I have a quick moment to post an actually blog. I normally don’t get this chance during payroll eve….lol But I started much earlier, like I use to, and it is a hell lot less stressful on trying to get everything ready. I’m going to have to do that more, especially for payroll on the 15th because I’m going to be losing my mind with the move.
I just hope that I can get through my book keeping tomorrow early. We picked up the bubble wrap and I want to get that cabinet done.
Got a better workout today. My new trainer and I are getting more use to each other. It doesn’t help that I like to talk and with her being new, I’m a chatter box. But we did less talking today and more focusing. I didn’t feel as sore as I should’ve yesterday and I’m feeling it today, but I’m not sure I should be feeling it in my neck as much……mmm
Sexual assault in military ‘jaw-dropping,’ lawmaker says
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A congresswoman said Thursday that her “jaw dropped” when military doctors told her that four in 10 women at a veterans hospital reported being sexually assaulted while in the military.
A government report indicates that the numbers could be even higher.
Rep. Jane Harman, D-California, spoke before a House panel investigating the way the military handles reports of sexual assault.
She said she recently visited a Veterans Affairs hospital in the Los Angeles area, where women told her horror stories of being raped in the military.
“My jaw dropped when the doctors told me that 41 percent of the female veterans seen there say they were victims of sexual assault while serving in the military,” said Harman, who has long sought better protection of women in the military.
“Twenty-nine percent say they were raped during their military service. They spoke of their continued terror, feelings of helplessness and downward spirals many of their lives have taken since.
**This is a down right embarrassing that the military does not address it as effectively as it can and should. No one should ever be subject to such a horrible violation.
Congress: No annoying airplane cell phone calls
WASHINGTON – Cell phone calls on airplanes in flight are not only unsafe, they’re obnoxious and they should be permanently banned, according to some members of Congress.
House members, most of whom board airplanes almost every week, traded horror stories Thursday about their worst experiences with annoying fellow passengers who talk loudly on cell phones before takeoff and after landing. One lawmaker said his wife sat next to a woman who loudly discussed her sex life on the phone.
Another House member topped that with the passenger sitting him behind on one flight who got a “dear John” phone call from either his wife or sweetheart just before takeoff. The begging and pleading was just terrible to listen to, he said. Finally, with the plane ready to take off, a flight attendant had to threaten to have U.S. Marshals drag the man off the plane before he finally put his phone away.
**I normally don’t agree with restrictions such as these, but with as rude and inconsiderate people are I FULLY agree with this. I do not want to fly with people talking on their damn phones. I can’t even stand hearing the lady behind me talking loudly through out the whole flight over my headphones. I just want to tell her to shut her mouth and that I don’t care what her grandkids are doing…..they aren’t my family, so why would I want to hear about them.
Playing the ‘Playing the Race Card’ Card
To see why I don’t think Obama “played the race card”–and why I don’t quite buy the McCain camp’s defense, which is that Obama is using race to “delegitimize any line of attack against him”–try removing race from the equation and imagining the Republican nominee delivering a similar soliloquy: “They’re going to try to say I’m a confused. They’re going to try to say that I’m too angry. They’re going to try to say, ‘Well, you know, he’s a North Vietnamese collaborator with PTSD and he’s older than all the presidents on the dollar bills. But that’s just because they don’t want to debate me on the issues.” Would this be “playing the age card”? Or would it be a legitimate (if preemptive) defensive maneuver against illegitimate insinuations–a maneuver, in other words, designed to focus the electorate on the stuff that McCain wants them to focus on?Â
**I know that I didn’t agree with 90% of McCain’s policies, but I did respect him. But he has totally flip-flopped on running an honorable campaign. The type of campaign that this country deserves and needs. I’ve totally lost any respect that I had for him. =(
