Having a plan for the future

So, I’ve been reading up on financial articles and the like. Particularly, those that focus on how to start saving for retirement, paying off credit card debt, you get the picture. Right now, we have some “manageable” debt. Mostly what I brought with me into my union. 🙂 Sorry, M. lol. Sometimes, I freak myself out with scenarios of the bank suddenly wanting it all back. That’s not/never happen(ing)(ed) as I pay my bills on time, etc. Anyhow, my financial plan for the new year will be to be 80% free of my credit card bills. I will have them and use them. The new thing I will do is make sure that I pay the balance back in full each month.

I’ve been boning up on my news via the internet. So much is going on that it makes me wonder sometimes if I can return to the staleness of TV. lol. As me if I think that when we get cable. I haven’t watched TV in a long while save when I visit M’s sister & her husband. I don’t miss it so this whole writer’s strike is not affecting me so much. I just read at article on Yahoo about a crime that occurred in California. Apparently, a
trio of young black men (YBM) stormed a white family’s house at around 4am. They harassed the home owner for Marijuana and brained the poor man’s son with a baseball bat. Said son is currently in rehabilitation after suffering some serious brain damage. Well, in my mind, home owner justifiably shoots 2 intruders in the back as the 3rd one runs away. A rarely used law is then pulled out and 3rd intruder gets charged with murder of the other two. I the eyes of the law: “The Provocative Act doctrine does not require prosecutors to prove the accused intended to kill. Instead, “they have to show that it was reasonably foreseeable that the criminal enterprise could trigger a fatal response from the homeowner,” said Brian Getz, a San Francisco defense attorney unconnected to the case.” Therefore, my points are:

  1. Robbing a house is likely to trigger an extreme amount of rage in the person whom you are robbing.
  2. Robbery will likely get you staring down the barrel of shot gun or others in that vein.
  3. When in tarnation is it okay to break into someone’s home even if it’s just for marijuana? Check out what the 3rd intruder’s mom had to say: “Hughes’ mother, San Francisco schoolteacher Judy Hughes, said she believes the group didn’t intend to rob the family, just buy marijuana. She called the case against her son a “legal lynching.” I’m truly sorry she may possibly lose her son to the legal system, but excusing their crimes doesn’t make your position any endearing.
  4. When in hell is it okay to turn around and yell at the homeowner for trying to protect his family? Check this out: Some reverend (Amos Brown) “and other NAACP officials are asking why the homeowner is walking free.” All I can say is I hope karma turns around and bites these men in the behinds. I really would like to see how they react if they faced desperate triads who are looking for drugs & bashed one of their children’s heads in during the hold up. With his entrance, I introduce you to America’s next race baiter. Sheesh. “Tests showed Edmonds had marijuana and prescription medication in his system the night of the shooting. Edmonds had a prescription for both the pot and the medication to treat depression.” Presumably, the fact that they asked specifically for the drug means they had some wind of his condition i.e. someone at the pharmacy blabbed to the wrong people. This world really sucks sometimes. Please, read the article and think about it. The final tidbit for me was: “This man had no business killing these boys,” Brown said. “They were shot in the back. They had fled.” What do they say about leaving loose canons lying around?

I’ll end my rant with another bunch of excerpts from the article: “(home owner)Edmonds’ stepson, Dale Lafferty, suffered brain damage from the baseball bat beating he took during the melee. The 19-year-old lives in a rehabilitation center and can no longer feed himself […] I didn’t do anything wrong. All I did was defend my family and my children’s lives,” said Edmonds, 33. “I’m sad the kids are dead, I didn’t mean to kill them.” I hope the jury votes with their hearts and agree that the 3rd accomplice is culpable in their deaths. In a weird twist, here’s what I envision: jury will not find 3rd robber guilty, but will slam him with a longer sentence than if he would have been charged with the felony aggravated assault, etc.

Finally, I’m having issues connecting to the wireless network at home. The temperature may or may not be messed with. Utility bills may go high or low. But you do not mess with my internet connection. 😀 Okay, a little dramatic, but come on!! What else can go wrong? lol. I clearly haven’t read up on my Murphy’s laws. I suspect our wireless usb thingamajig may be the problem and that’s making me see red. More money down the drain. Oh well, we may just have to do that and I hope to avoid any Belkin routers. Flimsy pieces of crapola. 🙂 Oh, and you suck too, Bear Naked granola. What’s with selling granola that is not crunchy?! Okay, I’m clearly tired and ready to leave work. Take care, y’all.