Deflate gate or Deflect gate?

Professional football has suffered a tough year of scandals.  There is a lawsuit that will award medical damages to those players that have contracted dementia, Alzheimer's or depression resulting form head injuries.  There were the numerous aggressive acts against family members.  Now we are on the eve of the Superbowl and the media is going crazy over deflate gate.  

Let's face it.  After all the horror stories, this scandal is pretty tame.  We can laugh, make numerous tongue in cheek testicle jokes and give the NFL lots of media attention.  No one is talking about Ray Rice or Adrian Peterson now.  I think this scandal has come at the perfect moment to get everyone excited about the Superbowl and take our minds off the true scandals that really have hurt people.  Go ahead and make your wrinkled ball jokes folks, but don't forget about domestic violence, head injuries and homophobia. 

Really? Shame on you Governor Deal!

The governor's race in Georgia is in full swing.  Jason Carter is young and has a likable demeanor.  Nathan Deal hasn't really been able to find anything negative to say about him so now he has made two ads that make fun of his young age- using a ten year old trying to shoot a basketball and not making it in the net to compare Jason's young age to not being able to make a basket without cheating his way and lowering the height of the net.  The other commercial makes fun of his "gift of gab".  Jason Carter has made commercials that state the true facts that have happened during the Deal governorship and he comes off as a caring, truthful young man. The Deal commercial puts animated stars on Jason's teeth to make him seem like a charlatan.  I have been disgusted by Deals underhanded tactics.  Jason deal could bring out the pictures of Snowmagageddon 2014.  That was an example of not preparing for a rare during the workday snowstorm, where many people were trapped on the highway coming home from work.  Remember that? 

When I think of Nathan Deal and his governorship, I basically think of nothing.  He really didn't do anything that helped the regular citizen.  His health care plan for state workers sucked.  He took down the toll plaza on 400- about 5 years too late on that one.  He encouraged more film makers to come to Georgia by keeping the taxes low on their productions.  Meanwhile I spent about $4000 in taxes on the purchase of my car.  I leased and then bought my car, so I got shafted.  Our property taxes, medical coverage, student loan payments have us strapped-but thank goodness we are home to Dumb and Dumber 2!

I hope the regular folks will get out and vote November 4th!  We need to put Jason Carter, Michele Nunn and the other Democrats into office.  Show this country that there are some people in the deep south that care for the regular citizen.  

Is the sentence fair?

We are all sad for the Guidice family.  The sentences of jail time for both Joe and Teresa have to be very difficult for the family.  The judge did think of the family and delayed Joe's sentence so that Teresa could serve her time first.  Would they have had the same sentence if they were not famous?  Probably, I mean they did commit fraud.  I knew a man from my church that served five years for tax invasion. That was very hard on his family and his wife.  

They did not physically hurt anyone, but they did break the law.  We all love the Guidice family.  We have enjoyed everything Jersey, hopefully the family will learn from their mistakes and teach the girls that money and stuff is not the most important thing to acquire.  I have seen a real humbling this year on the NJHWives, I hope this is sincere, for the sake of the girls.

Ferris Bueller meets Carrie Bradshaw

Isn't it magical when two of your favorite characters  form a real life relationship?  Ferris Bueller's Day Off is one of my favorite movies of all time.  Sex and the City is the ultimate chic show.( thanks to e! we can watch it on a daily basis)  Now they are the New York royalty.  They are friends with the elite of NYC like Kelly Ripa and Andy Cohen.  I just can not imagine how much fun it must be to be able to go out on the town with Carrie Bradshaw and Ferris Bueller.  I am not a psycho- I realize they are actors and are not the same as their beloved characters, but we can romanticize, right?

My sincere apology to Natasha Tretheway

Dear Ms. Tretheway,

I just read an article about you in the AJC and I am so proud of you and all of your success.  Being named the Poet Laureate of the United States is an incredible honor.  I have followed your successful career over the years and I have admired your courage and strength.

I have spent the last 31 years agonizing over a poor decision.  I was 22 years old and serving on my first jury duty at the Decatur Court house.  Your former step father was on trial, ( for the rest of this blog I will refer to him as YMSH- your mother's second husband) for perjury in his first trial.  I had a very bad feeling about this man. He had a very scary stare and seemed to be heavily medicated. The prosecution tried a few times to bring up his original sentencing.  She would speak about a gun and was immediately shut down by the defence team.  The main focus of the trial was that he had lied about ever being in legal trouble and therefore had committed perjury in his original trial.

The defense argued that being charged with a crime while in the Army was not really the same as being charged with a crime in civilian life. ( by the way he was a pimp in Vietnam during the war)  They also said that being charged with neglect for not paying child support was not technically a considered a crime.  We listened to testimony for two and a half days and then went into the jury room.  I was one of two people  in that room that believed that he was guilty of perjury. 

We all realized that a trial for perjury wasn't the real crime.  We were not allowed to know why he was currently in prison.  We were also told that he was medicated because he had PTSD from being involved in the Vietnamese war.

I held our for a few hours and then the other girl changed her mind.  The jury foreman was a professor at Spelman college and he accused me of being prejudice.  "what does a little white girl from the beach in New Jersey know of the plight of a black soldier in Atlanta?"  I cried and I tried for a couple more hours to hold my ground and then I gave in.  I have never forgotten that I gave in.   I cried when the verdict was read.  I knew it was wrong, and that I wasn't strong enough in my convictions.

About a month later I was watching the evening news and the top story was that YMSH had been released from prison and directly gone straight to your mother's house, shot and killed her.  I realized that the point of the trial that I had been assigned to as a juror was to get him a couple of extra years of prison.  He had been writing threatening letters to your mother from prison.  He also had been charged with aggravated assault with a weapon against your mother in the first trial.  We were never allowed to hear about the particulars of why he was in jail.  I think that would have defiantly swayed more of the jurors over to a guilty verdict.

I am so sorry that I didn't hold on in that jury room.  I really wish that I had been stronger then.  I also found out after seeing the TV news coverage that you were a student a year before at the same high school I was working.  You were a cheerleader and I had known of you.  I was a first year teacher and I was teaching the "subbies".  ( the  8th graders that were below the freshmen- subbies). 

I know this is just a blog, basically it is a diary I have created that my daughter may be able to read and get a few laughs from when I go.  I have no interest in Tweeting or Face book.  You will probably never see this.  It does help me to write it all down.  I have keep this in for a long time.

I wish you a long life of success and happiness.  I am so sorry for the tragedy with your mother and I hope that you can forgive me.  I know in my heart that I was young and weak.  I have forgiven myself for my poor decision.  I wish the 54 year old me could have been there in that jury room.  I think that things might have turned out a little differently.  Again I am sincerely sorry Natasha.
                                                                  Momma T

The "New View" is

 

Hurrah for the new and improved version of the View.  From the blessing  from Queen Barbara, to the tributes to Robin Williams and  Joan Rivers, to the eight year old winner of Norway's Got Talent, the new season is definitely an improvement!

First of all, it is so wonderful to see the interaction between Whoopi and the rest of the girls.  I think Whoopi is finally comfortable in her position and free to speak her mind.  Rosie O is lovable and open and I loved her interview with Barbara Streisand.  My daughter and I absolutely love Rosie P.  Her accent is the greatest!  She has no difficulty voicing her opinion and she seems to fit in perfectly.  Nicole is finding her way into the talk show world.  She is the one that has the least experience in TV.  She ia Greek and has a family and although she worked in the Bush white house, she seems authentic.  

I am just so happy that the focus has turned back to politics.  they still talk about all the current topics, but it seemed that politics went out the window after Joy left.  Congrats to the new season.  Keep up the good work girls!

Dude Looks like a Lady!

 

What to say about the early passing of Robin Williams?  Wasn't the Aerosmith song, Dude Looks like a Lady- just perfect for the movie, Mrs. Doubtfire?

I never was a Mork and Mindy fan. I was in college when that show was on and I didn't watch TV during those years.  I loved Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets Society and of course- Aladdin. My daughter was 6 when Aladdin first came out and she cried at the end of the movie because she didn't want to leave the theatre where the genie lived. 

Robin Williams was a genius.  He must have been one of those special homo sapiens that had extra neurons in his brain, ( like Albert Einstein).  

One of my colleagues said that taking your life is selfish. I don't believe that Robin was a selfish person.  He donated his time to so many organizations and did Comic relief with Whoopie and Billy.  He selflessly gave to the public.  We all loved him and he made us smile. Thanks for everything Robin, we will miss you!