The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

There are some things yo'mama didn't tell you. My mom didn't tell me much. Her mantra was, "you will find out when you grow up." I sure did!

What didn't yo'mama tell you?

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Posted by Samantha at 12:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

I have been hearing the word "bling-bling" thrown around lately. I read someplace that it is a hip hop term. So I decided to google the word "bling" for the fun of it to see what I would come up with and this is some of what I found out.

Wikipedia gives this description of bling or bling-bling:

"Bling-bling" (usually shortened to simply "bling") is a hip hop slang term which refers to elaborate jewelry and other accoutrements, and also to a lifestyle built around excess spending and ostentation.

Now I really have found out why I am not into bling - it is exaggerated elaboration. I mean we can all be elaborate about something, but bling-bling? Dang-Dang no way!

And how about some taste for your party? Wanna try some Bling H2o? This is for real people! Whoo hoo! Butt and all - gotta bling that one guys!

Bling-bling, bling-bling.....do we really care?

Have at it!

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Posted by Layla Elizabeth at 12:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Interesting title with an interesting view - mine, on what life will be like beyond President George W. Bush. Indulge me a tad and forgive the fact please, that I am going to give you pure LaylaElizabethology - but it is good to hear new views - even the ones we may not agree with.

Today I took a cab with my husband to his doctor’s office. Our cabby decided to stay and wait for us. The fellow was friendly and engaging - he was also a conspiracy theory believer, but then why not? He is a Washingtonian so it just comes natural for them to have such far fetched views.

Listening to him on the way to the pharmacy as we drove down the Beltway it occurred to me that this was really a very nice man - a good man - someone I would be glad and proud to call my neighbor.

Lightening struck me at that moment as I was thunderstruck by the realization that other than name calling and hate mongering between the left and right, though so antiquated and outdated as it is referred to still as such-we just are truly not so different.

We all want the same things at the end of the day - believe it or not. Our cabby sounded like you or me. He wanted to be safe and wished to not have to worry about our next inevitable terror attack. That perhaps through Homeland Security and our diligence as responsible citizens we might thwart a would be attack - just as was done recently in the United Kingdom.

What was striking however, is the disdain for Bush. Sadly after seven years of Bush I could relate to how he was feeling because I also felt some of that disdain - on a much smaller scale - but still disdain nonetheless. Bush let so many people down.

It is sad that when the world looks to the United States these days it perceives us as the fore brooding spirit. Unlike Bush’s predecessor Ronald Reagan, Bush does not bring light to the darkness or positives to the negatives. Instead of being a beacon of light for the American people as Reagan once was - Bush has all but become a dying ember.

Looking beyond Bush I am not sure what I envision. I am not ready for a Democrat to replace a Republican - even a failing Republican at that. The Democratic version of the war on terror is more like the soap opera, “Days of Our Lives” - you won’t know one day from the next - the days just run all together. That blur and lack of vision is scary, and rightly so. No one should settle for less than some 60% vision and 40% honesty. The two combined would be even better, but even this is appearing to be far in the distance.

Truly I envision an end within the next three years to the ongoing Iraq debacle. I was for the war on terror - I am still for the war on terror, but I can no longer support fighting in Iraq when the government there is doing so little to help itself. The Iraqi’s themselves are not respecting our troops and continue trading in the troops to al-Qaeda the way the West trades in its cattle.

I said recently that this is the right war, but in the wrong place. A reader asked me what would have been the right place? Honestly, I can say Afghanistan - beyond that I lose sight of the Iraq the President envisioned and elaborated upon to the American people. It does not exist and may never come into fruition. I am not saying Bush lied - but I do say he just did not tell the whole truth.

Time will tell us in the coming years how President Bush is judged by history. As for right now - I am really looking forward to beyond Bush - there must be light at the end of this tunnel for the American peoples sake.

Yes, beyond Bush, I like that.

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Posted by Layla Elizabeth at 12:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)

I have been blogging since 2004 on and off at Bloggers, Wordpress, my previously esteemed blog, "Freedom Watch," and now of course here on The HILL Chronicles. I have watched-or in this case, read the need for our voices and opinions to be heard.

There is a consensus amongst bloggers that if I comment on your site you should comment at mine. Of course, this is a courtesy. But who decided that this was how a blogger or writer was deemed worthy of anyone's so precious opinion?

Perhaps I am not the average blogger. I don't blog to rant and just voice my opinion, which can become boring at times. I write for the love of writing and to bring you the news with my views skewed into it all.

I am allowed. I am also allowed to say I think it sucks when fellow bloggers tell you that if you want comments you must comment on other sites. Really? Michelle Malkin or even La Shawn Barber never comment at sites yet they receive plenty of comments. No one would dare say this to them or write them an email inferring such.

I know what you will say, but you are not a Michelle Malkin or a La Shawn Barber. Tu Che. But I do have a following, a readership, commenter's, and was deemed by Pajamas Media credible and professional. Therefore, I believe that gives me the experiential expertise to write about this very subject.

I get that some of you will call this post snobby, arrogant, and self-righteous. I'll take my chances because I really don't care - it is only the opinion of some, not all.

You either acquire a comment following or you don't. That is how it is in blogging. But what blogging is about is getting the news out there without the media bias. What blogging is about is writing what is important to us. It is about being responsible with what and how we write for our readership. It is about being responsible. It is not about if you receive comments to every damn article you write. If you do great! If you do not, so what! Who the hell cares but you, maybe. An even bigger maybe is that you are the problem.

If the only reason people comment here on this blog is so I will comment on theirs - think about how school yardish that is. How petty it sounds. But many believe that and do this. Most bloggers do not care what other bloggers write about - unless it can in some way enhance their blog and hike up their stats. That is the bottom line ad least amongst the political bloggers. The minute one of these bloggers perceives you are getting hits and maybe - just maybe - you might appear to be doing better than they are - they sabotage you either in word or deed. I know. I have been on the receiving end and it stops here - now.

I really do not have the time anymore to read others blogs everyday, though I really try to. I also read many books, magazine articles, newspaper articles, listen to a lot of cable news and online news, and then there is work and my family. So I cannot do it all.

To those of you that have sent me nasty emails whining about how you thought I was your friend and how could I possibly not be commenting at your blogs as often anymore - opps, I have no time for people like you - anymore.

To those sweet dear readers out there that have understood - I truly do appreciate it. But I do not believe my commenting on others sites or not should affect people commenting on my site. Should it, then it was never genuine. It was like that school yard nonsense--na, na, na, na, na. Is this really what it all comes down to? I have no time for it and this post is to inform those school kids to get off it. I do not need you and or your comments. Move on. This site is for mature adults. Period.

I am someone working hard to make a difference not play kid games. If some of you somehow mistook that - it is on you - you obviously have never really read my blog or you would know what this blog is about.

The way we are in our personal non-cyber life sometimes bleeds into who we are in the cyber world. That my friends is the real "social handicap."

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Posted by Layla Elizabeth at 12:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Well wouldn't it be nice to get some free extra cash? Yeah it sure would, but not like this! Some boneheads actually kept the extra cash, now they could be prosecuted for not being honest!

An ATM at a northwest Louisiana truck stop gave out $20 bills instead of $5s, but authorities say they know who took the extra $7,000 the machine spit out and plan to track them down.

DeSoto Parish sheriff's Lt. Toni Morris said the automated teller machine has records showing 26 people who received the extra cash during five days in late June and early July.

Annette Parker, a supervisor at Eagle's Truck Stop, said she unplugged the machine after overhearing conversations about the excess payments.

"The next morning when we had come back in, someone had plugged it back up," she said.

Morris said someone who did not work at the truck stop may have rigged the machine, which keeps records of when the money was taken and by whom.

Morris said charges could be brought against the people who got more money than they were debited for.

It just doesn't pay to be dishonest! Now maybe..............nah never mind!

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