A Long Term Position

My husband has been trying to find an established company that will be able to help him with his experience.  He's not a blue collar worker that works to make the companies products available to the sales departments.  He is the one who makes sure the companies run properly and manages many different lines of communications.  The companies are sure to have a good employee, because of his management skills.  The economy has cost so many people their jobs and left beneficial employees floundering without work.  It's necessary for many CEO's to depend on certain  Interim Management  companies to help them find employees like my husband.  I've looked around the internet and so has he.  It is hard to find the right company to list your credentials with and become an established company executive.  I find the financial industry is slowly expanding, and therefore there aren't many positions available for hire.  Our finances have been very tight since the economy slumped and we have had to cut back on many things we once were able to enjoy.  It is our hope that the year 2010 will bring fortune our way and put us back on our financial feet once again.

Red Cross

I find that joining the Red Cross is more that filling out an application.  I went the last week and took the equivalent of 3hrs. training classes and got 3 certificates.  I also need to get more training, to accomplish the goal I have in mind.  At present I see the future ahead as exciting.  I hope that I am able to obtain the right amount of training, and credits to get where I'm wanting to be.  I won't be able to help with this Haitian problem, but it's possible that a disaster in the future can be of benefit to my credits and help me to feel better about the situations.

Help Still Needed........

Survivors of Haiti's earthquake walk in the street in Port-au-Prince January 25, 2010. The European Union agreed on Monday to send up to 350 paramilitary police to Haiti in response to a U.N. call for help to protect the earthquake relief effort. 

More Attacks........

The Ishtar Sheraton hotel is seen behind a wave of dust after a bomb attack in central Baghdad January 25, 2010. At least 11 people were killed and 21 wounded when three bomb blasts rocked Baghdad on Monday, apparently targeting a number of hotels in the Iraqi capital, police said. One bomb blast appeared to have occurred at the entrance of the Ishtar Sheraton hotel on the eastern side of the Tigris river.

A US Marine radioing other marines during an operation in the al-Anbar province of Iraq in 2008. US Marines left the Sunni-dominated western province of Anbar on Saturday after almost seven years of operations in what was once Iraq's epicentre of Al-Qaeda activity and insurgent violence.

God Is Busy

If you don't know GOD, don't make stupid remarks!!!!!!

A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist, and a member of the ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, 'GOD if you are real then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 min.' The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, 'Here I am GOD, I'm still waiting.'

It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold.
The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently.

The other students were shocked and stunned, and sat there looking on in silence. The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked, 'What in the world is the matter with you? 'Why did you do that?'

The Marine calmly replied, 'GOD was too busy today protecting America 's soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid stuff and act like an idiot.. So He sent me.'

The classroom erupted in cheers!

I received this in an email and thought it was great.........so, I passing it along to my readers.......

Peace Keepers Trying to Help........

U.S. soldiers unload disaster relief supplies in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. More U.S. troops arrived in Haiti and the U.N. Security Council approved a boost in its peacekeeping and police forces to help control outbursts of looting and violence that have slowed relief efforts to help survivors of the powerful earthquake that hit the country last week.

A Jordanian UN peacekeeper distributes food to earthquake survivors in Port au Prince, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved extra troops and police officers to beef up security in Haiti and ensure that desperately needed aid gets to earthquake victims. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12.

The U.S. Air Force, an Air Force plane airdrops humanitarian aid into Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The U.S. military is conducting humanitarian and disaster relief operations as part of Operation Unified Response after an earthquake struck the country Jan. 12, 2010. 

Maxine For President........

Support Our Troops.........

It's time to show the world that more of us support our troops then dont! If you support our troops then please post this on your blog and leave it there for at least one hour!! And if you don't stand behind our troops, then please feel free to stand in front of them!!!

Las Vegas.........

Several years ago, I visited the bustling town of "Vegas" and was astounded by the life in general.  It was a round the clock atmosphere, where you could choose your way to enjoy your life in a busy party town.  If you lived out in the residential areas, you were likely to find it quiet and laid back.  Going into the main part of the town or out on the "strip" was like going to a totally different world.  In some cities, you have business by day and then the "nightlife".  In "Vegas" you can find some of the same, but the casinos project a different aspect to the word "nightlife".  There is no "nightlife" within the walls of the casinos.  From the time you enter the front doors of any give casino in Las Vegas, your stepping into a world full of activities.  It makes you wonder how they come up with all the different concepts for these casinos?
Millions of dollars are spent just arranging the complete setup, not to mention the fees, licenses', and taxes that must be involved.  A big Nevada corporation  has to be well backed financially in order to get their establishments off the ground.  I truly believe that it takes years to complete a casino.  Your looking at the future owners, thousands of meetings, grueling time spent on the ground breaking and that's just the start.  How they came to the great entertainment city that they are, is amazing.  I can only imagine the time and moneys spent to establish one casino, much less all of the one's that are encompassed in this one city.

Drugs Rampant in Mexico.....

 

In this photo, Manuel Alejandro Briones looks on. Briones, whom according to Mexican police officials was acting as a lieutenant in the Beltran Leyva drug cartel, was taken into custody in Mexico City, Jan. 4, 2010.

This is just one of the main guys with this cartel......but it looks as if the war is still raging no matter how many they apprehend or kill.......

America.......in 4 Years.......

Since we have now seen what this presidency is capable of doing.  Let me ask you what you think will happen in the next presidential election?  Do you think we will elect the same president back to office that we presently have?  Do you think Hillary will run again? This is a matter that we as American's need to take into consideration.  Our future's depend of the year's ahead of us..........It's time for America to stand up and make a better decision.

Embassies Open.......

A general view of the British embassy in Sanaa January 5, 2010. The British and French embassies resumed operations on Tuesday but remained closed to the public, diplomats at those missions said.

What's to be said?  How do we stop these people.......they just keep coming.........

Just What We Need.......

John McCain speaks during a press conference at the US Embassy in Baghdad. McCain warned Tuesday Al-Qaeda is increasingly using Yemen as a base to launch attacks around the world, and called on Washington to help the Arab country expel the terror network.

It's getting to the point that America, is a target no matter what we do............

Underwear Worn by Nigerian

Underwear with explosive packet, a six-inch long packet of the high explosive chemical called PETN  was smuggled onto the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 by 23-year-old Nigerian suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.  Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, said it provided Nigerian suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, with an explosive device to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253, a Delta-owned Airbus 330, as it approached Detroit on a flight from Amsterdam on Friday with almost 300 people on board.

Full body scanners, being considered in light of the failed bomb plot on a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day, are very expensive and cost around a million dollars each.

Something has to be done, before we have another 911........

A New Year

Starting a new year, raises many questions of what, where, when and how things may happen.  We find ourselves uncertain about our life and how new developments will affect it during this coming year.
People will die, babies born, couples marry......in all I'm sure it will be an eventful year as the one before it.  I only hope that with all the problems our world faces, we as people can find a common way to survive together.