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Hello all of you out there where ever you are. I throw this up in the first post to warn you... if you failed to catch the title of the blog this is the sarcastic side of life and I am it's ever faithful observant. Anyone that has a problem with the things I feel or say can push off, just remember people, I don't have a gun to your heads here. Now on to other topics!

Have parents lost their minds? I'm sorry, but as a parent I'm beginning to lose faith in my fellow human beings. I read the news every morning and for the last several months it seems like all I hear about is some child being injured or injuring others, and the article or news footage never fails to contain a quote from some misguided parent blaming a form of media or some other influence! HELLO?!?! I swear I feel like slapping a lot of these people. Don't get me wrong, there are some cases out there that the parent has no control of the situation what-so-ever, and my heart goes out to those people. But those are not the parents I am talking about. No...not by far...I'm talking about the people that are payed to let someone violate their child, the sickos that murder their kids because they are considered an inconvenience, and the sad sacks that neglect their children so much that the kids turn to gangs or violent behavior for attention.
I read about baby rapers walking the streets freed from jail on a technicality, the statistics of how many are out there on the loose, or how a judge handed down a sentence that paled in comparison to the crime, and I have to wonder what in the name of everything sacred has happened to our society. Aren't our children suppose to be our future? Are we not, as parents, charged with the duty of protecting, teaching, and instructing our children on how to grow in to decent human beings? Is the judicial system not charged with the duty to show children justice? How can you honestly turn to a little girl that has been repeated molested and tell her 'Sorry honey the man that scarred you for life will go to jail for ten years and then return to the town where you live, and shop in the same grocery store with you. Oh but don't worry, you'll be too old for him by then.' God save the children, and help us survive in the society we will have to survive in when they are our ages. I need to stop reading the news...

I have a crazy next door neighbor. I often wonder if she is on drugs, or if perhaps she needs to be. Due to my own insanity I often keep strange hours, but nothing compared to the nut job that lives across the street from me. I wake up in the middle of the night and decide I need a cigarette to calm my over active nerves (a horrible habit I'm trying to quit) so I head out side. We don't smoke inside. Anyway, I digress, I head out side and one of the first things I notice is that it's two in the morning and my nutty neighbor is digging through her trash, picks something out, and puts it in the van she is obsessed with. I wish this was a isolated incident, but no...all hours of the day and night I've seen her do this. Trash bag goes in, trash bag comes back out, hangs out in her mini-van for awhile, then goes back in to the trash can. That alone is often enough to disturb me, but this lady has to push it even farther. She has an obsession with her mini-van. She will sit in it, load her brood of children into it and just sit there while the little ones scream. She will come out half naked (and trust me this woman should never go anywhere in public with out some severe covering) and drive around the block, or up and down the street a few times. This has become bad enough that when my friends come over they inform me that 'She's at it again.' She needs help, I think we need to band together clothe her and take away the mini-van (and possibly her trashcan) and either enter her in to a rehab or in to a asylum. Just remember if we can't force others to recieve help who will force us when we finally take that lemming like jump in to abiss of insanity?