The American Dream-With Strength Comes Peace

With strength comes peace

Our President has given away our strength
... to the corrupt and communist Putin.
… to the muslim brotherhood.
… to the aitola khomeini (because if you think the ‘president of Iran has power you are wrong. That is like saying Medvedev had power when he was President and Putin was Prime Minister).

Our President is acting like fool.
Our President will negotiate with Syria, Iran, the muslim brotherhood (and have them over for lunch)…
…but NOT OUR elected Senators and Congressmen.

What is OUR Presidents goal? Is this some April fools joke?

Do you know why we need a Defense Budget?
…
With Strength comes Peace

We ARE at war with a religion. Terrorist's exist. They want to kill anyone that doesn’t believe what they do…to include their own. Shia and Sunni… What year is this? Have we learned nothing? Have THEY learned nothing?

We (The President of the United States Of America, Barak Hussain Obama) are(is) giving with open arms peace away.
“We are safer now than we were five years ago…” -President Obama to the UN

We are not safer.
When we find the truth about Benghazi…We will find out our President and his cabinet's agenda.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/ambassador-susan-rice-libya-attack-not-premeditated/

Why would for weeks the Obama Administration LIE to the American people about how/why our brave men died in Benghazi…
Our Main stream Media doesn’t think this is a story… but that LIE (there is no arguing it’s a lie)..
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50157981n
CBS news is ‘trying’ but not doing it’s job yet.

Meanwhile in Iran…they are weeks/months away from a nuclear weapon.
If I was Israel I would destroy them now.

Fuck it. I sit here and I write and write…I hardly publish my blogs anymore because it’s useless. I used to think I could change something. I thought maybe if I spoke up people would hear me.
I’m finding out that the American people are deaf. They are dumb. They are the problem. 47 million people are on food stamps asking “what’s in for ME?”
Our President lies and lies (yes, that’s what he does…often by omission), the media ignores it and bows before him. People say…”but Bush…” Stop it. Focus on what is going on NOW!!!
Putin the communist is the most powerful man in the world.
Our President is most likely in the Muslim Brotherhood, that’s if Obama is in charge at all!
Nidal Hasan (the Ft Hood terrorist) is being tried for “work place violence”- BULL SHIT …he’s a TERRORIST!!!
You can’t say “illegal immigrant” anymore because it might hurt someone’s feelings…because they are here ILLEGALLY!!! as in…HERE AGAINST THE LAW…

Oh…did you know we(our government) are/is still in sequestration? That’s different than the 16 day government shut down. Our President decided when the sequestration started that he should close down “the people’s” house …the White House…to save money (that’s gonna save a ton of money).
So…forward a bit to the roll out of the ACA/ObamaCare debacle.
The administration just re-opened the White House…we are still in the sequestration. Has nobody but me noticed.

Note…I quit smoking. The last two paragraphs I edited…they were just swear word after swear word. I put a patch on…let that kick in and edited them. I’m laughing out loud at myself. If you are insulted because I insulted you then YOU are the problem…maybe that patch hasn’t kicked in all the way yet;).

Bond vs The United States
Look it up…
The Obama administration doesn’t care about you, your Rights or our Constitution…

The American Dream-Part 1

The American Dream: where each generation does better than the last.
There is no ‘Spanish Dream’, ‘English Dream’…yada yada yada….

There IS the American Dream…
Where WE control our future. We are personally responsible for our selves, family and loved ones...and it is systematically being dismantled. It has been for years but in the last 5 years our government has slipped us into 5th gear because 'they' have a dream…
A New World Order Dream…A Progressive Dream

We are living in the prequel to a Science Fiction Film where there is a small group of elite rich people... and then the rest of us that have no say. Have you seen ‘Elysium’?
Sounds crazy doesn’t it?

Our forefathers armed themselves and went to war with the greatest Country in the world at the time…Great Britain. They did so because they ‘had no say’.
When the United States Of America was created, our Constitution signed, our inalienable rights declared it was the great experiment. A country like no other before it.
A Country based on FREEDOM.

The saddest part of the New World Order Dream is that the Progressives who Vote the ‘elite’ into office don’t realize what is happening. They are being sold a load of lies with pretty sprinkles to decorate the crap being sold to them.
It’s all about control.
The haves over the have nots.
(Many progressives/liberials would argue that it’s the Republicans that are the Elite and rich…it’s not true, they are almost all corrupt though and I believe some of them are ‘in’ for the New World Order…thinking they are part of it…it’s WE THE PEOPLE that will be left out.)

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/02/harry-reids-office-leaks-boehner-office-emails-and-it-could-ruin-any-faith-you-have-in-washington/
I love our elected officials.

"Free Health Care For ALL!!!”…
It sounds so wonderful.
Nothing is free though.
We have some serious problems in our country. Our Insurance companies are a very big problem, corrupt and evil…yeah…I said evil. ObamaCare/ACA (Did you know that some people that get to vote think they are different?! That’s another problem with our country…uneducated and uninformed voters.) did not fix the problem with our Insurance companies…it just made it mandatory by law for everyone to jump in the pool of sharks. The goal of the ACA is to fail so we can move to a single payer system…where our government is in charge of everyone’s Healthcare…and everyone gets Healthcare….but it’s not what it seems…

http://www.freemarketcure.com/singlepayermyths.php
Check it out…
It’s control over the people.
It certainly isn’t CHOICE.

Our Insurance Companies are now being blamed for the cancellations of millions of people’s insurance. …by the Obama Administration.
They are not to blame though.
They are businesses out to make money…with people working for them.
Under the grandfather clause of the ACA if NO changes had been made to your insurance plan you could keep it.
This includes all insurance plans, not just individual plans but the big businesses as well and they have been given a year reprieve…the shit WILL hit the fan when the majority of the people in the United States Of America that have healthcare with their ‘big business’…realize they also are going to be inundated with massive changes and perhaps deductibles that will bankrupt them…as individuals. No tax credit offered will make a dent if something actually happens…like a simple ACL replacement.

What our country needed was an over haul of our Insurance industry.
What our Insurance companies did was call people…individuals, companies and such…
…”I can get you a cheaper plan…”- game on.

Make as much money as you can before you are put out of business?
Did the Administration tell them to do so, so that there would be chaos?
Is this how they will get to the single payer system?

No matter what the answer we are screwed.
The Republican party received more contributions by the Insurance lobbies than the Democrats.
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries../indus.php?ind=F09
Read it...
The Republicans were not for the ACA and the Insurance companies were certainly against it.

The American Dream is being taken away from us…right now. Right in front of our eyes but some people are too blinded to see it.
Someone HAS to pay for EVERYONE to have Insurance under Obama’s law- that was rewritten by OUR Supreme Court so it could pass muster. That someone will be the 47% of the people in this country that pay taxes…because if you don’t…you will no longer have a chance at the American Dream. You will be poor forever, joined by many more.

The ACA is just one step closer to the dismantling of the middle class…and that IS what it is doing. It has created an atmosphere in the job market where part time is what companies can afford. More part time jobs for the people…means more poor people not being able to make their American Dream come true. Creating an atmosphere where the money goes to the elite and those in control…from the pockets of the WE THE PEOPLE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE1R-xH5To
What else is in there to surprise us…?

I did not even get in to the fact that Healthcare.gov was a NO BID contract…or this…
http://nypost.com/2013/11/01/obama-donors-firm-hired-to-fix-web-mess-it-helped-make/
…or it’s substandard for a single man to NOT have maternity care?…that is asinine.
Corruption…? NO! Not our Government…not OUR elected officials.

Our Main Stream Media is not telling the American People the truth. For every statistic they show you their is another that disclaims it. Disability, Welfare, Job improvement…(there hasn’t been any)…our security as the greatest and strongest Nation on this planet is no longer in good standing.
“With Strength comes Power.” -Ronald Reagan- that’s another blog though.

Note- This is the first of a series of blogs on the systematic dismantling of the American Dream.
..and maybe a chance you will read this, understand what is going on so we can take back OUR REPUBLIC, OUR FREEDOM…
OUR FOREFATHERS DREAMS!

To My Children’s Biological Mothers

Dear Women that changed my life,

Where do I begin?
I guess I’ll start with thanking you for doing the most difficult thing in the world…carrying my child in your womb for 9 months. I don’t know two of you. I met the biological mother of my youngest and was there at his birth, he’s my only domestic adoption.
Your strength still amazes me...all three of you.
You could have taken ‘the easy way out’(which I don’t believe is truly easy). Thank you for your sacrifice of a mere 9 months….because with that you gave ME three of the most amazing Children in the world.
Three Children I couldn’t have on my own.

My Children are now…
BrownNut, Peru…she’s going to be 12 next week.
LoveBug, Korea…he just turned 10 on the 26th.
and
LittleGuy, Japan, (USA domestic)…he’s going to be 9 … next week.

These Children our not just ‘my Children’ (although they are) they are Children of this world. The future leaders, movers and shakers…each in their own way.
They are intelligent, attractive and talented…they are also funny, well spoken (most of the time, though sometimes their vocabulary is a little ‘colourful’ and fart jokes are hilarious to them), they have manners (most of them good) and are very loving.

You might wonder why I’m writing this…I’m writing this because you, their biological Mothers, I never forget. I think of you every night when I thank you and God for blessing me with motherhood.
When I look in my Children's eyes, hear their voices or just have a random thought of them during the day I sometimes wonder …nature or nurture?
I LOVE my Children with all my heart and soul.

If you are struggling with a life changing decision …for what ever reason…PLEASE, I BEG you…
9 months may seem like a life time to you but to me and other Moms and Dads out there…
YOU have the power to give someone a family. …AND A REAL LIFETIME TO A REAL HUMAN.

Note…
I struggled many years…even after the adoption of my Children…with the pro-life/pro-‘choice’ dilemma. Who am I to judge? I am nobody to judge…that is not my place. How ever as I got and get older though I have come to the conclusion that the ‘choice’ of a woman’s body disregards that of the life of the baby living in her.
This is not about when life begins…this is not a religious thing…

…This is about thanking biological mothers and letting them know that NINE months of their life gave me my three Children and they are healthy and happy…and I’m one of the most blessed people on the planet.

Much Love,
A Mom, because of you.

Adoption, It’s a Journey

Our dinner conversation started with a discussion about Gypsies. I don’t know why they were asking or wanted to know…Our dinner conversations are usually an odd assortment. I imagine any dinner table consisting of an 8, 9 and 11 year old would. …
Example…”What would you rather have a lightsaber or a wand?”
…and lots of fart jokes.

BrownNut, “I don’t know anything about my biological family.” (She said this like she was different and alone and her brothers knew everything about theirs.)
LoveBug, “I’m a Viking! Yes, I’m Korean but I’m also a VIKING!”

Note...All three are also half Polish, half Swedish, some Russian and a bunch of other stuff. The math doesn’t add up, we don’t care, we are a family.

My BrownNut is an inquisitive sort. She is highly intelligent and wise(at times), she is loving and kind (mostly). BrownNut is a typical 11 year old girl sans anything girly.
She also would love some answers. Answers I don’t have.

I don’t think about adoption a lot.

LoveBug has declared…
…”I’m going to Korea when I’m 20.”
He’s very matter-of-fact about things, including adoption.
I don’t think he thinks about adoption per-say but more about his birth home, Korea.

LittleGuy is just as happy as can be. He’s not curious at all. Nada. Zippo. Zilch. …For now.

At dinner tonight I explained that what I think about daily is; getting them to school on time, homework, dinner…the very mundane and the very ordinary.
…and this may sound cold but I also explained that I only think of their Biological once in awhile…that I’m grateful for their love and their gift…
…But I’m ‘Mom…makin’ it happen’ and daily I thank God for my Children but I don’t always think about adoption.

I’m rambling on…
I should probably get somewhere with this…
Me getting somewhere though is not gonna happen…
This is a life long journey.
My Children didn’t choose this journey. I did.
Just like ANY parent out there it’s life long.
…and just like any parent I know each one of my Children is completely different from the next and that isn’t an adoption thing it’s a person thing.

When I look at my Children I don’t see their brown skin or curly hair…I just see my Children.
I’m just their Mom.

It’s MY FB PAGE!

Once in awhile, maybe to often, I post something on MY facebook wall that others disagree with (I do the same with my blog).
I have friends that post things ALL the time that I don’t agree with. Do I comment and argue? No. I leave it alone. I do not respect their beliefs if it has to do with their love of socialism or other things. I respect them as people to have those views no matter how wrong they are.
I really believe I can not gain respect without respecting others…On their sites.
My sites are mine! MINE!

Do I believe something is wrong with our government? Fuck Yes.
Do I like Obama. Fuck No.
I didn’t have a blog during the Bush years.
If I had you would have seen me support some things and be outraged at others.

I don’t like Obama but I’d like to say I am happy and glad he is taking same sex marriage to the supreme court, Whoop! Equality for all! It’s not about time…it’s past time.
I’m sure I could find something else I could commend him on…big scheme though…I’m not a fan.

Back to MY WALL…
If you don’t like it…ignore me, defriend me or the hardest…respect me. You do not have to respect my views.
We ALL make up this world.
The good the bad and the ugly.

I came very close to defriending a dear long time friend the other day. I was, in my view, attacked when I posted something about the Presidents speech about the Sequestration... because the President lied. (That’s a fact…The president LIED to our nation.)
Am I saying Governor Bush never lied?
No.
He’s not the sitting President at this time so what is going on now isn’t in his lap, it’s in President Obamas. I’m not saying the President didn’t inherit some atrocious things but 4 years later he’s gonna have to own some of this shit now.

Disrespect to my face would make me turn around and I would show you my back. The internet/social web sites and FB are different…

Is it a good thing to have meaningful dialogue? Of course.
To do so though you can’t change the subject or attack someone personaly.
When that happens you make your argument irrelevant and discredit yourself…no matter how smart you.

I will post that which I deem entertaining, funny, controversial and educational.

I’m Ashamed Of Our Goverment

Our elected officials are a disgrace to our great Country, conservative and liberal alike.
We have elected representatives that talk about the difference between rape and legitimate rape…there is only one kind of rape…ONE.
The White House threatens a member of the press if their agenda is called out as false.

Our press is a disgrace and has proven themselves that their agenda is for sale: The right-FOX and the left- NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN…you name it.

Every legal immigrant should be ashamed of their adopted country because The President and his immigration policy has disenfranchised them and the process to become legal.

Our First Amendment has been quietly squashed by both parties and the White House. Yes, it’s only when Secret Service is around but it's an easy thing to put Secret Service where they (whom ever is in charge at the time) deem the threat of free speech. Both parties passed this, not one.

Our Second Amendment is not being squashed but it’s been put to task through fear. The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It’s for the protection of we the people to stop a government that attacks it’s people.
Did you know there is a town in Alabama that want’s to sign a law that will give the police the right to take away peoples weapons during a crisis or emergency. There is documentation (video) of authorities taking legally owned weapons by non-criminals after Katrina. 

The sequestration was passed by both parties and signed by the White House.  Be mad at both parties.
Sadly one party wants a reduction in spending, not the spending we all ready have but the proposed INCREASE of the INCREASE in spending. The President also wants to raise taxes…again…to pay for part of that INCREASE  of the INCREASE in proposed spending.
Our budget needs to be cut...not increased.
How do we cut it though?
This is a sweeping problem across the board with both parties…

Nobody wants a project or such cut in their state…that might cut jobs…Or a cut in anything that could potentially take their vote away…

Our DOD budget is out of control.
One way to cut it is to get rid of Commissaries, BX/PX and NEX’s on CONUS. Moving Military members every 2, 3 or 4 years costs money…awhile ago there was a try at ‘homesteading’ …where Military members could stay at one assignment for an extended amount of time. It doesn’t work for the majority of the Military though because to get promoted you have to get boxes checked and the only way to do that is to move around from position to position.
There are probably a billion ways to cut the DOD budget but it would take common sense…Part of the problem is our elected officials…again…They have a military installation in their state that provides jobs…don’t cut that because it’s their backyard, their state.
Our DOD is a bloated mess.

The Affordable Health Care Act is not affordable, it’s socialized medicine. Some people think it’s great, others see it as an expensive burden. In the long term I believe the majority of Americans will see this as a burden even those that see it as great now.

To many people on the left and the right have blinders on and are seeing only that which suits their agenda or that what goes against their agenda.
That said there are people who think we are moving in the correct direction...
The direction where our Constitution is dismissed when it doesn’t go along with what they see as correct. Where the Federal/State Government pico legislate our lives.  

Some of our elected officials will pay the price at the next election by not being re-elected but it takes We The People and common sense to do this…
I’m afraid common sense isn’t common though...

I’m proud to be an American but I’m ashamed of our Government.

My Hair Adventure…Hummmmph!

It’s been a year and some months since I started growing out my hair…I’ve had some bad hair days and some horribly shity ones with maybe…MAYBE... 3 good ones?

I’m trying and it seems on a daily basis my hair tries my patience.

Note…To TRY is not to DO but to have the idea deep-seeded that it might not work…So DO, don’t TRY.

That note being said…I’m only ‘trying’ to grow out my hair. I think anyone that knows me knows it WILL ALL get cut off sooner or later…even my hairstylist.

It’s been so long since it wasn’t short I had forgotten what my hair was really like or my hair had changed since I was younger…I think it changed…
It’s curly in some areas, stupid straight and wavy in others.

I bought a diffuser (thank you F1 for the advise) with long prongs so I could ‘curl’ it. I also bought a straightener …I despise my hair straight…I have a tiny face and I look like an idiot. I don’t use the straightener anymore.

I have had it trimmed a few times with layers for body but alas it’s SOOoooooo much work and takes so much time I find it irritating.
My friend Wendy sent me a post about the ‘Curly girl method’…basically don’t wash it, condition the crap out of it and use tons of product. It works…but still takes foooooorreeeeeeever.
I used to be 20 minutes shower to door and looking ‘ok’…now I’m 11/2 hours shower to door with a lack of confidence and I feel like I’m not me.

Last night I was watching the Oscars (part of them anyway) and out walks Charlize Theron, beautiful beyond words with her short hair (I’m not comparing myself to her, I just love her hair). My Man looked at me and said…
…”You getting your hair cut off tomorrow?”
I miss my short hair so very much. I hate taking forever and being in my eyes, ‘high maintance’.
I don’t have thick luscious hair. I have a disaster on my head that looks like a rats nest on what I consider a good day.
Am I getting my hair cut…not yet. I think to myself...'give it more time, you will learn’. Will I get it cut off soon, fuck yes I will.
'Soon’ though could be a week, a month…but no longer than 3 months!

The links below are my last blogs on my hair...

http://behindthebookscover.blogspot.com/2012/01/im-going-on-hair-adventurei-think.html

http://behindthebookscover.blogspot.com/2010/12/adventures-of-my-hair.html

I’m In A Relationship

It’s official…I’m in a relationship. (It’s weird to type out…not weird to experience.)

I waited to share this until the Children knew. They just thought he and I were best friends and did everything together.

I was friends with him for a couple years before but we have been ‘together’ for a bit over a year now.
It was a little complicated of a start as he was separated from his now Ex for years…before I knew him/them. Why they waited to divorce is none of my business. I know I wasn’t the problem in their marriage…before they separated.

When he and I became friends…(we met when he locked his keys in his car…and I got them out)…we discovered a great deal in common…like our very jacked up sense’s of humor and our shared love of all things jacked up.
Yada, yada, yada…

I love him very much. We have already created an enormous amount of memories together and with our Children.

We joked about coming out on FB…
…we did not joke about coming out to our Children...
Coming out to our Children was something we waited to do and discussed and read and discussed and read some more. Our Children are our priority. I love his, he love’s mine.
We sat them down on the same night in our respective homes (across the street from one another) and told them.
The reactions were mixed. I can only speak for what happened in my house…
My BrownNut was very upset. She told me she just wanted me to be single forever and I suppressed my laugh as I have already put their world on end and I respect her and her feelings. I reassured her nothing was different than before. A couple days later she was fine with it but I know issues will arise…I’m under no false beliefs.
My LittleGuy asked…
…”Are you guys having S.E.X?!”
My reply was…
…”I wouldn’t answer that question even if I was still married to your father.”
He was and is fine with it.
My LoveBug was hilarious much to the dismay of BrownNut…
…”This is how I feel…I feel like my best friend is dating my sister.”
…”I knew the moment I met him….(hand on chin, one eye squinting and head bobbing up and down)…This is a match!”
My Children have grown to love him.
We did things very slowly…meeting at a pizza place (them not knowing it was planned)…My three with me and he with his two. Having them over for a water balloon fight. Going to the pool.
Slowly and methodically we got the Children used to him being around my Children and me around his.
It was and is very important for us to keep the status quo and reassure them nothing has changed. Eventually we will hold hands in front of them and I imagine the boys response will be…
…”Gross!”
I have no idea what the girls will do.

I know and he knows that issues will come up but communication being key to a relationship is something we are well aware of and practice daily.

I love doing everything with him: grocery shopping, Costco trips, cooking dinner, chillin’ on the sofa, road trips, gaming, ect…
I also have reached a point where I don’t wanna go dancing with the girls unless he went with me. I would miss him and I know I just wouldn’t have as much fun…that’s a hard one to wrap a head around for those that know me.
So …there ya have it.
I love and I am loved by a wonderful, caring, handsome as fuck, generous, funny as shit and remarkable Man that I respect and he respects me back.
He knows how imperfect I am and I am not the easiest Woman to love but he does it everyday.
I love you Kevin.

Rainbows, hearts, unicorns and all that shit.