The VEEPs
I my opinion, saying Sarah Palin did a good job in the debate is like sending a JV team to play a varsity team, and as long as they don't lose by more than 50 points, saying "Hey, they actually did a really good job!"
Okay, so not that anyone even reads this anymore, but
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26218530God forbid anyone actually parent their own child.
Apparently in Massachusetts
State law prohibits storing more than a quart of gasoline in a home, including attached garages. The gasoline must be stored in an approved safety can, she said.
The law allows people to store up to a gallon of gasoline in a detached garage or shed at least 50 feet away from an inhabited building.
Yes, I am updating my blog, and here's why
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24670991""Ain't got no food left, the kids are probably hungry," said Brown, a 23-year-old single mother who relies heavily on her $312 monthly allotment of food stamps. For days, Brown said, she has been turning cans of "whatever we got in the cabinet" into breakfast, lunch and dinner for her children, ages 1 and 3."
Okay, now I realize we only have one child, not two, and he doesn't eat THAT much food, but in a month, we generally spend $200-225 on groceries, and that includes some high cost items such as Joe's tea ($8.99 for 50 bags) and my favorite ham that's $6/lb.
How can this woman, who is the only adult in the household (therefore drastically reducing the food intake) have spent $312 and have run out of food
several days before the month is over, making her desperate to stand in line at midnight for the store to open?!
Oh, I know, by buying stupid unnecessary stuff like brand name charcoal briquets (yes, I know it's not the same woman in that picture, but it's the same idea). I know those aren't eligible for food stamp purchase, but if she is buying those, I can only imagine what's filling the rest of the cart - stuff that's full price, high mark-up, and unnecessary.
"For now, many of the needy, including many in Kladis' store pushing carts laden with soda pop, bags of cookies and chips — much of it cheaper than healthier food — are doing what they can to stretch their shrinking buying power. The bottom line is, a mother trying to feed her kids is not really picky about what she puts in their bellies," said Dan Gibbons, executive director of the Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation. "She just wants them full."That is disgusting. I don't care. Say what you want about "they don't know any better." ANYONE KNOWS BETTER. ANYONE.
According to NYS guidelines, JOE AND I ARE ELIGIBLE FOR FOODSTAMPS but we are not mouth-breathers who stand around with palms up, waiting for the guvmint to help us out, so we can turn around and say they ain't helpin' us enough.
It sickens me, but I don't know what option I have other than to continue feeling the pinch at tax time so that these people can fill their kids with Lays potato chips and Hostess powdered donuts and I can count the days until we move out of Riverside (I know the problem will still exist, but hopefully in Alden I won't have to see it EVERY DAY).
How can people be graduated from high school with spelling like this?
"What can I say I'm a planner. I'm a bit of a worrie wart I gues. But I'm also vary efficant."
- a 21 year old bride to be, on a message board for local brides
Lots of engagements!
Wyatt & Laura are getting married, and now Dave & Carrie are getting married as well! Congratulations all around!
