The Nor'Easter

Welcome to our Nor'Easter : P



View from the front porch

See our black mail box?

Our cars & the neighbor's house

We had some boxes in the garage...hope it was nothing important!

The back yard complete with overturned garbage can filled with trash, now soaked in dirty water. Could be worse though...

By the time it was high tide, we could only see an inch of brick. I was praying like mad that it didn't touch the floor of the house. Thank the Lord it didn't get any higher!
Big D & a co-worker had just gotten back that afternoon from training in Arizona an had to wait for the tide to go down enough to see the road (it was night by that time). He didn't get to our house until 10:30 p.m. Then he had to wade from the road to the house.

Our Nor'easter

Somebody's Watching too Much "V"

Sissy cracked me up with this one that she made on LOLcats. It's pretty bad when even your ten year old catches on to the similarities...
*snicker*
KIDDING!



Anyway, here's Judge Joe on the liberty grab via forced tax payer funded health care. I love this guy...

Just "Because"

At least freedom loving Americans stood against this anti-American bill. My children will know that I did what I could. If this passes the senate, which I'm sure it will, then our America as we knew it, the free republic will be exchanged for a bloated bureaucracy, socialist in nature.
We'll never be free from it's clutches. You can't put that ravenous animal back in it's cage.



"As government grows, liberty decreases."
Thomas Jefferson.


"Safaris through ancestral memories teach me many things. The patterns, ahhh, the patterns. Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. Ahhh, well, if patterns teach me anything it's that patterns are repeated. My oppressions, by and large, are no worse than any of the others and, at least, I teach a new lesson."

~God Emperor of Dune, by Frank Herbert

SHOAH

That's the Hebrew word for Holocaust.
The history of Hitler's rise and the persecution of the Jews has always baffled me. To this day I cannot comprehend how a group of nations, previously civilized and modern, suddenly becomes overwhelmed with a sort of mass delusion that a certain section of their society had cost them the war, thus deserve extermination. I can't imagine that kind of complete hatred. Worst of all is that they did it using the title of "Christian". I just don't understand that.

I believe that history always repeats itself in some way or another and I believe that this sort of thing could happen again, maybe not in the same way, but the same hatred directed toward a certain section of society worldwide. It always has happened.

Recently I've revisited the subject of the holocaust and thought I'd rent a movie that was put out by Steven Spielberg. It's called The Last Days. It features 5 Hungarian survivors who each retell their story. A few of their quotes struck me, especially after hearing this today...
and this...


Or the White House's Anita Dunn telling teenagers that one of her 2 favorite political philosophers (one of which was not a political philosopher) was the dictator Mao who killed 40,000 of his own people. Then our Manufacturing Czar, Rom Bloom (union) telling us that the free market is nonsense and that he kind of agrees" with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun." Remember Andy Stern's quote "workers of the World Unite" and that they would use the power of persuasion and if it didn't work, they'd use "the persuasion of power."? Then there's Pelosi talking about how dangerous the language of the opposition is and and & on it goes. For speaking out in defense of our children's future, we're labeled haters?

In our very own nation, president Woodrow Wilson had political opposition thrown into jail. Are we really to think that folks who look up to Marx and Chavez and Mao, of all things, will not take every advantage of their position of influence?? This very week the House will vote on a health care bill that will hand over control of our lives without recourse. The amount of control it gives them is unprecedented on top of the fact that it will utterly cripple our economy and permanently transform our form of government. I can only pray we keep our eyes open and look down the road.

I don't think these people are kidding. Look what 4 members of the SEIU (union), who happened to be in Obama's back pocket, did to this conservative man at a townhall meeting, entirely unprovoked...



I think we need to take these sort of people like Mr. Reich seriously. Don't you wonder why the crowd freely cheered when he said that the old and sick would be denied treatment late in life and they'd let them just die without recourse, for the good of the collective?

I wonder why people don't find it offensive to have the world's most powerful leader surrounding himself with radicals who follow the philosophies of evil dictators? No I don't think our president wants to round up all those who disagree and put them in cattle cars , but the ground work is certainly being laid so that one day, should a person get elected that was so inclined, they could take away our freedoms all together. It's happened to every other nation in history, why not ours? We can't say it won't happen here, can we? That's why I'm opposed to this framework of government take-over that Bush & Obama have laid.

The Jews of Europe didn't take these sort of people seriously either. Listen to a few quotes that really stood out in this movie...

Upon hearing about the persecution of Jews in Poland:
"Being Jewish was a religion...we were Hungarian."

"There was a sort of a naive...patriotic feeling that we Hungarians don't do such things."

"Hitler was in Germany so what happened in Germany didn't uh, reflect on us and, you know, we were far away from that."

"The dark side of the national Hungarian character was becoming more and more obvious. Persecution of Jews became more and more obvious. Jews were losing their jobs, their businesses, there was a Hungarian Nazi movement...they became the most hated and most feared group for Hungarian Jews. "

"People wonder, "How is it that you didn't do something? You didn't run away, you didn't hide." Well, things didn't happen at once. Things happened very slowly, so each time a new law came out, or a restriction, we said "well, just another thing. It'll blow over"

"Two motorcycles were the whole Nazi regime that occupied our town because they were already there with the people that lived there the whole time and did their dirty work." (meaning that the people of the town carried out the orders of the two Nazi soldiers.) Most of them were people that we thought were our friends all these years, but the turned overnight on us and went with the other side. And the next restriction was that the Jew cannot walk out on the street without the yellow star...at that point we were worried."

"and the next decree would be that we had to pack up 25 kilos and at first we didn't understand"what do you take?""

"I couldn't imagine that they would just people out of their homes because they are Jewish."

"Our friends, so called, and neighbors, they were standing, lined up alongside of the road and they were yelling"It's about time! You are going out of here!" and

"We don't need any Jews in our town! We need to get rid of all you Jews!"...and I stood, and I couldn't believe my eyes. The, the people I went to school with their children, we were friends, we were sharing things together. Why are they so hostile, why would they hate us all of a sudden?"

"When we arrived to the railroad station we realized that we're not going on passenger trains."

"My father said, "They ran out of the other trains because there's wartime so they don't have the other trains so they have to use what they have."

"The cattle cars were waiting for us. When they closed the doors when I heard that knock on the outside like a bolt, closing us in there, it wasn't normal anymore, it wasn't, I didn't accept that they were running out of the other trains"

Paine's Crisis

Thomas Paine
The Crisis
(paragraph one)

December 23, 1776
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.

Look What Happened to My Family!!

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Starring

Mad Scientist - Gramma
Frankenstein - my Dad
Werewolf - Bruddah
Bride of Frankenstein - my Mom
Dracula - Big Daddy!

Thanks Braddah for making it & sending it. What a hoot!

Other Signs of Life

The hater of heat & bugs finally
ventures into the great out doors - voluntarily!

*cheers*


With his towels & his sister's inner tube, he's got a fine reading ensemble I think.
If he were a Madagascar character, can you guess which one it would be?

Hello Fall

Boy have I missed you...

Wanna See Me Get Kreativ?

...so I've take a sabbatical. Maybe I've past my bloggy prime, maybe I've been too busy or had a serious lack of motivaton? Probably!
Either way, Boymom,
a funny blog friend & co-patriot who's contest I won recently -thanks for the $10 Wal-mart gift card!!! - , tagged me and wants me to dish on myself, so here it is....


7 things about myself that you may not know

#1 - I like Glenn Beck -- Ok I'm kidding, you already know that *wink*

Seriously now, here goes:

1) I like sketching faces in pencil. The details of a face are fascinating to me. The more unusual the better. Here's one I did for a friend.



2) I've been to Graceland

3) I upload videos to Youtube

4) I battle hordes of mosquitoes to go out in my yard &
pick dandelion greens, clover & grass for our guinea pigs.
Pitiful, right? They love me for it though.


5) I hate pilly sheets *shudder*


6) I'm in a rock band...Beatles Rock Band!!! I'm a pretty good Paul on "easy". We just got it this week, so don't judge me, yo *wink*

7)I don't like pina coladas or getting caught in the rain.



There! I hope that wasn't too painful.

I suppose I should tag someone with this, so I'll give it to,

Mrs.444 at Half Past Kissin' Time
&
Jessica at Adjusting to the World

if they want to do it!

There I was in the Charity Shop When...

like a miracle from heaven, I saw a pair of, brand new GAP JEANS - with tags y'all.

Just thinking about it again as I type makes my pulse go all racy. I thought I might hyperventilate right there in the store.

I was just telling Big Daddy recently, when we were in a town that actually HAD a GAP store, that I needed two pair of jeans because mine are wearing at the pockets & seams. They just plain don't fit, then low & behold, God plops a pair down for me today at the D.A.V. for $12.95 instead of like, $50!

Not only were they the right size, they were the right length, wash, & style (straight leg) too.


AND they weren't low rise! *woo* Can I get a witness for mid-rise jeans ladies?? Enough of that waist band digging into the mid-hip region, semi-permanently denting in the hips! That's for the birds.

Egad, I was gobsmacked!

Now I need a powdered sugar coated, Bavarian filled donut to bring me back down to earth. Thankfully Wal-mart loves me back, so they had a whole box waiting for me yesterday.
XO!

I did good at lunch so I can afford it.
I thought I'd share my favorite breakfast/lunch because I'm feeling particularly generous after the whole jeans thing...


Delicious, no?
I guess if you like eggs & peppers.


To make it, get your griddle (I use my electric griddle daily)to 350

- butter your griddle - I use smart balance low fat

- buy a bag of frozen stir fry peppers & onions & put a few on the griddle, frozen
(unless you like chopping fresh veggies a lot) . Put as much on as you'd want in a wrap. Red peppers have anti oxidants!

-While those are thawing/cooking, get out two eggs
I use the no hormone, no antibiotic kind because I eat this a lot.

- butter 1 side of a large tortilla & set aside

-get out your seasoning - I mix my own Mex seasoning

By this time your veggies should be done. Push them to the middle (where it's cooker) & put your eggs on the pan, stirring & breaking the yolks, scrambled style. Once they're done, put your buttered tortilla on the griddle. Place the scrambled eggs in the middle of the tortilla then sprinkle on your seasonings. top that with the grilled veggies.

Using two spatulas (or you'll burn your fingers trying to wrangle hot tortilla!), fold up the bottom, then one side, then the other and flip over so the seam side seals & browns. Flip to grill the back side too.

It's so GOOD!

Have a great day y'all.

Ooooo, Crazy Love

Long about minute 1:56 Rep. Diane Watson shows hers for benevolent Fidel. It amazes me that words like these would ever be spoken aloud by a member of congress. I think we're in deep trouble...



Ronald Reagan on the danger of Socialized Medicine
"WHEN MEN WERE FREE"

I believe he is referring to medicare/aid & socialized medicine here. I would love to do away with all these failed programs. If you look into our social security, medicare/aid you will see that they are deeply in debt and have completely failed! These things must be handled by private citizens. If given the chance, the government will always fail at these social programs. When will we learn?

I hope we listen, while we can, to people like our founding fathers, to Reagan and to president Barack Obama when he says that he will "fundamentally" change America. I've written my congressmen many many times but today, for the first time, I was inspired by this message from Reagan and I wrote the president concerning this issue.
2012 can't come fast enough.

The Chick-fil-A Moment

Oh you know you've been there...

Ring Any Bells?

He may not say that but if you look at the model, you can see that rationing of care is already being openly discussed by Obama's advisers. Our financial system is completely unsustainable according the the Congressional Budget Office. That being the case, why are they passing this bill in the house? Why is the senate even considering this?

We continue to print valueless dollars, we bail out companies that should fail, we scare away investors by breaking contracts, forcibly taking their share on investments-gone-bankrupt and giving it to someone else (Chrysler investors did not receive their contractual amount at bankruptcy, instead it was given to the Union).

We drive away businesses with high taxes & threat of a cap & trade tax & regulations (of which the taxes will be passed on to us) and what's to entice them to stay? Businesses can easily go oversees and not face the strain of high corporate taxes or a potential cap & trade. It's just like Atlas Shrugged. On top of the driving away of industry, we are attempting the take over of failed manufacturers which is un-American. We're also attempting to punish essential farmers with needless regulations, making it difficult for small farmers to continue. We NEED small farmers! The amount of government waste is shocking when it comes to our funding of large farmers.

Our leaders spend irrationally while the world watches. We strap our posterity into the chains of national debt and dependency...a debt they will not be able to pay down in their lifetime. Have you looked at the debt clock lately? I can't believe that they continue to suggest these moves toward centralizing our government after we were warned against it. They aren't able to handle the money we've already given them yet they expect us to trust them with more.

It's reminiscent of the Wiemar Republic, printing worthless money and causing collapse. As Glenn said, it's never worked. what we're trying has never worked. It is not sustainable according to our very own government so why are they charging forward? They can't just pretend they have money when it's actually not backed by anything. There wont be enough money to facilitate everyone because we are already out of money. Our debt is astronomical and our dollar has very little value. To use the words of Obama, we're already out of money.Are all these things not leading us down a dark road?