Seriously?

Someone please explain how you can review an item you haven't even used yet?! "I haven't started using the curriculum ... " and she gave it 4 out of 5 stars. SHE HASN'T USED IT. Gee! It looks puuuuuurdy! Guess that's enough.

I was looking at car seats yesterday for a friend. I couldn't believe how many people put in a review along the line of, "I'm not due for another month but this carseat sure is puuuuuurdy! More purdy than in the pictures! I definitely recommend it!!!" Yeah, hello, your stupid is showing. Oh, and BTW, SHUT UP!


Peace Out,
~*~*~Krystal~*~*~

The War on Women

I really want to discuss this war on women and discuss some things that neither the liberal media nor the conservative media have really brought up. Now the conservative media has touched on some of what I have to say, but they're missing quite a bit.

The War on Women, and there is one going on, comes down to three basic components: a woman's reproductive rights and a woman's right to a career which leads to her right to be independent. There is so much to say.

Let's start with birth control. Democrats are all up in arms over a woman's right to free birth control saying that Republicans are opposed to birth control all together.

1. Republicans are not opposed to birth control. They never have been. Some may choose not to use it, but then again, look at all the Democrats who choose not to use it as well. Just take a look at the welfare rolls ...

2. Condoms are free and easily accessible at any health department. They work really well when you use them. I've never become pregnant when they were used. I know other couples who have never had accidental pregnancies using condoms. I know quite a few birth control pill babies though.

3. The fact that the democrats think that women are incapable of obtaining BC-pills on their own ($9 at Wal-Mart), goes to show that the democrat party truly believes that women are INCAPABLE of taking care of themselves. How insulting!

4. BC-pills may help with POCS and help prevent pregnancy, HOWEVER they greatly increase the chances of DVT, stroke, heart attack and breast cancer in the women who use them. There is also a higher rate in infertility and miscarriage amoung women who use them. Yet the government thinks they should be doled out for free. Hmmmmmm ...

So in regards to birth control, I'd say it's the DEMOCRATS who are waging a war against women.

Independence from needing men.  Democrats push that women can care for themselves and don't need men to help them.  Republicans believe that a woman may choose to work at home or outside the home, but men need to be responsible to care for the women in their lives and treat them with respect.

1.  The Republicans say use BC-pills if you want, but we believe that you are fully capable of coming up with $9 yourself.  As previously stated, the Democrats say free birth control because women can't afford it (again, $9 a month at W-M).  The Democrats want a country of women, who have full reproductive rights, to be RELIANT on the government, run mostly by men, for their own birth control.

2.  Both sides believe that a man should pay child support.  However, how can a group of people, Democrats, say that a woman has a right to her own reproductive organs and her body and should be able to choose to have, OR NOT HAVE, a baby ... then say she is too weak and incapable of supporting that child on her own?  I mean, if a woman chooses to have a baby when the father has said he wants no part of it, shouldn't she support that child on her own ... without a man?  I'm just saying.

So, who is really standing behind what they say?  Not the Democrats.  They are trying to make women depend on others, instead of themselves, when it comes to their reproductive rights.  Definately the Democrat's war on women here.

Let's look at abortion.  In general, Democrats are pro-abortion all the time, many even up through the second and third trimester.  They want no waiting period and feel that minors should have access without parental consent.  Republicans, in general, are pro-life, or at the least say no abortion after the end of the first trimester.  The feel that minors are MINORS and should not be able to have an abortion, an outpatient surgical procedure, without parental consent.

1. Classic clique, "Half of the babies aborted are female." Okay. Said.

2.  Abortion is a surgical procedure.  There is a risk of sterility and/or inability to carry a child after an abortion.  Cervical damage is done during an abortion.  A compromised cervix can be incapable of carrying a baby to term.  For many women, the damage to the cervix results in painful sex for the rest of her life. Infection can occur up to 40 days after an abortion.  PID is common among women who have had an abortion.  PID can cause inflammation of one or both of the fallopian tubes.  If not treated immediately, there is a high probability that sterility will occur.  Those are just a few long term and permanent side affects of abortions.

Also, there is need for post-op care.  Hemorrhaging is not uncommon.  There have been many cases of teenaged girls bleeding out and dieing after an abortion because their parents did not know the abortion was done and did not know to keep an eye on their daughter.  I don't get it.  They can't give my child a Tylenol without my permission.

3. Democrats claim to be pro-choice when they are really pro-abortion and anti-choice. How do I come to this? Well, a true choice can't be made if all the fact aren't made available. Democrats routinely stand in the way of legislation that would require any female wanting an abortion to see and ultrasound of their child and then wait three days. They are okay with the ultrasound but say that a women should not have to see it.  Why? They say it's cruel. In reality? In poor neighborhoods 50% of women change their minds when shown an ultrasound and in middle to upper class it's 90% of women change their minds.  They know this.  Yet they block legislation to require FULL DISCLOSURE and a 72-hour waiting time for a woman to make an educated choice between life and death.


More women seek help at crisis pregnancy centers for post-abortion counseling than for help in a crisis pregnancy.  Women who have had abortions come to the reality of what they've done, sometimes years after the fact.  They deal with depression and suicidal thoughts every year around the anniversary of their abortion.  So when it comes to abortion, who is waging the war against women?  Democrats.

Career choice for women.  Democrats say that a woman should be able to choose what she wants to do with her life.  So do Republicans.  But how do they REALLY feel?  Let's see ...

1.  “Ann Romney has never worked a day in her life.” - Hilary Stupid Bitch Rosen

Ann Romney raised five boys.  She was involved in their education.  And who cares if she lived a life of luxury, as the Democrats apparently think SAHM's do, or if they were rolling in the dough and lighting bonfires with hundred dollar bills.  It was her chosen career.  It was her CHOICE (I thought the democrats were all about choice).  And currently raising five boys and one girl myself, I GUARANTEE you that I work harder than most women do at their jobs every day.  Do you have any idea how many women I've met who have said they work because they CAN'T HANDLE THE STRESS OF STAYING AT HOME WITH THEIR CHILDREN ALL DAY?!?!?!?!  I'd love to have Rosen come to my house and do MY job for a week.

2.  " ... once Michelle and I had our girls, she gave it her all to balance raising a family and pursuing a career ... we didn’t have the luxury for her not to work ... she’d feel guilty that she wasn’t giving enough time to her work, and when she was at work, she was feeling guilty she wasn’t giving enough time for the girls ..."  - The Grand Master Idiot, Obama. 

Here is my list of luxuries the first few years I stayed home:

1. A/C set at 85 during the S. Florida summers to keep the electric bill down.
2. One pound of ground beef and one cut up chicken for the ENTIRE week. The rest was pasta and beans.
3. Cloth diapers.
4. Clothing with literal holes in them because there wasn't any cash to buy myself more.
5. Using cloth for my "monthly" because it was either kotex or food.
6. 1,000 sq feet of living space for SEVEN people (I LOVED that house!!!).
7. Our big date? A rented movie and one single lottery ticket.
8. No health insurance (still don't have that one).
9. Used furniture that was given to us (was always very grateful for it though).

Need.I.Go.On?
However, just to be fair, let's take a look at how much money they were making when she was feeling so guilty about leaving those girls because they didn't have the "luxury" for her to stay home.  I mean, OBVIOUSLY, they must have absolutely NEEDED her income to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table, right?  I'm sure she had to make the choice between kotex and food, right?  That was what forced her to pursue a career outside the home ... tampons ... I'm sure of it.  Well, let's see ... When Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2005 they had a combined salary of $479,062.  Barack was making $162,100.  Michele was making $316,962.  I seriously doubt that she had to work for tampons ...

So tell me again, Asshole, how you and Michele lacked the "luxury" for her to stay home?  I mean, WOW!!!  We are a family of eight.  I stay home.  My husband makes less than half of what YOU made in '05 when Michele just had to abandon her 4 and 7 year old daughters so she could have a big house, expensive clothing, and lots of jewelry force herself to go to work to keep the family out of poverty.

As far as waging a war on women in their choices of career?  It's the democrats.  They'll support you if you stick your kids in daycare, but not if you stay home.  And spare me the BS of how to handle economics.  If there is anything a SAHM understands, it's how to sacrifice and make choices between needs and wants.  In fact, we have a better taste of reality than most married women who work.

So, is there a War of Women?  Damn straight there is!  But it's the Democrats who are waging it!


Peace Out,
~*~*~Krystal~*~*~

The REAL Reasons for High Insurance and Medical Costs

Everyone wants to blame the evil greedy insurance companies for the cost of insurance.

And everyone wants to blame the evil greedy doctors and hospitals for the cost of their services.

And everyone wants to blame the evil greedy pharmaceutical companies for charging too much for the medication they make.

Hey, people! How about a bit of honesty here? M'kay? 

The TRUTH is that a great deal of these costs rest directly on the shoulders of the spoiled American people who want to live any lifestyle they want and then live disease free, pain free, and forever.

HUH?!

We all want politicians to be honest people and we want an answer to the cost of health care, but when will the American people start taking on THEIR part of the problem? People in other countries dig through the trash to find food.  We eat and smoke ourselves to death!  In fact, obesity is about to overtake smoking as the number one cause of death in America.  Some say it already has.  Some say it's a tie.

I ask, DOES IT MATTER?!

While running neck and neck, it can be agreed that they take first and second place.  Since there aren't any medals being awarded, the exact answer doesn't matter.  What DOES matter is that our own lifestyle choices is what's running up the cost of healthcare.

Lung cancer tumor.

The list of illnesses caused by smoking it long and broad.  According to the CDC, the top three are lung cancer, COPD, and ischemic heart disease.  There are many others though.  Let's just crunch the numbers from lung cancer.  From 1997-2001, the average number of people who died from lung cancer each year was 137,979.  It costs OVER $100,000 to treat just one person with lung cancer.  That means that it's reasonable to figure that the choice to smoke cost AT LEAST $13,797,900,000 in lung cancer alone each year.  That doesn't even take into consideration the cost of COPD and heart disease.  At $1,000 a month, it would take nearly 9 years to pay that much in premiums and they'd bitch and whine each month to pay it.

And let's be real, a person who smokes or resides in a house with a smoker isn't going to go without some other smoking related illness for nine years straight.

Even though higher premiums may be paid by smokers, it still isn't enough to cover the health costs they incur and cause because they CHOOSE to smoke. And of course there are the administrative costs.  Insurance companies have employees, not volunteers.  Those who don't smoke pay higher premiums to cover the difference.


But wait, there's more.

According to an article in the LA Times from 1998, the yearly cost to Medicaid from smoking relating illnesses was $12.9 billion!  Those people don't even pay premiums.  Of course those numbers would be higher now due to the higher cost of medical care since 1998.

And if you aren't angry enough, I'm sure that the overwhelming number of those on Medicaid are also on welfare, ie, government housing, subsidized utilities, free breakfast and lunch programs, WIC, food stamps, etc.  They don't have money for food each week, but they have money for cigarettes ... lots of them.

Now if THAT doesn't straight up burn your backside, you must be one of the assholes on the dole.

Every minute seven people die because of cigarette smoking. How much in medical bills do you think they ran up before they died? Do you really think they paid for all of it themselves? Could you imagine the drop of medical costs if smokers just quit?

Now let's take a look at obesity.  The top ten obesity related health issues are: diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, stroke, endometrium cancer (females), gallstones, infertility, arthritis, and back pain.  Of course many of those lead to other health problems as well.  Diabetes has a myriad of additional health risks.  The American Diabetes Association states that the 2007 cost of diabetes for 23.6 million people was $116 billion in direct medical costs.  That doesn't include pre-diabetes, gestational diabetes and undiagnosed diabetes.  It works out to about $4,915 per person per year or $410/mo.

The World Health Organization research shows that approximately 85% of people with diabetes are type 2, and of these, 90% are obese or overweight.  Many studies have also proven that loosing weight can control type 2 diabetes, or in the case of a few people personally known to me, make it so they no longer even test diabetic.

Let's play with some numbers.  Using the above stats it works out that in 2007 there were about 20 million type 2 diabetics in the United States.  Of those, 18 million were overweight or obese.  Just to be sure to UNDERESTIMATE the cost of just ONE weight related illness, we'll say that only half of the 18 million have diabetes because they over eat.  That takes us down to 9,000,000 people.  The annual cost of those people who are diabetic because of personal choices by 2007 medical costs would be about $44,235,000,000/yr or $3,686,250,000/mo.

Now I don't know how much of those costs are paid for by private insurance and how much is Medicaid.  I do know that according to the Kaiser Commission, diabetes accounts for about 16% of overall Medicaid costs.  According to our numbers above, we can estimate that those costs could be cut in at least half if people just ate better and exercised.

America has the highest obesity rate in the world.  Nearly 70% of Americans are overweight or obese.  In 2008, the cost of this was $150 billion.  This is expected to increase by 70% in the next five years.  Why?  We're getting fatter!  According to Wikipedia, somewhere between 15-25% of American children are already obese.  Of course the costs would be higher if it weren't for the fact that obese people die 8-10 years sooner than people of a healthy weight.  Somehow, I don't think these people are perfectly healthy up until the time they die.

Now I'm not here to point fingers.  I use to smoke and I use to be obese.  I am currently overweight.  I could blame it on the car wreck or the pregnancy.  Truth is, I'm overweight because of too many trips through the drive through.  My weight is my fault and I accept responsibility for it.  That is why I'm working to loose the weight.  Not easy with a newborn, but I'm trying.

And I'm not saying that we need to hang people out to dry who have medical issues that they aren't responsible for either.  What I am saying is that all insurance is a medical "pool" where everyone shares the costs.  When people fail to care for their own health, those costs go up for EVERYONE.   It's high time Americans stop blaming everyone else for the cost of medical care and start taking personal responsibility for our own CHOICES. 

So many people are opposed to the fat tax and cigarette tax but think nothing of the backdoor taxes we already pay in medical costs for those who fail to take care of themselves AND the higher medical costs we all bare in the cost of higher insurance.  Maybe the fat tax and addition cigarette tax is a good thing.  In fact, I'm certain that if I had to pay 20% tax on fast food, I'd stop eating it.  If the cigarette tax were increased enough to actually cover the costs of smoking, I'm sure people would quit.  Normally I say that the government needs to not be a nanny state, but if we're not willing to be responsible for ourselves, then maybe that's what we deserve.  Maybe that's the only way to prevent those among who eat right, exercise, and don't smoke from paying for everyone else who does.

Insurance companies are not evil.  The people who think they should be able to live irresponsibly and not pay for it are just selfish.


Doctors, hospitals, and drug companies are not evil.  The people who live in such a way that requires so much medical care and medication and then feel they should get it for next to nothing, are childish and immature.

I have no gripe with people who have illnesses beyond their control.  I have no gripe with being in an insurance "pool" with them or helping them through my taxes.  I have a HUGE gripe with those who make themselves sick and then expect others to pay for it while giving them pity.



Peace Out,
~*~*~Krystal~*~*~

Speedy Gonzales, Social Security, Medicare and Welfare

Remember the Speedy Gonzales cartoons?  We all laughed because the stupid humans kept baiting the mouse traps, but Speedy ALWAYS grabbed the bait and escaped unharmed.  Apparently, *I'M* the stupid human because the mouse in my kitchen can lick clean peanut butter or remove a piece of lunch meat from any trap without setting it off.  But if I barely touch the trap, it triggers.  All hail Speedy of my Kitchen.  He's a better mouse than I am.

That being said ...

I'd really like to smack a few senior citizens who claim to be conservatives.  Let me tell you why.  They all think that government health care is wrong and socialistic.  They all think that people who LIVE ON government handouts via welfare and medicaid are irresponsible.  But they have no problem collecting social security ("Oh! I didn't get a cost of living increase for two years!") or using medicare ("Oh! I have to drive 45 minutes to find a doctor!") You know, cry me a freaking river!

Social security IS welfare that THEY live on.  When it was set up in 1935, in order to collect you had to be 65. Here's the rub, the average life expectancy was 61 years and 7 months (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005148.html).  In other words, you had to outlive the average life expectancy by 3 years and 5 months in order to collect.  Let's be blunt about it, the government expected AT LEAST HALF of the people who paid into it to die before collecting a single dime.  That was the intention of social security when it was put into play. 

The problem is that the government has failed to keep up with the actuary table for social security.  If they had, we wouldn't be having a problem with it right now.  Why? because people would have to work longer, pay in more, and still at least 50% of the people would die before collecting.  The money would be there. 

The problem with social security is that the average life expectancy in 2005 was 77 years and 8 months.  This means that in order to keep up with how it was set up to begin with NO ONE SHOULD COLLECT UNTIL THE AGE OF 81 years and 1 month.  Why?  Because THAT was the TRUE intent of the program to begin, everyone pays in, but less than 50% collect.  And guess what, those who did live long enough to collect didn't live to collect it very long.  It simply was not intended to pay people for 2 decades.  Currently, starting social security at 65 has a person collecting a full 16 years before they should truly be eligible.  And to prove further the idiocy of this program, people can now start collecting early at 62, 19 years before they're suppose to.

They decry big government and big government spending, but have no problem with being a part of the largest government program in the country.  From Wikipedia, the facts are:

By dollars paid, the U.S. Social Security program is the largest government program in the world and the single greatest expenditure in the federal budget, with 20.8% for social security, compared to 20.5% for discretionary defense and 20.1% for Medicare/Medicaid.  Social Security is currently the largest social insurance program in the U.S., constituting 37% of government expenditure and 7% of the gross domestic product and is currently estimated to keep roughly 40% of all Americans age 65 or older out of poverty.

They scream to cut government spending, but THE LARGEST single spending in this country is social security ... 37%!!! ... and merely mentioning the need to fix it sets them off in a defensive tirade telling us we have to keep the promise made.  Okay, let's keep that promise, but I expect them to go by the rules as they were set up.  When they outlive the average life expectancy by nearly 3 1/2 years, I'll happily pay their social security.  Truth is that they did not earn what they are getting.  For the 16 years they collect before outliving the average life expectancy, they are on a government dole plain and simple.  They are receiving way more than they ever put into it.  

So now that we have ascertained that seniors are collecting for 16 years longer than they are suppose to, what right do they have to complain about the lack of cost of living increase?  How many families WITH CHILDREN not only didn't get an increase, but worse, are making LESS than they did two years ago?!

I have an idea, how about cutting expenses?  That's what everyone else is doing.  And no, I won't see it differently when it's my turn to collect ... because it won't be there.  Ca piece?

One last thing regarding "conservative" seniors and their sacred cow, who ever said there was a RIGHT to retire and have the government pay their expenses?  Especially those who espouse the Bible all the time?

Even while we were with you, we gave you this rule: "Whoever does not work should not eat."  -- 2 Thes 3:10

As for Medicare?  If you're 82 and get cancer, you'll get chemo and radiation courtesy of the government (that would be me).  But if a 26-year-old mother of three gets the same thing, they'll make her loose everything she's worked for, beg money, and eventually, let her drop dead.  Again, cry me a damn river about the troubles with medicare!  They whine and whine and go on forever about the medical care they get for next to nothing, but what about their own children and grandchildren who can't get medical care at all for varying reasons? 

I hate to sound heartless, please remember my Daddy died of cancer, but the truth of it is if one life should be chosen to save, whose should it really be?  I'm not saying that the life of a senior is less valuable than the life of those younger.  I'm simply saying that children needs their parents and a person in their 20's, 30's or 40's are much more likely to recover than a person in their 80's.  Consider this, a few months ago a 93 year old woman who was in a coma and received a pacemaker (friend works at a hospital).  Seriously!  Wasn't that a waste of money?  According to the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee website, a pacemaker surgery costs between $35,000 and $45,000.  The woman was 93 years old and in a coma for heaven's sake!

On to welfare.  Look, some people work very hard and still can't make it.  I have no problem helping them.  Unless of course ... they continue to spit out baby after baby just to collect more.  OH!  And continue to purchase alcohol and cigarettes.  And we shouldn't forget the pet food and vet bills so many welfare recipients find money for.  No new tattoos.  They aren't free.  I know welfare people who think nothing of dropping $75+ for a new tattoo and then using food stamps to purchase food on their way home from the tattoo parlor.

As far as I'm concerned, everyone should have to show ID for at least alcohol and tobacco.  When a family receives food stamps, their license should have a sticker on it that restricts them from purchasing such items.  One family, personally known to me, goes through 2 cartons a week.  That's over $40/week and $2,000/yr.  If they have it to smoke, they have it for food. 

I'm not cruel.  I like to help people.  However, there does come a point to which a person is being enabled instead of helped, and to tell the truth, I'm tired of it.




~*~*~Krystal~*~*~

Regis and the Dumb Blond

It started off as Regis and Kathie Lee. Okay, I watched it a couple times and just wanted to shoot them both.

Then Kathie Lee decides to leave and they start interviewing replacements. The only requirements appear to be that the replacement had to be the typical dumb blond and she had to make Regis look less stupid than he is.

So they found Kelly.

I'd like to take an ax to her head ... and all I've ever seen of her is clips.

~*~*~Krystal~*~*~

Government Sticking Florida with Medical Bills for Haitians

Military Airlift of Haiti Quake Victims to US Halted

In a nutshell, the military has been flying in earthquake victims to Florida and it's taking its toll. "Florida's health care system is quickly reaching saturation, especially in the area of high level trauma care."

Not only that, but the U.S. Government hasn't even agreed to pick up the bills. THEY MAY STICK FLORIDIANS WITH THEM!

Poor coordination and limited resources, not costs, drove the governor's request, said John Cherry, spokesman for the Florida Division of Emergency Management."We've made it clear that (the cost) is an issue we'll deal with down the road," he said.

With what? Higher taxes imposed on the citizens of Florida?!

So my friend who lives in Florida is unable to afford her medication for VERY high blood pressure, is off another medication for another illness that is LIFE THREATENING, and can't get her PET scan (three bouts of cancer). But the U.S. Government is happily using Florida's medical system to the point of saturation (ie, FLORIDIANS will have to wait or be turned away) and may well stick FLORIDIANS with the bills.

I'm all for helping the Haitians, but NOT AT THIS COST! My taxpaying Floridian friend is being DENIED HEALTH CARE WHILE THE HAITIANS ARE OVERLOADING THE SYSTEM AND GETTING IT ALL FOR FREE.

But hey, I understand. I mean, her husband is dead so why would her sons, two whom are under 18, need her alive anyway? RIGHT? We MUST save the Haitians, but let the American taxpayer drop dead.

Peace Out,

~*~*~Krystal~*~*~

Just to Clear a Few Things Up

When a woman gets annoyed because she opened her plastic ware cabinet to put up left overs (from the dinner she made) only to have it all spill out onto the floor because the last couple people to unload the dishwasher just threw everything in there however it landed has NOTHING ... I repeat NOTHING to do with hormones. Mkay?! And no, I should not just be grateful is was put away ... because it wasn't PUT away, it was thrown into a cabinet and the door shut quickly. There's a difference. Just imagine someone doing that to your tools in the shed or your toys in your room, shall we?

Maybe I should try washing all of the lights and whites with a brand new red shirt. I mean after all, at least the clothes were washed, right? But wait, I don't wash the kids' clothes anymore.

Let's explore that one.

You see, after weeks and months and a couple years of getting up at 2:00 a.m. to get all the laundry washed, dried, folded, hung up, etc only to have to ask twenty times over a three day period to have the kids put them up got a bit, shall we say, freaking obnoxious! The best though is on the following laundry day (night?). It's when I'm sorting laundry only to find clean clothes STILL FOLDED thrown into the dirties because it was easier than putting them up. I mean seriously, I'd appreciate it if you'd at least unfold the clothes so it was less of a clear slap in the face.

People, not every time a woman is upset about something is it hormones, or the now popular "chemical imbalance". Too many damned women are on mood altering drugs as it is. We are not all insane.

We are under appreciated.

So let's make this clear. The tupperware cabinet has been arranged the same way for three damned years now. Each type is neatly sorted and stacked with the lids on so they can found easily. There really isn't that much of it. You have to be:
(a) blind
(b) stupid
(c) plain lazy
(d) all of the above
to not be able to figure out where things go.

That also applies to the cooking utensil drawers. There are three of them. The top was has been knives for FOURS YEARS. The second one has been plastics for FOUR YEARS. The third has been metals for FOUR YEARS.

It never ceases to amaze me how all of the items in the kitchen can be found when someone wants them, but no one seems to remember where they go when it's time to put them away. It's a lot like the trash can. We walk by it several times a day. Any of you can tell me when it smells. But when it comes to putting your trash in it or tieing up the bag, for some reason you need to be reminded of its existence.

Let me clue you all in. It's been in the same place for three years. I don't move it around the house to confound and confuse you. It isn't a magic trash can that makes itself invisible at will. It sits by door to the basement, and let me repeat, where it's been for three years.

You see, it isn't that I, or any other woman, has a hormone issue. It isn't that we need drugs to straighten out the chemicals in our brains. What we need is for everyone else to get their acts together and try doing things THE RIGHT WAY and THE FIRST TIME THEY'RE ASKED.

Until then, I'll be like everyone else. I'll do what I want to when I darned well feel like doing it. And if anyone in the household doesn't like it, they can kiss my fat white ever growing ass!

Peace Out,

~*~*~Krystal~*~*~
P.S. But if you REALLY insist that it's drugs I need, lobby the feds to legalize it for heaven's sake and I'll be MORE than happy to oblige.

Gansta Government and My Feelings About Public Bathrooms

I found this video at Yes, They Are All Mine. I thought it was good and wanted to share...




Public Bathrooms

I realize that they are public bathrooms, but there are a few things that really irk me. First off, foamy soap. You know how to make foam? Water down soap and shake (or force through a small hole). It doesn't clean as well. PLUS you can't just hit that thing bam, bam, bam and have it come out. You gotta hit it...wait...hit it again...wait... You get the picture. Look, I get foam in my bathtub, but I still need REAL soap to get clean.

Also I hate paperless bathrooms. It's to "cut down on bathroom mess" and "help the environment". I want a freaking paper towel! I hate those blowy things! Aside from one in four not working, (now those high powered ones are cool and dry your hand in 15 seconds...but not too many of those out there). I also like to splash my face while traveling...but no paper towels. And how am I suppose to open the bathroom door without a paper towel? I gotta go into a stall and grab toilet paper to avoid touching the handle. I don't want to stand there for two minutes rubbing my hands togetherI can't be the only one to have noticed how many people do not use soap or even make a lame attempt with plain water to clean their hands!

Then there's the entire toilet seat thing. I don't expect a gas station to have paper seat covers, but when I'm in a restaurant paying $10 a person, a five-cent flushable seat cover would be nice (I don't trust those thingies with the button that puts "fresh" plastic covering on the seat...how do we REALLY know it isn't the same piece of plastic just going in circles?). It would also be cheaper than all the toilet paper women use to line the seat.

TOILET PAPER! There's another annoying thing. I don't mind so much ripping off the expose 4-5 squares or so and not using them (someone TOUCHED those). It's the single-ply tissue paper they expect you to take care of business with. You gotta quadruple it to line the seat and double it for your behind. It's not absorbent and it rips! Single-ply toilet paper cost MORE than double because you have to use twice as much anyway.

So, now you know why I hate public bathrooms. It's a mental issue I'm sure.

Peace Out,

~*~*~Krystal~*~*~

Am I the Only One?

Seriously, I ask you, am I the only one who isn't obsessed with MJ's death?! Even freaking Fox News is going on and on and on and on and on...

It isn't like this freak spent his life doing good for the world. He wasn't exactly Mother Terressa. We all watched him go from a poor little black boy to a rich little white girl. Woot. Woot.

The child molester is dead. Got it. Can we get back to events that are TRULY important. Maybe the massacre that took place in Tehran yesterday...or the ongoing nuclear endeavors of Kim Jong Il...the missile aimed for Hawaii...skirvy...and Patch the Pirate on the Mediterranean Sea...

Peace Out,

~*~*~Krystal~*~*~

1 billion years from now...

That's right, a billion years from now (or maybe two or three billion) scientists say the sun will boil away the oceans and we'll have no beach to go to. That's right, there are actually "scientists" out there spending time figuring out what will happen in 1-3 billion years from now. Better change your future vacation plans.

Aside from the fact that these idiots who come up with this drivel get PAID for it, is the fact that they come up with it in the first place. Seriously...a billion years from now... We have world hunger, an energy crisis, and an imbecile epidemic right NOW. Who gives a crap about a billion years from now?!

With the idiocy that is going on in this world now, I'll be amazed if the human race will survive the next 100 years, much less the next 1,000,000,000 or more. We are becoming more stupid than intelligent. We are DEvolving. Our future generations will soon be loosing the opposable thumb. Eventually our multi-great grand children will end up back in the water as fish as in The Incredible Mr. Lipid. It's an old Don Knox movie...check it out...it's a brilliant foreshadowing of what we can expect in a BILLION years from now. At least until the sun boils away the oceans and our DNA is completely erased from the planet.

On another note...Barbara Boxer... ***In my absolute best nasally whiny voice***, "Call me senator, I've worked hard to get here..." or something like that, to a General for calling her "ma'am". I'm amazed she can breath with her head so far up her own ass. I got a name he can call her. In fact I have a few. Maybe I should give him a ring.

I wonder if she truly appreciates his putting his life on the line to protect her right to stick her head up her own ass... Just a thought is all. Maybe I should give HER a ring and share my thoughts as well.

I installed our new hot water heater yesterday. I did the disconnect and the new wiring. I would have done all of it (screw in the water lines, lengthen the pvc hot steam evacuation line), but the water lines were rusted on and I had to borrow some solvent from a friend who happens to be a pipe fitter... Yes, this woman can install a hot water heater. And I'm pretty darn proud of it. Not that it's rocket science or anything... cold water line to the cold water intake at the top of the heater, hot water line to the hot water exit on the top of the heater, black wire to black wire with end caps and tape, red wire to white wire with end caps and tape, grounding wire around the little green screw and tighten. Simple stuff. Took thirty minutes. The plumber wanted $400+ to do it!

In this healing process of mine, I'd like to clarify a couple "medical" terms. The medical diagnosis from the hospital reads "incomplete abortion". Pay close attention here, because this just made me want to rip someone's face off. Just so you all know, I'm not saying anything against anyone here. I have friends who have had both an abortion and a miscarriage and they say they're two different things. I'm just pointing out that they are medically different and one term does NOT fit both.


When a woman makes a willful decision to "terminate" and "evacuate" a "fetus" from her body for whatever reason...that is an abortion.

When a mother's baby nestled inside her womb dies, even though the mother was doing all she knew to protect her baby, and the mother delivers that little tiny child of hers in tears of sorrow because she loved her baby...that is a miscarriage.

It would be nice for the medical community to distinguish between the two because they are NOT the same thing. It would also be nice to refer to someone's baby as "baby" instead of "viable fetus". It just made me want to scream, "BABY!!! BABY!!! BABY!!!" at the top of lungs.

Just something for you medical personnel out there to think about.

Peace Out,

~*~*~Krystal~*~*~

A Message to Men...If You're Man Enough to Read It

Before I say anything else, I want to say that what happened in Mary*ille was a tragedy, but it is also a time for grateful hearts and praise. Why? The man went in there with 3 clips, 10 rounds each. He had written "Death Day" or something close to it in his planner. He not only premeditated what he did, but he was planning on killing more than one person. He had thirty rounds and his gun jammed on the fourth round. For that we are thankful.

Now, men, this is especially for you. This is important. I am about to explain a very intrical part of women. If you take what I am about to write to heart, it will greatly improve your relationship with your wife/mother/sister/girlfriend/significant other. I say this with all seriousness.

PMS is real. It's scientifically proven. You must stop making light of it or brushing it off. I'm going to let you in on how it feels.

Back spasms can hurt...A LOT! They can reduce a man to near tears. Many women get lower back pain and/or spams for a couple or three days ahead of time. And they hurt...A LOT! You can't walk, sit, or move without the possibility of pain in the back. While you are dealing with that, you also get cramps.

Now guys, a good number of you like to make jokes about cramps. They aren't funny. They can be excruciating. Like being stabbed with a knife. Remember the last really bad case of food poisoning or stomach flu? You know that HORRIFIC pain in your stomach right before you blow chunk for the 18th time? Okay, imagine that, but without vomiting and relief that comes with it(well, some women vomit because the cramps are so bad they move up into the stomach...but this is like REALLY severe and there is no relief) .

Pressing on the area is a big no-no. Tender like a bruise that is black and purple and swollen. It truly can hurt this bad.

Now then we head on to the breast tenderness. Yeah, another big joke..."Da boobies hurt". Yeah, uuuuhhhh, sore testes anyone? Uh-hu. That's my point. I know we don't jar them when we sit, but those of us who are larger than others are acutely aware of just how often they do get bumped when we are PMS. Wearing a bra is quite uncomfortable. But taking it off is uncomfortable too (at least we don't feel the weight on our shoulders when it's off).

Then we have the mood issues. Too many men seem to find it funny or annoying the way women are "overly sensitive" once a month. Look, you wake up in the morning feeling sad. I don't mean down, depressed or just tired. I mean you just feel sad. The kind of sad that hurts. The kind of sad you feel when something really bad happens to someone you love. It's the sad you feel when you have to put your beloved pet down because of an illness or because a car hit him. It physically hurts.

And you don't know why. I mean, you KNOW why, but WHY? You try to fight the embarrassing tears (yeah, we don't enjoy it and you make it worse when you make it a joke) but they are sitting right there on the edge and a tiny shove is all it takes.

Then all of a sudden, you're not sad anymore. All is well with the world until BAM! you're angry at no one, for no reason! You remember the last time you put your fist through the wall? Yeah, THAT kind of anger.

But you have no one to hit and no excuse to hit them. So now you're just pissed off that you're pissed off. And then some total insensitive asshat has to make a comment about it "being that time of the month...?" ***asshole laughing ensues*** Let me assure it isn't a laughing matter. You men have no clue how to handle ONE strong, overwhelming emotion when you know where it's coming from and why. Try swinging on a pendulum from one extreme to the other. I doubt many of you would last 24 hours, much less 2-3 days. I don't say that as an insult. Men just usually aren't very good dealing with their emotions where women have no choice.

Then there's insomnia and exhaustion and cravings. You know cravings. Men get them. The only thing that tastes good is the ONE thing you crave.

So here's the list:
back spasms
cramps, some causing nausea
a bruised feeling over the ovary
sore breasts
a sadness that physically hurts
an unexplained and overwhelming anger
insomnia
exhaustion
food cravings

And you're still expected to care for the kids and the house and make dinner and blah, blah, blah...

What I'm trying to say is that a little more compassion and a little less joking...okay NO JOKING...would be so amazingly wonderful. We hurt physically and emotionally. Not all women have all the above symptoms. I didn't use to. Then I hit peri-menopause and HOLY SHIT! All of the symptoms increased in number and intensity and I got to add worry about when it was coming and how long it will last and how bad it will be. Not to freak any of you out or make you uncomfortable, but for real, when it's so bad you can't be away from a bathroom for more than an hour at a time? And don't even TRY to sleep.

It isn't a joke. It isn't comical. It's hell some months.

So here is what you need to try next month, and you'll be amazed at the results.

* Don't crack PMS jokes. It doesn't make you funny. It makes you an asshole.
* Don't say a word when she's sad. Just hold her and let her cry.
* Don't say a word when she's angry. Just let her be angry.
* Say you're sorry. I'm for real here. She'll realize later what you did for her and APPRECIATE IT. And you CAN be sorry...that she's having such a difficult time.
* Don't' EVER tell her to "calm down" or "it's just pickles". As long as she isn't throwing knives or other sharp objects, she IS calm. And they aren't "just pickles". They were HER pickles. And she'd been craving a cheeseburger all day and cheeseburgers NEED DILL PICKLES DAMN IT! And the kids let her go to the store without telling her they'd eaten HER pickles. And they let her make the cheeseburgers without telling her they'd eaten HER pickles. Telling me...I mean her...to calm down like 15 times when I'm...I mean she...is making dinner without slamming anything but just being upset about the pickles can ONLY END WITH ONE RESULT...

her telling you to shut the hell up.

And considering the number of times it's been said to just let her rant with your mouth shut, it really will be your fault.

Telling a woman in heavy PMS to calm down, is like poking an angry pit bull with a stick. It's stupid.

And unless you want to see a quick swing from tears to screaming anger, I'd stay away from telling her it's going to be okay.

Validation.

That's what we need.

Validation that it isn't funny, that it is painful, that we are dealing with emotions that come on sudden and strong (which is confusing) and that it's okay to not go through the day as if NOTHING is wrong. Validation. Our feelings are real. Our pain is real. And for the love of all creation, we don't have to put on this big fake smile so YOU aren't uncomfortable or put out. It's just 2-3 days. The other 25 or so we can give you the best of what we have.

But for those 2-3 days of hell, just PLEASE cut us some slack. K?

And if one of these days should happen to fall on her deceased Daddy's birthday? Well, you REALLY need to cut her some slack. I'm sure she's having an especially hard time.

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Peace Out,

~*~*~Krystal~*~*~

Tim Geithner

I posted this as a comment in response to a post by Mark. I thought I would share it here with all of you. :)

My husband made an honest mistake on our taxes one year. We short paid by $98. We actually thought we had paid our full tax burden.

Two years later they came after us for penalties and interest. It took a few months to straighten it out. We paid a little over $700 to the IRS for an HONEST mistake of $98.

A year later another agent came to us. This agent tried to collect another $700. He said that even though it was a joint return and my husband had paid what was due and signed the paperwork, I hadn't signed it. Therefore I still owed the bill and needed to pay another $700. I kid you not! I was pregnant and under Dr. orders to avoid stress. I told him he had to deal with my husband and why. Yet he continued to call the house and harrass ME until I threatened to file charges against him.

It took multiple phone calls by my husband and finally another trip to the federal courthouse to straighten this one out.

THEN when we sold our house TWO YEARS LATER, turns out that a THIRD agent filed a personal lien against me for back taxes in the amount that we had already PAID from an HONEST mistake.

I got hold of a supervisor from the IRS. Wonderful woman! She said this was verging on harassment (ya THINK?!). She faxed a statement to my husband stating that the lien was filed in error. Then she removed it from my credit report.

In all, we paid about SEVEN TIMES what we failed to pay them through a mistake and spent countless hours over four years clearing it up.

Now if we had to go through all of that BS for a true $98 "hiccup," WTH should Geithner get to be Secretary of Treasure after not paying $34,000?!

Tell you what. If he pays 7x's that in penalties and interest, $238,000, I'll let it go.

Peace Out,

~*~*~Krystal~*~*~

Scoundrels

People Who Encouraged a 19-Year-Old to Commit Suicide Live Via Web-Cam

A young man in Miami committed suicide live on the internet. He announced he was going to do it a day ahead of time. People signed on to WATCH HIM! There were those who tried to talk him out of it. But there were others who egged him on and encouraged him to do it.

He was NINETEEN-YEARS-OLD!

They say they can't go after the people who encouraged him, but there's a woman going to trial for manipulating someone else into suicide on Facebook. The laws say that you HAVE to call for help! By the time someone did, it was too late. He was dead!

WTH is WRONG with people?! I just want to scream and cry and shout and find these people who enjoyed watching him kill himself and slap them! I want to slap them until I don't FEEL anything any more! This was someone's LIFE and it was PRECIOUS and had POTENTIAL and people in this world got their rocks off watching him kill himself in despair! WTH is going on here?!

They're MURDERERS! Every damned one of them! I hope they spend the rest of their lives trying to wash the blood from their hands! I hope they never sleep again! I'd like to wish the same fate on them, but I can't. I just can't bring myself to do it.

Saddened With Words Only Tears Can Say,

~*~*~Krystal~*~*~

$100 a Barrel Gas Tax

Batman gave a link to this article suggesting a $100 a barrel tax on

This is my response.

While I'm sure that smaller families and single persons who live in the city might be able to deal with a gas tax as asinine as $100 a barrel (our founding fathers must be rolling over in their graves as such an horrendous suggestion), this suggestion obviously has ZERO consideration for the "Bread Basket" area of our country and larger families.

We're farmers with five children. So let me pose the following problems with giving an entire five minutes of consideration to a 100% fuel tax.

* Are we to strap our children to the hood of a fuel-efficient compact vehicle?

* Is the government going to provide us said fuel-efficient vehicle? There is NO WAY we could handle a car payment right not, we're trying to prevent having our HOME FORCLOSED ON so our children don't have to LIVE ON THE STREET.

* Since there is no public transportation, am I to ride my bicycle into town to grocery shop? Or should I ride our workhorse into town and hope the plastic bags they pack my food in don't rip on our trot home?

* Since we have a special needs child, am I to pull him from his services since I won't be able to afford the gas to drive him back and forth from school? I'll just home school him I guess. I mean, truly, he should be deprived from extra help from a professional anyway…right? We'll also stop those four hour round trips to his specialists. I mean, he's sick and all, but that's of no consequence to people who propose such ludicrous taxes anyway.

* Have any of you even considered what hiking the price of gas will do to the price of food? Apparently not.

* Will you be providing us with food stamps to make up for the increase in my gas taxes? I have a hard budget of $125 a WEEK to feed seven people. When our gas taxes were higher, my grocery budget went down. We live on a farm, but unfortunately WE don't have a money tree growing on our property. I guess we can go back to living on Ramen Noodles and beans and rice and what we grow and raise on our own. It's not like growing children need milk anyway…right? Or maybe we should buy a dairy cow and milk it ourselves twice a day every day without fail (they are prone to infections and can die if you miss a milking).

In other words, this has got to be one of THE biggest displays of big city liberal thinking I have ever seen. And it proves how rarely some people think things through before "opening their mouths".

Peace Out,

~*~*~Krystal~*~*~

Please Explain...

Why is it that the general populous has no problem with THIS in public,



yet decry THIS as indecent exposure?

Fashion How-to Idiots

You know those articles...you've read them. They say they're going to tell you what type of bathing suit, dress, or blue-jean you should wear for you figure. You know what makes the writers all complete and total idiots? They use anorexic models to show you the type of clothing to wear. If the jeans are great for women with big thighs, then use a REALISTIC woman with big thighs to model them in the picture. Is a bathing suit amazing for a woman with a big stomach? SERIOUS?! Then how about using a woman with a big stomach to model said bathing suit?

Stupid people. The world is full of stupid people.

I know...it's news to everyone...

Get OFF the Fricking Cell-Phone While Driving CRAP!

I was on my cell phone making a turn with my blinker on. Some girl rammed into me going 60. Now, statistically that accident is listed as cell phone related EVEN THOUGHT THE CELL PHONE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. I tell you this because I'm so stinking tired of people saying how dangerous cell phone use is while driving and it should be illegal.

Do you know what causes MORE car accidents than cell phones?

Smoking, eating, drinking (non-alcoholic), changing the radio station, turning to look at other passengers while talking (which is what this girl was doing when she hit me), having children in the car.

So when they make it illegal to smoke, eat, drink, listen to the radio, talk to passengers, have children in the car, you cell phone FREAK FANATICS can blow wind up my skirt about my phone. Until then SHUT UP! You sound IGNORANT!

Understood?

Good.

Now have a nice day.

And so I've been told...

that if I'm caught with rolling papers on my person without cigarette tobaco also on my person that I can be arrested and charged with a mistameaner for possession of drug paraphanalia.

And if that ever happens I will challenge it to the U.S. Supreme Court. I use rolling papers for the following LEGAL purposes:

lip blotter
make-up blotter (for oily skin)
nail wraps for broken nails

Now why rolling papers? Because in some places (not around here) there are beauty supply stores that sell thin linen papers for the above purposes. They charge 2-3 times as much for a package with the same amount of papers. I do not feel that I should (a) have to drive 45 minutes away to find a beauty store (b) pay more for the same exact product in a pretty pink package (c) be treated like a friggin' criminal because SOME people choose to use legal items for illegal purposes.

And for the record, I have bleach, amonia, Sudafed and lye at my house. Does this mean I'm making meth? NO! It means that I keep a clean house, had a cold a few months back, and make homemade soap.

I love my country. I am as red-blooded American as you can get. I think this is the best country in the world (despite the humorous Presidential bids that are going on between some the absolute biggest worthless idiots the country has to offer).

But I am tired of seeing my freedoms slowing eroding away. We are INNOCENT in this country until PROVEN guilty. Slowly but surely laws are being written, slyly, which would served to make us guilty until proven innocent, take our freedom away, and put us under the authoritative rule of those elected officials whose job it is to make sure this doesn't happen in the first place. Like a frog in water that is slowing heated, too many people let these laws be. In this case they sit back and say, "Well, it's to combat the drug problem, so I'll give up a little bit of freedom."

Ben Franklin once said, "A man who is willing to give up a bit of freedom for a bit of security deserves neither."

And in case you're wondering, the frog will stay in that water until he is quite litterally boiled to death, even though the lid is off.

Now, onto OTHER equally important business...

I've been TAGGED, by Pobble

I am to give three reasons why I blog, and then tag three other people. I've given this some serious consideration, so here goes:

(1) Anonymity. I say a lot of things up here that I wouldn't say otherwise. I let my hair down (and sometimes my clothes too...OH NO!). I don't care what people think (as long as they leave a comment as I am a whore about the comment section). Around people I don't know super well I have a tendency to give nervous and babble on (I babble on about certain subjects anyway in front of people I know really well, but they love me anyway). So I loose my inhibitions behind my "pen name" and can let the inner me hang on out.

(2) I am a writer. I have been since I were a wee li'l one. I write essays for fun. I have a small series called "Fairy Tales for Gun Loving Conservatives". I just don't believe I'll ever be published, so I "publish" my thoughts at my blog. The more comments I get, the better I feel (that's why I'm a comments whore). I may never see my writings at Amazon.com (Pobble, I am sooooo foaming with jealousy...but the good kind), but when I see y'all's (I live in the South, that IS gramatically correct) comments, well that's good enough for me. See, this blog is all about ME and my need to be noticed!!!

(3) I started my first blog ("What is Birth Control") when a fried emailed me hers. I started a blog to keep up with a hand-full from school. But now I've met some really amazing people through my blog. Who knows, one day I may contact a few of you and go on a road trip to meet ya...

Things That Make Me Say...WTH

School is starting two hours late today. Of course I didn't know this until I got to the kids' schools. There is no snow (we had snow yesterday...school was called for one inch of the white stuff). So they say it's starting late due to ice.

Ice?

What ice?

Well the ice on the back roads, you silly, silly people.

I live on a steap windy road. I drive windy hilly backroads all the way to the schools. There's only one patch of ice, a big one. It's been there for at least half of the past six frigging weeks. And it's not even on the lower backroads, it's where the back road meets the main road and I slide a bit every time I hit it (I go about 5 MPH now). So anyway...

Well, we gotta make sure the roads are safe for the buses.

Okay, well, I've asked several people from several areas in the county, no one else has seen any unusual icy patches either. So I don't think that the roads are any more "unsafe" than normal to begin with. BUT even if they were, do you really think that the snow flurries we're having are going to help? I mean, it's 28 degrees outside with a POSSIBLE high of 32...at 5:00 tonight (it drops back down to the 20's again by 6:00). Since the freezing point of water is 32, and we're gonna be in the twentie's all day long, how much of this dangerous ice do they think is gonna melt before school starts at 10:00 or gets out at 3:00? I'm just sayin'....

Bellsouth is doing a smashing bang-up job fixing our phone line. They've spent THREE DAYS tearing up the yard, digging around the phone pole, yanking out old line, putting in new line, so the phone will be crystal clear.

Yeah, so here's the punchline: They've been doing this at the house in Florida where my husband lives. We haven't had a landline there for over a year. Not even DSL.

Nope. No Bellsouth bill at all.

But up here I've been calling about the phone problem for 18 damn months. They can't fix the problem until it occurs while they are checking the line, even though they've heard it and know the problem exists. You see, they need to know EXACTLY where the problem is coming from so they can fix that part of the wire.

But the house in Florida has brand new wiring to take care of the problem with the phoneline...that it doesn't have.

I wonder if we can use that as a selling point for the house...

Snow! Snow! Where's the Snow?!

Seriously. Why do we have meteorologists? They have all sorts of multi-million dollar equipment and YET they're still wrong.

There are some old-timers around here can look at the sky with their bare eyes, feel the current weather, and see which way the wind is blowing and THEY can tell you if it's going to snow. So why can't the meteorologists?

Then there's my husband. In Florida the neighbor's listened to HIM about when and where the hurricanes would hit because he was always right...like DAYS before the "pros" on T.V. made their predictions (which changed from hour to hour because they were always wrong). So again, why can my husband, with a simple tracking map and knowledge of the ocean currents and wind patterns, predict the time and location of the hurrican hit within less than an hour and just a few miles, but the meteorologists can't?

That's all I want to know. Why do these people still have jobs?

I WANT SOME FREAKING SNOW!