We Didn't Have a Green Thing

The Green Thing � In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.� The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day." The clerk responded, "That's our problem today.� Your generation did not care enough to save our environment." He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.  Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.� So they really were recycled.  But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.  We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But he was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.  Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind.� We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry the clothes.� Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that clerk was right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana .� � In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.� � When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.� � Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power.� We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But he's right; we didn't have the green thing back then. � We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water.� We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service.� We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances.� And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.  But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then? �

WHO IS THE SUPPRESSOR, WHOSE VOTES ARE SUPPRESSED?

This is an open letter from:

Nancy Eisenhart, Southern Division President      
California Federation of Republican Woman  (Woodland Hills RWF member)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

The word is out that on Tuesday (February 12, 2013) President Obama will urge Congress to make voter registration and ballot-casting easier. You can be sure he will not be promoting Voter I.D. In fact, you can be sure he will use bullying tactics and language to brand those promoting voter identification and anti-fraud measures as, what else, rich racists, homophobes, woman and immigrant haters. He will say voter I.D. requirements are attempts to suppress the voting rights of Poor People, Blacks, Hispanics, Woman and Immigrants (PPBHWI?). He’ll have it backwards, of course, deliberately. And he will no doubt convince the ill-informed that the bad Republicans don’t want them to vote. By implication, the President makes the false case that voting is difficult in America when in fact, there is nothing easier.

This lie about voting being hard fits into his rather obvious strategy to divide the Country while calling for the false standard of unity. Freedom does not mean unity. Only despots want unity of belief, unity of speech, single outcome. Free and open Countries such as America value honest opposition and open discussion. And honest and free elections.

Real voter suppression is the opposite: Suppression is the cancelling of everyone’s vote by fraud, illegal practices, lazy of calculating registrars of voters, biased Secretaries of State, politically motivated counters, and rigged machines, of any combination of the above. Even while admitting their long history of voter fraud, the Democrat Left considers it their right to use any means, ethical or unethical, legal or illegal, to further their agenda, because to them their opposition is automatically wrong. Always. Fraud doesn’t count when committed for the “Greater Good”.  In fact, it is smugly praised and encouraged.

Government, the Suppressor: One real voter suppressor is a government which no longer represents the people and has betrayed their trust, their vote decade after decade, election after election by not standing for principle, and legitimizing vote fraud by not attempting to fight it. Thank Eric Holder and his bludgeon-holding bullies. Why else will so few people exercise their right to vote? Consider this reason: Loss of faith that their vote matters. Many voters have expressed a deep belief that the forces against an honest election are too great for an individual to fight. That is true Suppression.

How your vote is cancelled: Think of a balance scale, the old fashioned image of two pans suspended from a center support, a fulcrum. Think of weighing something such as insignificant as jelly beans, red ones (guess which party) and blue ones. We put in our real (registered) red jellybeans, our competitor puts their real blue jelly beans on the other side. The balance swings one way, then the other. It’s close which pan has the most jelly beans. Then along comes a bad guy who puts in little rocks that look like real jelly beans but which aren’t on one side or the other. No longer is there balance. The winner then becomes whichever pan has the most jelly beans, real and fake: Illegal immigrant jellybeans, college students’ serially jelly beans, and same beans counted twice.

Your vote is cancelled. Mine is too – worthless – we lose! We don’t know why. How did this happen? All that work, and we thought we were close! Why bother next time. Guess what? Your future vote is being SUPPRESSED.

Suppression is different from Intimidation, another bullying power word the left uses against Voter I.D., implying that the mere fact of having to produce a legitimate I.D. will frighten the Poor, Blacks, Hispanics, Woman and Gays from casting a vote. Even though every person in America, including the usual liberal list of victims has to produce a legitimate I.D. to bord an airplane, get an EBT (food stamps) card, go on welfare, buy a car or home, put a kid in school, or in New Jersey, receive a sand bag.

Many things in life are really quite simple. Voter I.D. is simple. We have a suggestion, instead of billions of dollars spent on bullet trains to nowhere, how about the government helping every American to get a legitimate I.D. FREE? Isn’t that the operative word these days? Go for it Mr. Obama. This is one scheme we will support.

Here is a link to my rather goofy view on Voter I.D. Thanks for reading. CrazyJ. 

http://johngs54.blogspot.com/2012/03/no-picture-id-no-vote.html

Elected Officials Are Fundamentally Dishonest

To the Editor: This letter was forwarded to Barack Obama, John Boehner, Chris Murphy, Dick Blumenthal, Elizabeth Esty, and Harry Reid I live in Sandy Hook, CT. My family and close friends weren't harmed on December 14. That day impacted 26 families with an indescribable, staggering pain and anguish. For most of Sandy Hook, it merely affected us with an inescapable intensity of sadness and grief. Gun control has long been a focus of many in this country. Though I'm not knowledgeable of all the nuances of the Second Amendment, based on the Founding Fathers' circumstances, it had far more to do with enabling the citizenry to protect themselves against tyrannical government than against local psychopaths. It is about providing a balanced firepower so when King George's successor came knocking on your door, you could fight back. Government today is no less inclined to abuse its authority than it was then. Based on the absurd and ongoing power grab that is present day Washington, it's as threatening as ever. That so many of you view the NRA with its resistance to further restrictions on firearms as intransigent lunatics has far more to do with how you conduct yourselves in office than it does with the NRA's actions. You in public office are fundamentally dishonest people. You lead lives of deception at every turn, structuring your lives as comfortably as you can while governing with an indifference and arrogance that is absolutely maddening. When the country is reeling from financial disaster, you waste a trillion dollars on a health care bill we can't afford and you've never read. You claim it's critical because health care costs are killing this country... no they're not, you are! You are killing this country. You endorse the ongoing slaughter of millions of unborn children and whine when terrorists are water boarded. You can't lecture us right in Newtown High School about not doing enough to keep our children safe, while simultaneously slaughtering the unborn. You fabricate the intense, media laden drama of the fiscal cliff and lack the courage to do anything about truly reforming the obscene gluttony of government. You know you'll be out of office before the bill comes due… you don't care and have no integrity nor honor. You lie whenever and wherever you need to to move forth your agenda. Were you able, you would purge the US of guns… every last gun in the country, if you could. So please forgive Wayne LaPierre and those of us who don't trust you as far as we can spit. You're a dishonest lot, motivated by a distorted worldview. If mass murder prevention were truly your goal, you would welcome armed security wherever needed. It is outrageous that we protect our money with far more firepower than we protect our children. I have never owned a gun, nor wanted to as intensely as right now. You'll stop restricting guns when only you have them. Brendan Duffy 4 Chestnut Knoll Drive, Sandy Hook January 8, 2013

The Most Honest Three Minutes In Televion History

A very interesting story

OBAMA'S LIES. ON AND ON AND ON!!!!

This post was written by a very long time Friend of mine, Heck, since High School. His name is Jeff Wiggins and he had a point to make. And I think it is an extremely good one too. Ya might want to pay attention to what he says. Unlike the lies from the POTUS this is all TRUTH. 

"Obama says that we have Afghanistan under control and we can leave early"

..Not the first "LIE" he's told...and it certainly won't be the LAST...

Right now throughout America I'm noticing States are going about repeals and...beefing up Anti-Gun laws...simultaneously...
Here in Florida they are pushing to repeal the "Stand your ground" law...
New York just passed a required "back ground check" to buy 'BULLETS"...? Really?...bullets...
California is about out of ammunition for sale from what I've heard...
Check with family out there and, tell me if I'm mistaken...
Texas is threatening impeachment proceedings if he uses Executive Order to pass Legislation to reduce clip capacities...
The media is whipping just about everyone who still cares into a frenzy..

My point is...all these distractions are doing a couple of things quite successfully...and it's a pattern that's been taking place since he took Office...

First...it has everyone in constant turmoil running from one calamity to the next atrocity instead of keeping their "eye on the ball"...

Second...no one is even talking about the Benghazi Hearings or the Fast & F crime anymore...
HELLO...we had a full blown premeditated terrorist attack against our Country with nothing but a "lie" offered as an explanation by the prez...
HELLO...Guns were sold to foreign criminals that were/still are turned and, used against us by this administration...with nothing but a "lie" offered as an explanation...
Sounds like cut and dried treason to me...

When obummer is silent which he has noticeably been lately...you can bet he's up to no good hammering out details on the next "surprise"...

Don't be "surprised" to hear an announcement about illegal reform
instead of a response to the ferocious gun battle everyone is predicting/speculating is coming...those laws are getting passed while we're waiting on the big uproar...

As in the form of a blanket amnesty program for illegals to become Citizens...criminals or not...
After all we do have to thank somebody for voting on him...
Think I'm kidding...? Watch...

Until folks figure out how to get one step ahead...instead of one behind...better get used to not being able to keep up with all the dismantling of our Nation relentlessly taking place at warp speed...

...I've got to disagree with the notion..."What we need right now more than anything else is a leader"...

IMHO...We need a trial for treason with a swift severe sentence carried out "more than anything else"...and a stern warning to all that remain...We're "fed" up with all the corruption...and demand this Nation be put back on the path she was founded on with extreme prejudice if necessary on the global level...and a timely manner on the National...

Until then we'll continue to grumble about what just happened, instead of preventing whats going to happen...with the next "lie"...

The Night Before Christmas. Santa meets a Marine

This was posted by Rick Bulow on Patriot Soldiers Facebook page.

I hope you have a tissue ready. This is simply AWESOME.

Merry Christmas my Friends.  
Written by Corporal James M. Schmidt:                                      

'Twas the night before Christmas, he lived all alone,

In a one-bedroom house made of plaster and stone.

I had come down the chimney, with presents to give

and to see just who in this home did live.

As I looked all about, a strange sight I did see,

no tinsel, no presents, not even a tree.

No stocking by the fire, just boots filled with sand.

On the wall hung pictures of a far distant land.

With medals and badges, awards of all kind,

a sobering thought soon came to my mind.

For this house was different, unlike any I’d seen.

This was the home of a U.S. Marine.

I’d heard stories about them, I had to see more,

so I walked down the hall and pushed open the door.

And there he lay sleeping, silent, alone,

Curled up on the floor in his one-bedroom home.

He seemed so gentle, his face so serene,

Not how I pictured a U.S. Marine.

Was this the hero, of whom I’d just read?

Curled up in his poncho, a floor for his bed?

His head was clean-shaven, his weathered face tan.

I soon understood, this was more than a man.

For I realized the families that I saw that night,

owed their lives to these men, who were willing to fight.

Soon around the Nation, the children would play,

And grown-ups would celebrate on a bright Christmas day.

They all enjoyed freedom, each month and all year,

because of Marines like this one lying here.

I couldn’t help wonder how many lay alone,

on a cold Christmas Eve, in a land far from home.

Just the very thought brought a tear to my eye.

I dropped to my knees and I started to cry.

He must have awoken, for I heard a rough voice,

“Santa, don’t cry, this life is my choice

I fight for freedom, I don’t ask for more.

My life is my God, my country, my Corps.”

With that he rolled over, drifted off into sleep,

I couldn’t control it, I continued to weep.

I watched him for hours, so silent and still.

I noticed he shivered from the cold night’s chill.

So I took off my jacket, the one made of red,

and covered this Marine from his toes to his head.

Then I put on his T-shirt of scarlet and gold,

with an eagle, globe and anchor emblazoned so bold.

And although it barely fit me, I began to swell with pride,

and for one shining moment, I was Marine Corps deep inside.

I didn’t want to leave him so quiet in the night,

this guardian of honor so willing to fight.

But half asleep he rolled over, and in a voice clean and pure,

said “Carry on, Santa, it’s Christmas Day, all secure.”

One look at my watch and I knew he was right,

Merry Christmas my friend, Semper Fi and goodnight

Written by Corporal James M. Schmidt