Sad

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What's really sad is that my blog is so pathetic that the majority of comments I get are in Russian or Arabic, or are spam ads trying to sell me a cemetery plot, etc.  And this is what they call progress.  Well, I guess there's not much to say to that!

From Markadelphia Blog

From Markadelphia Blog

Food Stamp Myths

There are a lot of myths about food stamps and this site is an excellent source for correcting the misinformation. Here are a few basic facts.

76% of SNAP households included a child, an elderly person, or a disabled person. These vulnerable households receive 83% of all SNAP benefits. 

These are real people, folks, with real problems. Lumping them all into one category as lazy, good for nothings is ridiculous.

Two-thirds of all SNAP payment errors are a result of caseworker error. Nearly one-fifth are underpayments, which occur when eligible participants receive less in benefits than they are eligible to receive. 

The idea that there is something special about the "fraud" that goes on with SNAP is completely ridiculous. The errors aren't overpayments but underpayments.

Here is one of my favorite myths followed by reality.

Work Requirements 

Myth: SNAP doesn’t do enough to encourage participants to get a job, and the program needs stronger work requirements. 

Reality: SNAP already has strict time-limits for unemployed workers. Able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) may only receive 3 months of SNAP benefits during any 3 year period, unless they are working in a qualifying job training program. The SNAP benefit formula is structured to provide a strong work incentive – for every additional dollar a SNAP participant earns, their benefits decline by about 24 to 36 cents, not a full dollar, so participants have a strong incentive to find work, work longer hours, or seek better-paying employment. 

We have enough problems with helping out those in need. Adding fake problems makes it worse. The next time you here some mouth foaming about food stamps, check out this site for reality.

Venting...

English: Portrait by Benjamin D. Maxham (daguerreotype), black and white of Henry David Thoreau in June 1856. The writer-collar post a beard and is dressed in a black frock coat, a white shirt and a black bow tie. Français : Portrait par Benjamin D. Maxham (daguerréotype), en noir et blanc de Henry David Thoreau, en juin 1856. L'écrivain poste une barbe-collier et est habillé d'une redingote noire, d'une chemise blanche et d'un noeud papillon noir. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I'm sad to say that the majority of people I have met in central Illinois in the past few years have been nothing but liars, cheaters, freeloaders, ignorant buffoons, users, two-faced, and a general waste of space. Not to mention the bureaucrats here in Central Illinois. I think they actually test people and hire those with the lowest IQ: the laziest, uneducated and most uncaring people, to deal with people suffering through medical problems and bills. I used to make fun of "Minnesota Nice," but now I'd give anything for it. Plus the fact that Minnesota is run like it should be for the most part- maybe the further north you go the more intelligence and compassion you gain? I don't know. I am not at all stereotyping. In fact I am not even counting the people I met in Chicago and the Chicagoland area, who are still my good friends and normal, good people. Down here it's like a completely different planet. I've never been a "people" person and now more than ever I would like to retreat to where Grizzly Adams lived, or Henry David Thoreau. Basic manners, not to mention basic English and grammar, is in short shrift around here. I for one cannot wait to move out of one of the armpits of this country, called Champaign, Illinois.

I also did not intend this blog for me to be writing personal "diary" type stuff, but I just have to say it.  Call me what you want, it's my truth.  And yes, after this I will go back (hopefully) to writing about things that really matter, not my own personal opinion. :) 

I think, therefore I am

English: René Descartes, the French philosopher, by the French engraver Balthasar Moncornot. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) To refresh our memories:

I think, therefore I am | New Philosopher:

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Quotes I am Reposting

Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. Deutsch: Winston Churchill, 1940 bis 1945 sowie 1951 bis 1955 Premier des Vereinigten Königreichs und Literaturnobelpreisträger des Jahres 1953. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

These are so good, I had to repost them:

SOME GOOD QUOTES that I like!!

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it." - Henry Ford

"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give some people." - Anon.

"It is a greater compliment to be trusted than to be loved."  -George MacDonald

"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information." - Winston Churchill

"The power to stand alone is worth acquiring at the expense of much sorrowful solitude." - George Bernard Shaw

"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave." - Wilson Mizner

"Men will wrangle for religion; unite for it; fight for it; anything but live for it." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known." - Michel deMontaigne

"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals." - Ben Franklin

Hope

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"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man." -
Friedrich Nietzsche

Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection - NYTimes.com

Does anyone really think this is going to happen?



Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection - NYTimes.com:



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Are You Smarter Than An Atheist?

Are You Smarter Than An Atheist?

Take the quiz and find out!

Not too hard if I got only one wrong and I am not an atheist...:)  

If you are psychotic, legally or otherwise, please refrain from venting your delusional fantasies on my blog.  I realize that you will not understand this, but on the off chance that someone explains it to you, please realize that I sympathize with your condition, but I have no tolerance for lunatics taking over my blog.  I have really never seen the like in my life.  Thank you very much.

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Books I've Read

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Books I've Read

Goodreads | Gina Lombardo's bookshelf: read (showing 1-20 of 152) (sorted by: rating):

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English: Hemingway posing for a dust jacket photo by Lloyd Arnold for the first edition of "For Whom the Bell Tolls", at the Sun Valley Lodge, Idaho, late 1939. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use." - Ernest Hemingway, in response to:

"[Hemingway] has never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner

Giving Up

I am almost ready to give up on this formatting thing, at least I will for tonite.  I'd rather write some ideas, someday :).  But I will say goodnight with this profound quote of Woody Allen's:

“Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.”

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Henry David Thoreau

I've decided to give up on WordPress and return to here....got to reformat this though. But Wordpress was just too much technology for me :)