It’s All Too Odd | RedState

I recent years I have learned to apply a test to rumors:

1) The first time you hear it or see it in print.  Ignore it.

2) The second time you hear it or see it in print.  Pay attention.

3) The third time you hear it or see it in print you can take it to the bank because it’s true.

Here is the first mention

http://www.rollcall.com/news/house_could_vote_wednesday_on_boehner_plan-207632-1.html?pos=hfph

Here is the second mention

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/07/25/staff-briefing-notes-on-the-boehner-plan/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

This morning I have seen the third mention  of the McConnell option appearing in print.

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/07/27/its-all-too-odd/

It’s quacking people and I‘m pretty sure you can take this one to the bank.  If it concerns you that this or any President would have this type of power over our debt then go home and forget about it.  If this sends chills up your spine then fax, call, tweet or in general contact your congressmen and tell them no!

I’d also like to address those of you who are concerned about getting your checks if the debt ceiling isn’t raised.

We currently borrow 40 cents of every dollar.  If our debt increases anymore without drastic cuts that bring our revenues back in line toward paying our bills.  You can forget about being concerned about your checks coming.  They won’t.  We have no money!  Think about it.  A short period of time without a check and FOREVER without a check.  If we do not bring this in line now we will all be eating garbage and no one will be taking anything to the bank.

It’s All Too Odd | RedState

New Soldiers

 

Everyday our elected officials send American men and women into war zones under the pretext that they are protecting our nation from harm.  It is not my intent to diminish the service of these brave Americans.  It is my intent to point out that there have been no wars or non wars that have been fought on foreign soil since WWII that may not have been better served to actually protect America by staying at home and building our defenses here. Still our soldiers fight to the death to protect us.

Today our elected officials were sent into the trenches to protect us from a very real threat to our nation.  Many fought bravely.  So many in fact that the bill that could have saved our nation from harm was passed in the House and narrowly shot down over the Senate floor.

You cannot give up this fight.  We know you’re tired.  We know you are frustrated.  You cannot cave.  You must run this through the House again and fire it back to the Senate.  You do not want to surrender in this battle.  The is the one battle that determines if we live under tyranny or if we emerge into the light of fiscal responsibility to be the nation we are meant to be.

Cheri H Dorbritz

I am a city girl.  Not the big city just “in town”.  I’ve been fortunate enough for many years to live rurally.  I’m never far from civilization, but I’m definitely outside the city limits.  I have been blessed with a couple of friends who are of the farming ilk and they have been gracious enough to school me in water conservation ( a must when living on a well and a conventional septic system), canning, gardening and most all things rural. 

One of these friends gifted me with a jar of worms a few years back for my birthday.  I can honestly tell you that this was hands down the best birthday gift I ever received.  Under his direction I was able to take this small jar of red worms in shredded news paper and parlay it into two functioning worm beds for myself and some for friends.  These little critters have provided me with high grade compost for my garden for literally no cost.  I feed them garbage they give me compost tea for my grapes and berries as well as compost for my garden.  My garden is raised beds (which can be problematic) and this year was our best yet despite record heat and no rain.

For many years I’ve been concerned about the hormones being pumped into our food products.  I believe this is a contributor to early onset puberty in our children and cancer in adults.  I buy hormone free whenever possible, but since I live outside a town and not a large urban center my options are limited.  A suggestion ( from of all people my chiropractor) put me on the path to an urban chicken tractor.  I began to research them and found the idea to be interesting.  Then information from a friend of a friend who actually raises chickens commercially ( it appears the aim is to get a chicken to process ready in three to five weeks time) the total lack of hormone free eggs at my local grocery and rising food prices convinced me to take the leap.

After much wailing and gnashing of teeth I finally convinced my wonderful husband to build me a chicken tractor.  It took us a month of weekends, 2 or three divorces and a lot of use of the words stupid and boob but we produced a chicken tractor. 

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We shopped around for hormone free food, gathered up pine shavings, waterers, and food dishes and after a couple of weeks thought we were ready for chickens.  We took the grandkids with us to pick out the chickens ( you can’t actually pick a in the heat it’s sort of like catching fish in a tank and you give up long before the chicken does), settled on mature layers ( better able to survive the record heat) and took our purchases home to their home. 

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The whole point to this is that next to my worms this is the greatest thing I’ve ever had.  Foghorn Leghorn ( not actually a leghorn or a male), Chicken Hawk ( not actually a chicken hawk) and Selena Gomez (need I reiterate?) are wheeled around our 3/4 acre fenced area several times a day.  They eat, they lay eggs and someday if I have enough courage they will end up in a stock pot.  I clean the poop out of their coop a couple of times a week to put in the composter and several times a day I herd them into their coop in order for the dogs to go out (our basset hound believes they are squeaky toys made for her) and I put them up at night to protect them from predators.  Other than that they are not much trouble.  

Alright…Honestly there have been a couple of incidents.  First our grandson waited until we brought the chickens home to decide he wanted to “pet a chicken”.  Don’t ask the experienced chicken handler we purchased them from if you can pet a chicken. Wait until you get home and ask Mimi.  Having seen the claws and beaks on these birds up close Mimi had no choice but to inform him that you can’t pet a chicken.  Tears ensued and Mimi felt like a heel, but there was no chicken petting. I chose to live with the guilt of having warped my grandchild because he will be forced to grow up without having petted a chicken.

The other incident was a chicken break.  Due to my own negligence one escaped about a week after setting up house.  Selena found this extremely liberating.  She fluttered pecked and scratched her way around the yard while I built and elaborate contraption of trash cans, boards, garden carts and sheets designed to funnel her back into he home.  With a window screen in one hand and a board in the other I tried unsuccessfully for an hour in the blistering heat to heard her into the tunnel and thus into the coop from which she had escaped.

During this hour ( when I would get her just shy of the tunnel before she squawked and flew off) two thoughts occurred to me as I sweated buckets and set off to round her up again

1) If my shotgun had been handy there would have been chicken for dinner and

2) They don’t charge nearly enough for eggs.

I also wondered what the appropriate course of action should be if she decided to fly over the four foot fence and take off.  Should I put up Chicken wanted posters or act ignorant and allow her to live the life of a vagabond chicken?

Eventually my husband came home and as I herded her around the cage he opened the door and she stepped in.  It took all of 5 minutes.  I was left to dismantle my tunnel in the heat and hate his smugness.  I am much more careful now, but I am also a few steps closer to placing one in the stock pot when her laying days are over (I was initially having visions of elderly chickens hobbling around the yard living out their golden years until they keeled over dead and were buried in the chicken cemetery we’d construct on the back acreage).

I can tell you that whatever trouble they might be is totally eradicated when you open the door and there sits an egg or two.  It’s like Christmas. So if you’ve never heard of an urban chicken tractor look it up and if you live in a city especially check out red worms.  Both are easy to care for, don’t cost much and (for me at least) are a source of personal satisfaction that I can say “I did it!”.

 

 

Cheri H Dorbritz

Caveat Emptor: Boehner Says There’s A Deal | RedState

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/07/07/caveat-emptor-boehner-says-theres-a-deal/#postcomment

All any of us ever wanted to do was work our jobs, live our lives and mind our own business'.  Once we have been made aware of this kind of crap we are forced to FOREVER live our lives keeping an eye on the fedgov and our elected representatives.  All those people who believed they could come out in droves against obamacare and that was the end of it must surely understand that this is now a forever thing.  While we harangue the debt ceiling we are misdirected from permanent fixes to permanent problems.  Congressional term limits, flat (not Fair(please if nothing else the last 2 1/2 years should have taught us to be suspicious of anything with FAIR in the title... It would be anything but)) tax, bans on executive orders, bans on Czars, bans on nuclear options and all the many other little tricks politicians have devised over the years to stay in power, side step our Constitution and ruin our children.  No friends, if you are truly serious, if you truly believe we are no longer a free nation and if you ever want your children and grandchildren to live in the America we knew, you can never again let your guard down.

Caveat Emptor: Boehner Says There’s A Deal | RedState

Replace Boehner

I am seeing nothing roll out of the House of Representatives that makes me want to stand up and cheer.  How 'bout you guys?  We give the Republicans the largest victory they've had in years and what do we get for it?  Literally nothing.
I constantly hear Boehner talking about Obama not being a leader.  Well frankly, I don't think Boehner is much of a leader.  He has spent all his time spouting off like a gusher and then rolling over like a lap dog for Obama.
Obama commits our military and our money to a non-war in Lybia without consulting our elected Representatives (who are supposed to control the purse strings) and they do nothing.
Obama insinuates he will skirt our Constitution and borrow without our elected Representatives consent and WE THE TAXPAYER will have to pay it back and we hear not a word from them.
The Federal Reserve is running amok and our elected Representatives do nothing.
We have a Republican judge agreeing that it's okay for Obamacare to FORCE an individual to purchase healthcare and our elected Republican Representatives vote to repeal Obamacare and think that gets them off the hook.
I believe it is time for John Boehner to resign and hand the position of Speaker of the House over to someone that will actually lead as the voters had hoped they would immediately after the election.

Fruit for the Fruitless

Red State's Morning briefing says we should call Speaker Boehner and thank him for blocking Obama recess appointments.  Give me a break Erick.  Or are you just desperate to find anything good this Repub led House has done?  He wants us to thank this Rhino for doing the job he was elected to do and has shirked since the Repubs took control of the House in November? Maybe we should also thank him for not initiating impeachment proceedings against a President who has committed us to war action without congressional approval?  How about we congratulate him on all the savings he's implemented for taxpayers?Sure!  Let's send him a fruit basket.
I Know I'm feelin' the love.  How 'bout you?

A Great Idea.

This came to me in an email today.    Is it true?  I don't know, but I like it!.  I'm putting one up this weekend and I hope everyone else does too.

 

 

"When driving to, from, and through  Frankenmuth, Michigan, I'm always intrigued with the many small simple crosses in the front yards of the homes we pass by.  Those crosses are a statement of support for Frankenmuth's Christian foundation.

Two years ago an atheist living there complained about two crosses on a bridge in town.   He requested that they be removed and the town removed them. He then decided that, since he was so successful with that, the city shield should also be changed since it had on it, along with other symbols, a heart with a cross inside signifying the city's Lutheran beginnings.
At that point, the residents decided they had enough.  Hundreds of residents made their opinions known by placing small crosses in their front yards.   Seeing this quiet but powerful statement from the community, the man removed his complaint.  Those simple  crosses remain in those front yards today. 
After passing those crosses for two years, it finally hit me that a small cross in millions of front yards across our country could provide a powerful and inspiring message for all Americans passing them every day.  I think it might be time to take this idea across America.
We have an administration that says "we are not a Christian nation" and everywhere you look the ACLU and others are trying to remove from our history and current lives any reference to God, prayer, or the fact that our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.  Our administration can't bring themselves to talk about "radical Muslims or Islamic terrorists" for fear of offending them, but they can talk about Americans "clinging to their guns and their religion", or insinuate that our own military troops coming home from service overseas might turn into terrorists.   The majority of Americans are Christians, why are we letting this happen to us.

It's time to stand up and make a statement. a small, quiet, but powerful statement.  If you agree, place a small white cross in your front yard or garden for all to see that they are not alone.  It would be a beautiful thing to see crosses all across America.

God has richly blessed America but America is falling short of returning thanks for it...we can help to change that."