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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. -Mark Twain-

Ah, vacation cometh!

Next week I will be on vacation and am trying to decide what I am going to do. I could kick back and relax with a cool drink while finishing the book I have been reading. For now, the only thing I have planned is a Memorial Day cookout and it should be fun to get to hang with the family.

I could go exercise my second ammendment by hitting the gun range. There is a chance that a coworker and I might ride down to Tampa. He has access to a 500 yard rifle range... that would be some serious fun! Come on Mr. Clean... "REGULATORS! LETS RIDE!" It would be interesting and a good learning experience since I haven't shot my AR15 at a target over 200 yards. I doubt that these old eyes would be able to see the target with the naked eye.

Anyone want to go fishing? I have a brand new fishing liscence and dust on my gear. It has been awhile since I wet a hook. My nephew went last week, with good results in the scattered lakes near his home.

This is one of the bass he caught, the others were slightly bigger (no, there is no "fish" story here). The sun was starting to set and the pictures were dark.

Whatever I decide to do with the time off... It will be relaxing and enjoyable.

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. -Ronald Reagan-

Let the games begin

When Arizona passed the immigration law I thought to myself, its about time a state did something to defend themselves from the river of illegals who cross the border daily. God knows the federal government doesn't do enough. Arizona... stand fast and dont give up your right to protect yourself and your citizens. Jan Brewer... you have more of a back bone than 99% of the politicians in this country, keep your head up, and lead the way. The country will support you even while the left wing libtards bash you on the television.

I saw a Fox News posting that I had to share.

 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/19/arizona-official-threatens-cut-los-angeles-power-payback-boycott/ 

I used to think that Texas would be the first to stand up against the illegal problem. Boy was I wrong! What happened to the phrase Don't mess with Texas? I reckon Rick Perry is getting a little pc these days. Can we now substitute Arizona in that phrase? DON'T MESS WITH ARIZONA has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

If you are thinking that illegal immigration isnt that big of a problem I want you to go to http://www.borderinvasionpics.com/ and have a look around. Arizona, I applaud your efforts and tip my hat to you.

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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.  -Abraham Lincoln-

The Ant and the Grasshopper.

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. Liberal 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 Rev. Jesse Jackson 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 Equality & Pro-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.

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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. -Ronald Reagan-

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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.  -John F. Kennedy-