Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year Mr. President: You Suck!


As we close on 2009, the magical aura of President Barack Obama is a faded memory. It all started with so much promise on Inauguration Day where millions of people we’re duped into believing an historic event, the election of Barck Obama as the first Black president, was in itself worthy of voting for him.

“This is history!” they all proclaimed.

That seems to be the only selling point Liberals have to sell. Unfortunately, for millions of the “duh-crowd”, that was enough of an incentive.

But, did it ever occur to anyone that “history” can be either “good” or “bad”. Or is it too much to ask people to think beyond slogans?

We’re hearing the same rhetoric about ObamaCare—it’s historic legislation. But, please ignore the increase in insurance premiums, the rationing of care, and when you do get care, it will be inadequate and many will die that did not die before.

How else do you think Democrats will cut costs?

Yes, we have an historic president and terrorists still want to kill us.

Yes, we have an historic president that never ran a business or a state, or even a rinky dink village, and it shows with each passing day. Obama is good at posing as a president, but not governing like one.

Yes, we have an historic president that thinks it’s better to apologize for America's past without acknowledging her glory.

Yes, we have an historic president that promises transparency only to operate behind closed doors under the cover of deceit to buy votes.

Yes, we have an historic president, but is that helping people pay the bills?

So what has history gotten us?

More terrorists attacks than under President Bush!

National pride down the drain!

10% Unemployment!

Mortgage defaults increasing and foreclosure on the rise!

National Debt that our great great great grandchildren will have to pay back!

There isn’t an abortion procedure that Obama doesn’t like.

But, President Obama gives himself a B+ anyway.

Yeah, history is a hoot and ignorance is bliss.

From The Last Tradition.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Rush Limbaugh Taken to Hospital with Chest Pains



There are published reports that our beloved Rush Limbaugh was taken to a hospital with complaints of chest pains. Rush was vacationing in Hawaii at the time of this incident and not much is known at this time other than reports are that he’s listed in serious condition.

Let’s keep Rush in our prayers!

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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Obama Census: Under the Radar the Way Barack Likes It.


In light of a bomb hidden in a terrorist’s underwear, an incompatant Homeland Security secretary yelling that “All is well!” , a signing of a bankrupting health care bill by the Democrat-controlled seanate, and a Tiger out of control in a sex-harem of his own making, there sits the 2010 U.S. Census with President Obama’s golf-caloused hands holding a pencil.

Before the Stimulus bill was made into law, before Cap and Trade was passed in the House, and before Obama’s poll numbers thankfully began to tumble, in February of 2009, the Census Bureau was moved from the umbrella of the United States Commerce Department to the White House to rest right under President Obama’s nose.

Republicans raised a fuss for awhile and complained about a government power grab, but all that faded into the whisks of time.

Just the way Obama wanted it to happen!

Well, it’s time to raise a fuss again.

Having seen what the Obama administration has done thus far with phony promises of transparency only to end up as lies behind closed doors, Obama cannot be trusted to act honorably.

I suspect the president has some more fancy tricks up his sleeve like certain Republicans districts vanishing into thin air with the help of his trusty eraser with Saul Alinsky’s picture on it.

And lookie here!

Where did all these new Democrat voters come from? Look to the south, my friends.



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Sunday, December 27, 2009

2009 Review: American Ignorance on Display



Lets review what we already know.

The bulk of Obama supporters are not stupid people, but rather ignorant folks that don't follow the matters of state. Democrats take advantage of this American ignorance because it fits right into their plans.

One of my favorite quotes:

You think education is expensive, try ignorance.



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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Liberals Final Solution: Make America Ignorant


A friend once told me, “You watch too much Fox News!”

I thought it was a very sad comment to make because what it represented.

“I watch Fox because they honestly report what’s going on in the world, AND they’re the only news organization with journalistic integrity, unlike the others in the mainstream media who have sold out theirs.”

But, my friend just shrugged his shoulders and give me a very strong impression that he thought that I was the foolish one.

My friend isn’t stupid.

In fact, he’s a very nice man that would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it. However, when it comes to a world view, he’s totally accepted the manipulative templates that Liberals put out to control public thought.

• Rich people are evil and greedy
• Abortion is not killing the unborn, but rather Women’s Reproductive Rights
• If you’re against Gay Marriage, you’re a Homophobe or believe that homosexuals should be second-class citizens
• Oil is dirty energy
• Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant
• Republicans are racists
• If you’re critical of President Obama, it’s because he’s Black

There are dozens if not maybe hundreds of these simple templates that Liberal/Democrats put out through their willing sycophants in the media and more importantly through the public school system.

These templates are intended for the consumption of people who do not think deeply about the affairs of state because they’re too busy living out their day to day lives. The Democrats know this and this is intentionally done to keep people in a mindcontrol that benefits the Liberal agenda.

Do you ever hear Liberals complain about lower graduation rates?

Of course not!

But, you do hear them whine that teachers need to make more money without any merit standards attached. And you also hear them gripe about Charter schools despite the fact that they outperform public schools time after time.

Why are they against Charter schools?

Democrats say that public money should not be diverted to Charter schools in detriment to the public schools system without fixing the problems that ails public education.

Liar, liar, pants on fire!

The truth is that Teachers Unions contribute heavy into the coffers of the Democrat Party and as such they want to keep the status quo of inferior education.

However, more insidiously than that, Democrats don’t want better education for America’s school kids because that would threaten their necessity to keep the people just ignorant enough to swallow their false templates and maintain power over government and the people’s minds.

Thank God that home-schooling, private, and parochial education still provide America’s children with a needed alternative to the Liberals final solution to keep the people in the dark.

Nonetheless, the light still has to shine for those that are still in darkness. America's future is at stake and the better educated we are, the better to see the wolf.

From The Last Tradition

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The Myth of Sean Bell


Sean Bell got shot trying to protect a frail old woman from being mugged on the subway.

Wait a minute, that’s not what happened.

Okay, how about this?

Sean Bell got gunned down trying to save a blind little boy from being kidnapped by a notorious and vile pedophile.

No wait, that didn’t happen either.

How about this?

Sean Bell got slain for trying to protect a stranger from being set on fire by a disreputable street gang.

By now you probably already know that neither of these things actually happened. However, each one of those scenarios would have been well deserving of receiving the high honor of having a street renamed in your memory for performing an unselfish and heroic act to safeguard his fellow man.

There is no greater love than giving one’s life for someone else, right?

Nevertheless, the New York City Council voted on a resolution to have a small stretch of a Queens street renamed after Sean Bell for attempting to run over New York City cops with his car while driving drunk.

Of course, the picture the Left paints of Sean Bell is quite different. To them, he was an innocent Black man that was tragically assassinated in a hail of 50 bullets by racist NYPD police in the early morning hours of his wedding day. That’s all the Left needed to perpetuate another fraud in their long line of frauds upon the public and imbued a common street thug into an angel of light.

The fact that Bell was twice arrested for dealing crack cocaine and weapons possession was society’s fault, not his.

That fact that Sean Bell’s companions were quite familiar with the criminal justice system along with Bell himself was truly an inconvenient truth.

The bitter reality was that Sean Bell was a thug that was hanging with his fellow thug friends at a seedy strip joint getting sloshed on Hennessey and enjoying lap dances galore before he took the plunge into matrimony that was only hours away from fruition.

But, we dare not say that young Bell acted stupidly for trying to use his motor vehicle as a deadly weapon, and got clipped for his trouble by public servants in the performance of their duties.

Is the Black community so bereft of legitimate heroes that White Liberal politicians think that Sean Bell is the best they can offer?
Or is this yet another cynical bone being thrown to Black folks by theses same Lib pols to fool the public come re-election time and hide the broken promises they’ve made year after year?

Sean Bell died a thug’s death!

Let’s make him a hero and name a street after him. And don’t forget to give me your vote, because you know I really care.

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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Rachel Maddow Sinks to a New Low: Ridiculing Christians at Prayer


You know I think it’s disgusting that Rachel Maddow (The Karate Kid) used footage of Christians engaged in prayer to base her political commentary.

They (Liberals) really have no limit to the depths that they are willing to sink to inform the mindless dolts who follow them in the first place.

However, on further reflection, I cannot totally put blame on Leftist like Maddow, or Chris Matthews or even Keith Olberman for they do not know what they do.

Several years ago, Ann Coulter wrote a terrific book entitled, Godless, in which the Left went ballistic over a single chapter dealing with the so-called 911 widows.

However, the overall premises of the book, namely that Liberals are ungodly folks who pay only lip service to a belief in one true God. And when they do, its really for appearance sake so they can continue living lives of moral relativism which actually means by no morality except for standards they make up as they go along.

You know, things like climate change or closing Gitmo.

They didn’t give a hoot that Coulter was labeling them as “Godless” because she had them pegged for what they truly are.

And they didn’t care enough or knew enough to be offended. Ironically, this from a people that never miss an opportunity to be offended by anything.

So, on a certain level, I can’t hold the ignorant responsible for something that they’re totally ignorant about, such as the power of prayer.

However, I will say that Maddow has surpassed even Harry Reid’s slavery comments by offering a critique of prayers to score cheap and loathsome political points.

Nonetheless, ridicule is the only method Maddow employs on a regular basis which would explain her miniscule ratings.

But, if by some strange miracle, Rachel Maddow comes across this blog, let me say this.

Prayer is how we Christians have a conversation with God. We believe in a Creator God with all our hearts. We are not ashamed of this despite that amount of times you may show footage on MSNBC of Christians praying in Jesus name. In fact, we’ll even pray for you, Rachel Maddow, because no one is beyond Christ's redemptive power—not even godless Liberals.

From The Last Tradition



Thursday, December 17, 2009

How I Became a Conservative


Being born in Manhattan, and living the first 10 years of my life in the projects, my political persuasion was to be set in stone-Democrat.

However, my parents, who wanted better for their family, brought a house in Queens. It was like moving to a new country of driveways and backyards.

I was trilled!

When I got to high school, I met this guy named Bobby Greene. He was an Irish kid, good basketball, and a Yankees fan. Even though I was a Mets fan, we became good friends. Bobby would always come to class with a copy of the New York Post. I read the Daily News.

“Why do you read that,” he said one day.

“For the sports,” I replied.

“That’s the only section you read?”

“Yeah why?”

“The News is Liberal, and they lie all the time. The Post is Conservative. You need to read the Post.”

“Huh?”

So began my introduction at age 15 to the Opinion section of the paper and the difference between Liberal and Conservative. The funny thing was that I already agreed much more with Conservative thoughts than Liberal.
So I was leaning in that direction.

1979-Iran Hostage Crisis.

When Iranian students took American hostages, it was a very tense affair in my high school. Some Middle Eastern looking students got beat up.

I remembered a movie I saw called Raid on Entebbe or something to that effect, about how the Israelis successfully rescued over 100 hostages that were held in Uganda by PLO terrorists.

Me and Bobby both thought that if a small country like Israel can pull off that kind of operation, surely the greatest military (United States) in the history can do likewise.

Israel waited no more than 3 or 4 days before they mounted a rescue.

The United States?

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8….

“What the fucks wrong with Jimmy Carter?” I angrily asked Bobby.

“He’s a pussy! Dems are all like that.” he barked.

It was a very low time for the country. As Americans we felt so ashamed that a rag tag bunch of towelheads held us hostage for 444 days.

Then I saw Ronald Reagan once on the tube and I liked how he talked. At 17, I didn’t understand everything he said, but he projected a strength the country desperately needed.

One day, on my way to school, I saw this big billboard with a picture of Ayatollah Khomeini with a caption that read:

Fight Back Drive 55 MPH

I lost it!

And a full-fledged Reagan Conservative was born.

From The Last Tradition

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Obama's Falling Poll Numbers



That was then.



This is now.




It’s funny how the The Left is living in a state of denial as to why Obama’s numbers are tanking.

Hello?

The reason why Obama’s numbers are nose diving is because Americans are finally seeing that Obama is a mirage of a president perpetuated by lovesick media that intentionally misreported what he really is—a radical Leftist.

Keep being yourself, Barack!

You’re the best thing to happen to Conservatism since Jimmy Carter.

From The Last Tradition

Savby Chambliss Calls Out Obama for ObamaCare Lies


Sem Saxby Chambliss

If the president's lips are moving, that's how you can tell he's lying.



IRAN FOLLOWS NORTH KOREA’S PLAYBOOK



Earlier this year North Korea snatched two American journalists on the Chinese border, put them on trial for espionage, fired test missiles over Japan and eventually got President Obama to appease them with bi-lateral talks.

Iran recently grabbed 3 American hikers on the Iraq border, announced that they will be put on trial for espionage, and fired test missiles this morning capable or reaching Israel and parts of Europe.

What is President Obama doing?

He’s taking a break from getting the senate to pass his bank-breaking Health Care bill to fly to Copenhagen for the International Shakedown Summit masquerading as a Climate Conference in which Liberal elites are trying to extort reparations from rich countries to poor countries for the crime of becoming industrialized.

Gordon Cucullu wrote, “The lesson is now clear to America's enemies: Just push a little, and Obama will give you all you want.”

Ralph Peters also has a nice way of expressing how inept President Obama is when dealing with America’s enemies. Oh sure he likes using Predator Drones in Pakistan to kill man-made disaster makers (formerly known as Terrorists). But, those are low risk actions. Well, low risk except for the innocent people that get killed in the process that the media ignores.

Yes, Obama believes in using “soft power”. However, Iran see that as weakness and is acting accordingly just like their friends in North Korea.

UPDATE



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Monday, December 14, 2009

GOP Still Refuses to Refute Harry Reid’s Slavery Comments


These are Democrats. Ask Sen Byrd.


Remember that line from the movie, Animal House, about committing a really futile gesture?

That’s what I feel like a week after senate majority leader Harry Reid made his outlandish comments about Republicans wanting to stop ObamaCare and Slavery, after doing a Youtube search hoping to find a Republican, any Republican, willing to set the record straight.

I know Mitch McConnell and the other Republicans senators have their hands full offering up amendments highlighting the problems with the healthcare bill the Dems are trying to shove down America’s throat.

I get that.

However, Reid’s comments must be answered by somebody either on the Senate or House specifically refuting the fallacious history of the Democrat party, the original enslavers of Black people and the history of Democrats dragging their collective feet on every Civil Rights bill.

Being offended by Reid’s comments is unacceptable. The GOP has to be more than offended. They have to proactively and categorically set the matter clean.

Democrats were the party of Slavery.

Democrats were the party of Segregation.

And Democrats are the party of Socialism.

I urge all my fellow bloggers to post your own storues about this issue because the Republican party for far too long has allowed he Dems to continue this hogwash for over 40 years.

Until then I post any video from anyone willing to set the record straight as futile as it may be.

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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Friday, December 11, 2009

Tiger Woods Getting No Love From Black Community: A Look into Group Think Psychology that Enslaves Black People


I wasn’t going to write anything about Tiger Woods because what he’s going through does not fall into what this blog is all about. However, I came across this article posted on AOL and found it to be a fascinating example of the things that I’ve written about concerning how Black people are socialized into “thinking a certain way” and “being a certain way”.

If anyone dares to “think” or “be” outside what is considered to be “the norm” of the Black community, they face intense ridicule, social shame and outright shunning from other Blacks.

This is what’s happening to Tiger and this column explains why:

Where Are Tiger's 'Cablinasian' Backers?

By Terence Moore, a national columnist for FanHouse

The revelations went from every day to every hour after Eldrick Tont Woods slammed his Escalade into that fire hydrant and tree during Thanksgiving Weekend. Now there isn't a nanosecond that passes without something else happening in the suddenly endless soap opera called As The Tiger Goes From Roaring to Purring.

This feels like that O.J. thing.

Not only that, the coverage of Michael Vick's dogfighting issues was in the vicinity of white Broncos, bloody gloves and Johnny Cochran.

To a lesser extent, there were those controversies for the Keeping It Real King named Allen Iverson, otherwise known as A.I., or The Answer, or just plain trouble, especially since he wasn't practicing. There also was that other initials guy, T.O., and his messes, combined with those of other NFL knuckleheads of yore, ranging from Randy Moss to Chad Whatever He Wishes To Be Called These Days.

Here's my point: During the early and intense stretches when the media continued to spend every news cycle exposing the personal flaws of O.J., Vick, Iverson and the rest, there was a different response inside the African-American community to those athletes who happen to be black compared to its response to Woods who happens to be, well, I'll get to that in a moment.

Those other athletes had one of the world's most supportive casts. They had an overwhelming number of folks in the African-American community standing firmly and loudly behind them -- no matter what. They had Jesse and Al waiting to pounce in the background, if they hadn't done so already. They had black ministers across the country asking for special prayers in their name. They had folks in barbershops throughout African-American communities talking about conspiracies.

Mostly, despite everything those in black America had seen or heard about the events surrounding O.J., Vick, Iverson and the rest, they had unconditional love.

For Woods, not so much.

Actually, not at all, and Woods has nobody to blame but Woods.

It goes back to April 1997 when he famously took a nine-iron to the face of blacks by telling Oprah Winfrey on her couch that he wasn't black. He said he wasn't white, either. He said, given that his father is black and that his mother is Asian, he spent his youth inventing a word for himself called "Cablinasian."

Just like that, in the hearts of many African-Americans, Woods was on his own. They still cherished his splendid journey in search of becoming more prolific than Bobby Jones, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. That's because they still viewed Tiger as black, whether he liked it or not. It's just that, despite O.J. and Bonds, for instance, who joined Woods in having mixed marriages to the chagrin of some, and despite O.J. and Bonds going to extremes to project colorless images throughout their careers, they never pushed away their African-American heritage in a dramatic way.

Tiger did. In fact, he did so by mentioning that Cablinasian silliness with his black father smiling by his side on national television.

I was among a slew of African-Americans who weren't amused back then, and I wrote as much as a sports columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Journal Constitution. The headline said everything you need to know about the tone of my column: "Wake up, Tiger. This is America and that means you're black."

Needless to say, television and radio airways sizzled over my Tiger comments deep in the heart of Dixie. This was before e-mail became popular, so the newspaper was flooded with phone messages, letters and faxes.

In the midst of it all, I got a call at home from Chicago.

Somebody named "Oprah" was on the other line.

"Yes, this really is Oprah," said THAT Oprah, adding that she was a frequent reader of my column. She wanted me to appear on her show the following week to discuss, not only what I wrote about Tiger's "Cablinasian" statement, but about Fuzzy Zoeller's remarks after Woods won the first of his four Masters that spring. Let's just say that Zoeller wasn't exactly gracious after he bombed in Augusta, Ga., back then while the upstart Woods crushed his competition.

As Zoeller headed for the clubhouse, somebody asked his opinion of Tiger's rout. "He's doing quite well, pretty impressive," Zoeller said. "That little boy is driving well, and he's putting well. He's doing everything it takes to win."

Then Zoeller thought about the Master's Club Championship Dinner that features the previous year's winner selecting the menu. Zoeller said, "So you know what you guys do when (Woods) gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not to serve fried chicken next year. Got it?"

Afterward, Zoeller smirked, snapped his fingers and added while walking away from the cameras, "Or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve."

To translate: Zoeller thought Woods was black -- you know, whether Woods liked it or not, and that's what I said on Oprah's show. In addition, I repeated what I wrote for the Atlanta newspaper, "Tiger Woods is fooling himself to think that just because he's Tiger Woods, he has transcended everything else in society. This is the real world, and in the real world of America, the one-drop rule still applies.


Tiger Woods committed the “social crime” as far as the Black Community is concerned, of wanting to define himself as he sees fit.

Isn’t this a free country?

Not in the Black community where mind-slavery is alive and well and continuous to thrive thanks to the enablers within and outside “the Hood” that continue to crack mental whips.

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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Nobel Fraudulent Barack Obama Struts Away with Bogus Award



At times like these, I’m happy that my son is a grown man. He’s mature enough to judge for himself just how absurd the world is becoming.

But, what about the parents of today that have to explain to their children why Barack Obama was given an Nobel Peace prize he did not earn. Of course that would assume that kids today are being raised the same way I was in which you had to earn what you get.

Today, our kids are not allowed to play the kind of games I played when I was a little boy like Tag or Dodge Ball because some Liberal egghead had a so-called brilliant notion that it would be harmful to kids’ self-esteem if they were tossed from a game and not able to experience winning.

I got tagged out or hit by the ball and forced to exist the game. Sure, it felt bad, sometimes I wept for awhile, but I was out there the very next day doing my best. And sometimes, I was next to the last boy standing.

I was so proud for my achievement.

In other words, my self-esteem was allowed to develop based on my own merit without any input from some intellectual elitist setting the rules for me.

But, that’s the world we live in today.

Five Norwegian intellectuals thought Barack Obama was deserving of the Nobel Peace prize even though he was only in office twelve days when the nominations were submitted.
Now the media is doing contortions trying to justify his receiving the award. They’re calling it an award based on aspirations or more specifically on what they hope the Obama presidency can accomplish in the future.

Ridiculous!

In that line of thinking, I would urge somebody reading this post to write a letter on my behalf to the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Science and tell them to award me the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay this coming Spring.

Mind you I haven’t finished writing it. It’s 78 pages long,. I’ve been working on it for two and a half years off and on. It’s a Western about a Black deputy marshal (hopefully Denzel Washington) and a White cattle baron (hopefully Russell Crowe) on a trek to find a kidnapped girl.

My aspiration is for this screenplay to become the greatest Western movie ever produced surpassing The Searches, High Noon, Shane, and the Magnificent Seven.

So, I expect a phone in the next few months that the Oscar is in the bag. And if I don’t win it, then President Obana needs to return his award.

From The Last Tradition

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Attention Tea Party Movement: Starting a 3rd Party Guarantees Obama’s Re-Election in 2012


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I’ve been reading about some polls in which some so-called Tea Party candidates beat out Republicans candidates. Although this may be cause for great excitement within the Tea Party movement, it would be a serious mistake to think a TP candidate can win general elections.

As much as I’m dissatisfied with the ineffectiveness and the lack of guts demonstrated by the current GOP roster, running out of the party and setting up a new political shop is extremely unwise and Ronald Reagan said as much over 30 years ago when he said,
“ What is needed is a new revitalized Republican Party.”

Therefore, I urge all TP members to set your sights on taking over the GOP. Keep the pressure on and expand the movement.

Currently, the Republicans in Washington are a bunch of lackluster, politically correct, do-nothings. Although they go through the motions, they are too focus-group conscious to stick their necks out and demonstrate real political courage.

For example, when Harry Reid predictably and shamelessly pulled the Race Card on the senate floor to sell ObamaCare, all the Republicans did was to robotically feign outrage at Reid’s comments. But no Republican, to my knowledge, bothered to categorically refute Reid’s accusation that Republicans were responsible for prolonging slavery and stopping the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

If the Republicans in Washington are so bound up by PC demons, or they lack the will and the nerve to defend themselves in the face of outright falsehoods when the actual facts are on their side, then they do themselves and the citizens they represent a great disservice and its high time for them to be replaced by fighters like those in the TP movement who are not afraid to fight the good fight!

Tea Party members, go clean the house that’s already built.

Don’t build a new one!

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Monday, December 7, 2009

Prediction Comes True: Dems Pull Race Card to Sell Health Care


As I predicted exactly two weeks ago, Harry Reid pulled the Race Card to push ObamaCare.

Of course true to past preactice Harry misrepresent the history of his own party in which they were the original enslavers of Black people and it was the Democrats themselves who dragged their feet to free the slaves in the 19th century, and again 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The problem here is the GOP lacks the guts to set the record straight. Maybe Sarah Palin has the balls to say what needs to be said?



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Kyson's Second Birthday

My family celebrated Thanksgiving on November 21st so everyone could attend. The day before, Kyson rode my horse with me for the first time. He was a little timid at first and a little intimidated by Sam when we went to catch him in the pasture. He quickly warmed up to the idea though and was thrilled to ride bareback around the yard with me. Heather has those pictures on her camera though so I will have to get some to add at Christmas. I do, however, have some photos from his second birthday cake and presents....we celebrated after Thanksgiving so the whole family could participate. It was super cute to see him playing his guitar. After the family left, he would stand up on the fireplace hearth while playing and singing will all the energy a two year old boy could possible have (and if you have been aournd 2 year olds recently, that is a lot of energy). We think he might be on his way to being a musician someday. Sayla also had her first bite of "real food" during our meal and Kyson was proud to be the one to feed her. She was excited to eat some dressing and potatoes...small quantities of course :-)


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National Parks

On the way back from Washington, we were able to make a few stops to site see along the way. The first place we visited was Arches National Park, which was really neat! Timing worked well for us that day as we were able to arrive right as the park opened. The light was perfect on some of the arches and we drove around to see quite a few of them. It was a neat place to visit. The second park we saw was called Mesa Verde. It snowed the night before so there weren't too many tourists around :-) Some of the sites were closed as well, but we did tour one cliff dwelling called the Spruce Tree House and another dwelling called Far View (or at least I think if I remember right). It was neat to see how those people built homes and lived off the land. Just thought I would share some of the photos and sorry they are kinda out of order. I am a little tired of being on the computer because I have been processing A LOT of photos recently. Just wanted to keep up with the blog as our life continues.


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