Just another day in America

After months of struggle, House Democrats rolled out sweeping legislation Thursday to extend health care coverage to millions who lack it and create a new option of government-run insurance. A vote is likely next week on the plan largely tailored to President Barack Obama's liking.
Speaking on the steps of the Capitol, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress was at a "historic moment" with lawmakers "on the cusp of delivering on the promise of making affordable, quality health insurance available to every American."

And just WHO is going to oversee this to make sure the American is LEGAL Pelosi? You? I doubt it...

Don't get me wrong here, I'm all for wanting to improve your situation, but do it legally.

Americans FOUGHT to hold to the ideals of our (well some of our) forefathers to have a free from taxes nation. If illegal immigrants would stay in their own countries and fight for changes I bet they'd finally succeed. It wouldn't happen overnight, but it would happen.

Just like here. It took many years and a lot of bloodshed but it finally happened...

Unfortunately it didn't last long.

Taxes are higher than ever, more people have lost their jobs and their homes than in this entire nations history in just the past few years.

Thanks Big Government...
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There are many, many reasons I don't particularly like our new President, but the main reason is for plunging this country into more debt than all other presidents combined did in the over 200 years since we became The United States of America...

I'm sure you can think of your own reasons...

IMO Obama is a post turtle. What? You don't know what a post turtle is? Well let me explain it to you then. It's a pretty easy concept to understand.

Imagine you see a turtle and he's on top of a fence post.

The turtle doesn't know how he got there, he doesn't know what to do now that he's up there, and you have to wonder just what kind of idiots put him up there in the first place.

You know who the last unknown candidate who came out of nowhere, who had NO experience running anything and who also ran on a platform of "change" was don't you?

Fidel Castro

No it's not a joke, it's a historical fact.
And we all know what became of Cuba once he got into office...they became COMMUNISTS!

With what we've all seen so far with the new "regime" in charge you need to ask yourself the big question; Are we on our way to that same status here?
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It is hard not to agree with this.
Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America 's true living legends- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world's highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management. Lou changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as "partnering." Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support. You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.
You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.
You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America crowd' and deliver this message abroad.
You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.
You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.
You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.
You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.
You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.
You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

TRUE - CHECK: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/youscareme.asp
This letter was sent to the NY Times but they never acknowledged it. Big surprise. Since it hit the internet, however, it has had over 500,000 hits.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good people do nothing.
It's happening right now.

Lottery Woes

OK and the strange just gets stranger when it comes to big money...

Someone please remind me if I ever win the lottery and feel the need to hire a secretary not to hire Kathy Henry. She's the woman who just cost Pepsico $1.26 BILLION (yes, I said BILLION) dollars because she was so busy getting ready for a board meeting she just set the legal document aside and forgot about it!


YIKES!!!
Hey Kathy! Didn't you stop to think that was something the folks at the board meeting would have wanted and needed to know about?

I bet she's "busy" having a stroke about now...

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Of course if I ever hit the lottery I hope I'm a lot luckier than Willis Willis of Grand Prairie Texas who was duped by the clerk that STOLE his winning $1 Million lottery ticket...

Note to Pankaj Joshi just remember they actually execute criminals in Texas. If you haven't fled the country you'd better give that money back tout suite.

Here's hoping Mr. Willis is able to get his winnings, he seems like a genuinely nice man who deserves a break.

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If I ever won that elusive lottery I'd have to remember NOT to hire Timothy Cheney of Gig Harbor WA or Richard Cole of Salem OR to fly me anywhere. They'd lose track of where we were and overshoot our destination just like they did when they overshot their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles...

They were out of communications with air traffic controllers for over 90 minutes and violated numerous federal safety regulations all while claiming they were on their personal "laptops"...yeah, but why do I get that hinky feeling it was not the computerized kind?

Apparently the FAA thought it was a bogus excuse as well and fired them both.

Similar letters were sent to each man informing them of the decision to fire them that read in part,

"You engaged in conduct that put your passengers and your crew in serious jeopardy, while you were on a frolic of your own. ... This is a total dereliction and disregard for your duties."

I swear there's a hint in there about what was really going on for those 90 minutes


and it didn't have anything to do with any computers either...

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I would have to say though, that I would gladly hire Adam Lambert to sing for any charity organization to raise awareness and money for the cause.

Adam caused quite a stir recently with his newly released album...not for the musical content, but for the cover.

Personally I love it!!!

For those who are posting hateful comments in other places, please, get a grip! This is America and it's almost 2010...not 1910. Geesh!

If you want to blame someone about it complain to the Marketing Directors at his record label. Adam didn't get to chose the cover although it's fantastic in this bloggers opinion.

It's supposed to be Retro looking folks! I don't know about anyone else but memories of Ziggy Stardust spring to mind when I look at this. I'm just thankful it's not Olivia Newton John...who's music hit the lowest "Blech!" mark on my scale.

I loved David Bowie's music and I have a hunch I'll love Adam Lambert's as well.

The controversy isn't about his music, or his talent though, it's from all the homophobes out there who despise those who are different and those they can't control.

I almost want to feel sorry for all those little girls who were creaming their jeans thinking about getting together with Adam.

Sorry girls, he's openly and unashamedly gay and he has every right to be.

I, for one, applaud him for his talent and his courage to be exactly who and what he is, even if he does make a lot of females jealous of his beauty.

Keep true to yourself Adam and keep reinventing yourself and you'll go far...

I'm Back!!!

First, I would like to thank Seeker for her great contributions while I was away. Seeker, you did an excellent job, keep on writing for the blog!

The reason why I was gone was I had to move. It was not a move I wanted to make. My family and I moved into a 22 foot camper until we were able to find another home. It was not a fun six weeks. I was supposed to have Internet access while I was living in the camper, but things didn't turn out as planned. I almost went out of my mind. We ended up moving twice within six weeks. I never want to move again!

My second granddaughter, Rilee was born on September 11th, about 3/4 of the way through my "Hell in the Camper" experience. It was a rough weekend trying to take care of my other granddaughter Kayli in the camper and trying to make sure my daughter and other granddaughter were fine 35 miles away. Rilee weighed in at 5 lbs 14.1 oz. and was 18.5 inches long. She has brown hair and blue eyes. I will post a picture of her later.

Please check back soon for new stories!

Thanks!