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Glad to be home after a long week of travel. Had a fantastic time at the lakefront Tea Party in Milwaukee.
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First!
Good morning all. I am enjoying an eraly fall-like day. Acorns are starting to fall from my oak trees. Oh, what a beautiful sound as they crash through the leaves and thump on the ground!
Just trying to fully wake up. We went to the Josh Turner concert last night and had such a fantastic time!
Need more coffee, definitely… It’s housecleaning day.
ACORN’s starting to fall, indeed!
Looking forward to cooling temps to eliminate a few mosquitos around here…
Picking the last vegs from the garden and doing the canning thing. Hay is racked up for the winter, 57 degrees this morning on the farm stead. The leaves are a changin.
Picked up “Culture of Corruption” on CD yesterday at Barnes and Noble. I was surprised to find it right up front, but then, when I wore my “YOU LIE” shirt into the same store the day before, the clerk where I rang up my purchase asked where I had gotten it. Thanking the Lord that I live in AZ, again.
TEEEEEEJ
Im with you. I love Fall and the signs are all over: leaves turning, that clean coolness in the air, and of course…Sunday football. Just a wonderful day in NC.
Fall is the best time of year. Here in Idaho we don’t get the “Fall-like” indications, though. Gotta love football, and the falling Acorn!
Listening to Rachel Maddow some this week – I know, I know, we have few choices on AFN in Afghanistan. She is going bonkers with how The One’s health disaster is doing a Titanic. It is all a racist, gun-totin, Cheney plot!
When not irritated by her acting like she is giving the news, kinda amusing.
Are the leftards switching over from “Climate Change Emergency” to “Swine Flu Emergency” as their next attempt to stifle our liberties?
Sorry, I’ve been working all night. This was a hot topic at breakfast/supper.
Enjoying my extended paid vacation – aka being laid off.
Yom Teruah today at the sighting of the new moon in Jerusalem. Trumpets sounding in the new year. Praying for a better year for my dear friends and family.
Happy the Gators won and USC lost!
That was for you AJ! LOL
Go Cowboys!
Canned some plums yesterday, and will have to do the same for pears and tomatoes.
Feels like autumn too… the light is different, and the air is much chillier. I used to like fall when I was younger, but now I don’t. It only means winter is coming and the days are shorter. I much prefer spring!
Got to work today, until 10pm. Oh, well… Anyone, besides me, getting disgusted having to wade through all the sensationalism in news, just to find some news that you can use? It’s sad about the Yale girl, but we have murders around Hampton Roads too. Do we need a “blow by blow” account every hour? A POTUS needs to be above politics if he is to be a good president. Getting involved in state politics shows me, he is more interested in using the POTUS office for more power than running a country. No, I’m not surprised; it confirms to me what I felt about Obama. Hope everyone has a great day. Sunny and 70 here. AC off, and windows open.
Hahahahahahaha
Started reading this post and sighed, thinking how pretty the autumn is up north and then “I got it”…..!
Hahahahahahahaha
Good one!
Fox Business News to Imus Leave the Heat At Home.
I can’t sign up for Fox Business News on their website. I am not the only one who has tried and not gotten any reply to the error message.
They might be wondering why they are not getting a lot of folks signing up?
As a Florida native I know what you mean about Florida and fall. We have 2 seasons WTTB (where the tropics begin for most of you):
Hot and hotter.
I used to kid during fall that the only thing falling is walmart prices.
ACORN = squirrel food.
Anybody else noticing the bumper crop of pine cones this year? I’m just north of Boston and all the tops of pine trees are absolutely LOADED with pine cones like I’ve never seen before.
*ACORN= squirrel food= squirrel excrement= ACORN
DWD: We have 35 White Pines on the property and have seen lots of growth, deep color, and now pine cones; Have had a cool, wet summer here in Tennessee; Spotted Owl Bore was not available for comment!
I noticed in the new Baucus Bill (full text), a paragraph under Revenue seemed to indicate that local Community Organizers (a.k.a. Acorn) would dictate what health needs must be available and offered by hospitals. Hospitals have 1 year to implement these needs or face heavy penalties. Every 3 years the local Community Organizers would make new recommendations which must be implemented “or else”.
I read this in the “full text” version of the bill from a link provided by Foxnews.com the day the bill was released. However, when I tried to go back to the text to get the specific article and paragraph later that day, the links were gone!
So now I wonder, what other communist ‘acorns’ are scattered through-out this bill? I have been unable to find the full text again, maybe someone has more time and search prowess than I do. I hope so, because these little hidden shards are not being exposed by the media and will have devastating consequences to our future health care.
RIP
James Krenov – 1920-2009
Sam Maloof – 1916-2009
Two groundbreaking woodworkers who were never above sharing their knowledge and skill.
As a masochist in Arizona, I’m waiting for the Detroit Lions to extend their `perfect’ season…0-18, and counting…
Has anyone else noticed how the focus is quickly switching to global government via the UN? Obama is about to make an historic speech to the UN as the first president to preside on the Security Council, he just called for global banking rules, the UN just announced that “countless millions” will die of the android flu elevating WHO to quasi-government status…
Suddenly, the debate about our domestic issues has been taken to tomorrow’s “global democracy”. It’s almost as if our Constitution doesn’t apply anymore isn’t it? The world gets to decide for us. Why doesn’t Obama simply make the grand tour of US corporate facilities in China, Russia, Iran and other hostile countries to remind everyone that “capitalists will sell us the rope to hang them with”?
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I returned from my 50th. High School Reunion in Reno, Nevada. Almost all my old friends and classmates were unrecognizable without their nametags–50 years without seeing someone is a long time. Fifty-five classmates had died–about 300 left.
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A lot of them “did good” in life. One 4 star Army General. A lot of Bird Colonels. And some of the good athletes made the big time in college and pro football and baseball.
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One friend who was kind of a “hood” and flunked out in the Junior year had a very good life later. This was thanks to the U.S. Marine Corp–he got his GED, a future skill–auto mechanics–and a real old fashioned “attitude adjustment” that his “parents” failed to give him.
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Big thunderstorms with hail in El Paso, Texas this week. Lots of broken windshields and dented hoods and roofs. Beautiful clear clean Sunday view of the mountains from the Church’s front door–lifegiving rain from the Lord. Started this years ongoing Christian (re)education class.
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John Bibb
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B5 needs some help
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/09/time-to-mobilize.html
A Marine’s Japanese widow is fighting to raise her son in the nation her husband died protecting. Hotaru Ferschke and Sgt. Michael Ferschke had a proxy wedding, filing marriage papers after he deployed. He was killed in Iraq. Now U.S. immigration refuses to acknowledge the marriage.
The One’s aunt keeps getting extentions even though she’s here illegally but not a Marine’s widow.
From my politics blog: here is a 2-minute video from FOX Orlando of the couple who helped Rifqa Bary. I strongly recommend everyone read it.
From my comics blog: Paul Levitz has resigned as publisher of DC, but there’s good reasons why it’s for the best that he did.
From my game blog: a video of an adorable puzzle game called Money Puzzle/Idol Exchanger. Don’t miss it!
Has any one heard from Condoleezza Rice?
I’ve not read or heard a word since 01/19/2009.
Look what is coming to our Capitol on 9/25:
http://islamoncapitolhill.com/
Our dear leader would not recognize “National Prayer Day” but the cult can defile our national monuments by hoisting their behinds up in the air from 4am to 7pm in tribute to lahlah. Read the last four words at the very bottom of the main web page. Oh, btw, the organizers of this event say they were inspired to do this by BHO’s speach from Egypt last June. “The most beautiful sound in the air”, according the One. Take it for what it’s worth, but I thought more people should know. Have a great Sunday everybody.
The only thing that changes color down here is the license plates.
Happy Day-After Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Q: What is a pirate’s favorite color?
A: ARRRRGGGGyle.
(courtesy of Kingfish)
This is funny and about as realistic as the other excuses Bertha Lewis has made.
http://sarah-palin-2012.blogspot.com/2009/09/acorn-employees-running-out-of-excuses.html
Since this is Rosh Hashonah, the Jewish New Year, I’d like to relate something that the MSM has not seen fit to report. A columnist for the Jerusalem Post named as Israel’s man of the old year Prof. Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel (the equivalent of the Fed), for enabling Israel to be the first country to make a significant recovery from the worldwide economic crisis. (Fischer was Ben Bernanke’s faculty adviser at MIT.)
What is most important about Fischer’s accomplishment is that he did not resort to Keynesian deficit spending or other such bailout gimmicks. Instead, he used Milton Friedman’s principles of monetary supply and demand to limit Israel’s recession to just two quarters. In this he was aided by the fact that the Israeli government, despite its onerous burden of defense expenditures, had balanced its budget as recently as 2007. So, when Wall Street started toppling the dominoes, Fischer acted quickly to stabilize his country’s financial position, first by cutting interest rates, and then by buying large amounts of weakened U.S. dollars to prevent overvaluation of the Israeli shekel and thus protect exporters, especially in the high-tech sector, from getting priced out. Now that the dollar is starting to rebound, Fischer is selling them off and has become the first central banker to raise interest rates back to pre-crisis levels.
Again, Fischer was able to stabilize Israel’s economy and provide a soft landing without one business bailout. We can learn from this even if the crooks in Washington try to maintain government as usual. Man of the year indeed.
NotaSlickFan
I was out cruising the net last night
and ran onto what ‘Bambi said to muslims for the close of Ramadan. Curious I googled and found what he’d also said to Jews on the start of Rosh Hashana. The differences were blistering. God save Israel because this admin will flush them down the toilet.
You are so right. I am not Jewish but I am a very profound defender of Israel. In any discussion of “good v. evil”, Israel is the shining light. As you said before: “God (the real one) save Israel”.
waiting for Kingfish….
Come out, come out, wherever you are!
Geez, this is like cyber hide-and-seek.
Checking out Avi Green’s links about Rifqa
Oh, there you are!
Haven’t got a clue what you are talking about.
Oh, the Muslim teen girl who is afraid her parents will kill her.
On September 20th, 2009 at 1:44 pm, Avi Green said:
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Happy Rosh Hashonah everyone!
Howard Stern said he calls it Rush-a-Home-ah because certain exits off the highway get backed up every year with people trying to get to the service on time.
Hi everyone, from SW Alaska. Cool day, pretty colors, and football. I am trying to take a break from politics today but it is not easy. Especially with BO spouting and stuttering through more lies.
Just watched the Vikings beat the Lions…not a huge surprise, but the first half looked bad for us. Favre came through like the pro he is. The old guy has a lot of life left in him! I would enjoy watching the squirrels bury the acorns except we had a lot of oak wilt in our area and very few oaks left. The good news is…No Oaks, No Acorns! Just started back on the Weight Watchers plan after gaining back 7 of the 60 pounds I lost!!
I watched Obama on Meet the Press this a.m. He spun and twisted and lied. It was disgusting. Who does he think he is fooling? Not even David Gregory seemed to be buying all of it. And I heard him with my own ears say that he wasn’t aware of the stuff going on with ACORN. He is the most dishonest politician in DC, and that is saying a lot. He will pay some day for his deceipt.
Have a great Sunday everyone. I am leaving for the rest of the day. See you tomorrow.
Oh,that’s rich! Just like he said he never heard the really extreme things Rev. Wright said.
No politics today, but I did read all the comments.
Went to church today, as we do every Sunday, then came home to set the house up for the two new (read eight week old) springer spaniels we got on Friday–say hello to Molly (runt of the litter) and Tucker.
We cannot leave well enough alone!
Jake
St. Louis is dullsville.
Looking forward to checking the native persimmon trees here pretty soon.
I mowed the lawn.
Yup, it’s that exciting here.
purealchemy 809599
When I was 16 we visited a relative’s farm. I was bored so grabbed my cousin’s .22 rifle and shot off every single persimmon from one of her trees. I’m telling you, she was not happy.
24Klady ,
was she counting on making some puddings and pies and such with those?
I harvest them after they fall on the ground. They usually don’t fully ripen on the tree.
can we throw a country music or heavy metal concert in the area?? that’d help make their day ya think??
Does that underscore exactly how dense the GOP is these days? Go away Graham!!! Go Nuge!!! He’s apparently a big Sarah Palin backer now too!
That article absolutely nails why the GOP is in such deep trouble despite the stiff winds at its back.
Video of Michelle at the Milwaukee Tea Party courtesy Patrick at BadgerBlogger. Included in that thread are more videos as well as some commentary from the boss’ detail for the day (Patrick’s co-bloggers).
I saw this straw poll the other day which included Mit Romney, etc.
Sorry GOP but I don’t want any of your stale RINOs running for office. Your golden days are over. Especially Grahamesty. Boot him out.
That is what I have heard: The Last Massachusetts Conservative will be first.
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Glad to hear about the lakefront Tea Party in Milwaukee. Will they make Speaker Pelosi cry too?
Nice fall day in Phoenix-only 102*
Meghan McClown
“So, like maybe I never really, like, did anything but be some guy’s RINO daughter, but, um, I like have more twitters than you, and I was like on Colbert and The View n’stuff?! So like chill.”
OK, she didn’t really say that, but if Mo D’Oh can hear voices, so can I.
Traditionally, when there was a “Big Tent” it meant the circus was in town.
Still does.
Like many I’ve noticed ominous parallels between the first days of Obama and the Nazis in their take over of Germany in 1933.
Now I’m reading Donald Thomas’ THE ENEMY WITHIN about crime in England during WWII. In the second chapter, ‘Don’t You Know There’s A War On?’, he writes about how the British government imposed various wartime polices as rationing, identity cards, suspension of legal rights – it may alter your view of jolly old wartime England.
And then there’s an excerpt from a letter an English businessman wrote to a government official
“The government has governed my business until I do not know who the bloody hell owns it. I am suspected, inspected, examined, informed, required and commanded so that I do not know who the hell I am and where I am, or why I am here at all…The only reason I am clinging to life at all is to see what the Bloody Hell is going to happen next.”
Sounds all too current.
Here’s a great example of what is wrong with Governor Rick Perry. I correct his statement for him.
Sorry Rick, you are clearly a Republican attempting tpo usurp the conservative movement by insinuating yourself into being one of us. Nice hair though.
Sorry, left out the link.
Phil, do you understand the War Between the States was directly caused by the Southern voters splitting their votes between two candidates, thereby electing a radical Northerner to the Presidency with less than 40% of the vote?
Third parties are spoilers. There is nothing Obama and the Democrat Congresscritters would love more than a death struggle between the Republicans and a new Tea Party Party during the 2012 campaign.
Pasadena Phil – Another little gem from Perry’s panderplasty via Dallas Morning News
While I agree with you on most points Pasadena, Pander Perry’s hair looks like a Hairclub crash and burn. Just sayin.
Yes we did.
Roland: such courage. The Civil War was inevitable and I shudder at what this country would be like had we not had the courage to expunge an abominable evil once and for all. The courage to risk everything was the foundation of the party you now defend and the end of the Whigs, a party your party has come to emulate. You will never understand why we conservatives are on a roll.
It’s because we have the courage to follow our convictions where they take us. You, on the other hand, live in fear. You would have been a Whig in the 1850s making the same arguments against the fledgling GOP. You would have been defending the Whigs, that era’s “party that stands for nothing” using the same flawed logic.
The way you probably see it, conservatives are “losing” elections. No. Republicans are losing elections. And they are losing membership.
Both parties are at war with us. Yet we are dominating because we have both “major” parties tied up in rhetorical knots. We don’t even have a leader. How do we do it?
Our vote matters. There is no mandate if more than half of the voters reject both parties. Your vote, on the other hand, is automatic and so nobody need care what you think. You will vote for Republicans even if they presented Satan himself. You don’t have the courage to break loose and make politicians work for your vote.
Free yourself. Be an independent conservative and trust that virtue wins out in the end. How can you defend nothingness? That is why we are winning.
The “300″ Spartans at Thermopylae almost defeated (and should have) 100,000 Persians because they were free men fighting for everything. The Persians, on the other hand, had an army of slaves. They weren’t fighting to return to much of a life.
That is why you are losing and why we are winning. We stand for principle, not party. We are free men.
I was at the DC Tea Party on 9/12, where were these speakers? Sheriff Clark, James Harris, Dr. Willie Soon, and Vicki McKenna ahould have been there. Thanks for the link.
Show me today’s version of the GOP of the late 1850’s, and we will have an entirely different discussion.
There is NO serious third party. At ALL.
Furthermore, we will not SURVIVE 7 more years of this kind of They Are Both Bad So Let Us Be Ruled By The Most Destructive kind of rule.
I am not ‘defending’ the Republican Party. I am defending logic and common sense.
I want to slow our relentless advance into the collectivist hive. You do not accomplish that by massively increasing the size of government more than it would have been otherwise the way you guys who let Obama win have done.
You seem to think the precipitation of the War in 1860 was a ‘good’ thing. I think that view is quite socially mad, much more suitable to anarchism and nihilism and other sorts of socially destructive ideologies. The opposite of conservatism.
You ever ask yourself “why am I a global warming skeptic?”
Michael Hammer has 14 reasons.
See if yours is on the list.
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GREAT JOB by Michelle Malkin at the tea party! I don’t think she missed “calling out” many of our country’s enemies. Only a few could have been left “uncalled” inside their lairs.
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In the old West the callout was followed by a lot of shooting. In the new U.S.A. it should be followed by a lot of voting the clowns out of office and CALLING THEM INTO THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINES. Make it happen in 2010 and 2012.
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John Bibb
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Dr. Soon is in the astrophysics department at Harvard. You really should hear his extended debunking of Gorebal “Warming”.
The rest are local to Wisconsin. Vicki McKenna has radio shows in Madison and Milwaukee (the latter broadcast from Madison in a move to get her more money from tight-fisted ClearChannel). Sheriff Clarke is the (more-or-less) right-thinking sheriff of Milwaukee County. James T. Harris is the guy who tried to get the lump of a Republican candidate off his duff.
anyone notice that Blackfive’s matt Burch is running for office? Guess where?
http://www.mattburdenforus.com/
September 4, 2009 – 41st District resident, Matthew Burden, announced today his campaign for the Illinois House of Representatives.
Burden, geesh