If you don't have anything nice to say, then . . .

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The Central Oregon Coast weather has been at it's best for the past 6 weeks.  Temps in the high sixties, and mostly clear skies.  Don't get much better than that.

So yesterday, I took advantage of the blue skies and did some yard work.  I really don't like it but it has to get done and I prefer to do it when it is not raining.   And so it began with pulling the Dastardly Dandelion weeds.  Aside from pruning Blackberry bushes they are the pits.  I'm sure most every one has had at least some at some time or another, so you might know what I mean.  Or, perhaps you don't...  So, I'll tell you...

When Dandelions are small, they are quite easily removed with a slight tug if the soil is moist.  But as they get bigger, their roots get deeper and deeper to they point you can't even pry them out, or the roots break off and hide only to return even larger in a few short weeks.

Now, as I was Struggling though this chore, I had a flashback.  It was the shaky, shivering voice of Grandma, just as if she were hovering over today.  I could hear her clear as a bell.  Obviously she was quite certain how mad I was getting with that pesty weed.  It was then I heard her once again, "Now, if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all!"

I must have been about five at the time when I first heard those words, and there have been countless times I've heard them over and over ever since.  My mother said it.  I said it.  And now my kids and their kids are saying it.  I'm quite sure you have even said it yourself!

But, you know now that I'm older and wiser, I don't ever want to hear them again.  Why?  Because it's hogwash.

That's when it seems it all started.  50+ years ago.  You know.  That Touchy-Feely attitude that has grown in America ever since. Political Correctness is what they call it now.  Love your neighbor.  Be kinder and gentler. Have you hugged your kids today?  Make Love not War.  Peace to you Brother.  Accept other's views.  Save the Whales, Hug Trees and respect everyone's views.

Hogwash.... That's the very reason why we are in this position today.  Gay marriages, immoral sex, single parenting, rampant abortion, and a profound loss of ethics for most everyone around.  And it is all because of Granny; the one that me to do nothing to confront or offend anyone.

And so it began.  Sex education placed in schools has led first to condoms in schools and now the Morning After being distributed without parental notification. Drug education has led to more addicts than ever, and now legal marijuana everywhere today.

Equal rights has transformed into Gay marriages, artificial insemination to allow Gays and single parents to raise children, liberal juries have allowed many thugs to walk our streets to prey upon us again.  Hugging our enemies while excepting everything.  No smoking laws, seat belts and calories counting cops has eroded our personal choices in our everyday lives.  And it is all because the words my Grandma passed on to all of us.  Never say anything about anything.

We have ignored those Dandelions for too long.  They should have been suppressed long ago.  Now they are rooted deeply into America and will fight dearly for their grasp in the soil.  Like a weed gone unattended, it is next to impossible to turn things around at this stage.  Who knows what's in store for us now?  Is it too late?  I think so, but I'll never stop confronting the evil I see.

If you are not prepared to stand and fight, then you had better run for your life.
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11 Years to Greece

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Not too long ago, Greece was a thriving, majestic, beautiful, romantic, peaceful and vibrant country.  It was a leader in Europe following the end of the war.  And it was the newest socialist government to come to power.  A country the world looked to for prosperity.

Not so any more.  Now it is a place where 20 percent of it's population is unemployed.  A place where 70 percent of it's working class is employed by the government, and the rest of it's people are hungry and receive some sort of government assistance.  Every day there seems to be riots in the streets by people demanding government entitlements.  Free food, college education, housing and income.  Greece has changed.

President Obama announced he will "Fundamentally transform America" in his 2008 campaign.  And that has been his only kept promise during his first term in office. But he is not finished yet!

Today America has nearly 9% unemployment, nearly double what it was in 2008.  47 percent of us don't pay any taxes, up significantly from the Bush era.  55% of our workforce in employed by the government in some way, and growing daily  Welfare and Disability are out of control.  People are rioting in our cities. Squatters occupying vacant buildings and parks while crying for more benefits of a socialistic government.  Illegals consuming our resources, Gays rushing from their closets to marry,  Killing unborn children while some parents also murder their young.  More meth heads, more pot smokers (some even carrying G-cards), no driver licence enforcement, run-a-way health care, and amnesty programs while we embrace the Muslim world.  Just as Greece was the moment it crumble into chaos.

America is in a Democratic era.  Democrats support everything that led Greece to it's grave and so we will follow.  With a re-election of Obama, it will more even more toward what Greece is.  With a Democratic leadership elected to continues Obama's transformation efforts, we will be there in 11 years from today.

O God help us.
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A foreign perspective of President Obama

reprinted in part from the Jerusalem Post:

As he suffocated to death at the US consulate in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the US, did ambassador Christopher Stevens understand why he and his fellow Americans were being murdered?

Chris Stevens arrived in Benghazi at just as Muammar Gaddafi was ousted.  It was apparent then as the rebels with whom he worked included jihadist fighters associated with al-Qa'ida. Their significance became obvious when the rebel forces hoisted the flag of al-Qa'ida over the courthouse in Benghazi to celebrate their victory.

Did Stevens understand what this meant? Perhaps. But his boss, Hillary Clinton, certainly didn't. Following Tuesday's attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Clinton said, "Today, many Americans are asking - indeed, I asked myself - how could this happen? How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction? This question reflects just how complicated and, at times, how confounding the world can be."

Clinton then proclaimed with utter certainty there was nothing to be concerned about. "We must be clear-eyed, even in our grief. This was an attack by a small and savage group, not the people or government of Libya," she said.  Of course, what she failed to mention was that after the rebels felled Gaddafi's regime - with US support - they began imposing Islamic law over the country.

  

And Clinton was not the only senior US official who didn't understand.  The day after the murders, General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called pastor Terry Jones in Florida and asked him to withdraw his support for the film he believed Mohammed negatively. Dempsey's belief that a third-rate riff on Mohammed supported by a marginal figure in Florida is the cause of the terrorist attacks on US embassies is not simply shocking. It is devastating.

It means that this senior military officwr is of the opinion that the party to blame for the embassy assaults was an American pastor. That film apparently was released about a year ago and received little notice until last month when a Egyptian television station broadcast it.  If the film had never been created, they would have found another - equally ridiculous - pretext.

And here we come to the nature of the attacks against America that occurred on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 Jihadist attacks.  It is obvious that the rioting that is still taking place makes clear these were not acts of spontaneous rage about an amateur internet movie. They were premeditated.  

And in Egypt, the mob was led by Muhammad al-Zawahiri, the brother of al-Qa'ida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri.  The day before the attacks, al-Qa'ida released a video of Ayman al-Zawahiri in which he called for his followers to attack the US in retribution for the killing in June of his second-in-command Abu Al Yahya al-Libi by a US drone in Pakistan. Zawahiri asked for the strongest act of retribution to be carried out in Libya.

The US's first official response to the assault on its embassy in Cairo came in the form of an embassy Twitter feed apologizing to Muslims for the film.

As for the attack in Libya, it apparently came as no surprise to some US officials on the ground. In an online posting the night before he was killed, US Foreign Service information officer Sean Smith warned of the impending strike. Smith wrote, "Assuming we don't die tonight. We saw one of our 'police' that guard the compound taking pictures."

The co-ordinated, premeditated nature of the attack was self-evident. The assailants were armed with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns. They knew the location of the secret safe house to which the US consular officials fled. They laid ambush to a marine force sent to rescue the 37 Americans hiding at the safe house. 

Yet Clinton and Dempsey could not fathom why the attack occurred.  Like Dempsey, the US media was swift to focus the blame for the attacks on the film.

By Wednesday afternoon the media shifted the focus of discussion on the still ongoing attacks from the film to an all-out assault on Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for his temerity in attacking as "disgraceful" the administration's initial apologetic response to the attacks on the embassies.

With President Barack Obama's inauguration, American foreign policy shifted.  Obama and his advisers agree that jihadist Islam is the predominant force in the Muslim world. But in their imaginary world, jihadist Islam is a good thing for America.

Hence Obama believes that Israel - the first target of jihadist Islam's bid for global supremacy - is a strategic burden rather than an ally to the US.  Obama abandoned its most stalwart ally in the Arab world, then supported the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood to power in the most strategically vital state in the Arab world.

And Obama supported a Libyan rebel force penetrated by al-Qa'ida which is setting the stage for the re-institution of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

It is impossible to know the thoughts that crossed Stevens's mind as he lay dying in Benghazi. But what is clear enough is that as long as imagination reigns supreme, freedom will be imperiled.

Then you must be a Democrat. . .

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If you believe some one else built it for you;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . . 

If you believe that abortion is simply birth control;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist . . .

If you believe in protesting without offering a solution
or occupying some one else's property;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist . . .

If you refuse to work and don't pay taxes;
or if you believe that paying higher taxes is patriotic;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist . . .

If you think water-boarding is wrong or
mandating voter identification is cruel;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you equate securing our borders to the Berlin Wall;
or favor de-militarizing America;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you believe in spending without a budget;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you think to encourage conservation, gasoline prices in America should rise to the European level;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist.

If you believe that oral sex is not really sex;
or if you support a mosque being built atop Ground Zero;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you look like Hillary Clinton;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you promise something but do another;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you think adding corn ethanol to gasoline is a solution;
or if you believe global warming is real and man-made;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you lie before a Congressional hearing;
or deny that the Fort Hood massacre was a terrorist incident;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you believe in amnesty for Illegal Aliens;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you drive a Toyota Prius or a Volkswagen Bus ;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you believe that hugging Muslims the a way to world peace;
or if you believe in prosecuting CIA agents for torturing terrorists;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you support the union Fat Cats;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you support Gay marriage;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you believe B-O deserves another term;
then you are a Democrat extremist. . .

If you know me;
you know where I stand.
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What Foreign Policy?

Bow wow wow, yippie yo B-O.

America, while in a deep debt crisis herself, continues to dump trillions of dollars into countries that despise us.  Countries of the middle east, with the exception of Israel, that have no regard for Democracy, and the tributes it provides.  And, due to their Islamic fundamentals, have no desire to elect their government or encourage the freedoms we know in the Western cultures.

President B-O's foreign policy, as the initials he places on his informal notes imply, quite frankly stink.  The moment he took office he began bowing before the Muslim kings of the Middle East and apologized for American intrusions into their world as he vowed to make amends.

B-O was caught on a "live mike" making a secret deal to a Russian official that would have had no Congressional approval.  And few (Democrats) seemed to think anything of it.

In his own books, B-O stated he would support the Muslim world over any other in a time of crisis.  That was never more evident by his refusal to have an emergency meeting with the President of Israel recently, all the while seemingly knowing about the planned imminent threats to our citizens and embassies abroad commemorating the 911 attack, and doing absolutely nothing to prevent it.

B-O stated publicly yesterday that Egypt was not considered a U.S. ally, which was promptly reversed by the State Department.  Neither B-O or Hillary Clinton denounced the killings of our Ambassador and several guards abroad, but condemned the film that they believed incited the rioting.  And the beauty Nancy Pelosi expressed a "Wait 'n' See" attitude as to what America should do about it.

America needs to stop foreign aid to countries that hate us now!  Countries like Egypt, Libya, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iraq, and Afghanistan to name a few.  Pull out and focus on securing our own borders before this country implodes from within as the Islamic culture grows in our own cities.

B-O and all of his chromies must go in November.  And include any other long-term politician, Democrat or not, that refuses to act.

There is no bigger threat to our way of life in America than Islam!

Hoe Ignorant They Are!

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Who am I calling ignorant?  They Ignorants are those that voted for Obama (B.O), the first time, and those stupid enough to vote for him again.

The Ignorants are mostly females, most of the 18-25 year olds, most of those on Welfare, most of Gays, most of Hispanics, most of union workers, most of those that have medical marijuana prescriptions, most of those that to use abortion as a means of birth control, most of those that either live on the Left coasts, most of unwed mothers and the unidentified fathers of their children, most Hippies and others who don't bathe regularly, most of the ones that prevent off shore oil drilling and cutting trees for lumber, most of those that drive Toyota Priuses or ride bicycles to work every day, most artists and actors (except Clint Eastwood), Green Peace members, most Volkswagon drivers, and communists.

You know all these people were aware that President B.O. (now, I don't mean Bad Odor) had a youth mentor named Frank Marshall Davis who was an outspoken, card carrying Communists, and they knew that President B.O. was good friends with William (Bill) Ayers, who was convicted and imprisoned for bombing various American government buildings, and they knew that Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who condemmed America and blamed us for the 911 terrorist attack.  And they knew that President B.O.'s citizenship was in question.

But most importantly, these Ignorants knew that President B.O. was a Half-Black.  And that was the most underlining reason they voted him into office.  Just to prove to their own minds that they were not prejudiced.

And these same Ignorants will do it again!
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An Obama Reality

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While travelling this summer I stopped at a casino about 30 miles outside Chicago, in Jolliet, Illinois.  President B.O. spent some time as a Community Organizer not far from there.

Anyway, I'm not much of a gambler, but I do like the thought of winning 25 Hundred Dollars on a 25 cent Keno bet.  Now I've never seen anyone get the 8 of 8 needed for the 2500 big ones, but I have got 7/8 in the past which paid $1670.  Very cool!

Anyway, I sat down at a Keno machine, and within playing my first handful of quarters, I hit the big one.  2500 Dollars!  Wow, how fun was that?

So after waiting about 15 minutes for the Pit Boss to verify the win, he paid me, in cash, a total of $1025.00.  The Pit Boss, a tall light skinned Black with big ears, explained that the casino retains 25% of all winning which is put into a pool to repay those that lose their bets.  So, in theory, he said nobody loses in his place.  When asked whether the 25% taken from the winners is always enough to reimburse all losers, he said, "No, but we put the rest on credit so they can be paid."

Well now that explained about $625 of my winnings, so he then added that I was in the 34% Federal Tax bracket, so he deducted that amount ($850) as well.  He also said that 34% was to be distributed by the government for programs that support those that do not pay taxes.

I was really breathing hard and perspiring profusely when I awoke from that dream.

Reality is that I actually did go to that casino, but I didn't win anything.  And there was no fund to repay me for my losses.  But I really do have to pay 34% of everything I earn to the government, which is then redistributed to the 47% that don't.

Anyway, it was just a nightmare.  A bad dream with President Obama as a Pit Boss.  But reality is, if President B.O. and his harem, are re-elected that nightmare is ever closer becoming a reality.  You can see evidence of it in Chicago where few work, and the city is holding with the highest murder rate in America.

Fire Obama and his clan this November!

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93 Days Down - 82 Left

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We are home.  You know, back home on the Central Oregon Coast after 93 days of sightseeing, visiting family and friends, and spending some of that time just being together.  What a trip it was!

Now it's back to catching up on the maintenance around the house.  Laundry, mowing, bush trimming, weeding, watering, and preparing the Wheeled Manor for our next grandstand in just a few months from now.  Soon we will be catching up with the loved ones we left here as our lives return to what once was, our normal.

I love being surrounded by green, moderate temperatures, and our abundance of wildlife.  Something we have not seen much of since we left.  Seems wherever we traveled, the heat followed.  Only a mid-western thunder shower, or while passing through a higher elevation, could drop the temperature below 100 degrees.  Now we're back into to 70's.

But, now that we are beck to reality, I have realized it is less than 3 months down the road to the election.  Thanks to all of you for following the Thought Dock while we were away.  I know it was hard because the blogs were so infrequent and off point.  But now, I'm back and I'll be getting the word out on the things that matter most to us....Defeating that clown, that Cheat, that liar, and that Fake, Corrupt President, BO.  Taking down Obama and his Court will be our Number One goal.

So get ready.  Be back soon!!      

Looking East then West

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During our Friends and Family tour, I've seen many sunrises, and just as many sunsets.  We all know the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.  I can surely attest to that as I squint looking east every morning waiting for that first cup of coffee to work it's way into my body.  And just as difficult it is to drive west into that setting sun looking for that next RV Park adventure.  Oh how beautiful and warm our sun is.

But did you know that no matter where you stand on earth, you can never see both a sunrise and sunset at the same time?  Try it.  Get up early and look east until you have the rising sun in your face, then quickly turn snap your neck to the west.   Too late, the sunset is already passed!   No matter how quick you are, you'll never see them both.   It's impossible.

How silly it seems to some of you to even try.  For what?  We all know it to be impossible even before we try.  So why try?

Well, our Lord made it that way.  For me it is a reminder that although I sin every day, I am forgiven with each sunset and begin anew every sunrise.  What I've done the day before is over and can not be done over, but I can only wait until the next day for another chance to make things better.

See it my way.  But with a political spin, we made a mistake electing President B.O. and we need to begin anew when the sunrises on Election Day.  May God Bless America!
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First Holder - Then President B.O.

Well, today is the start of the Fall.  Not the start of the fall season, but the beginning of the fall of the atmosphere of corruption in our government.  Today is the first step is to spank Attorney General, Eric Holder, for lying about the administration's direction of Mexican drug cartel enforcement.  And, with that it will expose President B.O's. need to use his Executive Privilege to cover it all up.  Take 'Em down deep.  Then follow with the ousting of Nancy Pelosi in her nest re-election bid.

On a side note, we are concluding our trip and heading west.  Still 1562 miles to go and maybe a week or two left.  More to see.  More friends to visit.  And more time together.

I know some of you are starving for the Wisdom of the Thought Dock and may have even turned elsewhere for some sort of substitute.  But there is none.  So be patient and I promise to come back even stronger.  And keep coming with the information you find, but can not understand.  I'll digest it for you and break it down with a Thought Dock spin and feed it right back to you in a way that will make sense.

Pray for America!

America's Biggest Mistake

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Last week we finished our our of the Plains States.  Those are the ones that produce America's vast supply of corn and wheat.  Places like Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas.  And we went even deeper during our journey to explore Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana.

There it was right before us, the stomping grounds of Obama, Chicago.  The place where he held his first job as a Community Organizer, and the place where he continued his climb to the Presidency from his very own Illinois State Senate seat.

Obama left his mark everywhere.  It was obvious.  Chicago leads our Nation with the murder rate.  Bordered up and abandoned homes, apartments and business were everywhere.  Closed factories, and unfinished construction projects blanketed the area.  Dope dealers and prostitutes roamed most every street outside of the center city.  One news report described a beating wherein a limousine pulled to the curb at the gate of Wrigley Field and six males exited and beat a man to death that was standing on the corner.  Organized crime?  Mafia.  You decide if you can.

Obama's influence was everywhere with one of the nations highest tax rate, unemployment, and failed social programs.  In one well known mega store, I saw a lady cash 4 different welfare checks right in front of me while I waited for the cashier to accept my cash.  The oddest thing was the cashier didn't bat an eye when she presented four different ID's to cash the checks.  Pathetic.

Chicago heavily taxes those that do work.  Sales tax, gasoline tax, and toll roads are all over the place.  In one day of touring the Chicago area we spent over $36 dollars in parking and another $28 in toll charges.  It's no wonder why the cost of living there even outweighs that of New Your City.  And Obama believes even more social programs are the answer.

America made it's mistake 4 years ago by hoping that the Bozo would bring change.  Well, he did.  He appointed his friends like the Evil Holder, continued our never seen before deficit, raised our taxes, and funneled money through bailouts to his Union and other big supporters, some of which filed bankruptcy right after receiving our gifts.  Is this what America is to be?

We don't need another Mistake.  Get rid of Obama, his corrupt policies, his lies, and his blatant arrogance to our Constitution, and his racist views during our next election.  And don't forget to oust all of his other crooked friends.  Let them all go to countries that allow corruption.
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Me - You - Us - Them - Him

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It's not as important about what people say about you while you are in their presence, but what they say about you after you leave.

Yesterday, we took time out by ourselves and watched the Eddie Murphy movie "1000 Words."  Now, I'm not much of a fan of any Funny Guy, preferring a more serious or factual subject, but I watched the guy anyway.  The movie, as I interpreted it, was not so much a comedy as I expected, but more of a touchy-feely matter which hit home with me.

And, along those lines is what I'm all about.  You know, Ethics, Honesty, Trust, Love, Truth, Patriotism, and all the other things I so often write about.

During our vacation, we have visited with so friends, family, and neighbors while meeting new people along the way.  And many conversations began by someone stating, "The last time I saw you . . . "  Well, I guess those shared memories really were about "Those Days."   And sometimes we even plan what we will do during our next visit, not ever thinking if the next visit will really materialize.

I guess I'm growing older and perhaps that is why I'm thinking in this manner.  This past year so many of our friends have passed for one reason or another, and I'm sure that more will follow.  Until now, I never really thought the last time I saw someone, that it really would be the "Last Time."  

It's not so much that I want to have made a good impression on them, or that I want anyone to admire me.  But more that those I've seen for the real "Last Time" understand that I love and care for them just as He does for me.  And even if I get to see them again before either I, or they pass, they should know that I care about them and expect nothing in return.

For me, you, us, them, and Him are forever.

Obama-Holder - Birds of a Feather

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A few weeks ago, our United States Attorney General, Eric Holder, was found to be in Contempt of Congress.  What a surprise!

Birds of a feather flock together.  President Obama has an established history of flocking with crooks,  Bill Ayers, a convicted terrorist of the 1970's is but one of those known crooks that is associated with the Obama administrations.  Other fill his cabinet.

Eric Holder, like a fox guarding the pen, like Obama, refuses to work within confines of our government, and Obama exerts his executive privileges to protect him.  Surprising?  Shouldn't be.  It's what he has done since the Ignorants elected him.  With-holding his birth certificate in the interest of National Security?  The President should have been brought down on that issue alone.

Now, in Contempt of Congress for lying, Holder will not be prosecuted because the rules state he is the prosecutor and can not be forced to try himself.  Obama continues to express confidence in Holder.  Why?  Because Obama is a crook too, right out of Chicago.

America should be shames to have leaders such as these.  But we continue to deflect theses issues away to corrupt politics in other countries.

We are no better than the politics of China, North Korea, or Russia.
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Real Facts about Romney

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Thanks RM for contributing this:

Mitt Romney, After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, passed the Michigan bar, but never worked as an attorney.  

 

As a venture-capitalist, Romney's first major business deal involved investing in a start-up office supply company with one store in Massachusetts that sold office supplies. That company, called Staples, now has over 2,000 stores and employs over 90,000 people.  

 

Romney or his company Bain Capital (using what became known as the "Bain Way") would go on to perform the same kinds of business miracles again and again, with companies like Domino's, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, Home Depot Supply, and many others.  

 

Got your calculators handy? Let's recap.  

 

Volunteer campaign worker for his dad's gubernatorial campaign 1 year.

 

Unpaid intern in Governor's office 8 years.  

 

Mormon missionary in Paris 2 years.  

 

Unpaid bishop and stake president for his church 10 years.  

 

No salary as president of the Olympics 3 years.  Romney's  original contract stated that he would accept no compensation, unless the Olympics made a profit. When the organizing committee posted a surplus of nearly  $100 million after the games, he accepted  $922,980 in total salary, as well as $476,000 in severance pay. Romney gave that severance pay and his salary to charity. Romney and his wife  Ann also donated  $1 million to the organizing committee during his tenure. .....dick

 

No salary as MA governor 4 years.  

 

That's a grand total of 28 years of unpaid service to his country, his community and his church.  Why?  Because that's the kind of man Mitt Romney is!  

 

And in 2011 Mitt Romney gave over $4 million to charity, almost 19% of his income....Obama gave 1%  

 

Joe Biden gave $300 or .0013%  

 

This is real character vs....well you know what!  

 

Romney may not be the best representative the Republicans could have selected.  At least I know what religion he is, and that he won't desecrate the flag, bow down to foreign powers, or squander my money on vacations.  I know he has the ability to turn this financial debacle that the "Spending President" has gotten us into.  We didn't know that when Obama said he'd give us change, he meant nickels and dimes, and he would get the big bucks.  We won’t like all the things necessary to recover from this debt, but someone with Romney’s background can do it.  

 

But, on the minus side, He never was a "Community Organizer", never took drugs or smoked pot.  Never got drunk. Did not associate with communists or terrorists. Nor did he attend a church whose pastor called for God to damn the US. 

The Heat is On

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Well, I guess some of you know that we've been travelling throughout the western half of America this summer.  We're visiting family and friends, touring national parks, and seeing the sights along the path.  

And things are going swell, but it has been really hot, record setting hot most of the time.  It all began as we left SoCal and it has been heating up as we went on.  Our route took us from the beaches of San Diego, into the Colorado River Valley and through the Painted Desert and the Petrified Forrest before climbing grades into the Phoenix area.  Then though through the plateau and into Albuquerque before north into the Denver area just in time to be amid the huge fires between Colorado Springs and Loveland.

Those terrible fires choked our every breath and they destroyed nearly 1000 homes throughout Colorado and New Mexico.  Temperatures well over 100 degrees, afternoon winds and ultra-low humidity kept things going, seemingly forever.  Event periodic afternoon thunderstorms couldn't break the spell.

But visiting the family was wonderful, and historical things happened.  Our oldest grand daughter obtained her driving permit, a six year old was a fury on the two wheeler we got her a year ago, our four year old grand son rode his bike for the first time without training wheels, while his sister got a new pink bike with training wheels, handle bar tassels wheels and a basket, and the youngest learned to sit up right before our eyes.  A zoo visit, camping, swimming and fishing made fond memories that will last a lifetime.

Then across the cornfields east through America's heartland, Nebraska and Iowa, then America's troubled land of Illinois where Obama began his trauma, and over to Indiana.
Now we are sweltering in humidity, with record heat into the 100's.  Lots more to do here and there before returning west in a week or two.

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Four kids and a Dog

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What great parents we must be!  And even greater grandparents we are.  To spend this portion of our travels to babysit while our kids are off to celebrate their anniversary in Las Vegas.  So we got the kids, a 4-month old, a 2 year old, a four year old, a 7 year old, and a 100 pound English Bulldog, for four days all to ourselves.

It's great.  But boy have times changed.  They seem to have everything.  The 4 month old has more toys than I ever had during my entire lifetime.  And the other kids have even more.  Yet each one of them seemed to get bored after a bit and can't seem to find anything to do.

Cabinets are filled with an abundance of books, paints, crayons, and movies.  Their bedrooms are piled with dolls, drums, Legos, and portable video games.  And the garage has no room for the family car because it protects the bikes, skateboards, and motorized sports cars.

A far cry from the way I grew up.  With a tin can which we kicked to and from school every day until it would no longer roll, or a single piece of paper that I drew on for days before folding it into a jet wing airplane.  A found tennis ball and an old broomstick were all I needed to host a stickball game in the field across the street.  And baseball cards pinned to slap the spokes of the bicycle I shared with my brother.  I was always busy, and never at a loss for what to do.

I would have thought that child raising would be much easier than it was when I did it before.  The technology today doesn't help much.  Securing everyone into some high tech car seat that I can barely figure out before trekking over to the park.  The variety of foods available, each with health warnings pasted all over the wrappings.  A selection of shoes and clothes that would dwarf my own closet makes a choice of what to wear so much more difficult, both for the parent and child.

Theme parks, fast food restaurants, entertainment centers and such filled these kids activities regularly.  You've got to be well organized, and have sufficient cash reserves to preserve this lifestyle.

Sure is fun though.  But is it really better than the way it was?
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Obama Trauma - Country Divided

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For me, the pain keeps on growing.

The pain of our government, and in particular, pRESIDENT oBAMA.  My gosh, look at what he has done.  How he has divided our Country.  By race.  By class.  By education.  By religion.  By state.  By city.

One against the other.  The riots in our streets pit neighbor against neighbor.  The occupiers pit the "Give it to Me" against the wealthy.  Spread the wealth.  Everyone is entitled to everything, working or not.  The taxpayers against the tax users.  Business forced to provide benefits they can no afford.  Heath care, welfare, environmental extremists.  And Michelle regulating the size of sodas sold by Mickey D's, and controlling food menus in the schools.

The pRESIDENT"S top cabinet member, Eric Holder, lies to Congress and is now in contempt.  Another aide appointee arrested for hit and run in Los Angeles add to the growing list of failures.  oBAMMA cARE and immigration concerns pit State against State, City against City, and most of us against the increase control of us by the Federal Government.

And country against country around the world.  Alienating our allies, and creating more tension world-wide than we have ever seen.

How we could have even considered oBAMA for the pRESIDENCY in the first place.  One who has a self admitted hatred foe Whites, a flagrant disrespect the military he leads.  His refusal to properly salute our Flag or openly recite the our Pledge of Allegiance, turns my stomach.  The crooks and terrorists he ran with in his younger years are now his cabinet members.  Union crooks fund his every move.

Makes me puke.

Lord, I pray that you will restore our once great Christian country to what it once was.
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I Don't Like the Obammas

I don't like the Obamas

I found this commentary by Mychal Massie, Chairman of Project 21-The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives.  I thought you would appreciate his thoughts as I did.  I condensed parts of it for this post.

"I was asked: “I have to ask, why do you hate the Obama’s?

I’ve made no secret of my contempt for the Obamas. I don’t like them because they are committed to the fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a Communist state.

I condemn them because they are the worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for traditional America. They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he holds, and for those who are willing to admit same Michelle Obama’s raw contempt for white America is transpicuous.

I don’t like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress. I expect, no I demand respect for the Office of President and a love of our country and her citizenry from the leader entrusted with the governance of same. President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an unparalleled love for the country and her people. The Reagans made Americans feel good about themselves and about what we could accomplish. Could you envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like jack-booted thugs?

Presidents are politicians and all politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth, if not outright lie, but even using that low standard, the Obama’s have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge and obfuscation to new depths. They are verbally abusive to the citizenry and they display an animus for civility.

I do not like them, because they both display bigotry overtly, as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates, when he accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, and her code speak pursuant to now being able too be proud of America. I view that statement and that mindset as an insult to those who died to provide a country where a Kenyan, his illegal alien relatives, and his alleged progeny, could come and not only live freely, but rise to the highest, most powerful, position in the world. Michelle Obama is free to hate and disparage whites, because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure her right to do same.

I have a saying, that “the only reason a person hides things, is because they have something to hide.” No president in history has spent over a million dollars to keep his records and his past sealed. And what the two of them have shared has been proved to be lies. He lied about when and how they met, he lied about his mother’s death and problems with insurance, Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant to nearly $500,000 bank stocks they inherited from his family. He has lied about his father’s military service, about the civil rights movement, ad nauseum

He lied to the world about the Supreme Court in a State of the Union address. He berated and publicly insulted a sitting Congressman. He has surrounded himself with the most rabidly, radical, socialist academicians today. He has fought for abortion procedures and opposed rulings that protected women and children, that even Planned Parenthood did not seek to support. He is openly hostile to business and aggressively hostile to Israel.

His wife treats being the First Lady, as her personal American Express Black Card (arguably the most prestigious credit card in the world). I condemn them because, as people are suffering, losing their homes, their jobs, their retirements, he and his family are arrogantly showing off their life of entitlement – as he goes about creating and fomenting class warfare.

I don’t like them, and I neither apologize nor retreat from my public condemnation of them and of his policies. We should condemn them for the disrespect they show our people, for his willful and unconstitutional actions pursuant to obeying the Constitutional parameters he is bound by, and his willful disregard for Congressional authority.

Dislike for them has nothing to do with the color of their skin, it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes, and policies. And I have open scorn for their playing the race.

Never in my life, inside or outside of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader. He is the most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards of his presidential predecessors, his narcissistic, contumacious arrogance is unequalled. Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood.

Many in America wanted to be proud when the first person of color was elected president, but instead, they have been witness to a congenital liar, a woman who has been ashamed of America her entire life, failed policies, intimidation and a commonality hitherto not witnessed in political leaders.

He and his wife view their life at our expense as an entitlement – while America’s people go homeless, hungry and unemployed.”

Hail Mary

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Well, we have now made the trip to the Colorado Springs area to visit even more family.  Actually though, one of this family was in fact the same one that we shipped back from CA after he broke his arm.  The only difference is that he didn't get to go to Legoland, and that he now wears an Oregon Duck green colored cast on his left arm.

We toured the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest, and a WWII Aircraft museum while we made the trek.  The weather was blistering hot (105+) most every day, but our slow pace made the trip relaxing.

Speaking about the weather, I often get anxious about the weather on the Central Oregon Coast with the rain so often.  But so far, we've had nothing but high winds along the way.  And typical for this neighborhood, afternoon thunder showers.

But not so typical, were the two hail storms we got caught in.  The first in Trinidad, CO, and just after we arrived in the Springs area, another.  The second was very violent and drove golf ball sized stones into us causing significant damage to our tow vehicle that we were driving at the time.   So fierce in nature we couln't see and were forced to pull off the highway in the open plains area.  Perhaps you've seen the news where the hail buried cars that tried to cross a gulch.  The accumulated hail was nearly THREE feet deep.  A historical record.

Just our luck.
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A Clean Break

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While holed up in Santa Paula, CA., our 7 year old grandson arrived by air, shipped non-stop by his parents in Colorado.  What a thrill it was for us!  He was to join our journey from SoCal back to his home.  We planned to see the sights along the way, exploring America from the ground up.  And so it began.

First stop, Simi Valley, CA where we met his younger cousins for lunch, then off to Travel Town in Griffith Park, Los Angeles.  Travel Town hosts a slew of retired steam locomotives, wooden horse drawn wagons, and      various exhibits of the way America was.  The way it used to be.  The way many of us used to remember it, and the way we now need to teach our children, and their children, and to the many others whom have come to American since Her great era ended.  This America, sadly for me, no longer exists.

So anyway, as we were about to begin our lessons in history, our grandson from Colorado, fell and broke both of his forearm.  And our plan changed.  Following arrival of a Park Ranger who constructed a splint from items in his medical backpack, a quick response team from the LA City Fire Department, a rescue ambulance, and a ride to the emergency room, we planned to continue on with our trip across America, starting with Lego Land near San Diego.

But as our luck went, that was not to happen.  Not yet anyway.  Not this year even, but on a Sumday soon, we hope.  Due to the nature of the bone break,it was necessary to ship the little guy home for followup medical treatment.  So after his mother flew in to take over, he boarded a return flight home.

And so it went  And so it will continue on some other day.
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