Welcome to Ridiculous

I was kidding around in the previous post.

Now I'm serious.

I live in a fairly quiet town, deep in the South, population 8,600. On the surface, I see no signs of racial tension. In my life time (I may be sheltered) I have not heard of or seen anything that leads to racial tension in Wynne. Nothing serious anyway. I'll go even further and be a little bold to say even though our school is desegregated, the town is still sort of segregated, this is the way I see it. We have two grocery stores, different sides of the "tracks", separate churches, separate funeral homes and yes, even separate cemeteries. No one told us to to do this, it just kind of never changed.

Are some of you shocked?

So...
Welcome to Ridiculous. It is ridiculous that my 6th and 7th graders came home today from school telling that there were threats of shootings today, threats of gangs causing fights, and there was a fight this morning in the gym before school. A teacher ended up getting hurt. It is ridiculous that this is happening in a small school in rural Arkansas. It is ridiculous that this is happening the day after the election. It is ridiculous that the the Superintendent had to come to the school and quite down the Obama chants, that it was disrespectful and rude. My girls said that kids were chanting his name over and over. SOME OF THESE KIDS ARE JUST 11 YEARS OLD and they are going to suffer for what their parents and other adults have done.

It is ignorance that is causing this problem now. Are these kids coming up with this on their own? No, heck, half of them may not even know what Obama looks like. These children are hearing and seeing something at home and bringing it to the school which is ridiculous. Do we have to wait until we are 80 years old to finally mature and just live life?

It is ignorance that I see on the Memphis news. Does it really take "falling out" over an election? Some of these people were jumping up and down and chanting like the Holy Spirit has gotten hold of them. Seriously?

The Presidential Race being won by a black man is not the problem. The ignorance in America is the problem, whether it be White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, whatever, IGNORANCE is the problem.

Obama is not going to cause riots and death, ignorance will and that my friends is ridiculous. A co-worker told me today that the Black Panther's guarded a voting facility in one of the northern states, I can't remember which one. Was there trouble? NO. Why start something over nothing?

I voted for McCain. I voted for him, not because of his color, but because of his views. I do not support abortion of any kind and neither does McCain, this was my MAIN reason for voting for him.

I'm afraid we are in for troubled times ahead. Isn't is sad that OUR LITTLE WORLD has changed in one day.

Prayer is what we need, do you think our future President is prayerful? Do you think he prays to God? I hope he does.

Our Pastor at WBC says it best check out his Post.

Solving the Worlds Problem

Okay, so the other guy one the election.

Do you all remember that I mentioned how this election thing was getting on my last nerve?

Now the national media feels like they have EXPLAIN why Obama won and McCain lost. Are they saying we are too dumb to understand what happened?

I have the answer. I should get the big pay checks. Look out Senior Analyst, here comes a funeral home secretary with the answers!

Simple

More people voted for Obama than McCain or it was rigged and our vote didn't count anyway .

Why do we need this explained to us?

Got a problem you need solved? Leave me a comment and I'll see what I can come up with.

Worth Reading? You Decide.

Vocab words made into sentences written in 5 minutes for homework...

I was manageable about my room being clean.

People are awareness about the news.

The person was purposeful about the gum.

I was noticeable about the scene.

The re-write took 20 minutes. The sentences came out much better.

The children I baby sat last night were very manageable.
The homeless child brought me much awareness about poverty.

Who needs live coverage of the Presidential Election when I have all this excitement going on over here!


I would like to send this plea out to Webster's Dictionary...please remember TEENS use your dictionary. I'm talking HORMONAL TEENS. This book must be simplified. Since I can not throw remote controls at their foreheads to get their attention Please condense this book so that when thrown at certain foreheads, permanent damage it not done.

In unrelated news...
My sister-in-law says this if a certain someone wins the election, she is moving to Australia where they have Mel Gibson and Crocodile DunnDee and great white sharks, that Crocodile Dunn Dee will take care of.

I Voted, Did you?

I voted today.

Um, no one told me there would be, what, about 9 people running for President. I voted for the person that I thought best for the job, John McCain.

31 states have started the practice of early voting, which lightens the load for the 1st Tuesday in November. I think that is wonderful. I walked right into the court house today (because I was way to busy last week to vote early), there were no lines, all electronic and cast my ballot, all within a 5 minute period. I believe it took me longer to find a parking place than it did to vote.

I called my dad and told him that I had voted Democrat (wondering if he would write me out of his will). He said..."Yeah, sure you did. And I'm sure you voted Green and all that". Gees, I can't even joke with him. He takes this stuff seriously ALL THE TIME, I mean we are allowed to kid around every once and a while.

Some of you might be wondering how the political talk is with certain co-workers and myself. SURPRISINGLY the political talk has died down until today. NOW, we are all about what's going to happen after midnight tonight. How stupid was I to think that once we voted this would all go away.

I might just get the old juices flowing this afternoon (I'm feel like living on the edge) and mention that I think that Bush has decided that he finally has enough money to retire on...and that's why the gas prices have dropped. That kind of statement usually gets my ear chewed at least for 2 hours non stop!

Teen Talk

Could someone please use the following word in a sentence?

Alluminateingly

This weekend, watching a movie (I can't remember which one) SOMEONE said..."Wow that sure was alluminateingly gross."

This portion was added after lunch today...

Lunch with friends...
Friend to Teens: My mom married my dad when she was 17.
Teen: Oh, wow that means she was 15, then 16, and then at 17 she married your dad.
Me to myself: I'm going on Vacation by myself. Far Far away.

Subject: Eyebrows
Teen: Oh, Oh, you should shave her eyebrows and then draw them real surprised looking like Ms. Tommyee does, you know Kaye's grandma. Ms. Tommyee draws her eyebrows on really big.
Friend: Oh, she sure does.
Teen: Yes, her make up always looks n-i-c-e.
Friend: How is Ms. Tommyee, I don't hear much about her from ya'll anymore.
Me: Dead
Friend: Oh, Thats right, I forgot.
Teen: Me too.

Subject: Tongue:
Teen: What are these bumps on the end of my tongue?
Friend: We were told all our life that they were lie bumps.
Teen: You are what, 48? I bet they were lie bumps back in the day.
Friend: I'm 22.
Friend's daughter: Momma that would mean you had me when you were 10.
Another Teen: Wow, you were a child mom.
Friend: I'M NOT 22 I'M 38.
Teen: Besides they can't be lie bumps because I stopped lying yesterday.

I just listened to that conversation and let my friend have that one all to herself.