Ya know what I hate? Well hate may be to strong a word. Lets try despise, ya, that works.
Ya know what I despise? I despise when real life gets in the way of either my Blogging time OR Gaming time. Of course i have to work a full time job, I am married and this takes alot of time my job takes 8 hours a day so that is a third of my day. I have to sleep.
I know I know... sounds like excuses, you say, welcome to the club. Ya know its not that i hate real life or my life for that matter. I have a lovely wife that i love more than anything else and a great kid who is in college at the age of 16. Very proud of him.
We at one time had a game night. Once a week we would gather arround the table and play cards, Poker, pitch, Canasta, hold 'em or a board game. we have a game we call marbles, kind of like a Sorry or similar game. You roll dice and move around the board till you get 'home'. Good Times.
Statistics show that Families that spend more 'quality' time together tend to be happier and have better relationships. That make sense, don't ya think? How much conversation do you get sitting arround a TV? Think about it i'll wait...
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Well let me tell you. when we are engrossed in a show there is no conversation, as a matter of fact, there is a concious effort to squelch conversation so we do not miss anything happening in the lives of a character in a fantasy world based on events real or imagined.
connect with your Families. Read together, read the same book, not nessasarily the same copy but the same book. Get arround the table and play a game. Talk for God's sake. You may be able to fix something you didn't know was broke.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
PC Gone Amuck
I have said for a long time, Longer than i have been publishing to this blog, that PC will kill us all. Well now it seems that it is not only not PC to be a white male, but if you are such they want you to die as well.
Cystic fibrosis too 'white' for Ottawa fundraiser
The Carleton University Students' Association has voted to drop a cystic fibrosis charity as the beneficiary of its annual Shinearama fundraiser, supporting a motion that argued the disease is not "inclusive" enough.
Cystic fibrosis "has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men" said the motion read Monday night to student councillors, who voted almost unanimously in favour of it.
I guess you do not deserve help if you are a white guy.
You know what? I will cling to my God and my Gun and those 'antiques' will see me through what ever else may come. Frankly, i do not want any one's help. There are always strings.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Government
This is what happens when corrupt Government targets certain industries for oppression. One man stood up for freedom and was gunned down for his trouble. Whether you agree with what he was doing or not, this is what tyranny brings.
Gordy Wheeler's strip clubs, bars, restaurants — and prostitution stings at his business — made him a regular visitor to the halls of Morrison County government, its courtrooms and its public record.
So it was only slightly unusual that Wheeler, dressed in long underwear, bib overalls and a Camp Bar cap, sat quietly in the audience as county commissioners started to put the wraps on their meeting that sweltering June day.
More unusual was that the board's agenda that day contained no business regarding Wheeler. The county and Wheeler first bumped heads in 1982, and met numerous times in contentious commission meetings and court hearings during the next 25 years. The legal docket had been lopsided and not in Wheeler's favor.
A jury convicted him of promoting prostitution, and he spent thousands in legal fees and fines to pay for civil actions brought against him by the county for zoning and health violations. Now banks had taken one business and a letter informed him they would claim the other.
At 60, he had slipped into financial ruin and blamed a vast government conspiracy targeted at him and his businesses.
As commissioners considered a motion to adjourn the June 24 meeting, Wheeler calmly rose to his feet. Before the vote could be taken, and the public record closed, Wheeler cocked the hammer of a 9 mm Beretta pistol.
He had brought his business to the board that day, and they were going to listen.
"What are we going to do about the Camp Store, boys," Wheeler asked, "and all the corruption?"
What followed were the last 21 minutes of the life of Gordon Kenneth Wheeler Sr. A man universally described as litigious but respectful, hard-headed but thoughtful, would hold those four commissioners and three other county officials hostage, forcing three law enforcement officers to make their most difficult professional decisions.
It was a desperate choice and a violent end for a nonviolent man whose family watched him tire from defeat after defeat. His countless battles with the county over his businesses, accompanying liquor licenses and criminal activity left him with nothing to lose, he told commissioners that day.
They had taken everything from him and couldn't put it back, he said, as he held the gun to the head of the county administrator. As his options dwindled, the walls squeezing in on him for years had begun to collapse.
Making money
Gordy was a local boy who learned early how to make a quick buck.
He and his brother, Don, were youngsters when they would hitchhike from the Little Falls area to Camp Ripley and shine shoes for soldiers.
Gordy enlisted in the Navy Reserves in 1966, when he was in high school, and he served on the USS America before being honorably discharged in October 1970.
He worked for a time in the Twin Cities but always wanted to return to start a business in the Ripley area. In 1981, he got his chance when he bought Camp Bar, a bar within walking distance for soldiers at the camp.
With an eye to the fast buck that could be made from all those soldiers, Wheeler offered lingerie nights, then topless dancing.
It wasn't long before it prompted citations for indecent exposure at the bar.
An ally in the early days of Wheeler's clashes in court was Judge George Wetzel, father of Michel Wetzel, who is now Morrison County sheriff.
It was Judge Wetzel who dismissed indecent exposure charges against Wheeler, when he determined that laws at the time didn't allow the township to enact ordinances against nude dancing.
It was a decision that kept Wheeler's bar in the business of nude dancing, a polarizing and politically divisive issue at the time.
"They came after him immediately," said his son, Gordy Jr. "And over the years, they beat him down with everything because they couldn't close him down the first time."
Don Wheeler, Gordy Sr.'s brother, sees it the same way.
"It seemed like every time he turned around and went to the county for a permit to do this or that, it always seemed like they gave him a hard time."
Building problems
Gordy didn't always abide by the terms of permits, though, and when he built an addition to the Camp Bar under the guise of it being a "storage shed," the county tried to halt construction.
Wheeler completed the structure in 2001 and applied for an after-the-fact land-use permit for a walkway to connect the two.
The county denied the request. Wheeler ignored the county's letters and built it anyway.
In late 2001 or early 2002, Wheeler began operating the Krazy Rabbit sports bar adjacent to the Camp Bar.
At about the same time, the county imposed a one-year moratorium on new adult businesses, which eventually was extended to two years.
Wheeler saw it as a direct attack and pushed back. As the moratorium was about to expire in November 2003, Wheeler tried to open Lookin' Fine Smut and Porno near Swanville.
"They had been on his case so bad," said Don Wheeler. "How did he rebel? He brought in X-rated magazines. That was his attitude. 'You don't like it, fine. Then I'll bring in this stuff.' That was his logic in trying to deal with them when everything else had failed."
He never got Lookin' Fine open, and days later, the county amended its adult- use ordinances and imposed setback requirements that Wheeler and his attorney argued were tailored to prohibit only Wheeler's business.
"He gives the county board a bunch of grief and then they deny him permission to develop his main property (at Camp Ripley) the way he wants to, so he writes a letter to the county board saying he intends to open a second use," said Randall Tigue, Wheeler's lawyer. "And within two weeks, the county board passes a moratorium saying no new adult uses anywhere in the county. He was about to develop a perfectly legal use at his existing location. The county rewrites the ordinance … to make it just large enough so his proposed use is prohibited."
The county also used septic system health ordinances to prevent Wheeler from operating Lookin' Fine.
Above law
In April and August 2005 Wheeler would be arrested twice in a five-month period in prostitution stings at Camp Bar. A Morrison County jury convicted Wheeler on charges from one of the arrests and found him not guilty on the other.
"The one thing you could get definitely from Gordy during his testimony (at trial) is that Gordy seemed to think he was ever-so-slightly above the law — not Nixon-above-the-law type of thing — but that he was just clever enough to do everything he had to to skirt the edge, and that he was smarter than we were," said Todd Kosovich, the assistant county attorney who prosecuted the prostitution cases.
Listen to prosecutor Todd Kosovich discuss his perception of Gordy Wheeler Sr. in court.
"He couldn't imagine why we were bothering him. This is a guy who really doesn't care what the rules are."
The rules weren't applied evenly to all county residents, Wheeler's family said. In fact, they argued that certain anti-nudity laws were tailored for Wheeler's businesses alone.
Wheeler spent several weeks in jail for the prostitution conviction, which also branded him a felon. As such, he couldn't get a liquor license.
The legal losses piled up. "He felt he was victimized by bigoted government officials, and the judiciary turned a blind eye," Tigue said.
Morrison County wasn't out to get Wheeler, said former County Administrator Tim Houle, who left in July to take the same position in Crow Wing County.
"They were out to have him follow the same rules that everybody else is expected to follow," Houle said. "It was never about being moralistic about what he did."
If Wheeler had followed those rules, he likely would still be in business, Houle speculates. "But he saw it as an effort to persecute, so he resisted at every turn."
Listen to Tim Houle: "He continued to lose the significant issues..."
Pushing limits
The legal and financial losses piled up and weighed on Wheeler, said his wife, Kathy.
"Gordy was pretty spunky. And toward the end, I used to watch him. He'd be walking around out there," she said, motioning to the land outside their house, "and I thought to myself, 'My God they've just brought him down to, like, a little old man.'"
Listen to Kathy Wheeler discuss the toll the legal losses took on her husband.
Don Wheeler, who like Gordy Sr. was battling diabetes, could also see the changes. He recalls watching Gordy's nervous habit of bouncing his foot off the ground when he sat.
"I saw that it was getting worse. He couldn't stop the leg from moving," Don Wheeler said. "I knew this was eating at him."
Nobody who knew Wheeler saw a violent side to him. Kosovich, who prosecuted the prostitution case, thought Wheeler "would litigate us to death" rather than resort to violence. "I didn't expect he'd bring a gun," Kosovich said.
Listen to prosecutor Todd Kosovich talk about Wheeler's nonviolent nature.
Neither did Kathy and Gordy Jr.
"He was no different that morning than he was any other morning," Kathy Wheeler said. "He was not different the day before or the day before that or the day before that. He was Gordy.
"Let's face it. We knew he was down in the dumps. You can't deny that. He was losing everything. (But) we could sit around and talk, and we would laugh, and kids would come over and we would have fun."
Tigue says he also wouldn't have predicted Wheeler's actions. "I guess there's limits on how much persecution a guy can take."
Targets
Commissioner Tom Wenzel had known of Wheeler for three decades.
That June day in the boardroom, Wheeler recalled a visit he once paid to Wenzel's Randall farm to discuss his business issues.
Wheeler was never rude or threatening, Wenzel said.
During a 10-minute board recess earlier in the day, Wenzel passed Wheeler on the stairs as he headed to the restroom. He noticed the red bandanna in Wheeler's hand.
Wenzel said good morning.
There he is, Wheeler replied.
When Wenzel reached the bottom of the stairs, he looked back up.
Wheeler was staring down at him.
The bandanna concealed the handgun that Wheeler soon would be waving around the boardroom.
"I think the first thing that hit me is that this cannot be happening. Shock and disbelief is what I felt," County Attorney Brian Middendorf said. "He's simply not a violent person. He's never been a violent person, has no history of violence."
It surprised Houle as well.
"I think we were aware that the walls around Gordon had continued to get smaller and smaller and smaller," Houle said. "That said, he had given absolutely no previous indication of a tendency toward violence ... I kind of liked Gordon. I didn't agree with Gordon, but he was never disagreeable."
Middendorf had even helped Wheeler once, after a man was convicted of assaulting Wheeler.
Wheeler was seeking restitution from the man, and Middendorf asked Wheeler questions during a hearing to determine what the man owed Wheeler.
Now Wheeler was holding a gun near the heads of Middendorf and Houle and the county was a target.
In an interview this month, Middendorf declined to discuss his thoughts and feelings at that moment. It's not something he wants to dwell on, he said, and not something he cares to discuss with the media — or privately.
But his words to a Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator in the hours after the standoff ended capture the desperation and fear inside the boardroom that day.
"I thought about my family," Middendorf told BCA Senior Special Agent Brian Marquart, "and my wife and my daughter and … how this could be the last day of my life. I thought about dying, and those were the two things that kept circling in my mind."
"My place was beneath you, but now I am above and now I send you a message of love. I know I'm headed for the bottom but I'm riding you all the way." -- Soundgarden.
Gordy Wheeler's strip clubs, bars, restaurants — and prostitution stings at his business — made him a regular visitor to the halls of Morrison County government, its courtrooms and its public record.
So it was only slightly unusual that Wheeler, dressed in long underwear, bib overalls and a Camp Bar cap, sat quietly in the audience as county commissioners started to put the wraps on their meeting that sweltering June day.
More unusual was that the board's agenda that day contained no business regarding Wheeler. The county and Wheeler first bumped heads in 1982, and met numerous times in contentious commission meetings and court hearings during the next 25 years. The legal docket had been lopsided and not in Wheeler's favor.
A jury convicted him of promoting prostitution, and he spent thousands in legal fees and fines to pay for civil actions brought against him by the county for zoning and health violations. Now banks had taken one business and a letter informed him they would claim the other.
At 60, he had slipped into financial ruin and blamed a vast government conspiracy targeted at him and his businesses.
As commissioners considered a motion to adjourn the June 24 meeting, Wheeler calmly rose to his feet. Before the vote could be taken, and the public record closed, Wheeler cocked the hammer of a 9 mm Beretta pistol.
He had brought his business to the board that day, and they were going to listen.
"What are we going to do about the Camp Store, boys," Wheeler asked, "and all the corruption?"
What followed were the last 21 minutes of the life of Gordon Kenneth Wheeler Sr. A man universally described as litigious but respectful, hard-headed but thoughtful, would hold those four commissioners and three other county officials hostage, forcing three law enforcement officers to make their most difficult professional decisions.
It was a desperate choice and a violent end for a nonviolent man whose family watched him tire from defeat after defeat. His countless battles with the county over his businesses, accompanying liquor licenses and criminal activity left him with nothing to lose, he told commissioners that day.
They had taken everything from him and couldn't put it back, he said, as he held the gun to the head of the county administrator. As his options dwindled, the walls squeezing in on him for years had begun to collapse.
Making money
Gordy was a local boy who learned early how to make a quick buck.
He and his brother, Don, were youngsters when they would hitchhike from the Little Falls area to Camp Ripley and shine shoes for soldiers.
Gordy enlisted in the Navy Reserves in 1966, when he was in high school, and he served on the USS America before being honorably discharged in October 1970.
He worked for a time in the Twin Cities but always wanted to return to start a business in the Ripley area. In 1981, he got his chance when he bought Camp Bar, a bar within walking distance for soldiers at the camp.
With an eye to the fast buck that could be made from all those soldiers, Wheeler offered lingerie nights, then topless dancing.
It wasn't long before it prompted citations for indecent exposure at the bar.
An ally in the early days of Wheeler's clashes in court was Judge George Wetzel, father of Michel Wetzel, who is now Morrison County sheriff.
It was Judge Wetzel who dismissed indecent exposure charges against Wheeler, when he determined that laws at the time didn't allow the township to enact ordinances against nude dancing.
It was a decision that kept Wheeler's bar in the business of nude dancing, a polarizing and politically divisive issue at the time.
"They came after him immediately," said his son, Gordy Jr. "And over the years, they beat him down with everything because they couldn't close him down the first time."
Don Wheeler, Gordy Sr.'s brother, sees it the same way.
"It seemed like every time he turned around and went to the county for a permit to do this or that, it always seemed like they gave him a hard time."
Building problems
Gordy didn't always abide by the terms of permits, though, and when he built an addition to the Camp Bar under the guise of it being a "storage shed," the county tried to halt construction.
Wheeler completed the structure in 2001 and applied for an after-the-fact land-use permit for a walkway to connect the two.
The county denied the request. Wheeler ignored the county's letters and built it anyway.
In late 2001 or early 2002, Wheeler began operating the Krazy Rabbit sports bar adjacent to the Camp Bar.
At about the same time, the county imposed a one-year moratorium on new adult businesses, which eventually was extended to two years.
Wheeler saw it as a direct attack and pushed back. As the moratorium was about to expire in November 2003, Wheeler tried to open Lookin' Fine Smut and Porno near Swanville.
"They had been on his case so bad," said Don Wheeler. "How did he rebel? He brought in X-rated magazines. That was his attitude. 'You don't like it, fine. Then I'll bring in this stuff.' That was his logic in trying to deal with them when everything else had failed."
He never got Lookin' Fine open, and days later, the county amended its adult- use ordinances and imposed setback requirements that Wheeler and his attorney argued were tailored to prohibit only Wheeler's business.
"He gives the county board a bunch of grief and then they deny him permission to develop his main property (at Camp Ripley) the way he wants to, so he writes a letter to the county board saying he intends to open a second use," said Randall Tigue, Wheeler's lawyer. "And within two weeks, the county board passes a moratorium saying no new adult uses anywhere in the county. He was about to develop a perfectly legal use at his existing location. The county rewrites the ordinance … to make it just large enough so his proposed use is prohibited."
The county also used septic system health ordinances to prevent Wheeler from operating Lookin' Fine.
Above law
In April and August 2005 Wheeler would be arrested twice in a five-month period in prostitution stings at Camp Bar. A Morrison County jury convicted Wheeler on charges from one of the arrests and found him not guilty on the other.
"The one thing you could get definitely from Gordy during his testimony (at trial) is that Gordy seemed to think he was ever-so-slightly above the law — not Nixon-above-the-law type of thing — but that he was just clever enough to do everything he had to to skirt the edge, and that he was smarter than we were," said Todd Kosovich, the assistant county attorney who prosecuted the prostitution cases.
Listen to prosecutor Todd Kosovich discuss his perception of Gordy Wheeler Sr. in court.
"He couldn't imagine why we were bothering him. This is a guy who really doesn't care what the rules are."
The rules weren't applied evenly to all county residents, Wheeler's family said. In fact, they argued that certain anti-nudity laws were tailored for Wheeler's businesses alone.
Wheeler spent several weeks in jail for the prostitution conviction, which also branded him a felon. As such, he couldn't get a liquor license.
The legal losses piled up. "He felt he was victimized by bigoted government officials, and the judiciary turned a blind eye," Tigue said.
Morrison County wasn't out to get Wheeler, said former County Administrator Tim Houle, who left in July to take the same position in Crow Wing County.
"They were out to have him follow the same rules that everybody else is expected to follow," Houle said. "It was never about being moralistic about what he did."
If Wheeler had followed those rules, he likely would still be in business, Houle speculates. "But he saw it as an effort to persecute, so he resisted at every turn."
Listen to Tim Houle: "He continued to lose the significant issues..."
Pushing limits
The legal and financial losses piled up and weighed on Wheeler, said his wife, Kathy.
"Gordy was pretty spunky. And toward the end, I used to watch him. He'd be walking around out there," she said, motioning to the land outside their house, "and I thought to myself, 'My God they've just brought him down to, like, a little old man.'"
Listen to Kathy Wheeler discuss the toll the legal losses took on her husband.
Don Wheeler, who like Gordy Sr. was battling diabetes, could also see the changes. He recalls watching Gordy's nervous habit of bouncing his foot off the ground when he sat.
"I saw that it was getting worse. He couldn't stop the leg from moving," Don Wheeler said. "I knew this was eating at him."
Nobody who knew Wheeler saw a violent side to him. Kosovich, who prosecuted the prostitution case, thought Wheeler "would litigate us to death" rather than resort to violence. "I didn't expect he'd bring a gun," Kosovich said.
Listen to prosecutor Todd Kosovich talk about Wheeler's nonviolent nature.
Neither did Kathy and Gordy Jr.
"He was no different that morning than he was any other morning," Kathy Wheeler said. "He was not different the day before or the day before that or the day before that. He was Gordy.
"Let's face it. We knew he was down in the dumps. You can't deny that. He was losing everything. (But) we could sit around and talk, and we would laugh, and kids would come over and we would have fun."
Tigue says he also wouldn't have predicted Wheeler's actions. "I guess there's limits on how much persecution a guy can take."
Targets
Commissioner Tom Wenzel had known of Wheeler for three decades.
That June day in the boardroom, Wheeler recalled a visit he once paid to Wenzel's Randall farm to discuss his business issues.
Wheeler was never rude or threatening, Wenzel said.
During a 10-minute board recess earlier in the day, Wenzel passed Wheeler on the stairs as he headed to the restroom. He noticed the red bandanna in Wheeler's hand.
Wenzel said good morning.
There he is, Wheeler replied.
When Wenzel reached the bottom of the stairs, he looked back up.
Wheeler was staring down at him.
The bandanna concealed the handgun that Wheeler soon would be waving around the boardroom.
"I think the first thing that hit me is that this cannot be happening. Shock and disbelief is what I felt," County Attorney Brian Middendorf said. "He's simply not a violent person. He's never been a violent person, has no history of violence."
It surprised Houle as well.
"I think we were aware that the walls around Gordon had continued to get smaller and smaller and smaller," Houle said. "That said, he had given absolutely no previous indication of a tendency toward violence ... I kind of liked Gordon. I didn't agree with Gordon, but he was never disagreeable."
Middendorf had even helped Wheeler once, after a man was convicted of assaulting Wheeler.
Wheeler was seeking restitution from the man, and Middendorf asked Wheeler questions during a hearing to determine what the man owed Wheeler.
Now Wheeler was holding a gun near the heads of Middendorf and Houle and the county was a target.
In an interview this month, Middendorf declined to discuss his thoughts and feelings at that moment. It's not something he wants to dwell on, he said, and not something he cares to discuss with the media — or privately.
But his words to a Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator in the hours after the standoff ended capture the desperation and fear inside the boardroom that day.
"I thought about my family," Middendorf told BCA Senior Special Agent Brian Marquart, "and my wife and my daughter and … how this could be the last day of my life. I thought about dying, and those were the two things that kept circling in my mind."
"My place was beneath you, but now I am above and now I send you a message of love. I know I'm headed for the bottom but I'm riding you all the way." -- Soundgarden.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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Testing... Testing... Is thing on? I'm not getting feedback from the microphone... Hey! Did somebody plug my mic on?
Thursday, October 23, 2008
The systematic suppression of political speech
Over the past months there have been many reports of Campaign signs being defaced, threats being made, albeit indirectly, and then we learn of a couple of assaults that have happened over campaign signs. I truly believe that there are those people that would suppress political speech for personal gain.
Intimidation
The reports of campaign signs being defaced and stolen, The Democratic presidential nominee telling his followers to 'get in their face', speaking of people that do not agree or would not vote for him. He would like his followers to aggressively argue his case. In and of itself, this is not bad. I tend to get passionate about my political leanings, my Family and my God. I will try my best to get you to see my point of view and change your mind. If I cannot we will agree to disagree. At least I will. There is a story of a man being assaulted in a restaurant when he cut of a political discussion. The affiliations of those men are irrelevant. That was a violent attempt to silence an individual's political speech. A man was attacked because he disagreed with another’s political view point. A campaign manager's house was shot up; it is suspected, over the campaign signs in his yard in support of McCain/Palin. In the news for about a week, we have heard political Pundits warn us that since Obama has a ‘massive lead' in the polls that there will be 'trouble in major cities if the One is not elected. These are subtle attempts to intimidate people to vote in a certain way, to intimidate you and me into either voting for Obama or staying home. The news reports and poll results are all geared to get you to stay home and not vote. They tried this in o4 when we elected Bush by a narrow margin. They will do the same thing this year. They do not care that they are shooting their credibility to hell. A Socialist state is their goal and I think they may have a chance this year of electing another Jimmy Carter.
Suppression of free speech
As a case in point I would point out the Democrats discussion and apparent desire to reinstate the fairness doctrine. The fairness doctrine would move talk radio back to the era of shows on how to fatten cattle, your favorite carrot cake recipe and farm and market reports that dominated the news cycle. Another example was actually perpetrated a couple of years ago in the McCain Feingold campaign finance reform act. This act restricts the amount of money and who can give what. The SCOTUS (Supreme Court Of The United States) has since equated money and political speech and has struck down portions of the law.
Voter Fraud
This is another attempt to suppress political speech but, more than that, it is stealing. There are many allegations against the group ACORN for voter fraud. They have attempted to register Mickey Mouse and Nadda Realperson. They have claimed many times they cannot vet all of the registrations they receive. I see this as a transparent attempt to deflect blame to their employees, employees that the employer is ultimately responsible for. Now we get the word that GOP Election Board members have been tossed out of polling stations in at least half a dozen polling stations in Philadelphia because of their party status. This is a direct violation of a court order but, apparently, the law does not mean much in Philly.
Intimidation
The reports of campaign signs being defaced and stolen, The Democratic presidential nominee telling his followers to 'get in their face', speaking of people that do not agree or would not vote for him. He would like his followers to aggressively argue his case. In and of itself, this is not bad. I tend to get passionate about my political leanings, my Family and my God. I will try my best to get you to see my point of view and change your mind. If I cannot we will agree to disagree. At least I will. There is a story of a man being assaulted in a restaurant when he cut of a political discussion. The affiliations of those men are irrelevant. That was a violent attempt to silence an individual's political speech. A man was attacked because he disagreed with another’s political view point. A campaign manager's house was shot up; it is suspected, over the campaign signs in his yard in support of McCain/Palin. In the news for about a week, we have heard political Pundits warn us that since Obama has a ‘massive lead' in the polls that there will be 'trouble in major cities if the One is not elected. These are subtle attempts to intimidate people to vote in a certain way, to intimidate you and me into either voting for Obama or staying home. The news reports and poll results are all geared to get you to stay home and not vote. They tried this in o4 when we elected Bush by a narrow margin. They will do the same thing this year. They do not care that they are shooting their credibility to hell. A Socialist state is their goal and I think they may have a chance this year of electing another Jimmy Carter.
Suppression of free speech
As a case in point I would point out the Democrats discussion and apparent desire to reinstate the fairness doctrine. The fairness doctrine would move talk radio back to the era of shows on how to fatten cattle, your favorite carrot cake recipe and farm and market reports that dominated the news cycle. Another example was actually perpetrated a couple of years ago in the McCain Feingold campaign finance reform act. This act restricts the amount of money and who can give what. The SCOTUS (Supreme Court Of The United States) has since equated money and political speech and has struck down portions of the law.
Voter Fraud
This is another attempt to suppress political speech but, more than that, it is stealing. There are many allegations against the group ACORN for voter fraud. They have attempted to register Mickey Mouse and Nadda Realperson. They have claimed many times they cannot vet all of the registrations they receive. I see this as a transparent attempt to deflect blame to their employees, employees that the employer is ultimately responsible for. Now we get the word that GOP Election Board members have been tossed out of polling stations in at least half a dozen polling stations in Philadelphia because of their party status. This is a direct violation of a court order but, apparently, the law does not mean much in Philly.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Crazy McCain and his (welfare) Mortgage Deal
Did you watch the debates? What is wrong with John McCain? I’m still voting for him, but he’s out of his freaking mind.
At the last debate McCain brought up this new “plan” he has to solve the mortgage crisis. As if things weren’t bad enough already, it looks like he’s figured out a way to make it even worse.
Proud as a peacock, in response to the first question, he popped out his new plan. On the night he needed to draw blood – or make vacation plans for January 20th – the best John McCain could do was try to out-socialize Barack Obama. And that’s a pretty tall order, but John McCain managed to pull it off.
Here are the details. John McCain said that, if elected, he will have the government buy up all these troubled mortgages. Then he would have them renegotiated, lowering the amount of indebtedness to the current market value of the mortgaged properties. That would lower – probably dramatically – the amount owed and the interest rate paid.
Oh, and it would screw the country, which seems to be a pretty bipartisan objective.
Let’s think through what would happen if Insane Johnny got his way. First of all, American taxpayers would get totally reamed. Just a week after the liars promoting this bailout told us that the government would probably make money on it, by reselling the mortgages after they appreciated in value, my candidate decided to make it so that the government – by which I mean “the taxpayer” – would lose money on each and every mortgage.
Here’s how: If you buy it at a price that reflects the total amount owed, and then you reduce the total amount owed – and consequently the amount paid back – you lose money.
It’s that simple. The government absorbs the difference between what it buys the mortgage for and the price it then reissues the mortgage at – it just writes it off. It is an immediate and certain loss which will not be made up, no matter what happens to the market.
Look, you don’t buy a $10,000 car and then resell it for $8,000 and then expect to be happy about the deal, would you? (For those of you in Arkansas – that’s a $2,000 loss)
That’s Major Flaw No. 1.
Major Flaw No. 2 is that the plan rewards irresponsibility. If you were dumb, crooked or greedy enough to buy more house than you were willing or able to pay for, John McCain would save you by giving you the house at a price lower than what it cost when you moved in.
Say you live in a neighborhood where homes went for $300,000 two years ago when your neighbor, who delivers pizzas for a living, moved in. Surprise, surprise, he’s delinquent on his mortgage. And the economy is in the toilet, and the most you could get for a house in the neighborhood right now, if you had to sell, is $150,000.
Enter Nut Job Johnny.
He would take your bum neighbor, who is defaulting on a loan for $300,000, and save him from foreclosure. Further, he would reissue the loan for the current value of the property -- $150,000.
See where I’m going here? As you know, the mortgage payment on $150,000 is a whole lot less than the mortgage payment on $300,000. And, in the midst of a financial crisis, the interest rate is a whole lot lower.
So your punk neighbor is living in the same neighborhood and size house as you are, only he’s making a far smaller payment with a far smaller debt, all because of John McCain. And the fun part is that you, paying full price on your home, are going to be taxed to pay for your bone-head neighbor who can’t come up with the mortgage payments. In other words, those who make their mortgage payments will be taxed to pay for those who don’t.
And we don’t even want to get into how many of these defaulted-on homes were “bought” by illegal aliens or as part of social engineering programs intending to increase home ownership by the unemployed and welfare dependent. But I digress.
Nut job McCain will not only bail out these failed buyers; he will give them new mortgages at bargain-basement prices. What a deal!
But wait, there’s more.
What happens when the value of homes goes back up? Let’s say in five years, when the economy gets back on its feet, the homes in your neighborhood regain their value, and are selling for $300,000 again, what happens? Well, you – who kept your word and paid your mortgage – will sell yours for $300,000 and walk away even. And your neighbor, who defaulted and got the new mortgage at the bottomed-out price, will also sell for $300,000 and make $150,000 on the deal.
WOW! Thank you again, John McCain.
But wait, there’s still more.
There’s still Major Flaw No. 3.
And that is that anybody with half a brain – and no conscience – watched the debate and decided to stop paying their mortgage. Seriously, the value of your home right now, in most parts of the country, is less than what it was when you bought it – less than what it was when you took out your mortgage. So stop making your payments. Fall behind a little bit. Become a troubled mortgage. In a few months, the government will rescue you. And John McCain will give you a new mortgage, for the depressed value of your home. It’s like saving tens of thousands of dollars at the stroke of a pen. All you and McCain have to do is rip off the taxpayers. Apparently, he’s perfectly willing to do so.
Repeating for emphasis: People who paid their mortgages will labor under higher taxes and government debt. People who didn’t pay their mortgages will get a giant gift from the government. Responsible people will be punished and irresponsible people will be rewarded. The people who contribute to America get hosed and the people who tear down America get to raid the Treasury.
Thank you, John McCain.
As if the bailout con job wasn’t bad enough, Crazy Johnny found a way to make it worse.
But I’m still voting for him.
Here’s why: First of all, I'm a Republican. Other than that, the idiot who wants to give people welfare mortgages is a little bit better than the idiot who thinks health care is a right. One will tax me to give my lazy neighbor a house nicer than mine, and the other will tax me to pay for people who are so lazy they won’t even work to hire a doctor to take care of their families. It’s the lesser of two evils.
Would someone please answer this question: In a country of 300 million people, how in the heck did we end up with these two idiots as our presidential candidates?
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Thats it i am now a Deamoncrat
THIS VIDEO HAS CHANGED MY MIND!! specially the guy that wants change cause it promotes hope and hope that invites change.... Ya look it
Fannie and Freddie
There is a great piece on 7.62 justice. may show on the side bar. It gives a time line of the creation and regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. here is an excerpt.
1938 - Roosevelt got Fannie Mae through
a Democrat-controlled congress.
1970 - Freddie Mac was created by Democrats
in congress 57-43 Senate and 234-192 House.
1977 - The Community Reinvestment
Act was passed by the democratic congress (61-39 Senate and 292-143 House) and
signed into law by Jimmy Carter. It encouraged banks and mortgage lenders to
loan money for housing to people who would not otherwise qualify (with Freddie
and Fannie backing same by taking the paper).
1995 - President Clinton signed
the executive order mandating lenders expand their lending for mortgages to
sub-prime borrowers (that means people who would not qualify under any criteria
in a sane world). Failure to do so would result in the lending institution not
having access to federal funds or the quasi governmental Fannie and
Freddie.
1999 - Republican Senator Phil Gramm pushed through congress
deregulation laws (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) removing Depression era laws
separating banking, insurance and brokerage activities. The vote in the Senate
was 98-1-1. McCain was the one who did not vote, another Republican was the lone
no vote. Biden and Harry Reid, who are now saying it’s all Bush’s fault, voted
for the bill. Even Obama this week places the blamed on Gramm, but fails to
mention that his running mate voted for it, and Clinton signed it into
law.
2003 - President Bush tried to get congress to amend Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac rules to disallow loans to people who would not qualify under normal
lending institution rules for making loans.
Friday, September 19, 2008
ARE YOU DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN OR REDNECK?
Here is a little test that will help you decide
You're walking down a deserted street with yourwife and two small children. Suddenly, an Islamicterrorist with a huge knife comes around the corner,locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah,raisesthe knife, and charges at you.
You are carrying a Glock Model 23 (40 caliber), andyou arean expert shot. You have mere seconds before hereaches youand your family. What do you do?
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Democrat's Answer Well, that's not enough information to answer thequestion!
Does the man look poor! Or oppressed?
Have I ever done anything to him that would inspirehim toattack?
Could we run away?
What does my wife think?
What about the kids?Could I possibly swing the gun like a club and knocktheknife out of his hand?
What does the law say about this situation?
Does the Glock have appropriate safety built into it?
Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society and to my children?
Is it possible he'd be happy with just killing me?
Does he definitely want to kill me, or would he becontentjust to wound me?
If I were to grab his knees and hold on, could myfamilyget away while he was stabbing me?Should I call 9-1-1 ?
Why is this street so deserted?
We need to raise taxes, have a paint and weed day andmakethis a happier, healthier street that would discouragesuchbehavior.
This is all so confusing!I need to discuss with some friends over a latte andtry tocome to a consensus.
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Republican's Answer:BANG==================================
Redneck's Answer:BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Click....
(sounds of reloading)
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!click
Daughter: 'Nice grouping, Daddy! Were those theWinchester Silver Tips or Hollow Points?'
Son: 'You got him, Pop! Can I shoot the next one?'
Wife: 'You are not taking that to the taxidermist!'
I know that glock has a 14 round clip...
I do not advocate killing anyone but... I must be a redneck
You're walking down a deserted street with yourwife and two small children. Suddenly, an Islamicterrorist with a huge knife comes around the corner,locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah,raisesthe knife, and charges at you.
You are carrying a Glock Model 23 (40 caliber), andyou arean expert shot. You have mere seconds before hereaches youand your family. What do you do?
==================================
Democrat's Answer Well, that's not enough information to answer thequestion!
Does the man look poor! Or oppressed?
Have I ever done anything to him that would inspirehim toattack?
Could we run away?
What does my wife think?
What about the kids?Could I possibly swing the gun like a club and knocktheknife out of his hand?
What does the law say about this situation?
Does the Glock have appropriate safety built into it?
Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society and to my children?
Is it possible he'd be happy with just killing me?
Does he definitely want to kill me, or would he becontentjust to wound me?
If I were to grab his knees and hold on, could myfamilyget away while he was stabbing me?Should I call 9-1-1 ?
Why is this street so deserted?
We need to raise taxes, have a paint and weed day andmakethis a happier, healthier street that would discouragesuchbehavior.
This is all so confusing!I need to discuss with some friends over a latte andtry tocome to a consensus.
==================================
Republican's Answer:BANG==================================
Redneck's Answer:BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Click....
(sounds of reloading)
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!click
Daughter: 'Nice grouping, Daddy! Were those theWinchester Silver Tips or Hollow Points?'
Son: 'You got him, Pop! Can I shoot the next one?'
The following wes suggested by PetePop: 'Sure son... Run get the shotgun and extra ammo out of the truck'
Wife: 'You are not taking that to the taxidermist!'
I know that glock has a 14 round clip...
I do not advocate killing anyone but... I must be a redneck
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Those Stupid Converter Box Commercials
Americans are dumb, or at least the government thinks we're dumb.
Television is going digital in February, 2009 and if I see one more condescending, insane TV ad, “informing” me about the change over from analog to digital, I'm going to go postal on my big screen. OK, technically I don’t have a “big screen” It’s a 15 yr old 32 inch analog, not HD, TV. But I digress, whatever that means.
How this got to be this important, I don't understand. How we've gone this long, with all these “reminders,” without having an armed revolution, is beyond me.
These are the ads that will show up during a show on TV. All of a sudden your screen flattens a bit and some sort of scrawl will go across the bottom like those emergency broadcast messages.
The first time I saw that, I thought Jesus had come back. But it wasn't Jesus. It was Beelzebub, or his modern incarnation – the federal government.
Due to federal dictate, like the time they told us how many gallons of water could be in a toilet, the government has decided that on February 17, TV will change. Not all TV, just antenna TV. That's the kind your grandparents used to watch when they were sharecroppers. You had a TV and it had some wires and tinfoil sticking out of the top and if you turned them a certain directon, or had your portly cousin Louie touch it with his tongue, you could get snowy pictures, sort of, from a couple of counties over.
Apparently, some people still use antenna TV. My guess is that they're Dave Ramsey fans trying to pay off their debt. In America, the poor people have digital cable. The poor people working under the table, so as not to lose their welfare, have satellite.
The only ones left with an antenna are the ones who are worried about the FBI reading their brain waves. Or the ones who bet their brother they could live for a year watching nothing but Sanford and Son.
Anyway, apparently antenna people are really stupid, because they need to be told 80 or 100 times a day that they have to get a converter box by the middle of February. There is a website, there are television commercials, there are pamphlets, movie stars will remind you, it's on the radio, probably before long, members of Congress will come door to door to make sure people know.
Of all the things to make a public-information priority, how did we get this? Not disease prevention, not avoiding consumer debt, not avoiding e-mails from con men in Nigeria, but TV converter boxes.
It seems to me that people would be motivated to take care of this on their own. If they don't want their TV to go blank, they'll do what's necessary to keep it from happening.
It's as if this whole annoying thing is directed at the dumb and lazy. Make sure your TV keeps working. If not, it'll turn off. This is kind of a no-brainer. And it's kind of an individual responsibility.
Which is why I wonder why I have to pay for it. Not only does the nanny government keep reminding you to get a converter box, the nanny government is willing to pay for it. Each household can get vouchers for $80 to pay for converter boxes.
It's welfare for TV. I wonder, when they outlawed horses because of their carbon footprint, and we had to start using cars, did the government send around vouchers?
What possible responsibility is it of the taxpayer to pay for other people's entertainment? It's bad enough some people lay around the house all day watching Judge Judy, must I be taxed to give them $80 for their converter boxes?
I'm just frustrated by this. It is the biggest non-event since Y2K. And just as disruptive to what I want to watch on TV. Honestly, if I have to see another one of those annoying commercials I'm going to go around the neighborhood and start breaking down antennas.
Except there aren't any.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Are We Winning The War
I know this will be a popular subject today. I probably will not say anything that has not been said before. But i think it is important to realize that where we are today is a result of where we were yesterday.
Has it really been 7 years?
I remember that day. My wife had been in Louisville Ky. for a week at the National Quartet Convention and was due to fly back that day. My son was at his Grandmas because, for some reason, poppa couldn't get him to school and back to work on time. It was early (we lived in Denver at the time) and i was ready for work and turned on the TV for the noise and sat down to check my email. I glanced at the TV and saw the north tower burning. I thought it was weird to have a movie on at this time of day on the major networks. i half listened as i checked my mail until i heard the familiar voice of Peter Jennings on the TV. I looked again and watched flight 175 hit the south tower. I think i was a little slow almost caught up in the mundane things of day to day life enough to ignore the big picture. i realized that this was not a movie but something was going on. i grabbed my phone and tried to call my wife, understandably the phones were overloaded and i could not get through.
I called my boss and let him know that i would not be in till i talked to my wife. He understood and told me not to worry, there were A LOT of people out that day. I tried repeatedly to call my wife, thinking I had to warn her not to get on the plane. Of course all planes were grounded and diverted in order to get out of the sky as soon as possible. News came in about flight 77 hitting the Pentagon, then flight 93 crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. I, along with most of the nation, watched those buildings fall and thousands of people die that day. We all watched as these attacks were celebrated in the Middle East. The realization later that some of the debris falling from the buildings were humans throwing themselves out of windows rather than waiting to be burned or buried alive was horrifying.
I did not talk to my wife till later that evening. I was blubbering like an infant and she chided me for being worried. It was another week and a half before I saw my wife again. She was able to ride with friends that she flew out with. They rented a car and drove back.
That was 7 years ago today. I didn’t loose anyone in those attacks. Nor did I know anyone who did. As the years have passed there have been wars started, other terror attacks, in other countries how ever, there has not been a major attack on American soil since that day. I believe there have been terror attacks here. There have been shootings and attacks against Jewish organizations shootings at Shopping malls by people sporting Islamic names. For some reason, we are led to believe that these are random acts but, that is for another post.
I believe that we had elected the right man for the job of leading this country through this time. I also believe that last 7 years is proof of it. There are those that will tell you that George Bush is a warmonger and started wars because he could but let’s look at s a partial list of Foiled Terror Plots Against America Since 9/11. There are many that say we just got lucky and that may be true. I believe, however that it is not luck but, the military action taken in Afganistan and Iraq, the policies, laws and directives implemented by this administration.
Bush had the political will and courage to do what was best for this country. I do not think The Obamassiah will have that same will.
I do believe we are winning but, the the left in this country has a knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Has it really been 7 years?
I remember that day. My wife had been in Louisville Ky. for a week at the National Quartet Convention and was due to fly back that day. My son was at his Grandmas because, for some reason, poppa couldn't get him to school and back to work on time. It was early (we lived in Denver at the time) and i was ready for work and turned on the TV for the noise and sat down to check my email. I glanced at the TV and saw the north tower burning. I thought it was weird to have a movie on at this time of day on the major networks. i half listened as i checked my mail until i heard the familiar voice of Peter Jennings on the TV. I looked again and watched flight 175 hit the south tower. I think i was a little slow almost caught up in the mundane things of day to day life enough to ignore the big picture. i realized that this was not a movie but something was going on. i grabbed my phone and tried to call my wife, understandably the phones were overloaded and i could not get through.
I called my boss and let him know that i would not be in till i talked to my wife. He understood and told me not to worry, there were A LOT of people out that day. I tried repeatedly to call my wife, thinking I had to warn her not to get on the plane. Of course all planes were grounded and diverted in order to get out of the sky as soon as possible. News came in about flight 77 hitting the Pentagon, then flight 93 crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. I, along with most of the nation, watched those buildings fall and thousands of people die that day. We all watched as these attacks were celebrated in the Middle East. The realization later that some of the debris falling from the buildings were humans throwing themselves out of windows rather than waiting to be burned or buried alive was horrifying.I did not talk to my wife till later that evening. I was blubbering like an infant and she chided me for being worried. It was another week and a half before I saw my wife again. She was able to ride with friends that she flew out with. They rented a car and drove back.
That was 7 years ago today. I didn’t loose anyone in those attacks. Nor did I know anyone who did. As the years have passed there have been wars started, other terror attacks, in other countries how ever, there has not been a major attack on American soil since that day. I believe there have been terror attacks here. There have been shootings and attacks against Jewish organizations shootings at Shopping malls by people sporting Islamic names. For some reason, we are led to believe that these are random acts but, that is for another post.
I believe that we had elected the right man for the job of leading this country through this time. I also believe that last 7 years is proof of it. There are those that will tell you that George Bush is a warmonger and started wars because he could but let’s look at s a partial list of Foiled Terror Plots Against America Since 9/11. There are many that say we just got lucky and that may be true. I believe, however that it is not luck but, the military action taken in Afganistan and Iraq, the policies, laws and directives implemented by this administration.
Bush had the political will and courage to do what was best for this country. I do not think The Obamassiah will have that same will.
I do believe we are winning but, the the left in this country has a knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Friday, September 5, 2008
I Wonder If She'll Wear White
Some days you don't know who pulls the strings on whom. Do the Democrats control the media or does the media control the Democrats? Is there any demarcation at all anymore in the march of the left? Some call themselves journalists and some call themselves politicians but they both bleed Democrat blue. And they both hate Republicans.
And Sarah Palin's daughter walked into both barrels of that. Never has a teenager in trouble been held up to more scrutiny or scorn. The party that facilitates out-of-wedlock birth has decided to call the kettle black.
So let's get things straight. There is a right way in life, and a wrong way. We all know what the right way is, but a fair amount of the time we still do things the wrong way. For example, you're not supposed to have sex until you're married. Some people live up to that standard, and some people don't. And sometimes those who don't will get pregnant. Sometimes those people will be young, even teen-agers. At least that's how it was in my hometown.
Sometimes you'd think the bride looked a little plump or the wedding seemed a little rushed or the baby, at 8 or 9 pounds, seemed a little big for just four months gestation. Sometimes it went that way. And nobody had a problem with that. If you screwed up in the first instance, there were additional expectations so that you hopefully didn't screw up in the second instance. The wrong thing is to do what it takes to make a baby. The right thing is to then do what it takes to make a family.
They used to be called shotgun weddings. And I've bought golden-anniversary presents for people who had them. It might not be quite according to Hoyle, but in the real world, it's how it sometimes works out. And though it sometimes comes with a little regret and repentance, it can also come with joy and family. Experience teaches us that it can come, over time, with a lot of joy and family.
Of course, they're bashing the girl's mother because she believes in abstinence education in the schools, and because it's a church-going family, and because she's a Republican. For political points, they choose to see the girl as a referendum on her mother's politics. And that's not fair to either.
Every mom and dad hopes and prays that their children will avoid life's pitfalls and traps. It is a season of worry as children enter middle school and adolescence and progress into their 20s. There is the fear of drugs and alcohol and dangerous driving and squandered educations and inappropriate sex. Life presents so many temptations to damage or destroy a young life. And not every child comes through unscathed.
Home life can help pull a child in one direction or another, for good or for bad, but ultimately we are all free, and so are our children, and people make their own decisions. Even if those people are in our home, under our roof.
There's nothing wrong with having a child when you're 18. Barack Obama's mother was 18 when he was born. My mother was 18 when I was born. But Barack's mother was married and my mother was married, and so might the governor's daughter be.
And regardless of this situation, or one's views on this situation, the larger and more relevant issue is out-of-wedlock births. There is a catastrophic cascading of out-of-wedlock births in this country, a dramatic cultural shift, and it carries with it a crushing social cost. Will the governor's daughter be part of that? We'll have to wait and see.
But all – from the left and right – must be part of an effort to curb out-of-wedlock birth. Nothing – not race or income or where you're born – has a statistically more negative impact on a little baby's life prospects than being born out of wedlock.
It is, tragically, a huge indicator for a long list of very bad things – educational failure, welfare reliance, criminal conduct. Whether you believe in cutting out-of-wedlock birth by handing out more condoms or by teaching more abstinence, there must be agreement that it is bad even if you're the governor's daughter.
The right thing is to keep your pants on. If you don't, and there's a baby involved, the right thing is to get married. That's how it was in my hometown, and apparently that's how it is in Alaska.
And beyond that, it's none of anybody's damn business.
And Sarah Palin's daughter walked into both barrels of that. Never has a teenager in trouble been held up to more scrutiny or scorn. The party that facilitates out-of-wedlock birth has decided to call the kettle black.
So let's get things straight. There is a right way in life, and a wrong way. We all know what the right way is, but a fair amount of the time we still do things the wrong way. For example, you're not supposed to have sex until you're married. Some people live up to that standard, and some people don't. And sometimes those who don't will get pregnant. Sometimes those people will be young, even teen-agers. At least that's how it was in my hometown.
Sometimes you'd think the bride looked a little plump or the wedding seemed a little rushed or the baby, at 8 or 9 pounds, seemed a little big for just four months gestation. Sometimes it went that way. And nobody had a problem with that. If you screwed up in the first instance, there were additional expectations so that you hopefully didn't screw up in the second instance. The wrong thing is to do what it takes to make a baby. The right thing is to then do what it takes to make a family.
They used to be called shotgun weddings. And I've bought golden-anniversary presents for people who had them. It might not be quite according to Hoyle, but in the real world, it's how it sometimes works out. And though it sometimes comes with a little regret and repentance, it can also come with joy and family. Experience teaches us that it can come, over time, with a lot of joy and family.
Of course, they're bashing the girl's mother because she believes in abstinence education in the schools, and because it's a church-going family, and because she's a Republican. For political points, they choose to see the girl as a referendum on her mother's politics. And that's not fair to either.
Every mom and dad hopes and prays that their children will avoid life's pitfalls and traps. It is a season of worry as children enter middle school and adolescence and progress into their 20s. There is the fear of drugs and alcohol and dangerous driving and squandered educations and inappropriate sex. Life presents so many temptations to damage or destroy a young life. And not every child comes through unscathed.
Home life can help pull a child in one direction or another, for good or for bad, but ultimately we are all free, and so are our children, and people make their own decisions. Even if those people are in our home, under our roof.
There's nothing wrong with having a child when you're 18. Barack Obama's mother was 18 when he was born. My mother was 18 when I was born. But Barack's mother was married and my mother was married, and so might the governor's daughter be.
And regardless of this situation, or one's views on this situation, the larger and more relevant issue is out-of-wedlock births. There is a catastrophic cascading of out-of-wedlock births in this country, a dramatic cultural shift, and it carries with it a crushing social cost. Will the governor's daughter be part of that? We'll have to wait and see.
But all – from the left and right – must be part of an effort to curb out-of-wedlock birth. Nothing – not race or income or where you're born – has a statistically more negative impact on a little baby's life prospects than being born out of wedlock.
It is, tragically, a huge indicator for a long list of very bad things – educational failure, welfare reliance, criminal conduct. Whether you believe in cutting out-of-wedlock birth by handing out more condoms or by teaching more abstinence, there must be agreement that it is bad even if you're the governor's daughter.
The right thing is to keep your pants on. If you don't, and there's a baby involved, the right thing is to get married. That's how it was in my hometown, and apparently that's how it is in Alaska.
And beyond that, it's none of anybody's damn business.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Sara Palin
OK...
it has been said that McCain's VP Pick unqualified, inexperienced and an unfit mother. There are several things at work here and the left really is exposing itself to the American public. The Feminists are strangely quiet about, not only the dismissal of Hillary Clinton but the history that was made by the McCain campaign.
Think about it, if they were REALY so worried about getting a woman into office and a woman being able to do ANYTHING. Any job a man can do, a woman can do better! That is what they believe at least, that’s what they want you to believe. If that was the case, where are they when this woman is attacked? *listens intently* Yeah, i'm not hearing it. I am listening believe me! I think it would be refreshing if someone on the left actually thought of more than the selfish need for power and the compulsion to do what it needs to do to keep it.
Dems had a historic opportunity not only to nominate a woman as their Presidential nominee and when she was defeated, to place her on the ticket as Vice President. Obama declined to do that and, if you believe everything you read, he didn't even vet or look at her seriously as a running mate.
So then we have a woman VP pick for the Republicans and the same ol same ol. FOR PETE"S sake (sorry Pete) OBAMA chose an old WHITE GUY... i though that with as America's first black nominee he would have chosen a Hispanic running mate if he was not going to choose the woman (Hillary) that ran such a great campaign against him.
Well I am not sure I can make that point any more clear. If you want to look at who is more progressive look at the tickets. If you want to look at who is more tolerant, look at the substance of the attacks and where they are coming from.
it has been said that McCain's VP Pick unqualified, inexperienced and an unfit mother. There are several things at work here and the left really is exposing itself to the American public. The Feminists are strangely quiet about, not only the dismissal of Hillary Clinton but the history that was made by the McCain campaign.
Think about it, if they were REALY so worried about getting a woman into office and a woman being able to do ANYTHING. Any job a man can do, a woman can do better! That is what they believe at least, that’s what they want you to believe. If that was the case, where are they when this woman is attacked? *listens intently* Yeah, i'm not hearing it. I am listening believe me! I think it would be refreshing if someone on the left actually thought of more than the selfish need for power and the compulsion to do what it needs to do to keep it.
Dems had a historic opportunity not only to nominate a woman as their Presidential nominee and when she was defeated, to place her on the ticket as Vice President. Obama declined to do that and, if you believe everything you read, he didn't even vet or look at her seriously as a running mate.
So then we have a woman VP pick for the Republicans and the same ol same ol. FOR PETE"S sake (sorry Pete) OBAMA chose an old WHITE GUY... i though that with as America's first black nominee he would have chosen a Hispanic running mate if he was not going to choose the woman (Hillary) that ran such a great campaign against him.
Well I am not sure I can make that point any more clear. If you want to look at who is more progressive look at the tickets. If you want to look at who is more tolerant, look at the substance of the attacks and where they are coming from.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The Boy Scouts of America – Something Worth Fighting For
Where are your kids, right now? What are they doing? Do you know? Really? Of course, they told you they were headed to McDonalds or Burger King or whatever to meet some friends. Are you certain that is where they actually went? You have only their word to go on. Of course you trust them! So do I (trust my kids). If they said they are at Burger King, I am sure that is where they went… I think.
At least I know that when my kids are at Scout Camp, I know where they are, who they’re with, and what they are involved in. I know because I am a Boy Scout leader. I know because I know the value that the Boy Scouts of America place on the youth in their program.
Actually, I have all girls. That’s O.K. because they have decided that the best youth program they have encountered is the Boy Scouts of America. I know what you’re thinking… and get your mind out of the gutter. It’s not the boys they are interested in (yet). It is the fun they have.
Boy Scouts are really all about fun. The founder of the Boy Scouts of America, Baden Powell, said, “Scouting is a game with a purpose.” He talked a lot about giving boys fun things to do while we, the adult leaders, provide moral and ethical lessons weaved into their fun. The boys are often not even aware they are learning something. That is the point; teach the boys principles and concepts without them knowing they are learning it. They key is to let them have fun!
On with the rant…
It’s been a while now, and like 911 people have generally forgotten the hype about the Supreme Court’s decision on the BSA’s policy against gays; or at the very least it has slid down the drive-by media’s hot list. But as a trained and registered Scout Leader I have personally taken some flak from that from time to time so let’s finally set the record straight.
The Boy Scouts have this fixation about “morally straight” and that translates, in this regard, to straight straight, as in not-gay. If you’re gay, the Boy Scouts of America doesn’t want you to be an adult leader in its organization.
The Supreme Court is cool with that, but such a rule goes counter to the required fanny kissing of the day. For some reason, gay people are America’s favorite minority. We love gay people. So we put them in sitcoms and we wear ribbons for them and we pretend that the whole thing doesn’t nauseate us.
And to prove we’re not bigots we go out of our way to show how accepting we are, and we become willing accomplices to a perversion which disgusts us. So we turn our back on the good to advance the bad. And the institutions of power in this society are turning against the Boy Scouts of America.
It’s time to hit back, and hit back hard. It’s time to fight a war like Dick Cheney and Colin Powell did; to overwhelm and smother and prevail. They bombed. We can boycott - purposefully, loudly, and viciously. We can boycott the cities, states and philanthropies which have targeted the Scouts.
But such an effort must be resolute and even ruthless. And it will require sacrifice. Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale, for example, must come off our vacation list. Perhaps the entire state of Florida should be targeted. Ditto for Connecticut and the businesses which are headquartered there. And we should stop contributing to or through the United Way.
Is any of that fair? Probably not. But it could be effective. And this is about winning. The tourist industries of Florida probably have nothing to do with the spurning of Boy Scouting. The same goes for the businesses of Connecticut – or Tempe and Tucson for that matter – or the vast majority of United Way chapters.
Sometimes you make a man sweat by pestering his neighbors, and if the consequences of anti-Scouting initiatives are spread out, that will simply create more people with an interest in having the anti-Scout measures reversed.
Opposition to the Scouts must come at a price; a high price. So high that the wave of prejudice against Scouting can be reversed.
Boycotts are tricky tools. They usually don’t work. They seldom have sufficient economic impact to even be noticed. But when a large and committed group of people withhold their business and monetary support, and there is an aggressive public information program associated with it, good things can be done.
The parents and supporters of Boy Scouting are legion and affluent. They tend to be the doers of society; the movers and shakers and if anyone can pull off a boycott, they can. But there will need to be an organization and orchestrated action. In fact, it may have to be so confrontational as to be uncomfortable for some of the people who typically are involved in Scouts.
Boy Scouting, however, is worth it. Check that. It’s not actually Boy Scouting which is so valuable; it is the values which it instills. This really isn’t about the Scouts; it’s about the society in which they will live as adults. We are not teaching youth how to camp. We are teaching them how to be husbands and fathers, mothers and daughters, and leaders.
And that is worth fighting for.
So think it over.
See if this is something you want to start.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Amil Imani - Telling the Truth is Islam Bashing?
You have got to read this piece from Amil imani exile in Persia. He is lone voice in the lion's den speaking truth about islam here is an exerpt.
Please read the rest of this here and pass this on.
http://www.amilimani.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=112&Itemid=2
Question: Does Islam get a pass because it is a religion? Who says Islam is
a religion? Millions do? What is the evidence? The words of masses of
brainwashed carriers of the Islamic virus, transmitted to them by their parents,
are worthless as evidence. What counts is the irrefutable fact that this creed,
claimed to be the one and only religion of Allah, has been and continues to be a
source of great suffering for non-Muslims as well as the ignorant masses of
Muslims themselves.
I will share with you just a few of thousands of
horrific things that Muslims do to people of other religions or those without
any religion at all. In model Islamic states such as Saudi
Arabia and Iran, for instance, women don’t dare complain about their
Allah-decreed chattel status. If they protest in the least, they are beaten by
their husbands. And if they dare to demonstrate in public for equal family
rights with men, they get severe beatings by the police and hauled to jails for
additional indignities and violence.
Please read the rest of this here and pass this on.
http://www.amilimani.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=112&Itemid=2
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The OBAMASSIAH
Have you seen the cover of New Yorker Magazine? It is hillarious!
But wait!!! Obama is out raged! he does not like this depiction of his extreamest views. Well Phooey. He needs to lighten up and learn how to laugh at himself. This is quickly becoming the public perception of him and his wife. and i am sure there will be more of this in the future. One can only hope that Democrats do not take to the streets and riot as the Islamists have done when their Profit has been depicted in Satire. I would not think they would, to become violent at protesets and destroy the personal property of others is to.... umm... never mind, what was i thinking?
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
British knife ban
I just saw this on the American Thinker, They are actually trying to ban ‘pointy’ knives!!! Because the only people that need 'pointy knives' are professional chefs... That has GOT to be the stupidest thing i have ever heard. I am not ashamed to say that I was sceptical so, I looked. I found this:
Kitchen knife ban sought May 27 2005: James Meikle Accident and emergency doctors today call for the banning of long, sharp kitchen knives, arguing they account for at least half of all stabbings.
And this:
British Medical Experts Campaign for Long, Pointy Knife Control
This is all about taking away the ability of someone to defend them selves. Guns have been taken away from the Brits a long time ago. According to Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com 'Britain, Australia top U.S. in violent crime' course that was a couple of years ago so look at this site it has a map of the countries with the highest crime rates. Notice that the countries with the highest crime rates are the countries with strict gun control laws. The same can be said of US cities that have enacted gun control laws.
God bless the 2nd amendment…
Kitchen knife ban sought May 27 2005: James Meikle Accident and emergency doctors today call for the banning of long, sharp kitchen knives, arguing they account for at least half of all stabbings.
And this:
British Medical Experts Campaign for Long, Pointy Knife Control
This is all about taking away the ability of someone to defend them selves. Guns have been taken away from the Brits a long time ago. According to Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com 'Britain, Australia top U.S. in violent crime' course that was a couple of years ago so look at this site it has a map of the countries with the highest crime rates. Notice that the countries with the highest crime rates are the countries with strict gun control laws. The same can be said of US cities that have enacted gun control laws.
God bless the 2nd amendment…
Monday, July 7, 2008
Of Men and Mice
Ok… ok… OK….
You cannot even call the inactivity on this blog a lapse since there is no track record. That and the folks that I have tapped to write for us have dropped the ball. Pete has a GREAT article in the development stages. Course it has been for 3 weeks now.
EVERY one is talking about oil prices and generally the cost of getting by. Ok so it is expensive. Every thing else will catch up at some point. Yes we need to drill for more oil and find more efficient ways of using it. We also need to find alternative forms of energy and, when they are economically feasible, they should come to the market and then the free market will decide if they are worthy. With one candidate advocating the policies that got us to this point(not encouraging local energy exploration) and the other flip, flopping on the same issue (McCain now would like to open the outer continental shelf to drilling but still opposes drilling in ANWR) the choice is getting clearer in the POTUS race. I REALLY wish Rush Limbaugh would run but he has said many times he does not want the pay cut. Sean Hanity I am not sure would run and Newt has turned into a tree hugger. ‘Our list of allies grows thin’
The supreme’s (SCOTUS) has confirmed an individual’s right to own a fire arm to protect them selves and their families. That is a good thing though the margin was a little closer that I would have liked. It is like the left in this country has decided that we peons deserve only the rights they say we can have. We should eat what they tell us, believe what they tell us, possess what they tell us we can possess. When the reality is, the Bill of Rights is a list of rights the Government has no right to limit or take away. Justice Joseph Story(Appointed to the supreme court in 1811 at the age of 32) said – Consider the right to keep and bear arms “the palladium of the liberties of the republic,” which enables the citizenry to deter tyranny.
Lets see what else happened since my last post… Rush Limbaugh has signed a contract through 2012 for $400Mill everyone is jealous and many want to shut him up just for his beliefs and his audience base. The FCC looks at the fairness doctrine again. So now we are looking at officials that are not elected, curtailing our freedom of speech. Just like the bureaucrats at the EPA can tell you what you can and cannot do with your private property. NICE....
You cannot even call the inactivity on this blog a lapse since there is no track record. That and the folks that I have tapped to write for us have dropped the ball. Pete has a GREAT article in the development stages. Course it has been for 3 weeks now.
EVERY one is talking about oil prices and generally the cost of getting by. Ok so it is expensive. Every thing else will catch up at some point. Yes we need to drill for more oil and find more efficient ways of using it. We also need to find alternative forms of energy and, when they are economically feasible, they should come to the market and then the free market will decide if they are worthy. With one candidate advocating the policies that got us to this point(not encouraging local energy exploration) and the other flip, flopping on the same issue (McCain now would like to open the outer continental shelf to drilling but still opposes drilling in ANWR) the choice is getting clearer in the POTUS race. I REALLY wish Rush Limbaugh would run but he has said many times he does not want the pay cut. Sean Hanity I am not sure would run and Newt has turned into a tree hugger. ‘Our list of allies grows thin’
The supreme’s (SCOTUS) has confirmed an individual’s right to own a fire arm to protect them selves and their families. That is a good thing though the margin was a little closer that I would have liked. It is like the left in this country has decided that we peons deserve only the rights they say we can have. We should eat what they tell us, believe what they tell us, possess what they tell us we can possess. When the reality is, the Bill of Rights is a list of rights the Government has no right to limit or take away. Justice Joseph Story(Appointed to the supreme court in 1811 at the age of 32) said – Consider the right to keep and bear arms “the palladium of the liberties of the republic,” which enables the citizenry to deter tyranny.
Lets see what else happened since my last post… Rush Limbaugh has signed a contract through 2012 for $400Mill everyone is jealous and many want to shut him up just for his beliefs and his audience base. The FCC looks at the fairness doctrine again. So now we are looking at officials that are not elected, curtailing our freedom of speech. Just like the bureaucrats at the EPA can tell you what you can and cannot do with your private property. NICE....
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Common Sense
I think I have a good title for posts on this Blog. THINK. If there is anything I would have you take away from reading these few words on this piece of the net it would be that I made you think. I do not necessarily mean you thinking hmm... he’s right on the money but, maybe also to challenge you to dig deeper. Such as there has been a series of posts over on 7.62mm justice called Kyoto – A Perspective (Hat Tip TonyfromOz) about how we in the USA generate electricity and how, if we were to adopt the principals of the Kyoto treaty, our nation would be drug, rather quickly, back into the 1800’s. That has made me think about how we as a nation use energy and what we could do different and that has lead to MANY ideas about energy efficiency and alternative fuels.
Ideas will always lead to discussion and discussions will always lead to some type of discourse and THAT my friend is one of many things that have made this nation great. The 56 original members of congress did not sit down on July 4th, 1776 and write out and sign the document that has shaped our nation. This did not just happen! We all know or, rather, should know the story of our fight for independence. There were years of subjugation to the crown in England. There were unjust searches and seizures, Taxes levied with out the input of the Americans (Taxation with out Representation), forced billeting of troops in private homes. When the fighting actually started in April of 1775, the shadow governments that had been in place in all of the 13 colonies took control of their colonies and deposed the royal officials. The desire for full independence grew and in January 1776, Thomas Pain published his well known pamphlet ‘Common Sense’. The second Continental Congress appointed 5 men to draft what would become our founding document those men included Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and Samuel Adams. Many changes and additions were made to this document, for example Franklin himself made at least 48 corrections, including changing the slogan "Life, Liberty and Property" to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness before it was presented to the main body of the Congress on June 28th 1776. I was not until July 4th 1776 that the document was approved and sent to a printer. John Hancock was the first to sign as the elected President of the Congress. It was not till August of that same year that the rest of the delegates signed the Declaration of Independence.
I went through that short history lesson to show you that the idea that all men were created to be free created a discourse and that discourse led to the birth, with all the pain and suffering I cannot call it created, of the United States of America. But to have that discourse, you have to have ideas, to have ideas you have to be able to think. Now there are those that say that thinking should be left to the experts. Some say I am not paid to think, I am paid to follow instructions. Anyone that has a brain can think. I believe it is a sad state of affairs when someone in TV or radio studio has to tell us what a speech just made by this politician or that world leader means and how mad or happy we should be because of it. Think for yourselves! I believe there is a nefarious scheme behind the decline in our ability to think for ourselves but that is for another post. Think! Read! Learn! This is how we will retain our freedom. This is how we come up with ideas that make us money and keep our economy strong. This is how we keep informed and know when to stand in support of or against ideologies that threaten our liberties or our way of life. In America we live in the greatest secular country on earth. There are few that even compare.
Thanks to all the veterans for the sacrifice they have made, God Bless you everyone!
Ideas will always lead to discussion and discussions will always lead to some type of discourse and THAT my friend is one of many things that have made this nation great. The 56 original members of congress did not sit down on July 4th, 1776 and write out and sign the document that has shaped our nation. This did not just happen! We all know or, rather, should know the story of our fight for independence. There were years of subjugation to the crown in England. There were unjust searches and seizures, Taxes levied with out the input of the Americans (Taxation with out Representation), forced billeting of troops in private homes. When the fighting actually started in April of 1775, the shadow governments that had been in place in all of the 13 colonies took control of their colonies and deposed the royal officials. The desire for full independence grew and in January 1776, Thomas Pain published his well known pamphlet ‘Common Sense’. The second Continental Congress appointed 5 men to draft what would become our founding document those men included Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and Samuel Adams. Many changes and additions were made to this document, for example Franklin himself made at least 48 corrections, including changing the slogan "Life, Liberty and Property" to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness before it was presented to the main body of the Congress on June 28th 1776. I was not until July 4th 1776 that the document was approved and sent to a printer. John Hancock was the first to sign as the elected President of the Congress. It was not till August of that same year that the rest of the delegates signed the Declaration of Independence.
I went through that short history lesson to show you that the idea that all men were created to be free created a discourse and that discourse led to the birth, with all the pain and suffering I cannot call it created, of the United States of America. But to have that discourse, you have to have ideas, to have ideas you have to be able to think. Now there are those that say that thinking should be left to the experts. Some say I am not paid to think, I am paid to follow instructions. Anyone that has a brain can think. I believe it is a sad state of affairs when someone in TV or radio studio has to tell us what a speech just made by this politician or that world leader means and how mad or happy we should be because of it. Think for yourselves! I believe there is a nefarious scheme behind the decline in our ability to think for ourselves but that is for another post. Think! Read! Learn! This is how we will retain our freedom. This is how we come up with ideas that make us money and keep our economy strong. This is how we keep informed and know when to stand in support of or against ideologies that threaten our liberties or our way of life. In America we live in the greatest secular country on earth. There are few that even compare.
Thanks to all the veterans for the sacrifice they have made, God Bless you everyone!
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