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She Seeks Representation

February 8th, 2010 | Add a Comment

Kathy sent me this letter from a 53 year old woman written to our government. It was read by Glenn Beck on the air, and she nailed how many of us feel very well. Have a read, her personal We The People… “I am a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me.   … Read entire article »

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Audi Green Police Super Bowl Ad

Last night I posted my favorite Super Bowl Ad (from Google) but today after some thought, I wish to share the most frightful Super Bowl Ad. It was from Audi and it’s Green Car. Frightful, because even though they might have been trying to be funny, it just hit too close to the truth, what could be our future: And this in the face of all the Climate Change, and Global Warming fraud out there! If video above doesn’t work, try this LINK … Read entire article »

Google Super Bowl Ad

Ok, I am a romantic. This is my favorite ad during the Super Bowl tonight. … Read entire article »

Silas Relaxes

Silas Relaxes

With the cleaning of the cars done… Cleaning off the cars “Blizzard 2010″ And the snow and the cold not going anywhere… Record 32 inches in Pasadena Silas shows us all how to relax indoors, while he and Miquel check out Laura’s new book, “Dear John” … Read entire article »

Polluters, Ant Watchers, Slumlords, Oh My!

From Fox News Federal agencies are spending stimulus money at the rate of $196 million an hour. And they will do so every hour for the next eight months until a September 30, 2010, deadline. “When you put that kind of money out the door that fast, there’s a possibility of $55 billion dollars of waste, fraud and abuse connected with it,” Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said Thursday before a Senate Finance Committee hearing examining the lack of oversight in the $878 billion dollar economic stimulus bill passed a year ago. The dollars and the amounts are starting not to mean anything anymore I think…Anyway, have a look and see if these are the kind of “jobs” America … Read entire article »

Letter to his Grandson

Letter to his Grandson Fred I Kent Mr Kent’s grandson, then a schoolboy, was disturbed by the current fashion of disparaging the profit system. He had asked his grandfather to explain just how there can be a profit which is not taken from the work of someone else. April 1942 Mr dear grandson: I will answer your question as simply as I can. Profit is the result of enterprise which builds for others as well as for the enterpriser. Let us consider the operation of this fact in a primitive community, say of one hundred persons who are non-intelligent beyond the point of obtaining the mere necessities of living by working hard all day long. Our primitive community, dwelling at the … Read entire article »

Blizzard 2010

Blizzard 2010

Well in the midst of blizzard conditions here in Maryland, we are looking to break records for snow. Some images so far: … Read entire article »

Lech Walesa’s Warning for America

Lech Walesa’s Warning for America

In a video-taped interview by a group known as foundingbloggers.com, Walesa indicated that the U.S. was heading toward socialism because of two factors: “The issue with the banks; and the government wastes all the money; they build a bureaucracy; just for itself.” He nailed it. “The government wastes all the money, they build a bureaucracy…..JUST FOR ITSELF. That just says it all, … Read entire article »

Stimulus for Fraud

Stimulus for Fraud

Michael E. Mann is an American climatologist, and author of more than 80 peer-reviewed journal publications. He has attained public prominence as lead author of a number of articles on paleoclimate and as one of the originators of a graph of temperature trends dubbed the “hockey stick graph” for the shape of the graph. The graph received both praise and … Read entire article »

A Poem for Margie

A Poem for Margie

COME WITH ME The Lord saw you getting tired And a cure was not to be, So He put his arms aroud you And whispered, “Come with me.” With tearful eyes, we watched you suffer And saw you fade away, Although we loved you dearly, We could not make you stay. … Read entire article »

Potentially Paralyzing

Potentially Paralyzing

I often visit the Weather.com site. Being sick sort of has me out of the loop. So imagine when I went to Drudge today, and clicked on a weather related link and saw our area on the map labeled Potentially Paralyzing! This can’t be good. The next time we have so many acorns in fall, I will believe the wives tale that … Read entire article »

Zilch

Zilch

When Petra lived with us, she taught me the most fun dice game. We would have so much fun, it’s hard to believe that 6 dice and a paper keeping score could be so entertaining. Today online, through Good Experience, I found a very close relative to the dice game Petra taught me, and it’s called Zilch. In Petra’s version, one’s … Read entire article »

Allowance for Climate Policy

Ah that sneaky Obama… From Informed Citizens The big news in last year’s budget release was the revelation that the Obama administration planned to use cap-and-trade to raise $646 billion dollars over ten years to finance its big spending programs. At the time I wrote here in the Fox Forum that estimate was a lowball of what actually constituted the biggest tax increase in U.S. history, something White House economist Jason Furman later admitted when he revealed the real revenue would likely be triple the official estimate. So the first thing I checked in this year’s budget was how much revenue was expected from the cap-and-trade energy tax, to which the president reiterated his commitment in his … Read entire article »

Fortune Cookie

Fortune Cookie

I am sick today and pretty much staying in bed. When I get so sick, I love to have some Won Ton Soup. Miranda and Laura brought me some, and also a fortune cookie. … Read entire article »

Canada Health Care

Canada Health Care

We’ve heard stories of Canadians crossing the border to the U.S. to get health care. Now in the midst of Obama trying to change our system completely, we have a story of Premier Danny Williams coming to the U.S. for heart surgery. Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams will undergo heart surgery later this week in the United States. National Post Story HERE Mr. Williams, … Read entire article »

Backdoor Taxes to Hit Middle Class

Obama promised no taxes on middle and lower class, but there is one way the common folk like you and me could feel that promise broken is if Obama allows the Bush administration’s Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to expire. Some little reported news on Reueters: In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year — effectively a tax hike by stealth. While the administration is focusing its proposal on eliminating tax breaks for individuals who earn $250,000 a year or more, middle-class families will face a slew of these backdoor increases. The targeted … Read entire article »

Dem. Senators Spent Weekend with Bank, Energy, Tobacco Lobbyists

From Politico Twelve Democratic Senators spent last weekend in Miami Beach raising money from top lobbyists for oil, drug, and other corporate interests that they often decry, according to a guest list for the event obtained by POLITICO. The guest list for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s “winter retreat” at the Ritz Carlton South Beach Resort doesn’t include the price tag for attendance, but the maximum contribution to the committee, typical for such events, is $30,000. There, to participate in “informal conversations” and other meetings Saturday, were senators including DSCC Chairman Robert Menendez; Michigan’s Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow; Bob Casey of Pennsylvania; Claire McCaskill of Missouri; freshmen Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mark Begich of … Read entire article »

Retro

Retro

Retro is fun. I like looking back to easier times; good times spent with family and remembering songs and the way things looked back then…. What a pleasant experience it has been to work for a new client, Paul & Kathy Hittle of Severn Gas Pumps. Going to their house and workstation was like time travel. They restore old gas pumps, … Read entire article »

The Cost of Illegal Immigration

Lisa sent this to me. Mind you, I am all for legal immigration, but this surely makes you think. 1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state  governments. Verify  at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77 2.    $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on  food  assistance programs such as food stamps,  WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. Verify  at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html 3. $2.5  Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify  at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html 4. $12  Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and  secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of  English! Verify  at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.0.html 5. $17  Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the  … Read entire article »

Snow Day

Snow Day

Today a few inches of promised snow will have turned into 8 by tonight. So today turned into an “update the look of my blog day.”  While I passed the time doing that, (and in between falling and driving in the snow), I took photos of a few of the birds coming to the feeder in the cold. … Read entire article »

State of The Union

Last night’s speech… the words disconnect and delusional came to mind at the time. Today, even ABC felt that Obama didn’t get his facts straight. (Does he ever?) Point number one. “Foreign companies to spend without limit in our elections.” The president has assailed the Supreme Court’s decision on campaign financing, and tonight said, “The Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign companies — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, and worse, by foreign entities.” According to Atlas Shrugs: This from the first president in history to flout election campaign laws and receive millions from … Read entire article »

Do YOU Know What is in the Health Care Bill?

In the video are a few key points of the bill that might surprise (and upset) you. Copy of the Health Care Bill HERE (PDF Format) … Read entire article »

Silas, Cardinal, and the Puzzle

Silas, Cardinal, and the Puzzle

Almost everyday, I lift Silas  up to my window and we watch the cardinal as he perches on the fence by the house. He gets very excited and shouts, “Red bird, red bird!” So, he was very delighted to see for my mom’s winter project, a jigsaw puzzle of a cardinal. … Read entire article »

Boys and Chairs

Boys and Chairs

I love it when children take everyday objects and let their imaginations transform them into something else. In the boys case today chairs were a train or a bus or something fun. They sure made it fun. … Read entire article »

Climategate

According to PrisonPlanet… Global warming is heading to the same dustbin of history as Y2K, SARS and swine flu – another manufactured scare peddled primarily to make vast profits for corrupt elitists at the expense of the general public. The entire fraud is collapsing under the weight of its own lies as new revelations of IPCC deception and bias emerge on an almost daily basis… The first major blow came when the IPCC had to admit that their 2007 forecast that the Himalayan Glaciers would disappear by 2035 was completely wrong. The absurd claim was first made by a little-known Indian scientist in an interview for an online magazine, invoked by the World Wildlife Fund, and … Read entire article »

Obama’s Big Chill

The announcement that President Obama will freeze non-military discretionary spending for three years has the liberal caucus in a tizzy. And why not? No less than four times during the presidential debates did President Obama actively campaign against an across the board spending freeze. Is Obama borrowing from McCain now? … Read entire article »

Dollars and Denmark

Dollars and Denmark

This year, when you’re filing your tax forms, and perhaps  writing that check to your government, you might want to consider (besides all the other foolish expenses) the cost of our officials recent trip to Copenhagen. From CBS NEWS Congress Went to Denmark, You Got the Bill  (TRIPS TO COPENHAGEN COST OVER $1,000,000...) For 15 Democratic and 6 Republican Congressmen, food and rooms … Read entire article »

Government Run?

This came to my email today… To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature, The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor” and they only want more. Medicare and Medicaid were established … Read entire article »

Cry Translator

Cry Translator

Hungry Annoyed Tired Stressed Bored A list of things that can make a baby cry. Iphone now claims it can translate those cries for you. A team led by Dr Antonio Portugal Ramírez, a Spanish pediatrician, devised a program to analyse the sound through the phone’s mic, and display the translation. The £17.99 app, called the Cry Translator, was launched first in the US. The makers claim 96 per … Read entire article »

7 Ways to Survive the Jobless Recovery

In spite of the government telling us the recession is over, I am hearing of layoffs, pay cuts, and people not able to find jobs yet. I was very interested in the headline I recently found, 7 Ways to Survive the Jobless Recovery. Here are some snippets: 1. Don‘t wait for lost jobs to return. Chances are they won’t. In prior recessions, many job losses were temporary, and laid-off workers were often called back. But this time there’s a lot more going on than just a recession. 2. Don‘t count on big companies. They’ve gone to a lot of trouble to cut costs and weed out workers, which is the main reason corporate profits have held up reasonably well … Read entire article »

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