More Soldiers have died from SUICIDE than COMBAT for the last two years…

the last two years.

But that’s not all, our very own Corporations and Businesses created and sold and sent to Iraq the very munitions that are killing our Soldiers in combat.

click on the line below:

http://www.congress.org/news/2011/01/24/more_troops_lost_to_suicide

After you’ve read the story from Congress.org about the suicides and when you get done reading that come back for a further information on just how the US Government supplied those same guns and ammo that are killing the soldiers in combat. For that story click here ;http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1412.htm

And about Marblehead and LaFarge Quarry involvment click here;

http://www.gulfweb.org/doc_show.cfm?ID=527

My thanks to Congress.org and to Information Clearinghouse.info and to Gulfweb.org

Do your research and follow the money at all times.

Seems even my little tiny town of Marblehead, OHIO had a share in this American Atrocity. Via American Munitions Makers sending their Arms and Munitions thru Lafarge Quarry with a dock to call their own on a major waterway out of the country…talk about terrorism…follow the money and the broken laws  right back to Washington and the 1%. 

As my dear old Dad always said, Crime is either about money or sex or power, Always. What they did in ARMING Iraq was and is ILLEGAL. Still no action taken to make these political criminals own up to their hand in all these deaths.  

From Wikipedia Commons; Rumsfield and Saddam, “Let’s make a deal” in 1983 to have them (Iraq) armed to the teeth to fight Iran and after the war ended the selling of war instruments just went on and on and on…

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Mitt Romney made 20.9 million dollars last year. (In one year!)

And that was working one full time job as a Congressman. I know Congress pays well, but really ? Congress pays a congressman $174,000.00 a year to be exact. 

That leaves $20 million 726 thousand ( $20,726,000.00) unearned from his full time job. Questions ? I got 20,726,000.00 of them. 

You are your work…forever…

Whatever you work at and put out there into the Universe is you. Only your work identifies you forever to the Universe. 

So do what you love, work joyously and hard. If it’s raising that family, do it well. Then you’ll live on always in the hearts and minds and souls of those you’ve so loved. Don’t waste your life doing patchy work you hate. For instance I have a brilliant kind relative and one Christmas Season he tossed all the files on foreclosure proceedings that were on his desk, just to give those families a few extra weeks before the banks could organize their files enough to evict them. To me he is a Saint, and he made his job something he could at least tolerate thru that Christmas season. 

Then there’s my Ex-Husband, years ago he used to deliver Meal-on-Wheels, it had started as a part-time job thru “Manpower” employment services but the little old ladies just loved him. And he them. It truly was a “mutual admiration society”. He ended up just loving working with the elderly. He was hired on full-time and retired from there after little better than a decade with them.

The ladies and gentlemen he delivered lunch to still talk about him although he’s been retired from that for a while. And God forbid anything happens to them or him, their children will talk about what a kind man used to deliver mom’s meals, just as my kids talk about the fabulous characters on his route. (Once in a while he would take them to work with him on his route, our little twins. And the ladies just loved them and the kids in return had an insight into their Daddy’s job and the real life adventures of getting old in our Society and learning how to be more than comfortable with and appreciate the elderly.) Come to think of it, prior to this he had an Ambulance Company where he would routinely go out into the world and be the guy who literally saved people.

 And even now in retirement he volunteers with his local police department and goes out there only occasionally and puts himself once again out there to help and aid other people. That what makes him tick, helping the next guy, being there when he’s needed. That’s his bliss, though I doubt he even realizes it.

As for me, I write because I love it, and I have to. My David worked in a Lumber Yard for 30+ years because he loved the smell of the fresh wood and being outdoors all day and seeing spiders shit, and hornets nests, wild cats and the occasional fox and snakes or any other wild critters that wander by the back lots of lumber yards. All sorts of spinning and creeping and just living out there in God’s creation. He loves working with guys in the building trades and sharing humor and comradery with those guys. He loves it. I know, what other jobs allow you to find frozen nests of mice hidden in a huge log of Lumber? It’s part of the reason I love that man, his constant close study of the Earth amazes me. He notices more in 30 seconds than I’ll see in a month. The world and nature and more than a few lifetime friendships this is the perspective he wanted and found.

 

Whatever your desires, the right job will give you. Perhaps that’s the biggest clue to finding the right job. Don’t look at it as if it’s a job… but really the only place you would want to be all the time if you could. Because you can. It truly is just like they say “Follow your Bliss”, and it won’t be work, it’ll be your passion.

And when people think of you they’ll think of that really calm happy settled person who is so comfortable doing just what they love that they approach life and other people with joy and kindness. Not a bad way to be seen or remembered, Eh?

Your character IS your destiny…

“Watch your thoughts, for they become your words.

Watch your words, for they become your actions.

Watch your actions, for they become your habits.

Watch your habits, for they become your character.

Watch your character for it becomes your destiny. ”

Anon. via www.thinkexist.com

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.           Abraham Lincoln

We are teaching our daughters to grow up and look like Barbie Dolls, how sad is that?

To base any part of their self-worth on their appearance that can be modified and pushed or pulled or colored or bleached  or starved or padded until can be found acceptable to the American Barbie Doll standard. We are building them to fail. And do so miserably, comparing their real bodies and faces to airbrushed fantasies they can never really equal, or if they do come close with surgery and diet they find out once there it hasn’t changed their real world and fears one bit. Barbie Fashion Model.JPG

 If they only had a brain…thats what should be pushed and pulled and stuffed with good stuff, and groomed to repulse  the bad stuff like any form of violence,  false values and shallowness. If only half the time and energy spent by our Society that values only appearances was spent on growing young girls minds what an impact it would make. Imagine if for every Makeup or Diet advertisement young girls found a gold nugget of information or a fun fact that would set that young pliant beautiful young mind into the wonders of the world like science or imagination . You would be unleashing the power of their minds, something that can truly with a passion and direction give them the lifelong gift of studying the world and treasuring their own self-worth and identity. No self-centered narcissistic life locked into a mirror of their own reflection, lost in space and time trying to match the unmatchable, ending in further self-study and years of therapy looking for someone to blame because they never were trained to take their eyes off themselves long enough to look at the world around them. To become the absolute plastic horrors you see exhibited on reality shows like “Housewives of Beverly Hills”. How scary is that? Do you want that life of fear and loathing for your daughters and granddaughters? No? Then don’t exhibit it. And the next time you out to buy her a really cute little top match it with something that will grow her mind, even if its only a bulb to plant indoors and watch grow or a harmonica that she can play the scales with. Take the thrust of interest off her closet and onto her other senses. Or get really crazy and stop by a Teachers Supply store and find her an interesting and fun experiment or toy that will take her mind places. Growing her mind will in the end be far more important than another pair of cute shoes. It’ll also teach her what you value. Not her appearance but her mind. You believe in it and YOU value it. 

 If you grow their minds there will be no fumbling the ball in the third quarter of life because your entire playing field has changed direction. No fears concerning physical aging, only that its shortened the playing field some and now their work and passions whether it be raising a whole new generation to be brave and brilliant or following their passion into another area must be pursued with more intense concentration as time is shortened. However they will like themselves and therefore  have lots of laughter and love in their lives and their hearts, minds and souls will be at peace with who they are. 

And isn’t that what you wanted the end of the story to be when they laid that little baby girl in your arms?

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan

Photographs courtesy of  Wikipedia Commons.

Christmas is a time to remember and spend back all that love all that faith others have had in you…

Sometimes when I get really tired I think of my Mom. She had more strength and grit than any other woman I ever met. And thankfully it seems as if she’s only a phone call or a veil away from me. 

I like that feeling. It seems the more I read the closer I come to realizing that this event called “life” is really only a blur of what is really going on at all times. Our existence happens before, during and after this period called “Life”.

The idea being, that all around us both the people already past and those yet to come are there. Either waiting in the wings, off stage or performing on a different set at the same time all the same things we are doing. It’s all going on at the same time. Simultaneously, we’re not the only game in Time.

Not only that but they love us and they support us still. Just as we do them. Just like Christ said, love them as you have me. This is not only for the living but for those we’ve lost to death and those yet to come to us also. This love is too powerful and too eternal to only be a one lifetime expenditure of power. For we know for each and every action there is an equal and opposite reaction that perhaps we can’t see but we can certainly feel. Think of it as a huge Oak Tree of emotional strength and support. You cannot see the roots of that huge Oak but you can certainly gauge by looking at it that what appears above the grass so appears below. There is a root system built to balance all the weight just as strong and just as diverse as the immense trunk and spreading branches you see before you. A mirror image that allows the tree to stay upright. Same as us, there is a balance bought about by the love and ballast of others in each stage of our eternal soul before, during and ever after. Thank God.

And I believe in those particularly trying times not just the memories of other souls gone before but their actual eternal power of love and laughter can sustain us here as we fumble about our own way. And thank god because with out that constant center they’ve created and held we might just float away. Their hope , love and laughter and belief in us gives us the power to believe what they said and acted upon, their faith in us, each and every one of us. So even if you’ve only had one cheerleader in your life that has let you know in no uncertain terms that you are one of a kind, remarkable believe them and hold that thought because you’ve just found your ballast, and you’ll need it to keep your center so you can become some else’s center to hold onto. And that’s the real cycle of life. To take care of each other, always and realize that your being watched over and loved and taken care of too. It’s just part of the fabric of your being, your soul.

Merry Christmas Always, my rascals.

 

I love our little Christmas Tree…

Now pay attention, what did I tell you about drones over Northern Ohio?

On top of passing the “National Defense Authorization Act” which allows for the military to police these united states and call each and every act they take “a response to terrorism” now they are already being used in conjunction with local law enforcement to spy on us by air. Please click on the link and read the article from 12/12/2011 from the Los Angeles Times…

It truly is like a friend Pat said, One if by land, two if by sea…

  http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/10/nation/la-na-drone-arrest-20111211

Thanks

Sheila

The U.S. Senate has just sold us out to the highest bidder…the military and industrial complex that Eisenhower so feared. As of yesterday your rights to representation, a speedy trial, a jury of your peers etc…

O.K., my little buddies while I have your attention chew on this fun fact…

The U.S. Senate has just voted to abolish your rights to a speedy trial, a jury of your peers, your right to representation and they voted it in by a margin of 93 for and only 7 against. Ergo even if the President of the United States vetos this hate crime against the American people called “National Defense Authorization Act” the Senate and House of Reps can still ram it through by voting with a 2/3 majority to override the Presidential Veto, as their original vote in favor of this was 93 yea to 7 nay I’d say they’ll ram it through in 60 days or less. While your letting sugar plums dance in your head or keeping you head buried in the sand of Kim Kardashian latest divorce you’ve taken your eye off the ball, That’s your civil rights . So you better call/write/email your Congressmen while you still have a voice to do so. 

Check out “National Defense Authorization Act”. It may be too late but let your voice be heard and don’t let all those American Soldiers who died on the beaches of Normandy and the fields of the Marne and yesterday in Afghanistan and Iraq have been in vain. You must protect your and these soldiers rights here at home. They think they’re fighting for the American Way, and the team (the Senate) has just been bought and paid for by somebody else and they’ve sold us out. 

 Thanks for reading this and do your research today, “National Defense Authorization Act”.

You’ll be scared and shocked how fast they voted you off the Island!

Free Money Ohio Veterans…

TO QUALIFY ;

1. Veteran must have been Ohio Resident during Active Duty

2. Veteran must be an Ohio Resident when applying for bonus.

Eligible Vets may receive up to $100 a month , up to a maximum of $1,000 Bonus . For service during these dates in these places…

PERSIAN GULF… Between August 2, 1990 to March 3, 1991. Eligible Veterans may apply for a bonus until December 31, 2013.

AFGHANISTAN…Since October 7,2001. Eligible Veterans may apply for a bonus for up to three years after the President declares an end to United States involvement in Afghanistan.

IRAQ … Since March 19, 2003 Even though President Obama announced Tuesday the end of American involvement in Iraq, no deadline has been set for applications. The deadline will likely be sometime in late 2013 or early 2014.

 CONTACT; OHIO DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS SERVICES

click on the contact below to find out if you qualify…

https://veteransbonus.ohio.gov/odvs_web/

Photograph Header courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.