First let me tell you that I was extremely reluctant to write this, but my family and friends have persistently nagged me since they can't believe the transformation in me over the last couple of years.
"I DON'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE".Anyway, I was sitting at my desk one afternoon when I received a text message from my husband...In die past year, Obama has repeatedly apologized to Muslims for America's "mistakes."Contrary to the wild excuses being made for the federal government on all the TV networks Monday night, it's now clear that this was not a wily plan of federal investigators to allow Shahzad to board the plane in order to nab his co-conspirators. It was a flub that nearly allowed Shahzad to escape.But the "highly trained federal force" The New York Times promised us on Oct. 28, 2001, when the paper demanded that airport security be federalized, failed to stop the only guy they needed to stop at JFK last Monday - die one who planted a bomb in the middle of Times Square days earlier.To cut a long story short, things didn't improve and got to a stage that even my youngest daughter suggested I leave him, so I did, and it's the most frightening thing I've done in my life!There's no other line of defense. In me case of the Times Square car bomber, the Department of land Security failed, the Immigration and Naturalization Service failed, the CIA failed and the TSA failed. (However, the Department of Alert T-Shirt Vendors came through with flying colors, as it always does.)If only Dr. Hasan's gun had jammed at Fort Hood, that could have been another huge foreign policy success for Obama.Perhaps the Department of Homeland Security should consider creating a "Really, REALLY No-Fly" list.The administration's fingers-crossed strategy is a follow-up to Obama's earlier and less successful "Let's Make Them Love Us!" plan.As with most social change, the pressure to adjust must come from the public. It's time for citizens to bring a little sanity to the situation.Our "Europeans Need Not Apply" immigration policies were absurd enough before 9/1 1. But after 19 foreign-born Muslims, legally admitted to the U.S., murdered 3,000 Americans in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania in a single day, couldn't we tighten up our admission policies toward people from countries still performing stonings and clitorectomies?The upshot is fewer and fewer people are laughing today at prison- rape gags.And a recent study of prison rape by the Bureau of Justice Statistics should sober everyone up. In 2007, the bureau found that more than 60,000 adult inmates, along with one of every eight juveniles in custody, had been sexually assaulted in the past 12 months. According to some Web sites, it's estimated that 80,000 times a day in the United States an inmate -- male or female -- is confronted with unwanted sexual advances.So here goes...(deep breath),Both of the attempted bombers who sailed through airport security, I note, were young males of the Islamic faith. I wonder if we could develop a security plan based on that information?Attitudes about prison rape need to change, as well.There was also Obama's 90-degree-bow tour of the East and Middle East. For his next visit. he plans to roll on his back and have his belly scratched like Fido.I must point out that at this time I weighed around 18 stone (UK size 24), sometimes having to walk with a stick because of the arthritis pain my weight was causing in my back and my knees. Over the years I had tried all sorts of "weight-loss programs" and "fads" and nothing seemed to work for me. I would often cry myself to sleep, and didn't have a full length mirror in the house for years! I�m sure you get the picture..."Intimidated"? How about "absolutely terrified"?
I have provided links to programs that helped me if you wish to look at them and hope my true story can give hope and strength to anyone that needs it. Enjoy your life!
Author: Kay Patterson
No comments:
Post a Comment