http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Krisles7634/I've done it all my life....think, think, think....I'm not what you would call "opinionated" on everything...but on the things that I am.....I AM! And on everything else?.....well, I think....... All postings 2005/2006/2007/2008/2009 Copyrighted © DCJameshourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Krisles7634/621925It amazes me how often I’m watching TV or a movie and the actor will suddenly slip into a Southern accent, sometimes in the middle of the story…..it’s always when they’re doing something stupid or evil…..they’ll have a non-accent until that point, and then all of a sudden, their version of...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Krisles7634/621394OMG……I’m getting where I can’t even stand to listen to O-man…..he is so full of BS, and stands there acting, and looking, like he knows what he is talking about…..his main message is “It’s not my fault, I had to inherit all this crap”…well, isn’t that the nature of our system? Doesn’t every...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Krisles7634/617436This is purely food for thought…..because I really don’t know the answers to the healthcare situation. Working in insurance, albeit casualty and not health, I’ve watched the changes in the system via bills, legal changes, etc. There are so many things wrong with the big picture – too many...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Krisles7634/617121(AUTHOR UNKNOWN) A Stimulus Story It is the month of August, on the shores of the Black Sea. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town. He enters the only hotel, lays a...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Krisles7634/613679I grew up in the era of the Cold War, and in a time when most fathers had been involved in WWII in some way…. even had a great-grandfather for a time who remembered the Civil War and regaled us with tales as we sat before him. War was not an unreal concept….and soldiers were glorified and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Krisles7634/610768(**Please know, dear friends.......I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO FIX THIS RIGHT MARGIN OR WHATEVER SO THE DANG THING WILL LOOK LIKE WHAT I TYPED IN WORD!!!..... Never mind.....please excuse the outburst.) (Hope you can read the dang thing...it was 6 lines each.....) LIKE CLOUDS....THE THOUGHTS DRIFTED IN...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Krisles7634/608943I'VE EARNED IT............ I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend. I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Krisles7634/608278First of all, thank you so much for the concern and support....it's a wonderful side of human nature - that we can learn to "know" and care for each other through our exchanges here on Blogit. I have learned to think of many of you as genuine friends....a benefit much more valuable than just the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Krisles7634/608098Joe asked me where my next post was….bless his countrified heart... Actually, I’m sitting here writing this….waiting for my cardiologist’s office to open. I need to get in as soon as I can today….assuming I can; if not, I’ll try my GP’s….. I have to get in to see if I’m having a heart “event”….or...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Krisles7634/606734I have been pissed off for months….making it hard to write Pissed off at the world around me, the attitudes proclaimed My mood has been one of discouragement and anger What has happened to my world? I’m sick of all the apologies for my country and its citizens….. The mainstream media would have...