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I don’t know what the answer is

Amy — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:45:58 +0000

I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that for at least the past ten years I’ve been hearing my friends and families tell me that they are no longer getting raises at work because the employer is claiming that they can’t afford to give out raises and keep the doors to the business open.

They are not even being given cost of living adjustments, so their purchasing power keeps decreasing while the cost of living keeps increasing. I keep hearing on the news that there are a lot of people living in illegal tent cities around the country because they can no longer afford to live in a house or apartment. And the police keep rousting these tent cities. Where are these families supposed to go? The shelters are full, or in some cases refuse to take them because many of these people are disabled and can’t work and the shelters won’t take anyone that won’t or can’t look for work.

This is so very sad. I don’t know what the answer is, but this is really a tragedy on our own soil.

Fun flash mobs

Amy — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:47:56 +0000

One of the things I enjoy watching on YouTube is the different flash mobs. I would love to participate in something like that some day. Sadly I also saw a video about how in some cities (specifically Philadelphia) the flash mobs are turning into violent rumbles, which is not exactly what a flash mob is supposed to be! But the police are calling them flash mobs and that is going to give them a bad name. They really should be called rumbles – there is a difference!

Mob mentality

Amy — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:49:25 +0000

I think it is a very sad commentary that so many people get so worked up over saving some money by going shopping on Black Friday that the mob mentality takes over and people get trampled in human stampedes. Last year it was a death at Wal-Mart, this year it was people injured in a stampede at Target! These are good examples why I prefer to stay home on Black Friday!

Fascinating

Amy — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:31:49 +0000

The human body certainly is a fascinating thing. Here is a youtube video I just found that shows a little girl that will certainly have an unusual life!

My Heart Goes Out to Chile

Amy — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:06:57 +0000

There was a terrible earthquake in Chile. The news reports say that the earthquake was almost 1,000 stronger than the one that hit Haiti 2 months ago. This earthquake was an 8.8 magnitude! I sure hope that there is not the same level of devastation and loss of life that Haiti has suffered. My heart goes out to the good people of Chile.

All the snow in Moscow

Amy — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:15:05 +0000

I was reading an article on the Yahoo news that the mayor of Moscow is planning to make sure that the big snow storms that plague Moscow in the winter dump all of Moscow’s snow on the outlying suburbs. He plans to do that by having their air force seed the approaching storm clouds so that they dump their snow before they can reach the city. Although it sounds like a good plan (for the city of Moscow!) I can only imagine how terrible that would be for the suburbs of Moscow – they would get all of their own snow, and all of Moscow’s snow too! They will be buried!

I’m glad I don’t live in a suburb of Moscow!

Tragedy at VTech

Amy — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:09:51 +0000

When I got up this morning I heard the very sad news that two Virginia Tech students were murdered yesterday. They were murdered off campus; both of them shot. They were together at the time. That is such very sad news. I heard that there are no suspects at this time. I hope that people come forward with information that helps the police track down who killed them and haul them off to jail for the rest of their lives! My sincere sympathies to the friends and families of these two kids. I have a kid in college myself, and I can only imagine the devastation I would feel if something bad happened to him!

Oh puleeze!

Amy — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:55:25 +0000

I was reading an article on a friend’s blog about an article she read on Time.com’s website that the PETA organization wrote a letter to Ben & Jerry’s telling them that they should stop using milk from cows to make their ice cream, and instead use human breast milk to make their ice cream! Knowing that you can get gallons of milk from a cow in only a few minutes of milking, and knowing that you can only get about four ounces of milk from a human in about twenty minutes, the feasibility of the logistics of such an endeavor is really absurd! I’ve been to a dairy farm and watched the cows get milked with the milk machines, and there is nothing cruel about milking a cow! I think someone has a little bit too much time on their hands!

How green is it really?

Amy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:35:05 +0000

I was reading an article in The Washington Times newspaper today about how a lot of companies that claim to be “green” are not actually “green.” It was a very informative article, but very disturbing too. I get very disturbed when I learn how so many unscrupulous companies are trying to jump on the bandwagon of saying they are green when they are not. I don’t like being deceived – not one bit! So I am going to be more vigilant in finding out what products I buy are really “green” or not. And if I find out that they are claiming to be “green” when they are not I plan to write some letters of complaint.