THE AMERICAN DREAM – reality or nightmare?

I am a former New Yorker now living in New Jersey and I see both sides of this case vividly.

As a kid growing up in NYC I was swept away with NY fever and dead set against New Jersey people who we all considered adequate and dumb, especially those who came to Madison Sq Garden to see hockey, basketball and fighting events. Wearing their team and league shirts, shouting annoyingly in our city streets, rooting against NY mostly, we were eager to kick them to the curb.

Then the NYC police decided under Giuliani to haunt cars with NJ plates because the assumption was the kids driving were in NYC to buy drugs. Many cars were searched, kids busted and harassed for no good reason when in fact most of the drug traffic did come out of NYC’s borough: Da Bronx and Brooklyn.

New Jersey came to visit NYC’s Greenwich Village every summer causing a lot of problems, kids getting drunk in the streets, hanging out on stoops of building where they did not live, causing noise and crowd pollution everywhere they went. Even the transplanted NYers in the 1980s were ready to oust them from our streets.

Finally in the new New York City, you are not able to sit on stoops of buildings you do not live in, you cannot carouse the night away in the summer anywhere in the village anymore; the cops will arrest you and the policing of NYC has gotten to an all time high with cops joyfully hauling in rowdy kids from across the Hudson by the handful. Is this good? Maybe if you live in NYC but if you live in New Jersey we feel that we are being singled out.

I use the word “we” because now I live here in NJ and feel the state’s pain. I feel it in every inflated tax check quarterly that I am paying for people and taxpayers who have lost their homes and cannot afford to pay. In fact I believe I am paying 3 x more than I should be every month for the people who are deliquent in paying their mortgages and taxes.

In my town or boro of Washington (I rue the day we moved here but it is nice and convenient to the city so I usually stop bitching at this point), their debt is $12 Million dollars. They put in a new parking area and it’s nice but why? Then they put in a blinking light strip (2 of them) in front of the new structure so that pedestrians can cross without getting hit meaning the car driver had to slow down. Gimme a break – we are in bum fuck Washington, NJ not NYC where pedestrians have their own brand of security numb-nuts who stand in the freezing cold weather holding yellow chains to keep the throngs of people back so the street traffic can move freely. In January Washingtonians had the chance to vote to raise taxes to help our high school add more rooms and renovate and thankfully it was voted down unanimously by everyone. Are they kidding? I don’t kids and people like me should be given tax breaks. Have you seen some of the kids who live in Washington, NJ? They would do better to be run over by Mack Trucks because the majority of the kids living here now are dumber than bricks. The Mack truck running over would be a vast improvement for the city. I mean, these kids are going to be able to marry, reproduce and continue living here. They are the next generation who is going to “make a difference” only the difference is in a negative sense, in my opinion. I should not have to pay for these dummies and their parents should have to pay more for having them. In lieu of forcing into law the idea I have had since I was 10 years old; that people must have a license to have a baby – I think a tax break for childless couples (includes gay people) should be allowed and the parents should pay more per kid in taxes to make up the difference.

Now in downtown financial district NYC apparently a pedestrian got killed jaywalking near the World trade center site – one person – and the construction workers working on the World Trade Center site got yanked from their posts and each now do a daily turn at “the pedestrian crossing zone”. You can’t see me but I am rolling my eyes. NYC is broke, they have a billionaire as a mayor in chief and this is how they are spending the money they don’t have? You should see these security people – I will take a picture -big beefy guys in sagging pant uniforms, women with face masks and larger than life attitudes like “get the fuck back – we are trying to save your lives!” I’ve had enough security since 911 – save it for the tourists.

Manhattan has chased out most of the Middle Class NYers who have lived there since I was living there. They chased them with high rents, high mortgages, food prices going sky-high, clothing, shoes….life in NYC is expensive and ordinary middle class people have been kicked to the boroughs and now to NJ.  In turn and probably in disgust; NJ people are leaving NJ for PA and that’s foolish because PA property taxes and other taxes are rising. Where are we all to live in the future?

I believe there are 4 fundamental things that must be free of payments: water, shelter, clothing, land – these are necessities for humans and must be free. In places like NJ – cars are a necessity and that must be free or at least part of a barter system.  I give you a coat – you give me a used car – pelts for warmth – alcohol for a different kind of warmth.

Enough is enough but who has the bigger chip on their shoulder?  I believe it’s NJ. Everyone in NJ is living scared and pissed off at the rich NYer who can afford to live in that apartment on park avenue. The problem is NJ people don’t realize that those people living in those park ave apartments are probably grandfathered apartments willed to them by their loved ones who have passed on and their rent is under $700 a month. There are still middle class in NYC but they are no longer called Middle Class – they are part of the poor and are one apartment away from homeless.

People in NJ have always felt they are being abused by their local municipal governments and their state governments and pounded upon by the Federal Government. I see now that the “american dream” of owning your own house is advertising and bullshit. It’s a nightmare and I want to get out of my commitment to owning any house that I have to pay a princely sum to a freaking bank who really owns my home.  To the people who paid off their house and are now saddled with huge property taxes not to mention if they have retired and need money; they refied their homes and then lost them after all when they couldn’t pay. The American dream is bullshit and home ownership is bullshit – I believe that in the future – friends will join and live in commune groups on farms, near lakes – together so they can afford to pay into a large property and other expenses as a group.  That is what I am seeing for our one world and that is the way of the future. We are now separated by phones, cell phones, faxes, internet but soon and by  necessity will be forced to band together to live and work towards a common goal of paying for high-priced life which is out of our reach as individual people.

—- Bonju Patten

10 things to do when it snows…

If you know it’s going to snow here are a few tips of things you can do before the event that will prevent you from going out.

1.  buy liquor
2. make sure your cable line is not caught in some entanglement because you are going to need it when the storm hits
3. buy a keg of beer
4. make sure your car is out of the way, in a garage for the duration or covered to protect it from rust, snow, wind, etc
5. buy red wine
6. make sure your cell phone works in case of an emergency, and your internet in case your land phone conks out
7. buy white wine
8. buy food from a supermarket – because you can never have too much food
9. invite your lover over making sure he/she has no other plans than to be snowed in with you
10 Sit back and watch the snow fall – have a great time!

Sarah Palin for President??? Agggghhhheeeeaaaa NOooooooooooowaaaayyyy

The only person who will be happy to see this happen is…TINA FEY.

But I blame Senator John McCain for the appearance of Sarah Palin and her family of ridiculous self-important buffoons. I hope the good Senator dies a most slow and painful death at the hands of his young wife for whom he left the wife who loved him. McCain’s first wife was loyal when he was a prisoner in Viet Nam but because she got fat he left her and married younger wifey 2. So when he introduced Sarah Palin to the world I gagged about 14 million times and I decided recently to leave the “tea party people” behind. Obama is doing what he can in government unfortunately we really do need a revolution in this country to get rid of the government we have that is corrupt and doesn’t care about the people. Having said that anyone willing to pay 1 penny to hear this moron woman speak deserves to stand out in the cold and catch a deadly disease which would kill them.

Sarah Palin is a predator on the horizon of another bad day. She is the sore on the ass of a CPA’s butt who has been sitting in the chair forever doing other people’s taxes. Sarah Palin and her family have been and continue to be the example of disgusting white American trash and she is an insult to all women everywhere. Should she become president of these United States I will go and get a sex change operation so fast that even I will be surprised when my spouse turns to me in bed to complain about me poking her.

The only reason Palin is still out there mouthing off is because some promoter who is a moron is paying her $100,000 to do so. She tells her “followers” what they want to hear in that soccer mom drone voice and if you people think Hillary Clinton was bad for America – think again. I hope that in 2012 Hillary throws in her hat again and goes face to face with Obama and kicks his ass clear back to Kenya. I’d love to see a showdown between Sarah and Hillary. Hillary will step on her face while she’s still talking and she’ll do it with pump heels in a modest pant suit. Sarah will give the world the beaver show all the guys want to see and for me seeing Palin with a pump in her mouth is worth the sight.

—– Bonju Patten

STRANGENESS ON A TRAIN –

The ride from my NJ house to NYC takes place on a NJ Transit double-decker train from Highbridge to Newark Penn Station and it happens twice a day; a roundtrip, and it takes about 1.25 minutes one-way.  In that time people become accustomed to seeing each other’s faces every day of the week and sometimes those people become “train friends”. Sometimes these “train friends” take their relationships further and hang together outside of the train; some even get married. The train is a mirage of hundreds of people at a time crammed into a small space, up and down, and six cars in total about one thousand people for that time schedule per train. At $17.50 round trip or $246 for a monthly; NJ Transit is pushing the billionaire margin to its fullest.

Be that as it may, the riders have less and less to bitch about but bitch they do, and they do it mostly to each other. The ride going into NYC is full of sleepy morning passengers, sleeping, listening to music on their iPods, watching a movie on their wi-fi lap tops or staring off into space or reading a book or newspaper. There are several morning trains; the first leaving from Highbridge at 5:58am and the last of the rush hour leaves at 7:15am.  If you miss any of those trains you have the option to wait for the 9am or the 12 pm out of Highbridge or take a short 1/2 ride to Raritan, NJ to wait for the next local train out of their destination: NYC.

When I started to commute I was in commuter hell coming out of NYC where my subway ride was only half hour to an hour. I had moved with my partner Myqui and our two dogs to our NJ house 3.5 years ago and frankly I suffered from “culture shock” mainly because NJ (I thought) had no culture but I was wrong. I apologize to all New Jersey-ites but more about that later.  The first train I started to take was the HACKETTSTOWN, NJ train, which is the longest train schedule because there is no such thing as an express train on that line. Any and all trains out of Hackettstown take 2.5 hours ONE  WAY. So that means if you are commuting you are doing so for 5 hours a day. I cried every day I was on that train and when Myqui’s best friend, Wendy Wheatley, told her about the HIGHBRIDGE train I vowed to love WENDY WHEATLEY for the rest of my natural life.

The Highbridge train takes 1.20 to get to Newark and then I take the World Trade Center (WTC) train on the PATH line to the financial center downtown. That only takes 20 mins so I’m in NYC in an hour and 40 mins! It’s great and I’m so much happier now. I used to know some older people I took the train into work in the morning with that got on the train at all different stops but that group has disbursed and I read a book in the morning or sleep depending on what shape I am in from the day before.

On the way home I sometimes have to settle for the late 7:20pm train and that takes 88 minutes but at that time of night it is long and tiring so I try to make the 6:23pm train. This train carries a lot of folks who are some of the funniest people I have ever met in my life; yup, even funnier than me. First there is  CAT, who is a medical biller for a Newark hospital who is a good soul, nice person,  a wife, a mother and a grandmother (a young granny). Cat will tell you what she thinks and if she likes you, she will do what she can for a friend and she will support her friends. Her best friend on that train is DANIEL, a married man who works for the government and he’s always got a smile at the ready and a good disposition, a great laugh and always has a copy of NY POST on him at the end of the day, which he leaves behind for whomever wants to read it. Cat & Daniel hang out together outside of the train and they got each other’s cell phone numbers on their respective cell phones and they are close having had many experiences riding that train together. Along with Daniel is ELLEN who is a VP for JP Morgan Chase and she and Cat are very close and have hung on the train together as well. Ellen is a very funny, attractive personality and extremely witty with a lot of interesting ideas on issues and commentaries of the day. The other players of this soap opera are many; GARY is the big guy who wears a baseball jacket fur coat (don’t ask) and who is very interested in playing video games and who works in the city, another woman named LYNN (not sure of this name) who works in the city, married with kids and is very funny, nice person, always laughing but sometimes she has debilitating migraines that prevent her from eating. Myqui used to have those more often but since she switched meds she has them less now. JACKIE is an office worker living in my neck of the woods who is very funny, has a sweet sense of fair play and is one of my train buddies; we love talking about the area we are living in and other fun issues of the day.

Then there are other miscellaneous people who come and go from this group and whose names I do not know but whose faces I remember and I always acknowledge them in passing. The last person of this group of riders is MARTHA who is a married woman with two kids who works in an insurance company and lives in pricey Hunterdon County, NJ in a home with her husband, a buff electrician who has been married to her for nearly 18 years.  Her husband is an electrician that works in a fancy hotel in the city and he has found “meditation” and believes that his beautiful wife should share in his new found interest even though she thinks he is nuts.

It was Christmas 2009 and I was not on the train but I recently heard this story when I asked where Martha was and why wasn’t she sitting with the group. I got bombarded with answers from all of them who were there when I asked and who were there that week of Christmas 2009 when this event occurred.

Martha had suggested that the group have a “secret Santa” among themselves; the gift bought would not be over $20 dollars and they had to select names out of a hat and present the gift bought to their choice the Monday week b/t Christmas and New Years when everyone was on the train.  Everyone agreed three weeks before the event and when that Monday rolled around everyone had a gift except MARTHA. She had completely forgotten about the SECRET SANTA gift and her choice had been DANIEL. Not only had she forgotten that Daniel was her SECRET SANTA but when she put her name down for the “hat draw” she wrote a “request” for a ‘particular gift”, which Daniel could not find. I mean he actually looked for this gift everywhere. He asked friends, friends of friends where he could find the gift and then he just bought her something similar.  So they get on the train and Daniel gives Martha his gift and she takes a bill out of her purse and “throws” the $20 USD bill on his lap and he just stared down at it; startled. The rest of the group stared at her, mortified that Martha did not have the gift and chose to “throw” in a secretive way the money to Daniel and expect him to just take the money and buy something for himself? I wasn’t there but had I been I would have admonished her severely for doing that; it is insulting and degrading especially since the entire idea was hers to begin with. How dare she act like that?  Suffice to say Martha does think she is better than everyone else because she and her spouse can afford to buy a $500K house in Hunterdon County and keep it while sending both their kids to a private school and supply them with ipods, cell phones and whatnots to bribe their kids because they aren’t there most of the day because they work too much. And, they work too much because they can’t really afford the house they live in but they can’t afford to move out now, even though they wanted to. The economy is so bad that they would never get what they paid into the house in this financial market. It’s a shame and they are aware of their situation but there is nothing they can do about it and taxes keep climbing up and up on everyone still working and putting back into the system. We are all paying for the taxpayers who cannot afford to do so and that is unfair.

The members of the group got annoyed with Martha’s actions towards Daniel and told her so. She defended herself first saying she couldn’t buy a gift because “her grandfather died” and then at another junction her excuse was “she forgot or something” Cat & Ellen told me that Cat got into it with Martha on the train recently and told her off but good and now Martha refuses to sit with the group.  I think the truth of the matter is Martha was afraid to buy a gift for Daniel because she was afraid of what her jealous husband would say.  Martha told me a weird story last month about her husband who has started to tell her about this one pretty girl he sees on the train and that he thinks about the girl a lot and has begun to tell Martha that he thinks this girl is ‘noticing” him. I think Martha should dump her husband because he sounds like a prick.

Things like this happen all the time on commutes and people come and go out of each others lives for different reasons but frankly it bums me out because Martha got off 3 stops ahead of me so at least I had someone to go with me most of the way but I’m sure I’ll find more peeps to hang with on the train. The other thing that bums me out is that I like Martha and although I am ticked at hearing that story and pleased that Daniel and some of the others had forgiven her; she obviously had not forgiven herself. Facing up to other people’s criticism is hard when you have such high self-esteem and  you can’t see yourself as others see you and Martha was a fake. If she had just admitted to being a fake; all would have been forgiven but she couldn’t and that is that.

JORDAN and I are hanging thanks to a friend’s introduction. Jordon has his own video and film production company and he’s a sweet married guy with a duplex in Highbridge; a newlywed, happy in love and just an old soul with a good heart…and, I am sure that there will be others who I will fall into step with on my way home but it pains me that Martha did what she did and didn’t think it was so bad. It pains me that Martha and the group had a falling out because honestly friends are friends whether you meet them on a train, plane, in a store, online, on facebook…it does not matter how you meet what matters is the friendship you keep and part of maintaining friendships is taking responsiblity and owning up to the fact you screwed up when you do.

—- Bonju Patten

too sick to think

All this week I have been sick. First it was a sore throat. Then the weather turned frigid. Then I had a bad cold and congestion and that has not stopped. I took everything. Thermaflu, nightquil, nose spray (that helps a lot but it gets so dry in there it bleeds) – the extreme opposite. So Myqui has been sick too and we are both working; me in NYC at a part-time job and her at home. Today I had to get in by 8am so the accountant could reconciliate the accts. I’m dead. I’ll probably be able to hear them better now that I’m gone. LOL

Tomorrow I may write about friendships on a train – and what can go wrong.

Tomorrow it will also snow but I’m going to tough out the entire day! Going to bed now – will write more this weekend.

Ciao for now,

—-Bonju Patten

Looking for work seems endless and a job within itself

Yup, looking for work is no fun with 10-15 percent of the population out there unemployed and answering the same ads you are so what do you do? I often asked myself that very same question and I have come up with an answer. This answer comes to you from experience and hours of vexing telephone conversations with would-be interviewers and employers that are so crazy it’s almost embarrassing to write about them. Of course I won’t use their real names or real business names; no one wants a law suit but suffice to say whenever you post a I AM AVAILABLE FOR WORK Ad on Craigslist you are bound to find hundreds of wackadoos and maybe one legit job. Here’s to hoping that legit job sticks and they hire you.

Not everyone on Craigslist is a nutball but most are. That statement goes to people posting as well as answering. To the massuse who got used and owned by the “craigslist serial killer” all I got to say is “girl you were nuts to go to a strange hotel to give someone you didn’t know, wasn’t referred to and without someone to accompany you to give this wacko a massage? C’mon – the victim was almost as guilty as the perp.

In any case and with that abstract example of a job there is a lot to be said about the way jobs are structured today. It is a “employer’s market” and if you don’t have a good rap or a skill people need then you are going to be unemployed, homeless and wanting for a long long time. Even if you don’t have anything people want – make it up and learn on your way. That’s what many people do. Most advisers will tell you NOT to do that but these economic times are difficult and you got to be ingenius and even more so than the person coming after you. Why? Because that person is coming after that same job and if you do it better why shouldn’t you get the gig? If you did a job on your resume once – keep saying you did it. I worked on a bookkeeping program called DESIGN MANAGER. I worked on DM for 1 week 10 years ago. I never took it off my resume. Why? Because if I can perform work on a program I never worked on in my life an do it for 1 week; I can do it for the rest of my life and learn that program inside out. That’s what I’m saying.

You might answer a job that you think you are great for and the principals read your resume and decide you would be better at another job in the same office are you going to bitch and moan? You shouldn’t. Just take the job and keep looking for the job you want.

That is my advice for tonight – always keep looking even if you are extremely happy in your job and love what you are doing. You never know when the bottom falls out of a business and you have to re arrange your entire life and style because you have been let go and you were not prepared.

….and that is why looking for work seems endless because it is a job within itself.

—-Bonju Patten

Comcast wants to take over NBC Network

Comcast owning NBC? From bad to worse!

Think Conan and Jay have it rough? How about the nation’s largest cable company controlling the same network that gives us NFL Football, Saturday Night Live and the Olympics?

Comcast is trying to takeover NBC, claiming nothing will change. We don’t believe them. The combined company also would own USA Network, SciFi Channel, Oxygen, A&E and about 15 other cable television channels.

It’s likely that our cable rates will increase due to this purchase, as Comcast will charge its cable competitors more to get NBC’s channel line-up. And those costs will get passed on to us! And it’s likely that a lot of the free content we now get from NBC, like showing their sitcoms and other shows online, may disappear and be available only to Comcast customers.

Washington has the right to reject this merger if it’s bad for consumers. Email them below that it’s bad for you – keep the cable giant’s hands off NBC!

Think about it – one company monopolizing cable tv – charging whatever they want???

—–Bonju Patten

Page 11 in Thursday, 1/28/10 NY Post – check it out – mayhem!!!

Page 11 was a mess with a lot of “news” on Thursday, 1/28/10 inside the notorous NY Post. The big “news” story was about  a motivational speaker, one JEFFREY LOCKER who was hell-bent on committing suicide. Perhaps he was not a good motivational speaker but he had hired several “hit men” to kill him but all they did was take his money. So he drives to East Harlem and hires the dumbest guy alive, an ex-con named KENNETH MINOR that he picked off the street to help him stab himself to death. Now before you jump down my throat just read this part please; Locker had Minor hold the base of the knife through the spokes of the wheel as Locker threw himself (literally) upon the knife; a couple of times into the right side of his chest and then his left where his heart lies. So Minor claims that Locker told him that he was millions of dollars in debt and he wanted to kill himself and all Minor did was hold the knife for him to impale himself upon. Then allegedly Locker had given Minor his debit card to take the money out but then if that is not true how would Minor be able to withdraw the money from the ATM if he did not know Locker’s password. Locker must have given Minor his password but in any case the cops understand the issue but are not buying the fact that Locker “may have told” Minor to help him kill himself and had given him his ATM card with password. They are sure that Minor stabbed Locker with the intentions to kill him and that is what this dummy is still on the hook for this murder even though it was suicide. We’ll never know but it’s that a great idea? Hari Kari – perfect for every warped piece of cow dung that deserves the electric chair but instead rots in jail on taxpayer money.

The 2nd story is ridiculous; CAMERON DOUGLAS, actor MICHAEL DOUGLAS’ not so good looking son who looks like his father with glasses has been sentenced for trying to sell drugs  and now he’s got 10 years in jail. Here’s a kid of privilege and means and he does this and goes where? Ridiculous and I am to feel sorry for him? Exactly why? Let Cammy baby get a taste of justice, as warped as our laws are, they are there for a reason. One reason is so that soiled celebrity assholes get what’s coming from them. Unfortunately if star parents cannot bring themselves to teach their offspring how to manage in life then it falls to the rest of us to do so. Spare the rod and spoil the child, I think so. This is another little tidbit for your eyes – Kids who were spanked by their parents are more adjusted, successful and all around able to get along in society than kids who were only given TIME OUTS. Interesting….I should say so!

—-Bonju Patten

Morgan Harrington, missing Virginia Tech student is found dead in VA

Well I was hoping for the best but unfortunately Morgan Harrington’s remains were found in a farmer’s field in Virginia this week. It saddened me because she was only 20 years old and she was skeletal which means she decomposed very quickly. People searched for her for days without success. “Virginia State Police said Wednesday that human remains found on a farm southwest of Charlottesville have been conclusively identified as Harrington’s.”

Who did this young 20-year-old girl piss off to have this happen to her? The police have said that this field is known to someone and that they think she was a victim of a predator. They also said they do not think she was alive long after she was abducted and it has been 101 days since she went missing.

My thoughts on this are simple; screw laws and screw the preps appeals, his lawyers and all the rest of the human garbage that this predator is; let the parents have him. If they are unable to kill him – please allow me to take a crack at it. I will do to him what he did to his young victim only I will punish him 10 times worst than he did to Morgan.

Mind you, I am NOT a killer but I am angry and I think anger management professionals everywhere could use a break – if we know these people to be the predators and we can prove their guilt -they get one trial – they don’t go to jail – they get released into the victim and friends of the victim’s hands. I know we can think of something constructive and money saving to do with the scum of the earth.

—- Bonju Patten

Credo Mobile is a non-profit political organization for democracy

Unfortunately any of the “theories” we read about; DEMOCRACY, CAPITALISM, COMMUNISM, SOCIALISTS they are all good in theory and on paper. Once people get involved the theories do not hold because people are greedy, selfish and want things only for themselves. People cannot learn to live nor can they live within structures that are essentially telling them what they can and cannot do. People will always break those walls and ignore the laws. People cannot live inside a box and that is why we look to the folks who live and think outside boxes to become our new leaders.

CREDO MOBILE is a mobile phone company that thrives on putting our government and opposing forces they think are taking advantage of WE, THE PEOPLE on notice – through email, mail, phone calls and faxes. Here is their new letter going out to President Obama about the new law our Supreme Court has recently allowed:  We deserve a country where our elected officials are not bought and paid for by Big Business. But last week’s Supreme Court decision in the case Citizens United vs. FEC overturned over a century of precedent and opened the floodgates for unlimited amounts of corporate money to flow into our political system. Shockingly, the court’s decision may even allow foreign corporations and large multinationals to manipulate our elections. IN BOLD this is the letter Credo has crafted to send to President Obama about this issue:

We cannot have a government that is bought and paid for by huge multinational corporations. We need a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. I support Rep. Alan Grayson’s “Save Our Democracy” platform. Put the full power of your office behind these six simple reforms to stop corporations from taking over our democratic process.

Now, here’s my question…are you kidding me? This has been going on behind the backs of our citizens but with the full knowledge of our American government for years. Now all this means is that it is going to be out in the open. It is all part of the “NEW WORD ORDER” or ONE WORLD ORDER” that our government and others are trying to put forth. One world, one government, no enterprise and everyone works in one place, for one rich entity, worshiping one supreme being.

You think I’m kidding? You have to do something that is going to probably kill you. READ. READ LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT BECAUSE…IT DOES.

—-Bonju Patten