Has anyone considered that the American people as a whole are the new slaves? Think about it for a while.

Companies are all about making a buck with as little effort as possible. Why is almost all small manufactured products priced $ 19.95 or $ 19.99. Prices are not established by a percentage of invested money as a profit. Prices are established by what the manufacturer believes his effort is worth for taking the time to make x quantity of y product, and on how much you are willing to spend on the product. Competition is your good friend here.

But things change when going global. Now every company from everywhere is out for an easy buck. Laws that gave you the right to take your problems with a company to court have been changed to protect the companies. Many other forms of protecting those that have against those that don’t have are being implemented.

In the 60′s only one member in a household needed to work to make ends meet. Now every member must work. Your minimum wage is what? while a CEO is making millions.

Is it not time to wake up? Where is the strong middle class of the past? It is rapidly disappearing. Soon there will only be a few that have too much and the many that don’t have enough or don’t have anything. And maybe companies will be governing us!

The question of whether DNA evidence should change the way we look at innocent until proven guilty has been heavily on my mind. We’ve always been taught that a person deserves a fair trial among a jury of their peers to face the charges they are accused of…a fair justice system.

The introduction of DNA evidence over 20 years ago has changed the playing field when it comes to convicting or exonerating a person of a crime. Since DNA is unique to each person it’s hard to dispute the results of the test.

Although there can be a defense to DNA evidence such as mishandling or performing the test wrong it’s hard to refute the test results. If the justice system put in place a structured, secured method of testing and handling DNA evidence it could save taxpayers millions by shortening the trial process.

DNA Evidence = Guilty

How can you dispute that fact when a prosecutor holds off on an arrest for a murder until they received the test results? This is exactly what happened in a local case involving a police office that was on duty when he strangled a young woman who was due to have his baby within weeks.

Saginaw County Prosecutor, Mike Thomas tells a local reporter as soon as they received a positive match on the DNA test results they immediately acted by arresting Buena Vista Police Officer Kevin Bluew. Bluew who is married, is accused of killing his girlfriend who was 37 weeks pregnant with his baby at a local police gun range while on duty. The beautiful life of Jenny Webb and her unborn baby boy was cut short and the evidence obviously shows Officer Bluew was involved.

Why should the family of Jenny be put through the rigors of a trial? Why should Michigan taxpayers fit the bill for this guy to have a “fair” trial? If the DNA evidence proves positive, let a judge review it, approve it and lock the guy up!

DNA Evidence = Innocent

DNA evidence is a solid way to get a conviction but it’s also a solid way to reverse or eliminate a conviction. The Innocence Project is proof of that. They state:

There have been 273 post-conviction DNA exonerations in United States history.

The facts presented on the website showing innocent people being exonerated with DNA evidence are staggering. If this evidence is solid, then the question is raised again…why are we still holding jury trials when there is undisputed DNA evidence?

Consider the conviction of Cornelius Dupree which was overturned in Texas and Dupree was exonerated of a rape and robbery he did not commit. Cornelius served 30 years in prison before the evidence set him free again proofing how powerful this evidence is. This man spent 30 years of his life behind bars for a crime he did not commit not to mention the hoards of wasted money housing and prosecuting an innocent man.

This leaves us with one question….

Should DNA Evidence Change Innocent Until Proven Guilty?

I help my family to the max. Whatever they need done I do it. Grandma hurt her back and had to have surgery I nursed her back to health. My mom needs money or clothes even a handyman I’m the female she calls. My older sister needs food and a babysitter I’m at the store with my niece and nephew.

I’m a single Mom with no car but i manage to help, but every time i need help they’re never there. My sister makes twice as much as me but i buy her food every month while she buys her boyfriend video games. I do so much for my mom and she gives it back to my younger brother who doesn’t work and can’t even get up to mow the lawn. All they do for me is a long lecture.

I asked for help paying for my sons glasses for school to loan me the money for two weeks. My mom said no she just got threw paying $600 on my sisters car which would have been fine if they weren’t getting manicures and pedicures while they were on the phone with me. I believe you should be able to depend on family if no one else but i see I can’t

I have been dealing with comcast forever. I’ve probably had their service for around 20 years. It’s about the only cable service in my area, so i’m stuck. I woke up this morning (after sleeping quite lousy i might add) and all i wanted to do was watch some TV. I turn on my television, and nothing. There is a “Please wait a moment. Your cable will be back momentarily” And of course an hour later, and still nothing. So i decided to get online and troubleshoot over live chat (Phone calls are aggrivating and i always get someone with an accent i can’t understand) So the first person i talk to goes over the basic things, unplug the box, turn tv on and off, resend code, all that nonsense and no luck. So i got tired and left.

I went back about an hour later hoping to get someone more knowledgeable and after another 30 mins, i asked for a supervisor. He suggested a technician come over. Well the last two times a tech came, they were rude and didn’t know what they were doing. One walked in without even knocking. I know my wiring, no tech is going to find a problem with the wires. They suggest i take the box in for a replacement. I’ve done this several times before when i had a problem. “Not working? Not our fault, you must have done something wrong, you need a replacement” In the end there is always something wrong with the account codes, or the activation ,or the billing. So i went through everything with the supervisor, and lo and behold! There was something wrong with my account.

There was no mention of my having an HD box connected to my account, even though it’s clearly listed in my billing. They have the most horrible records i’ve ever seen. Nobody knows who i talked to before, or any of my past problems. So they are saying i need to add an extra slot for extra money, blah blah blah. So i ended the chat, and i’m going to take the box back tonight and get a new one, and hope it works. All i need is to spend another 2 hours talking with someone who has no idea how to do thier job. If this is the fist time it has happened, i wouldn’t need to vent. I lost my cable for an entire week once because of thier account problems, and i didnt even get any kind of credit for the outage. I hooked up a phone with digital voice, and it took over 10 chat sessions for them to realize the code they were using to activate my modem was only a trial code or some such nonsense.

I just want to be able to turn my tv on and watch. As it is, i spend enough time and energy with Comcast, that i should be getting paid. I don’t even know what i’m paying for anymore. The customer service is non-existent, and the quality isn’t great. My audio cuts out on my HD tv’s and the video is blurry, and cuts out with the audio on the others. I’d like to think they are going to do something to make thier service better but… 20 years and it’s only gotten worse since they introduced digital television.

I feel so frustrated with life lately. I am feeling so anxious and depressed that I am getting physical chest pains.

My chest feels tight, my throat feels tight, my arms and legs feel apathetic and weak.

I feel like this at work, I feel like this at home.

I feel like I can’t escape it.

The problem is based around the fact that I am unhappy in my job, unhappy in my relationship, unhappy in myself.

I work in retail and I work the whole weekend… every weekend. Not just Saturday, or Sunday, or 1 weekend every couple of weeks. I mean every weekend, unless I take time off.

I’ve been in this position for a year and it’s meant me and my partners relationship is turning to crap. I only see him when he is tired.
Our relationship isn’t even a physical one (romantically speaking) any more. I feel like I’m just his live in friend, who he wants to cook him food, clean his house and help him pay bills.

He had kidney failure 10 years ago, way before I met him. We’ve been together nearly 2 years. That is why he’s so tired all the time. Usually people, after losing full function of their kidneys, stop working and get the benefit, but he still works full time in a physically demanding job. For which I am really proud of him. But it really just takes it out of him. He’s tired by 6pm.

As soon as he comes home, he goes on his laptop and plays pretend slot games. Any attention he does show me is just annoying. Annoying childish comments in a childish tone, either just saying stupid crap which he knows annoys me, or criticising me.

I feel like there are no positives left in our relationship! It doesn’t even feel like a relationship. I’m so mad at him I don’t even want to be around him.

You see because he’s so tired, he doesn’t want any physical relations. He doesn’t like me touching him. Doesn’t like me kissing him. I don’t know how to take this! It’s so hurtful when your partner wont even kiss you for more than a second.