then they are talking on cutting Veteran’s Benefits too and hurting the Veterans who rely on such things to survive, are you all nuts or what?

         Across America many Americans both male and female depend on Social Security each month to survive, they depend on benefits to live and can’t work. If you can’t lower health costs and prescriptions you sure as hell better leave Medicaid and Medicare alone damn it. Social Security we all paid into and many still are today and you want to kill a program that has helped America’s seniors survive? What the hell is wrong with you people, it sure was helpful when it was a big fat bank on the side to borrow from all those years, now that you have to find a way to pay it back to us and keep Social Security alive for all, you don’t want to right, it’s suddenly a Welfare costs. Up your asses you Republican Bastards. Leave the benefits alone that keep the Seniors going, the disabled going and give the elderly some coverage you cheap bastards. In the end, what you will do will take away everything you can and than leave America’s Disabled Veterans and Seniors with no coverage and bleed us dry with medical and prescription costs, then cry when you have nothing yourself in the future. Dumber then dumb you ask me, don’t you people realize not all American’s are politicians with benefits from Congress, not all Americans have rich kids to save them!. Wake Up!

        What you doing to put it in plain English Congress, is, you are asking the Seniors and Disabled in America and the homeless and jobless to just jump out of a plane flying 50,000 feet in the air and commit suicide, so you  can save money and not pay those who put into all and deserve it. Veterans gave years and years of their lives  and more for what we have. Seniors raised the current population and leaders of America today. This country did not get great without sacrifices, you know it and we do too. But the Disabled, The Seniors and the Veterans are not the ones to be making the sacrifices now for your generation, it should be you keeping us going till we die.  You owe it to your parents, your veterans, to take care of us, not us take care of you, we did that raising you. Listen and heed I say.

Jesus, and The Bible ?


After attending church the Roman Catholic Version for over 12 years of life, I was given the choice of continuing to attend church or leaving it all together, I choose the latter. Why many Catholics have asked me over the length of my lifetime now, why would you give up something you were taught for that long a period. Yes I went to Sunday School, and yes I made both Confirmation and Communion, I drew the required pictures as a child and I read the required verses of the bible. Why did I stop attending then, here comes why?

As I grew older and understood more of the Catholic Religion, its masses and beliefs, and rules, I also read the bible. So I began to wonder what religion requires you to go to a man-made building to pray and listen to someone preach sermons and prayers at you. When the bible will tell you first and foremost, God hears and sees all, so why do I have to pay an organization to pray to God? That started my investigating things a little further too.

I do not mean to infuriate, or anger nor insult any Catholic believers or Christians here, but really, please tell me if your God is so real where did he come from? This debate goes back to the old what came first debate, the chicken or the egg and you can indeed argue it forever in man’s world. The religious ones will tell you God created the earth in 6 days and on the seventh he rested, why would a God need to rest?  Then we have scientist, Doctors and Historians who all believe in Evolution or the Big Bang Theory too. Which ever you believe in, whether Religion, the Big Bang Theory or Evolution, I do agree something or some being started all we have here and elsewhere in Space. But no definitive proof of any of it is available at this time.

As to the Bible itself, whether the original version, the St. James version or any other version, it is a fable passed and built upon by generation after generation of different people and combined into one book for all to see.  Mankind learned to communicate and write at a young period in time and my belief is simple. One man began a story based on things he observed going on around him in the old days, and then handed that down to the next generations, until you have the bible as it is now written and edited to present a religious picture and belief system to attract more worshippers.

As time has gone on it has been instilled in many religions and beliefs, as to what the Bible, means in its verses and stories and legends. Yet as we all know, no final proof of such an existence or events has shown up on earth to prove the facts, one hundred percent. I am not trying to dissuade anyone from practicing what religion they wish, for I grew up in a family of two religions, Catholic and Muslim. Do I have a non-ending belief in either one, no, sorry to say, the proof has never been presented.

I do know and believe one thing when it comes to religion, all women, children and men, must have some kind of belief to pin their hopes, futures and hearts on while alive. These stabilize ones life and gives them a basis from which to live and grow on. What ever religion you may believe in, that is a personal choice of course, I hope for everyone’s sake, it is a solid faith for you and helps you through life in general and gives you a belief of where you will go when you die. If God is there and so powerful, why would he allow killing, rapes, wars and more upon the earth we live on? Why would an all mighty being be forced to sacrifice his only begotten son to save humanity?  These questions shall remain  till time expires for all. Why would God have men representing his Catholic and Christian Faiths who molest children? No I am sorry, there is too much hypocrisy involved in the Churches period, for me.

 

A Short Story for Today


Video Ending !

It is ancient history so to say now, as to when the first video game appeared on the world market and the electronics craze really began. The 1980s is now decades ago when companies like Atari, and Commodore Computers came about. All hooked to a TV antenna on the back of your television and or with a monitor of its own and keyboard and silly joysticks. It now seems so long ago after all the inventions and progress since, doesn’t it. Pong, Table Tennis and then graphics came about as children and adults got fascinated by Intellivision and then PlayStations and X-Boxes and personal computers. Lap Top computers became the craze and now Tablets and E-readers abound, everywhere a person goes is someone reading, or playing or working on an electronic device. Amazing isn’t it folks we have become total and unashamed electronic geeks who love having video games to play and watch.

As a kid born in the fifties and raised in the sixties and seventies, we never had game consoles, computers, e-readers or video games. We had erector sets, microscopes, dolls, rings, jacks, jump ropes and balls. We had puzzles and paperback books and hard covers, and a little TV if we were good. Today’s children live and die with electronics and it is sad when you removed it from the kids they get lost and don’t know what to do anymore.

Such is the preamble to what happened to a child born in 1982, little Gerald McLaney. A young boy who by the age of fibe years old was given a controller to an Atari Console and got lost in simple games like pong and table tennis and grew from there. His parents didn’t think anything of it, it calmed Gerald down when he was upset, it made him quiet and happy and they could hear him in the next room each day, laughing and making fun sounds as he played for hours.

His days were spent staring at a Television screen full of pixels and shapes and laughing and yelling and sometimes crying when he failed to beat the games. Never though would Gerald ever give up no

matter how many times he was beaten by a game he always went back to play again, to prove it was beatable to him. Usually Gerald would figure it out even at five years old, a small boy who’s brain sped as fast as light pixels across the screen. He mastered games like pong in no time, tennis in no time, Mario Brothers by 7, and was on to games of Champion Tetris and puzzles and more.

His days were spent going to school, coming home rushing through homework, finishing it and on went the Television and the game console and Gerald would be lost once more to the world, in an electronic wasteland staring at a screen of colored pixels now that moved at the same rate as his brain cells fascinated by the games invented to play with. Gerald never worried about making friends or going out to play and his parents saw no problem letting him do as he wanted and what made him happy. After all Gerald was happy as he was and no one cared if it was the video games and Television screen keeping him company, all they knew is Gerald was a happy kid and never caused trouble.

His life went on and on as the video games grew, he went from Atari, to Intellivision, from Intellivision he graduated to X-Box and Play Stations. The games went from simple games like pong and table tennis to games of more violent natures now, war games, battles, battleships and planes and then the shooters. Yes the all-time favorites for Gerald, his shooters games of war now allowed to be played across the internet now, as servers sprang up and blood and gore and sounds of explosions and fights and yells of death filled the room Gerald played in. Gerald staring at the screen to see a dot move and shoot and duck as a player’s pixeled characters head exploded 300 feet away in the game and the scores rang up and awards He joyed in being able to kill as many opponents as possible and being the best on the score boards around the world now. Yet behind the screen as others were being beaten and seeing Gerald’s pixel character in the game come up victorious and win, no one knew the real Gerald who was now home alone always with no

one to watch him. He was snacking on so many things over time that between the age of 7 to 17, Gerald had somehow grown to 300 pounds and could barely move. Yet he refused to put down his controller and stop his game playing for it was all he knew. He ate whatever he wished, no his parents didn’t pay attention, nor stop him as long as Gerald didn’t bother anyone and was happy.

The video game sounds could be heard in the halls with Gerald’s door shut as he played on and on seldom stopping except for bathroom breaks and to get snacks. He would rush as fast as he could across the hall to the bathroom to go and then wait when no one was looking and get food and drinks and run back in and play more. He lived for the video games each day, looking online for new ones to play, buying and downloading what he could on a credit card. Each game was more complicated to win, each shooter more violent and gore filled as Zombies died, and Soldiers and Hit Men and Mobsters all at Gerald’s hands. As Gerald sat back in his chair in his room his eyes filled with the colors and pixels of the screen his thumbs and fingers gliding effortlessly across the controllers, smiling and never caring about anything else.

The pressure from the weight and his lack of physical exertion began to get to Gerald each day, slowing his heartbeat down and causing bladder and bowel problems, but Gerald didn’t care much, he wanted to just sit in the dark stare at the screen his fingers and thumbs sliding over the smooth buttons on the controllers and watch pixeled characters on a screen bleed and die left and right as he worked through each map and screen. It was after all Gerald’s whole life now, he knew he couldn’t run and play with the other kids now. Gerald could barely make it to the bathroom 100 feet away and the refrigerator 200 feet away downstairs once a day. He would sneak down when no one was looking with a tray and climb slowly back up the stairs, with the try loaded with drinks and snacks and junk food.

Once a week Gerald would get up and empty the trash when no one was home from his bedroom. Bags of trash he stored like a rabbit storing food, until no one was around and then disposed of them. No one knew Gerald existed except for the fact they kept feeding him food and drink and hearing the sounds of the games in the hallway and down the stairs throughout the house. This went on for a good 5 years and at times only visitors would wonder how Gerald was to his parents, but when they asked to see him, Gerald would tell his parents, he was too busy doing things and the game sounds would get louder. Slowly but surely over the next two years the gaming sounds from Gerald’s room would fade a little at a time. Becoming less and less to be heard from Gerald’s room daily. His own family tended to believe Gerald was fine, because the sounds did keep coming and going on and off and he never ever complained of anything.

Finally, after five long years, Gerald’s family began to wonder how come they didn’t see or hear from Gerald much anymore, what was he doing now a days. Was he really ok in that bedroom of his and  why didn’t he come out  or answer anymore?

One day, they decided it was time to see Gerald again and make sure he was alive and ok. As they pounded on his door there was only video games sounds inside and no verbal response from him.  They knocked harder and harder but no response still. So they tried to open the door to Gerald’s room, and failed not once but three times. Now worried frantically, they dialed 911 for help.

10 minutes later the fire department and police arrived to find out what this was all about, Amazed they listened to how someone wa sin this room and had been for so long no one knew what was happening, with him. They knocked first looking for response like everyone else did, but nothing. They asked for a key to the door but no one had one to let them in. The Police decided to try to break the door down by their shoulders yet it did not budge.

The Fire Department brought in a saw and they cut thru the door to Gerald’s room. They found Gerald who was now 400 pounds and leaning against the door as the door gave the rest of the way under his weight. Gerald died 400 pounds, happy with a tray of snacks, sodas and his video game controller in his hand! Sadly Gerald never bothered with anyone but the gamers online and ate like he did to do so, but he never interacted with real people in the outside world either.

Three days later they buried Gerald McLaney in a piano box, to hold his 400 pound body and before they tossed the dirt over his casket, they threw in his X-Box 360 and a controller!. He could now play video games forever more!

 

On to The General Election Please!


Sometimes, life takes strange twists and turns in ones race to get to the end, and other times it is destiny that leads one to the end result. It matters not what others think, it does matter what the end result will be, no matter what. The math of The Republican Primary this year, delegate count is the ultimate number all must watch as it gets nearer to Mitt Romney winning it. The numbers do not lie, is all I can say to Mr. Rick Santorum and the world, spending more money in other states isn’t going to win it for you Santorum you said that yourself, so why continue?

        The time to end this debacle of a Republican Primary is now, Newt Gingrich‘s campaign is over his funds are gone and dried up, Ron Paul hangs on, but no one will tak ethe elderly one serious and his views are more liberal than conservative anyway.  The end is here Mr. Santorum let Romney now fight his race against President Obama and lets really see if he can beat him or not. I warn all though, President Obama is loaded for bear and ready for anything anyone will throw at him and as I see it now no matter the Republican Nominee, you still have to beat the Incumbant who is beginning to turn things around, look at the numbers.

        I have never been a soothsayer nor a fortune-teller, or one who claims to see the future and know what is coming next, but it sure looks like this race to the Presidency is one between Romney and Obama to me. Who wins or who loses will depend on perceptions of these men in the American Public and at this time I can tell you two areas that will decide this as far as population goes. It won’t  be die- hards of either party, it will be independents like myself and in the end the female gender, women carry power in elections, and if you mess with female issues you deserve what you get from them. 

        Decades ago, Roe vs Wade and the courts solved women’s issues big time with the decision won by women. Do not tell a woman what to do with her body, that is  their own personal place to go, Do not tell them whether they can or can not have a child for religious reasons or any other, they know what they want and can make up their own minds. As to contraceptives of different sorts, men and women use them to prevent unwanted children it’s a fact of the world and to stop supplying them would be wrong too. After Rape drugs are needed for I agree with women, if raped why would they want to keep a rapists child?

          I tire of politicians who tell us what to do with our lives, but I also tire of the ones who don’t get the ideas and thoughts the American people really need help with too.  Stay away from Medicare, Stay away from Medicaid, stay away from Social Security and stay away from Veteran’s Benefits, the people on these items need them each and every freaking penny they get. They are not the rich ones who live high on the hog, they are the ones who have to budget each day and week to survive and take hours in a store to figure how they can eat because of money limits. Wake the hell up politicians!. The saddest thing about the election year cycle and the way the election is going is too many damn Republicans want to take from the poor give to the rich and raise the income of the rich by cutting their taxes. How about we do what Mr. Buffett said, make the rich pay more which is their fair share for a change!.

         Anyway I am reaching a little far now off my original subject of the Republican Primary Race and the meaning of Romney’s wins last night. In the end though isn’t it time we all get a view of what the fall election will be and end this republican debacle now? Lets get to fixing the economy, trade agreements, jobs, and trimming budgets and making Health Care Work!

 

Lessons in Life for All


Life my friends sometimes brings with it lessons we have to learn in order to survive. For some it is not easy to survive, because they don’t know how to fight back against what represses them, for others it is all a game they people to see who they can one upmanship on, and for others it is I don’t give a damn. Lessons are learned everyday by everybody in the world, for some it is pure survival methods, for others it’s business survival, and others love survival. Again it is all different for each of us isn’t it?

I was asked once long ago, which is the best way to go, I can’t give that answer, for no one can, it must fit each woman and man. We all learn lessons of how to live, eat, clean and survive from our parents, and then use those same lessons to move forward and guide us in life. We may not always recognize the traits, the lessons or ways of another, but we sense the danger when it comes around and back off. Mankind is made up of predators and prey; the docile shall be eaten alive, just as it happens in the animal kingdom.

The difference between mankind and the animal kingdom is the human brain works a little better reasoning out logic and solutions. We also can devise solutions no animals would come up with and make them work. Amazingly, mankind is advanced this far ahead of our animal kingdom, but is it really that far we are ahead? Mankind can regress when needed to, and become a raw, wild animal fighting for its own life. It’s just a fact of life that we all understand, but avoid and never deal with.

Lessons are taught to us from the day we are born, swaddled in a diaper and sucking from a bottle or nipple.  Slow down when you eat, drink plenty, and learn to wipe your rear, sound familiar? I bet they do! We all learn these lessons, as children and growing up. Things like wash yourself brush your teeth; comb your hair and more instilled in child years. Then they take us through Kindergarten and Elementary School days, to refine those lessons and teach you more lessons building on

the ones you learned at home. Lessons come every day for people in the world; it’s amazing what some may be, for many. For not all lessons even for humans are nice or learned easily, for mankind can be a stubborn being in more ways than one.

Learning to communicate properly is the most important lesson we all learn each and every day.  At times we come up as misunderstood, misheard or not clearly expressing ourselves and our feelings. Learning when and how to do so is perhaps the hardest thing to do. Some of learn to do so through schools and others through the streets and friends and there are still some who never learn properly. Communication is vital as we all know to the advancement of humanity; the clearer and more openly we can communicate the better it is for all around us and ourselves. Expressions of love, caring, hate, violence and more are included in this, and so is something vital to all humanity if you wish to remain human that is and get along properly in society, self-control.

For some self-control is beyond their control, they lose themselves in fits of laughter, fits of anger, of violence or hate, and don’t know how to control themselves. These individuals end up outcasts from society, hidden from other, or paranoid and needing medication for things like, OCD, Bi-Polar and other mental diseases. It is not their fault of course it is a disease a real chemical imbalance in the human brain that causes these.  Then we have those who get depressed also, which can be brought on by events, reactions or shut downs of the human mind due to stress, pressure or chemical imbalance. Many can overcome these with medical help, prescription and careful watching, there are some though who shall never reach the real world and feel left out and isolated, again it is not their fault?

Lessons for dealing with these things include as you grow up lessons in communication, lessons in sexual orientation, lessons in belonging, and lessons in interacting with others. Stop and ask yourself,

why is it one person has a certain effect on me and others have a different effect on me? Why is it in one family of ten people, you may be loved by half the family and hated by the other half. Perceptions are why, people percept things different and from different angles so to say no one sees the same instances and circumstances the same. One may take something you say as a loving reminder, or a fond memory, and another might take the same thing as an attack upon their family, for instance. In the end though we can’t all see things to do, and at some point the best you can do is express yourself and your feelings clearly and hope in the end it can all be understood and worked out in the end.

We all have learned lessons in fighting too, some in how to physically beat others to pulp and some in how to mentally beat someone to a pulp. But we all have learned how to fight in our own special way whether we are violent or just smart. Funny how that part is formed by family life at home, and how you are raised by parents or in some cases ignored by parents. Sadly humanity is the only species on the planet that rejects its own children for social issues.

One big important lesson for all people to get right is this one my friends. No matter the color of your skin, nationality, or race, or where you are born, we all have traits in common. We all bleed red, we all die if injured bad enough, we all die in time, and we all live through many of the same experiences and traumas that make us who we are today.  We are humans and the biggest lesson for all to learn and understand is simple, humankind should stop killing itself, we should stop killing each other off and learn the biggest lesson of all, Humanity is a species, we all belong to and we are indeed all created equal. So in ending I say this to the world the biggest lesson for all of us to learn whether we are Caucasian, African American, Hispanic, Oriental or any other race, is this we are all human, we are all one species and we all must get along to survive, or in the end we shall leave a planet, empty and devastated by all of us. And that my friends is not a Lesson I wish to learn!