Today’s topic is simply about some things going on today that I find very disturbing. Yep, I’m a “good ole country boy,” whom many across this great Nation of ours find…simple.

In reality, I guess I am. I live simply in my lifestyle. This to me is…my cup of tea. I love being around people, yet, I love being to myself just as much. I enjoy the simple things in life. I like to read a book, grow a garden, cook, work, take a gun out and plink some cans, or, on a fall Saturday afternoon, just kick back in my recliner and watch a little football.

Again, in reality, I guess I am truly…a Simple Man. Not mentally as some may like to suggest, especially after today’s post, but in my choice in how I choose to live MY life.

This is one of the reasons why I love this great Country of ours. It provides each and every one of us with this freedom…the freedom of choice.

Think about that for a moment. Look around worldwide and ponder for a minute or two the other Countries worldwide who enjoy that freedom…the freedom of choice. The freedom of individuality. The freedom to say what you want. The freedom to make something of yourself, and build a foundation for your children to grow from.

Through this, hoping that you’ve provided for them, through your own sweat, desire, financial accountability, and work ethic, an opportunity to be even better…than you were!

Simply put, this is why so many people worldwide have immigrated here. Freedom!

This is what America is about. You notice I didn’t use the term…WAS all about. Yet, today, this is not only just an idle threat, but in actuality, the very road we as a Country are traveling. I find this very, very disturbing, or TICKED!

What am I so ticked about? Keep readin…

First off, at 56 years old, oops, I meant 36, I went to renew my Florida driver’s license. No biggie, right? WRONG!

I went 3 times. Yeah, I finally got em, but it was like pullin teeth!

Quickly, my first trip, I didn’t have my birth certificate. Poor Deb had the dern thing put up, but I STILL have not found it.

I’d heard I needed it, but after pulling up the State of Florida DMV website, it does NOT state this as a requirement. SO, I printed it up and…took it with me!

Here is what’s on the State of Florida DMV site…copied and pasted. Checked this morning, and it still reads this way. Check out the spelling of the word requirements…seems I’m not the only simple man runnin around, huh?

Document requirments include: Primary Identification, Proof of Social Security Number, 2 Proofs of Residential Address…

Primary ID does NOT just mean a birth certificate, I’m sorry. The man behind the desk says…you HAVE TO have a birth certificate!

I showed him the print out, and his remark… “We’ve changed it.” I’m like, “Well CHANGE the dern website!”

The kicker here….I’ve had a FLORIDA DRIVER’S LICENSE for…40 YEARS! Same number on my license, same guy in the photo, BUT, I have to show a birth certificate, to PROVE…I’m the same guy???

“I mean, you plant a tater…ya get a tater, right??”

So, no driver’s license…

It gets worse on my second trip, but, I’ll spare you the details. Again though, I’ve been a resident of Florida for 56 years, I mean 36, I have had a Florida driver’s license for 40 years, YET, I may not be who I say I am…even with my picture on my DL to be renewed???

I DID go to a State Representative’s office here in town, and…showed my rearend! Why…I was ticked!

They took my phone number, and actually they called me back Monday. I’ll call them today to find out what they have to say.

Honestly, if this was all I had to be ticked about…life would be pretty dern good. I could work through that. Sadly today, I stay more ticked than say, “a legless Ethiopian watchin a doughnut roll down a hill!”

Lookin back, I watched the President of the United States of America…bow to a Saudi king?

Durin the last campaign, I saw a Presidential candidate standing on a podium with his hands folded over his crotch, instead of over his heart.

He refused to wear an American Flag pin for the longest time.

He THEN became President??

When talkin about the Vice Presidential nominee of the Republican Party, his opposition, he described her as follows. “You can put lipstick on a pig, but…it’s STILL a pig.” Pretty witty, huh?

In response, we have a sayin here in the South… “ya cain’t polish a turd.” I’m jus sayin.

He also let the media have a field day at Mrs. Palin’s expense, vilifying her children, her intelligence, just about any and everything was fair game. You remember? YET, when any negativity came out about his own wife, this became very personal, and he…wouldn’t stand for it.

This is how the game is played today. As a liberal, you’re allowed to attack, vilify, degrade, name call, or worse. This is all just fine. It matters not that any of it may be lies, because, to the liberally minded this is…politically correct.

THE END, justifies the means. Their “prophet,” Saul Alinsky clearly states this. He also tips his hat to Lucifer, stating that in the end…he won his own kingdom.

Again, down South, we have a sayin… “Don’t argue with an idiot. He’ll drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.”

We had the FORMER Speaker of the House tell us, the American people, that in order to find out what’s in the Health Care Bill, all 2,000 and somethin pages of the dern thing, we need to PASS IT to see. Good night, what have we come to here in our Country?

Have we became so indoctrinated ourselves that if a politician now tells us to go to hell in such a way…that we look forward to the trip? I wonder?

I feel we all need to keep in mind that “politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They both need to be CHANGED regularly…and for the same reason!”

We have a president who refuses to describe our latest embassy attack as terrorism. Do you remember as well, after the Fort Hood shooting, he asked us not to jump to conclusions?

Ah…Mr. President, the gunman was shouting Allah Akbar during the rampage. I wouldn’t really consider our thinkin of this bein a terrorist attack as jumpin to conclusions, huh? But, shoot, I’m just a simple man. What do I know?

You remember the Prof. Gates incident. I mean a college professor, whose house the police were called to, to check out a possible break-in?

The very appreciative Prof. Gates hollered out to the police officer when asked to identify himself… “Your Mama?” This declaration from a highly educated man, teaching at one of our schools of higher learning?

I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but instead of his answer sounding scholarly, or appropriate in regards to the situation, to me…it sounded pretty simple. Maybe Prof. Gates is a closet redneck. I don’t know??

Yet, when first made aware of this incident, our President, ON NATIONAL Television, without knowing ANY of the facts, declared the incident was racially motivated? Maybe it’s just me, but I felt like he JUST MIGHT have been…jumpin to conclusions.

We have a sayin down South… “better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove ALL doubt.”

We have a President today that stated years back…we’ll spend our way out of debt.

You ever heard of such a thing? This statement got me to thinkin some in regards to our elected leaders and their constituents. “Crowded elevators probably smell differently to midgets,” wouldn’t ya think?

We have a President who stated worldwide that America is NOT a Christian Nation. That ticks me off too.

Our Declaration of Independence states quite clearly… “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them …”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

Today I feel we as American people need to make this very same pledge! “We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”

You may want to reread our Declaration of Independence. Read the very reasons WHY, we declared our Independence. It’s uncanny the similarities in the reasoning for this, and what our very own political leaders are advocating today as law.

Today, political correctness suggests that religion is not only bogus, is for the old or very young, but scientifically the events that God’s Word describes, just couldn’t have happened. I’ll only state that the day is indeed coming when these very same people will realize…they missed the boat.

I’d sure have liked to been a “fly on the wall” when Madeline O’Hare met our Lord and Master, huh?

It’s very confusing to me though that when speaking on the topic of Islam (the religion of peace), how our officials, AND our media tread very, very lightly. You reckon it’s probably because…they KNOW better?

On today’s topic, I could go on, and on, and on, but…I won’t.

I only wanted to kinda take a tongue in cheek approach and look at some things going on that I find baffling. Okay, they ain’t so much baffling to me as they REALLY DO…tick me off!

We could discuss our children, and their education. We could talk about government spending, entitlements, socialism, unions, the media, unemployment, and it in reality is almost unending.

BUT I do want to make perfectly clear one issue that is very, very important in regards to our Nation.

There is the Presidential election coming up in November! You MUST get out and vote! In all honesty, the very framework laid out for us by our Founding Fathers is seriously at risk!

Personally, I’d not like to be remembered by our children and our children’s children, as the generation that DIDN’T pass along the very same freedoms that we ourselves experienced. That in itself, would be a burden almost too great to bear.

Look once more at our debt as a Country piling up. Their solution…borrow more…spend more…print more, and if re-elected, we the working, law abiding, God fearing citizen will be…TAXED MORE!

If we’re not very, very careful, this is going to implode our economy, IF, it’s not already too late for us to recover.

So once more…get out and vote! Do your part. Let’s “WE the People” take back our Country, but we can’t stop there. We HAVE to hold our politicians accountable. THIS IS our right!

We’ve seen what, and where, complacency gets us, have we not? So in closing let’s look at one more piece of advice from a simple man…

“You don’t need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive…TWICE!”

Let’s not make the same mistake that we made in the last election cycle…vote for the American.

You guys have a great day, and God Bless. Please remember Deb’s favorite saying… “Keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!”

Dub and Deb

You know that Deb and I are pretty simple people. We love our Country, we love our land, we love the freedoms and liberties we’ve always enjoyed as American citizens. We believe that we live in the greatest Country on earth, but, today we see too many far-left leanings that are literally putting our entire way of life as American citizens at risk…very, very serious risk.

Shoot, I’d like to talk today about a dern garden, how the vegetables are doing, how fine Deb’s been coming along, and just sit around and “shoot the bull” with you guys!

But today in our Country there are things we need to make people aware of. How does this happen, well, by talking about it. I don’t enjoy speaking to you guys from a political perspective in the least, BUT, I do feel it’s something that needs to be done. So, let’s talk a little…

Today I’d like to talk about the pricing Deb and I are seeing, not only at the grocery store, and the gas pump, but pretty much just about anything you purchase today. It’s really getting tough out there.

Why is this?

I’d talked with my Mother earlier in the week, and they have quite a few beef cows that my brother oversees on the ranches for her and Dad. First of cattle prices are extremely good, and have been for a while now.

Mom was telling me though that Dad had spoken with some people and they were telling him that the price of hamburger meat could hit $5 per pound, possibly by the end of summer. That to me is unreal. I swear we don’t see how families with 3 to 4 children are continually able to put good meals on the table.

The job markets are down, the pay scales in many cases have dropped substantially, gas is already quite expensive, food prices are rocketing, and it looks as if there’ll be no solution, or downward trend anywhere in the near future.

We were promised “change,” and that’s exactly what we’ve gotten… “change!” Yet, we’re told things are getting better.

Getting better?? Let’s examine just “how better” things HAVE gotten.

Food stamp rolls, or what they like to call, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, has grown over 70% since 2007! 70 %! That is sinful…literally!

Our government has indoctrinated people, generations worth, that they are entitled to a home, a car, a free ride at the supermarket, free power, even phones. Entitled, which is the key word here, to these things. Entitled through the hard work and sacrifice of others…we the taxpayer!

Through this indoctrination, we have, and are destroying any type of work ethic by these people. Why would they want to work, shoot, I can stay at home and get everything I need to exist, but exist being the key word as well.

Through our politicians “kindness in their hearts,” which is a ploy in itself for more power, more greed, and more immorality, they are doling out JUST enough for people “to exist!” Not prosper and be in control of their own lives, but to simply receive enough…to exist. That’s all.

So, in other words the entitled have been caught hook, line and sinker in a trap. A trap instigated, and advocated by our elected officials. Entitled in a real world description would simply be…DEPENDENT!

Dependent upon the very same leaders who have instigated, and set in motion a plan to undermine our Country, our capitalist system and the freedoms and liberties it provides, and thus creating a political system that has taken the power away from “We The People,” and put total power into the hands of these Socialistic indoctrinated officials.

They call this, “social equality,” and even have become audacious enough to even call it… “social JUSTICE!”

The reasoning for many of these “entitlements” today is the destruction of a job market. People, our leaders have sold us out. Very little to no steel industry jobs, manufacturing jobs, or textile jobs. Most gone overseas.

How can you continue to run a business when through government regulation, taxation, and union contracts dictating to the employer how to run your business, what type of pay scale you pay your employees, right down to not being able to fire non-productive workers?

What happens on account of such practices? Just what you’ve been seeing for the last several years…companies moving overseas! Yet, all through his campaign, Obama promised to…keep jobs HERE, in America! This obviously was not his intention in the first place!

Look back again at the Cloward-Piven Strategy…the overwhelming of our economic system. This by not helping to get people OFF welfare rolls, BUT instead getting MORE people ONTO welfare rolls! We now have a 70% increase since 2007.

Although the Democrats took CONTROL of the House and Senate in 2006…this is ole GW’s fault! How stupid can you get?

The total, unabbreviated destruction of our Country is what these, and most other governmentally run projects are actually doing. So, this really isn’t the fault of the recipients of such government sponsored aid, but literally the buying of votes provided to far too many of today’s elected leaders…if that’s what you want to call them. I call them…thieves!

The time wasn’t that far back that their actions were considered treason, and in my humble opinion, that’s exactly what they are…treasonous behavior by the powers that be in our Country today. Our conservative values have been in many ways abandoned by our own party, forget the far left liberals for the time being.

Why? Well, they too have realized the power to be reckoned with by these “Assistance Programs.” Assistance my rear-end, they’re giveaways, and worse yet, are literally, once again, indoctrinational tactics!

BUT, through these “giveaways, they too have come to realize that by creating this following of constituents they too may continue to be re-elected…time, and time again!

This is the main reason for my belief today that ALL elected officials should be limited to two terms! Stop this insanity of allowing “professional politicians” to continue to be able to run for re-election!

Through this, we should also be able to put an end to all these incredible retirement, health care, and pension plans our officials have bestowed upon themselves. These to, (political entitlements)…are stealing from the taxpayer! Again, that’s exactly what it is!

Politics today has become totally about the politicians and their own, and we the people have become almost non-existent. We, the very people who actually engineer our economy through our work ethics, and small business are now the…unworthy’s!

Unworthy of being heard by our politicians, unworthy of being considered by many politicians as influential constituents, unworthy of being considered true blue, dyed in the flesh American citizens but instead, possible extremists, rabble-rousers, and even racists.

We the people have been sold out for…the ILLEGAL immigrants, the gimme something for nothings, the anti-America liberal, and the power in the numbers of such people today. Our politicians, are literally…likkin their lips!

If we continue in the direction we’re headed, they’ll soon have POWER…full, total control power for life, and the destruction of America as we always have known and loved her, just right around the corner! Socialism, Marxism, Communism, whatever they call it, it’s all the same to me, BAD, and it’s headed straight at us!

You want to talk about stealing from the people…through entitlements, political entitlements? Take a peek…

I’ve talked on this before, but in Vernon, California, Bruce Malkenhorst, Sr., who retired in 2005, is a former city administrator and is drawing a yearly pension of, are you ready for this…$509,664.00. Yep, the comma IS in the right spot.

What is that…over $40 thousand a month? Yep!

He was convicted of fraud, and ordered to pay back $105,000.00. Poor guy!

Vernon, Cal., by the way had a population of 112 in 2010. Yep, 112 residents!

Also, in a single year in Vernon, according to media reports and other sources, Eric T. Fresch was paid $1.65 million in 2008. In 2009 O’Callaghan was paid $785,000, Burnett, $570,000, and Harrison, $800,000. Malkenhorst, Jr. was paid $290,000 in 2008. Malkenhorst Sr. made $600,000.

This is but one example, in ONE city my friends…this goes on everyday all across our Country. Are we all nuts to sit on the sidelines and allow this to happen? Yep, to that question too!

So you see, I have no doubt that we probably will see $5 per pound hamburger meat. Why wouldn’t we…it’s all part of the plan. They’re succeeding in overwhelming our system with welfare, oh sorry, I mean, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, right?

A 70% increase since 2007, in the worst economic times I’ve seen, would have to be considered a check in their column! Who suffers? The entitled? Nope, but we the people, the taxpayers do…we’re the unworthy, yet, we’re also the very same who continue, through taxation, to fund our own demise! Now really, how crazy is that?

Job loss at record highs, and our government not even WANTING to create jobs…why would they? That would mean you’d have control over your own lives then, right? There’s another check in their column!

Our educational system in many cases controlled by the same far left liberals that teach not about how GREAT our Country is, BUT instead, what acts of atrocity are Country COMMITS! Plus they’re teaching social equality, instead of about all the advantages of living in a Country with a capitalist system.

So, through this we’ve lost our children, simply because they’ve received “half an education!” The education the liberals want them to have. There’s another check in their column!

Right down to the mainstream media. They too, no longer even attempt to report the true goings on in our Country today. They’ve sold we the people out as well. Today these media groups report what they’re orchestrated to report…agendas! Once more, a check in their column.

So once more, I see the future of our Country continuing to function as we’ve always enjoyed, fast becoming pretty cloudy. Will we overcome the obstacles put into, or maybe FORCED upon us being a much better description? Honestly, I do.

But, by saying that, it will take the will of the American people to make this happen. So, with that being said, we have work to do my friends. Tireless hours of work in winning an election this go around, that may very well be the most important election of our lives.

Forget the Democrat, Republican picture for a minute, but understand today, far too many from both party’s have totally forgotten that we the people, are in fact their bosses! So, we have to make BOTH PARTY’S understand we WILL hold them accountable!

You go against our will, you’ll NOT be in office next go round! This message HAS to be sent…LOUD AND CLEAR! Let’s do it, okay? Accountability IS NOT too much to ask, is it?

You pay your taxes, right? Well, it’s pretty obvious they take no qualms in the least of holding you…accountable! Remember, this IS…a two way street.

Thanks for your time today, and sorry about the topic. God Bless all you guys, and please take care. As always, Deb says to keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!

Dub and Deb