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The school where I work at as a Security Officer, now wants to start allowing the students who use the student housing to park for free. Now this you think should not be an issue. I can tell you now, it will be. We have over three (3,000) students at this school. All who at some point in time come to the main campus. Of those 3k maybe 500 to 600 (if that) live in student housing. Now imagine yourself as a student who lives off campus not in the housing but on your own and like a good student you pay for your parking everyday in the garage. You make the considered effort to do so. Then you find out that if you choose to live at the student dorm you can park for free. Now as it stands the school offers two choices to students who live at the dorms, they are given a bus pass (about an $80 value) or they are given $50 in parking tokens. So those who take the tokens, effectively do park for free. But they still pay to park, now they may be able to just park for free. The school is looking into another color parking sticker and the like for the dorm students. All I can say and see is trouble on the horizon. Hell, i have put forth a suggestion of just charging a quarterly rate to purchase and/or renew ones parking sticker and just get rid of the token machine all together, but is that even heard. Nope! Not once or at all.

Found this article while online about what a Judge here in the states has done. http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/blog/can-motherhood-be-criminalized-?src=OB_B278_Motherhood#fbid=a-yAgSirki8&src=OB_B278_Motherhood

He has ordered that this individual not get pregnant for the next ten (10) years. Question should a mother and/or father be forced by the court if they are found guilty of knowingly not stopping a case of abuse or even better allowing it to continue, not be allowed to have more children. Is this an inalienable human right to be allowed to procreate or is it a privilege that can be taken from a person? Also what would happen if a judge ordered that said individual be sterilized? What are your thoughts?

Intimacy a simple word but it also has a lot of meaning deep and shallow. As of late I have been pondering my issue with intimacy. I am concluding that there is varying levels of intimacy. For me I am noting a need for emotional intimacy. Emotional contact, need, desire and want. I am married, but my wife has a different set of needs in the intimacy she wants it as sexual intimacy. The need desire, want to be loved sexually. Where I, I need emotional intimacy. A need to be loved, validated and made to feel wanted, needed.

So I have been watching the Occupy Wall Street, and I cannot help but feel that these people reflect that which I was referring to. This is Humanity in all it's teeming masses.  These are the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of our teeming shore. These folks do not want a hand out. They want the ability to live, breath to know that each day they can go to work. That there job is going to be there. That they will be given a 'fair' chance at life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Folks this is Humanity writ Large, these protest that are happening now in the United States, this is the revolution that Corporate America fear's. It has taken over two weeks for the Media to even latch on to this and start running with it and even now they are being given the short shift on it as they are playing up how the protesters (who have peaceably assembled) are arrested en-mass. 

 

To those who march in the protests in New York and in other Major American cities, my brothers and sister's my fellow Americans, my fellow Humans I salute your courage, your bravery. Stay the course, show all what it means to be American's. Help us to wake up and put Humanity back in the fore front as part of the American Dream. For the American dream is not about a house, a car and 2.5 kids. It is about the ability to pursue Life and Liberty and Happiness, not at the expense of one another but for one another. 

    So I have been doing some thinking lately, about Humanity and I am forced to wonder what happened to it? The Soylana Scandal really should be considered a wake up call in the biggest sense. We as a people stand on a cusp of change or apathy depending on which way you want to go. The execs at Soylana are all pleading the fifth, because the money that was meant to go to the company to help it out did not go to the company. Where it went is not my issue, nor will I speculate about it.

    What I will speculate about though is the lack of Humanity exhibited by the execs of not only that company but also of those who run Big Oil, Big Energy, Big Government and the like. We have lost our Humanity, we have lost our compassion, reason, empathy to the idea of ME, MYSELF and I. While these companies come out with a big play on how this will change how mankind deals with the world. It is all smoke and mirrors, sound and fury which signifies nothing. What it all comes down to is the plain simple truth of how much can I get for me. 

    Gone are the days of a company who is run by people who want to do the greatest good for the people and take as little profit as they can. Don't get me wrong I am all for a reasonable profit. I am all for a company that can meet it's payroll, employee cost's, etc... etc... etc... However that cost should not come at the expense of the product that is being sold, or the way that it is helping the people. Solyana could have been the company of companies put out a low cost solar energy mirror's to every home in America. Lighten our dependence on Foreign Oil. But instead they are all interested in having their million dollar homes in Tahiti or what have you and to hell with the rest of us. We are Humanity Lost! 

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/08/18/octomom-asksprolife-icon


So apparently Natalie Sueliman wants to be a spokeswoman for Prolife.com. Uhm! 

    A couple of days ago, while reading over an article that was an opinion piece on the "Quiverfull Movement" I found the name and information on a Doctor in Texas who does Vasectomy Reversals. Now a normal Vasectomy runs about $10K in cost and that is normally for the Doctor consult, visit, lab tests and the like. This does not include the cost of the surgical unit and everything else. This Doctors states on his web site he can do a reversal for $3K and that it is his mission in life. Apparently said Doctor is a member of this movement and thinks that a reversal should be available to any male or couple who wants one. 
    So I have been thinking about it. I had a vasectomy done when my only child (Crystal) was born, I have no other biological off spring. Crystal is now twelve (12) I had the procedure done a year after she was born. So I am at eleven years since my nuts got snipped. Now I will be the first to point out I am not in any good shape financially to support more children. Also with out a committed partner in my life, I would be no more then either a "Bull" for studding purposes or to make a deposit at a Sperm bank and hope that a couple or a single lady thinks my profile is good enough for them.
    The reasons I would like to go through with this operation and get myself reconnected I can equally lay out. One I like kids, I have always wanted to be the dad with a small brood. Not in the way of the Duggar family but maybe three or four kids. I will also state I am into Pregnancy and everything about it, and it would be my hope that should I go through this procedure I would meet a woman who would share my interest. So the thought process is to stay snipped or not stay snipped?  My mood: a bit discontent

I am having a Dilemma and boy is it a dozy of a problem. Thing is I am not involved at least no directly in this specific issued. As some of you may already know or have been aware if you follow and chat with me, you know I am in the process of getting seperated from my wife (this is both our 2nd Marriages). This past Friday she was assaulted and forced to have sex with a man, whom she had gone too earlier in the week. Because her boy friend was not there for her. Long story short she and this dude had sex earlier in the week after this person had pursued her and shown interest in her for six weeks. The day after they had sex, he got all up in arms about how he couldnot continue to with it and broke it off. Only to have on Friday him force her tohave sex and he physically struck her. 

Now a small part of me is looking on this and saying good, glad she got what was coming to her. This is a very small part of me though (the petty and vindicitive side). The rest of me is watching and waiting for her to pull herself up and get back into the groove of things. But she is choosing to do nothing, she is not ignoring it, she is just doing nothing about it. For fear of what the ensuing issues and court cases will bring about. Since our seperation I have been looking more and more to fixing my own issues. I personally feel that she needs to step up and have said so. But it is frustrating to say the least that she seems paralyzed by this. I really have no idea what to do, except to be there for her and be a shoulder for her to cry on. As her boy friend seems to be a complete putz and while he has no time for her, if he has a problem she makes time for him. Oi!