Squeaky’s Blog

I have spent the last year almost trying to get to know the wives of my husband’s coworkers.  They all say they want an FRG (Family Readiness Group) and to be friends.  The truth is they want it and things to do but not one of them wants to do the work to have one.  Hell they won’t even show up for a get together.  I attended the last FRG meeting (virtual conference) for the Brigade and had planned for the wives to come to the office and do a potluck.  It was later than normal hours but the guys had to work anyway.  I figured we could all eat then the meeting would end and we could all go home and not worry about dinner.  Well no one showed up and I said something about being at the office and it got everyone in trouble.  It was a known fact that the guys worked late on those days of the week.  Then last month I actually was able to attend the monthly FRG meeting (teleconference) for our company.  What do you know, no one showed but me and the lady conducting it.  So she asked what we needed at our station and I told her communication.  We have a huge lack of it and are out of the loop.  That is where it went wrong again.  The woman that conducted the meeting told the brigade and the company got an earful.  So, then when it went to DP and he got bitched at because of what I said and then they complained to him about me.  There was a conference that was over the weekend and I was going to attend the Army was paying everything but it was short notice like less than 3 days to get everything in order.  Well in the end DP had to work and we didn’t have anyone to watch the kids so I cancelled.  Then the ATC (Annual Training Conference) came around and I didn’t go.  The Army once again was supposed to pay for everything but at the last minute the company started to explain that we would have to pay for this and that.  The only thing the Army was really covering was the room.  The child care which was people I didn’t know was now going to cost per child and I didn’t want to find a dress and worry about the other expenses of going to a ball.  So I stayed home.  Well they through that in his face too.  This he told me today after I sent an email to confirm I would attend the quarterly Brigade meeting.  DP also told me that he explained that we would no longer participate in the FRG since I and the First Sergeants wife (who hasn’t contacted any of us since before June of last year) were the only people that actually wanted it and were willing to work for one.  The thing that kills me the most is that these women are supposed to be my friends.  We are military wives and we are supposed to stick together.  Everywhere else we have been we have all been close and looked out for each other because that’s what you do as an Army wife.  I thought that being here remote (away from a base) would be like Germany away from family so the guys in the office and wives all became family.  I was so wrong.  I love central Florida and yet I find I hate it here too.  I hate the wives who always tell me I am a good friend but yet never contact me and are no where near being a real friend.  They are fair-weather friends.  I know they will never call, text, or email me asking how I am unless they want something.  I know for a fact that one of them is about to leave and she is a friend of connivance to another wife and when she is gone the other wife will start to call again.  She will want to do things together but the truth is that WC hates her oldest son.  So, I need to remember this when the time comes and find my back bone and tell her no we aren’t interested.  I have had my fill of friends that don’t talk to you after you move and I don’t need anymore.  It only makes it harder on me and the kids.   I don’t want to have to explain why another person won’t talk to us anymore when we move to WC.  I have done that enough.  I think it’s going to be a long 2 years until we leave.  I have nothing nice to say about the last year and I have no friends here to talk to no one to confide in but DP.  I almost wish I was one of the wives that could just run away home to my family and stay for the last 2 years.  Then when DP would get orders somewhere else I could just meet up with him their.  But this is real life and it doesn’t work that way.  Instead I will have to find a way to make friends outside of the Army life and pray things get better because right now it fucking sucks being a recruiters’ wife.

I have two Facebook accounts and I use them both.  I have to say I use the one for my site a lot less but I have it.  As for my personal page I use it all the time.  I am always logged into it.  I love the applications and play a ton of games.  I usually go strong on one game then change to a new one and go back and forth.  I also like everyone else post comments and keep in touch with family and friends.  It’s odd though I am not sure if I am changing or if my friends are changing.  So much in our lives has changed over the last year.  We have taken a different turn and I sometimes wonder if we will stay on this road or take another detour.  I miss the life we had before the Army moved us here and changed DP’s job.  He had the dream job he wanted, the job he joined the Army for.  But the Army had a new plan for us and we like always went with it.  We find a way to look at the positive in all our moves.  We really believe that you make each duty station good or bad.  There are some things that you can’t change that may be good or bad but if you make yourself happy in your family life it will make the time at the duty station better.  So, when we moved here we were totally excited.  We were finally closer to family and in Florida and a great location.  The job we knew for DP was going to be hard and it has.  It takes up so much of his time.  Then, comes all the new coworkers and their family members that we have here now with DP’s new job and it seems that some of them live in a different place then us.  There is the age gap, lifestyle gap, language issues, maturity level difference, and more.  There are wives that want the whole friendship and closeness but only Monday thru Thursday.  The weekends are the time when the hubby’s are home and they don’t want to be bothered with co-workers or some lame excuse of how they are worried about what their kids touching things.  It seems they all say they want an office with unity and yet they don’t want to work to make it happen.  Well, in the middle of this I have continued to use my Facebook account to help keep in touch with friends, family and the new people I have met here.  Somewhere over the last month my eyes have become open to civilian life and the stupidity of people.  I have noticed how easy and fast people on Facebook take things out of perspective and blow up.  It’s stupid little things and shows a real lack of maturity.  Why argue in comments back and forth?  Why not be the bigger person and just walk away knowing that it’s stupid?  I mean we are talking about grown people just calling others names and throwing dirt.  I was so pissed tonight that I just deactivated my personal account until I can decide what I want to do with it.  I know that I love the applications and yet I can play games online almost anywhere.  I know I have posted my opinions and they have pissed people off but then it makes me wonder?  Why do I care?  It’s my opinion and it can change or stay the same but it’s mine.  I have the right to say and feel what ever I want right?  So, tell me you don’t agree that’s fine but I am not going to change my mind because your feelings are hurt.  I am tired of listening to people bitch and complain because things didn’t work out the way they wanted.  Its life it sucks, get over it.  I complain from time to time but come on people can’t you just suck it up and move on?  Do you have to complain every comment you make?  What happened to just posting little happy things, or what’s new in life, and the occasional complaint?  I love using Facebook and it’s killing me not to be able to log in and play all my silly little applications that I really don’t have time for but I just don’t know if it’s worth the headache.  Who knows maybe in the morning I will have a change of heart and a plan to make it enjoyable again.

We all know the saying “An eye for an eye.”  There are times in life where we know something is wrong yet do it anyway.  Sometimes with out hesitation and others we ponder over what to do, knowing the consequences could be great.  In general though I think most people believe in Karma and try to do what’s right until they are crossed.  It’s our instinct to protect ourselves and our children.  When someone hurts a child people all over the world feel for the parent and child.  We know how much we love our own and the thought of something happening to them tears us up inside and out.  We seem to long for that revenge and justice for a child more than we do for our own.  It’s widely know that if you hurt a child and are caught, charged and sent to jail that the other inmates will take their turns taking out their anger for the situation on the person.  I have no problem with this.  I think if you are bold enough to hurt a child then you can suffer the consequences what ever they may be.  I think sometimes it’s better to let a man suffer in jail being abused by other inmates then to give them the death penalty.  The death penalty to me is like suicide.  It’s a way out when you can’t deal with the current situation going on in your life what ever it may be.  To me it seems to lack any real punishment.  I believe when you are dead that’s it there is no rotting in hell or going to heaven, your just dead.  So if someone commits some unbelievable act on a child then I think they should suffer, after all it’s an eye for an eye.  What kind of quality of life does a prisoner have really when he is being tortured every chance the other prisoners can.  I have my own children and remember what it was like when they were newborns fresh home from the hospital.  They were so small and fragile and the love I had for them was and is still immeasurable.  I can’t think what I would do if they were hurt then or now.  So, when I saw a link on Facebook where a father raped and beat his 8 day old daughter I almost puked!  I thought about my friends with baby girls and changing their diapers wondering how in the world a grown man could get his penis in them.  The pain that baby had to go through and then to be beaten after.  This was not by some stranger or extended family member but her father!  Her father!  I just can’t understand.  I am holding back tears thinking of the pain she went through and the trauma that will stay with her for the rest of her life.  If she lives this will be public record or at the very least know by the family.  When she gets older and starts asking questions what will her mother be able to say?  It’s not going to be something that can be lied about.  It’s going to come out.  How do you explain this to her?  Not only did the poor baby girl live through this but now she will eventually find out the truth and have to come to some sort of terms later in life.  She will not only suffer now from the actual abuse but the mental abuse that this will bring later.  A part of me thinks that if she lives the mother should pack up with her change the names of them both and cut all ties to the family and start over.  Then maybe just maybe they both can put this behind them and pray that it never comes out and have some sort of a normal life.  The problem is that the mother is only 15.  The father on the other hand was 18 and yes that’s young but there is no excuse for what he did.  I have no desire to know why he did it.  I am shocked that he lived long enough to be arrested.  I think if it had been me I would have killed him.  It’s hard enough for me to listen to DP yell at the boys when they need to be yelled at.  So, I can’t imagine what kind of rage went through the mother and family.  A friend of mine said she would like to hear what the 18year old father had to say and you know I really just don’t care why.  He and the mother created that baby girl and he just hurt her more than anyone ever could with his actions.  It’s one thing if she had gone through this by some stranger or extended family member but this was her father.  This is the man that created her and was supposed to love her and protect her from all the evil things in the world.  Yet he just became her worst nightmare.  The only thing I can put a positive on is that thank god she is so small she will never remember what happened and have to relive it for the rest of her life.  I pray that he goes to jail for life and that the other inmates beat the crap out of him daily and rape him every chance they can.  I hope he learns and feels the pain he put his baby girl through.  I hope he suffers for a long time.  I hope he comes to realize how unspeakable this act was and that one day after he has been forced to suffer over and over takes his own life.  After all, his life is now worthless because of his actions.  I pray that this baby girl never has to know the pain of what he did.  I pray that she makes it and grows up to be a healthy woman with a life filled with love and happiness.

Here is the link to the story:

http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story/Father-Charged-with-Rape-of-8-Day-Old-Baby/gWsjkpvEAUSWeDaSwofKRA.cspx

I decided to try to go back to work.  I keep hearing people talk about how hard it is to get a job and I have had 3 offers since we moved here in February.  The first was supposed to be a trainer position for a life insurance company but you had to start as a sales person first.  So, yeah that wasn’t going to happen.  The second one was to be a manager on duty for a local movie store.  They wanted to pay minimum wage and give 20 hours a week.  So once again that wasn’t going to happen.  Then I called a few Vet Clinics and what do you know I had a job.  I started on Tuesday morning.  It was just a receptionist position so this was something I could do in my sleep.  I have worked for the Army for years in Vet Clinic’s after all.  I am a quiet person at times but for the most part I like to talk and am usually the goofy one.  I make faces, skip in the halls, and do crazy silly things because I hang out with the kids all day and I think it’s just embedded in me.  But this was my first day and I was tired from being in the ER with Giggles all night.  So, knowing all the things that normally piss off the doctors I stayed up front and did the busy work.  You know the work that takes time but you never want to do.  I filed all the files from the morning clients and pulled the next days and got them in order as to how they were coming in.  I had been answering phones, and learning the computer system.  That was the funny part because at first the office manager told me she was going to wait to teach me but hey it’s slowing down and there wasn’t anything else for me to do so I started checking people out.  I had been sitting back taking note of everything, how the clinic ran and seeing where they needed a little work.  I noticed that the only time they talked was when it was to bitch about a client.  I noticed how they were somewhat rude to clients without being completely obvious.  I saw how they yelled across the counter to the clients instead of completely checking them.  There were a lot of little things that they could have done to make the clinic more efficient and run smother but it was my first day so I kept my mouth shut.  I figured in time I would bring up ideas but today was not the time.  Well lunch time came around and everyone went to lunch and I sat outside and ate and walked around the farm looking at the horses.  Then after lunch was over they started getting clients in again slowly so there wasn’t much to do and one of the receptionists asked me to come with her.  I followed her to the back and said cool you have something for me to do.  That was when she told me it wasn’t going to work out.  I looked at her and said what?  I am being fired?  Why?  I thought maybe I had pissed of a client or one of the doctors and waiting for the answer trying not to cry I was told the doctor said I was too quiet.  Too quiet!  It’s my first day it’s only been 4 hours.  What did she expect me to come in and be loud and obnoxious?  I know I was told they tried to tell her but apparently the doctor had made up her mind.  I was told sorry and that if she the doctor didn’t want me there than I didn’t want to be there either.  She would make my life hell they said.  I was upset and confused and then was told they would write me a check for my time.  What I don’t even want the money I told the receptionist.  I called DP all upset and told him what happened and he came to get me.  He had a hundred reasons of why and that it was BS and wanted to go in and yell at them.  He said no one gets fired on their first day.  Well I just did and it only took me 4 hours.  He tried to make me feel better and I love him for that and then he took me to his office where our friend who had the boys and my car was going to meet me.  Yeah I didn’t have a car I had decided that since the job was a two week trial that I would have a friend keep the boys, my car and take WC to school and just pick me up when I got off.  This way if it didn’t work out I could keep him in the same school and wouldn’t have to put either one of the boys through so much change for nothing.  I am glad I did it that way because WC doesn’t like change and this was going to give him time to get used to everything.  But in the end I didn’t have to change a thing.  I am contemplating looking again.  I really do like staying home and the freedom of not having a job but I would love the extra money.  I have called a few Vets in town and they all want me to come in and drop off a resume and fill out an application for when they do have an opening but I am not sure I want to.  I know the saying when the horse bucks you off get right back on.  I know that I should just suck it up and keep on trying but in the end I am not completely sure that working is what I want to do.  I want to go back to school and get my degree.  I want to work but I also love my time with the boys and I am just not sure I am ready to give that up.  Who knows only time will tell.  I just hope I can make it past 4 hours on the next one.           

There is a young girl that went missing not long after we moved here and her name was Haleigh Cummings.  She has been missing for 3 months now and they still have no signs of her.  She has stopped being reported on the news.   The news reported on her for only about a month.  I can’t imagine what it’s like to lose a child.  I feel for her parents and family.  My heart goes out to all people that have lost a child.  The thing that I don’t understand though is why we spend so much time listening to the news talking about Casey Anthony.  The news reports on her every time they air.  They call it the “Case against Casey.”  I understand that it’s an ongoing case but isn’t Haleigh’s case still ongoing.  I know they found Casey Anthony’s daughter and unfortunately it was too late to save her.  But when did we become so obsessed with a woman who may or may not have killed her own child when there are still missing kids out there.  Why is one child’s story more interesting or important than the other?  Why do we stop reporting on any missing child?  I think the news needs to stop talking so much about one woman whose daughter won’t be brought home safe and spend that time on the still missing children than maybe we could bring a few of those home.  It’s so bad now that the lawyers are talking about how Casey Anthony won’t get a fair trial because she is so well known.  I really think that sometimes the news stations don’t stop and think about the consequences of what they air.  I have heard them air stories here of a man in witness protection that just was in the wrong place at the wrong time.  I stopped dead in my tracks that day and thought I did not just hear that.  While it may be interesting didn’t anyone think of the consequences of what they just said?  If that was the case then it wouldn’t be too hard to track the man down now.  Which I would think that the man would need to be relocated now and who pays for it the government that’s already poor.  There have been many times I couldn’t believe what I heard from the news.  There have been times that they aired things about soldiers and deaths where the family hasn’t been notified first.  There have been times where they aired things about first responders and if the families had been watching the panic that would have come from it just doesn’t seem worth it.  I just don’t understand how some things make it on the news and why the news seems to have no common sense on some subjects.  I think that someone needs to step in and say as interesting as it maybe that some things should just be left unsaid and the world might be a better place.

What I want to know right now is who really cares if some magazine put a picture of Obama in a bathing suit on the cover?  When Bush fell of his bike it was all over the place.  I think Clinton fell when jogging and it was blasted.  He is the President, the most powerful man in the country and he is going to blasted all over every TV, newspaper, magazine, and it is something that comes with the job.  We may not like what is said or the attention that comes with the job, but we have this desire to know it all.  We want to be accepted, acknowledged, and in control.  We want to know if the postman is married and what his wife looks like.  So, where would we think that Obama would be any different?  Is there something somewhere that says he’s off limits just because he is the President?  Doesn’t that make us want to know more about the man?  I think the only thing the most people would agree on is that children are off limits.  But even then I remember pictures of Palin’s kid being pregnant all over the news and when she split with her boyfriend it was plastered.  There was even an interview on at least one major news show.  So, once again we may not like what is reported but we listen and we voice our opinions.  If the news was bland and nothing to really discuss one way or another then it wouldn’t be interesting and we wouldn’t watch it.  If you stop and think about it, the leading stories are always some kind of catch phrase to get you in an uproar and freak out so you will watch.  This is just another one of those things and people really should try to remember he is going to be looked at with a fine tooth comb for at least the next four years.  I remember within a month of him taking office the news reported on all his gray hair.  They even compared a picture from when he started running for office to the present time and pointed it out.  So, there wasn’t some stink because he isn’t using Just for Men.  So why do we care if he goes on vacation with his family and they take a picture of him in his bathing suit?  We should be glad that he is a family man and instead be concerned with everything else that’s going wrong in this crazy world we live in. 

I guess I just need to vent today.  I am sick of being pushed back and forth on the phone from one company to another.  There is the realtor, that can’t get an estimate for a fence that I need to replace.  I mean how hard is it really?  I can’t understand how some people can’t do something so simple.  I gave you the measurement, and told you everything I wanted.  I would think it would be easy to call a few companies and get a quote.  I guess not.  I have been asking for this information now for a month so I could get this done and make the tenants happy.  So, why is it that no one can follow a few simple instructions and get a straight answer?  I mean I shouldn’t be surprised.  I have been fighting with Tri Care and the doctor’s office for over a month now on Giggle’s appointment he had and why it’s not covered.  I understand why Tri Care isn’t covering it on their end but the doctor’s office is refusing to do their job and fix the claim so that it will be covered.  I guess I need to restate that, they are doing their job but they are taking their sweet time with it.  I called yet again today to get an answer and instead of them reprocessing it through the computer because it’s down they sent it snail mail.  Hello, can you explain why you couldn’t have sent it through a fax?  You did the paperwork if you mailed it and it would have only taken 5 days with a fax but now it’s in the snail mail as you put it.  He has a well baby appointment next week and Tri Care is saying they are not going to cover the appointment and the doctor’s office is saying it is.  So, tell me whom am I supposed to believe.  I mean I can’t say to Tri Care this time I didn’t know because they have been working with me to get it fixed.  I am at a loss of what to do.  I actually liked this doctor and don’t want to go through the paper work to get things changed and find a new one, but wow.  Where do I draw the line?  I feel bad because I am getting stressed out over things I can’t control and don’t want to lose it to the next person on the phone that says something stupid.  I have found that my patience on the phone now is a lot thinner than it used to be.  I am sure some of it is the fact that the kids are running around acting like fools trying to get attention even if they were perfectly fine right before I started talking.  Then there are the telemarketers that call and have accents that I can’t understand and they want to sell me something but have none of my information for a service they should.  Like for my warranties on my cars.  I started getting those calls about a month ago and I realized that my temper was so short with a guy because he had an accent that I couldn’t understand and then didn’t know which car he was talking about.  The poor guy switched me to someone else and I realized that I was more willing to talk and straighten things out because he spoke normal.  So, does that make me a phone racist?  Or was it because he wasn’t the little guy on the totem pole anymore?  I still wonder that.  I have to admit though I am sick of the phone ringing and I did put all our numbers on the do not call list.  I have even decided that the next time we move our number will be unlisted.  I am even considering having it removed now as we can pay a fee and the phone company will have it unpublished.  Who knows, but for now, my do not call list will be effective in a week and that should lower the amount of calls I get at home.  It won’t solve the other problems I am having with the doctors and the realtors but it’s a start.  I think my husband is about to take over with the doctor’s office which will be nice for me but crappy for them.  It usually takes a lot to get him irritated enough to get in and yell but I am getting nowhere with them so now they can have his wrath.  As for the realtor’s I am hoping that the tenants move out at the end of the year and I can list the damn house for sale and not have to do with the hassle anymore.  Then again maybe after the fence is fixed they will be happy and things will go smooth.  That is something I seriously doubt though since we seem to be stuck with Murphy’s Law where if it can go wrong it will.  This is where we have been at for the last few months if not longer and I am just waiting for that saying good things come to those who wait.  Well I am waiting, and praying that my time will come soon.      

I just read a blog on how there is a new game system coming out at the end of the year.  My first thought was great now DP will want this one too.  I swear I hate game systems.  I mean how many do we need?  How many times are they going to upgrade a system that you have to go out and spend a few hundred dollars on?  Can’t they make one really nice one that allows updates from home and you can play all systems games on?  It’s always this is better and now you can do this.  Can’t they make it a little easier too, like turn in your old system and get a big credit on the new one?  You know the type of credit that actually makes it worth it?  I am sure there are stores out there that do that, but I think they should make it easier.  It’s like every time I turn around I have to pay for an update or upgrade.  I am so sick of them it’s not funny.  Companies are just looking to make a fortune and for everyone else to go broke.  I don’t get it.  I spent a good bit of money on my GPS and it’s in need of an update.  Well, if I want the update I have to spend basically what I paid for life time updates or half for a one time update.  It’s insane.  I mean come on now.  I bought your product which I have a love hate relationship with because the thing loves to make me hate it and yet I won’t part with it.  But at those prices it’s almost worth it to buy a whole new system.  Oh and you can be sure I won’t buy yours again.  I will check them all out and find the one I want this time and not just the one that is available at the time.  It’s so annoying how people all want you to upgrade and tell you how better it is but what if I am happy with what I have now?  Why do we need to feel like we have the best of everything with top of the line items?  There are times I think when it’s okay to want the best.  But seriously, I think the people that make all this crap forget about the little people who can’t afford to buy every upgrade or update.  Some people really do have to save to buy things.  We need to stop trying to live up to others and be happy with what we have.  Companies need to realize that some things should be included with purchase and think about what people really need and find a way to make it happen.

In my recent surfing of the net I found a site on Facebook that does not support the troops.  Supporting the troops is a right that we have to do or not to do.  Many people will argue as to why you should and vice versa.  Most of the supporters will explain that it is because of the troops that we have our freedom of speech and so many other freedoms.  The troops in my opinion don’t care if you support them or not.  What they care is that they get to come home at the end of the day.  People join the military for different reasons but they join now because they want to.  There is no one standing there saying you have to join.  There is no longer a draft saying it’s your number they just called now get up there and sign.  They join on their own free will knowing that they may or may not go off to war.  That they may have to defend their freedom and freedom of others, and it’s what they have chosen to do.  They are not asking to be heroes or to be labeled.  They are given this by others.  If you don’t feel they are then that is your right.  Just as it is the right of the rest of this great nation to choose to call them heroes.  There is no law saying that you have to support them and no law should be made.  There is no law saying what you wear or put on your car, lawn, or body has to support them.  There is a law against hate groups.  Putting up a page on the internet saying that you hate a certain group of people is illegal.  Putting up a page saying that you hate what a group of people have been labeled is questionable at best.  This group clearly states that they don’t hate soldiers, just the fact they we as a nation have made them all out to be heroes.  They want to have t-shirts made to walk down the streets in protest.  Um, excuse me but I believe the KKK in my home town still walk the streets in their robes.  Does it make it right?  No, but that is a right they have.  The problem I have is the saying on the t-shirts.  Here are a few from their site.

 “Peterborough 2008: I was there”

“Soldiers are not heroes, footballers are”

“Proud not to murder civilians for a living”

“Everyone knows soldiers are best covered in egg”

“War is wrong… But don’t tell soldiers”

“I won’t stand behind the troops, neither will I stand in front of them”

“I was raped by soldiers and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”

“Soldiers don’t die for my freedom to wear this”

The second slogan is stupid if you ask me because, if you want to pick and chose like this than maybe they should find someone without a few criminals in them.  Like I don’t know maybe Michael Vic comes to mind with his dog fighting ring.  Then the third one portrays the possibility that they slay civilians for a living.  People are killed all over the world for different reasons but a soldier is not trained to kill civilians.  I am sure it happens and it’s not right but soldiers don’t just walk out into a street and start killing people at will.  It is unfortunate that innocent people are killed but what do you say to the victims of terrorist attacks.  How do you think we should fix it?  Maybe instead of making silly t-shirts and calling people names you should work on finding a solution where innocent people aren’t harmed.  The fourth is just silliness and disrespectful.  Didn’t your mother teach you better?  The fifth makes soldiers out to be stupid.  I am sure they don’t like being at war either but that is their job.  Someone has to try to keep the peace and that’s what they are doing.  The sixth makes you out to be the coward.  Here is where you are strong enough to bash them but yet you can only do that because they stood up for you.  The seventh is where I think I lose my mind.  That is like adding fuel to the fire.  I think they should have a right to sue you and your group for defamation of character.  The last slogan says that they don’t die for the right to wear that shirt but maybe they should think about it for a second and realize they already did.  We all know that every group has its bad seeds and no one is saying that soldiers are perfect.  We are all human and make mistakes.  They are just in the spotlight because we are at war.  The more I read the website and the information put out by this select group of people I want to scream.  I can understand the point they want to make.  I can actually see what they are trying to communicate.  Somewhere in there thought process they messed up and became a hate group.  This is something that is not accepted in today’s world.  A hate group is something that we all work to destroy because of the chaos and hurt they cause to innocent civilians.  Facebook says:

            Facebook Group Policy:
“Note: groups that attack a specific person or group of people (e.g. racist, sexist, or other hate groups) will not be tolerated. Creating such a group will result in the immediate termination of your Facebook account.”

So, my question is why is it still up?  Where do we draw the line on the content of a website?  Do we even want a line to be drawn?  If so then who gets to decide what is right and what is wrong?  Who gets to say what is acceptable and by who’s standards?  There are laws for almost everything now.  While I do not support this group I understand what they are trying to say.  I do think there are better ways to say this.  I think it is something that is not widely accepted and will get harsh criticism for.   I think that if they reworded it and had different slogans then it may not be such a big deal.  Our right to free speech and thinking is something we pride our country on and if we start to take that away what does that make us but hypocrites?  I think Facebook is a site that has more rights to remove content then just the basic website that can be started on the internet.  I think Facebook has a higher standard set by its users and they have every right to remove content of any kind.  It is something that you have to agree to adhere to when you become a member.  However anyone can pay a small fee and open up a website.  There you can post what you want as long as it’s not against the law.  Anything that is would be the site owner’s problem and then would be punishable by the federal government.  I think then it is up to the few select people that want to join the group to seek them out.  I personally don’t see them far behind the KKK or Hitler.  I think they are targeting a group of people because of nothing better to do than complain.  I almost feel they are jealous in a way.  Why else would it be such a big deal to call a Soldier a hero?  I think this is how a lot of groups start that claim to be peaceful and then along the way turn into something else.  I remember when the KKK marched down the streets and thought how can they do this?  It’s their right to protest and it’s this groups right to protest, but there is a correct way and a wrong way to do it.  I hope they find the right way before it becomes too late.    

It seems that every time I get Giggles to take a nap someone calls and wakes him up.  I want to turn the ringer off and start screening my calls.  I am getting fed up with people.  I have tried to put him down for a nap twice now.  As soon as he falls asleep the phone rings and then that’s it, he’s up.  I have also decided that from now on when we move our phone number will be unlisted.  I am sick of the telemarketers calling.  If they were friendly I would be a little less irritated by them all.  I think the first week we had nonstop phone calls from the neighborhood.  The minute I said we were renting they either hung up on me or just said ok and bye.  Now, I am getting calls for job interviews.  If they were jobs I was interested in then I wouldn’t mind that either.  Or if the people would be willing to answer a few questions first then I wouldn’t mind.  The lady that called today wanted to set up an interview for tomorrow morning and I said no, due to needing to work out a time with the husband to watch the kids.  I started to ask questions about the job and they didn’t want to answer them.  So, they hurried their little speech not letting me finish and said good bye.  I am finding more and more people are like that.  The minute you want to think about something or become more informed before making a decision then they either don’t want to talk to you or they want to push you into something.  They act as if it’s going to be the end of the world to not expect the offer right now.  If my cell phone worked out where we live I may just have the home phone shut off so that I wouldn’t have the problem.  Then again the last call came in on my cell phone.  I know they got my resume off line and that’s fine but if you aren’t willing to take the time to talk to me then why do I even want to come to an interview?  How would it be working for you?  I really don’t get people these days.  I almost want to just stay in my house and not deal with the world because it’s so full of stupid people.  That is unrealistic though.  They are everywhere and who knows some people may talk to me and think I am one of those stupid people.  I guess I will see what happens.  Giggles is up and playing nicely now and no nap is looking like a real possibility.  I guess I have to decide if I want my kid to nap or if I want the phone to ring for just another stupid person to call and piss me off all over again.  I think we are going to turn the ringers down first and see if that helps if not I will just have to turn them off.  Who knows I may get some peace then.