Cool vs. Square

Well, we have a race on our hands, and the mainstream media seems to think it's a cool dude vs. a square. Here we have Obama, who has admitted to doing drugs, who hangs with movie stars and top athletes and represents liberal voters on the left side of life. He doesn't seem to care much about church unless it's one like Reverend Wright's black liberation "church." He says he's quit smoking, and has beer summits. He's voted for partial birth abortion (infanticide.) And he mixes it up with the Muslim Brotherhood and admitted terrorist/activist Bill Ayers, among others.

And then we have Romney, a non-drinking, non-smoking, Mormon, with a stay at home wife and five grown sons. The MSM kind of doesn't know what to do with that, in that they find it completely boring. They resent the fact that he is wealthy, and are jealous that he's built his income by his intelligence, character and good choices.

But the sobering reality is, Obama's had 3 1/2 years to make good on his big promises of hope and change. We've had change alright, just in the complete wrong direction. He may still have Hollywood and most African-Americans, but the rest? The ones that bought is BS? The ones who patted themselves on the back because they voted for the first black president? They won't say it out loud, but they know they made a huge mistake. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that America is tons worse off than we were when he was inaugurated.

So you've got to ask yourself, do you want 4 more years of Mr. Cool or Mr. Square?
Your future depends on it...

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"You might be a redneck if..."

Well, here it is... Prom, Texas style in matching camo! Tonight is prom for the high school in the  Texas town I work in and this is one of my customer/friend's daughter. She's a pistol! They have a big ranch and she shows steers in stock show, and is already Texas' finest!
Cheers!

"Double your pleasure, Double your fun..."

Today's Freaky Friday is in Westport, Connecticut at Staples High School where there are SIXTEEN sets of twins in the SOPHOMORE class. What are the odds? There has got to be a reason, because that's a crazy number. Stranger still is that they beat the current Guinness World Record of 13 sets of twins in where else? Another town in Connecticut. I think some research should be done about this because that's something they could definitely learn from.
It definitely qualifies as Freaky...

"Speak softly and carry a big stick..."

Very short post tonight... I've been gone all evening & my brain is mush.
Evidently "Joe," you know, crazy uncle Joe, our VICE PRESIDENT & SECOND IN COMMAND (scary thought) said, "I promise you, the president has a BIG STICK."
Now we're going to get in a pissing match to see who has the biggest stick??...

"How ya going to keep 'em down on the farm?"

Every day something angers me beyond the pale... I had heard about this a few months ago, but it's just now hitting the news... A proposal from the Obama administration prevents children from doing farm chores, that is, children under the age of 18 can no longer work "in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials." A Department press release read, "Prohibited places of employment would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions."
Say WHAT??!!
The Department of Labor is finishing up new rules that apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, and prohibit them from performing a list of jobs on their own families' land.
The article I read said that this is about destroying the family farm and pushing them into bankruptcy so they can shut them down, and then we can all rely on Big Ag to feed us.

This is completely disturbing to me. Kids have been working on family farms since food was grown.  I knew this administration would be 'Fast & Furious' in their power grabs but I am APPALLED at how fast we are losing our freedoms by the MINUTE!! This is only April!
Between now and election day, these radicals have WAY too much time to do irreparable damage...

"Behind every great man there's a great woman..."

Well... I guess I'm resigning myself to the fact that Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee... He won all five primaries today, and has been leading so... I was SO hoping for a miracle with Rick Santorum, and since he dropped out, I just had been in my conservative denial. Evidently others I'm on twitter with agree.
(sigh)
I don't know what it is about Romney that bothers me so much... He's a good man. A good husband. A good father. A good businessman. Decent. Presidential looking. Presidential sounding. Smart. Classy. And yes, I WILL vote for him, of course. I mean, SERIOUSLY, look who he's up against??
I just had my heart set on Santorum. He was the most Reagan-esque of all of them. The most sincere. The best morals. The best character.
(sigh)
I guess Mitt Romney just doesn't seem real. He seems fake. His wife, on the other hand, seems real. She seems sincere. I think he will get a lot of votes because SHE is so likeable. Maybe it's my Southern prejudice against Northeasterners. Maybe it's his Massachusetts accent. Maybe it's because he was for abortion and flipped it. Maybe it's because he had Romneycare which Obamacare is based on.
Anyway.
As a conservative, I didn't get who I wanted but I will hold my nose, and vote for the FAR better candidate, which is Romney.
But it makes me feel a lot better knowing his wife Ann is behind him all the way...

"Monday, Monday... Can't trust that day..."

Today I'm tired of talking politics. It's a Monday. And I'm kind of pissy on Mondays. It's my hardest day at work, and my boss is pissy, and my favorite co-worker started a diet today, so SHE was pissy, so I guess that's where I'm at...

I called on an assisted living place today, and it made me so completely sad, that it has stayed with me all day. In the Texas town I work in, there are more expensive places and really crummy places, and this one is for the poorer retirees. Ugh, it made my heart bleed. Here are all of these people my mother's age, if she had lived, and someone has dumped them there if they even had children. I had to sit in the lobby for a long time, and made an effort to smile and talk to the residents. One man with no teeth just kept doing circles in his motorized scooter that had a flag on the back. He would ride past me and stop, nod his head, and go on. And then I saw this really neat old man in the social area in his wheelchair, and he had a book with all of the old songs of their era, and kept singing off tune songs like, "My Bonnie lies over the ocean, my Bonnie lies over the sea..." Then he started a circle of residents singing old hymns, and told them they were doing a good job. He didn't work there, he was just trying to make the best of the situation. This place is so crummy that they don't have organized activities, so they all just sit in the halls and stare. When I was finally able to talk to the (foreign) manager and owner, who spoke very broken English, they told me that they had started a vegetable garden outside for the residents. And that they had gotten a dog, and that the dog could get a few of them to talk that wouldn't otherwise do so.

Sometimes it's the little things...

"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature..."

Life has been extremely busy lately, so my apologies for the very short posts.

Today is "Earth Day," which evidently is on April 22nd every year. (It also is on Lenin's birthday I learned from Twitter, which many think isn't a coincidence.) It sounds like something educators do like sit around and pontificate on how they can indoctrinate children and decide to call it something innocent like Earth Day. They tell the kids in public schools (and any other schools or text books that they can get a hold of) that they will live in this terribly overcrowded planet which will be full of garbage and then show some scary movie (which they also upload to You Tube) about overpopulation and trash. Then they tell them to "Be Good to Mother Earth" and recycle, and buy really expensive light bulbs, and get Hybrid cars. Then they have it sponsored by Government Motors for Chevy Volts, and paint their future of stopping to charge their car battery (if they aren't on a mass transportation) instead of filling up with EVIL gas and oil. And then they explain how Americans are greedy and selfish to use so much oil when the whole EARTH needs it too.

In actuality, the liberals that run the country and our state-run media are in the process of redistributing wealth from their enemies (Big Oil) to their cronies (Big Green.) They associate the Big Oil guys as Republican Fat Cats and the Big Green folks as Democrat donors.

It all seems like a load of compost, if you ask me...

"I am fearfully and wonderfully made..." - Ps. 139:14

The University of North Carolina sold T-shirts saying, "I had an abortion" in hopes of "getting women to talk about it" but it back fired. Pro-life women then made T-shirts that said, "I haven't killed a baby."

Touche.

Freaky Friday on 4/20

Yes, it's true... Today, the counter-culture holiday 4/20, a day when pot smokers celebrate pot smoking, Willie Nelson unveiled a statue of himself in Austin, Texas at 4:20 p.m. He then sang his new son, "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die."

You can't make this stuff up...

"Only God created more stars than Dick Clark." - Tony Orlando

Another icon is gone; another legend of my lifetime has passed away.

I can't remember a time in my life when Dick Clark wasn't on TV... I'm a Baby Boomer, and we watched American Bandstand every weekend, and danced to the music long before there was MTV and cable and iTunes and well, anything. My friends and I would land at someone's house and try to learn the steps to whatever dance was popular at that time. What an innocent time. And what a fun time. I told my ninth grader that he was the Ryan Seacrest of his day, since it was the only way she could understand. And he was Seacrest's protege, as he is making every effort to follow in Clark's footsteps. Someone needed to carry the mantle, so I'm glad that he is. Both are/were baby-faced DJ's with a lot of ambition.

Anyway.

It just saddens me as these icons are leaving us one by one. Yes, time marches on, but it still hurts... Goodbye to "the world's oldest teenager."

New Year's Eve won't be the same without you...

"Call 'em as I see 'em..."

As promised, I am going to call them as I see them, and agree with the Catholics that Terrence McNally's new documentary, "Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption" is a 'blasphemous homosexual play.' It follows the revival of the play "Corpus Christi," which first debuted in New York in 1998 and retells the story of Jesus Christ being depicted as a gay man living in Texas during the 1950's. I think they said it best in their protest message titled "Stop the Blasphemy!" saying:

I strongly protest against the showing of the blasphemous play Corpus Christi, which includes a Christ-like figure who reportedly has sexual relations with his apostles, and of the movie which promotes it, Corpus Christi: Playing With Redemption.

The Person of Jesus Christ is sacred and untouchable. To portray Him as a homosexual, or even to insinuate it, is an unspeakable blasphemy which I reject with all my soul.

My question is, where are all the other Christian denominations? And why aren't they protesting too? Has everyone become so calloused to this sort of thing that no one even reacts anymore? As Christians, Jesus Christ IS God, the Son of God - and He is the Christ, the Messiah, our Savior who was without sin here on earth.

Why are the Catholics the only ones protesting?

Why??

Freaky Friday on Tuesday...

Just a short post tonight... It's Alex's birthday - Happy Birthday!! And I've been at the high school for hours since DD tried out for the Dance Team, (and made it :) Congratulations DD!! And Bubba came to see me - I love you Bubba and glad I got to see you!!

But my comment tonight is about what Rush Limbaugh mentioned today... that he was using his iphone dictation by way of Bluetooth as he spoke to his wife from his car, and what ended up on the screen was not even close to what he said. And not only that, but it said, "Obama's minions are taking over and there is nothing you can do about it." Say what?!? He continued to try to get the message to his wife, so he deleted it and tried again, and this time it was about "wind power and Obama and you don't have a chance." He tried a third time to dictate a text through Siri (Apple's iPhone 4S personal assistant - artificial intelligence) and it still came back completely different than what he had said.

I find this completely creepy... I use my iPhone 4S dictation every day since I commute to a different town, and cannot text and drive. So in my messaging, I just use the microphone for dictation so I can say things and just press send. I'd say it gets what I say 95%, and the other is because of the car noise that distorts what I've said. But this?? It is clearly a breach.

Or else Siri is possessed...

"If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere, it's up to you, New York, New York"

Evidently Tim Tebow got booed at Yankees Stadium on Sunday night when he arrived to watch them play the Los Angeles Angels. And he was even wearing a Yankees cap. I also heard that a New England Patriot player said last week that he wanted to "F--- Tim Tebow so he would lose his virginity."

I'm not feeling the love by New Yorkers, but then we are talking NYC, which is the toughest nut to crack anywhere. I'm not sure he can ever win them over either. They are predominantly liberals, who will always hate purity of any kind. And here is this wonderful, pure man, who is trying to live by example, and help people every step of the way. And do New Yorkers appreciate him or his good deeds? Oh heck no. They detest anything but politically correct jargon that tickles the ears of the libs.

WHY did Denver have to trade him?...

"Some things never change..."

PROM 2012!!

"Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.."

The racial problems in our country continue to worsen... I have made a concentrated effort to leave the Trayvon story alone for the most part, since I don't know what really happened. And there are so many conflicting stories from witnesses, that it looks like it will be another O.J. Simpson case. Only this time it is not the black guy as the accused, but the black kid as the victim.

I don't know what it's like to be black. I can remember a comedy skit that Chris Rock did where he said he was rich, but he bets white people would rather be poor and white instead of black and rich. I know there are still racists in this country, but it's a lot better than it was when I was growing up, and has gotten better with each passing year.

But now that some blacks have threatened revenge (even before Zimmermann has his day in court) it has whites afraid. When the Black Panthers put a bounty out for who they think murdered Trayvon, and the government does nothing?? Well, that's a reason to pause, don't you think?

The vast minority of whites are not racist, and the vast minority of blacks do not seek revenge of whites, but we're all a little weary not being able to distinguish someone's beliefs about this.

I just want it all to go away and let the courts and due process happen, so that the truth will come out. And I want the Democrats to stop stoking this fire of rage, knowing that this rallies their base with the mainstream media as accomplices. All people should be judged by their hearts and not by their skin color.

Ever.

Freaky Fridays -Clothes edition

"The hand that rocks the cradle..."

So sad to see what's happening to motherhood... It's a far cry from the late 70's when I graduated from college, immediately started my job at the Dallas Times Herald as one of the first women hired in national advertising, and married a fellow employee. Within a month, you guessed it, I found out I was pregnant. Neither of us were ready for that, but both were excited. At that time, our mindset was that I should be a stay-at-home mother like my mother had been, for as long as we could financially handle it. We lived in a very small starter home in very far suburbia at the edge of civilization -- literally on the edge of the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex. Yes, we could have afforded a much nicer home in Dallas if I had remained working, but we both thought it would be better if I stayed home with our son. Believe me, it's a lot harder job than what I did at the Herald.

Fast forward 30 years and everything now is upside down. Feminism has almost come full circle, with the expectation now that most women in America are going to be working mothers, and only the very rich can stay home with their children, because they have lots of disposable income. Many of the middle class could CHOOSE to stay home also if they downsized as we did, but very few these days are willing to make the sacrifice.

Which leads to this week's 'Drama du Jour' when Hillary Rosen, Democrat Party public relations (and yes, she was involved in the recent debacle with "I want free birth control" Sandra Fluke) insulted Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, saying that he should not confer with her because "she had never worked a day in her life."

(sigh, it's all getting battle weary and it's only April, but I digress...)

The inference is that they are rich and out of touch, which is in the Democrat playbook, but I would also add that Mitt and Ann are around 60, when mothers actually did stay home with their children. Add to that, that they raised five sons AND she had breast cancer AND she has Multiple Sclerosis. And WHY do we have to make excuses for stay-at-home mothers anyway??

Sad that campaigns get so nasty and sad that Democrats play dirty and cheat and sad that they have a double standard and sad that they look for the sentence long sound bite that fits in a 140 character tweet.

And saddest for the children who grow up in daycare - they are the ones that suffer the consequences...

"The tower of Babylon..."

Yes, like many, the images of the now gone Twin Towers still haunts me. But where is the magic in the new replacement "Freedom Tower?" Evidently it reached 100 floors 9 days ago, and once the 101st floor is completed, it will stand at 1254 feet, four feet taller than the Empire State Building, to become the tallest building in NYC. I have read that it has this huge cement core which would protect those in it from fire, but I just don't know about this new monstrosity of a building... It has no charisma. It's where 3,000 innocent people lost their lives.

It just seems wrong...

"Sacrificing comfort for fashion..."

DD got asked to Prom!! She's SO excited since she's only a freshman, and at her high school, only juniors and seniors get invitations, so you have to be asked by someone in those classes. She's never even been on a date, so it's a lot of pressure to have your first date be prom. And at our one high school town school, they only have ONE dance a year -- prom.

Anyway.

We only had a day to get her dress since Sunday was Easter, so here are the dresses she tried on in the order that she did:

We started at David's Bridal with this dress DD said was comfortable and elegant. Alex and I liked it, but weren't ready to say this was "the one."
Next we went to the mall, and this one really popped. It wasn't as comfortable and was more expensive. I loved it and DD thought it might be too loud.
This one was ill-fitting and color wasn't as good.
This gold dress was a little too high and also needed alterations.
This dress was Alex and my's favorite - it fit like a glove on DD and was SO cute in person, but not so much in pictures. DD felt it was too va va voom.
This dress was not age appropriate for a freshman but was still cute.

So! The winner??? Drumroll please?

The turquoise one. It seems age appropriate. Will "pop" in a dark party room with twinkly lights. And she will just have to sacrifice comfort for fashion.

Ahhh, the joys of being a woman...

"Wolf in sheep's clothing"

It's Monday night and I'm tired. Not so much physically as mentally. This life can be such a battle can't it? (sigh) Sometimes it's hard to just keep my head above water... And I just perused the news, and it's so much worse than it used to be. Why do things just keep getting more and more corrupt?

Today the news I would like to comment on is about the "reverend" (and I use that word VERY loosely) Jeremiah Wright. You'll remember that it was his church that our president sat in for over 20 years, the same church where he married and his children were baptized, and the same church where he says he didn't hear Wright's rhetoric. Wright is bitter against whites and even blacks that don't agree with him, although he seems to make an exception for known terrorist Bill Ayers. And his words are poison in our country. He's out for revenge, and makes no bones about it. You might recall that he also said, "the chickens have come home to roost,"( that America deserved the 9-11 attack.)

Evidently he spoke last week at Metropolitan Baptist Church in Charleston, West Virginia in a week-long revival event. He spoke of "the ignorance and arrogance of white supremacy" that rules the West. He believes that the "Italian army - Roman soldiers" were "occupying Palestinian territory." He also told his audience that although (Supreme Court justice) Clarence Thomas looks like them (black), that he is "worshipping some other God." Well, at least we agree on that last statement.

Jeremiah Wright is definitely worshipping a different God from Clarence Thomas and me...

Happy Easter

Good Friday

"I don't agree with what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it..."

Okay, my blood is boiling again... Just read that leftist activist Bill Ayers paid an impromptu visit to Occupy Wall Street in New York City last week and had the audacity to say, "Why do uniformed military get to board planes first?" Can you even BELIEVE this guy??!!?? How DARE him??!! If only I could say to him: These "uniformed military" are fighting for your worthless ass's freedom of speech to even SAY that!! For your freedom to live in a country where you can do whatever you want until you fringe on someone else's freedom! But no, you hate this country with all that is in you, WHY, I have no clue. You're obviously mad at Almighty God, who has been with this country since it's inception, and continues to bless it, and you cannot stand Him or what he blesses. I don't know what terrible thing happened to you to make you so full of hatred, but I know that the God that you hate, can deliver even you, if you would allow yourself.

Ayers went on to say, "We have to begin to imagine a world without war, a world without prisons, a world without borders. We can't imagine a world without capitalism? What the f--k would that look like? But actually, I can imagine it, and I want you to imagine it." He then added that the U.S. should cancel all student debt and that Rev. Jeremiah Wright is an incredible guy. That he had this absolutely exemplary life in the church but then got demonized. Umm Hmmm. And THIS is the man who the Prez spent a lot of time with in his younger years.

Heaven help us...

"Let your Freak Flag Fly..."

As much as I love to talk politics, sometimes we just need a break. Besides, it's going to be a LONG year until the election in November, and the worst is yet to come.

So.

If you've followed my blog for any length of time, you KNOW my love of moustaches. But they have to be GOOD moustaches. (Think Tom Selleck) I keep trying to bring them good press, in hopes that they will come back, and I think they will since retro fashions keep returning. I'm seeing some bell bottoms and teased hair, and to be honest, tie dye has never gone out with the Hippies nor moustaches with the die-hard cowboys here in Texas. So let your Freak Flag Fly.

Grow a stache!

"Let it Be..."

Well, it's not even Freaky Friday yet but here's some strange news. It seems that the sons of the Beatles are considering joining forces for a new music band, sort of a "Beatles 2."

James McCartney, Paul's son, told the BBC they had been kicking around a new group, "The Beatles -- the Next Generation." It would include John Lennon's son Sean, George Harrison's son Dhani, and Ringo Starr's son Zak. All four have been pursuing musical careers -- Zak is a drummer like his father and has played with the bands The Who and Oasis, Sean is a singer-songwriter, Dhaki fronts London rock band, the newno2, and James is launching a solo careerr as a singer and guitarist. As a Baby Boomer, this shouldn't surprise me, but it does. Nothing can ever replace the Beatles.

They need to just, "Let it Be..."

"I want to be a part of it, New York, New York..."

It must be weird living in New York City... I guess the only city I can imagine that would be more dangerous is Jerusalem, since we know Armeggedon will be fought close by some day, according to the Bible.

According to the Drudge Report, the above graphic was posted on a radical overseas website linked to the terror organization, al-Aaida. The NYPD and FBI are, of course, investigating this computer graphic warning and the NYPD spokesman related that this website is heavily used by Jihadi and al-Qaida adherents. They say they have no specific threats, but that's really not very comforting knowing that jihadists main goal in life is to kill the infidel.

Have you ever REALLY thought about what it would be like if something much worse than 9-11 happened in NYC? That is the hub, the headquarters, of the United States. It's the center of money, the center for media, the center of the arts, the center of education, the center of fashion... shall I go on? It's the largest city in the United States, and one of the largest cities in the world. It's very dense, with TONS of people in a fairly small area. And a terrorist attack that was successful for our enemies would not only kill many lives, it would affect all Americans. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.

It reminds me of the old 60's expression, "love the bomb," as I guess New Yorkers take that chance when they decide to keep living there. Maybe that's why you always hear how tough New Yorkers are. They've gotten addicted to the chaos, to the noise, to the way of life. And to the dangerous. Truly "living on the edge" if you live there these days.

I wonder what New Yorkers think about this new threat? Do they just take it in stride, or do they wonder if "this is the big one..." Do they just resign themselves to the fact that they could die in an attack on NYC? Do they stick their head in the sand? Do they make plans to move? I guess there are so many people, there are those doing all of those things. And then there are many who are just trying to keep their head above water. Personally I cannot even imagine living that lifestyle. I mean I would love to visit, but never ever live there.

And it remains to be seen if our worst fears will be realized...

"The sky's the limit..."