Happy Birthday, Tyler!

No, not the rock band! I’m asking a question. Can you guess who this is?

Perhaps I’m getting more like Vo; who knows? This last weekend was filled with highs and lows. The highs: my niece Michaela finished 2nd at the Iowa State Track meet in the 400 meter hurdles; my nephew Nathan had his high school graduation open house; got to see Zach and Jessie. The lows: my mother-in-law broke her hip last week and we visited her in the hospital. Not that visiting her is a bad thing, it’s just that having to go to the hospital under those circumstances is bad.

So I’m at the hospital with KC and I feel like a soda – either a Sierra Mist or Sprite or something like that. So I go to the vending machine area. All I’ve got is a Lincoln so I’ve got to get change because NONE of the vending machines accept bills. OK – so I drop the fiver into the change machine and get five dollar coins. Now I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but around here dollar coins are pretty much useless in vending machines. I figured that since I was at a hospital it just HAD to work, right? WRONG!! The dollar coins slithered right through the vending machine and came out the change dispenser. So now I’m kinda POed. I wanted a soda and there’s no way to get one – there’s only one machine with Sierra Mist in it and none with Sprite. Not to mention that there were no vending machines with Life Water, G2 or any other kind of drink. Luckily, KC had enough change so I could get a soda.

The problem, of course, is why have a change machine that makes change that is completely worthless to the vending machines that the change machine is near? How idiotic is that? All I wanted was something cool to drink and I had to jump through hoops just to get the drink. The other ironic part is that this was in a hospital…. and there was ONLY soda! No health drinks, no juices, no Life Water, no G2, no plain water – just SODA! Is this a way to create more business for the hospital? To only offer drinks that are NEVER recommended by doctors?

Happy Anniversary, Michael and Carrie!

Happy Birthday, Tyler!

DID YOU KNOW…

• As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world’s law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view … it is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments!
• As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the Two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.
• As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see The wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!
• There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.
• James Madison, the fourth president, known as ‘The Father of Our Constitution’ made the following statement: ‘We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.’
• Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.
• Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies.
• Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law an oligarchy the rule of few over many.

How then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 232 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional? Lets put it around the world and let the world see and remember what this great country was built on. (Thanks, Ron!)

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Listening to: Saving Abel – Addicted
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Happy Birthday, Breezomatic!!

I became confused when I heard the word ’service’ used with these agencies.

• Internal Revenue ‘Service’
• U.S. Postal ‘Service’
• Telephone ‘Service’
• Cable TV ‘Service’
• Civil ‘Service’
• State, City, County & Public ‘Service’
• Customer ‘Service’

These entities do not provide what I thought the word ’service’ meant.

But then, the other day, I overheard two farmers talking and one of them said he had hired a bull to ’service’ a few cows.

BAM!!! It all came into focus. Now I understand what all those agencies are doing to us.

You are now as enlightened as I am.

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Listening to: Carlos Santana – Evil Ways
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Happy birthday, Julie!

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Listening to: Kid Rock – Amen
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The more I see this guy, the more I like. He speaks from the heart and is honest in his posts. You gotta love his analogies (“even a broken clock is right twice a day!”) Enjoy:

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Listening to: Silvertide – California Rain
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Got this one as an attachment to an email that Ron sent me. Had to look it up on YouTube to embed it here. But… here it is. Make SURE you drink your milk, kids!

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Listening to: Nickelback – Next Contestant
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From history, we see greatness:

• ‘One man with courage makes a majority.’ – Andrew Jackson
• ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt
• ‘The buck stops here.’ – Harry S. Truman
• ‘Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.’ – John F. Kennedy

And from today’s Democrats we see… well, you figure it out.

• ‘It depends what your definition of ‘IS’ is?” – Bill Clinton
• ‘Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac are not in crisis’ – Barney Frank (fall 2003)
• ‘That Obama – I would like to cut his NUTS off.’ – Jesse Jackson
• ‘Those rumors are false …. I believe in the sanctity of marriage.’ – John Edwards
• ‘I invented the Internet’ – Al Gore
• ‘The next Person that tells me I’m not religious, I’m going to shove my rosary beads up their ASS.’ – Joe Biden
• ‘America is–is no longer, uh, what it–it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was…uh, and I say to myself, ‘uh, I don’t want that future, uh, uh for my children.’ – Barack Obama
• ‘I have campaigned in all 57 states.’ – Barack Obama (Quoted 2008)
• ‘You don’t need God anymore, you have us Democrats.’ – Nancy Pelosi (Quoted 2006)
• ‘Paying taxes is voluntary.’ – Sen. Harry Reid
• ‘Bill is the greatest husband and father I know. No one is more faithful, true, and honest than he.’ – Hillary Clinton (Quoted 1998)

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Listening to: The Blues Brothers – Sweet Home Chicago
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