Peg's Pen

The Truth Is Out There

2012-02-15T07:24:00.003-05:00

Or, is it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHLXsgn4_B0

http://www.dailypaul.com/214015/ben-swann-maine-election-fraud-reality-check

Now, is all this intended fraudulence painting a picture to make the Rep party look assinine and thus makes Obama and the Dem party the better presidential choice? Or are the Rep afraid of Ron Paul and his possible lead?

Who really knows, 'cepting of course both are true and agendas change from one day to the next and all I can say, is, "Shame on you, Master Puppeteers!"

What the media doesn't want you to know!

2012-02-12T18:05:00.003-05:00

The video below is not only interesting but conveys (humorously) a better understanding of the confusing political arena and voting system of the USA, and information you will not hear on the mainstream media stations about the upcoming Presidential candidates.

It proves as well, that Americans are tired of "the boys with the most toys wins" mentality! Santorum, Romney, and Gingrich think that the big bucks will outtalk/walk grassroots; think again! To put this into laymen's terms, the three candidates mentioned prior have the money but not the people needed to win. Americans are disgusted and tired of the 'talk the talk' but not the walk agenda. Left and right wings are being clipped back to the center, metaphorically speaking!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O2zP2VfRZk&feature=related

What?? :- o

2012-02-10T12:25:00.002-05:00

Are we turning into a police state? Is freedom of speech being limited to the government only? Is 1984, a book written decades ago, proving the concept of 'Big Brother' is watching? And just how far will Americans allow themselves to be pushed before exclaiming, "Enough is Enough!" and DO something about it?

http://www.infowars.com/group-forces-congressional-hearing-on-big-sis-twitter-drudge-spying/

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2050096/Homeland-Security-Wants-Internet-Kill-Switch

http://news.yahoo.com/lawmakers-press-homeland-security-internet-monitoring-023218273.html

Your guess is as good as mine!

Another excellent email! But then again, who cares...

2012-02-01T07:52:00.000-05:00

A frightening analysis......Do you believe the American people will allow this to happen???

HOW OBAMA WILL WIN THE 2012 PRESIDENT ELECTION! Dr. Williams' prediction: Maybe you have read some newspaper articles written by Dr. Williams a conservative economist who happens to be Black. He has taught at several Universities and is currently teaching at George Mason University .

No Matter What
By Dr. Walter Williams

Can President Obama be defeated in 2012? No. He can't.. I am going on record as saying that President Barak Obama will win a second term.

The media won't tell you this because a good election campaign means hundreds of millions (or in Obama's case billions) of dollars to them in advertising.

But the truth is, there simply are no conditions under which Barak Obama can be defeated in 2012.

The quality of the Republican candidate doesn't matter. Obama gets reelected.

Nine percent unemployment? No problem. Obama will win.

Gas prices moving toward five dollars a gallon? He still wins.

The economy soars or goes into the gutter. Obama wins.

War in the Middle East ? He wins a second term.

America's role as the leading Superpower disappears? Hurrah for Barak Obama!
The U.S. government rushes toward bankruptcy, the dollar continues to sink on world markets and the price of daily goods and services soars due to inflation fueled by Obama's extraordinary deficit spending?

Obama wins handily.

You are crazy Williams. Don't you understand how volatile politics can be when overall economic, government, and world conditions are declining? Sure I do. And that's why I know Obama will win. The American people are notoriously ignorant of economics. And economics is the key to why Obama should be defeated.

Even when Obama's policies lead the nation to final ruin, the majority of the American people are going to believe the bait-and-switch tactics Obama and his supporters in the media will use to explain why it isn't his fault. After all, things were much worse than understood when he took office.

Obama's reelection is really a very, very simple math problem. Consider the following:
1) Blacks will vote for Obama blindly. Period. Doesn't matter what he does. It's a race thing. He's one of us,
2) College educated women will vote for Obama. Though they will be offended by this, they swoon at his oratory. It's really not more complex than that,
3) Liberals will vote for Obama. He is their great hope,
4) Democrats will vote for Obama. He is the leader of their party and his coat tails will carry them to victory nationwide,
5) Hispanics will vote for Obama. He is the path to citizenship for those who are illegal and Hispanic leaders recognize the political clout they carry in the Democratic Party,
6) Union members will vote overwhelmingly for Obama. He is their key to money and power in business, state and local politics,
7) Big Business will support Obama. They already have. He has almost $1 Billion dollars in his reelection purse gained largely from his connections with Big Business and is gaining more every day. Big Business loves Obama because he gives them access to taxpayer money so long as they support his social and political agenda,
8) The media love him. They may attack the people who work for him, but they love him. After all, to not love him would be racist,
9) Most other minorities and special interest groups will vote for him. Oddly, the overwhelming majority of Jews and Muslims will support him because they won't vote Republican. American Indians will support him. Obviously homosexuals tend to vote Democratic. And lastly,
10) Approximately half of independents will vote for Obama. And he doesn't need anywhere near that number because he has all of the groups previously mentioned.

The President will win an overwhelming victory in 2012.
-- Dr. Walter Williams

IN ADDITION TO THE VOTING BLOCKS HE MENTIONS, THERE IS ANOTHER HUGE GROUP: THE NEARLY ONE-HALF OF ALL ADULTS DO NOT PAY ANY TAXES AND, IN FACT, MOST OF THEM RECEIVE MONEY FROM THE GOVERNMENT. THESE PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO "SHAKE THE BOAT" TO DO ANYTHING TO STOP THE FLOW OF TAXPAYER MONEY TO THEMSELVES.

Obituary Very Interesting!
Born 1776, Died 2008

It doesn't hurt to read this several times....
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:
· Number of States won by: Obama:19 McCain: 29
· Square miles of land won by: Obama:580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
· Population of counties won by: Obama:127million McCain: 143 million
· Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to theUSA in fewer than five years.
If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.
If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

Very interesting read!!

Email and way to go PA!! NOT!!

2012-01-31T08:57:00.000-05:00

Subject: Direct Deposit
Don't you wonder what's next???
ON JANUARY 1, 2012, THE US GOVERNMENT IS REQUIRING EVERYONE TO HAVE DIRECT DEPOSIT FOR SS CHECKS.
WONDER WHY?

Subject: HR 4646

Be sure to read the entire explanation atch for this AFTER November elections; remember this BEFORE you VOTE , in case you think Obama is looking out for your best interest. A 1% tax on all bank transactions is what HR 4646 calls for .
Do you receive a retirement check from Social Security or a pension fund and have it direct deposit?? Well guess what ..it looks as if Obama wants to tax it 1% !! This bill was put forth by Rep.Chaka Fattah (D-PA).
YES, that is 1% tax on all bank transactions - HR 4646, every time it goes in and every time money goes out. Ask your congressperson to vote NO.
1% tax on all bank transactions ~ HR 4646 - ANOTHER
NEW OBAMA TAX SLIPPED IN WHILE WE WERE ASLEEP .
Checked this on snopes, it's true!
Check it out yourself ~ HR 4646.

President Obama's finance team is recommending a one percent (1%) transaction fee (TAX). Obama's plan is to sneak it in after the November elections to keep it under the radar. This is a 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution banks, credit unions, savings and loans, etc. Any deposit you make, or even a transfer within your own bank from one account to another will have a 1% tax charged.
If your paycheck or your Social Security or whatever is direct deposit, it will get a 1% tax charged for the transaction. If your paycheck is $1000, then you will pay Obama $10 just for the privilege of depositing your paycheck in your bank. Even if you hand carry your paycheck or any check in to your bank for a deposit, 1% tax will be charged.
You receiv e a $5,000 stock dividend from your broker, Obama takes $50 just to allow you to deposit that check in the bank. If you take $1,000 cash to deposit at your bank, 1% tax will be charged. Mind you, this is from the man who promised that, if you make under $250,000 per year, you will not see one penny of new tax.
Keep your eyes and ears open, you will be amazed at what you learn about about this guy's under-the-table moves to increase the number of ways you are taxed.
Oh, and by the way, if you receive a refund from the IRS next year and you have it direct deposited or you walk in to deposit that check, you guessed it. You will pay a 1% charge of that money just for putting it in your bank.
Remember, any money, cash, check or whatever, no matter where it came from, you will pay a 1% fee if you put it in the bank.
Some will say, oh well, it's just 1%. Are you kidding me? It's a 1% tax increase across the board. Remember, once the tax is there, they can also raise it at will. And if anyone protests, they will just say, "Oh,that's not really a tax, it's a user fee"!
Think this is no big deal? Go back and look at the transactions you made from last year's banking statements. Then add the total of all those transactions and deduct 1%. Still think it's no big deal?

By Peg:
When I went into Snopes I found out that Chaka Fattah from PA, proposed this tax on all transactions excluding those on stock transactions. Here again, sock it to the middle class! When you look at stock transactions as a whole, you see that those who are in the stock market 'game' are those who are in a much higher tax bracket then the middle and lower classes. Obama also proposed a higher tax on the rich to give to the middle and lower class but here again, most of the uppper class show their income to be in the stock market not in 'working people funds to be taxed', rarely do they show large assets in any other area. So, gotchas are in plain sight once again! WAKE UP AMERICA! WE IS QUICKLY BUILDING THE FOUNDATION FOR A SOCIALISTIC SOCIETY AND WE DON'T HAVE MUCH FURTHER TO GO!!

ps I DO HAVE DIRECT DEPOSIT, BUT IF THIS BILL PASSES IT LOOKS LIKE I WON'T AND THE MATTRESS JUST MIGHT BECOME MY NEW BANK!! I AM TIRED OF TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!! SOUND FAMILIAR!!??

Nugatory

2012-01-23T19:39:00.000-05:00

Oblong shapes

floating

around the room

hanging only by a piece

of monofilament

and your imagination

1.5 minute retro

2012-01-23T07:45:00.002-05:00

El Nino in the West, raining and blowing in the North with temps around 40 and possible thunderstorms. South, tornadoes, hail, and dangerous lightning; flooding will become the next hazard.

Gingrich is really pounding the pavement trying to get noticed and Perry says he'll back him! Crazier things have happened. The fight is on and the candidates continue to duke it out.

Congress, playing dicator again, now trying to censor the internet. When they tried gun control, the crime rate went up. (Just had to throw that in there for affect.) Will they win, probably, as they sneak a more important law in with it to guarantee the win.

EPA has its fingers in so many household controls. I bought a new dishwasher the other day, mine of 15 years gave up the ghost. The new 'green' dishwashers are less efficient and instead of saving water, in order to get the dishes clean, you have to run it through twice. The idea behind the 'green' unit was to save on water usage and energy but the substandard design has doubled my water bill and electric because it does not get the dishes clean on the first wash. On top of that, it only uses one type of dishwashing liquid. Hmm, wonder if the greasy palms are satisfied with their unit?

No more lightbulbs being made. Not really, but you will no longer be able to buy a standard lightbulb in any wattage as the EPA has designed a more effiecient, 'green' bulb. More energy efficient; only trouble is, your health insurance will go up using them as they have been proven to give off mercury vapors. And your eye doctor will be in his glory as you strain your eyes trying to read by their dim rays.

Oh, and let's not forget the EPAs concern over toilet usage. The toilet is designed to use less water. It has a smaller tank and only allows, I believe, l.5 gallons of water to be used with each flush. These toilets work great if you are the rabbit-type pooper. Anything bigger, plugs up the toilet and then you must plunge and flush at least two or three times to eliminate the waste exluding any toilet paper. Way to go EPA!

And of course, let's not forget that Americans are purchasing their prescription drugs mainly from China now and that makes me feel really secure.

Only in America, the home of the falsified and everyday closer to socialism!

A picture is worth a thousand words!

2012-01-20T09:09:00.001-05:00

I was sent an email about the shootings at Fort Hood military base in Texas. The article, after investigating a snopes link, was not completely true. What I did find interesting, are the pictures that were taken. Make sure you scroll down far enough and see all the pictures.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/forthood.asp

All in a day's work, I imagine!

True or False?

2012-01-14T10:38:00.000-05:00

Is the following phone conversation true or false?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wsnHGI5K-E&feature=player_embedded

*There will be no prizes awarded for any correct answers. Thank you.

New Hampshire Debates

2012-01-08T20:31:00.002-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QJMM_btpmM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cqgltr2YaU&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pxyzAjk72U&feature=relmfu

If some of the answers and rebuttals of this debate concerning who will occupy the White House don't scare you, then I don't know what will!

Get a chance, check out more of the debates--these are just a few!

But anyway!

2012-01-06T11:55:00.002-05:00

Okay here we go, who is going to be the new pres? That's the hubbub around the campfire! Well, slim pickins' my friends. Ain't a one of 'em worth the seat, at least not those who are constantly being mentioned and not being skimmed over in the media. They all play the game well, but their voting records are down right deplorable.

Talkin' the talk, but ain't walkin' the walk! Gonna bring on some stats for you soon as I get my time rearranged.

But on a different note: was sent an email with some pretty questionable quotes from Obama's books, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams of my Father. Seems these quotes have been taken out of context. Yes, some of the quotes were truly said and at least one of them I didn't particularly like, but they were taken out of context and like alot of quotes in pieces, can be misconstrued.

Snopesies confirmed the audacity of the email and I do believe snopes some of the time, but always verify even then. Sure enough, bad email.

But anyway, will be getting some info your way on those mouthy stinkers scurring to the Oval Office!

IN the meantime, sail on to bigger waters and only row when the winds abate!

Happy New Year!! (Oh golly, I hope so!)

Wow!! Don't ask me!?

2012-01-06T11:39:00.000-05:00

It's a "now you see me, now you don't", kinda thing!

Thanks Mark!

2011-10-15T21:12:00.000-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEH4Yum4nN4&feature=youtu.be

Not just for girls!! :-0}

Just too stupid for words!

2011-10-08T15:40:00.003-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/embed/dUr1NxJDC94?rel=0

PS: Everybody knows you don't spit on Texan hospitality!

Want him back for another 4?

2011-10-08T10:00:00.003-04:00

WE'VE FIGURED HIM OUT!

By Ben Stein

Why was President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed? Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008.
(Pig in a poke means: an offering or deal that is foolishly accepted without being examined first. A poke means sack.) They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith. They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright. They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar. Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, and not a fan of this country.

The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way helped all Americans.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never can be --"a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society." Either the costs go up or the free society goes away... an historical truth.

These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud, if believed to be caused by man. She has also signed on to a Small Firearms Treaty at the U.N. This is a back door gun control move. This is approved by the Senate and a 2nd Amendment majority doesn't exist in the Senate now. It will supersede all U.S. Law and the 2nd Amendment. All citizen possession will be eliminated through confiscation. Just Like Great Britain and Australia .

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms. There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .

** Ben Stein is a writer, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu . He writes "Ben Stein's Diary" for every issue of The American Spectator.

Randy Jackson was heard claiming the reason the American people want Obama out of office is a racial one! I believe Mr. Jackson is a pompous idiot! Unemployment among blacks since Obama began his policies has risen 20% and that's just for starters. And if I had my way, I would vote for Allen West, a Congressman from Florida! Guess what folks, he is black, native American, and knows exactly what is going on behind closed doors in Washington!

And there ain't no paranoia or conspiracy theory in that!

Now that's finger lickin' good!

2011-10-02T11:54:00.000-04:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044016/Obama-Fried-Chicken-Is-President-giving-Colonel-Sanders-run-money.html?ITO=1490

Seasoned

2011-09-05T17:11:00.000-04:00

Treasures surface with each thought

Unleashing a time well rehearsed

And faces fade in the new days wake

Like the rainbow disappearing in the sky

Olden times and fresher days

Compete for their rightful spotlight

And melancholy tones from the bitter sweet tree

Continue to fragrant the air

I wade in the grass turned brown from chill

And look back at the mountain’s path

The climb was steep and rocky the ground

And her lessons scar deep in my flesh

Another day raises another day’s fare

And the journey never slows for each thought

And as winter does threaten her ice cold touch

The summer does remorsefully part

Interesting feed--sign of the times!

2011-08-20T12:38:00.002-04:00

http://www.nkusa.org/activities/Demonstrations/20100617.cfm

Yep, Stewart pegged it right!!

2011-08-17T07:27:00.000-04:00

Watch this video, you gotta love the right and left wing media! Glue 'em together and they still can't fly!

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-15-2011/indecision-2012---corn-polled-edition---ron-paul---the-top-tier

Who's zooming who in PA? Part 1 & 2

2011-08-16T08:00:00.000-04:00

Uh, is Big Brother wearing a different mask or is it just an early Halloween? PA gets its share of "telephoto eyes" in all shapes and sizes. Question is, how far will it go and will it be lawfully taken care of. PA residents should be concerned!

Where's my Constitution?

Part1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mjzsu8Vhlk&feature=related

Part2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjO8oc-cqPU&feature=related

Just found this interesting...

2011-07-20T18:18:00.002-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0eh0hRlfCU

Bollywood: My Name is Kahn, Shahrukh Kahn's Film, Gets My 2 Thumbs Up!

2011-07-15T11:05:00.002-04:00

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1188996/

If you don't like subtitles, then you won't like this. Too bad for you, this is an excellent film! Well-directed, actors well-selected, dialogue well-written, and a very true account of what an asperger, austistic person and those around him/her deal with!

For a parent of a mentally challenged child, there is a spark of sadness as the director unfolds the day to day occurrences of the main character, Kahn, played by, Shahrukh Khan. But, thank you director, Karan Johar, for showing the comical and lighter side of 'Kahn's personality and adventures, as well!

In the story, we follow Kahn on his 'mission' to the United States while being reunited with his brother after the death of their mother in their native country of India. We watch Kahn deal with everyday incidents that we, of the non-neurotypical type, ignore, deal with, or perhaps never even notice.

I am not going to spoil anymore of the movie for you by giving you the plot, nor the revelations of the Kahn character, but, if you have an austistic friend, sibling, child, or know of anyone who is on the spectrum, this movie is an excellent understanding of how an autistic mind works even when taking into consideration the degree of severity.

A 'must see' for anyone who is studying in the field, brushing up on neurotypical people, writing a thesis, or just for curosity sake; it is that good! And in my own, personal opinion, the Kahn character was captured much better than the character in the movie, Adam.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185836/

Slight of Hand, Again!!

2011-07-11T11:32:00.001-04:00

Americans sat on the edge of their seats, biting nails and self-deliberating over the guilt or innocence in the Casey Anthony trial. Isn't that the puff of smoke the Nation needed for those in higher power to conduct business not befitting the Nation's already damaged attitude toward stimulus monies and the lack thereof?

Washington magaician's know their opportunities and strike behind the scenes leaving the American people dumbfounded to the what? when? and whos? of bailouts and unconstiutional decisions made by both Congress and the President.

Fannie Mae ring a bell? Find out what went on with Fannie Mae and another bail out while you were glued to the tube listening to the defense and prosecution of one, Casey Anthony. Ask your reps about the stimulus money and the approx. 8.5 billion American, unemployed, frustrated, and not making ends meet tax money!

Shame, shame, shame, on you Insiders, Obama, Congress, and all the leading puppeteers. Not a good time to take a bow for your unethical act.

Look it up for yourselves or stay asleep, it's your choice!

Is the bullying over?

2011-06-09T16:34:00.001-04:00

Finally, school is out for 3 months. Has been a long one and next year maybe even longer if you have a child who is being targeted by fellow classmates. We live in a world where tolerance has become the main theme in life. Tolerance and respect to other religions, ethnic groups, and to other ways of life, are just a few of the topics that are discussed daily in the media and other circles where people are involved. Schools have even incorporated respect for others in their campus curriculum and include marches in their courtyard, shirts created expressing the need to be tolerant of others showing respect and compassion, and rallies using keynote speakers to enforce the need to stop bullying in school.

These are all great ideas but, the schools are at a disadvantage to punish those who are bullying and unfortunately, we also find in the bullying arena, that everyone's household does not express respect for others nor support nor establish this practice with their child and, the accountability for ones actions is not enforced. There are also countless other reasons that children may bully one another: anger issues, stressed households, victims of abuse, and the list goes on.

The bottomline is, there is bullying in schools and this act has become deterimental to not only the victim and those around him, but the function of the school itself. I have heard stories from parents whose children are being bullied and they seem to be knocking on locked doors trying to get help from the schools with protecting their children. It appears that the school turns a deaf ear until the situation becomes tragic. And in some cases, it has. And law suits are on the rise with parents trying to keep their child safe from physcial and mental abuse from their peers. This in turn, is costing the school hundreds of thousands of dollars in nonproductive monies.

So what is the solution? I know first hand that there is in some states, a bullying hotline that parents/guardians can call and report bullying situations. (I would not, though, call them until you have exhausted other means of contact or feel your situation has escalated to a serious problem. Sometimes just the very mention of calling does the trick.) The other steps you can take are contact the school immediately upon finding out from your child what is going on. Keep a journal of what was done and by whom and the dates involved. Also journal your interaction with the person(s) you contacted with the same information; dates, times, possible solution, etc. Email and phone calls are a wonderful start to the problem. (I like emailing because you have a hard copy for your file if you would need it.)

If you find the bullying has not stopped, again contact those in charge. This time you may want to request a meeting with the student's parents and see if there is a solution that can be found. If this fails and you continually have a bullying problem or perhaps it becomes worse or more violent, contact the bullying hotline immediately. This forces the school to become responsible for any and all outcomes. The school becomes black-marked and the state intervenes and forces the school to make productive changes. In the meantime, keep your child as safe as you can even if it means keeping them at home until something is done.
(Check with your state rep to see if tutoring would be paid by the school in this situation, so that the child would not lose school time nor lesson work.)

Other tactics your child can use is to work out a safe passage plan. A safety zone they can flee to where they will find a teacher who can help. If this is not feasable for any reason, tell the child to scream at the top of their lungs when the incident is about to happen. In some cases, this will scare the would-be-attackers and send everyone running to see what has happened.

The main priority is to keep your child safe! Coach your child on how to protect him/herself against bullying. This is an escalating problem in public schools and your child should be made aware of their rights as a student in that school. Build allies in teachers and hall monitors and have your student know where these safety nets are at all times. You cannot always rely on friends to help you in a confrontation but maybe a plan can be constructed for them to get help as soon as possible if a bullying situation erupts. And above all, let your child know there is nothing wrong with them, but there is with those who are doing the bullying.

BULLYING WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

Always a new diagnosis

2011-06-05T20:55:00.000-04:00

So, you say, something new always creeps up. What can it be this time. Stunned to find the answer in such plain view especially since it has been repeated as a possibility over and over again; falling on deaf ears.

Such a tolerance to such arrogance. So, let's repeat: asperger, schizoid affective disorder/bipolar type 1, and OCD. Hmm, original thought but quickly and accurately changes with the mood of the lighting--premorbid schizoid adolescent.

And you thought supercallafragalisticxpealadocious was a strange concept! Nevertheless, laymen's terms can bring about such a feeling of helplessness and thus, those in the know, use classified titles to ease the minds of those lying in waiting.

And the bottom line still is the easiest to fill. And with maturity the illness worsens; sounds like some politicians I know.

So on you row through the mirk of day and the fog of night tossing and turning with waves of torrential rains and the heat of a dessert sun looking for the real buried treasure. But, someone got to it first!

I just love good common sense!

2011-05-24T14:12:00.001-04:00

This post was derived from an email a friend had sent. It is the start and finish of some lack of common sense or should I say makes sense if you understand the agenda! Some would just call it another conspiracy/paranoia infiltration that is tearing at America's skirt fabric.

You decide for yourself and have fun!

Sail on,
Peg

PS Make sure you scroll down on his blog and read from the beginning!

http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod-ends-sale-of-expended-military.html

Aftermath

2011-05-16T09:41:00.003-04:00

The darkest of days and longest of nights

Still bleed within Spring’s greening coat

The sun disappeared in a grayish background

And refuses to make herself known

And smiling faces have all turned away

And desperation has taken their place

The pelts from the cold and lifeless rain

Feel like bees stinging every bare space

And many have run from its ominous wave

And many climb to much higher ground

And all have cursed its black, frozen heart

As loved ones are swallowed deep down

And many watch in fear and all in shock

As her tentacles grip and grab

Tearing at Spring’s most colorful wares

Or anything else it can snag

The wailing is heard above the roar

As pieces are all strewn about

From a tantrum(ed) child not given his way

And leaving no room for doubt

And faces begin to slowly peek out

Like the munchkins when Dorothy arrives

Dazed and confused, astounded and numb

To this chaotic disruption of lives

But the trumpet does sound on the barren land

And hands reach across the miles

With opened palms full of love and hope

And with gifts born of many styles

And many rejoice in this gracious faith

Embracing the circles within

And as seen in the new dawn’s winking eye

We are encouraged to begin once again

Children of the Corn remake!

2011-05-04T15:16:00.012-04:00

Just got wind that the West Boro-ooians are coming to a nearby town to protest the death of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. The funeral will be held Friday, for Army Captain Joshua McClimans in his hometown of Jamestown, which also happens to be the birth place of my husband and his family. Captain McClimans, was a nurse with the Army Reserve's 848th Forward Surgical Team. Captain McClimans was deployed to Operating Base Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan, where he met an untimely death from incoming mortar fire. My condolences and prayers go out to his family. I will honor his memory.

Back to the movie. These rather interesting Children of the Corn, (The West Boro-ooians) will commence to make a rather bleak and sorrowful time for the family, into a parade featuring arrogant; half-witted; assinine sign-raising, verbal chanting gormless dolts and their inane abilities for understanding anything but their corn fields.

Why they followed the yellow brick road to PA instead of worshipping the planting of their corn fields as what would be what the "he who walks behind the rows" would perfer, is beyond me! Must be making hay for another day! Hope they will be forgiven!

And just think, the Supreme Court gave them clearance for their scrupulous venues against those of us who have been less than Christian in their eyes! (The Boro-ooians make Malachi look like his character would be sitting at the right hand of God!) And to boot, they don't even like the United States! I say let's put them out of their misery. Give 'em a canteen of water, a few MRIs, a sleeping bag, and a one way ticket to Afghanistan and let them protest all they want on the frontline!

Do I hear an Amen, Brothers!?

If you care to gander at their sideshow, here is the link: http://www.godhatesfags.com/confessions/index.html

Snopes, you've been busted!

2011-03-12T06:55:00.000-05:00

http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/09-8857.htm

http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/09-8857.htm

http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/09-6790.htm

http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/09-6790.htm

http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/09-724.htm

Snopes reported all the above information to be false! Interesting enough, the Docket of the Supreme Court does have these on file and it is true! Snopes upon a critical investigation by a league for truth, found that George Soros, heavily finances Snopes. Who is George Soros, find out for yourself.

Interesting indeed. Now America, who didn't understand before, can understand now the Kagan inauguration for Supreme Court. And the pieces come together once again!

“…There truly is tyranny afoot.”

~ Dennis Staer ~

Hats Off to Tussing Elementary School!!

2011-02-17T08:41:00.002-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=5pfBUUZNbFM

Nothing like a clean mail box to make a person realize the importance of spam.

2011-02-16T08:42:00.002-05:00

Just a click away from becoming an on-line certified chimney sweep or is it a cob-web cleaner? Alas, matters not, tis done!

Good-bye to an everlasting erection of monumentous stumbling blocks and a white, bright smile to prove it. My hair is shiny, face is clear, I'm pumped with vitamins, and the latest fashion has been adorned while taking out the trash.

With coupons for this and for that I can save about a thousand dollars a month while spending two. Books are published reducing the regular cost of fame, and in techno-color. Aye, and spring in tow, I can plant a garden in a row or hang it from hooks around my newly framed multi-tier deck. While trimming the pounds on a new mountain bike, I can travel the world spreading the latest news on world affairs or collecting for the latest charity; seems fair to me.

But as time creeps to late morn, so my new pulsar reminds at half the retail cost, I see I must put on my Oakley sunglasses and Shape Up shoes and hit this day running!

Have fun all!

Time Capsule

2011-02-15T08:06:00.001-05:00

Knitting yarns of yesterday

For the past does indeed intrude

And seeps into my dream state

But the truth it does elude

And as I walk this foggy stage

Seeing past become my life

I struggle with the demons

Not knowing what is right

And this state continues in mayhem

Till I arise shaken and weak

Deciphering just what is pain

And what is make believe

Then I remember the familiar of life

As it is, not as it was

For those days are gone and I’m not there

My life has a different cause

So when I’m quiet and calm in rest

Don’t dismay or think things ill

For I have my own and dragons to slay

And with age, have my own will

Autism info

2011-02-12T17:25:00.000-05:00

http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/12/age-of-autism-awards-2010-fox-news-alysin-camerota-journalist-of-the-year.html

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4526192

FYI

Is your Monday crazy? Have at it!

2011-01-31T09:21:00.000-05:00

http://thedogpaddler.com/RandomUploads/Ball/ball.htm

Pigs in the New Year

2011-01-02T14:47:00.002-05:00

New Year; new beginning and pigs come to mind. Yes, I know a lot of you are saying, “Yah, pigs come to mind for me too, when I think of the New Year!” And rightfully, they should.

It’s been a long 2010, with many changes good and bad. And although, these changes may make for good reading, I will not reflect on those changes at this time for this post is not about 2010, but about pigs.

I told you from the beginning that pigs come to mind with a new year and they should in every mind for they have a story to tell that everyone should meditate on. Pigs are more than just your ordinary slop-animal; they are a basic teller of philosophy. Bet you didn’t know that one. A true philosopher all wrapped up in a tiny little mind that thinks of nothing more than its own comfort and grunts at the lack thereof.

Sure they smell, roll in the mud, eat a mixture of things I can’t even look at, and their skin feels like an unused Brillo-Pad, excepting of course, on their little head and nose. But they also have an unclaimed fame. Their facial features have won quotes such as, ‘pig nose’ and some of their clichés are, ‘stop acting like a pig’, 'stop eating like a pig’, 'you look like a pig’, 'you’re as filthy as a pig’, and one of my favorites after an infant’s or young child’s burp, ‘Oh, you're mommy’s little piggy!’. But, pigs have not always had a bad wrap thanks to a well-known children’s author, Beatrix Potter, and her spunky little pig, Pigling Bland. With Pigling’s debut, came the infamous, This Little Piggy Went to Market, that is played for countless hours on the feet of young children.

Pigs all over the world have been given a second look. Babe, the main character, made a fine debut in the 1995, movie titled the same, about a pig who learns the trade of sheep herding. Intelligent little fella he was and the farmer’s favorite. Gordy, was another hero who became quite famous in the public’s eye when he accidentally becomes sidetracked on his mission to save his family from the slaughterhouse and winds up in the arms of a teenage country singer and ultimately, brings two families together. Pigs are getting their just appreciation, so to speak.

So, what do pigs have to do with the New Year? Well, we will now examine the anatomy of a pig, but from the outside only, for this is not turning into a biology lesson. Even though I know pickled pigs’ feet and pork rinds are a good, nutritious snack among many pig fans, it is not the feet we are going to discuss but rather, the pig’s head. Consider the head of the pig and the triangular shape, elongated from the point of the head to its snout; eyes are beady and set far apart from one another. And if you have noticed, the pig has no neck. This “no-neck” formation with the head makes it virtually impossible for the pig to turn its head around, and the eyes being so far apart creates a problem, even if the pig could turn its head around slightly, to see with both eyes at the same time. The pig is inclined to either turn its entire body around to see or to continue forward, or the pig must go backwards; pigs I have seen and have known, do not like to go backwards so forward is their chosen course of direction. And it is that direction of the pig, which brings me to the New Year.

If the year 2010, or any year for that matter, was not a good year, so what; you can’t go back and change it, can you—absolutely not. So this year, I challenge you to be more like a pig. Point your nose in the direction in which you are intending to go, make the best decisions you can using the skills and information given you, learn to shake off the misfortunes, and continue to put your best foot forward and in said direction. If you have to look back, grab only the necessities that will help with either the present or the future and leave the rest to dissipate in a cloud of unwanted trash. Remember, like the pig, your head is not the only part of you that goes back.

And that is my story behind the pig. And eating pork on New Year’s Day is supposed to bring you good luck!

Many Blessings and a Grand New Year to All!
Sail on,
Peg

Finally!

2010-12-07T08:37:00.000-05:00

Maybe now, and I hope it is not going to take a decade, the public school system will come under heavy scrutiny and major productive change! Michelle Rhee is on the ban wagon to begin a campaign against the ethics of the working NEA/AFT unions and other areas of the public school systems. Tenure for one, will come under fire and rightfully so. I have seen for myself, teachers with tenure and how they are there in body only to collect a paycheck. The students are gaining absolutely no knowledge and are being passed on for the sake of numbers.

The sad thing is, that those who deserve tenure may suffer. Age should not be a discrimination especially for those teachers who are excellent in their field, well organized, and are compassionate about students' education. Tenure was designed to help those teachers not the teachers who work to gain tenure and then retire inside the classroom.

Hats off Michelle Rhee and many blessings for the work ahead!

And it begins!

2010-12-06T11:14:00.001-05:00

Okay, so I awoke this morning to find a beautiful white blanket of snow covering—everything! A good five inches with another four to twelve expected in the next two days including drifting and blowing. Now a lot of people in the North will grumble about this natural phenomenon that occurs while they are deep in slumber land, and perhaps enveloped in dreams that planted them deep in the Bahamas. Odd thing, people in the North live there with the knowledge that during the months of November, through March, and sometimes April, there is an excellent chance, you will encounter snow. It is a fact that cannot be ignored.

I have decided that people in the North need to use more of their winter imagination. A perfect snowbound day for me is, light a fire in the fireplace, get on my fluffy slippers, wrap up in a snuggy blanket, grab a cup of hot cocoa and include marshmallows, and open a good novel while sitting in my rocking chair with my feet propped up on the ottoman, or perhaps at my computer writing my favorite novel.

People in the North must learn to look at the snow as an adventure or an excuse to escape from the everyday routine that boggles the mind and weighs heavy on the body. Look at each flake and realize the miracle behind not a single one being alike and how all of these little fellas accumulate to the huge pile that is now blocking your door making the effort to get out not at all worthwhile.

So, school is delayed for two hours and I become snow plow mom routing each kid to school and on time. And Mickey, the newest member of the family, the emaciated shelter dog who touched my heart when I first saw him and has since taken up residency, sits in the back watching the road and navigating with the expertise of a lab/pointer mix. Child one, dropped off at her school and then child two dropped off at another. Mickey then climbs in the co-pilot’s seat and begins his navigation while surfing the wind, hanging out the window with nose straight up in the air.

It’s a rather chivalrous sight watching cars and trucks moving about 20 miles under the speed limit and those who sport four-wheel drives seizing the opportunity to make the rest of us jealous as they whiz past flinging snow and slush on our windshield faces. But even this act of arrogance cannot affect my joyous mood as I continue to count the flakes falling on Mickey’s nose.

And then, back home again to enjoy the warm and cozy feeling of my house and the smells I will create when lighting a candle or two for ambiance. Sweet smells of gingerbread and vanilla, as if slaving over a hot oven was my day’s duty.

And this will be my day, slow, casual, and very relaxed enjoying every moment of the time given me. And now, I must ooh and awe over the white-out that is beginning to cloud my front window! WOOHOO!

Another good email!

2010-11-28T08:23:00.000-05:00

Governors of 35 states have already filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.

An idea whose time has come!

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest was to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform ... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.

A Constitutional Convention - this is a good way to do that. It is an idea whose time has come.

Proposal to the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution -

"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ."

Connection of the rigid thinker

2010-11-16T14:44:00.000-05:00

Perhaps the grass won’t grow

It always grows in spring

‘cepting of course on the ground

where the dirt is piled high and stones

lay blocking the sun

But perhaps even then

the grass may grow

in clumps and sporadic patterns

Not if the sun cannot filter through

and the water cannot trickle to the roots

and then, there are no seeds

But perhaps the wind could carry seeds

to the cracks between the stones

where the sun may shine and the water trickle

Not if the wind cannot carry the seeds

in the direction of the mounding dirt

and seeds become trapped at the base;

the mound is still void of life

Then perhaps there will be no grass

this spring on the mound of dirt

filled with stones and lifelessness

Or perhaps we can rake the dirt flat

remove the stones

and plant seeds so that the water and sun

could help them grow

and maybe we can plant a flower or two

I have no seeds

mkdbm: one in the same

2010-11-15T07:34:00.002-05:00

Different suits with nameless faces

counting one by one

for the past remains as it always was

But visions distorted appear in one’s mind

as if reality awaits in those halls

clinging like vines on an old brick frame

strangling what was left behind

And voices repent to a vacant room

where water washes nothing away

but glaring eyes as if knowing all

pierce what they thought they saw

And the clock chimes out

not to tell the time

but to remind what has never been

and with longing grips to pacify nothing

And again one rises to words unspoken

and pretends that all has been seen

and never once was the truth foretold

for the belief was in one’s crystal ball

Found this surfing--put out by the Libertarians

2010-11-08T17:43:00.001-05:00

ARE Americans practicing Communism?

Read the 10 Planks of The Communist Manifesto to discover the truth.

Karl Marx describes in his communist manifesto, the ten steps necessary to destroy a free enterprise system and replace it with a system of omnipotent government power, so as to effect a communist socialist state. Those ten steps are known as the Ten Planks of The Communist Manifesto… The following brief presents the original ten planks within the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx in 1848, along with the American adopted counterpart for each of the planks. From comparison it's clear MOST Americans have by myths, fraud and deception under the color of law by their own politicians in both the Republican and Democratic and parties, been transformed into Communists.

Another thing to remember, Karl Marx in creating the Communist Manifesto designed these planks AS A TEST to determine whether a society has become communist or not. If they are all in effect and in force, then the people ARE practicing communists.

Communism, by any other name is still communism, and is VERY VERY destructive to the individual and to the society!!

The 10 PLANKS stated in the Communist Manifesto and some of their American counterparts are...

1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.
Americans do these with actions such as the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868), and various zoning, school & property taxes. Also the Bureau of Land Management (Zoning laws are the first step to government property ownership)

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Americans know this as misapplication of the 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913, The Social Security Act of 1936.; Joint House Resolution 192 of 1933; and various State "income" taxes. We call it "paying your fair share".

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
Americans call it Federal & State estate Tax (1916); or reformed Probate Laws, and limited inheritance via arbitrary inheritance tax statutes.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
Americans call it government seizures, tax liens, Public "law" 99-570 (1986); Executive order 11490, sections 1205, 2002 which gives private land to the Department of Urban Development; the imprisonment of "terrorists" and those who speak out or write against the "government" (1997 Crime/Terrorist Bill); or the IRS confiscation of property without due process. Asset forfeiture laws are used by DEA, IRS, ATF etc...).

5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Americans call it the Federal Reserve which is a privately-owned credit/debt system allowed by the Federal Reserve act of 1913. All local banks are members of the Fed system, and are regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) another privately-owned corporation. The Federal Reserve Banks issue Fiat Paper Money and practice economically destructive fractional reserve banking.

6. Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State.
Americans call it the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Transportation (DOT) mandated through the ICC act of 1887, the Commissions Act of 1934, The Interstate Commerce Commission established in 1938, The Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, and Executive orders 11490, 10999, as well as State mandated driver's licenses and Department of Transportation regulations.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
Americans call it corporate capacity, The Desert Entry Act and The Department of Agriculture… Thus read "controlled or subsidized" rather than "owned"… This is easily seen in these as well as the Department of Commerce and Labor, Department of Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, and the IRS control of business through corporate regulations.

8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
Americans call it Minimum Wage and slave labor like dealing with our Most Favored Nation trade partner; i.e. Communist China. We see it in practice via the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. The National debt and inflation caused by the communal bank has caused the need for a two "income" family. Woman in the workplace since the 1920's, the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted Socialist Unions, affirmative action, the Federal Public Works Program and of course Executive order 11000.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country.
Americans call it the Planning Reorganization act of 1949 , zoning (Title 17 1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public "law" 89-136. These provide for forced relocations and forced sterilization programs, like in China.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
Americans are being taxed to support what we call 'public' schools, but are actually "government force-tax-funded schools " Even private schools are government regulated. The purpose is to train the young to work for the communal debt system. We also call it the Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome Based "Education" . These are used so that all children can be indoctrinated and inculcated with the government propaganda, like "majority rules", and "pay your fair share". WHERE are the words "fair share" in the Constitution, Bill of Rights or the Internal Revenue Code (Title 26)?? NO WHERE is "fair share" even suggested !! The philosophical concept of "fair share" comes from the Communist maxim, "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need! This concept is pure socialism. ... America was made the greatest society by its private initiative WORK ETHIC ... Teaching ourselves and others how to "fish" to be self sufficient and produce plenty of EXTRA commodities to if so desired could be shared with others who might be "needy"... Americans have always voluntarily been the MOST generous and charitable society on the planet.

Do changing words, change the end result? ... By using different words, is it all of a sudden OK to ignore or violate the provisions or intent of the Constitution of the united States of America?????

The people (politicians) who believe in the SOCIALISTIC and COMMUNISTIC concepts, especially those who pass more and more laws implementing these slavery ideas, are traitors to their oath of office and to the Constitution of the united States of America... KNOW YOUR ENEMY ...Remove the enemy from within and from among us.

None are more hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free....

http://www.libertyzone.com/Communist-Manifesto-Planks.html

Wish I could've come, especially since I paid for part of it!

2010-11-07T07:10:00.003-05:00

It appears that Obama's trip to India was to create more jobs here in the US. And as one article states, he did just that along with some hokey pokey with the kids.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/79333/20101106/obama-india-united-states-trade-deals-jobs-aircrafts-asia-boeing-general-electric-harley-davidson-ec.htm The words that scare me in this article to start: "are likely" what happened to will definitely or are absolutley sure or even have created!? Not excited yet.

But, they are having a great time!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWJUaPbfc54

And, as you can see, Obama has been dancing around us his entire campaign!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBXCGSw3IbA&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Is that's what is known as the same 'ole song and dance?

Interesting day!

2010-11-02T22:53:00.006-04:00

Left the polls late this morning to take a break; it was 30 degrees out there and my tootsies were getting cold! Came back a little after 12:00 pm, to see Kathy Dahlkemper at the door of my precinct's voting poll. Kathy introduced herself to me, but I already knew who she was. So I introduced myself to her, "I am Peg... precinct committee person for N-4". She smiled until she realized I was passing out literature for Mike Kelly.

21 Action News showed up (Kathy had tipped them she would be in the area) and the camera man and myself began to strike up a conversation about the weather and whether or not they would be allowed to video Kathy inside. I told him no, as it is PA's law that you are not allowed to canvas or any other act of public soliciting inside the voting area. Kathy and the newslady decided they would try asking a poll worker, which incidentally, I have the power to hire and fire, so to speak. (A precinct committee person perk.) The poll worker said he would check with Mercer Co. (the big kahoonas). They said, "NO!" Kathy then relays they were allowed in in her home town of Erie.

But, Kathy was far from home today. And I knew, with her standing there and me, the only poll worker and I was canvasing for her opponent, Mike Kelly, and the talk of other polling areas she would be visiting in my area, that she, Kathy Dahlkemper, was worried about the turnout of constituents that would actually vote for her.

You see, Kathy, had promised the PA constituents in her/my district that she would remain pro-life, but then turned around, after thousands of calls to her offices here and in Washington, that she needed to vote NO on the healthcare bill, and instead gave a Yea. Then, as if to grind salt in the wounds of those who voted her into office, she went on record to say that her district constiuents did not know what was good for them!

Well, Kathy, do you think they know now?!

Congratulations Mike Kelly!

http://meadvilletribune.com/homepage/x603543738/Kelly-knocks-off-incumbent-Dahlkemper

Voting on Tuesday!!

2010-11-01T08:01:00.002-04:00

People, this year is vital, as I am sure you are all aware--at least I hope you are! Remember when you go to vote Tuesday, don't listen to what everyone else says, especially the news! Do your own homework, look up voting records of your candidates, follow your own criteria for a good, solid government, and don't mark that space until you are absolutely sure they are the best! It doesn't matter if you are dem or rep or indep, vote for whom you feel is the best candidate with the best set of values that is right for upholding the Constitution of the United States. One whom will fight 'tooth and nail' to get this country back on track and keep it there.

The government keeps talking about this 9% unemployment and how the nation is slowing getting back on its feet. Well, the national unemployment is almost 20% and the nation is going farther into a depression as more and more unemployment benefits run out! Indiana, in some areas, is staging armed National Guard at their unemployment benefits sites to keep the trouble at bay. Dayton, and some of your smaller cities are now being subjected to more break-ins and some in broad daylight. Gunfire can be heard in small cities at night, not just Washington, D.C. anymore. In Dayton, due to lack of police force as the city is in serious financial straits, citizens have been warned to arm themselves in lieu of the stretched limits of the police force.

These and many other stories are the ones you will not hear on John Stewart or the liberal networks, but they are real and happening. This country, despite what is being preached, is in trouble and even though we are being fed that the nation has turned around, I have yet to witness it on the grass roots level. Foreclosures alone are mounting in my area and more drives for food are being posted everywhere!

(It has been reported about 5,000 PHD workers are now janitors and masters level workers are waitresses and waiters. And that poll shows only those who actually participated. )

I spoke with a president of our local grocery store and he announced that the only main store in my area is feeling the crunch. So, like many other liberal thinkers, he ordered renovations under the guise of needing to make the store look pretty to gather a new flock. But, the customers are all ready eating that renovation in purchasing food items! This theory is the same in governement. They are spending money we do not have! And who is eating the defecit? We are, in taxes-- and other useless committees designed to help the already strapped working population! And you don't think the healthcare bill is going to cost you? Then you certainly have NOT done your homework and I would advise you to take a good, long look!

Just remember these things as you place your mark, if not for yourself, for your mothers and fathers and children and anyone else who will survive long after your gone! And remember, if you do not KNOW the candidate on your ballet, it would be more ethical to not vote in that race then to just 'eenie, meenie, miny moe, see where the mark is going to go', then to vote for someone who is definitely NOT QUALIFIED!

Prayers and good luck,

Peg

PS, this year I will be inside the polls making tallies to avoid possible voter fraud. And I will partner outside passing out literature to help clarify any problems you may have concerning a particular candidate. And yes, I have done my homework!

KISS grows up!!

2010-10-31T09:34:00.002-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=5MtdIO23MKM

This is really great!! Hats off, Gene Simmons!

DSM - 5

2010-10-25T08:08:00.001-04:00

The new DSM - 5, diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders number five, is scheduled to come out in May, 2013. The authors of this manual have decided to combine many of the titles of commonly known disorders such as, aspergers. The autism spectrum will be widen immensely and will include this particular disorder but under the new name of autism itself. This new umbrella may cause a stigma or label to the asperger patient making it harder for them to function normally in their school, workplace, or any socially accepted 'norm'. And that label will be branded in their files thus putting a handicap for college entrance and other facets where their files are basically scrutinized.

As with any disorder, there are varying degrees. Aspergers, having characteristics of emotional and social awkwardness, is different from autism in that linguistic and cognitive development is normal or above normal in aspergers, but can be compromised severly in autism. When combining the two, a neurotypical society, then views aspergers as having the same response mechanisms as does autism, e.g. lack of eye contact, dazed appearance, no apparent response to outside stimulus, etc. and other known characteristics of moderate to severe cases of autism. The neurotypical society then tends to either ignore, condescend to, or worsen the situation by calling attention to the proposed problem. And in the worse case scenarios, isolate the victim.

Why am I bringing this up? I have several concerns about this new and improved label. Under this new umbrella package, will it be easier or harder to get a clear disagnosis and will it be easier or harder to receive the proper treatment? Will services for these disorders become more expensive and the training become more rigorous not allowing the therapist freedom to capitalize, so to speak, on his/her chosen field of expertise? And, what will the future hold for these individuals who once again, have become lumped into a category labelling them severely for future endeavors?

Will be intersting in the years to come!

http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/03/dsm-5-proposed-changes-in-autism-spectrum-disorder/

http://www.psych.org/mainmenu/research/dsmiv/dsmv.aspx

Just to stray away

2010-10-18T07:02:00.002-04:00

http://www.mlive.com/living/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/10/born_on_101010_baby_makes_thir.html

New Buzz Word; will it cost you?

2010-10-14T07:19:00.000-04:00

Dhimmitude -- What does it mean? Obama used it in the health care bill. Every day there's another revelation of what Obama and his fellow Democrats are doing to our country.

Dhimmitude -- I had never heard the word until now. Type it into Google and start reading. Pretty interesting. It's on page 107 of the healthcare bill. I looked this up on Google and yep, it exists. It is a REAL word. Amish and others are excluded, including muslims. I think I could become Amish a whole lot easier than muslim.

Word of the Day: Dhimmitude

Dhimmitude is the Muslim system of controlling non-muslim populations conquered through jihad. Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-muslims in exchange for tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of converting conquered remnants to Islam.

ObamaCare allows the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia muslim diktat in the United States. Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured. Islam considers insurance to be "gambling", "risk-taking", and "usury" and is thus banned. Muslims are specifically granted exemption based on this.

How convenient. So I, as a Christian, will have crippling IRS liens placed against all of my assets, including real estate, cattle, and even accounts receivables, and will face hard prison time because I refuse to buy insurance or pay the penalty tax. Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan will have no such penalty and will have 100% of his health needs paid for by the de facto government insurance. Non-muslims will be paying a tax to subsidize muslims. Period. This is Dhimmitude.

Dhimmitude serves two purposes: It enriches the muslim masters AND serves to drive conversions to Islam. In this case, the incentive to convert to Islam will be taken up by those in the inner-cities as well as the godless Generation X, Y, and Z types who have no moral anchor. If you don't believe in Christ to begin with, it is no problem whatsoever to sell Him for 30 pieces of silver. "Sure, I'll be a muslim if it means free health insurance and no taxes. Where do I sign, bro?"

I recommend sending this post to your contacts. This is desperately important and people need to know about it -- quickly!

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2010-10-09T08:28:00.001-04:00

Her eyes turned black to the outside world. Freedom was the only word that came to mind with the feelings that fluttered inside; freedom in the breeze that lifted her hair in an unruly fashion. Freedom, as her toes threatened the long limbs that rose above her; freedom, being catapulted far from earth with no fears or worries of crashing back down to its hard surface. She, at this very moment, felt, invincible.

The light sparkled on the old birch’s bark creating a candle-like affect in her mind’s eye. Maybe this light was a path, a journey she would once again partake. And the leaves, as well, beckoned her to free herself from the sling and chain that held her suspended above the ground. Birds began to chirp as if they too, were in favor of her decision to discover what lies ahead. So with one more smooth push back and forth, she jumped from the projectile landing with a thud on the ground before her. Target met with legs bent but not giving out under her weight, and at this, she smiled.

There truly was a path, behind the lighted tree, worn and slightly mud covered, but passable nonetheless. Carefully, she made her way as not to sink in what she believed may become ankle deep. Squishing sounds were heard all along her feet, but she managed every step with the skill of a seasoned hiker. Seasoned; that term made her chuckle to herself, for the time was so different and new. But keeping a close watch on her footing made her mind get back to the business at hand.

The path grew narrower and then wider and she needed to duck under branches and lean to the right to escape jaggers and to the left to escape what she knew all to well, were weeds producing poison and very consequential discomfort if she were to come in contact. She felt a little like a skier, dodging these obstacles as one would ruts and trees stumps on the slopes of white.

Onward she went and darker the visions in front of her became as she entered far into the bowels of the woods. And the air became crisp and damp and the smell of rotting leaves and wood burnt the lining of her nose with its powerful stench. She truly was in the heart of this beast now and knew she would not return without some sort of message or answer.

Each tree carried scars of its only life and was no different, she thought then; bent, cracked, half-chewed with the harshness of winters and the need for food. Unlike her very being, she had seen those days, felt the immense pressures and buckled many a times under their weight, but she was here now and seeing it through different eyes than before. She felt akin to these living beings and marveled at their strength and ability to be so flexible in times of deep adversity. This thought too, made her chuckle as she rolled over the words, “Adversity builds character!” How true of her life and of the lives of these trees as she eyed the large tumors sticking out from the bark stretching its skin to the point of almost bursting, and the well-worn patches and slender branches criss-crossing in every direction as if one decisive move could not be preformed. So much like life, she thought. Many decision carrying consequences that could never be forgotten or fixed, as like the saplings growing much too close to its parent and its legs not being able to walk about the ground for lack of room and the sun’s warming fingers not being able to touch or caress it with a growing love of its very nature.

These saplings were deemed useless and all hope was diminished as they became the victims of the hungry vegetarians that swept swiftly through the barren days of winter forging what little they could to sustain life. But yet, their story, sad as it was, made life become a pumping force to someone else and with this knowledge, she felt a deep respect, for all living things have a purpose rather great or small; and again, she smiled.

The noise is what startled her. Not the size, but the deep, low growl of something that was nearing her and was not at all sharing her tranquility. A growl warning that she may have entered an area already occupied area, one that would be fought over till the death. Sacred ground came to mind, but whose? She found herself instinctively quickening her pace, although this may be the worst of moves. Would she give signals of being frightened lessening her stature to that of prey and not the dominating species? She could not make her feet do what her mind wanted. They were free agents now and disconnected to rational thought. Faster they pounded on the damp surface almost sliding uncontrollably at times. The hideous groans behind here were steady and becoming louder with every step she took. She imagined she could feel the heat of the growl and the smell with a mixture of fresh blood and decaying flesh. She could feel herself picking up speed and with arms flailing frantically, she felt as if she were on a runway for take-off. Slipping, sliding, and losing her balance until the ultimate fear of falling became a reality.

Startled, she dropped the needle and blinked several times at the floor below. The balled yarn had rolled itself a good yard from her chair. Her needle lay still at her foot where she had dropped it not more that a second ago and her hands and legs were still and wrinkled, veiny and pale as she had remembered them to be. She no longer was the young lady who had been swinging in the autumn air. The same young lady who had moments earlier, journeyed on a path she had not recognized, and the same lady who was frightened, by what?

As with any dream of a deep engraving, symbolism maybe encountered within the minds of those who dare to take a longer study. Perhaps, she was marveling in her youth, a time when her mind and body were happy and free. And perhaps, the journey was one of life, seeing herself as a traveler who engages in trials and tribulations of good and bad choices and outside interference that is uncontrolled and unexpected. And perhaps once more, the beast that threatens is the decaying of time and the inevitable dealings surrounding death. And perhaps, it was just, a dream.

Rudyard Kipling: On Fox News

2010-10-07T18:01:00.000-04:00

The Gods of the Copybook Headings

~Rudyard Kipling

AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

For the interested parties

2010-10-07T10:23:00.001-04:00

It seems there is a misconception of my writings. Am I against Muslims, NO; Am I against Jews, NO; Am I against Blacks, NO; Hispanics, NO; Arabs, NO; Italians, NO; Greeks, NO; Christians, NO; and other groups rather political, ethnic, religious, etc. YES. The FANATICS! Fanatical Zionists, despite what many believe, are just as irriational in their thinking as is the fanatical Muslims, Christians, Jehovah Witnesses, Hare Krisnas, etc. They too, produce cult-like mentality and when given power, especially within the political realm, produce a powder keg loaded and ready to blow!

I am not against the Jews, the chosen people of my God and theirs, but the fanatical Zionists are NOT the chosen people of Jehovah God.

I asked someone a question one time and they answered, "I am against all fanatical religions," as am I. So do your homework and research whatever you can pro or con and see what the end of the tunnel reveals to you.

And keep sailing on!
Peg

Questions posed to deaf ears

2010-10-06T08:50:00.000-04:00

The Bible firmly declares that the Jews of Israel are the chosen people. They are to be protected, honored, and cared for by those around her and that death and tribulation will come to those who oppose her. Today, we find Israel at the signing of the health care reform bill and it has been 'mentioned' that Pres. Bush and are now Pres. Obama did/do not make one 'unitarian' decision without the nod from not Israel, per say, but from its leader, Shimon Peres, who calls himself a Jewish-Zionist.

As the Bible clearly states in Genesis 16:3, Ishmael, Abraham's son to Hagar, Sarah's handmaiden, is the beginning of the Arab lineage and was wicked and perhaps the first line also of Islamic beliefs with the Quran depicting him as a prophet. Isaac, on the other hand, was considered the first real heir of Abraham and of Judaism, which then symbolizes Isaac as the lineage to the new Christianity. We know as we delve further into Genesis 26:3, God swears the oath he gave to Abraham to Isaac and onto Isaac's sons.

The chosen people of God, the faithful Jews, are not the same Jews whom are in the government of Israel today. The government of Israel today is carrying through wtih the more radical Zionist belief, but there again, you cannot lump all Zionists together anymore than you can lump all Muslims together or all Christians. (It seems to be those in power who are carrying on these fanatical and narcissistic radical views.)

Why the religion class lecture? It has come to my attention that the 'weeding out' of middle class America and string-pulling comes not only from lobbyists of this country and surrounding countries but from mother Israel herself. Not the Israel of the chosen Jews of God, but the Israel who is under the rule of the fanatical Zionists.

Okay, a little history lesson. In the 60's/70's steel was a huge market and stronghold of the American economy. A promised safe investment and union-backed commodity. It brought wealth and prosperity to our country and made us one of the richest if not the richest countries on the map. Then the government began trade agreements with other countries to import their steel at less cost then we could produce it here in the USA. (There is more issues than that, but this is a nutshell version.) Took sometime, but it buckled the steel industry, damaged the economy, and sent middle-class workers into the unemployment lines. Middle-class workers then began to forge on and started buying up the once-deaden mills to maintain operation and save the livelihoods of thousands of steel workers. (The industry is not nearly as productive as it was had been.)

To this day, steel is a dying industry. So, the workers of the steel mill tragedies began lighting their paths and their children's path into technology. Medical technology was a safe as any industry due to the fact that at one point in time, eveyone needs medical attention. The middle-class now becomes educated in the health care realm. New health industries spring up everywhere and need workers in not only the higher education positions but in the positions of maintaing the day to day operations, cleanliness of the units, and maintenance of machinery and the buildings themselves. This industry becomes a yearly billion dollar, if not more, money maker and the middle class is back from the grave and living well.

Now, you have a President who is trying to buckle the American economy once more, by taking over the health care industry, the only still thriving middle-class money maker and who is at his side while signing this bill and that week being the busiest and most critical week in USA history? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

My question posed today is, as I have done only a little research on this matter, is this man a real ally of the USA or another lobbyist endangering Israel's fate, and the US's for that matter, for total control? And if middle class America dies, what classes do we have left? Who will then pull the strings, and what sort of 'tag' does this new economy/nation wear?

It has already been noted that the number of students entering medical schools has declined and in our area alone, there are newspaper advertising for students to enter medical colleges. If a nation buckles its health care, there is only one more resource that people would literrally do anything for--food! And we already know, even from elementary teaching, that the government pays farmers not to plant certain crops. Thus, raising the prices of the non-surplus supply completing the economic term of supply and demand. And we are also aware of the EPA's meddlings in the small farmer's barns trying to force them to forclose with outlandish accusations about the safety of their products, thus leaving the population at the mercy of the monopolizing big farmers.

So, is this the ultimate Friday night horror flick or perhaps the next best seller? Or do you maybe smell a skunk in the hen house?

Much diverted food for thought.

I know it's lengthy, but it's worth the time!

2010-10-05T08:14:00.001-04:00

Three tax waves coming -- read to the end -- you need to know this! In just a few months, on January 1, 2011, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves.. On January 1, 2011, here's what happens... (read it to the end, so you see all three waves)...

First Wave:

Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January 1, 2011.. Personal income tax rates will rise.

The top income tax rate will rise from 35 to 39.6 percent (this is also the rate at which two-thirds of small business profits are taxed). The lowest rate will rise from 10 to 15 percent. All the rates in between will also rise. Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will again phase out, which has the same mathematical effect as higher marginal tax rates. The full list of marginal rate hikes is below:

The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15%

The 25% bracket rises to 28%

The 28% bracket rises to 31%

The 33% bracket rises to 36%

The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%

Higher taxes on marriage and family.

The "marriage penalty" (narrower tax brackets for married couples) will return from the first dollar of income.

The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1000 to $500 per child.

The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for married couples relative to the single level.

The dependent care and adoption tax credits will be cut.

The return of the Death Tax.

This year only, there is no death tax. (It's a quirk!) For those dying on or after January 1, 2011, there is a 55 percent . Top death tax rate on estates over $1 million. A person leaving behind two homes, a business, a retirement account, could easily pass along a death tax bill to their loved ones. Think of the farmers who don't make much money, but their land, which they purchased years ago with after-tax dollars, is now worth a lot of money. Their children will have to sell the farm, which may be their livelihood, just to pay the estate tax if they don't have the cash sitting around to pay the tax. Think about your own family's assets. Maybe your family owns real estate, or a business that doesn't make much money, but the building and equipment are worth $1 million. Upon their death, you can inherit the $1 million business tax free, but if they own a home, stock, cash worth $500K on top of the $1 million business, then you will owe the government $275,000 cash! That's 55% of the value of the assets over $1 million! Do you have that kind of cash sitting around waiting to pay the estate tax? Higher tax rates on savers and investors. The capital gains tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011. The dividends tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in 2011. These rates will rise another 3.8 percent in 2013.

Second Wave: Obamacare

There are over twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare. Several will first go into effect on January 1, 2011. They include:

The "Medicine Cabinet Tax"

Thanks to Obamacare, Americans will no longer be able to use health savings account (HSA), flexiblespending account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin).

The "Special Needs Kids Tax"

This provision of Obamacare imposes a cap on flexible spending accounts (FSAs) of $2500 (Currently, there is no federal government limit). There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children. There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United States , and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education.

Tuition rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington , D.C. ( National Child Research Center ) can easily exceed $14,000 per year. Under tax rules, FSA dollars can not be used to pay for this type of special needs education.

The HSA (Health Savings Account) Withdrawal Tax Hike.

This provision of Obamacare increases the additional tax on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 20 percent, disadvantaging them relative to IRAs and other tax-advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent.

Third Wave: The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) and Employer Tax Hikes

When Americans prepare to file their tax returns in January of 2011, they'll be in for a nasty surprise-the AMT won't be held harmless, and many tax relief provisions will have expired.

The major items include:

The AMT will ensnare over 28 million families, up from 4 million last year. According to the left-leaning Tax Policy Center , Congress' failure to index the AMT will lead to an explosion of AMT taxpaying families-rising from 4 million last year to 28.5 million. These families will have to calculate their tax burdens twice, and pay taxes at the higher level. The AMT was created in 1969 to ensnare a handful of taxpayers. Small business expensing will be slashed and 50% expensing will disappear. Small businesses can normally expense (rather than slowly-deduct, or "depreciate") equipment purchases up to $250,000. This will be cut all the way down to $25,000. Larger businesses can currently expense half of their purchases of equipment. In January of 2011, all of it will have to be "depreciated." Taxes will be raised on all types of businesses.

There are literally scores of tax hikes on business that will take place. The biggest is the loss of the "research and experimentation tax credit," but there are many, many others. Combining high marginal tax rates with the loss of this tax relief will cost jobs.

Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced. The deduction for tuition and fees will not be available. Tax credits for education will be limited. Teachers will no longer be able to deduct classroom expenses. Coverdell Education Savings Accounts will be cut. Employer-provided educational assistance is curtailed.

The student loan interest deduction will be disallowed for hundreds of thousands of families.

Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed. Under current law, a retired person with an IRA can contribute up to $100,000 per year directly to a charity from their IRA. This contribution also counts toward an annual "required minimum distribution." This ability will no longer be there.

PDF Version Read more: http://www.atr.org/six-months-untilbr-largest-tax-hikes-a5171#%23ixzz0sY8waPq1

And worse yet? Now, your insurance will be INCOME on your W2's! One of the surprises we'll find come next year, is what follows - - a little "surprise" that 99% of us had no idea was included in the "new and improved" healthcare legislation . . . the dupes, er, dopes, who backed this administration will be astonished!

Starting in 2011, (next year folks), your W-2 tax form sent by your employer will be increased to show the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company. It does not matter if that's a private concern or governmental body of some sort. If you're retired? So what... your gross will go up by the amount of insurance you get. You will be required to pay taxes on a large sum of money that you have never seen. Take your tax form you just finished and see what $15,000 or $20,000 additional gross does to your tax debt. That's what you'll pay next year. For many, it also puts you into a new higher bracket so it's even worse. This is how the government is going to buy insurance for the15% that don't have insurance and it's only part of the tax increases.

Not believing this??? Here is a research of the summaries.....

On page 25 of 29: TITLE IX REVENUE PROVISIONS- SUBTITLE A: REVENUE OFFSET PROVISIONS-(sec. 9001,

as modified by sec. 10901) Sec.9002 "requires employers to include in the W-2 form of each employee the aggregate cost of applicable employer sponsored group health coverage that is excludable from the employees gross income."

- Joan Pryde is the senior tax editor for the Kiplinger letters. - Go to Kiplingers and read about 13 tax changes that could affect you. Number 3 is what is above.

The Boston Tea Party for just a little FYI was started because the British were not allowing the new found Americans to sell their own products to each other for the price they wanted. Instead, the king ordered that all goods be sent to England and then sold and then shipped back to be bought by the Americans with the tariffs implemented by the British (there were other reasons and events not mentioned.) Tea was a voided commodity and because the frustration over the dictatorial rule the Americans had had enough and they ‘hit’ the British were they felt it would hurt the worst and thus, the Boston Tea Party. Look up Townsend Act for my synopsis is very weak!

Wonder if Americans have had enough yet!?

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

-- Winston Churchill

There back!

2010-10-04T18:56:00.000-04:00

My area? Raining, cold, and Bidden was not more than 15 - 20 miles away! Rev'n up the crowds! And the donkeys are baying loudly! Keep the party active --get out and vote for your favorite donkey. Vote, Vote, Vote!

I really hate party on the brain mentality! My area? Hmm, we get to choose between Dahlkemper-D and Mike Kelly-R. Yippee! Choosing between an arrogant, don't need her constitguents, hopefully has been, and a car salesman who is sitting on the fence on some strong issues so as not to turn off any would be votes!

The phones have been lighting up at our house and the calls are coming from every state arena. Main scare, what party will we stand behind. I kinda like to give them a run for their money, set them under the eternal flame so to speak, and answer INDEPENDENT! Shakes the shoes right off of Dahlkemper and it doesn't help Kelly's indigestion, either.

Washington, D.C. enlisted their kelly call girl to plug us as well! Man, the money that is being shoveled out! Could feed alot of out of work constitguents for quite a few years. But then, who's counting!

I don't think the rain will even keep the donkeys home this year! And the elephants, still playing with the peanuts!

Okay

2010-10-01T07:41:00.001-04:00

So here I am again, drumming the table with my fingers, wiping sleepies and tears from my eyes, and giving my self a headache trying to find the magical remedy for my latest asperger development. I am finding that my particular area, scaling way down, is not very updated or knowledgeable about aspergers and its clonning-like partners, ADHD, bipolar disorder, OCD, and GAD. You gotta love all the uses for the alphabet. But, I do admit, it is much easier than writing it out in long hand.

Be wary of the med pushing therapist; does he really know how to treat an aspie? And be careful of where the aspie ends up or he or she may be treating you next. Closed doors, locked, and of course, no key to be found. Sorry, a little poetic licensing is good for the soul. So here we go again. Who do you trust when you see the victim through your heart's strings and you know the victim is not who they were a year ago. More meds? Less meds? Different meds? No meds? Take them home, keep them there, change schools, find a more functional school, cyberschool, homeschool. Protection from others? Much exposure to others? Therapists at home? Therapists at school? Therapists in the morning? Therapists at night? Therapists for sociality? Therapists for organization? Therapists for the economical crunch. Ah, and then we have the glorified babysitter.

I can help; buy my book! Only $19.99 and the shipping is free or better yet, go to my blog and read my story. Newsletters, magazines, testimonials; how about a competent magnifying glass? For it is known that, "no two people are alike" and this has proven excruciatingly true! So what next? MRI, CAT scan, EEG (intensely administered) more therapists, doctors, blood work, pee work, scan all organs, psych profiles; hurry up, get in the information and then--wait! Wait for the doctors, wait for the room, wait for the tests, wait for the results, then wait for advice, wait for more information, wait for more advice. Okay so now she is an adult; falls into a new category. Let's begin again!

It's sunrise, better get going before the day decides to start without me and Lord knows, that it will definitely not mind making me sprint to catch my ride!

Email from a 'hog-riding' man!

2010-09-30T08:57:00.000-04:00

I Am the Democratic Liberal-Progressive's Worst Nightmare...

I am a White, Conservative, Tax-Paying, American Veteran, Gun Owning Biker. I am a Master leatherworker. I work hard and long hours with my hands to earn a living.

I believe in God and the freedom of religion, but I don't push it on others.

I ride Harley Davidson Motorcycles, and drive American-made cars, and I believe in American products and buy them whenever I can.

I believe the money I make belongs to me and not some liberal governmental functionary, Democratic or Republican, that wants to share it with others who don't work!

I'm in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!

I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer; it makes you a smart American.

I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything. Get over it!

I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac or any other item, you should do it in English. I believe there should be no other language option.

My heroes are Malcolm Forbes, Bill Gates, John Wayne, Babe Ruth, Roy Rogers, and Willie G. Davidson, who makes the awesome Harley Davidson Motorcycles.

I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.

I know wrestling is fake and I don't waste my time watching or arguing about it.

I've never owned a slave, nor was a slave. I haven't burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks, and neither have you!

I believe if you don't like the way things are here, go back to where you came from and change your own country!

This is AMERICA ...We like it the way it is and more so the way it was ...so stop trying to change it to look like Russia or China , or other socialist country!

If you were born here and don't like it you are free to move to any Socialist country that will have you.

I believe it is time to really clean house. We need term limits for congress and line item veto power for the President!

I want to know which church is it, exactly, where the Reverend Jesse Jackson preaches, where he gets his money, and why he is always part of the problem and not the solution.

Can I get an AMEN on that one?

I also think the cops have the right to pull you over if you're breaking the law, regardless of what color you are, but not just because you happen to ride a bike.

And, no, I don't mind having my face shown on my driver's license.

I think it's good.... And I'm proud that 'God' is written on my money..

I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don't want you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years.

I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me stuff or trying to guilt me into making 'donations' to their cause.... Get a job and do your part to support yourself and your family!

I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents...

I believe 'illegal' is illegal no matter what the lawyers think.

I believe the American flag should be the only one allowed in AMERICA !

If this makes me a BAD American, then yes, I'm a BAD American.

If you are a BAD American too, please forward this to everyone you know....

We want our country back! Keep this one going!!

Vista!

2010-09-24T13:33:00.000-04:00

If I had a choice to make
I would fine tune them with a rake
sharp tines on boneless spines
But it's a chance I would be willing to take

So Vista has got me sore
disconnection it seems to soar
reconnect I hit more
then what the button's made for
and Vista has made one more score

So my laptop it lays so still
for cause of Vista I'm afraid I'll kill
many say take your pill
or better yet, just chill
and reprogram if you will

But I cry I can't do this now
for time is strained and how!
so I'll just let it out here
instead of a cry in my beer
and you'll forget that I ever was here!

BOOOOOOOOOOOO Vista

Steve Bridges

2010-09-21T06:44:00.000-04:00

This guy, when Bush was in office, did a comedy act where he looked and sounded and acted just like Bush. Now that Obama is in office, he has done another routine as President Obama.

Check it out!

http://www.stevebridges.com/obamavideos-promo-jan2010-lg.html

Apathy

2010-09-20T08:05:00.003-04:00

Confused thoughts race

spiraling into the crevice

swallowed by darkness,

anguish, and tears

For the night is long

and the days are narrow

in sight and understanding

And many go unnoticed

but for the few that linger

as if selling tickets to a sideshow

for the unexplained

These are the ones who

no longer see reality

for what it is

For the difference is in the voice

unheard, unspoken

but written plainly on the back

of the afflicted

Again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again!

2010-09-18T08:21:00.001-04:00

Got another email today stating that Joe Biden and President Obama ordered the firing and retraining of the cattle guards in Colorado. Checked it out on snopes and found that this joke goes back as far as the 1960's.

I am beginning to hate email! Give me facts, people. Proven, truthful facts! PLEASE!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/cattleguards.asp

Holy Crashing Websites!

2010-09-15T17:35:00.008-04:00

It appears the RINO Republicans don't have the legs they stand on! And money in this case took a big walk with Christine O'Donnell taking the primary in Delaware! You Go Girl!! Seems Castle backed Republicans did everything they could to condemn this move by the constiguents with denying Christine any funds whatsoever, but to no avail.

In laymen's terms, Christine's website crashed from too much traffic! People all over Delaware tried to "paypal" funds to Christine with traffic in such abundant numbers that it literally crashed her site! And the lady's funds mounted and mounted to a landslide over Castle!

So stick your tongue out Christine at those who have party on the brain and wear your colors proud, cause you da lady!!

America's tea party has one more seat added to the table and let's serve the finest!

**********************************************************
Here we go again, taxes, taxes, taxes...new taxation without representation: it seems a new tax is coming down the pike to help bail the federal government out from its spending spree, but it ain't comin' from your local reps' pockets (those who can afford it and will vote for it). Noper doo, it's a comin' from me and you!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/debtfree.asp

All rants were removed from the author!

49 Days to Change!

2010-09-14T07:20:00.000-04:00

It appears 79% of Independents are leaning conservative! And that should prove very interesting!

Insiders are shaking!

Now, this does tick me off!

2010-09-11T08:45:00.002-04:00

I recieved an email today featuring muslims praying in the streets (Madison Ave.) of New York in the afternoon. There were literally a hundred or so people and they actually were allowed to stop traffic for it! Do I have a problem with them praying, NO. Do I have a problem with them praying in New York, NO. Do I have a problem with them stopping traffic, YES. Do I have a problem with being told that Americans are not allowed to post the Ten Commandments anywhere in public, (a facet of another religion), YES. Do I have a problem with not being permitted to see the Nativity in public (a facet of another religion), YES. Do I have trouble with Christians not being allowed to pray in public, YES.

As I have said before, I do not have a problem with Obama being Muslim, if he is, but I do have a problem with him enforcing it! Christians have been denied a National Day of Prayer, which has been permitted every year for years, but Muslims can pray openly and in public at the White House. What the Hell! Where is the religious tolerance! Or is it that religious tolerance only applies to the Muslim religion and why would that be?

When we were in DC, in the afternoon, alot of the Muslim workers would stop working, take out their rug and pray. They prayed on the ground in vacant parking lots, or anywhere that did not cause a scene or ruckus of a normal day's routine. I even had a conversation with several of them, after they were done, talking to them about their religion and their customs--it intrigued me. And I even thought to myself, why don't Christians do this as Daniel had done in the days of the Old Testament. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Christians getting down on their hands and knees and praying in public. But yet, there have been arrests made for Christians praying in public.

http://culturecampaign.blogspot.com/2010/08/christians-arrested-for-praying-near.html

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=951022

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=42442

http://www.operationrescue.org/archives/video-released-pastor-arrested-in-washington-d-c-for-praying-on-a-public-sidewalk/

http://theundergroundsite.com/index.php/2009/09/arrested-for-praying-in-public-guilty-by-association-10182

**These are just a few**

Notice too, on the one caption, they were prostrate, holding Bibles and were thought to be dangerous! My question to all of this is, firstly, USA is a Christian nation founded on Christain principles of the BIBLE, regardless of what some men may say or prefer. But yet, Christians are supposed to be tolerant of other religions in the melting pot, as dictated by our President, but yet again the Christian religion, (the original religion of the USA) is considered intolerable of other religions.

Double standards do not work in any nation, culture, or religion. So why, is it being implemented here. They say that Christians are radical and fanatical and extremists, but yet I understand that muslim extremists are said to have done this and that. Notice the word extremists!

And then, people who feel religious tolerance should be enforced, get their panties in a wad at opposing religious sects, when Mulsims want to build a mosque at Ground Zero. Especially when it has been reported that it was indeed the Extreme Muslims who caused Ground Zero in the first place. Those who oppose are labeled Muslimaphobics and intolerant left or right wing or conservative, religious fanatics.

Can you now see the confusion building here and the pressure? It almost seems that our President is instigating a problem and would be very happy to see the "fanatical, fundamental Christians" cause a reckus so he can legally declare martial law and have all the fundamental, fanatical Christians either executed or put in prison--sound familiar?

Interesting, but then I am just one of those fanatical, fundamental Christians who is just trying to cause trouble and heart ache for the millions who are not. Go figure!

Here we go again!

2010-09-10T10:18:00.000-04:00

People, check your emails out before you get trigger happy on the forward button! This is exactly what I am talking about and have talked about. I get this email complaining that Obama did not sign Boys Scouts - Eagle Scouts certificates. And then it flares up to life saving awards. Yes, it is true some scouts did not have a signature on them, but many did. It was a human error boo boo! You do remember human error boo boos don't you?--as a possible case in point! Those with no signatures can have a new one sent to them free of charge, so wipe your tears and get your foot out of your mouth and finish the day with an apology.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/eaglescouts.asp

People look, I do not like Obama as my president either comma but this petty back-biting is only making the real emails and info appear bogus as well! When will everyone learn? This is a real battle we are fighting not some petty, childish jibberjabby sent by some air-headed loose cannon. Remember the fly incident? Give me a break!! The fly was lucky it didn't get pesticided or shot, that's what I would have done, the pesky varmit!

Another case in point! Terry Jones. Geeze oh man, what did that man smoke for breakfast? The USA was/is out-raged seeing the burning of our flags on foreign soil so what do you think Muslims would feel seeing their bible burned? Duh, it has nothing to do with the 9/11 memorial in that, burning books is about as assinine as firing a gun full of feathers. My point, if you want to do something productive for the 9/11 memorial, contact your state reps about the mosque plans in NY, peacefully protest the building of the mosque, send money to help others fight the mosque building. In other words, get out of high school and start acting like a civilized, educated adult! Unless of course, you aren't one!

And, have a nice day!

People, people, people!

2010-09-02T06:33:00.002-04:00

One thing I can definitely say about email boxes, I am tired of all the Obama rhetoric. Uh oh, some might say, is Peg riding the fence? Absolutely not, I am just tired of all the stupid emails that come across about Obama. So much of it in fact, that it devalues the emails that are well written and truthful. People slow down on the crappy, finger-pointing emails and begin sending the ones that tell the truth and don't knit-pick.

I do not care if Obama is a muslim, but I do care if he enforces his religion. I do care if he is a socialist as that agenda will be implemented in my country's economic system. I do care if he is not a natural born citizen for he has violated the law. And I do care what legislation he implements and those he hires in opened positions.

Remember people, when you email, make it good, as if it is the very last words you may be able to speak to anyone.

Thanks!

Rather well done! November should prove interesting!

2010-08-27T11:47:00.000-04:00

http://www.gatheringofeagles.org/view938647m7411807407.html

Kagan and the turncoats!

2010-07-21T09:24:00.000-04:00

UH OH!! Any citizen unarmed can be subjected to tyranny of any sort! And the founding fathers knew this as they insisted it be implemented in the Amendments as a RIGHT and a MUST and not a privilige!!

http://capwiz.com/gunowners/issues/alert/?alertid=15261311

Lapte gros

2010-07-20T21:28:00.001-04:00

Just another fun game!? :0{

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqiQB5FvmyU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6d0tDTR4m8&feature=related

And, this is played at school!? :0{

At least, these guys are good sports!? :-0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m90usghr-j0

;-}

It's gone to the dogs!!

2010-07-17T17:45:00.005-04:00

Struggling to make ends meet? Not enough money to go around for your family let alone scraps for the family dog? Well, one dog is living the high and mighty off tax payers (your) money.

According to the Drudge Report /http://www.drudgereport.com/ Obama's dog, Bo, flew in his own jet separate from the president and his family at the tune of about $10,000 of your hard earn money to the vacation sight of Maine. I say that money went to the dogs, literally!

Funny, Obama avoided the Gulf vacation areas where the shrimp and fish ain't so good sauteed in oil, but instead went North where the air and water is much cleaner! And little Bo, well, he wernt quite ready wen they wases so he be champangning separately! WOO HOO!

Let's talk assinine!! And at the same time, let's talk about how this country is hurting! According to all the liberal media, job market is up as is our economic situation! And then let's talk about how much crap one can shovel before the barn is completely full!

I am so sick of this Marxist agenda that has been implemented in the White House! Capitalism is phasing out fast and big government is pushing every button illegally! Auto industry: big government monopoly, Health Insurance: big government monopoly. Global Warming: big government monopoly...emissions bill in the House will double your electric bill-gotta love the PUC to start! Arizona: legal suit against Arizona in favor of illegal immigrants. By who, the White House. Why? because illegals make numbers for votes.
Democrats illegally trying to buy off candidates. Why? because the Dems along with certain Repubs know they have betrayed their constiguents and they are not going to be seated in the fall. IN the case of Arizona, it is a legal process illegally done! IN the case of bribing candidates, it is ILLEGAL! Understand, the way I know it is illegal is because, in the past, these individuals who did the bribing were arrested! Not this time.

So why, is nothing being done!?

And, why is this Panther, who is standing outside polling areas and in a threatening manner, not being arrested? That is ILLEGAL! Always has been!! Until now, that is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzBVxP5wzCY&feature=related

I have worked the polls, passing out literature for candidates, etc. The only items I have ever carried and was allowed to carry was the information packets, candy, and an umbrella if it rained! You are allowed to 'hang around' polling areas if you are passing out literature (can be all day), or have ran into friends you have not seen for awhile (can be until they ask you to leave), or if you are asking poll workers about the candidate they are endorsing (can be until they ask you to leave), other than that, you have to be so many feet (not sure of the number) away from the polling area and entrance. You are not even allowed to put up signs for your candidate unless it is so many feet away and not blocking other signs or entrance areas. And here is this guy, in my home state, standing at the entrance of a polling area, with a night stick in his hand and pretending to be security! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

Interesting you tube to look at. The lady is a Dem who actually walked with Martin Luther King during the civil rights movements. Take a look at what she has to say! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGZFgMNM-UU

People, get out the shovels and waders cause we ain't seen nothing yet!

Jotting...

2010-07-13T13:20:00.002-04:00

Railroad tracks divide the town in an infinite measure. Just like anything, black and white, there are two sides.

People thrown in the mix create an even more interesting view as is with this place that is now in black and white, how ironic. It never seems to come to mind how many people are perceived excepting of course, those who worry too much about trivial matters. There again, the line of division.

Names are not important, for you will gather your own imaginary faces from the words that are drawn in squiggly characterchures. We have all seen and have encountered, at least once, the people imagined or are they?

So this is the beginning of a rather short time, for all time moves with tremendous motion unless you put up a block which does not allow its escape. Then you may take a moment and exam every motive and every scene as if the instant replay has been commanded by you. That is how every story takes shape and when a lull is met, it is just a pause in the replay; a time to allow the writer a breath of air from the outside. He steers his mind inward for so long that he forgets the wheres and the whats of his real world. And the deeper he goes the longer it takes him to come back. The assumption by onlookers is he has gone completely mad!

Cleansed

2010-06-28T10:10:00.001-04:00

Ravaging the day with its dark form
making known its entrance with pounding footsteps
and bringing forth sparks of bright light
as it scoffs and moans in its own pity
Closer and closer it moves
daring those to challenge it
mighty arms moving with whirlwind force
knocking down
and ripping to shreds
anything that dares to look
And then silence,
eerie and choking,
falls about
closing in like the darkness of night
sad-like and pathetic as it nears
child-like as it loses its path and finds itself alone
where it continues to tear at its own heart and emotions
till all has peaked and tears begin to fall
torrential in force,
frozen at times,
pelting the ground with revenge
But all gives way to a soothing shower,
soft and cooling as if to cleanse
Rejoicing streams
as the sun begins to poke through the darkness
shining brightly on the bead-like mixture
till all is as one joining forces
leaving behind a reminder
in a colorful arch of hope

Hot off the press!!

2010-06-25T08:21:00.003-04:00

This starts next year folks !

I contacted my Congressman about House bill HR3590 the health care bill just passed. I asked for a summary of changes. The aid directed me to go to http://thomas.gov/
enter HR3590 in the search box and look for "Summaries":

Starting in 2011 ( next year ) your W2 tax form sent by your employer will be increased to show the value of whatever health insurance you are given by your company. It does not matter if that's a private concern or a
governmental body of some sort. If you're retired, your gross will go up by the amount of insurance you get.

The dollar value (cost of what the company pays for your insurance) will be considered income and added to your gross pay. You will be required to pay taxes on a large sum of money that you have never seen (your insurance benefit).

Take your tax form you just finished and see what $15,000 or $20,000 additional gross does to your tax debt. That's what you'll pay next year.

For many it also puts you into a new higher bracket, so it's even worse. This is how the government is going to "buy" insurance for the 15 % that don't have insurance, and is only part of the tax increases. It is very
similar to the way health care system is financed in Europe - through additional taxes.

Not believing this I, researched the Summaries and here's what I'm reading:

On page 25 of 29 : TITLE IX REVENUE PROVISIONS- SUBTITLE A: REVENUE OFFSET
PROVISIONS - (Sec. 9001, as modified by sec. 10901).

Sec.9002. requires employers to include in the W-2 form of each employee the total aggregate cost of applicable employer sponsored group health coverage that is currently excludable from the employees gross income."

Joan Pryde is the senior tax editor for the Kiplinger letters. Go to Kiplingers and read about the 13 new tax changes that could affect you. Number 3 is what I just told you about.

Something for nothing, even in America, is NOT TRUE!! Cliche': If it's too good to be true, IT IS!

Taxation without representation: history indeed repeats itself! WAKE UP!! Your tea is being served!

**Haven't had a chance to check this out, so you do YOUR homework!**

Okay, let me get this straight!

2010-06-22T10:15:00.001-04:00

It appears the federal government will give the Gulf oil spill small businesses, the ones who are being affected by this big mess, money for their losses! Great news, right? Uh, loophole people. These businesses are being taxed for that money! Money from BP is deductible but not from the federal government!

Question I have: Why is the money going for the destruction of these small businesses being taxed, but yet the bail out money to the mult-million dollar companies, not being taxed? Do I smell small business (capitalism) being slowly destroyed and big business (more constiguent pull) being made bigger? (Yah, let's keep Obama in for four more and let's also keep Congress the same! Wouldn't that just be dandy!)

Hmmm, you decide!

Happy Father's Day!

2010-06-19T19:19:00.000-04:00

Hope all you fathers have a happy day tomorrow!

Infomation about Gonorrhea Lectim and more ramblings!

2010-06-12T07:53:00.007-04:00

The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim. It's pronounced "Gonna re-elect 'em," and it is a terrible obamanation.

The disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior involving putting your cranium up your rectum. Many victims contracted it in 2008...but now most people, after having been infected for the past 1-2 years, are starting to realize how destructive this sickness is.

It's sad because Gonorrhea Lectim is easily cured with a new drug just coming on the market called Votemout. You take the first dose in 2010 and the second dose in 2012 and simply don't engage in such behavior again; otherwise, it could become permanent and eventually wipe out all life as we know it.

Several states are already on top of this, like Virginia and New Jersey , and apparently now Massachusetts , with many more seeing the writing on the wall.

Thanks Sis, I know my family is safe!

Interesting enough, Pelosi was interviewed and has been quoted saying, "The Bush administration is responsible for the huge government deficit." Remarkably though, since Obama entered office, the deficit is now another 400 billion in debt and the USA is seeing a 12 trillion deficit!

Look, Bush wasn't all he was cracked up to be, but let's start becoming accountable for your own demise, Pelosi! Shame on the Obama administration! You are creating a world that will do nothing but make our children and grandchildren slaves, and not just to this country!

And if that isn't bad enough, Congress has a new tactic for their fearful general election turn out possibilities. LAME DUCK is the word!!
Shame, Shame, Shame on all of you!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5686644-503544.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/lame-duck

On another note, why isn't anything being done for the oil spill? Well, imagine this, if the Feds allow this spoil to continue, point fingers at BP (rightfully so, but it goes deeper than that), and then come in and cripple BP, who then will take over the oil production? The government has all ready condemned the production of oil in the way the drilling would be done, (again it goes deeper than to say, well that makes sense). If the government does nothing, they can implement their strategy with the Cap and Trade bill using BP as the example, push it through, then the oil industry will also become nationalized--look out utility bills; WHAT?, you say 1 kw hour of power is how much?? (Oh, you don't know what Cap and Trade bill is?, there is a link below.) Captialism as we now know it is being destroyed. With the Cap and Trade bill we will continue to lose more and more jobs, bankrupt small business, and whirl ourselves into a "State ism" country with the Obama administration as our dictators.

http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=51254&s_src=ggad&gclid=CL2GiKqhnaICFciA5Qod2GNKxg

What is not understood by so many is that the CO2 levels that flow into the atmosphere can only be absorbed to a certain percentage. Then is falls back to the earth, as the atmosphere cannot contain it, and is then absorbed by the ground, plants, trees, things that use the carbon to make food. Thus, we have better veges, greener plants, and healthier trees, and colorful flowers. (God knew what he was doing, unlike us dodo humans) The snow job is not in making our universe brighter, cleaner, and healthier, but another way the federal government can create an agency that infringes on the rights of its people. Congress has also decided to make the EPA an entity all its own, no longer accountable or correctable to the legislatures of Congress and the Reps who make decisions for their own states. (Remember catalytic converters? Hmmm, why don't we still use them?)

PEOPLE WAKE UP!!! WE are being rolled over by the biggest steamroller in American history! JUMP HARD on your REPS and get them to stop this narcisistic arrogance that this administration is trying to push on the American people. Change is good, tyranny not nor dictatorship, nor socialism, nor bankruptcy, nor one nation under slavery! And that, my friends, is the CHANGE that is happening right now!!

But, don't take my word for it! Do your own research...THINK for yourself, scrutinize actions, and read (every link, good or bad) all the information about Cap and Trade, BP Oil spill, Lame Duck movement, EPA ruling, and do it NOW! Then, if you feel that all this is paranoid rhetoric, do nothing.

Oh, and by the way, the media is not really telling the truth about the job or housing market. It IS far worse than they are letting on! Gee, wonder why they are doing that? (Remember catalytic converters? Why don't we still use them?)

*I guess the Civics class paid off after all!

Don't need a key!

2010-06-04T11:43:00.000-04:00

Interesting video and thoughts are Arizona is swimming in biggotry!?

http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html

Truly Inspiring!!

2010-05-10T16:57:00.003-04:00

A dear friend sent this to me! Enjoy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU7w0Z35XEE&feature=player_embedded

Happy Mother's Day!

2010-05-09T08:11:00.000-04:00

Google's logo was very elegant and well done today for Mother's Day. Hard to top that one! So, simple is best!

Happy Mother's Day Ladies!!

2010-04-15T05:43:00.002-04:00

Spring has Sprung

2010-04-13T08:48:00.008-04:00

Glittering glimpses of trickling beads
Sparkling in the sun
The butterflies giggle in groups of three
As if the chosen ones
Winter waste treasures strewn about
The birds gather for their nest
Cotton and ribbon from a Christmas wreath
Giving hatchlings a place to rest
And mourning doves coo soft and sweet
While hawks search all the ground
For spring has brought all creatures out
And squirrels are sure to be found
The sky is dotted with white puffy clouds
Enhancing a bluish background
The daffodils sway to a light windy breeze
While hyacinths drum their own sound
Puppies run free in the fresh green grass
Chasing bugs and tackling leaves
While momma dozes lightly in a patch of warmth
Letting her babes do as they please
The cry of a chick from its cracking shell
Wiggles free from its new born bed
Feathers wet, body wobbling all around
While dragging its over-sized head
And everyone wakes from dark houses of cold
Greeting others with a fresh painted smile
For the spring awakes the spirit inside
And they sit and visit awhile
And children rant as children do
Playing catch with a baseball and bat
And mix the game with monkey in the middle
As they grab one another’s hat
And all is alive and happily sweet
As the day lazily comes to a close
And I smile from my window at the setting sun
And at spring and her colorful pose

Although, I am not a party person...

2010-04-09T10:34:00.003-04:00

Now pay attention class--this is a short test but it is very important.

The last four letters in American.... .....I Can

The last four letters in Republican.. .....I Can

The last four letters in Democrats... .....Rats

End of Lesson
Test to follow in November.

Was listening to the car radio and was informed that in Ohio, the majority of democrats have reregistered to republican for the primary...should be interesting in that state!

And there is Kathy Dahlkamper thinking it was not harmful to her campaign to go against her majority constituents! I say bring it on PA!

Just a little dity!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdKmc9aBELM

This is really good!

2010-04-05T10:30:00.001-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W57aBMYKvU

Such is life!

2010-04-05T08:43:00.011-04:00

A dog sacheted around a tree as if a partner in a ho-down dance. Sniffs, goes around again, sniffs, then if by chance he had struck gold, stops abruptly, sniffs even harder, then lifts his leg in a forty-five degree angle and waters the tree with the fury of a firefighter directing his hose on a house fire. This intrigues her as she continues to watch the pee-pee dance of the native canine.

Her gaze then turns back to the building with its tall brick pillars standing guard over the entrance. She still wonders over the twenty floors high and not at its elongated height, but rather over the windows. All twenty floors of windows barred on the outside, as if an intruder dare scale the immense architecture and if for nothing more than a glimpse of the treasures inside. It was a warning to those below the same as the warning that had been posted on the door years ago. Many would say the scheme was elaborate, but how it would be proved would be very difficult. So as the say, just let a sleeping dog lie. Much easier for others to say, of course, but she had a lot at stake and without a fight, it would have all seemed in vain.

She dug through her purse reminiscing over articles she kept for moments similar to this. She spotted the folded up cloth Frisbee, which had its own little pouch to keep it from inflating in her purse and reshaping its cloth body. This Frisbee found its way in many a doctors’ offices as a restless child waited nervously anticipating a new vaccine or anything to help take away the ache in the ear. That Frisbee butted itself right up against the finger Twister game, which more times than not, the novelty was in the small finger-sized box made into a key chain that contained on the outside, the picture of the feet and hands and the colored circles that might be chosen by the spinner that was riveted to the middle. Once the case was opened the little round, vinyl colored circles could be found and those were the board, once placed geometrically, and would be the contest for your fingers to play. That game saw the inside of every vehicle her family had ever known. It carried them to long vacation trips or short jaunts to the grocery store hoping that the waiting would also find a payload in some sweet treat bought at the bakery counter.

The photo album proved a better favorite to little hands and eyes as she would retell the saga behind every magical moment caught forever on the small square of paper. Times that could not be remembered, was sometimes exaggerated by an over-active imagination, but the amusement in their faces was well worth the tale spun.

Again the walk in the memoirs was a futile attempt at wishful thinking. It was too early for anyone to be up and moving and would they let her in once they heard her plight? It was a risk she was taking, but she had no choice. She dared not go any further. She looked sadly at her hands, now wrinkled and pale, stared at the thin wedding ring that had twisted itself to the underside of her hand. The little fingers she once cradled on her lap would fidget with that ring picking at it as if they may find the invisible clapse and release it from the strangling finger. Minute after minute the fingers worked harder and harder, digging at times in frustration.

She chuckled to herself as she saw the faces of her three girls all grown now and living in various states with their husbands and their families and how it only seemed like yesterday they were babes suckling on her breasts. But such is life; and time as it speeds along robbing the good and the bad from every soul. And she remembers well how time took a lot of precious things from her, family and friends she thought would never leave her side, but again she was always naïve.

One more glance up and the moment she had been waiting for finally arrived. The man stood tall in his uniform with its golden cords dangling from shiny brass buttons. She could see his white gloved hands unlocking the first door then the next. She had hoped she would not be too late and that all would go as she had planned since she placed herself on that bench early this morning. She rose carefully as if trying to contain the excitement she feared would mount and expose her for what she really needed. Across the street and the door now was much closer. She was close enough to see the expression on the doorman’s face, one of half curiosity and half smile as she prayed he would not try and stop her; let her pass by as if she were a tiny ant unnoticeable in the city street.

She was finally upon him and her worst fears were met as she looked into his face. “Forget your keys again? And I bet you have to go to the bathroom.”

It was just what she didn’t need to hear, for just the sound of bathroom began every living pipe in her very being rattling and clanking with hopes of spewing forth the venom that had her remain silent on that bench not more than ten minutes ago. Panic ensued, but running would only cause more rattling to the all ready stressed pipes, but nevertheless, it was now or never. And with that new found strength she dashed across the lobby, keys in hand, and with one graceful movement, unlocked her door, threw her purse to the side, awkwardly unzipped the zipper of her pants pulling and tugging them down being careful not to trip, and with a ‘leap’ of faith jumped backward finding her mark on the round doughnut and began the stream of relief. And this time, she had not missed her mark!

Matthew 28:6

2010-04-04T06:30:00.000-04:00

He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.

A blessed Easter everyone!

Topeka (Google)

2010-04-01T08:47:00.000-04:00

Good one, you got my oldest daughter who just could not believe the change that was made by google. It wasn't until my middle daughter informed her that today is April Fools Day, that she began to see the folly of her ways!

And I have warned my two girls not to tell my youngest daughter what day this is! Or should I say pleaded in desperation not to tell her!

Good One Google!! Two thumbs up!!

Remember folks, it ain't over till the fat lady sings!

2010-03-25T08:15:00.002-04:00

Back to the house we go, we go
Back to the house we go
A beacon of light
In the blinding snow
It's back to the house we go, we go!

Repeal Repeal Repeal

49% oppose
41% agree

HORNETS NEST IS OPENED!

2010-03-22T05:08:00.001-04:00

****5 OVER STOP EXECUTIVE ORDER SMOKE SCREEN STOP KATHY HAS LOST HER SEAT STOP GODSPEED TO THE 31-- VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION STOP MAY, SHOULD PROVE TO BE AN INTERESTING MONTH AND NOT JUST FOR BLOOMING FLOWERS****

****JUST IN STOP 5 MORE STATES RALLY FOR BAN****

History is proned to repeat itself if those in history do not listen to their own mistakes!

2010-03-16T07:22:00.000-04:00

HOW DID JEFFERSON KNOW??????
Especially read the last quote from 1802.

When we get piled

upon one another in large cities, as in Europe,

we shall become as corrupt as Europe .

Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist

when you take away from those

who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every

generation to pay its own debts as it goes.

A principle which if acted on would save

one-half the wars of the world.

Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for

Americans if they can prevent the government

from wasting the labors of the people under the

pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me

that most bad government results from too much

government.

Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred

the use of arms.

Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the

people to retain the right to keep and bear arms

is, as a last resort, to protect themselves

against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be

refreshed from time to time with the blood of

patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with

his taxes the propagation of ideas which he

disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

'I believe that

banking institutions are more dangerous to

our liberties than standing armies.

If the American people ever allow

private banks to control the issue of their

currency, first by inflation, then by

deflation, the banks and corporations that will

grow up around the banks will deprive the people

of all property - until their children

wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers

conquered.'

A little too much for comfort!

2010-03-15T09:12:00.002-04:00

Does this photo of President Obama in the Oval Office convey anything about his attitude? Would you speak with the Chief of Staff, your Chief Economics Adviser, your Senior Adviser, or anyone, with your feet up on the Resolute Desk - a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880?

While this posture is disrespectful in any culture, it is not appropriate in any executive setting. Further, in over half of the cultures of the world, it is recognized not only as disrespectful, but as an extreme insult.

He thinks of himself as a king, not as a servant of the people, humbly occupying OUR White House for his term in office.

Empty

2010-02-28T06:49:00.003-05:00

Autismus

Strength comes from many outlets

I just hope I don’t slip through

Life lends moments that are sometimes debilitating

and sometimes leave a smile that is never erased

and today I long for that smile

What torments the mind in the darkened hours of the night

And why so many times?

does it fear the morning and its escape successfully

I have no answers

I see a face of youth crumbling

under imaginary pressure that only her mind can feel

Pressure boiling and rocking itself back and forth

'widdling' it’s brand on her soul

Outlets? At this time?

One should not be allowed to jest so

Eenie meenie miney moe

if this one works we‘ll continue to go

but if it don’t we ride again

to the next locked door, if they’ll let us in

So the mind retreats to the what if’s

That’s a game I hate

and have never mastered

New rules need to be made up

Beautiful the child

but broken in spirit and life

wading on a half-frozen pond

till the stage below cracks and breaks

and she plunges down into a frozen grave

with no hands to pull her out

no eyes to see her demise

and no ears to hear the cries

for they too are frozen silent

and all along all she wanted

was a place to sing

And I am out of solutions

Perception

2010-02-07T09:57:00.003-05:00

I suppose tribute would be unrewarded whenever or wherever it would come and as vast as the airways have become the only real tribute would be the one you acquire and pass on…

It would appear to be a cold, dark day even colder, as the two lay side by side in opposite ends of the world; leaning toward nothing remotely happy. Their set of circumstances brought them here to be an answer to many who grieve over everyday life. But then I am no judge or jury, as I have heard it once said, and the evidence secured would be once again left for you.

It was a cold, dark day as I have mentioned, and the two men, war soldiers in status, lay quietly waiting for their doctors’ orders—both wounded and both in grave condition. Hope, it seemed prayers were the only healing these two could rely on. And so, when the doctors’ orders came in, it relayed so distinctly opposite from one another’s that the cure would be in the toss of a coin. But nevertheless, this is their story.

As the time grew on, the second man whose doctor wanted him sitting up in bed at least an hour every day, struggled with this exercise but found his lungs could breathe easily and fluids would drain more effectively. The other man had been sanctioned to lay prone. This was a torturesque and monotonous detail for this young, once very active, grown man. Anyone in this predicament having any type of sense, would begin to realize this routine would soon find both dead even before their afflictions did. And so, imagination sets its feet to work. The two men began to talk and hours upon hours were filled with each other relaying their lives to the other. They knew of each others wives, children, parents, favorite foods, and even what colors they liked.

The men were arranged in their room as follows: the man, who must remain prone throughout the day, had the first bed over by the door, while the man in the second bed, who was allowed to sit up each day, had a window by his bed. And as the days wore on, he began to tell the man in the first bed, seeing how his view consisted of only a pocked, white ceiling and peripheral vision of a dull hospital room, the goings-on of life as seen from the window.

Each day the first man would ask the second man what glorious happenings could be seen outside. The man began to tell him of the wonderful garden pathway and of all the colorful blooms on the numerous varieties of flowers. He spoke of how two, young lovers sat together on a stone bench holding one another, perhaps consoling one another over bad news. He spoke of the parade he could see down the street a ways and of the baton twirling girl whose baton was thrown a good 20 feet in the air and landed gracefully back in her hand as if attached to a bungee cord. And how all the uniforms of the students looked neatly pressed as they gallantly tooted on instruments polished and glimmering in the rays of the sun. He spoke one day of the rainbow that appeared over the garden after a mild thunderstorm had passed and how the rainbow hovered like a trellis magnifying the colors of the freshly washed blooms.

The man in the bed by the door would close his eyes and listen intently to the vision the second man relayed to him and although he could not see himself, he would be there among the garden and the parades and the fresh showers from the sky, smelling and tasting the air and the life all around him. He longed for each day the man would recite from his magical window and he could feel himself growing stronger in spite of his painful affliction.

As life would have it, her hand grabbed at one and let the other melt into an anomaly of darkness, an abyss that many cannot understand and others accept with open arms. But the passing was calm and quiet in the early dark hours of the morn.

The man by the door was mournful for his friend but asked a request of the nurse who completed her task of cleaning out the bed the second man was in. He asked the nurse if he may move to the bed by the window so that he may see the images his friend had etched in his mind. The nurse obliged and with the help of the orderlies, the man was now in the window bed. Excited, the man now able to sit for a few moments, gasped as he glanced out the window. For his eyes landed not on a flower garden with its colorful blooms and blue skies filled with rainbows or a bench that warmed the hearts of young lovers or the streets once alive with young musicians; his eyes met nothing but a solid, brick wall, bland and close.

The puzzled man asked the nurse how this could be. His friend had told him all the wonderful sights from this window, but all there is, is a blank wall! The nurse filled with compassion over the young man’s anxiety took his hand in hers.

“I am sorry,” she said, “but your friend who was next to the window could not have seen those beautiful things he had told you and not because of this brick wall. You see, your friend was blind.”

More perplexed now, the young man replied, “But he spoke to me as if the scenery was right there in front of him.”

“Yes, I am sure he did.” the nurse replied.

“But why… why would he do this?”

“If your friend would have told you nothing and all your days were spent staring at a white ceiling, would you have the strength to endure each day?”

The man, eyes filled with tears, said nothing for he knew that his friend had given him through his own eyes, hope.

Winter Garden

2010-02-06T08:44:00.001-05:00

Still and deafening the sound

Quiet like an intruder’s break

Left piled in lumps of frozen sugar

And the trees sport a different gown

Wrapped in make believe transparent leaves

But birds run and hide from the whitened ash

that erases every moving thing

But down below the magic starts

As I imagine a playground of white

Where caterpillars with 6 true booted feet

Wiggle tunnels in an igloo town

And moles create angels of stubby build

Christening the whitened streets

While roly poly’s in their round, natural sleds

Giggle to the bottom of the hill

A frozen pond in a large dog’s track

Gives pleasure to the restless young

Ants and crickets and a lady bug

gliding gracefully on pin needle toes

And even the mantis stopped to pray

Admiring the Creator’s fine touch

Where the many who once were seen at war

Are in harmony amidst the white

And as many would cry and complain

Of this cold and whitening world

I find enchantment among the grains

In the world so far below

So bring what may to the season’s end

For I have no charter in time

And I will just sit back and enjoy the scene

Of what’s given for it’s truly mine

This also reminds me of the Vietnam war!! But I really ain't that old, ahem! ;-0}

2010-02-03T06:29:00.002-05:00

http://www.andiesisle.com/ifidiebeforeyouwake.html

The Pork is in the Smokehouse!

2010-01-27T21:33:00.001-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CyZV7CNzjM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc9fsPTyqe8&feature=related

Hats Off to Lloyd Marcus!!

2010-01-27T15:04:00.001-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=UZkvkLmkYVg

Nice

2010-01-18T11:27:00.001-05:00

Sent by the airways and enjoyed!

http://media.causes.com/611645?p_id=44185871

Freudian Slip?

2010-01-14T08:12:00.002-05:00

Yesterday I needed to copy a sentence for my grammar class. The sentence read like this:

Would you please ask him whom he thinks he is to be barging in here willy-nilly.

Instead I wrote it like this:

Would you please ask him whom he thinks he is to be barging in her willy-nilly.

Of course, the students caught this typo immediately!

Solid case for proof-reading EVERYTHING!!!

Joan R. Miller Fuge

2009-12-31T08:47:00.001-05:00

And the angels cried rejoicing
In the frozen, silent morn
They spread their wings as a pathway
As they welcomed another home

For her time on earth was over
New faces she now would see
A son, mom and dad, and many more
As her soul is now set free

And as she turned to face the world
The one she left behind
She blew a kiss to everyone
For her love had been so kind

And even though we’ll miss her
For her face we shall never hold
Her new home is Jesus’ mansion
With streets all lined in gold

And she leads them there
As she did on earth for her life is a gift to all
And one day we’ll all be a part of her
When we hear our Master’s call

All my love,
Peggy Murphy

Sail on Joan, I'll see you again someday!

Must have too much time on my hands!

2009-12-04T12:22:00.001-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8&feature=related

And more fun today!

2009-12-04T11:42:00.000-05:00

You aren't paying attention!

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a
teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press
conference, would you have laughed and said this is
more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really
controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of
dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have
approved?
If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's
holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a
majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the
Special Olympics, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a
set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs,
when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and
historically significant gift, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod
containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought
this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia ,
would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference
to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have
brushed it off as a minor slip?
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of
advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their
income taxes, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had been so Spanish
illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in
front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of
May
(Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he
tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word "advice"
would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan
Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?
If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet
fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have
concluded he's a hypocrite?
If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force
One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet
fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread
panic, would you have wondered whether they actually
get what happened on 9-11?
If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood
victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless
than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major
ongoing political issue with claims of racism and
incompetence?
If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars
who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate
on much of what is happening in America , would you have
approved.
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a
major corporation, even though he had no constitutional
authority to do so, would you have approved?
If George W Bush had proposed to double the national
debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate,
in one year, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt
again within 10 years, would you have approved?
So, tell me again, what is it about Obama
that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of
anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 10
months -- so you'll have three years and two months
to come up with an answer.