Stop Talking the Talk

I realize that there are millions of liberals that are going to scream and tear their hair out as they read this blog today.  Millions more environmentally minded citizens are going to do the same.  I, however, opt to put the words on paper, despite the screams.  Once it is posted, I shall be running out to purchase a well made set of earplugs.  That is, if I can find a set that has been made in America.

 

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!  Just how long are American Citizens going to continue to give Al Qaeda the power to drive us to the brink of bankruptcy? While we are on a roll we need to stop importing everything and anything from China. 

 

With the economy in shambles, terror suspects being arrested in droves in our country, and oil at $120.00 a barrel it is no longer enough to say “The buck stops here”.  We now must take action that will lend finite meaning to those words.  Every citizen needs to set aside the almighty dollar for one day.  We, as a nation, need to stage a protest that will hit where it hurts. Okay…I didn’t mean there!  I mean we need to have a serious effect on the pocketbooks of the greedy OPEC members who are catering to the Arab countries who are dead set on destroying our ideals in the name of religious perfection.

 

What is the difference between Bin Laden, Hussein and Hitler?  When Adolf Hitler killed to achieve the “Perfect Race” it was an outrage, and remains so to this day. We honor those who stopped him, and those who suffered the worst indignities.  Why is it we are wrong when a man with the same ideals under a different name kills children and teaches them hatred and disdain for anyone not of their faith?  Why are we wrong from fighting for the same principles we fought for in World War II?  It seems to me that Barbara Streisand, and others like her, need to think before they open their mouths and cause a war over a war.  Would she protest so profusely if the President sent troops in to stop an Arian uprising? 

 

The time to be politically correct is long past. If you don’t belong here, get out.  It is that simple.  Sniff every illegal out of hiding.  Shoot them if they attempt to flee.  That is the way our citizens would be treated if they entered another country illegally. 

 

Begin drilling operations in the Gulf, and anywhere we may find oil.  Put jobs back in the hands of the Americans who are suffering as the result of lay-offs due to the housing crisis. 

 

While we are at it…let’s stop worrying about how many children in other countries don’t have vaccines….ahem Proctor and Gamble…and worry about the children here who do not have health care because their parents are too destitute to provide it.  Let’s stop worrying about girls in other countries who cannot go to school because they don’t have any feminine products and concentrate on the millions of families here on welfare.  Food stamps cannot be used to purchase these items, toothpaste, toilet paper or soap.  Let’s take the power out of the hands of huge management companies who run up to 30 apartment complexes and raise rents with no limits.  That could put a damper on homelessness right here in the good old U.S. of A.

 

Let’s realize that charity begins at home.  Then let us worry about those in other nations.  

 

So far, I have been fortunate through these trying times.  As a single mom, each time I go to the grocery store I notice the price increases of one dollar per item.  There are necessities being cut out of my budget a bit at a time.  Gasoline for my car is one of them.  Fortunately, I work at home.  Had my company not been a casualty of the sub-prime implosion, I would not be able to travel to work.  I seriously mean that.  I drive a four cylinder car.    My fifteen-gallon tank now costs $45.00 to fill. 

 

So…what do we think?  Are we going to sprout feathers and become compliant and complacent or will be choose to remain residents of a country based on freedom?  Being free means cutting your dependency on others.  It will be interesting to see how many can truly walk the walk.

It Is Official…I am the Meanest Mom in the World!

There is a common misconception among parents that announcements regarding improved “safety” on social sharing sites have actually changed the way the sites do business.  For an example of how MySpace has improved….check out the postings by Joseph Clipper.

There is a more widely spread belief that if your child is on-line and has been told of all the dangers lurking in the shadows of cyber space he or she will be safe.

For all of you that believe that…I’ve put on a HUGE pot of very strong coffee.  Heaven knows I got my cup this week.

My daughter has spent time in my office as I moved from account registrations to the National Sex Offender’s data base.  She has listened to report after report in Florida about young girls who have sealed their destinies by running out to meet the adorable teenagers on-line who turn out to be the worst kind of monsters.

On Sunday night at 11:30 p.m. as I was performing a last check of the site I work for before going to bed, I noticed that the modem was indicating someone was on the phone.  I found my daughter in her closet, engaged in a phone chat with someone she met in an AOL Teen Chat Room.  First she swore she didn’t have the phone.  I paged it and traced it to the closet floor hidden under clothing.  Then she swore the “boy” she was talking to was someone from school.  I may have been born at night…but it wasn’t last night…and fortunately I have learned to trust my instincts.

I’ve turned into a prison guard.  No out, no friends over, no television, no internet, no phone, no I-pod, no stereo.  I drive her to school and meet her at the bus stop in the afternoon.  She will realize eventually that the privileges she had were not used responsibly.  She will realize that these little “hardships” she is suffering are a thousand times easier that what could occur as a result of her actions.

Now that I am in possession of her passwords, I’ve found a picture that appears to be a man between the ages of 25 and 27.  She tried to convince me that he is a senior at her school. 

Currently, and unknown to the person she spoke to on the phone on Sunday, I am now communicating with him under her name.  At 1:00 in the afternoon….two e-mails have been received in her account, with one stating that they can “run away” together.  I can’t wait to see how this all turns out.

Toss your misconceptions out the window, invade their privacy and be all over your child’s internet activity.  Read the e-mails, watch the instant messaging,   be that nosy nasty parent…but keep your child alive.

I’ll be the first to admit that I am the meanest mom in the world right now…but my daughter will not be a statistic.