Here it is, the 8th day of December, 2012, and a new year about here. I wish I could say we are facing the new year with all kinds of hope, but with the re-election of Obama, I'm not real optimistic. The fact that I've complete eight months of school and have opened my own business sometimes makes me wonder if I've lost my marbles. My continual prayer is that I can keep my head above water and make a go of it.
The economy in this part of the state is not growing, and with Exxon's announcement just today that it supports the carbon tax as proposed by communist and environmental radical Van Jones, makes the future for the coal producers in this area even dicier. Of course they would support it - they are the largest holder of natural gas findings in the country. Any way they can cut the competition, even by collusion, is okay, I guess. The oil and gas industry is still slowing down - dear friends of our will be moving to Texas after the first of the year because of it.
Please ask God to stand with this great nation and that we can regain our senses and return to His fold. Like Ronald Reagan said, "A nation without God is a nation gone under". I don't want to live in a nation that has gone under because it turned its back on God - and there's nowhere else to go, either. Once this nation goes under, that's it.
When you say your prayers tonight, just please pray for our country and its leaders.
The Patriot Granny
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Sunday, January 8, 2012
It's the New Year!
I made a resolution - luckily, only to myself - that I was going to blog at least once a day on one or the other of my blogs. Guess what - yep, this is the first post of the new year on either blog! Oh, well, the thought has been there.
And as several bloggers and commentators have said, we basically have to say Rest In Peace to our freedoms and liberties as set forth in the Bill of Rights, thanks to the National Defense Authorization Act that the idiot-in-chief signed into law on New Year's Eve Day. One of the most unbelievable things about it is that John McCain - the one person in the entire Congress who should hold our freedoms and liberties far more dear than the rest of us - was one of the authors. He and Carl Levin from Ohio. I can't fathom what persuaded McCain to agree to co-author this bill. Has he lost his mind, his memory, what? Even worse, altho Obummer said he didn't agree with parts of the bill and added a "signing statement" - for which he has heavily castigated George Bush - the language he supposedly doesn't agree with is language that he, himself, insisted be put in the bill. I hope people are waking up to what is in this bill and what it is doing to our freedom. The House signed on to it last summer when it was buried in the House military appropriations bill and I have to wonder how many of the representatives even knew it was in the bill. Remember dear Nancy - "We have to pass it to know what is in it!"?
And then there's the taxpayer tax cut extension bill - such a loverly little item. The Senate had said that they wanted an extension for an entire year, so the House gladly agreed. So what was Sir Harry's problem that they couldn't go ahead and vote on it and approve it before they took off for the Christmas holiday? Speaking of which, the only people in this country that get such an extended vacation are the members of Congress and employees who have worked for a company for years and years and built up that kind of vacation time, but first time out of the chute, Congressmen sure do! Must be nice. I'm sure that most of those in Congress have never had to figure payroll taxes and don't have a clue what kind of a mess they are creating. I read or heard someone say just today that we were supposed to have a citizens' legislature, not a professional legislature, and that is so true! Oh, and we can't forget the nice little $4 million vacation the president and his family took over Christmas - while a lot of us were even wondering if we were going to be able to have Christmas. But, we can't miss those golf games, now can we - even better if our partner has been collared in a prostitution sting, to boot!
Of course, Obummer thinks Congress is in recession - that's why he has made not one, but four recess appointments, regardless of how unconstitutional they may be. For someone who supposedly taught the Constitution for ten year, Obummer is dumber than a box of rocks - or absolutely refuses to abide by the Constitution, which I think is the real truth. He thinks he's impervious to obeying the Constitution and that whatever "Lola wants, Lola gets"! I seriously have to wonder if we will make it to elections next fall, or if he will declare martial law.
On a bit more personal note - I have stayed good friends with my former daughter-in-law, who has been living near Paducah, KY with her fiance, his son, and her son and his fiance and her two children. Last Sat. p.m., the little 3-year-old was playing with matches or a lighter and started a fire that burned my (former) step-grandson over 85% of his body and killed his fiance. James was life-flighted to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville where he was put into a coma. At his arrival, he was only given a 4% chance of survival, but thanks to God and the blanket of prayers from all over the country that has covered him , he is improving day-by-day. The doctors at Nashville said they had never seen lungs burned as severely as his. He is still in the coma, but they have replaced his original ventilator with a "stepped-down" one like they use in the operating room. His odds are still pretty iffy, but he's been through two surgeries already and will face two more this coming week before they will begin to bring him out of the coma next weekend. To all of you that I contacted and asked for prayers, my deepest gratitude.
And tomorrow starts a new chapter in my life. Two or three times this past year, I have applied for a secretarial job, two of them in the legal system at the courthouse and one as a "desk clerk" with the Forest Service, but apparently, no one wants a fat old broad, so this fat old broad is going back to school. I had acrylic coatings put on my nails while I worked in the law office back in Indiana, and since I have been out here, I also get a pedicure every three weeks as I have ingrown toenails on both sides of both big toes. I also have peripheral neuopathy in both feet, thanks to bunionectomies, so my feet are a source of discomfort most of the time and the pedicure helps relieve part of that. Anyhow, to make a long story short, I have decided to go back to school to become a nail technician. Knowing how important taking care of your feet is, particularly to older people, plus the opportunity to play and be creative, it's gonna be fun! So, since the rooster will crow about 5:30, I'd best get myself to bed so I can wake up!
Best wishes for the new year to all of you, may God bless, and prayers for our country!
The Patriot Granny
And as several bloggers and commentators have said, we basically have to say Rest In Peace to our freedoms and liberties as set forth in the Bill of Rights, thanks to the National Defense Authorization Act that the idiot-in-chief signed into law on New Year's Eve Day. One of the most unbelievable things about it is that John McCain - the one person in the entire Congress who should hold our freedoms and liberties far more dear than the rest of us - was one of the authors. He and Carl Levin from Ohio. I can't fathom what persuaded McCain to agree to co-author this bill. Has he lost his mind, his memory, what? Even worse, altho Obummer said he didn't agree with parts of the bill and added a "signing statement" - for which he has heavily castigated George Bush - the language he supposedly doesn't agree with is language that he, himself, insisted be put in the bill. I hope people are waking up to what is in this bill and what it is doing to our freedom. The House signed on to it last summer when it was buried in the House military appropriations bill and I have to wonder how many of the representatives even knew it was in the bill. Remember dear Nancy - "We have to pass it to know what is in it!"?
And then there's the taxpayer tax cut extension bill - such a loverly little item. The Senate had said that they wanted an extension for an entire year, so the House gladly agreed. So what was Sir Harry's problem that they couldn't go ahead and vote on it and approve it before they took off for the Christmas holiday? Speaking of which, the only people in this country that get such an extended vacation are the members of Congress and employees who have worked for a company for years and years and built up that kind of vacation time, but first time out of the chute, Congressmen sure do! Must be nice. I'm sure that most of those in Congress have never had to figure payroll taxes and don't have a clue what kind of a mess they are creating. I read or heard someone say just today that we were supposed to have a citizens' legislature, not a professional legislature, and that is so true! Oh, and we can't forget the nice little $4 million vacation the president and his family took over Christmas - while a lot of us were even wondering if we were going to be able to have Christmas. But, we can't miss those golf games, now can we - even better if our partner has been collared in a prostitution sting, to boot!
Of course, Obummer thinks Congress is in recession - that's why he has made not one, but four recess appointments, regardless of how unconstitutional they may be. For someone who supposedly taught the Constitution for ten year, Obummer is dumber than a box of rocks - or absolutely refuses to abide by the Constitution, which I think is the real truth. He thinks he's impervious to obeying the Constitution and that whatever "Lola wants, Lola gets"! I seriously have to wonder if we will make it to elections next fall, or if he will declare martial law.
On a bit more personal note - I have stayed good friends with my former daughter-in-law, who has been living near Paducah, KY with her fiance, his son, and her son and his fiance and her two children. Last Sat. p.m., the little 3-year-old was playing with matches or a lighter and started a fire that burned my (former) step-grandson over 85% of his body and killed his fiance. James was life-flighted to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville where he was put into a coma. At his arrival, he was only given a 4% chance of survival, but thanks to God and the blanket of prayers from all over the country that has covered him , he is improving day-by-day. The doctors at Nashville said they had never seen lungs burned as severely as his. He is still in the coma, but they have replaced his original ventilator with a "stepped-down" one like they use in the operating room. His odds are still pretty iffy, but he's been through two surgeries already and will face two more this coming week before they will begin to bring him out of the coma next weekend. To all of you that I contacted and asked for prayers, my deepest gratitude.
And tomorrow starts a new chapter in my life. Two or three times this past year, I have applied for a secretarial job, two of them in the legal system at the courthouse and one as a "desk clerk" with the Forest Service, but apparently, no one wants a fat old broad, so this fat old broad is going back to school. I had acrylic coatings put on my nails while I worked in the law office back in Indiana, and since I have been out here, I also get a pedicure every three weeks as I have ingrown toenails on both sides of both big toes. I also have peripheral neuopathy in both feet, thanks to bunionectomies, so my feet are a source of discomfort most of the time and the pedicure helps relieve part of that. Anyhow, to make a long story short, I have decided to go back to school to become a nail technician. Knowing how important taking care of your feet is, particularly to older people, plus the opportunity to play and be creative, it's gonna be fun! So, since the rooster will crow about 5:30, I'd best get myself to bed so I can wake up!
Best wishes for the new year to all of you, may God bless, and prayers for our country!
The Patriot Granny
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
What can I say?
Word came down this afternoon that the reapportionment commission met to rehash and redo the state house and senate maps because the previously submitted maps were unacceptable to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had told the commission that because they had split several counties and cities, even though the constitutional criteria stresses that such splits are to be held at a minimum, they needed to redo the maps. So, what did they do? The Dems waited until 10 pm Sun. to submit completely new maps that are so obviously and vindictively gerrymandered, it's unbelievable, and that should have been submitted by Wednesday. Then - with the help of the "unaffiliated" chair, Mario Carrera, ramrodded these maps through, 6-5, on a party-line vote.. The chair, who is supposed to be "unaffiliated" has given approximately $9,000 to the Dems this past year - really unaffiliated, isn't he? The constitutional criteria of communities of interest was totally ignored, especially for Delta County. It had been split since the last census between Districts 54, represented by Ray Scott, and 58, represented - more or less - by Don Coram. It didn't make a bit of difference that Paonia and the east end of Delta County have absolutely nothing in common with Aspen - there is no community of interest. The new district that encompasses the eastern part of the county also takes in half of Gunnison County, all of Pitkin County (Aspen), Lake County and goes clear up to just a little ways south of Boulder! It was as if the fact that McClure Pass is a physical, economic, demographic and psychological barrier between eastern Delta County and Pitkin and Gunnison Counties didn't even register! I'd like to see Carrera and some of the Dems try coming over McClure in a snowstorm, just to bond the two communities together! I can tell them how much fun it is to slip and slide around! I hope the court rejects the map straight out and insists on seeing a Republican map, since the straight-line party vote also voted not to allow a minority report to go to the court. I think the court can overrule them on this and I sure hope they do. I'd even travel to Denver to testify again if I thought it would do any good! The final decision by the court is to be made December 6, so guess we'll see what happens!
One note of good news - Barney Frank is retiring from the House of Representatives. Actually, he's just not going to try for a 17th term. He's going to be sooooooo sorely missed - my fat foot! He said he was fairly certain he could win another term, but that it would be harder than in the past as his district had been gerrymandered against him. Poor baby. How's it feel to have the playing field leveled, Mr. Frank? He also made the comment that so much of what he had worked for would be dismantled by a Republican Congress in the future. We can only hope! He has done so much to destroy this economy that turning it around may be - and likely will be - extremely difficult to do.
Watching Glenn Beck this afternoon was a little scarey. Mr. Beck is very frightened as to what is coming down the pike, and I have to agree with his assessment, at least to a degree! Like he said, the violence that took place last Friday, the so-called "Black Friday", over material things, like electronics and toys - what is going to happen when people want and need food and the shelves are bare, or nearly so? One of Mr. Beck's recommendations - besides food storage - is to be in a community of like people, church, town, etc. We are fortunate that here in Delta and in the county, we are a fairly close-knit community, especially among the conservatives. The libs in Paonia are a different group altogether, but most of the county are conservative, many are natives, and have been raised with a code that you help your neighbor. After living back east for more than 20 years, I'm glad to be back out here in western Colorado. It's not the dog-eat-dog world that it is back east.
One last note - saw a post on Facebook tonight that some guy from Denver who was on the lam in connection with a guy's death is suing the Topeka family he had held hostage while running from the cops! He said they had agreed to hide him in return for money - well, duh, if you were in fear for your life cuz some idiot had invaded your home while running from the cops, you'd probably agree to some idiotic thing like that, too! The man certainly played in the short end of the gene pool, didn't he? If the judge lets the lawsuit move forward, he ought to pay for all expenses and any sums awarded!
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving - we are blessed, as of right now, to be living in such a wonderful country. Here's hoping and praying that we are strong enough to take it back and make it back into the shining city on the hill that it once was!
The Patriot Granny
One note of good news - Barney Frank is retiring from the House of Representatives. Actually, he's just not going to try for a 17th term. He's going to be sooooooo sorely missed - my fat foot! He said he was fairly certain he could win another term, but that it would be harder than in the past as his district had been gerrymandered against him. Poor baby. How's it feel to have the playing field leveled, Mr. Frank? He also made the comment that so much of what he had worked for would be dismantled by a Republican Congress in the future. We can only hope! He has done so much to destroy this economy that turning it around may be - and likely will be - extremely difficult to do.
Watching Glenn Beck this afternoon was a little scarey. Mr. Beck is very frightened as to what is coming down the pike, and I have to agree with his assessment, at least to a degree! Like he said, the violence that took place last Friday, the so-called "Black Friday", over material things, like electronics and toys - what is going to happen when people want and need food and the shelves are bare, or nearly so? One of Mr. Beck's recommendations - besides food storage - is to be in a community of like people, church, town, etc. We are fortunate that here in Delta and in the county, we are a fairly close-knit community, especially among the conservatives. The libs in Paonia are a different group altogether, but most of the county are conservative, many are natives, and have been raised with a code that you help your neighbor. After living back east for more than 20 years, I'm glad to be back out here in western Colorado. It's not the dog-eat-dog world that it is back east.
One last note - saw a post on Facebook tonight that some guy from Denver who was on the lam in connection with a guy's death is suing the Topeka family he had held hostage while running from the cops! He said they had agreed to hide him in return for money - well, duh, if you were in fear for your life cuz some idiot had invaded your home while running from the cops, you'd probably agree to some idiotic thing like that, too! The man certainly played in the short end of the gene pool, didn't he? If the judge lets the lawsuit move forward, he ought to pay for all expenses and any sums awarded!
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving - we are blessed, as of right now, to be living in such a wonderful country. Here's hoping and praying that we are strong enough to take it back and make it back into the shining city on the hill that it once was!
The Patriot Granny
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Shariah law and the US
I've been thinking a lot about how Shariah law is slowly creeping into American culture and it is something that troubles me greatly. A couple of years ago, you didn't hear much about it, certainly not in this part of the world. However, when I saw a couple of (obviously) Muslim women in Sam's, dressed in full burkas with only their eyes uncovered, about that time, I wanted to go up to them, even then, rip off at least their veils and tell them, "This is America, you don't have to live this way." The more I hear about Shariah law and its brutal treatment of women, I almost wish I had - except they would have had to pay for my behavior.
Last Saturday evening, Roy and I had the privilege of hearing Nonie Darwish, a woman born in Cairo and raised in Gaza, whose father was killed in a jihad. She talked about having been raised with the teaching that killing a Jew was the ultimate prize, but she has since converted to Christianity and talked about how Mohammed's God is a god of war and death, but the God of Christianity is a god of love and peace. It was interesting to hear how Mohammed turned on the Jews after they took him in and gave him protection, but wouldn't convert to Islam, so now they are the sworn enemies of the Muslims. He recognized that everything he was doing to the Jews and all of the sinful thing he did - pedophilia, the hatred of the Jews, etc., was wrong, so these things immediately were included as things that Allah said the Muslims should do! Because she speaks out across the country - she was just recently on Glenn Beck - Ms. Darwish has a fatwa against her - literally, a death threat.
Here in the United States, the Muslims are trying their best to institute Shariah law. There are currently 22 cases, I believe it is, where the courts have given deference to Shariah law, altho at least one has been overruled by the appellate court. This was the case where the man had raped and abused his wife repeatedly, she had asked for a restraining order (if my memory serves me right), but the judge refused, saying the man was doing nothing wrong within the context of Sharia law. Tennessee has become a lightening rod for some of these cases as there is a large mosque and a Muslim school in, I think, Memphis. This afternoon, Glenn Beck had a lady on, a Baroness Caroline Cox, from the UK who has been fighting for women's rights all over the world. She has been in the Sudan, in Asia, Russia - I don't remember where all - to fight for these rights - as well as human rights as a whole. She was talking about the mosque in Tennessee and said that she felt one reason Tennessee has been targeted by the Muslims is because it sits in the middle of the Bible Belt. This would follow the Muslims' practice of whenever a country or city has been conquered, a mosque has been built on top of the largest church in the area. Many say that the reason the mosque at Ground Zero is being pushed is because that was the financial center of the US and since Shariah law is also the financial law for the Muslims, it makes sense.
Ms. Cox currently has a bill before the English Parliament which will right a lot of the evils of Shariah law in England, which has a large Muslim population. She freely admitted she could be killed for what she is doing, but she is willing to die for it because she believes in its importance. The upshot of Ms. Cox's visit with Glenn was that we must stand up and fight against Shariah law now, or our grandchildren are going to have a much harder fight. This is not to say all Muslims are bad. There are peaceful Muslims who came to the US to get away from Shariah law. And they are welcome to come, but they should assimilate into our law. I wrote a couple, three weeks ago about how the state of Michigan, I believe it was, recently passed a law that no foreign law could be applied in that state, which would preclude Shariah law from being used. Several other states are contemplating it, Oklahoma has passed it, but there, a liberal judge, thinking she had the right to legislate from the bench, blocked it from becoming law. We must fight against this and if it means recalling or impeaching judges, so be it. Our very way of life is very much in danger from this aspect, also.
Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. We need to celebrate and hold these traditions dear while we still can.
The Patriot Granny
Saturday, November 5, 2011
This and That
Didn't realize it has been nearly a month since I last posted. "Time flies when you're having fun" - or so the saying goes. What with canning and life in general, it can get away from you quickly.
First off - a big congratulations to Ms. Kathy (Svenson) who won a seat on the school board. Hopefully, now we can begin to have some imput and affect on what our children are learning! Best of luck to you, Kathy!
First off - a big congratulations to Ms. Kathy (Svenson) who won a seat on the school board. Hopefully, now we can begin to have some imput and affect on what our children are learning! Best of luck to you, Kathy!
Listened to Sean Hannity yesterday while Michele Bachmann was on and was very happy to hear her mention Agenda 21 and what the creeps behind it are trying to do to the United States. She is adamantly opposed and said she will fight it tooth and toenail. In addition, Sean asked her to explain just what it was, which, I hope, educated a few people about it. I recently talked with a manager of one of the coal mines in the east end of the valley and he had never heard of it. When I explained a little about it, he said he would do whatever he could to set up a meeting with other managers and mine officials to watch a presentation put on by one of our group.
For those of you not familiar with it, Agenda 21 was originally written up by the vice-president of the World Socialist Party - define that as communist - to ultimately set up a one-world government. George H. W. Bush (Sr.), signed on to it in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, bringing it into the US, but since it was not a treaty, Congress did not have to ratify it. The next year, Bill Clinton signed an executive order for the President's Council on Sustainable Development further putting it into place. Since then, under the guise of environmentalism, it has been spreading across the US. Those pushing it set a goal of 2021 to have it fully implemented, hence the name of Agenda 21, and one world government in place. The scary part is, they have succeeded in about 60% implementation in the US. That's why the BLM and the Forest Service are pushing for roadless areas and wilderness areas. If you Google Agenda 21, there is a map and it will show that except for a few small places, everything west of the Mississippi is virtually uninhabited. There will be no mining, no farming, no personal property rights. We will live in "stack 'em and pack 'ems" - high rise apartments, public transportation (no private cars) - much of what you saw in old Soviet Russia. This is something we all need to be much more educated on, so study, read about it - there is a book called Behind The Green Mask, written by a liberal Democrat in California, Rosa Koire, who does eminent domain valuation for the state of California. While doing this, she became aware of Agenda 21 and what is being done and it scared her to the point she has done extensive research and has done a video that lasts about 1½ hours, plus this book. Here is the link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEHWsdimVO4&feature=player_embedded. When you go to that link, you will also find numerous other Youtube films on this, including a three-part interview of Ms. Koire. If you also Google Tom DeWeese, you will find out a lot more information as he was a participant in the '92 Rio meeting. Check it out, get educated and help us fight it!
Another quick note - a website called Godfather Politics, has a couple of articles about the Tea Parties and Ayn Rand. Jim Wallis, Obummer's "spiritual advisor" has said that the Tea Party looks up to Ms. Rand's philosophy and follows it religiously. Sorry, Rev. Wallis, tain't so! I did think these articles were interesting considering we're going to be watching the first third of Atlas Shrugged this next week. Check out the website and see what you think!
That's it for this time - will try to keep at this a lot more often, especially with things heating up as far as elections are concerned. We will begin vetting candidates on all levels, so join us at our meetings in Delta on the first and third Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. at the Deitch Haus, or in Paonia on the second and fourth Tuesdays at the Ullreys at 7:00 p.m. We will also soon begin a study of the book, We Still Hold These Truths, by Dr. Matthew Spalding of the Heritage Foundation. We are fortunate that the Colorado area representative, Michael Jude, lives in Paonia and he will be leading this study. We will do it by conference call and if you are interested, please go to our website at www.meetup.com/Western-Slope-Constitutional-Patriots/, and contact either Liz Matz or me, as we will be able to get up to 15 books free from the Foundation and we still have some spots open! Please feel free to contact either Liz or me at the website if you have any other questions or comments.
God bless America and we all need to pray for Israel!
The Granny Patriot
Monday, October 10, 2011
School Board Elections
Thursday night was the school board candidates' forum and it proved to be fairly interesting. The Western Slope Constitutional Patriots have, of course, endorsed Kathy Svenson, Mike Mason and Dave Evans. Kathy has two opponents, as does Dave, but Mike only has one. It was unfortunate that Shelly Clement, one of Dave's opponents, was unable to be there. They were all articulate and well-informed, so we're going to have to really go all out to support our candidates. Of course, the big issue we as a group have with the school board and the current administration is in the history that is being taught - or lack thereof - particularly of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights and that era in our history. Also, the fact that an entire chapter is dedicated to the UN and "sustained development", the by-word for Agenda 21, doesn't make us all that happy, either. It is unfortunate that Mike McMillian, our superintendent, refuses to recognize the problems - obviously progressive - and won't try to work with us, so......change the school board. After all, they are his boss, and we are theirs!
Are you watching this group of immature nutcases on Wall Street? They don't have a clue what life is all about. They want to tweet this, text that, they want their creature comforts - but don't get it that if it weren't for capitalism, they wouldn't have any of it. Steve Jobs was one of the biggest capitalists there ever has been, but they would be demonstrating against him if they realized what he was - but still use their iphones, ipods, etc., etc.! Makes you shake your head in wonderment! On RedCountry.com last night, there was a blog by "Chicks on the Right" about the manifesto that is currently being written and will be voted on shortly before Thanksgiving. Check it out. Rather ironic that this will be voted on just before Thanksgiving, cuz I would lay you dollars to donuts that the protestors will expect Mom and Dad to see their way clear to get junior home for the Thanksgiving holiday! Of course, by then, the smell will be so strong that the NYPD may dunk them all in the Hudson River - but then, it might kill all the fish. Shucks, have to think something else up.
In the late 1960's, when the Rainbow Group first started coming to Paonia for their annual "love fest", or whatever they call them - very similar to what is going on in NYC - they camped out in the park, just kitty-corner from where my folks lived and where I grew up. Every year, when they left, the trash, etc., etc., was enormous and something the townsfolk had to foot the bill for cleaning. My dad and several of the town dads were ready to get a portable sheep dip vat and go over to the park and do a little clean-up work of their own. The town marshal at the time, Ernie Teft, finally talked Daddy out of it, but I've often wondered since if maybe he didn't regret it, too!! That is an idea for the NYPD, tho, cuz I'm sure they could find those vats somewhere in the state! When it's all said and done, these are the children of the hippies of the '60's - the apple apparently is not falling very far from the tree!
The media are making a big deal about Ron Paul's winning the straw poll at the Value Voter Summit in D.C. this weekend, but if you go to any of these national summits, you soon learn that the Paul contingent is young and very vocal, so his winning this poll didn't surprise me. It was interesting to note, at the Tea Party Patriots Policy Summit last February that while Ron Paul won the online poll, those of us in the audience voted for Herman Cain.
This past July, we - and by that, I mean Katrina Yochim, Kathy Svenson, Liz Matz and I - conducted a Vacation Liberty School at the Assembly of God Church here in town. Dawn Ullrey also lent her talents for a day as she and Katrina had conducted the school in Paonia in April. This is still a trial and error thing, but one thing we discovered this summer was that between April, when the first one was held, and July, the originators of the school had given or sold its premise to a publishing house. As with most things, it had its pluses and minuses, but one of the biggest drawbacks was that while there was a lot of information pulled in and included, it was geared to a much older audience than was originally intended - almost an adult audience. And it tended to jump around a lot as far as subject matter. Katrina, being a trained teacher, and I kind of gritted our teeth on some of it, so we have decided to take the bull by the horns, so to speak, and do some revising. Liz and I, along with Gary Burnett, who is a Constitutional historian, Nelson Scott and, I presume, Kathy, met today for a "working lunch" -ooooh, that sounds so official, doesn't it!! There were several ideas put forth, so we're going to work on our own, then get back together in a couple of weeks to see what we have come up with. One thing we did pretty well decide was to do it just one day a week and take five weeks to go through it. It will be interesting to see what we come up with besides that! Gary did tell us that the Pledge of Allegiance was introduce 119 years ago this coming Wednesday on the 400th anniversary of Columbus Day! His book will shortly go to the publisher and it will be a godsend to us for vacation liberty school!
Sometimes I really despair for this country - we have the Wall Street hippies doing their thing, the Boy Scouts working in tandem with a Muslim group - which probably is causing the founding fathers of BSA to have heart failure if they aren't already dead, or rolling over in their graves - and once again, we're having to fight Agenda 21 in our own backyard. The conservation easements mentioned in the paper this past week just scream Agenda 21!! What people are not realizing is that once these lands are put into land trusts and conservation easements is that that land is completely taken out of production, permanently! There is no hope of using that land to even farm, once it is put in a land trust. This is what Agenda 21 is all about! For those of you who have never seen Barb Hulet's presentation, the next time she presents it, you need to be there. I wanted to embed a photo of a map that shows how the United States is supposed to look by 2021 and it's scarey. There is absolutely no inhabited land in western Colorado and not much in the entire western United States, other than a little settlement around Denver, and again on the west coast. I'm sorry, but this is our land and they can keep their friggin' hands off of it!
This should be a fairly quiet week - there is no meeting this week, but Thursday, I urge all of you to attend David Justice's presentation on "Is America a Christian Nation?" at the Performing Arts Center (old high school) at 6:00 p.m. Also, please note the Western Colorado Energy Summit, which will be held at 1:30 on the 21st at Colorado Mesa University in the University Center South Ballroom. State Speaker of the House Frank McNulty, Jerry Sonnenberg, who is the chairman of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, as well as other legislators will be there. This is Ray Scott's baby and we need to show him our support. I don't think I need to emphasize how important the energy industry is to Western Colorado as a whole, and to Delta County in particular with its coal. Oh, and this Saturday is when Sarah Palin's movie, The Undefeated, will be shown as the Deitch Haus, 6:30 p.m.! Hope to see you all there!
Good nite, all!
The Patriot Granny
Are you watching this group of immature nutcases on Wall Street? They don't have a clue what life is all about. They want to tweet this, text that, they want their creature comforts - but don't get it that if it weren't for capitalism, they wouldn't have any of it. Steve Jobs was one of the biggest capitalists there ever has been, but they would be demonstrating against him if they realized what he was - but still use their iphones, ipods, etc., etc.! Makes you shake your head in wonderment! On RedCountry.com last night, there was a blog by "Chicks on the Right" about the manifesto that is currently being written and will be voted on shortly before Thanksgiving. Check it out. Rather ironic that this will be voted on just before Thanksgiving, cuz I would lay you dollars to donuts that the protestors will expect Mom and Dad to see their way clear to get junior home for the Thanksgiving holiday! Of course, by then, the smell will be so strong that the NYPD may dunk them all in the Hudson River - but then, it might kill all the fish. Shucks, have to think something else up.
In the late 1960's, when the Rainbow Group first started coming to Paonia for their annual "love fest", or whatever they call them - very similar to what is going on in NYC - they camped out in the park, just kitty-corner from where my folks lived and where I grew up. Every year, when they left, the trash, etc., etc., was enormous and something the townsfolk had to foot the bill for cleaning. My dad and several of the town dads were ready to get a portable sheep dip vat and go over to the park and do a little clean-up work of their own. The town marshal at the time, Ernie Teft, finally talked Daddy out of it, but I've often wondered since if maybe he didn't regret it, too!! That is an idea for the NYPD, tho, cuz I'm sure they could find those vats somewhere in the state! When it's all said and done, these are the children of the hippies of the '60's - the apple apparently is not falling very far from the tree!
The media are making a big deal about Ron Paul's winning the straw poll at the Value Voter Summit in D.C. this weekend, but if you go to any of these national summits, you soon learn that the Paul contingent is young and very vocal, so his winning this poll didn't surprise me. It was interesting to note, at the Tea Party Patriots Policy Summit last February that while Ron Paul won the online poll, those of us in the audience voted for Herman Cain.
This past July, we - and by that, I mean Katrina Yochim, Kathy Svenson, Liz Matz and I - conducted a Vacation Liberty School at the Assembly of God Church here in town. Dawn Ullrey also lent her talents for a day as she and Katrina had conducted the school in Paonia in April. This is still a trial and error thing, but one thing we discovered this summer was that between April, when the first one was held, and July, the originators of the school had given or sold its premise to a publishing house. As with most things, it had its pluses and minuses, but one of the biggest drawbacks was that while there was a lot of information pulled in and included, it was geared to a much older audience than was originally intended - almost an adult audience. And it tended to jump around a lot as far as subject matter. Katrina, being a trained teacher, and I kind of gritted our teeth on some of it, so we have decided to take the bull by the horns, so to speak, and do some revising. Liz and I, along with Gary Burnett, who is a Constitutional historian, Nelson Scott and, I presume, Kathy, met today for a "working lunch" -ooooh, that sounds so official, doesn't it!! There were several ideas put forth, so we're going to work on our own, then get back together in a couple of weeks to see what we have come up with. One thing we did pretty well decide was to do it just one day a week and take five weeks to go through it. It will be interesting to see what we come up with besides that! Gary did tell us that the Pledge of Allegiance was introduce 119 years ago this coming Wednesday on the 400th anniversary of Columbus Day! His book will shortly go to the publisher and it will be a godsend to us for vacation liberty school!
Sometimes I really despair for this country - we have the Wall Street hippies doing their thing, the Boy Scouts working in tandem with a Muslim group - which probably is causing the founding fathers of BSA to have heart failure if they aren't already dead, or rolling over in their graves - and once again, we're having to fight Agenda 21 in our own backyard. The conservation easements mentioned in the paper this past week just scream Agenda 21!! What people are not realizing is that once these lands are put into land trusts and conservation easements is that that land is completely taken out of production, permanently! There is no hope of using that land to even farm, once it is put in a land trust. This is what Agenda 21 is all about! For those of you who have never seen Barb Hulet's presentation, the next time she presents it, you need to be there. I wanted to embed a photo of a map that shows how the United States is supposed to look by 2021 and it's scarey. There is absolutely no inhabited land in western Colorado and not much in the entire western United States, other than a little settlement around Denver, and again on the west coast. I'm sorry, but this is our land and they can keep their friggin' hands off of it!
This should be a fairly quiet week - there is no meeting this week, but Thursday, I urge all of you to attend David Justice's presentation on "Is America a Christian Nation?" at the Performing Arts Center (old high school) at 6:00 p.m. Also, please note the Western Colorado Energy Summit, which will be held at 1:30 on the 21st at Colorado Mesa University in the University Center South Ballroom. State Speaker of the House Frank McNulty, Jerry Sonnenberg, who is the chairman of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, as well as other legislators will be there. This is Ray Scott's baby and we need to show him our support. I don't think I need to emphasize how important the energy industry is to Western Colorado as a whole, and to Delta County in particular with its coal. Oh, and this Saturday is when Sarah Palin's movie, The Undefeated, will be shown as the Deitch Haus, 6:30 p.m.! Hope to see you all there!
Good nite, all!
The Patriot Granny
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Candidates
Things are getting a lot dicier considering the national candidates, and right now, I almost agree with Hank Williams, Jr. in saying that I'm not really crazy about any of them. I do like Michelle Bachmann, but it saddens me that so much of not only the lame-stream media, but a lot of conservative bloggers, too, are writing her off. She's the only true conservative out there that I've seen so far. Yes, I know, Ron Paul is a big conservative, but the fact that he's pro-choice and thereby is not anti-abortion - no, thanks! That's one place I won't compromise on. I did for a long time, but the deeper I study the Bible, the more I know how morally wrong it is. After all, David talks about, in Psalms, God's knowing him in the womb. May not tell you much, but it tells me an awful lot. Paul's foreign policy leaves a lot to be desired, too. Ahmadinejad having nuclear capabilities?? Uh, no. Not just no, but heck no!
I had been favoring Herman Cain quite a bit, but after watching a video on the Fed tonight, I have to wonder. Mr. Cain served as chairman of the Fed in Kansas City from 1992 to 1996. When he first began his campaign, if asked about auditing the Fed, his response was, "Call 'em up - they'll tell you anything you want to know!" Although I seriously doubt it, it may have been that way in Kansas City when he was chair there, but I'm very certain that's not the case any more! Mr. Cain has changed his tune in the last couple of weeks, but it still leaves question marks.
There is one other person that I would love to see run and that's Allen West from Florida. He's not afraid of anything. A good man, very sensible and what we need! Just too bad he's not willing to run - yet. Who knows, 2016 may be his year. I was glad to hear today that Chris Christie has decided not to run. There are too many unanswered questions!
At a special meeting of the Western Slope Constitutional Patriots tonight, we watched a video about our economic system. You can go to www.silentnomorepublications.com and check on the Youtube link to watch the video. It is very interesting how many times the progressives in this country tried to establish a national bank before it was finally accomplished, and how many assassinations were possibly tied to it. McKinley and Garfield's both were. I would have said Lincoln's, too, but a new book out by Bill O'Reilly, called Killing Lincoln, gives a different reason for Booth's assassinating Mr. Lincoln. The video not only tells you what the problems are, but what we can do to combat them and turn things around.
There is also an bill called the Monetary Reform Act that has been introduced that would seem to provide a means to an end regarding the debt and, in addition, keep inflation and deflation at bay. The link is www.themoneymasters.com/monetary-reform-act. Check it out! I plan on doing so more thoroughly because the brief PowerPoint presentation we saw tonight left me rather confused.
We got the good word tonight that because of the percentage of Delta County residents who voted for Dan Maes, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in the last election, the number of delegates from the county for state convention has almost doubled!! Caucuses have been moved up to February, which means we need to get to work, vetting candidates and making sure our candidates do agree with our principles!
Before I forget it, I need to correct one thing in my last post: the gentleman from Paonia running for school board in District 5 is David Evans, not Dale Evans. I don't believe she's alive any more, even! Sorry, Dave! Knew Dale wasn't right, but couldn't get beyond it - LOL!
Speaking of David, Thursday night is the school board forum at 6:30 at Garnet Mesa Elementary. If you get an opportunity, try to be there so you can learn where the candidates are coming from.
Our next WSCP meeting will be next Tuesday, October 11, at the Deitch Haus at 6:00. We will be talking about candidates, among other things, as the ballots will have gone out. Oh, I would be remiss if I did not mention Proposition 103. This is one big, fat NO, folks. Even the Democrat party would not support Senator Rollie Heath's bill on the floor at the last of the session last spring. In order to ensure that any monies collected as taxes goes into the education fund, it has to be designated "classroom-ready" and the funds that would result from this bill would not! All monies collected would go into the general fund and money from this for K-12 classes would be non-existent . Not only that, but it would, over the supposed five-year life span of the bill, kill somewhere in the neighborhood of 119,000 jobs in the schools. Scary, huh? Like I said, even the Democrats wouldn't support it, that's why Heath had to go the proposition route! So, vote NO on proposition 103 when you get your ballot!
One other thing of interest that I'll note tonight - on the blog, "Colorado Peak Politics" last night or this a.m., there is an article about Brandon Schafer, Senate President. Seems that the Democrats, in their infinite wisdom, drew his house in Longmont out of the 4th Congressional District. This wouldn't be bad, EXCEPT, Mr. Schafer had planned to run against Republican (and very popular in both the state and Washington, D.C.) Corey Gardner in the 4th CD. Hmmmmmm! Mr. Schafer is so desparate that yesterday, he filed a complaint with the Denver court, trying to persuade it that his house should be included in that particular district so he can run. Boo hoo! Considering Mr. Gardner is receiving lots of accolades from the grassroots groups here in Colorado, plus being an up-and-coming star in the House, what would you say Schafer's chances are of defeating him???? Will be interesting to watch, that's for sure!
That's it for tonight, folks! Have a good week! Hope you've gotten to enjoy the beautiful colors God has painted this country with 'cuz I think they are about to disappear!
The Patriot Granny
I had been favoring Herman Cain quite a bit, but after watching a video on the Fed tonight, I have to wonder. Mr. Cain served as chairman of the Fed in Kansas City from 1992 to 1996. When he first began his campaign, if asked about auditing the Fed, his response was, "Call 'em up - they'll tell you anything you want to know!" Although I seriously doubt it, it may have been that way in Kansas City when he was chair there, but I'm very certain that's not the case any more! Mr. Cain has changed his tune in the last couple of weeks, but it still leaves question marks.
There is one other person that I would love to see run and that's Allen West from Florida. He's not afraid of anything. A good man, very sensible and what we need! Just too bad he's not willing to run - yet. Who knows, 2016 may be his year. I was glad to hear today that Chris Christie has decided not to run. There are too many unanswered questions!
At a special meeting of the Western Slope Constitutional Patriots tonight, we watched a video about our economic system. You can go to www.silentnomorepublications.com and check on the Youtube link to watch the video. It is very interesting how many times the progressives in this country tried to establish a national bank before it was finally accomplished, and how many assassinations were possibly tied to it. McKinley and Garfield's both were. I would have said Lincoln's, too, but a new book out by Bill O'Reilly, called Killing Lincoln, gives a different reason for Booth's assassinating Mr. Lincoln. The video not only tells you what the problems are, but what we can do to combat them and turn things around.
There is also an bill called the Monetary Reform Act that has been introduced that would seem to provide a means to an end regarding the debt and, in addition, keep inflation and deflation at bay. The link is www.themoneymasters.com/monetary-reform-act. Check it out! I plan on doing so more thoroughly because the brief PowerPoint presentation we saw tonight left me rather confused.
We got the good word tonight that because of the percentage of Delta County residents who voted for Dan Maes, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in the last election, the number of delegates from the county for state convention has almost doubled!! Caucuses have been moved up to February, which means we need to get to work, vetting candidates and making sure our candidates do agree with our principles!
Before I forget it, I need to correct one thing in my last post: the gentleman from Paonia running for school board in District 5 is David Evans, not Dale Evans. I don't believe she's alive any more, even! Sorry, Dave! Knew Dale wasn't right, but couldn't get beyond it - LOL!
Speaking of David, Thursday night is the school board forum at 6:30 at Garnet Mesa Elementary. If you get an opportunity, try to be there so you can learn where the candidates are coming from.
Our next WSCP meeting will be next Tuesday, October 11, at the Deitch Haus at 6:00. We will be talking about candidates, among other things, as the ballots will have gone out. Oh, I would be remiss if I did not mention Proposition 103. This is one big, fat NO, folks. Even the Democrat party would not support Senator Rollie Heath's bill on the floor at the last of the session last spring. In order to ensure that any monies collected as taxes goes into the education fund, it has to be designated "classroom-ready" and the funds that would result from this bill would not! All monies collected would go into the general fund and money from this for K-12 classes would be non-existent . Not only that, but it would, over the supposed five-year life span of the bill, kill somewhere in the neighborhood of 119,000 jobs in the schools. Scary, huh? Like I said, even the Democrats wouldn't support it, that's why Heath had to go the proposition route! So, vote NO on proposition 103 when you get your ballot!
One other thing of interest that I'll note tonight - on the blog, "Colorado Peak Politics" last night or this a.m., there is an article about Brandon Schafer, Senate President. Seems that the Democrats, in their infinite wisdom, drew his house in Longmont out of the 4th Congressional District. This wouldn't be bad, EXCEPT, Mr. Schafer had planned to run against Republican (and very popular in both the state and Washington, D.C.) Corey Gardner in the 4th CD. Hmmmmmm! Mr. Schafer is so desparate that yesterday, he filed a complaint with the Denver court, trying to persuade it that his house should be included in that particular district so he can run. Boo hoo! Considering Mr. Gardner is receiving lots of accolades from the grassroots groups here in Colorado, plus being an up-and-coming star in the House, what would you say Schafer's chances are of defeating him???? Will be interesting to watch, that's for sure!
That's it for tonight, folks! Have a good week! Hope you've gotten to enjoy the beautiful colors God has painted this country with 'cuz I think they are about to disappear!
The Patriot Granny
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