Driveway Deer
I was able to take this shot a couple of days ago of a deer just at the end of the driveway and close to the cars. Megan our Siamese cat is in the picture as she was sitting on the window-sill.
Glenn Beck – The Letter
Glenn Beck: The Letter
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June 17, 2009 – 10:36 ET
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GLENN: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona. She writes an open letter to our nation’s leadership: I’m a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you’re willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?
Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:
One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I’m not a racist. This isn’t to be confused with legal immigration.
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Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.
Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.
Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.
Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don’t you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!
Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don’t you start there.
Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don’t trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.
Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why ?? what do you have against shareholders making a profit?
Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.
Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we’ll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band?Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.
Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let’s have it. Let’s say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try ?? please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.
Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.
Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let’s just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I’m busy. I’m busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.
I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.
From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington. Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don’t want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we’re morons.
We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we’re so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn’t ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when hewill rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.
Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don’t care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.
Warrior Legacy Foundation
Warrior Legacy Foundation
Warrior Legacy Foundation
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An organization that begins with the premise that “Veterans make the community they live in a better place.”
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Freedom is not Free
Freedom is not free, as we all know..this video captures some of that reality….Very powerful presentation…..
All Americans should see this video, especially younger ones;
without these warriors, there would be no America ….
Warriors…in their own words
and to all of you that have been part of making this country so great, I say thank you!
Vals World
Thursday, March 19, 2009
“STEALTH GOVERNMENT” WEAKENING THE POWER OF CITIZENS/STRENGTHENING THE POWER OF GOVERNMENT, While you were sleeping
By Sher Zieve Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The first fifty-six days of the Obama presidency have been—to put it mildly—planned frenzy. Frenzy in an attempt to keep We-the-People from knowing what’s really going on (chaos is a tyrant’s friend) and planned because it was! Just some of what Obama and his supplicant Congress have wrought includes:
* Seized over $1TRILLION in taxpayer funds from the US Treasury (in less than 2 months) for the so-called economic “stimulus package” and heavily- earmarked spending bills
* Committees held and are continuing to hold “kangaroo trials” of bank executives in ongoing “investigative” hearings, in order to divert the blame for the US’ economic disaster from the true culprits—which include but, are not limited to—Democrats Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, former President Clinton and Barack Obama
* Grilling AIG CEO on bonuses paid to his employees, while knowing full well that it was Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CN) who wrote the legislation to protect these bonuses. Note: Dodd is now frantically trying to dance away from this as fast as he can
* Working diligently—via Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder—to so restrict the Second Amendment that it essentially becomes null and void
* Working diligently to so restrict talk radio (via use of the soon to be Obama FCC and the recently passed restrictive Durbin Amendment) that the First Amendment essentially becomes null and void
* Nationalizing almost every possible industry, so that the government will decide virtually all that We-the-People can and cannot do—just a few of these industries include banking, investments, automobile, oil and gas, energy and now even food growing and distribution
* Executive Branch control of the Commerce Department (which has traditionally been autonomous and controls the US Census Bureau) in order to Gerrymander districts so that Democrats will be in control nationwide—no elections will really be necessary
* Assigning the radical Obama Fraud Unit ACORN to work with the Commerce Department—again, the department that controls the US Census Bureau. Note: This usage of ACORN appears to ensure citizen-intimidation (as it affected during the 2008 elections) and the strong possibility (considering the organization’s biased and deceitful record) of over-counting certain groups
* Cutting US Defense Funds and decrease of the US nuclear arsenal
* Intentionally lowering the morale of the US Military by advising our wounded soldiers that they will soon have to pay for their own treatment
* HUGE increase in taxes on ALL energy use—for everyone—to appease the global warming crowd and appointing as Energy Tsar former leader of the Socialist Party International and an agent for world government Carol Browner. Note: Ms. Browner has said that when energy companies can provide their ‘smart systems’ she will be able to regulate how much energy is distributed to each and every private home!
* Trashing our friends while praising and courting our enemies
* Has already issued directives to the Missouri State and local police that they are to be on the watch for anyone displaying anti-North American Union or any 3rd party candidate (most specifically Ron Paul supporters) bumper stickers. They are being told that these are probably terrorists or militia members
* Recently, in San Francisco, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that she supports illegal immigrants and does not support the US legal systems attempts to stop them!
The above examples are only a few of those that Barack Obama has instituted in his first fifty-six days. And all of them have one thing in common. They are all planned and meant to weaken the power of US citizens and increase the power of Obama and his minions. Remember when I warned about Obama as an American Stalin? Are you getting scared yet?
Feds undercut civilian supply of ammo:
Eric Holder gun control nightmare:
Durbin Doctrine’s assault on free speech:
Dodd legislation protecting AIG bonuses:
Obama’s work to nationalize almost everything in the USA:
Lose your property for growing food?:
Obama nabs political control over census:
Obama nabs political control over census:
Radical ACORN to work on 2010 census:
Obama nabs political control over census:
Obama to cut nuclear arsenal:
Obama to make wounded soldiers pay for own treatment:
Obama’s Energy Czar: Socialist Agent For World Government:
Obama: Courting our enemies while ‘dissing’ our friends:
Missouri police told anti-Obama 3rd party supporters to be treated as possible militia members or terrorists:
Pelosi supports illegals over US law:
December 8 2008
It’s been awhile since anything has been posted here. Doing lots of other things and then firefox became unstable and had to be uninstalled and then reinstalled. During all of this everything was lost concerning bookmarks and passwords to various sites and blogs and so forth. In the meantime I started another hosted blog on Vox and if I can remember how it’s done I’ll insert a link into this.Here is the newerblog. http://mike630.vox.com/ Just click here and be on your way to that blog.
Freedom Never Cries
Description: Freedom is not free.
Charity: ophomefront
Author: TriWest Healthcare Alliance
Credits: TriWest Healthcare Alliance, DoD, AP Archives
