Norfolk, Va

Man..... I'm so tired of all the crap that is going on in Washington. Just get over yourselves and get to work on making our great country great again. They want us to spend money but the dumb asses can't seem to get it through their heads if people don't have jobs they can't but anything. The housing markets are not getting better, it's getting worse because people DON"T HAVE JOBS!!!!

Cooper Vision in Norfolk Va. is closing shop and moving overseas to England. These cities court these companies to come to the city with tax breaks, sometimes help buying property and then they move overseas. We need to start slamming these damn companies with fines make them pay the employees money for shutting their doors and leaving. How can we get back on the right track if we continue to allow them to pay up and move so they can still make a profit but leave us high and dry. ENOUGH already.

Get this in Norfolk Virginia the city is fighting two night clubs, they padlocked the doors after the city counsel voted to take their liquor license from them. They courted these clubs to come to Waterside and open up but now everybody wants a'' family atmosphere'' they had one club evicted from Waterside. Everybody is going to wind up suing one another and there goes the tax payers money down the drain.

I'm so over this ''family atmosphere'' crap. The children shouldn't be out that late anyway. Everyone is getting so high and mighty about what they think should be or not. Instead of trying to close down businesses that they think aren't right for their image the should fix the drainage problems going on there. Everything it rains heavy there there's major flooding. Just last week they had 4-6 inches of rain come down in certain areas and caused flooding. They have people losing most of their personal things while they worry about ''their image''. Why turn on a business because it stopped suiting you purpose? Things need to change but they won't......

Empty Promises!!!

The dreaded health care issue. It's going to be a big failure. I think it's a dream for everyone at this point. People are out of work and they are talking about putting a fine/fee on you if you don't have a plan. How in the hell can people afford it if they're now working? My oldest son doesn't have it at his current job. They don't have enough people for a plan.

He starts a new job next week that does offer it to you but even then he can afford to buy it. He just makes enough money to get by, barley able to pay his bills. He cut out smoking and buying soft drinks. When I was working I had to have insurance because I'm a diabetic and when I quit work I checked into the same plan with the same insurance company---here's what they told me. I was paying $252. and some change at work--- but out of my pockets not working---$753. and change. That's over $500.00 dollars more than what I was paying.

It's crazy the way these insurance companies can rip you off and get away with it. My mother went to a kidney doctor and made another appointment for sometime this month, she got her bill from them and she cancelled her appointment. She told me her bill was for well over $1200.00. She lives with my sister and she gets S.S. , that's it. She still has to buy separate insurance, so she's not getting anything for free. She has quit going to alot of doctors now because she just can't afford to go.

Some in the government wants to put a tax on soft drinks with sugar in them....saying that will stop alot of kids from becoming obese and maybe stop them from becoming a diabetic. I wasn't obese and I became a diabetic. I have a family history on both sides of my bloodline of having diabetes. My mother, my uncle(father's side), a couple aunts(mother's side) and my two brothers. So taxing soft drinks is just another way for the government to tell us what to eat or drink, just like they were on that kick about fast food is bad for you. You should have the right to eat what you want to without someone telling you-----you can't have that----I'm big brother, you don't have enough sense to know what is right for you so I'm going to tell you. What a bunch of bull hockey? You know what's bad for us lately, the big brother telling us what to do all the time..... I'm over putting people in office and each time they are no better than the one before them. Just a bunch of empty promises to get elected and point at each other when things are not done as they are promised.

We want your passwords & user names, what the hell????

We have known for years now that big brother is watching your every move. Now we have the city of Bozeman Montana asking job applicants for their user names and passwords to all their Internet social networking sites and their web groups they belong to. Why should we give in to these people that are working for us. Are you going to give us your user names and passwords for us to see?? No, I think not.

The city argues that it only uses the information to verify application information... they even go on to state that they won't hold it against anyone for refusing to provide it to them. PLEASE, who do they think they're kidding. They will be thinking in the terms of-If they don't want to give use this what is it that they're hiding-. Hell, maybe it's that it's none of your business what my passwords and users names are. It's bad enough that some cities asks that their employees not smoke even at home and there has been cases of if you're caught you will be fired. I don't smoke but I'll be damned if I'll have my boss telling me what I can and can't do in my own home.

In Norfolk Va., city next to where I live was knocking on doors wanting to come in and see inside your home...just to see if you have recently done repairs to your home or not. They say your home assessments won't go up...but then Real Estate Assessor Deborah Bunn said the door-to-door inspections helped her office provide more accurate assessments. They are just trying to squeeze every penny they can from someone. What happens if that person was recently laid off had time on their hands and decided to paint, make the place look better. They come in and see that it looks better than the outside of the home and they are like we have to have more money from you...this place is looking to good for what the home is said to be worth.

This has to stop, we are paying out money now for everyone of their LITTLE PROJECTS, you know the ones, where they don't benefit us but the do with someone with money. We are not safe anymore from Big Brother and it's only going to get worse because we have these people that think they know what's best for us. Yeah, what's best for me is for you to do your job and stay out of my home and leave my user names and my passwords alone. If it wasn't meant to be private they won't have said'' password'' to get in.

Where is the change????

The President won't release the visitors log... just like the Bush administration. I thought I heard in his speeches how There WILL BE CHANGE, A WHOLE NEW OPEN ADMINISTRATION IS COMING. Yeah, right. It's the same old bullshit, everyone that gets in office spouts off how things will be ran different than the last President. Obama wants us to believe that he's the one that's going to change this country for the better....I don't think so. I am really pulling for him on the health care issue, we do need a change because there are to many people out there without any health care at all.

The President did a about face on releasing the photos of the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay. At one time he allowed a few photos to be released and then he's like, no,no more photos are going to be released to the press. Why stop now? You started it and then pulled the plug...why???? We are not children, I can judge for myself what is right or wrong, good or bad. We have to know what's going on and just not what they decide we need to know. It's our country too. Don't we have a say in how things go. Just because we put someone in office doesn't mean we have to have a gag in our mouth so we can't speak out, have a blindfold on so we can't see what's going on. We still have a right on how this country is ran...don't we.

Bye my baby girl Madison.

On June 5th, I had to put my big baby girl to sleep. It was the Most Hardest thing I have ever done in my life. We had been together for nine years, and had only been apart four times. I was in the hospital for three days and my husband said she wouldn't eat and leave my side of the bed the whole time. He had to put the leash on her to take her outside, and one night when my husband and I went to his aunts funeral. I knew that I would be there for her, it was the least I could do for her.

I have heard a lot of people say that they couldn't ever do that, it would hurt to much. Yes, it nearly killed me...but how could I not be there with my baby. She wanted her mama to make her better, to take away the pain. I did that, for her. So, Madison I love you and I will miss you until we meet again, bye baby, love your mama.

Home for animals!!!!

Well, I am going to go for it again. What I mean is that I am going to work on my proposal again to find money to open a home for animals. The Haven of Hope Animal Rescue. That is the name of my home for lost and abandoned animals. There are so many out there and now with so many people losing their homes some people are just walking away and leaving their pets in the home.

I don't think they should just walk away and leave them in the homes, but a lot of people are doing just that. If you have to leave then please just find a no kill shelter and leave them. Even most of these shelters are full and can't take them in. I think all living and breathing beings either four legged or two deserve to live out their lives in a warm loving home. I know a fantasy. I'm hoping though, that people will change and come to believe that animals do hurt and cry like people. Don't you want to have a place to go to that will take care of you and to feed you and to just love you. Well, that's what I want for these animals that are being put to death because of overcrowding.

That is what happened here at the Virginia Beach animal control, some dogs got sick(Provo) (I hope I spelled it right), so they put those to sleep and then put even more to death because of not having room. The state has been on them for a few years now because of poor conditions and yet they ( the Virginia Beach City Council) can not or more likely will not find the money for a new shelter. I think the city should take the shelter out of the police depts. hands.

So, if anyone out there knows where I can get some money to get the shelter started let me know. I want to get money to buy a lot of land so they can live and feel safe. I want to save as many as I can, so if anyone has any ideas just let me know.

No Faith In People Anymore!!!

I have no faith in my fellow man anymore. Most people are selfish with the me mentally. My husband stopped yesterday morning at a Hardee's to get a biscuit and when he got ready to leave his truck wouldn't start. It was the battery. He told me no one would help him and if it wasn't for a guy that works on the same job site as he, he said he would have had to call me just to give him a jump.

Today I went to Cape Henry Hardware in Virginia Beach where I live to mail a letter. They have a contract post office inside. Well, there was one lady at the counter being waited on and two women at the table, each with a pile of stuff to be mailed and they were still working on it. One lady said ''we are in line''. And the clerk just nodded his head. I didn't move, but I told her to go ahead, she rolled her eyes and said we will go our turn. I said screw this and I told her that when people are in line that means they are in line and not working on their stuff to be mailed. I said I'll go to the real post office, I told her I can't stand idiotic people and left. What gets me is that I had one envelope to get one stamp for while these women had piles of stuff to go out. I mean, they would have to wait a whole minute while I got a stamp.

If I had my way I would move off somewhere by myself with my animals and just deal with people over the net. Get my groceries ordered, anything that I need just order it from the net.I have always let people in front of me if I see that they have one item and I have a bunch of stuff, whether in the post office or grocery store. I try to be nice to my fellow man. But I just give up, we have all these animals in the animal shelter ran by the city of Virginia Beach dying because they put them to sleep because they don't have room in the place they're at but they have money to build a rec center that you can't use on holidays because they are closed. Hell, that's when a lot of people want to use it, when they are off of work.

I know that furthering your education is really important, but it just kills me to see someone leave a large amount of money to a school while you could take some of that money and open a huge no kill shelter. I love art just like the next person but it's the same as the schools, I believe that keeping something alive and healthy is more important. I know that most people don't agree with me but that's what's wrong with the world today. They don't consider animals as important, they are just animals. That's why some people don't see anything wrong with dog fighting or cock fighting. These animals bleed and hurt just like we do, they just don't have the voice to speak out. Who will stand up for them?

So, am I being petty, was I wrong to think that when you are in a line it means you are actually standing there ahead of me or behind me? I won't even waste my time anymore on going back to Cape Henry Hardware post office because if the postal clerk doesn't have the nuts to tell someone that you're not in line if you're still working on your packages why bother giving them your money. They are a contract station so they make money on their sales. So, I'll just drive the extra mile or two and stand in a real line. At least at the real post office if you don't have your package done you are not considered in line unless you have a problem or question.