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January 01, 2010

Quote of the Day

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things. Our curiosity keeps taking us down new paths." ~Walt Disney

Society always HAS to move on and open new doors and try new paths if it is to remain vibrant. Experimenting with new ideas can lead society to new heights. The thing to remember when experimenting is to always hold on to the core VALUES that encourage a free and happy society. Those VALUES should never change; any idea that corrupts those values only leads to despotism and misery.

The "HOPE n Change" mantra of the current government is NOT a new idea; it's the outdated and dis-proven path of Socialism/Communism repackaged; it has never worked to the betterment of any society it has been tried in, but always led to the ultimate downfall of that society.

The core values of self-reliance, self responsibility, and independence of the individual coupled with a strong family structure are the bedrock on which the best possible society are founded upon.

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A New Year's Prayer

May God make your year a happy one!

Not by shielding you from all sorrows and pain,
But by strengthening you to bear it, as it comes;

Not by making your path easy,
But by making you sturdy to travel any path;

Not by taking hardships from you,
But by taking fear from your heart;

Not by granting you unbroken sunshine,
But by keeping your face bright, even in the shadows;

Not by making your life always pleasant,
But by showing you when people and their causes need you most,
and by making you anxious to be there to help.

God's love, peace, hope and joy to you for the year ahead.

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December 31, 2009

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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May you be blessed by the deity of your belief, and may the new year bring you health, happiness, and prosperity (unless your a Socialist in the Obama Administration,but I repeat myself, in which case, PLEASE, put yourself out of our misery !).

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government programs 2010

Due to the current financial situation caused by the slowdown in the economy, Democrats have decided to implement a scheme to
put workers of 50 years of age and above on early retirement, thus creating jobs and reducing unemployment.

This scheme will be known as RAPE (Retire Aged People Early).

Persons selected to be RAPED can apply to Congress to be considered for the SHAFT program (Special Help After Forced
Termination).

Persons who have been RAPED and SHAFTED will be reviewed under the SCREW program (System Covering Retired-Early
Workers)..

A person may be RAPED once, SHAFTED twice and SCREWED as many times as Congress deems appropriate.

Persons who have been RAPED could get AIDS (Additional Income for Dependants & Spouse) or HERPES (Half Earnings
for Retired Personnel Early Severance).


Obviously persons who have AIDS or HERPES will not be SHAFTED or SCREWED any further by Congress.

Persons who are not RAPED and are staying on will receive as much S.H.I.T. (Special High Intensity Training) as possible. Congress has always prided themselves on the amount of S.H.I.T. they give our citizens.


Should you feel that you do not receive enough S.H.I.T. , please bring this to the attention of your Congressman, who hasbeen trained to give you all the S.H.I.T. you can handle.

Sincerely,
The Committee for Economic Value of Individual Lives
(E.V.I.L.)


PS - - Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, gas and oil, as well as current market conditions, the Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off.

H/T to Richard

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Childhood Wisdom

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.

The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small..

The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.

The little girl said, 'When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah'.

The teacher asked, 'What if Jonah went to hell?'

The little girl replied, 'Then you ask him'.

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A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work.

As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.

The girl replied, 'I'm drawing God.'

The teacher paused and said, 'But no one knows what God looks like.'

Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, 'They will in a minute.'

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A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.

After explaining the commandment to 'honour' thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, 'Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?'

Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, 'Thou shall not kill.'

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One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.

She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, 'Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?'

Her mother replied, 'Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.'

The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, 'Mommy, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?'

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The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.

'Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Susan, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.'

A small voice at the back of the room rang out, 'And there's the teacher, she's dead.'

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A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood.. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, 'Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.'

'Yes,' the class said.

'Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn't run into my feet?'

A little fellow shouted,
'Cause your feet ain't empty.'

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The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray:

'Take only ONE . God is watching.'

Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.

A child had written a note, 'Take all you want.. God is watching the apples..'


H/T to Nancy
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Laugh today and let not your cares drag you down, for tomorrow is never guaranteed.

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December 30, 2009

Idiocy in Ill.

Yeah, NO one could see any problem with this policy !

After all these cons must have been rehabilitated, right?

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Commander-in-chief in Hawaii.

Caddy: Sir, the secret service guy said to tell you that a suicide bomber tried to blow up a U.S. airliner!

CIC: So, what do you think?

Caddy: About what sir?

CIC: Does this putt break left or right?

It would be a lot funnier if it wasn't so damned close to the truth....

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TREASON

Now can we impeach the bastard? pResident Obama has waived YOUR rights under the 4th Amendment to a foreign power. He has given that agency immunity from any of the checks and balances provided you under our Constitution against undue police powers.

By this act, he has abrogated his sacred oath to "Protect and defend the U.S. Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. THAT is unequivocally an act of treason. The Impostor in Chief should be immediately removed from office, tried, and when convicted, executed. Treason by a high official in time of war has always been an automatic death sentence under our judicial system historically, and I see no justification to change that now.

I believe the traditional sentence is death by hanging...works for me.

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If George W Bush was an idiot...

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W.. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America , would you have approved.

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 5 months -- so you'll have three years and seven months to come up with an answer.

H/T Rurik

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December 27, 2009

Quote of the Day

Can anyone tell me what dangerous subversive made the following quote?

"As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is powerful, dangerous and relentless, I refer of course to the federal government."

The University of Marquette made a student take the quote off of her dorm room door, stating that it was "patently offensive". A political quote is offensive and thus should be censored ?!? What have our Universities and other centers of higher learning become? Obviously they are no longer the bastions of debate and free thought that they traditionally were thought to be.

If you are interested in what is going on in Academia these days, you might want to check out FIRE , the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

Some of abuses that FIRE has gotten involved in, helping students and faculty fight against in their schools will really shock you, assuming you are not already a brain dead adherent of PC or a Democrat (I know, I repeat myself)

Seems a lot of Higher Education Schools have forgotten that they are supposed to be in the business of teaching their students HOW to think; rather they are engaged in trying to force their students WHAT to think.

The quote is by humorist Dave Barry btw. Guess it's really true that Humor is a high form of radicalism!

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Will YOU be a Johnny Today?

I saw this over at Wild Things site today and I just HAD to pass it on.

We are so wrapped up in the big issues that sometimes we forget a simple truth; just one person CAN make a difference, just by being themselves and giving of themselves, just because it's the right thing to do.

It can be as simple as a kind word, or maybe just a smile; in the spirit of giving of oneself with no thought for recompense, but simply to make another human being feel special for just that one small moment of time.

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Newfie Humor

Sir I think you got a circle fly there, and he's like "sir, whats a circle fly?" and he said "back home in Newfoundland, there's a fly that always buzzes around a horses ass, and its a circle fly" and he said "Are you sayin my face looks like a horses ass?" he said "noooo sir but ya can't fool the ol' circle fly"

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December 26, 2009

Wine = Health ?

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To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine...
And those who don't.

As Ben Franklin said:
In wine there is wisdom,
In beer there is freedom,
In water there is bacteria.

In a number of carefully controlled trials,
Scientists have demonstrated that if we drink
1 liter of water each day,
At the end of the year we would have absorbed
More than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. Coli) - bacteria
Found in feces.
In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop..

However,
We do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer
(or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor)
Because alcohol has to go through a purification process
Of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.

Remember:
Water = Poop,
Wine = Health.
Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid,
Than to drink water and be full of shit.

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information:
I'm doing it as a public service!

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December 25, 2009

The Filling Station

I've posted this before, but I think it's the best thing to put up on this day of all days. It's always been a great inspiration to me and, now, I hope, for you.

May you be blessed by all you deem Holy.


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December 24, 2009

Merry Christmas

With all the PC ruckus that we go through every year, with the A.C.L.U. or some other group trying to file lawsuits against either a town, state, or the federal government itself about some perceived bias by that entity towards Christianity; it's interesting to note that, in Israel, the people/government seem to have no problem with the Christmas season, OR IT'S BEING CELEBRATED by Christians. In fact, they have set aside valuable arable land for the express purpose of ensuring that Christian families and entities such as embassy's and monasteries have the opportunity to be able to celebrate Christmas with a Christmas tree.

The Israeli government is certainly not in the business of promoting Christianity over any other religion, but they recognize the value of traditions, and people celebrating their own traditions.

If a Jewish secular government can see it's way clear to helping people of a different faith celebrate their traditional holiday; shouldn't our government at least stay out of people celebrating the holidays as they wish?

WHY should a tiny minority dictate what is allowed on the common ground?
WHY should we kowtow to the ultra-delicate sensibilities of the too easily offended?
WHY should we fore-go our own traditions and yet still hold up traditions alien to us as sacrosanct ?

We need to learn to tolerate ALL traditions as valuable to their adherents. NOT as a PC form of obeisance to sensibilities, but because it is one of the basic tenets of our Republic as it was planned out by the Founders; Religious freedom for ALL, not just the fad cause du jour.

They never envisioned freedom FROM religion; indeed many of the Founders stated that the form of government they had initiated could not prosper unless it was tended by a religious and a moral people. In that era, and in this locale; most people were Christian. They belonged to many different sects, but they held a common belief in Christ. Today, we have many more belief systems competing for the soul of the population, but the beauty of the system the Founders put in place is that, as long as ALL are respected, ALL are equal in the eyes of the state.

That is what the A.C.L.U. and atheist organizations have forgotten in their drive to eradicate any hint of religion from the town square, in their fervor they are placing their own beliefs above any other, in the name of "not being offended".


(note, yes I know this link is a year old, but I have it on good authority that the program is still intact, and they expect to give out almost 3,000 trees this year.)

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December 23, 2009

"YOU MAY BE A TALIBAN IF..."

In the vein of Jeff Foxworthy's redneck indicators, "you may be a Taliban if":

1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to liquor.

2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford shoes.

3. You have more wives than teeth.

4. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon "unclean."

5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.

6. You can't think of anyone you haven't declared Jihad against.

7. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing.

8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.

9. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least four.

10. You've always had a crush on your neighbor's goat.

11. Your cousin is president of the United States

Allah Akbar, ya'all!

(worth a shot...you know who's a target by their response.... )

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December 22, 2009

The Precipice

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Obama is leading the Lemmings over the cliff with his insistence on a "health care", ANY health care bill being passed before the end of the year. The monstrosity that is before the Senate at the moment has very little to do with health, and certainly doesn't demonstrate any care for the American people.
It is nothing but a naked power grab by the Elitists of the far Left.

We have an election coming up next year: if WE the People wish this to remain a free Republic, it behooves us to ensure that EVERY single incumbent is voted out of office.

EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. No matter what Party affiliation.

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December 17, 2009

A Friend in Need

I'm behind the curve on this one(Thanks Nicki !), and I have decided that I won't go "silent" (as if this blog matters, in any case).

A number of MilBloggers have decided to "go silent" for at least one day to bring attention to the importance of their contribution to our national discussion on military affairs and the current Administrations' handling of them.

It is also in support of a good Friend, CJ Grishom of A Soldiers Perspective.I wrote a post about the plight CJ is currently embroiled in October.

Folks, matters have gotten worse and CJ needs all the help he can get. If you can find it in your heart to help out one the real GOOD GUYS please donate whatever you can, no matter how small. I know just how tough financial times are for everyone, but EVERY. SINGLE. PENNY. helps.

Find it in your heart to do whats right, even if it stings a little in your finances. It's time to put our money where our mouths are.

Grisham Legal Fund
c/o Redstone Federal Credit Union
220 Wynn Drive
Huntsville, AL 35893
Please write "Grisham Legal Fund" in the memo line.


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Quote of the Day

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world,
is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
- Ronald Regan


We need to remember this fact and try to live up to it, especially in times such as these, when freedom is being assaulted by our own government.

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The Christmas Carol

So here is your history lesson for today. This knowledge was shared with me and I found it interesting and enlightening and now I know how that strange song became a Christmas Carol...

From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics.

It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of their church. Each element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality which the children could remember.


-The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.

-Two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments.

-Three French hens stood for faith, hope and love.

-The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John.

-The five golden rings recalled the Torah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament.

-The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.

-Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit--Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.

-The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.

-Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit--Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control.

-The ten lords a-leaping were the ten commandments.

-The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.

-The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles' Creed.


See? History can be fun!

MERRY CHRISTMAS SEASON EVERYONE!

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