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I know that suffering is imperative. I started this post almost two days ago. There is so much that I want to say. The Oil Spill, our children and their behavior and the violence, and the Gores and my thinking on their breakup.
The oil spill. This is beyond belief. When the off shore platform fell it must have dropped down into a a huge deposit of oil. If we are to believe that they didn't know it was as big as this then their seismology equipment must not have detected the large pool of oil. Maybe there was a large rock formation or aquatard that blocked the possibility of knowing that much oil was there. Maybe when the platform fell down with such force it opened up another unknown are of oil and that was a huge reserve. In any case, they don't have a solution. They treat this as if they are now just coming up with a possible solution and did not spend any money on prevention, quality control, any type of what if scenario. I am just flabbergasted that they are trying all of this stupid stuff now. They don't have anything solid to make a difference in this tremendous oil spill. The environment is going to take a huge blow. People who make their money fishing and in the tourist industry will see the effect for years. I do not believe that they haven't explored some sort of scenario that something like this would happen and the obvious outcome seems to have been to let it spill. The collateral damage to wildlife and the fishermen must have been a calculated loss that was thought to be acceptable. Gas prices going down so consumers wont complain. The cost to fix this is greater than the loss.

Our children. I keep hearing how bad the teachers are and how its our fault the children are the way they are. The parents are not training up the children in the way that they should be taught. The problem is the parents who are not educated themselves contribute to the nonsense. I took my children on a field trip Friday. the kids were yelling out the window at people. I have to yell at them not to do that and to remind them that their parents would not want them to do that. I remind them that they don't do that with their parents and don't do that now.  I have parents who bring other family members up to school to beat up on students. The parents have initiated this action. Then when we are in the classroom and the students are unruly, I am called a bad teacher if I don't threaten, bully and push around the students into submission. The biggest goal is that we want to discipline the students into submission. Discipline and being tough with these students have failed drastically.  Our students are so far behind, I look at them as our future, the future that we want is to see the ones who are wanting to be successful, able to be successful. We want positive young men and women running our country. The problem is the ones who are able to provide funding, support the moral and ethical laws that will allow us to become good citizens and good neighbors, are not willing to help. As long as the problem is with the poor and minority classes, then it doesnt affect them and they will throw a fundraiser here and there but no real change will occur. As long as funding is not available for schools, class sizes are increasing to 35 plus, gym classes and other social emotional programs are cut, and the supplies and resources are not there then the students cannot rely on the schools to be the impact to make the change with students. We cannot be the only responsible accountable adults to our children.  Action has to happen. Not all students are bad.

The Gores got tired of making plans to meet each other. After forty years of marriage they realized that they didn't have an interest in Al found a home in the environmental arena. Someone stroked his ego and I suspect that he will be the first have a new love interest. Tipper has her interest and Al has his. Someone decided that they didn't want to plan time together. That's what will kill a marriage. When you no longer want to plan time together. They fell out of love and out of interest with each other.

OK now I have finished.