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Controversy of the New Governor Paterson: I Need Parental Guidance for the Latest News Stories! Wow! Threesomes….I never thought such Words would be connected to Elected Officials!
(Jay Jewels “Cry for Humanity”)
I just can not take it anymore! I had heard alot of negative things about Spitzer before this big mess came to the front. All I want to know is this. When he was having these activities where were his security team?
Look, I really do not want to discuss Spitzer. I just want to know why the news papers have to keep making each head line full of words that you do not want to discuss in front of your kids….even your older kids for that matter.
I am very open in discussion with my family on many topics. But the McGreevy issue was so way over the top of my level of existence I was embarressed. I felt like I had a furtive glance over at the dirty magazine section in the subway newsstand! I do not know what the future holds!
What was worse is that today I saw our new Governor’s wife’s foot bottom with her big toe sticking way out from underneath her leg in a yoga pose on the front of the Daily News! Is that really neccesary? Is it required to show every aspect of our elected officials private selves?
I will not have the bottoms of my feet and big toe photographed just to get a private sector or public service job! I just do not get it! Did the legally blind new Governor Paterson cheat on his wife for three years or less?
Why did I have to know about it? I do not believe any one has not cheated …even if it has been emotional cheating. You know what I mean. The type of cheating that involves the phone calls to a good “friend” from work.
You eat lunch with this person and laugh about job issues, get frustrated together, complain about the same stuff and cry on each other’s shoulder when the other does not get that much wanted promotion. YOu know what I mean! That job friend that is of the opposite sex!
Emotional committment….days that person is absent from work…are empty days. Sometimes you might even tell your spouse that you work friend was sick and work slowed up in his or her absence! You just could not hide your emotions about the empty feeling you had all day. So now you mope!
Any way, I digress! The problem I find in all of this open discussion is that after a while everyone will be found guilty! Even today in the AOL Black Voices blog….the mayor of Detroit, who is black is now being told to step down for not telling the truth about his affair!
This had nothing to do with his actual job. But if you have cheated on your spouse, or had an affair you must come clean about it! Or you face being let go under big, big, shame! “THE SCARLET LETTER HAS RETURNED!” —for those of you who are literature buffs!
Do we have to now tell of the crushes we had as little kids, tweens, teenagers, then pets we owned, aunts, uncles, we liked or did not like?
Do we have to tell of the time we accepted a gift and then turned around and regifted it because we lied about how much we liked something and really didn’t? Are there going to be lie detector tests that will analize whether we tell somebody that the dress they brought looks good on them or not and whether we mean it?
Do you have to now double check yourself and your personal relationships before you apply for a job? Where will this end? Public service is truly public isn’t it? I just can’t take it any more.
I do not want to know so much personal information. I want to just know that I can get my taxes lowered, get an increase in my annual pay, go to college cheaper, pay for my dental work cheaper….lose weight safely and go on trips in our free country! Prosititution is not acceptable….definitely not!
But do I have to see Governor Paterson’s wife’s FEET on page #2 of the Daily News? Can we leave nothing private? I never saw Nancy Reagan’s feet, I never saw Hillary Clinton’s feet, I never saw Jimmy Carter’s (President Carter’s) wife’s feet!
So why is Mrs. Paterson’s life so exposed? JUST TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!!! JUST LOWER THE RATES OF CAR INSURANCE!
LOWER THE RATES OF MORTGAGES! LOWER THE RATES OF HEALTH INSURANCE! LOWER THE RATES OF TOLLS ON THE BRIDGES, LOWER THE PRICE OF FOOD….GET THE MYSTERY GARBARGE ADDITIVES, OUT OF OUR FOOD. STOP GLOBAL WARMING, SAVE THE POLAR BEAR, SAVE THE SEA ANIMALS, STOP DREDGEING THE OCEAN FLOOR AND KILLING OFF THE BARRIER REEFS, STOP OVER FISHING, ETC., ETC., ETC.,!
Can we get back to business please and save the planet and mankind please! The only bare foot I want to see is that of a homeless person getting shoes and socks put on it!
AM I WRONG? PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
Thank you.
—-riverolflifelisajoy
SOMEBODY PLEASE TAKE THE TEMPERATURE OF AMERICA! It looks like the United States has caught OBAMA FEVER!!! HE IS A WINNER!!!!
Look, I am not a politics buff….but one thing I do know…..I heard 1010Wins RADIO ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE, state that Hillary Clinton is considering conceding defeat?!!!!
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Whaaaaaattt?????!!!! Impossible says I! NOt to be believed says I! Hillary Clinton could not possibly give in so easily?
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I was at a job related function yesterday and I heard a several teachers, and a principal of a school discussing the issue.
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Some were thinking over the experience issues between Hillary and Obama. It was interesting to hear. One person who was black did not seem so impressed with Obama’s experience.
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While another person who was also black, was apparently happy about Obama’s too close to the White House success in the primaries nationally!
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They then compared how Jessie Jackson had made a bid for the White House. However, they then considered that Jessie Jackson did not appeal to middle America in his stance on issues or his way of speech or both.
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They thought about it and bantered the topic, but is was obvious who had Obama political fever and who did not.
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I sat there for a minute, since I was not directly in the conversation, and I did start to get a little bit in awe of the history taking place before our eyes, and ears!
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My father was a World War II Veteran….my father cared for his wife and children. My father brought a house in SpringfieldGardens that had a acre lot and a large bongalo house.
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My dreams have been realized through the fact that my father dared to dream and dared to step out from his comfort zone! So dreamers can be success stories! Ya know?
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Mr. Obama, I will definitely keep you, and Hillary Clinton in my prayers. This is a momentous moment in time….savor it, inhale it, taste it!
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It tastes like a green meadow at sunrise, wet with the dew of promise after a midnight of malstrom storms and thunderous clamor.
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Let that clamor and noise be the change of the century!
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Let Obama and Hillary bring fourth a New Begining for the future of mankind and the world!
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Till next Hillary and Obama blog—
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—-RIVEROFLIFELISAJOY!
What would Charles Darwin SAY about Nature Fighting Back? ( ….. Polution, Ocean Dredging and destruction of the “Circle of Life” and the Lives of Sea Animals and Fish)
I receive bulletins from National Geographic Magazine! You should too. That is a back door to the world and its progress and digress depending on the articles that are written. I have a deep love and concern for the ocean and the creatures that live there.
I truly believe that there is a connection between the global econonmy and the status of human population and quality of life for all creatures, (including human beings.) Children and animals are usually the first to suffer from the push of productivity in the economic drive to build and promote the future toward technology.
For example the oil spills only come from oil tankers! A recent oil spill has caused problems for the ocean’s animal life…of course including the birds who live off the sea creatures too. I have not read any recorded information that has blamed oil spills on “so called natural occurences in nature”—have you?
Animals like dolphins get caught in nets from fishing boats and die horrible deaths when those nets are meant for tuna only.
Consider the circle of life and the impact that it has on the natural order of things in the ocean. It appears that the fishing industry is only concerned with “catching, cleaning, and shipping to the warehouse, fish market,” or factories!
Look, I am guilty of eating as much tuna as the next person.
But my concern here is to discuss and promote the welfare of the entire ocean(s).
Realize that we have never been down this road before. Never in the history of the world have factories,and the drive for productivity had such adverse impact on nature itself. Look at “global warming.” The world we live in is driven by technology.
Most technology from what I have read and come to understand causes polution. Did you know what I learned about DELL COMPUTERS and (probably other computer companies are guilty of this too) –Dell Computer ships all of is RECYCLED COMPUTERS to China! Are you surprised that the issues of lead in toys, and food, or whatever is coming from China is tainted? I am not! I was a student at Nyack College two years ago, and my major was and is Organizational Management. We had to do a group project on Dell Computers…Marketing Plan. My job was to research Dell and its reaction to Enviornment! I was disgusted when I saw that they sent all of the collected recylced computers to China and put them in a dump. Look it up yourself. Look up Dell, and then you will see the Green Peace conflict with Dell. Elderly people in China were scavening through these dumped computers, and sometimes using the old parts that are filled with toxic chemicals to cook with! UGH!!!–
I remember when I was a kid and I heard how dirty the East River in New York City was back then. Now they have cleaned it up. How did they do it? They eliminated most of the factory industry from New York City.
There are still factories but not such a vast amount as in the beginning of the industrical age of this country. The recent blurb I read in the Waldbaums Supermarket regarding the decline and the interruption of the use of plastic bags for shoppping bags instead said that a well known magazine on business stated that last year the United States used a billion plastic bags. Some of these bags end up in the ocean, and rivers.
The fish, or mammals of the ocean swallow these bags and die horrible deaths! What is happening now is a push to change that from plastic to a heavy gauge shopping bag with materal canvas like handles to eliminate the use of plastic bags! That is great. But now there is a another new problem. It is about what a National Geographic Email/Newsletter I recieved called,
Sea Lions Photo Gallery: A West Coast Eco-War
A fleet of doe-eyed whip smart sea lions is laying siege to the Pacific Northwest, wreaking havoc on surf breaks, fishing lines, and endangering salmon runs. Photograph by Ami Vitale
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A fleet of doe-eyed whip smart sea lions is laying siege to the Pacific Northwest, wreaking havoc on surf breaks, fishing lines, and endangering salmon runs. More >> |
This article that can be found in the National Geographic November issue, explains that there are sea lions that are attacking another species of weaker, or less in number sea lion.
CAN I SAY SOMETHING HERE FOR A HOT MINUTE!!! Is it safe to say that maybe the reason that the sealions are becoming so AGRESSIVE is that they are HUNGRY???? DO THE FISHING BOAT COMPANIES OF THE WORLD CONTROL HOW MUCH FISH IS BEING TAKEN OUT OF THE OCEAN? HOW MUCH PER DAY IS CAUGHT IN NETS? MAYBE THE SEALIONS ARE SMART ENOUGH TO WATCH THE STUPID NETS COME DOWN AND WATCH IT GO BACK UP. NOW IF YOU WERE HUNGRY AND YOU SAW YOUR FOOD MOVING AWAY FROM YOU…WHAT WOULD YOU DO? ISN’T IT CALLED DARWINS THEORY OF EVOLUTION IN ACTION? THE SEALIONS ARE HUNGRY—-LOOK…..MAYBE THEY ARE STARVING AND WE DO NOT KNOW HOW FEW FISH ARE LEFT AFTER THESE FISHING BOATS HAUL IN THEIR CATCH FOR THE DAY! WHY ARE WE SO IGNORANT ON THE CONDITIONS OF THE SEA AND THE ANIMAL LIFE THAT SURVIVES ONLY ON OTHER FISH?—-WE AS LAND DWELLERS LIVE OFF OF THE VEGATABLES AND LAND MAMMALS FOR EXISTANCE AND NUTRITION…..WHAT ELSE DO THE SEALIONS HAVE TO EAT EXCEPT FOR THE SALMON!? SO ARE THE SEA LIONS REALLY AS AGGRESSIVE AND “KILLER” AS WE THINK? OR ARE THEY JUST MERELY TRYING TO SURVIVE? THINK ABOUT IT.
Also the article states that these sea lions are also attacking the nets or salmon fishing boats….thereby affecting the fishing industry!
Hey, look. These animals are not doing anything wrong…based on the fact that they are animals! They are not breaking any laws. They are the victim here. Obviously they cannot find enough to eat in their natural habitat.
This is a hazzardous condition…not just for them….but possibly for the rest of the world. What do you think? Are there any scientists reading this blog? If so please reply and I want your opinion too, if you are a GREEN and SAVE THE WORLD FROM GLOBAL WARMING type of scientist.
Please give an educated insite to my little blog. I do not believe that animals ever do anything wrong. We have to share the world with animals. They have natural instinct and cannot do anything but what comes natural to them.
So how can you call an animal a “killer?” Even Darwin (who I do not completely agree with in regards to “Natural Selection,” and all that) did have theories on life and death and the destruction or the elimination of a specific spesices based on genetic predispostion.
But what would Darwin say now in 2007/2008? How would Darwin explain the polution and economic drive that is possibly destroying our health, the enviornment, and the ocean? I truly wonder what would Charles Darwin say?
Because he had written a bit of his own theory and some people took that theory and used it to promote slave ownership….the ownership of one human over another. Strange isn’t it…..Have you ever seen a lion in the wild make a slave out of another lion? Or how about “cross species dominating another species “like a monkey dominating and enslaving wildebeast for example? Yet somehow people used Darwin’s theory of evolution to promote slavery. —Sorry I digress.
Let us return to the original topic. Is nature fighting back? What will happen to nature and human beings? How much damage will be done in the next five years if the polution, over fishing,are not addressed. Is it the sea lions that are the “real killers” here….or is it something else that we are not monitoring or caring about.
I feel very worried about the future of the health of our planet over all. I am very concerned about the well being of my son’s future. Please respond maybe we cannot not solve all of the problems, but atleast dialogue can ease some of concerns of our fellow bloggers.
Riveroflifelisajoy
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Gasoline and the Threat from Venezuela!! Here comes that Sudden Fear of $4.00 Gas Price and Above!!! Hold on “its Gonna be a Bumpy Ride!”
(This picture is titled: “FRUSTRATION” this was painted by me during the summer of 2007. )
This picture reminds of the continuous struggle of the gasoline prices in the United States today! Update 12/02/07 – I feel that the recent gasoline prices are some what stable between $3.19 per gallon for regular and $3.45 per gallon for regular. I have seen the cheap prices in Long Island.
I have seen expensive prices closer to the Long Island Expressway. I have a gas station right on Jamacia Avenue in Queens Village that stays between $3.19 and $3.25 so far. But sometimes I wait to the last minute to get gas and then I end up waisting money and paying $3.45 for gasoline per gallon. That is bad because I only have $5.00 on me sometimes! $5.00 per fill up is like putting a 1/2 cup of water into the gas tank! I am being priced out of car driving!
1010 Wins (Radio News Station) said it! On Saturday night, after I drove all the way to BayTerrace Tennis Bubble and dropped my child off for practice….I got that jetters in my gut AGAIN!
The Venezuelian Country, who along with other oil rich countries holds the keys to alot of ‘OIL’–natural resources gave a threat to the United States.
1010 Wins stated that, correct me if I am wrong, Dictator Julio Chavez said, ” If the United States attempts any military action on Venezuela, or Iran that “OPEC” will continue to INCREASE the PRICES OF GASOLINE!!!
“Oh, Lord,” I thought, my stomach is starting that bumble jumble dance. I have a weak stomach when I feel any type of frustration, or fear. Hey look, I have faith and all that….but I cannot fill my gas tank with Faith, Dreams, or Positive Thoughts!
I need hard cold Green Backs or A Line of Credit! I do not have a Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Even a Discover Card ( due to previous loss of husband, loss of house, and Banckruptcy!!)
I have been attempting to pick my life up from the ashes—but this GLOBAL ECONOMY just will not slow down or get together long enough for me to gather my own resources….which are skimpy to say the least.
Look, I know the being black and having a Bell Curve IQ nonsense has affected my life I guess. But guess what? The gas station guy does not care what my IQ is!!
All he wants to know is how much Gasoline I want to buy? How much money to I have in my pocket! The Gasoline Prices I saw this weekend were staggering!
I saw the Super price at an EXXON station for $3.55 per gallon. So what is the big deal to raise it another .50 cents? Look, I am not some famous singer like Beyonce who juants around the world looking beautiful and creating designer clothes!
I am a typical 47 year old woman who lives and breathes according to the prices at the supermarket, gasoline station, Walmart, Waldbaums, rent etc.
I have to know how much of the global economy and wars and rumors of wars will affect my everyday life. This is not a reality TV program—THIS IS REALITY!
OPEC is considering raising the gas prices….that is squeezing my already triple pinched penny that is in my nearly empty pocket book!
My church helped me with a “Care Basket for ThanksGiving” but who will donate a “full” tank of gasoline to me? Nobody!
So the fear begins to rise in my throat like bile on an empty sour stomach! My head has begun to get that throbbing sensation right at the temples! UGH!!!!! This is going to be a LONG, LONG, LONG WINTER!!!
Just tell me, what are all of the presidential hopefuls’stating this time? Are they still fighting each other about a five year war that is basically something in the past ( as far as who signed or voted for it?)
They need to stop the nonsense and come up with solutions to bring this global economy under control before the little people like me, you know “the not so beautiful, not so famous, just plain Jane, challenged, single parent, BABY BOOMER, elder care giver go under for the last time.
How am I to make it? I don’t get food stamps cause I ‘MAKE TOO MUCH’ (as compared to people who have more than one child) and I don’t get HEAP ASSISTANCE for the same reason.
I feel like I am on the brink of destruction here. “Brother can you spare a dime.” –Soon to be Brother can you lend me the price of half a tank of gasoline?” I hope that Obama, Clinton, and Ron come up with some solutions and stop the nit picking over each other’s records!!!
What are you going to do to stop this economic assualt on my dollar at the gasoline pump???!!!!
They need a reality check! People like me need help and I need to put my vote behind the person who has the best solution, and the right direction to take this global issue and make a change for the better.
If things do not improve for me financially I do not know where my family will end up.
First stop for me is to pray.
Hope everyone will do the same.—or whatever method you use to increase positive outcomes in your lives!
Remember, Gasoline is the STAPLE of US ALL!
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