HappyMommyof2's Blog

I watched my friends house burn  to the ground today. They lost just about everything.  ( they have 3 kids) 3 of their 4 dogs died.

 The first 2 9-1-1 calls came in about 3:04 and 3:05 pm ( my husband being one of the callers) . The  Palmer fire dept didnt show up in front of the house until 3:21 and didnt start sparying water until about 15-20 minutes later.

 The distance of the burning house to the fire dept ( where all the trucks were parked-- they were not out on a different call)  - according to mapquest is 0.1 miles away    it is literally at the end of the street.

The reason given for this delay is that the fire trucks were empty and they had to fill them.

 has anyone ever heard of this before? Does it make a a bit of sense?  

Ok- I just got into a heated debate with my sister about tipping, and I wanted to post it here to see if I am really just a stingy person, or if my side of the debate has merit...

I told my sister I am not tipping anymore. That the job the waiters and waitresses have is to serve my food and refill my drinks. Thats the job description. Why is it my responsibility to give " gratuity" for you doing your job the way your suppose to do it?

 The DOT doesnt give my hubby ( a truck driver) money for not causing any wrecks, and for keeping his truck up to code.

 And I know - " Waiters/Waitresses only get paid $2.13 an hour- they work for tips" Ok- if you dont like $2.13 an hour- why take the job?? McDonalds pays more than that- go work there.

 Why do I have to supplement your income because you took a lousy paying job???

 OK- lemme have it- Am I a scrooge?

"Authorities say Patrick Dyson, 26, shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, Venessa Garces, 21, in an affluent gated community in the Denton County town of Copper Canyon Tuesday night."

This is copy and pasted from Fox 4's website.

About the idiot who crashed into his ex and killed her, then had a standoff with the police

 All morning on Good Day when the story was mentioned, it was stated "affluent" gated community...

 My question.. is this story more tragic because the young woman lived in an affluent gated community?  So if I am gunned down in my modest middle class neighborhood, its not as bad because I wasnt rich? 

 Is the reason "affluent" is mentioned so much in this story because this type of crime is rare in this neighborhood? Why not just mention that?

 My neighborhood is a quiet one, we dont have shootings here, so if one were to happen- it would be just as shocking to everyone on this street as Im sure it is a shock to everyone in this ladys apartment complex.

I just am curious as to why the afflunce of the neighborhood matters at all in the reporting of this story

This is the Founder of the weather Channel. What do you think about it?

If you care-I Agree 1000%!!!

John Coleman (Weather Channel Founder): COMMENTS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING [Greatest Scam in History]
ICECAP ^ | November 07, 2007 | John Coleman

Posted on 11/09/2007 7:07:05 AM PST by Tolik

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM.

Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data back in the late 1990's to create an allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental wacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the "research" to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus.

Environmental extremist, notable politicians among them then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild "scientific" scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda.

Now their ridicules manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens. Only one reporter at ABC has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minutes documentary segment.

I do not oppose environmentalism. I do not oppose the political positions of either party.

However, Global Warming, i.e. Climate Change, is not about environmentalism or politics. It is not a religion. It is not something you "believe in." It is science; the science of meteorology. This is my field of life-long expertise. And I am telling you Global Warming is a nonevent, a manufactured crisis and a total scam. I say this knowing you probably won't believe me, a mere TV weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States. So be it.

I suspect you might like to say to me, "John, look the research that supports the case for global warming was done by research scientists; people with PH D's in Meteorology. They are employed by major universities and important research institutions. Their work has been reviewed by other scientists with PH D's. They have to know a lot more about it than you do. Come on, John, get with it. The experts say our pollution has created an strong and increasing greenhouse effect and a rapid, out of control global warming is underway that will sky rocket temperatures, destroy agriculture, melt the ice caps, flood the coastlines and end life as we know it. How can you dissent from this crisis? You must be a bit nutty.

Allow me, please, to explain how I think this all came about. Our universities have become somewhat isolated from the rest of us. There is a culture and attitudes and values and pressures on campus that are very different. I know this group well. My father and my older brother were both PHD-University types. I was raised in the university culture. Any person who spends a decade at a university obtaining a PHD in Meteorology and become a research scientist, more likely than not, becomes a part of that single minded culture. They all look askance at the rest of us, certain of their superiority. They respect government and disrespect business, particularly big business. They are environmentalists above all else.

And, there is something else. These scientists know that if they do research and results are in no way alarming, their research will gather dust on the shelf and their research careers will languish. But if they do research that sounds alarms, they will become well known and respected and receive scholarly awards and, very importantly, more research dollars will come flooding their way.

So when these researchers did climate change studies in the late 90's they were eager to produce findings that would be important and be widely noticed and trigger more research funding. It was easy for them to manipulate the data to come up with the results they wanted to make headlines and at the same time drive their environmental agendas. Then their like minded PHD colleagues reviewed their work and hastened to endorse it without question.

There were a few who didn't fit the mold. They did ask questions and raised objections. They did research with contradictory results. The environmental elitists berated them brushed their studies aside.

I have learned since the Ice Age is coming scare in the 1970's to always be a skeptic about research. In the case of global warming, I didn't accept media accounts. Instead I read dozens of the scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct when I assure you there is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. It is all a scam, the result of bad science.

I am not alone in this assessment. There are hundreds of other meteorologists, many of them PH D's, who are as certain as I am that this global warming frenzy is based on bad science and is not valid.

I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming.

In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious. As the temperature rises, polar ice cap melting, coastal flooding and super storm pattern all fail to occur as predicted everyone will come to realize we have been duped.

The sky is not falling. And, natural cycles and drifts in climate are as much if not more responsible for any climate changes underway.

I strongly believe that the next twenty years are equally as likely to see a cooling trend as they are to see a warming trend.

So I saw someone was offended by a noose hanging from the back of a pick up truck, and decieded to post the trucks license plate number.
 Now- First - You dont know what the heck that noose was there for or what it was meant to represent, if it was meant to represent anything.

 Secondly- You are now going to post the license plate number of every vehicle that has something on it that offends you???  And then you wont even allow comments to your post!

 Gimme a break!!!! Grow a thicker skin and get over it. I am offended by many many many ( illegal immigrants) things but I dont go online and post license plates numbers!

 More than likely that noose probably was there for a horrible reason to insinuate lynchings, and if it was I think its abhorrent.  Whoever the dumb idiot is, they do have the freedom of speech, and although I dont agree with it, I damn sure am not gonna take that right away from him. All it shows me is that ignorant people have a right to free speech too.

I went to the first PTO meeting of the school year last night. Its also the first PTO meeting I have attended since my child has been in school. I have to say it was probably my last.  I also have serious doubts about becoming an educator in the state of Texas because of this meeting.

 What, you may ask, happend at this meeting????

 What happend was that after every Board member spoke ( financial report, volunteer requests, etc.) It was repeated in Spanish.

I could not beleive I had to sit through each members 10 minute "speech" and then had to sit through it AGAIN~! Whether or not I understood it, doesnt make a difference. What should have been a 30 minute meeting turned into an hour.

I think its great that parents want to be involved in their childs education, but to make me sit through a translation because they are to lazy to learn English really gets me hot under the collar. 

And yes I said LAZY. Thats what it is. They arent made to learn English. Why should they??Everything is in Spanish anyways. 

Before anyone attacks the white girl for being racist  and not understanding the poor immigrants plight, let me stop you right now. My mother is a German immigrant. My mother learned the language when she came here. She busted her rump to support her 2 daughters and become intergrated.  Mom got her citizenship 8 years ago- and if you ask her today- she is not German- she is an American with German ancestry.

I am so sick of everything being translated. But nothing will ever change. No one has the guts to try and change anything. And the ones who do will be sued out of the spotlight. Am I the only one saddened by the way our country is going?