Ponder Pages

Bullying is once again in the news because another young girl was tormented till she couldn't take it any more. My heart goes out to her family.  As for the 14 year old and 12 year old that were behind most of it, well all I can say is that is a hard way to learn not to bully someone just to make yourself feel superior over someone . But is was learned behavior, as when it comes to this kind of behavior. Case in point the stepmother being arrested for beating on two boys.  When you grow up in the kind of environment where bad behavior is considered normal and something that is glamorized on TV what do you expect the end result to be.  I'm just glad that social media was not around when I was growing up or my life would have been a whole lot worse then it is.  I was bullied when I was growing up. I try to put as many of those memories behind me as possible but, when I hear about another young person who has been pushed to the point of killing themselves, these memo

"This is not a game." So says Boehner. Well you could have fooled me. He kind of remind's me of Colton from Survivor. If you watch Survivor you know about this guy. When things don't go his way or people don't play his idea of the game, where he is the ruler, he finds a way to quit. It turns out the last time he was on it he faked having an appendicitis attack.  Like Jeff said," Colton is one of those people that should never have gotten off the couch." I'm not saying Boehner will quit. He just wants to make everyone live their life the way he wants. And he will destroy everything if it doesn't happen the way he wants.   When it comes to politics I will admit I know next to nothing about it. But I do have to live with the results of their decisions. Usually it's something that makes my life harder.  I would like to be able to go through life without other people trying to always take everything away from me, just bec