Heave Ho

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Some 50 years ago, my parents took me camping for the first time.  We loaded out '60 Chevy Bisquane station wagon with borrowed miltary ice chests, blankets, lanterns, a gas stove, and then strapped a tent to the roof before climbing into what space was left.  With Pop driving, Mom riding shotgun, a baby brother and a little sister, we headed off to the Appalachian mountains from our modest miltary housing in Conneticut.

Even at 10ish, it seemed things were a fiasco.  The tent Pop borrowed from the motor pool was made of very heavy canvass and had huge wood poles that would raise the roof with a heave-ho from all of us.  The kids were stationed outside to hold the walls to the ground while Mome hammered the stakes into the ground with a rock because Pop forgot a hammer.  Actually, I think it was his first time camping too, because it seemed he didn't know much what to do.  Seems my Mom was the mastermind that held things together.

But, I loved every moment of it from catching my first fish on a hand line, to being in charge of pumping up the gas stove and lantern.  And Pop brought his plastic raft with a sail that he had won at his Platoon's anual picnic a few weeks before.  Never did get that sail to work, I guess because we had no idea of how to set a sail.

Anyway, that was how it began.  Since then we tent camped, until my wife discovered the RV's with real toilets and showers that other people had.  Soon it was good bye to the porta-potie and sleeping bags as we progressed (if you call it that)  from tent trailers, to hard side trailers, and all the way up to our Motorized Diesel Pusher.  How 'bout that?

Gone are the blankets, gas lanterns, and sponge baths.  Two bathrooms provide piping hot showers, a kitchen with filtered drinking water, a double sink, microwave, and a stove.  All rounded off with 2 HD televisions and forced air heating and air coditioning.  It's not even called camping anymore, but rather RV Resorting. 

My, Mom and Pop could never have imagined!
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Getting the Boot

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Judging by the onslaught of inquiries, many of you now know that I got BOOTED!  OK, I admit, I cop out that I got kicked off Blogspot, which provides the opportunity for me to have a blog.  So, I know you just dying to know, "Why?"

Well, I'll tell you.  I really don't know.  Well, the Blogspot Police really didn't tell me.  They could only say that I didn't follow their Rules of Use.  So I read up on the subject and could only find a few No No's.

Like calling President Obama a liar.  Seems that was the thing that put me over the top to get booted.  It's not like I was telling an untruth, but I guess the truth was just too offensive for the Liberals to handle.

Anyway, I'm back now.  And I'm here to stay.  I got spanked, and I've learned my lesson.  I repent.

But, I think I'll get the subject matter of my blogs back to what they were in Those Days where it all began.  Mostly happy times, but some that could cause a tear if you are the mushy, touchy feely type.  But stories that can help build a better life.  Ethics, Religion, Patriotism, and most everything in between.  Back to the days when the readership flourished.  But then again, politics might even sneak in too as I can't be expected to be totally silent on such an important subject.

So anyway, I'm sorry for leaving so many of my Followers in the day this past week.  I know you had no where else to turn and might have found yourself wandering aimlessly without the direction of the Though Dock portal.

Oh Happy Days!
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When the Takers outweigh the Makers

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Congrats Mr. President.  You have kept one campaign promise of 2008 and have successfully transformed America!

America has now gained 17% more Takers than when you took office.  Takers now account for 49% of Americans.  They have learned that entering the welfare system is easier and pays more (when you consider the free medical) than the job they once worked!

As I've blogged before, America is on it's way to Greece.  It can not recover now.  With 49% Takers, combined with a few liberal independents, the Makers can no longer prevail.

In Oregon, every issue on the ballot asking for more social projects, passed.  The majority voted knowingly that these programs would increase taxes.  But the majority (Takers) don't pay taxes.  Oregon has no sales tax, and is funded only by property and income taxes, and Takers have neither a job, or own a home.  I'm sure issues such as these were passed in every state across our nation.

Our Nation?  If you are a successful business person, or are proud enough to work for a living, or once did, if you don't smoke pot, or live in a Gay relationship, you must understand that you are a Maker and are no longer the majority in this Country of Takers.

Greece fell when the Takers rose to 62% of the population, so America is not long to wait.
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Send in the Windmills

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Obama made his last ditch campaign appearance to the victims of Hurricane Sandy.  Wile visiting the Jersey Shores, he gave warm hugs and comforting words to some that have lost not only their homes, but loved ones as well.  What a guy!

Obama announced that the people of the Shore are in dire need of help and in response he has directed FEMA to remove the "Red Tape" and get assistance to the area.  He ordered that all calls to FEMA be responded to within 15 minutes.  So I ask why does it take an incident of this magnitude to cause FEMA to magically become efficient?  They should have always had returned their calls immediately, even in calm times!  but they never have, and as you see now, they still can't get things done.  FEMA is dysfunctional to say the least.

What a guy, Mr. President!  It would have been nice if your offices would have returned the cries for help coming from our embassy in Lybia in 15 minutes.  It is a disgrace that those people died because of your dysfunctional policies.

"These folks need gasoline immediately," is what you said to the news, and "I'm going to see that they get it."  Well where is it Mr. President?  And why can't the rest of us in the country get some too?

Mr. President, you are a fake, a joke, and a liar.  I would have believed you more if you had just sent them some windmills and solar panels.
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