Now That's Just Crazy!

When you can't trust Quaker Oats, who in Corporate America CAN you trust?

2011-05-01T14:34:00.000-07:00

I write to companies all the time to express my feelings about being poisoned with GMO/GE foods and ingredients, dangerous additives (like aspartame), factory farmed meat/eggs, ad nauseum. They rarely reply with any degree of social responsibility, moral responsibility or actually take responsibility in any way for their behavior. The bigger the business, the more psychotic they are.

What follows is my discourse with Quaker Oats. Read it and weep. Then write to them yourself. Then stop buying anything they make until they clean up their act. OR you can just continue supporting such bad behavior and wonder why the hell you're sick and/or fat and/or ended up with a severely disabling or terminal disease. Either way, it's your choice.

Just remember, the easy way out rarely ever really is.

This is the message I left on their website:

http://www.quakeroats.com/contact-us.aspx

This whole website is a testament to the power of propaganda. You talk endlessly about being green and eco-conservation and healthy food. Yet nowhere do you address one of the burning issues of the day, GMO/GE crops and ingredients. That, apparently, is because you use them extensively. Which means I no longer use anything made by Quaker, because I can't trust you NOT to poison me with GMO/GEs. It is sickening to see this site, knowing that it's ALL BS, but that people will read it and believe this is healthy food. I wish I lived in a country like Australia, where the government won't allow corporate interests (read: greed) to outweigh the health of their people. You HAVE to respect your customers' health THERE, but you DON'T have to HERE, so you DON'T. Shame on you. I've left two comments tonight on your not updated in two years pages. I know they won't be published, but if anyone bothers to read them, you get the message. Clearly, you don't care if you are making y our customers sick, but do you care if your customers STOP being your customers? Maybe not, maybe you think losing one or two is better than having to use only natural and healthy ingredients. My goal is to turn one or two into one or two billion. Maybe if you start feeling the only pain you can feel....loss of money....you'll clean up your act.

This is their reply:

Pamela:

We appreciate you contacting us with your comments and concern about genetically engineered ingredients in Quaker products.

As you may have already read, the safety of Quaker's products is of the utmost importance to us. This is why Quaker U.S. uses only foods that have been declared safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including foods developed through biotechnology. The FDA has concluded that these foods are the same - and therefore, as safe - as other foods in their nutrition, composition and ability to be used as foods in other products.

Quaker's oats and oatmeal are not developed through biotechnology. In fact, there are no oats developed through biotechnology currently available on the market. While Quaker does not require or exclude the use of these foods, the use of corn, canola and soya developed through food biotechnology is widespread. Currently, there is no system in place in the United States that separates these foods. So, there is a high probability that some of Quaker's products contain foods developed through biotechnology.

Food biotechnology is not a new phenomenon. Since Roman times, plants have been selectively crossbred to develop crops that are tastier, more hearty and more resistant to certain pests and plant diseases than their predecessors. Modern biotechnology provides an ability to transfer desired traits into plants much faster and more selectively. This, in turn, can result in fewer pesticides being used, greater conservation of land and water, better tasting and more nutritional foods and more abundant food supplies to address world hunger.

Quaker will continue to use only foods that are declared safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Additionally, Quaker will use only foods that we believe are safe for our consumers' families.

Thank you, Pamela, for sharing your feedback, and for your interest in our products and company. We hope this information is helpful, and appreciate the chance to respond.

Sharon
Quaker Consumer Relations
A Division of PepsiCo
Ref# 027508509A

And this is my reply to that:

You're kidding, right? You're actually relying on information obtained from not only the MOST CORRUPT Federal agency in existence but one that is headed and manned by EX-MONSANTO execs and employees? And you actually expect me to swallow that, hook, line and sinker? PUUULEEEEEEZE.

***The FDA has concluded that these foods are the same - and therefore, as safe - as other foods in their nutrition, composition and ability to be used as foods in other products.***

THIS is what you get when you let the fox guard the hen house. I don't CARE what the FDA has concluded. When you inject insect and shellfish and other animal dna into plant dna, the dna matrix mutates over generations. It does not take long for this mutation to occur. Those mutations cause disease in humans and animals because our bodies are not equipped to metabolize the mutated genetics of these Frankenfoods. This is NOT news, it's been known for some time. The FDA conveniently overlooks that fact along with thousands of other facts when making their determination in favor of Monsanto and other biotech companies.

***Modern biotechnology provides an ability to transfer desired traits into plants much faster and more selectively. This, in turn, can result in fewer pesticides being used, greater conservation of land and water, better tasting and more nutritional foods and more abundant food supplies to address world hunger.***

The second sentence is patently FALSE. A major purpose of Monsanto's GMOs is to create crops that are *Roundup Ready*, so they can spray MORE pesticides on them, creating MORE toxic foods. GMO crops are prone to catastrophic failure, are nutritionally depleted, do not grow conventionally and require purchased elements to force them to grow, dramatically deplete the soil they're grown in, require more...not less...pesticides and are unsafe due to genetic mutations. Our food tastes JUST FINE the way Mother Nature created it. Another major purpose of Monsanto's GMOs is to patent all seeds and end seed saving by farmers, all while placing all end results of catastrophic crop failures on the farmers, which, in turn, REDUCES world food supplies and INCREASES food shortages. Seriously, do you really think anyone who's spent more than 5 minutes learning about why our food supply is so toxic would fall for this reasoning? Even the Sheeple are starting to reject such outright propaganda.

***Quaker will continue to use only foods that are declared safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Additionally, Quaker will use only foods that we believe are safe for our consumers' families.***

These two sentences are mutually exclusive. Together, they are an oxymoron. You cannot have it both ways. So which is it? You're going with the criminally corrupt FDA guidelines OR foods that are safe for your consumer's families? Oh. Wait. I see what you did. You said *foods that WE BELIEVE are safe*. And you believe everything the FDA tells you, rather than science, because it suits your needs. You should just 'fess up to that reason, because the only other explanation is that you're idiotic enough to ACTUALLY believe everything the FDA tells you. The FDA says aspartame is safe, too, so I suggest you all eat as much of that as you can, every day. And when you're all no longer with us long before your *time*, maybe you'll be replaced by people who don't sell out because it's easy and profitable to do so.

Being staffed by Monsanto, it's not hard to see why the FDA sells out American consumers. It's sickening, but it's easy to see why it happens. But what really disgusts me is when other companies use CLEARLY flawed information to justify doing the same thing.

Had you just replied with this sentence: ***Quaker's oats and oatmeal are not developed through biotechnology. In fact, there are no oats developed through biotechnology currently available on the market.*** I would have continued buying your oatmeal. But since you decided to justify your position of using products KNOWN to cause severe health problems in humans AND the animals we eat, I am placing you on my personal boycott list and publishing your response so that others can see exactly just how much Quaker *cares*, and I use that term VERY loosely, about it's customers.

Your corporate attitude is morally corrupt. Should you ever decide to clean it up and do what is right for your customers, I will return to being one. Until then, I will continue exposing this attitude every chance I get. That is my only remaining interest in your products and company.

Pamela De Baun

Essential FREE Tool From Emergency Essentials

2011-04-15T11:26:00.000-07:00

Here's a handy little tool to use to organize your food storage so you know exactly where the strong points AND the weak points are. This gem is offered for free at beprepared.com. The button is just to the right of this post and there's another one at the bottom of the post, so click on one of them and get a great tool for free!

With it, you can prepare future orders, enter what you already have and even add in items from grocery stores. It will calculate the calorie requirements for every person in your household. You can enter all the nutritional information from items you already have, not just the item itself. This way you know EXACTLY what gaps you need to fill in.

There's a hard future coming, folks, and the people who are prepared for it are the ones who will suffer the least. Our food is becoming more toxic BY THE DAY as Monsanto infiltrates every nook and cranny of the countries stupid enough (LIKE THE UNITED STATES) to let them in. Eventually, it won't matter, as there is NO containing their GMO/GE crops....in a short time, everything will be contaminated. And THAT means catastrophic crop failures will be the norm, not the exception. Food will be scarce. Understand? FOOD WILL BE SCARCE. Which makes this tool all the more valuable. I'm really happy I found it and I'm happy to pass it along to those wise enough to use it!

Oh, and by the way, I don't work for that company, I'm not an *affiliate* and I don't get any returns on you using this tool. I do, however, get a $10 gift card for posting this review, but I would have done that without the reward because it's a truly good thing I'm passing along. Enjoy!

Monsanto Strikes Again....This Time A Direct Hit To My City

2011-04-13T19:01:00.000-07:00

I have just found out the Army Corps of Engineers has a $40 BILLION contract to depopulate the entire Gulf Coast, particularly MY CITY of Bay Saint Louis. The plans are apparently to take this beautiful sub tropical region and turn it into a chemical wasteland to benefit....MONSANTO. Because Monsanto just never gets enough. They have no respect whatsoever for life of any form, including human life. I JUST got back into my home from Katrina and it's not even finished yet! I'm still camping out in it. But what IS done is beautiful and I want to live here the rest of my life. Of all the GARBAGE going on in this country right now...GMO food, Codex, dying economy, uber-in your face-corrupt politics, TSA gropes, Gulf oil spill disaster, Patriot Act...the list of fascism and tyranny goes on until you could just hurl...this is the first time it's been personal to exactly right where I live and in a way that threatens to just shred to pieces the rest of my life and the lives of all the people who live here. Apparently, we haven't been through enough. Monsanto is a heartless soulless machine that is seriously behaving like something straight out of a science fiction horror movie.

The former representative for this area, Gene Taylor, said "It ain't going to happen. There's no money for it, there's no will for it and there's no public support for it." I hope he's right. Where I live has NEVER, until Katrina, had major flooding, unless you consider the foot of water that was reportedly in my house for a couple of hours during Camille. The owners never left the house, they just swept out the water and were planting flowers the next day. You can read where I got Gene Taylor's quote here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/11/usa.environment

The reason I'm concerned ANYWAY is because Monsanto is involved and they will stop at NOTHING to get what they want. People and ecology be damned, they will have their way. They are the anti-christ of corporations and probably the most evil *entity* on earth.

You can read the *Big Picture* facts surrounding the whole gulf oil disaster up to and including their plans to destroy the beauty and ecology of the Gulf Coast here:

http://theintelhub.com/2010/12/11/depopulation-of-the-gulf-ensues-follow-the-money-trail/comment-page-1/#comment-12124

Oh, and kudos to the moron hack, Mark Gelbart, in the comments at the end of the article who said he thinks it's a good idea to depopulate the gulf coast....because New Orleans is below sea level. I'm sure his parents are proud. I wonder if they are Sheeples, too. I should lose my home in Mississippi because PART of a city in the next state over is below sea level. Another fine example of the total, complete and stunning success of the Dumbing Down of America.

Monsanto Is Poisoning Us All

2011-04-07T10:52:00.000-07:00

Here's a catchy little song to brighten your day....ok, maybe not so much....let's go with open your mind. And here's some information you really need...Monsanto really is poisoning us all and while they're the most well known culprit, they're not alone. Read on and take action every way you can.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm

http://thecalloftheland.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/latter-day-luther-nails-troubling-thesis-to-gm-farm-food-citadels/

Just Say NO to GMO!!!

2011-02-18T12:40:00.000-08:00

Between Monsanto, AstraZeneca and Aqua Bounty, our food supply is more and more toxic every day. We're sick, fat and allergic 10 times 10 what we were even 30 years ago. While you're enjoying the catchy song, seriously think about doing some research on this topic and then taking action. Taking action includes changing what you buy AND contacting your elected representatives and telling them how you feel about your food making you and your family sick. Be ever vigilant.

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

2011-01-28T12:13:00.000-08:00

The first two movies are at the beginning of this blog. If you haven't seen them, I STRONGLY URGE you to view them. If you care at all about your future, your children's future, your children's children's future, you will set aside a few hours to educate yourself about the world you REALLY live in. These are the movies that opened my eyes to the fact that my reality check was bouncing every freaking day. Is yours? Find out, or don't, at your peril......

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

2011-01-23T13:28:00.000-08:00

It's always good to keep an eye on what mainstream *news* is feeding the Sheeple. In this case, it's a perky little discourse on the wonders of adding lithium to our drinking water ostensibly to reduce the suicide rate. Which seems on the face of it to be pretty counterproductive to a NWO plan to reduce the world population. But now that the world population is starting to catch on to these nefarious plans, we're not quite as cooperative as *They* would like us to be. In fact, we're getting downright contrary about our food and water supply being so damned contaminated that it's pretty much either killing us off or shortening our life spans considerably. So how best to combat Sheeples rising up and revolting? Ahhhhh, yes, lithium in the water....now we're all muccchhh calmer and more willing to peacefully accept our fate. Open wide and say baaaaahhhhhhhh.

Watch the first part of this video to see what I mean. They talk about fluoride in the water like that's a good thing when it's been well established for quite some time that fluoride in the water acts as a POISON in the body. Iodine in salt.....salt in and of itself is toxic by way of the processing it goes through, so get off table salt and switch to Himalayan salt, the only salt left that's not going to harm you and get your iodine other ways. These women just chirp right along with misinformation and the *credentials* to back it all up. It's enough to make you gag and hurl.

I'll give 'em the one about tetris, though. Video games do have some good uses, I use them to keep my eye to hand coordination up to functioning levels. When I don't play for a while, nothing is safe from being knocked over, especially if it's something that can spill.

But that is just another part of the problem with mainstream news. They intentionally mix something real in with all the fairy tales so that you'll buy into the fiction. Be aware....and don't believe anything you see on mainstream news until you research it yourself!

Story link: MyFoxTWINCITIES.com

Money As Debt ~ The Death Of America

2011-01-18T16:55:00.000-08:00

I've been busy with getting back in my house and working on it and basic survival, actually, but I'm trying to carve out some time to work on and publicize this blog, as I feel the information is very important. America is heading for disaster of epic proportions and that doesn't just affect those living here....the ripple effect will be worldwide. Responsible people who heed these warnings will do two things....1. Do everything in THEIR power to fight those IN power from dragging us kicking and screaming down the path to disaster....if not for themselves then for their children and their children's children and 2. Do everything in their power to protect and insulate themselves and their families as much as possible from the inevitable.

You can stick your head in the sand and say it won't happen. Those will be the Sheeples who are grasshoppers. They will expect the People who are ants to take care of them when winter comes. Do a search for the story of the grasshopper and the ants, if you don't get the allegory. Being an ant, myself, I have to say I'm not inclined to be sympathetic to those who laugh and point at me now and tell me my aluminum hat has slipped.

When the dollar is no longer the reserve standard, life in America is going to explode into a quadrillion shining shards and nothing will ever be the same after that. At least not for a few generations....and that's ONLY if the Dumbing Down of America stops right freaking NOW. Pardon me if I don't hold my breath on that one, lest I turn blue and become Smurfette.

Here's another piece of the information you need and deserve to have:

2010-07-11T16:42:00.000-07:00

Today I was on Care2 doing my clicks and petition signing when I saw this video. While I was watching it, tears streamed down my face for the horrors these poor dogs endured at the hands of greedy human beings. Please, please, please! Never EVER buy a dog or cat from a pet store or breeder unless you can see where the animal came from. I have bought from breeders only after personally seeing the environment the dogs were kept in. No see, no deal. As for pet stores, just say no.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated...I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

-Mahatma Gandhi

From the mouths of babes....

2010-01-14T01:35:00.000-08:00

A twelve year old girl addressing the United Nations has hit every one in that room right between the eyes with her impassioned plea for them to do as they say, not as they've been doing. This is an amazing speech, made even more amazing that it comes from a child. She is incredible and I salute her and her group.

You Scare Me

2010-01-11T23:02:00.000-08:00

I received this in an email that has been circulating since May 09 and it's so nearly perfect, I decided to share it here. I depart from Mr. Pritchett's viewpoints about the windmill and extortion statements, but everything else I think is pretty much a direct hit. Remember, Mr. Pritchett is Corporate America so he's bound to be a bit skewed in those areas. Once the contents have settled in, then realize that Obama was handpicked to be president by those who wanted to utilize the dubious *qualities* described within. Yes, Barry is scary, but it's those who chose him we should be terrified of. BUT....the Elitists can be defeated. They will only win if we LET them win. We do NOT have to be their economic slaves, IF we even survive the Culling of the Herd.

Your mission: Stop calling it conspiracy theories, open your minds, accept the unacceptable as the truth it is, recognize that the unbelievable can be true and spread the word. Here's a little help with that....when one in a million spout off weirdness, it's called conspiracy theory. When one in a thousand spout off, they're called one of those conspiracy theory wackos. When one in a hundred spout off, it's time to take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouth until you have absorbed the reality of the unacceptable. Well respected politicians, scientists, educators, businessmen, etc. are holding seminars all around the world, hundreds, thousands perhaps, of websites are dedicated to the truth, Youtube, Google Video and other similar sites are full of informational videos, non mainstream reporters and journalists write about it every day, the radio airwaves carry the message daily as well, and hundreds of thousand of people are spreading the word to all who will listen. The 13 families of the world Elite want to greatly reduce the world population, corral who's left into small stacked living quarters to be their fiscal slaves and the wealth of the world and control of the masses will belong to them. They have been working on this for decades. This blog is full of information. Watch the videos, google the players and keywords, start spreading the word yourself. Time is of the essence. The first worldwide major OBVIOUS blow to your freedom and health is the Codex Alimentarius. Start there.

In the meantime, for your perusal, is the Open Letter to Obama, the symptom of the problem:

Letter from Procter & Gamble Exec to Obama

Please read, even if you are an Obama fan. It is legitimate,

written by respected, Lou Pritchett, formerly of Proctor and

Gamble. Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America's true

living legends - an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one

of the world's highest rated speakers. Successful corporate

executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader

in change management. Lou changed the way America does

business by creating an audacious concept that came to be

known as "partnering". Pritchett rose from soap salesman

to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for

Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made

corporate history...

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived

and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know

nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your

expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle

and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years

of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an

American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or

met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military

experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class',

always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have

aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America

and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish

to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame

America' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a

European style country where the government sector

dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care

system with a government controlled one..

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly

capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American

capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides

the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion'

tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from

challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending

proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even

consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both

omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass

on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence

the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer

opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term

I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in

8 years.

Lou Pritchett
TRUE - CHECK:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/youscareme.asp

This letter was sent to the NY Times but they never

acknowledged it. Big surprise! Since it hit the internet,

however, it has had over 500,000 hits.

Keep it going. All that is necessary for evil to succeed is

that good men do nothing. It's happening right now.

News from the Front

2009-12-13T16:35:00.001-08:00

Well, my home is being repaired, I am getting a modification on my mortgage so that I can now afford the payments and I am confident that this particular phase of hell is over in my life. I'm moving along nicely laying the groundwork for my online jewelry store to open after I'm back in the house. I even have materials left over to build a studio in the back yard. I found I'm going to need that because of the chemicals and soldering that are part of smithing, an additional course I'm taking along with the main jewelry design and creation courses I'll be taking in the fall. So everything has changed for the better.

Here is exactly how it all came about: I changed my attitude and outlook from one of defeatist, gloom and doom, I'm screwed....to nothing can stop me, it's all good, I deserve to be happy, everything is going to be not only great, but downright wonderful!

Three years of constant BS just wore me down, every light at the end of the tunnel was a train. I just couldn't take any more, so I started searching on the net for something, ANYTHING that could help. I kept finding the Law of Attraction. I could not, however, find the bulk of information for free. I didn't have any money so I couldn't buy any books, movies, programs, etc. So I squeezed every tiny scrap I could from every site I could find until I put together something that could work for me. I swear, it all turned around within a couple of months!!! I'm not even kidding. And every move forward has just increased my certainty that all will be well, at least regarding my ability to make a living and live in my house again. On a personal level, my next huge step is regaining my health, being able to drive again, getting off disability.

While I remain focused on Katrina related issues until the restoration here is complete (and over 4 years later, it is FAR from complete) I now have some mental space to really start paying more attention to pressing issues that affect not only my country but the entire world. So this blog is returning to what it's initial purpose....to call attention to as many of those issues as I can...from being hijacked to focus more on what's been kicking my ass since August 29, 2005.

Expect to see more about caged animal farming, NAIS, H1N1 flu pandemic hoax, microchipping, Codex Alimentarius, NWO, WHO, Big Pharma, Bilderberg Group, the Fed, Eco-slaughter, etc. All of these individual conspiracy theory topics lose that political sci-fi aura once you see the big picture. It's panoramic, it's global and it isn't pretty. I'm so glad my personal space is secured, allowing me to move outside of survival mode and begin devoting much more time to these issues that will affect generations to come even more than our world today. Like minded people will say we ARE the generations to come, so if you don't believe we only live once, then your future lives are at stake!

Posts will probably be spotty for awhile as my home repairs are in full swing, but in a few months I'll be in my home and settling down into a routine where I can post regularly. Thanks to my wonderful subscribers for hanging with me til then!

Holy Freakin Moo Cow, a New Post!!!!!

2009-10-11T17:02:00.000-07:00

Soooo, it's been a long while since I did a post here, so I guess it's about time for an update. Duhhh, ya think? haha

First, to my utter shock, I was approved for permanent Disability after a wait of only 4 months from time of application to approval and check in the bank. And I do mean shock. I already had a legal rep waiting for the first denial letter and preparing an appeal! This was the last thing I expected to happen and I am sooooo grateful it came through. I feel very badly, though, for those who are in much worse shape than I'm in who are still struggling through the system for any help at all.

With Disability Award Letter in hand, I was now able to secure a loan modification for my home which I've been on the verge of losing for about a year, now. I just made my first payment on the Making Home Affordable trial plan (I still don't get what that's all about, but whatever, they say this is good news and means I'll get to keep my home, so I'm happy) and early next year, I'll have my loan modified to a 30 year fixed rate I can pay from my disability check and still be able to pay the rest of my bills. Still have 5 bills to pay from before I got sick and when they're gone, it's just house payment and utilities. YEAH! :D

Since the loan modification is going through, Catholic Social Services is working on my house again. Well, they were, but they quit for about a month and a half, I have no idea why, and I hear through the grapevine they'll be back here in the next week or so. I can't WAIT! The house is still gutted but it's getting very close to insulation and drywall going up. I should be able to move back in by next spring. August 29 was 4 years since I've been able to live in my house and mid November will be 4 years I've been living in this FEMA camper.

Which brings me to the only downer going on right now, which is my health. And that is deteriorating with each passing month in this Toxic Trailer. Don't believe the government propaganda that says these campers *gas out* after a few weeks. That is BS. For them to gas out, the formaldehyde would have to be gone. Everything in here is made with it and being such a tiny space (200 sq.ft.) it builds up fast. I keep windows open all winter when I'm heating it because that's worse than summer when I keep the air running constantly to keep the temp below 80 in here. Except that the wall temps have to be below 80 and there's not much to nothing between the metal outside and the walls, so I found to avoid watering burning eyes, I really have to keep it around 75. It's crazy. If it were gassed out, it would have passed the test the feds did two years ago and it failed miserably with a high score. That was after never shutting windows or the door for almost all of the two years I'd been in here then. So anyone out there who *knows* that the government would never lie about such a thing and that we're just whiners down here can freakin bite me. You don't know jack.

Amost forgot, another great thing....the CSS guys are going to give me tons of compelling evidence to sue the backside off my contractor who grossly overcharged me for his shoddy work. It would have been overcharged if he did GREAT work! And I've had to have almost everything redone that he did. So I have until March to get the lawsuit started and I'm looking for an attorney now. I've been assured that there is no freakin way I can lose, we're in the *outrageous* zone here. Always good to end on a high note, eh? hehehe

Welcome to The United States. Leave your sanity on the boat, please, we don't need any of that HERE.

2009-04-07T17:53:00.000-07:00

Well, folks, it looks like the Obama administration has decided there just isn't enough *government money* (read TAXPAYER DOLLARS) to fund wars and recovery overseas AND help those STILL homeless from Katrina have a roof over their heads. So who gets screwed? You got it. The very taxpayers who's hard earned money is flowing in a one way stream OUT of the country.

Now, I'm disabled, waiting on disability. But that doesn't mean I haven't paid into the tax system at a much higher percentage of income than most wealthy people. I HAVE. FOR YEARS, DECADES, even. But here I am now in need of help and this is what I face now: Today FEMA came and told me there will be no more extensions, the temporary housing program will end May 1. With my walker, I will have to take boxes of things from the camper, down steps and into the house. The only help I have with that is my 76 year old mother who has to drive here to do it. This will take hundreds of trips with the walker, one box at a time since the camper is cram packed full. It's not that far into the house, but it doesn't take much to put me out of commission with walking. I am supposed to be getting things OUT of the house so it can be worked on after the loan modification is completed. Instead, the amount in the house will quadruple. It will be virtually impossible to work around all this stuff, the house is gutted. I've already been told it has to be cleaned out. Where am I supposed to put everything?

The next issue is I can't live in the house, city won't let me, it's gutted. I can't live in any kind of temporary housing on my property, city won't let me. I can't leave the property to live somewhere else, mortgage company won't let me. I have a letter from them stating such, it came this week, too. I can't stay here and I can't leave or they WILL take my house. THAT clause in my loan is what started the whole foreclosure mess in the first place. I was working and paying the payments but they started getting nasty because the house wasn't being fixed and were going to put me in default over that and take the house. Given the choice between me paying for the house or fixing it, they chose fix it and put the payments at the end. Things were going well until they sold my loan and the new company CITI RESIDENTIAL VULTURES errr LENDING, you know, the bailout recipients, put me immediately into foreclosure. I've been fighting that issue ever since. They are also the ones who stopped me from getting a Katrina cottage. If I had that, I wouldn't be screwed for a roof over my head right now. So now I'm desperately trying to show some kind of income so I can get a loan modification and get work rolling on the house again. Been trying to do that for almost a year. One thing after another has fallen through, not worked out, etc. So anyway, the clause that started my downward spiral has reared it's ugly head again. Wanna know what the mortgage company's big concern is? The house might be damaged. I'm like IT'S FREAKIN GUTTED.

So I guess this post is yet another vent post so I can keep some sanity. The government has plenty of money to bail out scum bag predatory lenders. Plenty of money to rebuild other countries that they first had plenty of money to destroy. But the goose that lays the golden egg, they strangle, fry and have for dinner. That would be the taxpayers, in case my analogy is too obtuse.

What's that, you say? Address the issues that are keeping folks from getting back in their homes? Oh nooooo, that's not how we do things here. We attack all problems from the symptom end here, why treat the illness when you can ease up one symptom?

STUPID, STUPID, STUPID.

So now I'm about to be a disabled homeless person with a mortgage. Great. I'm frantically searching for anyone who CAN do anything about this WHO GIVES A DAMN.

Puppets are fun, unless your President is one!

2009-04-06T12:23:00.000-07:00

More on Obama, The Bilderberg Group and more...leading us down the path to the New World Order. Scared yet? You better be!

In Lies We Trust....We, the Sheeples....

2009-03-19T18:09:00.000-07:00

Okay, Sheeples, here's yet another bubble burst, another red pill you realllly should take. We live in terrifying times, yet most people are completely clueless as to just how terrifying these times are. They think the rabbit hole is maybe a foot deep. It's not. It's thousands of miles of mazes designed to daze and confuse anyone who questions that there even IS a rabbit hole. And if you question too much, there are booby traps along the way designed to make you be a quiet little sheeple. You may find yourself dependent on the authorities you questioned. You may find yourself in need of their *help* and remember then what Ronald Reagan said....The most terrifying words in the English language....We're from the government and we're here to help you.

Contained in the movie below is more information that everyone should know. Ignore it at your peril. All of these movies may sound crazed to most sheeple, if taken individually, but even the most mainstream hardcore believers will have to resort to independent thinking as this whole picture begins to form by viewing all of them. Because if you look to the core of what is presented in each one, you will find one common theme. And that theme doesn't bode well for any of us down here in the trenches of life. So go, Grasshopper, go and find the common denominator, return to your village and spread the word to the sheeples there.

Maybe if enough people become aware, we can lock and load together and the *elite* will be forced to stand down or die. Hey, it could haaaappen.

The Unprecedented President....or NOT.

2009-03-13T15:44:00.000-07:00

Yeah, well, he had me going for a lil minute, but it was just his dumb luck that my extrapolation abilities are greatly compromised by the chemical and black mold effects of living in this FEMA camper. Because I already had the groundwork information in the Zeitgeist reports. And in the *alternative* real media of truth. And if this was happening prior to over 3 years in this toxic environment, I would have been perfectly capable of putting this picture together.

We're goin' down, folks, you can believe it now and start screaming that you won't have it and you won't be fooled again or you can take the freakin blue pill and wake up one day and ask what the hell happened to your world. God help you if you take the blue pill and God help the rest of the world, as well.

Yeah, the Puppeteers got me once, in a weak moment, but even with compromised comprehension and extrapolation abilities, they won't get me again.

Watch this, watch the whole thing, pay attention, learn.

It's Almost Over

2009-02-01T16:09:00.000-08:00

So I wrote to the President about my plight, as well as the thousands of others just like me. I invited him to come and personally see what the truth is here and not rely on the reports given to him by the bush administration. I invited him to come and see what a train wreck this is here in THIS country before he takes off to visit any other countries. I expressed to him the urgency of the situation here, that as bad as it is across the country, it's AT LEAST that bad here, if not worse, simply because of what we've been through for the past three plus years. I don't really expect an acknowledgement that the letter was received, let alone an answer. They know I know it was received, because I faxed it to the White House. But I personally handed a copy of a letter I sent the Governor via snail mail AND his website (which was totally ignored) to the administrative assistant at my congressman's office and the only response from there was to send someone to see if I had killed myself. That was in response to a statement at the end of the letter that said I was not suicidal. I love it sooooo much when people READ.

My mortgage company is truly the Spawn of Satan. Ok, start from scratch. My mortgage was written through Ameriquest. Citi Residental Lending bought the mortgage and immediately started screwing with me by throwing out the agreement I had with Ameriquest (to focus on the house and they would put missed payments at the end of the loan) and putting me directly in foreclosure. Got that taken care of and their next step was to refuse to confirm to MEMA that I was not in foreclosure so that I could get a Katrina Cottage and get out of this death trap FEMA camper I live in. A few months later, my toxicity rose to the level that I could no longer walk, drive or work. End of 2008, there I go, back into foreclosure again. But this time it's not because I'm working on the house, it's because I'm too sick to do much of anything. But in the meantime, I had two representatives who were theoretically working with the mortgage company. NOT. Neither one of them were doing ANYTHING on my behalf, but I had been told by them both that I was not to contact the mortgage company, everything would be going through them now. No news is good news, I thought they had everything under control while I tried to get an income rolling online. So I found out right before Thanksgiving that my house was to be sold on 12/10/08. Had to wait until after the holiday to contact them. THEN I find out there's a Disaster Assistance Department in Citi, something no one had told me before. I contact them and they give me a 60 day stay of execution. That would be 2/11/09. Last week, I get a letter dated 1/5/09 from an ambulance chaser lawyer who tells me my house will be sold by the mortgage company on 2/18/09 and I can file bankruptcy to save it. Except that I can't AFFORD to file bankruptcy, I have NO INCOME. I have received nothing from the mortgage company saying that I have a new sale date. But GUESS WHAT. Yesterday I got a letter from them saying they sold my loan. Yeah. And you'll never guess what date it goes into effect. 2/10/09. Uh huh. The first day I can talk to the new mortgage company is 2/11/09. One week before I lose my home, my mind and my life. Since they obviously KNEW they were selling the loan, the only reason to set another sale date was pure meanness.

Now, when the home is gone, there is nowhere for me to go. I can't rent an apartment because my once excellent credit of 718 is now totally and completely destroyed. I don't qualify for Section 8 housing because I don't have Disability yet. That takes years to get as most Americans know. You can be deaf, blind and quadriplegic with an IQ of 50 and it will take years to get Disability with appeal after appeal being denied until a lawyer gets it passed and takes at least a third of it. So no, there won't be any roof over my head. Plus I have a kitty and a dog that are not only my only joy and laughter many days but are my heart and we've been together 11 and 3 years, respectively. I'm all they've ever known. I'm supposed to just dump 'em at the pound? You can just dump me at the nut hut right after that.

And when the home is gone, there is no retirement for me, either. It was all in the house. So I am about to lose my home, my retirement and my last way to make any money at all. Timing being everything, I only needed about another 2 or 3 months and I would have been able to at least make house payments. Too little too late, but I tried. I did my very best to be self sufficient in the face of not being able to walk or drive. If I had known it would all be so pointless and really, how little most people really care, I would have put a gun in my mouth a long time ago and ended the suspense. Not even as a matter of depression, but only as a matter of logistics. I simply have no place to be. Or I will shortly, unless a miracle happens.

A miracle like President Obama coming here to see the TRUTH. A miracle like him even getting to read my letter, let alone doing anything.

What I know for sure is that if he did come here, I would be back into my house shortly and I would not be losing it in foreclosure. I think it would take one phone call from his office to the mortgage company and a followup letter and they would be working with me getting a reasonable fixed rate and putting my payments at the end of my loan from when I can start making them on my own from online income. If I were to wait for SSI, I would surely die first, which is, of course, the Social Security office's goal, anyway.

But, of course, the President doesn't have time to be bothered with me. I'm not important. I'm just one person out of millions losing their homes. Really, why bother with one person? Except that I asked him to come see the plight of about 10,000 people. Oh, I'm sorry, that's just in my county. There's actually way more than that who are still displaced, homeless or about to be homeless. Is that a big enough crowd to have any importance? Probably not.

Wonder what ever happened to that moratorium on foreclosures he was talking about? I read about one, but it was this little sliver of homes that fit into this narrow set of parameters. Not a blanket NO FORECLOSURES policy. And if there is a freakin crack anywhere in a program, I will fall slap through it.

I've never worked so hard to make anything work and failed so miserably. Yeah, I know....here's a quarter, call someone who cares.....wonder who that would be?

Rant, rave, ventventvent, I guess I'm done.

Random Rants Because I'm Massively ADD Today

2009-01-24T12:34:00.000-08:00

Lately, I've decided to start cutting back on my ptc sites, except for the very best ones I've had for a while. Meaning I'm not joining every new one that shows up every 4 seconds since most of them don't last long enough to get paid and I don't have time or patience anymore to figure out who the scammers are. Instead, I'm going to be focusing more on affiliate programs and blogs and traffic exchanges to advertise them. And where I can, using CPC ad networks. But apparently, where I can is becoming more and more of an issue, at least with Bidvertiser. So I may have to make up a few blogs or pages that contain nothing controversial, nothing competitive, nothing right or left of mainstream, nothing out of the ordinary, that are garden variety, whitebread, generic and bland. Something very carefully worded. But something incredibly interesting that the public will want to read every day! Yeah. Better yet, I believe I will just give Bidvertiser the drop kick off my pages. More on them later, they deserve their own entry for the joy they've given me the past few weeks.

I'm determined to make a living online, since I can't drive or work at a job anymore and it's now pretty much make it here or die since there's nothing out there in the world to help someone when they can't support themselves with a job anymore. At least not on an immediate basis. There's SSI but that takes years to get. So I have to make it here NOW.

PTC sites showed great promise, especially a particular one, in terms of saving my home, but more are scams than are honest. And the particular one, while an honest site and possessing great potential for good income, a site I have absolutely nothing bad to say about, has had some issues with it that caused great delays to occur and my income there to remain low. Now it is picking up rapidly, but will not generate enough to save my home. It would have, had some things not gone awry, like payment delays and price increases, hardware and software problems and a while back, DDoS attacks. All combined together, it spelled foreclosure for me.

Jeeze Louise, sometimes you can do the right things, work your butt off, pay your bills on time, be responsible, kind to animals, charitable to those in need, a good neighbor and live a spiritual life, loving God, your Creator and still go right down the drain. And as you circle that drain, count on 90% of the crowd that gathers to tell you it's your own fault because you chose to live where a big bad storm came through and you should have known better.

I think I need a nap.

The Unprecedented President II

2009-01-17T15:53:00.000-08:00

I like him more every day. I certainly hope this administration does hit the ground running and I hope the focus is on saving middle class America, the backbone of the illegal tax system. Middle class America....who pays more tax than wealthy America....who makes up the bulk of the economy and who is screwed at every turn. Middle class America....who is disappearing as the rich get ridiculously richer and the poor grow in ranks as middle class America loses everything.

Maybe, just maybe, we finally have managed to elect someone who actually CARES about that. We'll see, won't we?

And yes, I know he can only do so much because we have this nice system of checks and balances that allows Congress to push through immoral and self serving special interest laws, but I think if we ever had a chance to see what that man behind the curtain really looks like, it's now. How transparent will we get? Will we find out who really runs this country? Will we find out what really runs this country? Will they be stopped from using us for their agenda and turn this back into the land of the free? Again, we'll see, won't we?

The Unprecedented President

2009-01-12T20:41:00.000-08:00

I will be the first to admit, Obama was not my pick for President. But I also will say that I'm liking him more and more and he's not even in office yet. I don't know how effective his efforts will be, given how things REALLY operate up there in God Country...errr...I mean, Washington, but this is the first time in I can't remember when that anyone even TRIED to effect desperately needed change. Even used language that said they give a shit, without actually saying they do. With words like transparency and phrases like *more for the homeowners* (regarding the bailout).

I spoke with an attorney about my situation with my mortgage company and my house. He said they would be much less likely to take my house if they know I'm disabled and will be on disability because then they can't garnish my wages or checking account for the 40 grand they wouldn't get for my gutted house. I said the government is bailing them out for that, they get that 40 grand from the Feds. He said yeah, they do, but that doesn't stop them from getting it from you, too. Because they don't have to account for the money by account applied to, they just ask for a lump sum that my account is included in. So they take my house I owe 80 grand on, sell it for 40 grand, suck 40 grand more out of me for a house I finally lost after losing everything that was in it and sinking every cent I had into it trying to rebuild it, then get ANOTHER 40 grand from the Feds. Nice. Yeah, I like that word transparency. And I really like the concept that the bailout should not just be for the bloodsucking flesh-eating greedy parasitic rabid vultures that created the whole freakin problem in the FIRST place. But that's our government of the past....just throw money at the big businesses and screw the taxpayers who are losing their homes ANYWAY. So now the mortgage scumbags have the money AND the houses. How about this....how about we let the bastards go under and replace them with a co-op of the people who's homes they're trying to take. What? You say then the people who work for these companies will be out of a job and they might lose THEIR houses? Stop. You're breakin' my heart.

What really makes me sick is that I didn't even NEED a sub prime lender. I PICKED Ameriquest because I thought they were a good company. I had good credit. When my world started crashing down around me last year, my credit rating was 718. Not too shabby for a single woman with a low income. Because I am responsible. Because I pay my bills. Because I don't run up big credit bills with frivolous purchases I can live without. The fall from grace is not far, it took me about 3 months to lose it all and become a no bill paying deadbeat, after years of perfect and near perfect records.

So February 11 is the deadline for me. I'm not having much luck raising money to keep the vultures at bay, so all I can do now is hope our new President puts a moratorium on foreclosures, because if he does, I'll be saved. The house will be saved. My retirement will be saved. I'll be able to work my way out of needing any disability help. If I lose the house, there's no telling if I'll EVER be off the public dole, which is enough to make me want to fall on my sword. But not now. Not yet. I'm not giving up, I'm either too stubborn or too stupid to give up, I haven't figured out which one. hehehe

Propaganda Machine Fails Again, You'd Think They Would Quit Trying!

2009-01-09T21:02:00.000-08:00

I saw a movie last night called Peace, Propaganda and Promised Land. If you haven't seen it, you should. It will be on the next blog I'm doing, which should be up hopefully tomorrow. What is happening on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is wrong on just sooooo many levels. If you have internet available and you still believe the Network News and other mainstream media, then you aren't using the most important resource you have to it's fullest capability. The truth is a click away. Big business controls the government and the government controls the media. Journalism in it's purest form has been distilled here to whatever we are *supposed* to believe.

The incredible stupidity involved is that they continue this mass feeding of news pablum despite the ready availability of raw fresh TRUTH on the internet. We may not be hooked up to machines in a matrix like the movie, but we are in a similar situation nonetheless. The internet is your red pill or blue pill. For your own sake and the sake of the future for your decendents, I hope you choose the red pill and choose to take the time to learn what is REALLY happening on your planet.

Once again:

This is the link to the movie, watch and learn, get angry, work for change!

http://www.ilovepalestine.com/media/Peace-Propaganda.html

Holy Freakin Moo Cow!

2009-01-07T19:40:00.000-08:00

I heard today that my county is considering the idea that they should extend the deadline to evict everyone from their temporary housing. My city, however, still won't budge. I guess in the city it's only a few hundred families who will be without a roof over their heads, whereas out in the county, it numbers in the thousands, like over 4,000. Since they won't let people live in their own campers while they work on their homes, I imagine tents are also out of the question.

Hmmmm. As much as I have come to detest living in this camper, it beats the hell out of sleeping in the driveway with bugs crawling over me. That is my biggest fear, too, the bugs. UGH. Well, the bugs and not having electricity to run my computer so I can work, small cooking appliances and the tiny refridgerator I have.

Wonder how many pictures of homeless people struggling to make mortgage payments will have to be published before someone hears us????

They were shocked, appalled and outraged!

2009-01-06T19:18:00.000-08:00

Today I got to spend time with my Aunt and Uncle I haven't seen in quite a few years. They saw my house and the Toxic Trailer I live in and we drove around to see what this area still looks like, all the rotting houses still standing (barely), the little downtown resort area that is still just plain GONE, the empty lots where waterfront fabulous homes used to be, the abandoned commercial buildings half boarded up, still not gutted, the county offices still in trailers and tents and the school up the street being held in trailers. Then I told them I have to be out of the FEMA camper by March 1 and the city says I can't camp out in my house (like that'll stop me from trying!).

When I showed them how many things the contractor butchered and how many things have been done two and three times and the level of ridiculousness of some of the things I've had to do over and over, they were disgusted. They were appalled that I have piles of insulation, drywall, flooring, lighting, etc. that have been sitting there for two years that I can't install. They could not understand why the building inspectors were giving me such a hard time. My mama says it's because I don't have any money to bribe them with. I don't know if that's the case or if it's just a case of God Complex they all have. I dunno, maybe they all have little You-Know-Whats and it bolsters their tiny egos to have control of so many people's lives....maybe they've been bullies all their lives. Who friggen knows?

What I do know is that they live part time in Florida and part time in Michigan and they are going back to tell everyone, INCLUDING elected officials what they saw here. They confirmed that the propaganda machine has been lying to everyone, saying everything here is all ok now. Well, it's NOT.

Some of the things that have been done here were absolutely the most STUPID things you can imagine. I can tell you with all certainty that more money was wasted than actually reached the hands of the people who needed the help. Arbitrary formulas were developed that made little sense. Nowhere was the fact that prices for just about every phase of building and rebuilding skyrocketed factored in. Damage percentages were set artificially low so that *there would be enough to go around*, resulting in billions in *excess*. An *excess* that the Governor of this state has been trying to funnel into other projects like road repair and Port expansion for over a year.

I have written to everyone I can think of. The Governor ignored it. My local Congressman ignored it other than to send someone to my camper to see if I had killed myself. My Senators did at least pay lip service by sending me a recap of what money I had received....like I didn't KNOW THAT and then said if they could be of any MORE help, just let them know. That horrendous noise you hear is my teeth grinding. I wrote to Shepard Smith, Fox newsman who is FROM Mississippi. He ignored it, too. Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker, the same. Newspapers, the same, except for one online. I was interviewed by the owner but I never saw it on the site. I did a website about it. I tried to get awareness of this out into the world. I am still trying to do that.

But you know, it's hard for Congress to take things like this seriously, when there are so many other much more pressing issues, like the 1.7 million a day they have to pump into Iraq or trying to get time off to go to football games. Google Cliff Stearns Football Break to see what I mean, if I talk much about that right now, I may start foaming at the mouth and end up being shot by the game warden......

Home Again....sorta

2009-01-04T16:23:00.000-08:00

Well, I've been staying at my mama's house since right before Christmas and she brought me back home today. UGH. Every time I leave and come back, this camper seems smaller, dingier and dirtier than the time before. This time I almost just couldn't walk back into it. It smelled musty and moldy in here with a pungent odor that said the toxic waste is still leaching. There was nowhere to put all the stuff I had to haul back in here. Some of it is actually still outside because I'm just too tired to dismantle one more area and rebuild it to cram everything in tonight. I guess it doesn't matter, anyway, since I'll be moving it all right back out in a few more weeks when they come take the camper.

Last I've heard is no one will reconsider, all temporary housing has to be gone by March 1. It seems to me they could put their deadlines to much better use by making the people who have just left their houses to rot clean THOSE messes up....tear down the house, haul away the debris, clean up the property. Those are much bigger eyesores than FEMA campers and Katrina cottages. But no, instead, let's finish off those people who have been trying to recover and just leave the abandoned houses til later. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

And about Katrina cottages. It is ridiculous to make people leave those so soon, some people just got theirs last fall! Why do an expensive program like that for such a short term that doesn't address the real need? They spent an average of well over $70,000 EACH to build and deliver those. Why not put that money into homes, instead? Now what are they going to do with all these cottages? Oh wait, guess what! I read recently that they have as much formaldehyde in them as the FEMA campers have! OH YEAH. I'm not EVEN kidding! For this huge price tag, these tiny homes are particle board palaces, just like the campers. These friggin idiots did not learn ONE THING from the camper debacle. Which is really a stunning idea to contemplate, considering the whole purpose was to get people OUT of the FORMALDEHYDE!!! They were theoretically the lucky ones, since there were not enough made for everyone, over 6,500 families were left in campers in my county. So will the cottages be destroyed as well as the campers? Who friggin knows. It's the government. Pick the end result that spends the most money, accomplishes the fewest reasonable goals, dances around what the bottom line needs really are and makes the least sense and that's what they'll do. Unless it affects them personally and then they'll just get another raise to take care of the problem.

And while I grind my teeth about this never ending stupidity that is just chipping away at my sanity, I still have all this stuff outside to put away......ugh. I suppose I should redirect my attention from useless politicians with no one's best interests at heart but their own and figure out where I'm going to put everything. Perhaps with my superior powers of concentration, I can focus enough energy to levitate it and convert usable space from square feet to cubic feet.

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Congress gets yet another pay raise, we get a recession

2009-01-02T18:29:00.000-08:00

Tonight I read that Congress giving itself a pay raise AGAIN. In the midst of a horrendous economic crisis that is creeping around the world, wrapping it in tendrils of deep recession and eventual collapse.

How DO these people sleep at night? I personally invite each and every one of them to the Gulf Coast to visit with those of us they've forgotten about. They better hurry, though, my temporary shelter will be gone soon. Course, there is standing room only in there, so they would have to visit single file or congregate in the driveway aka my new living room. Oh, wait, what was I thinking? There's plenty of room in the house, just no walls. I can entertain them in there. I want them to see what *NEED a pay raise* REALLY means. I want them to realize that WE pay THEM. I want them to justify to me, face to face, why they think they need or deserve a freakin pay raise.

And then I have a friend in Michigan who I'm sure would like to speak with them, they can go there, next. She has a disabled daughter who requires 24 hour care. Her husband lost his job and hasn't been able to find anything but short term temporary side work ever since. She also tries to make a living online because it's less expensive to do that than pay for care for her child. They hover on the brink of losing their home, too. Go tell them why you need a pay raise, Congress.

You know where I read this? It was in the newspaper, in the Sound-Off section, at the bottom of the page, just a few lines. Wanna know what was on the front page with full headlines? FOOTBALL. Now there is something of critical importance for ya.

If you're not ballistic over this insidious pay raise, please, for the sake of your family, rush to the nearest emergency room and have them check for a pulse!

Screw the people, save the Barrier Islands!

2009-01-02T12:05:00.000-08:00

I read in the paper today that our governor, Haley Barbour, has decided not to ask the legislature to set aside any more money to help the thousands of Katrina victims not back in their homes yet, but will ask the Feds for money to rebuild the barrier islands.

Well, ok, we need the barrier islands to be a storm break. I'll give 'em that. And I guess it will be doubly important now that there will shortly be thousands of homeless families hitting the streets in the next few months when all the temporary housing is gone and we still can't move into our homes.

Yeah, well, watch me. I've already decided what I'm going to do. I'm running some more wiring into my house from the temporary pole (unless FEMA decides they just HAVE to have it, and of course, it will never be reused, so this would just be more government tunnel vision and pure meanness on their part to take it). I'm leaning drywall up against the walls and putting the area rugs I have on the floor. Might even lay out some of the ceramic tile in the bathroom. And I will camp out in the house and work online and continue trying to save my home.

It just boggles my mind that they can send billions to and spend billions on other countries and yet say they are done with the people in their own country. Three years has been enough time to recover? Hmmmm. Our county offices are still in trailers and tents to this day. The county jail is in a freakin TENT! I'm not EVEN kidding. Insurance claims are still being fought out in court. When people think three years is enough, what part of the *worst/most expensive natural disaster to hit this country in recorded history* do they not understand? It's a 5 to 7 year recovery process in something this massive.

I think maybe one of the reasons I'm sooooo pissed about this latest from Gov. Barbour is the last thing I heard about him was a big front page spread of the Christmas decorations in the Governor's Mansion, which they decorated with seaside type decorations in *honor* of the Gulf Coast. Don't make me gag. They should have decorated the tree with little models of gutted homes and FEMA campers and Katrina cottages with March 1 eviction notices on the doors. They should have made garland from the *Blue Roof* plastic and wood strips used to nail them down. Maybe some fimo models of people sleeping in their driveways with bugs crawling on them. Or waving goodbye to the temporary shelter they just lost.

It really bothers me that this whole country isn't outraged at how the people on the Gulf Coast are being treated enough to be screaming at their elected officials. Because when something bad happens to where you live, do you think it will be any better for you? It's not that we expect handouts. What we expected was equity, fairness, help instead of hindrance from our building departments and recognition that not every situation will fall into a nice neat little box of circumstances and that there be some assistance for those situations, too. Has it really not occurred to anyone that if we lose our homes after losing everything in them that we will have absolutely nothing left and be unable to recover from that? A hand up now precludes a handout later. Leave us to rot now and we become public assistance recipients later. Do we want that? Of course not, or we would have already been that.

The punch line is that Mississippi spent MORE making sure nobody received one penny more than they *should have* than they released in grant funds. The Feds spent God only knows how much paying people to make sure their Toxic Trailers weren't being damaged by a whole family crammed into 200 sq. ft. when they could have been putting that money into rebuilding homes. They could have sent every family over $150,000 to rebuild with and had millions, billions left over. Just a flat rate, this is what you get. This state would have been better off with better homes built, faster recovery, more money left to put into damaged roads, ports, schools, etc. And no one would have fallen through the cracks or been left behind in the dust of rebuilding. I wouldn't be toxic, I'd be driving and working and my home would NOT be in foreclosure danger.

But that would be productive and make sense, and we can't have THAT, now can we?

Happy New Year 2009

2009-01-01T20:29:00.000-08:00

Well, here it is, another new year. And once again, I step into it full of hope for the future. I refuse to believe the mortgage company will get my home. I refuse to believe I won't live in it again. I refuse to believe I will never be healthy again. I refuse to believe that this won't be the year I get my life back again. I absolutely insist that all these things end in a positive way and I will not rest until they are.

My mama keeps telling me I've done enough for one day, I need to rest. I can't stop, I won't stop until my home is secured. If all I can do is work at the computer, then I'm going to do that every waking hour. I will find a way, there has to be a way to save it all. I will not believe that I have fought and struggled so hard for over 3 years, all by myself, to end up losing it all, anyway.

So how about you, are you stepping into your new year full of hope for your future, as well? What challenges do you face this year? Financial, health issues, child care, relationships, work related? Everything has a solution, some better than others, but if you live your life as if the best possible solution has already ocurred, then chances are, that is what you will end up with. Easier said than done, but with practice and focus, entirely possible. Keeping a positive attitude while dealing with what I face is sometimes a challenge, I just have to stay focused on the prize and you can, too.

Best wishes to everyone for a healthy and prosperous 2009!

Can't help the rest of our disaster victims, gotta help Iraq!

2008-12-27T19:22:00.000-08:00

I read recently that the bush administration (deliberately not capitalized) has stated that they did enough for the people in the south whose lives were decimated by Katrina. Really?

Wow.

Now, I still live in a FEMA camper that I am toxic from, from both formaldehyde and black mold. I can't live in my house because there isn't any drywall up and the wiring isn't hooked up, but there is some temporary wiring hooked up to the temp. power pole in my front yard. But I can live in a tiny camper that has black mold, high levels of a carcinogenic toxin and intermittantly leaks and catches fire (electrical....the wiring is loose, like, everywhere!).

Hmmmmm.

Oh, wait, I forgot. My city says I have to be out of my camper BY March 1. No campers, trailers or Katrina cottages may remain after that date. This is the same city that is nitpicking me to DEATH over ridiculous details that are not critical but they can enforce if they WANT to. And apparently, they want to. Because they won't let me pass the open inspection no matter WHAT I do. I've been through the budget of FOUR volunteer agencies as well as about $35,000 I paid for work to pass this danged inspection and every time they show up, it's a longer list than before. Latest estimate on how much it will cost to get past the inspection now is ANOTHER $15,000. This is the same city that says I can't live in my house in it's current condition. Now I can't live in the FEMA camper, either. So I can only live in the driveway. I sure wish my two tents hadn't been stolen while I was at work! Now I need them.

The Feds and State have come up with every plan to *help* those of us who are still struggling to get back into our homes except what we really freakin NEED. And that is two things.....enough money to complete repairs AND someone to run interference with these building inspectors who think it's a real scream to jerk us around. If your home is not livable by now, it does not mean that you are lazy or greedy or stupid or think the world owes you a living. It means that you were probably at work and missed all the help agencies of which there are very few left. It means you probably got screwed over by an idiotic or unscrupulous contractor and had to spend the rest of your rebuilding money to fix what they did. It means you have probably been jerked around by the building inspectors and have done the same work over and over and over again because each one has a different opinion or the same one can't remember what he said from one visit to the next. And of course, they all deny ANY of this is true, when every word is, hand to God, I'm not kidding. It probably means you had to do mitigations that were supposed to be covered by a mitigations grant but ended up not being covered. But you have to do the mitigations anyway, most costing tens of thousands of dollars. It probably means you are STILL waiting for money from your insurance company. You are probably disabled or a middle aged single female or couple over 65.

Personally, I am a middle aged single disabled female. Although I wasn't disabled until I started living in the camper and actually, not until June 08. I used to be quite robust and healthy, but my body functions are beginning to shut down now. I have been screwed over by idiotic AND unscrupulous contractors, paid to have work they did redone, some work was never done at all, some is still left to be fixed, had to do about $23,000 in water mitigations from the grant that was supposed to just barely fix my home and was cut from the mitigations grant, been jerked around by building inspectors to the point where nearly everything in my house has been rebuilt 3 times and I lost out on a LOT of help because I was at work when they came by my house. By the time I figured out I HAD to be home, they were starting to leave.

Just to keep things interesting, FEMA would stop by 3 to 5 times a month and God help you if you weren't there when they came or there would be a VERY curt note left there that was slightly threatening in tone held to the door with huge pieces of red duct tape. They spent enough money on people to come to my house to make sure I wasn't damaging their Toxic Trailer that has to be crushed when they take it from me and to make sure I still *need* it (like I would rather stay in that 200 s.f. tin can than my 2640 s.f. home) for me to not only finish fixing my house, but maybe even have a bed and couch! You can just feeeel the eyeroll, can't you? Last month it finally went down to just one person who came to tell me I'm about to lose the only shelter I have and the Feds are done with me.

Now that I am not able to work anymore, I constantly stand on the edge of foreclosure. My mama saved the house once and now I hover on the edge again. If I lose the house now, I lose every penny of my retirement. EVERY PENNY. I don't have enough years left to work (if I am ever able to drive again) to replace that. My credit is destroyed because of all of this, down from 718 to probably off the scale, now. Not being able to work has just finished me off. There is no agency to help someone like me and I am by no means the exception to the rule, I AM the rule. There are thousands JUST LIKE me. There is no program to help those disabled by breathing the corrupt air in the campers. Those whose thyroid has shut down, who suffer severe breathing problems, etc. We live in a state where if you don't have children, the only help that is available to you is food stamps if you become disabled and are not 65 or older. We are sick because of the campers. The campers came from FEMA during the bush administration. We are still in those campers because special circumstances surround our recovery and there is no remedy for those circumstances.

But the bush administration has done enough for the thousands who remain essentially homeless.

REALLY??????

Those of us who are about to become homeless people with mortgages would like to know how many of our tax dollars are going overseas to fix Iraq this year. How much has gone there since August 29, 2005?

But enough has been done for their own countrymen, the people who put them all in office and pay their salaries. Easy to say on your way out of town, eh? Too bad it's not on a RAIL.

The red pill or the blue pill?

2008-12-17T16:58:00.000-08:00

I started this blog as a running observation of the continuing downfall of the human condition as I see it from my tiny corner of the world, via personal experience, direct sighting, the mainstream propaganda machine...aka Network News and Printed Media and the real stories found in underground news media.

Then I found this. *This* is a set of movies called Zeitgeist The Movie and The Zeitgeist Addendum. The website is http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

These two movies may be the most important 4 hours of your life. If you have ever seen The Matrix, you know you have a choice between the red pill and the blue pill. Which one will you choose? You can choose the blue pill and leave this page and never look back. Or you can choose the red pill and know....and know....and know....

Without embracing every philosophical aspect or taking every word as gospel, there is a larger truth here that is impossible to ignore. This makes sense in a world that not only doesn't make sense but is designed to not make sense. See how far the rabbit hole goes....