There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the Prof noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist regime.
In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked:
“Do you know how to catch wild pigs?”
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke.
“You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs
find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put
a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming.
When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.
They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up
with a gate in the last side.
The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again.
You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom.
They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught.
Soon they go back to eating the free corn . They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage
in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.”
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America . The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax cuts, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually
lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.
One should always remember two truths:
1) There is no such thing as a free lunch
2) and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
If you see that all of this wonderful government ‘help’ is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want to refer your friends to this site.
However, if you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably ignore this message. But little pig, God help you when that gate slams shut!
AMERICA ,The home of the Free Because of the Brave.
This videotape shows Russian Navy commandos on a Somalian pirate ship shortly after the pirates had captured a Russian oil tanker. The European Union ships that patrol these waters would not interfere because they feared there could be casualties. The Russians had a different approach.
If you don’t understand Russian, the pictures speak for themselves. The soldiers freed their compatriots, moved all the pirates to their own (pirate) ship, searched the pirate ship for weapons and explosives, and then they left the ship and exploded it with all remaining pirates on it.
The commandos sunk the pirate ship along with the pirates and without any court proceedings, lawyers etc. That is, they used the anti-piracy laws of the 18th and 19th centuries where the captain of the rescuing ship has the right to decide what to do with the pirates. Historically, they were usually hung. Here they were fried.
According to the captions; no Russian ship has been targeted since. I wonder why?
The monthly meeting of the Republican Party of Garland County on Thursday May 6th will be a special “Meet the Candidates” event. All the candidates who are facing primary challenges for the May 18th Republican Primary have been invited. This includes local candidates for JP, and Constable as well as 4th Dist Congressional race, US Senate, and Lt Governor of AR. Many have given verbal commitments to attend and to speak at this event. This is an exciting election year and the stakes could not be higher! We have more good qualified Republican candidates this year in Garland County that ever before! Let your friends know and bring a car full to this important event. All are welcome to this free event and an informed electorate is a valuable thing!
This is a wonderful opportunity to meet and hear the candidates define the issues and their candidacy. There will be a meet and greet time starting at 5:45 p.m. The regular meeting will begin at 6:15 and consist of a short business meeting with most of the time reserved to hear from the candidates for office. The addresses of the candidates will be followed by refreshments and a social period with an excellent opportunity to get all your questions answered.
You will even have an opportunity to win two tickets to a popular local Bar-B-Que restaurant that has been generously donated to be given as a door prize. Sorry I can’t announce the name of the restaurant here ahead of time, but you certainly will be delighted if you are the winner! I know I will be checking my ticket stub carefully!
Please mark your calendar and make a special point to be there Thursday evening. Looking forward to seeing you. The meeting will be held at the Gospel Light School auditorium at 516 Third Street in Hot Springs, AR. There is plenty of parking space in the adjacent lot at the corner of Fourth and South streets.
Early voting starts Monday May 2nd in the Garland County Election Commission office in Hot Springs and in the Chamber of Commerce building in Hot Springs Village.
A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to ‘Canada’ or ‘The United States’ for an amount “up to and including my life.” That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it. This is a poem in his honor. Something that is never heard enough.
He was getting old and paunchy
And his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion,
Telling stories of the past.
Of a war that he once fought in
And the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with his buddies;
They were heroes, every one.
And ‘tho sometimes to his neighbours
His tales became a joke,
All his buddies listened quietly
For they knew where of he spoke.
But we’ll hear his tales no longer,
For ol’ Bob has passed away,
And the world’s a little poorer
For a Soldier died today.
He won’t be mourned by many,
Just his children and his wife.
For he lived an ordinary,
Very quiet sort of life.
He held a job and raised a family,
Going quietly on his way;
And the world won’t note his passing,
‘Tho a Soldier died today.
When politicians leave this earth,
Their bodies lie in state,
While thousands note their passing,
And proclaim that they were great.
Papers tell of their life stories
> From the time that they were young
But the passing of a Soldier
Goes unnoticed, and unsung.
Is the greatest contribution
To the welfare of our land,
Some jerk who breaks his promise
And cons his fellow man?
Or the ordinary fellow
Who in times of war and strife,
Goes off to serve his country
And offers up his life?
The politician’s stipend
And the style in which he lives,
Are often disproportionate,
To the service that he gives.
While the ordinary Soldier,
Who offered up his all,
Is paid off with a medal
And perhaps a pension, small.
It’s so easy to forget them,
For it is so many times
That our Bobs and Jims and Johnnys,
Went to battle, but we know,
It is not the politicians
With their compromise and ploys,
Who won for us the freedom
That our country now enjoys.
Should you find yourself in danger,
With your enemies at hand,
Would you really want some cop-out,
With his ever waffling stand?
Or would you want a Soldier–
His home, his country, his kin,
Just a common Soldier,
Who would fight until the end.
He was just a common Soldier,
And his ranks are growing thin,
But his presence should remind us
We may need his like again.
For when countries are in conflict,
We find the Soldier’s part
Is to clean up all the troubles
That the politicians start.
If we cannot do him honour
While he’s here to hear the praise,
Then at least let’s give him homage
At the ending of his days.
Perhaps just a simple headline
In the paper that might say:
“OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING,
A SOLDIER DIED TODAY.”
Today I had the unwelcome task of saying “Goodbye” to a great friend of the last 11 years. Ginger, a tiny Pomeranian has shared our home, our bed, our lives and our hearts for all of this time.
From the time she was just a tiny puppy that barely filled my hand she quickly let us know that as long as she was around we would not lack for love. Whenever either of us was away from home she visibly grieved and each time we returned home from anywhere we received an energetic and genuinely sincere welcome. She sat by my side regularly to help me watch TV and never complained about my choice of programming. She was always ready to challenge anything that threatened her home or family even if it was 20 times her size. She welcomed guests into our home like the good hostess she always was. When anyone was ill in her home she held vigil until their return to health. For some eleven years she rejoiced in our joys and shared in our sorrows. What more could one ask of a true friend?
About a year ago we learned that she had a leaking heart valve and was developing congestive heart failure. Since then she has been on a number of medications that helped, but did not arrest the continuous progression of her condition. This week she became so weakened by almost constant coughing and struggling for breath that we concluded that the kindest thing at this point was to end her suffering. We took her to the local animal shelter where she died painlessly this morning in my arms here in Panama City, FL.
Ginger is gone now, but will never be forgotten. Really great friends never are, but forever are etched in our hearts.
The US news media is telling us about a coup in Honduras when the truth is far from their reports. There has been no coup, but there has been an impeachment of a leftist despot. The arrest and expulsion of Manuel Zelaya was an internal affair executed according to their constitution and “rule of law”. The constitution of Honduras requires a president to serve only one term. He was attempting to modify that constitution in an unlawful manner to allow him to assume perpetual control in the same manner as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela. As we might have expected, US President Barack Obama called on Honduras to “respect democratic norms, the rule of law”. What a dichotomy! Here is the US government attempting to assist in the Marxist takeover of a democratic republic right in our own neighborhood!
Honduras’ president Manuel Zelaya was in the process of implementing a plan originated and assisted by Chavez of undermining Honduras’ constitution by holding illegal elections that could be easily manipulated to give the impression of a will of the people to turn perpetual power over to Zelaya. When the leaders of the Honduran military refused to enforce his plan, he simply fired them.
In addition to financing pressure groups, embezzling funds from the treasury, and grossly overstepping the authority of his office, Zelaya has also been accused of intimidating journalists. Journalists Carlos Salgado and Rafael Munguia were both shot in public places, and others have received threats on their lives. On May 19, Honduran human rights activist Ramon Custodio asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR) to provide protection for journalist Armando Villanueva and his family, who were the targets of threats which Villanueva insists came directly from the president.
Zelaya refused to enforce the laws enacted by the duly elected Honduran Congress and ignored the decisions of the Honduran Supreme court, these actions in direct violation of his presidential duties and responsibilities. In other words he had assumed the position of a dictator, not a president of a democratic republic. He ignored the rule of law and instead set up dictatorial rule and was in the process of permanently removing the constitution and perpetuating his rule when he was impeached last month.
After his refusal to accept the decisions of the Supreme Court on the matter of illegal elections to perpetuate his rule, the court did the only thing they could. They moved to impeach him. That impeachment was voted on by the Honduras Congress in accordance with their laws and they too voted for Zelaya’s expulsion. Zelaya was arrested on the night before he was to run his illegal “elections” and was exiled from the country. He was flown to Costa Rica by members of the Honduran military at the direction of the Supreme Court. The number two individual in line for the presidency had resigned so that he could run for president in the upcoming elections late this year so the number three person, the president of the Congress, was sworn in by the court after Zelaya’s ouster, in accordance with Honduras’ constitution.
Zelaya then went to the UN and got a standing ovation from that great bastion of democracy! He found a true believer in the US State department in the form of Hilliary Clinton and the United States has cut off all US aid to Honduras. Honduras’ neighbors have sealed off the border closing it to trade that the nation depends on for survival. Honduras is a beautiful country of green mountains, lush valleys, lovely seashores and friendly people. However, it is also the second poorest country in Central America. Without international aid and outside trade the people will be left to starve which appears to be the desire of the OAS and apparently the Obama Administration.
So now we have the legislative and judicial arms of the government who both acted to impeach a president for illegal and treasonous acts and Obama calls it a “coup” and calls for Zelaya’s reinstatement. In public statements he has implied that the military took over the country which has no basis in fact. Meanwhile the OAS (Organization of American States), apparently at the urging of the US State Department, has refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Honduran government and basically put the country under seige. This is despite the fact that the military is demonstratedly not in charge and the current acting president is the individual set up in law in such an event. New elections are scheduled to be held in the near future, but the country needs help in the interim.
Why has the Obama administration in general, and specifically the US State Department, gone into the business of establishing Marxist dictatorships in Central America? Where is the supposed independent journalists in this country? The media in the form of NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN and the major newspapers are just parroting the words of Hugo Chavez and the Castro brothers. Obama said he had no interest in interfering with the internal affairs of other nations, but apparently that doesn’t apply when the opportunity to establish a Marxist dictatorship appears on the horizon.
Last month Montana passed the “Firearms Freedom Act” that exempts firearms, and ammunition manufactured in Montana from all Federal regulation. It cites the 2nd, 9th, and 10th amendments of the US Constitution as authority and is a direct challenge to the federal government.
Essentially identical laws are currently being acted upon by the legislatures of Utah and Texas as well. The effect of these if upheld are tremendously wide sweeping. There is likely to be a challenge pushed to the Supreme Court very quickly, and with the current configuration of the court it is highly likely that it will be upheld.
This goes far beyond the law’s effect on firearms. The right to “regulate” firearms by the federal government is claimed under the “commerce clause” of the constitution. This clause allows congress to regulate “interstate” commerce. The original intent of that clause was to promote commerce between states, not to control it. Its prime focus was to to prevent states from placing state tariffs on such goods passing between states. That clause has been used as excuse for possibly more than 3/4 of the federal regulations passed since the FDR years. This would put all those regulations under doubt! (See: The Commerce Clause )
The 10th amendments states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” The rights of the states to control intrastate commerce (within their borders) has always been acknowledged. However, congress has used a very loose definition of what is “interstate commerce” to include virtually anything it wants. The 9th and 10th amendments have been ignored since Rosevelt’s time. Montana is now pressing their claim to what has been their rights under the constitution since they became a state in 1889.
Should this be upheld that would remove the authority of the federal government to “regulate” things such as minimum wage, national speed limits, union regulations, drug laws and a host of other things that have userpted the rights of the states for the last 60 years.
There once was a man who had nothing for his family to eat. He had an old rifle and three bullets. So, he decided that he would go out hunting and kill some wild game for dinner.
As he went down the road, he saw a rabbit. He shot at the rabbit and missed it.
The rabbit ran away.
Then he saw a squirrel and fired a shot at the squirrel but missed it. The squirrel disappeared into a hole in a cottonwood tree.
As he went further, he saw a large wild ‘Tom’ turkey in the tree, but he had only one bullet remaining. A voice spoke to him and said,
‘Pray first, aim high, and stay focused.’
However, at the same time, he saw a deer Which was a better kill. He brought the gun down and aimed at the deer.
But, then he saw a rattlesnake between his legs about to bite him. So he naturally brought the gun down further to shoot the rattlesnake.
Still, the voice said again to him, ‘I said, ‘Pray first, Aim high, and Stay focused.’
So, the man decided to listen to God’s voice.
He prayed, then aimed the gun high up in the tree, and shot the wild turkey.
The bullet bounced off the turkey and killed the deer. The handle fell off the gun, hit the snake in the head, and killed it.
And, when the gun went off, it knocked him into a pond. When he stood up to look around, He had fish in all his pockets, a dead deer, and a turkey for his family to eat.
The snake (Satan) was dead simply because the man listened to God.
Moral of the story:
Pray first before you do anything,
Aim and shoot high in your goals,
And stay focused on God.
Never let others discourage you concerning your past. The past is exactly that, ‘the past.’
Live every day one day at a time,
And remember that only God knows our future, And that He will not put you through any more than you can bear.
Do not look to man for your blessings, But look to the doors that only He has prepared in advance for you in your favor. Wait, be still, and patient: keep God first, And everything else will follow.
Well this year we have settled in Harlingen, Tx to wait out the coldest of the winter weather. Just wondered where others have chosen and what advantages they find. Please comment and share your findings.
Harlingen is a pleasant area with a wide variety of activities for seniors. There is the close proximity to Mexico for border shopping, lots of great places to eat and a variety of activities at the hundreds of RV parks here in the Rio Grande Valley. They often have special entertainment programs so with so many parks nearby there is a constant array of things to do. Music shows and jam sessions, dances, bingo, card tournaments, and similar activities abound. We have found locals around here to be extremely friendly, except for the speed traps in places like Los Fresnos where you need to be extra careful. Also many stop lights in Texas are equipped with cameras for automatic ticketing so it pays to be alert when driving here. Continue reading Snowbirding Locations – Harlingen, TX
After many years of hunting and fishing trips it takes something special for you to remember one particular one for over 50 years. I had such a trip way back in ‘57 or ‘58 that will always be etched in my brain. I had many trips where I caught lots of fish or shot a lot of squirrels or rabbits, but none I remembered so well as this one.
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