Elizabeth Edwards Dies At Age 61

(July 3, 1949 – December 7, 2010)

Elizabeth Edwards died Tuesday, December 7th with her family around her from her incurable breast cancer. Elizabeth Edwards was a strong women who didn't coward away from the public during her struggle with breast cancer or during her husband's paternity scandal.  Elizabeth Edwards is an icon and an inspiration for women. She was an crusader for cancer cures, best selling author, attorney and an advocate for health care reform.  

Children With Autism Get Left Out In The Cold Again

Our wonderful state of Michigan sat on a bill for 11 months to force insurance companies to pay for therapy for children with Autism and now the bill has expired.  Now these little kids are left out in the cold.  The bill has been passed in 23 other states and of course here in Michigan the insurance companies don't have to pay for therapy for Autism children. Autism is a medical decease and should be treated as one. Most insurance companies will pay for a breast reduction if your have problems with your back but won't pay for therapy for children with Autism because they claim it is too expensive and it is up to the schools to help the children. Schools are there to educate children not to treat our children and are not qualified to treat children with Autism.  Therapy for children with Autism has been proven to improve the child's symptoms of Autism giving them the opportunity to thrive. Children living with Autism should be given the opportunity to thrive and live a normal childhood. The ridiculous part about it is most people pay more into their insurance than they ever use and insurance companies are making a fortune off of us and are paying less with every year that passes. These children didn't ask to be born with Autism and their rights should be protected.

Extend Tax Cuts For The Wealthy?

As I was sitting here watching CNN this morning, they announce the Obama Administration is considering extending tax cuts for the wealthy.  What kind of bull shit is that? The Trickle Down Theory doesn't work.  When is the US government going to figure that out? The wealthy take their tax cuts and stick them in their fat wallets and continue to cut back on workers.  Since Bush created the tax cuts, over a million jobs have been sent overseas and America is out of work.  The whole point of creating the tax cut is to motivate companies to create more jobs and hire more employees.  Well, the opposite has happened. They want to create more jobs for Americans, then penalize these companies for sending our jobs overseas.  Impose a higher tax rate on the companies that manufacture overseas and the companies that send our customer service call centers to India.  Make it more affordable for them to employ Americans and less affordable for them to out source our jobs. For any products that is being shipped back into the US, the manufactures should have to pay a higher rate of taxes on those products being manufactured overseas and shipped back to the US for us to buy. Don't give them tax cuts for eliminating our jobs, force them to bring their companies back to the US by making them pay more taxes.  Their incentive should be paying less taxes for keeping the companies here and only the companies that have no manufacturing companies overseas should get tax cuts.

Barbie Video Girl

The new Barbie for Christmas is Matelle's Barbie Video Girl. As a parent I would think twice about buying the Barbie Video Girl for your little girl. It's a doll your daughter can make videos of herself with and then post them on barbie.com and the website has video movie contests for your child to enter . The new Barbie Doll has been put on the FBI's watch list for pedophiles. This is a digital world and what your children knows about using a computer would surprise you. As a parent, you should always be aware of what you child is doing on the Internet.  Anyone can create a profile on barbie.com and portray themselves as being a child, including a pedophile. The barbie.com website also allows your child to chat on the website. Your child my think they are talking to another child, but they can talking to a pedophile. I would be a little sketchy about allowing my daughter to post videos of herself online. Once they are on the internet, they are on the internet forever and you never know who maybe watching them. Toys like the Video Barbie Doll is opening up new avenues for pedophiles and making it harder for us to protect our children.

Too Old For Christmas?

My son turned 11 years old this past November. He has suddenly become to old to help decorate for Christmas.  When we were decorating for Christmas on Wednesday, he announced that he is too old to help decorate and he no longer believes in Santa Clause. But, when I told him, "Okay, then I guess we don't have to buy you any presents for Christmas, since your too old for Christmas. He said, he's not too old for presents just too old to listen to that stupid Christmas music while your decorating and help decorate. He has suddenly become too old for a lot of things. However, it is cool to start watching Dora The Explorer again. Go figure.

Our Fate Rests In The Hands Of Politicians

I went to college so I wouldn't have to do shit jobs like the one I'm doing now just to attempt to help pay the bills. A few bad decisions made by politicians has changed our fate and quality of life for millions of people. Life is no longer what we knew it to be and we have no real control of what our future holds for us now. Our fate depends on the governments willingness and ability to bring about change to the economy.
I remember back in the days when you would watch movies about the future. They portrayed the future as being something dark where there are two classes, the wealthy and the poor with homeless people everywhere. Little did they know, they had a glimpse of the future. Maybe slightly dramatic to make the story line more interesting for the big screen. But, they were close to the reality of the near future. Crime has risen all around us, homelessness is up, millions of people are struggling just to pay their rent and buy food for their families. I have watched my property value of my home drop by almost half because of all the foreclosed homes around me. It's not even plausible to sell you home anymore because you will owe more on your mortgage than your home is worth. Things aren't hard enough and now congress wants to cut the income of 2 million more people by cutting their unemployment benefits. The government doesn't care about the fate of their own American citizens. They will let us burn just to keep their standard of lifestyle. Let me ask a question. Why hasn't anyone in the government been made to take pay cuts? They feel they are above the rest of us. They really don't care about what happens to the average American as long as their standard of life goes untouched.
When I got laid off, I thought... I will be fine and I will be back to work in six months. After all I have multiple degrees and skills. Little did I know the the economy would tank like it did. If things don't improve soon, we are looking at our future looking a whole lot more grim than it does right now.

People are losing their minds...

Whenever unemployment and economic hardship is up, so is the number of violent crimes, murders and suicides. What is going on in Michigan? Three separate parents have killed their children in the last month or so . The third one is not confirmed, but they can't find the children. The children have been missing since Thanksgiving. So it's not looking good. First there was the woman her threw her baby against the wall and killed him. Then there was the man who scalded and drowned his two 1 year babies. Now, the man who has come up with several different stories about what has happened to his three boys. First they were given to a woman he had asked to return the boys to their mother, then supposedly they were in Ohio and now he is saying he killed them before attempting to hang himself. John Skelton has done something with his boys and refuses to tell the police where the boys are.
I will never understand how a parent can murder their own child. Whether you are unemployed, frustrated or angry it's no excuse for killing your own child. You need a license to drive, you need a permit to build a porch. But, anyone can have a child.