Month: March 2007

  • What should we do?

    Socrates_Cafe posed the question “Jails are
    over crowded… What alternative ways do we have to deal with
    criminals?”

    I am sure there are
    many ideas on what could be done.     Criminals should be punished for their crimes,
    not live in luxury until it’s time for parole, only to go out and commit
    more crimes so they can come back in to live on tax payers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can’t afford to have for themselves.

    I know that one
    person came up with an Idea they are trying. That person is Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
    His solution is called Tent City. It is in Arizona. Critics rail against harsh
    conditions in the prison, where temperatures can top 100 degrees. Arpaio
    believes that inmates should not be treated better than the average citizen. He
    serves inmates surplus food  and limits meals to twice daily and charges the inmates for them. He outlawed smoking in the jail. He also has     chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on county and city
    projects and save taxpayer’s money.

    America has problems. The United States has the
    world’s highest incarceration rate, with one in 32 adults currently or
    previously behind bars.

    We need to figure
    out how to rehabilitate the people. Prisons are supposed to punish convicted criminals and
    ultimately, rehabilitate them so that they are able to live peacefully with the
    rest of society. Why is it that other countries seem so able to rehabilitate
    their criminals but we here in the US don’t seem to be able to? Criminal
    rehabilitation can help to solve the problem of overcrowding in most
    prisons.

    One of the big problems
    that we have are the fact that a parolee needs a job when he gets out of prison.
    He usually has no skills, so all he can get is a minimum-wage job, if that. Many
    places will not hire someone who has just gotten out of jail. This makes it hard
    for the person to support themselves and makes it more likely that the person
    will return to comitting crime to survive. No one can explained to me how we
    keep the parolees from committing crimes if they can’t find decent
    employment.

    Also a way to prevent some of the problems
    in the jails would be to have nonviolent criminals on house arrest with
    monitoring braclets. Something that would make it that they could work and be a
    productive member of society, but they could only be at work and home.

    I
    think we in the US should look at what other other places are doing and what is
    working for them.

    What are your thoughts on the issue?

  • Update on Me

    Well, I was at the Dr today. I need to finish up my antibiotics but that’s it. I
    am ok. Oh and I got my Pneumonia shot today. That will last me for 5 years and
    then I will need another one. I will have to get one every 5 years for the rest
    of my life. It will help keep me from getting pneumonia. Since I have
    had pneumonia twice already I am really susceptible to get it. I could just get
    a cold and get it.

  • little update on me

    As you can see I am back. I am still recovering from the pneumonia but I am back :)

  • Update on Kristenmomof3

    Hello Family and Friends,
     
    I thought I would give everyone a little update on how Kristen is doing.
     
    Kristen has Pnemonia in the lower quadrant of both her lungs. She is pretty
    tired and weak that even a trip to the bathroom takes a lot of energy.
     
    On Tuesday she was supposed to come home from the hospital but she began
    coughing up blood and there was blood in her urine. The doctors ran a few test
    like x-rays and ultrasounds to check to make sure it was not anything serious.
    (They found nothing.)
     
    Yesterday she came home. The spitting up blood is gone but blood in her
    urine is still there. She has two antibiotics to take and a cough supressant
    plus mucinex for mucus.
     
    She wont be on email for a few days yet till she feels a bit better, I have
    decided that she needs to rest and not constantly worry what is going on with
    her friends online. I hope it don’t offend but I will be checking the e-mail
    subject lines only     just in case any of you have anything you would like
    Kristen to know and if you live close a visit would be appreciated but just
    call or e-mail first to make sure that she is up to it.
     
    I would personal like to thank you all for your prayers, cards and phone
    calls. It is all greatly appreciated. Please continue to pray and if you wish to
    send a card you can. If you need a address just email this address with the
    subject “Barry I need your address”
     
    I wish to thank you all again for you support for Kristen as she goes
    through this illness. It has really help her feel a little better while she is
    sick to know that people are pulling for her and care.
     
    Just one Christian in the whole family,
     
    Mr. Barry Kramer, Jr.
    Husband to
    KristenMomof3

  • Kristenmomof3 is in the hospital

    Kristen mom of three went into the hosptial yesterday with Pnemonia.
    She currently has a room in the hosptial and at last I spoke with her
    she was doing better

    keep her in your thoughts

  • Pnemonia

    My grandfather Wayne Martin went into the hosptial yesterday with Pnemonia. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. Him and my grandmother raised me. He will be in the hosptial for at least a few day.
    Aslo I havent been on because I have been sick

  • News about me

    Well after over a month of pain I went to the Dr today because my back was
    so bad I couldn’t take it anymore. Turns out I have a bad bad pulled muscle in
    my lower back. I am now on a muscle relaxer and vicodin for 30 days.
    If I am not better after 30 days I have to go back. They also gave me exercises
    to do for it.
    So If I sound doped up these next few weeks its cause I am
    lol

    I am not normally one who likes taking anything but the back pain got to the point where it was do anything to take the pain away. So hopefully it will heal in the next 30 days.

  • School Days

    The topic at Featured_Grownups this time is

    School Days

    Share
    memories, stories, life changing teachers or events from your School
    Days.  Be it Grade School, High School or Home School.

    Wow. There is so much that I could share…

    I have a lot of memories. Some Happy. Some Sad.

    One memory that I will never forget is of my best friend in first grade. We were inseperable. We went everywhere together. We were together at school and on weekends over at each others house. We had so much fun. I still have a braclet that she gave me. I cant wear it anymore because it was a kids thing and is way to small but I still have it. Her name was Angie Fox. Angie is now dead. She died two days before my birthday in first grade. Her dad was driving drunk with her in the car. He hit a embankment and her head hit the side window and she was killed instantly. I remember how much I cried. It is something that forever changed my life. I will never forget her. I still think about her often. Wonder if she hadn’t died what she would be doing now. I should go visit her grave again sometime.

    Here is a picture of me back in first grade