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Wi-Fi Squatters Kill Paying Customers

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:30:29 -0500

Free Wi-Fi definitely a nice addition to going out to eat or simply having a nice blend of Gourmet coffee at the local Star Bucks or local fast food eatery but what happens when you have more non paying people simply straggling in for the Wi-Fi but not purchasing a single thing, leaving the paying customers to stand or go elsewhere for there daily coffee fix or food.

Wi-Fi has been a hot subject for paying customers who simply get left out in the mix because all the freebie followers taking advantage of a service that was meant for people that actually pay for the services and get free web connection while eating or simply drinking a cup of mocha, coffee or munching on a delicious bran muffin. Some places have taken the stance of charging a small fee with the purchase or making real customers buy a wi-fi connection card to connect to there local internet since hundreds of thousands have over abused a system meant for paying customers.

So who should be more pissed then anyone? You the one who purchases something from these stores. You, We spend enormous amounts of cash already to drink a gourmet blend of products that we can't necessarly purchase in the fashion we like it but now we are left out in the cold because of a growing trend of freeloaders taking advantage of services meant for thus the paying consumer.

Much like the public aid scenario we the people that work daily to feed our families are left restlessly out in the cold but money collected to support the world of freeloading hypocrits. So when do we stop a cycle and say enough is enough and if your noting going to pay then get up and get out your presence is not welcomed and find your next free loading place to relax your lazy bum.

Drunken neighbor always result in law enforcement calls

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:19:30 -0500

My drunken, verbally abusive and physically abusive neighbor never seems to get the concept that it is his behavior and the mothers behavior of backing him up that is damaging the very well being of there children. 10 years I have lived in the same neighborhood and for 8 of them years it has been turmoil and incident after incident. Police one day and the same the next day. Constant calls of law enforcement always called to get the neighbor to calm down or stay inside his house where he belongs when he drinks.

Every time this neighbor picks up a can of beer, it always results in some altercation with a passer by or he becomes agitated and begins making false accusations against someone. The man once told me he prefer not to speak of violence because he had his cousin shot and killed in front of him but yet he provokes the very violence he says he doesn't want to be around. He instigates issue's and brings the worst out in others because he refuses to get the treatment he needs to be a functioning part of society.

Another neighbor of mine has a young daughter who goes to Sunday School every Sunday and she is involved with other activities outside of the home with her church. Every time the gentleman from church drops her off the neighbor with anger issue's is always present and starts a verbal tyrant verbal abuse with him. Calling him a pedophile, satans follower and always looking for a altercation. He accuses him of trying to look up his daughters skirt.

This is where it gets twisted. This girl and the neighbor with anger issue's girl were once friends but the girl found out she wasn't the friend she had always played herself out to be. She would come over to this girls house and torment her brother. She would come over to there house and boss everyone around but the moment the other little girl stood up for her brother the devils child ran home and spewed false allegations against everyone and even with witnesses around her parents always believe her word as truth.

Every single child the neighbor has, has been involved with some criminal mischief. Either breaking and entering, stealing, criminal damage to someone else property or disturbing the peace. Two of the 4 have lengthy probation and they are under the age of 12 years old. How is this even possible at such a age. The only possible answer is parents who choose not to run there house with discipline. The kids run the streets and no adult is ever outside. They are quick to judge others children but they are never outside to see anything happen. They take there childs word as solid gold and fuel a fight off of false allegations.

This is the very real part of society. The part law enforcement should be doing something about but refuse to do anything because state budgets are sliced in half and they would rather issue tickets to make a dollar.

In mexico citizens elect corrupt figures for school supplies

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:26:31 -0500

The country of Mexico is so poor the citizens are willing to elect drug lords and criminal politicians with simple promise and pass a side real politicians that seek change and better lives. My sister and her family live in Aguascalientes, Mexico. They have been there for 12 years as Baptist Missionaries. A town that once was one of the most safe cities in Mexico now being over taken by drug lords and corrupt politicians.

According to my sister who speaks fluent Spanish as well as the rest of her family went there back in 1997 in hopes of bringing the people of Mexico closer to god. Enriching there lives and helping them learn how to live faithfully to the Christian faith but with all the turmoil Mexico now faces with the overwhelming drug cartels taking over the whole country many who had strong beliefs in Christ have turned against religion to save there families.

Catholicism has bullishly turned against anyone reaching out to another faith and refused to give locals food if they turn against the catholic faith. Catholics in Mexico give out food boxes and they use to do it on normal given days but to disrupt matters and making Mexicans turn against the Christian faith they have chosen Sunday and Wensday around church service times for the Christian faith to hand out there food boxes.

Mexico just recently had there Gubernational to elect governors for each city in Mexico. One running on the campaign to fix the roads and help secure more jobs and one guy running with the campaign that he would give all families in the city school supplies and back packs so there children could have stuff for school and there is nothing wrong with that but the problem is the second choice is tied into the drug cartels and giving them safe haven with in the city my sister and her family live. He is a cocaine addict but the people elected him because he gave them something they would immediately get in the now verses roads that would help build business traffic and bring more jobs.

Mexico is so corrupt that the people would rather see things now then see a real future for there people. My sister also told me of a man they know who huffs glue all day long and he has a family member who is 4 years old who they have turned towards huffing glue. This is the culture drug lords breed. They steal your land and move there operations further into the cities that were once safe.

These are the very reasons why we need to seal off our boarders. These are the reasons we need to build a electrified fence to keep them there and not in America but people refuse to stop the crossing of illegal immigrants. They would rather blend them into American Society and allow them to earn money to take home to Mexico not America. They take free medical care and leave America to pay the bill. These reasons might not be the whole problem with health care but a serious part of the issues we struggle with in America.

Hugo Chavez has ties with Mexico and is trying to undermine the very help we give Mexico through refining the oil they produce. Hugo Chavez is as much a issue then a solution for Mexico. Columbia has no good ties with America or good will in helping Mexico but what he does have is a plan to take away from Mexicans than to give help. Every dictating country builds ties through false gifts and once there minds have turned pro chavez they slow down the gifts and begin taking.

We can't allow Mexico to destroy the foundation of America and the folks who refuse to see it are just as much a part of the growing concerns with illegal crossings. Law is law and plenty out there cry when the law doesn't do there job but now over this issue when you try and stop the breaking of laws you stand against the very people you always easily ask for help and assistance.

It's time to stop being a part of the Illegal issue and start being a solution for the illegal crossing. Being American doesn't give others the explicit right to tread into our lands and take.

Solar, Wind & Geo-Thermal Energy On The Rise

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:30:51 -0500

When most of us think about green products we shrug our shoulders and wonder what far fetched idea is the government or some unknown name going to throw at us next but the catch is there is no catch at all and renewable resources are by far a more abundant asset we have but have yet embraced the idea because we have been dependent on fossil fuels for so long many refuse to grasp the concept of a much cheaper way we can fuel our automobiles or even bring electricity and warm water into our home.

We have been studying renewable resources for probably 2 or 3 decades but what or the reason many still have no will to adapt to it is at this stage in the game it's expensive to get it started and the savings in one's pocket would take years to recoup thus in their own reality not saving them money at all but wasting it but you can't look at everything in such a bleak view because the savings aren't initially there at the moment.

Makani Energy a company that has netted $150,000,000.00 in funds from various investors like google have been working with a kite flying turbine system that speaks about generating 1 megawatt (MW) of electricity through it's kite turbine system. The resources are out there but few people want to take the time to be inventitive enough to put there minds to work and come up with ways to help remove dependency on fossil fuels.

Many folks have no concept of what or how fossil fuels are created and think it is simply a resource that just lays with in the earths core or structure and it will never run out but the fact is fossil fuels have been created over billions of years and some believe we have tapped about half of easy to get to fossil fuels such as oil and coal in just the meager 240 or so years as a country. Pretty short time considering it took billions of years to create these valuable fuels to use isn't it.

Fossil fuels are oil, coal which mother nature has took years to create from dead plant life and other things. Packed far and compressed far below the earths surface setting years breaking down into a energy producing substance. To help preserve what resource we have left we should be looking and already using what we can get for free, instead of ripping up billions of years of nature to take. We have free resources at the finger tips that lay above ground but have yet to even tap into them in any large scale means.

Through using renewable resource we no longer need to rob the earth of it's life. We can use the rays from sun to create heat,electricity but few companies even use the vast amount of resources at there hands because of simple greed for the almighty dollar. If the government gave decent credits to install renewable energy stations I think we could begin seeing a new page in history. By lessening the use we can stop and possibly prevent many nasty events that lay waiting as we deplete the earth of everything it has to fuel greed.

Will Financial Reform Bill Hurt or Help!

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:06:50 -0500

This begs to be the question of this new decade. Will financial reform truly help or break the very foundation of banking and investments. I am not to clear on the new bill waiting to be signed, nor will I sit for years to read and understand all of it but I have browsed bits and pieces of it and I do think in some gray area's it could help slow down the possibilities of serious failures in some financial dealings maybe even deal rail them before they have a chance to swindle investors or even capsize the economy.

I'm 100% certain there is no true cure for financial mayhem but educating yourself and living by the age old concept of saving is one way to protect yourself from ever having to end up like the many hundreds of thousands who lost all in this meltdown over the last 3 years. It's always better to be prepared when things are at there best because you can rest assure that there will be recoil somewhere along the line and things will retract in the economy. It is a part of life we simply can and will not get away from. It is what we call the simple rule about the circle of life. Like Isaac Newton's Study in relativity. What goes up must come down eventually and that is exactly where the financial system went.

The fast cash till payday business has helped fuel and destroy many families just as the invisible dealings in the stock markets and thieving wall street brokers. One mans downfall is another mans gold mine so to speak. I do feel Wall Street needs to be more transparent in it's financial dealings. I do feel we need some reform over the housing markets and the way mortgages are lent out like a tissue and I do believe that we are on a track to help curb the greed on Wall Street but it also will slow the markets and the way we build business at home and conduct it abroad.

Like any bill or law we have fashioned through time there are loopholes and unethical boundaries we push to the limits. With all the billions lost in the market over ponzi schemes there really must be more background and more policing of hedge funds and companies that deal in no real physical product we can hold or see in everyday life and more accountability needs to be transparent for the world to feel safer when they decide to invest. Markets are so hidden and some facts we need to know are able to be twisted into many directions we get fooled by success that we fail to see the very workings we are in are no more then one big smoke show that is soon to clear out many peoples bank accounts before they got a chance to realize they have been taken for a ride but left with little or no recourse to take back what was stolen.

I hope over time this bill will evolve and really help create a better financial structure and system that holds aggressive behavior accountable for there failed attempts and destruction of lives.

Memory lane can bring some really nasty sentiment

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:42:43 -0500

Memory lane can bring some really serious thought and questioning of how I, we have managed to make it this far but many of the folks we grew up with didn't get the chance to walk away from a terrible accident, death in war or a simple overdose on a medication because our mind, our heart had been broken beyond easy repair.

I think at many moments I have taken life for granted on many occasions and have luckily been able to walk away without any serious or life threatening injuries but many people I have grown up with died at a young age from a drunk driver or merely just a fatal accident that instead of injury resulted in a fatality. I was reading a facebook post just today and come across a obituary of a old best friend. Rickie L. Hiatt Jr. before my parents separated in 1985 and my mother packed us kids up and headed to Arkansas, me and my friend Rickie used to play together on a pretty daily schedule.

I would always meet rickie at his house and we would run around the yard and dig in the dirt and play in his tree house. I swear I remember hearing about his death but not for certain or not. I happened to be on a acquaintance facebook page scanning through pictures and come across this obituary. It happened to be one of Rickie L.Hiatt Jr. It was a mind numbing pause. So I searched the net for the name and come across a the name and read the obituary. Not revealing to much on how he died but simply that he served in Iraq in 2005 and was hurt while on duty and was awarded many awards for his service and medically honorable discharge from the Army. Not knowing what he died from but knowing he did die in 2007 in Elm,Tx and buried in Peoria,Illinois.

It kind of had a emotional effect and my mind rewind to the earlier days as a child growing up. Running around, enjoying life and having no real care in the world but being home on time or dread the series of butt whooping that would begin on entering the door, anyways it kind of makes you wonder how easily that death could have just as easy been yours. I have been in some series accidents 3 to date and everyone I have been able to walk away from with no broken bones, serious cuts or paralyzed. It makes you think of how lucky your life has been, even when your so disgusted with current circumstances but as we grow up some of the people we grew up with didn't get so lucky the first or second time around. It might not put your thought into the perspective mode but I truly am blessed that every accident I have been through I have been able to walk away alive.

I wish some of the people I grew up with had that same blessing to simply walk away to live another day but we don't get to choose our demise per say. I would guess my conclusion would be to be greatful for every moment you share with family, Be greatful you walked away alive and be greatful for every minute you breath everyday, because you never truly know when your time is going to come. I seriously encourage everyone to take every opportunity you got to enjoy life. Make your life worth while and leave a legacy or something to positively stamp yourself as a true friend, love or parent.

Lohan Hires New Attorney After 90 Day Jail Verdict

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:03:07 -0500

Amazing is it not. Lindsey Lohan hires a new attorney because Lohan
herself simply couldn't make her court appointments as the courts
scheduled her to appear. Breaking a simple probation agreement the
courts set out for Miss.Lohan to follow once again with the same tired
excuses of how Hollywood has her so backed up that she could not
make time to follow her court handed down classes and court dates.

Lindsey Lohan has a very bleak view on how exactly the court system
was setup and feels her punishment was simply to hard and brash for
the probation agreement she decided to break. Hollywood may be a
job but there is no job out there that the courts feel is so significant to
simply allow a starlet to brush off the law because she is simple to
busy to attend her own court hearing.

Lindsay Lohan was let of easy with the punishments she received for
the charges she racked up on her driving under the influence back in
2007. Driving while intoxicated and worst yet cocaine found on herself
in the process. Like many court dates for many actor's and actresses
Lohan and many have finally come and seen the brash arm of the law
and found out they to will no longer be treated as special entities in
life and money doesn't always buy a way out of trouble.

Lindsay Lohan has been on a downward spiral since she has went about
her career on her own and life is a bitch when we decide to break the
very laws that were put into place to protect us from the scum of the
earth. Okay she may not be scum but her attitude shows otherwise and
attitude make up the person we are and aim to be in reality.

Like many actors and actresses before her Lindsay will soon find that
fame and fortune can brn out quickly with getting bad press. Hollywood
aims to make money not trouble and I think Shannon Doherty has
proven that point many times over as every T.V. role she has played or
shared has quickly vanished into the has been section of T.V.

General McChrystal Wrong But Validated

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:20:01 -0500

I understand the rank and file process in politics and military and the simple fact that communication can do wonders when communicated properly from both sides at different views and angles. McChrystal comments could have been held between Obama and him instead of the World.
Belittling a president out in public view was by far the most stupid thing one could have done, especially when that man being belittled is his boss. The rules of engagement are becoming so tight and restricted in todays warfare it's no wonder we can't gain ground and keep a foot hold anywhere we seem to go to fight a war or help a country regain it's independence from a oppressive force of hostility and inhuman rule.

General McChrystal should have used his chain of command and simply asked for a closed door session with the President and voiced his views behind closed doors with Obama and why the current strategy wasn't working and voiced his own plan that could improve the way we capture and derail the talibans hold but with current tensions between Karazi and the West being froze out of military options that could help decrease the insurgency and actually hold position.

Instead we are drawn into a battle amongst civilians because the taliban know that Karazi and the west have shifted the game and simply made civilian territory off limits for many parts of war. Casualties are a part of war. Casualties are a part of war we will never in this lifetime be able to steer clear from but what can be done is propaganda before a clash for people to remove themselves from the fighting zone and if they choose not to move until the area is secured to comeback they knowingly placed themselves in harms way and the troops from any nation shouldn't be held accountable.

You will never win a war when you can't use all necessary means to stop or distract it. You can't walk into a skirmish with AK47's and expect your pistol to be your main weapon. I beleive the generals of the military need more power in deciding what is necessary to win. Many congressman we have in America have never served in any branch of service to this country but they are given the power to say we go to war or we don't.
Times are changing and we are being beat down by decade old technology because the military's hands have been shackled for to long. If we want to win and diminish the violence we need to be able to give back to the insurgency 10x's what they could ever give back.

Chicago,Illinois reason for no concealed carry in Illinois

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:11:45 -0500

Chicago,Illinois the only separation in the state holding back any reform on allowing law abiding citizens from protecting themselves from gang violence and robberies has been the lynch pin in a system of unsolved murders and gun related crimes.

Chicago boasting more congressional districts has locked out any vote to make Illinois a concealed carry state. Illinois and Wisconsin still the only 2 states out of 50 in the U.S that doesn't have some sort of concealed carry law. Chicago which has a handgun ban in the city where residents aren't allowed to posses or own a handgun in the city of Chicago.

Gang activities just keep doubling by the year and little being done to curb the workings of gangs with in the city. Be it police pay off to turn the other way or corrupt politicians which Chicago has many of simply closing there eye's to the peoples will to be able to arm and protect things they have worked years to accomplish and make the streets a little safer for future generations.

Mayor Jim Ardis of Peoria,Illinois wanted a pilot program for concealed carry and wanting Peoria to be one of the pilot cities got shotdown with his idea as Chicago holds more power in the political measure then any city n Illinois. It is far past time that Chicago politicians be removed and replaced with politicians that seek cleaner streets and a future for future generations to come.