BE BACK SUNDAY

No posts until Sunday due to moving.

ANYTIME A MARINE MAKES THE NEWS

It goes in this blog. What a great story about a Marine beating the odds and making the most of his situation.

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IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW

FOX 4 is proud to celebrate Black History month. The have a commercial stating this......Seriously, that is all the commercial says.

DOES THIS MAKE SENSE?

I just got done reading this story and it made no sense at all. How does a guy with a KNIFE "hold off" a swat team with guns? Is this guy some circus performer with incredible knife throwing skills?

I guess if a woman can rob a bank with a box of chocolates then anything is possible.

BRAVE GANG BANGERS TARGET KIDS

I have been saying it for months. Street gangs in the United States are nothing more and nothing less than terrorist. Seriously what is the difference between what goes on here and over in Israel? It sickens me that we continue to let this go on with little or no effort to stop it. Sure this incident happened in LA but let us not kid ourselves into believing that this could never happen in our metro area.

Everyday the headlines in the papers and the first 10 minutes of the 10pm news are filled with homicides, shootings, drive by shootings & drug busts. The thing that they leave out is "gang related". It is almost as if there is an unwritten rule in our area that this subject is taboo. Ignoring and not reporting on a problem doesn't make it go away.

Is it going to take a sick act like the one that took place in LA before we open our eyes? Hell I doubt that even kids getting lit up like christmas trees isn't enough to drag the media and blogger attention away from the trivial crap that almost every in this town covers.

I AM THE PARENT OF A 6 YEAR OLD (god I am old)

Yesterday was my daughters 6th birthday and it is hard to believe that she hasn't always been in my life and for a moment I thought she wasn't going to be. When she was born we had a bit of a scare. After she got weighted, measured and cleaned up the nurse took her into the room to be with my wife and 3 minutes later she started turning purple. They rushed her out of the room and put her on monitors and a machine to help her breathe. I felt completely helpless but had to remain calm for my wife who couldn't leave her room. I will never forget sitting by her with her little fingers gripping my pinkie wishing that I could do something. By the end of the day she was doing better and she has been as close to perfection as one can get ever since.

The thoughts of her struggling haunted me for months and years afterwards and it made it hard for me to bond with her. In the back of my head I always had the extreme high I felt when she was born followed immediately by the fear of losing her and I didn't want to feel that way again. It wasn't until the birth of my 2nd child that I was able to let my guard down and allow myself to bond with the oldest. Now we are best buddies and she is truly a daddy's girl.