Democratic Party Message From 120 Years Ago...What Do You Think?

This tombstone is actually in the Attica Cemetery, Harper County , Kansas.

A friend sent me these pictures in an email and I thought they were very interesting.  I am sharing them with you all.  Quite a poser...what do you think?  Leave a comment.......

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Health Care Reform Will Allow Artists to Quit Their Day Jobs.....YIPPEE!!

I am SO excited...Thursday night on the Rachel Maddow Show, Nancy Pelosi said  because I have always wanted to paint and write, (you know, be an artist) that when the new health care bill was in place I could quit my job, not to worry, she and everybody else would pay my health care insuramce premium.  FINALLY all my artistic juices can be utilized!

 I never DREAMED that I would have this opportunity to spend my days in the park painting and gazing at the clouds....waiting for some prose to overtake me.....sigh.....I've got to check and see if she'll also take care of my mortgage payment and food, etc.

Do you think she will buy the gas for my car so I can get to the park? I mean,  I'll need gas to transport all my stuff to the park in my car so I can be truly artistic..... I can't REALLY just live on the fact that she'll pay my health care costs..... How's that gonna work?......OH, NO, I can feel my artistic juices drying up already with all this worry....wonder where my pizza money will come from?...oh, yea, and the beer?  Wait, I've gotta think this through..... It's just not making any sense....is it? (guess I'll go back to work in the morning...'cept I'm retired)

Read Freedom Edens Blog .  I love her last paragraph, "So the economy would come to a screeching halt, but there would be a lot of crappy art to see and bad poetry to read."

The Weekly Standard has an interesting article entitled  "Pelosi's Republic The House Speaker says health care reform will finally allow artists to focus on being unemployed, comfortably."



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Ant and Grasshopper Fable...Applies to Our Nation Today?

I thought the old version of this fable would be a common sense suggestion that would benefit our country. Sadly, the modern version is...well...what do you think?

OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Then a Reverand has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake..

President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood..

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

Only a parady and humorous...sort of....



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Who Has Barack Refused To Meet With?

This is from a political satirist from Australia....it would appear our friends 'down under' understands what we're going through. The headline was....WHAT ARE THE USA NEWPAPERS DOING [Other than SUPPRESSING THE TRUTH] ??



Do you think this attitude should give us pause?


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To Ignore The Facts Does Not Change The Facts...Halloween..Witches..Christmas

Don't miss the 'boat'.....I've learned....That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.


Seek out the facts and vote with your knowledge!



I did a halloween post a couple of weeks back but I forgot to include a snippet on witches....

Lets see....it was said that to actually meet a witch, you have to put your clothes on wrong side out and then walk backwards on Halloween night...then at midnight you would see a witch. (I told my grandsons that if they misbehave, they'll surely see one at their house...witch on a broom, I mean!) Yes, in years past, I, on occasion would jump astride my 'super sonic broom' and fly wantonly about the room or straight for the intended target.

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In GOD We Trust....

Payback is fun!!!!!!!!! WRITE IT ON THE BACK OF YOUR ENVELOPES or front! WE THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA. WE'LL START WRITING IT ON THE FRONT OF OUR ENVELOPES, TOO! ! Including Bills.

You may have heard in the news that a couple of Post Offices in Texas have been forced to take down small posters that say IN GOD WE TRUST.
The law, they say, is being violated. Anyway, we heard proposed on a radio station show, that we should all write 'IN GOD WE TRUST' on the back of all our mail.. After all, that's our National Motto, and it's on all the money we use to buy those stamps. We think it's a wonderful idea. We must take back our nation from all the people who think that anything that offends them should be removed.

If you like this idea, please pass it on and DO IT. The idea of writing or stamping 'IN GOD WE TRUST' on our envelopes sounds good to us. WE'RE HAVING A STAMP MADE TOO!

Heck, lets use it as our signature on e-mails too!It's been reported that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore, we have a very hard time understanding why there's such a mess about having 'In God We Trust!' on our money and having God in the pledge of Allegiance.

Could it be that WE just need to take action and tell the 14% to 'sit down and shut up'?

If you agree, pass this on, JUST COPY AND PASTE INTO AN EMAIL.
BUT REMEMBER IF YOU DON'T, that's 1 reason why this world is in the mess we're in now. WE SIT BACK & LET IT HAPPEN!

John Stossel Give Me a Break!....Political Correctness....plus a Senior Moment

For an interesting viewpoint, WATCH ABC with John Stossel: "Give Me a Break!"
"This Friday, March 13, "20/20" airs my special, "Bailouts and Bull" 10 p.m. ET."

PC Update............
Speaking of government, politics, bailouts, bull, PC, political correctness. Here is the latest in PC requirements suggestions................

Kentuckians, Tennesseans and West Virginians will no longer be referred to as'HILLBILLIES.'
You must now refer to them as APPALACHIAN-AMERICANS .

HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT:
1. She is not a 'BABE' or a 'CHICK' - She is a 'BREASTED AMERICAN.'

2. She is not 'EASY' - She is 'HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE.'

3. She is not a 'DUMB BLONDE' - She is a 'LIGHT-HAIRED DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY.'

4. She has not 'BEEN AROUND' - She is a 'PREVIOUSLY-ENJOYED COMPANION.'

5. She does not 'NAG' you - She becomes 'VERBALLY REPETITIVE.'

HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT MEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT:
1. He does not have a 'BEER GUT' - He has developed a 'LIQUID GRAIN STORAGE FACILITY.'

2. He does not 'GET LOST ALL THE TIME' - He 'INVESTIGATES ALTERNATIVE DESTINATIONS.'

3 He is not 'BALDING' - He is in 'FOLLICLE REGRESSION.'

4. He does not act like a 'TOTAL ASS' - He develops a case of 'RECTAL-CRANIAL INVERSION.'

5. It's not his 'CRACK' you see hanging out of his pants - It's 'REAR CLEAVAGE.'


Enough political type "stuff" - here is a slice of life from my own. I swear this is true!!

Does anybody out there watch American Idol? Well, my husband and I were watching Tuesday evening and was really irritated when the judges were so mean to Anoop so we decided to vote (we had never before voted - just watched).

SO at the conclusion of the show I started dialing the phone over and over again. The proverbial "light bulb" went off - we have redial. DUH...........anyway, I got tired of pushing redial so I asked my husband to do it for awhile. He pushed redial and is sitting there listening to the phone. I thought, "wonder what they're saying to him they didn't say to me?" All I ever heard was "Thank you for voting".


I finally said, "Bob.......what are you doing?" He says, "they said "thank you for holding" so I am!!!" Can you say HEARING AID? We had a good time laughing .....

Such is the life in a senior household.............

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