Delftsman

May 23, 2010

Crabby Old Man

What do you see nurses? . . . .. . What do you see?
What are you thinking . . . . . when you're looking at me?
A crabby old man . . . . . not very wise,
Uncertain of habit . . . . . with faraway eyes?

Who dribbles his food . . . . . and makes no reply.
When you say in a loud voice . . . . . 'I do wish you'd try!'
Who seems not to notice . .. . . . the things that you do.
And forever is losing . . . . . A sock or shoe?

Who, resisting or not . . . . . lets you do as you will,
With bathing and feeding . . . . . The long day to fill?
Is that what you're thinking? . . . . . Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse . . . . . you're not looking at me.

I'll tell you who I am. . . . . . As I sit here so still,
As I do at your bidding, . . . . . as I eat at your will.
I'm a small child of Ten . .. .. . . with a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters . . . . . who love one another.

A young boy of Sixteen . . . . with wings on his feet.
Dreaming that soon now . . . . . a lover he'll meet.
A groom soon at Twenty . . . . . my heart gives a leap.
Remembering, the vows . . . . . that I promised to keep.

At Twenty-Five, now . .. . . . I have young of my own.
Who need me to guide . . . . . And a secure happy home.
A man of Thirty . . . . . My young now grown fast,
Bound to each other . . . .. . With ties that should last.

At Forty, my young sons . . . . . have grown and are gone,
But my woman's beside me . . . .. . to see I don't mourn.
At Fifty, once more, babies play 'round my knee,
Again, we know children .. . . . . My loved one and me.

Dark days are upon me . . . . . my wife is now dead.
I look at the future . . . . . shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing . . . . . young of their own.
And I think of the years . . . . . and the love that I've known

I'm now an old man . . . . . and nature is cruel.
Tis jest to make old age . . . . . look like a fool.
The body, it crumbles . . . . . grace and vigor, depart.
There is now a stone . . .. . where I once had a heart.

But inside this old carcass . . . . .. a young guy still dwells,
And now and again . . . . . my battered heart swells.
I remember the joys . . . . . I remember the pain.
And I'm loving and living . . . . . life over again.

I think of the years, all too few . . . . . gone too fast.
And accept the stark fact . . . . that nothing can last.
So open your eyes, people . . . . . open and see.
Not a crabby old man . . . Look closer .. . . see ME!!


Remember this poem when you next meet an older person who you might brush aside without looking at the young soul within.

We will all, one day, be there, too!

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May 21, 2010

Golfers discussion

Four married guys go golfing. During the 4th hole the following conversation took place:

First Guy:
'You have no idea what I had to do to be able to come out golfing this weekend. I had to promise my wife that I will paint every room in the house next weekend.'

Second Guy:
'That's nothing; I had to promise my wife that I will build her a new deck for the pool.'

Third Guy:
'Man, you both have it easy! I had to promise my wife that I will remodel the kitchen for her.'

They continue to play the hole when they realized that the fourth guy has not said a word.

So they ask him, 'You haven't said anything about what you had to do to be able to come golfing this weekend. What's the deal?'

Fourth guy:
'I just set my alarm for 5:30am. When it went off, I gave the wife a slap on the ass and said: 'Golf course or intercourse?'
She said: 'Wear sun-block.'

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May 17, 2010

DON'T Mess With an Old Man

An old prospector shuffled into the town of El Indio , Texas leading an old tired mule. The old man headed straight for the only saloon in town, to clear his parched throat. He walked up to the saloon and tied his old mule to the hitch rail. As he stood there, brushing some of the dust from his face and clothes, a young gunslinger stepped out of the saloon with a gun in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other.

The young gunslinger looked at the old man and laughed, saying, "Hey old man, have you ever danced?" The old man looked up at the gunslinger and said, "No, I never did dance... never really wanted to."

A crowd had gathered as the gunslinger grinned and said, "Well, you old fool, you're gonna' dance now," and started shooting at the old man's feet. The old prospector, not wanting to get a toe blown off, started hopping around like a flea on a hot skillet. Everybody was laughing, fit to be tied.

When his last bullet had been fired, the young gunslinger, still laughing, holstered his gun and turned around to go back into the saloon. The old man turned to his pack mule, pulled out a double-barreled shotgun, and cocked both hammers. The loud clicks carried clearly through the desert air.

The crowd stopped laughing immediately. The young gunslinger heard the sounds too, and he turned around very slowly. The silence was almost deafening. The crowd watched as the young gunman stared at the old timer and the large gaping holes of those twin barrels.

The barrels of the shotgun never wavered in the old man's hands, as he quietly said, "Son, have you ever kissed a mule's ass?"

The gunslinger swallowed hard and said, "No sir..... but... I've always wanted to."


There are a few lessons for us all here:


Never be arrogant.
Don't waste ammunition.
Whiskey makes you think you're smarter than you are.
Always, always make sure you know who has the power.
Don't mess with old men, they didn't get old by being stupid .

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May 15, 2010

Quote of the Day

"To the distinguished Character of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to add the more distinguished Character of Christian. The signal Instances of providential Goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labours with complete Success, demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of Gratitude and Piety to the Supreme Author of all Good." --George Washington

So much for the Founders not wanting religion mixed with public activities. ALL of the Founders were men of faith of one manner or another; the glue binding them together was their belief in a Supreme Being, and that that Being granted every human being certain rights just by virtue of their existing as human beings.

Those rights were held to be sacred and not in the purview of any government to take away or alter.

Contrast that view with the current Progressive view that rights are to be delivered/enforced by Government fiat and you will see how far afield we as a Nation have strayed.

For those Progressives that would point to Thomas Jefferson as their standard bearer of making government totally secular I would point out the following quote of Jefferson's (emps mine):

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. ... Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever."

Jefferson also wrote:

"I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others. ... I am a real Christian -- that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ."

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May 14, 2010

Globull Warmening

I think the following quote puts the Global Warming argument in it's proper context.

Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early twenty-first centurys developed world went into a hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined in implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll back of the industrial age.

- Dr. Richard Lindzen
(Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT)

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A Refreshing Politician

FINALLY! A state Gov. not willing to accede to a reporters biased view.

Kudos to Gov. Christie !

Gov Christie calls S-L columnist thin-skinned for inquiring about his 'confrontational tone'

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P.S.A. Woman Haz-Mat Information

When I was a truck driver, we often had to peruse Haz-Mat Sheets to find out about any dangerous cargo we were hauling. As a public service, I thought I would post this data sheet about the "fairer" sex for the enlightenment of young male readers to help them in their (unattainable) quest to understand women:

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Islam in Action

WARNING: Extremely graphic video

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THIS IS A DEMONSTRATION of the "Religion of Peace" in action. I don't know what the girls "crime" was, but certainly it didn't merit the actions taken against her.

ANYONE that would defend this grotesque event as being permissible under color of religion/culture should immediately suffer the same fate, IMHO.

Does anyone really think that we can peacefully co-exist with such a "religion", or think that such a "culture" that accepts this as normal and righteous can be successfully integrated with the American Dream?

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La Raza

And we wonder why our education system fails our children so completely.

I only have one question...WHY is this man still a teacher in one of our schools?!?

You can contact his employer here:

http://www.santeefalcons.org/

Phone: (213) 763-1000

Los Angeles Unified School District

Tel: 213-241-7000

superintendent@lausd.net

Los Angeles Board of Education:

Tel: 213-241-6389

Email: steve.zimmer@lausd.net

Fax (213) 742-9883

Tell this school district that we don't want Communist revolutionaries indoctrinating our children.

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Quote of the Day

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." --Thomas Paine

That is the dilemma we face with the Obama Administration, having to fund the loss of basic freedoms with it's Socialistic programs.

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May 09, 2010

Things that make you go Hmmmm

1947

The year is 1947

Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little over 60 years ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and mule ranch just outside Roswell , New Mexico . This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and other federal agencies and organizations.

However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of April 1948, nine months after that historic day, the following people were born:

Albert A. Gore, Jr.
Hillary Rodham
John F. Kerry
William J. Clinton
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer

See what happens when aliens breed with sheep and jackasses?
I certainly hope this bit of information clears up a lot of things for you. It did for me.

No wonder they support the bill to help illegal aliens!

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A different Toast....

Voted Best Joke in Ireland - 2007

John O'Reilly hoisted his beer and said, 'Here's to spending the rest of me life...between the legs of me beautiful wife!'

That won him the top prize at the pub for the best toast of the night.

He went home and told his wife, Mary, 'I won the prize for the best toast of the night.' She said, 'Aye, did ye now? And what was your toast?'

John said, 'Here's to spending the rest of me life, sitting in church beside me beautiful wife.'

'Oh, that is very sweet indeed, John!' Mary said.

The next day, Mary ran into one of John's drinking buddies on the street corner. The man chuckled leeringly and said, 'John won the prize the other night at the pub with a toast about you, Mary.'

She said, 'Aye, he told me, and I was a bit surprised myself. You know, he's only been there twice in the last four years.

Once he fell asleep, and the other time I had to pull him by the ears to make him come.'

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May 07, 2010

Cheap Tomatos?

Here is another perspective on ILLEGAL immigration:

This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent


From a California school teacher - - -

"As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:

I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels

Most of the schools you heard about several years ago, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc., where these students protested, are also Title 1 schools.

Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll -- but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten.

I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.

I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America.

I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students, here in the country less then 3 months, who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "putas" (whores) and throwing things, that the teachers were in tears.

Free medical, free education, free food, free day care etc., etc, etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?

To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.

Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.

It does, however, have everything to do with culture: It involves an American third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about political correctness" that we don't have the will to do anything about it.

CHEAP LABOR? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?

Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage. Consumers don't want expensive produce. Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs. But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as "cheap labor."

Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free. He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent. He qualifies for food stamps. He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school. He requires bilingual teachers and books. He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.

If they are, or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. If qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is at (OUR) taxpayer's expense. He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance. Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material. He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits. Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills AND his.

Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT!

Immigration legislation is to be considered in 2010. This is important to working Americans, our economy and our American culture and heritage.

Grace Gan
Ukiah Unified School District
925 N. State St.
Ukiah, CA 95482

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Arizona

Want to know why Arizona took the actions it did?

Here it is straight from the horses mouth:

Arizona State Senator Explains Anti-Illegal Bill

I'm Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen. I want to explain SB 1070 which I voted for and was just signed by Governor Jan Brewer.


Rancher Rob Krantz was murdered by the drug cartel on his ranch a month ago. I participated in a senate hearing two weeks ago on the border violence, here is just some of the highlights from those who testified.

The people who live within 60 to 80 miles of the Arizona/Mexico Border have for years been terrorized and have pleaded for help to stop the daily invasion of humans who cross their property . One Rancher testified that 300 to 1200 people a DAY come across his ranch vandalizing his property, stealing his vehicles and property, cutting down his fences, and leaving trash. In the last
two years he has found 17 dead bodies and two Koran bibles.

Another rancher testified that daily drugs are brought across his ranch in a military operation. A point man with a machine gun goes in front, 1/2 mile behind are the guards fully armed, 1/2 mile behind them are the drugs, behind the drugs 1/2 mile are more guards. These people are violent and they will kill anyone who gets in the way. This was not the only rancher we heard that day that talked about the drug trains.

One man told of two illegal's who came upon his property one shot in the back and the other in the arm by the drug runners who had forced them to carry the drugs and then shot them. Daily they listen to gun fire during the night it is not safe to leave his family alone on the ranch and they can't leave the ranch for fear of nothing being left when they come back.

The border patrol is not on the border. They have set up 60 miles away with check points that do nothing to stop the invasion. They are not allowed to use force in stopping anyone who is entering. They run around chasing them, if they get their hands on them then they can take them back across the border.

Federal prisons have over 35% illegal's and 20% of Arizona prisons are filled with illegals. In the last few years 80% of our law enforcement that have been killed or wounded have been by an illegal.

The majority of people coming now are people we need to be worried about. The ranchers told us that they have seen a change in the people coming they are not just those who are looking for work and a better life.

The Federal Government has refused for years to do anything to help the border states . We have been over run and once they are here we have the burden of funding state services that they use. Education cost have been over a billion dollars. The healthcare cost billions of dollars. Our State is broke, $3.5 billion deficit and we have many serious decisions to make. One is that we do not have the money to care for any who are not here legally. It has to stop.
The border can be secured. We have the technology we have the ability to stop this invasion. We must know who is coming and they must come in an organized manner legally so that we can assimilate them into our population and protect the sovereignty of our country. We are a nation of laws. We have a responsibility to protect our citizens and to protect the integrity of our country and the government which we live under.

I would give amnesty today to many, but here is the problem, we dare not do this until the Border is secure. It will do no good to forgive them because thousands will come behind them and we will be over run to the point that there will no longer be the United States of America but a North American Union of open borders.

I ask you what form of government will we live under? How long will it be before we will be just like Mexico , Canada or any of the
other Central American or South American countries? We have already lost our language, everything must be printed in Spanish also. We have already lost our history--it is no longer taught in our schools. And we have lost our borders.

The leftist media has distorted what SB 1070 will do. It is not going to set up a Nazi Germany. Are you kidding. The ACLU and the leftist courts will do everything to protect those who are here illegally, but it was an effort to try and stop illegal's from setting up businesses, and employment, and receiving state services and give the ability to local law enforcement when there is probable cause like a traffic stop to determine if they are here legally. Federal law is very clear if you are here on a visa you must have your papers on you at all times. That is the law. In Arizona all you need to show you are a legal citizen is a driver license, MVD identification card,
Native American Card, or a Military ID. This is what you need to vote, get a hunting license, etc.. So nothing new has been added to this law. No one is going to be stopped walking down the street etc...

The Socialist who are in power in DC are angry because we dare try and do something and that something the Socialist wants us to do is just let them come. They want the "Transformation" to continue.

Maybe it is too late to save America . Maybe we are not worthy of freedom anymore. But as an elected official I must try to do what I can to protect our Constitutional Republic . Living in America is not a right just because you can walk across the border. Being an American is a responsibility and it comes by respecting and upholding the Constitution the law of our land which says what you must do to be a citizen of this country. Freedom is not free.


Senator Allen is correct when she says that being an American is a responsibility. It is NOT a "Right" to be given just anyone who chooses to flout our laws and misuse our public largess.

If we are to survive as the Nation we were founded to be; a nation built on the rule of law, we MUST control our borders.

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May 01, 2010

A Hero's Account

Here's a first hand account of what it was like to be a Medi-Vac chopper pilot in Viet Nam.

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A Fitting Epitaph

No one explains the 2ND Amendment better than Charles Heston.

This video should be shown in every school.

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April 27, 2010

A Mere Pittance...

L.C. Brendon over at the Rott posted this piece in honor of Anzac Day in Australia. While it is in honor of the Australian Service members, I like to think that it applies to ALL Soldiers; no matter their Country; no matter their War.

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April 24, 2010

Quote of the Day

"If I thought this war was to abolish slavery, I would resign my commission and offer my sword to the other side." --slave-holding Union General Ulysses S. Grant

The So called "Civil War" was not a Civil war at all; the definition of a civil war is :"two or more factions fighting for control of the National government". The 11 States fighting for the Confederacy were NOT interested in taking over the Federal Government; rather they wished to secede to form their own Confederacy of States that retained their sovereign powers as enumerated under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Northern States had instituted a system of tariffs that benefited them at the cost of the Southern states. They were, in essence strangling the commerce of the Southern portion of the United States to benefit their own economies. They were also trying to impose their own vision of states rights as being subservient to the Federal Government to the detriment of the sovereignty of the individual States as envisioned by the Founders. I believe that, had any of the Founding Fathers been alive at the time of the conflict; it is almost certain that most of them would have fought on the side of the Confederacy.

Slavery was and is one of the most abhorrent institutions that ever existed on this Continent, but the fact is that slavery was already dying out and probably would not have lasted more than another 50 years at most.

It is interesting to note that the most fervent proponents of slavery at the time were members of the Democratic party; indeed even up to the time of the Civil Rights battles for the equal treatment of the Black race, the most strident voices against the CR Acts were all Democrats; that is why it is puzzling to me to note that the Black portion of our population are so overwhelmingly supportive of the Democratic Party. Whenever the "Race Card" is used; it is trotted out by those that have never really aided the Black race in any just manner; rather it is used to keep that population beholding to the Party for their very sustenance by those that would hold them down from reaching their full potential as free human beings by treating them as somehow not capable of reaching a higher state of equality by dint of their own hard work.

Does racism still exist? YES, it most certainly does. But the most prevalent form of it exists as the slavery of low expectations and use of racial excuses playing on "White Guilt" for past injustices for present conditions.

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Quote of the Day

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"If you aren't wary of the Democratic Agenda, you aren't paying attention"

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April 19, 2010

Happy Birthday Israel !

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