The Lunatic Cafe

Whoo Hoo!! So I started a new job, finally after over a year of unemployment.  It took me a while to get here, but I'm proud to say that I did it.  How's it going you ask??? Well, it's ok so far.  I probably started at one of the worst times, not including Christmas, as this past weekened was tax free.  Eeesh what a freakin nightmare!!  I mean, is it seriously so hard to just put something back where it belongs.   I don't know how many items we had to return to their proper places.  It's simple really people: Just put the item back where it belongs, don't just throw it anywhere!!  Someone does have to pick up after you....On saturday we were there till after one in the morning just putting retail back in it's proper place. 

Sunday, I don't even really wanna talk about Sunday, but alas I will.... Sunday was my first day all on my little lonesome, without the guidance of my trainer.  Eeek, it was truly my own personal nightmare.  I was probably given one of the hardest zones in the store that day-Boys and Girls.  Tax free weekened and back to school sales = Me Losing My Freakin Mind....  The entire day I felt completley overwhelmed, frenzied, frustuated, angry, and at the edge of breaking down.  By 11:30, I was seriously ready to quit, or fall down in a pile of fried nerves and tears.   I mean honestly now, who gives the new kid on the block one the craziest sections to take care anyways!!  The entire section was sooo trashed and I couldn't keep up with straightening things up, and putting back all of the merchandise that was moved around.   Not wanting to be the one who kept everyone else there later, I was really wigging by the time the store closed.  

Alas everything worked out in the end, and I managed to make it through my first single day at Target.  Here's hoping the days to come will be better.... 

A great big Happy Birthday to my grandmother or "grannie" !!  It's awsome having you here and I love you sooo much!!!

And also

Happy ST. Patricks Day!!

I'll try to post something soon folks, so I hope some of you will pop back in when I do!!  Hope everyone is doing well and I'll talk to you later!!

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White House Had Prior Knowledge Of Cheney Threat

Aug. 2005 Briefing Warned, 'Cheney Determined To Shoot Old Man In Face'

In a Presidential Daily Briefing given to Bush in August 2005, the CIA warned that the vice president was a potent threat to the senior population at large, and in particular "possessed the capabilities and intentions to spray a senior citizen with projectiles fired from a shotgun or other weapon." A second brief identified the population at risk as those "between 70 and 80 years of age," and warned that the vice president posed the greatest threat to "seniors in close proximity to the vice president when he is armed."

The brief, which urged the White House to take "the most thorough possible precautions to disable this threat to the faces, necks, and chests of the nation's elderly," was issued a full six months before the events of Feb. 11.

The emergence of the document is causing many to question whether Bush and his staff adequately understood or appreciated the the risk posed by Cheney.

"To learn that the president's own people advised him in advance of the strong likelihood that Cheney might spray a helpless geriatric victim with bird shot, and still he did nothing, brings to light very serious concerns about this administration's Cheney-containment policies," said Victor Steinberg, director of the Froman Institute, a D.C.-based organization that monitors vice-presidential violence.

Further investigation revealed that reports of potential Cheney violence have surfaced since the early '90s, but were given higher priority in the Clinton Administration. In January 2001, outgoing Clinton Administration officials made specific warnings to Colin Powell, emphasizing the vice-presidential threat.

In a statement released Monday, White House press secretary Scott McClellan pointed to the number of times that random Cheney attacks have been prevented or stopped by the administration.

"The president routinely deals with any number of reports concerning the vice president's assaults on our nation's elderly, such as ear-biting, clubbing, or in one case, the hurtling of a photocopier," McClellan said. "In each case, the president has seen that appropriate steps are taken, whether that means close monitoring of the vice president, adjustments in his medication, or the removal of heavy equipment from his offices, to ensure the safety of those around him."

"We assure you that protecting senior citizens from vice-presidential shotgun blasts was, is, and will remain the highest priority of this administration," he added.