Happy New Year to all the lonely souls

To all the lonely souls out there: happy New Year. I say this knowing the hurt and pain you are going through.
All the people who are going through the first taste of being along this year after you spouses death, the death of a parent or even having some slip away from you. Saying good by and walking out the door.
They are all hurts that take time to get over. Losing a loved one especially a spouse hurts a long time. The sting is forever.
Even though the hurt dissipates a little the hole will always be there.
The mistake that some of use do is looking for some else that is close to our spouse. By doing that we keep our self in a safe place. If we don’t love we can’t get hurt again by losing someone else. I have done that for three years.
I found that the pain didn’t’ get less as the years went on it grow stronger. But looking back I realize I did this because I was afraid of losing Brenda forever. If I didn’t feel the pain I would her lose.
We all live in our shadows of the past. The good and the bad however the bad always over cast the good.
As my mother and others have told me there is always someone else that has it worse. Ours problems are our problems and their problems are theirs. That very true but when you really take a good look at it you maybe luckier than you think.
I have a dear friend who lost her husband suddenly only to lose her son eight months later. I lose my wife that’s hard enough but to think about if I lost my daughter, that brings it into perspective.
If you lost a child or anyone in your family to gun violence. Knowing that the killer is still out there. That would be really tough to handle but these families continue on.
Being one of the many soldiers that are coming home from battle with limbs missing. Having to learn to live with this for the rest of their lives.
Being a quadriplegic, living in a wheel chair depending on others to do everything.
My cousin had a tough life and was finely getting it together he got hurt and became a quadriplegic. He didn’t want to live and he got his wish. I think of him often when I am feeling low. Being a person living within themselves, not knowing what the real world is like.
Whatever pain we live in they are always others worst off. I was told that so many times. I thought to myself who cares that’s their problem it’s not going to bring Brenda back. I lost my best friend, my soul mate, and my true love. They were right again it was a blessing to have her for ten years and enjoy her. If I didn’t have her in my life I would of miss all that she gave to life and those around her.
I know that I will never have someone like her again but I can start a new adventure with someone else.
In the end we all have to look back at the bad and learn from it. Take the good and build on it. Look towards the future and welcome it.
Make the best of ever day. Wake up every morning with a smile, Jump out of bed with great anticipation. It’s a new day with new journeys.
For all those out there that is facing this holiday season alone with the lost of a love one. Be with your friends even though you don’t feel like it. When you get home there will be plenty of time to cry.
Things will get better I hope.
I am still suffering from my loss but I am hopping that I will find someone to ease my pain. Someone who can enjoy life with me again.
We all need that, so get out there and start over as soon as you can.
I want to wish all those lonely souls out there a happy New Years and hopefully this year will be better for you. You will never get over your loss but I hope you get over you pain. Life is two short and we all know that.

If you like this article let me know. If you would like to take about you loss let me know. After three years I still feel talking about it helps.


With sincere wishes, I wish you all a Happy New Year

Herb A. Krantz

Doing with less 2010

Doing with less 2010


Its another year gown by and we are still asked to do more with less
Everyone is cutting back now a day to afford just to survive. City’s, States and companies are doing the same to stay in business.

People are asked to do with less and take a cut in pay. Working fewer hours no matter how you look at it is a cut in pay. Some of us are asked to except a lesser health plan. We as consumers are spending less which controls the stock market and that controls our retirement (pensions&401K’s).

We who are getting closer to retirement can’t afford it now. We have to get jobs in Wal-Mart to supplement what we receive. Social Security is not nearly enough to live on and Medicaid does not cover all the medicine a lot of the seniors have to take.

We as a country could and should do better for our citizens.
Staring by cutting back on what we give the World Bank and other counties. Let’s keep some of our money right here in the USA where it belongs. Maybe then we could afford healthcare and other service that should have.

Last but not least I haven’t heard the people who run this country talking about cutting their pay or benefits. Lets start with our dear old President. Senators, Congressman all along down the line, lets give all of them the same healthcare they want to give us and have them pay into the Social Security fund so they can get their pensions from there when they retire. Have them play by the same rules we have to play by. Maybe then they well pass laws for the People by the People.

Where is the World-The UN

Where is the World- The UN?

The people in Turkey are dieing and the world is standing by.
Why is it that the USA always run to help others all by ourselves?
Weather we become love by the Muslim world or not we are doing the right thing. We are our brother’s keeper. But I don’t understand where all the countries that condemn us are. All our so call allies. All the Muslim countries.
These people are going to die a horrific death. The children are going to pay for the world’s inaptness. It’s a time to call to action in this time of need. This flooding is worst then Haiti, which is still suffering. There should be a foundation that will handle all tragedies like this in the world and that’s all they do,(not the red cross). Lets make Clinton the head of it he seems to get things done weather you like him or not.
Today being Tue 8/17/10 three weeks after the flood started help is still being asked for by the UN. It shows how useful they are. We the U.S. are there and getting stronger. Today I heard that England promised but haven’t done much in the way of help but what do you expect from England, France and Germany. Well Germany I did expect more.
Today the say the flood is the size of England. The Arab countries where the hell are you? You got enough money to really help if the wanted.
NO The World Bank is either give ex amount or loan them the money. I not quit sure I didn’t catch that part. Then again the U.S.A. contributes a large amount more than any other country
Almost forgot about China, Japan, Russia, where are they?
The worst thing I have heard to date is that there President went to Europe during this. It almost reminds me of another President that read a book upside down to children while the Twin Towers were being bomb.
What it with theses Presidents?
CHILDREN ARE DIEING! PLAGUES WILL START SOON.
THOUSANDS, MILLI0NS OF PEOPLE WILL DIE.

It’s no longer about politic, it’s about saving lives!
It’s no longer about religion; it’s about saving lives!
It’s no longer about east against west; it’s about saving lives!

Go Arizona

Obama celebrates Ramadan at the white house

Obama celebrates Ramadan at the white house, (which I can not find in my reach any President has done,, then endorsing the building of a masque two blocks away from ground zero. Where was he when the theorists bomb our nation?
I know that he is trying to create a better environment between the Muslims and us but this is totally uncalled for unless we can put bugs in the building so we can hear what they are doing.
I am sorry I don’t trust them. They can build their masque somewhere else. New York is a big place, why there? I truly believe that they should be able to pray where and when the want but not there. There should be no political building, religious, shopping centres built there. This is hallow ground and should bee looked upon as where the enemy had landed just like Normandy beach where we landed to fight world war two. This ground is where I feel the place where the last Great War was started. This war will not stop next year or a few years from know. This war will go one for many years whether we like it or not. The theorist will not make peace until we all pry like them. They have said this not me.
Obama is play right into their hands. The Afghani people do not trust us because we are going to pull out again before the job is done. Our so-called allies where are they? Our troops are getting killed on the front lines. Obama get some balls or are you really born Muslim after all. Better yet are you really an American citizen. I really no have droughts. I have droughts about Bloomberg being able to see how his discussions will ripe New York apart.
Our President and other politicians are losing their balls. They think we as the people will not remember.
Let vote out the people that have outlasted their usefulness and no longer think about the people.
WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITE STATES OF AMERICA must stand up and let them know. Vote the old out and let the new fresh ideas in, Demarcate, Republican, or other. Lets put term limits on how long you can serve in the house and senate.
Vote them out in NOVEMBER

Joe vs. Jose

I received this in an email. It represents my feeling exactly. It’s time we get ride of the illegal’s that come into this country.
We let the uneducated criminals cross our borders to commit crimes here. If they don’t commit crimes the use up our medical clinics and drain our resources, while our citizens need the help. The come here to have babies so they can bring the rest of there families here.
What we should do is let in more of the people who have an education in areas where we can use them and put them to work. We block or number this kind of people from coming into our country. There is something very wrong with this policy.
Read this letter below and think very hard what it means for America and what it’s saying about America. We need to stop it Know!
God Bless America and the people who legally come here.

Joe vs. Jose
You have two families: "Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal".
Both families have two parents, two children, and live in California .
Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.
Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".
Ready? Now pay attention.

Joe Legal: $25.00 per hour x 40 hours = $1000.00 per week, or $52,000.00 per year. Now take 30% away for state and federal tax; Joe Legal now has $31,231.00.
Jose Illegal: $15.00 per hour x 40 hours = $600.00 per week, or $31,200.00 per year. Jose Illegal pays no taxes. Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $24,031.00.
Jose Illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or welfare. Joe Legal pays $500.00 per month for food, or $6,000.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $18,031.00.
Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps and welfare. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays rent of $1,200.00 per month, or $14,400.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $9,631.00.
Jose Illegal receives a $500.00 per month federal rent subsidy. Jose Illegal pays out that $500.00 per month, or $6,000.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays $200.00 per month, or $2,400.00 for insurance. Joe Legal now has $7,231.00.
Jose Illegal says, "We don't need no stinkin' insurance!" and still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, etc.
Jose Illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, and what he sends out of the country every month.

Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.
Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.

Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school. Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch. Jose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home.

Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same police and fire services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.

Do you get it, now?
If you vote for or support ANY politician that supports illegal aliens, YOU are part of the problem!
It's way PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!
VOTE 'EM ALL OUT IN 2010!!!!!
What are you waiting for?
Cut and past in an email and Send this on!!!!!!!!!!!!

When Apologies aren't enough

Why we should not forgive Helen Thomas.
by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

In the aftermath of the Helen Thomas fiasco, the bloggers and the pundits and the second-guessers are having a field day.
Why are we harassing her, they ask, just because she happened to respond to a rabbinic interviewer on the lawn of the White House with the kind of vitriolic anti-Semitic venom worthy of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in his heyday? Yes, she did say Jews should get the hell out of Palestine and go back to the places they came from like Germany and Poland, (although she would probably concede that 6 million of them would be spared making the trip because they are already interred there as victims of the Holocaust).
But that's not the point, we're beginning to hear from some in the media. She may have said something that's unjustifiable, but come on, she did finally apologize.
When faced with public outcry and the realization that she had gone too far for any kind of reasonable defense, she managed to come up with this remarkable supposed expression of contrition: "I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon."
She is sorry that her speakers bureau dropped her, that she was forced into retirement and that she's losing her front row seat at the White House press conferences.
While they may not reflect her “heartfelt belief” about how peace will come to the Middle East, they certainly made admirably clear her feelings about Jews and her insensitivity to the horrors they experienced in the lands she would wish them to consider their national homelands in place of their biblical heritage -- something to which she seems totally oblivious.
There is absolutely nothing about this apology that smacks of an apology. There is no remorse about having gone beyond the pale of civilized discourse or of realizing upon reflection that her remarks were not only intemperate but illogical, insulting and totally lacking any vestige of the “mutual respect and tolerance” she claims as her guidelines.
It is an apology clearly motivated solely by the price she now realizes she had to pay for truthfully baring her soul. She regrets not so much the content of what she said as the recognition that the public is appalled by the discovery of her innermost feelings. So she is sorry. Sorry that her speakers bureau dropped her. Sorry that she was disinvited from serving as the keynote speaker at a graduation ceremony in Washington. Sorry that she was forced into retirement from the Hearst Corporation, sorry that her 90th birthday party to be attended by President Obama was cancelled, and sorry that she is losing her front row seat at the prestigious White House press conferences.
And yet there are those foolish enough to express outrage at our inability to embrace her once more in spite of her admitted “mistake” because according to their mindset an apology, no matter how exculpatory, incomplete or comprehensible, should trump any offense.
Paul Jay, CEO and Senior Editor, Independent World Television, is incensed that “Her apology was not enough to stop calls for her head from those who have wanted to shut Thomas up for years.” In the mad world of spin, it's just a short hop from villain becoming victim. Poor Helen, go the bloggers, “crucified” -- and the choice of that particular word is not by coincidence -- by a press obviously controlled by Jews, as we so convincingly know from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
“It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach -- murder, rape, drunk driving -- as long as we go on a TV show and apologize."
Eric Stoltz perceived a profound truth about contemporary American morals when he noted, “It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach -- murder, rape, drunk driving -- as long as we go on a TV show and apologize."
Forgiving Beyond Reason
The past year has seen an incredibly long list of sinners who sought our forgiveness simply because they said the magic words “I'm sorry” without regard to whether their regret was accompanied by any personal transformation. From politicians caught stealing to celebrities caught philandering to CEOs and Wall Street titans caught misappropriating, mismanaging and misleading to policemen aiding and abetting criminals - a tearful confession was offered as bribe to our sense of compassion.
And amazingly enough in many cases it worked.
Americans are all too often forgiving beyond reason. Sometimes, it's true, that may be a virtue. Forgiveness can help to redeem someone who had a momentary lapse of judgment. Forgiveness has its place if the sinner has truly learnt his lesson and is no longer the same person who sinned.
But undeserved forgiveness for incomplete and unworthy apologies heaps yet another layer of evil on the original wrong, even as it improperly absolves it. It puts the stamp of permissibility on actions that deserve only continued revulsion.
Red Auerbach had it right: "The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."
That's why it's important to note that not only didn't Helen Thomas offer any real apology for her despicable comments but even if she had truly apologized, not every apology deserves automatic forgiveness, just as not every crime can be ignored without punishment. And if that is a judgment that seems too harsh, please let me make clear that I don't apologize for it.