2008

2008 was for the most part a great years for me. There were some bumps in the road, actually some huge bumps in the road, but all in all I a going to keep this positive.

First my son is doing amazing in school, and we finally found him an activity that he loves doing...Karate. He got his first belt promotion a couple of weeks ago and was so proud of himself it was so cute. My gramma was in the hospital again, but thank goodness we caught it early enough this time that shes made almost a full recovery!!!!

Friends are a very important part of my life, I love my friends to death and would do anything for the people I am close too. The best thing that happened to me this year defenitely would be finally getting to meet and spend time with my best friend Matt. We got very close this year and I do not know where I would be without him. Hes awesome and I love him!!!!!

I also met Dana who has been a great friend to me over the last months!!!

Great things come from where you least expect them. And this year proved that to me, I became friends with probably two of the nicest most caring people I have ever met!! And they are twins lol!!!! Matthew I started talking to back in May if i remember correctly. He has helped me through so much and been there for me almost unconditionally since then. He is a great guy with a great heart and I hope I am friends with him for a very long time

Then there is his twin brother Eric, who I actually just started talking to the last couple of months. Eric is fucking awesome!!!! He is a very loyal and trusting friend that has been there for me pretty much 24/7 the last couple months,and while some of my other close friends have been having issues lately so they have not been available much. Eric has come in and been an amazing friend to me more than I ever would have expected from someone I have known for such a short period of time!!!! Eric in Matthew are identical twins and they are identical in more than their looks. They both have great hearts and know how to treat people and truly follow what Jesus taught!!! I luv them like family!!!

Our Heroes

Our fighting men and women in our armed forces are the backbone of America and our history. Since the Revolutionary War that gave us our independence from the British, these brave people have fought and died so we can have the freedom and lives that we have today. We owe everything in our nation to these men and women. They are the bravest of the brave and the loyalist of the loyal. They have dedicated their lives to serving our country and keeping their fellow americans safe from hostile nations. These men and women deserver our honor and our highest level of respect. Wars are fought that we may not agree with and that we may not support, but at the same time we must do everything that we can to show our soldiers, that we stand behind them. They are the lifeline of our country and in some cases the lifeline of the world. They should be honored and treated with respect and dignity by all of us. Those people that have never been brave enough to wear the uniform, that insult and ridicule our soldiers make me sick and to me are the lowest of the low. Show up or shut up!!!!! But to all our brave men and women serving all over the world, I salute you, you have my utmost respect and I am thankful for your commitment and sacrifices you are making for our country.

MAKING HISTORY

It was inevitable that the Democratic Party would make history with its nominee one way or another this election, and it has finally happened. Barack Obama on August 28th will become the first african american nominee from either party to run in the general election. If you look back through history it's quite amazing how far we have come in such a short period of time. It was only one hundred and forty-five years ago that Presiden Abraham Lincoln gave his historic Emancipation Proclamation which led to the freeing of the slaves from the south. That may seem like a long period of time, but to most other countries in the world one hundred and forty years is a blink of the eye in their history. After the 15th amendment was ratified giving black citiizens the right to vote but only counting their vote as three-fifths of a vote (hmm kind of like something that just happened this weekend) it was still not until the 1960's and civil rights icons like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. that equality was actually close to being realized in this country.
Let us not also forget the other historic aspect of this election. When Hillary Rodham Clinton won the New Hampshire Primary she became the first woman ever to win a primary or caucus in the United States a feat that should not be forgotten about, she went on to win almost twenty more primaries and to receive over 17 million votes. This is also a test of how far we have come in our country also considering that women were not giving the right to vote until the 19th amendment was ratified on August 26, 1920 a full fifty years after the right was given to African Americans.
We have come along way in the United States but we also have a long road ahead. There are many people that still believe that a womans place is in the home, and that blacks have become totally equal to white people in th U.S. This statement is very false, woman are still making only seventy-two cents on the dollar to men, and black people are on the average almost ten cents less than that number. Is this a true judgment on what certain people would like to call equality.
When most white citizens have access to better education systems, better health care, and higher paying jobs, this is the problem that we need to fix to bring true equality to our nation.
However far we still may have to go Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton have given every little girl and every little black child hope that when they say "mommy when i grow up i want to be president" that now that dream is a possibility. In November we may elect our first african -american president and possibly our first female vice president. Thank you Senators Obama and Clinton for your determination and showing our children and all of us in this country that our stigmas and the inequality that still rampant in our nation that anything is possible!!!