This will make you cry

OMG I love it!

Just on my mind

I am really getting sick of people saying black people are only voting for Obama because he is black, they think they dont know the issues or really care about issues, they just want a black man in office. I personally think that is VERY ignorant and ummm racist in a way. What about all the white people that never vote and that are only voting for McCain so a black man isnt elected? How come no one ever brings that up? I guess it is assumed that white people know all this political stuff so they will make an educated vote, so white people must be the informed voter and black people are the uninformed?? Very, very ignorant



and dont get me wrong, I have said things that are very racist, just like I know every race does, I dont care who you are, you have made an racist statement. Obama and this whole election has really opened my eyes to realize we are not as different as we think. Obama will do a lot more for the country then just deal with the war, economics, healthcare, etc. He is united the many races that live together in the US, he is breaking down a huge barrier and I am all for it.

who is really the socialist?

Something VERY interesting I found...

from the New Yorker

»During the 2000 campaign, on MSNBC's "Hardball," a young woman asked McCain why her father, a doctor, should be "penalized" by being "in a huge tax bracket." McCain replied that "wealthy people can afford more" and that "the very wealthy, because they can afford tax lawyers and all kinds of loopholes, really don't pay nearly as much as you think they do." The exchange continued:

Young woman: Are we getting closer and closer to, like, socialism and stuff?. . .

McCain: Here's what I really believe: That when you reach a certain level of comfort, there's nothing wrong with paying somewhat more.

For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama "Barack the Wealth Spreader," seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields. The proceeds finance the government's activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state. One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year's check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that "we're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs." Perhaps there is some meaningful distinction between spreading the wealth and sharing it ("collectively," no less), but finding it would require the analytic skills of Karl the Marxist.

»Oh, and Foxnews posted this video in attempt to make Biden look stupid, but it makes me like him even more, out of all 4 candidates is is the realest, just very open and honest with everything he says, nothing is sugar coated.



and another link that is interesting
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/26/alaskas-biggest-paper-backs-obama/

socialism my ass!

Interesting McCain said this...

During the 2000 campaign, on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” a young woman asked him why her father, a doctor, should be “penalized” by being “in a huge tax bracket.” McCain replied that “wealthy people can afford more” and that “the very wealthy, because they can afford tax lawyers and all kinds of loopholes, really don’t pay nearly as much as you think they do.” The exchange continued:

Young woman: Are we getting closer and closer to, like, socialism and stuff?. . .

McCain: Here’s what I really believe: That when you reach a certain level of comfort, there’s nothing wrong with paying somewhat more.

UFO???

Not quite sure what it is, but it an unidentified flying object behind my apartment I saw it about 5 days ago for the first time, it stays in the air for like 5-10 minutes then slowly fades out. It doesn't move, there are no blinking lights on it and it is a orange color which you cant see from the picture. A plane looks minute flying near it. Today was my third day seeing it, my friend happened to be here to see it to and we are very baffled to say the least. I have no idea what it is but I really want to. I have single out airplane, helicopter, definitely not a star (too big). I could be something they are doing in the Army training areas, but my husband said if I were to see anything they do that it wouldn't stay in the air for that long. Anyways here's a pic, not so good one, you cant tell it's orange or really see how big it is. But put it this way, I took a pic of a plane right after it and you cant see the plane at all or a star, but this thing definitely shows up.

I love youtube!

Dont skip out on voting!

I am luckily in one of the 31 states that is doing early voting so I am taking advantage of it and going today :) Funny that me and my republican friend are going together hehe Let's just put it this way, we dont talk abotu politics together because she takes it WAY to personal so it is weird were going together.

Exploited POW experience

You know, at first when I saw this I thought, "wow, this is really cool" sad to see it, but cool that I got to. Well I go to foxnews.com today, I check them to see the negative stuff about Obama and I go to cnn.com for the regular unbiased stuff. But that's not what I want to talk about :) I saw the video on the home page of foxnews.com saying "POW video released!" and it made me realize McCain is using this as an advantage, he is USING the fact that he was a POW and getting people to feel bad for him or maybe trying to get military to relate to him? I am not stripping away his heroism by any means, but I think it's sad that he has to stoop so low to get votes. Sorry, but it is negative when your using it to get something. Most soldiers are very humble about their war experience, VERY humble. My husband doesn't even like when people come up and thank him for his service, he doesn't feel like he did anything, he was just doing his job. I think this is just stooping very low for the republicans.

Really, if you want to talk McCain being a POW, we can also talk about how he IS a POW, he was held captive for 5 years and tortured. And now he wants to be president?? I think being in control of the US Army would be the best revenge for him, who's to say he doesn't want revenge?

Here's the video, and please don't think I am being negative about his military experience, I think the video should touch a nerve on everyone, it is sad to see him like that. I just don't think it's right to use this, 2 weeks before Nov. 4th and the French just happen to release....I don't think so.



And make sure you watch this one and visit the website, it's like they were reading my mind :) http://therealmccain.com/butler





"To see McCain resort to playing the POW card when answering legitimate questions, in my mind, cheapens that experience. And by cheapening his own experience in war, he degrades all of our experiences in war. He turns the horrific incidents we've all seen, touched, smelled, and felt into a lame excuse to earn political points. And it dishonors us all." -- Brandon Friedman, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan

Picture update

what's that?

Playing outside in the nice autumn weather at Grandma's

Adrien and my bro Robbie, of course Adrien couldnt leave the pumpkin alone long enough to get a good pic

Drunk bowling on my birthday :) Meagan being goofy

My 14.5 month old in size 3T clothes and being grumpy...chunky monkey

More pics to come.......

Art in the sky

Must have been a lot of planes in the sky tonight...

(took this behind my apartment)

Take a minute, be thankful

I feel like I have been so focused on the upcoming election and doing all my research that I haven't stopped to think about our soldiers fighting overseas. I do think about them alot, but I used to more, I feel bad. I feel like people aren't really focusing on a lot of important issues going on right now. I feel like money is the only thing on everyone's mind, it's all McCain AND Obama want to talk about. I don't feel like the wars have had as much attention as they deserve, honestly, I feel like the soldiers are the main people that this election will effect, not "Joe the plumber". Their lives are based on what the president decides, I mean, the president is their boss technically. I wonder what people who have no association with the military think of when they are choosing who they will vote for?? I wonder if they consider the soldiers, I wonder if the war even matter as much to others?? I am not saying that you don't care if your not married to a soldier or have someone you love in the military, because I know people do care they care alot, I just wonder how many people actually think about it and how often. Is it different when it's a part of your life or when you have no idea what it's like? I just don't want our soldiers dieing in Iraq when there is no real reason to be there. Every soldier I have talked to agrees, my husband who has seen it first hand in both countries, Iraq and Afghanistan thinks the same, he felt he was in Afghanistan for a reason and felt the opposite in Iraq. I think when Obama uses the word "change" it means something different for everyone, for me it means changing the war, saving soldiers from tragic deaths and injuries, preventing families from mourning, it's time to stop all this.

Just take a minute and think about all of the lives lost, whether they be American and foreign troops or even innocent Iraqi's and Afghan's and think of all the soldiers who have been injured and feel misplaced in the world, they did it all for US, makes me so proud of our country and the bravery or our men and woman, it's really amazing.

We need Barack Obama

Dear McCain

negative campaigning, setting the lies straight

So I know you have all seen the commercial McCain's campaign has put out calling Obama dishonerable because he said "....just air-raiding villages and killing civilians." Well or course thats not what he really said if McCain put it out there, duh. So here is the the WHOLE comment he made...


Obama (August 2007): "We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there."

It is happening, civilians die all of the time in Iraq and Afghanistan because of AMERICAN soldiers, I dont care how much pride you have in the US Military, but face the facts. And I am not saying it is done purposely, so dont try to misconstrue what I say either. And so you know, so far in 2008 1,445 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan by both militants and the foreign troops including the US.

And here is something I copy and pasted from a site

Risky?

The McCain ad goes on to say that "congressional liberals voted repeatedly to cut off funding for our active troops." It concludes: "Obama and congressional liberals: Too risky for America."The McCain-Palin campaign sent reporters a set of "ad facts" to back up its claims. Those "facts" list five different votes that supposedly "cut off funding for the troops in combat." Actually, they all were votes in favor of bringing the troops home and ending combat.The votes in question (S. Amdt. 3875, S.Amdt. 3164, S.Amdt. 2924, S.Amdt. 1098 and H.R. 2237) all set a deadline for completing the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. The legislation also stipulated that funding for the Iraq war would end after a specified period for withdrawal (with exceptions made for "targeted operations" aimed at al Qaeda, security for Americans remaining in Iraq, training of Iraqi Security Forces, and, in all but one version, "training, equipment, or other material to members of the United States Armed Forces to ensure, maintain, or improve their safety and security").The ad claims that these votes would have been "increasing the risk on their lives," but in fact they were actually votes for winding down the Iraq war. Funding for active duty combat troops in Iraq would have been cut off only if the president failed to comply. It's also worth noting that Obama wasn't present for two of these votes, and one was a House vote.The McCain campaign's "ad facts" also point to a single troop-funding bill that Obama voted against in 2007. As we've written before, Obama first voted for a version of the bill that included a timetable for withdrawal. President Bush vetoed the bill. Obama then voted against a version that did not contain withdrawal language. And for the record, McCain himself voted against the troop-funding bill when it contained withdrawal language.
Please get your facts straight before you vote, you will only know the truth if you find it yourself and dont rely on shady politicians.

Love that Joe Biden

"Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen table is like mine. You sit there at night before you put the kids -- after you put the kids to bed and you talk, you talk about what you need. You talk about how much you are worried about being able to pay the bills. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's not a worry John McCain has to worry about. It's a pretty hard experience. He'll have to figure out which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at."

Joe Biden

It's starting to look alot like...

autumn :) atleast around here it is, thank god. I love the Fall, it's cooled down outside, the scenery is brighter and so beautiful, I just love it! Today was a COLD one though, it's supposed to be in the 30's tonight, crazy for us in October.

Wishing Things Would Change

I was reading my past entries and you can definately see the Libra in me, I cant make my mind up about Ryan hehe do I love him or not?? Of course I love him, I just get really mad when I am mad...something I work on a lot. I am actually extremely depressed about this deployment next year, I wish they would have told us about it 3 months before the date instead of giving us all of this time to think about it. I almost feel like I dont allow myself to be the way I was before he deployed last time, almost like I am scared for things to go back to normal because I know he is just going to leave again, make sense? Dont get me wrong, we are happy and get along great (except for that one week..) but I do feel like we are different couple now than what we were 3 years ago. Maybe it was inevitable that we would change as a couple with the deployment or not?? Maybe Adrien is what makes it so different?? It's so complicated when you raise a baby for the first 8 months of it's life by yourself, but then you know you are married but you have the mindset of a single mom and then your husband gets thrown into the mix...ok I am confusing myself....

My whole point of thinking about the deployment comes from seeing that my friends husband deployed last night to Iraq for a year. He was only home for a year since his last year long deployment. They have been married for 3 years and desperately want a baby. She has had 3 miscarriages that I know about within the past few months and now they have to just completey put life on hold for a year and she has to sit there and wonder if they will ever have a baby and has a whole year taken away to even try and the wait continues for them. I just think it is so unfair and it really highlights the sacrifices that military families make. When it comes to me I dont make a big deal about my sacrifices because I feel like a strong person, life goes on, but it does break my heart when I hear someone else's story, I always feel like they have a worse story than mine. Atleast I was blessed to get pregnant, even though I spent the entire pregnancy without my husband. Atleast he could come home for the birth and be by my side then and meet his baby boy, even though he only had 2 weeks. I see it as atleast we got as much as we did, I'm very thankful for that. This war just sucks big time and I cant wait for a change and I cant wait to have my husband back, for good.

Finally an update

Time for an update I guess :) Not much to update though....Ryan has been gone since the 6th for work. He is in Louisiana until the 29th teaching soldiers about morale and how to handle being deployed. We had an FRG meeting about a week ago and got the word that Ryan will be deploying for one year on July 2009, I dont know an exact date as of yet and I probably wont know until were closer to July. Him being gone right now is kind of getting me depressed about this deployment already. This time I will be living by myself with Adrien, last time I had a roomate half of the time and then my parents for the other half. So this time will be quite different, but we will get through it. I cant believe he has to miss ayear of Adrien's life though. He already missed the first 8.5 months now he has to miss a really fun time when he's says those funny things and does those silly things that 2 year olds do. Weird that Adrien will be 3 when it's all over.

Well onto a less depressing subject....ADRIEN. My big boy is getting so big! He now has SEVENTEEN teeth in his little mouth. They are literally popping up everyday, I cant believe it. Thankfully he is a great teether, not fussy at all. He has acquired the biggest attitude ever though. He is my mini me :) His personality is so much like mine, it's so funny, but not funny at the same time. He screams as loud as he can then falls to the floor when I take something from him, no lie, it's pretty ridiculous. I have to control the laughter when he throws himself at the couch or when he bangs his head on the floor to get attention. But I guess he is just learning his emotions and seeing how far he can push me. Other than the attitude he has learned he has gotten pretty good with his words. He says cookie everytime he gets a cookie or a cracker (they look the same), he knows what his baba (bottle) is and asks for it when he is tired. He has known mama and dada for a while now. We recently house sitted at my moms and he said doggy clear as day when the dogs came in the room. His thing that has been doing for a while is saying no when I ask if he is a bad boy, it's so darn cute :) I think the Wiggles are fading away a bit, he has a new obsession called Wow!Wow!Wubzy!, he calls it whoa whoa whoa. There really is much he is doing now that I could type a book about it, basically my baby is a toddler now and growing into his own little perso nand I am enjoying every minute of it, but it so bittersweet.


****SK girls**** hopefully you guys read my blog because I wanted to say that I miss you guys:( I havent been able to post nearly as much as I was because my interent is sucking lately. It takes SOOOO long for anything to load so I kind of just give up on it after a while. But hopefully the problem is fixed soon, because I miss chatting