College Happenings

I am so sad today, this week, and last.

Everything was going so smooth and so great.  I think actually the last bump in the road that hurt like this was last year this time when I was still in school.  I did something stupid school wise and, well, it was no good.

Now, here I am planning my wedding, making invites, picking out my wedding dress and then all of a sudden, BAM.  Crappy stuff happens.  Only this time, it didn’t happen directly to me.  Crappy stuff happened to my man, and since I am an extension of him, or we are of each other.  Basically, if something bad happens to him, it happens to me.  His stress is my stress and vice versa.  And that is bad enough, three big yucky things to deal with. 

But, that isn’t the end of it.  Bad things are going on in my brothers life too.  I would rather all the yucky stuff come in my life.  Because I have faith in God, and I know eventually, everything will be ok.

But, my brother, he isn’t exactly an open book when it comes to his feelings.  So, I don’t know how he deals.  I wonder to myself, does he ever cry?  Maybe, when he is alone in his truck driving the long drive home.  Does he think about his troubles and feel despair.  I picture him alone with his thoughts, feeling overwhelmed with life. That makes me cry.  I would like to take all of his troubles and put them on me.

Today, I talked to my dad and I could hear the sadness in his voice.  He is sad because his children are hitting rough patches in life and he can’t fix it.  So that makes me sad too.

I don’t understand why we all have to go through crap all at once it seems.  I know that God has a reason, but right now, it is so hard to see. 

Dang I love The View.  It is like my educational adult hour.

Today they are talking about a documentary about Abu Ghraib.  I think it is called Ghosts of Abu Ghraib.

It is about the torturing of prisoners there.

The main point I got, something I already knew.  Is that the torturing was not something the low ranking officers thought up on thier own and decided to carry out.  The commands to torture came from way up near the top of the chain of command.  Duh.

But, of course the little guys on the totem pole take the blame for it and the high ranking officials skate on through.

Our administration is Fucked up.  Sorry.  But it is.

This story was in the Missoulian today.

By TRISTAN SCOTT of the Missoulian

When Scott Nelson Anderson was arrested Friday on two counts of felony assault, for allegedly fracturing his infant son’s skull, legs and ribs, he posted a $30,000 bond and was back on the street within hours.Anderson, 36, of Missoula, was arrested again early Monday morning after firing a round from his hunting rifle near Missoula’s Northside Park.When police arrived at the park, which is at Cooley Street and Worden Avenue, the man was holding the loaded rifle and admitted firing it into the air. Anderson told police he was suicidal, but had no intention of harming anyone. He was taken to jail on a misdemeanor charge of negligent endangerment.

But two hours later, Anderson had posted a $500 bond and was again released, even though he’d violated the conditions of Friday’s release by firing the gun.By late Monday afternoon, police had obtained a petition to revoke Anderson’s bail, as well as a $500,000 warrant for the man’s arrest. He was taken to jail at about 5 p.m., and will appear Tuesday in Missoula County Justice Court on the petition to revoke his bail.Anderson will likely remain jailed on the higher bail amount.

Anderson is charged with one count of aggravated assault and another for assault on a minor, both felonies. He faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in the Montana State Prison and $100,000 in fines.

According to charging documents, police began investigating Anderson on Feb. 17 after his 7-week-old son was hospitalized for a skull fracture. Anderson decided to have doctors look at the baby after his wife called him at work to complain that the baby’s head was “squishy” and swollen.

Anderson told social workers at Community Medical Center that he’d been feeding the baby earlier in the morning but had tripped on his pajama pants, falling and landing on the baby, a story he’d also told his wife.

However, further medical assessments revealed the baby had suffered additional injuries several weeks earlier, including fractures in both legs, a fractured rib, a skull fracture, a brain bleed and a hematoma.

When Anderson learned of the older injuries, he told detectives about an incident two weeks earlier when he had grown frustrated and “lost it” because his son was fussy and wouldn’t calm down.

Anderson said he’d grabbed the baby’s leg, carried the infant upside down from the living room to the bedroom and “swung” the baby into a crib. When the baby landed, his head struck a wooden portion of the crib, and Anderson admitted the incident likely caused the leg and skull fractures. After the baby hit his head, Anderson held him in a “bear hug” that “was way too tight,” most likely causing the rib fracture.

Medical experts in Salt Lake City reviewed the baby’s case and determined that his skull fracture, leg fracture and hematoma were approximately two weeks old.

Deputy Missoula County Attorney Suzy Boylan, who is prosecuting the case, said doctors expect the baby to make a full recovery from his injuries. The infant is currently in protective custody.

The administration has said if you question the war in Iraq, then, you don’t support the troops.

Well, this whole Walter Reed hospital debacle has shown that the administration obviously does not support our troops.

Go to war, serve and protect, get injured then come home and get no health care.

Hopefully Bob Woodruff can bring some light on the poor health care that our returning soldiers are recieving.

Not that most people weren’t aware already. 

Gotta luv those dumb Texans. 

Sadly, a woman in Montana was just sent to prison for coaxing her 2 year old to smoke out of a bong.

What is wrong with people?

Smoking pot is one thing, but giving it to children, come one.

 Check out the story below from the AP.

WATAUGA, Texas, Mar. 5, 2007