Asian workers in my area can not or will not speak English.

   For the life of me, I can't figure out why so many of the Asian workers in my area can not or will not speak English. I am not racist nor am I prejudice in any way yet there are times while alone in a restaurant with the waite staff, all of whom are speaking to each other in Vietnamese, Chinese, or some other Asian dialect and not one of them will take the time to talk to me.
   I do not have this problem with other ethnic groups. For example, most Spanish speaking restaurants which I frequent the wait staff go out of their way to be friendly and sometimes when things are slow they will stop and hold conversations with their guests even if their English isn't so great.

OBAMA is DANGEROUS

This is an edited (some of the wording was not right) Facebook posting which I decided to use as a blog post.

OBAMA is DANGEROUS for the U.S. and why people can't see this is beyond my comprehension.. Why do I say this? Look at what he is doing right now to our country. He has turned the poor against the rich, Black and Latino against White, Females against males, Gays against straights. He set the Sequester (which is due to go into effect Friday,) into motion 2 years ago and now he is blaming congress for the coming debacle. I read something yesterday that said, "The people of the U.S. are not stock piling weapons just to say they have a weapons cache, they are planning for a coming war."
I AM TELLING YOU, RIGHT NOW, FOLKS THAT THIS PLACE IS A POWDER KEG WAITING TO BLOW AND THE WAY OBAMA IS ACTING SEEMS LIKE HE IS TRYING TO IGNITE A SPARK.

Obama's rhetoric and scare tactics are getting more intense as Friday approaches. I have never seen a President in my 30 years as a voter who spends so much time on the campaign trail or the Golf Course. On one hand he is railing against the rich and on the other he is playing golf with a multi-millionaire in the person of Tiger Woods. He hobnobs with celebrities then rants against the excesses of the wealthy. I truly believe the man is schizophrenic or in the very least has a split personality.

Watch the video below and you will see that without his teleprompter he would be lost and he keeps repeating the same dribble over and over again.

These words were said by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's (right hand man). ? “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Folks on the left and the main stream media vehemently hate anyone who dares point out any flaws in their demi-god, so I will not be surprised if a few of my friends feel some resentment at what I have written but if they can not see the truth then they are in for the shock of their lives when this place goes up in flames.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/ellison-hannity-tirade-video-145809949--politics.html

Democratic Rep. Ellison launches into tirade on Fox News (VIDEO)

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Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison exploded during a live interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday, calling the Fox News host the "worst excuse for a journalist I've ever seen" and a "shill for the Republican Party." The Minnesota congressman was on the program to discuss President Barack Obama's remarks o...

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  David Carroll People like Obama and Rep. Ellison, Tell lies then they lie about lying and before long they actually think that what they are saying is the truth. It is a vicious web they spin and people who do not pay attention to what is really going on get caught in their web and become part of the confused masses walking the streets in a daze railing against everything.

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• P R I hate to say it David but there is a part of me that wants this nation to fall into anarchy so a phoenix can rise from the ashes. The only problem with that is there is no guarantee of what kind of phoenix we would have.
  

Old people did not get old by being really foolish.

By: David Carroll Jr.

As a Freemason, I am around men and women who are much older than myself everyday and one thing I have come to realize is that, Old people did not get old by being really foolish. 
If the majority of the men and women I associate with were foolish at any point in their past they have long since outgrew that trait and moved on. These people I call my brothers and sisters, with the exception of a few of the younger ones, are some of the most intelligent human beings with which I have ever come in contact and I can truly say my life is better for having them in it.

Here is a lesson for all younger people (Under the age of 60) make friends with and listen to what the older people in your life have to say because, Old people did not get old by being really foolish. Like I said before there are a few exceptions to every rule but by and large as people enter their Golden years they become mellow and introspective mostly because they know they haven't long left on the earth or maybe they haven't the strength to fight so they live by their wits.

If the old folks in your life do not have dementia or some other disease which puts limits on their mental capacity start asking them questions especially if they have owned businesses or were professionals of any sort during their lifetime. You will be amazed at the repository of information they have stored away in their brains.

I am constantly amazed and you will be too when you realize that, Old people did not get old by being really foolish.

Disclaimer: This is my opinion and is in no way based on any scientific research or data.

There are a million and 1 reasons to Live with Addiction and only one to get Sober.

 By: David E. Carroll Jr

There are a million and one reasons people give for getting drunk.
1. My girlfriend left or is being mean to me.
2. My boyfriend is a prick.
3. My wife won't sleep with me anymore.
4. My husband is a prick.
5. My girlfriend is sleeping with my wife.
6. My husband is a prick.
7......
I could go on and on but the reality of the situation is people don't need a reason to get drunk and act stupid they do it because that is what they want to do.
I once had a friend who would get drunk every time we went out and would flirt with any man or woman who would look her way and would always get me into fights by telling the men I was being mean to her. I can't tell you how many times I pulled her out of situations which occurred because she was drunk and stupid . The next day she would not remember anything because at some point she would blackout. The funny part is that while blacked out she functioned perfectly, even to the point of driving a car. I followed her home many nights and she never swerved or gave any indication that she was wasted.

Some people drink everyday yet they deny having a drinking problem.
If you can not go a day without drinking some sort of alcoholic beverage then you have a drinking problem.

Certain people have asked how I can tell them to stop drinking because it is controlling their lives when I drink.  Well there is a difference in drinking a couple of beers or a glass or two of wine with dinner at times or getting drunk a couple of times a year vs drinking until I blackout a few times a week. Very few people I know drink to this extent but if you are one of them you have a problem and need to get help. 

There was a period of time when in my late twenties/early thirties (80's and 90's) I found myself drinking everyday and most days, while at work. Once I started this behavior I quickly found out I wasn't alone and started learning from my co-workers how to disguise my drinking. It was easy, a large white Styrofoam cup could be used to hide a Daiquiri or disguise a smaller cup with a cocktail inside. I had sales reps bring me bottles of liquor which we would sometimes consume behind the lock doors of my office. I can not even start to tell you how many deals I made while inebriated and no one seemed to care. Same goes for smoking pot, there were many days when my assistant and I would get high at lunch and go back to work, lock the door to my office and sleep until it was time to knock off.

Many of those days are remembered through an alcoholic haze but when I decided enough was enough, I quit cold turkey for over two years I did not drink a drop of alcohol. Not many people can say they have gone from being drunk every night to stone sober for two years. I did the same thing with cigarettes, I smoked on and off for over 25 years and when I decided to quit for good, I stopped and have only smoked a couple of times in the past 3 years.

The hardest thing I have ever tried to stop was my feelings for the girls and women in my life whom I have been romantically involved.
Addiction to Love is brutal.

The one reason I have for staying sober is:(fill in the blank)_______________________.

Valentine's Day SUCKS!!!

VD besides standing for "venereal disease" is just another day which has been co-opted by big business to make people's lives seem more relevant than they really are; so to all the people who will make the flower vendors, jewelers and candy manufacturers happy today just remember there are 364 more days in the year that you have to keep the promises you make or they are meaningless. Have A Happy Valentine's Day!

Blogging 101

Apparently to be a successful blogger one must:

1. Write about something which interest other people. Forget that nonsense and find a subject which interests you; a subject which lights a fire in the pit of your stomach and write about it with enthusiasm. If you do this the audience will find you. Remember the cliche, "If you build it they will come?" Well try it and see if it doesn't work.
2. Do it everyday. This is the one lesson I have not fully incorporated into my daily routine.
3. Be funny or sarcastic. Humor and criticism seem to sell especially if directed at    the agreed upon target of the day. It seems like the target changes at a pretty rapid clip in the caffeine fueled blogosphere.  These people of whom many have been legally diagnosed with ADD or ADHD  jump from one subject to another like rabbits on hot asphalt. This is not by any means a denigration of folks with any sort disorder because I have some of the same tendencies so I understand them better than people who are just normal.
4. Forget being modest.  You have to sell people on the fact that you are worth their time. There are literally millions of blogs in the blogosphere where a person can spend their time so why would they choose to spend it with you? What makes you special?

Updates to follow"

Still surviving my teaching gig.

This is the third semester and I have settled into my position as a teacher. There were times during the Fall that I swore that I was not coming back in January. I am going to be 49 years old in 10 days and have been in the workforce since I was 15 years old and dealing with 6th grade and 10 grade children has tried my last nerve. I can say for certain that I am better for having weathered the storm. I have taken the reins and am finally guiding them down the path I want them to take instead of being dragged along behind them.

I am not a parent so I do not have the luxury of having dealt with teenage attitude on a daily basis. In the past if a kid gave me attitude I would either send them to their parents or I would walk away but when you have other kids sitting there looking at you, while a kid is giving you lip, to see how you react, it is a different situation altogether. At first, I would get mad and threaten to pound them into the ground which they knew was not going to happen, then I resorted to sending them to the office for a paddling (yes a paddling), now all I do is look at them and smile like I know something they don't know and that seems to work in most cases. :)

Funny thing is I have a couple of kids with behavior issues in other classes yet they don't give me a problem. In my spelling class, I let the girls who are a little better at the material work together while I take the boys and work them like a coach or drill instructor and they seem to respond better than if I let them just get lost among the other students.

God Bless the Children

1/30/2013
Still here. Just added sixth and ninth grade Health and 11th grade Economics to the list of subjects I am teaching. This means I am have both ninth grade and 6th grade Health in the same class at the same time. The only way this is possible is to let the kids work at their own pace using quizzes and worksheets and when they get to something they do not understand I am there to guide them. Since this is basically homeschooling curriculum it makes "teaching" certain classes much easier than if I were having to orally present the information. Even the kids who are usually much slower seem to be able to work this way because as long as they can read and comprehend they stay busy.

The only problem I have now is keep butts in the seats. The kids come to me after Lunch and P.E., full of Energy and Sweet Ice Tea which makes keeping them in their seats about as easy as sticking a limp noodle up a Wild Cat's Rear. It can be done but there is a high degree of certainty that someone is going to walk away at the end of the day with some injuries and it is usually me.