Miley Cyrus said she would leave the USA if Trump won the election and I said maybe she should choose North Korea. A friend of mine said that may be preferable to America under Trump. Really?
I can't believe he said that, even in jest.
Monday, October 24, 2016
Sunday, October 23, 2016
I voted
I voted early this year. I wasn't sure whom I was going to vote for but Miley Cyrus said that if Trump wins she would leave the country. I hope she chooses North Korea.
My Last Day
We have many last days during our life time. Last day of school, last day on the job, last day in your home or apartment, last day you will ever see a close friend, last day in the military, etc. so this being a last day for me is really no big deal.
I have a disease of the hands that cause my fingers to curl, particularly the little and ring finger of each hand. Tomorrow morning I am having both hands operated on so today will be the last day the tip of my little finger of my left hand touches the palm and cannot be moved. I know it will be a painful recovery and really inconvenient having both hands operated on at once but I would just like to get it over with. My fingers are stiff so it is hard to grip things. Typing is hard, clapping is impossible, and I cannot put one but one glove.
Well, today is the last day I have to put up with the inconvenience of curled fingers and stiff hands. Soon, my fingers will be straight and more flexible.
I have a disease of the hands that cause my fingers to curl, particularly the little and ring finger of each hand. Tomorrow morning I am having both hands operated on so today will be the last day the tip of my little finger of my left hand touches the palm and cannot be moved. I know it will be a painful recovery and really inconvenient having both hands operated on at once but I would just like to get it over with. My fingers are stiff so it is hard to grip things. Typing is hard, clapping is impossible, and I cannot put one but one glove.
Well, today is the last day I have to put up with the inconvenience of curled fingers and stiff hands. Soon, my fingers will be straight and more flexible.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Sign in place
The preacher and I got the new church sign in place Monday morning. Another man was supposed to build the sign put after 3 or 4 months I figured he wasn't going to build it so I made one. After I finished my sign and let the preacher know the other fellow called and said his sign was ready. The preacher thanked him then told him it was no longer needed.
Numbers don't lie?
Two weeks ago I weighed before going to my MOVE class and I weighed 215.4. My weight at MOVE was 219.5. Yesterday I weighed before going to MOVE class and it was 217.0 and at MOVE it was 219.4. What gives?
Yesterday I tried to follow my diet plan and stick to my calorie count and this morning I was .6 pounds heavier than I was yesterday morning. At least my blood sugar reading is the lowest it has been this week even though I did take a pill with a swig of juice two hours ago. I'm not supposed to do that. In order for readings to be accurate there is supposed to be an 8 hour fast window (fast like in nothing to eat or drink except water). So 133 is acceptable.
Yesterday I tried to follow my diet plan and stick to my calorie count and this morning I was .6 pounds heavier than I was yesterday morning. At least my blood sugar reading is the lowest it has been this week even though I did take a pill with a swig of juice two hours ago. I'm not supposed to do that. In order for readings to be accurate there is supposed to be an 8 hour fast window (fast like in nothing to eat or drink except water). So 133 is acceptable.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
blood sugar readings and weight
Last week was a disaster for my weight loss goals, what with a trip to the state fair and my low blood sugar readings. My average last week was only 105. That normally would be a good thing but when ones blood sugar is low a person feels hungry. When one feels hungry a person often times grabs an unhealthy snack to tide the feeling of starvation. Something sweet will quickly rise the blood sugar level bring back the feelings of normalcy but what happens when the sugar high wears off? One feels hungry again.
Of course a high blood sugar reading can leave a person feeling hungry also but its still a different kind of feeling. A person needs to be careful with either extreme. The secret to a healthy life, especially for a diabetic, is a steady blood sugar reading. Not only does the quick fix to low blood sugar reading throw your body out of kilter but it leads to weight gain.
I woke up a few minutes ago and took my glucose readings and they were slightly elevated yet I feel like I'm about to die of starvation. Even if I consumed a large meal I know that in an hour or less I would be hungry again. As I understand it, when one's blood sugar drops too low at night one's body can convert fat to sugar raising one's glucose levels. One is normally hungry in the morning so in ones mind, the feelings one has in the morning from an elevated level is similar to those when ones glucose level is depressed. Without taking a reading it is difficult to know if ones level is too high or too low. That's why it is so important to keep ones level's steady. Failure to do so can lead to an unhealthy weight gain and/or other health problems.
Of course a high blood sugar reading can leave a person feeling hungry also but its still a different kind of feeling. A person needs to be careful with either extreme. The secret to a healthy life, especially for a diabetic, is a steady blood sugar reading. Not only does the quick fix to low blood sugar reading throw your body out of kilter but it leads to weight gain.
I woke up a few minutes ago and took my glucose readings and they were slightly elevated yet I feel like I'm about to die of starvation. Even if I consumed a large meal I know that in an hour or less I would be hungry again. As I understand it, when one's blood sugar drops too low at night one's body can convert fat to sugar raising one's glucose levels. One is normally hungry in the morning so in ones mind, the feelings one has in the morning from an elevated level is similar to those when ones glucose level is depressed. Without taking a reading it is difficult to know if ones level is too high or too low. That's why it is so important to keep ones level's steady. Failure to do so can lead to an unhealthy weight gain and/or other health problems.
Monday, October 17, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Lee Curtis Says She's Spoken to Lindsay Lohan About Donald Trump's
Well now, since Lindsey Lohan is now informed I think the election should just be called off.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
We tried McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King's signature burgers — and the winner is unmistakable
The headline was taken from an MSN article about which chin serves the best burger: McD's, BK, or Wendy's. The article claimed the single from Wendy's was soggy, the big Mac was the perfect combo of burger to condiments, and the Whopper had too much bread. Too much bread? The Big Mac has a 3 piece bun. Every time I've tried one, all I can taste is that secret sauce.
To tell the truth, the only thing I ever buy at McDonalds is a breakfast biscuit and coffee and I only buy the Carolina burger or chicken from Wendy's. The burger at BK has that grilled out flavor which I like. My favorite burger of the big chains is one from Hardees but they hire the dumbest cashiers and I don't always have time to wait.
Wendy's has the best customer service by far. Often Burger King employees make you think you are an interruption of their bonding time.
As far as competition goes, Five Guys is always voted best burger but it really is the overwhelming amount of fries one gets that endears people to the chain. My favorite place for a burger is Highway 55, formerly Andy's. There one can get a burger anyway and in any size one wants. They even have a shrimp burger. I once ordered a burger all the way: lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, jalapeno peppers, slaw, and chili, with a side order of Texas Pete hot sauce.
Sometimes we eat at the closest place, sometimes we make a conscience choice. Some like things one way and some like it the other. I'm just glad we have choices because we are not all the same.
Therefore I make the bold claim the best burger is the one you like the best.
To tell the truth, the only thing I ever buy at McDonalds is a breakfast biscuit and coffee and I only buy the Carolina burger or chicken from Wendy's. The burger at BK has that grilled out flavor which I like. My favorite burger of the big chains is one from Hardees but they hire the dumbest cashiers and I don't always have time to wait.
Wendy's has the best customer service by far. Often Burger King employees make you think you are an interruption of their bonding time.
As far as competition goes, Five Guys is always voted best burger but it really is the overwhelming amount of fries one gets that endears people to the chain. My favorite place for a burger is Highway 55, formerly Andy's. There one can get a burger anyway and in any size one wants. They even have a shrimp burger. I once ordered a burger all the way: lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, jalapeno peppers, slaw, and chili, with a side order of Texas Pete hot sauce.
Sometimes we eat at the closest place, sometimes we make a conscience choice. Some like things one way and some like it the other. I'm just glad we have choices because we are not all the same.
Therefore I make the bold claim the best burger is the one you like the best.
Saturday, October 08, 2016
Trump asked to resign
That is a good idea because Trump is unqualified to be President of the United States. He may be a billionaire but he seems to be immature and unstable. But if he resigns that means Hillary would be President by default and she is unqualified to be President and more dangerous. I call a do-over.
Tuesday, October 04, 2016
The first anything
I'm rather tired of hearing about a person being the first black, female, Spanish, Asian, homosexual,
or whatever they happen to be, to do a particular thing. We wonder why we cannot heal the racial divide in this country yet in everything we say and do we want to divide, even in the groundbreaking things and good things. "He/she is a role model for people" or "He/she is an inspiration" or He/she is the "first of their kind" to do or win such and such.
If the fact that we are different is constantly shoved in our face then how can I ever accept the fact that we are all equal? The fact that a cop shot an unarmed man should bring concern from all citizens and not just along racial lines. One would think that only white cops shoot people and they shoot all black people unjustly. The only way to insure that all are treated fairly is to insure that none are treated differently.
It is a fact that people are drawn towards others that are more like them. If I were to go into a building where I knew no one and I saw a group of men on the left and a group of women on the right I would more than likely mingle with the men. If I saw a group of white men and a group of black men I would more than likely mingle with the white folks. If I saw a group of white men dressed in biker garb and a group of black men dressed in business suits I would mingle with the men in suits.
What I am saying is we tend to mingle with those people we most closely identify with. Go to a foreign country and one will discover that Americans who have retired there live in close proximity to each other. That is why we have Spanish Harlem, China Town, little Haiti, etc. That is why Pennsylvania was settled by the Dutch, we have places called Germantown, and there is such a thing as a Russian community.
As long as we keep thinking of ourselves as different we will continue to treat each other as different.
or whatever they happen to be, to do a particular thing. We wonder why we cannot heal the racial divide in this country yet in everything we say and do we want to divide, even in the groundbreaking things and good things. "He/she is a role model for people" or "He/she is an inspiration" or He/she is the "first of their kind" to do or win such and such.
If the fact that we are different is constantly shoved in our face then how can I ever accept the fact that we are all equal? The fact that a cop shot an unarmed man should bring concern from all citizens and not just along racial lines. One would think that only white cops shoot people and they shoot all black people unjustly. The only way to insure that all are treated fairly is to insure that none are treated differently.
It is a fact that people are drawn towards others that are more like them. If I were to go into a building where I knew no one and I saw a group of men on the left and a group of women on the right I would more than likely mingle with the men. If I saw a group of white men and a group of black men I would more than likely mingle with the white folks. If I saw a group of white men dressed in biker garb and a group of black men dressed in business suits I would mingle with the men in suits.
What I am saying is we tend to mingle with those people we most closely identify with. Go to a foreign country and one will discover that Americans who have retired there live in close proximity to each other. That is why we have Spanish Harlem, China Town, little Haiti, etc. That is why Pennsylvania was settled by the Dutch, we have places called Germantown, and there is such a thing as a Russian community.
As long as we keep thinking of ourselves as different we will continue to treat each other as different.
A broken system
Most people will agree that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are widely unpopular and unqualified for the office of President of the United States of America. Hillary go the nomination pretty much by default as qualified candidates did not file. Even so, Bernie Sanders almost beat her which was a shocker to the DNC and the liberal press.
Donald Trump won the Republican nomination because he is an IN-YOUR-FACE type of person who shows little respect for anyone or anything who promises to do something about the problems facing America that never seems to go away. Obama never brags about the "change we can believe in" because the changes that he brought about have only weakened the family and strengthen the future of the Democratic party. Illegal immigrants and working class people are backbone of the Democratic party and the Republican party is seen as the party of the conservatives and the rich even though the extreme poor tend to be Republican. Go figure.
A Prime Minister of England once noted that what was great about America was that any young person could grow up to be President but what was scary about America was that any young person could grow up to be President. I think in this year's election we are seeing the scary side of that equation. We are still wallowing in a two party political system in which neither party can truly represent the views of its members and too many people support the party rather than the candidate.
But it seems the only thing people want to change about our election process is the Electoral College.
The Electoral College is not responsible for Obama, Bush, Trump or Hillary although some would disagree about Bush.
The founding fathers wanted a system that would represent the will of the people by insuring that people in small states had equal representation with those from larger states, both in elections and in Congress. Originally the founding fathers limited voting to landowners because they tended to be better educated and more interested in the process of law than non landowners. However congress and the Supreme Court eventually saw that policy as unfair and over time and protests the system was changed. What the founding fathers did not anticipate was that grossly unqualified people could run and even get elected to office as the supreme leader that few would even follow.
Therefore I submit that while the system is broken it is not the Electoral College but the method by which our two political parties elect their candidates. We need more than two or three political parties, we need candidates that run on qualifications and platforms and not party affiliations. One big problem with our current system is that local and state candidates are voted in or out of office based on how well the national candidate does and not always on their own merits.
Freeing candidates of party affiliations would allow office holders to vote their beliefs and not by party lines. It would make for a much better system and better legislation for all concerned.
Donald Trump won the Republican nomination because he is an IN-YOUR-FACE type of person who shows little respect for anyone or anything who promises to do something about the problems facing America that never seems to go away. Obama never brags about the "change we can believe in" because the changes that he brought about have only weakened the family and strengthen the future of the Democratic party. Illegal immigrants and working class people are backbone of the Democratic party and the Republican party is seen as the party of the conservatives and the rich even though the extreme poor tend to be Republican. Go figure.
A Prime Minister of England once noted that what was great about America was that any young person could grow up to be President but what was scary about America was that any young person could grow up to be President. I think in this year's election we are seeing the scary side of that equation. We are still wallowing in a two party political system in which neither party can truly represent the views of its members and too many people support the party rather than the candidate.
But it seems the only thing people want to change about our election process is the Electoral College.
The Electoral College is not responsible for Obama, Bush, Trump or Hillary although some would disagree about Bush.
The founding fathers wanted a system that would represent the will of the people by insuring that people in small states had equal representation with those from larger states, both in elections and in Congress. Originally the founding fathers limited voting to landowners because they tended to be better educated and more interested in the process of law than non landowners. However congress and the Supreme Court eventually saw that policy as unfair and over time and protests the system was changed. What the founding fathers did not anticipate was that grossly unqualified people could run and even get elected to office as the supreme leader that few would even follow.
Therefore I submit that while the system is broken it is not the Electoral College but the method by which our two political parties elect their candidates. We need more than two or three political parties, we need candidates that run on qualifications and platforms and not party affiliations. One big problem with our current system is that local and state candidates are voted in or out of office based on how well the national candidate does and not always on their own merits.
Freeing candidates of party affiliations would allow office holders to vote their beliefs and not by party lines. It would make for a much better system and better legislation for all concerned.
Saturday, October 01, 2016
Presidential race coming down to the wire.
Tow parties, two candidates, one country and no one really qualified to hold the office of President of the United States of American. Neither candidate has given any reasons to vote for themselves except to claim that they are not as bad as the other candidate.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
The crud
Don't really know how to describe what has been ailing me. It's not unlike a cold which I suppose it is really. It started a week ago with that little feeling in the throat that is different from anything else. You know you are getting sick. I grab the Zicam which promises to shorten the duration of a cold if taken at the onset. Well, this is the onset.
Most colds I have start with a stuffy nose and move down into the chest and some start in the chest and end of in the nose but all come with sore throats, chest congestion, coughing, sneezing, stopped up noses and mucous. Sometimes I think my body is a mucous factory.
This illness didn't seem like it was going to last long and I was ready to sing Zicams praises. Two days of a slight tightness in the chest, coughing, a few sneezes, and then the nasal congestion, and the fifth day I seemed like I was almost well. Then the night coughing and the mucous came, I seem to be okay for hours then suddenly my nasal passages turn into faucets running with this thick gel like substance. It's stuck in your chest, clogs your throat, fills your sinus cavities to the brink of bursting and makes one think that putting a bullet into your brain isn't such a bad idea and then finally it seems to be almost gone but not entirely. A couple of hours later it starts all over again. There never seems to be an end although you know from experience it will one day go away.
One of the worst things about this crud is that everyone around you is suffering from it but they have all been to the doctor, some miss functions because they are "so sick" , and there is no one to give you any sympathy. In fact, everyone else believes their case of crud is worse than your case of crud.
Most colds I have start with a stuffy nose and move down into the chest and some start in the chest and end of in the nose but all come with sore throats, chest congestion, coughing, sneezing, stopped up noses and mucous. Sometimes I think my body is a mucous factory.
This illness didn't seem like it was going to last long and I was ready to sing Zicams praises. Two days of a slight tightness in the chest, coughing, a few sneezes, and then the nasal congestion, and the fifth day I seemed like I was almost well. Then the night coughing and the mucous came, I seem to be okay for hours then suddenly my nasal passages turn into faucets running with this thick gel like substance. It's stuck in your chest, clogs your throat, fills your sinus cavities to the brink of bursting and makes one think that putting a bullet into your brain isn't such a bad idea and then finally it seems to be almost gone but not entirely. A couple of hours later it starts all over again. There never seems to be an end although you know from experience it will one day go away.
One of the worst things about this crud is that everyone around you is suffering from it but they have all been to the doctor, some miss functions because they are "so sick" , and there is no one to give you any sympathy. In fact, everyone else believes their case of crud is worse than your case of crud.
Monday, September 19, 2016
Chili cook-off
One Way Baptist Church of Randleman is having a Chili cook-off fundraiser. If you would like to enter a recipe, entry fees are $10.00 per recipe. If you would like to be a judge, then tickets are $5.00 each.
The event is scheduled for run from 11:30 am until 2:00 pm on Saturday October 29th.
The way this event works is you may buy advanced tickets or pay at the door. If you want to be a cook, your entry fee must be paid by October 10th. The judges pay their $5.00 fee, get their soda and fixings and then get a sample cup of chili from a cook. You can go to as many cooks as you want until you have eaten all the chili you care to. You then drop your ticket into the jar of the maker of your favorite chili. You go home full of good chili and the cook with the most tickets goes home with a nice trophy and bragging rights.
See you there!
The event is scheduled for run from 11:30 am until 2:00 pm on Saturday October 29th.
The way this event works is you may buy advanced tickets or pay at the door. If you want to be a cook, your entry fee must be paid by October 10th. The judges pay their $5.00 fee, get their soda and fixings and then get a sample cup of chili from a cook. You can go to as many cooks as you want until you have eaten all the chili you care to. You then drop your ticket into the jar of the maker of your favorite chili. You go home full of good chili and the cook with the most tickets goes home with a nice trophy and bragging rights.
See you there!
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
fruitless taljs
I chatted with my older brother, recently retired, about moving into Mom's vacant house. If he did so then the house would be maintained, the bills paid, and Mom's investment would be protected and she would be able to leave her children something. He said he liked the idea but wanted some time to mull it over.
I contacted him a week later and he said he still hadn't made a decision. Yesterday I invited him to meet with me and our brother on a Saturday and he said he would if he didn't have to work.
It's his life and if he decided to stay where he is and get a part-time job that's okay. But why leave me hanging wondering what his decision was going to be when he had already made it. I just don't see the benefit to Mom or to our relationship my just ignoring me. I just don't understand why some people are jerks and he fits my definition of one.
I contacted him a week later and he said he still hadn't made a decision. Yesterday I invited him to meet with me and our brother on a Saturday and he said he would if he didn't have to work.
It's his life and if he decided to stay where he is and get a part-time job that's okay. But why leave me hanging wondering what his decision was going to be when he had already made it. I just don't see the benefit to Mom or to our relationship my just ignoring me. I just don't understand why some people are jerks and he fits my definition of one.
Saturday, September 10, 2016
GoFundMe
When I first heard of GoFundMe I thought the page was mainly for losers who failed to plan and was just wanting others to bail them out. Now I know different. I'm sure some of the funds are for cheats and undeserving people but some are needful.
My Mom was a saver and although she didn't start work until her youngest was a senior in high school she did manage to save a lot. In the late nineties when Dad got sick with cancer she paid all of his bills out of her savings. The last year of his life she paid over $70,000.00 for medicine alone.
After his death all she had to live on was his social security and what remained of her savings. She did quite well except she never spent any of the money to take care of her house. Then the inevitable happened and she got sick. She ended up in a nursing home unable to take care of herself. Not only that but at the price it cost to stay in an assistant living home Mom would be broke in a couple of months so she had to apply for Medicaid. I did what I could with her money and remodeled her home until time ran out. She was allowed to keep her home and $2000.00.
Her social security check is $1130.00 a month. The social services charges her $30.00 a month admin fee, the nursing home charges her $880.00 a month and blue Cross charges her $260.00 a month. That totals $1190.00 a month. Of course even old people in nursing homes need things like clothes and hair care and little things like that. And of course the house has bills too: water, sewer, gas, electric, home owners insurance, and taxes--let's don't forget about taxes. So exactly where is the money to come from for this?
I live off of social security myself and I have exactly $328.00 a month I can spend on anything I want. I choose to spend most of it driving to Hickory to see Mom each week. I take her out of the nursing home and take her to her house, do her laundry, pay her bills, clean her house, then take her to lunch, then take her to get her hair done. If she needs fruit or writing pens or a special medicine she can't get through the nursing home I do that for her. I took her to her eye appointment. It cots about $30.00 a week in gas, $20.00 for our meals, and about $40.00 a month in car care. As you can see most of my money is spent on her or for her.
She won't be able to keep her house much longer as she has a negative income. She has little of value to sell and if she did sell it, then what? So I started a GoFundme page for Mom. Look it up and please help if you can.
My Mom was a saver and although she didn't start work until her youngest was a senior in high school she did manage to save a lot. In the late nineties when Dad got sick with cancer she paid all of his bills out of her savings. The last year of his life she paid over $70,000.00 for medicine alone.
After his death all she had to live on was his social security and what remained of her savings. She did quite well except she never spent any of the money to take care of her house. Then the inevitable happened and she got sick. She ended up in a nursing home unable to take care of herself. Not only that but at the price it cost to stay in an assistant living home Mom would be broke in a couple of months so she had to apply for Medicaid. I did what I could with her money and remodeled her home until time ran out. She was allowed to keep her home and $2000.00.
Her social security check is $1130.00 a month. The social services charges her $30.00 a month admin fee, the nursing home charges her $880.00 a month and blue Cross charges her $260.00 a month. That totals $1190.00 a month. Of course even old people in nursing homes need things like clothes and hair care and little things like that. And of course the house has bills too: water, sewer, gas, electric, home owners insurance, and taxes--let's don't forget about taxes. So exactly where is the money to come from for this?
I live off of social security myself and I have exactly $328.00 a month I can spend on anything I want. I choose to spend most of it driving to Hickory to see Mom each week. I take her out of the nursing home and take her to her house, do her laundry, pay her bills, clean her house, then take her to lunch, then take her to get her hair done. If she needs fruit or writing pens or a special medicine she can't get through the nursing home I do that for her. I took her to her eye appointment. It cots about $30.00 a week in gas, $20.00 for our meals, and about $40.00 a month in car care. As you can see most of my money is spent on her or for her.
She won't be able to keep her house much longer as she has a negative income. She has little of value to sell and if she did sell it, then what? So I started a GoFundme page for Mom. Look it up and please help if you can.
Wednesday, September 07, 2016
First Shot
Yesterday I started my treatment for macular degeneration with a thorough eye exam and my first shot in my eyeball. The shot itself was painless but after the numbness wears off my eye feels like an eyeball does when one gets a loose eyelash in it. Scratchy. The eye is red and the part that feels scratched is the part where the injection happened.
I take another injection in a month and will be taking them for three years. It will not be a monthly thing but on a decreasing interval so I will have 21 to 26 shots over the next 3 years, all depending on how my body recovers.
I take another injection in a month and will be taking them for three years. It will not be a monthly thing but on a decreasing interval so I will have 21 to 26 shots over the next 3 years, all depending on how my body recovers.
Monday, August 29, 2016
Drama hopefully will end
Some work was done at the church a few weeks back and the man engaged to do the work made a mistake and pushed some tree stumps across the property line onto our neighbor's property. The strip of land is 180 feet long but only 24 feet wide and is overgrown so he probably thought it would be okay but he didn't realize his actions would stir all the furry a red headed woman could muster.
If the woman had just told us about her concerns we would have cleaned up the mistake and that would have been the end of things but no, she went off like a Roman Candle, trying to dictate when and how the debris is to be removed and wanting the whole property cleaned up at the church's expense, refusing to let the work be done without her being physically present to supervise, threating to sue, threatening to hire someone else to do the work and sending the church a bill, making derogatory statements about the church's pastor and otherwise proving herself to be a bad citizen
Through a check with the legal system it has been discovered that this woman is only the girlfriend of the owner of the property and has no legal say whatsoever. With negotiations with the real property owner, an agreement has been reached but there is one complication that can undo the whole affair. The man who is to clean the debris is contracted to conducted a funereal and if it conflicts with the scheduled clean-up he will not be able to be there.
I know everyone involved is ready for this fiasco to be over with.
If the woman had just told us about her concerns we would have cleaned up the mistake and that would have been the end of things but no, she went off like a Roman Candle, trying to dictate when and how the debris is to be removed and wanting the whole property cleaned up at the church's expense, refusing to let the work be done without her being physically present to supervise, threating to sue, threatening to hire someone else to do the work and sending the church a bill, making derogatory statements about the church's pastor and otherwise proving herself to be a bad citizen
Through a check with the legal system it has been discovered that this woman is only the girlfriend of the owner of the property and has no legal say whatsoever. With negotiations with the real property owner, an agreement has been reached but there is one complication that can undo the whole affair. The man who is to clean the debris is contracted to conducted a funereal and if it conflicts with the scheduled clean-up he will not be able to be there.
I know everyone involved is ready for this fiasco to be over with.
The Next President of the United States of America
Donald Trump will not be the next President nor has he ever wanted to be. He has ran for the nomination several times and always resigned his candidacy before getting to far into the election cycle but this years was a surprise, even for him. I don't think he ever intended to be taken seriously.
Donald Trump isn't as stupid as he portrays himself to be because if he acted like he had some sense even his supporters wouldn't like him, I'm not saying he isn't a likeable fellow, I'm saying that he would not be liked as a candidate. He doesn't want to be President. It has all been about publicity.
I'm sure he has made a lot of money by running for office that otherwise he would not have earned. But now that he is the party nominee he is walking a tightrope. If he acts like he isn't a serious candidate people will turn against him and all he has accomplished by running will be lost and he will be worse off than he was before he ever thought about running. But if he runs a serious campaign he jus might be elected and he knows he is not qualified nor does he want that job. So he has to act like he really wants to win while sabotaging his chances by childish behavior.
Donald Trump isn't as stupid as he portrays himself to be because if he acted like he had some sense even his supporters wouldn't like him, I'm not saying he isn't a likeable fellow, I'm saying that he would not be liked as a candidate. He doesn't want to be President. It has all been about publicity.
I'm sure he has made a lot of money by running for office that otherwise he would not have earned. But now that he is the party nominee he is walking a tightrope. If he acts like he isn't a serious candidate people will turn against him and all he has accomplished by running will be lost and he will be worse off than he was before he ever thought about running. But if he runs a serious campaign he jus might be elected and he knows he is not qualified nor does he want that job. So he has to act like he really wants to win while sabotaging his chances by childish behavior.
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Lazy?
A change I've noticed about the news one see on the internet is that there more videos than ever. I can see two reasons why. If the provider can get you to watch a video of a story you are interested in it can force you to watch a commercial first. I've also noted that some commercials allow you to opt out after a few seconds so forcing us to watch a commercial isn't all it's cracked up to be. I think American youth have gotten so lazy we don't want to read anymore and the shortened commercials reflect their shorter attentions spans. If they have to watch for the entire commercial they will opt out and not watch at all.
Unless what you are talking about has to be shown, I would much rather read than watch. The biggest problem with reading nowadays is too few of the writers of server news know how to write to hold a person's interest. Is communicating through the written word becoming a lost art? It sure seems so.
Unless what you are talking about has to be shown, I would much rather read than watch. The biggest problem with reading nowadays is too few of the writers of server news know how to write to hold a person's interest. Is communicating through the written word becoming a lost art? It sure seems so.
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