WTF???

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

~ Ray L. Wilbur ~

I am stunned right now.

I have blogged about this issue before. I will never ever understand this.

Josh Powell was a suspect in the disappearance of his wife Susan in 2009. Susan went missing one night in 2009. Susan and Josh had two sons and Josh told some story about taking the two young boys (around 2 & 5) camping in the middle of the night in winter in Utah. Never made much sense to anyone, but nobody could prove anything.

Josh took the children and moved to Washington state and moved in with Josh's father. Last year Josh's father was arrested for child porn and the young boys were taken away and given to Susan's parents.

Well today they were taken for a supervised visit to their father - their father - who locked the social worker out of the house and then blew the house up with his little boys inside with him.

What the fuck is wrong with people? What was wrong in his head that he thought this was the way to handle this? He was obviously sick in the head, sick in the heart, sick, sick, sick.

Josh Powell will burn in hell forever.

I don't want to hear your phone conversation

Do I really have to listen to your phone call?

It always amazes me how people think they have to speak into a cell phone so that the entire airport waiting area can listen to your entire conversation.

Was just in on a conversation - some kind of tech guy (yeah, surprise) talking to some other tech guy about a job they are working on. Yeah, we have to get our install team down there for a few days to update all the firmware on all their devices cause what they have won't run on the new stuff we are putting in there. Yeah, seems every time we talk about them this job gets more crazy dude.

He finally moved across the terminal from me and I could still hear his conversation. Yes, over all the other noise in an airport terminal I could hear one guy's phone conversation.

His last words were: Drive safe and remember to hydrate.

Where the fuck was this other guy?

Poor Mitt

Out of touch. Really you think so?

Mitt Romney: "I am not concerned with the very poor - we have a safety net there."

Really? A safety net? Where?

14.7 children in this country live in poverty.

Are republicans responsible for this - yes!

Are democrats responsible for this - yes!

But, my god what the fuck is he saying?

Honorable Newt?

Websters defines honor as:

to regard or treat (someone) with admiration and respect

and they use the following as an example:

When we got married, we promised to love and honor each other.

So....

After losing the Florida primary Newt says if elected as President he will give his life, his fortune and his honor to this country.

His honer?

Is this the same honer he brought into his three marriages? The same honer he brought into his affairs? I really don't have a problem with people that have multiple relationships, but don't run for public office on a honorable platform if you have ended all those relationships by having affairs with other people.

I ask what definition of honor is he using?

Stroke

Caroline Richmond is 13 and she had a stroke - a stroke for christ's sake and she is currently on life support. Leukemia is the underlying cause of this stroke.

Caroline's parents are not on the dole. The are hard working self employed people that cannot afford health insurance.

So now what do they do? They have a bake sale, what else.

Why in this country does anyone have to hold a bake sale to pay for medical treatment for their child?

50 million people in America do not have health insurance. 700,000 families declare bankruptcy due to their healthcare costs.

Yes, people in America! Why?

Why doesn't every American citizen have healthcare? Why don't people that have insurance want people that don't have insurance not to be able to get insurance?

I guess I just don't understand politics. I guess I just don't get why we as a country would rather force people into bankruptcy, punish them for getting sick, punish people because their child get sicks, punish them because they can't afford insurance.

So not only might these people lose their homes, their jobs, their businesses but many of them will also lose their children.

Will never get it.

Asian Erdem

I will admit that Diane Kruger looks lovely in this dress. But I must say that yesterday in Sacramento I saw an elderly Asian lady in one very similar. The Asian ladies was black with a red lace overlay and she was pushing a shopping cart, but other than that the similarities were staggering.

Strong when many had forgotten

James Moreland was a Green Beret who went to Vietnam and had been missing for 43 years, nearly twice as long as he was alive. Forty-three years of his family not knowing what happened to him. Fearing the worst. Fearing he would never come home. Fearing, just fearing.

Well about a year ago some of their fears were put to rest, James was coming home. Home to people that still missed him, to people that were no longer alive, to people that were not born when he left and to one complete stranger who had worn his name on her arm for just about 39 years.

In a time when people treated troops coming home from Vietnam with protests and spit one young girl put a bracelet with a strangers name on it on her wrist. When a country turned their backs on these vets a young woman wore a bracelet with a strangers name on it on her wrist. When most of us had forgotten that there were still men missing in southeast Asia a woman wore a bracelet with a strangers name on it on her wrist.

She is Kathy Strong and she never let go of James Moreland. She never forgot his name. She may not have known anything about him. At some point it would have been so easy for her to just take that bracelet off, but she didn't.

She wore it every day. She wore it to work. She wore it on vacation. She wore it to family functions. She wore it when she cried. She wore it when she laughed. She wore it. She wore it. She wore it.

Until finally on May 14, 2011 she was able to take it off and place it on the empty sleeve of James' uniform and have it buried with his remains in a small family cemetery next to his mom and dad in his home state of Alabama.

James had finally come home. Home to those he had left behind. Home to those he had never met. Home to that one stranger that would never meet him, that would only know him thru family photos and stories from those that knew him as a kid, a young man that went to war.

Kathy Strong made sure that James Moreland was not forgotten. Most of us can only hope to be remembered by those that love us for that long, let alone someone that never met us.

Thank you Kathy Strong.