Melinda Slade

I could not believe that we lost Patrick Swayze yesterday.  What a terrible loss to his wife and mother and also to his many fans.  He fought a hard fight against cancer but lost his battle.  He will surely be missed by so many.  Thank you Patrick for making dancing ‘Cool’ again.  I will miss you as will the world.  Here’s to you:

I know the media is flooded with anything and everything to do with Michael Jackson’s passing and I have tried so very hard not to join in on the circus.  In fact, I have tried very hard not to watch very much about his death.  I am one of those people that believes we should celebrate a persons life, not their passing or turn their passing into the bull his has become.

There are people now that are doing exactly what I knew they would do which is to try to beat him down.  Some are saying he’s a child molester.  Well there’s a verse in the Bible that says something like ‘Judge not lest ye be judged.’  I loved his music, his dancing, and his enormous talent.  There are three beautiful children that have lost their father.  That is what needs to be focused on, those children.

Let the children have their fathers memory in tact.  Quit trying to knock Michael down because he’s gone.  The only ones that can be hurt the worst by all of the bull that’s flying around is the children.  LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!!!

I don’t know just how true this is but it sure makes sense to me!!!!

This was an article from the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on “How Would You Fix the Economy?”   I thought this was the BEST idea….I think this guy nailed it!

Dear Mr. President,

Patriotic retirement:  There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force- Pay them $1 million apiece severance with the following stipulations:

1) They leave their jobs. Forty million job openings -Unemployment fixed.

2) They buy NEW American cars. Forty million cars ordered -Auto Industry fixed.

3) They either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -Housing Crisis fixed.

It can’t get any easier than that!

P.S.  If more money is needed, have all members in Congress and their friends pay their taxes.

Oh my goodness it poured down the rain here yesterday.  There were flooded streets, trees down because the wind was sort of strong and just a mess everywhere.  My driveway looked like a stream there was so much rain coming down so fast.  As it stands right now, drought is the last thought on our minds.

We’re wondering if it’s time to build an Ark or what?  One thing I can tell you for sure, there will not be 2 snakes on my Ark.  They’ll just have to take their own chances!!!  I’m sorry to all the snake lovers out there but that’s the one thing I am deadly afraid of, a snake.

A fathers job first and foremost is to protect his children from anything and everything.  Well this father didn’t and now he faces second degree murder and felony injury to a child.  Not only that but he now has to live the rest of his life knowing a decision he made about the children, cost his 11 year old daughter her life.

Sage Aragon and her 12-year-old brother, Bear, were with their father on Thursday when his truck got stuck in a snow drift near state Highway 75, north of Shoshone in south central Idaho, according to the Lincoln County sheriff’s office.  The children live with Aragon in Jerome and he was taking them to visit their mother, JoLeta Jenks, in West Magic.

After the truck got caught in the snow, authorities allege Aragon let the children out to walk to their mother’s house while he and another adult stayed behind to free the vehicle.  Jenks said she called Aragon because she was concerned after no one arrived at her home on Thursday. Aragon had driven back to Jerome after letting the kids out to walk to her house, Jenks said.

Jenks called the police and a Blaine County search and rescue team found the boy at a rest area near the highway shortly before 10 p.m. on Thursday night.  Adults in the search effort described the snow as knee-deep for them.

The boy was found wearing only long underwear, Blaine County Sheriff Walt Femling said in a news release. Apparently delusional from hypothermia, the child had discarded his jacket, pants and shoes, the sheriff’s office said. He was treated and released at a nearby hospital.  The rest area was about 4.5 miles from where the children started walking.

At some point the children separated and their mother said her son told her they disagreed about whether to keep going or turn back.  “(Bear) kept on telling her: ‘Let’s go, Sage, let’s go, Sage,’” Jenks said, recalling what her son told her. “She said, ‘No, I’m going back.’”

The little girl was found about 2.7 miles from where the two set out, barely visible under windblown, drifting snow when search dogs located her along a local road about 2 a.m. Friday. She was wearing a brown down coat, black shirt, pink pajama pants and tan snow boots, the sheriff’s office statement said.

“I thought she was alive because they said they found her,” Jenks said. “I was excited.”  The girl was pronounced dead at a Ketchum hospital; preliminary autopsy results indicate she died of hypothermia.

I could not believe that a father would do such a thing.  My heart sank as I read this.  What those children went through was unimaginable.  I’m sorry but as part of his punishment, his cell should be very cold and there should be pictures of the children plastered all over the walls of his cell of the children when they were found.  That would be just punishment but that’s my opinion!!!!