Black Friday!!!

I hope you guys aren't sick of hearing my stories running on the ambulance... But you gotta hear this!!!

So i was on shift for black friday (the day after thanksgiving.) Holy s**t, are the only words i can think of to describe the experience i had. So the pager goes off: "Springville Ambulance respond to Walmart on a  24 year old women who has passed out. Unconscious but breathing. Bystanders say she has been unresponsive for 4 minutes. Time of page 04:05 am."

Okay, so we pull up out front of walmart, get the stretcher, go inside. It was a mad house!!! There were thousands of people! Some people had 3 or 4 carts full of stuff, piled high. I am talking over their heads. So people saw us, and refused to get out of our way because they didn't want to lose their place in line. I am not kidding. I had a guy get in my face and yell "what makes you think you can cut in line?!" I said, "Happy Holidays to you too." Okay, so after shoving our way clear back to electronics, we get to our patient. You guessed it, she was having a panic attack because of all the people there! I thought I was going to pass out... I was getting clostraphobic because of all the people. So after she starts coming to, we released her on scene. (She decided to stay and shop!!!)

Then, walmart security come running up to us, and say there is a guy up front who has a broken arm. After, again, fighting our way to the front of the store, we find our second patient. He and a women had literally been fighting over a kitchen aid. During the struggle, he fell and dislocated his shoulder. After our beloved officers wrote him a ticket for disorderly conduct, we sent him to the hospital.

I might be mistaken, but I thought the Christmas season was supposed to be a time of love and charity. I guess I was wrong. These people get in this shopping frenzy mode and literally run over people (a walmart employee was trampled to death in Long Island, NY) to get a good deal. 

What has our society turned into? This was one crazy, unfortunate day. 

Absolute filth

First, read this link
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This is disgusting, horrible, and absolutely uncalled for. I hope the family of the deceased sues Wal-Mart for millions, and I hope this is a start to more officers helping big retailers.

Working at Best Buy on Black Friday from 4 am to 3 pm, I only have nice things to say about Utahians. I worked two Black Fridays in VA, and people were horrible.

Sick and wrong.

Changing History

Why is it that people want to change history? There are all these things about changing national monuments and getting rid of any mention of God. People change quotes from past presidents and speakers because they used the word God. You may or may not believe in God, but they did and they used that word. So leave it alone. Don't be trying to change things from history or the past just because you don't like or believe in it. The founding fathers believed in God. You don't, fine, but don't go trying to change the fact that they did and that they said things like "In God We Trust." Don't go off and try and change monuments because they have God or religion in them. Don't go banning God related things like nativities. People talk about tolerance all the time. What they fail to realize is that it goes both ways.

Politics in church (Proposition 8)

This made me so angry. I went to church (LDS) for the first time in about six months today. It was a testimony meeting and one lady stood up and talked about proposition 8 the entire time. She talked about how "great" it was that the church stood together on banning gay marriage. She talked about our "noble" cause in protecting marriage, and she said that it was great for the church because now other "moral" people know that we stand with them.
Hearing that pissed me off so much. First of all the church has no stand on proposition 8. the church says that it's members shouldn't be gay. The church has never said that it was the responsibility of it's members to make sure non members live by the churches standards. it's biggots like the woman in church today who feel like "my religion is right and everyone has to live by my standards." not only that but she made anyone in the room who was pro gay marriage, feel like they werent good members. I call that propoganda. Second she said that their cause was noble! I say that suppressing gays and saying that they don't deserve the rights that straight people have is about as noble as owning slaves. she thinks that people don't deserve rights becuase they are different than her.
I think that the churches stand on gay marriage would hurt it more than help it. sure other biggots will be more likely to join, but an open minded individual will look at it in disgust.
I'm not saying that the LDS church or any other church, teaches biggotry. I am saying that many members do. The last thing she said would have made me laugh if I wasn't so angry, she thanked all the members for putting up with all the hatred and threats they got for standing by proposition 8. IS SHE CRAZY! anyone who thinks that straight people get more hatred or threats than gay people do needs to get out more because that is a lie. I think that homophobia is way more common than racism.
I'm sorry if this blog offended anyone, I just needed to let off some steam, and I feel strongly about this issue and I don't see any good reasons why gays shouldn't have the rights straight people have. When I've brought this issue up to people most people say something like "well I just think it's gross" or "it's immoral." Well I think that many of the things you do are gross too, but who cares if it's behind closed doors. It's not like they will be having sex in public. and again, who are you to decide the morals someone else should live by. If you think being gay is wrong, DON'T BE GAY, and leave other people alone.
I've also heard that allowing gay people the tax benifits of being married will be to costly. People who believe that should be against marriage of all types. I can't imagine that 2% making a bigger difference than the 98% of people who are straight. (I just made up those stats by the way) If you are going to fight what's bound to happen eventually (gay marriage) at least don't stand up in church and pretend that you are doing what God wants you to do.

"Stirring the Pot"

I am really bugged. As we all know, there are people in this world who get all bent out of shape over the dumbest things. I want to know why. Why do people have get mad and cause problems where no problem should be? This is called "stirring the pot."

My brother-in-law is a Police officer. He often has to work the Sunday shift. Well, on this particular sunday, he wanted to stop by the church and sit through a meeting while he had a break. So he came to church in his uniform, sat in the back, and just minded his own business. Well after the meeting got out, the bishop came up to him and asked to speak with him in private. He pulled him into his office and said someone in that meeting complained that he/she felt uncomfortable with him there in his uniform... more specifically with his gun on him. HAHA. The irony about the whole thing is that police officers, in uniform or not, have a gun on them. It is called a concealed weapons permit. This person would freak if he/she knew how many people walking around have guns on them. The best part, they asked him not to come back in his uniform. I'll be surprised if he goes back at all. That is real christ-like, don't you think?

Anyway, why do people have to "stir the pot?" That was uncalled for. 

Thanksgiving!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Well I wanted to post a little frustration I have with this holiday season. I love the holidays and like many others, CHRISTMAS is my FAVORITE! You can't beat having a long break from school to go home and spend time with your family while shopping for amazing gifts, having fancy dinners, getting Christmas Eve jamies...and the list goes on. It is by far my favorite holiday, but my frustration is that we have the whole HOLIDAY season starting from Halloween through New Years and every other holiday gets over looked. I want to celebrate Thanksgiving without the christmas lights up, the christmas trees decorated, or christmas music on the radio and in every store! People start celebrating Christmas in October and it drives me crazy. For me I like to celebrate every holiday to the fullest and then THE DAY AFTER Thanksgiving is when the Christmas celebration begins! I mean I am all about having the Christmas spirit the whole year through, but lets keep all the decorations down until we have finished with the other holidays. My birthday is the week before Thanksgiving and I love my birthday and Thanksgiving and I feel they get overshadowed with this Christmas stuff. :) Let's celebrate Thanksgiving, fall, our country, and everything we're thankful for this time of year before we hop into winter and Christmas. I am Thankful for Thanksgiving and that not only do we have amazing food, but we get to have a holiday weekend to celebrate what we're thankful for! THEN BRING ON CHRISTMAS!!

Revised Class/Assignment Schedule on Blackboard

Hi all.

Please be aware: WE ARE MEETING IN THE LIBRARY ON TUESDAY, ROOM 206.

There is now a revised schedule up on Blackboard. This new schedule takes us up through the end of the semester. There are a lot of changes, so you will want to take a look. We will be discussing this on Tuesday and signing up for small groups, so don't miss, and make sure to bring any questions with you. Have a nice rest of your weekend.
-D