Catching wild pigs

Some of you might have gotten this by email just like I did but I thought it was worth putting in my blog for those of you that haven’t ever seen or read it.  It really fits in this day in time I believe.?  But if you feel I’m looking at the situation totally wrong, I honestly want to hear your opinion.

A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in ?the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed ?one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and ?stretching as if his back hurt. ??The professor asked the ?young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet ?lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his ?native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government ?and install a new communist government.

In the midst of ?his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He ?asked, ‘Do you know how to catch wild pigs?’ ??The ?professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young ?man said this was no joke. ‘You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable ?place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and ?begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to ?coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they ?are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat ?the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used ?to that and start to eat again. You ?continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in ?the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come ?through the gate to eat; you slam the gate on them and catch the whole ?herd. ??Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. ?They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon ?they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they ?have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they ?accept their captivity.

The young man then told the ?professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. The ?government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the ?free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax ?credit for unearned income, ?tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), ?welfare, medicine, drugs, etc.. While we continually lose our freedoms ?– just a little at a time. ??One should always remember: ?There is no such thing as a free lunch! Also, a politician will never ?provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have” Thomas Jefferson.

Outdoor wear

Believe it or not but I am a bit of a outdoors type lady.  Heck I grew up near the bayou and spent many days and nights there.  I sure wish I had known about Muck Boots then because the swamps are full of muck for sure. The funny thing is they have been around since 1949 but they didn’t have the Internet to help people find things like they do now.  Now don’t think that just because they’re called Muck Boots that they’re something ugly because they have some really cute ones that you can even wear everyday and not just in the muck.  Just check out their web site and you’ll be surprised at what they have.  I sure was.

It’s about time I would say!!!

Anna Nicole Smith died over 2 years ago and finally they are doing something about it.  She died of an accidental drug overdose.  There were three people responsible for this tragedy that left a beautiful baby girl without her mother.  Howard K. Stern and two doctors all gave Anna Nicole Smith the drugs and all should be charged with her death.  They did arrest each of them but I’m not sure to what extent they were charged.

Shame on the doctors who gave this woman the amount of drugs they did.  Yes I know she needed something to help her through the loss of her beloved son just 3 days after she gave birth to her daughter.  That’s enough to make any woman lose it for quite awhile but these people should have helped her and not drugged her like they did.  I am so against “Just give them a pill and it’ll be better.”  Sometimes it does take a pill but it takes love more than a pill and Howard was supposed to love her.  Yeah, he loved her money and the fact that she was arm candy for him.

Daycare center in Arkansas

Oh my goodness, when I read this article, I was totally shocked that someone could be that stupid.  These are children!!!  These people are supposed to be taking care of some one’s precious little ones and then gave them wiper fluid to drink mistaking it for Kool-Aid!!  I was totally horrified that someone could be that dumb.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Ten children at an Arkansas day-care center drank windshield wiper fluid after the owner served it from a container mistaken for Kool-Aid and placed in a refrigerator, authorities said Friday. The day-care owner voluntarily surrendered her state license Friday.

Doctors estimate the children, ages 2 to 7, drank about an ounce of the blue fluid late Thursday afternoon before realizing it tasted wrong, said Laura James, a pediatric pharmacologist and toxicologist at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock.

Only one child remained hospitalized Friday in good condition, after blood samples showed “measurable levels” of methanol, a highly toxic alcohol that can induce comas and cause blindness, officials said. In moderate cases, it can cause nausea, vomiting, staggering and sleepiness, James said. The day care also provided the fluid for testing.

The owner bought the windshield wiper fluid with several other items on a recent shopping trip, James told The Associated Press. “This product was mistakenly grabbed and thought to be Kool-Aid and put in the refrigerator,” she said.

The day care’s owner, Carolyn Bynum, was interviewed Friday by child welfare investigators and gave up her license, said Julie Munsell, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services. Bynum declined to comment to the AP, but Munsell said she accepted “total responsibility” for the incident.

“She was so upset about what had occurred and she was definitely worried some of the children had been injured,” Munsell said. “It was just a mistake, she says. She says it was just a horrible mistake.”

This was a horrible mistake that could have cost children their lives.  When you are left to care for peoples children, you just don’t make mistakes as stupid as this one.  I’m sorry but that’s not acceptable to me.

There is something very special for this little Angel to do!

Did you hear about this beautiful little girl that had all of her major organs removed to be able to remove a tumor and then they put her organs back in her?  This is a very special little girl that’s for sure.  There is something very special for this little Angel to do for God to leave her here.

A 7-year-old Long Island girl was released from a New York hospital Tuesday, more than a month after surgeons removed six of her vital organs to tackle a life-threatening tumor. Heather McNamara was doing “fantastic,” said her father, Joseph McNamara, as the Islip Terrace family prepared to return home. On Feb. 6, a team lead by Dr. Tomoaki Kato at New York Presbyterian-Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital conducted the first surgery of its kind in a child.

During the 23-hour operation, doctors removed Heather’s stomach, pancreas, liver, spleen and small and large intestines to get at a cancerous tumor the size of a baseball, according to news reports. They couldn’t save the child’s stomach, pancreas or spleen, which were riddled with cancer. The girl now has a pouch fashioned from intestinal tissue to hold food, doctors told USA Today. Cancer experts said that while it used to be impossible to live without a pancreas, daily injections of insulin and enzyme pills can substitute.

Appearing bright and happy and clutching a teddy bear from hospital officials, Heather said she was looking forward to returning home to play with her sister and her dog, Angel.

How stars stay skinny

Well  guess if you are a star, you want to stay skinny no matter what the price.  Well here’s how they do it.  They have the money to pay a private chef to make them skinny.  I guess I’ll just have to stay the way I am because they spend more on their chef than I do on food in a year.  Must be nice.

What stars really eat

Stars pay to eat right. And they pay big. A full-time private celebrity chef earns an annual salary of up to $150,000 plus health benefits; the average rate for such chefs in Los Angeles not on salary is about $350 to $500 per day. And the grocery budget?

“There is no budget,” says Suyai Steinhauer, a former contestant on “Top Chef” and now a natural-foods chef with celebrity clients in L.A. “The higher famous people are on the food chain, the more they spend on the ingredients they eat.”

The interview for such a job is anything but typical. Consultations cover the basics: the celeb’s favorite foods and dietary preferences (whether vegetarian, no red meat, no green M&M’s, etc.), the chef’s food philosophies, and beyond.

“One of my clients is a world-famous clothing designer who cares more about the looks of her chef than the taste of the food,” says Christian Paier, CEO of Beverly Hills-headquartered Private Chefs Inc., whose 2,000 chefs have cooked for stars like Cameron Diaz, Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, and Brooke Shields, among others. “The designer has business meetings in her house, so it’s very important to her that everyone in the home has a thin, model look to maintain her company’s image. Before sending chefs over, I sent over head shots.”

Celebrities’ meal requests change as often as the latest diet books do. Right now, the biggest demands are for raw-foods chefs (like Jill Pettijohn, who has worked for stars like Drew Barrymore and Nicole Kidman). And chefs specializing in macrobiotics-the grain-and-vegetable-based diet that severely limits dairy, meat, sugars, preservatives, refined flours, and refined salt-are popular with stars like Gwyneth Paltrow.

“Macrobiotics is hot,” Paier says. “I have a bunch of brothers who are all actors and have their own macrobiotic chef. There’s also a female singer who hires a macrobiotic chef when she tours, because the diet gives her great energy.”

A chef to the stars has to deal not only with the demands of his or her client, but with those of the celeb’s friends and colleagues, too. Paier spent eight years cooking for an A-lister living in Bel-Air, whose dinner parties required some serious reconnaissance.

“Any time you work in a high-profile home, there’s a book containing the allergies and food likes and dislikes of all their friends,” Paier explains. “When I’d cook a dinner party for 15 A-listers, the book would say 12 of them had allergies I had to work the menu around.” But, he adds, “they were rarely real allergies. They were usually just things people didn’t want to eat, like cucumbers and beef.”

In addition, Paier often had to contact the personal chef of each guest to find out if there were other dietary restrictions. “If the guest was on, say, a macrobiotic diet,” Paier says, “his or her personal chef would come and drop off spices or macrobiotic salts I didn’t already have.”

Robin Williams in the hospital

I have been a huge fan of Robin Williams since Mork and Mindy.  I think he is a wonderful actor and one of the best comedians of his time.  I have to admit that my all time favorite is Red Skelton though.  He was the greatest that has ever been followed by Bill Cosby but Robin follows them to me.  He’s what MSN said on their site about him.

ET has learned that Robin Williams will postpone his one-man show, and plans to undergo surgery. According to a statement from his rep, the 57-year-old actor and comedian is planning to have surgery for an aortic valve replacement and is postponing his Weapons of Self-Destruction tour.

The statement reads:
“Robin Williams is postponing the remainder of his critically acclaimed one-man show, Weapons of Self-Destruction, to undergo surgery for an aortic valve replacement. The tour is expected to resume in the fall. Previously purchased tickets will be honored once the new dates are scheduled or ticket holders can contact their place of purchase for refunds.”Williams also sends a message to his fans, thanking them for their unwavering support.

He says:
“I’m so touched by everyone’s support and well wishes,” said Williams. “This tour has been amazing fun and I can’t wait to get back out on the road after a little tune-up.”

The Weapons of Self-Destruction tour is set to resume in the fall.

I really need new glasses

It’s such a pain when you can’t see very well.  I hate going to the eye doctors and as soon as they find out what your prescription is, they start pushing their glasses off on you.  Bugs me to no end.  I’m not spending a hundred dollars on glasses when I know where to get them online thanks to that article I saw in the New York Times about how inexpensive Zenni Optical eyeglasses are and yet you get not only quality as good as what your eye doctor charges hundreds for but you can also get designer looking frames too.  They are great.  Just about any option the eye doctor gives you, they do too.

The reason they can offer glasses as cheap as they do is because they sell directly to the public and there’s no middle man to run the cost up.  In fact you can get just about just about any option in your glasses from them that you can get from your eye doctor.    I have to admit I was totally amazed at the quality and the prices.  In fact, I think I just might have to get more than one pair.  Here’s the ones I have ordered.

Baby faced father?

I’m sure that by now, everyone has seen the 13 year old in England that believes he’s the father of a baby girl with a 15 year old girl.  This boy looks maybe 7 or 8.  He looks like a baby himself.  Well now a 15 year old boy and a 16 year old boy have come forward saying they could be the babies father too.

I was amazed that they came forward.  Maybe in England they aren’t as responsible for children as they are here in the US, I don’t know but I have to admire them for coming forward anyway.  The sad part is the little 13 year old boy.  He really wants the baby to be his.  That just shows his innocence and a big heart too.

The main thing is the baby.  How well will a 15 year old mother take care of this child.  I only hope that her parents are helping her with the baby because 15 is too young to fully understand what a baby really needs.

Another plane went down

I was watching the news this morning and saw that another plane went down in Buffalo, New York.  This one wasn’t as lucky as the last one.  Everyone on board the plane died as did one person on the ground.  The plane crashed into a house.  What a horrific accident.  It’s a shame to have such a loss of life.  I believe they said there was a total of 53 people on the plane including the crew members..

One of the people on the plane was the widow of a man that was killed in the 9/11 attack.  She was on her way to celebrate what would have been his birthday.  Maybe now she can celebrate it with him.  I just hope there weren’t any children completely orphaned because of the crash.  That would be awful.  God bless their families!!!