I’m sitting here this morning watching reruns of Still Standing on lifetime and a random thought popped into my head.   I spun it around and realized it was kind of interesting so thought I would share it.

Think back to your high school days and the people you went to school with.   The guy who was stoned every day, the girl who came to school drunk every day ( I only did once, who knew home brew was that potent), the tough guy, etc.   You get the point.    Now stop and think about this.   Those people grew up and some of them probably got married.   Then they probably had children.   I would love to know what type of parents these people turned out to be.

Have you ever wondered about that?  I remember a few that scares me a little.   Come to think of it, just about every week I see the name of a girl I went to high school with in the court news section….wonder if she’s a mom now.

I was sent this prayer this morning and it was so good, I decided to share it 

Dear Lord, I thank You for this day,
I thank You for my being able to see and to hear this morning. I’m blessed because You are a forgiving
God and an understanding God. You have done so much for me and You keep on blessing me. Forgive
me this day for everything I have done, said or thought
that was not pleasing to you.
I ask now for Your forgiveness. Please keep me safe
from all danger and harm. Help me to start this
day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude. Let
me make the best of each and every day to clear my
mind so that I can hear from You. Please broaden
my mind that I can accept all things.
Let me not whine and whimper over things I have
no control over. And give the best response when
I’m pushed beyond my limits.
I know that when I can’t pray, You listen to my
heart. Continue to use me to do Your will.
Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others. Keep me strong that I may help the weak….
Keep me uplifted that I may
have words of encouragement for others.
I pray for those that are lost and can’t find their way.
I pray for those that are misjudged and misunderstood.
I pray for those who don’t know You intimately.
I pray for those that will delete this without sharing it with others.
I pray f or those that don’t believe.
But I thank you that I believe that God changes people and God changes things. I pray for all my sisters
and brothers. For each and every family member in
their households. I pray for peace , love and joy in
their homes that they are out of debt and all their needs
are met. I pray that every eye that reads this knows
there is no problem, circumstance, or situation greater than God. Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight..
I pray that these words be received into the hearts of every eye that sees it.

I found a website yesterday that gave a break down of where all that money is going.   I’m almost speechless.  It’s the biggest joke I think I’ve ever seen in my life.   I am a firm supporter of Obama and I really thought he was going to do something good with this stimulus, but it’s a huge waste of money and time.

If I understood it correctly, the tax break for working people is going to actually gain them only about $7.70 a week.   What is that?    They can barely buy toilet paper with that.  There was another section listed under Poverty.   He’s planning to help eliminate poverty.   I was like it’s about time!   Then I read on, he’s going to give people who draw supplemental security income a one time check for $250.00.   How is that going to help? 

This stimulus plan reads more like it’s for the fat cats.   Big businesses who obviously don’t know how to handle money.    Instead of giving money to businesses, give it to us so we can spend it.   That works two-fold.   The businesses would generate revenue and we the consumers would get things we actually need.

I’ve read in other places that the proposed breakdown of funds doesn’t quite cover it, so maybe there’s more to be done with it.   But this break down was highly disappointing.

Oh boy, here we go again.   Al Sharpton is on the warpath over the cartoon in the New York Post.   I seen the cartoon on the news this morning and I guess it’s how you look at it.    Yes, technically Obama wrote the stimulus package, so if you think of it that way, it could be seen as saying that Obama is a chimp, but if you realize that after Obama wrote it, it went to Congress and congress put their fingers all over it, then it went back to Obama and back and forth.   It’s really kind of up in the air now, who wrote the current stimulus.   When I seen the cartoon, I immediately thought of Congress, not Obama.   I’m sorry but Congress does remind me of a pack of chimps.   Dangle a banana in front of a member of congress and they will do what’s demanded to get it, just like a chimp.   If a member of congress doesn’t get his/her way, they have a fit and start going ape.

I think the cartoon is kind of funny and when you think of it as directed at congress, it makes sense.   I also agree with the New York Post when they said Al Sharpton is just a  publicity opportunist.  

I also feel that when people make a big deal out of this type of thing, it just makes it worse.   Like on Jay Leno one night, Jay told a joke that was basically directed at white people and Kevin who is African American, made the comment that there was no way he could have told that joke.   Jay in turn said that’s okay, there’s jokes you can tell that I can’t.    Why is it okay for an African American to make a derogatory joke about African Americans?    If Al Sharpton is going to jump up and scream when a white person makes a derogatory joke, he needs to start jumping up when it’s an African American doing it too.

Now go back to the cartoon in the New York Post and look at it as if it was directed at the machinations of congress and how things work there.   I also think if we ever want true equality here, we need to start looking at jokes for what they are, jokes.