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i just read a blog that makes me angry.

A principal at a high school is playing God with some student’s lives. The school get money for a lunch programs for needy students. The principal decided for her own reasons to deny them the lunch that was already paid for by tax payers.

At least one parent protested this thievery by the principal. My Single Mom Life is the name of the blog that contains the article. Her son is now getting the food that was already paid for by the tax payers. I wonder about the other students that were stolen from. It is upsetting.

This is not what I call education.

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I have food allergies. My husband has food allergies. Others have food allergies.

This is not a simple subject. Each year people get sick, people die, families suffer because of food allergies. The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network carries a lot of information about what can happen to people who get struck with an allergy. I have made a link to this site. There are others that also talk about food allergies. Here is the web address for the above -

http://www.foodallergy.org/

Some of my husbands allergies do not cause a lot of problems. There are some that have tried to kill him. I now carry a list of his allergies, I wouldn’t remember them all without the list. I also keep a Tagamet tablet handy and Benadryl capsules for just in case. There are a lot of foods that can cause problems.

Peanuts, Milk, Wheat & its products The list goes on. Here are my husband’s, I will list the most serious first: Ginger, sourdough, turmeric - these cause a severe reaction and visits to the ER / cow’s milk, peach skins, horseradish, mint, sage, poppy seeds, plums - these cause other symptoms but can still be dangerous.

Food allergies are something that should not be ignored. My niece is allergic to chocolate. Her reaction makes it appear that she has used drugs and is high. A cola and a chocolate bar would make her so high we’d almost have to peel her off of the ceiling.

Many people have allergies, it is not something to be ignored. Every time that you have a reaction to something, it means that something in your body could be hurt or damaged. If you are allergic to Penicillin, you should also beware of sourdough for they are very similar in nature. That is something that we learned at the ER one night. It ended up being 2 visits in one because my husband had been treated and then released, had additional reactions and had to be checked in AGAIN.

Allergic reactions can be anything from mild flu like symptoms to severe aniphylatic shock that is life threatening. Please be aware of the possibilities, and be alert. It could save your life or some one else’s life.

Sorry this article was so long, but the subject matter is important.

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Do you use slang?

I do use it. I just realized that the type of slang that you use does indeed show your age. When I was growing up I heard ‘rad man’, cool, way out….I think that you understand what i mean.

Now, when I hear teenagers talk, it sounds like a foreign language to me. I am indeed showing my age. Living in different parts of the country can also influence what type of words you use, and how they are pronounced. I remember when I was young and waiting at a bus stop. I heard two men talking. One was from the Bronx, and one was obviously a deep south Cajun. They were both speaking English, but the way they pronounced their words made it hard for them to understand each other. I ended up translating for them a little. It was totally unexpected for me, because I understood them both. I was raised in the middle part of the country in Missouri. Of course slang is one of the things that is determined by where you live. One of these days I expect to hear that the universities are offering courses in modern slang. Texting is another article of course.

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I am afraid that I am upset. That is a mild way to describe how I feel.

A student was talking in class, so the teacher took off her high heel shoe and threw it at the student. The student ended up with a couple of teeth knocked loose, black eyes, split lip, and bruises. The parents saw the damage to their child and took her to the emergency room, the school did nothing. The oh so brave teacher ended up on paid administrative leave. A paid vacation for assault and battery of a minor child. How nice. That is sarcasm folks.

On a bus a student was throwing cookie crumbs. The bus driver stopped the bus demanded to know who was doing that, and when the other kids refused to rat out the mis-behaving student, the bus driver grabbed a girl from the front of the bus and threatened to cut off her hand if someone didn’t tell who threw the crumbs. The bus driver also ended up with paid administrative leave for terrorizing a child and threatening to cripple her. Another paid vacation for criminal behavior.

Tell me, what ever became of punishing the law breaker? These two school employees should be locked up in jail awaiting trial. If these were my kids, charges would be pressed and a law suit started against the school systems involved. This is so wrong. Hurting kids for TALKING, terrorizing and threatening permanent damage over COOKIE CRUMBS? Please tell me that you realize that this is messed up. :{

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I have written about many different things in my blogs. Today, i am going to write about something very serious. This cancer is called mesothelioma. There is a site that talks about it and how it can effect both males and females. This site is called Mesothelioma Help.com.

Any type of cancer is something to be gotten rid of and to fight. This type can effect different areas of the body internally. We recently lost a friend to lung cancer. It is not a peaceful type of death. If you need more information, please click on the above link that I put in my blog for accurate information. It also includes information on different types of treatment.

Please do not play around when it comes to cancer. Yes, many types are treatable and can now be fought. We knew a lady that BEAT colon cancer only to die later with pneumonia. Your health is NO toy.

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These days many people are trying to save money on their medicine costs. Natural remedies are being offered - at a price. Well, my sister sent me a site that has information on it that comes from off of your own home shelves.

The site is called - HEALTH CARE FOR ALL. From what i read it looks as if the person did a lot of searching for information. I , myself have only a few ideas of things that are natural and helpful : peanut butter to remove chewing gum, ginger to settle an upset stomach, grapes-olives-tomatoes to ease mild gall bladder symptoms, saltines to settle uneasy tummies (pregnant women have used them for years). I realize that a lot of research needs to be done to get the right ingredients and items. If you are interested this site might help you out. I didn’t check out all of the pages available, so have fun, and be careful. Some people might have allergies to some of the items mentioned. Example - my husband is allergic to anything having to do with ginger, turmeric, and cardamom.

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What has happened to ordinary, plain spoken English?

Do you listen, really listen to the manner of English being spoken on TV these days? It makes me want to cringe, wail, and shudder. I remember how in school, the students would be corrected for any mistakes in grammar while speaking to the teacher, or to the class. The teacher considered it to be part of the job to make sure the students spoke correctly. Of course when turning in written assignments, grammar was also considered to be part of the grade that you would get on your assignment.

People in the public eye were held up as examples of proper speaking. No longer can that be done. Bad language (not cussing, although that is another thing), poor grammar, not speaking clearly, all of these things now show up everywhere.

The people in our country are starting to sound as if they have not been properly educated, or left school too soon. What has happened to actually trying to sound as if we might have brains in our heads, that we might have intelligence? Why did people decide that sounding uneducated was ‘cool’? Did they really decide this or has our education system fallen short? I wonder about that.

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We have been learning a lot about funerals and what needs to be done in order to have them. I have decided that when I die, my body should be used for donation or for science or for both. When I am dead I will not care about what is left over.

If our friend had managed to have some finances set back, it could have been different. Any proper financial reporting that could have been done, might have changed things around considerably. We know that he will be buried with honors at the Veterans Cemetery and his grave will be maintained and supervised. I wish that we could have found family members that were left. Sooner or later maybe they will show, and we will be able to tell them what happened.

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This is a serious subject. Drugs are a part of all of our lives. Aspirin, Tylenol, Motrin are drugs. However I’m not here to talk about them or the things that are prescribed by doctors to help sick people to survive. I’m talking here about drugs that leave people needing drug treatment therapy.

Every day we hear about celebrities that need to go into special places that help people dependent on drugs. Ordinary people have this happen to them, too. My nephew has had a problem with methamphetimines in his life. He needs drug rehab.

Right now he is incarcerated and that is not possible. I had a friend explain that ‘meth’ changes a person even to changing their personality, and they are no longer the same person that they were before. Their chemistry is so changed that everything about them is different.

I hope that if you know someone with this problem (no matter the drug), that you are able to help them, and that they are willing to accept help.

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I don’t have any kids, or babies. However, members of my extended family are experiencing family growth. I have a great niece in Arkansas, a new great,great nephew in Texas, and the one thing they have in common, other than being babies, is the need for crib bedding.

I never realized there was so much stuff that could go into a baby crib. Remember, I have no kids of my own. I get to experience this vicariously through family instead.You don’t want a crib that is only white stuff. Color is needed for the baby to look at and learn to explore new things. Blankets, sheets, crib padding, curtains in the baby’s room, toys, all sorts of things. Even mobiles that hang over the crib for the infant to focus its eyes on and the grab and learn co-ordination with its arms and fingers. There is more to having a baby than any one can think unless they have experienced it themselves. Check out any baby supply site and you will understand where I am coming from. Babies are worth the extra effort to make their world colorful and beautiful.

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