New year Resolutions

"Where there is no vision, the people perish."
Proverbs 29:18

Happy New Year to you! A new year, a new beginning. If you're like most people,you've probably flirted around with New Year's resolutions: You've said, "THIS is the year I'm gonna lose weight and get in shape. Starting January 1st, no more snacking. I'm joining the health club and I'm gonna work out daily. I may even do my first marathon." What happens? By February 1st (the latest ...) you're back on the junk food regimen, you've been to the club a total of five times (you're "just too busy to get there"), and you've filed that marathon application in the trash. And you've concluded, "Resolutions don't work for me." (You've got a lot of company on that one ...)

Maybe you need a better approach. Instead of making a mental resolution, create a Mission Statement. The difference?

A Mission Statement is:
a handwritten or typed-out paragraph

posted someplace you can see it regularly

committed to memory

has specific, measurable outcomes

has a deadline — in this case, December 31st

Here's a process you can use right now to create a Mission Statement for personal success in your career or business. Get out a pen and some paper.

Step A. Write down five positive personality characteristics you like about yourself in your career/business. For example: willingness to learn, persistence, creativity, friendliness, sense of humor, etc.

Step B. For the items you listed above, describe the way you express each positive characteristic on a regular basis in your career, using the word "by" to begin each phrase. For example, if you listed "willingness to learn" above, you might write "by being committed to ongoing professional development" below. Another example: If you wrote "persistence" above, you might write "by making sure the job always gets done" below.

Step C. Write down five goals you'd like to achieve by one year from today. Be sure to list a specific financial goal separate from these five goals.

Step D. Look back over Steps A, B, and C, and circle the three most important items in each column.

Step E. Now fill in the blanks of the following paragraph:

My purpose is to express my ____________________, , _______________________, ____________________ (write in the three items you circled in Step A) by ____________________ , by ____________________, and by ____________________ (write in the three items you circled in Step B) to create ____________________, ____________________, and ____________________, (write in the three items you circled in Step C) and at least ____________________ (write in your financial goal) by ____________________ (write in the date one year
from today)."

When finished, you will have a short paragraph that reads something like:

"My purpose is to express my intelligence, creativity, and people skills by continually learning and applying new ideas, by finding unique solutions to my clients' problems, and by building a powerful network of contacts to create 15 new corporate accounts, a steady flow of referral and renewal business, and full technological competence, and at least $125,000 in gross commissions by this date one year from today."

I hope you give this deceptively simple exercise a try, and I encourage you to follow the guidelines above of posting it where you can review it, committing it to memory and reciting it daily. Then you won't need to make any more fruitless resolutions — you'll be like The Blues Brothers ... you'll be on "a Mission from God."

Goals

As we go into 2009, I think 09 could be one of the worst years in many and according to all reports it is going to take a long time to work our way out of this slump.
There has been way to much greed going on and there is nothing we can do about it. Our politicians have given us a good screwing this time. Setting and reaching my goal is going to require a little more work now.
Setting and reaching goals during my working years was one thing I was really good at. There are many good ideas from many authors much better than I, you can just Google "goals" and read 10,000 articles. All I can share with you is the fact that goal setting was the single biggest factor in my success.
My goal could not be just a general term Like take a vacation to Scotland. I would write it down on my calendar. Go to Scotland for 3 weeks and leave on Aug 4.
I always set my goals in the last quarter of a year for the next year. And setting a goal takes a lot of time, I had to be very specific, then I had to make a plan of work to afford that vacation, I would have to check plane ticket cost, hotels, plan my spending money and so on. But if I wrote it down and decided to do it, nothing could get in my way (barring an act of God). That goal would become a force that drove me. I would decide that I had to buy my ticket be the end of Jan, line up my hotels by the end of Feb, rent a car ect and I would accomplish my goal one step at a time and on schedule.
In all my working years I never set a goal for a specific amount of money, I always considered money to be my servant and not my master. That vacation was far more important than the money. And I could visualize myself in a castle pretty easy.
Now working was a condition not my goal. But my goal was the fuel that motivated me.
My dead lines were appointment that could not be canceled. Now I have always been self employed, I have never been in the position to grab onto someone else's coat tail and let them drag me though life while they reap the rewards of my efforts and they get richer.
If I would have ever said "My goal is to make $25k by June" for my vacation I would have never been able to take a vacation.
As I said work was a condition but my goals were always PLAY, playing has always been for more important to me than working for money.
As I look back over my working career, I can say I would not change anything because I have played a lot. Now that I have retired I have settled down to some serious playing.

Ways you can benefit from a website.

For many companies, the meaning of the Internet implies an interest in finding customers in Zaire
instead of their local community. There are still some who think a website should get millions of hits
each month to be worthwhile. I disagree. In fact, earlier this year I did a series of webcasts for a
national bank. They invested a lot of money into each webcast that is posted on their website. When I
asked how many folks they though would see the program they estimated that about 500 viewers would
see the program immediately. If you think about it, if only 20% of the 500 become new small business
customers and generate $1 million in revenue annually and deposit in that particular bank, the bank's
webcast investment will have more than paid off.
Now, that example is on a large scale. To take a look at a smaller scale, let's look at my experience on a
recent trip to the hair salon. I overheard the receptionist taking a phone order. At the end of the
conversation she asked the caller how she had heard about the salon. When she hung up, I asked her
how the caller had located them. She said, "The Internet. The caller lives in Illinois and wanted to get a
gift for a friend who lives in Pittsburgh and uses the salon, so she ordered a gift certificate for her
friend."
The salon uses the site to display its price list and offers the virtual visitor an opportunity to purchase
gift certificates for services from massage therapy to hair styling. The salon would probably not have
reached that customer in Illinois without having a website.
I stopped at the local dry cleaners the other day to drop off clothes. When I return to pick up my clothes
I will have a discount coupon for that dry cleaner that I print from their website. I can also e-mail them
for pick-up and delivery when I don't have time to stop by.
The dry cleaner uses its website to communicate discounts and specials to its customers.
I have a friend who is in the speechwriting business who saves thousands of dollars in printing costs
and postage by using his website as an electronic brochure to showcase his services.
A website benefits both large and small businesses by increasing visibility and profits. It can both
satisfy current customers and attract new ones.
The Internet is a wonderful place that allows you to showcase your business in many creative ways.
This could range from a simple, but colorful and eye-catching Web page to presentations that embrace
animation, sound and-or video.
You no longer have to spend thousands of dollars to have a website. And some places make things easy
by offering Web space for you to build a do-it-yourself site. You can take a look at yahoo.com or check
out your service provider; most offer you a few web pages at no cost.
The Internet will continue to impact the economy, and entrepreneurs both large and small should take
every opportunity to market their products and services. Having a website is one very important step in
that direction.

Jack Schitte

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Papa Noel - Cajun Santa

Every year hundreds of 30 foot plus tall bonfire structures are built of wood, firecrackers, and occasionally bamboo along the Mississippi River levee in and around the town of Lutcher, Louisiana. These bonfires are laced with kerosene or lighter fluid, then all are ignited simultaneously at 7 p.m. US Central Standard Time to welcome the arrival of Papa Noel(cajun Santa) on Christmas Eve.

The bonfires have been explained as long ago before the Levee's were built, to help friends of the family find the inlets or slips coming off the river to the homes of those they wanted to visit on Christmas Eve. But more likely a good way to encourage the children to help keep the inlet clear of the continuous build-up of washed up debris and driftwood.

Today, each family or street of families comes together and starts building usually the Thanksgiving break from school. They have limits now as to size and construction due to mishaps in the past. But Christmas Eve if its not a “Cajun Snowstorm” is enjoyed with a bonfire, pot of gumbo, fireworks, and a lawn-chair. All are welcome to join the merriment, now even special sternwheelers, paddleboats, or riverboats offer bonfire cruises down the Mississippi River.

It is a Christmas Eve tradition, unless it rains, then it is promptly changed to a New Years Eve tradition. You will always see the displayed pirogue with Papa Noel being pulled by his special alligators, lead by Alphonse.

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Snow? Here Nooooooo way!

Last winter I was in the mountains of North Carolina and I had enough snow to do me for a while, So this winter I planned to spend in southern Louisiana and what do I get first thing - Snow, I know God loves though, but it never snow here.
A rare snowfall blanketed south Louisiana and parts of Mississippi on Thursday, closing schools, government offices and bridges, triggering crashes and leaving
thousands without power and we just went thru hurricans Gustav and Ike.
Up to 8 inches of snow was reported in parts of Louisiana. Snow also covered a broad swath of Mississippi, including the Jackson area, and closed schools in more than a dozen districts.
A heavy band of snow coated windshields and grassy areas in New Orleans, where about an inch accumulated. A peak of 8 inches was reported in Amite, about 75 miles northwest of New Orleans right here in Gonzaales where I am. I am headed to the Rocky Mountains come spring and I aint coming back here.

Merry Christmas

My 68th Christmas will not be much unlike the first one I remember.
Christmas is a such a wonderful time of year, spirits are high, people are generous and giving.
Then comes the pressure of giving more and more. There didn't use to be pressure. Merchants have never been able to mass motivate into that frame of mind.
We would make our gifts, when you make someone a gift, there is a lot of effort put in it so it means more to you and to the person getting the gift. And it is extremely personal.
I for one let it be known that I do not want a gift that was made China by religious prisoners. If you will Google that phrase you might feel the same way.
It is still fun to go to the woods and cut a tree, the only reason I can see paying $100 for a Christmas tree is so that when friends come over and ask how much did it cost, you can tell them. I on the other hand would tell a great story about how we climbed this mountain with a hand saw and cut it down and dragged it back, about all the mud and on and on about the wonderful adventure we had cutting this tree. You would soon know that I was lying about what I went through but you would know that I cut that tree. And that I decorated it with popcorn on a string, candy, cookies and other goodies that could be eaten.
Now the food part, all that cooking and baking, frying, boiling and such, there is no stress in that and there is no fear that someone is going to disable me with a shopping cart or trample over me getting to the blue light.
Now about all this buying. I am funny about this, I would never buy you a gift that was not made in America and I will not appreciate it if I find out that you could not afford the gift you bought me and charged it on some credit card.
Last and most important. Christmas is Christ's Birthday. If you cannot say "Merry Christmas" to me please do me a favor and don't speak at all because I will feel a lot better about you.
Merry Christmas to you. I hope you can give everyone on your list every thing they want. I hope you get things you never thought you would ever get from people you forgot.
And I really hope you refrain from happy holiday.

Child Abuse

Wikipedia:
Up till now has been one of my favorites, but after reading this post on my Yahoo, I think I will do as the British have done and place them on my ban IP list also. Too save my soul I cannot understand this child abuse that goes on in the human race.
Everyone of us has something that upsets us and mine is this child issue. I myself can turn into a violent creature when I see someone abuse a child. It is a legal and moral concern of mine and I think these criminals should be dwelt with in a barbaric public display of human disdain for their action, I could easily cast the first stone at a known and convicted repeat offender.
Below is the article that has me upset If you want to see the picture look it up for yourself I wont post it on my sites.

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia any unemployed Internet commenter can edit, has been banned by British Internet service providers over a display of child porn.
Free-speech zealots among Wikipedia's volunteer editors have insisted that the original cover of Virgin Killer, a 1976 album by German heavy metal band the Scorpions — shown here with a teddy-bear bowdlerization — must run alongside the site's page for the album. Their stubbornness has landed the Wikipedia page on a list of porn sites maintained by Internet Watch, a British group, whose censorship recommendations many British ISPs follow.
The ban seems like overkill, since it covers the album page, not just the image in question. But the fact that Wikipedia has let matters get this far speaks to the site's screwed-up culture. Erik Möller, the deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia's nonprofit parent, has defended child pornography in the past. His extremist stance is mirrored by an outspoken minority within Wikipedia's ranks of editors.
The Wikipedian child-porn fetish is disturbing. But it's a sign of a much deeper problem. Wikipedia editors love to make up bureaucratic rules. It's part of what makes the site so intimidating to new users, and why bias and misreporting so often go uncorrected on the site. Knowledgeable people are scared away by the need to engage in time-wasting arguments with bored teenagers and obsessive Internet users for whom enforcing these rules is a source of cheap entertainment. Why Internet providers are banning Wikipedia pages instead of Wikipedia editors is beyond me.

Just look at me now.

My road to romance took a little bit of a detour about 16 years ago, My eyes faded from looking at pretty things like women, mercy, they are such beautiful, mysterious creatures. The muscles in my chest fell to my belt line and I beat the hair off my head on the beds headboard, But it sure was fun while it lasted! Now I just roll with the punches and keep a positive mental attitude and enjoy my memories. I know that I am in for some interesting surprises and delightful adventures. I believe that! I stay hopeful and I'll stay cheerful. Having positive emotions will show the universe that I am still ready for positive encounters.

attitude adjustment

When I need an attitude adjustment, I need to come up with a different strategy for working through my emotions. Today, instead of feeling all of my feelings and then getting overwhelmed, I'll move them up to my brain -- and start thinking them through. I'll take each emotion one at a time -- identify what I am feeling and then analyze it. Is it helping me live a happier life or making me feel bad about myself? If it is negative byte then I will delete it. Ah I am done deleting, I have only one negative ion left and I am going to confront that issue right now until it is eliminated, leaving only a good positive mental attitude throughout the rest of my day.

Take this job and shove it.

The best place to work in America is becoming like every other big corporation. Google, at its heart an overgrown advertising agency, is most famous for its lavish perks. Now those are disappearing. The billions gushing in from Google's search monopoly don't make for a good story. Whenever Google's PR executives have looked to drum up press, they've led with the candy-colored offices, the free food, and the copious free time. All of those are now on the chopping block — which leaves not much to talk about at Google except the profits.

The Wall Street Journal takes a look at Google's new push for cost cuts. As others have reported, Google is curtailing service at its cafeterias, reducing hours and restricting guests. A third of Google's 30,000 workers are contractors — and many of those jobs will disappear. (Conveniently, when a contract ends, it's not deemed a layoff.) And superfluous offices are being shut.

More importantly, Google's employees no longer have free rein to pursue their own ideas. Google's engineers can spend 20 percent of time on side projects. That freedom remains, in theory, but the progress a lone engineer can make on a new website without hardware and additional personnel is limited. The new message: Fiddle all you want, but don't expect any money from Google to back your creation.

When Google went public in 2004, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin told shareholders to get ready to be taken for a ride. Not in so many words, of course. But in the company's IPO prospectus, they defended the company's already-lavish perks, and said that investors should expect spending to go up, not down.

But Larry and Sergey have grown tired of coddling their employees. Far from being grateful, the perks have made employees feel entitled. Brin in particular has complained about workers taking bowls of M&Ms and free bottled water for granted.

Why should Google's founders care, really? They seem increasingly detached from Google's core business, preferring to spend time on rockets and electric sports cars rather than optimizing AdWords. They increasingly deal with a small core of early Google employees, all IPO lottery winners, who are similarly insulated from the economic reality of living in one of the most expensive areas in the U.S.

A famous example of their cluelessness: Brin allowed his sister-in-law, Susan Wojcicki, also a Google executive, to spend millions of Google's money on a new child-care center which dramatically raised its costs. Rather than revise plans to make child-care more affordable, Google started charging employees nearly twice the market rate.

Investors will be unbothered by Larry and Sergey's change of heart. And employees, after they get done grumbling, will likely content themselves with the reality that they still have jobs.

No, the people hit hardest by this will be Google's flacks — and the servile journalists who so eagerly celebrated Google's lava-lamp culture. What stories will they tell now? How Google is cutting corners on the organic foie-gras hamburgers in its cafes?

Pirates

Cruise Ship Attacked by Pirates
About 100 ships have been attacked while sailing in waters off Somalia this year. The pirates have hijacked 40 of these vessels, and more than 250 crew members and 14 ships are still being held by the hijackers. Just weeks ago, a Saudi oil tanker carrying $100 million worth of crude oil was hijacked by Somali pirates, and over the weekend, an American cruise liner was also attacked. The vessel was carrying 656 passengers and 399 crew members when six pirates in two speedboats opened fire on it. The cruise ship was faster than the pirates’ vessels, however, and was able to escape its pursuers without sustaining any damage. No one on board was injured in the attack.

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Thanksgiving 08

 

Happy Thanksgiving

There were 102 persons on the Mayflower. The little ship was not much bigger than Marble Collegiate Church. But 102 people got on that little boat and crossed the Atlantic Ocean.

A couple of times I crossed on the old Queen Mary. But there were nights when I would have given anything to get off the thing! It was tossed around by the mighty Atlantic as though it were an eggshell. Can you imagine what would happen to a little ship like the Mayflower?

Then when the Pilgrims got to Massachusetts, it was November. There was nothing but an impenetrable forest, full of wild animals and strange men. And the Pilgrims were short of food.

Before they landed they made a pact. There wasn’t a rich man among them, not a scholar; they were plain, simple, everyday people. But they were great people. They wrote out an agreement known as the Mayflower Compact, distilling in eight sentences the political and philosophical thinking of 300 years. They agreed that they would elect men to rule over them and would respect their rule. Thus began American democracy—government of the people, by the people and for the people. Foreshadowed in that little document were the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. They were rather smart people, the Pilgrims.

And they were tough. They had a stern philosophy of life and morality. You can not build a great nation on soft people. There are many pessimists today who contend that the United States is going to pieces. But I don’t believe it because the same sturdy breed is still among us.

Whenever I begin to get a little discouraged about America I go out into the Midwest or somewhere in New York City or down South or up into New England and I meet some old salty character. He knows the score, he knows what’s going on.
As long as we still have people like that in the United States, people who don’t take themselves too seriously; who don’t go around with a sour look on their faces; who still love this land—the good earth, the sky, the towering mountains, the rolling prairies and the great wonderful shining cities—we’ll survive all the current problems.

Positive things will come because Americans are what they are. We are dreamers, daredevils, adventurers. You and I are descendants of the men and women who built this nation. So on Thanksgiving Day let us count our blessings and keep the faith, for America is a land that was made by strong faithful people.

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The Revis General Store

Half a century ago, one thing I really looked forward to was a trip to Revis’ general store; it was a 4 maybe 5 mile walk from our farm to Whittier, NC. We had to walk through Gateway which was one mile from our house, the Gateway had a gas station owned by Harry Shelton who sold used cars, tires, car parts, cold drinks, cigarettes, candy and gas from an old hand pump with a 5 gallon glass top, we could pump up from one to 5 gallons of gas which sold for 12 cents per gallon. Now that sounds cheap compared to $4 dollars per gallon we pay today, but I made 15 cents per hour if and when I could find work. I didn’t have a car so gas wasn’t to be figured into my budget.
But at the Revis store, there were clothes, bolts of cloth, hardware, shoes, hats, and feed; just about anything one would want on a farm. Mr. Revis had a big pot belly wood stove a pickle barrel with a checker board on it and there was always a game going on. Above the checker board a picture of Jesus and the American Flag hang on the wall. Did you notice I called him Mr. a word one never hears anymore? At his store, world problems were solved and elections were bought and sold. There was a separate store room where the finer things in life could be purchased like cigars and moonshine, and maybe some fine bourbon and bottle beer.
In that fine old store, I learned about honor, duty to my country, God, Jesus, respect for my fellow man, whether I had money or not I could walk away from Mr. Revis’ store with anything I wanted, the amount I owed him was written in a book with a pencil and marked off as I made my regular payments. Now credit in those was different than it is today, in that before you would borrow you were damn sure that you could pay it back. Failure to pay a debt could brand a man and in some cases it would cause bones to break and blood to leak out of the body and in extreme cases even death would occur.
There was a phone in the store and he sold comic books too. People were tried, convicted and dealt with for things like child and wife abuse; on the other hand money was raised for hardships like health problems and surgery.
That old general store sorted out wars, it lived through depressions, social programs even segregation, I never saw a black person until I was 21 years old and was drafted into the military. But I had learned in that old store that all men are created equal. I learned that America was the only place in the world where a man could create his own destiny. Also I learned that a man should offer up his life for God and Country.
I wonder what would happen if every convenience store would install a checker board and welcome old timers like me to share stories and knowledge.
By no means am I saying that those were the good old days, that they were, but times were hard, my day began well before dawn and ended with the light of a lantern. Very, very few people were overweight because we worked and we all worked hard, we chopped wood to heat and cook with. We canned and preserved our food. We plowed our fields with horses and planted many acres of land to feed our livestock. We had no electricity, no car, no running water and an outside toilet. That reminds me of a story; Papa ( my grandfather ) got a real letter, that company was coming, so he wrote to Sears and Roebuck and asked them to send him some toilet paper, Sears wrote back to look in the catalog and send the catalog number and they would be glad to send the toilet paper to him. He replied with these words, Mr. Sears if I had a catalog, I would not need any toilet paper.
One thing I remember from that old General Store is the smell, feed, tobacco, fertilizer, leather, sweat and have you ever smelled love.
Every now and then a stranger or a drifter would stop at the Revis store, my, my, what a welcome visit that was because with him came new stories and world news and if he happen to be driving a car that was certain to be the center of attention. One time I walked into Mr. Revis’ store and there was a stranger sitting in the corner behind the stove where the checker board use to sit. This stranger was very exciting and such stories he could tell, to me he knew everything, the old timers would sit fixed in the rocking chairs, buckets, barrels and on the floor just staring at him and listening to his every word for hours on end. He had images, drawing and music, his knowledge was endless. Every week day about 6pm a fellow called Walter Cronkite was with the visitor and every Saturday Marshall Dillion had stories of the old west he was followed by wrestling.
I left home shortly after the visitor came, but last year I was back at the store, the 3rd generation of Revis’ still have that old store and the visitor was still there in the same place, he was more colorful, slimmer and much larger and his voice was strong, Many people was listening and looking at him now, the visitor was so popular that he now had a name tag, SONY. Did you know that SONY stands for Standard Oil of New York.
I stayed a while and my mind went back to those wonderful years, no one noticed that I was a stranger drifting though, the old store had many additions and was quite large. I bought a Pepsi and a bag of peanuts which I poured into the Pepsi,
I was crying as I left. I realized that the old store had like myself, grown up and became successful in the land of milk and honey. A picture of Jesus and The American Flag still hang above the TV. Some things never change.

Happy Thanksgiving and also the 26th is my birthday I will be 68.
I love Thanksgiving day best of all, it is near my birthday and it is also near Christmas day, I really enjoy Christmas day and what it really means but all this commercial stuff about it just destroys the true meaning.
So I put Thanksgiving, Christmas and my birthday in the one big party on Thanksgiving day and then I am done until New Year day which is also special to me.
Around home everybody that can gets together on Thanksgiving day and we pray at meal time. We pray over the meal and give thanks for all our blessings and remember loved ones. We thanks God for being Americans and freedom and things like that, and our troops far away we never forget them.
Boy do we eat, oh mercy do we eat, turkey and ham and all those veggies and pies and cakes. All us old ones and our kids and their kids and their kid's kids, o there is just a big crowd of us and I think about my Mama because that is where we use to gather but Mama has gone to heaven. Depending on the weather things range from a football game to 15 monopoly games going on at the same time because there is a crowd of us.
Then we eat some more.
There is plenty of conversation and all those kids laughing, running, screaming, fighting and oh yea us not forget a cry ever now and then, I just love it. And last year two of the men grown ups had a little too much to drink and a fight broke out. At first there was just some cussing and shirts being pulled off, one was scared and the other one was glad of it. Then I think one of the drunks fell into the other one and the wrestling match was on. I was kinda enjoying it till sides were being drawn and the war between in-laws and outlaws was just about to begin. But I being the eldest made it my job to break it up.
We eat some more.
The girls will play cards and the guys will watch a ballgame on tv and we will divide some food as the gang starts to leave.
I along will eat some more,
look at the pictures I took, reflect on my blessings, store them in the computer then go to bed.
Happy Thanksgivings may God Bless

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I enjoy my computer

I enjoy my computer – Too much-
I love being retired, but as it has been all my life there are not enough time in a day, and after spending most of my life working, long ago I learned to plan my work then work my plan. Now retirement is no different. At work I only had one thing to do, work efficiently. At work every hour was planned well in advance.
My schedule is all screwed up now. I go to bed when I get sleepy and after about 5 or 6 hours I am ready to get with it. And my plans are monthly or quarterly.
One thing I really enjoy is visiting my family and friends, and that creates a major problem, it don’t matter which family member I visit first someone gets mad because they weren’t first. Now here is my plan for dealing with that. I rented my house and now I go visit with the intention of staying forever. Ha ha, my kids will never outsmart me.
Life is just as full as it can get.
But, back to the computer issue. It is the finest invention since the printing press. I am addicted to email, chat and web construction, with it I cannot get bored or feel neglected because it gives me its undivided attention with companionship, knowledge and the ability to be constructive, as I age it has become my mentor, one only hears the bad stories about the Internet. I have been on the net over 10 years and I have had some bad experiences but all the wonderful things I have encountered far outweigh the bad. The use of a little common sense will eliminate being abused.
I find the only negative aspect about the net is the quick knowledge and recently I have been looking for on line books and heavy reading however I am a handy man and can find out how to fix that crack in the bath room ceiling on line quicker than I can go to the library to get the book.
I have friends on line all over the world and pictures of kind, loving and peaceful people, along with pictures of their families and homes. I have notes and emails of their dreams, hopes and prayers for peace.
I can find no fault with the Internet maybe because I am not looking for fault; rather I search for the positive. Life is way too fast and now we have fast language like very short sentience’s and terms like pitr, wymp, brb, lol lmao, asl, you know very well what I am referring to.
I do spend to much time on my computer, everyone has a vice, mine is the web, it come in second to nature, now there is where I get lost, I love to travel to new places and camp, walk and listen to life around me, meet and make new friends, eat like a horse and take the time to enjoy the life around me. Yes I love this retirement.
You, yes you reading this, take the time to write me and practice your typing and use of our Queens English as proper as you know how, share a part of your life with me because you are the most important person in the world as far as you are concerned, well at least I think you are. You can read and post a story at my website http://ourbiz.us/you.htm
I would love to meet you online.
May God bless and keep you.
Billy

Chinese Maple Tree

 
The tree sits in my front yard. Come see it in early November.

Back Home

I have been gone for over 2 years it was good to come home here are some pictures of where molly and I live.

Pray Today

Barack Obama and Joe Biden. John McCain and Sarah Palin. The options are clear, and the time to choose has arrived. As has the time to pray like never before.

News media in bed with Obama? (OneNewsNow.com)

Yet another study backs up the contention that the mainstream news media's coverage of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is more favorable than its coverage of Republican John McCain.

News media in bed with Obama? (OneNewsNow.com)

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Obama Makes Visit to a Most Beloved Supporter - NYTimes.com

Obama Makes Visit to a Most Beloved Supporter - NYTimes.com

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FBI — Threatening Letters Investigation - Press Room - Headline Archives 10-23-08

THREATENING LETTERS HOAXHelp Us Find the Culprit

FBI — Threatening Letters Investigation - Press Room - Headline Archives 10-23-08

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Handmade Halloween Costumes for Kids: Lion | Halloween | Reader's Digest

Handmade Halloween Costumes for Kids: Lion | Halloween | Reader's Digest

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Hi-tech brings families together

Instead of driving people apart, mobile phones and the net are helping them maintain social ties, says the Pe

BBC NEWS | Technology | Hi-tech brings families together

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One Key Fits All - WSJ.com

One Key Fits AllSo many Web sites, so many user names, so many passwords. OpenID may be the solution.

One Key Fits All - WSJ.com

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ABC News: Think Before You Drink and Draft

ABC News: Think Before You Drink and Draft

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NPR: NPR News In Brief

NPR: NPR News In Brief

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Just some more BS**** to put up with.

F.B.I. Struggles to Handle Financial Fraud Cases - NYTimes.com This fantastic government our ours can find trillions to bail out the wall street crooks but cannot come up with the money to catch the same crooks, but I will just sit on my butt and say nothing about that situation. Who would listen? Who would report my concern. A presidential has not spoken to me and I am not a plumber.

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F.B.I. Financial Fraud

F.B.I. Struggles to Handle Wave of Financial Fraud Cases - NYTimes.com

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Evolved Americans

The modern day American has evolved into a class of gutless overweight cowards. Read More

60 Years ago

Half a century ago, one thing I really looked forward to was a trip to Revis’ general store; it was a 4 maybe 5 mile walk from our farm to Whittier, NC. We had to walk through Gateway which was one mile from our house, the Gateway had a gas station owned by Harry Shelton who sold used cars, tires, car parts, cold drinks, cigarettes, candy and gas from an old hand pump with a 5 gallon glass top, we could pump up from one to 5 gallons of gas which sold for 12 cents per gallon. Now that sounds cheap compared to $4 dollars per gallon we pay today, but I made 15 cents per hour if and when I could find work. I didn’t have a car so gas wasn’t to be figured into my budget.
But at the Revis store, there were clothes, bolts of cloth, hardware, shoes, hats, and feed; just about anything one would want on a farm. Mr. Revis had a big pot belly wood stove a pickle barrel with a checker board on it and there was always a game going on. Above the checker board a picture of Jesus and the American Flag hang on the wall. Did you notice I called him Mr. a word one never hears anymore? At his store, world problems were solved and elections were bought and sold. There was a separate store room where the finer things in life could be purchased like cigars and moonshine, and maybe some fine bourbon and bottle beer.
In that fine old store, I learned about honor, duty to my country, God, Jesus, respect for my fellow man, whether I had money or not I could walk away from Mr. Revis’ store with anything I wanted, the amount I owed him was written in a book with a pencil and marked off as I made my regular payments. Now credit in those was different than it is today, in that before you would borrow you were damn sure that you could pay it back. Failure to pay a debt could brand a man and in some cases it would cause bones to break and blood to leak out of the body and in extreme cases even death would occur.
There was a phone in the store and he sold comic books too. People were tried, convicted and dealt with for things like child and wife abuse; on the other hand money was raised for hardships like health problems and surgery.
That old general store sorted out wars, it lived through depressions, social programs even segregation, I never saw a black person until I was 21 years old and was drafted into the military. But I had learned in that old store that all men are created equal. I learned that America was the only place in the world where a man could create his own destiny. Also I learned that a man should offer up his life for God and Country.
I wonder what would happen if every convenience store would install a checker board and welcome old timers like me to share stories and knowledge.
By no means am I saying that those were the good old days, that they were, but times were hard, my day began well before dawn and ended with the light of a lantern. Very, very few people were overweight because we worked and we all worked hard, we chopped wood to heat and cook with. We canned and preserved our food. We plowed our fields with horses and planted many acres of land to feed our livestock. We had no electricity, no car, no running water and an outside toilet. That reminds me of a story; Papa ( my grandfather ) got a real letter, that company was coming, so he wrote to Sears and Roebuck and asked them to send him some toilet paper, Sears wrote back to look in the catalog and send the catalog number and they would be glad to send the toilet paper to him. He replied with these words, Mr. Sears if I had a catalog, I would not need any toilet paper.
One thing I remember from that old General Store is the smell, feed, tobacco, fertilizer, leather, sweat and have you ever smelled love.
Every now and then a stranger or a drifter would stop at the Revis store, my, my, what a welcome visit that was because with him came new stories and world news and if he happen to be driving a car that was certain to be the center of attention. One time I walked into Mr. Revis’ store and there was a stranger sitting in the corner behind the stove where the checker board use to sit. This stranger was very exciting and such stories he could tell, to me he knew everything, the old timers would sit fixed in the rocking chairs, buckets, barrels and on the floor just staring at him and listening to his every word for hours on end. He had images, drawing and music, his knowledge was endless. Every week day about 6pm a fellow called Walter Cronkite was with the visitor and every Saturday Marshall Dillion had stories of the old west he was followed by wrestling.
I left home shortly after the visitor came, but last year I was back at the store, the 3rd generation of Revis’ still have that old store and the visitor was still there in the same place, he was more colorful, slimmer and much larger and his voice was strong, Many people was listening and looking at him now, the visitor was so popular that he now had a name tag, SONY. Did you know that SONY stands for Standard Oil of New York.
I stayed a while and my mind went back to those wonderful years, no one noticed that I was a stranger drifting though, the old store had many additions and was quite large. I bought a Pepsi and a bag of peanuts which I poured into the Pepsi,
I was crying as I left. I realized that the old store had like myself, grown up and became successful in the land of milk and honey. A picture of Jesus and The American Flag still hang above the TV. Some thing never change.

Seek help with your money problems

As economy sinks, officials fear violent solutions - CNN.com Thinking about killing yourself get help!
Kill a politician first that should make you feel better.

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Freedom

As I watch, read and listen to politics today, one point comes to mind and that is the “What is in it for me” and the presidential candidates promise this and that to me. To hell with all of that, I am an American so just get out of my way and I will make my own future.....More

The First Woman To Run For President — In 1872 : NPR

The First Woman To Run For President — In 1872 : NPR

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The Monster Came

Dear Mommy:

I am in Heaven now, sitting on Jesus' lap. He loves me and cries with me; for my heart has been broken. I so wanted to be your little girl. I don't quite understand what has happened. I was so excited when I began realizing my existence. I was in a dark, yet comfortable place. I saw I had fingers and toes. I was pretty far along in my developing, yet not near ready to leave my surroundings. I spent most of my time thinking or sleeping.

Even from my earliest days, I felt a special bonding between you and me. Sometimes I heard you crying and I cried with you.Sometimes you would yell or scream, then cry. I heard Daddy yelling back. I was sad, and hoped you would be better soon. I wondered why you cried so much.

One day you cried almost all of the day. I hurt for you. I couldn't imagine why you were so unhappy. That same day, the most horrible thing happened.

A very mean monster came into that warm, comfortable place I was in. I was so scared, I began screaming, but you never once tried to help me. Maybe you never heard me.

The monster got closer and closer as I was screaming and screaming, "Mommy, Mommy, help me please; Mommy, help me." Complete terror is all I felt. I screamed and screamed until I thought I couldn't anymore.

Then the monster started ripping my arm off. It hurt so bad; the pain I can never explain. It didn't stop. Oh, how I begged it to stop. I screamed in horror as it ripped my leg off.

Though I was in such complete pain, I was dying. I knew I would never see your face or hear you say how much you love me. I wanted to make all your tears go away. I had so many plans to make you happy. Now I couldn't; all my dreams were shattered. Though I was in utter pain and horror, I felt the pain of my heart breaking, above all. I wanted more than anything to be your daughter.

No use now, for I was dying a painful death. I could only imagine the terrible things that they had done to you. I wanted to tell you that I love you before I was gone, but I didn't know the words you could understand.

And soon, I no longer had the breath to say them; I was dead. I felt myself rising. I was being carried by a huge angel into a big beautiful place. I was still crying, but the physical pain was gone.

The angel took me to Jesus and set me on His lap. He said He loved me, and He was my Father.

Then I was happy. I asked Him what the thing was that killed me. He answered, "Abortion. I am sorry, my child; for I know how it feels."

I don't know what abortion is; I guess that's the name of the monster.I'm writing to say that I love you and to tell you how much I wanted to be your little girl. I tried very hard to live. I wanted to live. I had the will, but I couldn't; the monster was too powerful.

It sucked my arm and legs off and finally got all of me. It was impossible to live. I just wanted you to know I tried to stay with you. I didn't want to die.

Also, Mommy, please watch out for that abortion monster. Mommy, I love you and I would hate for you to go through the kind of pain I did. Please be careful.

Love,

Your Baby Girl

New Orleans Zoo

Our day at New Orleans Zoo and no Molly could not go with me.

New Orleans Zoo

Getting ready to go to New Orleans Zoo with 5 great grand kids, more to follow if I survive the trip.

Congress's bailout legislation

come up with a new name for Congress's bailout legislation

Open Market: A Reader Contest

Last week we asked readers to come up with a new name for Congress's bailout legislation. Based on reader comments and e-mails, the winner is "Blighted Asset Relief Fund (B.A.R.F.)," submitted by Rich from Philly.

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Current Events

Current Events

We need to go back to our basics.

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Pray for Bush

Pray for wisdom for President Bush and members of his team as they seek to strengthen the economy and help small businesses survive

Presidential election is less than a month away and fraudulent voter registration is a disaster waiting to happen. Six swing states have reported thousands of voters have
been blocked from registering. Meanwhile, there are major concerns that non-citizens will vote illegally this year.
We’ll have full coverage on the tactics used by special interest groups to push people to the polls and the overall lack of confidence in the voter registration system in this country. Plus:
* It appears Washington’s efforts to shore up our economy are not working as well as planned. The $700 billion bailout to buy toxic debt has come under scrutiny. The Treasury Department now says it is considering buying stock in shaky financial
institutions. We’ll have the latest details and a look at how much more money this could cost American taxpayers.

* The community activist group ACORN has faced its share of accusations, investigations and even convictions. Five states have opened investigations into the legality of its voter registration drives. And, some of ACORN’s employees have
actually been convicted of voter fraud. We’ll dig into the history and practices of this supposed non-partisan organization.

* Some states are having major problems with the early voting.
Activists groups are already predicting which states will face
voting problems on Election Day. South Carolina had two days of
breakdowns in early voting this week and had to scramble to put
in enough paper ballots. And states like Virginia, a key
battleground state, have high voter to voting machine ratios
that will generate long lines if there is a breakdown.

Lou’s nationally-syndicated talk radio show, The Lou Dobbs
Show, debuted this spring. Join us weekdays from 3-6 p.m.
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Today, David Walker, president of the Peter G. Peterson
Foundation will join us. He’ll discuss a petition put together
by the foundation that aims to make the candidates really
answer debate questions instead of dance around them. Economist
Peter Morici will break down the latest economic news and what
it all means for America’s middle class. James Taranto, editor
of OpinionJournal.com, will weigh in on presidential campaigns.
And Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter
to you. Call him at 877-55 DOBBS.

The Presidential Prayer Team:

The nation's largest group of atheists and agnostics is suing President Bush and other officials over the federal law mandating the National Day of Prayer.The Freedom of Religion Foundation filed suit last week, claiming the president's call to Americans to pray violates the constitutional ban on government officials promoting religion.

The Presidential Prayer Team:

Our nation need your prayers: Ask GOD to help us and our leaders.

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Checking On The New Head Of The Smithsonian : NPR

Checking On The New Head Of The Smithsonian : NPR

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Untitled

A Meal Fit For A Candidate: Barack Obama

by Daniel Zwerdling

When Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, want a special night out in Chicago, they often head for the award-winning Mexican restaurant Topolobampo. But don't equate the word "Mexican" with burritos and refried beans. Chef Rick Bayless founded "Topolo," as locals call it, almost 20 years ago to prove to Americans that genuine Mexican cooking can be as sophisticated as French and Italian.
In fact, the dishes you might find on the menu on a typical night — perhaps lobster napped with a sauce of arbol and chipotle chilies, or seared, line-caught marlin in a toasted ancho chili crust — might be too elaborate to make easily at home. Instead, Bayless urges you to try his simple recipe for an authentic Mexican street food: skirt steak tacos with smoky guacamole.

Read the whole story and see the menu, boy am I hungry.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95358426 

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The Molly Chronicles pictures, photos, and videos, from friends & fun on webshots

The Molly Chronicles pictures, photos, and videos, from friends & fun on webshots

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Lou Dobbs: Issues, TV, Radio, and Books - CNN.com

Lou Dobbs: Issues, TV, Radio, and Books - CNN.com

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George on Wall Street

Well George you did give us the 2nd Admendment but we are just to sorry to exercise it.

What is 'The Large Hadron Collider'?

What is 'The Large Hadron Collider'?

Why spend all that money on a machine to find the answer that was but in print many years ago, when the creator Himself told us how HE did all that, I have that knowledge. It is this simple. There was nothing and a Spirit said,"Let there be light!
 Now scientist claim that made a BIG BANG, big is a poor word to describe that noise, how about, considerable, extensive, good, great, healthy, large, large-scale, sizable, Impressively great in size, force, extent; enormous, extraordinary; marvelous,obsolete, portentous; ominous?  Well I call it "A PRODIGIOUS BANG".
 Now when scientists find the Higgs in all this, they shall have found the SPIRIT thereby proving once and for all, that GOD is.
 So scientists has proven that Earth is older than the Bible says it is. Question: God has the knowledge to create the universe simply by speaking it. Don't you have enough knowledge to know that if you have that much know how, then of course you have enough knowledge to build it old to start with. Wow what a mouth full. "Let there be light" is so simple if you have the knowledge to understand from winch it came.
 Now scientist are looking for that anti-matter. You, I and every thing that is, is matter, therefore there must be an equal amount of anti-matter, of which the two cannot exist in the same space. Well now, I am matter, where is my anti-matter, simple it is in that other dimension. HOLY HELLO; a terrible thought just came over me, maybe I am the anti-matter and my matter is in the other dimension. Forrest Gump said "Stupid is as stupid does." My existence is chaotic so i (little i) wonder what I (big I) am like over yonder. YIKES:  

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Economy

A new poll shows that 8 out of 10 Americans fear that the consequences of the financial meltdown will hit them directly. Even if a bailout plan clears Congress it will still take some time before the economy rebounds, leaving ordinary people increasingly nervous about job security, sinking home values, their children's futures and retirement plans.

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billyecole's Podcast

billyecole's Podcast

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Molly and the Mississippi levees

Molly and I took a tour on the scooter along the Mississippi River road levees, to see our video got to YouTube and search for The Molly Chronicles.

Lou Dobbs: Issues, TV, Radio, and Books - CNN.com

Lou Dobbs: Issues, TV, Radio, and Books - CNN.com

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American

My top leaders in my America voted yes to the bail out.
I never thought that I would be rescued by representatives but to my surprise they voted what seems to be the will of the people, to me this was an astonishing event.
For quite some time I have known we have had a political crisis in my country, quite some time ago lawyers changed the law affecting bankruptcy for individuals, was this to set us up for big business. Maybe this money crisis will keep the big boys from taking all of our homes and reselling them.
Bailing out Wall Streets are not going to help us that is not the root of this evil, the root is our elected officials, we the people need to take Washington on a cruise and bail out the boat, or we could exercise our 2nd Amendment right.
The non political experts are probably right and I am in for long hardships and I fear that red neck Americans like my self will take down some politicians as we go. One can only kick on a true blooded American so much and when he does turn to fight he becomes the most vicious animal of this planet.
God have mercy on America.

Americans and Sleep

Americans sleep two fewer hours per night, on average, than people did a century ago. It's a serious problem that has many people resorting to solutions that could have serious side

I am on the presidents prayer team

Pray for President Bush, Treasury Secretary Paulson and congressional leaders as they consider how best to move forward with the financial rescue plan, following the failed vote this morning in the House of Representatives.

The ignorance and inefficiencies’ of this congress may save us taxpayers trillions. Why should congress get together about any thing on the hill, my grandchildren in the picture have a better response than any leader in Washington. There is far more intelligence in their expression when I asked them about the bail out.

The Week America's Economy Almost Died : NPR

The Week America's Economy Almost Died : NPR: What is this bail out NPR put it in such a way that even I can understand. "All Things Considered, September 26, 2008 · The potential for disaster was horrifying. For people on Wall Street and in the inner circles of government, last Wednesday and Thursday will long be remembered as the time when the American economy survived a brush with death."

The Bank of Gasoline

I am watching the gasoline bank closely, while the news media has our attention focused on this Wall Street business, the public war cry is sounding off. But you aint heard nothing yet. Wait a week or so and see how mad we are going to really be when we go to the grocery store to get bread, milk and meat.
Maybe you don’t remember the gas rationing of the 70’s when we complained about getting fuel but fresh meat and bread was the real issue. There is a real gas shortage in the southeast this can be noticed by the bags on the pump handles. Instead of looking at the price notice the bags. That has nothing to do with the price per gallon. Hurricane Gustav and Ike swept across the Gulf of Mexico and that left power outages at drills and refineries’. That damage is yet to be felt or noticed but it is coming.
Wall Street will be placed on the back burner but while our news media and government is concealing this from us, trust me as soon as the rich get our tax dollars, you and I will get floored and feel like we have been sucked into a black hole.
We will have no milk, eggs, fresh meat and I am going to get really pissed off when Molly runs out of dog food. I find good in all this because Wal-Mart is going to have to find someone beside China to buy junk from.
President Bush will get the blame so watch how this sorry congress will pass the buck, I hope I am wrong about the basic food items, But Government is diverting our attention that is politics and it war against middle class America.
May God Bless.

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This Congress

Is there one single solitary American that thought this Congress could actually combine their efforts to solve just one American crisis , what a bunch of idiots this group of law makers are. Remember this when you vote in the coming election, I am ready to overthrow this government now, not wait until Nov.
Any body with a spine want to comment.

My Constitution

All this government bail out, the bickering of congress, the lack of leadership and guidance. In my opinion law makers are raping my Constitution. I once swore an oath to GOD to protect that instrument.
In my opinion, we need a leader that understands the 2nd amendment and will make a formal objection to our current and incoming leaders and cause preparations. People we are on a collision course with disaster and the reason can be stopped by us "We the People" because the Constitution was written for us, you and I, not Washington. Regardless of what Washington does and regardless of how far they set us back, as long as we exist we will always be Americans and we drown in our own blood before we give up our freedom. Give me liberty or give me death.
Everybody knows we have the right to own guns, but the 2nd amendment does not stop there it is the (why) we have the right to bear arms that really matter. To hell with Wall Street, we need to set our sights on Washington and we need to do it now. I like McCain and I hear every word Obama says, but as soon as either gets to the White House I fear that it is "Buddy can you spare a dime" all over again.
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The 2nd Admendment
Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bill of Rights in the National Archives. The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution (Amendment II) is a part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the pre-existing individual right to possess and carry weapons (i.e. "keep and bear arms") in case of confrontation.[1] Codification of the right to keep and bear arms into the Bill of Rights was influenced by a fear that the federal government would disarm the people in order to impose rule through a standing army or select militia,[2] since history had shown the way tyrants eliminated resistance to suppression of political opponents was to simply take away the people's arms and make it an offense to keep them.

The right to bear arms has recently been an issue which simply means the politicians are just setting us up for the kill. Just like that stimulus check a few months ago, that $300 I got (which went directly to Wall Street some way or another) set me up for this $10,000 dept I will be in when Washington bails out Wall Street. History does repeat itself. Todays news was written along about 1929.
Again I set here doing nothing just like my Grandfather did in the early 30's he was hoeing corn and I am writing a Blog. No one said to my grandfather load up and follow me to Washington. If someone ask me to follow them I wont make the same mistake.
May God Bless

The FBI Files

Finally some answers may appear
By LARA JAKES JORDAN,
Associated Press Writer

FBI investigating companies at heart of meltdown

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WTFAWDH?

If I say $700 billion that goes right over our heads but you know what I am talking about, this bailout bullshit, but when I tell you that $2000 of that is yours, $2000 is mine and that comes out to over $2000 for every man woman and child in America. I did the math. Do the math on this one [Freedom, divided by $2000 for each of us = Socialization or rape of our constitution by this administration and congress. Where are the Supreme Court Judges at now?

When we the people were in trouble a couple of months ago what did congress do? Well hell they took a month off. Maybe if they would take off while their rich supporters are in trouble they could struggle like I did and solve their own financial problems.

I know and understand the importance of a global economy and I realize America’s declining place in it.

When a foreign country gets in any kind of trouble they come running to the good old US of A. Where are those blood suckers at now? Pay some of that “F” ing money back. China is sitting on $200 billion and a 9.9 percent stake in Morgan Stanley, while China’s central bank is managing another $1.8 trillion in reserves. Back in 1998 when the Russian economy was in a freefall, Moscow officials scurried to the U.S. Treasury to secure vital American support for over $17 billion in a new IMF loan. Has Russia paid it back? Well I doubt it.

During this administration there has been a steady transfer of my wealth, how about yours? I am a Vet and Freedom aint free nor can money buy it. It takes blood. My world has changed an awful lot in the last 8 years. There has been a steady transfer of wealth away from the USA and most Americans don’t realize that. The free ride is over globe.

It is time you (the world) realized the American Century is coming to a finish.

In my opinion, I think we need to bring every soldier home and post them every foot apart around our borders with loaded weapons. We should close every base outside the US and bring all that money back home and that will protect our borders and look at the jobs it will create here at home. You hear me Wall Street. Now with all our military back home, our leaders should let the world know that threats against our freedom or national security will be met by absolute force. Our political voting selection for a president would be simple, Mr. or Mrs. Candidate, “Do you have the balls to protect us?” If a criminal nation threatens Israel or any of our other allies, “Do you have the balls to push that big red button?”

The signers of our Constitution, many of whom lost their lives and most lost their wealth in order to preserve that perfect instrument. They had the guts to challenge aggression with rocks and sticks. But this spineless, sorry, no-good --- Oh! God, how I would love to type the words that could accurately describe most of our leaders.

I am telling you Washington, you can just push us Americans just so far and I for one am fed up with you crooked “Son of Bitches”

Snip! Nearly One-Fifth of Homes Have No Landline - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

By the end of the year one in five American households may well not have a home phone line. That’s the conclusion of a new report by Nielsen, which says that already 17 pe

Snip! Nearly One-Fifth of Homes Have No Landline - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

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America " We still exist"

Look at America, Alive and well despite our politicians we the people still invent, we continue to prosper and add to this nations great wealth, Bush and this congress is gone in 4 months but Chev will still be here. Us give a big hand for this American Company.

Molly and I rock and roll

"Buddy Can You Spare a Dime"

Perhaps with the comparisons to great depression, a updated lyric and audio to "Buddy Can You Spare a Dime" is is in order.

America - I love you.

America I love you: God please bless Her Again.

I went to church this morning.

Going to church.
I love going to church and I get rewarded by doing it.
I have always been a church goer. But for about 2 years now I haven’t went but today I really want and need to attend. This weeks news has been so disturbing I just got to get some stress relief and only God can provide the kind of relief I need.
Now the devil is scheming to keep me from going, it is Sunday morning and every thing is going wrong but I am determined to handle the problems confronting me and go to church.
Those of you that know me, know that I am just passing thru and don’t have a church to attend here so I am going to have to find one. I went to the first church I came to and was welcomed in the usual Christian manner. I felt right at home. It was under the same manager that I always attended, God’s.
I ran into an old friend, that treated me so special. He made me feel important and left me knowing that I had met many persons this morning that was the most important people in the world. In case you are wondering who old friend was, well it was Jesus.
The message I received at church this morning was every person I meet from now on is the most important person in the world.
I have an idea that life is like the four seasons. But my life refuses to play out in four distinct acts. I can’t leave one scene dresses in work clothes and return in a tuxedo like an actor, but I do perform many different functions, like the example I set with my life. Like talking to a biker and showing that I can have fun without drinking (I am a member of the CMA) or perhaps a parent with a young child that has a drug problem.
My old friend showed me that life is like an elevator and that I have 67 floors of experience below me so when unexpected situations arrive push my buttons. I can and will share my successes and failures with those I know and those I meet.
“Are you going up?”
I am not stressed out anymore after church. I am not going to worry about the war on the middle class that the “Bush” administration has declared on us. I am not going to worry about the rich people that have mismanaged their business, failed and now need my tax dollars to bail them out, because I have a mansion bought and paid for by my old friend (he reminded me) Jesus. KJV John 3-16
Life is utterly fantastic and my future is definitely well defined.
God Bless you,
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