If you are coming over from TOPIX to look at my blog - I invite you comment on the BLOG. I am going to post now all who leave a message - I feel that people should see what is said - but I will comment on what you have to say - that is the best way for me to communicate with everyone.
Good luck - enjoy the reading material.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Well - That is IT - I am now contagious!
This is BULLSHIT! Now they are trying to say that if you are thin and you are friends with an overweight person you have a greater chance of being overweight. Now you know you know why I put together this web page! This is crazy! Do they know what they did to the overweight child - as if they are not already made to feel like shit - now the kids will hear this and they will push them away because the little brainwashed youth will believe anything that is said.
I am outraged! What is next - smoking is contagious, drinking is contagious, being gay is contagious. PLEASE! Wake up people! Like I keep saying we are only steps away from a Hitler Nazi like country and with this new Contagious thing we just took a leap forward! It will be soon affect even the Anti-Smoking Anti-Fat Nazi's, then it will be too late!
**** I recived a comment on this post from someone named MARK - Well instead of posting your comment I decided to go in to detail with what you said -
"You don't have control of your life - it is everyone elses fault isn't it!"
I have control of my life - Thank you!
No - never said it was everyone else's fault - duh!
I am not one of those people who would go after fast food resturants because they "MADE ME FAT!" in fact I am one of the strange one that support the right of any resturant to serve what they want to serve - They have the freedom to have the most fatting items and people will still come in because guess what - diet food don't taste good because it is full of chemicals and other things that make you overweight. That was just on the news not to long ago and no I am not talking about fruit and vegetables picked fresh and untreated with pesticides and whatnot, before you anti's start!
I am overweight because of have a medical condition called Polycystic Ovarian Diease! Look it up and you will see what I am going through.
If most people would eat what an overweight person eats, they would think they are being straved to death. There are a couple of us that overeat - but most of the people who overeat is because of some stress in their life only now being compounded by the fact of the anti's call them names and pushing them to go deeper in a hole. Being a friend doesn't mean you need to call me "FAT ASS, BUBBLE BUTT, CHUNKY, FATTY, LAZY And many other names you people feel the need to call us!" It would be like us calling you SKINNY ASS, FLAT BUTT, NOODLE, AND WHIMPY! I want all of you skinny people to pick up a 100 pound weight attach it to your stomach then I want to see you work out also wearing a "FAT" suit. (If that is blaming others then kiss my butt.)
I can't blame myself but I can't blame my body and health for my weight issue, it is still me but removed to health and body. The blame only goes toward you is when you can't help but to say things that are not true about us - we can blame you for that.
Think about it like this - the whole post is about how overweight people are contagious via new scientific research - these are the same people who say eating something will help reduce your risk for cancer then a week later say the same thing causes cancer - hard to swallow isn't it!
So MARK - I hope this informs you about my stance - I hope you WAKE UP and see it all propaganda to single out certain populations for future concertration camps. Only a couple of steps away!
I am outraged! What is next - smoking is contagious, drinking is contagious, being gay is contagious. PLEASE! Wake up people! Like I keep saying we are only steps away from a Hitler Nazi like country and with this new Contagious thing we just took a leap forward! It will be soon affect even the Anti-Smoking Anti-Fat Nazi's, then it will be too late!
**** I recived a comment on this post from someone named MARK - Well instead of posting your comment I decided to go in to detail with what you said -
"You don't have control of your life - it is everyone elses fault isn't it!"
I have control of my life - Thank you!
No - never said it was everyone else's fault - duh!
I am not one of those people who would go after fast food resturants because they "MADE ME FAT!" in fact I am one of the strange one that support the right of any resturant to serve what they want to serve - They have the freedom to have the most fatting items and people will still come in because guess what - diet food don't taste good because it is full of chemicals and other things that make you overweight. That was just on the news not to long ago and no I am not talking about fruit and vegetables picked fresh and untreated with pesticides and whatnot, before you anti's start!
I am overweight because of have a medical condition called Polycystic Ovarian Diease! Look it up and you will see what I am going through.
If most people would eat what an overweight person eats, they would think they are being straved to death. There are a couple of us that overeat - but most of the people who overeat is because of some stress in their life only now being compounded by the fact of the anti's call them names and pushing them to go deeper in a hole. Being a friend doesn't mean you need to call me "FAT ASS, BUBBLE BUTT, CHUNKY, FATTY, LAZY And many other names you people feel the need to call us!" It would be like us calling you SKINNY ASS, FLAT BUTT, NOODLE, AND WHIMPY! I want all of you skinny people to pick up a 100 pound weight attach it to your stomach then I want to see you work out also wearing a "FAT" suit. (If that is blaming others then kiss my butt.)
I can't blame myself but I can't blame my body and health for my weight issue, it is still me but removed to health and body. The blame only goes toward you is when you can't help but to say things that are not true about us - we can blame you for that.
Think about it like this - the whole post is about how overweight people are contagious via new scientific research - these are the same people who say eating something will help reduce your risk for cancer then a week later say the same thing causes cancer - hard to swallow isn't it!
So MARK - I hope this informs you about my stance - I hope you WAKE UP and see it all propaganda to single out certain populations for future concertration camps. Only a couple of steps away!
Sunday, July 15, 2007
US vs NAZI's!
History lession:
When you look back in history and see what happen during the time of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi's, you will see the scary mirror vision here in America. It did this time start out with if you were a Democrat you were not a valid in the polictics of the day starting in 2001 when Bush took the presidency because of friends is high places helping him. Votes not counting and people unable to vote period. "Hanging Chad!"
Then they went to the smoking issues - Smoking is my RIGHT and I should be able to do that where I like with in reason. I respect having a SMOKING AREA but to be made to feel like a outlaw for something that is my RIGHT is so wrong. Then they started on the kids for being overweight - well I have news flash - when I was a kid we had something called RECESS something has been taken out of school. During my time the kids got to go out and play 3 times a day - two short 20 minute recesses and one 30 - 45 minute recess and sometimes we were out of an hour. Kids played and had imaginations - now the kids sit in front of a computer and the imagnation of play is gone. The lack of recess has caused us to drug our kids because the teacher could not handle the fact these kids want to stand up and not stay in a seat for 6 hours a day. Fake ADHD!
Now they are starting on the drinkers - arresting kids (which they should have not been drinking but they don't need a police record either unless they were driving and drunk.) The next big thing will be taxing BEER (the poor man's drink!)
They call this prohibition to the extreme - it didn't work in the 1930s now if we stand up and take back our RIGHTS!
This history lession - Nazi's did this exact same thing and you know what scares the hell out of me - I can see people being placed in camps and maybe even killed for being overweight, smoker, gay/lesibian, or what ever they find to be offensive to them.
Wake up people - Medical Insurance has not gone up because of obese, smokers ,drinkers or even gay or lesbian medical issues - it went up because they wanted it to - they are averting your eyes from them riping you off but putting the focus on us! They set the prices and you pay them. They are rolling in money! Trillions of dollars! They are not hurting! In fact they are hurting you! They deny your surgery and you die because of it! They are killers!
There is just so much to cover in blogs! I hope to say it all one day in one word - until then - I must rant on!
When you look back in history and see what happen during the time of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi's, you will see the scary mirror vision here in America. It did this time start out with if you were a Democrat you were not a valid in the polictics of the day starting in 2001 when Bush took the presidency because of friends is high places helping him. Votes not counting and people unable to vote period. "Hanging Chad!"
Then they went to the smoking issues - Smoking is my RIGHT and I should be able to do that where I like with in reason. I respect having a SMOKING AREA but to be made to feel like a outlaw for something that is my RIGHT is so wrong. Then they started on the kids for being overweight - well I have news flash - when I was a kid we had something called RECESS something has been taken out of school. During my time the kids got to go out and play 3 times a day - two short 20 minute recesses and one 30 - 45 minute recess and sometimes we were out of an hour. Kids played and had imaginations - now the kids sit in front of a computer and the imagnation of play is gone. The lack of recess has caused us to drug our kids because the teacher could not handle the fact these kids want to stand up and not stay in a seat for 6 hours a day. Fake ADHD!
Now they are starting on the drinkers - arresting kids (which they should have not been drinking but they don't need a police record either unless they were driving and drunk.) The next big thing will be taxing BEER (the poor man's drink!)
They call this prohibition to the extreme - it didn't work in the 1930s now if we stand up and take back our RIGHTS!
This history lession - Nazi's did this exact same thing and you know what scares the hell out of me - I can see people being placed in camps and maybe even killed for being overweight, smoker, gay/lesibian, or what ever they find to be offensive to them.
Wake up people - Medical Insurance has not gone up because of obese, smokers ,drinkers or even gay or lesbian medical issues - it went up because they wanted it to - they are averting your eyes from them riping you off but putting the focus on us! They set the prices and you pay them. They are rolling in money! Trillions of dollars! They are not hurting! In fact they are hurting you! They deny your surgery and you die because of it! They are killers!
There is just so much to cover in blogs! I hope to say it all one day in one word - until then - I must rant on!
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Protest in Indianapolis have gone well!
I am sitting here thinking - I started the protest off of the website www.topix.com - I mentioned the Boston Tea Party and they are going to have one down there in a couple of days. I can't help but to feel I had a part in putting it in someone mind. I have been off the net for a while for other issues. (Coming down with Depression) I feel okay today but hey that is what happens when you going through a divorce, been kicked out school due to GPA falling due to illness and much much more I dare not discuss due to the fact - that isn't want these blogs are for and no one really cares.
I am happy to watch the protest over property taxes. I believe they are trying it out in Indy because here where I live we have not gotten mine yet. My parents own the house so mine don't have homestead or other credits added in because my parent own both properties - no they are not making a profit on the second one. There needs to be loopols in this for the parent who wants to support thier kid. - Last years taxes were about $2,500 on a house worth only $55,000 - I am assuming that the taxes will be around $5,000 or more this year - just from shear fact of what I am seeing in Indy.
This needs to stop and our governor - MITCH DANIELS - will not bring the legislator in to special session and will not extend the time to pay. Some of these people put the taxes in to the payment for the house - They have found thiere mortgage to have gone up almost $500 a month. People are already having a hard time due to gas being so high, food prices going up, other taxes being added in at the worst time and plain feeling like we live in a Nazi State or Police State here in Indiana. If you are thinking about moving here don't. My grandparents just moved back here from Florida - They are about to leave here because of all the taxes and garbage - my grandmother lived in Indiana for 45 years before moving to Florida and now she says it is even bad for her. That says a lot to me that - it is bad even for her - The main reason why they moved up here is because she just wanted to be closer to my mom and family. She is getting older and that is the only reason why now she lives in Indiana.
What has happen to this world - you tell me!
I am happy to watch the protest over property taxes. I believe they are trying it out in Indy because here where I live we have not gotten mine yet. My parents own the house so mine don't have homestead or other credits added in because my parent own both properties - no they are not making a profit on the second one. There needs to be loopols in this for the parent who wants to support thier kid. - Last years taxes were about $2,500 on a house worth only $55,000 - I am assuming that the taxes will be around $5,000 or more this year - just from shear fact of what I am seeing in Indy.
This needs to stop and our governor - MITCH DANIELS - will not bring the legislator in to special session and will not extend the time to pay. Some of these people put the taxes in to the payment for the house - They have found thiere mortgage to have gone up almost $500 a month. People are already having a hard time due to gas being so high, food prices going up, other taxes being added in at the worst time and plain feeling like we live in a Nazi State or Police State here in Indiana. If you are thinking about moving here don't. My grandparents just moved back here from Florida - They are about to leave here because of all the taxes and garbage - my grandmother lived in Indiana for 45 years before moving to Florida and now she says it is even bad for her. That says a lot to me that - it is bad even for her - The main reason why they moved up here is because she just wanted to be closer to my mom and family. She is getting older and that is the only reason why now she lives in Indiana.
What has happen to this world - you tell me!
Monday, July 2, 2007
They really did exist!
MANY NON SMOKING PEOPLE - wonder where we - the smoker got a hold of the name -
ANTI-SMOKING NAZI - Well here is the proof! Enjoy!
Welcome To All Those Who Made The Trip HERE!
I am calling for peaceful protest to happen in Indianapolis at the Capitol Building. (You will have to pardon the spelling-) We need to go down there and meet there on a certain date - before that date contact the media - they will not hurt us as much as help us. I don't want to go to Jail! So this needs to be peaceful and friendly - in fact - what we should do is put tape over our mouths and carry signs saying everything we want to say. We will not block people from going to work or cause any harm what so ever - if we do - that will mean they win! If we go out of our way to be nice and make a point at the same time, then maybe we can make a point. This protest is for free health care (so I might call upon Michael Moore), Smokers Rights, Drinkers Rights and so on. Leave a comment here as to what you wish to protest about! If we get enough people together we can make a statement and not cost anyone a whole lot of money - like just enough to buy tape, posterboard, piece of wood, marker and the cost of parking and gas! That should be the only cost! If you get arrested for doing something good or bad I will not be held accountable for your actions! I don't have any money myself so you will be sueing - someone that could never pay! IF THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE PLANNED stay away! For all those people who are interested in peaceful protest comment to this blog entry! I might update as I find out more and everything.
I wish the best for everyone!
God help us all! I am not religious and somewhat blame religion for what is happening, but this sounds like we are about to embark on some type Nazi like state. We need to put a stop to it before it really is too late!
WHO IS WITH ME?
I wish the best for everyone!
God help us all! I am not religious and somewhat blame religion for what is happening, but this sounds like we are about to embark on some type Nazi like state. We need to put a stop to it before it really is too late!
WHO IS WITH ME?
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Smokers rights!
Smoking is a Right and a Pleasure - Might want to check out what is happening right now in Germany (Funny how history repeats there!) I want everyone to start growing their own Tobacco and rolling their own cigarettes. When they start taxing gardening then it will affect the nuts out there now saying - "YEAH LETS TAX THE SMOKERS!" - You must do it for no profit - Do it for yourself!
They sell Tobacco seeds on Ebay and if you could take a little trip down south - you can first get cheaper cigarettes and next - Tobacco plants.
Has anyone noticed that the tax isn't on the RICH MANS CIGARS but the POOR MANS CIGARETTES!
It is a poor tax - they are taxing the poor and middle class so they can live high on the hog! This too has to stop!
I know what the next tax will be - it will be on beer (not Liquor) and it will be per can. They will say - this is to provide health care for others and help prevent drunk driving. The next tax will be on snack foods - they too will say it will be for health care and prevent fat children.
We can grow our own hops and grains for beer - we can make our own snack foods with out them. The Prohibition Government has to go and we all need to wake up!
I am thinking about running for office! Turning all this back around - Getting Universal Health Care in - Cutting redundant government jobs and wasteful spending. People will again be able to smoke - but even as a smoker - we agree with the non-smoking areas - we understand - unlike most non-smokers - we want to live along side of you. I would get our people out of Iraq and never go back! We would start taking care of our own and not everyone else. Once we have our own taken care of - then we might help else where (except in case of things like tsunami's and hurricanes. We can send help!) You would not need a passport to go to Canada! Then wall between Mexico and us would go up and be manned! People that are here - would go home for good - even the children. The job's these farmers say we would not take - they would pay a living wage and we would work them!
I am sick and tired of everything that has happen since 9/11 in the name of protecting us! All I see is a color chart and the fact I have to take off my shoes!
OH YEAH One more thing - Gas would be cheaper - and the work on a gas-less car would be in the making and it would be cheap and small! People would be able to go on vacation and not have to take out a loan!
The minimum wage would be $15.00 hour! So we can buy what we export elsewhere! So we can have a collection of sand from different beaches from around the world (See Sicko!) - We would have a 35 hour work week so mom and dad can be with the kids - so they don't raise themselves.
Kids would get back RECESS! That would be three RECESSES a day - Two 15 and one 45 minutes long! ADHD would make made be gone! Kids would have to be in class from 7 am - 3:30 pm. like we were when we were kids. They would have ART and MUSIC! GYM would be back down to one day a week! Sports would not get all the money - Band, Choir, Drama and anything else the kids want to do - money would be there! They may still have to raise some of it but that is what your time in school is all about.
There would not be testing like it is now - You would not learn just to do well on a test - you would learn because it is interesting and fun! No more Zero Tolerance in School! No More Expelling a student for having a key chain plastic gun he got for his Birthday and accidentally brought it to school! No More Expelling for having an aspirin or cough drops in their locker during a search!
We have thrown the baby out with the bath water! It is time to retrieve the baby and take care of the child!
Who is with me!
They sell Tobacco seeds on Ebay and if you could take a little trip down south - you can first get cheaper cigarettes and next - Tobacco plants.
Has anyone noticed that the tax isn't on the RICH MANS CIGARS but the POOR MANS CIGARETTES!
It is a poor tax - they are taxing the poor and middle class so they can live high on the hog! This too has to stop!
I know what the next tax will be - it will be on beer (not Liquor) and it will be per can. They will say - this is to provide health care for others and help prevent drunk driving. The next tax will be on snack foods - they too will say it will be for health care and prevent fat children.
We can grow our own hops and grains for beer - we can make our own snack foods with out them. The Prohibition Government has to go and we all need to wake up!
I am thinking about running for office! Turning all this back around - Getting Universal Health Care in - Cutting redundant government jobs and wasteful spending. People will again be able to smoke - but even as a smoker - we agree with the non-smoking areas - we understand - unlike most non-smokers - we want to live along side of you. I would get our people out of Iraq and never go back! We would start taking care of our own and not everyone else. Once we have our own taken care of - then we might help else where (except in case of things like tsunami's and hurricanes. We can send help!) You would not need a passport to go to Canada! Then wall between Mexico and us would go up and be manned! People that are here - would go home for good - even the children. The job's these farmers say we would not take - they would pay a living wage and we would work them!
I am sick and tired of everything that has happen since 9/11 in the name of protecting us! All I see is a color chart and the fact I have to take off my shoes!
OH YEAH One more thing - Gas would be cheaper - and the work on a gas-less car would be in the making and it would be cheap and small! People would be able to go on vacation and not have to take out a loan!
The minimum wage would be $15.00 hour! So we can buy what we export elsewhere! So we can have a collection of sand from different beaches from around the world (See Sicko!) - We would have a 35 hour work week so mom and dad can be with the kids - so they don't raise themselves.
Kids would get back RECESS! That would be three RECESSES a day - Two 15 and one 45 minutes long! ADHD would make made be gone! Kids would have to be in class from 7 am - 3:30 pm. like we were when we were kids. They would have ART and MUSIC! GYM would be back down to one day a week! Sports would not get all the money - Band, Choir, Drama and anything else the kids want to do - money would be there! They may still have to raise some of it but that is what your time in school is all about.
There would not be testing like it is now - You would not learn just to do well on a test - you would learn because it is interesting and fun! No more Zero Tolerance in School! No More Expelling a student for having a key chain plastic gun he got for his Birthday and accidentally brought it to school! No More Expelling for having an aspirin or cough drops in their locker during a search!
We have thrown the baby out with the bath water! It is time to retrieve the baby and take care of the child!
Who is with me!
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
ADULT PLACES NEED ADULT THINGS
I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THESE STATES WHO HAVE BANNED SMOKING FROM BARS ALSO BANS DRINKING. THERE WILL BE BARS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS LEFT AND RIGHT WITH THESE NEW LAWS AND THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE GOING FOR. THEY WANT THE PLACES WERE THE POOR MAN GOES TO LET HIS OR HER HAIR DOWN TO BE PLACES THEY DON'T WANT TO GO BECAUSE THEY CAN'T BE 'ADULTS'.
I GO TO A BAR - I WANT TO DRINK, HAVE A CIGARETTE, MAYBE EAT SOME GRESSY SPOON COOKING AND JUST LET MY HAIR DOWN. I DON'T WANT TO WALK IN TO A BAR AND HAVE A SODA POP AND EAT SOME HEALTHY FOOD FROM A HOOT TOOTY COOK IN THE BACK AND PAY 100 TIMES AS MUCH FOR IT. EWWWW. I COULD GO TO A REGULAR RESTURANT FOR THAT FARE AND NOT A BAR.
ARE THEY GOING TO BAN MUSIC TOO. YOU KNOW IT IS COMING! IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME! WHY HAVE A BAR IF YOU CAN HAVE MUSIC! EXACTLY - THEY ARE TRYING TO BAN ALL THESE THINGS TO CLOSE DOWN BARS. THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT IS TAKING OVER THE NATION!!!
DID YOU SEE WHERE THEY ARE HAVING OVERWEIGHT CHILDREN BELITTLED BECAUSE THEY ARE OVERWEIGHT! CALLING THEM MORBID! I AM SORRY - IF SOMEONE IS FORCEING ME TO DO SOMETHING I WILL FALL SHORT OF BECOMING DEPRESSED AND COMMITTING SUCIDE. I LOVE HOW PEOPLE CHEER FOR SOMEONE THAT HAS LOST WEIGHT AND EMBRACE THEM. LIKE WE HAVE COME OVER TO THIER SIDE. I WOULD LOVE IT IF PEOPLE WOULD CHEER FOR ME TO WALK IN THE ROOM AND BEING HAPPY WITH MY SELF THE WAY I AM.
THESE CHILDREN NEED TO BE TREATING NICELY AND HAVE LOVE AROUND THEM. YOU CAN LOVE SOME ONE THIN BY MAKING THEM FEEL WELCOME AND FIXING THEIR MEALS FOR THEM - MAKING SURE IT IS THINGS THEY LIKE BUT IN LOWER AMOUNTS - I WAS SURPRISED WHEN I WENT ON WEIGHT WATCHERS - I ATE MORE THEN I EVER HAD BEFORE AND THEN STARTED TO LOSE WEIGHT. HUMM.
MOST OVERWEIGHT PEOPLE EAT BECAUSE PEOPLE AROUND US HAVE MADE US DEPRESSED AND FOOD COMFORTS US AND ACCEPTS US FOR US - IT DOESN'T MAKE FUN OF US OR TELL US WE ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH. IT DOESN'T LOOK AT AS FUNNY WHEN TRY OUR BEST TO EXERCISE!
I WOULD LIKE TO OPEN A THEME PART THAT HAS SMOKING, DRINKING, YOU CAN BE OVERWEIGHT AND STILL RIDE OUR RIDES, EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO COME AND MOST OF ALL - EVERYONE IS ACCEPTED! NO ONE MAKES FUN OF ANYONE ELSE! I KNOW I DREAM A LOT!
SMOKING HAS BEEN BANNED IN ILLINOIS! SO DON'T GO TO ILLINOIS OR ANY OTHER STATE WITH THAT TYPE OF LAW! I AM THINKING ABOUT CHECKING IN TO FRANCE OR SOME OTHER COUNTRY THAT YOU CAN SMOKE, DRINK, BE WHAT EVER YOU WANT TO BE AND NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT LOSING FREEDOMS. SOMETHING THAT HAS DISAPEARED FROM AMERICA!
I GO TO A BAR - I WANT TO DRINK, HAVE A CIGARETTE, MAYBE EAT SOME GRESSY SPOON COOKING AND JUST LET MY HAIR DOWN. I DON'T WANT TO WALK IN TO A BAR AND HAVE A SODA POP AND EAT SOME HEALTHY FOOD FROM A HOOT TOOTY COOK IN THE BACK AND PAY 100 TIMES AS MUCH FOR IT. EWWWW. I COULD GO TO A REGULAR RESTURANT FOR THAT FARE AND NOT A BAR.
ARE THEY GOING TO BAN MUSIC TOO. YOU KNOW IT IS COMING! IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME! WHY HAVE A BAR IF YOU CAN HAVE MUSIC! EXACTLY - THEY ARE TRYING TO BAN ALL THESE THINGS TO CLOSE DOWN BARS. THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT IS TAKING OVER THE NATION!!!
DID YOU SEE WHERE THEY ARE HAVING OVERWEIGHT CHILDREN BELITTLED BECAUSE THEY ARE OVERWEIGHT! CALLING THEM MORBID! I AM SORRY - IF SOMEONE IS FORCEING ME TO DO SOMETHING I WILL FALL SHORT OF BECOMING DEPRESSED AND COMMITTING SUCIDE. I LOVE HOW PEOPLE CHEER FOR SOMEONE THAT HAS LOST WEIGHT AND EMBRACE THEM. LIKE WE HAVE COME OVER TO THIER SIDE. I WOULD LOVE IT IF PEOPLE WOULD CHEER FOR ME TO WALK IN THE ROOM AND BEING HAPPY WITH MY SELF THE WAY I AM.
THESE CHILDREN NEED TO BE TREATING NICELY AND HAVE LOVE AROUND THEM. YOU CAN LOVE SOME ONE THIN BY MAKING THEM FEEL WELCOME AND FIXING THEIR MEALS FOR THEM - MAKING SURE IT IS THINGS THEY LIKE BUT IN LOWER AMOUNTS - I WAS SURPRISED WHEN I WENT ON WEIGHT WATCHERS - I ATE MORE THEN I EVER HAD BEFORE AND THEN STARTED TO LOSE WEIGHT. HUMM.
MOST OVERWEIGHT PEOPLE EAT BECAUSE PEOPLE AROUND US HAVE MADE US DEPRESSED AND FOOD COMFORTS US AND ACCEPTS US FOR US - IT DOESN'T MAKE FUN OF US OR TELL US WE ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH. IT DOESN'T LOOK AT AS FUNNY WHEN TRY OUR BEST TO EXERCISE!
I WOULD LIKE TO OPEN A THEME PART THAT HAS SMOKING, DRINKING, YOU CAN BE OVERWEIGHT AND STILL RIDE OUR RIDES, EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO COME AND MOST OF ALL - EVERYONE IS ACCEPTED! NO ONE MAKES FUN OF ANYONE ELSE! I KNOW I DREAM A LOT!
SMOKING HAS BEEN BANNED IN ILLINOIS! SO DON'T GO TO ILLINOIS OR ANY OTHER STATE WITH THAT TYPE OF LAW! I AM THINKING ABOUT CHECKING IN TO FRANCE OR SOME OTHER COUNTRY THAT YOU CAN SMOKE, DRINK, BE WHAT EVER YOU WANT TO BE AND NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT LOSING FREEDOMS. SOMETHING THAT HAS DISAPEARED FROM AMERICA!
Saturday, June 23, 2007
BEWARE OF WOLVES!
NO THERE ISN'T GLOBAL WARMING (READ ON) - IT IS ALWAYS 90 DEGREE'S HERE IN INDIANA!!! NO WE GO FOR LONG TIMES WITHOUT RAIN! NO WE ALWAYS HAVE BAD STORMS WHEN WE GET THEM! AGAIN WE ARE MISTREATING MORE THEN EACH OTHER BUT THE PLANET WE CALL HOME. THIS SOON WILL PROBABLY KILL MANY OF US. JUST HAVE TO LOOK BACK AT PAST DISASTERS. YOU KNOW IT IS FUNNY THAT WE HAVE AN ALMOST EXACT OR ROUND ABOUT TOTAL FOR DEATHS FROM THE TSUNAMI BUT WE STILL DON'T HAVE DEATH NUMBERS FOR KATRINA!!!! IF YOU KNOW WHERE TO LOOK THEM UP PLEASE DO SHARE.
I WANT EVERYONE OUT THERE TO WATCH THE MOVIE SICKO. YOU WILL SEE WHO REALLY IS WORKING FOR WHO WHEN YOU WATCH IT. IT IS SO SAD TO KNOW WE KILL OUR OWN JUST TO SAVE MONEY!!!! I KNOW I HAVE CRONIC CONDITIONS THAT IF I EVER GET INSURANCE THEY WILL NOT COVER PROBABLY. I AM ALSO OVERWEIGHT WHICH AGAIN THEY WILL NOT COVER ME - EVEN IF IT IS MEDICALLY MADE AS WITH POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN DIEASE. WHICH WILL CAUSE WONDERFUL THINGS LIKE CANCER OF THE OVARIES AND UTERIOUS! DIABETES (THAT IS NOT A IF BUT WHEN.) AND THE WEIGHT ISSUES! I HAVE LOW COLESTERAL AND LOW BLOOD SUGAR. I AM HEALTHY BUT BECAUSE I WEAR THIS SPARE TIRE YOU STUPIED PEOPLE KEEP WANTING ME TO LOSE WEIGHT. I CAN'T LOSE IT WITH THE CONDITION I HAVE.
I HAVE HAD A DOCTOR REFUSE TO TREAT ME BECAUSE OF MY WEIGHT - I HAD NOT LOSS ENOUGH FOR HIM TO CARE WHEN I AM DOUBLE OVER IN PAIN WITH A RUPTURED OVARIAN CYST!!!! I WASN'T THIN ENOUGH FOR HIM TO CONFIRM THAT I HAD A CYST RUPTURE AND GIVE ME SOME SORT OF PAIN MEDICATION.
I AM MOVING TO CANADA SOON - LIKE WITH IN FIVE YEARS. I WANT TO GIVE UP MY UNITED STATE CITIZENSHIP BECAUSE I FEEL VERY UNWELCOME HERE ANYMORE. IF YOU ARE NOT RICH OR HAVE A GOOD JOB (WHICH ONLY GO TO THE PERFECT PEOPLE) YOU NEED NOT EXIST! PLEASE WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE PEOPLE WE WILL DIE HERE - PEOPLE ALREADY ARE!
I WANT EVERYONE OUT THERE TO WATCH THE MOVIE SICKO. YOU WILL SEE WHO REALLY IS WORKING FOR WHO WHEN YOU WATCH IT. IT IS SO SAD TO KNOW WE KILL OUR OWN JUST TO SAVE MONEY!!!! I KNOW I HAVE CRONIC CONDITIONS THAT IF I EVER GET INSURANCE THEY WILL NOT COVER PROBABLY. I AM ALSO OVERWEIGHT WHICH AGAIN THEY WILL NOT COVER ME - EVEN IF IT IS MEDICALLY MADE AS WITH POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN DIEASE. WHICH WILL CAUSE WONDERFUL THINGS LIKE CANCER OF THE OVARIES AND UTERIOUS! DIABETES (THAT IS NOT A IF BUT WHEN.) AND THE WEIGHT ISSUES! I HAVE LOW COLESTERAL AND LOW BLOOD SUGAR. I AM HEALTHY BUT BECAUSE I WEAR THIS SPARE TIRE YOU STUPIED PEOPLE KEEP WANTING ME TO LOSE WEIGHT. I CAN'T LOSE IT WITH THE CONDITION I HAVE.
I HAVE HAD A DOCTOR REFUSE TO TREAT ME BECAUSE OF MY WEIGHT - I HAD NOT LOSS ENOUGH FOR HIM TO CARE WHEN I AM DOUBLE OVER IN PAIN WITH A RUPTURED OVARIAN CYST!!!! I WASN'T THIN ENOUGH FOR HIM TO CONFIRM THAT I HAD A CYST RUPTURE AND GIVE ME SOME SORT OF PAIN MEDICATION.
I AM MOVING TO CANADA SOON - LIKE WITH IN FIVE YEARS. I WANT TO GIVE UP MY UNITED STATE CITIZENSHIP BECAUSE I FEEL VERY UNWELCOME HERE ANYMORE. IF YOU ARE NOT RICH OR HAVE A GOOD JOB (WHICH ONLY GO TO THE PERFECT PEOPLE) YOU NEED NOT EXIST! PLEASE WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE PEOPLE WE WILL DIE HERE - PEOPLE ALREADY ARE!
Sunday, June 17, 2007
PSYCHOLOGY OF C.M.R.
THIS IS ANOTHER REPORT I WROTE FOR MY PSYCHOLOGY CLASS! ENJOY!
Psychology of C. M. R.
During the late 19th century, a "clean living" movement emerged in the U.S. dominated by efforts to prohibit alcohol consumption, tobacco use, and manipulate females' reproductive health. The movement also advocated proper diet, exercise and physical fitness, pure water, and no caffeine and moderation red meat consumption. Remarkably similar concerns have emerged again in contemporary American society. (Engs, 155)
New York City in March 2003, Mayor Michael Bloomberg banned smoking in bars and restaurants. (Hill, 2004) This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to bans on smoking in America. In Georgia, employers can out right restrict your from smoking on and off the job. This is legal as long as the employer informs the employee of this when taking the job. (United Pro Choice Smokers Rights, 2004) In addition, in August 2002, if you are in a custody battle with your spouse, your spouse can take your child away from you if you smoke in your children’s presence. (ASH, 2002)
In November 2003, Southwest Airlines endorsed a policy of if your over 30 pounds over your idea weight, you will need to purchase an additional seat on their airlines. (Southwest Airlines Homepage, 2004) President Bush entered the fight against overweight Americans in 2002. President Bush is imposing taxes on soft drinks, regulating vending machines in schools, and restricting the snack and other food items that could be harmful to obese Americans. (Keifer, 2002)
In recent years, many states have lowered their legal limit on how much you can drink before driving from .10 down to .08. If you were to have a beer at dinner you would be consider legally impaired to drive. You would be facing many thousands of dollars in fines and imprisonment for drinking one single beer during dinner. (MADD, 2004)
The National Right to Life website states that, “A new individual human being begins at fertilization, when the sperm and ovum meet to form a single cell.” They also believe that a rape or incest victim should care that child to full term. They want to ban all forms of abortion in America for any reason even if the mother’s life is in danger. (Right to Life, 2004)
Since 9/11, passing through an airport to get to your plane has changed. Additional screening occurs when an individual sets off the alarm on the metal detector, or if he or she is selected for the additional screening. (You know the old woman with a cane that can hardly walk.) This screening includes a hand-wand inspection in conjunction with a pat-down inspection that includes the torso. This pat down search is very through and includes their placing fingers under the breast of men and women. (TSA, 2004)
Since the mid 90’s, our children have been told, “If your child acts up in school, you might be placed on Ritalin for ADHD.” Here are a couple of symptoms of ADHD:
Inattention: where a person often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes, often has difficulty sustaining attention in tasks, often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly, or often does not follow through on instructions.
Tasks: Where a person often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities, often avoids, dislikes or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort, often loses things necessary for tasks or activities, often easily gets distracted by extraneous stimuli, or is often forgetful in daily activities.
Hyperactivity: Where a person often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat, often feels restless, often has difficulty engaging in leisure activities quietly, or often talks excessively.
Impulsivity: Where a person often blurts out answers before questions have been completed, or often interrupts or intrudes on others. (Adhdnews, 2004)
When looking at these I can see a normal child doing these things and often. I wonder if we are placing these children in a box so we can make them in to little adults or so they will not be a hassle to an uncaring teacher.
Michael Bloomberg recently signed a bill raising the city's cigarette tax from 8 cents to $1.50 a pack. With a state tax of $1.50, the highest in the country, New Yorkers were already paying more for cigarettes than other Americans. Now the price of some brands is more than $7, nearly twice the national average. Thanks to Michael Bloomberg and the New York City Council, the potential earnings for terrorists have multiplied due to smugglers bring cigarettes in to the city.
The tax hike was a revenue measure. "City officials say the new tax will bring a much-needed $111 million into the city's coffers this year," The New York Times reported, "helping plug a budget shortfall of nearly $5 billion." (Sullum, 2002)
Since President Bush has been placed in office, gas prices have gone up by 100%, from a low in of $0.99 in the beginning of 2001, with $21.00 a barrel for oil. Now it is $55.00 (+) per barrel of oil and $2.00 (+) for gas. President Bush has ties to OPEC oil producing nations (including a direct tie to the Bin Laden family.) You would believe that oil and gas prices would be at an all time low. (OPEC, 2004)
If you are overweight or obese in American, you have to pay more for your clothes and products like airline seats. Some people feel the need to reduce the amount of food on your plate for you but you are still paying the same price as the thinner person. (Ponderosa, 2004). President Bush wants to put in measures so if you are overweight or obese companies do not have to hire you for a job, just because of your weight. If you are overweight or obese, many doctors will not treat you for your any illness until you lose weight, even if that illness is causing weight gain (Polycystic Ovarian Disease).
(Dr. McCrudy, 2001)
The drug companies and doctors want you to spend more then what you earn for your treatment and medication. If you are ill in American you have to pay at the very least $150.00 to see a doctor that will on average spend five minutes with you, send you to the drug store to buy medication that cost another $100.00.
Many Americans cannot afford to do that, so they self-medicate, until they reach a point were they cannot handle the illness they have and go to the emergency room at the local hospital. This were again you have to pay $400.00 (+) just too see a doctor that will only see you for on average three minutes in the emergency room and send you home with a prescription for medication that will cost around $150.00 (+).
Since President Bush took office in 2001, the United States went from having a surplus in the deficient to record national debt. People have lost their jobs or have lost benefits on the job like Medical Insurance and Vacation Time. President Bush put in place tax cuts for people making over $200,000 a year. President Bush would like now to hike taxes on the poor and middle class Americans. Making middle class and poor pay for the rich tax cuts that caused the deficient in the first place.
This is what happens when one side takes over America:
Christian Coalition of America's Agenda
for the 108th Congress (2003-2004):
1. Making permanent President Bush's 2001 federal tax cuts, including the marriage penalty tax cut
Helping the president pass his tax cuts including the successful 2001 tax cut bill in the amount of $1.3 trillion and the $330 billion tax cut bill in 2003, which will actually be an $800 billion tax cut if not allowed to expire. So far, most say President Bush has got passed over $2 trillion in tax cuts.
2. Getting votes in the first session of the 108th Congress to confirm President Bush's judicial nominations.
Liberal filibusters are either being conducted or are anticipated against Miguel Estrada, Priscilla Owen, William Pryor, Carolyn Kuhl, and Charles Pickering, judicial nominees to the Circuit Court of Appeals. Miguel Estrada's nomination has been filibustered by the Senate for over 6 months and the filibuster of Justice Priscilla Owen is in the 4th month.
3. Help pass Senator Charles Schumer's bipartisan 'Stop Pornography and Abusive Marketing Act,' the SPAM Act, S. 1231.
Democrat Senator Schumer and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham want to stop junk emails with links to pornographic websites. The SPAM Act will mandate jail time for repeat offenders; establish costly fines for spamming activity; create a "Do-Not-Spam" list of email addresses.
4. Passing Senator Lindsey Graham's and Congressman Joe Wilson's 'Holy Sites' resolution
Senator Graham's resolution, S.Con.Res.32 and Congressman Wilson's H.Con Res.150 addresses the protection of religious sites mainly in and near Israel and the freedom of access and worship in these sites.
5. Passing Majority Whip Roy Blunt's and Democrat Congressman Harold Ford's 'Charitable Giving Act of 2003,' H.R. 7.
Their bill now has 80 co-sponsors and just one of their bill's provisions would mean an additional $4.3 billion in giving to American charities.
6. Passing Congressman Spencer Bachus' and Senator Jon Kyl's 'Internet Gambling Enforcement Act'.
Congressman Spencer Bachus' "Unlawful Internet Gambling" bill, H.R. 2143, passed in the U.S. House by a margin of 319-104.
7. Getting a vote on Congressman Henry Brown's 'Child Pornography Prevention Constitutional Amendment' in both the House and Senate.
Congressman Brown introduced his constitutional amendment in Washington D.C. in July and will do likewise in Charleston S.C. in August.
8. Passing Congressman Walter Jones' 'Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act.'
Congressman Jones' bill, H.R. 235, got around 175 votes in the House last year and is expected to pass this year. It now has over 160 co-sponsors. This bill does not affect the campaign finance law passed.
9. Passing Congressman Robert Aderholt's 'Ten Commandments Display Act', H.R. 2045
Congressman Aderholt's states' rights bill gives the individual States the power to decide whether or not to display the Ten Commandments on or within publicly owned buildings and the bill does not mandate that they be displayed. The bill now has over 60 co-sponsors.
10. Passing the anti-cloning bill, including Senator Sam Brownback's bill in the U.S. Senate
The House passed the bipartisan bill sponsored by Congressmen Dave Weldon and Bart Stupak on February 27, 2003 by a margin of 241-155. Senator Orrin Hatch has a competing bill. Probable outcome: stalemate.
11. Passing Congresswoman Melissa Hart's and Senator Mike DeWine's 'Unborn Victims of Violence Act'
(called the "Laci and Connor's" in the U.S. House.) Congresswoman Hart's bill, H.R. 1997, has over 130 co-sponsors and Senator DeWine's bill, S. 146 has 34 co-sponsors. Their bill would prosecute as a separate offense those who engage in conduct which causes the death or bodily injury of a child - in a mother's womb.
12. Passing the 'Child Custody Protection Act in the House and Senate
(i.e. protecting parental notification rights for abortions on minors.) Senator John Ensign's bill, S.851 has 23 co-sponsors and would "prohibit taking minors across state lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents on abortion decisions." Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's bill which is similar to the Senate bill has 89 co-sponsors.
13. Getting a vote on Congressman Ernest Istook's 'Prayer and Pledge' Constitutional Amendment
Congressman Istook's bill, H.J. Res. 46, which proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States restoring religious freedom has 95 co-sponsors.
14. Support Support Congressman Frank Lucas' 'Pledge of Allegiance Constitutional Amendment'
Congressman Lucas' bill, H.J. Res. 26, proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to protect the Pledge of Allegiance. It has two co-sponsors.
15. Support Congressman Todd Akin's 'Hands off the Pledge of Allegiance, Federal Courts' bill
Congressman Akin has 218 co-sponsors, including the Speaker of the House, "To amend title 28, United States Code, with respect to the jurisdiction of Federal courts inferior to the Supreme Court over certain cases and controversies involving the Pledge of Allegiance.
16. Prohibit special civil rights protection based on sexual preference/'domestic partners'.
17. Supporting legislation allowing parental choice in education
(vouchers/tax credits/scholarship tax credits, etc.)
18. Supporting legislation barring adoptions of children by homosexuals
19. Supporting legislation prohibiting the physical desecration of the flag of the United States of America.
(Christian Coalition of America's Agenda, 2004)
I felt the need to add to this to my report because it is very in what is happening today. President Bush has a web site called: www.presidentialprayerteam.org . This website has a government seal at the top. When did it become okay for a sitting President to push is own Doctrine? When did the fundamentalist become the majority in America? When did it become okay to tell a person that they could not smoke, drink, be overweight, gay or any other FREEDOMS that we had before 9/11 or President Bush came in to office?
If you have not figured it out, The Psychology of C.M.R.
C is for Control. Controlling the population of any given country is similar to what happen in World War II with the Germans and Hitler also in the 1990’s with Osama Bin Laden and Taliban.
M is for Money
In taxing the poorest of the population so the highest can live beyond their needs, you strip the country of its wealth.
R is for Religion.
When you combine Control, Money and Religion together you get a state that is power hungry (War in Iraq, controlling the populations thoughts and feeling.), and that will do almost anything to put what they are doing on other nations. (Bush Doctrine of Democracy.)
The reason why this has anything to do with Psychology at all is because. We live in this everyday your level of stress raises, your fears come to the surface. I remember when there was not this much worry or fear. It was over 4 years ago before President Bush took office in an underhanded way.
In a side note, On the Jay Leno show this last week was Michael Moore. He was in a suit and tie, he looked frighten. He did not have much to say about the election and only boasted about the tax cut the people who make more then $200,000 a year. I believe he was probably threaten in someway not speak any more about President Bush on the air.
**** UPDATE MICHEAL MOORE HAS A NEW MOVIE COMING OUT CALLED SICKO - IT SOUNDS WONDERINGFUL.
Psychology of C. M. R.
During the late 19th century, a "clean living" movement emerged in the U.S. dominated by efforts to prohibit alcohol consumption, tobacco use, and manipulate females' reproductive health. The movement also advocated proper diet, exercise and physical fitness, pure water, and no caffeine and moderation red meat consumption. Remarkably similar concerns have emerged again in contemporary American society. (Engs, 155)
New York City in March 2003, Mayor Michael Bloomberg banned smoking in bars and restaurants. (Hill, 2004) This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to bans on smoking in America. In Georgia, employers can out right restrict your from smoking on and off the job. This is legal as long as the employer informs the employee of this when taking the job. (United Pro Choice Smokers Rights, 2004) In addition, in August 2002, if you are in a custody battle with your spouse, your spouse can take your child away from you if you smoke in your children’s presence. (ASH, 2002)
In November 2003, Southwest Airlines endorsed a policy of if your over 30 pounds over your idea weight, you will need to purchase an additional seat on their airlines. (Southwest Airlines Homepage, 2004) President Bush entered the fight against overweight Americans in 2002. President Bush is imposing taxes on soft drinks, regulating vending machines in schools, and restricting the snack and other food items that could be harmful to obese Americans. (Keifer, 2002)
In recent years, many states have lowered their legal limit on how much you can drink before driving from .10 down to .08. If you were to have a beer at dinner you would be consider legally impaired to drive. You would be facing many thousands of dollars in fines and imprisonment for drinking one single beer during dinner. (MADD, 2004)
The National Right to Life website states that, “A new individual human being begins at fertilization, when the sperm and ovum meet to form a single cell.” They also believe that a rape or incest victim should care that child to full term. They want to ban all forms of abortion in America for any reason even if the mother’s life is in danger. (Right to Life, 2004)
Since 9/11, passing through an airport to get to your plane has changed. Additional screening occurs when an individual sets off the alarm on the metal detector, or if he or she is selected for the additional screening. (You know the old woman with a cane that can hardly walk.) This screening includes a hand-wand inspection in conjunction with a pat-down inspection that includes the torso. This pat down search is very through and includes their placing fingers under the breast of men and women. (TSA, 2004)
Since the mid 90’s, our children have been told, “If your child acts up in school, you might be placed on Ritalin for ADHD.” Here are a couple of symptoms of ADHD:
Inattention: where a person often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes, often has difficulty sustaining attention in tasks, often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly, or often does not follow through on instructions.
Tasks: Where a person often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities, often avoids, dislikes or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort, often loses things necessary for tasks or activities, often easily gets distracted by extraneous stimuli, or is often forgetful in daily activities.
Hyperactivity: Where a person often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat, often feels restless, often has difficulty engaging in leisure activities quietly, or often talks excessively.
Impulsivity: Where a person often blurts out answers before questions have been completed, or often interrupts or intrudes on others. (Adhdnews, 2004)
When looking at these I can see a normal child doing these things and often. I wonder if we are placing these children in a box so we can make them in to little adults or so they will not be a hassle to an uncaring teacher.
Michael Bloomberg recently signed a bill raising the city's cigarette tax from 8 cents to $1.50 a pack. With a state tax of $1.50, the highest in the country, New Yorkers were already paying more for cigarettes than other Americans. Now the price of some brands is more than $7, nearly twice the national average. Thanks to Michael Bloomberg and the New York City Council, the potential earnings for terrorists have multiplied due to smugglers bring cigarettes in to the city.
The tax hike was a revenue measure. "City officials say the new tax will bring a much-needed $111 million into the city's coffers this year," The New York Times reported, "helping plug a budget shortfall of nearly $5 billion." (Sullum, 2002)
Since President Bush has been placed in office, gas prices have gone up by 100%, from a low in of $0.99 in the beginning of 2001, with $21.00 a barrel for oil. Now it is $55.00 (+) per barrel of oil and $2.00 (+) for gas. President Bush has ties to OPEC oil producing nations (including a direct tie to the Bin Laden family.) You would believe that oil and gas prices would be at an all time low. (OPEC, 2004)
If you are overweight or obese in American, you have to pay more for your clothes and products like airline seats. Some people feel the need to reduce the amount of food on your plate for you but you are still paying the same price as the thinner person. (Ponderosa, 2004). President Bush wants to put in measures so if you are overweight or obese companies do not have to hire you for a job, just because of your weight. If you are overweight or obese, many doctors will not treat you for your any illness until you lose weight, even if that illness is causing weight gain (Polycystic Ovarian Disease).
(Dr. McCrudy, 2001)
The drug companies and doctors want you to spend more then what you earn for your treatment and medication. If you are ill in American you have to pay at the very least $150.00 to see a doctor that will on average spend five minutes with you, send you to the drug store to buy medication that cost another $100.00.
Many Americans cannot afford to do that, so they self-medicate, until they reach a point were they cannot handle the illness they have and go to the emergency room at the local hospital. This were again you have to pay $400.00 (+) just too see a doctor that will only see you for on average three minutes in the emergency room and send you home with a prescription for medication that will cost around $150.00 (+).
Since President Bush took office in 2001, the United States went from having a surplus in the deficient to record national debt. People have lost their jobs or have lost benefits on the job like Medical Insurance and Vacation Time. President Bush put in place tax cuts for people making over $200,000 a year. President Bush would like now to hike taxes on the poor and middle class Americans. Making middle class and poor pay for the rich tax cuts that caused the deficient in the first place.
This is what happens when one side takes over America:
Christian Coalition of America's Agenda
for the 108th Congress (2003-2004):
1. Making permanent President Bush's 2001 federal tax cuts, including the marriage penalty tax cut
Helping the president pass his tax cuts including the successful 2001 tax cut bill in the amount of $1.3 trillion and the $330 billion tax cut bill in 2003, which will actually be an $800 billion tax cut if not allowed to expire. So far, most say President Bush has got passed over $2 trillion in tax cuts.
2. Getting votes in the first session of the 108th Congress to confirm President Bush's judicial nominations.
Liberal filibusters are either being conducted or are anticipated against Miguel Estrada, Priscilla Owen, William Pryor, Carolyn Kuhl, and Charles Pickering, judicial nominees to the Circuit Court of Appeals. Miguel Estrada's nomination has been filibustered by the Senate for over 6 months and the filibuster of Justice Priscilla Owen is in the 4th month.
3. Help pass Senator Charles Schumer's bipartisan 'Stop Pornography and Abusive Marketing Act,' the SPAM Act, S. 1231.
Democrat Senator Schumer and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham want to stop junk emails with links to pornographic websites. The SPAM Act will mandate jail time for repeat offenders; establish costly fines for spamming activity; create a "Do-Not-Spam" list of email addresses.
4. Passing Senator Lindsey Graham's and Congressman Joe Wilson's 'Holy Sites' resolution
Senator Graham's resolution, S.Con.Res.32 and Congressman Wilson's H.Con Res.150 addresses the protection of religious sites mainly in and near Israel and the freedom of access and worship in these sites.
5. Passing Majority Whip Roy Blunt's and Democrat Congressman Harold Ford's 'Charitable Giving Act of 2003,' H.R. 7.
Their bill now has 80 co-sponsors and just one of their bill's provisions would mean an additional $4.3 billion in giving to American charities.
6. Passing Congressman Spencer Bachus' and Senator Jon Kyl's 'Internet Gambling Enforcement Act'.
Congressman Spencer Bachus' "Unlawful Internet Gambling" bill, H.R. 2143, passed in the U.S. House by a margin of 319-104.
7. Getting a vote on Congressman Henry Brown's 'Child Pornography Prevention Constitutional Amendment' in both the House and Senate.
Congressman Brown introduced his constitutional amendment in Washington D.C. in July and will do likewise in Charleston S.C. in August.
8. Passing Congressman Walter Jones' 'Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act.'
Congressman Jones' bill, H.R. 235, got around 175 votes in the House last year and is expected to pass this year. It now has over 160 co-sponsors. This bill does not affect the campaign finance law passed.
9. Passing Congressman Robert Aderholt's 'Ten Commandments Display Act', H.R. 2045
Congressman Aderholt's states' rights bill gives the individual States the power to decide whether or not to display the Ten Commandments on or within publicly owned buildings and the bill does not mandate that they be displayed. The bill now has over 60 co-sponsors.
10. Passing the anti-cloning bill, including Senator Sam Brownback's bill in the U.S. Senate
The House passed the bipartisan bill sponsored by Congressmen Dave Weldon and Bart Stupak on February 27, 2003 by a margin of 241-155. Senator Orrin Hatch has a competing bill. Probable outcome: stalemate.
11. Passing Congresswoman Melissa Hart's and Senator Mike DeWine's 'Unborn Victims of Violence Act'
(called the "Laci and Connor's" in the U.S. House.) Congresswoman Hart's bill, H.R. 1997, has over 130 co-sponsors and Senator DeWine's bill, S. 146 has 34 co-sponsors. Their bill would prosecute as a separate offense those who engage in conduct which causes the death or bodily injury of a child - in a mother's womb.
12. Passing the 'Child Custody Protection Act in the House and Senate
(i.e. protecting parental notification rights for abortions on minors.) Senator John Ensign's bill, S.851 has 23 co-sponsors and would "prohibit taking minors across state lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents on abortion decisions." Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's bill which is similar to the Senate bill has 89 co-sponsors.
13. Getting a vote on Congressman Ernest Istook's 'Prayer and Pledge' Constitutional Amendment
Congressman Istook's bill, H.J. Res. 46, which proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States restoring religious freedom has 95 co-sponsors.
14. Support Support Congressman Frank Lucas' 'Pledge of Allegiance Constitutional Amendment'
Congressman Lucas' bill, H.J. Res. 26, proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to protect the Pledge of Allegiance. It has two co-sponsors.
15. Support Congressman Todd Akin's 'Hands off the Pledge of Allegiance, Federal Courts' bill
Congressman Akin has 218 co-sponsors, including the Speaker of the House, "To amend title 28, United States Code, with respect to the jurisdiction of Federal courts inferior to the Supreme Court over certain cases and controversies involving the Pledge of Allegiance.
16. Prohibit special civil rights protection based on sexual preference/'domestic partners'.
17. Supporting legislation allowing parental choice in education
(vouchers/tax credits/scholarship tax credits, etc.)
18. Supporting legislation barring adoptions of children by homosexuals
19. Supporting legislation prohibiting the physical desecration of the flag of the United States of America.
(Christian Coalition of America's Agenda, 2004)
I felt the need to add to this to my report because it is very in what is happening today. President Bush has a web site called: www.presidentialprayerteam.org . This website has a government seal at the top. When did it become okay for a sitting President to push is own Doctrine? When did the fundamentalist become the majority in America? When did it become okay to tell a person that they could not smoke, drink, be overweight, gay or any other FREEDOMS that we had before 9/11 or President Bush came in to office?
If you have not figured it out, The Psychology of C.M.R.
C is for Control. Controlling the population of any given country is similar to what happen in World War II with the Germans and Hitler also in the 1990’s with Osama Bin Laden and Taliban.
M is for Money
In taxing the poorest of the population so the highest can live beyond their needs, you strip the country of its wealth.
R is for Religion.
When you combine Control, Money and Religion together you get a state that is power hungry (War in Iraq, controlling the populations thoughts and feeling.), and that will do almost anything to put what they are doing on other nations. (Bush Doctrine of Democracy.)
The reason why this has anything to do with Psychology at all is because. We live in this everyday your level of stress raises, your fears come to the surface. I remember when there was not this much worry or fear. It was over 4 years ago before President Bush took office in an underhanded way.
In a side note, On the Jay Leno show this last week was Michael Moore. He was in a suit and tie, he looked frighten. He did not have much to say about the election and only boasted about the tax cut the people who make more then $200,000 a year. I believe he was probably threaten in someway not speak any more about President Bush on the air.
**** UPDATE MICHEAL MOORE HAS A NEW MOVIE COMING OUT CALLED SICKO - IT SOUNDS WONDERINGFUL.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Psychology of Discipline in the Public School System in America
This was writen about 4 years ago by me for a class I was taking in College. I don't remember the class name but I think is was psychology class or early childhood education. I believe it was a perfect score for the paper so I am proud to let you read it. This is how I feel about how the American Schools System is failing our students!
THANKS! ---
Psychology of Discipline in the
Public School System in America.
The shocking and tragic violence that has played out in our nation's schools in the last couple of years has elevated the status of school discipline from an issue of perennial concern to one of national urgency. No longer can small rural districts assume that violence is an inner-city issue and that they are immune from problems of school disruption or violence. No longer can we expect special educators working alone to solve all problems of emotional and behavioral disorders. Rather, it has become clear that the threat of school violence cuts across class, geographical location, and the presence or absence of a disability label.(SKIBA/ PETERSON 2003)
First we need to see how not to create discipline problems before we discuss the psychology of discipline. Creating classroom discipline problems is very easy to do, by following these ten items:
1. Expect the worst from kids. This will keep you on guard at all times.
2. Never tell students what is expected of them. Kids need to learn to figure things out for themselves.
3. Punish and criticize kids often. This better prepares them for real life.
4. Punish the whole class when one student misbehaves. All the other students were probably doing the same thing or at least thinking about doing it.
5. Never give students privileges. It makes students soft and they will just abuse privileges anyway.
6. Punish every misbehavior you see. If you do not, the students will take over.
7. Threaten and warn kids often. “If you aren’t good, I’ll keep you after school for the rest of your life.”
8. Use the same punishment for every student. If it works for one, it will work for all.
9. Use schoolwork as punishment. “Okay, smarty, answer all the questions in the book for homework!”
10. Maintain personal distance from students. Familiarity breeds contempt, you know.
I doubt we would do any of these items deliberately but punishments are frequently dealt out without much thought about their effects. (Wasucsko/Ross, 248) Discipline used to mean regimentation. You did what you were told, when you were told, and shut up rest of the time, or worse, sent to the principals office for corporal punishment. What was worst is if you got it at school, you got it twice as bad at home from your parents. That was less then two generations ago. (Worzel, 2003)
Many teachers work hard at controlling their students. They shout, they bribe, they coax. When students rebel, these teachers work even harder to control them and get even more rebellion. No wonder they are exhausted at the end of the day, not to mention frustrated.
All this work would be unnecessary if the students took control of them selves. As a substitute teacher, you are responsible to students, parents, and colleagues for maintaining a safe and orderly learning environment. (Good, 36)
Here is a list of items that can help you control your classroom and make the flow go better during the day:
1. Focusing
Be sure you have the attention of everyone in your classroom before you start your lesson. Do not attempt to teach over the chatter of students who are not paying attention.
Inexperienced teachers sometimes think that by beginning their lesson, the class will settle down. The children will see that things are underway now and it is time to go to work. Sometimes this works, but the children are also going to think that you are willing to compete with them, that you do not mind talking while they talk, or that you are willing to speak louder so that they can finish their conversation even after you have started the lesson. They get the idea that you accept their inattention and that it is permissible to talk while you are presenting a lesson.
The focusing technique means that you will demand their attention before you begin. It means that you will wait and not start until everyone has settled down. Experienced teachers know that silence on their part is very effective. They will punctuate their waiting by extending it 3 to 5 seconds after the classroom is completely quiet. Then they begin their lesson using a quieter voice than normal.
A soft-spoken teacher often has a calmer, quieter classroom than one with a stronger voice. Her students sit still in order to hear what she says.
2. Direct Instruction
Uncertainty increases the level of excitement in the classroom. The technique of direct instruction is to begin each class by telling the students exactly what will be happening. The teacher outlines what he and the students will be doing this period. He may set time limits for some tasks.
An effective way to marry this technique with the first one is to include time at the end of the period for students to do activities of their choosing. The teacher may finish the description of the hour’s activities with “And I think we will have some time at the end of the period for you to chat with your friends, go to the library, or catch up on work for other classes.”
The teacher is more willing to wait for class attention when he knows there is extra time to meet his goals and objectives. The students soon realize that the more time the teacher waits for their attention, the less free time they have at the end of the hour.
3. Monitoring
The key to this principle is to circulate. Get up and get around the room. While your students are working, make the rounds. Check on their progress.
An effective teacher will make a pass through the whole room about two minutes after the students have started a written assignment. She checks that each student has started, that the children are on the correct page, and that everyone has put their names on their papers. The delay is important. She wants her students to have a problem or two finished so she can check that answers are correctly labeled or in complete sentences. She provides individualized instruction as needed.
Students who are not yet quite on task will be quick to get going as they see her approach. Those that were distracted or slow to get started can be nudged along. The teacher does not interrupt the class or try to make general announcements unless she notices that several students have difficulty with the same thing. The teacher uses a quiet voice and her students appreciate her personal and positive attention.
4. Modeling
“Values are caught, not taught.” Teachers who are courteous, prompt, enthusiastic, in control, patient and organized provide examples for their students through their own behavior. The “do as I say, not as I do” teachers send mixed messages that confuse students and invite misbehavior.
If you want students to use quiet voices in your classroom while they work, you too will use a quiet voice as you move through the room helping youngsters.
5. Non-Verbal Cuing
A standard item in the classroom of the 1950’s was the clerk’s bell. A shiny nickel bell sat on the teacher’s desk. With one tap of the button on top, he had everyone’s attention. Teachers have shown a lot of ingenuity over the years in making use of non-verbal cues in the classroom. Some flip light switches. Others keep clickers in their pockets.
Non-verbal cues can also be facial expressions, body posture and hand signals. Care should be given in choosing the types of cues you use in your classroom. Take time to explain what you want the students to do when you use your cues.
6. Environmental Control
A classroom can be a warm cheery place. Students enjoy an environment that changes periodically. Study centers with pictures and color invite enthusiasm for your subject.
Young people like to know about you and your interests. Include personal items in your classroom. A family picture or a few items from a hobby or collection on your desk will trigger personal conversations with your students. As they get to know you better, you will see fewer problems with discipline.
Just as you may want to enrich your classroom, there are times when you may want to impoverish it as well. You may need a quiet corner with few distractions. Some students will be caught up in visual exploration. For them, the splash and the color is a siren that pulls them off task. They may need more “vanilla” and less “rocky-road.” Have a quiet place where you can steer these youngsters. Let them get their work done first and then come back to explore and enjoy the rest of the room.
7. Low-Profile Intervention
Most students are sent to the principal’s office as a result of confrontational escalation. The teacher has called them on a lesser offense, but in the moments that follow, the student and the teacher are swept up in a verbal maelstrom. Much of this can be avoided when the teacher’s intervention is quiet and calm.
An effective teacher will take care that the student is not rewarded for misbehavior by becoming the focus of attention. She monitors the activity in her classroom, moving around the room. She anticipates problems before they occur. Her approach to a misbehaving student is inconspicuous. Others in the class are not distracted.
While lecturing to her class this teacher makes effective use of name-dropping. If she sees a student talking or off task, she simply drops the youngster’s name into her dialogue in a natural way. “And you see, David, we carry the one to the tens column.” David hears his name and is drawn back on task. The rest of the class does not seem to notice.
8. Assertive Discipline
This is traditional limit setting authoritarianism. When executed as presented by Lee Canter (who has made this form a discipline one of the most widely known and practiced) it will include a good mix of praise. This is high profile discipline. The teacher is the boss and no child has the right to interfere with the learning of any student. Clear rules are laid out and consistently enforced.
9. Assertive I-Messages
A component of Assertive Discipline, these I-Messages are statements that the teacher uses when confronting a student who is misbehaving. They are intended to be clear descriptions of what the student is suppose to do. The teacher who makes good use of this technique will focus the child’s attention first and foremost on the behavior he wants, not on the misbehavior. “I want you to...” or “I need you to...” or “I expect you to...”
The inexperienced teacher may incorrectly try “I want you to stop...” only to discover that this usually triggers confrontation and denial. The focus is on the misbehavior and the student is quick to retort: “I wasn’t doing anything!” or “It wasn’t my fault...” or “Since when is there a rule against...” and escalation has begun.
10. Humanistic I-Messages
These I-messages are expressions of our feelings and tells us to structure these messages in three parts. First, include a description of the child’s behavior. “When you talk while I talk...” Second, relate the effect this behavior has on the teacher. “...I have to stop my teaching...” Third, let the student know the feeling that it generates in the teacher. “...which frustrates me.”
A teacher, distracted by a student who was constantly talking while he tried to teach, once made this powerful expression of feelings: “I cannot imagine what I have done to you that I do not deserve the respect from you that I get from the others in this class. If I have been rude to you or inconsiderate in any way, please let me know. I feel as though I have somehow offended you and now you are unwilling to show me respect.” The student did not talk during his lectures again for many weeks.
11. Positive Discipline
Use classroom rules that describe the behaviors you want instead of listing things the students cannot do. Instead of “no-running in the room,” use “move through the building in an orderly manner.” Instead of “no fighting, “ use “settle conflicts appropriately.” Instead of “no gum chewing,” use “leave gum at home.” Refer to your rules as expectations. Let your students know this is how you expect them to behave in your classroom.
Make ample use of praise. When you see good behavior, acknowledge it. This can be done verbally, of course, but it does not have to be. A nod, a smile or a “thumbs up” will reinforce the behavior. (McDaniel, 1986)
Classroom expectations should be clear and prominently posted. High schools are notorious for providing manuals, and those who do read them, will often not reminder their content by the end of the first week of school. Unfortunately, most students will never read these manuals ever in their school career.
Because some students are auditory learners and others are visual learners, teachers should periodically review the posted rules. To see how well student remember the rules, some teachers conduct contest in which students are rewarded for correctly summarizing what the rules state.
In addition to posting classroom expectations, teachers must establish rewards for students who follow the rules. They may give free time at the end of the day or send a positive note to the parents of the student. When deciding what rewards to use, teachers must think about what is motivating to each student in the classroom. In the early days of behavior modification, teachers assumed that candy was reinforcing to all students when, in fact, that was not the case. Teachers must also be careful to provide the reinforcement often enough for the students. We have seen teachers offer as reinforcement a movie to be seen at the end of the month, yet primary and even many secondary students; you cannot delay gratification for that long. Some type of reward may need to be provided daily or weekly. Further, all physical reinforces should be accompanied by verbal reinforces.
Appropriately planned activities can minimize the opportunity for behavioral problems. Students who are excited about learning and eager to do activities planned by the teacher are less likely than others to have behavioral problems. The teacher should plan activities that are highly motivating and challenging for all students. Students today tend to become bored easily, so the teacher should change activates frequently and provide a fast pace in the classroom. Students need to see the reason behind doing the activities. A teacher should relate to the students with the interest of today.
Changes in the classroom routine can also result in behavioral problems. Such changes are sometimes unavoidable. Like snow closings, early dismissal or two-hour delay, but it is how the teacher handles the changes in classroom routine is critical. On days in which the classroom routine must be changed, the teacher should clearly outline his or here exact expectations. (Johns/Carr, 13)
Example:
Two-hour delay on an early dismissal day. I was the substitute teacher last week in a high school classroom. When I came in, I was handed a schedule of how things were going to be for the whole day. Each period was 20 minutes long. Just long enough to give them homework and tell them to have a great day. I decided to write the new schedule on the board so when they came in to class they could write it down. I was told many times that day that was the best thing that I could of done. I also wrote down on the board what the day’s assignments were and when they were due. This made the day run very smooth and it was a wonderful day. (Knepp, 2004)
Instance of verbal aggression and other behavioral problems, teachers can and should attend to the problem without assistance. Each time a teacher sends a student to the principal’s office for a minor behavioral problem, that teacher sends a message to the student that he or she cannot handle the problem. The teacher weakens his or her authority in the eyes of the student. (Johns/Carr 145)
Zero tolerance discipline:
Zero tolerance policies in schools have been aimed at deterring serious student offenses involving possession of firearms and other weapons, drugs, tobacco and alcohol. These were designed to safeguard students by removing violent students quickly before a bad situation escalates. Polices of zero tolerance do not make any schools safer, even though many educators see them as the backbone of school discipline. Zero tolerance is now the rule in over 80% of the nation’s schools. (Black, 27 – 31)
Almost from the outset, zero tolerance disciplinary policies have created controversy. Across the nation, students have been and continue to be suspended or expelled for a host of relatively minor incidents including nail files, paper clips, organic cough drops, and a model rocket, a 5" plastic axe as part of a Halloween costume, an inhaler, and a kitchen knife in a lunch box to cut chicken (Skiba / Peterson, 1999). These harsh reactions to relatively trivial incidents may also be connected to the two-year and even permanent expulsions being considered by some districts. If a student is expelled for a year for a toy cap gun, districts may feel a need to distinguish truly dangerous incidents by extending punishment even further for actual weapons. Oftentimes, policymakers in these contentious incidents claim that they are allowed little or no room for flexibility in the administration of district disciplinary policy. Yet this inflexibility is in no way a requirement of federal zero tolerance policy. Indeed, by requiring local districts to have in place a procedure allowing for case-by-case review, the Gun-Free Schools Act appears to mandate some degree of flexibility in the implementation of zero tolerance.
The zero tolerance approach has led to increases in the use of school suspension and expulsion; unfortunately, there is no evidence that suspension and expulsion are effective in changing student behavior or improving school safety. Despite a widespread perception that suspension and expulsion are reserved for serious incidents, those consequences are often used indiscriminately; in 1997-98, only about 4% of the suspensions and expulsions in Indiana were in response to serious disruptions. Moreover, exclusionary approaches tend to be used inconsistently: one researcher concluded that students wishing to reduce their rates of suspension would do better changing schools than improving their behavior or attitudes. Finally, while there is little data on the short-term effectiveness of suspension, in the long term, it is associated with higher rates of school dropout.
The message of zero tolerance is politically appealing, giving parents and communities the perception that schools are being tough on crime. While there are doubtless situations in which removing a child from school is necessary for that child or others' safety, at present we have no evidence that punishment and exclusion can in and of themselves solve problems of school violence, or teach students alternatives to violence.
In all this, the psychological effects of punishment in the school systems around the United States are you are expelled for non-violent behavior, almost humorist behavior. Students in a Fort Wayne school were expelled for taking pictures of each other in the school locker room after a football game. Yes, it was wrong and with zero tolerance, they are expelled.
When I was in school, I had an Ex-boyfriend and his friend crawl up in to the ducts over the showers of the girls and boys locker room. They were just there having fun and giggling at people taking showers in the locker room. They were quickly caught and suspended for 5 days but never were they in any trouble with the law or expelled. It was considered things boys did and the case was closed. I believe the school officials believe the embarrassment of the events would be enough punishment.
When I was in 3rd grade and was into karate and marshal arts I brought to school fighting stars and was not even asked to take them home and the teacher provided a place for me to throw them and also brought numb chucks and a Klingon type blade to school the same year but was told to take them home. If I had done the same thing today, at school, I would probably be in jail and juvenile hall and most definitely expelled.
To close this report and bring why punishment is sometimes a very bad idea is when it is in the hands of a 2nd grade teacher named, Mr. C.. When I was placed in her class, she taught the class as if we were in middle school. She would write the lessons on the board and just sit back at her desk not giving a care what the students were doing as far as work. She did not teach and she just expected you to know what to do.
I some how got on her bad side. I and this other student named Alex. Everyday things grew to be worst. I had a minor problem with what my mother called,”Grunting”, which now I know as masturbation. I did know what I was doing, I was 8 years old and all I knew what I was doing felt good.
Well, because I was doing this in class, and this was before my mother knew of what Mrs. C was up too, she told Mrs. C that it was okay to restrict my restroom time. Therefore, as punishment, I was not allowed to even go to the restroom. If I had to go to the restroom, and I could hold it no longer, Mrs. C told me she had to watch me. (Something my mother never told her to do.) That was when the abuse began.
Mrs. C would grab my arm and escort me to the restroom. She would plant me in the handicap stall and would scream at me, that I was wasting her time and that she was going to paddle me when we got back to class. She would grab me off the stool before I was done going to the restroom and slam me against the wall, pull up my underwear and pants. Then she would throw me out in to the main restroom. I still was in the middle of going to the bathroom. Threw my hands into the sink and rubbed them harshly with soap and water.
She then took me down the hall, back to the room, and sat me out side of the room. Mrs. C then retrieved her paddle and began to spank me. She delivered no less then 10 whacks with a paddle and then she grabbed me, ran me in the classroom and forced me to sit on the paddle and think about it. This cycle repeated many weeks and I was afraid to go to the restroom.
That was not the end of the abuse, she and a teacher by the name of Mrs. T would make me sit under a table in the room while the rest of the class was reading. Soon another student, Alex, was under that table with me. Both of the teachers had picked us out for punishment and to make an example to the rest of the classroom.
Alex and I were held in from recess everyday for any little thing. One day I had had enough and decided to go out for recess. Mrs. C told me to redo all the math problems in my math book before recess was over with. I wrote numbers on the paper, I did not care if they were right or wrong; I just wanted to go side on recess. I told Alex, that was sitting in the coat closet bin, after being beaten with the paddle, that I was going out for recess. He told me, “You know what is going to happen if you do!” I looked at him and just smiled and shook my head. I ran out the front doors of the school and up on the playground, only to run in to my teacher.
Fear took over me and I stopped cold in my tracks. “Did you get the math done!” she exclaimed. “Yes”, I said in a small voice. “They had all better be correct and I will be checking. If they are not correct, I will be paddling you when we get back in to classroom. Are they all correct?” Mrs. C said grabbing my arm. “I don’t know if they are all correct.” I said with tears in my eyes. Then she picked me up by one arm and began to whale on me with her hand to my rear end. I screamed then she threw me down and told me to sit there. I was screaming and crying, laying on the ground in the fetal position.
At the end of the recess, she grabbed me and dragged me in to the building, to the restroom and that was the first time I was molested by her. (Which I am not going to talk about.) Then it was off to another paddling. My mother had no idea what was going on, I do not blame her at all for everything that happen.
When I had my tonsils out later that year, my mom decided to keep me home for the rest of the semester but the damage had all been done. There out I was never trustful of teachers until I got out of school and in the college. Even now, I am still hesitate of teachers and me becoming a substitute teacher has helped me work through my fear that I had of punishment and teachers.
***I decided to withdrawl the name of the teacher due to not wanting issues with her in the future. Mrs. C. continued to teach and was switched to Kindergarten and has remain there for many years. She would pick out two students every year before me and after me to do awful things to. She is still teaching today at the new school in our town. I am now just getting over what happen to me during that time in school. This might be the reason why I keep going back to school because of this. I have no idea. There was also a Mr. M. that did even worst things to both me and Alex. Alex ended up killing himself that same year, at least that was what I was told.
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Psychology of Discipline in the
Public School System in America.
The shocking and tragic violence that has played out in our nation's schools in the last couple of years has elevated the status of school discipline from an issue of perennial concern to one of national urgency. No longer can small rural districts assume that violence is an inner-city issue and that they are immune from problems of school disruption or violence. No longer can we expect special educators working alone to solve all problems of emotional and behavioral disorders. Rather, it has become clear that the threat of school violence cuts across class, geographical location, and the presence or absence of a disability label.(SKIBA/ PETERSON 2003)
First we need to see how not to create discipline problems before we discuss the psychology of discipline. Creating classroom discipline problems is very easy to do, by following these ten items:
1. Expect the worst from kids. This will keep you on guard at all times.
2. Never tell students what is expected of them. Kids need to learn to figure things out for themselves.
3. Punish and criticize kids often. This better prepares them for real life.
4. Punish the whole class when one student misbehaves. All the other students were probably doing the same thing or at least thinking about doing it.
5. Never give students privileges. It makes students soft and they will just abuse privileges anyway.
6. Punish every misbehavior you see. If you do not, the students will take over.
7. Threaten and warn kids often. “If you aren’t good, I’ll keep you after school for the rest of your life.”
8. Use the same punishment for every student. If it works for one, it will work for all.
9. Use schoolwork as punishment. “Okay, smarty, answer all the questions in the book for homework!”
10. Maintain personal distance from students. Familiarity breeds contempt, you know.
I doubt we would do any of these items deliberately but punishments are frequently dealt out without much thought about their effects. (Wasucsko/Ross, 248) Discipline used to mean regimentation. You did what you were told, when you were told, and shut up rest of the time, or worse, sent to the principals office for corporal punishment. What was worst is if you got it at school, you got it twice as bad at home from your parents. That was less then two generations ago. (Worzel, 2003)
Many teachers work hard at controlling their students. They shout, they bribe, they coax. When students rebel, these teachers work even harder to control them and get even more rebellion. No wonder they are exhausted at the end of the day, not to mention frustrated.
All this work would be unnecessary if the students took control of them selves. As a substitute teacher, you are responsible to students, parents, and colleagues for maintaining a safe and orderly learning environment. (Good, 36)
Here is a list of items that can help you control your classroom and make the flow go better during the day:
1. Focusing
Be sure you have the attention of everyone in your classroom before you start your lesson. Do not attempt to teach over the chatter of students who are not paying attention.
Inexperienced teachers sometimes think that by beginning their lesson, the class will settle down. The children will see that things are underway now and it is time to go to work. Sometimes this works, but the children are also going to think that you are willing to compete with them, that you do not mind talking while they talk, or that you are willing to speak louder so that they can finish their conversation even after you have started the lesson. They get the idea that you accept their inattention and that it is permissible to talk while you are presenting a lesson.
The focusing technique means that you will demand their attention before you begin. It means that you will wait and not start until everyone has settled down. Experienced teachers know that silence on their part is very effective. They will punctuate their waiting by extending it 3 to 5 seconds after the classroom is completely quiet. Then they begin their lesson using a quieter voice than normal.
A soft-spoken teacher often has a calmer, quieter classroom than one with a stronger voice. Her students sit still in order to hear what she says.
2. Direct Instruction
Uncertainty increases the level of excitement in the classroom. The technique of direct instruction is to begin each class by telling the students exactly what will be happening. The teacher outlines what he and the students will be doing this period. He may set time limits for some tasks.
An effective way to marry this technique with the first one is to include time at the end of the period for students to do activities of their choosing. The teacher may finish the description of the hour’s activities with “And I think we will have some time at the end of the period for you to chat with your friends, go to the library, or catch up on work for other classes.”
The teacher is more willing to wait for class attention when he knows there is extra time to meet his goals and objectives. The students soon realize that the more time the teacher waits for their attention, the less free time they have at the end of the hour.
3. Monitoring
The key to this principle is to circulate. Get up and get around the room. While your students are working, make the rounds. Check on their progress.
An effective teacher will make a pass through the whole room about two minutes after the students have started a written assignment. She checks that each student has started, that the children are on the correct page, and that everyone has put their names on their papers. The delay is important. She wants her students to have a problem or two finished so she can check that answers are correctly labeled or in complete sentences. She provides individualized instruction as needed.
Students who are not yet quite on task will be quick to get going as they see her approach. Those that were distracted or slow to get started can be nudged along. The teacher does not interrupt the class or try to make general announcements unless she notices that several students have difficulty with the same thing. The teacher uses a quiet voice and her students appreciate her personal and positive attention.
4. Modeling
“Values are caught, not taught.” Teachers who are courteous, prompt, enthusiastic, in control, patient and organized provide examples for their students through their own behavior. The “do as I say, not as I do” teachers send mixed messages that confuse students and invite misbehavior.
If you want students to use quiet voices in your classroom while they work, you too will use a quiet voice as you move through the room helping youngsters.
5. Non-Verbal Cuing
A standard item in the classroom of the 1950’s was the clerk’s bell. A shiny nickel bell sat on the teacher’s desk. With one tap of the button on top, he had everyone’s attention. Teachers have shown a lot of ingenuity over the years in making use of non-verbal cues in the classroom. Some flip light switches. Others keep clickers in their pockets.
Non-verbal cues can also be facial expressions, body posture and hand signals. Care should be given in choosing the types of cues you use in your classroom. Take time to explain what you want the students to do when you use your cues.
6. Environmental Control
A classroom can be a warm cheery place. Students enjoy an environment that changes periodically. Study centers with pictures and color invite enthusiasm for your subject.
Young people like to know about you and your interests. Include personal items in your classroom. A family picture or a few items from a hobby or collection on your desk will trigger personal conversations with your students. As they get to know you better, you will see fewer problems with discipline.
Just as you may want to enrich your classroom, there are times when you may want to impoverish it as well. You may need a quiet corner with few distractions. Some students will be caught up in visual exploration. For them, the splash and the color is a siren that pulls them off task. They may need more “vanilla” and less “rocky-road.” Have a quiet place where you can steer these youngsters. Let them get their work done first and then come back to explore and enjoy the rest of the room.
7. Low-Profile Intervention
Most students are sent to the principal’s office as a result of confrontational escalation. The teacher has called them on a lesser offense, but in the moments that follow, the student and the teacher are swept up in a verbal maelstrom. Much of this can be avoided when the teacher’s intervention is quiet and calm.
An effective teacher will take care that the student is not rewarded for misbehavior by becoming the focus of attention. She monitors the activity in her classroom, moving around the room. She anticipates problems before they occur. Her approach to a misbehaving student is inconspicuous. Others in the class are not distracted.
While lecturing to her class this teacher makes effective use of name-dropping. If she sees a student talking or off task, she simply drops the youngster’s name into her dialogue in a natural way. “And you see, David, we carry the one to the tens column.” David hears his name and is drawn back on task. The rest of the class does not seem to notice.
8. Assertive Discipline
This is traditional limit setting authoritarianism. When executed as presented by Lee Canter (who has made this form a discipline one of the most widely known and practiced) it will include a good mix of praise. This is high profile discipline. The teacher is the boss and no child has the right to interfere with the learning of any student. Clear rules are laid out and consistently enforced.
9. Assertive I-Messages
A component of Assertive Discipline, these I-Messages are statements that the teacher uses when confronting a student who is misbehaving. They are intended to be clear descriptions of what the student is suppose to do. The teacher who makes good use of this technique will focus the child’s attention first and foremost on the behavior he wants, not on the misbehavior. “I want you to...” or “I need you to...” or “I expect you to...”
The inexperienced teacher may incorrectly try “I want you to stop...” only to discover that this usually triggers confrontation and denial. The focus is on the misbehavior and the student is quick to retort: “I wasn’t doing anything!” or “It wasn’t my fault...” or “Since when is there a rule against...” and escalation has begun.
10. Humanistic I-Messages
These I-messages are expressions of our feelings and tells us to structure these messages in three parts. First, include a description of the child’s behavior. “When you talk while I talk...” Second, relate the effect this behavior has on the teacher. “...I have to stop my teaching...” Third, let the student know the feeling that it generates in the teacher. “...which frustrates me.”
A teacher, distracted by a student who was constantly talking while he tried to teach, once made this powerful expression of feelings: “I cannot imagine what I have done to you that I do not deserve the respect from you that I get from the others in this class. If I have been rude to you or inconsiderate in any way, please let me know. I feel as though I have somehow offended you and now you are unwilling to show me respect.” The student did not talk during his lectures again for many weeks.
11. Positive Discipline
Use classroom rules that describe the behaviors you want instead of listing things the students cannot do. Instead of “no-running in the room,” use “move through the building in an orderly manner.” Instead of “no fighting, “ use “settle conflicts appropriately.” Instead of “no gum chewing,” use “leave gum at home.” Refer to your rules as expectations. Let your students know this is how you expect them to behave in your classroom.
Make ample use of praise. When you see good behavior, acknowledge it. This can be done verbally, of course, but it does not have to be. A nod, a smile or a “thumbs up” will reinforce the behavior. (McDaniel, 1986)
Classroom expectations should be clear and prominently posted. High schools are notorious for providing manuals, and those who do read them, will often not reminder their content by the end of the first week of school. Unfortunately, most students will never read these manuals ever in their school career.
Because some students are auditory learners and others are visual learners, teachers should periodically review the posted rules. To see how well student remember the rules, some teachers conduct contest in which students are rewarded for correctly summarizing what the rules state.
In addition to posting classroom expectations, teachers must establish rewards for students who follow the rules. They may give free time at the end of the day or send a positive note to the parents of the student. When deciding what rewards to use, teachers must think about what is motivating to each student in the classroom. In the early days of behavior modification, teachers assumed that candy was reinforcing to all students when, in fact, that was not the case. Teachers must also be careful to provide the reinforcement often enough for the students. We have seen teachers offer as reinforcement a movie to be seen at the end of the month, yet primary and even many secondary students; you cannot delay gratification for that long. Some type of reward may need to be provided daily or weekly. Further, all physical reinforces should be accompanied by verbal reinforces.
Appropriately planned activities can minimize the opportunity for behavioral problems. Students who are excited about learning and eager to do activities planned by the teacher are less likely than others to have behavioral problems. The teacher should plan activities that are highly motivating and challenging for all students. Students today tend to become bored easily, so the teacher should change activates frequently and provide a fast pace in the classroom. Students need to see the reason behind doing the activities. A teacher should relate to the students with the interest of today.
Changes in the classroom routine can also result in behavioral problems. Such changes are sometimes unavoidable. Like snow closings, early dismissal or two-hour delay, but it is how the teacher handles the changes in classroom routine is critical. On days in which the classroom routine must be changed, the teacher should clearly outline his or here exact expectations. (Johns/Carr, 13)
Example:
Two-hour delay on an early dismissal day. I was the substitute teacher last week in a high school classroom. When I came in, I was handed a schedule of how things were going to be for the whole day. Each period was 20 minutes long. Just long enough to give them homework and tell them to have a great day. I decided to write the new schedule on the board so when they came in to class they could write it down. I was told many times that day that was the best thing that I could of done. I also wrote down on the board what the day’s assignments were and when they were due. This made the day run very smooth and it was a wonderful day. (Knepp, 2004)
Instance of verbal aggression and other behavioral problems, teachers can and should attend to the problem without assistance. Each time a teacher sends a student to the principal’s office for a minor behavioral problem, that teacher sends a message to the student that he or she cannot handle the problem. The teacher weakens his or her authority in the eyes of the student. (Johns/Carr 145)
Zero tolerance discipline:
Zero tolerance policies in schools have been aimed at deterring serious student offenses involving possession of firearms and other weapons, drugs, tobacco and alcohol. These were designed to safeguard students by removing violent students quickly before a bad situation escalates. Polices of zero tolerance do not make any schools safer, even though many educators see them as the backbone of school discipline. Zero tolerance is now the rule in over 80% of the nation’s schools. (Black, 27 – 31)
Almost from the outset, zero tolerance disciplinary policies have created controversy. Across the nation, students have been and continue to be suspended or expelled for a host of relatively minor incidents including nail files, paper clips, organic cough drops, and a model rocket, a 5" plastic axe as part of a Halloween costume, an inhaler, and a kitchen knife in a lunch box to cut chicken (Skiba / Peterson, 1999). These harsh reactions to relatively trivial incidents may also be connected to the two-year and even permanent expulsions being considered by some districts. If a student is expelled for a year for a toy cap gun, districts may feel a need to distinguish truly dangerous incidents by extending punishment even further for actual weapons. Oftentimes, policymakers in these contentious incidents claim that they are allowed little or no room for flexibility in the administration of district disciplinary policy. Yet this inflexibility is in no way a requirement of federal zero tolerance policy. Indeed, by requiring local districts to have in place a procedure allowing for case-by-case review, the Gun-Free Schools Act appears to mandate some degree of flexibility in the implementation of zero tolerance.
The zero tolerance approach has led to increases in the use of school suspension and expulsion; unfortunately, there is no evidence that suspension and expulsion are effective in changing student behavior or improving school safety. Despite a widespread perception that suspension and expulsion are reserved for serious incidents, those consequences are often used indiscriminately; in 1997-98, only about 4% of the suspensions and expulsions in Indiana were in response to serious disruptions. Moreover, exclusionary approaches tend to be used inconsistently: one researcher concluded that students wishing to reduce their rates of suspension would do better changing schools than improving their behavior or attitudes. Finally, while there is little data on the short-term effectiveness of suspension, in the long term, it is associated with higher rates of school dropout.
The message of zero tolerance is politically appealing, giving parents and communities the perception that schools are being tough on crime. While there are doubtless situations in which removing a child from school is necessary for that child or others' safety, at present we have no evidence that punishment and exclusion can in and of themselves solve problems of school violence, or teach students alternatives to violence.
In all this, the psychological effects of punishment in the school systems around the United States are you are expelled for non-violent behavior, almost humorist behavior. Students in a Fort Wayne school were expelled for taking pictures of each other in the school locker room after a football game. Yes, it was wrong and with zero tolerance, they are expelled.
When I was in school, I had an Ex-boyfriend and his friend crawl up in to the ducts over the showers of the girls and boys locker room. They were just there having fun and giggling at people taking showers in the locker room. They were quickly caught and suspended for 5 days but never were they in any trouble with the law or expelled. It was considered things boys did and the case was closed. I believe the school officials believe the embarrassment of the events would be enough punishment.
When I was in 3rd grade and was into karate and marshal arts I brought to school fighting stars and was not even asked to take them home and the teacher provided a place for me to throw them and also brought numb chucks and a Klingon type blade to school the same year but was told to take them home. If I had done the same thing today, at school, I would probably be in jail and juvenile hall and most definitely expelled.
To close this report and bring why punishment is sometimes a very bad idea is when it is in the hands of a 2nd grade teacher named, Mr. C.. When I was placed in her class, she taught the class as if we were in middle school. She would write the lessons on the board and just sit back at her desk not giving a care what the students were doing as far as work. She did not teach and she just expected you to know what to do.
I some how got on her bad side. I and this other student named Alex. Everyday things grew to be worst. I had a minor problem with what my mother called,”Grunting”, which now I know as masturbation. I did know what I was doing, I was 8 years old and all I knew what I was doing felt good.
Well, because I was doing this in class, and this was before my mother knew of what Mrs. C was up too, she told Mrs. C that it was okay to restrict my restroom time. Therefore, as punishment, I was not allowed to even go to the restroom. If I had to go to the restroom, and I could hold it no longer, Mrs. C told me she had to watch me. (Something my mother never told her to do.) That was when the abuse began.
Mrs. C would grab my arm and escort me to the restroom. She would plant me in the handicap stall and would scream at me, that I was wasting her time and that she was going to paddle me when we got back to class. She would grab me off the stool before I was done going to the restroom and slam me against the wall, pull up my underwear and pants. Then she would throw me out in to the main restroom. I still was in the middle of going to the bathroom. Threw my hands into the sink and rubbed them harshly with soap and water.
She then took me down the hall, back to the room, and sat me out side of the room. Mrs. C then retrieved her paddle and began to spank me. She delivered no less then 10 whacks with a paddle and then she grabbed me, ran me in the classroom and forced me to sit on the paddle and think about it. This cycle repeated many weeks and I was afraid to go to the restroom.
That was not the end of the abuse, she and a teacher by the name of Mrs. T would make me sit under a table in the room while the rest of the class was reading. Soon another student, Alex, was under that table with me. Both of the teachers had picked us out for punishment and to make an example to the rest of the classroom.
Alex and I were held in from recess everyday for any little thing. One day I had had enough and decided to go out for recess. Mrs. C told me to redo all the math problems in my math book before recess was over with. I wrote numbers on the paper, I did not care if they were right or wrong; I just wanted to go side on recess. I told Alex, that was sitting in the coat closet bin, after being beaten with the paddle, that I was going out for recess. He told me, “You know what is going to happen if you do!” I looked at him and just smiled and shook my head. I ran out the front doors of the school and up on the playground, only to run in to my teacher.
Fear took over me and I stopped cold in my tracks. “Did you get the math done!” she exclaimed. “Yes”, I said in a small voice. “They had all better be correct and I will be checking. If they are not correct, I will be paddling you when we get back in to classroom. Are they all correct?” Mrs. C said grabbing my arm. “I don’t know if they are all correct.” I said with tears in my eyes. Then she picked me up by one arm and began to whale on me with her hand to my rear end. I screamed then she threw me down and told me to sit there. I was screaming and crying, laying on the ground in the fetal position.
At the end of the recess, she grabbed me and dragged me in to the building, to the restroom and that was the first time I was molested by her. (Which I am not going to talk about.) Then it was off to another paddling. My mother had no idea what was going on, I do not blame her at all for everything that happen.
When I had my tonsils out later that year, my mom decided to keep me home for the rest of the semester but the damage had all been done. There out I was never trustful of teachers until I got out of school and in the college. Even now, I am still hesitate of teachers and me becoming a substitute teacher has helped me work through my fear that I had of punishment and teachers.
***I decided to withdrawl the name of the teacher due to not wanting issues with her in the future. Mrs. C. continued to teach and was switched to Kindergarten and has remain there for many years. She would pick out two students every year before me and after me to do awful things to. She is still teaching today at the new school in our town. I am now just getting over what happen to me during that time in school. This might be the reason why I keep going back to school because of this. I have no idea. There was also a Mr. M. that did even worst things to both me and Alex. Alex ended up killing himself that same year, at least that was what I was told.
Friday, June 15, 2007
If you Smoke DON'T come to Indiana Via Airplane!
Smoking ban at the Indianapolis Airport - Well this should stop the Japanese Business Men from coming here! We are in the land of the free but yet we are taking away peoples freedoms every day. Even taking away right of people who don't live her when they come to visit! If second hand smoke caused all the problems they say it caused most of the people who lived in the 1940s and 50s would be dead - yet they are the largest population in America! They were exposed to more smoke then we ever will be! The people since 2001 and 9/11 - we just have been laying down and letting them tell us what to do and feel. This includes SMOKING! I am a light smoker - I smoke when I feel like it! I also drink when I feel like it and eat when I feel like it. BECAUSE I HAVE FREEDOM TO CHOSE WHEN I DO THESE THINGS! Now they are going in to schools and taking out candy machines, pop machines and restricting the overweight childrens meals. As if it isn't hard enough to be overweight in this rail thin world they need to make the children feel worst! I would not be surprised if we don't have children starting to commit sucide just because the fellow students have been give the okay again to make fun of the fat kids. This doesn't build the child up to do something about his or her weight but tears them down to the point they just give up.
If I want to be "UNHEATHY" then let me do just that! It is my freedom! FREEDOM! Something that is disapearing from America!
If I want to be "UNHEATHY" then let me do just that! It is my freedom! FREEDOM! Something that is disapearing from America!
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Woman's death in hospital!
I have found myself in this womans shoes many times. I would go to the hospital because I am in pain (come to find out it was ovarian cyst that has ruptured and nothing more.) the doctors would leave me laying there. It was because of my weight because there was a very skinny girl with the same exact condition in the room next to me and she was being treated with kid gloves, mean while the doctor told me to go home and come back if I have more pain. That didn't help! She was bring taken for an ultrasound to confirm it. I came in holding myself up and barely able to walk but they wanted me to walk to the little room. She was taken in a wheelchair and the nurse stayed with her. It was all because she was thin - I was crying in pain and she was laughing in the other room. I only paid attention to what was going on because I over heard what she had going on. They just sent me home with crapy pain pills and no other treatment or test!
I was bleeding and it has a bad smell - different then normal blood or anything. She had no bleeding. I was vomiting and again she was laughing. My abdomin was exteneded but because of my weight they said it wasn't. The doctors anymore have given themselves the right to dismiss anyone who is overweight, smokes, drinks, poor and is female - because we are lesser citizens of some sort. Treat me and don't play judge, jury and in this case the killer!
I hope that family sues and gets millions from this. I hope the nurses and doctors never work again. This has to stop. Stop some time or we are going to go down a dark road that no one wants to go down.
Tell me what you think! Thanks!
SPEAK OUT AND DON'T LOSE YOUR VOICE!
Click on Woman's Death In Hospital for more info above! Thanks!
I was bleeding and it has a bad smell - different then normal blood or anything. She had no bleeding. I was vomiting and again she was laughing. My abdomin was exteneded but because of my weight they said it wasn't. The doctors anymore have given themselves the right to dismiss anyone who is overweight, smokes, drinks, poor and is female - because we are lesser citizens of some sort. Treat me and don't play judge, jury and in this case the killer!
I hope that family sues and gets millions from this. I hope the nurses and doctors never work again. This has to stop. Stop some time or we are going to go down a dark road that no one wants to go down.
Tell me what you think! Thanks!
SPEAK OUT AND DON'T LOSE YOUR VOICE!
Click on Woman's Death In Hospital for more info above! Thanks!
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
IF YOU ARE PLUS SIZE AND UPSET! READ ON!
IF YOU ARE LIKE ME LOSING WEIGHT IS IMPOSSIBLE, SO I HAVE LEARNED TO LIVE WITH IT. I DON'T THINK THIN PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHY WE ARE OVERWEIGHT. IF YOU ARE ALSO LIKE ME I GO FOR DAYS WITHOUT FOOD AND THEN WHEN I EAT I DON'T EAT A WHOLE LOT OF FOOD. I STILL HAVE NOT LOST WEIGHT. IF YOU ARE UPSET WITH THE WAY YOU FEEL AND THE WAY PEOPLE ARE MAKING YOU FEEL UNITE WITH ME AND WE WILL RISE ABOVE THE STUPIED. ALSO IF YOU ARE A SMOKER, DRINKER OR ANYTHING THEY (PERFECT PEOPLE OR PP! LOL) COME TALK IN THIS BLOG! BE HAPPY AND LUCKY! YOU ARE A WONDERFUL PERSON AND I AM HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE!
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