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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good morning all. We hope today finds everyone in good health and spirits.</p>
<p>You know, my Dad, who has been pretty successful in his own right, used to tell me… <em>“Look down the road, son.”<br />
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His meaning was pretty simple and actually very good advice.</p>
<p>His meaning behind that statement is that, you never start out on top. This whether you are employed by someone else, or even workin for yourself.</p>
<p>Success comes from a great work ethic, the desire to better yourself and your family, the ability to cope through not just the good times, but the bad too.</p>
<p>It means you have to start at the bottom somewhere. Then through pure determination to see something through, you eventually start climbin the ladder to achieve…success. </p>
<p>So you see, his statement means to not let what happens today hinder your drive to, “look down the road</p>
<p>You have to stay focused, believe in your own ability, and maybe most importantly…NEVER…take no, or, you can’t do it, as an alternative.</p>
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<p>Dad never…came from money, quite the opposite. His father commercial fished for a living. Granddaddy day worked cattle as well, plus any other thing that he could turn an honest dollar at to feed and clothe his family.</p>
<p>This was the way of life of our generations past, and sacrifice to better their own family was all the drive they needed to push themselves to keep going.</p>
<p>I remember my Father never being at home much…he worked all the time. Although many of his friends went to work for large companies, back then, the power or telephone companies, but Dad saw an opportunity for agriculture to be his…way out…and eventually it was.</p>
<p>Did this all fall into place? Anything but.</p>
<p>He worked for Ralston Purina. He started off moving chickens at night, which is about the lowest on the totem pole you can get. </p>
<p>He, through another example of his mentality and belief used to tell me…</p>
<p><em>“You know Doug, when I started out moving, or pullin chickens as we call it, my whole outlook was to be THE BEST chicken puller out there. Whatever you do son, ALWAYS strive to be the best! It doesn’t matter if you’re digging ditches…and if you are…be THE BEST ditch digger out there!”</p>
<p>“IF you keep that mentality, eventually someone in a position of power WILL see you, AND…you’ll get an opportunity.”</em></p>
<p>He eventually became a flock supervisor with Purina, but still worked on the service crew at night. </p>
<p>He was literally working…daylight to cain’t.</p>
<p>When he retired from Purina to start his own egg company…he was General Manager of the Southeast.</p>
<p>Here was a man who started out with absolutely nothing except…a tremendous work ethic, the mentality for never accepting the word, no, and the vision to… “Look down the road.”</p>
<p>When he sold out in Oct. of 1995, he had over two million birds laying, had his own feed mill to supply the birds with a good quality feed product, and his own hatchery to keep his layer operations in birds.</p>
<p>To get a grasp for what he achieved, the one complex I ran had twelve houses with 60,000 birds per house. EACH house ate between 12-14 thousand pounds of feed per day.</p>
<p>I still find that incredible. </p>
<p>His poultry operation enabled him get into the citrus business, and eventually the cattle business as well. </p>
<p>I, like my Dad, and thanks to him as well, had these same traits. Though not nearly as successful, although comfortable most times, he had instilled in me, to… <em>“Look down the road, son.”</em></p>
<p>What we’ve accomplished is literally because of the work ethic and never quit mentality that he bestowed on us.</p>
<p>Now, as I, “Look down the road” today, what I see for my children and grandchildren ain’t very pretty, to say the least.</p>
<p>Does our Country today even present the opportunity for our children and grandchildren to… “Look down the road?</p>
<p>Sadly, I don’t believe it any longer does, and the ability to do this and succeed looks more and more bleak daily.</p>
<p>We have become a Nation of political elite, a Nation of politicians for life, a Nation of political arrogance never before witnessed in our Countyry, and a Nation ofso many new laws passed each year, I believe over 40,000 were passed last year alone, that if our politicians, state, local or federal, really wanted to get us, there just has to be a law on the books for them to do so.</p>
<p>Washing your car? Riding your bike? How bout watchin TV in your home?</p>
<p>I hope there aren’t laws against these things, but any more, there are so many, who knows?<br />
How bout this…<br />
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<p>Now he MAY have become belligerent, I don’t know, but 84 years old? Bloodied by police? Several police??</p>
<p>What are we coming to?</p>
<p>Which brings me to one point this morning that rubs me the wrong way…although it is but one…</p>
<p>I<strong>llegal Immigration into our Country.</strong></p>
<p>Seems the other day, our Director for Homeland Security Secretary, Jeh Johnson, made the following remarks…</p>
<p><em>“The approximately 11 million people who are in the country illegally have “earned the right to be citizens.” </em></p>
<p>So, in his opinion, these people HAVE EARNED the right…</p>
<p>Really?</p>
<p>I’d be willing to bet if I decided to enter Mexico, or most other nations for that matter, their government wouldn’t consider me as having earned the right to anything, besides a kick in the behind getting me back across to my side of the border!</p>
<p>PLUS, even if you do cross into Mexico LEGALLY, in order to take up residence there you have to prove your self- sustainability.</p>
<p>Also, jail time is a must.</p>
<p>Quickly, and in jest, I read the other day where 4 tractor trailer loads of Americans were stopped at the border and deported for…tryin to slip into Mexico!</p>
<p>I did a post in <em>The Canada Free Press,</em> quite a ways back, actually on April 26, 2010, so let’s see, that’d made me…27 or so! Lol.</p>
<p>The title of the post was…</p>
<p><em>“The Definition of…Illegal,”</em> and can be found in the CFP’s columnist archives under, Doug Bronson.</p>
<p>A few quotes from that particular post…</p>
<p><em>According to the Random House Webster’s Dictionary, the definition of the word “illegal,” is as follows:  adj.  1- Forbidden by law.  2- contrary to official rules or regulations.</p>
<p>That’s it, forbidden by law. The word itself is not confusing by any means, and in fact, is actually pretty self-descriptive. Illegal is the exact opposite of legal. So where do all the problems associated with this particular word come from?</p>
<p>“Is it just me, or do you feel also, that many of our politicians, the left, and our media really have difficulty understanding this word, illegal? The misunderstanding of the word illegal really seems to become evident when they speak of people coming across our borders without permission. At that point they like to refer to them as “undocumented.”  Put simply though, they’re not undocumented, they’re in reality illegal, the exact opposite of legal, which by the way, undocumented isn’t.”<br />
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It goes on…</p>
<p><em>“I wonder if Nancy Pelosi for example, a strong advocate of amnesty for illegal aliens, would consider one of them, or anyone else for that matter, which walked into her home uninvited or without her knowledge, consider this person as an “undocumented visitor?” I’d venture to guess she’d not consider this an undocumented visit, but rather an illegal entry and they’d probably be charged by Mrs. Pelosi with such.</p>
<p>Many people would defend her actions because this event would have taken place at, or in, her home. Good, valid point. No one wants this type of incident taking place at their home, myself included. It’s your home, and it’s where your family comes as well. It’d be preposterous for people you didn’t know to come and go as they please in your home, wouldn’t it?</p>
<p>But in reality, isn’t our country our home too, just a bigger home? Isn’t our country where our families reside as well? Do you love your country any more or any less than your home, and do you want to see them both protected equally? So where does this big difference of opinion lay when it comes to people illegally entering our country, which is our home, without permission? It’s still illegal, no matter how you cut it or spin it. It is not by the farthest stretches of your imagination an undocumented action either. It is though, the exact opposite of legal, isn’t it?</p>
<p>How has our country become “turned upside down” when it comes to the definition of our laws, as well as our fundamental American values? This subject is but one example.</p>
<p>Probably to the astonishment of the left I will say this. I do advocate immigration into our country. I believe the great majority of Americans do also. The problem I and millions of other Americans have with the immigration policy in our country is the fact that so many are coming here illegally. This in itself is the problem.</p>
<p>First, there is no accountability as to who they are. Are they criminals, or even terrorists? No one knows the answer, simply because there is no record of their entry. To me, this is not a viable excuse to be used by our administration when, and if, a tragic event involving an illegal happens.</p>
<p>For whatever the reasoning, our federal government has not “taken the bull by the horns” approach to this problem. We’ve seen the pleas by local law-enforcement, especially along the border, asking for federal assistance in handling the problems arising from this. The locals haven’t the manpower, or the capabilities to combat this alone. Why do such requests go unheeded by the feds?<br />
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<strong>But One Example of the Cost to the Taxpayer of Illegals<br />
</strong><br />
This too taken from the same post…</p>
<p><em>“Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas (these are 2006 numbers), is the second busiest maternity ward in the U.S. Almost 16,000 babies are delivered there each year, about 44 per day.<br />
A patient survey indicated that 70% of the women who gave birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal immigrants. That’s 11,200 anchor babies (American citizens) born every year just in Dallas. The hospital spent $70.7 million delivering 15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8 million in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million, and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million.</p>
<p>This has been documented through Snopes.com.”</em></p>
<p>Again, this is but ONE example, of ONE hospital, in ONE town, in ONE county, in ONE state! Once more these numbers were from…2006!</p>
<p>What in the world must be the numbers today…nationwide??</p>
<p>So, in my opinion, these “illegals,” Jeh Johnson says DESERVE amnesty, is a crock. Not all, but most, I believe probably don’t appreciate our Country, number one, and number two, many, many more wouldn’t if you took away all these dad-gum giveaways!</p>
<p>With this in mind, I’ve come to the conclusion are Department of Homeland Security is misnamed, to put it very, very mildly.</p>
<p>Something more appropriate, and more fitting is, hmmm., let’s see…how bout the Department of Homeland <strong>Insecurity!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Our Department of Homeland Security and ALL Illegals Deserving Amnesty</strong></p>
<p>I did one other post in the CFP titled, <em>“Should Arizona Consider Sovereignty in Regards to Illegal Immigration?”</em></p>
<p>This one from Dec. 18, 2010.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.house.gov/sites/members/tx10_mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf">The link I checked out and it still works</a>.</p>
<p>These numbers I’m fixing to give you are from a House Committee report on…HOMELAND SECURITY, in 2006.</p>
<p>It’s title?</p>
<p>Get this guys…</p>
<p><strong>“A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border”</strong></p>
<p><em>Keep in mind the U.S.-Mexico border runs nearly 2,000 miles.</p>
<p>•	During 2005, the Border Patrol captured approx. 1.2 million illegal aliens. All but 165,000 of these were Mexican. Of the non-Mexican aliens, around 650 were from special interest countries. Special interest countries being those designated by our intelligence community as countries that could export individuals that could do harm to our country by the way of terrorism.</p>
<p>•	U.S. Immigration and Enforcement Investigations revealed that aliens were smuggled from the Middle East to staging areas in Central and South America, before being smuggled illegally into the U.S.</p>
<p>•	Members of Hezbollah have already entered the U.S. across the Southwest border.</p>
<p>•	U.S. military and intelligence officials believe Venezuela is emerging as a potential hub of terrorism into the Western Hemisphere. The Venezuelan government is issuing identity documents that could subsequently be used to obtain a U.S. visa and enter the country.</p>
<p>This should be priority #1 for border security and THE reason for shutting off the flow of illegal aliens into our country. Each day that goes by, continues to raise the risk factor in this matter. We’re playing with fire.</p>
<p>•	Federal law enforcement estimates that 10 to 30 percent of illegal aliens are actually caught, meaning as many as 4 to 10 million illegal aliens crossed into the U.S. in 2005 alone!</p>
<p>•	On Feb. 7, 2006, the Subcommittee convened to examine a particularly troubling into the sovereign territory of the United States by armed individuals who were driving military-style vehicles, carrying military type weapons, and appeared to be wearing Mexican Army uniforms.</p>
<p>•	The cartels have cemented ties to street and prison gangs here in the U.S.</p>
<p>•	One MS-13 gang member described the ease at which he comes and goes across the border. He decided one year he wanted to go back to Guatemala to see his mother during the Christmas holidays. To save his own money, he turned himself over to authorities here in the U.S. and was flown home to Guatemala under the expedited removal program on the taxpayer’s dime, spent the holidays at home with his family, then crossed the border illegally once again. He claims he has done this several times.</p>
<p>•	The cartels have no mercy for women or children.</p>
<p>•	The Violent Crimes Institute conducted a 12 month in-depth study of illegal immigrants who committed sex crimes and murders in the time period of Jan. 1999 through April of 2006. This study clearly shows the U.S. faces a dangerous threat from sexual predators crossing the border illegally.</p>
<p>They looked at 1,500 cases in-depth, including serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides, and child molestation…all by illegal immigrants. Police reports, public records, interviews with police and media accounts were all included. Offenders were located in 36 states, with most of the offenders located in States with the highest numbers of illegal immigrants. California ranked first followed by Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, New York, and Florida.</p>
<p>Based on an estimated illegal immigrant population of 12,000,000, and with ICE reports and public records showing sex offenders comprising 2% of the illegals apprehended, the Violent Crimes Institute estimates that there are approximately 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the U.S.</p>
<p>Using these numbers, the Institute concluded that there are 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sexual offenders coming across the U.S. borders every day. The 1,500 offenders used in this study had a total of 5,999 victims. Each sex offender averaged 4 victims. This puts the estimated victimization numbers by illegal immigrants at around 960,000 for the 88 months examined in this study!</p>
<p>Those numbers are appalling, aren’t they? To have that extent of those types of crimes committed in our country is unforgivable, but to have them committed in our country by illegal aliens is unconscionable</em></p>
<p>YET…</p>
<p>They’re DESERVING?</p>
<p>Please?</p>
<p>So, in closing, it is pretty obvious that a vast number of these illegal aliens have absolutely NO business being here, much less anywhere else, but to realize that we have government officials calling for amnesty, not for the betterment of the people mind you, but one more voter bloc to be counted on for THEIR political power, THEIR political greed, and THEIR ambition of eventually tellin us when to crap, how to crap, and how much to crap, is unimaginable to me, that “We the People” have allowed this to take place!</p>
<p>I for one am tired of bein part of the silent majority! I’m not condoning violence by any means, but I am condoning not sittin on our butts anymore and to start making yourselves heard…</p>
<p>LOUD AND CLEAR!</p>
<p>I’m tired of political correctness, when the political correctness shoved down our throats is number one, false and wrong, and number two…not beliefs held…by the majority.</p>
<p>So, I’ll continue to, “Look down the road, son, it’s how I was brought up. Sadly once again though, my lookin down the road sure ain’t very pretty.</p>
<p>God Bless all you guys, and God Bless America.</p>
<p>Please be sure to try to keep that smile on your face, and one in your heart!</p>
<p>Love you all…</p>
<p>Oh…I apologize for bein so short-winded this morning. Seems I jus say what comes to mind and…I’m done! LOL!</p>
<p>Doug and Lucky</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning guys! What’s up? Heard a story yesterday of a little boy, maybe seven years old, sittin on the street corner tryin to sell a lawnmower. A man of about 45 came pedaling up on a bike. The man &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1670">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good morning guys! What’s up?</p>
<p>Heard a story yesterday of a little boy, maybe seven years old, sittin on the street corner tryin to sell a lawnmower.</p>
<p>A man of about 45 came pedaling up on a bike.</p>
<p>The man stopped, looked down at the mower with the  handwritten,“4-sale sign,” hangin off it, and asked, “Is this your mower, does it still run, and why ya sellin it?”</p>
<p>The little boy replied yes to the first two, and then said he was sellin the mower to buy a bike.</p>
<p>“Hmmm…” the man thought. “You know, I don’t ride this bike much, and I do NEED a mower…Tell ya what, I’ll swap ya my bike for your mower, and we’ll both have come out ahead here today.”</p>
<p>The little boy agrees immediately, but asks, “Mister, can I take the bike for a test spin?”</p>
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<p>The man said, “Yes, of course ya can, and may I start the mower?”</p>
<p>The little boy replied that this would be just fine, hops on the bike and starts circling around the cul-de-sac, happy as a lark!</p>
<p>Meanwhile the man, his face red as a beet, CONTINUES to tug on that mower rope, but the mower hasn’t even attempted to fire off. It’s been a good five minutes or so, and he’s getting a tad aggravated with the dern thing.</p>
<p>He hollers out at the boy, “YOU SURE IT’LL CRANK?”</p>
<p>To which the little boy, who by now is happier than a pig in slob over his stroke of good fortune, hollers back, “Yes sir, she sure will, but ya might have to cuss her just a little.”</p>
<p>“Cuss her a little,” considers the man, then he hollers back out, “Son, I cain’t cuss her a little…I’m a preacher! Shoot, it’s been so long since I have, I don’t even remember… HOW to cuss???”</p>
<p>The little boy shot back, “Just keep tuggin on that rope preacher man…it’ll come back to ya directly!”</p>
<p>Reckon how you’d have reacted?</p>
<p>Myself, I’d just been tuggin on that rope, smiling the whole time, tellin that little feller just how PROUD I was that he was ENJOYIN that bike so well…</p>
<p>Most of my friends, at least the ones who’ve known me for several years, will attest to the fact, that I AM HARD…to get flustered!</p>
<p>NOT!</p>
<p> LOL!</p>
<p>I was reading last night, not really anything on my mind to speak of, and ran across a few things that kinda jumped out at me.</p>
<p>It was talking about a vineyard that had been planned, laid out, and constructed.</p>
<p>This was to be a beautiful vineyard, a vineyard whose vines would never want for anything, and would bear fruit abundantly.</p>
<p>The vineyard grew, and the owner settled in for his harvest of sweet grapes.</p>
<p>The vines though, produced only sour grapes.</p>
<p>Again, the owner had provided any and everything to get this particular vineyard to the point where, down the road, it being a great garden, actually…the “perfect garden!”</p>
<p>Yet, although the vineyard did produce, its fruits were bitter, and not of any type of quality.</p>
<p>The owner was so distraught, so angered by this, that he declared…</p>
<p><em>“Now let me tell you what I’ll do to my vineyard;</p>
<p>I will tear down its hedges and let it be destroyed.</p>
<p>I will break down its walls and let the animals trample it.</p>
<p>I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed,</p>
<p>A place overgrown with briers and thorns.</p>
<p>I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>This story of the vineyard is actually a song about “The Lord’s Vineyard,” with the vineyard actually representing…the nation of Israel, God’s chosen nation&#8230;</p>
<p>It is told in the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 5.</p>
<p>Israel had turned away from God, stopped doing God’s work, and because of this, was destroyed.</p>
<p>This was God’s punishment for their sins, allowing Assyria to conquer and destroy them.</p>
<p>Also during the prophet Isaiah’s time, Israel was divided into two nations, Israel and Judah.</p>
<p>Judah had been spared for the time, and Isaiah evidently had come as a prophet for mainly Judah, but his word was for Israel also.</p>
<p>This “song,” was to warn Judah of the consequences it faced, and eventually it received from the Assyrians as well…</p>
<p>When people see no distinction between good and evil…</p>
<p>Destruction soon follows.</p>
<p>This statement is so true in so many different ways, yet look around you today.</p>
<p>Do you recognize the Country you grew up in? </p>
<p>Do we still display an outward appearance as a nation with morals, integrity, compassion, patriotism, and strong Christian values?</p>
<p>How bout people coming freely, openly, and LEGALLY, to experience what the United States of America represents…a nation where ya get outta something, what ya put into it?</p>
<p>You work, sacrifice, save, and through this, in your own way live out a dream. A dream to better yourself, and your family.</p>
<p>“The American Dream.”</p>
<p>The dream that let you lay down a foundation acquired through a hard, honest, work ethic that allows your children the opportunity to start their own careers, possibly a rung up the ladder than your start.</p>
<p>This…to be your legacy.</p>
<p>What legacy do far too many leave their children today?</p>
<p>A legacy of what others work for is in fact…yours too.</p>
<p>An e-mail from a good friend today, explains it much better than I.</p>
<p>It simply states….</p>
<p>1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.</p>
<p>2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.</p>
<p>3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.</p>
<p>4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!</p>
<p>5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.</p>
<p>So, the legacy today we as Americans leave to our children and grandchildren, is a legacy brought about by our government. </p>
<p>A legacy where our Country owes YOU something, not, you owe our Country a debt, simply because of the freedoms it has provided for us…all throughout our history.</p>
<p>Our legacy today is simply…</p>
<p>A legacy of entitlement.</p>
<p>Without getting further off into this particular topic, let me ask you this?</p>
<p>Is our Country today heading down the same path of Israel, and Judah?</p>
<p>Could be.</p>
<p>Parents killing their children. Children killing their parents. Children killing children.</p>
<p>Religious freedom becoming a thing of the past to many.</p>
<p> Leaders of our Country, many whom have never known God.</p>
<p>Dr. Benjamin Carson speaks of “Godless leaders.”</p>
<p>Listen to him…</p>
<p>Christian morals questioned, or even ridiculed. </p>
<p>Looking back on history, does any of this story, the story of Israel and Judah sound familiar?</p>
<p>Could be.</p>
<p><em>HE will send a signal to distant nations far away and whistle to those at the ends of the earth.</p>
<p>They will come racing to Jerusalem.</p>
<p>They will not get tired or stumble they will not stop to rest or sleep.</p>
<p>Not a belt will be loose, not a sandal strap broken.</p>
<p>Their arrows will be sharp and their bows ready for battle.</p>
<p>Sparks will fly from their horses hooves,</p>
<p>And the wheels of their chariots will spin like a whirlwind.</p>
<p>They will roar like lions, like the strongest of lions.</p>
<p>Growling, they will pounce on their victims and carry them off,</p>
<p>And no one will be there to rescue them.</p>
<p>They will roar over their victims on that day of destruction like the roaring of the sea.</p>
<p>If someone looks across the land, only darkness and distress will be seen;</p>
<p>Even the light will be darkened by the clouds.</em></p>
<p>Could this be possible in regards to our Country, and the path we’re headed down, through reverse racism, political correctness, the destruction of a work ethic, indoctrination of our children through a school system no longer educating…but advocating.</p>
<p>Advocating an agenda where right is wrong, and wrong in fact, is right.</p>
<p>An agenda…of entitlements.</p>
<p>Once more…</p>
<p>When people see no distinction between good and evil, destruction soon happens.</p>
<p>Could this possibly be the end result?</p>
<p>Actually…</p>
<p>It could be…</p>
<p>You guys have a great day, and God bless you, and yours!</p>
<p>Be sure to keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!</p>
<p>Dub and Deb</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning guys! What’s up? Been hangin out with a “younger crowd” over the holidays, thus, the “what’s up?” I’d be willing to bet the last gatherin I was at there wasn’t a single person there over 50?? Seems I’m &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1649">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good morning guys! What’s up? Been hangin out with a “younger crowd” over the holidays, thus, the “what’s up?” I’d be willing to bet the last gatherin I was at there wasn’t a single person there over 50??</p>
<p>Seems I’m becoming “the old man” at more and more of these gatherins! May have “winter” settin in on my head, but I’ll be derned if I ain’t STILL got some “spring” in my rear-end!” It’s all in your attitude, course that Ensure stuff don’t hurt either! LOL!</p>
<p>I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, and in doin so, I hope you remembered the REAL reason for this…our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. </p>
<p>I was sittin here this morning, checkin out the headlines. Pretty depressing anymore, wouldn’t you say? </p>
<p>Let’s take a gander at just a few…</p>
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<p><strong>A School in Texas Using Tracking Devices to Insure Students Staying On Campus…</strong></p>
<p>Maybe it’s just me, but don’t you all find this very…unusual? How bout just plain offensive? What gives anyone the right to have access to your child’s whereabouts through…surveillance?<br />
Ya reckon this might possibly be…un-Constitutional? </p>
<p>Oh, sorry, I forgot, our Founding Father’s that laid out the moral principles that are the backbone of making our Country so great in the past, and so appealing to all the masses that have immigrated here through the years, are in actuality…old, rich, white men thoughts.</p>
<p>With this being the case…who needs the Constitution, right? </p>
<p>Those dern Progressives, how in the world have we gotten along without them all these years? </p>
<p>Could this maybe be one more indoctrination of our youth that the Progressives see as an opportunity to instill the “idea” into our youth that, you know what…what DOES it hurt that THEY know EVERYTHING about us? Jus sayin…</p>
<p>Listen up guys…UNTIL, we take back our educational system…nothing is going to change. </p>
<p>Until WE decide that our children and grandchildren are going to once more receive an education (imagine that), our liberties and freedoms as we know them will simply continue to disappear! </p>
<p>I’m speaking craziness you say? Well, okay, I’ve been labeled MUCH WORSE than that before. Sadly, many times for some pretty good reasons too! LOL!</p>
<p>I know a lady who’s become a dear friend, by accident, which by the way at times ARE the best kind, who lives on the “Far-left coast.”</p>
<p>Our first contact she expressed she had a lot of the same political views that I have.</p>
<p>My first thought…”poor thing, living in California, and having many of the same conservative views as I? </p>
<p>Now there’s a good example of some poor child that just HAD to have been dropped on her head while still a youth.” </p>
<p>Yet, after speakin with her, and her assuring me that this wasn’t the case, but in reality she HAD BEEN a liberal during her youth, I stopped feelin sorry for her, and just HAD to hear the reason for her political “change of heart.”</p>
<p>It was quite simple…once she went out after college, got a job (oh, the mere thought of work is so, so, “old-fashioned” anymore, huh?), she realized after looking at what “Uncle Sam” was taking out of her hard-earned paycheck… “Good night, that’s A LOT!”</p>
<p>Case closed.</p>
<p>Our youth are easily influenced, people. Don’t you remember growing up? We were too, at least I know I was.</p>
<p>“Miss Warner,” my old high school French teacher, yeah, I took French (not to learn the dern language, but mainly to spend an hour out of the day checkin out Miss Warner! LOL) heavily influenced me. </p>
<p>That woman could have told me to “pass a football,” and I’d have only asked for…time enough to “swaller the dern thing!” </p>
<p>Yep, lookin back now, I was pretty easily influenced!</p>
<p>Seriously though, we have to start teaching our own youth that nothing is owed you. Not a free education, although I feel this perfectly fine if awarded to a youth, ANY youth, black, white, brown, or yellow, who excels in their studies. </p>
<p>Affirmative Action, No Child Left Behind, and all the other “political think-tank programs” that are advocated today by our elected leaders…have simply got to go!</p>
<p>Then, the amazing thing to me, is still the fact that we have people here in our Country, actually MASSES of people today in our Country, who think these same political leaders they vote for, election after election, actually give one hoot in hell about them???</p>
<p>Why not, instead of allowing our school systems to dumb down our children, indoctrinate our children to the Progressive mindset, and create even further, the mentality of…gimmee, gimmee, gimmee, simply start once again…to give our children what they’ve gone to school for in the first place. Like maybe say…an education?</p>
<p>We don’t have to, and SHOULD NOT, lower our educational standards to fit into the “Oh look, we had a 90% graduation rate last year. Isn’t life grand?”</p>
<p>Well, pardon me folks, but I don’t consider our seniors graduating high school with a 5th grade reading level as…being “very grand” at all??</p>
<p>Let’s take a look at another “piece of news” that simply enforces my belief on this matter.</p>
<p><strong>Obama Re-elected by an Illiterate Society…</strong></p>
<p><em>Recently, Obama has been re-elected for a 2nd term by an illiterate society and he is ready to continue his lies of less taxes while he raises them. He gives speeches of peace and love in the world while he promotes wars as he did in Egypt, Libya and Syria. He plans his next war is with Iran as he fires or demotes his generals who get in the way.</p>
<p>He is a Communist without question promoting the Communist Manifesto without calling it so. How shrewd he is in America. His cult of personality mesmerizes those who cannot go beyond their ignorance. They will continue to follow him like those fools who still praise Lenin and Stalin in Russia.  Obama&#8217;s fools and Stalin&#8217;s fools share the same drink of illusion.<br />
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That’s a real eye-opener, huh? Not the statement itself, but actually WHO made the statement!</p>
<p>PRAVDA!</p>
<p>It goes on to say…</p>
<p><em>President Vladimir Putin could never have imagined anyone so ignorant or so willing to destroy their people like Obama much less seeing millions vote for someone like Obama. <strong>They read history in America don&#8217;t they? Alas, the schools in the U.S. were conquered by the Communists long ago and history was revised thus paving the way for their Communist presidents.</strong> Obama has bailed out those businesses that voted for him and increased the debt to over 16 trillion with an ever increasing unemployment rate especially among blacks and other minorities. All the while promoting his agenda.<br />
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I’ll just add to this that our media plays a major, major part of “our ignorance” today as Americans as well!</p>
<p><strong>Black Friday…</strong></p>
<p>Well, we’ve all seen the reports of this, huh?</p>
<p>People brawling, shoplifting, mass chaos, even deaths??? What kind of society are we living in today??</p>
<p>Nuff said!</p>
<p><strong>Recession in 2013?&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>AH…ya reckon?? </p>
<p>Good night people, you cannot continue to eliminate jobs in our Country, spend money as if it grows on trees, although when you have the ability to print money, maybe it really does grow on trees, huh?</p>
<p>Over 16 trillion in debt, and growing daily mind you, with the TRUE jobless rate in the US being 16-20%, adding more and more Americans to the “Nanny State” teet. </p>
<p>How could you possibly NOT have thoughts of recession on your mind, especially when your leader states… “We’ll SPEND our way out of debt!” </p>
<p>Good sound economic logic there, wouldn’t you think?<br />
NOT!</p>
<p>Oh, now I get it! Just see above statement on an illiterate society.</p>
<p> I see…you see? </p>
<p>Then, in our last look at some headlines, our good friend, Sandra, sent me a link. Perfectly expresses today’s sentiments of our Progressive society!</p>
<p><strong>Jamie Foxx: &#8216;Our Lord and Savior Barack Obama&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>Don’t believe me…Google it. It’s there….</p>
<p>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/11/26/jamie-foxx-calls-obama-our-lord-and-savior#ixzz2DKou43ep</p>
<p>His actual statement goes like this…</p>
<p><strong>JAMIE FOXX: First of all, give an honor to God and our lord and savior Barack Obama.<br />
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Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/11/26/jamie-foxx-calls-obama-our-lord-and-savior#ixzz2DLE61M2b</p>
<p>Umm…umm, people. Kinda scary stuff, that. </p>
<p>Day of reckoning coming to Mr. Foxx, not unlike any of the rest of us, although I feel much more secure in MY OWN beliefs than putting any faith into Mr. Foxx’s statement!</p>
<p>Sure hope he has a change of attitude prior to his meeting our “True” Lord and Savior!</p>
<p>In closing today why not think about the song verse, “America, America, GOD shed HIS grace on thee!” Pretty appropriate, don’t you agree? </p>
<p>Don’t kid yourself though, our liberal counterparts understand fully how much a “thorn in the side” our religious beliefs and freedoms are in regards to their Progressive agenda, and it’s because of this they attack our religious freedoms so vehemently!</p>
<p>“THE WORD,” speaks quite clearly of false prophets and false prophesies, and in today’s world, we hear of each quite frequently. </p>
<p>Discrediting our Christian values is literally a MUST DO in order for their political agenda to continue. As long as we have religious freedom…we have FAITH!</p>
<p>NO FAITH, equates simply into…NO FREEDOM.</p>
<p>The choice is our own…</p>
<p>As for me, I’ll take Faith and Freedom, hands down…EVERY TIME!</p>
<p>Sandra also sent me this, this morning as well. It too is very appropriate in today’s message…</p>
<p><strong>• You shall have no other gods before ME.</strong></p>
<p><strong>•  You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who LOVE Me, and keep My commandments.</strong></p>
<p>You guys have a great day, and God Bless! Also, how bout keeping a smile on your face, and one in your heart! Deb would love it!</p>
<p>Dub</p>
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