Merry Christmas and Boxing Day

We had a lovely New Zealand style Christmas yesterday all afternoon at mum's house.  My husband's family tradition is a huge lunch buffet, then open presents, then have lots of pudding (dessert). 

This year I brought a Pumpkin pie and some warm artichoke dip and crackers.  Both were yum.  Shane's sister, nieces and mum made garden salad, rice salad, potato salad.  My niece's beau brought turkey and stuffing he had made.  Besides turkey, we had sliced ham, sliced chicken.  Mum made a big bowl of orange fruit punch with lemonade (soda). She put out a plate of nuts and dried fruit.  It was a good spread.

We brought our 2 dogs with - Lady the King Charles Cavalier Spaniel and Kiki the Basenji.  My husband's sister brought their 2 dogs - both Shitzoos: Merlin and Guenivere.  Mum has a large black Belgian Shephard named Ruby.  We got their first and brought three dogs downstairs to mum's outdoor patio and closed the glass ranch slider so they could have a romp and go pee if needed. 

My husband and I brought in our food and presents to add under mum's tree. We open presents downstairs which leads to the outside patio - and we have lunch upstairs in the open plan large kitchen, dining room and lounge (living room). My husband's father (who passed last year) built  their family home from scratch back in the 1960's when they moved to Titirangi NZ up from Taranaki. The home is built on a small hill so you drive in from the street, park in the carport and enter the house on the top floor where the kitchen is.  Down the hall from the kitchen is 2 bedrooms and a full bathroom.  The downstairs has a 2nd large lounge, laundry room, 2 adjoined bedrooms and a 2nd full bathroom.  They raised 2 girls and 1 boy in this large family home.  The upstairs has a beautiful macro carpa wood ceiling.  Kitchen and bathroom have lovely polished wood floors and carpeting throughout the rest of the home.  It is a big house just for my husband's mother on her own.  But she has her large Shepard watchdog and my oldest niece is living there, too for maybe another year or two. 

After we had lunch - with the 3 small dogs Merlin, Guenivere and Lady - we all headed downstairs for present opening.  We let in, from outside, Ruby and Kiki - and the present opening began.

I got some hand made soap, some clothes, pajamas, cement garden goose, cooking oil dispensers, mortar and pestile, plexiglass flower decorated cutting board and 3 flowering plants to plant in my garden.  We gave a couple doggie toys so those were unwapped so the dogs had something to play with. Our 4 year old niece got quiet a few activity toys so she started playing with those right away. We gave my 22 year old niece and her fiance a camping radio and rock climbing coupon for an indoor climbing place they like.  We found batteries and got the camping radio playing songs plugged into my husband's iPhone - a Brooke Frasier album sounded nice on this little player.

We all opened our presents.  My brother-in-law, a skilled auto mechanic and motor cycle enthusiast enjoyed a book we gave him which has lots of antique car pictures.  He enjoyed his presents, then took a nap on the couch where he sat.  After 1-2 hours of present opening by the group, this always tires him out and he falls asleep,  My husband joined in with my 4 year old niece playing a little mechanical fishing game.  After a bit, my husband wadded up some used Christmas paper and threw a wad or two from across the room trying to wake up my brother-in-law.  I think he beaned him on the head and he finally awoke. 

We all started filing back upstairs ready for pudding.  NZ calls dessert pudding - you may or may not get actual pudding.  Mum made a trifle and a pavlova.  Someone brought a big bowl of fruit salad. I made the pumpkin pie.  Mum also made blue, purple and red striped jello.  We also had a container of vanilla custard and mini bite size custard and strawberry pies. My niece made chocolate and marshmellow hokey-pokey.  We all had a plate or two of dessert and retired to couches and chairs to play some card games, watch TV and have a chat - or nap.  I fell asleep for a few minutes with my Cavalier Lady sitting on my lap.  Kiki and Ruby tired each other out playing chase up and down the stairs.  Merlin is blind so he was carried up and down the stairs a couple times so he could go potty outside. 

The weather for our NZ Christmas was grey all day and bit drizzly at times.  It was very humid - and we have the same weather today on Boxing Day.

We are heading out soon to hit mum's for a leftover lunch and go shopping for a present for ourselves - we've been saving up to get a new barbeque.  My husband is keen to get one that has a glass panel to see how the insides are cooking.  I just want one that won't rust after 5 years.  But it rains a lot here, it is a rain forest so I think 5 years is average lifespan for a bbq in NZ.

That was my Christmas this year.  I sent packages to Chicago and Paris where various family members live.  They didn't send me anything, but they did email me so they remembered I still exist down here in the South Pacific.  We have a summer Christmas here, but we have a great time sharing the day with our NZ family. 

While the world is always in strife, I wish peace and love to you and yours and I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season no matter where you are.

native Pohutukowa "Christmas" Trees on NZ beach - they bloom in Dec

Nugent on why America likes guns

As shared on Facebook today, I found this - it is clear enough for anyone, even if you prefer not to defend yourself - Mr. Ted explains the right to defend yourself aka why Americans like guns:

anger, morality, nihilism, right, wrong

So many topics, so little time...

I have been thinking a lot this week about Anger.  There seem to be many instances last few years (decades?) where humans aren't handling their anger very well.  One of my sisters has worked herself up into a self induced anger directed at me - she is so mad she's not speaking to me.  (well, its a long story on how it got this bad, but so far her not-speaking thing works for me)

Has anger changed much since the human species began walking upright on the planet?  Naah, probably not.  All human, all animals experience anger.  Animals go on instinct so they really don't get "angry"... But humans sure do - and they then act on it.  A moral person might act on their anger when believing they are morally justified.  Is the definition of moral justification for acting out in anger these days changing?  When is it justified?  If you are cuttoff in a car by another, no, sorry, you are not morally justified to rage in anger or shoot that person... it is just traffic for pete's sake.

After the school shooting this week in Connecticut, the left wails and gnashes their teeth demanding more gun control and more 'gun free zones' from their favorite nanny government.  "Do something!" they cry... but what "something"?  Take away American guns?   Why punish law abiding citizens by depriving their rights to protect themselves when a crazed person commits some crime? 

In Guns, Guns, Guns, Daniel Greenfield points out you cannot stop a mentally deranged person from killing another person - you have to kill them first.  Goes back to a bible story ya'll: Cain and Abel - one brother kills another - no guns used at all.

Good article in NRO has some Facts About Mass Shootings.  Author John Fund points out:

"In fact, the high point for mass killings in the U.S. was 1929, according to criminologist Grant Duwe of the Minnesota Department of Corrections.

Incidents of mass murder in the U.S. declined from 42 in the 1990s to 26 in the first decade of this century.

The chances of being killed in a mass shooting are about what they are for being struck by lightning.
Until the Newtown horror, the three worst K–12 school shootings ever had taken place in either Britain or Germany.

Almost all of the public-policy discussion about Newtown has focused on a debate over the need for more gun control. In reality, gun control in a country that already has 200 million privately owned firearms is likely to do little to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals. We would be better off debating two taboo subjects — the laws that make it difficult to control people with mental illness and the growing body of evidence that “gun-free” zones, which ban the carrying of firearms by law-abiding individuals, don’t work."

Anger fuels a crazy person - they do things society isn't happy with.  Go postal. Have road rage...

Mass killings?  That concept sure seems CELEBRATED by the Islam cultists.  Suicide bombings and killing innocents for Allah is their jihadi way, isn't it.  They prove THEY do not have "morals" the rest of the modern world supposedly has. 

However, millions of babies are killed legally in the USA by abortion - thousands every day.  The LEFT promotes this killing.  So WHY would they be SO upset a few 5 year old kids are killed?  They surely wouldn't be upset if their parents opted for abortion 5 years ago, would they?

Who can best explain the whole "justified anger" thing?  Jihadis think their anger is justified - they are angry at anyone who isn't muslim - anyone who isn't muslim offends them so they get angry.  Goes back to crazy person wants to kill you: you will have to kill them first.

About that morality thing and anger - I enjoyed the comments on this article - the very first one by Nate13 who says:

"I hate to become a one-trick pony on these message boards, but I'm going to bring up an old theme I've been harping on lately: nihilism.

We live in an age of moral relativism that, having no foundation on which to stand, is rapidly descending into nihilism - the absence of morality or any justification for it. I'm going to leave the shooter's intentions alone for the time, as I'm sure those will be discussed at length for weeks.
I'm talking about nihilism not just in the shooter, but in the broader culture that attempts to understand these horrific events without a moral reference point. In the aftermath, we attempt to get more and more legalistic, bureaucratic, and technocratic to solve problems that can't be legislated away.

These events are products of sick, evil people in an increasingly sick culture that has no stomach for "outdated" concepts like absolute right and wrong. We believe if we could just pass enough well-worded laws, we could eliminate this behavior from society. We treat these tragedies as outputs, thinking that we can just tinker with the inputs enough to get our desired results.

For God's sake, the bodies were still warm and we were already talking about piles upon piles of statistics, as if the problem of violent gun crime could be solved mathematically with some study or Congressional inquiry. I'm afraid that, absent the presence of morality in our discussions of these murders, we have no tools to solve the underlying problems except legalism and policy making. People will keep fixating on the problems with guns because we've become woefully inadequate at talking about problems inherent in humanity.

It always amuses me in pitying way when I hear people retreat even further into nihilism after an event like this by making that old appeal to the "Argument of Evil" which asks, "If there truly is a good god, why does he allow such evil deeds?" As if the very presence of evil invalidates the possibility or under-pinning for good!

Forgive my frustration, but what right do we have to even speak about evil in our society? We are so immersed in violence, greed, sex, instant gratification, and materialism that we've lost all sense of what evil even looks like. To know evil, you must first know good. And while we work ourselves into a righteous huff over "evil" for 2% of the year when these disgusting acts occur, for the other 98% we desperately try to rebel against all forms of conventional morality - that cramps our style, doesn't it?

A child one minute before passing through the birth canal can have a pair of surgical scissors put through his or her brain without society batting an eye. A fully formed, breathing, crying, desperate, helpless baby who is the result of a botched abortion has no entitlement to life in parts of this "enlightened" Western world. And we talk about "evil"?

Government officials pass guns to cartels to slaughter civilians, and we get to talk about "evil"?
Corrupt businessmen get to use their connections to the power brokers in Washington to access public funds to bail out their billion dollar corporations (who went broke in part due to unbridled greed), and we sit here and talk about evil?

We can start talking about "evil" when we as a society find our lost sense of "good". But we can't relegate morality to the fringes, then demand to know where God was."

I'll end this with an observation - I was defending the American gun culture in my office lunch room today to a British individual and New Zealander (kiwi).  They both think Americans are crazy to have so many guns.  I say teachers and principals in schools should have guns available to them - the CT shooting was over in 2 minutes. If an armed teacher was available right there when they saw an armed person enter the school with guns and start shooting: wouldn't that have made a difference?  Could a few children been saved?  Of course.

I think its crazy NZ police don't carry handguns on their hips.  I think its crazy British still have a monarchy sucking up millions of dollars in resources - which could probably be more beneficiary to the citizens.  What is the relevancy of inbred monarch system in a modern world?  I don't get it... but then again, I'm an American. 

America was started by fighting off tyranny... with guns.  I don't have a problem with guns or with all law abiding, responsible citizens owning guns. Crims already have guns ya'll...duh.

My American culture relies on individuals - not the government - to assist each other.  As they saying goes "When there are seconds to spare, the police are 2 minutes away". 

I believe in the right to defend myself and my property from a gun wielding bad guy.  That is the American way...  Individual responsibility... and it makes me angry the USA leftist government want to take away those rights.  I'm moral and right.

Whittle: USA needs some serious people

Where is Mr. Whittle wrong? 

Exactly.

He's accurate and correct.

USA will not survive until some serious people are found.

Are you one of 'em?!

Surrender your dignity, forward!

from AmericanThinker.com

Unlikely to exercise any influence on future climate

Open letter to head of UN today in the Financial Post from group of scientists.

"Policy actions that aim to reduce CO2 emissions are unlikely to influence future climate. Policies need to focus on preparation for, and adaptation to, all dangerous climatic events, however caused"

Hattip Watts Up With That :

"November 29, 2012

Mr. Secretary-General:

On November 9 this year you told the General Assembly: “Extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal … Our challenge remains, clear and urgent: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to strengthen adaptation to … even larger climate shocks … and to reach a legally binding climate agreement by 2015 … This should be one of the main lessons of Hurricane Sandy.”

On November 13 you said at Yale: “The science is clear; we should waste no more time on that debate.”
 
The following day, in Al Gore’s “Dirty Weather” Webcast, you spoke of “more severe storms, harsher droughts, greater floods”, concluding: “Two weeks ago, Hurricane Sandy struck the eastern seaboard of the United States. A nation saw the reality of climate change. The recovery will cost tens of billions of dollars. The cost of inaction will be even higher. We must reduce our dependence on carbon emissions.”

We the undersigned, qualified in climate-related matters, wish to state that current scientific knowledge does not substantiate your assertions. " ...

... "Based upon these considerations, we ask that you desist from exploiting the misery of the families of those who lost their lives or properties in tropical storm Sandy by making unsupportable claims that human influences caused that storm. They did not. We also ask that you acknowledge that policy actions by the U.N., or by the signatory nations to the UNFCCC, that aim to reduce CO2 emissions are unlikely to exercise any significant influence on future climate. Climate policies therefore need to focus on preparation for, and adaptation to, all dangerous climatic events however caused."
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SO WILL THE SECRETARY-GENERAL RESPOND?

I seriously doubt it - there is BIG MONEY involved with keeping people fooled about "man made" global warming - TAXES.

Gubmits TAX CITIZENS in guise of 'saving the planet' when all that does is LINE THEIR POCKETS!!

Ukrainian Parkour Staffordshire

A Staffy otherwise known as a "pit bull"; check out this awesome dog with extreme climbing skills:

Chelsea sugar banana muffins yum

I haven't posted much with the tag "Yummy people food" but banana muffins are yum.  I just made some using the Chelsea recipe.

Chelsea sugar refinery near downtown Auckland on shorline - pix from flickr

Chelsea sugar is a NZ brand - a company which has been in business since 1884.

They have catchy commercials and sponsor a yearly show called NZ's hottest home baker.  I've seen it the last 2 years.  It is a really cute show and the contestants whip up all kinds of baked goods featuring Chelsea sugar products (of course).  I get the urge to make muffins or cakes when I watch it - so the show is dangerous to your mid section. 

I suppose that is exactly why cooking shows are so popular - people go out buy the ingredients and start bakin' up a storm...  :)

Going to eat a muffin now - go bake somehing now yourself and have a good day...

when do you wanna be free?

Time for a musical interlude by Pete Murray.  Here are the lyrics.  So -

When DO you wanna be free?

"As far as you know, you will make the distance
Even if everything is falling down,
But don't lose that vision
And don't lose your courage
Until you are standing right here with me now

I want you, to stand up and fight every moment with me
For the truth, it's your love
Your destiny that I see
In my shoes, so tell me when do you wanna be free?
Only you can tell me

And high on emotion, has been a killer for days
It's wearing you out until you slowly fade
Where is that needle, or that damaging blade
It's cutting you up until it empties your gauge

I want you, to stand up and fight every moment with me
For the truth, it's your love
Your destiny that I see
In my shoes, so tell me when do you wanna be free?
Only you can tell me

Hold on, hold that tight
Colors on or color blind
Talking how sweet the ride
Dumb is gone into your life

I, I want you, to stand up and fight every moment with me
For the truth, it's your love
Your destiny that I see
In my shoes, so tell me when do you wanna be free?
Only you can tell me
When do you wanna be
I, I want you, to stand up and fight every moment with me
For the truth, it's your love
Your destiny that I see
In my shoes, so tell me when do you wanna be free?
When do you wanna be free?
When do you wanna be free?
When do you wanna be free?
When do you wanna be free?"

Hobbit trilogy - the unexpected journey begins

Peter Jackson's movie "The Hobbit" premiers in Wellington NZ tonight.  Want to go? Sorry the way is shut. The planning for premier has been going on for 6 months. 

In 2012, NZ opposition Labour government was against employment law changes NZ National brought in with majority of votes - to get the film(s) made down here.  National says it was worth it to bring more tourism to NZ.  It is.  NZ is SMALL and needs the business. 

Now Labour big wigs invited to premier say they supported movie all along?  Hypocrites!

Well, bah humbug to them...

LOR and Hobbit Fans who come down to NZ can book a tour of the film locations through Red Carpet Tours.

Let's hope this film does bring more people down to beautiful Aoteoroa, the NZ economy needs them.

Now get ready to take an unexpected journey back to the land of elves, dwarves, hobbits and a wonderous adventure of enjoying NZ scenery...   :-)

investigate rampant voter fraud from 2012 or else

Wild Bill wonders if RAMPANT VOTER FRAUD from the 2012 election will be investigated or this might happen:

Schiff on the looming fiscal cliff with O v.2

Brigitte explains: this is Islam

things I'm thankful for

pix from last weekend hiking in Waitakere Ranges near our house

Things I am thankful for:
- courage by someone who chose adoption for me instead of abortion
- kindness from parents who raised, loved me fully as their own child
- hard work, generosity from my father so his wife could stay home and raise 3 adopted daughters
- top notch public high school education at one of the best schools in the United States

- close and extended family members who weave fun, laughter and caring into my life
- blissful rhythyms of daily life shared with a kind, joyful best friend husband
- love from current, past domestic pets
- snowy Christmas eve dinners at dad's and frantic Christmas day meals at mom's
- hot, sunny summer camping trips to EAA Osh Kosh Wisconsin airshows
- ability to distinguish logic, truth from lies, propaganda
- problem finding skills, inner ambition and a fruitful software technology career
- appreciation of beauty in nature, animals
- indoor plumbing and electricity
- chemical engineers, business who provide cheap, reliable, safe medicine
- living in a modern western society and enjoying benefits of a multitude of glorious technological advances
- grocery stores
- worldwide travel, creating a lovely new home in NZ
- rational skills to tackle ups and downs of life: I've had WAY more ups than downs
- being myself
- capacity to learn
- freedom
- capitalism
- low taxes
thank you God, Universe, family and friends for my many blessings

 

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours America

 

 

why can't Israel exist?

the O economy stupid

AT's Monty Pelerin points out Economic Disintegration is Almost Here

"Many businessmen hung on, hoping for a change in the madness that passes for economic leadership and policy. These hopes were dashed with the re-election of the ideologue driving the madness. Obama won the electoral college, but not the confidence of business. They are just beginning to cast their votes and it does not bode well for the future."

"While the masses exult in the continuation of their food stamps, cell phones and other booty, the real story of this election is yet to be told. The nation is about to find out that policies and elections have consequences more important than free stuff."

"The war against private enterprise can no longer be denied. President Obama's re-election ensures that it will continue and likely accelerate. The makers are beginning to give up. The takers don't have a clue. Soon the country is going to get a real-life lesson in economics. TANSTAAFL (There ain't no such thing as a free lunch) is about to be learned."

Check out this site: DAILY JOB CUTS !

While you're hanging on to the edge of your seat riding the roller coaster next couple years: some financial advise from CFA Dan Amoss at the Daily Reckoning: The Future Economic Destruction

"All government-directed economic activity grows at the expense of the private sector. And the election suggests that government coercion will drive even more U.S. economic activity in the future. This is a shame, because freely adjusting prices, competition, and innovation elevate living standards. Mandates, price controls, and subsidies — coercive actions — depress living standards. Quality falls. Shortages develop and persist."

"The Fed’s goals early on in the crisis focused on supporting the banking system at the expense of savers. Now the Fed will be pressured, threatened, and eventually forced to monetize ever more U.S. government debt — all to finance a government budget that the private sector cannot afford.

As a proponent of small, affordable, sustainable — there is a nice buzzword — government, I lament that voters have chosen a government stuck in a destructive, self-reinforcing cycle. Time will tell if this cycle (more government, market failure, more government, market failure…) can be stopped.

The future political environment will multiply the risks facing investors. But there will always be opportunities for contrarian investors on both the long and short sides of the market…

On the long side, look at the best-managed gold and silver mining companies, and companies providing “shale fracking” services and equipment for the American oil boom.

On the short side, look at overindebted companies that, in order to survive, need consumers to continue overspending. Also, look to short companies that pay high prices for raw commodities and resell processed goods into a depressed economy."

if WHO wants America to fail?

I may have posted this before, but I can't immediately find it...

From April 2012 a decent screed - seems pretty much on the money right about now:



Anyway, the America I thought I knew doesn't seem to exist any more. 

Fraud occurred and an uninformed people voted for the "fundamentally transformed" Amerika - and she continues down the wrong path ... When will it be enough?  Maybe Romney would have been the same but slower, but he surely was a better candidate to steer the ship...

For patriots who recognize all this, we'll have to work even harder to get the truth out...

Is the world now living in a George Orwell 1984 Animal Farm where:

"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS"
"WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."

From excerpts of the original Animal Farm:

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." -- George Orwell,1903-1950

But - "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell

"Tell a lie loud and long enough and people will believe it." Hitler's propaganda machine (or CNN and MSNBC, etc!?)

"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism.... Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole." George Orwell

USA future leaders? This kid

This kid is an example of a bright young mind who fully understands America is in trouble right now with the growth of leftism.

From American Thinker: "Crying For America was written by 14-yr old Kory Shore. He delivers a powerful and passionate performance in his first music video. Although written on piano, the song is fully produced with cellos and a full band. Kory is aware of current events and he is unafraid to speak his mind and to push back against the status quo."

Beer run to Brat Stop with Hostess

You've heard about the many companies now letting people go ahead of Barry's Obamascare, right?

Guess what, as the USA economy continues to tank?  YOU OWN IT DEM-COMMIES!

Unions stink.  But Barry loves the unions. 

The net buzz this week is because 12 unions killed American iconic company Hostess.  TWELVE UNIONS?!?! 

Yes, they've been having troubles all year.

Recently posted at their web site:

"The BCTGM in September rejected a last, best and final offer from Hostess Brands designed to lower costs so that the Company could attract new financing and emerge from Chapter 11. Hostess Brands then received Court authority on Oct. 3 to unilaterally impose changes to the BCTGM’s collective bargaining agreements.
Hostess Brands is unprofitable under its current cost structure, much of which is determined by union wages and pension costs. The offer to the BCTGM included wage, benefit and work rule concessions but also gave Hostess Brands’ 12 unions a 25 percent ownership stake in the company, representation on its Board of Directors and $100 million in reorganized Hostess Brands’ debt.

“We deeply regret the necessity of today’s decision, but we do not have the financial resources to weather an extended nationwide strike,” said Gregory F. Rayburn, chief executive officer. “Hostess Brands will move promptly to lay off most of its 18,500-member workforce and focus on selling its assets to the highest bidders.”

 

"In addition to dozens of baking and distribution facilities around the country, Hostess Brands will sell its popular brands, including Hostess®, Drakes® and Dolly Madison®, which make iconic cake products such as Twinkies®, CupCakes, Ding Dongs®, Ho Ho’s®, Sno Balls® and Donettes®. Bread brands to be sold include Wonder®, Nature’s Pride ®, Merita®, Home Pride®, Butternut®, and Beefsteak®, among others.

The wind down means the closure of 33 bakeries, 565 distribution centers, approximately 5,500 delivery routes and 570 bakery outlet stores throughout the United States."

So you got that?  Unions refused lesser pay so 18,500 members now have NO PAY AT ALL.  Hey lefty union goons, how is NOTHING better than less?

For kiwis, Americans are sad about Hostess the way you were sad Georgie Pie went away. There is even a "movement" in NZ to bring back Georgie Pie! I don't fully understand the fascination with small meat pies, but change it to Twinkies or Hostess Cherry Pie and I get it.  Those feelings of comfort at your nation's history shows up in their icons - and when they are lost.   

Twinkies have been in several movies.

For me, I didn't love Twinkies as much as their Cherry Pies.  I've owned a 3 different Mazda Miatas (MX5 in NZ).  In Chicago, with all the hot / cold / snow temperature changes, cars usually only last may 5-7 years.  I bought a shiny Red Miata in 1990, leased a black one in 1996 for 2 years and then bought a used green one in 2005.  Obviously I love them.

I've always been an independent person - I'm the oldest of 3 daughters and my dad bought us kids a car when I was 16.  I got my full driver's license soon as I turned 16 and I was mobile - driving us to school and driving myself all over the Chicago area.  I explored, partied (sssh, don't tell my folks), made a few trips up to Wisconsin border when I turned 18 just to buy booze.  When I could legally buy liquor, mom just said "oh, just have your parties here..." at our house - so I did.  I had a couple of really fun parties when I was 18...

Driving around as a teenager makes you feel free - life is yours for the taking.  Yes, I worked to make money for my own gas.  I remember hot summer days I was 18 - driving to Wisconsin down long, flat country highways.  Since I had to get around, I would often stop at gas (petrol) service stations to fill up.  And at every gas station, sitting in happy little shelves - were Hostess products.  Those Cherry Pies would always look up at me in their cute little white and red wrappers and say "you know you want me...!".  So, yep, I'd usually walk away after paying for gas with a little packaged pie. 

The easiest way to eat any flavor Hostess Pie is to gently tear open the very end of the wrapper enough to expose the sugared bakery crust.  Take a nibble or two or three then slide it further out to get to the next bites. This is of course SO easy to do when driving, put the pie in one hand - turn on the radio to some loud pop or rock and roll... roll down the window part way, not too much or your long blonde flings in your face - but enough to get a warm breeze and smell green grass or odors when passing a dairy farm on a country highway. 

Yep, that was me ->  age 18, driving down a Wisconsin 2 lane highway, full tank of gass, summer sunshine, green grass, farms, trunk full of beer, bottle of Jack Daniels, Coke ready to party - driving care free with a Hostess Cherry Pie in hand heading back to Wilmette, Illinois...  

"world famous" Brat Stop in Kenosha Wisconsin - good brats and sells beer to go!

Hoyt's #zombie smart for JQP23

I've had a few wee trolls come by my blog a few times... couple were irate I was pointing out facts and truth about the whack-a-doodle violent pedophile extremism that is Islam.  They hate that truth, some comments were so vile I spared you and deleted...

Well, I say boo hoo, go behead someone because you are offended or your honor was hurt...There now, feel better? ... Because we care about your wee hurt feelings ....

Anyway, my latest troll is "JQP23" who thinks I'm crazy and insane - bla bla bla...  Hey JQP23, if I'm a such a nutter, why would you take precious seconds out of your oh, so busy day to put weird nasty comments on my blog? Are you trying to convert me to your lefty-ism?  You know you're on the wrong side of history, right? But, besides that, and beyond name calling, what is your best argument for statism, leftism, communism, socialism - all your favorite LEFTY-isms?  This is how it turns out when a society embraces your lefty-ism:



But, if I truly have a bit of ancient Valkyrie in my blood, how best would I convert to your side? ... (umm, well, nevermind, I just don't see that happening, in fact, once people awaken to the natural human state of truth and conservatism, they NEVER go back to the left...! funny how that works...)



Yep, JQP23, your "side" won, supposedly, this week - except they are still finding lots of cases of VOTER FRAUD by Democrats.  WHAAAT?  Shocking, isn't it...

If Democrats had such wonderful ideas and policies, WHY do they ALWAYS resort to LIES and voter fraud to steal elections?   (well, nevermind, maybe cause it "works" and R's are big weenies most of the time I guess...)

Please explain the required lies and the fraud besides end always justifies the means?

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For our deep thinker JQP23 and other lefties, to better explain last few posts I've done and the anger I continue to feel right now, I found a couple of neat sites this week by husband and wife writers.  One of them is Daniel Hoyt and his post "It's the Zombie Apocalypse!" explains exactly how I feel quite well, so here is his post in its entirety - just for you JQP23 - because I care:

"Since the election, it seems as though a lot of people have suddenly gone off the reservation on Facebook, Twitter and blogs. And some of you are asking yourselves, “Why? What happened?” Well, today’s your lucky day; one of those now-free souls is going to lay it out for you.

We have had ENOUGH of your crap!

For decades now, all you zombies have been berating us in public because we didn’t publicly evangelize the party line. For decades now, all you zombies have been telling us how we should think if we want to be part of the club. If you want to be an actor, toe the line or you’re blacklisted. If you want to be a writer, toe the line or you’re blacklisted. If you want to be promoted at work, toe the line or you’re blacklisted. For decades now, all you zombies have been parroting the party line without any thought whatsoever, proclaiming that you’re smart and anyone who disagrees with you is obviously wrong without even listening to counter-arguments, while simultaneously claiming that you’re “open-minded.” For decades now, all you zombies have been shouting, “If you’re not with us, you’re against us,” with complete disregard to the fact that this country is a melting pot of backgrounds and ideas, which simply cannot be reduced to a black-and-white line of right vs. wrong.

We have had ENOUGH of your crap!

For two major elections now, all you zombies have been posting endless tweets and Facebook screeds about how “democracy prevailed” in the face of “obvious vote fraud” by your opponents, while totally disregarding the staggeringly large number of actual reports of vote fraud that, if the votes were actually counted properly, would erase those victories, because there hasn’t been a single case of vote fraud that would benefit your opponents. For two major elections now, all you zombies have been projecting every single illegal and immoral sin you yourselves commit onto your opponents, even when they don’t make any sense. For two major elections now, all you zombies have been crying “racist” at anyone who simply disagrees with your point of view, even when it has absolutely nothing to do with race. For two major elections now, all you zombies have been creating websites to “educate” us on how great the economy is, despite what we can see with our own eyes and feel in our own wallets, spouting “facts” like the cooked unemployment figures, which you gleefully compare favorably to the pre-2009 figures, which were calculated so differently that there is no meaningful comparison! (In fact, if you calculate the current unemployment figures using the old methods – which is a meaningful comparison – the current unemployment rate is more like 15%, a figure that’s far more in accord with empirical evidence.)

We have had ENOUGH of your crap!

We’re not stupid. Some of us are highly educated; some of us aren’t, but that doesn’t mean we’re stupid (some of us even have certified high IQs). Some of us are doctors and lawyers and engineers and scientists and plumbers and electricians and steelworkers. Some of us are lowly cogs in a corporate machine and some of us are executives. Some of us are “liberal”, some of us are “conservative”, some of us are “libertarian” and some of us are “none of the above” or even unclassified. Some of us are evangelical, some of us are atheists. The point is, we come from every walk of life, circumstance and belief, yet all you zombies loudly decry us as a single stereotype.

We have had ENOUGH of your crap!

All you zombies have pushed us too far this time. Metaphorically, you’ve have been forcing your way into our homes and raping our children with your Marxist twaddle, and we’ve been putting up with it because we’re basically nice people who didn’t want to rock the boat for fear that we’d collapse in the water. But you just took an axe to the bottom of the boat in what we can only assume is a vain attempt to make the boat bigger, and now we know there’s nothing we can do to keep the boat from sinking any more. So, what do we have to lose? THAT’S why we went off the reservation all at the same time, the day after the elections.

We have had ENOUGH of your crap!

All you zombies act like spoiled children.

“Everybody is spending money without worrying about the budget; I want to spend money, too! Buy me some stuff!”
 “Everybody is getting abortions; I want one, too! Buy me an abortion!”
“Everybody gets free health care; I want it, too! Buy me free health care!”

But who’s paying for all the bread and circuses? Some of you zombies are already retired, so you’re not paying (“Hey, I’m getting mine already, what do I care if you do?”); some of you zombies are already on government assistance, so you’re not paying (“Hey, I’m getting mine now, what do I care so long as I keep getting it?”); some of you zombies are already wealthy enough that you don’t care if you’re paying (“Hey, I already got mine, why should you get any?”) . Some of you zombies have forgotten how even a small decrease in your net income back when you were amassing your wealth might have destroyed everything you worked for, but hey, that’s not your problem, right?

We have had ENOUGH of your crap!

We were exposed to the same Marxist indoctrination that all you zombies were. But we thought about it, realized the ideas were simply bad and eventually we grew up. (It’s funny how one never hears, “I was raised conservative, but then I grew up” from someone who isn’t verifiably lying!) History has proved, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that implementing Marxist philosophy always ends badly for the general populace. With the internet and modern methods of communication, there is a huge body of evidence easily obtainable that will show this. It is positively dumbfounding to us why all you zombies would vote for Marxism!

We have had ENOUGH of your crap!

We have tried to treat all you zombies like adults. Really, we have. But if you continue to act like spoiled children, we’re going to treat you like spoiled children. Instead of wasting time replying to your troll party-parrot responses with facts and logic, I propose we just answer with “#zombie” and leave it at that.

None of you zombies is worth our time or consideration any more. Run along now, the adults are talking, and we have a LOT of work to do the keep this boat from sinking. "

Oh, and his wife Sarah's blog is here if you feel like engaging your brain and discussing your smarty-smart lefty ideas with her JQP23, go for it. I'm sure she'll love you...!

answer: teach the children

Saving America can only be accomplished by teaching her children.  If you want a society with people who cherish freedom and who have morality, you have to teach truth, history, morals and ethics instead of "feel good-ism".

This video is making the rounds.  These are Chicago kids - "Obama supporters celebrate: no more Israel", behold how smart THESE voters are:



From LegalInsurrection, the same art student goomba in above video was also captured saying "“government is not the problem, government is the help.” - because he wants money for his college arts degree (because all those companies are hiring only artists with college degrees - because art is more official that way ....errr... or something.... I'm scratching my head trying to understand the illogicalness!...)



As per many sites and discussions going on; this article on why O won from Gary Aminoff at AT explans exactly what kids are being taught in schools since the 1960s hippies took over public education - THIS is what YOU are up against if you want to save America:

"How is it that we have raised one or two generations of uneducated Americans? The answer, my friend, is not blowing in the wind. The answer lies in the curricula of our schools.

For the past several months, in my capacity in the Republican Party, I have been speaking at middle schools and high schools around Los Angeles. It has been very enlightening. I love engaging with children. Most of them are very bright and ask brilliant questions. The questions give me insights into what they are most concerned about. It also makes clear what they are taught -- by either their parents or their teachers, or both.

To summarize -- children, for the most part, believe the following:
a) Republicans care about only the rich -- the top 1% -- and don't care about anyone else.
b) Republicans hate people of color and especially Latinos.
c) Republicans hate gays.
d) Republicans are racist.
e) It is the government that provides jobs. (I have asked that question many times in classrooms or assemblies. "Who is it that creates jobs in America?" The answer is invariably, without hesitation, "the government.")
f) Corporations are bad, and profits are very bad. Business shouldn't make profits; they should give any excess money they make to their employees.
g) Taxes are good; they provide the money for the government to take care of people.
h) Government should expand and take care of everyone in the country.
i) America, rather than being a force for good in the world, has been a force for evil.
j) Government has an unlimited source of funds. (When I ask, "Where is the government going to get the money to do all these things you want it to do?," the answer is "taxes.") These children will soon be voters. How is it, in America, that we are raising children to believe that bigger government is better, that government is the engine that provides jobs, that profits are bad, that Republicans care about only the rich, that we are racist, and that we hate minorities and gays. "

So, don't want America to go full communist?  Start with saving the children.  Too optimistic for you, then I'll also mention Ted Nugent, and many others, have figured out it might just be too late though... with his tweet:

"Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters hav a president to destroy America"

.... Ummm, yep, that too!

answer: grow the T.E.A. party

Thanks GOP - they picked nicey nice ol' moderate Mitt.  American conservatives need a FIGHTER!

Sure seems like the best group to support going forward to save the common decency of  America for me is the T.E.A. party.

Tony Lee at Breitbart advises:

"Jenny Beth Martin, National Coordinator of Tea Party Patriots, criticized the Republican Party for hand-picking a Beltway elite candidate who did not campaign forcefully on America's founding principles and said the "presidential loss is unequivocally on them."

“For those of us who believe that America, as founded, is the greatest country in the history of the world – a ‘Shining city upon a hill’ – we wanted someone who would fight for us,” Martin said. “We wanted a fighter like Ronald Reagan who boldly championed America’s founding principles, who inspired millions of independents and ‘Reagan Democrats’ to join us, and who fought his leftist opponents on the idea that America, as founded, was a ‘Shining city upon a hill.’

Instead, Martin lamented, "what we got was a weak moderate candidate, hand-picked by the Beltway elites and country-club establishment wing of the Republican Party."

“While it might take longer to restore America’s founding principles with President Obama back in office, we are not going away," Martin said. "With the catastrophic loss of the Republican elite’s hand-picked candidate – the tea party is the last best hope America has to restore America’s founding principles."

Martin said the Tea Party's "work begins again today" and "we will turn our attention back to Congress, to fight the battles that lie ahead including balancing the budget, repealing Obamacare, cutting the debt, holding the line on the debt ceiling, and the many other issues that will arise to threaten America.”

James Lewis at AT says common American decency has died, is he right?

For inspiration to continue the fight against leftists, against their evil ideologies, Wild Bill for America (hattip HillBuzz.org) says "Obama gets another four years and Americans must now stand stronger than ever before to protect our traditional faith and values":



Its going to be a long, hard, crappy four years worrying about America for me... again.

Liberty tree won't grow with poisoned roots

Some discussion here and there on the web about "what went wrong" with the 6-Nov-2012 elections.

Some point out 50 years of leftist education has worked -> poisoning our youth.  Poison? Brainwash?  Yes, both - it happens in USA and in NZ, too.

NZ school children are taught, daily, that man made global warming is killing the planet.  Yep, still being taught that lie.  Just wonderful... 

I saw a good comment on post by James Delingpole, by Hostile Logic: they HAVE your CHILDREN!   ...ponder this:

"It is not the economy that brought has broght this nation to its knees. Neither is it debt or foreign policy or the environment.

The education of our children sits at the very bottom of the totem pole of people's concerns, yet it is the root cause of our problems.

We bundle our children off each schoolday, straight into the arms of the government's mindwahing gulags. And then we wonder why the society continuously lurches to the left.

Hardly anyone seems to understand or give a tinker's damn. Only a very few pay any attention. The mindwashing begins K-12, and it's subtle but highly effective. Hasn't anyone noticed over the past years the increasing number of youth asking, "What's wrong with Socialism?

I began warning several years ago that we were perilously close to a tipping point, one which would have those who expect entitlements outnumbering those who believe in self sufficiency. We have now reached that point.

Socialism precisely teaches its zombies to rely on government to make decisions for them and provide for their needs. You can't remove a poison by stripping the dead limbs from a tree. The poison must be eradicated at its roots. And the roots of this problem are the government gulags.

As long as we allow the government to continue dominion over the education of our children, we will fall further and further into the iron clutches of tyranny. Our own children will show up at the ballot boxes and vote us into shackles and chains.

We have been AWOL in our duty to sentry against tyranny. We have paid too much attention to material wealth and "keeping up with the Joneses" and far to little attention to the best well-being of our children. Our grandparents, but especially our great grandparents were made of different timber. They sacrificed mightily to ensure a better life for their children and grandchildren. No longer.

Let's say it out loud: many parents and even grandparents today are selfish, self-centered and will put their own interests ahead of their children and grandchildren. How times have changed. Perhaps, sooner or later, people will finally snap out of their self-induced comas. But what many of you will not like to here is that many of you are products of the government gulags.

So it begs the question about how you can help your children if you yourself have been mindwashed. How can you recover from a lifetime of illusory thinking? These government gulags don't help children develop their cognitive skills. To the contrary, they teach children WHAT to think - Socialism. Think not?

Go to your child's school and talk with their teachers. Ask them what methodology they use to help children develop their critical thinking skills. Then stand back and observe what the eyes of a deer look like after having been frozen in headlights. I said many times we were going to lose this war - no matter who wins the election and the reason is quite simple. We are outnumbered and the gulags continue to churn out mindwashed students at a prodigious rate.

At best we are going to experience terrible hardships, economic included. And we will not get any relief unless we rise up with steely determination and remove our children from the government gulags. This will take a Herculean effort that will almost certainly be accompanied by violence. These Progressive bureaucrats will not surrender their dominion over your children without a bloody fight because who controls the education of children controls the society.

You can hang your hat on this. Just remember that they don't need to change your minds. They have the minds of your children. Many of you will dismiss this as you have dismissed it most often the past. But you do so at your on peril, the peril to your your children and that of the society."

the tree of liberty:  dead already because the roots are ROTTEN!

feeling warm yet? all praise O

Some thoughts from Theresa over at TrevorLoudon.com:

"Ask yourself how this could happen with the massive crowds showing up for Romney? And the lackluster support of Obama… They were VERY organized in the swing states – their machine worked well.

What This Means…

■ First thing this morning, Feinstein forwarded the move to ban semi-automatic assault weapons. Guns will sell like hotcakes, because a full attack is now coming on the Second Amendment.
■ Obama will populate the Supreme Court and in effect finish gutting the Constitution.
■ Regulations will multiply even more and speed up.
■ Two-thirds of coal plants will now be shut down. Energy prices will skyrocket. People will freeze to death.
■ Obamacare will kick in. Costs will escalate and people will die.
 ■ We will go off the fiscal cliff, which is also a debt cliff and a regulatory cliff. The stock market will plummet. Get gold and silver now as banning and controls will kick in on them as well.
■ A Depression is guaranteed.
■ Patriots and the religious will be driven underground and persecuted.
 ■ Civil war is coming.
■ 47% of Americans are now receiving support from the government. At 50%, a collapse will ensue. ■ Hyperinflation is a breath away as money printing will now spark out of control.
■ An arms race will now proceed in the Middle East and in Japan. India and Pakistan are on the verge of nuclear war. Israel will be forced to stand alone. The caliphate will return unabated.
■ Russia and China will now be the world powers. As our military is further gutted, we will be sitting ducks to invasion and war.

This is just a taste of what is coming. For those who railed that they wanted a collapse, well, you are going to get your wish and you will rue the day you made it. God has not forsaken us, but evil has engulfed our nation. I heard from my compatriots in the UK and Israel this morning. They are in shock. Legal immigrants who fought so hard to escape Communism to get to America are now terrified. They cannot believe we can’t see the Communist in the White House."

Feeling warm yet?

RIP America 6-Nov-2012

From commenter Stallion at PJMedia:

"The America I grew up in died tonite.
Between the deliberate lack of immigration reform/action, the monstruous increase in entitlements to maximize the number of potential voters on the dole, and a cynical (but apparently correct) belief that the American public could be distracted by histrionics because they were no longer a serious, practical, responsible and thoughtful people but a silly, vain and corrupted mob, the left won.
Just look at Massachusetts. There was NO REASON for Elizabeth Warren to get more than 10 or 15 votes. But this hypocritical deceiver, completely unqualified professionally or ethically for public office, WON ANYWAY.

At both the state and federal level, America is utterly, irrecoverably bankrupt. Yet confronted with financial ruin, those who were getting ‘gimmedats’ chose to be oblivious. When given the opportunity to show the same sense and fortitude that their parents, grandparents and greatgrandparents did, a slim majority instead decided to vote like…………Greece.
Or Spain.
Or Italy.

The Left will now believe they have UNSTOPPABLE power. They do, when you think about it. The media BELONGS TO THEM. Thus, no crime they commit, no abuse, no evil that they do will be of any consequence. Through replacement of soon to retire judges, the Supreme Court will become a think tank of Socialist Law, reshaping America at will and treating the constitution like a ‘living document.’

Will we see higher taxes? Yes. Much higher. Will that hurt the economy, and enslave the producers even more to the bought and paid for portion of the voting public on the dole, on behalf of their democrat masters? Yup.

And what of freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press? The left will now seek to impose the Fairness doctrine, so that websites like this one will be forced to dilute their message or be driven off the net. The Catholic Church will be forced to do much more than just pay for and support abortions and give out contraceptives. And there will be NO hesitation to savage, ridicule, ostracize and persecute those who publish any material or issue any statement which is not in line with the government’s agenda – after all, to disagree with the federal government will now officially become an antisocial, greedy, RACIST act.

The Left will now entrench itself in Washington the way it has in Chicago for the last 50 years.
And how will this be perceived overseas?

Simple. Only the most deliberately deluded cannot see that the leadership of China and Russia don’t just dislike Obama – they hold him in utter contempt. Japan, Germany, France, India, South Korea – they all see the same incompetence and weakness. American patents and trademarks will become irrelevant and indefensible. A crippled military will be unable to defend the increasing amount of energy America will have to import because of an ideological taboo on developing vast oil, coal and gas resources domestically. We will be viewed and treated as impotent and worthy of only slight regard. All the consequences to us – economically and politically – will be disastruous.
It’s time to get ready for the aftermath. See to your loved ones. Hell is coming towards this country on a swift horse. After this conflagration passes, there won’t be an America left that any of us will recognize. "

takers win, producers lose - happy now?

Tipping point reached:  the takers in America now outnumber the producers.

Your muslim usurper was re-elected America, aren't you thrilled? 

from Daniel Greenfield

 

Facebook "Friends" and "Family" I know in Chicago voted for Obama.  I'm in the process of de-friending leftists. 

Bully for me, eh? 

I don't really give a shite any more.  The dependent leftists in America voted themselves back in for another go around at the treasury trough.  Kids continue to grow up and think their entitled to free shite and that gay marriage is a "right" to fight for. 

What utter nonsense. 

I AM HAPPY I NO LONGER LIVE IN LEFTIST AMERICA.  I just live in beautiful yet stupid and socialist NZ.  I will pay my 39% in taxes, I will use the public health system to its fullest since my taxes pay for it. Don't worry about me, I'll just die young from some undiagnosed illness by a foreign doctor making $20,000 a year...

In mean time, I will join the NZ Conservative party and I will not tolerate leftism.

You're on your own, America and you deserve the government you voted for.  Have fun for the next 4 years...  You have ALLOWED the leftist indoctrination and brain washing to continue - for decades.  This is what you reap...

From an "anonymous" post over at Sultan Knish:

"You seem to fail to realize that a good many people in this nation ( at least half) do not give a damn about the Constitution and the greatness of America. They just do not. As long as they have their "stuff " or someone else's stuff (by way of entitlements) they could care less about American pride. I would hazard to guess that half the population would be just fine if a foreign country were to invade and defeat the US as long as that invader promised to give each of those families $50K a year, a free iPhone, cable TV and a pair of $150 tennis shoes.

The public school system has been successful in brainwashing and indoctrinating millions of children from grade 1 through University that America isn't so great and actually should be disdained because we have been the oppressor of poor countries with brown skinned people. How do walk back that brainwashing ? This is the future of America. I had one guy tell me during a discussion " The Constitution ? the Constitution is just stupid ! "

Yes, this is the mindset of many. All these fat, lazy Americans who have had it so good for so many years they have become as useless as tomato worms out in the garden. My god could you imagine it real war came to our shores and these pissants had to really defend this nation and their families...god help us. The damage that Barack Obama will do in the next 4 years will not be able to be undone. He will seat 2 maybe 3 Supreme Court Justices. That Court WILL take American citizens guns away, its only a matter of 1 more or two votes, it was close last time. Most Socialist countries don't allow their citizens to be armed, look at Europe.

We will have 4 more years of not drilling for our own oil, he will shut down all the coal plants and energy will sky-rocket along with gas prices, this is all part of the plan. He has also told the Russians he will help them and he loathes Israel and now no longer has to worry about the Jewish vote...its more dire then you think. "

predicting some glory glory hallelujah

ONE MORE DAY!!!!

I PREDICT A ROMNEY/RYAN WIN ... 100%

The ship will be righted, we will avoid the iceberg and steer towards calmer waters...

I have complete inner peace and no fear... 

America will be the real winner this time around...



GOD BLESS AMERICA!