After the election

With yesterday's election over, I'm left with only four things to be grateful for.

1. Thank God I have access to fresh spring water.

2. Thank God I have a woodstove.

3. Thank God I have enough land upon which to grow a garden.

4. Thank God I have a gun and deer, squirrel, wild turkey and rabbit for meat.

I may buy a pair of goats and some chickens while money is still worth something, too.

Speak its name

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/13/Newsweek-Obama-first-gay-prez

This article speaks volumes.

This says it all

This sums up for me the biggest problem in the United States today - PEOPLE and the GIMME attitude.

In fifty years of being in the workforce, I collected one, count 'em - one - week of unemployment benefits. No medical bennies. No free eyeglasses. No free dental work. No grants. No scholarships. No welfare.

I have a mortgage free house. I have a 100% paid for car in top running condition. I have a retirement fund. I have an investment fund. I pay cash for everything.

How did I manage to accomplish these things?  I WORKED a JOB, and not the system.

Don't pat me on the back. I didn't do one damn thing special. I did what every citizen of the United States should do.

I took care of myself. I didn't expect someone else or the government to do it for me.

And I'm a better person for it.

American obituary?

I've read this before in a publication sent out to ministers, and it contains a scary grain of truth. I see this happening around me, and pray I don't live to experience the end of it. - TW

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In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.

A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.

From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through  the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;

  

From spiritual faith to great courage;

  

From courage to liberty;

From liberty to abundance;

  

From abundance to complacency;

  

From complacency to apathy;

From apathy to dependence;

  

From dependence back into bondage."

Personal choices

Those 'pass it on' emails. They keep you informed on what.... on what? I'm not sure. I got one in my email this morning from a close friend. She's a Democrat, but I try not to hold that against her. We rarely discuss politics because the urge to slap.... um....it's better to stay friends with them than point out how stupid they can be.

There's an old joke that's not very funny when you think about it. I'm using the "he" pronoun for readability. Get over it, girls.

A Democrat sees something on television he doesn't like. He calls on the government to pass a law to ban it because, in his opinion, the American people shouldn't see it, hear it, know it, and it's up to the government to tell the people what's best for them.

A Republican sees something on television he doesn't like. He changes the channel.

The point, in case you didn't get it, is about personal choice. 

Roe vs. Wade turns 39 today.

It doesn't matter what you think is right or wrong in someone else's life, only your own.

Try to use your head and think about that for yourself. Don't base your opinions on religious or political rhetoric. Reach down into your gut and imagine the loss of personal choice in the kind of coffee you drink or the kind of car you drive. Imagine your neighbor having the right to dictate to you the color of the flowers you can plant in your garden.

Think.