So what is everyone doing this weekend ?  Do you normally celebrate the 4th and get out of town or do you normally stay home ?  Has the high cost of fuel made you change your plans ?

I normally don't do anything, and have always had to work..  I have had the past 3 days off so tonight if it doesn't rain I will sit on my back porch and watch the fireworks display..  This is something that I always have liked to do, even when I worked the night shift we would go outside and watch the fire works..  Of course things have changed with me since 9/11 and I always manage to well up, ALWAYS !  I just get very emotional..

Even as a child we never went anywhere, it was a holiday weekend and we just stayed home, had a bar-b-que and shot off fireworks once the sun went down..  That was before it was illegal to shoot them off in the state of California :)

I remember this past Memorial weekend and how everyone was saying that the gas prices wouldn't bother people they would continue to do what they normally do..  WRONG !  Not where I live..  Besides the thunderstorms we had that kept everyone home, the gas prices around here kept everyone home..  The talk at work was it was a good time to stay home and be with our family and do our normal cook-out..  Most of us work anyway :)

Have a safe weekend whatever you decide to do, and remember the battles that have been fought and the lives that have been lost so we can continue to celebrate this day in FREEDOM !

 

Not really sure how my male friends here will deal with this, but we all need a good laugh once in awhile :)   I will even admit that I find this absolutely hilarious :)

and to all the ladies for the best chuckle of their day.

 
During this political season lets be reminded of these wise words:

" You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the
strong.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging
thrift.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage
payer down.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting
class hatred.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away
men's initiative and independence.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them,
what they could and should do for themselves"
--Abraham Lincoln

I got the call this past Tuesday from the Sheriff's Dept that my background check came back clean (had no worries, and knew it would)..  SOOOOO since I don't even have to work a half day today I will get my photo ID this afternoon for Conceal Carry...  NOW I'm excited :)  My friend went down and got his and he said it was $11.50 for his ID, so that means all in all I paid $211.50 to be able to carry a concealed weapon :)   Not bad I think :)

I really don't know what all the whinning and crying is about for those of you out there that don't get to have the typical weekend off, Saturday & Sunday.. I hear it all the time and for the life of me just can't seem to get a handle on it as to why you would do anything in your power to get these two days off..

Everything closes early or isn't open at all due to some religious thing here..  Just hoards of people everywhere you go.. One business here said in an ad " We are now open on Sundays, but we can't talk about our product " (Harley dealership)..  OK so if I wanted to buy a Harley we couldn't discuss it ?  Couldn't sit down and make a deal ? 

You might as well forget about Saturdays because that is even worse, you are going to get mowed over by people anywhere you go..  AND you can forget about making appts for anything..

I will keep my days off as they are, and they can be changed to ANYTHING but Saturday & Sunday..  I just hate it when I have to take these off..  I'm working on a job out of town last week and this coming week and it is Monday-Friday :)  Ha ha ha 

Will be glad when this week is over and I get back to my job and MY DAYS OFF..  LOL

WHERE TO BUY YOUR USA-GAS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON--

Gas rationing in the 80's worked even though we grumbled about it.
It might even be good for us!

The Saudis are boycotting American goods.

We should return the favor.

An interesting thought is to boycott their GAS.
Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia.. Just buy from gas companies that don't import their oil from the Saudis.

Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill-up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my friends.

I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil.

These companies import Middle Eastern oil:

Shell..........................  205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco.........144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil..............130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway..117,740,000 barrels
Amoco..........................62,231,000 barrels

Citgo Gas comes from South America, from a Dictator who hates Americans.

Here are some large companies that
DO NOT import Middle Eastern oil:

Sunoco................ 0 barrels
Conoco................ 0 barrels
Sinclair................ 0 barrels
BP/Phillips.......... 0 barrels
Hess.......... .......... 0 barrels
ARC0................... 0 barrels
 Also: Pilot, Flying J, Love's, RaceTrac, Valero

All of this information is available from the Department of Energy
and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much
they are importing.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. It's really simple to do.

Now, don't wimp out at this p oint.... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I'm sending this note to about thirty people.

If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and

those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) .. and

so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people,

we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers !!!!!!!

If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten
friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!

If it goes one level further, you guessed it ..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE !!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to

10 people. How long would all that take?

If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next eight days!

PS..  I don't even have 30 people on my contact list here much less in my email account, ha ha ha..  But I wanted to share this email I received today..  OH by the way I have always used Conoco..

I'm just another step closer to getting my CCW permit..  Went to our county Sheriff's Department Thursday, paid them the $100 they wanted, gave them my certificate that proved I had taken the CCW course, got fingerprinted and had my picture taken..  Now I wait on that..  She did 3 sets of prints which I had no clue would happen before hand..  No big deal just surprised..

My friend did tell me though that once they call you and tell you everything is good to go, once you walk out of the Sheriff's Department I have 7 days to get that "C" put on my license..  Otherwise I have to start all over again..  AND he said it would be wise to have a photo ID instead of having them put it on my license, my license doesn't expire until 2013 and the permit expires every 3 years, so that is what I will do in this case..  Good lord I don't want to be renewing my license every 3 years :) 

I was told this could up to 45 days to come back, but for me the hardest part is over..  ACTUALLY the rceptionist said  "If you don't hear from us by the end of 45 days, you know your're good."  That will put it around the week of July 4th and that time will go by fast..  I'm so busy at work I can't even take time to think about the moment much less that far ahead :)

Man I'm glad its over :)  Seemed like forever, but I finally got my certificate for my CCW permit..  The reason it took so long was because we only had an outdoor shooting range to use, no indoor shooting range around here..  Seems like someone would have already thought of that, but oh well..  Another reason it took so long was the weather has been ungodly here, we have had severe thunderstorms it least 3 days out of every week for the last few months..  Good god we had tornados last weekend..  It had rained over night and into this morning, it was a little muddy but we weathered it quite well if I say so myself.. 

I qualified and got my certificate and all that is left is taking it, the receipt and $100 cash to the Sheriffs office next week so they can start the background check..  That I was told will take 45 days..  Then once that is done and everything is good to go, I have to take whatever they give me to license office and pay them $20 to have that "C" put on my license..  Wooo  Hooo !!!!!!!!  Almost there :)  So I figure after the July 4th weekend I will be on my way.. 

I actually qualified with 3 different pistols, was quite exciting, really..  Terry kept asking me to shoot different guns that were there to see if I could handle them, only had a problem with one and that my neighbor' pistol, he had a Springfield Armory 9mm ..  It was heavy and I couldn't get a good grip on it, but all in all I did fantastic :)  All my shots were right in the middle right in the center of the target :)

What Is A Mother ?

When the good Lord was creating mothers, he was into his sixth day of overtime when the angel appeared and said, "You are doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."

And the Lord said, "Have you read the specs on this order ?"

"She has to be completely washable, not plastic, have moveable parts, all replaceable, run on black coffee and leftovers, have a lap that disappears when she stands up, a kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair, and six pairs of hands."

The angel shook her head slowly and said, "Six pairs of hands, no way !"

"It's not the hands that cause the problems, said the Lord. It is the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have."

"That's the standard model," the angel asked?

The Lord nodded. "One pair that sees through closed doors, when she asks, "What are you kids doing in there, " when she already knows. Another in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in the front so that she can look at a child when he goofs and says, "I understand and I love you," without so much as uttering a word.

"Lord," said the angel, tugging his sleeve gently, "Come to bed .."

"I can't," said the Lord. "I am so close to creating something so close to myself. Already, I have one who heals herself when she is sick, can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger and can get a nine year old to stand under a shower."

The angel circled the model of a mother. "It's too soft," she sighed.

"But tough," said the Lord excitedly. "You cannot imagine what this mother can do or endure !"

"Can it think ?"

"Not only can she think, but it can reason and compromise," said the Creator.

Finally the angel bent over and ran her fingers across the cheek. "There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model."

"It's not a leak," said the Lord. "It is a tear."

"What's it for ?"

"It's for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride."

"You are a genius," said the angel.

The Lord looked somber. "I didn't put it there," he said.

According to Snopes HERE, until just recently, this document was restricted to public access and labeled ‘temporarily unavailable’ by Princeton in an effort to keep it out of the public arena until after the election in November, 2008.

......Your next First Lady?

In her senior thesis at Princeton, Michele Obama, the wife of Barack Obama stated that America was a nation founded on "crime and hatred". Moreover, she stated that whites in America were "ineradicably racist".   The 1985 thesis, titled "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community" was written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson.

Michelle Obama stated in her thesis that to "Whites at Princeton , it often seems as if, to them, she will always be Black first..." However, it was reported by a fellow black classmate, "If those "Whites atPrinceton " really saw Michelle as one who always would "be Black first," it seems that she gave them that impression".

Most alarming is Michele Obama's use of the terms "separationist" and "integrationist" when describing the views of black people.

Mrs. Obama clearly identifies herself with a "separationist" view of race.

"By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desperation of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight."

Obama writes that the path she chose by attending Princeton would likely lead to her "further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant."

Michele Obama clearly has a chip on her shoulder.

Not only does she see separate black and white societies in America , but she elevates black over white in her world.

Here is another passage that is uncomfortable and ominous in meaning:

"There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit the black community first and foremost. "

What is Michelle Obama planning to do with her future resources if she's first lady that will elevate black over white in America ?

The following passage appears to be a call to arms for affirmative action policies that could be the hallmark of an Obama administration.

"Predominately white universities like Princeton are socially and academically designed to cater to the needs of the white students comprising the bulk of their enrollments."

The conclusion of her thesis is alarming.

Michelle Obama's poll of black alumni concludes that other black students at Princeton do not share her obsession with blackness. But rather than celebrate, she is horrified that black alumni identify with our common American culture more than they value the color of their skin. "I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility."

Is it no wonder that most black alumni ignored her racist questionnaire? Only 89 students responded out of 400 who were asked for input.

Michelle Obama does not look into a crowd of Obama supporters and see Americans. She sees black people and white people eternally conflicted with one another.

The thesis provides a trove of Mrs. Obama's thoughts and world view seen through a race-based prism.

This is a very divisive view for a potential first lady that would do untold damage to race relations in this country in a Barack Obama administration.

Michelle Obama's intellectually refined racism should give all Americans pause for deep concern.

Now maybe she's changed, but she sure sounds like someone with an axe to grind withAmerica . Will the press let Michelle get a free pass over her obviously racist comment about American whites?  I am sure that it will.  But it shouldn't.

FYI:

I am not a supporter of any of the candidates for president.  In fact, they all leave a bad taste in my mouth.  However, I am definitely sick of the main stream media (MSM) feeding us all this crap about Obama being an agent of change.

Has anyone stopped to think what kind of change; really?

PS: We paid for her scholarship.
 
 

Someone has done their homework and has documented the claims in

this pretty well. It is well worth your time and serious consideration!

 

Part 1

In just 16 months.. Remember the election in 2006? Thought you might like to read the following:

A little over 16 MONTHS ago:

 

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;

2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;

3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

 

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

 

1) Consumer confidence plummet;

2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;

3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);

4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);

5) Americans have seen their home e quity drop by $1.2 tri llion dollars;

6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

 

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

 

Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President.

He has to work with what's handed to him.

 

 

Quote of the Day........ "My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." -- Barack Obama

 

Part 2:

Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening

and amazing.

www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

Taxes under Clinton 1999

Taxes under Bush 2008

Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making

30K - tax $4,500

Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making

50K - tax $12,500

Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making

75K - tax $18,750

Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60

K- tax $9,000

Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making

75K - tax $18,750

Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making

125K - tax $31,250

 

Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates. It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories

above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul

Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what

happened.

 

PART 3:

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:

Boy, am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.

I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL's for

verification of all the following facts.

 

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 American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

Verify at

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

 

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

Verify at:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

 

7. 30% percent of all Federa l Pris on inmates are illegal aliens.

Verify at:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

 

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.

Verify at:

http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

 

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.

Verify at:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

 

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal a liens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US

Verify at:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

 

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.

Verify at: Homeland

Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

 

12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."

Verify at:

http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

 

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.

Verify at:

http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

 

14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ."

Verify at:

http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

 

The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

 

Are we that STUPID !!

 

 

Let's say I break into your house..

A lady wrote the best letter in the Editorials in ages!!!  It explains things better than all the baloney you hear on TV.

Her point:

Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration.

Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely. Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests. Let's say I break into your house. Let's say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave.  But I say, 'No!  I like it here. It's better than my house.  I've made all  the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors.  I've  done all the things you don't like to do.  I'm hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house).

According to the protesters:

You are Required to let me stay in your house.  You are Required to feed me.  You are Required to add me to your family's insurance plan .  You are Required to Educate my kids.  You are Required to Provide other benefits to me & to my family, (my husband will do all of your yard work because he is also hard-working and honest, except for that breaking in part).

If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my RIGHT to be there. It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I'm just trying to better myself.  I'm a hard-working and honest, person, except for well, you know, I did break into your house And what a deal it is for me!!!

I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of cold, uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and bigoted behavior.

Oh yeah, I DEMAND that you  learn MY LANGUAGE!!! so you can communicate with me.

Why can't people see how ridiculous this is?! Only in America .

For those of you who slept through World History 101 here is a condensed version.

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers.

They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer
and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were:
1. The invention of beer, and
2. The invention of the wheel.

The wheel was invented to get man to the beer, and the beer to the man.
These facts formed the foundation of modern civilization and together were
the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Liberals (Democrats as they are known today)
2. Conservatives. (Republicans)

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of
agriculture.

Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our
early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just
stayed close to the brewery.

That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night
while they were drinking beer.

This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off
the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ's and doing the sewing,
fetching, and hair dressing.

This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became
known as girlie-men.

Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats,
the invention of group therapy and group hugs, the evolution of the Hollywood
actor, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide all the
meat and beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years, Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most
powerful land animal on earth, the elephant.

Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white
wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done.
Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting
evolutionary side note: most liberal women have higher testosterone levels
than their men.

Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in
Hollywood and group therapists are liberals.

Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for
their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, firemen,
lumberjacks, construction workers, bankers, medical doctors, police officers,
corporate executives, athletes, airline pilots, Marines, and generally anyone
who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other
conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing.

They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production.
Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans.

That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were
coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created
a business of trying to get more for no thing.

Here ends today's lesson in world history.


It should be noted that a liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond
to the above before forwarding it.

A conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this
history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers, and to more
liberals ... just to piss them off.

Couldn't agree more, LMAO

Well it's moving along, LOL.  I sat through all those video's and even had a test at the end.  I did just fine, and passed the test 100%..  Since it has been raining everyday for two weeks, where we were going to shoot is in bad shape since this is an outdoor shooting range.  So it has been postponed until the rain quits :)  This will be no problem since he will have it on one of my days off.  And he said under the circumstances since I don't have weekends off, he will let me do it on a private basis if needs be.

Just gotta wait for the rain to quit and it won't until this weekend. LOL 

I just have to go back to my old way of doing things irregardless of where I am..  Present time being here at Multiply.. 

Ton's of theme designers put out amazing and very beautiful themes..  I'm not going to concern myself with them any longer..  I have seen copyright infringement on quite a few themes and it continues..  I will not use another designer's theme unless I know for sure they are following the rules..  I'm going to quit the groups that publish themes for this reason, it just ticks me off to much to enjoy my time here..  

It never bothered me when I was at Y'360 and I never paid attention to this issue..  But I always saw credits and original artists names on the graphics or backgrounds they used, but not here.. 

So I am out of that loop of custom theme design groups..  It's not my place to police the themes, it is the Admins responsibility..  And they need to start looking a lot closer to the themes they allow to be posted and question the authenticity..  Make the designer prove that it is solely theirs without question..

OK I'm done with my rant :)

P.S. In the future if I do happen onto a site and I do happen to see something I recognize, I will no longer report it to the group's Admin's..  I will notify the artist or original designer along with a link to the persons site so they can see for themselves and handle it legally..

OK I think I'm done now :) 

I found this quite amusing in my morning reading material..  I work in retail and I have come to the conclusion that there are quite a few people that STILL don't believe in soap & water, shanpoo and deodrant.. If they bathe or shower once a month please tell someone..

Article :

" I’ve heard of some old laws on some cities books that are referred to as "ugly laws." When they were being enforced, a person could be arrested if someone was offended by their appearance. I’m wondering if the obnoxious odor law could be taken to that extreme.

 

I’m sure there would be a market for pocket sized sniffers that would set off an alarm when odor reached a certain level. Such a device would certainly eliminate cigar smokers from most neighborhoods along with most cat boxes. There is nothing more obnoxious than an overworked cat box. I suppose the sale of deodorant would skyrocket.

 

It could make every law abiding citizen fear the term "something smells fishy. "

( By the way I love cigar smoke or pipe smoke..  I have quite a collection of cigar's myself.. )

I've read where time is the real commodity of 00's..  The old saying " I've got the time, if you've got the money ", may be losing all relationship to the real world..

Of course the fact that only a couple of generations ago people worked twelve or more hours a day just to get by often gets forgotten..  With 90% of the population living in rural areas back then, most of the time was spent just trying to keep food on the table..

I suppose the main difference between now and then is people back then didn't have a choice..  The fact is, anyone wanting to live, as the pioneers did, in a home without running water or electricity, washing clothes in a tub, without phones, televisions, or computers, they wouldn't probably have lots of time..

Time isn't a commodity, it's a given..  The choices come in how we spend it..

I don't get to listen to talk radio as much as I use to due to the hours I work.. And I guess this is making the talk radio circuit..  I don't like to do blogs on something that isn't original from me, but I have not heard anyone or read anything about this until this morning..  I received the entire article in an email..

I do believe though it should be " The Angry White American "  NOT " The Angry White Man " because there a lot of females that feel the same way..

Here's the link to article  http://www.aspentimes.com/article/2008198091324  Here's the article I hadn't posted earlier...

In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man

Gary Hubbell
February 9, 2008

There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.

Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.

There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.

His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.

The victimhood syndrome buzzwords — “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” — don’t resonate with him. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding.

He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.

The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him.

The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.

His last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American.

He’s a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch.

Women either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.”

He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner.

He’s not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English.

Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don’t pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement.

He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves.

There are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush.

He hopes that she will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum.

Gary Hubbell is a regular columnist with the Aspen Times Weekly.

I don't know about the rest of you out there, but here in Southwest Missouri we are still in Winter's grip and it doesn't look like it is going away anytime soon..  More freezing rain/sleet/snow starting tonight into Friday afternoon..  SURE could use some of that global warming the libs are always talking about :)  Funny though you never hear ANY talk about it when the country is in the grips of winter, ha ha ha ha...  AND I thought this was a crisis :)