Veil or No Veil?

I read an article for an English class that was about a Muslim woman who went and took her drivers license pictures with her Muslim veil on; so that the only thing that you could see was her eyes. This was allowed and she was not question because it was part of her culture. A couple of years later the women got a letter in the mail stating that she needed to come into her local DMV and re-take her picture for her driver’s licenses without her veil (a new policy), or they would terminate her licenses. The women was very upset and believed that she should not have to do such a thing, because of her culture not allowing women to be exposed to anyone except to their husbands. This new policy went into effect sometime after 9/11. So do we think that we should honor her values and let her continue to practice her beliefs and cultures, or do we make her follow our rules to protect our country?
I personal think because she is in our country and applying to drive on our roads, she should have to abide by our rules. Those rules are only in affect to make her and everyone else around her safe, so another incident like 9/11 never happens again. We have rules in this country for a reason and we all have to follow them no matter our color, age, or heritage as soon as we start bending the rules for one, we will be bending the rules for everyone and then what’s the point for rules.

**I mean honestly what does this picture show you? Just two eyes this could be anyone! What would happen if this driver’s license got into the wrong hands? I am surprised that they allowed her to take the first picture this way.

Indecent Exposure

I recently heard on the radio about a man who was charged with indecent exposure while in his own home, I was flabbergasted by this and had to listen to the rest of the story. A man woke up at 5:30 in the morning and went down stairs to make himself a pot of coffee in the in the privacy of his own home. While doing this a women happened to walk by with her child and peeked through the man’s window and noticed the man who was naked and decided she was defended and called the police. The police came out and charged the man with indecent exposure.
Are you kidding me!!! Is all I have to say, this man who pays a mortgage and taxes on this home should be allowed to wear whatever and how little he wants in his own home. The man was in the privacy of his own home and walking around naked no freaking big deal, that women wasted the police officers time in calling them out for a charge like that, they should be busy arresting drug dealers, drunk drivers, child molesters, thieves, and murders. I want to know what a women is doing walking her child at 530am. If any charges were being made it should have been for the women who was being a peeping tom, and looking into the man’s window. If that upset the women so much she shouldn’t have been looking into people’s windows, she had to be pretty close to the window to get a good look since it was probably dark at 5:30am. I strongly disagree with this charge, I would be very upset if someone was to control what I wore in the privacy of my own home.

Working for the Holidays!!!

I just recently found out that my part time job is going to be open on Thanksgiving day, which this will be the first time that the store will be open during this holiday (the only two days that it is closed is for Thanksgiving and Christmas day). I realize some stores need to be open like grocery stores and gas stations, but even then I always feel bad for those people who have to be there working and away from their family. I know there are people who do not celebrate holidays, so it doesn’t really matter to them it’s just another day to them and they probably get upset when things close down for a holiday that they don’t participate in. I personal think that the stores need to be closed so people can spend this time with their family, and did you ever notice that the movie theater is usually always open, I feel sorry for those people; can’t people just stay home for one day so everyone can be with their family and not have to work. It’s unfair for the gas stations and grocery stores that they have to be open, I think most of them are only open for a couple of hours and then close early, but still they should only at the most have to go in at the morning for 2 or 3 hours for those people who forgot items, or need to fill up their tanks to make that special trip (but honestly isn’t this stuff that you could have done the night before or days before?) . I am not happy with this new change at my company, and with being in the retail business I think other people would have to agree that working holidays already (labor day, 4th of July, New years day) it’s not fair to take yet another holiday away. Some Holidays should be mandatory off days!

Drunk Drivers

I have been against drinking and driver from day one, recently I watched an episode on Dr. Phil, Where it talked about the mother who drove down the opposite side of the rode and caused a collision killing 8 people including herself, her two children and her nieces, and 3 other victims. The show was talking about what we do with the criminals who cause the accidents; they were because of the fact that our prisons are so over populated when a drunk driver takes someone’s life while driving under the influence their sentence is for man slather not murder, which is a difference of 15 years compared to life in prison. Because we don’t have enough room in the jails, and we don’t want to pay to have them in their they are letting them have lesser jail time and doing things such as breath test to start your cars, and more check points. I personally think that if you committed a crime, such as driving under the influence you need to deal with the consequences and be punished. If you killed someone murder is murder you shouldn’t be able to get out early because there isn’t enough room in the jails or a lesser sentence because you didn’t know what you were doing because you were drunk.