Honestly!!!

And the winner in this fight is ----------- John McCain!!!!!!!!!!!!





You know, I don't claim to be the smartest man in the world or anything but I'm no fool either. This cartoon makes me wonder a couple of things. The first one is wouldn't the most logical agenda of someone attempting to TRULY do what's best for the largest number of American citizens be based on how to bring down the price of gasoline and diesel and bring it down in a hurry? I can't think of any issue that directly affects a larger percent of the population. Our entire economy is tied to it. Our amount of expendable income for things such as health care and retirement are dependent upon what we have left after spending the money we need to spend in order to buy gas and food at an inflated cost. You have to get to work in order to have any money to do anything with and you have to eat. Yet I have not heard any mention of any plan to directly affect the price of gasoline or diesel. Any mention of either of these fuels is always tied to alternative fuels for the future. This is a fools argument as an increase in alternative fuels only causes an increase in feed for livestock of all sorts. This then results in a higher cost of beef, chicken, pork, milk, eggs, etc.... Not to mention that ethanol is not cheaper than gasoline anyway when you factor in the reality that ethanol reduces your miles per gallon. The TRUE issue here is unbridled greed. The other thing that I wonder is how much money it actually takes to build a refinery and just how many refineries the money spent on this campaign would have purchased. The TRUE issue here is unbridled power and control. When will we have the guts to tell our politicians ENOUGH? Let's remember who is suppose to be working for whom!!!

I've Been Tagged Again

The Rules:
1. Write your own six word memoir.
2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you want.
3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to the original post if possible so we can track it as travels across the blogosphere.
4. Tag at least five more blogs with links.
5. Leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play.

my six word memoir:

A BEAR OF VERY LITTLE BRAIN

Thanks to Nanc at Curtains for the tag. I'd like to pass the favor on to Yehudi01 and Pinky

Let Us Follow The Wise

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends. -- Shel Silverstein

A Meme From Eitan

I have been the recipient of a meme from my friend Eitan. Here is the set-up.
"This is what you gotta do: pick a picture fitting the scenario and post 10 things you (personally) want to ask of G-d."
Here goes:

1 - Please draw me closer and increase my faith,

2 - Help me be the husband you want me to be.

3 - Keep my girls strong and smart and kind.

4 - Help me be the father you want me to be.

5 - Help me be the man you want me to be.

6 - Please continue to keep us healthy and strong.

7 - Bring peace to Israel.

8 - Protect our troops.

9 - Cause our rulers to make good decisions.

10 - Help our garden to grow well.

Garden Time!!!

I am a very novice gardener. The past two years I have had two 3x3 square foot gardens. I loved every part of it. It feels great to have your hands sifting through good dirt on a warm day. I love the smiles on my young girls faces when they find a BIG worm. I love their love for dirt. I love watching the miracle of the first little seedlings ripping through the surface and opening up to bask in the sun. I love the feeling inside when we pick the first of the harvest and my girls thank God for the sun and the rain. I love that their young spirits recognize God as the author of life and good gifts and the garden is a very tangible way of them seeing that. This year we are expanding our garden into a small regular garden about 8 x 15. We plan on growing summer squash, tomatoes, green peppers, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, peas, carrots, shallots, romaine lettuce, spinach, and red potatoes. If all goes well with the weather we hope to plant sometime this weekend. Any other novice gardeners out there?

Trust Your Dog's Intuition

Any dog lover will tell you that if your dog does not trust somebody you would be well advised to be very wary about them as well. This sense that has been built into dogs is amazingly accurate. They are some of the best judges of character upon first impression. In that vein I offer this proof:

What a Man and What a Legacy

What is there to say about a man who has done as much as Charleton Heston did? Some will remember him for such roles as Ben-Hur or Moses. Some will remember him campaigning for Ronald Reagan or for John F. Kennedy. Some will remember him for boldly yelling out the words "from my cold dead hands." Some will remember him for standing near Martin Luther King Jr. as he gave the now legendary "I Have a Dream" speech. Perhaps most importantly some will remember him for being a husband of 64 years and a loving family man. He certainly is tied to the fabric from which our country was weaved no matter what you remember him for. Godspeed Mr. Heston.

Another Rating for Our Blog

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I'm not quite sure how this happened but I'm kind of proud of it!!! By the way, hat tip to Cube.

Egg Hunts Make Me Smile Too!!!

Our Princesses on Ice

Our family has been enjoying a bit of a break this week. Kim and the girls were on spring break from school this week and so I decided to take a week of vacation so we could all be together. Much of our time has been spent on sitting and talking, cleaning things in the house that don't normally get the attention, organizing, and most of all playing with the girls. Yesterday we purchased a gun safe to keep all our guns and ammo out of the reach of little hands. With only the other bus mechanic that I work with, Kim, and I we managed to get the 745lb. beast off of the trailer and through the garage and into the house. Talk about strenuous! In the end we managed it but I certainly wouldn't want to do it for a living. Today the girls got all dressed up in their princess dresses and we went to the new Sprint Center in Kansas City to see Disney Princesses on Ice. Talk about a production. There were skaters, flips, dancing, lights, sets, and a fire breathing dragon that even caught the ice on fire!!! For one of the first times this week the girls were speechless. They sat there enthralled with the pageantry and beauty that is the imagination of disney characters. I had as much fun watching their faces as I had watching the show. All in all it was a wonderful day and the kind of day that our little ones will not soon forget. I hope everyone can take a little time away from the firestorm that is this political season and think about imagination and fun.

In Keeping With the Day

May the rains sweep gentle across your fields,
May the sun warm the land,
May every good seed you have planted bear fruit,
And late summer find you standing in fields of plenty.

Which President Are You Most Like?

Which Great US President Are You Most Like? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Abraham Lincoln 16th President, in office from 1861-1865 Born: 1809 Died: 1865 (assassainated) Abraham Lincoln 79% Theodore Roosevelt 69% Dwight Eisenhower 67% Thomas Jefferson 64% John Kennedy 60% Ronald Reagan 52% George Washington 52% Lyndon Johnson 52% Harry Truman 50% Franklin Roosevelt 41% Woodrow Wilson 36%

Iraqi Dinar Investment

I was thinking of investing, or rather gambling, some money in the Iraqi Dinar. I was thinking about this for a couple of reasons. The most obvious reason is the potential of large profits if the currency begins to perform well once Iraq is more stabile. They have great potential given their wealth of oil and oil's insistence on becoming more and more expensive. The other reason is it would seem to be a vote of confidence in their country and their people. I may be just a day-dream believer but I hold out hope for Iraq to become a stabilized and prosperous nation. If that hope turned out one day to be realized and happened to pay my house off at the same time -- well, that would be double great. Currently you can purchase $100,000 in Iraqi Dinar for about $120. What do you guys think about any of this?

A New Job for Brett Favre

If ever there was an on-the-field match to the iconic presence that Remington Arms has established in the field it would be Brett Favre. Now the two are teammates. While Brett Favre is known as one of the best quarterbacks of all-time, he’s also an avid outdoorsman.

Remington Arms Company Inc., America’s oldest gunmaker now in their 192nd year of United States manufacturing, has just announced a multi-year marketing relationship with Favre. The 2007 season marked Favre’s astounding 17th year as a pro quarterback, and Brett was recently named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year. Favre’s appeal to America is as much about his profound personal perseverance as it is his ability to put footballs in the hands of receivers, still, Favre makes no secret of the fact that hunting is one of his favorite ways to decompress.

When asked about his idea of the perfect day, Favre said, “If I could squeeze in throwing touchdown passes at a morning practice, lunch with my family and pulling the trigger on a trophy buck at sunset, that would be about as perfect as life can get. And it seems the older I get, the more I treasure the days spent in solitude in the woods. I’ve already hunted about 20 days this season, so this recent agreement with Remington is pretty special to me.”

New Voting Machine

In an attempt to keep this man out of the 2008 election process Fisher Price has stepped up to the plate and come up with a voting machine for even the most simple-minded individuals among us.



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