JSM'S BEGGING FOR BANNING THREAD #4

[no rose colored glasses]

Thanks Tevye.   

Thanks   

[Fanny Mae]

If anyone wants to totally immerse themselves in 9/11 as it happened, the following is a link to a page on another site I frequent. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/620413/posts That will take you to the master link for all the posts of that day, the real time disucssion of what was going on. Even tho I was a member at that time, I didn't think to read along, I was glued to the TV.

As for the discussion about anxiety and stress and the news, one of the first things DH's dr. told him to do, upon the depression diagnosis, was to turn off the scanner and the TV. That made it hard for me, as I am a news hound. These days, I get the headlines off the web (the above referenced site is great with breaking news, but it's mostly a political site) and rarely watch TV. Why? Cos when I want the news, I want the facts, not someone's spin on the facts.

Anywhoo...some of the links may contain graphic images....yeah, I made myself look at them. I'm like Fanny, I never ever want to forget. And I do feel it's our duty to revisit this day. We need to remember how scared we were and we need to remember how, on that day, so many of us were proud Americans. How some of us exhibited such stellar behaviour. How, for that day and the weeks that followed, we were "The Good Americans". We need to be reminded of what's possible, both the good and the bad.

Because that day was the first day of my homeschool, I had 5 teenage girls in our house. We watched a little of it on TV, then we tried to carry on. I had the TV in the schoolroom turned on, muted, but placed where only I could see it. The strongest emotion I remember was thinking "Why aren't these girls' parents calling me and telling me that they are coming to get their kids? These kids need their moms!" So, after 2 hours of school, I carpooled them all home.  They kept asking me "Why?" and I didn't have an answer.

I then started driving to town, every day, for like 2 weeks. I'd go to the bookstore and buy the New York Times, The Washington Post, and maybe a Detroit or Chicago paper. We cut articles out, and started a scrapbook.

On 9-06-02, I bought the out of town papers again. There was an ad in there (full page) that I cut out and put on the wall of the schoolroom (which is now my room). It says:

"'Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.'

 (Mark Twain).
On September 11, Americans everywhere acted in spite of their fears.

Some were victims who became heroes. Others were heroes who became victims.

Ordinary Americas did extraordinary things. Evacuating more than 25,000 people. Treating more than 7,000 injured. And in two hours, safely landing more than 4,500 planes.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Associate gives thanks for the lives saved. We remember the lives lost. And we honor all those who helped on a day we will never forget.

A day when courage prevailed."

USA TODAY, Friday, Sept. 6, 2002

My copy is all yellowed and covered with pin holes. It always hangs so that whenever you walk into the room, your eyes are drawn to it. And Mr. Twain's words guide me, daily.

TEVYE,thank you for this. It makes me know, I am not nuts, even though sometimes I think I might be. I have done some similar things about 9/11. I cannot, will not, will never forget it. I remember that the time was the best of us, and what happened to the patriotic feeling by most all of us? I cannot explain. I think we have been brow-beaten by the administration, and the mainstream news media. The rest of the world has evidently turned against us, due to the same.

I was embarrassed to fly my American flag on Labor Day this year, because of what it was representing that day with O at the AFL-CIO just south of me. I found out later, there was a TeaParty at the same day that had over 20,000 people in attendance in the same city. O's only drew 4,000, and most of those people were required to go and recieved free tickets. The Tea Party was not reported on the news media. Now I am ashamed I didn't fly my flag. It was the first year I didn't fly my flag on a holiday. 

[Tevye]

Thanks Tevye.   

Thanks   

You're both very welcome.

[no rose colored glasses]

I apologize to all the monkeys here for putting up with my coming on today with all my DRAAAMA! I know today is just as hard for everyone. I usually handle this much better. I get my feathers in a ruffle when something is going wrong in my family, but usually not much else bothers me. My sister's death last year, and some other personal things have gotten to me more than I can ever remember. Thank you all for bearing with me.   

    It's hard not to get upset about things. I keep thinking about being a kid and wish I were again and then I get all upset, so I put on some mindless show on TV Land and that helps. And it helps coming here also.

[no rose colored glasses]

I was walking the dog and missed the car chase 

[joesamas mama]

If anyone wants to totally immerse themselves in 9/11 as it happened, the following is a link to a page on another site I frequent. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/620413/posts That will take you to the master link for all the posts of that day, the real time disucssion of what was going on. Even tho I was a member at that time, I didn't think to read along, I was glued to the TV.

As for the discussion about anxiety and stress and the news, one of the first things DH's dr. told him to do, upon the depression diagnosis, was to turn off the scanner and the TV. That made it hard for me, as I am a news hound. These days, I get the headlines off the web (the above referenced site is great with breaking news, but it's mostly a political site) and rarely watch TV. Why? Cos when I want the news, I want the facts, not someone's spin on the facts.

Anywhoo...some of the links may contain graphic images....yeah, I made myself look at them. I'm like Fanny, I never ever want to forget. And I do feel it's our duty to revisit this day. We need to remember how scared we were and we need to remember how, on that day, so many of us were proud Americans. How some of us exhibited such stellar behaviour. How, for that day and the weeks that followed, we were "The Good Americans". We need to be reminded of what's possible, both the good and the bad.

Because that day was the first day of my homeschool, I had 5 teenage girls in our house. We watched a little of it on TV, then we tried to carry on. I had the TV in the schoolroom turned on, muted, but placed where only I could see it. The strongest emotion I remember was thinking "Why aren't these girls' parents calling me and telling me that they are coming to get their kids? These kids need their moms!" So, after 2 hours of school, I carpooled them all home.  They kept asking me "Why?" and I didn't have an answer.

I then started driving to town, every day, for like 2 weeks. I'd go to the bookstore and buy the New York Times, The Washington Post, and maybe a Detroit or Chicago paper. We cut articles out, and started a scrapbook.

On 9-06-02, I bought the out of town papers again. There was an ad in there (full page) that I cut out and put on the wall of the schoolroom (which is now my room). It says:

"'Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.'

 (Mark Twain).
On September 11, Americans everywhere acted in spite of their fears.

Some were victims who became heroes. Others were heroes who became victims.

Ordinary Americas did extraordinary things. Evacuating more than 25,000 people. Treating more than 7,000 injured. And in two hours, safely landing more than 4,500 planes.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Associate gives thanks for the lives saved. We remember the lives lost. And we honor all those who helped on a day we will never forget.

A day when courage prevailed."

USA TODAY, Friday, Sept. 6, 2002

My copy is all yellowed and covered with pin holes. It always hangs so that whenever you walk into the room, your eyes are drawn to it. And Mr. Twain's words guide me, daily.

Great Post Tevye. Thanks for the link. I will check it out. I have been looking at another one that has graphic images and I can't bear myself to look at them. I get too emotional and depressed.

[no rose colored glasses]

SAN ANTONIO —  The former stepfather of a murdered 12-year-old Vermont girl was sentenced Friday to more than 16 years in prison on child pornography charges.
Thank-you Trimm for posting that on Brooke's thread. That case will forever haunt me, I would get physically ill reading about it. That's when I signed up over at WS and posted there quite often in her forum. And then I came here to post in the Caylee forum, I'm still a member over there, but I will not post.

[Missiontoconvict]

If anyone wants to totally immerse themselves in 9/11 as it happened, the following is a link to a page on another site I frequent. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/620413/posts That will take you to the master link for all the posts of that day, the real time disucssion of what was going on. Even tho I was a member at that time, I didn't think to read along, I was glued to the TV.

As for the discussion about anxiety and stress and the news, one of the first things DH's dr. told him to do, upon the depression diagnosis, was to turn off the scanner and the TV. That made it hard for me, as I am a news hound. These days, I get the headlines off the web (the above referenced site is great with breaking news, but it's mostly a political site) and rarely watch TV. Why? Cos when I want the news, I want the facts, not someone's spin on the facts.

Anywhoo...some of the links may contain graphic images....yeah, I made myself look at them. I'm like Fanny, I never ever want to forget. And I do feel it's our duty to revisit this day. We need to remember how scared we were and we need to remember how, on that day, so many of us were proud Americans. How some of us exhibited such stellar behaviour. How, for that day and the weeks that followed, we were "The Good Americans". We need to be reminded of what's possible, both the good and the bad.

Because that day was the first day of my homeschool, I had 5 teenage girls in our house. We watched a little of it on TV, then we tried to carry on. I had the TV in the schoolroom turned on, muted, but placed where only I could see it. The strongest emotion I remember was thinking "Why aren't these girls' parents calling me and telling me that they are coming to get their kids? These kids need their moms!" So, after 2 hours of school, I carpooled them all home.  They kept asking me "Why?" and I didn't have an answer.

I then started driving to town, every day, for like 2 weeks. I'd go to the bookstore and buy the New York Times, The Washington Post, and maybe a Detroit or Chicago paper. We cut articles out, and started a scrapbook.

On 9-06-02, I bought the out of town papers again. There was an ad in there (full page) that I cut out and put on the wall of the schoolroom (which is now my room). It says:

"'Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.'

 (Mark Twain).
On September 11, Americans everywhere acted in spite of their fears.

Some were victims who became heroes. Others were heroes who became victims.

Ordinary Americas did extraordinary things. Evacuating more than 25,000 people. Treating more than 7,000 injured. And in two hours, safely landing more than 4,500 planes.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Associate gives thanks for the lives saved. We remember the lives lost. And we honor all those who helped on a day we will never forget.

A day when courage prevailed."

USA TODAY, Friday, Sept. 6, 2002

My copy is all yellowed and covered with pin holes. It always hangs so that whenever you walk into the room, your eyes are drawn to it. And Mr. Twain's words guide me, daily.

Thank you Teyve - I love the website - it is now bookmarked on my computer and it will be on the home computers too.

[Missiontoconvict]

I apologize to all the monkeys here for putting up with my coming on today with all my DRAAAMA! I know today is just as hard for everyone. I usually handle this much better. I get my feathers in a ruffle when something is going wrong in my family, but usually not much else bothers me. My sister's death last year, and some other personal things have gotten to me more than I can ever remember. Thank you all for bearing with me.   

  Don't beat yourself up Fanny. I am behind in the cage as I too am having a depressing day. I hope yours gets better. My head hurts.

 

[trimmonthelake]

I was walking the dog and missed the car chase 

Unsafe lane change and speeding is what started the chase.She covered 83 miles in 25 minutes.
who knew a Dodge Stratus would go so fast.   I didn't

[trimmonthelake]

SAN ANTONIO —  The former stepfather of a murdered 12-year-old Vermont girl was sentenced Friday to more than 16 years in prison on child pornography charges.
Thank-you Trimm for posting that on Brooke's thread. That case will forever haunt me, I would get physically ill reading about it. That's when I signed up over at WS and posted there quite often in her forum. And then I came here to post in the Caylee forum, I'm still a member over there, but I will not post.

Sad case.   

[Missiontoconvict]

I apologize to all the monkeys here for putting up with my coming on today with all my DRAAAMA! I know today is just as hard for everyone. I usually handle this much better. I get my feathers in a ruffle when something is going wrong in my family, but usually not much else bothers me. My sister's death last year, and some other personal things have gotten to me more than I can ever remember. Thank you all for bearing with me.   

    It's hard not to get upset about things. I keep thinking about being a kid and wish I were again and then I get all upset, so I put on some mindless show on TV Land and that helps. And it helps coming here also.

No Rose I was just asking a friend of mine if she ever gets consumed in thoughts of when you were young and wishing so bad you could go back.  I have been thinking about it alot lately I also think about what I wouldn't give just to get back 5 years - I don't know why but I think about this stuff alot lately. 

[no rose colored glasses]

I apologize to all the monkeys here for putting up with my coming on today with all my DRAAAMA! I know today is just as hard for everyone. I usually handle this much better. I get my feathers in a ruffle when something is going wrong in my family, but usually not much else bothers me. My sister's death last year, and some other personal things have gotten to me more than I can ever remember. Thank you all for bearing with me.   

    It's hard not to get upset about things. I keep thinking about being a kid and wish I were again and then I get all upset, so I put on some mindless show on TV Land and that helps. And it helps coming here also.

No Rose I was just asking a friend of mine if she ever gets consumed in thoughts of when you were young and wishing so bad you could go back.  I have been thinking about it alot lately I also think about what I wouldn't give just to get back 5 years - I don't know why but I think about this stuff alot lately. 

And instead of being happy about childhood memories, it just tears you up you want it to be like it was. I would give anything to go back in time, maybe it is our age and thoughts of getting older that makes us think like that, I don't know. Memories for some people even though they are good memories can make a person very depressed.

[Fanny Mae]

SAN ANTONIO —  The former stepfather of a murdered 12-year-old Vermont girl was sentenced Friday to more than 16 years in prison on child pornography charges.
Thank-you Trimm for posting that on Brooke's thread. That case will forever haunt me, I would get physically ill reading about it. That's when I signed up over at WS and posted there quite often in her forum. And then I came here to post in the Caylee forum, I'm still a member over there, but I will not post.

Sad case.   

I knew the case, but have never read the thread here on SM.  Thank you TRIMM, for posting today. I have been reading back.

Caylee was the first thread I followed. Greta used to be my information, and sometimes Nancy Grace. I thought I was informed, but now I feel like I had tunnel vision.

[Fanny Mae]

If anyone wants to totally immerse themselves in 9/11 as it happened, the following is a link to a page on another site I frequent. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/620413/posts That will take you to the master link for all the posts of that day, the real time disucssion of what was going on. Even tho I was a member at that time, I didn't think to read along, I was glued to the TV.

As for the discussion about anxiety and stress and the news, one of the first things DH's dr. told him to do, upon the depression diagnosis, was to turn off the scanner and the TV. That made it hard for me, as I am a news hound. These days, I get the headlines off the web (the above referenced site is great with breaking news, but it's mostly a political site) and rarely watch TV. Why? Cos when I want the news, I want the facts, not someone's spin on the facts.

Anywhoo...some of the links may contain graphic images....yeah, I made myself look at them. I'm like Fanny, I never ever want to forget. And I do feel it's our duty to revisit this day. We need to remember how scared we were and we need to remember how, on that day, so many of us were proud Americans. How some of us exhibited such stellar behaviour. How, for that day and the weeks that followed, we were "The Good Americans". We need to be reminded of what's possible, both the good and the bad.

Because that day was the first day of my homeschool, I had 5 teenage girls in our house. We watched a little of it on TV, then we tried to carry on. I had the TV in the schoolroom turned on, muted, but placed where only I could see it. The strongest emotion I remember was thinking "Why aren't these girls' parents calling me and telling me that they are coming to get their kids? These kids need their moms!" So, after 2 hours of school, I carpooled them all home.  They kept asking me "Why?" and I didn't have an answer.

I then started driving to town, every day, for like 2 weeks. I'd go to the bookstore and buy the New York Times, The Washington Post, and maybe a Detroit or Chicago paper. We cut articles out, and started a scrapbook.

On 9-06-02, I bought the out of town papers again. There was an ad in there (full page) that I cut out and put on the wall of the schoolroom (which is now my room). It says:

"'Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.'

 (Mark Twain).
On September 11, Americans everywhere acted in spite of their fears.

Some were victims who became heroes. Others were heroes who became victims.

Ordinary Americas did extraordinary things. Evacuating more than 25,000 people. Treating more than 7,000 injured. And in two hours, safely landing more than 4,500 planes.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Associate gives thanks for the lives saved. We remember the lives lost. And we honor all those who helped on a day we will never forget.

A day when courage prevailed."

USA TODAY, Friday, Sept. 6, 2002

My copy is all yellowed and covered with pin holes. It always hangs so that whenever you walk into the room, your eyes are drawn to it. And Mr. Twain's words guide me, daily.

Thank you Teyve - I love the website - it is now bookmarked on my computer and it will be on the home computers too.

I bookmarked it as well TEVYE. Thank you. I don't think I can handle it today, but I will go back to it. 

[Fanny Mae]

I apologize to all the monkeys here for putting up with my coming on today with all my DRAAAMA! I know today is just as hard for everyone. I usually handle this much better. I get my feathers in a ruffle when something is going wrong in my family, but usually not much else bothers me. My sister's death last year, and some other personal things have gotten to me more than I can ever remember. Thank you all for bearing with me.   

    It's hard not to get upset about things. I keep thinking about being a kid and wish I were again and then I get all upset, so I put on some mindless show on TV Land and that helps. And it helps coming here also.

No Rose I was just asking a friend of mine if she ever gets consumed in thoughts of when you were young and wishing so bad you could go back.  I have been thinking about it alot lately I also think about what I wouldn't give just to get back 5 years - I don't know why but I think about this stuff alot lately. 

And instead of being happy about childhood memories, it just tears you up you want it to be like it was. I would give anything to go back in time, maybe it is our age and thoughts of getting older that makes us think like that, I don't know. Memories for some people even though they are good memories can make a person very depressed.

The only part of my life that I would like to revisit and change is the time that I divorced my children's father. I have two beautiful daughters that will not speak to me, or acknowledge me as their mother. There were things I could have done differently. But I did the best I could at the time, but that feels shallow now. But I still have my two sons, who grew up to understand. For that I can be grateful.

The only other part of my life is not being with my mama when she died. I was torn between taking care of my husband, who had a stroke, and my mama, who was hundreds of miles away. I had no one else with me to take care of him. I was at least with her a few hours before she died. I wish I had stayed with her till the end. I will forever be haunted by that. She begged me to stay. If I could change things, I would have. 

I have no regrets about my childhood. It wasn't perfect, but it was what it was. I can live with it. 

[joesamas mama]

I apologize to all the monkeys here for putting up with my coming on today with all my DRAAAMA! I know today is just as hard for everyone. I usually handle this much better. I get my feathers in a ruffle when something is going wrong in my family, but usually not much else bothers me. My sister's death last year, and some other personal things have gotten to me more than I can ever remember. Thank you all for bearing with me.   

    It's hard not to get upset about things. I keep thinking about being a kid and wish I were again and then I get all upset, so I put on some mindless show on TV Land and that helps. And it helps coming here also.

No Rose I was just asking a friend of mine if she ever gets consumed in thoughts of when you were young and wishing so bad you could go back.  I have been thinking about it alot lately I also think about what I wouldn't give just to get back 5 years - I don't know why but I think about this stuff alot lately. 

And instead of being happy about childhood memories, it just tears you up you want it to be like it was. I would give anything to go back in time, maybe it is our age and thoughts of getting older that makes us think like that, I don't know. Memories for some people even though they are good memories can make a person very depressed.

The only part of my life that I would like to revisit and change is the time that I divorced my children's father. I have two beautiful daughters that will not speak to me, or acknowledge me as their mother. There were things I could have done differently. But I did the best I could at the time, but that feels shallow now. But I still have my two sons, who grew up to understand. For that I can be grateful.

The only other part of my life is not being with my mama when she died. I was torn between taking care of my husband, who had a stroke, and my mama, who was hundreds of miles away. I had no one else with me to take care of him. I was at least with her a few hours before she died. I wish I had stayed with her till the end. I will forever be haunted by that. She begged me to stay. If I could change things, I would have. 

I have no regrets about my childhood. It wasn't perfect, but it was what it was. I can live with it. 

Fanny, I am so sorry. Just know your mama loves you very much still. 

[no rose colored glasses]

I apologize to all the monkeys here for putting up with my coming on today with all my DRAAAMA! I know today is just as hard for everyone. I usually handle this much better. I get my feathers in a ruffle when something is going wrong in my family, but usually not much else bothers me. My sister's death last year, and some other personal things have gotten to me more than I can ever remember. Thank you all for bearing with me.   

    It's hard not to get upset about things. I keep thinking about being a kid and wish I were again and then I get all upset, so I put on some mindless show on TV Land and that helps. And it helps coming here also.

No Rose I was just asking a friend of mine if she ever gets consumed in thoughts of when you were young and wishing so bad you could go back.  I have been thinking about it alot lately I also think about what I wouldn't give just to get back 5 years - I don't know why but I think about this stuff alot lately. 

And instead of being happy about childhood memories, it just tears you up you want it to be like it was. I would give anything to go back in time, maybe it is our age and thoughts of getting older that makes us think like that, I don't know. Memories for some people even though they are good memories can make a person very depressed.

The only part of my life that I would like to revisit and change is the time that I divorced my children's father. I have two beautiful daughters that will not speak to me, or acknowledge me as their mother. There were things I could have done differently. But I did the best I could at the time, but that feels shallow now. But I still have my two sons, who grew up to understand. For that I can be grateful.

The only other part of my life is not being with my mama when she died. I was torn between taking care of my husband, who had a stroke, and my mama, who was hundreds of miles away. I had no one else with me to take care of him. I was at least with her a few hours before she died. I wish I had stayed with her till the end. I will forever be haunted by that. She begged me to stay. If I could change things, I would have. 

I have no regrets about my childhood. It wasn't perfect, but it was what it was. I can live with it. 

I understand that perfectly. I wasn't with my mom either when she passed away. She was going to be transferred to a hospital in Milwaukee, and my dad told me to wait until she was transferred from the local hospital to that hospital, and then she passed away. I have anger over all that, which I figure will always be there no matter how hard I've tried not to be angry over all of it.

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/20858972/detail.html#
FWC: 'Very Large' Snake Taken From Home
Wildlife Officials Say Snake Was Not Contained Properly

POSTED: Friday, September 11, 2009
UPDATED: 4:51 pm EDT September 11, 2009
APOPKA, Fla. -- Fish and Wildlife removed a large python from the back yard of an Apopka home Friday afternoon.

According to Joy Hill of FWC, the Burmese python was found at a home on Section Drive.

FWC described the snake as "very large," and said the exact size of the snake is not known, but a neighbor said it is around 34 inches in diameter. An officer on the scene said this snake was significantly larger than a 14-foot snake that was recently captured.
A permit for ownership of the snake was not found, FWC said.

The snake was being contained in "sub-standard caging," Hill said.

The snake will be taken to a licensed facility.

Florida law requires that Burmese python owners obtain a $100 permit annually to keep the animal.

 

[joesamas mama]

  Bye Monkeys. I will see you a little later tonight. I am going to clean apartment before I get online.