I don't know about you but when a fourteen year old male teenager steals a stuffed dog animal head mascot making the punishment fit the crime’s suitability of him wearing that costume in 90 degree+ weather does seem to me like an appropriate action, what do you think?
You know that when teens misbehave these days that the above mentioned incident is mild compared to most teen crime on today’s news.
Gosh, oh gee, oh mighty darn; why can’t life be that simple anymore?
Even when our thirty something sons were growing up the times weren’t as difficult as it appears today, with drive bys; or if they were I don’t remember that being the case.
In my day, a drive-by was to look at a boy we had a crush-on’s place of residence to see if he might be home, and to the boys I think it was similar meaning at the time. Although, I do remember my male cousins cruising, not exactly driving by, but looking for girls while driving in their cars, since if I was with them they would ask me nicely to duck down so the females they were interested in wouldn’t think I was with them, huh? Weirder still I would do what I was told, but to my good I was a mere fifteen or so at that time, and besides they always took me for pizza and bowling after!
Just in: I just got another one of those fake winning lottery e-mails, be careful and wary, and contact your local fraud agencies!
The news does get to all of us sometimes, but with that said for some reason I have not stopped watching it, and it is a good thing too. How else would I know that today we internationally are in a Pandemic! But we are being told not to panic since this Swine Flu Pandemic, or just plain Pandemic Flu, which is what they are now calling it; no more H1N1, well now I am back in the loop I guess, any-who they are saying that it is NOT as deadly as the previous Bird Flu or the Pandemic of 1918, whew…what do they mean? I suppose we should all be checking with the CDC, but they don’t have what we need to be informed I just checked (maybe I looked too soon, keep checking, http://cdc.gov/) but this site does: http://www.pandemicflu.gov/ or here: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/phase/en/index.htm, more important information that you can use.
But as they (whoever THEY are) say…. Don’t PANIC!
Do most of us not think the news is real these days? I mean, have we become so thick skinned that when we hear what’s going on with wars, in the big cities, do we think it just won’t happen here, where we live? They say that apathy is rampant once again. I think it may just be numbness from an overabundance of true horrors occurring worldwide and being bombarded nightly with too much in your face authenticity and as defense mechanisms we all put up walls or filters to self protect ourselves from these harsh realities.
Some more to think about… I will wish you all a good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!
Speaking My Mind is about: Tobi, who is a middle aged, no, oh all right a slightly over the hill woman with all the imperfections that go with that, and this concerns her daily life's perceptions and experiences.
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