I am so happy to report to all of you that the Kelley’s are fully funded for adopting Isaac!  Thank you to any of you who contributed to this end.

Please visit www.room4love.blogspot.com to read what they are doing now in preparing for when they actually get to bring him home!

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I’m apalled. I’m flabergasted. I’m upset. Get on the bandwagon and support the true Conservative. I am not sure why this isn’t a no brainer.

Like Sarah Palin said tonight on Hannity, “Steel sharpens steel”. Let the debates continue, Rick Santorum is getting better in his debates.

Why do we want a Moderate Republican? That is just wrong.  I urge you, if you are a true Conservative, a person who wants real change in the White House, go to the following link and throw a few dollars into Rick Santorum’s donation jar.  It will be the best donation you’ve made so far to politics.

https://www.ricksantorum.com/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=7&gclid=CMGQ4N2-2K0CFQ1dhwod_Qjumg

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Rick Santorum is running in the Iowa caucus at somewhere around 16%; which puts him in a likely third position as of today, only 4% behind Mitt Romney!  Yeah, baby.  Now that is more like it!

For a great read on this go to: http://urbandale.patch.com/articles/days-away-from-caucus-poll-says-paul-still-has-lead-in-iowa

Merry Christmas!  They did it!  They have raised the $40,000 to adopt Isaac!  They now need $6,000.00 for paperwork and air travel…Will you help out?  Please visit Reese’s Rainbow and donate toward this very worthy cause!

http://room4love.blogspot.com/

Peoria, AZ      I was horrified as I drove through my local McDonald’s to see a “We’re open on Christmas Day” sign next to the drive through screen.  “Total (expletive) Grinch,” I said to myself as I drove up to pay for my Diet Coke.  After talking to the young woman at the window I got the distinct feeling that this Manager wasn’t very happy about having to work it either.  “Stinking (expletive) Grinch,” I said as I drove away from her smiling face.  Knowing that this person owned 15 other McDonald’s in the Glendale/Phoenix area I drove to another of their restaurants the following day.  The same scenario played out, however, this time the manager gave me the number of the owner; so I called and left them a very lengthy message accusing them of being the greedy, expletive, people that they are.  Yes, I am very opinionated on this and decided to share it directly with them.  I got a voicemail from someone later wanting to “explain” things to me.  Yeah, I’m going to be real understanding on this one, not.

It amazes me how far we have come as a society.  When I was growing up you couldn’t find a store open on Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter.  If you didn’t have what you needed before that day arrived you were pretty well messed over.  Now we have WalMart setting the standards for holidays.   We have always had the Memorial Day, July 4th, and Labor Day business openings, but really, who really cares about businesses being open on days that, since I was little and that was a long time ago, have always been open to generate money for businesses.  What is happening now is the “give an inch and they will want a mile” dilemma.  “Greedy, stinking, expletives.”  Ouch, did I hurt your feelings?  Good.

McDonald’s, and every other restaurant out there for that matter, you could count on to be family oriented.  McDonald’s has always pushed it’s marketing as being family friendly and kid oriented; so what does this say about owners of franchises who spit in the face of that? “Greedy, stinking, expletive” people come to mind.  Sorry, it just keeps looping through my head when I think of ways to describe them.  They know that most of their workers are in the teenage range; tell me how that is Christmas-kid friendly to yank them away from their families on Christmas?  You can’t, not in any real meaningful dialogue anyway.  So, go ahead and call me again so you can stinking, expletive, “explain” yourself to me.

Do you know the worst part of this is the thing that I have been running from for awhile now.  That being the realization that our country is truly going down the (expletive) sewer hole very quickly.  You know we’re in a really sad state when I start swearing in my head, because I do not ever swear…usually….at least outloud.

Go ahead, people of Glendale and the Phoenix area, eat at the stinking, expletive McDonald’s on 67th Av and Happy Valley Road, 67th Av and Beardsley, 19th Av and Bell Road and the other 12 McDonald’s these (expletive) people own…but I won’t be.  I will just drive down the road one mile and get my Diet Coke from Burger King!

Later,

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The Kelley’s Awaiting Isaac

From the Kelley’s website:

“You may remember this post, we had just hit the officially half way mark in our fundraising (AMAZING!!) when an announcement came that Isaac’s region increased their requirements while we were in mid process applying.  1 (possibly 2) extra trips half way around the world and additional documentation needed…Our hearts sank initially but we felt our response was to resist fear and discouragement and keep moving forward.

So, this is why you’ll be seeing a little blue thermometer under our original ~ he might look tall but he is MUCH smaller and than that big ol’ green one above him   More than anything, we are just SO astounded about where we are in the process with fundraising. Thank you to every man, woman and child who has prayed and donated to help precious Isaac.

Love you all, friends. “

Out of all of my blogs the ones that seem to generate the most interest are those that I write concerning Obama’s career timeline (which I must admit I need to desparately update), those on abortion, and most recently the one that I wrote concerning two flags that popped up ontop of two mountains in the little neighborhood I live in in Glendale, Arizona.  That blog is found at http://exemployee.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/a-call-to-action-taking-back-america-with-a-bipartisan-plant-a-flag-month/ .

What are people searching for when they open up my blog?  I am sure it is not my endearing rhethoric…unless they want true change in 2012 like I do…it must be the picture.  She is beautiful isn’t she?  But worth 958 hits on one day?

I think it means that people are searching for their country.  For the trueness that once was and has now been forgotten.  Too often we start our day without remembering those who made it possible to live in a land where you can travel from one state to another without having to hold onto a visa if you are a citizen of its land.

We also forget those who died as they embarked from their old world to a new one; one where they would be allowed freedom from a government bent on telling them what they could and could not do.  We forget that the first Thanksgiving was one that was dedicated to God by Pilgrims; a Pro-Christ group who disembarked from the MayFlower in order to flee religious persecution in Europe.  Yes, that’s right, our country was founded on Christian philosophy and principals.  No matter how much people would like to tell you otherwise, the facts are just that, historical facts.

Historically, there are other facts that make true Americans come searching for the sign of our freedom.  For instance, Adlai Stevenson said it best when he stated, “When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea.  He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.”   Wow.  Do you know anybody that feels like that these days?

We do not have that love of inner air when we are not proud of our country, when we bow to foreign leaders in submission, when we honor all holidays over the one that founded our own country, when we apologize for the virtues that bind us together as citizens of this great land.  No, I fear that we are quickly becoming a rememberance, a page in the history books of a nation that once was.  I am sure James Monroe would be saddened by the state of our nation.  He stated in his first inaugural speech on March 4, 1817, “National honor is national property of the highest value.”  How far we have digressed.  Is there anyone that will stand up for her and fight to claim her honor back?  We can only hope 2012 brings us that person.

Another reason why Americans are searching for a sign of our freedom can be seen in  Thomas Jefferson’s exclamation, “My God!  How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!”  These were the crys of the new Tea Party Movement.  This is what changed last years course in our House of Representatives.  People are remembering what they once had; and they want it back.  Where are the jobs, where are the homes, where are the families that used to be in towns around all of us?

Country.  People are looking for their country.  Woodrow Wilson saw the key problem to America when he was President.  He stated, “Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.”  So, let us drop the Arab-American, Irish-American, African-American…and let us just be Americans.  Under one flag.  Under one government.  With Liberty and Justice for all.

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from the mind of…   I will be moving to…

www.lipstickwearingpolitics.wordpress.com    sometime in the near future…still working on it.

Are you happy with the present Administration in Washington D.C.? 

How would you like to see things changed for next year?

Did President Obama do what he said he would and are you happy with him? 

Which GOP candidate do you like the most? …the least?

Do you think another Democrat will run against Obama in the Primary for the next election?

What do you think is the biggest issue that needs addressed for Americans right now?

How do you think our local communities can help our economy right now? 

Should the Federal government be allowed to tell the States what they can and cannot do?

Do you think that any states that legalize the use of medical marijuana should have their residents arrested by the Federal government if they are found in possession of the substance with a valid users card?

Do you think that more should be reported on Eric Holder and what he really knew about “Fast and Furious” months, not weeks, before Officer Terry’s death?

Do you think that how the White House treats our relationship with Isreal is pathetic?

Do you think that life begins at conception?

Do you think we are better or worse off than three years ago?

What is your view on illegal immigration?

Do you think that there should be more facts on Solyndra and our President’s financial gains from that company?

How much is too much taxing?

Do you really believe that America is no longer a Christian country?

Should jobs be brought back to America or left abroad?

Are the Bears going to make it to the Superbowl?  I sure hope so!

Should Occupy Wall Street be shut down? And why are these people so violent?

Do you know of any Tea Party demonstration that has caused as much destruction and arrests as that of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations? 

Now, I’ve given you a bit to think about….go ahead and vent.

later,

from the mind of…