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Marraige Update: Perhaps there's some hope

2008-09-05T20:55:38Z

+24 raves

I just wanted to share my morning with all of you.. since you have been all so kind and caring concerning my issues with my marriage.. This morning my husband simply by 1.) sharing he thought I looked pretty 2.)hitting me with those sweet brown eyes.. and 3.) sharing his usual humor reminded me of hwy I married him.. I was being all silly gloom doom while I went out on a cold fall like chill to walk and jog some.. and when I was done dressing from work.. my partner in life seemed to come back to me.. in all his original glory ( sweet and charming as he was when we first met) Once again.. I think I can see myself growing old with him.. and having a baby or two.. once again... I feel as though we can continue through whatever hardships and make it out alright with one another.. We have been through a perpetual hell and back.. perhaps I was just worn out and pessimistic.. I don't know.. temporary insanity.. or perhaps I am crazy right now. He has been the one to get me out of some major funks in the past.. and to hold me when I cried about past family tragedies... perhaps I have been too hard on him This might last just a day.. the weekend.. who knows.. maybe forever.. but I guess what I am saying it that now.. I am reminded the work it takes to keep a marriage going.. and as of right now I feel up to the job..

Article: Don't Vote for McCain

2008-09-04T22:11:08Z

Jen**GPAC**

+9 raves

again.. not written by me :)) Blogs » Adam Knight's blog Thinking about voting for McCain? Don't. Are you considering McCain for president? Think he’ll help out with the Iraq mess? Think again. Six months before September 2001 he was already pushing for war in Iraq, even if we couldn’t get people to go with us. Yes, this was before the attacks on America. This was before they were considered a direct threat by any stretch of the truth. This was before the administration had an excuse to invade. Before that, he was already drumming up support for a peacetime invasion of a country that had done nothing to us. Which is to say that while he’ll talk up the attacks and talk up all the events since then, he’s a member of the group of Republicans that has been wanting to go into Iraq ever since Bush Sr. refused to in ’91. His agenda is quite clearly not what he says it is for remaining there, and remain there we will as he’s said, repeatedly, that we could be there for over one hundred years. One. Hundred. Years. Can it get worse? Sure it can. McCain is expected to select Rudy as his running mate. Mr. 9/11 himself. Why is the dollar crashing? 9/11. Why can’t we get healthcare? 9/11. Why is my dog at the pound? 9/11. Yeah, him. By all accounts, McCain/9/11 would be worse for America than Bush/Cheney ever was (and make no mistake, they’re the worst pair ever put into office). Even Pat Buchanan chimed in: McCain “will make Cheney look like Gandhi.” Voting in the Republican primary? Vote for anyone else. Vote for your plumber. Don’t support this man. Registered Democrat or independent and have a choice of which to vote in? Fear Hillary as well. She’s no better than McCain. Really. Our greatest fear as Americans should be a McCain vs. Clinton general election. There will be no hope left if that happens. ON IRAQ, GOP SPLIT OVER GAINING WORLD RESPECT OR ENFORCING IT March 3, 2001 When Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) battled George W. Bush for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, one of the few GOP senators who supported McCain was Nebraska’s Charles Hagel, a fellow Vietnam veteran. But today, McCain and Hagel define the poles of Republican thinking on Iraq. McCain, who’s often feuded with President Bush on domestic policy, has become one of the administration’s staunchest supporters on Iraq. Hagel, who’s been closer to Bush on home-front issues, has emerged as perhaps the congressional Republican most critical of the administration’s strategy for confronting Saddam Hussein. While never rejecting the use of force, Hagel has repeatedly warned that the United States must disarm Iraq in a way that reinforces international alliances. In that, he’s close to Democratic “tough doves,” such as Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the former NATO supreme allied commander. McCain has become the champion for the hard-line, neoconservative thinkers who want to move quickly against Iraq, no matter how many countries agree. This argument between two friends crystallizes the choices America faces at a perplexing moment when our military power is unmatched and our sense of security is unraveling. Hagel believes that to succeed in the struggle against terrorism and weapons proliferation, the U.S. needs cooperation from allies. “All of [our] great power will not be enough to assure American security and prosperity in the 21st century. The threats to both our country and the world will require strengthened alliances,” Hagel said. Therefore, he argues, if we go to war in Iraq in a way that divides us from our allies, we could harm our security more than help it. “If that is the price of waging war in Iraq, then victory … in the war on terrorism, in the Middle East, on the Korean peninsula, and against weapons of mass destruction, will not be ours,” he said in a recent speech. In the broad sense, that means we must be humble in our approach to foreign policy, respectful of others’ views, aware of anxieties about our motivations and power, and committed to solving problems multilaterally whenever possible. “We must avoid the traps of hubris and imperial temptation that come with great power,” Hagel said. More immediately, he said, before we go to war, we should give inspections another “two or three months,” with a firm deadline for Iraqi compliance, to build international consensus. That way, he said, “if a military option is required, we would have the legitimacy of the United Nations, our allies and world opinion.” Hagel also insists we must balance our military thrusts against terrorism with global initiatives to solve problems that he believes breed extremism, such as poverty and hunger. “Military power alone will not end this scourge of mankind,” he said. At the same time, the United States should build international goodwill by renewing our efforts to broker agreements between Israel and the Palestinians, Hagel argues. And we should be sanguine about neoconservative claims that a war in Iraq will trigger a democratic domino effect across the Mideast; that will require the hard work of specific initiatives to encourage economic development and educational reform across the region. McCain marches from very different premises to very different conclusions. The new “existential” risk of terrorism, he argues, compels America to act boldly against emerging risks around the globe. To safeguard its security, the United States cannot rely on others, either international institutions such as the United Nations or traditional European allies, much less the Arab world. “Does anyone really believe that the world’s will to contain Saddam won’t eventually collapse, as utterly as it did in the 1990s?” McCain said in a mid-February speech. In this dangerous environment, the U.S. must be willing to act alone, not only in Iraq but in North Korea, if necessary. While other nations “may risk their own populations, the United States will do whatever it must to guarantee the security of the American people,” he wrote in January. “And spare us the usual lectures about American unilateralism.” While Hagel believes the U.S. must demonstrate its commitment to international institutions, McCain reverses the equation: He argues that international institutions must demonstrate they are still relevant to American security by supporting military action against Iraq. “Should great powers determine that multilateral institutions such as NATO and the [U.N.] Security Council cannot protect their interests when they are imperiled, countries will increasingly be tempted to go it alone,” he warned at a conference in Germany last month. While Hagel attributes much of the tension with traditional allies to American actions, McCain pins most of the blame on the “calculated self-interest” of France and Germany and “Arab tyrants” who fear the example of a democratic, post-Hussein Iraq. As a result, McCain argues that we cannot delay an invasion much longer for an international consensus that may never come. McCain also puts much less emphasis than Hagel on the role of economic development, or new efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace, in discouraging terrorism. And he is much more optimistic that the overthrow of Hussein will encourage a democratic chain reaction through the region. In all, while Hagel argues that broadening international cooperation is the key to security in this new era, McCain believes “credibility” in delivering military force is the top priority. The one is focused on winning respect; the other on enforcing it. Hagel is 10 years younger than McCain. But McCain is closer to the thinking in the emerging generation of conservative foreign policy thinkers inside and outside the Bush administration. Hagel is upholding an earlier Republican foreign policy tradition, a sober realism that worries about overreach, backlash, the law of unintended consequences. Both men know better than most that war is a risky, unpredictable business. But like the nation, they have divided on whether the greater risk in Iraq is that America will act so quickly that it alienates its friends, or wait so long that it emboldens its enemies. Submitted by Adam Knight on February 8, 2008 - 10:57am. * Adam Knight's blog and if you wish to comment to Knight go here.. http://www.hopelessgeek.com/2008/02/08/thinking-about-voting-...

McCain blog I found very interesting

2008-09-04T21:10:55Z

Jen**GPAC**

+9 raves

I have been reading a lot of blogs as of late.. and I came across this one I found interesting.. keep in mind I am not the one who wrote it.. but parts of it made sense to me.. read and enjoy and please don't shoot the messenger (aka me):)) McCain is a Petulant Arse | posted by Melissa McEwan | Wednesday, April 05, 2006 If this buttfor can’t even hack a heckling audience, how does he expect to be president? Sen. John McCain threatened on Tuesday to cut short a speech to union leaders who booed his immigration views and later challenged his statements on organized labor and the Iraq war. "If you like, I will leave," McCain told the AFL-CIO's Building and Construction Trades Department, pivoting briefly from the lectern. He returned to the microphone after the crowd quieted. "OK, then please give me the courtesy I would give you." Wev. Is there a Republican who doesn’t talk to adults like they’re children? Who doesn’t refuse to face people who disagree with them and aren’t afraid to make it known? Who doesn’t reject accountability, or the notion that courtesy is earned, not demanded? Later, the senator outlined his position on the Senate immigration debate, saying tougher border enforcement must be accompanied by guest-worker provisions that give illegal immigrants a legal path toward citizenship. Murmurs from the crowd turned to booing. "Pay a decent wage!" one audience member shouted. "I've heard that statement before," McCain said before threatening to leave. What a baby. In the speech, McCain also argued that withdrawing U.S. troops prematurely from Iraq would turn terrorists loose on the United States. This time, there was no booing — though one audience member cursed from the back of the crowd. […] But he took more questions, including a pointed one on his immigration plan. McCain responded by saying immigrants were taking jobs nobody else wanted. He offered anybody in the crowd $50 an hour to pick lettuce in Arizona. Shouts of protest rose from the crowd, with some accepting McCain's job offer. "I'll take it!" one man shouted. McCain insisted none of them would do such menial labor for a complete season. "You can't do it, my friends." Some in the crowd said they didn't appreciate McCain questioning their work ethic. People like McCain have no idea what the fuck real life is like anymore. Of course people would take that job. A lot of people do a lot worse jobs for a lot less money. Even Americans, who people like him like to assume just “won’t do” certain jobs. There’s a difference between refusing to do a job because you think you’re above it, which is what they think is the problem, and not choosing a certain job because you couldn’t possibly support yourself, no less a family, on the salary being offered. People like McCain think that Americans won’t clean toilets or pick fruit or whatever because of pride. Well, I grew up in Northwest Indiana when all the steel mills were closing, and men who got laid off from those jobs to find out that there was nothing left for them did anything they could to put food on their tables. Men who had been supervisors were slinging hash and stocking shelves, working two and three menial jobs to try to avoid losing their homes. Between pride and feeding your kids, the kids win out every time. How dare he suggest that there are people who wouldn’t, or couldn’t, pick lettuce if given a livable wage? Asshole. "I was impressed with his comedy routine and ability to tap dance without music. But I was impressed with nothing else about him," said John Wasniewski of Milwaukee. "He's supposed to be Mr. Straight Talk?" Welcome to the real America, Mr. McCain. and here is the address if you wish to comment to the author.. which I am sure some of you would do. http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2006/04/mccain-is-petu...

Not Impressed

2008-09-03T21:27:52Z

Jen**GPAC**

+19 raves

I fail to find myself impressed by the impressions you lay out before me I won't feel apologetic or second guess or change my ways to make you adore me I fail to wish to participate in the games you enjoy I rather sit this one out.. if that's alright with you you prove yourself to be a mere emotionless boy I won't even acknowledge or fight with you I will rather stand proud than erect a pedestal on which you can scoff and look down on me I think in the long run your influence and charm are minuscule I lost nothing ..when you think you took it all away from me Sit down now.. and think you own the world when it's only a vacant lot inside your own mind I think you are beyond hope to ever realize you are a mere pimple on human kind POP!!

Please join in our efforts for Peace

2008-08-28T17:29:36Z

Jen**GPAC**

+24 raves

We are forming a public forum that is being used to define and promote peace on Sodahead... Please join and offer your unique perspective and knowledge.. http://www.sodahead.com/group/2773/ We can't accomplish Peace without you

Just because(18 and over please)

2008-08-26T20:37:58Z

Jen**GPAC**

+16 raves

I limply rest my tired head on the sweet safe crevice of your shoulder and neck.. indulging in a breath drenched of your musky essence forgetting the world we left behind our fingers are now intertwined.. and the carnal forbidden heat overtaking.. but this is my utmost convalescence of my heart that has been for so long breaking I allow you to press me full into that unforgiving wall and mesh your searing lips with my fully aware flesh the moment causing my fingers to tangle in with tufts of hair as you lift my frame with the strength of your desire I drape you securely with legs and arms unarmed... that is the me you find yourself with now can you take this unstripped raw being darling that has so willingly taken on the challenge of you well you will just have to make do baby I think you will be alright.. promise I wouldn't put myself out there if I didn't know if you were man enough to take it to take me.. I know you want to now is your time

Human Object (18 and over please)

2008-08-20T17:03:54Z

Jen**GPAC**

+17 raves

I am just concerned this may have some themes not appropriate for you kids.. so skip this one ok? I have been your Human Blanket... wrapped tight while you have shivered in the night you pulled me over tighter to cover those icy limbs but you were happy and that was alright I have been you Human Shadow I followed you from point A to point B even if it was inconvenient for me but you were always safe therefore I was happy I have been your Human Shield to protect you from the spears of pain outside it often left me shaken and scared but you were unscathed so I refused to hide I have become your Human Urinal in order to release your desires and lust as if your pleasures are the only ones that count but if made you satisfied and then it became my "must I have become your Human Punching Bag and at times you have become mine emotionally physically mentally harsh we've become see just how inhuman the two of us are by this time?

Thank you everyone

2008-08-13T15:53:45Z

Jen**GPAC**

+26 raves

I appreciate all the kind words, advice, personal stories and encouragement from all you Sodaheaders since I posted the poll concerning my marital issues. It definitely shows me that people generally care for others even when we haven't had the pleasure of meeting face to face..

Bless the kiddos on SH

2008-08-08T22:22:31Z

Jen**GPAC**

+26 raves

A lot of people on here give you guys a lot of trouble for being young and yourselves..I just wanted to say I think you guys are sweet.. and be careful of any dirty minded people who will try to take advantage of you.. if you have any issues.. let me know .. keep being silly, fun and young alright?

Morning Musings

2008-08-08T15:57:28Z

Jen**GPAC**

+11 raves

The tree trunks blush in the beauty of the sunrise that announces the day a rare misty rainbow appears in the dawn and shoos the cold of the formidable night I could only thank the one for this sight the birds chirp madly to welcome the light Try as I may I try to concentrate on my day's events but the mystic sight catches my eyes off guard this rare gift that God presents makes letting go of that moment even that more hard Thank you for the dew.. the mist and the breeze thank you ever so much for the rose color of the trees such beauty is enough to bring one to one's knees Thank you so much for small wonders such as these

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Article: Don't Vote for McCain

McCain blog I found very interesting

Not Impressed

Please join in our efforts for Peace

Just because(18 and over please)

Human Object (18 and over please)

Thank you everyone

Bless the kiddos on SH

Morning Musings

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