Coyote's are spooky.

We live out in the middle of nowhere basically. If you ever wondered what country living was then Petersburg is your town. It's very small (only one yellow blinking light on the square) but it's beautiful. The only complaint I have is that we live in the bowl between mountains so cell phone service is tricky. I can look out my window and see the cell phone tower and yet there are spots in my house I can't use my cell phone. It's weird.

When my daughter and I first moved out here the first thing we noticed was how quiet it was. Especially at night. You go outside and it's pitch black. The first couple of days we turned every single light in the house on....and then realized...if something spooky out there is looking for something then we've lit ourselves up "Take us! Take us!" so we stopped doing that! There's lots of cows, horses, pigs, goats, chickens, roosters, donkeys, deer, and of course dogs and cats. You can go out at night and hear the cows wandering around in the fields and it sounds creepy. You can't see them but they are there!!

In the Spring there are birds like you've never seen. We have Robins that nest on our house every year. We have humming birds, blue cardinals, red cardinals, grackles, and song birds and they just cover the lawn. We love the birds. They will wake you up in the morning they are so loud.

There are owls but it's hard to determine how many because when it hoots the Mockingbirds start hooting back and it sounds like there are hundreds of them all over the place. I bet that drives the owls crazy.

When you drive somewhere at night you have to be careful because it's likely something will wander out in the road and you'll hit it.

The other night Jennifer and I came home from shopping and when we got out of the car we heard something. We were standing in the driveway in the pitch black and heard howling and yipping...Jennifer was like "What is that??" It was coyotes! We stood there and listened. It was definitely a pack of them and they had young with them. They weren't too far away. It's hard to tell which direction things are coming from because sound echoes off the sides of the mountains. We stood there in the dark staring at each other wide eyed for a good ten minutes and Jennifer said "It sounds spooky." It really was. It was like an episode of Survivorman right there in our driveway.

Those are the times I love being in the country.

Environmental terrorism.

I went to Kroger today. I went to get lettuce and there was a notice up explaining that because of the "drought" in California there was a shortage of vegetables and fruit and therefore the prices were increased. Of course, what it didn't say was that this is a man-made drought.

A progressive liberal environmental drought. The progressives are using "environmental issues" to affect the food supply. They've shut off the water in the farm areas of California that provide 60% of this country's fruit and vegetable supply. In the name of a fish...they say. Over 40,000 farm workers are unemployed now and need public assistance. John McCain even tried to transport water trucks to the farms and was shut down by Senator Boxer. Fox has covered this story extensively. Arnold Schwarzenegger has begged congress to intervene. It's not going to happen. Environmentalists are taking huge areas of land "in the name of environmental conservation" all across the country. Indigenous horses....on top of oil reserves. Huge areas of Alaska for the polar bears....the list goes on and on.

The lap dog media does NOT cover this story. If you do not watch Fox you will not see or even know this is happening. I find that absolutely mind boggling.

Why is this not being reported and what has to happen before people realize what is happening? I saw an interview last night where a group of people were questioned about socialism and most of them were completely clueless as to what socialism really is. They don't know. They've been brainwashed into thinking it's actually not a bad thing.

I don't think our forefathers established this country so it could become like socialist Europe. In fact...I'm pretty sure we left Europe to get out from under their control (The Church of England but that's another blog). Somehow this European way of thinking has influenced a lot of people without them realizing what is going to happen if the government controls our economy. Remember Russia after the Soviet Union fell and their economy collapsed? Remember France having riots because of 40% unemployment? Does food shortage and goods shortages mean anything? No more freedom of speech or freedom of the press. The luxury we live in now....don't get too comfortable. Ask Germany how fun it was when they switched to socialism....They might have a different answer than you want to hear. If cap and trade goes into effect your utility bill will skyrocket. That's straight from Obama's mouth and you can look it up on YouTube yourself. If the healthcare bill gets passed it will destroy the U.S. dollar. We cannot sustain $10 trillin dollar deficits....today alone we pay China $200 million an HOUR in INTEREST on our loans. This is before healthcare and before cap and trade. Don't tell me the progressives are this ignorant. They know exactly what they are doing. Please...be my guest...look up speeches from Ron Bloom (manufacturing czar), Anita Dunn (communications director), Mark Lloyd, FCC, the list goes on and on. They all are against a free market and they all are self proclaimed socialists and they all say this is a means to an end to capitalism. But our media does not report this. Well...except Fox...and you know how "crazy" those people are. Van Jones said these things, too but no one even knew who he was before he was forced to resign and then people were like WHAT? How does this happen??

These things scare the hell out of me.

I think once people start realizing the control that government is getting right now and start to count the radical progressives that are advising this radical president they might figure it out....you know...if they turn off American Idol long enough.

I'd like to have faith that we can fix things.

Math, liberal style.

I am not one to claim to be good at math. I avoid it at all costs...it's just not happening. But to my understanding this is what the Democrats did when they submitted the Senate's healthcare bill to the CBO:

The CBO is non-partisan so the liberals can't get them to lie for them. BUT...they can play math tricks to fool the public...which is what they did. The CBO can only report on what is given to them. The Democrats submitted an $800 billion dollar bill that really only showed 6 years of service. Four years were strictly the government collecting taxpayer dollars. The "doctor fix" which is a change in the medicare payment to doctors basically, was only for ONE YEAR of the TEN. That showed a deficit reduction. Of course, the Democrats took the $247 billion dollar "doctor fix" and then wrote a separate bill and tried to pass it. If failed.

They are doing the same thing with Pelosicare (that name just makes the hair on my neck stand straight up). So when the CBO comes out with their analysis make sure you know what the trick math was to make it look good.

I guess this is for the benefit of the liberal lap dog media so they can tell everybody how great the plan is while censoring how the Democrats used fuzzy math to make it sound good.

Anyway you look at it...it's going to add to our deficit and that in turn destroys our dollar. They are stil monetizing our debt (printing money) and denying it. We are headed for inflation three to four times higher than when Jimmy Carter took office. Or worse.

It's hard to wrap your head around those kind of numbers. I know economic issues are boring....but we need to pay attention. This is a socialist president with a socialist/communist cabinet of advisors who would love to install an entirely new system if the economy crashes. Think about it.

What's with the anti-flag crap?

Somehow...and nothing surprises me anymore with the liberals....the American flag has become a sign of religion in the minds of liberal people. It's amazing to me how these things get twisted in the liberal blogs. If you go to OFA which is Obama's sugar daddy for election you will see where the DNC held a contest for artists (I wonder if any of the NEA funding found it's way in that contest) to create a video for Obama's healthcare takeover. The winner was of somebody desecrating the American flag....i.e. if you oppose healthcare you are un-American.

Well no...I think it's un-American for the DNC to try to saddle our kids and grandkids with debt that will destroy our economy and ruin our quality of life.

There are several stories popping up where people have complained about American flags being displayed openly. This is just stupid.

We have 150,000 of our troops stationed in harms way....how do you think they feel when they turn on the news and see the American flag being attacked like this? It all goes back to this anti-American theme the progressives have been touting and it makes me ill. We should not be apologizing for our country. We should be PROUD of our country. If you have ever lived anywhere else in this world you will appreciate how great this country is. I want to see these liberal feminists go over to any other country and see how women are treated and then come tell me how bad they have it. It's just ridiculous.

We have the best country in the entire world. We have the greatest military in the world. We live a quality of life that is not even realized in Europe. Are we perfect? No. Could we be better? Yes.

But never question how great this country is or question displaying the American flag. I don't think the DNC should use this symbol of our country for partisan politics. It's disrespectful.

Healthcare Bill

It truly amazes me that this administration has devoted much of the past six months to taking over the healthcare industry. It seems Obama has to tackle 15 things at once and do a lousy job at all instead of taking one or two problems at a time and making them right. Or he's just incredibly greedy and knows that he needs to push through as much as possible before the American people figure out what he is doing.

I think it's the later. The progressives are a greedy bunch and they know they can only fool people for so long. People are realizing how many far-left progressives he has surrounded himself with and have appointed czar jobs and they are realizing he is trying to turn this countries policies hard left and fast. We shall see in the few elections coming up what the price will be to the Democrats. The Democrats, you know, the regular liberals who aren't all wacked out like the progressives, are the ones who will suffer most.

But healthcare going to affect all of us. I have worked in the healthcare industry for over 20 years. I know EXACTLY what government run healthcare looks like and if the progressives have their way it is going to ruin the standard of living we all have. Just drive down to the nearest city hospital and walk around for about 15 minutes. There's your future. It's not pretty.

I worked with social services in the DC area for 5 years. There was so much corruption in the government medical system it was all we could do at our program at Georgetown to keep the patients fed and hydrated. If a government worker was caught abusing or stealing from a patient they just transferred them to another floor. If the administrator making $200K a year even showed up for work it was a rarity. There were 18 government administrators per patient and we knew maybe 5 of them. If we bought a patient a comfort item or gift we would come in the next day and it was gone. Stolen by the government staff. It was the most depressing, pathetic thing I ever saw in my years working in the medical field. It was ugly. So I know exactly what our healthcare system will be like under the government and I know people are not going to like it.

But that's not the point. The Democrats are trying their best to lie and deceive people about this plan and I hope people realize this. The cost alone is dangerous. If this plan goes into effect we are going to have an economic breakdown. My question is this....is this on purpose? If we have an economic meltdown the progressives will claim victory. They do not want free market...they want a socialist government. If the economy fails what better reason for the government to takeover and restructure our entire government. Obama has exploited every "crisis". Do I think he is above creating crises in order to achieve his goals.

No I don't. I think the Democrats and progressives would do that and more. It's all about power and money. Don't be fooled into thinking it's anything else. This is not to "save" poor people. This is about money and power.

If Obama and the treasury department keep printing money and monetizing debt the value of the dollar is going to continue to drop. They have already indicated they are interested in a "world currency". People need to start paying attention.

Afghanistan

I get really ticked off when I talk about Obama and the Afghanistan war. I have three friends in Afghan. Two have been going back and forth there since the war began. I've been tuned into that war from the beginning. The news media largely ignored this war. They were too busy trying to dog George Bush about Iraq. They were too busy glorifying the death count to turn the public against it. They were too busy glorifying Cindy Sheehan and her ten radical, ignorant Code Pink protestors to know jack squat about the war or what was happening there. They labeled it the "good war" so if it was the "good war" why would they cover it? It was of no use to them since they couldn't use it to attack the Republicans. Nancy Pelosi tried to cut off supplies once and everybody erupted so she gave in.

I recall talking to my friend, Kevin, one Thanksgiving while he was there. He couldn't eat Thanksgiving dinner at the canteen because Hilliary Clinton was there. I asked him why and he said "Because they have it all shut down while she is there...we're not allowed in." About 13 hand-picked liberal officers were chosen to eat Thanksgiving dinner with her for a photo op...everybody else had to eat rations, you know, the dog food in a box. That's showing compassion for the troops, don't you think?

Just a side note...when George Bush went to Iraq on Thanksgiving he got on the server line and served the troops...and nobody was cut off. Was it a photo op? Absolutely. But he kept serving after the cameras were off and he thanked every single military person who came through that line to eat.

Anyway, back to Afghanistan. My friend kept in touch with me every day. He would tell me things going on and there would be nothing on the news about it. Or if it was in the news it was wrong. Sometimes it would be sort of right but mostly wrong. Sometimes it's the military doing that. They will nudge the military to put out a story when they are trying to produce a reaction or cause a reaction out in the field. Those kind of things I understand. But I don't understand how the media can just ignore it altogether because politically it was not advantagous for them.

Until now. Of course now they want to whine about it. Obama seems to be listening. What I am reading is complete ignorance. Trying to run a war from Washington was the #1 mistake we made in Vietnam. Johnson tried to control the war this way and it resulted in tens of thousands of dead military people and civilians. There is a disadvantage for the military in this fight between them and Obama, obviously. The military has to be obedient...and they are. They can't fight back. They can't release information to the public to support their side. They can leak it....or do like McChrystal did...but they can't come straight out and give their perspective. Obama can and is lying and continues to do so to this day. We've had a very clear strategy in Afghanistan and Rahm Emanuel is full of crap.

They are stalling as long as they can to gauge what the far left is going to do. They want the three big elections going on in the northeast to be behind them before they announce their decision. I find it interesting that Obama can go golfing, go on David Letterman, go to three political fundraisers and go to Copenhagen to brown nose the Olympic committee but he can't sit down with the general HE PICKED to figure out what to do. You don't ask your generals to assess their mission and report to you and then say "Well...maybe I'll do something else."

I don't ask the lawn mower guy how to fix my washing machine.

Now their excuse....which is a new excuse every week now....is that the Afghan government is corrupt. YOU THINK?? Gee, I think if it had not been corrupt in the first place we wouldn't be there...DUH! Did we go to Iraq because we knew there was a government all ready to jump in and go to work? Did we attack Japan because we thought their government was just peachy and it was just the military we wanted to evaporate? What an IDIOTIC thing to say.

You don't get more corrupt than the Afghanistan people. As my friend told me, "We hire them and they work as guards to the base during the day and they go home at night and shoot mortars at the base." We hire truck drivers from Pakistan to drive in supplies for our troops. Sometimes the trucks make it...sometimes they don't. (It's actually quite a neat process how they secure the supplies that I'll explain more in detail on another day). The drivers take "heroine breaks" in the dessert sometimes and get lost. Or fall asleep. Or get attacked because Afhgan people HATE Pakistani people and they get beat up or worse. The truck drivers only get a sliver of the money we pay them. The money goes to tribal leaders. The tribal leaders are all warring against eachother. It's all about money and power in Afghanistan. They have no electricity or running water or TV sets. Maybe a very, very, small elite few have those things. These people we are fighting have no idea there is another world out there. They wouldn't know what a microwave oven was if you showed it to them. Donald Trump would be the guy with all the sheep. A group moves in and gives a village sheep, cooking oil and supplies for a promise they will protect them from other tribes and there you go....you just had an election. There is no sense of right or wrong. It's about survival.

For Rahm Emanuel to go on the news and say "Oh...we had no idea what we were getting into" is a big fat LIE. He's trying to simplify a situation in a political way because he knows the American people don't really know these things. Their best strategy has been to villainize Bush so that's what he is doing. It's popular and the people fall for it.

So my point is....Yes, we know Karzi is corrupt. The entire country is corrupt. We knew Iraq was corrupt yet we were still able to stabilize the country so a government could be put in place (with the Iraqi's choosing their leaders) and a system could be started. We trusted the military on the ground to do this because they knew how best to do it. It's the same thing in Afghanistan. The people will not vote if they do not feel safe. If the bad guys have all the sheep....they will win.

We have to show the Afghanistani's we have the most sheep....

Amusing Jennifer Moment

So I've been wondering lately....why does the oven smoke every time I turn it on? Today I found my answer...

I'm standing in the kitchen chatting with my daughter, watching JJ eat...which he always does when we're standing in the kitchen because if we go in there, in his mind, we're going to steal his food so he must eat it immediately. Jennifer casually mentions she is cooking some hotdogs in the oven, which of course leads to the conversation about when we're going to get another microwave oven because ours went kaput and now the kids think we live in the stone age. I actually enjoy NOT having the microwave for a change so that is still on hold.

But anyway, after about ten minutes Jennifer says "I think my hotdogs are done". So I open the door and WHAT? The hotdogs are bubbling away right there on the rack....no pan in site!

"Jennifer! What in the world are you doing?"
She thinks it's extremely funny, my alarm at this...
"Look! It even puts the little black lines on them like the grill."

So now I know why the kitchen fills with smoke when I turn the oven on.

A Day of Football

Sunday is a very important day around my house. Football is taken very seriously. I am a Denver Broncos fan and have been since John Elway graduated from Stanford and ended up with Denver. He was so fun to watch...and most importantly, he was a good sport when he lost.

But Denver aside I love watching most of the games throughout the season and have my favorites. Peyton Manning of course tops the list. How can you not love Peyton Manning? He is the ultimate good sportsman. He and his entire family...and of course Eli. Just a good all American family in my opinion. I like Tom Brady but not when he wins all the time if that makes sense. He gets all stuck up when he always wins and besides, it's no fun when one team blows away everybody else. It makes for a boring season.

So we look at the NFL schedule and pick our games...me and my daughter, Jennifer. Basically, Jennifer will only watch the Colts play, being a newcomer to football. She has her limits sitting in front of the TV watching. But if Denver plays and it gets really exciting she gets into it. Or the Vikings. I love watchin Brett Favre.

So today I'm watching the Colts game and the Vikings game (flipping back and forth) and Jennifer is in the living room on the computer (where the big 32" TV is that is hooked up to the stereo). Since the Colts are beating the Rams 21 to 3 I figure okay, I'll switch over and watch the Vikings and Pittsburg because it's 10 to 7 and a closer game...and I hate Pittsburg. Jennifer walks all the way back into my room and says "Why aren't you watching the Colts?" I explain to her the reason..(I'm always on the computer working...even during football). So she switches the channel, watches about 3 minutes then shuffles back down the hall to the living room. Again, I change it to the Vikings. Three minutes later she shuffles back down the hall..."Do the Colts still have the ball?"....click....watches 3 minutes then shuffles back down the hall.

So I yell down the hall..."Why don't you turn the Colts game on in there?"
"That's too much trouble"....She answers.

Three minutes later here she comes again =) This time she laid down in the bed, though so that must mean she's serious this time. Hopefully, Brett Favre will keep up the good fight without me.

No Denver today...they are on their Bye week. A 6-0 season so far...which is incredible. Tonight it's the Giants....

UPDATE: Oh, well...Favre lost but the Colts blew away the Rams. The Patriots won in Europe...which...I think I think it's odd and stupid that we are playing in Europe. They could care less about American football. They keep trying to make us soccer fans...and it hasn't worked (thank God! Everything else they try to influence us with gets thru much to my distress)...but that's a different blog. I'm sure the Giants will beat Arizona tonight but you never know.

This is Exciting!!

I've decided to start a blog. Not because I really need to waste more time typing and writing and not working...but because I think it would be more constructive to put all my thoughts and passions in a consolidated space rather than drive all my friends on Facebook nuts. So whenever I feel it's necessary to alert my "peoples" I will do so on my blog...but reserve the right to still drive people nuts on Facebook when something alarming happens. Which is actually quite often with this President in office.



We'll see how it goes.



Also, throughout the day while I visit sites I often find things I just love and want to keep...so this is a good place to show it. I hope that's not illegal...is it? I guess I'll find out.

So here we go into blog land...Sunday, October 25, 2009, during the Colts/Rams game...