Posts Tagged ‘news’

How easily we blame the unknown

It might have been a mistake, but I set up a google news alert on keywords “military spouse” a couple of days before the  shootings. Ever since then I have been bombarded with more news items accusing the media and the presidency of being politically correct than I have people refraining from accusation because it is such a complex issue to analyze.

Oddly, today I received 2 hits – one story was from a military spouse on Fort Hood right here ..read more

Home of record

One of the things I learned while preparing 2008 tax returns this year, was that most active duty military are able to retain their “home of record”. This means, for them, that they literally reside in the state they choose and pay state taxes to that state, and never have to get register again wherever they PCS to (PCS=Permanent Change of Station; or for the lay person, getting moved around to the many different military installations stateside and worldwide).

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what a day

So, I get up this morning… course it’s hard to get up, but I get up. I lingered in bed for a good 20 minutes waiting for hubby to get home from night shift. At 7:30 when he still hasn’t come in yet, I get up anyway… drag myself out. I still had a bad taste in my mouth from last night when I bit into a strawberry and got THE worst bittery taste ever. A little afterwards, I managed ..read more

Last month’s rant … one of

Last month, I ranted about a particular situation here in Jamaica: the holding of public office by some of our people who had been naturalized as US Citizens. I was in panic mode, fearful of the repercussions of such an act by said officials. I was appealing to the authorities to do something before it was too late.

Well, I’ve been trolling on the visajourney.com forums, and I found a reference to the forfeiture of citizenship through deliberate acts. And hence ..read more

i can’t take it

This is madness. I just can’t deal with this.

So, after today’s excitement, I decide to watch the news.

HA!

Who told me to go that!??!!!!

Nothing on the news about today’s event … but PLENTY about events elsewhere in the country.  So much violence, depravity, despair ….

Oh my GOD! What the hell is happeneing?

I feel like I am losing my mind!

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current affairs anyone?

I’ve been giving this latest conundrum a lot of thought … the one where we (Jamaica) have a couple of parliament members with supposed US citizenship. It was my father’s thought that sparked my own.

He said that the matter is simple: if there is ever a dispute between Jamaica and the US that these people are involved in, on which side would they come down on? …considering that treason is punishable by death in the United States.

I took it further ..read more

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