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Every time we have a tragic mass killing, the president goes first to renewing his plans to increase gun control. Does he ever take into consideration that there is no viable premise upon which to base the assertion that taking away the guns of law-abiding citizens will reduce deaths by guns. Every site of the mass killings over the time of his administration have taken place in ‘gun free’ zones. Translation: The law-abiding citizens go into these venues unarmed but the murdering thugs always seem to have one . . . in spite of it being a ‘gun free’ zone and they have no compunction in making horrifying use of their guns. I doubt if there has ever been a mass killer who saw the ‘no guns allowed – gun free zone’ sign and decided to obey the law.
Interesting to note on the latest statistics for the United States that guns are not any where near the top of list. VERY interesting to see, however, that substantially more children are killed before their time legally and in vast numbers without a second thought by the president.
Abortion 515,431
Heart Disease 189,974
Cancer 279,974
Tobacco 165,210
Obesity 144,905
Medical Errors 118,687
Stroke 62,825
Lower Respiratory
Disease . 67,469
Accidents 64,217
Hospital Associated
Infection 46,728
Alcohol 47,200
Diabetes 36,103
Alzheimer’s Disease 44,152
Influenza/
Pneumonia 26,067
Kidney Failure 20,184
Blood Infection 15,795
Suicide 20,189
Drunk Driving 15,957
Unintentional
Poisoning 14,990
Drug Abuse 11,802
Homicide 7,929
Prescription Drug
Overdose 7,080
Murder by Gun . 5,425
Texting while
Driving 2,827
Pedestrian 2,360
Drowning 1,848
Fire Related 1,652
Malnutrition . 1,308
Domestic Violence 689
Smoking in Bed 368
Falling our of Bed 282
Killed by Falling Tree 70
Struck by Lightening . 39
Did You Happen to See Where My Budget Went?
Budget, Children, and Uncooperative Husbands
by Barbara M. Barthelette
Budget has been a constant in our life as a one-income family. And even though we were offering up the ‘freedom’ of the outside workplace, God still saw fit to send us crosses particular to our station in life. I look back on those days with some nostalgia but am pretty sure I would rather not have to actually return to some of those mommy moments! Here is a particular memory on trying to maintain children and a budget!
We all have a sock basket of some sort. You know, the place we put the socks that come through the wash minus the mate they were made for! Our cross is that we will never match them all up, we will never get to the bottom of the sock basket and we will often find socks we don’t remember ever inviting into our homes. The size of the cross depends on the size of your sock basket!
Cooking can be a cross when it is days before payday and you have to be creative, not only in what you make but what you tell the children it is so they will eat it! That is why lids were invented for pots so family can’t come in and get preconceived notions about dinner.
Coupons for grocery shopping and special sales stretch the budget but can be a cross for the family. “Why do the fish still have their heads on?” They were on sale because they were cross-eyed. The store had to leave them on to make sure the customer knew this before buying. “How come you didn’t buy potato chips?” Goes back to the Irish potato famine. Still a shortage of potatoes. Check your history book.
Paper towels are a necessity in the kitchen. I usually end up with an empty roll and find ‘used’ paper towels all over the house. There were thirty paper towels, precisely separated and laid out on the floor from back door to bedroom. “We were pretending the floor was a deep river and the paper towels are stepping stones!” A sudden yell for help from the bathroom that there is a flood quickly tells me what they tried to use the rest of the paper towels for! They had used up the bathroom tissue to reenact The Mummy.
I keep trying to come up with time-saving, money-saving ideas to run my home happily yet frugally. I considered giving each person a sock basket of their own but quickly realized I would then probably have six or more baskets full of socks. I mean, what are the chances they would ever compare the contents of their respective sock collections?
I tried starting a rumor that potato chips were made from creamed zucchini, carrots and turnips but my gang figure that if it is fried, it can’t be all bad.
I tried assigning each their own roll of bathroom tissue. I thought I had a system figured out. I would keep written records and the stuff under lock and key. I would check out a roll to each person, initial and date the inside of the tube and make note of the distribution in my notebook. When they brought me their empty cardboard roll, I would check the first date, the date returned and give counseling on waste not, want not as needed. It didn’t get off the ground, My husband wouldn’t cooperate on this one. He said that if we weren’t a one-income family with mismatched socks and on a budget, he would take me on a long, long restful vacation.
Here Was a Man . . .
Standing Up for What’s Right and Good?
Not all the media is reporting news as it suits the president. We still have wonderful journalists who are not afraid to report the truth and encourage the caring people of this country to do something about what is going on and let the self-satisfied politicians in Washington Remember where they votes came from and where they won’t go next election. Greta Van Susteren posted this challenge on her Facebook page.
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There should be a peaceful MARCH ON WASHINGTON – at least a million needed to get the attention of President Obama and world leaders! After WW2, people said of the execution of Jews, “we didn’t know it was going on.” What is MY generation’s excuse? We know! We even have videos protest washington dc
I just read about the ISIS execution of Ethiopian Christians. These executions are daily. And in ISIS’ barbaric style, ISIS videotaped it and put it on line to show (brag?)
And there is more today: Boko Haram adopts ISIS goal to wipe out Christians
How much more is the world going to tolerate? We need to show our priorities. No nation can do this alone. We need all good people, all good nations.
Like you, I don’t want to see one more Christian executed for his or her faith (or for any other reason or anyone else executed by these terrorists.) These horrible terrorists even execute little girls and boys and babies! How much more is the world going to tolerate? And worse, I fear it happens so often now that people are not shocked and hence not demanding our world leaders to join together and do what it takes to end this genocide.
Many nations (including the USA) are trying to stop ISIS, but trying is not enough — we need success. The fact that we are day after day seeing these videos of executions is proof – we are not succeeding. I know there are many problems here at home in the USA but looking back at my parents’ generation, they never said, in the face of genocide, we are too busy with our problems here. They didn’t turn their backs. They could multi task (handle problems here and overseas), can’t we? That generation did the right thing. We should, too — but it takes world leaders.
The only way to get world leaders’ attention, and this is a world problem, not just a USA problem, is by making a big statement….and frankly, I think people marching on Washington (and other nations’ Capitols) in big numbers would get attention. It has worked before. I don’t know what else to suggest. We need our leaders to know our collective priorities — and stopping this genocide is one of them.
Do you have another idea? If you do, post it here….we need ideas. I don’t pretend to have the answers – I just know we need to do something and it is our leaders who need to lead us and lead the world.
We can’t say “we don’t know or we didn’t know.” We do. We have videos.
PS We Americans do so well when we have a common goal (here pure evil) — we work together and don’t go after each other. smile emoticon VIA
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