I know this topic seems a bit off course for Zombified Times but I thought that I might pen out this due to recent topics in the news about parental favoritism. Let me give you a small picture of my childhood family. Nuclear to the core, mother, father sister and me. I am the oldest with a sister who is nine years younger. So naturally we didn't have a whole lot in common age wise. Lets look at me, as usual it is always about me, as my mom would tell me. I grew up normal, very little intervention from my parents except when I got in trouble for something. My mother had a bit of a temper so when ever I became a bit resistant to a situation she would grab me by my arm and yell those typical, wait till your father gets home statements. I did spend a lot of time grounded. I honestly never felt to connected to my parents, except my dad and that was more of a worship on my part than anything.
I was offered a lot of opportunities like I took up violin in 1st grade and stayed with it till I was in 9th grade, then I wanted to be a rock star and got a guitar. My parents supported me playing the violin with lessons but not with the guitar, to this day I wish I had gotten some lessons 'cause man I really suck at the guitar. I was also given the opportunity to become a competitive swimmer. Joined a private swim league through the YMCA and did that through high school, setting several league records and NYS championship records. I do not remember my parents ever coming to any of my school meets or NYS championships. They did however help out the YMCA swim team, note my little sister also swam for the YMCA during that time, although they did attend the meets and championships before that. I played softball/baseball for Kodak, no one came to any of those games, soccer either, maybe a few, don't remember. Played that from 6th grade to 9th grade on a private league. I spent a lot of my free time volunteering at the YMCA working with other youth and even earned Youth of the Year for my volunteer work with the YMCA. This all led to after school work and summer work with the YMCA
School wise I was just an average student, got by, did good in what I liked and did ok in everything else. I attended one school for 8th grade while I waited to start 9th grade at a trade school I wanted to attend since 4th grade. Life got really crappy in 8th grade. I was picked on constantly, in fights, got jumped walking home one day, just all around sucked. I did ok grade wise accept one teacher who had a problem getting grade to people or telling us what we did wrong or right, but dad went down and fixed him, and sadly enough I passed all my classes except the final exam for English, which caused me to fail the class. I had an A in the class all year but the final was a Regents exam and you can only pass if you pass the exam. That was when I realized NY Regents was criminal and needed to be changed. Went to summer school and again had an A for the class and failed the final, failed the class. Reason being simple..we never read any of the material required for the exam, like Red Pony, To Kill a Mockingbird etc...bastards. High School...much better except 11th grade. That is when I found out or at least was told by my parents they could not get financial aid for me to attend Rochester Institute of Tech or SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) at Syracuse University. With no alternative I did what I thought would make my father proud and joined the Navy. Came back from boot camp to finish 12th grade but the school was was giving me grief by giving me a class in the middle of the day, I was attending to finish that English class from 8th grade. I had no other classes and I had picked up a job. I fought with the school district and just dropped out of high school over it. I had already taken a GED test in the Navy so technically I had my high school diploma. Later on in life I finally got to attend college on my own dime, and the Navy's and found out the Rochester City School District awarded me a HSD anyway....bastards.
Let's paint my picture of my sister, she was born in 76 and it was difficult for my parents to have her but she finally came along after a few attempts. She was a model student all through school, involved in theater, swimming, she played violin and was allowed to drop that and take up piano, our parents our purchased her a piano, to defend my parents they did buy me an acoustic guitar, I saved and bought my own electric guitar, and they got her piano lessons. Oh yeah I did take up flute for 2 years, that one was awful. Parents do not let your sons play flute. Like I mentioned they attended our swimming meets at the YMCA, I do not know if they attended her rec swim club meets. My little sis was very opinionated and spoke her mind often. Her and I did not get along like most siblings but we really had nothing in common. As she got older she did some volunteer work at the Y but not nearly as much as I did, years wise I started volunteering around age 11 till 16 about 20 hours a week during school and 40 hours a week during summers. She was very involved with school, I just did sports and year book.
It is much easier to speak of myself than of someone else since we were not that close but as I got older I started to see the differences or separations. I look back now and wondered why some things happen. My sister went to college right from high school. My parents payed a little and helped her a little while there, then it dawned on me, they went with her to look at colleges....that was never even offered to go visit ESF or any other college option. Oh well. Wait they payed for some of college? That was not even offered or and option to me. Of course once grad school hit she was completely on her own. In her defense I met my now wife when I was 18 and and we were married when I was 20, and more or less was in and out of their house between 17 and 19. Now my parents did help out with money occasionally with things like when our oldest son needed crowns as a child and with auto repairs, all when we first were starting out due to lack of insurance or well paying jobs.
I had always felt that she was their favorite and really in never bothered me till a few months ago when my sisters said something to the effect that our parents were so disappointed in me for failing school....WHAT? Ok technically I failed a class, but only based on one exam, in a system that fail to recognize all the other work put in to have an A average. Then I started looking at other things like why when I was in the Navy did my father not help me get into the Navy Seabees when I wanted to and I had to really work to get in there. My mother told me it was due to him being embarrassed or ashamed of me. Now mind you he has never said that to me but he is a man of very few words and well I worshiped him. Theses are just a few tip offs I had, I am sure there were others that I choose to ignore. I know some are wondering why the hell did you write this well it was something on my mind, and the research about Favorite Children, honestly the researchers say it is real and it is bad, some say it is good. Let me tell you this, it is what made me what I am today. I have a wonderful family of my own, two sons, one teen and one 20+. A beautiful wife of 20+ years, who I can not imagine life with out. I have a job, something I am great-full for. I have a wonderful grand-daughter. I have lived the American dream, I have the volunteer work that I do and really enjoy. I have Zombified Times and the Zombified Times Radio, which we are still working on. I am free to speak my mind and free to not give a damn about what others think. I love my parents and my sister but expect nothing from either, we all have our own lives and although they may not agree with my views or my beliefs, they can only blame themselves for teaching me to be the person that I am.
Balsa-
Editor -Zombified Times
America has become the Zombie Nation, hopeless and changeless. Lets try to share a laugh at the failure of the republic as we watch it collapse. Reporting when the brain has been left out.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
White House Adviser V. Jarrett - "Unemployment checks are actually good for and stimulate economy
Really? We will file this under our dumb ass comment of the year. I think she may actually win with in. We shall revisit at the end of 2012.
Watch video and you decide....
Valerie Jarrett - Unemployment stimulates the economy.
Watch video and you decide....
Valerie Jarrett - Unemployment stimulates the economy.
Yes people receive that free check and will frivolously spend it on consumer products like crack and booze. Course they won't pay rent, utilities, food or other necessities.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Occupy Oregon proclaim themselves as gods
I have seen the devil in Occupy, and that devil came in the form of negative truth. There are many truths in this world, but this does not mean that we must sacrifice our desire for unity to the God of extreme relativism. Each truth leads down a path of its own ultimate reality. This reality is born from choice and paves a way of cause and effect. To deny a path is not to deny any one truth, but simply to reject it as one’s own. All truths are true, as they are all part of the universal reality which we as creators are able to shape and manipulate with free will.
Gina Ronning-
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It is with great confusion that we report that occupy Oregon is now producing gods. With all that is so confusing in the world today we as Americans must now contend with gods. The Greeks and the Romans battled gods for supremacy, and we know what happened to them, and now it seems that the Zombified Occupiers are now at a superior level than humanity to self proclaim themselves as gods.
They have ascended to a higher conciseness than all of the rest of humanity and now we may have to do battle with the occupy gods. Everyone here at Zombified Times have now proclaimed the Spock is our god. Half human, half Vulcan. We shall now only follow the ways of Spock, unless zombies come after us, then we shall pray to the machete god.
- The world has gone nuts.
Balsa
full link to Gina's statement
Occupier Gods
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Occupier Police Blotter
We have gathered a listing of various new stories across the US about crimes or potentially dangerous situations related to the Occupy Movement. Use this as a reflection what has happened and where this movement is going.
Murder and Suicide
Clashes between Occupy forces and local businesses (ironically a part of the 99%) led to a series of fist fights that escalated into a mob beating that escalated into the murder of a local businessman in Oakland today. Mayor Jean Quan, who has been criticized by residents on both sides for issuing mixed signals about the local government’s willingness to tolerate the camp, issued a statement Thursday calling for the camp to shut down. “Tonight’s incident underscores the reason why the encampment must end. The risks are too great,” Quan said. “We need to return (police) resources to addressing violence throughout the city. It’s time for the encampment to end. Camping is a tactic, not a solution.”
A man living in a tent in the Occupy “protest” outside of City Hall in Burlington, Vermont shot and killed himself last night. Deputy Chief Andi Higbee in Burlington told reporters the shooting raised questions about whether the protest would be allowed to continue. “Our responsibility is to keep the public safe. When there is a discharge of a firearm in a public place like this it’s good cause to be concerned, greatly concerned,” Higbee said.
Rape
Following the rape of two young women in Zuccotti Park, police have arrested a 26 year old Occupy protester that was working as part of the cooking staff for the movement. According to police reports, the alleged incident took place Saturday when an 18-year-old woman from Massachusetts and another 17-year old female complained of sexual assault. Despite the multitude of coverage regarding allegations of police mistreatment, the Occupy movement worked very hard to suppress word of the attacks.
TB Outbreak
Early on in the Occupy movement it was clear that there had been little if any long term planning as health conditions rapidly declined. This lack of planning has produced much feared results in Atlanta. The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter home to the occupy movement contracted the drug-resistant disease. WGCL reports that a health department spokeswoman said there is a possibility that both Occupy Atlanta protesters and the homeless people in the shelter may still be at risk since tuberculosis is contracted through air contact.
“Over the last three months were have been two persons who have resided in this facility who have been diagnosed with confirmed or suspected infectious tuberculosis (TB),” said Fulton County Services Director Matthew McKenna in a written statement to CBS Atlanta. “One of these persons was confirmed to have a strain of TB that is resistant to a single, standard medication used to treat this condition. All person(s) identified as positive have begun treatment and are being monitored to ensure that medication is taken as directed.”
Assault and General Violence
Protesters in Portland took ridiculous threats of violence to a new level when they threatened violence on a nearby business that ran out of pizza bread sticks. According to Portland police: “Occupy Portland protesters became enraged when Pizza Schmizza ran out of bread sticks to accompany their entree order. They threatened to assault employees and vandalize the restaurant.” The customers, cops noted, told a Pizza Schmizza employee, “Your job is bullshit, you know you work for a big corporation.”
In Los Angeles today, two women were arrested in different violent incidents that occurred when one of the women burned some one’s clothes as part of an ongoing fight at the Occupy camp on the South Lawn of City Hall and the second Occupy woman was arrested for attacking a man with a tent pole. A third arrest occurred this morning when a man was stopped while attempting to pour flourescent paint on an historic marble fountain.
Back to Portland where a man was arrested yesterday for throwing a Molotov Cocktail at the World Trade Center building.
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#Occupy Eugene protester Rich Youngblood was choked and beaten to death at the camp this week.
Kristen Carpenter, Chair of Occupy Eugene’s Action Committee said they had hoped to prevent acts of violence, like the incident involving Youngblood… where he died.
Yesterday more than 30 people gathered for a vigil to remember 54-year-old Rich Youngblood of Florence who was murdered at the #Occupy Eugene camp.
Herald.net reported:
More than 30 people gathered for a vigil to remember a man who died after a fight in the Occupy Eugene camp.
Occupy Eugene leader Kristen Carpenter told KVAL-TV, “We’re sorry we couldn’t have stopped the violence in the system sooner.” She said the Friday night vigil was not just for 54-year-old Rich Youngblood of Florence but also for all victims of street violence.
Police said Youngblood was beaten and choked at the camp on Monday. Authorities are still investigating.
The City Council ordered the camp be disbanded.
With the Eugene beating death, the #occupy death toll stands at 9. This does not include the #Occupy Raleigh protester who shot up a food store injuring three people then committed suicide.
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A Fort Collins beekeeper and occupy movement activist, accused of starting a fire causing $10 million in damage to an Old Town condominium and retail complex, now faces two additional charges of attempted first-degree murder.
Benjamin David Gilmore, 29, was initially charged in November with arson, burglary and criminal mischief. He pleaded not guilty.
The Larimer County District Attorney's Office has since added a second arson count, a second criminal mischief count and the two attempted murder charges, the Coloradoan newspaper reported Tuesday.
Gilmore was an early supporter of Occupy Fort Collins, which had set up camp a block away from the fire site. Days before his arrest, Gilmore addressed the City Council, asking that the city to be more accommodating to the movement.
Officials have released limited information regarding Gilmore's arrest because a judge has sealed all supporting documents in the case.
Prosecutors are expected to reveal evidence against Gilmore at a preliminary hearing scheduled for Friday morning, the newspaper said.
Gilmore is accused of starting a fire early Oct. 24 in a four-story apartment complex under construction. The fire spread to the occupied Penny Flats condominium and retail building next door.
The fire at Penny Flats caused heavy fire damage to the fourth floor and roof, and heavy smoke and water damage to the first, second and third floors, fire officials said.
If convicted on the two attempted murder counts, Gilmore would face eight to 24 years in prison, the Coloradoan reported. The two arson and two criminal mischief counts each carry penalties of four to 12 years in prison.
Gilmore is out of jail on a $250,000 bond.
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Occupier' Accused of Strangling Parents
They had dedicated their careers to helping others escape poverty, she as a physician assistant in a city-run clinic in the Tenderloin and he as a clinical psychologist for inmates in the San Francisco County Jail system.
But now, less than a decade after they adopted, their 15-year-old son stands accused of strangling both Poff, 50, and Kamin, 55, then hiding their bodies in the back of the family's PT Cruiser…
Co-workers said Poff and Kamin were having some arguments with their son, some of it having to do with him spending too much time in the Occupy Oakland encampment, but nothing that sounded beyond the scope of typical teenage rebelliousness.
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KILL THE POLICE’: COPS ARREST HUNDREDS OF OCCUPY OAKLAND PROTESTORS AFTER STREET CLASHES
(The Blaze/AP)– Police arrested hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters last Saturday night for failing to disperse hours after officers used tear gas on over a thousand demonstrators who threw rocks and flares at them and tore down fences.
More help from other police agencies arrived on scene for the mass arrests, with busloads of Alameda County sheriff’s deputies arriving in the downtown area late Saturday night.
Here is video taken from the livestream that shows police warning protestors that mass arrests are about to begin (content warning for profanity):
http://youtu.be/DZo_PsRJTBY
Police Sgt. Christopher Bolton said the arrests came after protesters marched through downtown Oakland a little before 8 p.m. Saturday, with some of them entering a YMCA building.
At different moments on the livestream video, protestors could be heard yelling “Kill the police” and “F**k the police.”
This clip captures the moment on the livestream that police began the mass arrests:
Earlier in the day, police used tear gas and “flash” grenades on the group Saturday afternoon after some demonstrators threw rocks and other objects at them. Police said three officers were hurt, but they released no details.
This clip shows Occupy Oakland protestors in retreat after police opened fire with rubber bullets and tear gas:
Police said the group assembled at a downtown plaza Saturday morning, with demonstrators threatening to take over the vacant Henry Kaiser Convention Center. The group then marched through the streets, disrupting traffic. The crowd grew as the day wore on, with afternoon estimates ranging from about 1,000 to 2,000 people.
Oakland Police also deployed batons to deal with rowdy protestors, as seen below:
The protesters walked to the vacant convention center, where some started tearing down perimeter fencing and “destroying construction equipment” shortly before 3 p.m., police said.
Police said they issued a dispersal order and used smoke and tear gas after some protesters pelted them with bottles, rocks, burning flares and other objects.
Here police are seen on video firing rubber bullets into the crowd:
Most of the day-time arrests were made when protesters ignored orders to leave and assaulted officers, police said. By 4 p.m., the bulk of the crowd had left the convention center and headed back downtown.
The demonstration comes after Occupy protesters said earlier this week that they planned to move into a vacant building and turn it into a social center and political hub. They also threatened to try to shut down the port, occupy the airport and take over City Hall.
In a statement Friday, Oakland City Administrator Deanna Santana said the city would not be “bullied by threats of violence or illegal activity.”
Interim police Chief Howard Jordan also warned that officers would arrest those carrying out illegal actions.
The Associated Press has aerial footage of the protest march in daytime:
Oakland officials said Friday that since the Occupy Oakland encampment was first established in late October, police have arrested about 300 people.
The national Occupy Wall Street movement, which denounces corporate excess and economic inequality, began in New York City in the fall but has been largely dormant lately.
Oakland, New York and Los Angeles were among the cities with the largest and most vocal Occupy protests early on. The demonstrations ebbed after those cities used force to move out hundreds of demonstrators who had set up tent cities.
In Oakland, the police department received heavy criticism for using force to break up earlier protests. Among the critics was Mayor Jean Quan, who said she wasn‘t briefed on the department’s plans. Earlier this month, a court-appointed monitor submitted a report to a federal judge that included “serious concerns” about the department’s handling of the Occupy protests.
In a statement Friday, Oakland City Administrator Deanna Santana said the city would not be “bullied by threats of violence or illegal activity.”
Interim police Chief Howard Jordan also warned that officers would arrest those carrying out illegal actions.
The Occupy Wall Street movement, which denounces corporate excess and economic inequality, began in New York City in the fall but has been largely dormant lately.
Oakland, New York and Los Angeles were among the cities with the largest and most vocal Occupy protests early on. The demonstrations ebbed after those cities used force to move out hundreds of demonstrators who had set up tent cities.
In Oakland, the police department received heavy criticism for using force to break up earlier protests. Among the critics was the mayor, who said she wasn’t briefed on the department’s plans.”
Earlier in the day, protestors clashed with police who used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them. You can see a series of video clips below taken from the Occupiers’ livestream camera during the riot:
American Capitalism: Why the Hate?
I wanted to share this article I ran across from Christine Morabito, Merrimack Valley Tea Party. It fits the current climate of this Anti-Capitalism movement growing in the U.S. Here is the link to the original article from the Valley Patriot. American Capitalism: Why the Hate?
American Capitalism: Why the Hate?
12-07-11
Christine Morabito, Merrimack Valley Tea Party
What a sad day in this country when our capitalist system is equated with evil. With the emergence of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the Obama administration urging them on, class warfare has pulled up an unwelcomed chair. Surely I am not the only one deeply disturbed by anarchists chanting “eat the rich.” When asked to comment on the protest, the criminally unfunny Roseanne Barr joked (at least I thought it was a joke) about bringing back the guillotine. In her nostalgia for the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, she generously offered to reserve beheadings for “the worst of the worst” capitalists.
Whether it stems from ignorance or gross misinformation, a large percentage of these occupiers truly believe that communism and socialism are superior to our system of free market capitalism. I know public education is one hot mess, but what kind of malarkey are we teaching these kids? Are they not taught about the forced labor, starvation, oppression and brutality under Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, Communist China or North Korea?
You can hardly blame them. We have ruined the occupy generation with decades of revisionist history, moral relativism, no-fault divorces and a society where everybody wins and anything goes. You have to feel sorry for a culture that believes Che Guevara, the sadistic, mass murdering, narcissistic hit-man for Fidel Castro, is a cult hero worthy of a clothing line.
In startling contrast, I offer you the miracle of capitalism as expressed in the book “The 5,000 Year Leap”: In America’s infancy, settlers used the same primitive tools and farming methods which had been around for 5,000 years. Yet, because of the unique freedoms they came to enjoy – especially property rights and the ability to trade freely with one another – in just a few hundred years Americans were providing food for the world and landing on the moon.
Free market capitalism was not the colonist’s first choice, but an experiment tried after collectivism failed miserably -- for the same reason it always fails – because some people would rather sit around and let others do the work. Our system has a mechanism for dealing with the lazy – others prosper while the lazy do not. In this country, industrious people who wish to succeed will do so, if given freedom and incentive (or as the Left calls it, greed). In communist and socialist countries without personal freedoms people only do what they must in order to avoid being punished by governments that force people to work.
The invention of electricity, automobiles, air travel, vaccines, air conditioning, refrigeration and computers did not happen by accident. They were created by people motivated to improve the quality of life for themselves and their families. Besides making a profit, they just so happened to vastly improve millions of lives along the way. In our capitalist system we all get richer and our lives get easier when entrepreneurs prosper.
Compared with the rest of the world, Americans have few obstacles to succeeding, with countless examples and stories of rags to riches. Socialists and others on the left insist that a multitude of groups are under-privileged and oppressed. While granting these people victim status, they eliminate their drive to succeed, creating dependency and doing them a grave injustice. Remember, big government types have a vested interest in people remaining dependent on the big government programs they create.
Capitalists, on the other hand, want everyone to succeed. Just because I get wealthy does not mean that you cannot. Leftists will tell you that corporations only get rich by exploiting workers. Last time I checked there were no forced labor camps in this country. If you are unhappy with your salary, you are free to negotiate with your employer for whatever amount you believe your skills are worth. To increase your earning potential it is your responsibility to obtain the necessary skills. A grocery bagger at Market Basket may believe his skills are worth $20 an hour. While he may be a superb bagger, in an hour he does not do $20 worth of work.
Occupy protestors blame capitalism for all the ills of mankind. They say the system is corrupt and should be destroyed. The cause of most corruption is government’s interference, not the lack of it. Capitalism in its purest form is inherently free of government involvement. In a true free market, individuals trade with each other to their mutual benefit. When a company is unethical or negligent and people find out (they always do) the business suffers and eventually goes bankrupt. When government interferes and deems company A “too big to fail” or exempts company B from taxes in reward for campaign contributions, then we have a big problem.
Capitalism is also blamed for “child labor” and “sweatshops” in underdeveloped countries. While salaries in places like Bangladesh or Indonesia seem meager to us, lives are dramatically improved simply by providing employment in the first place, not to mention allowing them to earn an above average standard of living. To say these people are poor is a gross understatement – Third World poor should not be confused with American poor, who have air conditioning, televisions and access to healthcare. These are countries where the alternative to working in so called sweatshops may be starvation, child prostitution and disease.
As a conservative, I am often accused of supporting “the rich.” If that describes inventors, business owners, scientists, job creators, innovators and entrepreneurs, then color me guilty. If, along the way I encounter a poor person who creates jobs and radically improves the lives of his fellow man, I’ll gladly support him too.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
If they only knew the truth
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Sugar: The real crack.
Here we go again, first trans-fat then salt, now sugar. The government in their infinite (lack of)
wisdom wants to control sugar just like tobacco and alcohol. Co-author and
sugar researcher Robert Lustig, a professor of clinical pediatrics at the UCSF Center
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| Sugar-Free America |
In their research they claim the following: Sugar meets the
same criteria for regulation as alcohol, the authors wrote, because it’s
unavoidable, there’s potential for abuse, it’s toxic, and it negatively impacts
society. They write that sugar is added to so many processed foods that it’s
everywhere, and people eat up to 500 calories per day in added sugar alone.
Sugar acts on the same areas of the brain as alcohol and tobacco to encourage
subsequent intake, they wrote, and it’s toxic because research shows that sugar
increases disease risk from factors other than added calories, such as when it
disrupts metabolism…
Honestly, is this for real?
Social Intervention? Now we have
a flip side on this issue. Senator
Richard Lugar wants to cut the government control of the cost of sugar. A free sugar market. The US
The future looks so bright, one side wants to keep sugar
from us, masked in the health needs of America
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