Traffic signs

I live in a town where a traffic sign reads 'SPEED LIMIT STRICTLY ENFORCED NEXT MILE'. It has never ceased to perplexed me how that sign came to be. Surely somebody can miss the lack of logic, but a traffic sign, custom none the less, must have been reviewed and approved by a number of OTHER people.
I've been looking for other signs in town that would give this sign a reason to exist, such as 'SPEED LIMIT LOOSELY ENFORCED' OR 'SPEED LIMIT IS NOT ENFORCED ON THIS ROAD'. More than a traffic sign I'm looking for evidence that the people that are running our town are trustworthy.
There is another sign on my way to work, in another town, that makes me feel a little better about my 'strictly enforced speed limit'. Not satisfied with the standard school zone, deer xing, no salt area posts, this town felt the need to beware the motorists of the elderly. The sign reads something like 'ELDERLY HOUSING AHEAD'. Did they have a sign surplus and couldn't come up with anything better? or they have seniors on steroids that run into the route after their bouncing dentures? The best part is that the area is residential, without a business in miles and no reason I can think of why a resident of the elderly housing would need to cross the road in a rush.
I am not really complaining, these signs have stimulated all kinds of highly unlikely situations that might justify the signs and provided me with hours of amusement. I imagined the seniors running away from the housing like a dog without a leash and the nurses running after him only to find him flattened on the road like a squirrel. Or rebelious seniors dearing each other to cross the road without their walkers. Or taking the dentures from the push over senior and throwing it to each other until someones missess the pass and the toothless senior dies trying to recover his denture for that evening's meatloaf.

35 year old teenager?

I've been through college, I have a full time work, a husband, a 4 year old son, a mortgage, a life insurance.... and a Hello Kitty toaster.
LAst week flipping channels I saw a congressman arguing that credit cards were targeting children and his 'evidence' was a Hello Kitty credit card... just ike the one I have in my wallet.
My toaster, my credit card, even my kitty checks are evidence of my immaturity. But my immaturity is shared by every other adult out there. Some indulge their childhood passions (mostly under the euphemisms of 'hobby') and others deny themselves of such luxury and compensate in some other way. Credit card companies are evil all right in the sense that they spend billions to blurr lines, create ever shrinking font sizes and complicate language to the point that you wonder what language you were reading in the first place. But if the credit card is destined to teenagers, do Zales jewelers also think that teenagers will drop $200 to $1000 in Hello Kitty diamond jewelry?
But really, why does my father in law spend $50 dollars on a die cast train that's only going to collect dust on a shelf and I can't make a toast with a kitty face? At least the items I buy are needed anyways with or without cat...

Israel vs Palestine: Time out

While it is my opinion that they should follow the UN resolution 181 from 1947, period. I a, sick of the ongoing death, sufrfering and loss on both sides. If they can't work it out, maybe they are not ready to run countries. Let's give the territory back to the British for administration (or the Turkish for that matter) and whoever doesn't like it can go cry at the wailing wall. I'm sorry, you had your chance and you blew it.
It seems that there's a sharing lesson to be learnt. When my 4-year old can't share a toy, the toy goes on vacation. They might learn to share if they're threatened to lose it all.

FYI America is a continent

Immersing yourself in a different culture allows you for the opportunity to learn that there are alternative ways of doing the same things you do. On the other hand it is also an opportunity to get ticked off.
I need to clarify that I've only been in this country for 7 years and that I take full responsibility for my choice and I will apply for citizenship because the good things (notice I said said good things, not benefits) outweigh the bad and by a fairly large number.
Having said that, and of course now you know I'm going to complain, it ticks me off to hear Americans this, Americans that all the time. Last time I looked America was a continent with 35 countries.
Are they not aware that they are brushing off 34 countries or it the gap of superiority is so large that the other countries are not worth considering. Or maybe they think it's just a matter of time for the rest of the continent to become an USA territory...
In airport lounges, in touristic destinations you can find French, Russians, Koreans, Guatemalans, Kenians, etc, but never will you hear 'I'm African', 'I'm Asian'.
I guess coming from another country from this continent I feel disenfranchised, deprived of my right to my little piece of America.
If they are the Americans, what am I supposed to be?

Welcome.... or not....

I'm following a friend's advice to jot down some random thoughts. Maybe she finds them funny, or maybe I'm senile and I've repeated myself and she thought this is her kind way of asking me to stop sharing my pointless observations...
Not to dicsourage your from reading but don't get your hopes too high...