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Wow here it is in late May and some people are still dealing with snow. I awoke to a nice quite patter of rain on the roof this morning. I know that April showers are to bring May flowers, but what does May snow bring, other then dead plants and trees???? LOL I guess it is not funny for all those that have that green thumb, and put out your plants in their beds for the year. Maybe for once my procrastination has paid off!! LOL... The wife was just accusing me of being lazy....I think of it as being smart...WOW did I ever dodge a bullet on that one! Some folks around us not really that far have received a foot or so of snow over night. The nice part of it is that it will not stick around for long. The down side to that is, that is very wet and heavy, and has created real havoc with the gardening and tree community. Maybe my Grandmother had something in the fact she used to tell us never plant the garden until after May 24th or you could be in for a surprise. Thanks Granny... Even though a garden is not in the plans for this year I will keep it in mind for years to come. I would like to ask all my readers to say a bit of a prayer or at least take a moment and think about your health and not take it for granted. One of the fellow readers let me know that a good friend and past co-worker's husband had a serious heart attack this past weekend. Our thoughts go out to you Diane and Denis, hopefully he will be up and around in no time. Remember Denis you are married . No matter how cute she is Diane is better...LOL You will be in our thoughts and prayers. Get well real soon!!! Now on to a more serious topic....

What is happening to our youth of today? I watched the news again last evening, and they lead with a story about a young man being shot and killed in a Toronto school yesterday. What is going through a child's mind or anyone for that matter, child or not that you wake up one morning and decided that today seems like a good day to go out and kill someone. Now there is the special interest groups that blame video games. All I can say to that is POPPY COCK!!!!! It is like saying lets ban guns because there is too many people dying. Unless you have not noticed people it is not guns that kill people, it is people that kill people!!! I am finding it harder and harder in today's society that nobody is taking responsibility for their own actions. My question is where did such a young man or women get a gun to take to school in the first place? Better yet I don't know about you, but as a parent I think I would be paying a bit more attention to my kids as to what they do and don't have. If it is a case that it was taken from the home I think the parents should be charged at best for child neglect as I really don't think a kid of that age should have access to weapons. I am not saying the parents cannot have guns, But PLEASE store them properly so little fingers do not have access to them. If you feel that your child is that unstable store them off the property so they do not have access to them. The situation I see with this is now all the special interest groups are going to be climbing back on that big band wagon to ban guns globely. I really struggle because of that. There is some very good and responsible guns owners out there. Just because there is one dolt out there the whole group has to suffer.

Again I go back to why did this happen? What lead up to this situation? I think that society in some cases have lost control of our youth. Tell me how many parents do not both work? Not many... I want the great Canadian dream too, but I also made the choice to not have children. Now before you start firing off emails as to then what do you know you don't even have kids. Well my response to that is two fold. I come from a therapy back ground so I feel I have some knowledge in the area. Also I did not just crawl from out under a rock last night. Most of our friends have children, and contrary to popular belief I like kids, and take an interest in them. Some of my career has even involved working with youth very closely. I think because of peer pressure and Mom and Dad wanting everything in the first five years of marriage. Better known as the Keeping up with the Jones syndrome. Mom and Dad have to work to pay for what they have committed to. Sometimes I think kids would just as soon want to spend time with Mom and Dad doing the simpler things in life rather then going on expensive vacations to Maui ever year. I would like some feed back about this one. You know how it works leave me your opinion in the comments section at the end of this posting.

The other story that I was following today that made me sit back and ponder life, and what was going on. Is a teenage girl has a baby in a Walmart washroom, and then walks away leaving it there unattended. Again WOW. What was going through this girls mind? I can appreciate she was probably scared witless but, wow in todays society, and so many people want newborn children to adopt, why did she at least take it to a hospital and turn it over there rather then taking her chances, and hoping someone found it before it was too late. I guess I am not a young girl having to deal with this situation, but I will say there must be a tremendous amount of anguish after doing something like this. I struggle with the fact in today's society, and the amount of education and protection how our youth is having accidents and getting pregnant anyway! Again I would like to hear your feed back on this topic. I am interested in you as readers and your opinions on these two matters.

Until next time....

Cheers
From the 400LB Gorilla

Remember:

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
- John Ciardi

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

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