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THOSE BORN 1920-1979 

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

 We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were OK.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms......
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! And if they couldn't come outside, we helped them clean, cook or mow whatever was the hold up to getting them outside.

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies mad e from dirt, and the worms did not live in us
forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were. 

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation

THIS MAN SURE HAS A GOOD VIEW OF WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY! 

 

 'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.  We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done.  We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.  We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.  We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.  We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.  We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression..  We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.  Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free. Amen!'

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,' and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'One nation under God.'

 

 My old grandpa said to me, "Son, there comes a time in every man's
 life when he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin' caps and
 usually it's when he becomes too old to take an ass whoopin'."

 I don't carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being 
killed.

 I don't carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes
 this world can be a scary place.

 I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid. I carry a gun because there
 are real threats in the world.

 I don't carry a gun because I'm evil. I carry a gun because I have
 lived long enough to see the evil in the world.

 I don't carry a gun because I hate the government.  I carry a gun
 because I understand the limitations of government.

 I don't carry a gun because I'm angry. I carry a gun so that I don't
 have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be
 prepared.

 I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.  I carry a gun
 because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a
 sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

 I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy.  I carry a gun because, when
 I die and go to Heaven, I want to be a cowboy.

 I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because
 men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.

 I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because
 unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.

 I don't carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love
 life and the people who make it meaningful t o me.

 "Police Protection" is an oxymoron.  Free citizens must protect
 themselves. Police do not protect you from crime;  they usually just
 investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to
 clean up the mess.

 Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to
 take an ass whoopin'.

Liberals want humans to control everything; conservatives want humans to adapt to everything.

Liberals believe that everything can be ultimately controlled: minimum wage, the environment, the economy, poverty, wealth, success, failure, all people in general.

Conservatives know that nothing can be ultimately controlled: the market does what it does, nature does what it does, people do what they do, life is as unpredictable and as chaotic as the weather.

That's why conservatives value freedom and liberals value power. Freedom allows people to naturally adapt to changing circumstances. Power forces people to follow orders and remain under control.

Take this market crisis for example: liberals want more regulation, more control, more government. The 1929 market crash created the Great Depression and lasted for close to 25 years. Obama wants to repeat those policies with the new "New Deal." Therefore, regulation will produce the same results. Plan on looking at your 401(k) again in 2032.

Take another market crisis for example: the 1987 crash. No one even talks about it much. Why? Because Reagan didn't rush us into a new "New Deal" and, therefore, the market was able to correct itself as it is supposed to do. Reagan was smart enough to recognize that we have to adapt ourselves to the market, not try to control it. By doing so, the eighties remained a time of prosperity, not soup lines. And we didn't need a world war to get us out of it.

In a way, Jurassic Park the novel encapsulated everything that happens with our political system. The Democrats are the park creators and owners, running around trying to control these big giant dinosaurs in the name of happiness and entertainment and scientific study. But the scientists brought to the island are the Republicans, saying "You can't control this stuff! You have to let dinosaurs be dinosaurs and let nature be nature and the more you try to control it, the worse things will get." Crichton wrote frequently about the difficulty in controlling complex systems and, if you read a lot of his nonfiction essays and speeches (at his website), you will see that there are a lot of real-life examples that illustrate these principles, such as with the overmanagement of Yellowstone Park.

George Bush is no conservative. He acted very liberal in rushing in to Iraq to try to "control" a completely chaotic system: the Middle East. Are we surprised it failed? But yet Obama wants to do the same thing with our stock market. Stocks are far more unpredictable than terrorists - you know what a terrorist is likely to do. But no one can predict whether one stock will spike or plummet on a given day. There are billions of transactions occurring simultaneously. It's probably the most complex manmade system in existence.

Anyway, I doubt many people have read this far, and those who have likely already agreed with me or have completely shut me out, but if you are willing to take an honest look at things, which party lines up according to "let's control things" and which party lines up according to "let nature run it's course?"

Abortion: liberals want to control birth, conservatives say "let it happen."
Taxes: liberals want to control the amount taxes, conservatives say "let people keep their money"
Guns: liberals want gun control, conservatives don't
Speech: liberals want the Fairness Doctrine, conservatives don't
Environment: liberals want to try to control global warming, conservatives say "we can't stop nature from being nature"
Economy: liberals think they can "jolt" the economy, conservatives know that the market is too smart for that, which is why the last two "stimulus" events failed

So it will be fun watching Obama try to "control" a country of 300 million independently-minded adults, a market with trillions of transactions, a planet with wonderfully complex weather patterns and flora/fauna, etc. No small task for a 45-year old clown who's never held the same job for more than two years.

This is a story of two goat herders, but only one had a goat. One was a liberal and one was a conservative, the conservative was a very hard worker and believed in making his own way in life and he was the one who had saved enough money to buy and own his own goat. The liberal was also a goat herder but didn’t save any money and working hard wasn’t real high on his agenda. And yet both men were very close friends and the conservative would never dream of letting his friend go hungry so he shared all his earnings with his liberal friend. Now the generosity of the conservative did nothing to help the jealousy of the liberal due to the fact the conservative owned a goat and the liberal owned nothing.

One day the two men were walking through the pasture when the liberal came upon a bottle, so while handling the bottle out comes a genie in a huge cloud of smoke, now standing in front of the two men the genie thanked the liberal from freeing him from the bottle and in a thunderous voice the genie told the liberal he had one wish coming to him and he can wish for anything in the world and his wish will come true. The Genie confirmed this is one wish and one wish only and he advice the liberal to give it some thought and to make it a wish he truly wants to come true.

So without hesitation the liberal exclaims “I know what I want” and I want this wish to make everything fair. So the Genie said “then go ahead and make your wish!” without a second thought the liberal tells the Genie “ I want my friends goat to die”

Chevy has now been successful in building an electric car that will get a whopping 40 miles to a charge of course the other car manufacturers are following suit too. How exciting knowing someday we will have a car that runs off of electricity.

Ok now for the bad news.

Obama has promised to bankrupt any and all coal plants, did I mention we get our electricity from coal.

Oh yeah, some more bad news, Just what are we going to do with all those batteries when they can no longer hold a charge?

SITUATION vacant: Only the squeaky clean need apply.

As the Obama team sweeps into Washington, it is looking to form a dream team bordering on behavioural sainthood.

President-elect Barack Obama's transition team is seeking cabinet and other high-ranking posts. And it is doing so with a questionaire many consider overly intrusive.

Do you or your family own a gun? Are you on Facebook? Do you keep a diary? Have you ever had a traffic ticket of more than US$100? Have you or your spouse ever been a legislative agent paid to influence policy?

These are just some of the questions in a seven-page questionaire that includes requests for personal details even of family members and their history, reported The New York Times.

It is a reflection of Mr Obama's campaign rhetoric against the lobbying and the back-scratching, self-serving ways of Washington.

'President-elect Obama made a commitment to change the way Washington does business, and the vetting process exemplifies that,' said Stephanie Cutter, chief spokesman for the Obama transition office.

The questionnaire includes 63 requests for personal and professional records, some covering applicants' spouses and grown children.

Only the smallest details are excluded; traffic tickets carrying fines of less than $50 need not be reported, the application says.

Applicants must include any e-mail that might embarrass the president-elect, along with any blog posts and links to their Facebook pages.

Aliases or 'handles' used to communicate on the Internet must also be disclosed.

It also probes any links to troubled financial companies. Question 18 asks whether 'you, your spouse or any member of your immediate family' have been affiliated with Fannie, Freddie, American International Group, Washington Mutual and any other institution getting a government bailout.

I have noticed that there are a few bloggers that disable their comments or even worse they delete comments, what is that all about? I thought blogging was about debating or at least having a conversation. So what if you get some rude comments, that’s life! I love it when someone shows their ass on a blog of mine, it’s not me looking stupid, it’s the person leaving the rude comment looking stupid. I think anyone who deletes comments or disables their comment section speaks volumes of the weakness of that person.

I personally won’t read any blog you can’t comment on, or you get deleted from. Why waste your time. I have also found that these people who refuse comments or delete comment all have one thing in common, their all nuttier than a squirrel turd.

One other thing about these people I find humorist is that they all need a travel agent for their ego trip, it is just sad they have no back bone except for their delete button.

The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense.  (waiting for attack)

The  sword is more important than the shield, and skill is  more important than either.. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.
 

1.  Don't pick a fight with an old man.  If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.
 
2.   If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
 
3.   I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.
 
4.   When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.
 
5.  A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers.  The  reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was  carrying and asked him 'Why do you carry a 45?'  The Ranger responded, 'Because they don't make a 46.' 
 
6.  The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a  lady commented on his wearing his  sidearm.  'Sheriff, I see you have your  pistol. Are you expecting  trouble?' 'No Ma'am.  If I were expecting trouble, I would have brought my  shotgun.'
 
7.   Beware the man who only has one gun.  HE  PROBABLY KNOWS HOW TO USE IT!!!
 
But wait, there's  more!
 
I  was once asked by a lady visiting if I had a gun in the house.  I said I did.  She said 'Well I certainly hope it isn't loaded!'  To which I said, of course it is loaded, can't work without bullets!' She then asked, 'Are you that afraid of someone evil coming into  your house?'&nb sp; My reply was, 'No not at all.  I am not afraid of the house catching fire either,  but I have fire extinguishers around, and they are all  loaded too.'  To which I'll add, having a gun in the house that isn't loaded is  like having a car in the garage without gas in the tank.