I am sorry that I have been MIA (Missing In Action) in the blogosphere for about a week, I know that is not the usual and that isn’t the unusual either as if you have noticed lately before this week I have started to become more active as a blogger for the last few months but then in the beginning of this week immediately put me on break due to a few reasons but the main reason I immediately was dropped out of blogging radar is because of the family matter which I will share on that with you in a few minutes here. I wrote the article in the beginning of the week saying that I will be taking a break from blogging for a while which you can find that article by looking for the article before this article and I said that I would have no idea when I would be done with taking a break, that is until I feel comfortable enough to get back in doing what I am passionate in. So this is to say that I am back, at least for now but I am not sure about being more active that I have been the least few months because I am not exactly all the way ready to be back yet as I have something else on my mind and that is why I have decided that I would just catch up all the topics that I have written down on the list while on break so in hope to put my mind to ease over what had happened to me in the beginning of this week. How are you everybody doing? I hope that all of you are doing great, enjoying the Fall season and starting to feel the winter coming? It’s getting colder here in the eastern part of Kentucky so that means that it’s reminding us to be ready for the winter to come in a few weeks this month or the beginning of next month December.
I am sure that there is some of you who aren’t looking forward to winter and some of you who are looking forward to the winter. I am one of you who’s looking forward to the winter as long as we aren’t snowed in on the days that we have a doctor appointment and that we keeps the electricity because without electricity in harsh cold winter isn’t fun.
11-7-2016 Tidbits
Obviously you know that this is the new tidbits since the title gives it away (duh), but in case for any of you who is new readers on here and don’t know what is tidbits. I encourage that you head over to your best friend on the internet, Google or Bing and type “Define Tidbits” in the search field. From there, the summary definition for tidbits is that it means a bits of everything and for blog it means that it includes more than one topic or some bloggers call it niche instead of one so to give all of you something more to read. Beware that tidbits articles can be meant for a very long reading or short reading as all it depends on how many topics are there involved so grab a chair and enjoy.
Why Am I Democrat and Not a Republican?
That is a very good question, Democrat and Republican is two different political parties that has each different views here in the United States. Today Democratic Party is known for taking care of the Americans, ensuring that they are taken care of and that the governments of Democratic Party is for the people while the Republican Party is known for caring about the business more than the Americans. It’s sad but true whether you like it or not, if you are a Republican then you are in a party that represents for the business to make sure that the corporations and the businesses to exploit the Americans of their money. This is why you are often to see several Republican presidents and other governments wants to lower the tax cut FOR the business owners while either sticking with the current tax plan on the Americans or increase the tax. For example, Donald Trump is wanting to lower the 35% to 15% for the business.
You can find about Donald Trump’s Tax Plan on his own website:
While Democratic Party, in this case Hillary Clinton is wanting to closes the loopholes in tax systems for all of business (not small business but large business) and demand equally tax plan from all the business (like a flat rate) to make it fairer for the Americans.
Hillary Clinton’s Tax Plan: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/a-fair-tax-system/
This is exactly why I am proud to be a Democrat, because Democratic Party principles match with me as I am for the Americans more than the large business owners such as Donald Trump Hotels, Wal-Mart, Exxon and many more. Why in the heck should we pay more taxes than these corporations? It is because we are, thanks to George W. Bush but since Barrack Obama took the office eight years ago he have fixed the mess that Bush had left that almost caused us the great depression two. Barrack Obama have created millions of jobs, some of you may deny that but there is a proof that he had done so and still creating jobs for the Americans even though he only have a couple of months left to go. There is no way that I would become a Republican because that would conflict with my principle and my views. I refuse to be in a political party that exploit the Americans of their money, allowing the corporations to have tax breaks several times so that they can earn few billions more every year while at the same time ripping us of our money and creating jobs for themselves instead of for us the Americans.
Barrack Obama’s jobs created:
Since I became eighteen years old I was eligible to register as a voter and I chosen Democratic Party so since then I have stick with Democratic Party and I will always be.
Here’s a few more good links to learn a bit more about Democratic Party and Republican Party:
Difference of Democrat and Republican: http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Republican
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/07/dnc_2016_10_big_ways_the_democratic_platform_diffe.html
Importance of Giving Away People’s Name on Blogs or News
I am sure that some of the people who would strongly disagree with this and there some of the people who would agree with this too. Few weeks ago through emails with a few of my people in journalism and some people who is what I call rookie bloggers discussed about the importance in giving away the people’s name on blogs or on news. There were few good points that were bought up and some points that I gave received some agreements. I am sure that some of you see on some blogs or on some news that have their names written in, sometimes asked yourself or wondered about some privacy issues by saying that we should respect their privacy by not giving out their names to the public whether it be on some blogs or news. I can understand some of your concerns, I am sure that your concerns are appreciated by the bloggers or editors that publicly shared somebody’s name on their blogs or news but a few reasons that it would be best to put their names on there.
Why you asked? We of course won’t just out of blue named them on our blogs or on our news because we feel likes it. We only do so if it’s to put them in the negative spotlight, if we are to write something good about some of the people then we would ask for their permission to have their names mentioned but if we are to write something bad about some of the people then we will share their names in the public without asking for their permission for the very one reason. That reason is to let them know that we have recognized what they had done, to hold them accountability and in doing so would give them the chance to do something about it by owning up the mistakes they did. Even though when we do that, we have to be careful as there are some laws that allows us to do so on a few conditions and that we are not allowed on conditions so if you are interested in becoming a blogger or editor for newspaper then do some research on the law. We cannot smear or slander their names only if we aren’t sharing anything true about them so for example if let’s say, a man named Bob goes to the jail for stealing and Bob never did then that’s against the law to share Bob’s name publicly. However if Bob did stolen something and went jail for it then we can name Bob’s name as long as we shares the accurate information of what happens with Bob.
In my opinion, sharing the names of the people who does wrong things can help you to build your creditability as long as you are being careful with how you go about it. If you don’t give out a name for the person who did something wrong then you are pretty much letting that person to get away with it or not making sure that the person to not do it again the next time.
Remember To Vote Tomorrow (Election Day)!
I am one of many people who have tried to convince the Americans that it is very important for them to go out tomorrow on the election day and cast their vote in at their polling place. I am not going to say which presidential candidates for you to vote, what’s the most matter from me is that it is very important for you to go out to your polling place and cast your vote for whichever you prefer to vote for. I have recognized that there are a lot of the people who is saying that they have decided that they aren’t going to vote tomorrow, that is what made me realize that they have no idea how much their votes do matters so I am going to explain why it is very important that you Americans to go out tomorrow to vote on the Election Day at your polling place which you can easily find your polling place by searching it on Google or Bing by typing the state that you resides in polling’s place. For example I am looking for mine so I search for my polling place where I can go and vote at by searching “Kentucky Polling Place” which it will bring up the direction to my nearest polling place in my county of my state I resides in.
As for some of you who decides that you aren’t in mood to vote tomorrow on the election day then I am going to tell you something here. You are making a big mistake for not deciding to vote! Why would it be a big mistake? What some of you don’t realize is that even though your votes for the presidential candidates may not as much as matters in counts for the presidential but there is more than just presidential candidates on the ballot such as your state senator, your district representative, your commissioners and others which is where your votes may be counted. That’s not the most important thing, the most important is that the fact that you have voted and why is the fact that you have voted is important? Maybe you may not know this but by not voting will make you powerless when it comes to giving your voices to anything that you don’t agree with in your state and in the United States. When you decide to call, mail, in person or e-mail your government in your state or the governments here in the United States to say that you disagree with whatever it is that they want to pass a bill for or other things, the first thing they will do is check to see if you have voted or not. If you didn’t vote tomorrow, it will let them know that you did not vote and they will immediately ignore your voice which this means you won’t have any voice when it comes to the government at all. You want to complain about your job to the union? You didn’t vote then your complain will be going to the trashcan before they even read them because they check to see if you have voted or not before they listen to your voice.
So the bottom line is if you did not vote by tomorrow then you will not have a voice, you will be powerless and if you voted by tomorrow then your voice will be heard because they know that you voted so they have no choice but to allow you to voice your frustration/disagreement; by voting your voice immediately became powerful. So please do go out tomorrow and vote. Even if you don’t like both presidential candidates, just vote whoever your guts tells you or whoever that you think that the presidential candidate “maybe” be a good president. Heck, blindfold yourself and vote if you wish because that by the fact you have voted will give you the power to voice your concerns or frustrations to United States or in your state. Get your butt up and vote I mean seriously I don’t care if it’s Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Heck I endorse one of them and it comes to this the point that I don’t care if you vote the one that I don’t want to be in the office because as long as you have voted is what all matters.
Vote, vote and vote! P.S. I have already voted last week so I have done my duty as American and now it’s your turn.
I Endorse Hillary Clinton and Chris Harris
I am sure that by now that you have noticed lately that I have been somewhat a more vocal for Hillary Clinton than I was for Donald Trump. In the beginning when both presidential candidates given their nominees such as Hillary Clinton of Democratic Party and Donald Trump of Republican Party I was actually neutral at that time. I started leaning towards Hillary Clinton more when I watched the first presidential debate, second debate I leaned even more towards Hillary Clinton and the third Hillary Clinton have just won my vote. What did Hillary Clinton do to make me to decide that I endorse for her is that she focus on the Americans people a lot more than Donald Trump did throughout both of their campaigns. Donald Trump were all about business, business and business but what about the people? For example throughout Hillary Clinton’s campaigns, a lot of them were mentioned about the people with disabilities and even mentioned a lot of well-known Deaf people such as Nyle DiMarco and the White House Receptionist Leah Katz-Hernandez. Every places that Hillary Clinton attended where she would give a presentation, she made sure that they have American Sign Language Interpreters and made the front row reserved for the people with disabilities. Donald Trump have never done that, not even once as every stages that Donald Trump had taken to give a presentation there were no American Sign Language interpreters at all and he never made sure that it was accessible for the people with disabilities while at the same time he is known for making fun of the people with disability such as calling Marlee Matlin “Retarded” and mocked one of New York Times well-known reporter who has a disability that have some limits in his hand.
So that clearly showed the true colors for both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump is just another typical republican who doesn’t care about Americans but corporations and businesses. Donald Trump is just simply faking himself as if he cares for some of the people to just steals their votes then after he stolen their votes he laughs all the way to the banks. Now Hillary Clinton have shown nothing but love, compassion and hope for the people of America. Making sure that regardless our disabilities, our races and our cultures that we all to be taken care of. She is truly all about the people and Donald Trump is all about the corporations and money. I believe that Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States tomorrow, she has a lot of superdelegates backing her up more than Donald Trump does and that’s why she will simply win. Go and learn about electoral votes.
I also endorse Chris Harris, who is running for reelection in (93) district representative in Pike County and Martin County of the Kentucky state over Norma Kirk-McCornmick. It came to my surprise, I have personally contacted both candidates and Chris Harris were the only one who decided to contact me back. In fact he was willing to have a little chat with me while Norma Kirk-McCornmick never bothered to even contacting me back. At the first I decided to contact both to ask about what would they do for the Deaf community in Pike County and Martin County of Kentucky. I was shocked to learn that Chris Harris had a family member in his family, said that he have seen the hurdles that Deaf had went through and that he would like to do something about that for the Deaf community in 93 district of Kentucky. So he told me that he’d like to have me to sit down and share some ideas with him on how we can improve the lifestyle for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people who resides in the 93 district of Kentucky. He of course, immediately won my vote and at the same time earned my uttermost respect. Guess what is even more? He is a Democrat! So that also says a lot about Democrat cares about the people more than Republican does as all republican cares about is money and helping their friends corporations over us the people. So if you lives in Pike County or Martin County here in the Kentucky, please vote Chris Harris for 93 district representative so that we can have someone who actually cares about us in the office that represents our district here in the Kentucky.
Voortman Apple Crisp Wafers Limited Edition
Oh my! Have you ever tried Voortman Apple Crisp Wafers Limited Edition? They are absolutely delicious, you can easily taste apple with a hint of spice in them and crispy waffles. You can find them in your local grocery store, most likely Wal-Mart as it was where I bought it from and if you cannot find it from Wal-Mart then you can buy it from Amazon which I will give you the link to the Amazon one so that you can get an idea of what it is. They also have Pumpkin one but I don’t think it can be better than the Apple Crisp one although the Pumpkin one comes very close.
Click here to get Voortman Apple Crisp Wafers Limited Edition 1 pack!
The Christmas List
Have you written down what you want for Christmas? Sure, adults can still write what they want for Christmas even though they may not believe in Santa Clause anymore like me and I am sure there are other several adults who writes down what they’d like to have for Christmas. Even though all the things we write what we want for Christmas may never come true, mostly because they are to way expensive and cannot afford to get all of them or some of them. Some of the people do write what they want for Christmas and hold the Christmas list to themselves until it’s nears the Christmas then they would buy some of them themselves. It’s fun to write what we want or Christmas. 😛
Here is what I’d like to have for Christmas, I am certain that I won’t get any of them and I don’t mind that as it’s just something that we wish to have.
- HP Omen Desktop 870-130VS ($2,115 without tax) or HP Omen X Desktop 900-040VT ($3,110 without tax) fully upgraded of customization.
- DJI Mavic Pro ($1,300ish).
- Apple Watch Series 2 Steel ($599).
- New 2016 Apple Macbook Pro 15” Space Gray ($4,299).
- Apple 9.7 (smaller one) iPad Pro 256GB ($799) note: Why not 12” one? 9.7 has bigger camera for some reason.
- GoPro Karma Grip ($299).
- A trip to New York for me and my mom for a week to two weeks.
- Some Foxhead (formerly Fox Racing) premium shirts and others.
These are just a few of things that I’d like to have for Christmas, it’s not a complete list but these are just what I have right off my head as they are something that I mainly would like to have but would be happy with one of them or two.
My Mom Went to Emergency Room
Last night my mother have finally decided to go to the emergency room at our local hospital because she has been in pain with her lower back to her left knee (from around of hip to knee) worried me to death because ARH is known to be the hospital that have taken half of my family’s life on both sides of my parents family. My aunt passed away when she broken her ankle after falling at my grandmother’s house, she was supposed to be given a prescription for blood thin as they discovered that she has blood clot coming from her broken ankle and this what lost her life. My grandmother on my mother’s side passed away at the same hospital that my aunt passed away, due to a cancer and possibly dementia. Nonetheless my mother went to the emergency room last night, thankfully nothing had happened to her while she was there as she was able to come home last night after having to get somebody to sign her out but she has sciatica nerves in her lower back to her left knee which is treatable by making sure that she get as much as rest off her legs by not walking too much. She’s doing a little better but she is still in pain though and I truly hope that she will recover sooner than expected.
I love my mommy too much for anything to happen to her. I am a mommy’s boy and I am proud to say that.
The Death of My Papaw
My grandfather on my father’s side have passed away last Monday on October 31, 2016 which is Halloween and it has devastated me. I was somehow prepared that would happen because my grandfather’s health was declining since he had heart attack and since then I couldn’t bring myself to visit him while he was alive because I wanted to remember how he was before he became sick although I did visited him at the beginning of his ill which that was what made me to decide that I would prefer to or try to remember him as he was before he got seriously ill because that would be the last thing I would want in my memory by seeing the decline in his health. He was pronounced dead at the same hospital that have taken my grandmother on my mom’s side and my aunt on my mom’s side. It looks as if the hospital namely ARH in South Williamson, Ky is the hotbed of my family’s last day of their lives which that doesn’t look good for the hospital. Since my mamaw on my mother’s side passed away at that hospital, I feared more of that hospital and then recently with my papaw on my dad’s side passed from the same hospital just have made ARH my least place to ever be at. I believe that they need to start bringing in better doctors that specialize in retrieving people back to life or something. Anyway, my grandfather on my father’s side of the family who passed away last Monday is Walter Sullivan. I almost no longer have grandparents, only one surviving grandparents I have and that’s my mamaw on my father’s side who is the wife of my papaw Walter Sullivan that passed away recently. It makes me think about this death more than ever. At this time is getting a bit scarier for me than it has been before.
Anyway, for those of you who prayed for me and the Sullivan’s family during the tough time of his passing away; Thank you.
Myself and my Papaw (Walter Sullivan).
The End!
Oh crap! I just realized that I have been at this for more than almost three hours, I started writing here at about 10:30 and it’s 1:48AM now which that means that my bed time have been passed far beyond of what I am supposed to be in bed by! What’s even worse is that I still have a few topics to go that I am not finished writing on so I will have to hold the rest of them until the next tidbits I write. I should have started writing this article about an hour or two hours earlier if I had known that this would take this long but I always have the problem with calculating the time. I am always not good with the time, that’s something that I need to work on and hopefully that I can for once of all to get my timing right. Lately I have thought about a lot so I guess this somewhat affects my timing, not paying attention more carefully to the time and ended up passed the time. There is one major topic that I need to discuss about and that is National Association of the Deaf. But I have no time to do so, I will hold onto that until the next time and I hope that all of you have a great night!
P.S. I also realized that I have written over 4,350 counts so I apologize for a very long reading and I hope that at least one or a couple of topics may interests you. I realized since I have written over that much of words, that I must have a lot of things to get out of my chest than I thought I would. GO AND VOTE!
Joshua “Joshie” Sullivan.
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