June 27th, 2008 Me
According to this article in USA Today,
About $2 billion in economic stimulus rebate checks are being confiscated to pay overdue bills for child support, student loans and back taxes, the government says.
So far, 1.8 million rebate checks have been intercepted by Treasury Department computers showing that individuals owe money to federal or state governments. The biggest beneficiaries: parents who are owed child support.
My first thoughts.. awesome.. families are getting paid whats owed to them.. especially now with the cost of gas so high inturn driving up the prices on everything else.
My second thought is.. what scam! The government makes up money on paper to give to American citizens only to take it back nown in liquid form to pay back taxes and student loans owed to itself… talk about a fund raiser. And someone is really going to tell me this wasn’t planned out by our senior dipsticks in Washington? It’s almost blatent.
June 25th, 2008 Me
An Amish boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again….
The boy asked, “What is this, Father?” The father (never having seen an elevator) responded “Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don’t kn ow what it is.”
While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, a fat old lady in a wheel chair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls
opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched the small circular numbers above the
walls light up sequentially. They continued to watch until it reached the last number and then the numbers began to light in the reverse order.
Finally the walls opened up again and a gorgeous, voluptuous 24 year old blonde woman stepped out. The father, not taking his eyes off the young
woman, said quietly to his son … “Go get your mother.”
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June 23rd, 2008 Me
This morning I posted a video on our green blog, Lite Green Living, entitled “3 Ways To Lower Gas Prices” by AmericanSolutions.com
What the whole thing is about, is encouraging the American people to sign a petition to get our government to lift restrictions and allow us to drill on American soil.
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June 19th, 2008 Me
We just got back from a 6 day vacation to the Orlando Florida area. Dad lives in Clermont so the Sammy Russo clan, along with one of my sisters and her family and one of my brothers, flew down to Florida. We planned it to spend Fathers Day with my dad and one of our other sister who also lives in Clermont… So it was a mini family reunion as a fe of our siblings didn’t make it. We spent a few days at my dads, we did our own thing for a day and we all did Disney’s Magic Kingdom for a da plus 2 travel days.
All in all it was a fun trip. A little bit of family drama mixed in… but a good trip. The bummer is I lost our Canon PowerShot SD1000 digital camera. I downloaded everything from our arrival through Fathers Day, but lost our Putt-Putt Golf pics and our Disney pics. Stupid me left it in the rental car… I think. I remembered an hour later once we were in the airport and about to enter security. We had time so we tried to track it down with Budget Rental Cars. Nothing was turned in.. so one of the Budget Rental Car employees at Orlando International Airport is both a liar and a theif, althought they say they are still investigating it. However, we haven’t unpacked, but I’m pretty sure it got left in the car.
The upside is my dad spent the day with Carrie, the Kids & I at Disney, so he has some pictures on his Canon digital camera. I guess another upside would be that Carrie didn’t “dislike” the Canon PowerShot SD1000.. but she wasn’t truly fond of it (neither was I to be honest). So now we’re forced to go buy another one. It sucks because right now it’s not in the budget.
June 10th, 2008 Me
A friend sent me this article from the San Jose Examiner… It’s about time….
Kucinich Introduces Articles of Impeachment
State Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush yesterday in the House of Representatives.
According to the article back in the 2007 a substantial amount of the people thought Bush and Cheney should be impeached. Unfortunately they only have about 6 months left in office now, so some speculate Congress probably won’t be interested.
The article said it best…
The president will, undoubtedly, be held accountable for his actions. But it will happen later rather than sooner.
June 9th, 2008 Me
Most of Australia’s modern parents think it improper to spank children. The other day I was talking to one of my colleagues about methods used to discipline children.
We talked about “time outs”, grounding, holding back “rewards” until the child displayed desired behavior etc. One of the things we discussed was the act of spanking and my friend explained that no, he does not spank any of his children.
He explained that what he does is to take the misbehaving child out for a ride in the car and talk. He said that usually this works and that the child calms down fairly quickly and really doesn’t take too much time.
By removing the child, in this case his son, from the immediate situation and providing a change of scenery, the child is allowed to focus on something different. Once the child has the opportunity to change perspective, things get better quickly and the child has better understanding of his place within the family and begins to understand the family’s concept of acceptable behavior.
He kindly shared a picture of the process which I share with you now.
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June 9th, 2008 Me
About a month ago or so I said to Carrie, part jokingly.. “Let’s buy a camper and just travel and live out of it for a while.” She wasn’t too fond of the idea.
Funny, the other night Carrie was surfing around the internet, on the Mothering.com Forum or MDC and came across a Christian family who decided to buy a diesel motor home, converted it to run on vegetable oil and they became ECO travelers and live where ever they want.
Carrie started getting excited about this.. after all I started it. So I said to her.. how is that gonna work with 3 kids and my business. She went out and found families with four kids doing just this. Turns out there are lots of families who lead a nomadic life with kids.
We might be a little crazy but, we are actually considering a simpler life of ECO RV Living & Traveling. I can honestly say we are dying here in Tehachapi and now with gas prices at nearly $5.00 a gal we are almost trapped. We believe the Lord put us here for a reason.. to find him and that we did.. now it’s time to move on.
We won’t be taking any drastic measures to rush out of here.. we’re probably looking at it as a 1yr goal. We at least have to stay her in Tehachapi until the baby is born in October.
June 6th, 2008 Me
Some friends of ours from church gave us a documentary to watch the other day called “Freedom to Fascism” by Aaron Russo (no relation). The movie revolves around the 16th Amendment and the legality of the federal income tax laws and the truth about the Federal Reserve. So last night we sat down and watched it.. truly unnerving.
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June 5th, 2008 Me
NO MATTER WHO YOU WANT TO WIN IN NOVEMBER, I THOUGHT YOU’D ENJOY A DANISH VIEW OF OUR UPCOMING ELECTION.
A journalist in Denmark has a pretty clear grasp of the political situation here in America. He doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about over here. His question basically boils down to this:
‘We in Denmark cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election in the US. On one side, you have a bitch who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer, running against a lawyer, who is married to a bitch, who is a lawyer.
On the other side, you have a war hero, married to a good looking woman with big boobs, who owns a beer distributorship.
Is there really a contest here?
