Hi All:

Odd how life sometimes distracts us from life and things like blogging.  I've been going through some of that here these past few days, and have as it were fallen down on the job  in doing my DAILY morning News with Dragon.  The cast situation has been a big part of my own recent morass as I work to deal with the limitations the whole surgery is putting on me living MY LIFE, MY WAY!  Good news is that the cast comes off tomorrow, but have been working here out cautioning myself NOT to expect miracles, trying to prepare myself for the reality that having the cast off DOES not amount to my life being back to the way it was.  God, I HATE LIMITATIONS, especialy when they involve ME!  So, in wrestling with that whole scenerio, just not been in a head space to blog, so do apologize for my absense these past few days, and will work on being more responsible to myself and my readers here on my Blog.

So, what else is botering the Dream Dragon...are you sure you want to read this?

Recently, seems the news is far to full of children being abducted, molested, even killed, with the whole Michael Jackson case almost a sad sidebar comededic sattire of the graveness of this serious issue in our country, as the sexual molestation of our children reaches what seems almost epidemic proportions.  Now, I have NO TOLERATION for child molestors, for any kind of abuse, and feel the punishment for predators and perps needs to be far tougher than it is now...but, the punishment stage, is like worrying about closing the barn door after it's too late.  We need to address this issue at its root cause, and from my perspective we as a nation are failing miserably.  It is time we make the same social serives  available for male abuse victims and survivors as we do for women.  Statistics say that 2/3 of abusers were themselves abused.  Yet, we somehow seem to think men in some fashion are tough, do not have those same shames, pains and inner child tears we ready accept and embrace in female survivors...this saddens me, as I know that healing cannot be found if we are denied a voice, if our own pains are not heard and recieved by the larger whole, if we are denied our right to cry our own tears of a childhood lost and stolen away in a singulat tragic event.  As a survivor myself, cannot tell you the times when I tried toi give voice to my own pains and was told to GET OVER IT, BE STRONG.  That is NOT a message of acceptance, or healing, and pains bottled up and buried away eat at ones soul as bitterness and anger replace hope for a better tomorrow.

I brought up the other day a set of statistics on college educated women that cause some amount of discussion, and even anger here on my blog.  It has caused me to wonder why people are so willing to accept prejudice, as long it A) benefits them, or B) is negative towards someone else, or another group of people they do not belong to.  Whatever happened to the belief that two wrongs do not make a right?  When are we as a nation going to realize, that you cannot right a wrong by visiting a wrong upon someone else?  Affirmative action as one examples creates a scenerio where a wrong is visited upon one person to right a historical wrong visited upon others...sorry, but that makes no sense, and makes those who accept and endorse that wrong for a supposed greater good just as wrong as those who perpetuated the original sin.  Equal Rights requires that we ELIMINATE ALL PRIIVILEDGED CLASSES in our society, and judge and reward people based upon their merits and abilities.  My wife in her job is in a protected class as a woman, and as and Italian...sorry, but even with her, do not buy into the belief of protected classes.  I do not buy into a set of rules that say I should be held back or denied and opportunity because we need to balance opportunity scales that were out of balance long before I was born...seriously, can you really justify holding someone back who is qualified because some law was passed that gives someone else extra credit because they happen to fall into what we refer to as a proteted class, fall into a classification that makes them a minority?  I think not!

A few other topics are bothering me as well, perhaps TOPS ON THE LIST, the very serious issue our nation faces with illegal Aliens in this country.  Again, my last attempt at raising this topic for discussion here was not well recieved.  Much like Lou Dobbs, I completely SUPPORT legal immigration to the United States of America, and feel those who immigrate here legally deserve all the help we can give them in finding that proverbial American Dream.  However, I am totally AGAINST the some 20 million plus ILLEGAL ALIENS and their ANCHOR CHILDREN currently residing here, and ruining the American Dream for millions of America's Middleclass. 

Some estimates say we currently have 15 million illegal aliens working UNDER THE TABLE...this means they are paying NO TAXES of any kind.  Day labor rates here in our area for illegals is $100 a day, and most of them work six days a week.  That's a yearly UNDERGROUND ECOMONY of 468 TRILLION dollars!  That's over 100 TRILLION LOST TAX DOLLARS A YEAR!  Their kids use our schools, yet the parents are not supporting it...we ourselves pay almost $4,000 a year ourselves in school taxes, but have no kids.  Fair enough, until I look at the one house down the street from us inhabited by illegal aliens and by my best count SIX children.  They pay NOTHING!  Our courts here where we live are so OVER BURDENED with cases involving illegal aliens, that only 14 percent of the cases heard are done in English.  I could go on and on, discuss the drain on our health care system that we pay for, estimated yearly into the billions, could discuss the estimated 27 billion a year these illegals send back home to their home countries, but think you get the idea.  Question is, why are we NOT DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT?  Why are the elected officials in Washington DC refusing to create laws that deal with this issue...why are our courts and  police agencies refusing to enforce a law that fines employers $10,000 a day for every illegal on their payroll?  I could generate a quick 20-30 million here locally in about two days identifying employers who have a large illegal work force, I can go to five different places each morning, and film LARGE construction companies pulling up and picking out 10-15 illegal day laborers.  Wonder how long they would continue to hire these illegals if and FBI agent got out of his car, walked over to the truck and wrote out a ticket with $150,000 fine attached to it? I am curious how many of these illegals would continue to cross our borders if we eliminate the instant citizenship status for their children born in America.

Have rambled on enough for one post.