How much is it costing you for the bureaucrats and others to wipe their tail feathers?

I Just Read This on Twitter                        whitecloudmom Did you know that the Pentagon uses about 667 rolls of TP each day?! Whoa! How fast does your family go through TP? #Rollvolution

  

Well, after reading that I need to start a petition  "Save Tax Dollars, each Pentagon Worker/Visitor is required to bring their own Toliet Paper from home for their own usage."
Then after we tackle the Pentagon onward and forward to all other government agencies. 
This will lead to new jobs because toliet paper companies are going to have to develop, market, distribute
new portable flat rolls, that people can hide as they carry them around with them.  Corn Cob Shucks, the generic person in me says that won't work, the average person will just use facial tissue on their vertical smile.
Yet can you imagine the amount of tax payer dollars saved if we didn't foot the bill for that particular type of paper product.  I mean we still need to pay for paper towels or hand blow dryers to decrease the spread of germs, but if we just eliminated TP on the tax bill.

Let's make Tax TP Free
for all Americans like you and me.
Sound off,
one, two, three, four,
we aren't going to pull our pants down anymore.

Just kidding, and wanting to add a little humor to the flushable situation our economy seems to be in.


Let's do some math.......  Let's say the Pentagon cost is  $166 dollars per day just for TP (and I think that's probably a very low estimate on the cost)  x 365 days per year =  $60,590 a year!  Yikes.  I wish the Pentagon would pay me that kind of bucks for thinking of the idea and implementing it in all government facilities, thereby saving  at least over a million dollars a year, actually I'm sure the savings would be so much higher.

The Company Store Facebook Page Voting For Best Children's Artistic Design Has Begun

http://apps.facebook.com/contestshq/contests/93489/voteable_entries?ogn=facebook

I voted for TJ's design.  I don't know TJ, but I looked through all three pages of contest entries and felt TJ's was bright and cheerful.  The design is going to be put on comforters by The Company Store and they will be donating them to a worthy cause.
The child who made the winning design will win a comforter with their design as well as a gift certificate to The Company Store.
You can only vote once.  Multiple votes will be disqualified according to the rules.  So go and check out the design you like best.  There are some really great ones there to look at.  I think all the kids did a wonderful job with their designs. 
Good Luck to all the entrants.

Twitter Followers You Don't Want Tweeting on Your Twitter Page.

Today I had to block a Twitter Follower of mine.  I didn't really know the person when they began following my page, but thought nothing about it at the time.   Well today I saw about four tweets on my page that they were explaining what parts of their own body they were touching etc...    Gross!!!!!
So thankfully someone else was commenting on Twitter today about spammed comments and where to go to find out how to block them.  I'm so glad they tweeted this information, because I used it to block that former follower from my page.
I went to http://support.twitter.com/entries/117063 
which is in the Twitter Help Center   the section is called To block a Twitter user.
1.  Log in to your Twitter account
2.  Go to the profile page of the person you wish to block.  I had to click on one of their comments on my twitter page, then on profile to get there.
3.  Click on the gear icon  it kind of looks like a black circle with spokes on the outer edges of it.  This brings up a drop-down Actions menu.
4.  Select Block from the options listed on the drop-down Actions menu.
What this does is help in the fact that
Blocked users can't:
                       Add your Twitter account to their lists
                       Have their @replies or mentions show in your mentions tab (although these Tweets may
                                                                                                                  still appear in search).
                        Follow you.
                        See your profile picture on their profile page or in their timeline.
Please note:  that if your account is public (i.e., not protected), your Tweets will still be visible on your public profile page.
Twitter doesn't notify a user when you've blocked them, but because they will not longer be able to follow you, they may notice that they've been blocked.
Some may then start hitting your facebook page or private blogs, in which case you'll need to find out how to block them on those if needed.
I'm sure many of you have already had this problem and dealt with it.  Pretty much my first yucky encounter.
Good Luck to everyone who has to, or has already been blocking scum bums.

Let Us Pray for Japan and also for other countries to be protected.

Japan was hit hard by an 8.9 or greater earthquake just a little bit ago.  This triggered a massage Tsunami that then hit the Island.  Homes swept away, cars swept away.  Large fires.  People on roof tops awaiting help.  Farm land washed out to sea. 
The video footage I saw on Fox News was so sad.  I saw flashers on vehicles tail ends  going, as the fronts of  some vehicles were already submerged.  Even some boats were thrust onto the land as the wave came in strong and fast and slammed them into buildings. 
Thankfully no radioactive leaks have been noted from their nuclear power plants that had been affected by the earthquake and tsunami at the time I type this, which is about 3am EST, 2am CST, 1am MST in the USA. 
Let us pray for Japan and what they are going through.
Let us also pray for the protection of Hawaii who are under a tsunami warning, not watch, but warning.
It could hit anytime now.  So let us hope the people on the low lying coast line have been able to get to higher ground.  Urgent action should be taken to prevent loss of life and property in Hawaii, all islands belonging to Hawaii are included in the warning.  A tsunami has been generated.

Thank you Coit!

Thank you Coit!  You've made my home a nicer place to be.  The great technician you had come out to my home yesterday to clean all the air ducts in the house was polite, informative, and proficient in his work.   
He wasn't offended when I needed to be watching him in certain rooms of our home, per my husbands instructions.  He said he understood perfectly and would be the same way in his own home. 
He told us about an area we needed to fix where our heating pipe under our home in the crawl space did not totally meet up with the heating register on one side in one room of our home.  He said we were losing heat that way and we'd save money if we used some insulating foam to seal that up.
He told us about other ways to keep our air clean by using heating register filters and to cut a Filtrete 3M filter to fit inside of our cold air returns. 
He understood when he had to make friends with my two biggest dogs before I let him start working so they'd leave him alone.  I had to make the dogs understand that it was okay for him to be there, especially since one of them is a guard dog.  Even so, I put them into another locked fenced off area of the yard so they couldn't bother him.
I put the smaller dog into his locked crate and put him in the garage with the light on, because he will nip and bark.  So, it was better for all around for him to be in there when the work was being done.
We don't have a large house, under 1300 sq. ft., so it only took 2 hours.  He came in the time frame he said he would come.  Note this wasn't a four hour time frame like many repair people give you, it was a two hour time frame.  We knew the job would take between 2 and 3 hours when he came.
So, I thank you Coit for the technician you sent, for being on time, for being done in the time frame we were told.  I also thank you for the discount you gave us for having the job done the very next day after the estimate.  I don't know of many businesses that would give a 50 percent discount like that.
The biggest thing I am thankful for now Coit, is how quite my heater sounds now each time it kicks on.  No doggy furballs or dog food rattling around.  Yes, I said dog food.  Somehow some of my dogs have dropped at some point dog food down some of the heating registers.
The air in the house smells cleaner too. 
For all of these things and great technician I give a very happy and pleased client Thank You to Coit.
Coit did not pay me to post this, nor did they give me a discount to post this because they didn't even know I had a blog.  They never asked if I had a blog and I never told them I had a blog.  I only posted this because I was happy with the service we received that my husband wanted done on our home.

The X Prize

What happens when the X Prize founders are taxed so much simply for having money that they earned from their hard work and foresight, that they can't sponsor the X Prize Foundation any longer?
Don't know what the X Prize Foundation is, or what I'm even talking about, then go to the link below.
xprize.org
Do you know someone who is very inventive and has a dream, then get them to this link.  It may help them.
Yet, I personally think they should hurry, because how long can foundations exist to help others when the sponsors of such foundations may be taxed so much in the future that they stop sponsoring endeavors such as these?
Earthly riches only last so long, they are not forever.   The mighty often fall, and over burdening of taxes seems to hurry the fall along faster.   The problem is when they fall,   many others employed by them are affected, as well as future employees or maybe even future X Prize Winners who in turn employee others etc...   It would be nice if businesses and charities had no end, but alas many do.   Now, if the end is caused by poor management, then this is understandable, but when it is caused because of the trickle down effect of over taxation, well that is a sad day indeed.   I think we are seeing this happening now and I believe it's only going to get worse. 
You can't give everyone a handout from the government to the people through taxation of the people, even if you start by limiting that taxation to the people with the most money.  It won't work.  It has a trickle down equation to it.  The people with the most money won't always be the people with the most money because it's been taken away by taxes, so they go to the next set of people with the second most amount of money to tax at a high rate, then their money is no longer there either, and it trickles down.  It trickles down because they don't donate to charities or support great helpful foundations, they let employees go from businesses they own, or even close businesses they own.  They try to get out before they lose even more than they already have.  It trickles down to the workers, those in need, or those that could have used foundation monies to invent something that perhaps one day could save lives. 
X marks the spot.  Isn't that what was on treasure maps in the old days? 
Soon I'm afraid that a TA will be added in front of the X, and TAX will mark the spot for all that is not.

What do you do when your friend is addicted?

What do you do when you find out your friend is addicted?
The friend that was my maid of honor at my wedding many years ago called about an hour ago. 
She seemed frantic, as she usually has each time she's called me over the past year.  She's still seeking Ambien from any Doctor that will give it to her.  She calls me hoping I know a Doctor that will write her a presciption.  I don't know any Doctor's.  I've told her this in the past.
Seems she has been getting the medicine from a relative, and she hasn't even told her husband she's been getting this medication from them.  I'm sure her husband would flip his lid if he knew she was getting medications without a prescription.
She kept telling me she needed the medication because her days were too long.  So I asked her if she was taking the medication to sleep at night, or if she was taking it during the day.  She takes it both day and night.  She wants to sleep her days away because they are too long and she has nothing to do since they put her on disability and will no longer let her teach.
I told her you don't sleep during the day simply because you are bored and your days are too long.  I told her you do things or learn things to do to fill them up.  I gave her examples of things to do and places to go to learn things.  She doesn't want to pay to take classes, and I understand that because money is now tight for them.  I suggested she learn new recipes and such.
I told her even if you're bored you don't take pills to sleep during the day.  I explained you somehow learn to live with periods of boredom.
I think she was going to start volunteering somewhere, but had a car accident.
I don't think right now while her mind is wandering that she can focus well enough to be driving.
I explained to her I think that she's now addicted to the Ambien and needs to go somewhere (drug rehab, though I didn't say that phrase) to get dried out just like alcoholics do.  I tried to explain to her that the longer you take sleeping meds, the less and less they seem to be effective.
Then she said that yesterday she mentioned suicide to the same relative that had been giving her the Ambien.  The relative doesn't want to give them to her anymore.  So the relative called the police on her because she was talking about suicide.  She also said the relative lied and told the police that she was threatening someone too besides.
She said the police came to her house, but that she was able to convince the police the relative was lying.
So, what do you do.  She wanted phone numbers from me for the insurance company we both have.  She's bound and determined to find a psychiatrist or primary Doctor that will prescribe these pills for her.  I don't think any ever will. 
I don't know why she can't talk to her own family about her needs and how she's feeling when she is down.  I'm not a psychiatrist and pray that she finds a new one that will help her.  Apparently her present one isn't.
It must be horrible to have a frantic mind and only want to sleep to escape it.  I mean I have health problems too, physical in nature.  I have a lot of physical pain with my condition and I don't seek out prescription pain meds, nor do I drown myself in alcohol or any illegal substances to dull my pain.
I really think people sometimes need to find their own way to help themselves with chronic illness, whether mental or physical.  I don't think the Doctor's, whether psychiatrists or medical in nature really get it, unless they've been through it themselves.
I talked to my husband and asked him if I thought I should try and call her husband at work and talk to him.  He told me "No."
Her husband has physical medical problems and is still trying to work.  We already know her daughter is tired of everything with her mom.
So, I just know that I will call the police next time, if needed, if she talks of suicide.  I'm not trained in this and I can't be responsible anymore to try and talk her down, or reason with her.
I try, but she doesn't seem to remember what we talk about from one phone call to the next.
It's draining me emotionally.  I'm feeling like I can't deal anymore. 
So what would you do when your now know your friend is addicted?

I can read this easily, can you?

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It is their problem, no it is their problem.

Well for awhile now we couldn't get onto the internet.  Our phone company was saying it wasn't them or our IPS service, but was our router.  The router company was saying it was our phone company and the DSL line.
So back and forth, and back and forth.  Well thankfully the phone company sent a technician out today on a Sunday to check the problem.  Sure enough it was the DSL line.  Something had to be fixed in a phone box a bit away from us.  There wasn't a problem in the phone box that was right behind our house, because apparently our phone line doesn't originate from there.  It comes from a phone box on another block some distance from us.  Strange if you ask me.
Anyways the technician replaced some wires at the box where our DSL comes from.  Now we are back, but not before my husband had to pay almost a hundred dollars to the router company so they'd go through and help him check if it was our router.  Okay, so he gets a year worth of service for that hundred dollars, but it wasn't our router and if our phone company would have checked on their end first then we wouldn't have had to put out money for something we didn't need.  So very frustrating and sometimes feels like a racket if you ask me.
Ahh well, at least we are back online and have the internet again.

Oh where oh where did Google Friends Go.

Hopefully Google Friends is doing updating again, as once again I don't see them on my blog or other people's blogs.
Why can't they do site maintenance in the middle of the night, like 1 or 2am EST and not during the day?
Ahh well, since I don't own it, I guess I don't have a say.
I just wonder when and if I don't see it if other people are?

Fudge Buckets It Happened Again This Christmas!

Christmas 2010, even worse than last year because of one single relative.

Yes, that one single relative who tried over three times this year to pick a fight with my husband.

Thankfully he just ignored her each and every time she tried to get him to say something back to start a big old rip roar. 

She even went as far to call our dogs "Sh_ts" to try and get a response out of my husband and couldn't.  Thing is she's never met our dogs and they weren't with us at the in laws, but her little dog sure was.  We were just talking about dogs and how our dogs interact with each other sometimes and

she went on the attack.  Then she's telling us our newest dog will run away because of the breed it is, etc...  We didn't say a thing.  We let her have her mini verbal tantrum.

Then I started helping mom-in-law (Let me clarify mom-in-law is not my husband or sister-in-laws biological mother.  She married my father-in-law long after his first wife had passed away.) setting the table etc., and brother-in-law who is very nice, carved the turkey. 

I feel very sorry for my brother-in-law who is married to my husband's sister.  He has to put up with

her nonsense all the time.  I don't know how he does it.  He has two different serious health problems now, still works, then comes home to do everything and on top of it puts up with her behaviors.

Bipolar Disease is what she has, but I don't think it's that disease that is causing all of her behaviors all of the time.  I think she enjoys being snotty and mean and hurting every one's feelings but her Dad's. 

I am so thankful my father-in-law can barely hear, because he really gets upset when she cusses and

says mean things.  He seems to just focus in on the TV and tunes out everything else that's going on.

She seemed to calm down during the meal at the table, probably because her beloved Daddy was sitting close enough to hear her and see her behave.

After dinner, the Father-in-law quickly returned to his favorite chair in the living room and back to watching sports on TV as usual.  My husband joined him.

The rest of us stayed around the table talking about various things.

Soon she tried to pick a fight with me, slamming my political party, though I hadn't brought anything up about politics.  I know better than to do that. 

I was just talking about how I thought our state might end up with a drought this year and mom-in-law said she hoped we didn't turn into a dust bowl like in the depression.

Sis-in-law said she thought we would have a depression caused by such and such political party and by a certain religious group.  I thought to myself your so full of nonsense.  She always tries to blame

things going on in the world on certain classes of people.  Yet, we let her go on for awhile and no one

said a thing.  We didn't want her to start cussing loud and upset her Dad.

Now her husband, my mom-in-law and I helped start clearing the table.  She stood by and watched us, then took a seat on a bar stool near a side of the kitchen and watched us. 

We're putting things away.  My brother-in-law asked if my mother-in-law wanted to save I think it was a piece of aluminum foil.  My mom-in-law couldn't even say anything when sis-in-law says quite loudly I thought, "No, No, you know she doesn't save anything!  You know she thinks recycling is a waste of time and she can't be bothered helping the earth!  No, you know how she is!"

My mom-in-law got out a "What?"  Then her husband got out "________(sis-in-law's first name) Pleas."  Sis-in-law didn't let him finish, she interrupted glared at him like she'd kill him if he finished or said one more word.  He stopped in his tracks.  Mom-in-law started to say, "Now what are you trying to do, sass"  she didn't get to finish either.

Sis-in-law interrupted her, pointed her finger at mom-in-law, angrily looked at her and said "Shut up, I never liked you anyways."

Mom-in-law had enough, emotionally hurt and I could tell near tears she said, "That's enough.  I won't be talked to like this is my own home.  I never said I wouldn't recycle."

Sis-in-law snobbishly said back while flinging her arms up in the air, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever sh_t you say.  We know.  We know and I'll say the truth because that's what it is the truth."

I tried to be a break point, so I  physically  stood between where my sis-in-law and mother-in-law so they couldn't see each others faces.

Facing my mom-in-law I asked her where she kept the plastic wrap.  I thought I'd interrupt the flow of talk between the two of them to calm it down a bit.

Then sis-in-law looks at her husband, I think wanting  him to back her up verbally.  Thankfully he said, "Hey we need to think about getting on the road because we have people coming over later to our house for dessert and a get together."

Apparently my father-in-law heard none of her outburst, but my husband who was also in the living room and further away than my father-in-law sure did.  Thankfully he stayed out of it.  He did say though he thought he'd have to come in if he saw his sister hit anyone, but she didn't do that.

So brother-in-law (poor thing) got her to get the presents they were given and the dog and go and take them out to their vehicle.  He then apologized to my mom-in-law and told her that she (sis-in-law) was getting worse and acting like this with everyone now.  Mom-in-law told him she didn't know how he was able to put up with it and said that people should stop letting her get away with it.

After they'd left, I stayed for a bit and helped mom-in-law with the cleaning up a bit more, but then even though things weren't done she just wanted us to go too.  I think she just needed to have a private cry.  What my sis-in-law said really hurt her deeply. 

Let me tell you my mom-in-law is a very nice person.  She invited them to her home.  She was a polite hostess.  Everything started, was started by the sis-in-law, as usual.

So later on mom-in-law called me on the phone to thank me for helping her get things on the table and cleaning up afterwards.  We decided on the phone we won't be having Christmas or any other holidays with sis-in-law invited anymore.  She talked to father-in-law and let him know what happened since he can't hear well.  Note the in laws are past their mid eighties.  Father-in-law told Mom-in-law that he'd told her they shouldn't have had any one over this year since mom-in-law had been hospitalized twice in the last three months.  Which we were never informed of and wish we had been so we could have visited her in the hospital.  She didn't tell me what she'd been hospitalized for and I didn't pry.  I know of a couple of medical conditions she does struggle with and I figured it was one of the two.  She said she did this for father-in-law so he could see his children.  He said "No more."

Thankfully he's on the same page with her. 

I told mom-in-law that next year, if they don't go to Thanksgiving or Christmas with her children, then our little family will either have Christmas at our home and not invite sis-in-law or we will take them out without inviting sis-in-law.

I told her we'd probably take them out to eat so they wouldn't have to deal with our dogs who get a bit crazy when visitors are around.

Granted probably have to go out to a Chinese Restaurant on Christmas, but they serve a nice Duck.

So next year if the nice, but small Jewish Community in our area sees a little group of Gentiles at the

nice Chinese Restaurant  on Christmas day, it might just be us.

Here's  to a nicer and none Bipolar outbursting holiday celebrations in 2011.

After All We're A Family: An Early Merry Christmas and Happy New Year's To A...

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An Early Merry Christmas and Happy New Year's To All

Poem:  My 2010 Christmas Prayer.
I pray everyone has a Merry Christmas this year.
Throughout the world I pray there is no war or fear.
I pray they'll worship the one who gave his life upon a cross to set us free
from sin that if left unchecked would consume you and me.
Presents to each other under the tree
I pray will  remind us that Jesus is the gift from God through all eternity.
May a New Year let us commit to helpfully do more,
to bring love and hope into the world  and show them how to open their heart's door.
Amen
by:  Lauralee Hensley

Facebook where are you?

Is it just me, or is everyone having problem seeing their Facebook page tonight?  I can't even like any Facebook pages tonight or leave comments on them.  I'm wondering why? 
I never tell anyone to like any Facebook pages from my blog.  I do tweet info from other blogs I visit  when they ask in the post to do so, I often share on my Facebook page too when other blogs in their posts ask.  It's usually so their blogs will be visited for a review about a sponsors product and a giveaway that is related. 
I hope that this is allowed and I'm not being asked to do things by these blogs that their visitors/readers are
not suppose to do according to Facebook or Twitter.
However, I'm not having a problem with Twitter tonight, just Facebook.
Maybe they are just doing site maintenance.  Anyways that is what I am hoping.
The little guy just barely starts understanding these things and then people go and change them up.  Nerve racking.  When  something works really well, why change it just for the sake of change.  Confusing.
Well, hope I'm not the only one experiencing this problem and that it's fixed soon.

Do you sometimes feel homeless even in your home?

The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or somethin in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless--just workin our way toward home.

--Denver Moore (homeless man) in Same Kind of Different As Me

This man (Denver Moore), though homeless must have realized that even rich people can feel homeless sometimes. 
I think this happens to some women who once worked outside the home, but then choose to stop and become homemakers.  When our families start feeling the loss of our incomes, don't some of us start thinking of  the physical structure of our homes as belonging to our husband's since they are bringing the paycheck home?
Well, news for us all.  These homes or apartments etc., that we are living in, really belong to God and he's just letting us use them for a time.  Sure we are paying to stay in them, but everything first belonged to the Creator.
Then why may we ask, don't  some of us have as nice of  homes as others?  Well, I think that is a silly question to ask.  We should instead be focusing on the fact that we are not homeless.
Also Christians should be focusing on the fact that once we are saved our true home will one day be with the Father.
I never hope I have to be homeless here on earth to remember to appreciate what God allows me to use of his while I'm just a passing through.

Don't know what's up with Google again.

I'm not seeing my Google followers again, nor am I seeing the Google Friends Connect on most blogs that I'm visiting today either.  Maybe they are doing some sort of maintenance.
I need to get back to posting here on my little blog.  I haven't made any posts in quite some time because it
just seems to be taking all my energy to get through looking at all the other great blogs out there.   I do have
things to write and say, but right now with my high pain levels it's just easier to visit your blogs. 
God Bless you all.

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Will Future War Be Over Needed Space For Their Growing Populations?

Sometimes I'm a curious sort of person.  I was wondering about how many people are living in the United States of America in relationship to our country's actual land mass in square miles.  Would you believe we are not crowded in as tightly as many other countries citizens are? In the United States of America we have land areas combined of about 3,537,438.44 square miles and water areas combined  of about 256,644.62 square miles, for a total area of 3,794,083.06 approximate square miles.  Some of our citizens prefer to live in houseboats that are on some of the waters in our country.  Most prefer to live on the land.  Some prefer more populated cities and some less populated colder climates.  Our country is blessed with varied climates, because we have Alaska, we have Hawaii, we have coastal states, as well as interior states.  So there is probably somewhere a citizen can find to live that would agree with them, if finances allowed.

Yet if you look at the web page  http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004379.html  you'll see other population sizes of various countries in relationship to their land mass availability.  Some of these countries have a high population to available land area and related resources.

So this made me wonder if someday in the future would war be waged against the United States of America simply because we have the space available for growing populations of other  countries? Wars have been waged before because other countries wanted the spoils (available goods) of other countries, and our country has the land to produce or locate naturally occurring spoils (e.g. food, oil, natural gas, gold and other metals, etc.). These may not be actual real needs of other countries since there is world trade, but it may be sense of supply need control by certain countries.   We have factories already built to manufacture goods, and mass market food supplies.  There are educated people here who could be taken into custody to work for a new regime against their will.

Why have these thoughts been going through my mind today?  I think deep down it's because I don't believe our country has the influence it once had over other countries of the world.  I don't think we are truly seen as a military strength in the same way as we were after World War I and World War II.

Back then we didn't see war against us as having to pacify the aggressors.  We stood with other strong countries against oppressors of persons.  Yet, are there truly strong countries to stand with anymore?  Do other countries back away and say, "Here America, you do this and try and leave us out of it as much as possible, both financially and morally."    It seems to me to be that way.

I know the Bible tells us that God will bless those that bless Israel and will curse those that curse Israel (it says thee in the verse in place of Israel, but if you read the chapter before, the chapter the verse is in and the chapter after, you know it refers to Israel.  Plus it says I (meaning God) will bless those that bless you and curse those that will curse you.  I used to feel our government was looking out for Israel's best interest, but I don't really see that happening right now.  Why should Israel have to give up any of her land mass to the Muslims wanting it?  There are other Muslim nations with great land mass (Saudi Arabia) that could absorb their brother Muslims that want pieces of Israel.  If Israel gave up some of their really little land mass to the Muslims would it stop there?  I  personally don't think so. 

I don't know if we really belong in the United Nations anymore either, or if they should even be located here anymore.  Perhaps they now belong in the EU.  Let security forces of another nation be more involved in making sure everything is safe when the members of the United Nations have their meetings and votes.  I don't think the United Nations should have a voice in how the United States of America plans or executes ways and means of keeping the citizens of this nation safe from war mongers (dealers in tricked-out wares of war) and terrorists of any fashion.

I think we should revamp our immigration policies too.  I think it should be harder to even get work visa's to come into the United States of America.  We already have enough of our current citizens without work without taking on other countries citizens.  Other countries need to make their own countries work so their citizens don't want to leave.  I mean the countries of the world are not still in

the Dark Ages and need to step up to the responsibilities they have for all of their citizens in that country.  Does that mean some countries need to have civil wars to accomplish such?  Well, perhaps, ours did.  Do people die in civil wars?  Yes, they do.  Even though I don't want people of any nationality to die, maybe through those deaths (their own citizens deaths that would have a greater personal, moral and ethical impact on the people living in that country) would they ever get to the point of ever having a truly working fair government for their citizens.  I mean our soldiers dying for them is not going to hit home as deeply, profoundly, or leave a very deep lasting sense of sacrifice as their own family members ever would.

Though I am very proud of our men and women in the US armed forces that have served, are serving, or have even gave their own lives for these persons in other countries, I wonder if such will

ever have a lasting effect on a change in their governmental structures and the treatments of their own citizens.  I think not.  Don't the pull-outs of our troops always just seem to result in a new wave

of political unrest in those countries in less than three to seven years?  I personally think so.  Another Dictator Monarchy type seems to step back up and grab hold, first by terrorizing those not in agreement with his plans through religious methods if possible (e.g. you'll lose your soul, you'll be damned if you don't do his bidding), military force, imprisonment, torture or death and then by spreading his hate in regards to other nations of the world.  I feel history truly repeats itself in this regards, at least certainly in some parts of the world.  Isn't there a sense of unrest once again in the Sudan region?

Well, I usually try to just hand over all my concerns to God in a prayer, but I thought I'd let my readers know my brain does think on things more than just little mini poems with rhymes.  My brain gets pretty complicated in it's thoughts at times.  It sends me on little quests to find out more information from time to time.  Like today, the population of America in relationship to our land mass and how that might influence how other nations of the world may someday see us.

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