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!

Wails of an ADDHA Child


   

Wails of an ADDHA Child

The sounds of a child in pain are unmistakable and the visions of one in pain stick in our minds all our lives, like scars from a cut of a sharp knife. I know many who have survived these pains and scars, but of them all, I think the one that counts the most to me, is my own daughter, her cries still echo today and will for her lifetime I am sure, at least in her mind. Can a father ever truly understand a daughter, who seemed such a problem child and still seems so as an adult these days?  Hard to believe, but her screams and emotions and feelings are on the surface of her being and in her mind and they may well be there for her whole lifetime.

She had her own way, as a baby, we gave her the best, her own room, furniture and clothing, toys heaped upon her and presents too, well-loved from the day of her birth, but you wouldn’t know it today if you saw her. She looks so depressed and worn out, like a woman at 30 who went through hell, but she never really did, she portrays it well though. Eileen cries out like a siren in the old days. A siren that wails and wails on and on, but makes that noise at a high-pitched level that it goes through you at times and chills you to the bone. I know she suffers from Attention Deficient Disorder and Hyperactivity, we took her in for treatment and she was put on Ritalin at the young age of 6.      .

I remember when she was born in January of 1982 I sat down and wrote a poem about her that I called A Child of The Stars. It went like this, she is a child of the stars, and she can be whatever she wishes. A doctor, a lawyer a chemist or a thing of beauty like her momma is, yes a Child of the Stars she can be whatever she wishes. That was my intentions for Eileen and what I wanted for her as her father

Her siren call and wail started in the 1980’s and still continues today while she lives with her daughter and lesbian lover in Pittsburgh’s South side. I see her now and then when I get to Pittsburgh, Pa. and when I do I still feel the sting of her siren wail, when she calls me by my first name instead of dad. It pulls at my heart-strings.

Her siren call would come across state lines to catch me unawares after I left her mother and we went through divorce. Little did I know what was coming but, if I had known, I am not sure what I could have done differently, her siren wail of a person for attention, almost cost me 20 years in jail.

July 1989, Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va, I was a Second Class Petty Officer with the job of  helping to run the Bachelor’s Enlisted Quarters on the Hospital base. I had been there a year after a severe injury onboard a ship, where I ended up with 6 herniated discs in my spine, and I was under treatment. I had fought for the prior 7 years with The Navy and the Orthopedic Doctors over my spinal injuries and the possibility of surgery. The wanted to fuse my discs in my neck and lower spine, I refused because I wanted to be able to walk. After 16 years of service to my country, and 6 herniated discs I finally lost the battle to stay in, on July 24th, 1989. I was discharged under Medical Conditions, Honorably.

I was collecting unemployment and thought I should find a job easily. Nope that was not to be, so by October of 1989, we couldn’t pay our mortgage on our home in Virginia Beach, Virginia and were force to let it foreclose and move.

My wife suggested we go live with her mother until we could get on our feet, I agreed, big mistake. Thinking back, I should have known better than to agree to this one but, again a man does what he thinks is right.

Back at the end of July, I had come home from a job hunting trip one day to find my wife on the phone in the kitchen crying as our daughters played in their rooms. When I asked what happened or was wrong at first she refused to tell me, then she blurted out in tears her parents were getting a divorce. When I asked why, I got shocked, her father, as his kids were growing up, sexually abused all four of his kids.  . Right then and there I should have looked for mental health help for her, but she refused to get any and from that point things went downhill. Eileen was 7 years old in 1989, and she watched everything as it happened

April 1990, Pittsburgh, Pa., we had now lived in my mother in laws home since October of the prior year. I struggled in Pittsburgh to find a job finally getting one in March of 1990 as a plumber’s helper; it paid a lousy 12 bucks an hour. On pay days I handed my wife my paycheck and never asked for a penny, we had the girls I didn’t care, I was providing.

Until April 13th, 1990 all was well. Then I came home to eat and take a shower and watch some television, before bed, and got hit with a jolt. My wife looked at me and said she wanted a divorce!

The following morning I got up at 6 am and had coffee and made my lunch, as I finished, my wife woke up, I looked at her and asked her one more time, are you sure you want a divorce, yes was all she said, I said ok I would take care of it and got my paycheck from my boss, told him I was getting a divorce and I couldn’t work. I drove from work to a bank and cashed the check, then to where my wife worked. I asked her again if she was sure, she said yes, so I left. I left Pittsburgh, Pa. on April 14th, 1990, and came home to Connecticut, I never got to say goodbye to Eileen, she, was in school.

When I arrived in Connecticut I went to my parents’ home, and they took me in. They gave me a room to sleep in and a place to stay till I could get on my feet again. Unknown to me, was the fact my step-father was dying of pancreatic cancer. My step-father died in October of 1990 as I was going through my divorce, his advice to me was save your money you’re going to need it, he was right. At the same time he was dying, my siblings and I were called to Waterbury Hospital that July 1990, as we rushed in thinking it was dad dying now, we were ushered into a conference room in the hospital. Sitting at the end of the conference table was mom and her doctor, the doctor told us, mom, was dying of cancer also and had about 18 months to live. We lost both parents within one year and two days of each other.

December 1991, the 15th, I came home to my parents’ house where I was still living with my youngest brother, it was the evening. I had just gotten done watching a program on television, when a knock on the door got my attention. I opened the door to find two police officers standing there. I asked if I could help them, they asked my name, the next thing I know I was cuffed and under arrest. The charges I never knew until I was in a cell in the police department, they shocked me to hell. My daughter had told her mother I sexually abused her and beat her. The charges were Assault and Sexual Battery , my nightmare began with that arrest.

I had to go to trial in Virginia Beach, Va. It would be 4 months later before I was released and cleared, after a prosecutor caught both, my ex-wife and Eileen in lies. But I almost got killed in jail by a mass murderer who was in the same cell as me. He found out the charges I had and set all in jail after me, I had to beg to be moved to a private cell, until I went back to court. Her wails had gone off again and this time I almost paid with twenty years in prison. The Prosecuting attorney saved my ass, by catching on to it all.

She will be thirty come January 2nd, was 7 in 1989, when I left Pittsburgh, Pa. and lived in that apartment with her mom, sister and grandmother and Uncle. Listening to the tales of what my ex-wife’s father did to her and her siblings and what the grandmother said too, she then made up a story of me doing the same to her. Sadly enough, it almost, got me.

August 2006, I got a call from my youngest daughter, , she was getting married, and called and asked if I would   pay for her wedding gown, yep, if I get an invite. I hadn’t seen either of my daughters in 14 years at the time, away we went my second wife and   I, to see my youngest get married in Pittsburgh, Pa in a Park. We spent 3 days there, in a hotel and saw my eldest  and her mate. And we met my eldest granddaughter, that year too, as she stood staring out the front window of her home, waiting for us to arrive She is a doll of a child and smart as all get out, she is a great kid.

My eldest daughter,  and I,  get along ok, but you can feel the tension rise if we are together in the same place too long. She has never said she is sorry for her wail and call for attention that almost cost me 20 years of my life, and likes to talk like her mates father was her father, since I was never around and calls me by my first name. My second wife looked at her and told her, this is your father, wake up. She will never be the little girl I knew as a baby and young child, but she should at least not let her siren go off anymore or let us hear her wail.

I love both my daughters equally, and always will, but, all I can hope for is a day when Eileen will say, I am sorry dad. Maybe someday it will happen, I know not when. I shall survive as I always have and so will both my daughters I am sure, today, I have now 2 grandchildren in Connecticut, twins, one grandchild by Eileen and Leslie has produced 3 grandchildren plus a step one too, total grandchildren number 7 now. My life goes on, but, I know, someday soon her siren may go off again, and I am fully aware now of the possibility of her wails being false!

False accusations can destroy people, be careful of that little child’s siren and listen for when she wails. And hope someday by others tales, your child doesn’t wail and make you spend time in jail, for something you never did. Because of  her siren and the way she did wail, I live in fear of lies that can put anyone, in jail. I passed the ADD HA  on to my daughters it runs in families, but, my wails never put my parents in jail!