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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning guys! How are you today? I hope this post finds all in good health and spirits. To all that aren’t, then you’re in our prayers. Let me kick this off this morning by making a little statement…GO GATORS! &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1598">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good morning guys! How are you today? I hope this post finds all in good health and spirits. To all that aren’t, then you’re in our prayers.</p>
<p>Let me kick this off this morning by making a little statement…GO GATORS! Whipped up on them LSU Tigers, didn’t they? Yeah, man! Florida is on the road back! Kudos to Coach Muschamp, his staff, and the players themselves…great job!</p>
<p>Today I’d like to discuss a statement our President and his circle of insiders like to throw around to the less informed…which by the way is exactly the way they’d like to keep you.  I’d like to say the less motivated, but I won’t.</p>
<p>Through the process of “dumbing us down,” which by the way, includes our children within our educational system today, that in many cases are simply teaching “agendas,” they are accomplishing JUST what their true intentions are….a socialist America.</p>
<p>This being the ones in power, ARE the power, STAY in power, and in their totally anti-American mindsets understand by doing so, they’ll ALWAYS be the power! Scary stuff, but true.</p>
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<p>Look at affirmative action, political correctness, the government regulations in place today, the “new” definition of hate crimes enacted by our Attorney General, and the right to “Free Speech” enjoyed by our far-left counterparts YET, no longer enjoyed by us…the believers in our Constitution, simply because ANY belief we may have usually falls under the title of…anti-government, anti-American, and racist.</p>
<p> All totally fabricated myths.</p>
<p>We’re even branded as religious radicals, by the left as well. But, it seems to be okay for a religion that tolerates, and by doing so I’d have to say advocate… honor killings. Your wife doesn’t act just as you see fit? Kill her. Your children fall into the same category. </p>
<p>YET, these same people are PROTECTED in many ways through…the hate crime act among others. I wish someone would explain to me how my being against, or disliking the beliefs that these people have, could possibly be considered a hate crime? </p>
<p>It’s pretty obvious to me that these people really don’t seem to care for us either, SO, am I missing something here. Even my describing them as actually HATING us, is not going to any extreme…is it?<br />
I must be though, when an Islamic terrorist, who was a Major in our armed forces, kills over 30 of his fellow soldiers, all the while shouting “Allah Akbar,” and OUR President declares, “Let’s not jump to conclusions,” and this is exactly what I’d done when I heard about it. </p>
<p>I DID jump to the conclusion Hassan was indeed a terrorist…a religious terrorist. Maybe it was just me, but the Allah Akbar thing was kinda a dead giveaway. But, that was just my opinion.</p>
<p>From my standpoint, this very “religion of peace” pretty much advocates them not even LIKING THEMSELVES. They kill their own family members and by doing so, it falls under the banner of…HONOR? C’mon folks, gimmee a break here.</p>
<p>With this literally being the case, how could these same people give one hoot about me, MY family, or any other citizen of our Country, and what we stand for? That in itself is very scary too.</p>
<p>Yet our President sidesteps around this issue daily. Wonder what’s up with that?</p>
<p>We live in a society today created by our elected elite, the media, and all their little community organizing splinter groups where simply, WRONG, is now right. Our Country has literally been turned upside down, wouldn’t you agree?</p>
<p>Returning to today’s topic, our President recently made a statement, on July 13, 2012… “You didn’t build that!”</p>
<p>Take a look at this short, 3 part video STARRING Elizabeth Warren (the Cherokee wannabe), Barack Hussein Obama (LOOK, I USED his middle name!), and Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley (WHERE ELSE?), George Lakoff. </p>
<p>Three people who have used our freedom of speech, our freedoms provided for them through the bloodshed of tens of thousands of American veterans, along with the compassionate goodness of fellow Americans, who in many cases, have footed the bill for their educations and ambitions. </p>
<p>Do they know how to… “work the system?” You bet! </p>
<p>Although no more a “person of color” than me, Warren claims to have an Indian heritage and “rode that horse” to further her career… “working the system.”</p>
<p>President Obama has no idea the work ethic, sacrifice, integrity, or fiscal accountability involved in starting up and running a private business. “Well spend our way out of debt” comes to mind. </p>
<p>If this were at all possible, which it isn’t, if you were to add up what he and our First Lady have spent of your and I money on vacations, meals, entertainment and the like, shoot, we’d have been out of this economic downturn LONG AGO!</p>
<p>Also I wonder…WHO PAID for their educations? </p>
<p>Then we have Professor Lakoff…what’s in it for him? Probably not much, huh? Couldn’t be with all this talk they throw around so freely about SOCIAL EQUALITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE, and all the other “chain jerkin” they do.</p>
<p>An example of this “chain jerkin” you ask, well, listen to them. They promise the poor and oppressed that… “We’re in your corner. We’re fighting for YOU!” Bull malarkey.</p>
<p> Generations since “The Great Society” was introduced to “we the people,” nothing is better for the people who live in the&#8230; inner cities. </p>
<p>The inner cities are still…inner cities with skyrocketing birth rates, which we pay for, high school dropout rates off the charts, an educational system in our Country that has teachers going on strike leaving hundreds of thousands of students not attending schools, AND illegals DEMANDING more Spanish speaking teachers, nurses, and Doctors. Comprende??</p>
<p>Joe Brown people, NOTHING HAS CHANGED FOR THE BETTER! (Joe Brown being an expression learned from a good friend of Deb and mine’s that she uses when angered or awestruck) </p>
<p>This a headline from CBS Detroit…</p>
<p><strong>Enter At Your Own Risk: Police Union Says ‘War-Like’ Detroit Is Unsafe For Visitors</strong></p>
<p>I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again…Detroit is a fine example of this “socialist utopia” many today speak so highly of.</p>
<p>The slums are STILL the slums, and in most cases when we relocate these people to “nicer neighborhoods, or apartment buildings, it’s only a matter of time before these too look just like where they were relocated from!</p>
<p>WHY…because they have put absolutely NOTHING into them. Everything for free! Why would anyone respect and have the desire to keep something up if they’ve sacrificed absolutely nothing to have it, PLUS, you screw this up…we’ll relocate you again!</p>
<p>This is insanity, AND many of these “slumlords” operating today are elected officials, who once again profess to “fighting for the poor and oppressed.” Running water, leaking roofs, needing paint, etc., etc., etc!</p>
<p>They’ve become so complacent and “dumbed down” as a whole that they STILL vote the very same people in each election??? Good night a livin, how our society has changed!</p>
<p>Back to Professor Lakoff, sorry for the rambling, but I get SO AGGRAVATED looking in at all the literal, or should I say liberal, stupidity of “these constituents,” AND at we the people for sitting by and letting these “officials” destroy everything our Country stands for…right before our eyes?</p>
<p>BUT, in regards to Professor Lakoff, let’s only look at one other “professor, or college president.” This one is named Eduardo J. Padron. Padron on May 31, 2006, (2006 mind you so what could possibly in these packages in 2012??), terminated his participation in DROP, Deferred Retirement Option Program.</p>
<p>He collected, are you ready for this… <strong>$893,286 in lump sum benefits, AND began receiving $14,631 a month in retirement pay. </strong>Can you believe those figures? </p>
<p>He then RETURNED to his job as President of Miami-Dade Community College and began receiving his annual pay, once again! It’s not much though…<strong>only $328,860!</strong></p>
<p>Oh, but there’s a reason for all this…A spokesman, Juan Mendieta, for Padron said, “the president WAS ASKED TO RETURN when he told board members he was retiring. He went on to say as well,<strong> “That the process is perfectly legal AND acceptable.” </strong></p>
<p>Really? Legal and acceptable??? To whom? This is literally STEALING from us my friends. I don’t give a hoot about whoever TRIES to convince me it isn’t! </p>
<p>I just have to believe that if you took Professor Lakoff’s paycheck weekly, and divided it up among “the people,” his own view of this social justice and social equality would be looked at from an entirely different perspective, wouldn’t you</p>
<p>So you see clearly that these three, using all the above in the betterment of their own lives, and by such, being grateful to our Country and we the people for affording them these opportunities, is it appreciated? Not in the least. </p>
<p>They all are grateful for one thing…that these very same freedoms our Country affords us, is the exact freedoms they can use to destroy it! </p>
<p><strong>Really…You DIDN’T Build That</strong></p>
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<p>If you listen to the points used by these people, IF YOU CAN EVEN CALL THEM POINTS, is incredible to me. </p>
<p>Your company used the roads to get to and fro? You’re protected from marauding gangs?? SO…you didn’t build that???</p>
<p>I’m a small business owner, and I’m here to tell you, yes I did in fact build that, and it SURE wasn’t with any help “from them!” ALL other business owners know this as well.</p>
<p>Excessive taxation, government regulation, all are detriments to building a business here in the US today and is EXACTLY why so many of our jobs lost are to companies moving overseas. </p>
<p>For them to make a profit…THEY HAVE TO!</p>
<p>Let me stop and play Elizabeth Warren again. I’d already posted up but after watching this video I decided to throw it up as well.</p>
<p>Here is a very good example of a typical liberal response to a question. She talks about literally ANYTHING and EVERYTHING…except the question she was asked. DIVERSION is an Alinsky teaching. Cheat, lie, disrupt, anything is okay, just so long as you don’t admit…YOU lied! “The ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS!”</p>
<p>Elizabeth Warren…Cherokee Wannabee!</p>
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<p>Believe that?? HOW DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE ANY SAY IN OUR COUNTRY??</p>
<p>THEN, we have Obama care looming on the horizon. I read yesterday that Darden, a casual dining company, is already gearing up for Obama care through cutting back fulltime employees to part time status…through the number of hours they’ll be allowed to work.</p>
<p>Boy, that sure helps our economy, and in keeping food on those employees tables, huh? What are we thinking people??</p>
<p>Plus, what else is in the Obama care legislation? I know I’m hearing horror stories in this regard. THEN, prior to the bill passing, Pelosi declares, “We need to pass the bill first…to see what’s in it.” Once more, WHY do we as the backbone of our Country tolerate such as this? It all is just incredible to me!</p>
<p>Here’s a lighthearted look at the “You Didn’t Build That” statement. It was sent to me by our friend Bob. Too bad it is exactly what our leaders are suggesting to us or it would really be funny!</p>
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<p>You know, our officials today no longer appreciate the facts of what our Country was built on, and the opportunities for people to come here and work hard and grow.</p>
<p>They advocate today the policy of…we the government, need to be MORE involved in your lives, and through this…we’ll take care of you. We’re the power…we know best. You don’t want to work, no sweat, we’ll see you get everything you need…</p>
<p>Let me share a verse or two I read last night…I think it portrays the very ideals that have made our Country great. It talks about excellence, knowledge, self-control, Godliness, and other things as well.<br />
All things today that our elected officials don’t seem to put much faith into in regards to our Country, themselves, nor their constituents.</p>
<p>It begins by stating that God has bestowed upon us HIS divine power, and through this has given us everything we need for living a Godly life, and through this, we can weather anything and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires…</p>
<p><em>In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with Godliness, and Godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. </em> (2nd Peter 1  5-7)</p>
<p>Pretty powerful stuff, huh? Without trying to “preach” to you guys, I’m only suggesting you possibly start studying God’s word to some extent. </p>
<p>Personally, I have come to find out that God does love me, and by studying his word, although I don’t nearly as much as I should, I AM, understanding more and more, just how great and loving a God he is.</p>
<p>In closing today I’d like to thank you guys for stopping back by. God Bless you and yours, and work hard at…Keeping a smile on your face, and one in your heart!</p>
<p>Talk at ya later…<strong>Comrades!<br />
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Dub</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning guys, how is everybody today? As today’s title suggest, I would like to “tip my hat,” to Tim Thomas, a goaltender and the MVP of the series for Boston Bruins, who won the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals. Am &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1228">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good morning guys, how is everybody today? </p>
<p>As today’s title suggest, I would like to “tip my hat,” to Tim Thomas, a goaltender and the MVP of the series for Boston Bruins, who won the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals. Am I a hockey fan? I wasn’t, but am now, at least for the time being.</p>
<p>Living in Florida, I’ve just never followed ice hockey even though Tampa has a team. Hockey just never seemed to interest me, and don’t ask me why. Mainly I believe because as kids, Lake Kissimmee never froze over allowing us to ice skate. LOL! So with no applied knowledge of the game, I never “got into” it!</p>
<p>Tim Thomas did something that inspired me number one, and by doing so, he became not only an inspiration, but a role model. Not the type where I feel through his play he became a “hero,” or “folk legend,” as a Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Bart Starr, Tom Brady, Willie Mays, etc., but by simply standing up for his beliefs. Believing in the difference between…right and wrong! Thank you SO much, Mr. Thomas! To me, you ARE, a great American!</p>
<p>I read about Mr. Thomas in my latest issue of <em>“Sports Illustrated,”</em> and although I had missed his “stand” earlier, I was enlightened by reading this short commentary.</p>
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<p>By Mr. Thomas being a member of the Boston Bruins, and by virtue of their winning the Stanley Cup, they (the Bruins), were invited to the White House through an invitation extended by, President Obama. Mr. Thomas declined the invitation.</p>
<p>Only hours after the Bruins visit, Mr. Thomas issued his statement in regards to his refusal of being part of this visit. Through his Facebook page, his explanation for his refusal was on these grounds, and I quote…</p>
<p>He believes the federal government has, <strong>“Grown out of control,” </strong>but that he felt both parties are to blame and that “<strong>this was not about politics or party…This was a choice I had to make as an individual.”</strong></p>
<p>A little more of his statement was made by<em> “The Los Angeles Times…”</em></p>
<p><strong>I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People.</strong></p>
<p><strong>This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers vision for the Federal government.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Because I believe this, today I exercised my right as a Free Citizen, and did not visit the White House. This was not about politics or party, as in my opinion both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country. This was about a choice I had to make as an INDIVIDUAL.<br />
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<strong>This is the only public statement I will be making on this topic. TT<br />
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<p>I gotta tell you guys…I applaud this man for standing up, and by doing so, being one of too few to show others that their own values, morals, integrity, and belief in our Country as laid out for us by our Founding Fathers, through our Constitution, does indeed matter. </p>
<p>Through his decision and course of action, he indeed set an example that I for one, found very inspirational! HE STOOD UP for what he felt to be right! In this age of political correctness, forced upon us by our government, the media, the ACLU, our educational systems, and the left, this guy said…NO!</p>
<p>This man has a backbone, and I’m sure knowing that through his action and decision to do so, would create a firestorm of anti-sentiment against him,…and this followed.</p>
<p>This by Joe McDonald, ESPN.com… “WASHINGTON &#8212; Before most hockey games, it&#8217;s tough to find many players who stand completely still during the national anthem. </p>
<p><strong>Boston Bruin goaltender Tim Thomas never moves. He stands as still as the Statue of Liberty, with his focus directly on the American flag that hangs from the rafters in every NHL arena. There&#8217;s no denying Thomas&#8217; patriotism. He represented Team USA as an Olympian and has called it one of his most memorable moments of his career. </strong></p>
<p>But when the president of the United States invites you and all your teammates to the White House to honor your Stanley Cup championship, you go and represent the team.</p>
<p><strong>On Monday, Thomas instead chose to represent himself.”</strong></p>
<p>Isn’t that his right as a citizen of the United States of America? To the disbelief of the MSM, the left, and too many of our elected officials today, THIS IS his right.</p>
<p>Even more bizarre to me personally in regards to our media’s reaction, is the fact that NOT ONCE, did Mr. Thomas call out our President over his actions or agenda, not EVEN referring to him by name. Not EVEN separating his action due to ONE PARTY. Would I have had this type of restraint to have had such self-control? Honestly…probably not!</p>
<p>You guys can read all about his actions, and the remarks and belittling done by the MSM very easily. Just Google it up, and lo and behold…there’s a ton of it!</p>
<p>Oh, he should have stood with his team they say…it wasn’t the right moment to take SUCH ACTION. </p>
<p>SUCH ACTION??? He made a stand, political correctness BE DAMNED! He did what HIS HEART told him to do, not what our liberal socialist society felt he should do! </p>
<p>There’s a lesson to be learned here today people…DO WHAT YOU FEEL IS RIGHT, NOT what you feel others want you to do. YOU control your destiny, no one else, no matter what kind of BS they try to force feed you!</p>
<p>Although they, the left, the MSM, and again too many of our “Elitist” officials disagree, WE STILL LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA, and I’m getting very, very tired of this political correctness mentality being forced more and more upon us. </p>
<p>This is where we as TRUE Americans seem to have missed the boat. Yes, the Tea Party became a voice, and drew tens of thousands across the Country, BUT, where is our one voice, standing above all the rest, uniting us? There ain’t one.</p>
<p>The Republican Party, in my opinion, has thrown us under the bus as well. No clear leader, and in this time of dire need. Our Country as we know it, at least those of us old enough to remember, is fast becoming a “has been.”</p>
<p>I am a Republican, but my party has compromised our beliefs. Once again, power, greed, corruption. Whether you want to admit it or not, the Republicans we put into office DO draw the same salary, the same pension, the same healthcare, and the same retirement packages as their Democrat counterparts. </p>
<p>You don’t think this whole scenario isn’t a sham? Through the tough economic times you and I have been living, have you seen any pay cuts taken in their own regard? The government grows bigger and stronger, while the private sector grows smaller, and weaker.</p>
<p>Banks not giving loans to small business, small business uncertain of hiring new employees. This on account of WHAT will the new employee cost them, AND will they even be able to stay in business in the economic uncertainty of today, and…Obama care looming in the distance!</p>
<p>Anyway, I know I’m simply preaching to the choir to most of you guys, so I’ll get back to Mr. Thomas in closing out for today.</p>
<p>In another twist to this tale, and although the team he plays for IS the Boston Bruins, he is the ONLY American on the team, according to<em> “Sports Illustrated.”</em> Why mention this, well, I thought it appropriate.</p>
<p>First, in regard to the rest of the team, I have nothing at all against ANY of these people, and I’m sure I’d enjoy each and every one of their company. I too, like people. We could all probably sit around, have a beer, and have a grand ole time!</p>
<p>BUT, why I thought mentioning this was appropriate is that simply, to the other teammates anyway, what difference does it make to them what takes place politically in our Country? I mean, really? I personally could care less who the President of Kenya is, quite frankly. Why Kenya as an example? Oh…I don’t know, it just popped in my mind! LOL!!</p>
<p>But for Mr. Thomas to be the ONLY American on the team, and HE declining the invite, to be honest once again…it just made me feel good inside! A TRUE AMERICAN standing up for his rights…just the way it’s always been, and always should be!</p>
<p>Tim Thomas…God Bless you my friend, and God Bless America…Merry Christmas to ya buddy! </p>
<p>Now, Mr. Thomas, if you ever get down Central Florida way, and wanna see how WE stop hockey pucks from goin in the goal, just give ole Deb and me a call, but ya better bring some ear muffs…it gets kinda loud! We just shoot em! Bang, Bang!! Once we get on a roll, shoot, we’ll stop 3 to 4 pucks at a time!! LOL!</p>
<p>You guys have a great day, and God Bless you and yours too! As always, my better half says to keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart! Oh yeah…MERRY CHRISTMAS!!</p>
<p>Dub and Deb</p>
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