Just call the Avon Lady (by Katelyn)

My sister just wrote this on her blog, and I like it so much that I'm posting it on my blog too. Here's the link to her blog http://katelyn-grace.blogspot.com/
I am very 'passionate' (I guess that's what you'd call it) about this subject. Just read it and you'll see what I'm talking about. ; )

"The police all think they are God's gift to humanity and so there fore believe they can do as they please to anyone they want too and should have their power stripped from them as they are becoming a menace to society as a whole."

"This is typical police behavior. The protesters who are breaking the law and smacking windows, are allowed to continue. An innocent man who clearly is not violating any laws, is attacked. I've seen this behavior in Washington, DC on several occasions. Police tactics are enough to give you a heart attack."

"I am 72 years old. I have never been arrested or accused of a crime. However, the police where I live (Phx metro) shoot anyone with little or no real reason. I do not in any way trust the police anymore. At one time the police shot to stop someone--not to kill them."

http://news.aol.com/article/man-shoved-during-g20-protests/419986?icid=mainhtmlws-maindl1link3http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fman-shoved-during-g20-protests%2F419986

All of these quotes were taken from comments about the article from the url pasted above.

I think people are just becoming ridiculous with the things they say about police.

For one thing, people are automatically assuming that all police are jerks who are out to get you. I find that the more spoiled and selfish a person is, the more they don't like cops. The reason being, if they get pulled over for a ticket, they think that they are special and shouldn't get the ticket. So, they have an attitude with the policeman. The policeman, who has been dealing with lawbreaking morons all day, has a sarcastic attitude right back to you. And of course whoever you are, you get all uppity and repeat the story about this big, bad cop who 'abused' his power.

When, in reality, he was doing his job and you were harassing him while he (or she, I guess) was trying to do his job. Now, how would you treat someone who was harassing you at your job, when just about every person who you come across that day is rude, disrespectful, and ignorant.
Hmmmmmm.

Needless to say, I think these people who posted these comments are morons. Like seriously, cops are not all out to get you. And they aren't dumb enough to aggressively push someone down in front of a camera unless there was a need for it. Seriously people, get a grip.

Why don't people blame the idiotic protesters who were causing the riot and confusion? Because it is their fault you know. When a policeman is at his job, he is risking his life every day. A policeman never knows when there's gonna be that crazy person who just pulls out a gun and starts shooting.

People, they go through intensive training for this. They are trained to recognize aggressive behavior or something that might indicate danger for them. And, I'm sorry, but if my dad is arresting a criminal, I would much rather him shoot the guy or knock him out if the criminal is starting to act like he was going to harm my dad.

My point in saying all of this is that I don't have a specific opinion on what happened in this riot. All I'm saying is that, most likely, it was actually an accident. Who is going to purposely shove a guy down in front of tons of people, an action which would make him lose his job and be humiliated. I was, however, disgusted by these stupid comments.

As one intelligent person commented, "If you hate policeman so much, next time someone robs your house, just call the Avon lady, I'm sure she'll handle things better. She'll be real nice to the robber too!"

Nic's 21st Birthday!

Yesterday was Nic's 21st birthday!!! This was his first birthday as a married man! ; )
One reason I am happy he is 21 is because now we shouldn't have any problems renting a hotel room, cabin, cottage, etc because of age. It will be nice to not have to worry about that. His present (a gun) is on backorder right now. I was trying to surprise him with it and have it for him on his birthday (because he wasn't expecting to get it at least until this weekend), but now we have no idea when it will come in. I'm more upset about it than he is, just because I really wanted to be able to give it to him on his actual birthday. But it's not a big deal to him, lol. He only got a small gift from me and a gift from Katelyn yesterday because me, my parent’s, and his parent’s all went in together on the gun. I just gave him a few inexpensive things for his gun, while Kate gave him some nicer stuff for it. He was excited about getting those!

We will be having a fish fry this Friday night at his parent's house to celebrate his birthday. It will just be his parents, siblings, maw maw, Katelyn, and my parents. It will be nice to just get to relax and visit with everyone. Then Saturday night we are having a crawfish boil with his family. I'm not sure who all is going to be there, but his parent’s have been getting all the ingredients for it and we got the recipe from my dad. Hopefully we'll be able to make them as good as he does, because he makes the BEST! ; )

This week is Spring Break for me! I'm definitely enjoying it except for the fact that Nic still has school; his break is next week. But I just hang out at my parent's house while he's at school. I love it there : )

Once school starts back up I only have 4 weeks left until this semester is OVER!!!! That will leave me with only 3 semesters left until I graduate, which I know that is going to fly by! I still can't believe that Nic graduates in 5 weeks!!!

Anyways, today made reservations for our anniversary. We are going to be staying at a bed & breakfast in St. Francisville, plus we are going to go horse riding in the Tunica Hills area. We wanted something very laid back and relaxing (like our honeymoon was). This will actually take place about 2 weeks after our anniversary, but that was the closest time that they had available when we were able to go, and we both really wanted this certain place. We will celebrate in town for the actual weekend. I can't wait!!

Well Nic and I are about to go bike riding on the trail across the street over here. Supposedly it's really hard-core, so we'll see how far we make it on these non-suitable bikes, lol. Wish us luck...haha!