all I really have to say right now, is check out my website
www.bordeauxjewelry.com
Friday, October 16, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
Obama's speech in school
yep I have an opinion too. I have a 6 year old in first grade, so It hits home for me.
I developed my opinion within 2 seconds of hearing of it.
I have seen people who like the idea and people who don't. I have seen rational arguments for not wanting their children to see it and I have seen these people being called names and told to chill out, and I understand where they are coming from.
personally I could care less what he says, they won't be paying attention anyway. The thing with me is, my kids know we do not approve of this man. He is in a position of power but that in no way gives him the right of passage to speak to my kids without me present. I don't know how things went down with Reagan or the other Bush, it really didn't matter to me then, I didn't have a child in school then.
I don't trust this man, and if I tell my kids that then say ok he is telling you a good thing here, I sound hypocritical, and I just don't want to go down that road. I watch very carefully what my kids are exposed to, i visit the school even.
the teachers are given a free ride here to open a dialogue about how great the president is, and since most teachers are liberal, there is only one way that conversation can end up.
Kiddlet already wants to believe everything his teacher tells him instead of me, I have to prove things otherwise, and most things I am ok with that, It is good for me to have a reason to teach him to question things, but I don't want Obama to have face time with my son without me there to have an on the spot dialogue with him, the teachers should not be put in this position either.
My gut feeling is, this is just creepy. Though these are government schools (single payer systems in which most people feel trapped to enter into) why wouldn't the government want to speak to its government subjects.
my finger is always on the trigger to pull him out and homeschool. But so far I am pleased with the school, with only a couple of minor things being taught which I would rather have been left out of the curriculum.
I contacted my child's school - they aren't showing the speech. I will however watch it at home. though like I said the content of the speech is irrelevant to the purposes behind doing it.
He is president, ultimately I have to stand behind him, but I don't trust him and I don't like any of his marxist policies.
I developed my opinion within 2 seconds of hearing of it.
I have seen people who like the idea and people who don't. I have seen rational arguments for not wanting their children to see it and I have seen these people being called names and told to chill out, and I understand where they are coming from.
personally I could care less what he says, they won't be paying attention anyway. The thing with me is, my kids know we do not approve of this man. He is in a position of power but that in no way gives him the right of passage to speak to my kids without me present. I don't know how things went down with Reagan or the other Bush, it really didn't matter to me then, I didn't have a child in school then.
I don't trust this man, and if I tell my kids that then say ok he is telling you a good thing here, I sound hypocritical, and I just don't want to go down that road. I watch very carefully what my kids are exposed to, i visit the school even.
the teachers are given a free ride here to open a dialogue about how great the president is, and since most teachers are liberal, there is only one way that conversation can end up.
Kiddlet already wants to believe everything his teacher tells him instead of me, I have to prove things otherwise, and most things I am ok with that, It is good for me to have a reason to teach him to question things, but I don't want Obama to have face time with my son without me there to have an on the spot dialogue with him, the teachers should not be put in this position either.
My gut feeling is, this is just creepy. Though these are government schools (single payer systems in which most people feel trapped to enter into) why wouldn't the government want to speak to its government subjects.
my finger is always on the trigger to pull him out and homeschool. But so far I am pleased with the school, with only a couple of minor things being taught which I would rather have been left out of the curriculum.
I contacted my child's school - they aren't showing the speech. I will however watch it at home. though like I said the content of the speech is irrelevant to the purposes behind doing it.
He is president, ultimately I have to stand behind him, but I don't trust him and I don't like any of his marxist policies.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
haven't posted in a long time
I guess I don't feel like I am shouting into the wind anymore.
People have awaken and are making that noise I wanted them to.
Just keep up the fight - don't roll over and take it anymore - go to rallys and town halls, I have - its a nice feeling to be surrounded by honest like minded individuals. who show genuine passion about preserving America as we have known it, and how it was meant to be.
- we must persevere or else become the next communist nation -
I guess I don't feel like I am shouting into the wind anymore.
People have awaken and are making that noise I wanted them to.
Just keep up the fight - don't roll over and take it anymore - go to rallys and town halls, I have - its a nice feeling to be surrounded by honest like minded individuals. who show genuine passion about preserving America as we have known it, and how it was meant to be.
- we must persevere or else become the next communist nation -
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
I haven't written in a while
so I thought I would make a post
I am pissed off at the direction people have decided to take the country I have not felt much like posting.
but I feel up to a post today.
I feel an economic collapse is eminent, therefore i have begun stocking up on food. I probably have enough for a month so far, i need to go to Sam's club again to get another months worth.
America's death is coming it is just a matter of time. The reason is one law leads to another which leads to another, it is a never ending cycle which only builds on itself until it is its own destruction.
The only reason rules are made is to secure power for the politically elite. They like to feel powerful, who doesn't, and they can grab power with force. if you break their rules you pay for it either monetarily, or ultimately jail.
The rules are being made exponentially, especially now. "crisis" is being used to manipulate the general public into believing they need more rules.
My almost 6 year old even knows that rule after rule after rule is a bad thing. He said we should make the rules for them, how right he is.
Back to the death of america. it has been a great nation for approximately 200 years, a good run for a free nation. Now it is collapsing, I don't think people like true freedom, because they give it away. Why do so many people see something they don't like and the first thing they say is "there aught to be a law" - **shudders** - Like I said before one law leads to another leads to another until you can't do anything!
I think if true freedom is to succeed - at least for another 200 years - a new nation needs to be BORN from scratch or near scratch. At least start getting rid of laws. The question is who starts it, and where. Does any state have the balls? Not yet - but I have hope it could happen.
I am a bit scared of the immediate future, it isn't bright. Especially if the Imperial government of the United states take over our healthcare.
If you think for a moment that the politicians give a rats ass about your health you are sorely mistaken, they want the power it gives them. Think about how dependant you will become on making someone else happy so they may give you permission for that medicine to cure your cancer. Especially if you make it to the age of 65 before you find the cancer, you just may be sent to a "end of life counceler"(sp) to talk about your pain management and hospice options.
Back to myself, I have a productive garden to help sustain my family and I am stockpiling food though I doubt i will be able to get enough to make it through this mess.
I am scared for my children's future and that is motivation for me to actively fight and look to how I am going to keep them from suffering as much as possible.
perhaps I seem paranoid, but there is good reason, and as much as I want America to be great again, I don't see it happening at all. And though Pres. HopeAndChange has sped this up exponentially and will be the ultimate destroyer of America he hasn't done it alone, Like I said one rule leads to another leads to another. So ALL the previous presidents just set the stage and it was a matter of time. There will be books on the Rise and Fall of America, as there is for Rome, USSR, and many others.
There is a birth a prosperity and a death of most all nations formed. America is no different.
Unfortunately I was born to see its death.
I will keep informed and keep researching for a place to relocate my family if I need to, and if it is impossible to relocate then come up with a plan on how to survive to see better days.
I have lots more feelings on this but I am done for now.
I am pissed off at the direction people have decided to take the country I have not felt much like posting.
but I feel up to a post today.
I feel an economic collapse is eminent, therefore i have begun stocking up on food. I probably have enough for a month so far, i need to go to Sam's club again to get another months worth.
America's death is coming it is just a matter of time. The reason is one law leads to another which leads to another, it is a never ending cycle which only builds on itself until it is its own destruction.
The only reason rules are made is to secure power for the politically elite. They like to feel powerful, who doesn't, and they can grab power with force. if you break their rules you pay for it either monetarily, or ultimately jail.
The rules are being made exponentially, especially now. "crisis" is being used to manipulate the general public into believing they need more rules.
My almost 6 year old even knows that rule after rule after rule is a bad thing. He said we should make the rules for them, how right he is.
Back to the death of america. it has been a great nation for approximately 200 years, a good run for a free nation. Now it is collapsing, I don't think people like true freedom, because they give it away. Why do so many people see something they don't like and the first thing they say is "there aught to be a law" - **shudders** - Like I said before one law leads to another leads to another until you can't do anything!
I think if true freedom is to succeed - at least for another 200 years - a new nation needs to be BORN from scratch or near scratch. At least start getting rid of laws. The question is who starts it, and where. Does any state have the balls? Not yet - but I have hope it could happen.
I am a bit scared of the immediate future, it isn't bright. Especially if the Imperial government of the United states take over our healthcare.
If you think for a moment that the politicians give a rats ass about your health you are sorely mistaken, they want the power it gives them. Think about how dependant you will become on making someone else happy so they may give you permission for that medicine to cure your cancer. Especially if you make it to the age of 65 before you find the cancer, you just may be sent to a "end of life counceler"(sp) to talk about your pain management and hospice options.
Back to myself, I have a productive garden to help sustain my family and I am stockpiling food though I doubt i will be able to get enough to make it through this mess.
I am scared for my children's future and that is motivation for me to actively fight and look to how I am going to keep them from suffering as much as possible.
perhaps I seem paranoid, but there is good reason, and as much as I want America to be great again, I don't see it happening at all. And though Pres. HopeAndChange has sped this up exponentially and will be the ultimate destroyer of America he hasn't done it alone, Like I said one rule leads to another leads to another. So ALL the previous presidents just set the stage and it was a matter of time. There will be books on the Rise and Fall of America, as there is for Rome, USSR, and many others.
There is a birth a prosperity and a death of most all nations formed. America is no different.
Unfortunately I was born to see its death.
I will keep informed and keep researching for a place to relocate my family if I need to, and if it is impossible to relocate then come up with a plan on how to survive to see better days.
I have lots more feelings on this but I am done for now.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Archive for the ‘Economic Depression Metrics’ Category
This info from
globaldepressionsurvivialguide.com
If You Live in These Seven States, You Are Already in the Depression
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Seven states received a wakeup call this week as new unemployment statistics confirmed that depression era level double digit unemployment has already struck.
Seven states posted unemployment rates larger than 10 percent in January, according to figures released Wednesday morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Michigan was saddled with the nation’s highest jobless rate in January, 12.5 percent in statistics that were not seasonally adjusted. It had been the only state to rise above 10 percent during the previous month, December 2008.
Also topping the 10-percent mark in January were Rhode Island (11.4 percent unemployment), Oregon (10.9 percent), South Carolina (10.9 percent), California (10.6 percent), North Carolina (10.3 percent) and Nevada (10.2 percent).
7 states post jobless rates above 10% - Business First of Buffalo:
During the depression unemployment didn’t just stop at the 12% level. It accelerated to the 20% levels around the world. Twenty percent levels are still not the norm, but these 7 states have a head start and might feel the worst of the depression early on.
Currently the National Unemployment rate is at 8.1%. This does not include what is considered the ‘real’ unemployment numbers of people that the US government has stopped tracking all together, typically because their unemployment insurance benefits have expired.
globaldepressionsurvivialguide.com
If You Live in These Seven States, You Are Already in the Depression
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Seven states received a wakeup call this week as new unemployment statistics confirmed that depression era level double digit unemployment has already struck.
Seven states posted unemployment rates larger than 10 percent in January, according to figures released Wednesday morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Michigan was saddled with the nation’s highest jobless rate in January, 12.5 percent in statistics that were not seasonally adjusted. It had been the only state to rise above 10 percent during the previous month, December 2008.
Also topping the 10-percent mark in January were Rhode Island (11.4 percent unemployment), Oregon (10.9 percent), South Carolina (10.9 percent), California (10.6 percent), North Carolina (10.3 percent) and Nevada (10.2 percent).
7 states post jobless rates above 10% - Business First of Buffalo:
During the depression unemployment didn’t just stop at the 12% level. It accelerated to the 20% levels around the world. Twenty percent levels are still not the norm, but these 7 states have a head start and might feel the worst of the depression early on.
Currently the National Unemployment rate is at 8.1%. This does not include what is considered the ‘real’ unemployment numbers of people that the US government has stopped tracking all together, typically because their unemployment insurance benefits have expired.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Contacted my Representative
I contacted Mike McIntyre to vote no to Cap and Trade bill
here is what he wrote back (or someone working for him, ya never know) (I signed it like it was my hubby wrote it)
Dear Mr. H:
Thank you for writing to me about H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue, and I share your concerns.
As you know, H.R. 2454 would establish a program to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in our atmosphere through a cap-and-trade program. This program would require entities that emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to either reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from entities that remove carbon from the atmosphere. Electric utilities, manufacturing facilities, and industrial operations will be required to meet these requirements which could significantly drive up the cost of doing business. Those cost increase would then be passed along to consumers causing increases in utilities rates, the cost of food and household items, and vehicle fuels. When the program is fully implemented in 2030, retail electricity rates could rise as much as 45%, our GDP could fall as much as $350 billion, and the economy could lose as many as 2.5 million jobs even after accounting for those generated by new, green business. This is a price American families simply cannot afford to pay.
In addition, the bill would establish a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES), which requires electric utilities to generate a specific amount of energy from renewable sources. The RES does not take into account regional differences in capacity for renewable generation. The southeastern region of the United States does not have the same renewable generation capacity as states out West blessed with ample sunlight to warm solar panels and constant wind to drive turbines. I am concerned that the costs associated with both cap-and-trade and the RES will be merely a tax on consumers without the benefits of reduced emissions or more renewable generation.
God's beautiful earth must be protected and preserved, but this bill is not the answer. It will cost jobs, increase electricity rates, pass on financial burdens to the next generation, and hurt our country in the global economy. It would potentially allow more jobs to go overseas to countries like China that do not comply with the same standards.
My commitment in Congress has been to help working families and keep Southeastern North Carolina moving forward. During these challenging economic times, this bill is a hardship that our citizens and communities cannot afford. I voted against this bill as it places far too great a burden on our working families, small businesses, and family farmers.
Thank you for contacting me about this important issue. I will continue to be a strong voice for you in Washington. If you would like to receive my periodic e-newsletter, visit my website at http://www.house.gov/mcintyre/.
Sincerely,
Mike McIntyre
Member of Congress
here is what he wrote back (or someone working for him, ya never know) (I signed it like it was my hubby wrote it)
Dear Mr. H:
Thank you for writing to me about H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue, and I share your concerns.
As you know, H.R. 2454 would establish a program to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in our atmosphere through a cap-and-trade program. This program would require entities that emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to either reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from entities that remove carbon from the atmosphere. Electric utilities, manufacturing facilities, and industrial operations will be required to meet these requirements which could significantly drive up the cost of doing business. Those cost increase would then be passed along to consumers causing increases in utilities rates, the cost of food and household items, and vehicle fuels. When the program is fully implemented in 2030, retail electricity rates could rise as much as 45%, our GDP could fall as much as $350 billion, and the economy could lose as many as 2.5 million jobs even after accounting for those generated by new, green business. This is a price American families simply cannot afford to pay.
In addition, the bill would establish a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES), which requires electric utilities to generate a specific amount of energy from renewable sources. The RES does not take into account regional differences in capacity for renewable generation. The southeastern region of the United States does not have the same renewable generation capacity as states out West blessed with ample sunlight to warm solar panels and constant wind to drive turbines. I am concerned that the costs associated with both cap-and-trade and the RES will be merely a tax on consumers without the benefits of reduced emissions or more renewable generation.
God's beautiful earth must be protected and preserved, but this bill is not the answer. It will cost jobs, increase electricity rates, pass on financial burdens to the next generation, and hurt our country in the global economy. It would potentially allow more jobs to go overseas to countries like China that do not comply with the same standards.
My commitment in Congress has been to help working families and keep Southeastern North Carolina moving forward. During these challenging economic times, this bill is a hardship that our citizens and communities cannot afford. I voted against this bill as it places far too great a burden on our working families, small businesses, and family farmers.
Thank you for contacting me about this important issue. I will continue to be a strong voice for you in Washington. If you would like to receive my periodic e-newsletter, visit my website at http://www.house.gov/mcintyre/.
Sincerely,
Mike McIntyre
Member of Congress
Friday, June 26, 2009
Cap and Trade
The 8 Republicans Who Gave America the Finger
The eight who voted for cap and trade are:
Bono Mack (CA) 202-225-5330
Castle (DE) 202-225-4165
Kirk (IL) 202-225-4835
Lance (NJ) 202-225-5361
Lobiondo (NJ) 202-225-6572
McHugh (NY) 202-225-4611
Reichart (WA) 202-225-7761
Chris Smith (NJ) 202-225-3765
Final vote results for the American Clean Energy and Security Act
NC - Mike McIntyre - thank you for voting no, you earned my vote next year. (unless you do something I don't like between now and then)
(I did email Mr. McIntyre with our concerns)
The eight who voted for cap and trade are:
Bono Mack (CA) 202-225-5330
Castle (DE) 202-225-4165
Kirk (IL) 202-225-4835
Lance (NJ) 202-225-5361
Lobiondo (NJ) 202-225-6572
McHugh (NY) 202-225-4611
Reichart (WA) 202-225-7761
Chris Smith (NJ) 202-225-3765
Final vote results for the American Clean Energy and Security Act
NC - Mike McIntyre - thank you for voting no, you earned my vote next year. (unless you do something I don't like between now and then)
(I did email Mr. McIntyre with our concerns)
Old people should just give up and die!
At least that is what Prezbo thinks and wants with his health care plan.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
unionize Charter schools???
NO NO NO FUCK NO!!!!!!
my kid(s) go to charter school, If it unionizes I will without a doubt homeschool.
Right now it is one of the top ranked schools in the nation, I will be heartbroken if they destroy that!
unions are why schools fail to begin with. when there is a union there is no fear of being fired therefore why try to excel? why try to have kids excel?
my kid(s) go to charter school, If it unionizes I will without a doubt homeschool.
Right now it is one of the top ranked schools in the nation, I will be heartbroken if they destroy that!
unions are why schools fail to begin with. when there is a union there is no fear of being fired therefore why try to excel? why try to have kids excel?
Thursday, June 18, 2009
The future of America
They want us hooked to things like american idol, so we won't think too much about real life issues.
Well they have it
this is not funny it is sad
Well they have it
this is not funny it is sad
I understand why my family is going to be in serious trouble
This is my families problem and I was enlightened a bit.
I read this list of consequences for the cap and trade bill (which Obama is pushing to get past this week "energy week")
after reading it I was struck with the notion that I won't be able to pay for all this increase cost. My family is living just at its means at all, if we are taxed or our bills go up at all, we will be struggling to get by.
I asked my husband - why would Obama do this to us, we are one of the lower class families, wasn't he supposed to help the lower and middle class?
the answer
yes, he wants us to NEED the government to give us hand outs to make it.
right now we make it without government involvement in our family, but when these consequences take effect, will we have a choice but accept government "help" ie welfare? probably not.
then what happens to my escape plan to leave the country, How will I save enough money to do it? I don't know.
please read below
This is going to be a painful bill for the American economy, Citizens Against Government Waste has some more details:
In reality, this cap-and-trade plan is nothing more than a hidden tax that The Heritage Foundation has estimated could increase the average American family's energy bill by $1,500 annually!
..... These higher operating costs for utilities, oil companies, and industry will ultimately trickle down to individual Americans, and you will pay an estimated 74 percent more for gasoline, 90 percent more for electricity, and 55 percent more on your natural gas bill. And that's not the end of it. You'll also pay more for every product that requires fossil fuels in its manufacture or transportation!
The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade plan will also grow the size and cost of government by requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a greenhouse gas (GHG) registry, create a GHG emission allowance transfer system, and set emission allowances from 2012-2050. This army of new bureaucrats will eventually control every aspect of industrial, commercial, and individual energy use. You won't be able to tune up your car or install a grill in your back yard without federal interference ... perhaps even a costly environmental impact study. What's more, the cap-and-trade program will necessarily be ripe for political favoritism and corruption, as politicians and bureaucrats manipulate the system for favored industries.
Climatologist Chip Knappenberger has estimated that the 83 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions mandated under Waxman-Markey by 2050 will result in a drop in climate temperature of only nine-hundredths of 1 degree Fahrenheit. That's equivalent to just two years of avoided global warming.
I read this list of consequences for the cap and trade bill (which Obama is pushing to get past this week "energy week")
after reading it I was struck with the notion that I won't be able to pay for all this increase cost. My family is living just at its means at all, if we are taxed or our bills go up at all, we will be struggling to get by.
I asked my husband - why would Obama do this to us, we are one of the lower class families, wasn't he supposed to help the lower and middle class?
the answer
yes, he wants us to NEED the government to give us hand outs to make it.
right now we make it without government involvement in our family, but when these consequences take effect, will we have a choice but accept government "help" ie welfare? probably not.
then what happens to my escape plan to leave the country, How will I save enough money to do it? I don't know.
please read below
This is going to be a painful bill for the American economy, Citizens Against Government Waste has some more details:
In reality, this cap-and-trade plan is nothing more than a hidden tax that The Heritage Foundation has estimated could increase the average American family's energy bill by $1,500 annually!
..... These higher operating costs for utilities, oil companies, and industry will ultimately trickle down to individual Americans, and you will pay an estimated 74 percent more for gasoline, 90 percent more for electricity, and 55 percent more on your natural gas bill. And that's not the end of it. You'll also pay more for every product that requires fossil fuels in its manufacture or transportation!
The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade plan will also grow the size and cost of government by requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a greenhouse gas (GHG) registry, create a GHG emission allowance transfer system, and set emission allowances from 2012-2050. This army of new bureaucrats will eventually control every aspect of industrial, commercial, and individual energy use. You won't be able to tune up your car or install a grill in your back yard without federal interference ... perhaps even a costly environmental impact study. What's more, the cap-and-trade program will necessarily be ripe for political favoritism and corruption, as politicians and bureaucrats manipulate the system for favored industries.
Climatologist Chip Knappenberger has estimated that the 83 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions mandated under Waxman-Markey by 2050 will result in a drop in climate temperature of only nine-hundredths of 1 degree Fahrenheit. That's equivalent to just two years of avoided global warming.
low-level terrorist
The government is now considering protesters as low level terrorists.
Tea party goers are low level terrorists.
even though there is something in the constitution about being able to "peaceably assemble" and the right to "petition the government for a redress of grievances."
WTF
Tea party goers are low level terrorists.
even though there is something in the constitution about being able to "peaceably assemble" and the right to "petition the government for a redress of grievances."
WTF
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
OMG - I just read this, does it sound like high school or what? only with dire consequences
It happened last night. There was debate on the floor of the House over some amendments to a spending bill. The amendments were offered by Republicans and concerned funding for ACORN and an investigation into Nancy Pelosi's problems with the CIA.
As I understand the story, the Democrats announced that there would be no more votes that evening, and Republicans started heading home. When enough Republicans were gone the Democrats headed back to the House floor and called for a vote to end debate on all amendments to the spending bill. Republicans scrambled to get back into the House, but it was too late. Democrats saved Pelosi and ACORN with their little chicanery. For now.
As I understand the story, the Democrats announced that there would be no more votes that evening, and Republicans started heading home. When enough Republicans were gone the Democrats headed back to the House floor and called for a vote to end debate on all amendments to the spending bill. Republicans scrambled to get back into the House, but it was too late. Democrats saved Pelosi and ACORN with their little chicanery. For now.
I feel like i am in a race
The racers are Obama, North Korea, and myself
Obama is racing to get Healthcare socialized before the end of the year. why, because there is an election next year, and he doesn't want this on the table, that is my best guess.
North Korea is racing to perfect their atomic bombs, which they have enough plutonium to make 6 I believe.
I am racing to get out of debt and stockpile enough cash to leave the country.
I am so close to being unsecured debt free, I can taste it. We sold our stocks (at the perfect time I might add) and we will have everything paid off by the beginning of next year, If nothing goes wrong (like a car needing to be replaced)
Once we are financially free we will be more free to flee. If they socialize medicine then really what would the point of staying in the US be? We are turning into something exactly like everyone else in the world (who's systems are proven to suck) So why not just go somewhere where there isn't a huge bullseye on our heads?
Obama is racing to get Healthcare socialized before the end of the year. why, because there is an election next year, and he doesn't want this on the table, that is my best guess.
North Korea is racing to perfect their atomic bombs, which they have enough plutonium to make 6 I believe.
I am racing to get out of debt and stockpile enough cash to leave the country.
I am so close to being unsecured debt free, I can taste it. We sold our stocks (at the perfect time I might add) and we will have everything paid off by the beginning of next year, If nothing goes wrong (like a car needing to be replaced)
Once we are financially free we will be more free to flee. If they socialize medicine then really what would the point of staying in the US be? We are turning into something exactly like everyone else in the world (who's systems are proven to suck) So why not just go somewhere where there isn't a huge bullseye on our heads?
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
"recent Gallup polls shows that 40% of Americans describe themselves as conservative. Only 21% of Americans call themselves liberal and 35% consider themselves moderate.
Clearly all of these conservatives don't consider themselves to be Republicans. Many of them are round in the ranks of or in sympathy with the Libertarians. A lot of them even vote Democrat. Conservative doesn't always equate to Republican. There are a lot of conservatives, for instance, who do not feel that it is the government's role to control a woman's reproductive life. Many of them won't vote Republican until the party starts to concentrate more on governance than it does on people's personal lives.
Fact is, the Republican party is out of fresh and new ideas, and it is ignoring the good old ones. Where are the Republicans who are standing up with anything more than a whimper for free enterprise?
OK .. you know where I'm going. I'm completely convinced that if the Republican party would put its full support behind the FairTax, and pledge to pass it as soon as they have control of the House and the Senate, it would turn next year's midterm election on its ear. The FairTax would become the issue. Sure, the Democrats would demagogue it, but as more and more Americans learned the truth their demagoguery would serve to hurt their cause, not help it. The formula here is so simple. Would you rather pay the government 33% of everything you earn, or 23% of everything you spend. What do you think of the idea of nobody paying any taxes at all to the federal government until they have provided for the basic necessities for their family? Now think about that one. Should the government have a claim on one single penny of the money you earn --- or, to state it differently --- should the government have any claim on one single minute of your life before you've taken care of your own family's basic needs? Unless I miss my guess, most Americans would answer "no" to those questions. Can't you see the Republicans running on a campaign of "Not one penny for the government until your family is taken care of." Well, that's the FairTax.
Why won't the Republicans get behind this? The FairTax is the most thoroughly studied and researched piece of legislation ever to have been placed before the Congress of the United States. Still, the Republicans don't believe that they can stand up to Democrat demagoguery. They have no confidence in the voters. They think that the voters will respond to simplistic and sophomoric ideas like calling the Democrat Party the "Socialist Democrat Party." Yeah ... that's showing 'em. But when it comes to supporting and promoting legislation that would bring about the largest transfer of power from the government to the people in our history .... The Republicans shy away.
There are trillions of dollars ... perhaps as much as $13 trillion ... in American dollar-denominated deposits working in overseas economies. Those dollars belong to Americans and American corporations. Stimulus? You want stimulus? What if that money came flowing back home to work in our economy? Can you imagine the stimulus to our economy that would result from just one-half of this money coming back home? This money would be spent by the people who earned it and own it, not by the government. The spending decisions would be privately made, not made in Washington's dark chambers. Obama's idea? Pass laws that tax these overseas earnings right here at home. Construct an economic Berlin Wall. If you see a dollar trying to escape our tax system, shoot it down without remorse. The FairTax plan? The FairTax play that could be the Republican plan? Tell the people who hold this wealth to bring it home with absolutely no federal tax consequences whatsoever. No taxes, no interest on taxes, no penalties .. nothing. Bring it home and put it to work in America and for Americans. But ... have you heard one single Republican present these different approaches to the American people?
How can the Democrats frighten the Republicans so much on this plan? The Democrats would argue for withholding money from your paycheck before you even see it. The Republicans could argue for presenting you with 100% of your paycheck every payday. The Democrats could argue for taxing everything that moves. The Republicans could argue for businesses operating in the US with no tax component on capital or labor. The Republicans aren't willing to take on this argument?
How sad it must be to have the hearts and minds of the plurality of the American people, but be unable to translate that into actual support. How on Earth do we have Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid running the show? Again, I said there were two reasons. The first being that the Republican Party has nothing going for itself. The second is because the American people have been conned ... at least in the presidential election ... into voting for a man who promised them "hope" and "change."
Elections have consequences. Are you starting to figure that out yet?"
Also written by Neil Boortz
I can't seem to come up with my own words today so I bring you his
Clearly all of these conservatives don't consider themselves to be Republicans. Many of them are round in the ranks of or in sympathy with the Libertarians. A lot of them even vote Democrat. Conservative doesn't always equate to Republican. There are a lot of conservatives, for instance, who do not feel that it is the government's role to control a woman's reproductive life. Many of them won't vote Republican until the party starts to concentrate more on governance than it does on people's personal lives.
Fact is, the Republican party is out of fresh and new ideas, and it is ignoring the good old ones. Where are the Republicans who are standing up with anything more than a whimper for free enterprise?
OK .. you know where I'm going. I'm completely convinced that if the Republican party would put its full support behind the FairTax, and pledge to pass it as soon as they have control of the House and the Senate, it would turn next year's midterm election on its ear. The FairTax would become the issue. Sure, the Democrats would demagogue it, but as more and more Americans learned the truth their demagoguery would serve to hurt their cause, not help it. The formula here is so simple. Would you rather pay the government 33% of everything you earn, or 23% of everything you spend. What do you think of the idea of nobody paying any taxes at all to the federal government until they have provided for the basic necessities for their family? Now think about that one. Should the government have a claim on one single penny of the money you earn --- or, to state it differently --- should the government have any claim on one single minute of your life before you've taken care of your own family's basic needs? Unless I miss my guess, most Americans would answer "no" to those questions. Can't you see the Republicans running on a campaign of "Not one penny for the government until your family is taken care of." Well, that's the FairTax.
Why won't the Republicans get behind this? The FairTax is the most thoroughly studied and researched piece of legislation ever to have been placed before the Congress of the United States. Still, the Republicans don't believe that they can stand up to Democrat demagoguery. They have no confidence in the voters. They think that the voters will respond to simplistic and sophomoric ideas like calling the Democrat Party the "Socialist Democrat Party." Yeah ... that's showing 'em. But when it comes to supporting and promoting legislation that would bring about the largest transfer of power from the government to the people in our history .... The Republicans shy away.
There are trillions of dollars ... perhaps as much as $13 trillion ... in American dollar-denominated deposits working in overseas economies. Those dollars belong to Americans and American corporations. Stimulus? You want stimulus? What if that money came flowing back home to work in our economy? Can you imagine the stimulus to our economy that would result from just one-half of this money coming back home? This money would be spent by the people who earned it and own it, not by the government. The spending decisions would be privately made, not made in Washington's dark chambers. Obama's idea? Pass laws that tax these overseas earnings right here at home. Construct an economic Berlin Wall. If you see a dollar trying to escape our tax system, shoot it down without remorse. The FairTax plan? The FairTax play that could be the Republican plan? Tell the people who hold this wealth to bring it home with absolutely no federal tax consequences whatsoever. No taxes, no interest on taxes, no penalties .. nothing. Bring it home and put it to work in America and for Americans. But ... have you heard one single Republican present these different approaches to the American people?
How can the Democrats frighten the Republicans so much on this plan? The Democrats would argue for withholding money from your paycheck before you even see it. The Republicans could argue for presenting you with 100% of your paycheck every payday. The Democrats could argue for taxing everything that moves. The Republicans could argue for businesses operating in the US with no tax component on capital or labor. The Republicans aren't willing to take on this argument?
How sad it must be to have the hearts and minds of the plurality of the American people, but be unable to translate that into actual support. How on Earth do we have Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid running the show? Again, I said there were two reasons. The first being that the Republican Party has nothing going for itself. The second is because the American people have been conned ... at least in the presidential election ... into voting for a man who promised them "hope" and "change."
Elections have consequences. Are you starting to figure that out yet?"
Also written by Neil Boortz
I can't seem to come up with my own words today so I bring you his
"While we are on the subject of loony dictators, let's talk about North Korea. Last week, the UN drafted up harsher sanctions against North Korea in the wake of its latest missile launch. As a result, North Korea says that it plans to "weaponize" all of its plutonium. By the way, it has enough plutonium to make at least half a dozen atomic bombs. Not only that, but the Foreign Ministry of North Korea threatened any country that stopped its ships on the high seas, which is part of the latest UN sanctions.
Tough spot. I'm not pleased with the man we have in office who's job it is to deal with this mess ... but I am empathetic. There are some tough decisions to be made in the coming weeks and months. Those decisions will either strengthen or weaken our country. The world wants a weaker America. Let's hope Barack Obama soon remembers that he's the President of the United States first, and a citizen of the world second. "
written by Neil Boortz
Tough spot. I'm not pleased with the man we have in office who's job it is to deal with this mess ... but I am empathetic. There are some tough decisions to be made in the coming weeks and months. Those decisions will either strengthen or weaken our country. The world wants a weaker America. Let's hope Barack Obama soon remembers that he's the President of the United States first, and a citizen of the world second. "
written by Neil Boortz
Friday, June 12, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
I got this email from Smart Girl Politics
Why Join the Fight Against Medicare For All?
1. Medicare for All will create shortages in healthcare services forcing providers to ration care and increase wait times for patients (12-18 month wait in other countries).
2. Currently, Americans do not pay taxes on employer provided health insurance benefits. If you have health insurance through your company, you are about to be taxed on those plans. The Government will require all Americans have health insurance and impose FINES on those who do not.
3. The REAL GOAL: Government insurance seeks to eventually squeeze out and eliminate private health insurance companies altogether, forcing Americans to become dependent on a "one plan fits no one" Medicare system.
4. The Government will have access to and control over your health records intruding into the privacy and confidentiality of the doctor patient relationship. We all know how the Government handles confidential information.
5. The current Medicare and Medicaid programs are flawed and full of corruption. What will happen when we add another 100 million Americans to the program?
6. The President's current plan will add another TRILLION dollars to the deficit. Another government program on an already strained economy will bankrupt the United States.
7. How will Congress pay for their new plans? TAXES. The President campaigned that 95% of Americans would receive a tax cut. However Democrats are now planning to increase taxes on everything from sugar to cigarettes as well as creating new taxes, such as Value Added Tax.
8. No one in the country is currently denied access to healthcare so why is the President rushing a plan for socialized medicine without thoughtful debate and consideration? The Government should not be allowed to tell you what healthcare you are entitled to and how to live your life.
9. Government controlled heath care takes the decision making out of the hands of individuals and families and puts it in the hands of politicians in Washington.
10. What legal recourse will you have if the government denies you or a loved one medical care? None.
Help us win the fight against Medicare for All. Visit smartgirlpolitics.ning.com for more information.
My husband's idea
How about 1 state, any one I don't care which, eliminate all welfare. Here is how. Instead of the current handouts, give anyone who is on welfare a check for $5000 (or so) and tell them to leave the state with it. Drive them to the busstop and tell them to leave, and set up in any state of their choosing, using that money.
The states they wind up in may make it difficult for incoming welfare recipiants to get welfare for such and such amount of time, and maybe even decide to start shipping their welfare peeps out to other states, who make it hard for incoming to get welfare. eventually welfare could cease to exist by creating a ripple effect. Just an idea.
It sounds silly now that I wrote it down, but at least we are thinking
The states they wind up in may make it difficult for incoming welfare recipiants to get welfare for such and such amount of time, and maybe even decide to start shipping their welfare peeps out to other states, who make it hard for incoming to get welfare. eventually welfare could cease to exist by creating a ripple effect. Just an idea.
It sounds silly now that I wrote it down, but at least we are thinking
I have been thinking about the fourth of July
I have not heard anyone discuss this before, but it seems to me that anyone accepting this rise of socialism in the US should not celebrate the fourth of July!
Here is my thinking. The 4th celebrates our independence from the tyrannical rule of England. It celebrates freedom, and democracy.
If you are socialist, you believe in the great empirical government rule of the US. We are living in a soft Tyranny now. We in essence are no longer free.
how can you celebrate freedom when you are not free and do not want to be free.
thats right, most Americans do not want to be free!
They want government involvement in everything they do! If they didn't want it why would they keep voting for it, why would they approve of the current administration.
I urge you, if you are socialist to not celebrate that which you do not want, otherwise you are a hypocrite.
Here is my thinking. The 4th celebrates our independence from the tyrannical rule of England. It celebrates freedom, and democracy.
If you are socialist, you believe in the great empirical government rule of the US. We are living in a soft Tyranny now. We in essence are no longer free.
how can you celebrate freedom when you are not free and do not want to be free.
thats right, most Americans do not want to be free!
They want government involvement in everything they do! If they didn't want it why would they keep voting for it, why would they approve of the current administration.
I urge you, if you are socialist to not celebrate that which you do not want, otherwise you are a hypocrite.
United Socialist States of America
USSA - Has a nice ring to it! NOT!
Note - If I am in violation of copyright in the use of this image, I will remove it upon being notified
Note - If I am in violation of copyright in the use of this image, I will remove it upon being notified
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Quick Question
tell me how raising taxes by 145% on beer and raising taxes on soda to help fund healthcare, isn't raising taxes on the poor? I thought the poor weren't going to suffer higher taxes.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
A Letter from a Auto Dealer in Florida
Thought you may enjoy ....
My name is George C. Joseph. I am the sole owner of Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu, a family owned and operated business in Melbourne, Florida. My family bought and paid for this automobile franchise 35 years ago in 1974. I am the second generation to manage this business.
We currently employ 50+ people and before the economic slowdown we employed over 70 local people. We are active in the community and the local chamber of commerce. We deal with several dozen local vendors on a day to day basis and many more during a month. All depend on our business for part of their livelihood. We are financially strong with great respect in the market place and community. We have strong local presence and stability.
I work every day the store is open, nine to ten hours a day. I know most of our customers and all our employees. Sunshine Dodge is my life.
On Thursday, May 14, 2009 I was notified that my Dodge franchise, that we purchased, will be taken away from my family on June 9, 2009 without compensation and given to another dealer at no cost to them. My new vehicle inventory consists of 125 vehicles with a financed balance of 3 million dollars. This inventory becomes impossible to sell with no factory incentives beyond June 9, 2009. Without the Dodge franchise we can no longer sell a new Dodge as "new," nor will we be able to do any warranty service work. Additionally, my Dodge parts inventory, (approximately $300,000.) is virtually worthless without the ability to perform warranty service. There is no offer from Chrysler to buy back the vehicles or parts inventory.
Our facility was recently totally renovated at Chrysler's insistence, incurring a multi-million dollar debt in the form of a mortgage at Sun Trust Bank.
HOW IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CAN THIS HAPPEN?
THIS IS A PRIVATE BUSINESS NOT A GOVERNMENT ENTITY
This is beyond imagination! My business is being stolen from me through NO FAULT OF OUR OWN. We did NOTHING wrong.
This atrocity will most likely force my family into bankruptcy. This will also cause our 50+ employees to be unemployed. How will they provide for their families? This is a total economic disaster.
HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN IN A FREE MARKET ECONOMY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?
I beseech your help, and look forward to your reply. Thank you.
Sincerely,
George C. Joseph
President & Owner
Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu
My name is George C. Joseph. I am the sole owner of Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu, a family owned and operated business in Melbourne, Florida. My family bought and paid for this automobile franchise 35 years ago in 1974. I am the second generation to manage this business.
We currently employ 50+ people and before the economic slowdown we employed over 70 local people. We are active in the community and the local chamber of commerce. We deal with several dozen local vendors on a day to day basis and many more during a month. All depend on our business for part of their livelihood. We are financially strong with great respect in the market place and community. We have strong local presence and stability.
I work every day the store is open, nine to ten hours a day. I know most of our customers and all our employees. Sunshine Dodge is my life.
On Thursday, May 14, 2009 I was notified that my Dodge franchise, that we purchased, will be taken away from my family on June 9, 2009 without compensation and given to another dealer at no cost to them. My new vehicle inventory consists of 125 vehicles with a financed balance of 3 million dollars. This inventory becomes impossible to sell with no factory incentives beyond June 9, 2009. Without the Dodge franchise we can no longer sell a new Dodge as "new," nor will we be able to do any warranty service work. Additionally, my Dodge parts inventory, (approximately $300,000.) is virtually worthless without the ability to perform warranty service. There is no offer from Chrysler to buy back the vehicles or parts inventory.
Our facility was recently totally renovated at Chrysler's insistence, incurring a multi-million dollar debt in the form of a mortgage at Sun Trust Bank.
HOW IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CAN THIS HAPPEN?
THIS IS A PRIVATE BUSINESS NOT A GOVERNMENT ENTITY
This is beyond imagination! My business is being stolen from me through NO FAULT OF OUR OWN. We did NOTHING wrong.
This atrocity will most likely force my family into bankruptcy. This will also cause our 50+ employees to be unemployed. How will they provide for their families? This is a total economic disaster.
HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN IN A FREE MARKET ECONOMY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?
I beseech your help, and look forward to your reply. Thank you.
Sincerely,
George C. Joseph
President & Owner
Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
I don't get it
Why hate rich corporations?
They got where they are by being smart with their money and making good decisions.
go way out on the longest limb you could possibly imagine with me for a sec.
I am getting to a point where It is more feasible for me to focus on a career of some kind. Kids are getting off to school and time is freeing up. I haven't worked for a while BY CHOICE to raise my babies into young gentlemen. we could have been better off financially if I HAD to put work before kids. So aaaanyway back to that limb
lets just pretend that I started selling lots of jewelry at the store. And then expanded to another and another, and eventually had a well known line of Jewelry. Its gets bigger and bigger, and gets as big as lets say ROLEX (still with me?) Now I am not allowed to make over what, 250,000 a year? But I want to. Where do I go from there, why does someone get to tell me how much I can make before they start seizing it?
Corporations aren't allowed to get too big to fail, how about government - can it get too big to fail? Cuz it certainly is massive and getting bigger!!!
COMMUNISM IS A BAD WORD!
COMMUNISM IS A BAD WORD!
COMMUNISM IS A BAD WORD!
They got where they are by being smart with their money and making good decisions.
go way out on the longest limb you could possibly imagine with me for a sec.
I am getting to a point where It is more feasible for me to focus on a career of some kind. Kids are getting off to school and time is freeing up. I haven't worked for a while BY CHOICE to raise my babies into young gentlemen. we could have been better off financially if I HAD to put work before kids. So aaaanyway back to that limb
lets just pretend that I started selling lots of jewelry at the store. And then expanded to another and another, and eventually had a well known line of Jewelry. Its gets bigger and bigger, and gets as big as lets say ROLEX (still with me?) Now I am not allowed to make over what, 250,000 a year? But I want to. Where do I go from there, why does someone get to tell me how much I can make before they start seizing it?
Corporations aren't allowed to get too big to fail, how about government - can it get too big to fail? Cuz it certainly is massive and getting bigger!!!
COMMUNISM IS A BAD WORD!
COMMUNISM IS A BAD WORD!
COMMUNISM IS A BAD WORD!
I Love my new netbook
Thank you Bridget for introducing me to the world of tiny computers!
I doubt you read my blog anymore (This is stressful stuff), but I still owe you a bit of thanks. :)
I doubt you read my blog anymore (This is stressful stuff), but I still owe you a bit of thanks. :)
When I grew up communism was a bad word!
Why should the government tell me what kind of car I drive? Where is my freedom of choice?
And this NC smoking ban, is this in public establishments? I certainly hope they aren't telling private businesses what to do. Wouldn't surprise me at this point though.
And this NC smoking ban, is this in public establishments? I certainly hope they aren't telling private businesses what to do. Wouldn't surprise me at this point though.
About the Young Republicans group we met
We were extremely impressed with the diversity of peoples involved. It was definitely not just a white guys party!
I was also super impressed with the gentleman running for sheriff in the upcoming election.
I was also super impressed with the gentleman running for sheriff in the upcoming election.
I didn't write this - not taking credit for content
THIS IDEA OF 'FREE' HEALTHCARE
"Don't you worry dear friends... we will get government-run healthcare in this country. It is only a matter of time. But just remember that to most people, they view government-run healthcare (or universal healthcare) as "free" healthcare. That would be because they are government-educated fools.
The last thing that universal healthcare is going to be is free. Maybe it will be free to those 50% of Americans who don't pay income taxes. But for a lot of Americans, this grand government healthcare scheme is going to cost them a lot of money in the form of tax increases. Remember, government doesn't earn wealth it seizes wealth. So in order to provide a service like healthcare, it has to get the money to pay for it - and the more you produce, the more of that money is going to come from you.
That leads me to this poll conducted by Rasmussen ... 42% of Americans say that everyone in the United States should have "free" healthcare. So there we go. Now you understand our dilemma. This question is inherently flawed, but I think you understand what they are getting at - it might as well be a right that is outlined in our Bill of Rights ... the right to healthcare!
Interesting to note, however, that by a two-to-one margin Americans reject the idea of free healthcare if it means that they would have to change their own coverage or join a program administered by the government.
So people don't want the government to touch their own healthcare, but they believe that the government should provide it for others."
"Don't you worry dear friends... we will get government-run healthcare in this country. It is only a matter of time. But just remember that to most people, they view government-run healthcare (or universal healthcare) as "free" healthcare. That would be because they are government-educated fools.
The last thing that universal healthcare is going to be is free. Maybe it will be free to those 50% of Americans who don't pay income taxes. But for a lot of Americans, this grand government healthcare scheme is going to cost them a lot of money in the form of tax increases. Remember, government doesn't earn wealth it seizes wealth. So in order to provide a service like healthcare, it has to get the money to pay for it - and the more you produce, the more of that money is going to come from you.
That leads me to this poll conducted by Rasmussen ... 42% of Americans say that everyone in the United States should have "free" healthcare. So there we go. Now you understand our dilemma. This question is inherently flawed, but I think you understand what they are getting at - it might as well be a right that is outlined in our Bill of Rights ... the right to healthcare!
Interesting to note, however, that by a two-to-one margin Americans reject the idea of free healthcare if it means that they would have to change their own coverage or join a program administered by the government.
So people don't want the government to touch their own healthcare, but they believe that the government should provide it for others."
Take our State Back Tea Party Public Service announcement for NC from
A protest against the Billion Dollar State Tax Increase
Wednesday, June 3,
4:30pm - 7:00pm
Halifax Mall
Downtown Raleigh
"Come to Raleigh and tell your elected official
"not another dime"We are taxed enough already. No more taxes on,
fixing my car, moving and storage, downloading music, cigarettes, alcohol, painting my house,
going to the movies........no new taxes period!
there will be buses from asheville, goldsboro, Greensboro, Charlotte, Jacksonville, New bern, Sanford, Pinehurst, Staatesville, Wilmington, and Winston-Salem.
Info taken from here, please click to register
Wednesday, June 3,
4:30pm - 7:00pm
Halifax Mall
Downtown Raleigh
"Come to Raleigh and tell your elected official
"not another dime"We are taxed enough already. No more taxes on,
fixing my car, moving and storage, downloading music, cigarettes, alcohol, painting my house,
going to the movies........no new taxes period!
there will be buses from asheville, goldsboro, Greensboro, Charlotte, Jacksonville, New bern, Sanford, Pinehurst, Staatesville, Wilmington, and Winston-Salem.
Info taken from here, please click to register
Monday, May 18, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
get involved
I figure if I am gonna spew my opinions here, I might as well get involved.
We went to a young republicans pig pickin today. It was alright, might be something to do =. they meet 2nd thursday each month at 7. They don't appear to be RINOs from what I could tell today.
We went to a young republicans pig pickin today. It was alright, might be something to do =. they meet 2nd thursday each month at 7. They don't appear to be RINOs from what I could tell today.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Health Care
How are they gonna pay for it???
By taxing soda!
Ha I don't even drink soda, except on family movie night or if I am at a special event somewhere.
yup - not exactly taxing the stinkin' rich, are they?
By taxing soda!
Ha I don't even drink soda, except on family movie night or if I am at a special event somewhere.
yup - not exactly taxing the stinkin' rich, are they?
Pig Pickin
I am going to a young republicans pig pickin tomorrow - to see what Brunswick Co. Repubs are like. Hopefully not RINOs!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Net Book
I just made either the best ever purchase or the stupidest.
I got a macked out netbook (really good deal!!)
Something is telling me I really needed to get it now! I know for the time being it isn't really necessary, but If I wait the dollar is going to be worthless and taxes are gonna be so freaking high the price will likely double, in my thinking anyway.
Besides that I will need the internet as I am hiking around Thailand, right.
OK Ok no plans for Thailand yet, just thinking about an escape America route. They are fucking with healthcare and that scares the ever loving shit out of me!!! I am rushing out to get all my medical stuff done now instead of waiting.
back to my purchase, it is only really gonna suck if either my or my hubbies cars crap out, which is likely - hopefully they can hold out for 1 year. In exactly one year we will be out of debt if everything holds steady.
On that note we are selling all our stock and purchasing gold.
Gold won't lose value the way the dollar is going to!
No, I am not gonna melt this gold down, it is gold bars and coins.
And for any would be theives, before coming to my house and stealing my gold from me, be forewarned it isn't much. And for all you know I may have it buried in the ground so THE MAN can't find it and give it to the poor, oh wait I am poor - what an oxymoron!
I got a macked out netbook (really good deal!!)
Something is telling me I really needed to get it now! I know for the time being it isn't really necessary, but If I wait the dollar is going to be worthless and taxes are gonna be so freaking high the price will likely double, in my thinking anyway.
Besides that I will need the internet as I am hiking around Thailand, right.
OK Ok no plans for Thailand yet, just thinking about an escape America route. They are fucking with healthcare and that scares the ever loving shit out of me!!! I am rushing out to get all my medical stuff done now instead of waiting.
back to my purchase, it is only really gonna suck if either my or my hubbies cars crap out, which is likely - hopefully they can hold out for 1 year. In exactly one year we will be out of debt if everything holds steady.
On that note we are selling all our stock and purchasing gold.
Gold won't lose value the way the dollar is going to!
No, I am not gonna melt this gold down, it is gold bars and coins.
And for any would be theives, before coming to my house and stealing my gold from me, be forewarned it isn't much. And for all you know I may have it buried in the ground so THE MAN can't find it and give it to the poor, oh wait I am poor - what an oxymoron!
Monday, May 11, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
budget cuts
Here is a list of the one half of one percent of the 3.4 trillion Obama has taken from you.
Read through it just a bit, I am amazed about all the department of defense cuts, makes me feel safe.
Read through it just a bit, I am amazed about all the department of defense cuts, makes me feel safe.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
I wanna read this one now
I have never heard of this book before, but after stumbling upon it on Amazon, I really want to read it. I wanna understand just like everyone else does.
Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New 'Greatest Generation' of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope
Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New 'Greatest Generation' of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Dihydrogen Monoxide
This is hilarious
I would just copy and paste here for ease of read, but there seems to be a copyright so here is the link
http://www.dhmo.org/
I would just copy and paste here for ease of read, but there seems to be a copyright so here is the link
http://www.dhmo.org/
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Etsy etc
In the forum I just posted a thread about "Lyberty and Tyranny" and how all should read it.
I didn't say anyone had to believe anything in it.
It is young yet but has got only positive responses.
I am waiting for it to turn ugly though. Etsy is afterall a sea of Liberals with a few conservatives sprinkled in.
Is it my imagination or is my writing ability improving?
I didn't say anyone had to believe anything in it.
It is young yet but has got only positive responses.
I am waiting for it to turn ugly though. Etsy is afterall a sea of Liberals with a few conservatives sprinkled in.
Is it my imagination or is my writing ability improving?
I like todays quote (from my sidebar)
"You can't cross a sea by merely
staring into the water."
- Rabindranath Tagore
We should all try to actively cross that sea, instead of staring at it.
staring into the water."
- Rabindranath Tagore
We should all try to actively cross that sea, instead of staring at it.
I finished the book
Now I need to read it again!
The wealth of knowledge is magnificent in this book! Not a single sentence wastes a thought. If one was to highlight important elements, the entire book would be yellow.
I have thoughts to post here about it, and they will be coming shortly.
The wealth of knowledge is magnificent in this book! Not a single sentence wastes a thought. If one was to highlight important elements, the entire book would be yellow.
I have thoughts to post here about it, and they will be coming shortly.
I can't even read etsy forums about political stuff, these people blow my mind with their ignorance! ignorance is not meant an insult here, it just is what it is.
Ignorance is the state in which a person lacks knowledge and is unaware of something. This should not be confused with being unintelligent, as one's level of intelligence and level of education or general awareness are not the same. The word "Ignorant" is an adjective describing a person in the state of being unaware.
Ignorance is the state in which a person lacks knowledge and is unaware of something. This should not be confused with being unintelligent, as one's level of intelligence and level of education or general awareness are not the same. The word "Ignorant" is an adjective describing a person in the state of being unaware.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
perhaps a premature post
Ah its just a thought anyway
I was just listening to the radio who said there are over 100 cases of confirmed Swine flu.
They did not mention how many deaths, which I thought was odd, so I googled the statistics, just the one mexican girl.
How much of a crisis would this be if it comes to over 3000 cases with 3 deaths. People wouldn't be nearly as frantic.
But then the government can't swoon in to rescue us all and have us confess our undying gratitude to them.
This is a perfect situation to begin implementing socialized medicine as well.
It would also be a perfect time to close the borders and quarantine any returning Americans.
Guess which will mostly likely happen.
This is the flu people, people do die of regular influenza yearly too.
It may get interesting or may be a story which dies out. we shall see.
I hope it dies out.
ps "never waste a good crisis" (pelosi)
I was just listening to the radio who said there are over 100 cases of confirmed Swine flu.
They did not mention how many deaths, which I thought was odd, so I googled the statistics, just the one mexican girl.
How much of a crisis would this be if it comes to over 3000 cases with 3 deaths. People wouldn't be nearly as frantic.
But then the government can't swoon in to rescue us all and have us confess our undying gratitude to them.
This is a perfect situation to begin implementing socialized medicine as well.
It would also be a perfect time to close the borders and quarantine any returning Americans.
Guess which will mostly likely happen.
This is the flu people, people do die of regular influenza yearly too.
It may get interesting or may be a story which dies out. we shall see.
I hope it dies out.
ps "never waste a good crisis" (pelosi)
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Presbo scares the hell out of me!
2 issues mostly
National Security - I don't wanna DIE - yeah Nukes do that to ya!
Healthcare - I don't wanna be denied drugs or attention, because the docs are too busy and don't really care because they no longer have to WORK for money from patients, - and DIE
Obama's first 100 days - change you can believe in!
-he accomplish killing the ecom. *well it should rebound a little before totally crashing.
-he has caused great loss of jobs
-he has given away our top secret
-he has raised taxes on the so called rich
-he has pissed of our long time friends
-he has made friends with our enemies
-he has told the world the USA is bad and should be apologized for
-he has made our country look weak
-he has spent money we do not have
-and his biggest accomplishment is he looks cool with out a shirt on
so do not tell me he has not accomplished anything
because we are the laughingstock of the world!
- one good thing is he has pulled the right together, neocons unite!
(had to say that I just noticed a lefty use the word neocon and i love it!)
National Security - I don't wanna DIE - yeah Nukes do that to ya!
Healthcare - I don't wanna be denied drugs or attention, because the docs are too busy and don't really care because they no longer have to WORK for money from patients, - and DIE
Obama's first 100 days - change you can believe in!
-he accomplish killing the ecom. *well it should rebound a little before totally crashing.
-he has caused great loss of jobs
-he has given away our top secret
-he has raised taxes on the so called rich
-he has pissed of our long time friends
-he has made friends with our enemies
-he has told the world the USA is bad and should be apologized for
-he has made our country look weak
-he has spent money we do not have
-and his biggest accomplishment is he looks cool with out a shirt on
so do not tell me he has not accomplished anything
because we are the laughingstock of the world!
- one good thing is he has pulled the right together, neocons unite!
(had to say that I just noticed a lefty use the word neocon and i love it!)
Monday, April 27, 2009
Urgent Alert! Act today to stop back-door government health care takeover! Take Action!
(I am passing on this info)
You may have already seen the media reports that the budget is a done deal, and health care reconciliation is included. They are wrong. It is not yet a done deal, and we need you to ACT TODAY to stop it. Democratic leadership has agreed, but the actual conference report is not written by leadership, but by the specific conferees on the conference committee:
Senate
Kent Conrad (D-N. Dak.)
Patty Murray (D-Wash.)
Judd Gregg (R-N.H.)
House
John Spratt (D-S.C.)
Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.)
Allen Boyd (D-Fla.)
Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)
Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas)
If your senator or representative is on the committee, it is imperative that you send them a message today urging them to keep health care out of reconciliation. They are meeting THIS AFTERNOON, so time is of the essence. By far the most important two are Kent Conrad and Allen Boyd, Democrats who have been skeptical about using reconciliation.
If you know anyone in North Dakota or Florida's second district (Tallahassee, Panama City) please forward them this urgent email immediately!
Reconciliation is a trick, a procedure designed for deficit reduction being misused to jam through a government takeover of health care with only 20 hours of debate, no amendments, and just 50 votes instead of the usual 60. This trick will silence Republicans and centrist Democrats, and allow a radical leftist plan in which government takes away control of health care from patients and doctors, and rations care by denying it to people judged by bureaucrats to be too old or too sick to justify the cost. For more explanation, listen to my podcast on this: http://kerpen.hipcast.com/rss/kerpencast.xml
Please click here to send a message to your senator OPPOSING HEALTH CARE RECONCILIATION.
You may have already seen the media reports that the budget is a done deal, and health care reconciliation is included. They are wrong. It is not yet a done deal, and we need you to ACT TODAY to stop it. Democratic leadership has agreed, but the actual conference report is not written by leadership, but by the specific conferees on the conference committee:
Senate
Kent Conrad (D-N. Dak.)
Patty Murray (D-Wash.)
Judd Gregg (R-N.H.)
House
John Spratt (D-S.C.)
Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.)
Allen Boyd (D-Fla.)
Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)
Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas)
If your senator or representative is on the committee, it is imperative that you send them a message today urging them to keep health care out of reconciliation. They are meeting THIS AFTERNOON, so time is of the essence. By far the most important two are Kent Conrad and Allen Boyd, Democrats who have been skeptical about using reconciliation.
If you know anyone in North Dakota or Florida's second district (Tallahassee, Panama City) please forward them this urgent email immediately!
Reconciliation is a trick, a procedure designed for deficit reduction being misused to jam through a government takeover of health care with only 20 hours of debate, no amendments, and just 50 votes instead of the usual 60. This trick will silence Republicans and centrist Democrats, and allow a radical leftist plan in which government takes away control of health care from patients and doctors, and rations care by denying it to people judged by bureaucrats to be too old or too sick to justify the cost. For more explanation, listen to my podcast on this: http://kerpen.hipcast.com/rss/kerpencast.xml
Please click here to send a message to your senator OPPOSING HEALTH CARE RECONCILIATION.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
My idea
I don't know how plausible something like this is.
But the states were initially set up to keep the federal government at bay and allow the states to run themselves. One reason for this was so that a state could act as a guinea pig for the country to enact laws and such. If it was a good change then other states could adopt it, if it were a bad change the one state could dismiss it without affecting EVERYONE. For example a single state could try this socialized healthcare crap, see how terrible it would be and then ditch it without subjecting the whole nation to it where it would be very difficult to absolve.
Anyway back to my idea. (it may not even be a new idea, but I haven't seen anyone put anything on the table yet)
Texas has been mentioned in revolt ideas, due to its location and size.
Well how about texas shut down all welfare programs it possibly can at the state level. Make it harder to obtain welfare. The drudges would be forced to move to another 'friendlier' state. Leaving room for hard working americans to move in.
Close its own borders and handle it in a way that it sees fit. Succeed if necessary, but may not be. perhaps split into 4 states, quadrupling its representatives. and spread growth back out into society, by taking on beneficial practices of free market and such. Perhaps other states would take notice.
But the states were initially set up to keep the federal government at bay and allow the states to run themselves. One reason for this was so that a state could act as a guinea pig for the country to enact laws and such. If it was a good change then other states could adopt it, if it were a bad change the one state could dismiss it without affecting EVERYONE. For example a single state could try this socialized healthcare crap, see how terrible it would be and then ditch it without subjecting the whole nation to it where it would be very difficult to absolve.
Anyway back to my idea. (it may not even be a new idea, but I haven't seen anyone put anything on the table yet)
Texas has been mentioned in revolt ideas, due to its location and size.
Well how about texas shut down all welfare programs it possibly can at the state level. Make it harder to obtain welfare. The drudges would be forced to move to another 'friendlier' state. Leaving room for hard working americans to move in.
Close its own borders and handle it in a way that it sees fit. Succeed if necessary, but may not be. perhaps split into 4 states, quadrupling its representatives. and spread growth back out into society, by taking on beneficial practices of free market and such. Perhaps other states would take notice.
I hate to say it, but I am rather embarrassed, not to be an American, but to be one of many Americans who have been gullible enough to become ruled by the empirical government of America. We have become enslaved without even realizing how much. Roosevelt started it with his new deal and then each subsequent ruler has slowly expanded the governments reach into the daily lives of the citizens. Why are people upset now? Obama went too fast! People took notice because "change" happened too quickly. Clinton even warned him that he was moving too fast.
Just a quick question - Is it the role of the government to keep us safe from terrorists and those who would do us harm? Or to force us to wear seat belts?
Just a quick question - Is it the role of the government to keep us safe from terrorists and those who would do us harm? Or to force us to wear seat belts?
Not just the "upper class white folk"
At work yesterday, there was a bit of foot traffic. This lady came in and when she left I noticed she was carrying the same book I was sitting there reading.
"Liberty and Tyranny"
She was a minority. Just goes to show you this movement is more than the "wealthy whatever"
There are minorities (like the lady in the gallery) and "less fortunate" (which would be me) that care too!
"Liberty and Tyranny"
She was a minority. Just goes to show you this movement is more than the "wealthy whatever"
There are minorities (like the lady in the gallery) and "less fortunate" (which would be me) that care too!
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Something Fresh! Its just Oregano
What does my oregano have to do with anything? Not much, I just have beautiful Oregano!
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Something Beautiful!
This is the Lantana I planted in my front yard, I have high hopes for a more beautiful yard!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
This is an emai that is circulation, it sounds like a perfect solution to me!
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters,
We've stuck together since the late 1950s, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know that we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and just will not ever agree on what's right. So let's just end it right now while we can do it on friendly terms. We can smile, shake hands, chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and each go our own way.
So here's a model separation agreement.
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a portion. That's going to be the difficult part, but I'm sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy. Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate taste. We don't like redistributive taxes so you can have those. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. And since you hate guns and you hate war, we'll take the firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. But you are going to be responsible for finding a biodiesel vehicle big enough to haul them around.
We'll keep the capitalism, the greedy corporations, the pharmaceutical companies; we will keep Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have the homeless, the homeboys, the hippies and illegal aliens. We will keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, the greedy CEOS and all of the rednecks. We'll keep the Bibles and we'll let you have NBC and Hollywood.
You can be nice to Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer anybody that threatens us. You can have the peaceniks and the war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we will provide them with security. You won't have to worry about it. We will keep our Judeo-Christian values. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley Maclaine. You can also have the UN, but we will no longer pay the bill.
We will keep the SUVs, the pickup trucks and the oversize luxury cars. You can have the compacts, the subcompacts and every Subaru station wagon you can find. You can give everybody healthcare, if you can find any practicing doctors. We will continue to believe that healthcare is a privilege and not a right. We will keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and the national anthem, and I am sure you will be happy to substitute in their place "Imagine." I'd like to teach the world to sing "Kumbaya" or "We are the world." We will practice trickle-down economics and you can give trickle-up poverty your best shot. And since it so offends you, we will keep our history, our name and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots. And if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the friendly spirit of parting, I'll bet you ANWAR which one of us will need whose help in about 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J Wall
Law student and an American
P.S. You can also have Barbara Streisand and Jane Fonda
We've stuck together since the late 1950s, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know that we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and just will not ever agree on what's right. So let's just end it right now while we can do it on friendly terms. We can smile, shake hands, chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and each go our own way.
So here's a model separation agreement.
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a portion. That's going to be the difficult part, but I'm sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy. Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate taste. We don't like redistributive taxes so you can have those. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. And since you hate guns and you hate war, we'll take the firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. But you are going to be responsible for finding a biodiesel vehicle big enough to haul them around.
We'll keep the capitalism, the greedy corporations, the pharmaceutical companies; we will keep Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have the homeless, the homeboys, the hippies and illegal aliens. We will keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, the greedy CEOS and all of the rednecks. We'll keep the Bibles and we'll let you have NBC and Hollywood.
You can be nice to Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer anybody that threatens us. You can have the peaceniks and the war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we will provide them with security. You won't have to worry about it. We will keep our Judeo-Christian values. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley Maclaine. You can also have the UN, but we will no longer pay the bill.
We will keep the SUVs, the pickup trucks and the oversize luxury cars. You can have the compacts, the subcompacts and every Subaru station wagon you can find. You can give everybody healthcare, if you can find any practicing doctors. We will continue to believe that healthcare is a privilege and not a right. We will keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and the national anthem, and I am sure you will be happy to substitute in their place "Imagine." I'd like to teach the world to sing "Kumbaya" or "We are the world." We will practice trickle-down economics and you can give trickle-up poverty your best shot. And since it so offends you, we will keep our history, our name and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots. And if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the friendly spirit of parting, I'll bet you ANWAR which one of us will need whose help in about 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J Wall
Law student and an American
P.S. You can also have Barbara Streisand and Jane Fonda
Monday, April 20, 2009
A real life example
I went to Wake Forest this past weekend, to visit my brother and sister in law and nephew for his birthday.
We were sitting around for breakfast yesterday morning discussing stuff going on around us. Tea Parties came up. They didn't know much about them, so we enlightened them. I had to thank them for giving us their hard earned money through the government. They said, huh? what do you mean? So I explained that due to our tax bracket we pay nothing in to the government besides medicare and social security, that in fact we get a rather large check from the government. Some call it a "refund" we call it welfare seeing as we didn't pay it in to begin with how can it be a "refund"?
Their eyes widened with a bit of anger, not toward us but toward the system. You see my SIL owns her own business - I have watched her work very hard to make it what it is today - which is fairly profitable. She started with nothing and is now doing well, and getting taxed hard for it! They pay lots of taxes while we are not as well off (due to our choices) and we get money. Where does our money come from? Other peoples taxes. Seems like wealth redistribution already.
So she says "why the hell am I working my butt off? when I can sit around and collect a check?"
Why would anyone want to work when they don't have to? The government will take care of them, but then the government's subjects are at the governments' beck and call, slaves if you will.
I had to add that I cannot simply deny the welfare money, I am forced to do my taxes, I am given a 'refund' as a result. I am not given the option of saying no thank you.
You might wonder why I am against socialism since I get paid for not working hard, well it is because I want a strong America to be the best it can be for my children!
Freedom is worth sacrifice, and I have ambition left in me, I have had my family and now I can go back to school or try to make it with my Jewelry, but why do it if it will take me nowhere and I can never excel because of where I live? And the government ruling over me?
Why have I not been trying to excel up until now, because I didn't have to, but does that make me feel complete - not really.
another thing from yesterdays conversation....
My SIL's business is in the medical field, she hires people to take care of the elderly.
She enlightened me on the union movement. Apparently the government is trying to make secret ballots to form unions no longer secret. Unions will scare you into joining, people don't want unions - but they do want their jobs and they want their families safe so if there is no secret vote, everyone will be forced to join.
Unions are bad. They hurt companies more than help the individual.
So anyway my SIL told all her employers that if a Union member approaches them to not give any info - they can infiltrate the companies by attaining just one person's name and moving to the other employees from there. She is shredding papers with employees last names on it, and making nametags with only first names on them.
She told them that if they get infiltrated that she will close the business just like that. She will not own a unionized business! All her employees will suddenly be jobless.
Ya know the majority of jobs in America are supplied by small businesses. So when the small businesses are forced to close down, jobs are lost.
Who is causing this? You already know the answer.
We were sitting around for breakfast yesterday morning discussing stuff going on around us. Tea Parties came up. They didn't know much about them, so we enlightened them. I had to thank them for giving us their hard earned money through the government. They said, huh? what do you mean? So I explained that due to our tax bracket we pay nothing in to the government besides medicare and social security, that in fact we get a rather large check from the government. Some call it a "refund" we call it welfare seeing as we didn't pay it in to begin with how can it be a "refund"?
Their eyes widened with a bit of anger, not toward us but toward the system. You see my SIL owns her own business - I have watched her work very hard to make it what it is today - which is fairly profitable. She started with nothing and is now doing well, and getting taxed hard for it! They pay lots of taxes while we are not as well off (due to our choices) and we get money. Where does our money come from? Other peoples taxes. Seems like wealth redistribution already.
So she says "why the hell am I working my butt off? when I can sit around and collect a check?"
Why would anyone want to work when they don't have to? The government will take care of them, but then the government's subjects are at the governments' beck and call, slaves if you will.
I had to add that I cannot simply deny the welfare money, I am forced to do my taxes, I am given a 'refund' as a result. I am not given the option of saying no thank you.
You might wonder why I am against socialism since I get paid for not working hard, well it is because I want a strong America to be the best it can be for my children!
Freedom is worth sacrifice, and I have ambition left in me, I have had my family and now I can go back to school or try to make it with my Jewelry, but why do it if it will take me nowhere and I can never excel because of where I live? And the government ruling over me?
Why have I not been trying to excel up until now, because I didn't have to, but does that make me feel complete - not really.
another thing from yesterdays conversation....
My SIL's business is in the medical field, she hires people to take care of the elderly.
She enlightened me on the union movement. Apparently the government is trying to make secret ballots to form unions no longer secret. Unions will scare you into joining, people don't want unions - but they do want their jobs and they want their families safe so if there is no secret vote, everyone will be forced to join.
Unions are bad. They hurt companies more than help the individual.
So anyway my SIL told all her employers that if a Union member approaches them to not give any info - they can infiltrate the companies by attaining just one person's name and moving to the other employees from there. She is shredding papers with employees last names on it, and making nametags with only first names on them.
She told them that if they get infiltrated that she will close the business just like that. She will not own a unionized business! All her employees will suddenly be jobless.
Ya know the majority of jobs in America are supplied by small businesses. So when the small businesses are forced to close down, jobs are lost.
Who is causing this? You already know the answer.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Faith and Conservatism
I talked about, in an earlier post, my non-understanding of why Conservatives (Republicans Specifically)have to equate Religion so strongly with their political views.
I now have my answer, though I, for my own personal preferences must elaborate on why I cannot accept it the way most must.
In reading Mark Levin's book "Liberty and Tyranny, A Conservative Manifesto", I now have a clear understanding on why it is very important to intertwine politics and faith.
The conservative is all about keeping the laws in order with the Constitution, and following the constitution as it was originally meant. (meaning don't alter what they wrote to what you want it to mean, a living language makes this possible)
The rights given to the individual are derived from the rights of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
Unalienable rights given to them by their creator.
now to me "their creator" is something different than what they were referring to.
but the intent means all the same. I believe people have these rights as natural rights simply by existing.
Most people need to have the rules "promoting restraint, duty, and moral behavior," laid out for them, and religion is the best way to insure lawful consistent stability among the masses.
The founding fathers were of many different denominations and two of which were Deists (it is believed)
therefore the all signed into the constitution - freedom of religion
it just so happens that the dominant religion is Christianity
I just wish more people were open to the many beautiful varieties of being spiritual without judging and indoctrinating and converting others.
In my spiritual world I believe "natural law" still applies. (The athiest may or may not agree)
The problem with separating the spiritual and state is that it would lead to man "arbitrarily create his own morality and rights."
At that point what gives any individual over any other to say what is right and what is wrong. What is right for you may be wrong for me. Rights then become random and created by men imposed on men.
There in lies the problem, "created by men, imposed on men"
verses
born into it simply by your own creation, a given.
(everyone is created in some way or another, by who or what no one knows for sure, though most will say they do know.)
Perhaps how I have laid it out here doesn't make sense to others but it does to me, and in my blog that is what matters. :)
(all quotes are taken from Mark Levin's book, what can I say he has a better grasp of how to write eloquently than I do.)
I now have my answer, though I, for my own personal preferences must elaborate on why I cannot accept it the way most must.
In reading Mark Levin's book "Liberty and Tyranny, A Conservative Manifesto", I now have a clear understanding on why it is very important to intertwine politics and faith.
The conservative is all about keeping the laws in order with the Constitution, and following the constitution as it was originally meant. (meaning don't alter what they wrote to what you want it to mean, a living language makes this possible)
The rights given to the individual are derived from the rights of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
Unalienable rights given to them by their creator.
now to me "their creator" is something different than what they were referring to.
but the intent means all the same. I believe people have these rights as natural rights simply by existing.
Most people need to have the rules "promoting restraint, duty, and moral behavior," laid out for them, and religion is the best way to insure lawful consistent stability among the masses.
The founding fathers were of many different denominations and two of which were Deists (it is believed)
therefore the all signed into the constitution - freedom of religion
it just so happens that the dominant religion is Christianity
I just wish more people were open to the many beautiful varieties of being spiritual without judging and indoctrinating and converting others.
In my spiritual world I believe "natural law" still applies. (The athiest may or may not agree)
The problem with separating the spiritual and state is that it would lead to man "arbitrarily create his own morality and rights."
At that point what gives any individual over any other to say what is right and what is wrong. What is right for you may be wrong for me. Rights then become random and created by men imposed on men.
There in lies the problem, "created by men, imposed on men"
verses
born into it simply by your own creation, a given.
(everyone is created in some way or another, by who or what no one knows for sure, though most will say they do know.)
Perhaps how I have laid it out here doesn't make sense to others but it does to me, and in my blog that is what matters. :)
(all quotes are taken from Mark Levin's book, what can I say he has a better grasp of how to write eloquently than I do.)
Friday, April 17, 2009
Tenth Amendment
The tenth Amendment is getting alot of attention these days, it seems alot of people see it as being trampled upon,
I just thought I would post the actual amendment in case anyone was confused as to what it says....
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
I just thought I would post the actual amendment in case anyone was confused as to what it says....
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Why Hide?
Last night I was talking with my husband about me, us and our lifestyle. It was one of those fleeting conversations not one of those deep meaningful ones.
He just mentioned how much more independent I am now. I used to not want to go any where or do anything without him with me. Now I go dancing, and downtown by myself, ok ok with friends, but I am not tied to him. Lets face it someone has to be with the kids.
It is very liberating to be able to be this way. I think my need to separate from the kids a bit is the driving force and I am blessed enough to have a husband who realizes how much I need to get away.
Also I have become more of a thinker, not a bystander. I used to peruse through life not caring one way or another about things, now I do care, very much. I want to make a difference and make the world a better place for my kids (do you hear violins?)
And I am not afraid to say so!
I used to be terrified of running people off from me if they got into my head to understand what I am thinking, no more
I figure those who love me the most will always be with me! always! No matter what I say or what I do!
So lets go forth and have fun!!!
He just mentioned how much more independent I am now. I used to not want to go any where or do anything without him with me. Now I go dancing, and downtown by myself, ok ok with friends, but I am not tied to him. Lets face it someone has to be with the kids.
It is very liberating to be able to be this way. I think my need to separate from the kids a bit is the driving force and I am blessed enough to have a husband who realizes how much I need to get away.
Also I have become more of a thinker, not a bystander. I used to peruse through life not caring one way or another about things, now I do care, very much. I want to make a difference and make the world a better place for my kids (do you hear violins?)
And I am not afraid to say so!
I used to be terrified of running people off from me if they got into my head to understand what I am thinking, no more
I figure those who love me the most will always be with me! always! No matter what I say or what I do!
So lets go forth and have fun!!!
I don't have Cable
so for anyone out there like me here are the videos of the Hannity show. (liberals go ahead and demonize Hannity)(don't forget to demonize Rush, boortz or any other conservative commentator)
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Don't Believe every sign you read.
Today is tea party day. I won't be going, but there is talk of counter protests against the tea party protests.
Imagine those signs - "tax me more" "more bailouts please"
Well it is rumored that they could possible pose as actual tea party protesters with their own signs, signs of violent sayings or what not, and I a quite sure if the media reports much at all (who knows what they will do with it, with all their bias) They will pick up on anything negative which occurs.
When you get people like this together who have such high emotions, well you never know where it might go.
I am getting a bit nervous about where things are headed. Things are likely to get ugly before better. Lets just hope not violent ugly, just politically ugly.
The dept of homeland security did write a report stating that anyone with conservative views opposing the views of the current administration are right wing Extremist. or Right wing terrorists.
can you believe that?
check it out
http://michellemalkin.com/
here is the pdf of the actual documents which weren't supposed to leak to the public
OMG
I just found this commentary which strikes a cord ......
"The timing of the report is somewhat troubling as well. Given it was released on Apr. 7, within a week of the tax day tea parties. The tea parties seem to be an enormous conservative demonstration against government spending. Many of the drivers mentioned in the key findings section of the report such as immigration, perceived economic hardship, and threats from other nations will undoubtedly be themes of the tea parties. Since there have been rumors that left wing activist organizations plan to infiltrate and attempt to disrupt and/or sabotage the tea parties. If there is a violent reaction to these disruptions, the report seems to provide a government platform for endorsing further adverse government action against people who attend and/or support the events."
Imagine those signs - "tax me more" "more bailouts please"
Well it is rumored that they could possible pose as actual tea party protesters with their own signs, signs of violent sayings or what not, and I a quite sure if the media reports much at all (who knows what they will do with it, with all their bias) They will pick up on anything negative which occurs.
When you get people like this together who have such high emotions, well you never know where it might go.
I am getting a bit nervous about where things are headed. Things are likely to get ugly before better. Lets just hope not violent ugly, just politically ugly.
The dept of homeland security did write a report stating that anyone with conservative views opposing the views of the current administration are right wing Extremist. or Right wing terrorists.
can you believe that?
check it out
http://michellemalkin.com/
here is the pdf of the actual documents which weren't supposed to leak to the public
OMG
I just found this commentary which strikes a cord ......
"The timing of the report is somewhat troubling as well. Given it was released on Apr. 7, within a week of the tax day tea parties. The tea parties seem to be an enormous conservative demonstration against government spending. Many of the drivers mentioned in the key findings section of the report such as immigration, perceived economic hardship, and threats from other nations will undoubtedly be themes of the tea parties. Since there have been rumors that left wing activist organizations plan to infiltrate and attempt to disrupt and/or sabotage the tea parties. If there is a violent reaction to these disruptions, the report seems to provide a government platform for endorsing further adverse government action against people who attend and/or support the events."
Monday, April 13, 2009
Good Job Mr. Obama!
kudos for unleashing the Navy Seals on the Somali Pirates!
Seriously
It is always nice to kick some Pirate ass. lol
Seriously
It is always nice to kick some Pirate ass. lol
NC Tea Parties for April 15th
Events taking place on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 unless otherwise noted.
Asheville
4:30 pm
Sidewalk in front of Asheville City Hall and Buncombe County Courthouse
Non-partisan Movement to Repeal the Pork!
Email: erikafranzi@mac.com
Charlotte
2:00pm - 4:00 pm
City Hall Lawn
600 E. Trade Street
Charlotte , NC
E-mail: charlottetaxdayteaparty@gmail.com
Register online here.
Currituck
11:30am - 1:00pm
Currituck Judicial Center,
2801 Caratoke Hwy.,
Currituck, NC.
Register Here
Eden
5:30 pm
Location:
Boat Landing
info@afpnc.org
Edenton
5:00 pm
Edenton Courthouse Green ( Chowan County)
Note: The Edenton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women’s political actions in United States history. On October 25, 1774, Mrs. Penelope Barker organized, at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth King, fifty-one women in Edenton, North Carolina. Together they formed an alliance wholeheartedly supporting the American cause against “taxation without representation.”
This event will include Revolutionary war re-enactors to celebrate the famous Edenton Tea Party. This is a once in a lifetime event to celebrate our past and protect us from a future of debt and high taxes.
Read more about the history of the Edenton tea party here.
Elizabeth City
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Sidewalk in front of Pasquotank County Courthouse, 206 E. Main Street
Need info: info@afpnc.org
Fayetteville
12:00 pm
Liberty Point Resolves Marker, Corner of Bow and Person Streets
Need info: info@afpnc.org
Franklin
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Town Gazebo in Downtown Franklin
Need info: info@afpnc.org
Goldsboro
12:00 noon
Location:
City Hall in Goldsboro
Need info: info@afpnc.org
Greensboro
12:00-1:00 pm
Location: Tea Party will be held at the Governmental Plaza in downtown Greensboro, near the Courthouse
Register Here.
Need info: info@afpnc.org
Greenville
3:00 pm
Location:
Town Commons
Need info:
info@afpnc.org
Henderson
5-8:00 pm
Location:
City Hall on Rose Ave.
Need info: Tim McAlister 252.213.3701 moonlighter07@nc.rr.com
Hillsborough
5:30-6:30 pm
Location:
Historic Orange County Courthouse at 104 E. King Stree
Need info: info@afpnc.org
Kill Devil Hills
10:00 am
Wright Brothers Monument (Milepost 7.5 on US Highway 158)
Need info:
info@afpnc.org
Mooresville
4:30-7:00
Location:
Post Office on Williamson Road
Need info:
info@afpnc.org
Morehead City
4-6pm
Location: Parkway Shopping Center located on Hwy 70. 4841 Arendell Street.
Register Here
Morganton
12-1:00 pm
Location:
Old Courthouse Square
Need info:
info@afpnc.org
New Bern
6-8 PM
Begins at County Commissioner Building and then moves to Union Point Park
Register Here
Newton
12:00 noon
Newton Courthouse100 A South West Blvd.
Government Center on 321
http://www.meetup.com/Hickory-NC-Glenn-Beck-Meetup-Group/
Raleigh
Note: Two Raleigh Tea Parties on this date—different times and locations—attend both!
4:30-6:00 pm
Federal Courthouse. New Bern Avenue across from the Post Office. New Bern Ave. and Person St.
6:30pm - 8:30 pm
NC State Capitol at One East Edenton Street (east side-Wilmington Street side)
Register online here.
Rutherfordton
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Rutherfordton County Courthouse Lawn, 229 N. Main Street
Need info: info@afpnc.org
Smithfield - [CANCELED]
2-4:00 pm
Smithfield Post Office, 201 N. 3rd Street, Smithfield 27577
Need info: idspeck@yahoo.com
Southern Pines
4:00-7:00
Location: Post Office on Broad Street
Need Info: info@afpnc.org
Statesville
12-5:00 pm
In front of Civic Center, corner of Center St. and Front St.
Need info: info@afpnc.org
http://therealnewsradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13...
Stella (Carteret County)
6:30pm
Boondocks beside the Stella bridge,
Need info: info@afpnc.org
Wilmington
5pm to 7pm
Corner of Oleander and College Road
Register Here
Winston-Salem
12 to 2pm
Winston Park on N. Marshall St in downtown Winston Salem.
Register Here
Date: Friday, April 17
Asheboro
Randolph County Tea Party
Time: 12-1PM
Location: Randolph County Republican Headquarters at 122 Sunset Ave. Asheboro, 27203 NC
Register Now
Date: Saturday, April 18
Jacksonville
5:30pm
Marina Cafe & Marina, 110 S Marine Blvd, Jacksonville, NC 28540
Register Here
conservatives and religion
I am quite getting tired of conservatives saying that it is a breakdown of the religious (christian) structure in America which has caused alot of our current problems. Seems to me if they were to embrace "atheists" (as the common blanket term) - maybe the movement could extend to a larger group of people. One can have conservative values and not be Christian!
Its OK for one to have that religious structure in their life, I would say most people need THAT sort of spirituality to feel whole, but many people have found their own spiritual path that isn't radical and isn't Christian and isn't Atheist.
There are so many beautiful ways to feel spiritual out there, I wish conservatives wouldn't alienate people who aren't Christian.
And I keep hearing this message over and over and over.
I think the term conservative is taking on a new meaning which should embrace a larger crowd. "The Republican Party" just has a nasty ring to it now. Religion for some reason has a strong resonance with the Republican party, I think that is a huge flaw with the party and turns many would be conservatives away.
Its OK for one to have that religious structure in their life, I would say most people need THAT sort of spirituality to feel whole, but many people have found their own spiritual path that isn't radical and isn't Christian and isn't Atheist.
There are so many beautiful ways to feel spiritual out there, I wish conservatives wouldn't alienate people who aren't Christian.
And I keep hearing this message over and over and over.
I think the term conservative is taking on a new meaning which should embrace a larger crowd. "The Republican Party" just has a nasty ring to it now. Religion for some reason has a strong resonance with the Republican party, I think that is a huge flaw with the party and turns many would be conservatives away.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Work
I went to work yesterday. I went to the gallery where my jewelry to learn how to handle the store so I can run it by myself today. It felt so good to actually get out and get paid to work.
I hope I can do this more often for them, but my schedule is difficult as far as having to get the kidlet from school and I have to work around my mom's schedule so she can take care of the younger kidlet for me.
But it works out for yesterday and today, good for Tim, he has to run his booth at a festival this weekend. which is good, more promotion. I have sold something each month, which is awesome - movie money! Like we go, right.
how do you like my run on sentence up there?
I hope I can do this more often for them, but my schedule is difficult as far as having to get the kidlet from school and I have to work around my mom's schedule so she can take care of the younger kidlet for me.
But it works out for yesterday and today, good for Tim, he has to run his booth at a festival this weekend. which is good, more promotion. I have sold something each month, which is awesome - movie money! Like we go, right.
how do you like my run on sentence up there?
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
I went to a tea party - well I tried
There was a Tea Party here in Wilmington last night beginning at 5:30.
My hubby and I made an effort to go. However due to getting our kids to the babysitter (ie their grandma) We were 30 minutes late downtown, then there was absolutely no parking. (we didn't want to pay $5 to park for an hour at the deck)
So when we finally found a parking spot 4 blocks away, and walked to water Street. We were an hour late and everyone was leaving. I think they went to City Hall to protest annexation of Monkey Junction.
At any rate we missed it. We did see the crowd as we were looking for a spot to park, then the picketers as they were leaving for their cars.
It wasn't a total bummer though, there was this awesome sailboat there, allowing people aboard to tour it.
I have pictures of it,
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
I have to post this quote
From Alexander Tyler. No, he wasn't writing about the United States. This quote is well over one hundred years old. Tyler was writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic. "
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
Monday, April 6, 2009
What the hell just happened?
This morning my "feedjit" said I was in Shallotte, now I am in Supply - did I get annexed in a matter of 5 hours?
:)
:)
Had to post this
"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
-Thomas Jefferson, American Declaration of Independence
-Thomas Jefferson, American Declaration of Independence
Saturday, April 4, 2009
I feel it
I no longer feel anger, no instead I feel hope! I feel love swelling. Love for my country, I want my children to grow up in the same wonderful place I did, and not the place this country is becoming. My love is for what my country used to stand for. And as an American citizen it is my duty to stand up for her! I will do whatever I can, whenever I can to help out the movement back towards freedom.
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All the churches seem to be preaching that the End of Times prophecy is coming true and PresBo is leading the way to that end. Now I am not religious, but I find this disturbing. I would like for someone to ease my nerves on that one. And we need to fight to turn it away from looking like that.
I read the prophecy, its a bit creepy.
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All the churches seem to be preaching that the End of Times prophecy is coming true and PresBo is leading the way to that end. Now I am not religious, but I find this disturbing. I would like for someone to ease my nerves on that one. And we need to fight to turn it away from looking like that.
I read the prophecy, its a bit creepy.
Friday, April 3, 2009
New Book
Actually I am not sure how long it has been out (a week or 2), but I must get it!
It is New York times best seller, Best seller on Amazon, and has sold an astronomical amount of copies already.
People know bad stuff is happening and this book points it out.
it is called
"Liberty and Tyranny : A Conservative Manifesto"
by
Mark R. Levin
It is New York times best seller, Best seller on Amazon, and has sold an astronomical amount of copies already.
People know bad stuff is happening and this book points it out.
it is called
"Liberty and Tyranny : A Conservative Manifesto"
by
Mark R. Levin
Friday, March 27, 2009
a job?
I have been neglecting my blog, well I have been neglecting alot of things. I feel almost depressed alot of the time, but I will roll with it.
I may have a bit of a job.
The gallery downtown, ya know the one my jewelry is in, well they may want me to work some. I am excited about this. It will be nice to get out of the house and have a few extra bucks to go out with.
(I tend to spend more than I can afford when I go out)
I may have a bit of a job.
The gallery downtown, ya know the one my jewelry is in, well they may want me to work some. I am excited about this. It will be nice to get out of the house and have a few extra bucks to go out with.
(I tend to spend more than I can afford when I go out)
Friday, March 20, 2009
Apparently its my thing
My wire bug pendants, that is. It is what sells. So I am gonna have to focus on having enough on hand at all times. I guess that is my niche. I will still enamel though, can't keep me from that ever!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
I have to ask myself if Americans are really free? My answer is no, true freedom doesn't exist.
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We took the boys to the pediatrician for their well visits 6 months ago.
See we have been charged for a "developmental screening", which is just a piece of paper with questions asking can your child do this, or this, or this.
Our insurance company paid this previously, then the time before this they did not, but the office took the charges off, because they could, we figured it was just something extra to charge the insurance company for more money. They said some insurances paid it, but ours didn't but don't worry about it.
Well this past time, hubby called several times, the insurance company said to take it up with the doctors office, the doctors office said take it up with the insurance company. and when they weren't saying that they were saying "its mandatory" - that is all we got.
Now this sheet of paper the doctor barely glanced at, because our kids are awesome. So I figured no services rendered.
I also figured we should be able to deny services which we do not want or are not covered. Free market right, bah
We waltzed our hineys up to the doctors office, note in hand saying we were going to pay but then switch doctors. Free market choosing doctors, right? nope
Instead of going up to the desk and dealing with inept receptionists, we pulled up and Dr. X was getting something out of the trunk of his car.
Now Dr. X is the most awesome doctor and person ever! We did not want to leave his practice. His older daughter is one month older than my oldest and his younger is one month older than my youngest. He 'gets' us. We click!
Here is the dealy-yo straight from the docs mouth
This 'test' is mandatory for those with BCBS - out of state. ours it BCBS of Alabama
Now this mandatory test isn't covered, but still required BY THE INSURANCE COMPANY - for all pediatricians
Our freedom of choice is gone! freedom to choose weather we want the screening or not, and the freedom to choose docs. over it, because they all have to do it.
We can afford this, but it would have been so nice to get the heads up. No one seemed to be able to explain it to us.
I really respect our pediatrician, and he said that many ped. offices are talking of dropping this insurance company.
Which I guess serves the insurance company right.
He did ask us if we would write a letter to the insurance company with our grievance over this policy, but I don't exactly know who to or what to even say. Lowes is the one who chooses the insurance company.
I think letting Lowes know how dissatisfied we are with the insurance company is the better route.
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Any way during our conversation guess what got brought up....
Obama
yup I have yet to meet a doctor who is happy with the direction things are about to go. (I have now discussed it personally with 3 I think)
He said this is what is going to happen.....
BTW Right now he would not turn ANYONE away if they could just pay $1 a month he would take care of them.
But as soon as the damned government forces the docs to see anyone and everyone they will have double the amount of people in the waiting room, taking up more time and the doctor will get paid less.
Not everyone gets the health care they need, because the demand for free health care will be virtually infinite. But the dollars available to be spent will be limited.
I am just miffed and didn't know where else to go
Oh and Dr. X wouldn't take our check we practically forced it into his hand like 3 times.
I would almost be willing to ask him to keep seeing my kids and us pay him under the table when the time comes that private doctor patient transactions become illegal. He likes us enough he might would go along with it.
I am saddened to have brought children to inherit this place, maybe they can fix it.
There are "tea parties" popping up all over the place, I wanna go, maybe I can. Their is one here on Thursday.
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We took the boys to the pediatrician for their well visits 6 months ago.
We have been getting a bill for $120 for a while now,
I have been pestering hubby to call the insurance company and the ped. office to get this 'taken care of'See we have been charged for a "developmental screening", which is just a piece of paper with questions asking can your child do this, or this, or this.
Our insurance company paid this previously, then the time before this they did not, but the office took the charges off, because they could, we figured it was just something extra to charge the insurance company for more money. They said some insurances paid it, but ours didn't but don't worry about it.
Well this past time, hubby called several times, the insurance company said to take it up with the doctors office, the doctors office said take it up with the insurance company. and when they weren't saying that they were saying "its mandatory" - that is all we got.
Now this sheet of paper the doctor barely glanced at, because our kids are awesome. So I figured no services rendered.
I also figured we should be able to deny services which we do not want or are not covered. Free market right, bah
We waltzed our hineys up to the doctors office, note in hand saying we were going to pay but then switch doctors. Free market choosing doctors, right? nope
Instead of going up to the desk and dealing with inept receptionists, we pulled up and Dr. X was getting something out of the trunk of his car.
Now Dr. X is the most awesome doctor and person ever! We did not want to leave his practice. His older daughter is one month older than my oldest and his younger is one month older than my youngest. He 'gets' us. We click!
Here is the dealy-yo straight from the docs mouth
This 'test' is mandatory for those with BCBS - out of state. ours it BCBS of Alabama
Now this mandatory test isn't covered, but still required BY THE INSURANCE COMPANY - for all pediatricians
Our freedom of choice is gone! freedom to choose weather we want the screening or not, and the freedom to choose docs. over it, because they all have to do it.
We can afford this, but it would have been so nice to get the heads up. No one seemed to be able to explain it to us.
I really respect our pediatrician, and he said that many ped. offices are talking of dropping this insurance company.
Which I guess serves the insurance company right.
He did ask us if we would write a letter to the insurance company with our grievance over this policy, but I don't exactly know who to or what to even say. Lowes is the one who chooses the insurance company.
I think letting Lowes know how dissatisfied we are with the insurance company is the better route.
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Any way during our conversation guess what got brought up....
Obama
yup I have yet to meet a doctor who is happy with the direction things are about to go. (I have now discussed it personally with 3 I think)
He said this is what is going to happen.....
BTW Right now he would not turn ANYONE away if they could just pay $1 a month he would take care of them.
But as soon as the damned government forces the docs to see anyone and everyone they will have double the amount of people in the waiting room, taking up more time and the doctor will get paid less.
Not everyone gets the health care they need, because the demand for free health care will be virtually infinite. But the dollars available to be spent will be limited.
I am just miffed and didn't know where else to go
Oh and Dr. X wouldn't take our check we practically forced it into his hand like 3 times.
I would almost be willing to ask him to keep seeing my kids and us pay him under the table when the time comes that private doctor patient transactions become illegal. He likes us enough he might would go along with it.
I am saddened to have brought children to inherit this place, maybe they can fix it.
There are "tea parties" popping up all over the place, I wanna go, maybe I can. Their is one here on Thursday.
Monday, March 16, 2009
I haven't posted in a bit, so I must now
hubby has been off work for a week now, and older son out of school for spring break for a week and a half now.
This interupts my routines.
My workout routine has been erratic, but not gone completely.
My work routine really hasn't been established yet. I plan on working for a couple of hours at least 3 days a week. (this will eat into my workout routine, but that is ok)
I can't really get into my daily routine (how many more times am I gonna say the word routine) until it settles back to a normal hubby at work, child at school, and other child actually napping.
I got out to the studio day before yesterday. I got quite a bit accomplished, a bee made, a seahorse made, a dragonfly cleaned and ready, and a butterfly made. I took these four and one other piece into the store.
one of my bees has been sold but not picked up yet.
This is so exciting for me, I can't wait to see how it goes when the weather cooperates with the tourists plans.
I had sworn to never make a seahorse again, but decided to anyway, it wasn't as difficult as I remember. I really like the design, so I will post a pic. (not the best pic) It is not the actual piece I made but it looks almost exactly the same.
In other news, argentium. That is what I am making all my pendants out of now. I do love how it looks as a finished piece. so very shiny. I love how it solders. I did try to fuse it and I don't quite have that technique down yet.
but yeah, argentium = two thumbs up
hubby has been off work for a week now, and older son out of school for spring break for a week and a half now.
This interupts my routines.
My workout routine has been erratic, but not gone completely.
My work routine really hasn't been established yet. I plan on working for a couple of hours at least 3 days a week. (this will eat into my workout routine, but that is ok)
I can't really get into my daily routine (how many more times am I gonna say the word routine) until it settles back to a normal hubby at work, child at school, and other child actually napping.
I got out to the studio day before yesterday. I got quite a bit accomplished, a bee made, a seahorse made, a dragonfly cleaned and ready, and a butterfly made. I took these four and one other piece into the store.
one of my bees has been sold but not picked up yet.
This is so exciting for me, I can't wait to see how it goes when the weather cooperates with the tourists plans.
I had sworn to never make a seahorse again, but decided to anyway, it wasn't as difficult as I remember. I really like the design, so I will post a pic. (not the best pic) It is not the actual piece I made but it looks almost exactly the same.
In other news, argentium. That is what I am making all my pendants out of now. I do love how it looks as a finished piece. so very shiny. I love how it solders. I did try to fuse it and I don't quite have that technique down yet.
but yeah, argentium = two thumbs up
Monday, March 9, 2009
Pay Day
I got my first "paycheck"
It wasn't much, but considering how very cold it has been this February, I am quite happy!
The foot traffic in the store will pick up considerably with warm weather, considering it is in the very touristy area by the river.
Hubby was even impressed.
I can't wait to see how things turn out.
I gotta get crackin' though.
It wasn't much, but considering how very cold it has been this February, I am quite happy!
The foot traffic in the store will pick up considerably with warm weather, considering it is in the very touristy area by the river.
Hubby was even impressed.
I can't wait to see how things turn out.
I gotta get crackin' though.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Here is How this will work
I will work in my studio making stock for a full month, then after getting paid from sales at the store I will take my new stuff in and put it on display, swapping out with older items if need be.
But before it goes to the store it will go on etsy, so cyber space will have approximately one month to view my items before They are gone to the land of the living.
So if someone sees something on my site that they want, They better snatch it up!
But before it goes to the store it will go on etsy, so cyber space will have approximately one month to view my items before They are gone to the land of the living.
So if someone sees something on my site that they want, They better snatch it up!
Friday, March 6, 2009
A beautiful day!
Wow, today was gorgeous!
I decided to do a spring cleaning on my studio. It looks fab!
I am gonna start working, huh what? working? YES WORKING in my studio during my younger son's naps. That is 3 hours of work time 5 days a week. (unless hubby is home then I may take time off, I make my own hours).
I am so excited about being able to get back to it.
They are having a market in town soon which I think it will be worth my while to do, but I need to get crackin on some inventory, I stocked the store with my better items.
I do however wish the state of the economy was better.
I did want to keep anything political out, but seeing as I want to work hard and earn a living without any kind of government paycheck or welfare, I will undoubtedly blurb political stuff.
My "job" and my friends "jobs" are entertwined with how poorly the US is being run now.
nuff of that now,
I am still happy, my studio is sparkly and calling for me to create! I must answer that call.
I hope to really soon see how my jewelry has done in my friend's store so far. Waiting patiently for a check.
I will start "working" next week.
I will update on how well it goes.
til then
~ta ta~
I decided to do a spring cleaning on my studio. It looks fab!
I am gonna start working, huh what? working? YES WORKING in my studio during my younger son's naps. That is 3 hours of work time 5 days a week. (unless hubby is home then I may take time off, I make my own hours).
I am so excited about being able to get back to it.
They are having a market in town soon which I think it will be worth my while to do, but I need to get crackin on some inventory, I stocked the store with my better items.
I do however wish the state of the economy was better.
I did want to keep anything political out, but seeing as I want to work hard and earn a living without any kind of government paycheck or welfare, I will undoubtedly blurb political stuff.
My "job" and my friends "jobs" are entertwined with how poorly the US is being run now.
nuff of that now,
I am still happy, my studio is sparkly and calling for me to create! I must answer that call.
I hope to really soon see how my jewelry has done in my friend's store so far. Waiting patiently for a check.
I will start "working" next week.
I will update on how well it goes.
til then
~ta ta~
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