Let me get this straight . . . .
We're going to be "gifted" with a health care
plan we are forced to purchase and
fined if we don't,
Which purportedly covers at least
ten million more people,
without adding a single new doctor,
but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,
written by a committee whose chairman
says he doesn't understand it,
passed by a Congress that didn't read it but
exempted themselves from it,
and signed by a President who smokes,
with funding administered by a treasury chief who
didn't pay his taxes,
for which we'll be taxed for four years before any
benefits take effect,
by a government which has
already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare,
all to be overseen by a surgeon general
who is obese,
and financed by a country that's broke!!!!!
'What could
possibly go wrong?'

Born Again American from Born Again American on Vimeo.

My Beautiful Mother, may she rest in peace
June 15, 1926 - June 2, 2010

She loved this song and said it fit her to a tee
CLICK HERE


I've had a Wonderful Life By Carroll Roberson

I've had a Wonderful Life, The Lord's been so good to me,
I've had a wonderful life, if tomorrow I never see,
If I had no more, blessings in store, I'd never ask or wonder why,
If I die today I could honestly say, I've had a wonderful life.

I've had some good times and I've seen the bad,
but thanks to Jesus my hearts not sad, I'm happy today,
even though I have some regrets, there's one thing I'll never forget,
Jesus stood by my side all of the way

I've had a wonderful life, the Lords been so good to me,
I've had a wonderful life, if tomorrow I never see
If I had no more blessings in store, I'd never ask or wonder why,
If I died today I could honestly say, I've had a wonderful life,

If I had no more blessings in store, I'd never ask or wonder why,
If I died today I could honestly say, I've had a wonderful life,
I've had a wonderful life, yes, I've had a wonderful life


Song

In case anyone wondered where I disappeared to: It's been a long couple of weeks with Mom being air lifted to Indianapolis Methodist Hospital, then her passing, then a wonderful celebration of her life at the funeral. She loved this song and said it was exactly how her life was. She was a woman of strong faith and I could only hope to be half as strong as she was. I hope people say the things about me when I am gone, she was dearly loved and thought of as a very kind and considerate person. She will be missed by all
RIP

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907

The year is 1907, one hundred and 3+ years ago.

READ PRINT UNDER PICTURE!

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Every American citizen needs to read this!

THIS IS MY COUNTRY!

THIS IS MY COUNTRY!

And, because I make
This statement
DOES NOT
Mean I'm against immigration!!!
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE,
IN MY COUNTRY!
Welcome!
To come through legally:

1. Get a sponsor!
2. Get a place to lay your head!
3. Get a job!
4. Live By OUR Rules!
5. Pay YOUR Taxes!
And
6. Learn the LANGUAGE like immigrants
have in the past!!!
AND
7. Please don't demand that we hand over our lifetime
savings of Social Security Funds to you.
This goes for Puerto Rico also.

If you don't agree with this
Then
YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!

When will AMERICANS STOP giving away
THEIR RIGHTS???
We've gone so far the other way...
bent over backwards not to offend anyone.
But it seems no one cares about the
AMERICAN CITIZEN
that's being offended!


WAKE UP America !!!

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Could it be that Congress shut the door on their HealthCare Insurance?

Could it be Congress wiped out their health care insurance? Haven't fully researched this but it appears that by legal interpretation Congress may have a problem. Read on. Would this be justice or what?

Legislate in haste, repent at leisure Looks like Congress is having one of those "Holy S---!" moments; it appears they have royally screwed up their own health insurance - for all 535 members of Congress and untold congressional employees. In a hurry, they forgot to get it right and wrote it all wrong; now it's the law.

Now Congress is in the same boat they built for the rest of America … without a clue what the new health care reform will mean to them. The beauty of their dilemma is pure poetic justice to some - they have written a law requiring that they move into a system that doesn't yet exist.

How could that be? Simple, a scaled-down provision of Republican Senator Grassley's “Health Reform Accountability Act” - the one requiring all congress members and their employees, with the exception of Senate committee and leadership staffs, to get their health insurance through the same health insurance exchanges where the general public would get theirs was left in the bill, unopposed, and was signed into law by President Obama.

It appears that the poorly written law is so mangled that “It is unclear whether members of Congress and Congressional staff who are currently participating in F.E.H.B.P. may be able to retain this coverage,” the research service said in an 8,100-word memorandum."

Some are concerned, and rightly so, that as written, the bill can be interpreted to mean that the moment the bill went into law - their own insurance that they know and love - was wiped out.

It's a long stretch to 2014, when health care exchanges go into effect and the law (as written) voids their insurance without providing a alternative. Whatever are they to do in the meantime?

Of course that was never their intent, their intent may have been to scrap the amendment altogether - or to revisit and firm up exactly how, when, and by whom all of this was to be handled but, oops they forgot! Unfortunately, they were in rush to pass the bill and never looked back.

Now looking forward, full of panic, and a scrambling effort to "fix" what may end up being decided in court. The courts are inclined to judge a law as it is written, not by what the author intended to write. How do you even explain this to a judge? Dare they try to plead it is unfair to execute a law conceived in haste, poorly composed, legally illiterate, and signed into law - unread? We all know a few states who would like to try precisely that.

What a mess their insurance is in now; and these are the same buffoons who wrote ours – “trust us” they said. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Obama - what a triumph of leadership!

If you are so inclined, read the report here and *wink* weep

http://www.freedomfoundationofminnesota.com/content/documents/CRSmemo.pdf?utm_source=Internet+Mail+Manager+Export&utm_campaign=f176d2fd47-AA%3A++Health+Care+Bill+Loophole+for+MN+Cong.+Staff&utm_medium=email

"Yes, WE NOTICED"

This was written by Sherry Hackett, Buddy Hackett's widow.

"WE NOTICED"
President Obama:

Today I read of your administrations' plan to re-define September
11 as a National Service Day. Sir, it's time we had a talk.
During your campaign, Americans watched as you made mockery
of our tradition of standing and crossing your heart when the
Pledge of Allegiance was spoken. You, out of four people on the
stage, were the only one not honoring our tradition.
YES, "We noticed."

During one of your many speeches, Americans heard you say that
you intended to visit all 57 states. We all know that Islam,
not America has 57 states.
YES, "We noticed."

When Candidate John McCain leaned over at Ground Zero and
gently placed a flower on the memorial, while you
nonchalantly tossed your flower onto the pile without
leaning over.
YES, "We noticed."

A joint effort at honoring 9/11 victims at Boston.com
Every time you apologized to other countries for America's
position on an issue we have wondered why you don't share
our pride in this great country.. When you have heard
foreign leaders berate our country and our beliefs, you
have not defended us. In fact, you insulted the British
Crown beyond belief.
YES, "We noticed."

When your pastor of 20 years, "God-damned America " and
said that 9/11 was " America 's chickens coming home to
roost" and you denied having heard recriminations of that
nature, we wondered how that could be. You later
disassociated yourself from that church and Pastor Wright
because it was politically expedient to do so.
YES, "We noticed."

When you announced that you would transform America, we
wondered why. With all her faults, America is the
greatest country on earth. Sir, KEEP THIS IN MIND, "if
not for America and the people who built her, you
wouldn't be sitting in the White House now." Prior to
your election to the highest office in this Country, you
were a senator from Illinois and from what we can glean
from the records available, not a very remarkable one.
YES, "We noticed."

All through your campaign and even now, you have surrounded
yourself with individuals who are basically unqualified for
the positions for which you appointed them. Worse than that,
the majority of them are people who, like you, bear no
special allegiance, respect, or affection for this country
and her traditions.
YES, "We noticed."

You are 14 months into your term and every morning millions
of Americans wake up to a new horror heaped on us by you.
You seek to saddle working Americans with a health
care/insurance reform package that, along with cap and
trade, will bankrupt this nation.
YES, "We noticed."

We seek, by protesting, to let our representatives know that
we are not in favor of these crippling expenditures and we are
labeled "un-American", "racist", "mob". We wonder how we are
supposed to let you know how frustrated we are. You have
attempted to make our protests seem isolated and insignificant.
Until your appointment, Americans had the right to speak out.
YES, "We noticed."

On September 11, 2001 there were no Republicans or Democrats,
only Americans. And we all grieved together and helped each
other in whatever way we could. The attack on 9/11 was carried
out because we are Americans.
And YES, "We noticed."

There were many of us who prayed that as a black president you
could help unite this nation. In six months you have done more
to destroy this nation than the attack on 9/11. You have failed us.
YES, "We noticed."

September 11 is a day of remembrance for all Americans. You
propose to make 9/11 a "National Service Day". While we know
that you don't share our reverence for 9/11, we pray that
history will report your proposal as what it is, a disgrace.
YES, "We noticed."

You have made a mockery of our Constitution and the office that
you hold. You have embarrassed and slighted us in foreign visits
and policy.
YES, "We noticed."

We have noticed all these things. We will deal with you. When
Americans come together again, it will be to remove you from office.
Take notice.

JOE LEGAL vs. JOSE ILLEGAL

You have two families: "Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal". Both families have two parents, two children, and live in California. Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted. Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".

Ready? Now pay attention...

Joe Legal: $25.00 per hour x 40 hours = $1000.00 per week, or $52,000.00 per year.. Now take away for state and federal taxes; Joe Legal now has $31,231.00.

Jose Illegal: $15.00 per hour x 40 hours = $600.00 per week, or $31,200.00 per year. Jose Illegal pays no taxes. Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $24,031.00.

Jose Illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or welfare. Joe Legal pays $500.00 per month for food, or $6,000.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $18,031.00.

Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps and welfare. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays rent of $1,200.00 per month, or $14,400.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $9,631.00.

Jose Illegal receives a $500.00 per month federal rent subsidy. Jose Illegal pays out that $500.00 per month, or $6,000.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $ 31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays $200.00 per month, or $2,400.00 for insurance. Joe Legal now has $7,231.00.

Jose Illegal says, "We don't need no stinkin' insurance!" and still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, etc.

Jose Illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, and what he sends out of the country every month.

Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.

Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.

Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school.. Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch. Jose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home.

Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same police and fire services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.

Do you get it, now?

This one should really bother you. If you vote for or support any politician that supports illegal aliens...YOU are part of the problem! It's way PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!

Thought Provoking Statements

1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.

5. How the heck are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

6. Was learning cursive really necessary?

7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection . . . again.

13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

14. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this -- ever.

15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Darn it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voice mail. What did you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste!

17. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

18. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

19. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than with Kay.

21. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.

22. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

23. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text.

24. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

25. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?

26. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!

27. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, they just smell.

28. Is it just me or do high school kids get dumber and dumber every year?


29. There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

30. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.

31. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

32. Even under ideal conditions, people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet my last dollar everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time!

33. Even when opportunity knocks, you still have to get off your rear end and open the door.

Maxine On HealthCare

What's the matter with this picture???

The recent health care plan was written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a congress that exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke...

Thank God For Obama

WHY?

1. He destroyed the Clinton Political Machine - Driving a stake thru the heart of Hillary's Presidential aspirations - something no Republican was ever able to do. Remember when a Hillary Presidency scared the daylights out of you!


2. He killed off the Kennedy Dynasty - No more Kennedy's trolling Washington looking for booze and women wanting rides home. American women and Freedom are safer tonight!


3. He is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes!

Dennis Moore had never lost a race - quit Evan Bayh had never lost a race - quit Byron Dorgan - had never lost a race - quit Harry Reid - Soon to be GONE These are just a handful of the Democrats that whose political careers Obama has destroyed! By the end of 2010 dozens more will be!

In December of 2008 the Democrats were on the rise. In the last two election cycles they had picked up 14 senate seats and 52 house seats. The press was touting the death of the Conservative Movement and the Republican Party. In just one year, Obama put a stop to all of this and will probably give the house--if not the senate--back to the Republicans.


4. He has completely exposed liberals and progressives for what they are.
Every Generation seems to need to relearn the lesson on why they should never actually put liberals in charge. He is bringing home the lesson very well!

Liberals tax, borrow and spend - check Liberals won't bring themselves to protect America - check Liberals want to take over the economy - check Liberals think they know what is best for everyone - check Liberals aren't happy till they are running YOUR life - check

5. He has brought more Americans back to conservatism than anyone since Reagan. In One year he rejuvenated the Conservative movement and brought out to the streets millions of Freedom Loving Americans. Name me one other time in your life that you saw your friends and neighbors this interested in taking back America !

6. His amazing leadership has sparked the greatest period of sales of firearms and ammunition this country has seen. Law abiding citizens have rallied and have provided a "stimulus" to the sporting goods field while other industries have failed, faded or moved off-shore!


7. In all honesty one year ago I was more afraid than I had ever been in my life. Not of the economy but of the direction our country was going. I thought Americans had forgotten what this country was all about. My neighbors, friends, strangers proved to me that my lack of confidence of the Greatness and Wisdom of the American people was flat out wrong.

8. When the American People wake up no smooth talking teleprompter reader can fool them!

Barak Obama woke up these Great Americans! Again I want say Thank you Barak Obama.

Quote

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”-- Author Unknown

Great Orators of the Democrat Party

While we might not always see eye to eye,we have had some great Democratic leaders.
Someone was kind enough to list them all here for your convenience.


Great Orators of the Democrat Party
'One man with courage makes a majority.'
- Andrew Jackson

'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

'The buck stops here.'
- Harry S. Truman

'Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.'
- John F. Kennedy

And, from today's genius Democrats...


'It depends what your definition of 'Sex' is?''
- Bill Clinton

'That Obama... I would like to cut his NUTS off.'
- Jesse Jackson

'Those rumors are false... I believe in the sanctity of marriage.'
- John Edwards

'I invented the Internet'
- Al Gore

'The next Person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ASS.'
- Joe Biden

'America is... is no longer, uh, what it... it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was... uh, and I say to myself, 'uh, I don't want that future, uh, uh for my children.'
- Barack Obama

'I have campaigned in all 57 states.
- Barack Obama (Quoted 2008)

'You don't need God anymore, you have us Democrats.'
- Nancy Pelosi (Quoted 2006)

'Paying taxes is voluntary.'
- Sen. Harry Reid

'Bill is the greatest husband and father I know. No one is more faithful, true, and honest than he.'
- Hillary Clinton (Quoted 1998)

HOW LUCKY CAN WE BE TO HAVE SUCH BRILLIANT MINDS IN CHARGE OF OUR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY?


''Life's tough.... it's even tougher if you're stupid.'' - John Wayne

Painting the Church

Painting the Church

There was a Scottish painter named Smokey MacGregor who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further.



As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the Baptist Church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of one of their biggest buildings.

Smokey put in a bid, and, because his price was so low, he got the job.

So he set about erecting the scaffolding and setting up the planks, and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with turpentine..

Well, Smokey was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly completed, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder, the sky opened, and the rain poured down washing the thinned paint from all over the church and knocking Smokey clear off the scaffold to land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by telltale puddles of the thinned and useless paint.




Smokey was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty,
so he got down on his knees and cried:

"Oh, God, Oh God, forgive me; what should I do?"

And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke..




"Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more!"

A TEXAS BEER JOINT SUES A CHURCH…..

In a small Texas town, (Mt. Vernon) Drummond’s bar began construction on a new building to increase their business.. The local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayers. Work progressed right up till the week before opening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground. The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, until the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or indirect actions or means. The church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the building’s demise in its reply to the court. As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the paperwork. At the hearing he commented, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to decide this, but as it appears from the paperwork, we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that does not.

Comments made in the year 1955!

Comments made in the year 1955!
That's only 54 years ago!



'I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $10.00.


'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $1,000.00 will only buy a used one.


'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. 20 cents a pack is ridiculous.


'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 7 cents just to mail a letter


'If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.


'When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 25 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.


'I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it..


'I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas .


'Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $50,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President.


'I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.


'It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.


'It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.


'I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.


'Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to government..


'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.


'There is no sense going on short trips anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel.


'No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $15.00 a day in the hospital, it's too rich for my blood.'


'If they think I'll pay 30 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'

Subject: LITTLE JOHNNY

Americans following Obama:



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Little Johnny is not an Obama fan
A teacher asked her 6th grade class how many of them were Obama fans.
Not really knowing what an Obama fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for Little Johnny.

The teacher asked Little Johnny why he has decided to be different...again.

Little Johnny said, "Because I'm not an Obama fan."

The teacher asked, "Why aren't you a fan of Obama?" Johnny said, "Because I'm a Republican."

The teacher asked him why he's a Republican. Little Johnny answered, "Well, my Mom's a Republican and my Dad's a Republican, so I'm a Republican."

Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, "If your mom were a moron and your dad were an idiot, what would that make you?"

With a big smile, Little Johnny replied, "That would make me an Obama fan."