THE FENCE TEST...

The Fence Test  You can't get any more accurate than this!  This is straight forward country thinking.. by  Jeff Foxworthy Which side of the fence?  If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!  If a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.  If a Democrat doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.  If a Republican is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.  If a Democrat is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.    If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.  If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.  If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.  If a Democrat is down-and-out he wonders who is going to take care of him.    If a Republican doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.  A Democrat demands that those they don't like be shut down.  If a Republican is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.  A Democrat non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.  If a Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.  If a Democrat decides he needs health care, he demands that the rest of us pay for his.  If a Republican reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.  A Democrat will delete it because he's "offended". Well, I forwarded it.

THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT?????

Have you noticed that the once touted obama signature health care debacle is no longer referred to as Obamacare? He and all his followers, which certainly includes the liberal media, now refer to this mistake as The Affordable Care Act? What happened? I'm waiting on some idiot to blame it on Bush.

 

It's obvious how this debacable became a law of the land..it was passed by our elected legislators. How do we fix the problem? All it takes is for the informed voters to show up and out vote the misinformed. The misinformed really don't have a dog in the fight. They are there just for the free stuff. We pay their way...I think we have a big dog in the fight!

 

Next November every legislator that voted for this insane obamacare bill should be voted out of office. We can get all of them in the House this year and since one-third of the Senate has to run we can get the ones in that group too.

 

Nacy Pelosi can be gone if the sane people in her district in California vote en mass to retire her. Nevada will have to wait a while longer on "Dirty" Harry Reid. obama will go away in a couple of years. BUT, Hillbilary and Hound dog Bill are planning how to redecorate the White House already. Can you imagine her as president of the United States? Too much blood on her hands.

 

My time is running out but I hope to live long enough to see these people out of office.

AN AMAZING SEND OFF FOR A WAR HERO - A touching story!

This is very touching--any military vet or their family can identify with the comradeship displayed by those serving now..thanks! It quite is alright to shed a tear of pride for a Navy that NEVER forgets one of their own.

I had an uncle that served aboard ship for twenty three years and he talked about the Navy in nearly every conversation. He actually had a rocking lilt when he walked from serving so many years aboard ship. He never learned to drive but if the car he was riding in ever got over 40 MPH he would immediately ask whoever was driving to slow down.

Thank you, Uncle George for your heroic service. I still think of you often!

I also have a brother wo served honorably as a United States Marine. Thank you too, Jackie. I am proud of you! 

A Sailor's Dying Wish

After signing my Pop, EM2 Bud Cloud (circa Pearl Harbor) up for hospice care, the consolation prize I'd given him (for agreeing it was OK to die) was a trip to "visit the Navy in San Diego."

I emailed my friend and former Marine sergeant, Mrs. Mandy McCammon, who's currently serving as a Navy Public Affairs Officer, at midnight on May 28. I asked Mandy if she had enough pull on any of the bases in San Diego to get me access for the day so I could give Bud, who served on USS Dewey (DD-349), a windshield tour.

The next day she sent me an email from the current USS Dewey (DDG 105)'s XO, CDR Mikael Rockstad, inviting us down to the ship two days later.

We linked up with Mandy outside Naval Base San Diego and carpooled to the pier where we were greeted by CMDCM Joe Grgetich and a squad-sized group of sailors. Bud started to cry before the doors of the van opened. He'd been oohing and pointing at the cyclic rate as we approached the pier, but when we slowed down and Mandy said, "They're all here for you, Bud," he was overwhelmed.

After we were all out of the van directly in front of the Dewey, shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries, Petty Officer Simon introduced himself and said as the ship's Sailor of the Year, he had the honor of pushing Bud's wheelchair for the day. Unbeknownst to us, they'd decided to host Bud aboard the Dewey, not at the Dewey. And so they carried him aboard. None of us expected him to go aboard the ship. I'd told him we were going down to the base and would have the chance to meet and greet a few of the sailors from the new Dewey. He was ecstatic. The day before, he asked every few hours if we were "still going down to visit the boys from the Dewey," and "do they know I was on the Dewey, too?"

Once aboard, we were greeted by the CO, CDR Jake Douglas, the XO and a reinforced platoon-sized group of sailors. To say it was overwhelming is an understatement. These men and women waited in line to introduce themselves to Bud. They shook his hand, asked for photos with him and swapped stories. It was simply amazing.  They didn't just talk to him, they listened.

Bud's voice was little more than a weak whisper at this point: He'd tell a story and then GMC Eisman or GSCS would repeat it so all of the sailors on deck could hear. In the midst of the conversations, Petty Officer Flores broke contact with the group. Bud was telling a story and CMDCM Grgetich was repeating the details when Flores walked back into view holding a huge photo of the original USS Dewey. That moment was priceless. Bud stopped mid-sentence and yelled, "There she is!" They patiently stood there holding the photo while he told them about her armament, described the way it listed after it was hit, and shared other details about the attacks on Pearl Harbor.

Bud finally admitted how tired he was after more than an hour on deck. While they were finishing up goodbyes and taking last minute photographs, GMC Eisman asked if it'd be OK to bring sailors up to visit Bud in a few months after a Chief's board. I hadn't said it yet because I didn't want it to dampen the spirit of the day, but I quietly explained to GMC Eisman the reason we'd asked for the visit was simple: Bud was dying.

I told him they were welcome to come up any time they wanted, but I suspected Bud had about a month left to live. Almost without hesitation, he asked if the crew could provide the burial honors when the time came. I assured him that'd be an honor we'd welcome.

Leaving the ship was possibly more emotional than boarding.

They piped him ashore. CMDCM Grgetich leaned in and quietly told me how significant that honor was and who it's usually reserved for as we headed towards the gangplank. Hearing "Electrician's Mate Second Class William Bud Cloud, Pearl Harbor Survivor, departing" announced over the 1MC was surreal.

Later that night Bud sat in his recliner, hands full of ship's coins and declared, "I don't care what you do with my power tools; you better promise you'll bury me with these."

He died 13 days later. For 12 of those 13 days he talked about the Dewey, her sailors and his visit to San Diego. Everyone who came to the house had to hear the story, see the photos, hold the coins, read the plaques.

True to his word, GMC Eisman arranged the details for a full honors burial. The ceremony was simple yet magnificent. And a perfect sendoff for an ornery old guy who never, ever stopped being proud to be a sailor. After the funeral, the sailors came back to the house for the reception and spent an hour with the family. This may seem like a small detail, but it's another example of them going above and beyond the call of duty, and it meant more to the family than I can explain.

There are more photos, and I'm sure I missed a detail or a name. What I didn't miss and will never forget, is how unbelievable the men and women of the USS Dewey were. They opened their ship and their hearts and quite literally made a dream come true for a dying sailor.

They provided the backdrop for "This is the best day of my life, daughter. I never in my whole life dreamed I'd step foot on the Dewey again, or shake the hand of a real life sailor."

Without question, it's the best example of Semper Fidelis I've ever seen.

This post originally appeared on the Commander Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet blog.

NO...IT'S THE OTHER ONE!

  Bob: "Did you hear about the Obama administration scandal?,
Jim: "You mean the Mexican gun running?"

Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean SEAL Team 6?"

Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the State Dept. lying about Benghazi?"


Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean voter fraud?"

  Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the military not getting their votes counted?"

  Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the use of drones in our own country without the benefit of
the law?"

  Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million and right after it declared
bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?"


Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the president arming the Muslim Brotherhood?"

  Bob: "No the other one:.
Jim: "The IRS targeting conservatives?"

  Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The DOJ spying on the press?"

  Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "Sebelius shaking down health insurance executives?"

  Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "Giving SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 months later they declared
bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?"

  Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything else?"

Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The president's ordering the release of nearly 10,000 illegal
immigrants from jails and prisons, and falsely blaming the sequester?"

Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The president's threat to impose gun control by Executive Order in
order to bypass Congress?"

  Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The president's repeated violation of the law requiring him to submit
a budget no later than the first Monday in February?"

  Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The 2012 vote where 115% of all registered voters in some counties
voted 100% for Obama?"

  Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The president's unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to
circumvent the Senate's advise-and-consent role?"

  Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The State Department interfering with an Inspector General
investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?"

  Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "Clinton, the IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?"


Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "I give up! ... Oh wait, I think I got it! You mean that 65 million
low-information voters who don't pay taxes and get free stuff   from
taxpayers and stuck us again with the most pandering, corrupt administration
in American history?"


             Bob: "THAT'S THE ONE!"

CHEAP WATCHES ANYONE?????

CHEAP WATCHES

If you were in the market for a watch in 1880, would you know where to get one? You would go to a store, right? Well, of course you could do that, but if you wanted one that was cheaper and a bit better than most of the store watches, you went to the train station! Sound a bit funny? Well, for about 500 towns across the northern United States, that's where the best watches were found.

Why were the best watches found at the train station? The railroad company wasn't selling the watches, not at all!  The telegraph operator was. Most of the time the telegraph operator was located in the railroad station because the telegraph lines followed the railroad tracks from town to town. It was usually the shortest distance and the right-of-ways had already been secured for the rail line.

Most of the station agents were also skilled telegraph operators and that was the primary way that they communicated with the railroad. They would know when trains left the previous station and when they were due at their next station. And it was the telegraph operator who had the watches. As a matter of fact they sold more of them than almost all the stores combined for a period of about 9 years.

This was all arranged by "Richard", who was a telegraph operator himself. He was on duty in the North Redwood, Minnesota train station one day when a load of watches arrived from the East. It was a huge crate of pocket watches. No one ever came to claim them.

 So Richard sent a telegram to the manufacturer and asked them what they wanted to do with the watches. The manufacturer didn't want to pay the freight back, so they wired Richard to see if he could sell them. So Richard did. He sent a wire to every agent in the system asking them if they wanted a cheap, but good, pocket watch. He sold the entire case in less than two days and at a handsome profit.

That started it all. He ordered more watches from the watch company and encouraged the telegraph operators to set up a display case in the station offering high quality watches for a cheap price to all the travelers. It worked! It didn't take long for the word to spread and, before long, people other than travelers came to the train station to buy watches.

Richard became so busy that he had to hire a professional watch maker to help him with the orders. That was Alvah. And the rest is history as they say.

The business took off and soon expanded to many other lines of dry goods.

 Richard and Alvah left the train station and moved their company to Chicago -- and it's still there.

YES, IT'S A LITTLE KNOWN FACT that for a while in the 1880's, the biggest watch retailer in the country was at the train station. It all started with a telegraph operator: Richard Sears and his partner Alvah Roebuck!

Bet You Didn't Know That!!!

I VOTE FOR FREE STUFF

These two cartoons capture the commitment, drive and ambition at the level of
sacrifice offered separated by only one generation..two at the most since
some groups reproduce every 8-9 months continually and become voters quicker
than the children whose parents planned and prepared to offer a better
world. Well, we lost that effort to the system that rewards bad behavior and
our prepared children are carrying the offspring of  the ones that look to
the government for deliverance. Hint..the government doesn't make money..it
re-distributes it.

GUESS WE HAVE TO BLAME THE VOTERS!!!

It's pretty obvious to the ones that have their eyes open that the United States is in one Hell of a mess...discord between the parties, discord within the parties, discord between the haves and have-nots, discord about government welfare, insurance, rewards for bad decisions and on and on. Less than half of us are upset that the future for the next two generations is horribly bleak. And, it's partly due to the current generations' parents buying into a nanny government while expecting the government to provide for them from the womb to the tomb, failing to ingrain a solid work ethic into their upbringing, failing to teach them the value of an education that's free of charge and the importance of understanding that there is a Higher Power that we will all stand before some day. All of these things were once the basis of traing a child for the real world when they became of age...not so much now.

 

Obama didn't usurp the office of president..he was elected. So were the members of Congress..all 545 were elected. They in turn have appointed policy making staffers that are of like mind. No surprise there. 

 

So don't blame anyone execpt the voters who have turned their future over to 545 people who have only two items on their agendas...accumulate power and stay in office. Nothing else, just these two. The Bible teaches that we reap what we sow and we have planted a horribly bad crop. The voters will have a chance to turn out all 445 members of the House and one-third of the Senate. Don't blame Obama if 97% are re-elected. He didn't do it...the voters did.

SHAMELESS FREE PUBLICITY...BUT A GOOD PRODUCT.

New Rustoleum product - incredible!



 This is a new product that is coming out from Rust-oleum. It will be at Home Depot very soon, and other stores in the coming months. I am going to coat everything I own with this stuff!




http://laughingsquid.com/rust-oleum-neverwet-superhydrophobic-coating-that-makes-everyday-materials-repel-liquid/
   

Thank You President Ford

It is so good to see  the U.S. government recogzize the services that Gerlad Ford rendered his country. He served as a Lt. Commander in the Navy, a navy pilot and many other assigned duties in WWII. He was decorated with many medals for his service.

 

His rise in the government was steady and strong. His greatest injustice was suffering the ridicule of late night comedians and particularly from SNL and Chevy Chase mocking him as a clumsy, thereby incompetent, president. Whatever their motive they helped put Jimmy Carter into office. They didn't see that coming, did they?

 

He held this country together as it weathered a storm after the scandal drove Nixon from office. This country was on the brink of collapse with a bad economy, raging inflation and a distrust of anything attached to the government. He skillfully guided us through it all and America today owes Gerald Ford a debt that can never be repaid.

 

Thank you President Gerald Ford and smooth sailing on your new "yacht"...the USS Gerald Ford, the most advanced air carrier and war ship ever to sail the seas!!!! 

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/08/navy-set-to-launch-newest-most-efficient-carrier/

WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY...AND IT IS US!

This is well worth reading. It takes a strong and disgusting look at the government that has been created by our vote. Ultimately we are at fault. We didn't just allow it to happen, we have elected people to office that we know are corrupt. And yet we do it over and over again. Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell...heck, it's easier to just get the Senate and House roll and check'em off there.

Notice that the editorial was written in 1995 and the national deficit was an alarming 4 trillion dollars. By continuing to re-elect these people we now have a 17 trillion dollar debt.

As Pogo said, "We have met the enemy...and it is us!".

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/reese.asp

JOE BIDEN FOR PRESIDENT???

You gotta love this guy. He may not be the smartest person in the government...and yet he may be...but there's only one Joe.

 

His biggest jobs as Veep are to attend funerals, cover obama's butt and make obama look like he's smart. He's not doing so well on the latter but, HEY...he's got to have a little something to work with. Even the world's best ventiloquist can't make a dummy seem smart. Everybody know it's just a stick of wood.

 

All I know for sure is that when obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are in a room alone and ole Joe comes in the IQ average goes up twelve points and drops twelve points when he leaves.

 

Heck, I hope he can wrestle the Democratic nomination from Hillbillary and Hound dog Bill. I think I might vote for him. I'm getting long-in-the-tooth and I would like to go out laughing.

 

Sic'em Joe!!!!!

 

 

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Joe-Biden-Dialed-The-Wrong-Guy-In-Congratulatory-4962418.php

THE POPE...YEAH, THAT ONE!

This Pope is indeed a humble man or he's engaged the services of a real slick PR firm...I think it is the former.

 

This show of humility doesn't play well with today's TV evangelist (religious con men/women). They have made a mockery of the Christian life and have bilked billions from thousands. I sure would love to be in line behind these cons on judgement day and listen to their judgement pronounced. Then I want to go to the end of the line and put mine off til last.

 

 

 7 DIFFERENCES Pope Francis Has Made

in One Appearance!

1. Changed the Golden Throne by a wooden chair...Something more appropriate for the disciple of a carpenter.

2. Did NOT want the Gold-Embroidered Red Stole, Heir of the Roman Empire ...,NOR the Red Chasuble.

3. Uses Same Old Black Shoes, not the classic red.

4. Uses a Metal Cross, NOT one of rubies and diamonds.
5. His Papal Ring is Silver, NOT GOLD.

6. Uses the Same Black Pants Under the Cassock, to Remember That He Is a Another Priest.

Have you discovered the 7th?
7. Removed the Red Carpet.  He is not interested in fame & applause.

WE ARE SPEECHLESS!!!!

Just about sizes it up!

WELCOME TO THE CHANGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY!
• Our Phones - Wireless

• Cooking - Fireless
• Cars - Keyless 

• Food – Fatless
• Tires – Tubeless
• Dress – Sleeveless
• Youth – Jobless
• Leaders – Shameless
• Relationships – Meaningless
• Attitudes – Careless
• Babies – Fatherless
• Feelings – Heartless
• Education – Valueless
• Children – Mannerless
• Country – Godless

We are speechless,
Congress is clueless,
and our President is worthless!

AIN'T THIS JUST ONE BIG OLD MESS???

This is a good informative article. You can check the map to see affects on your state.  But, not to worry...everytime a cost cutting bill kicks in, the democrats will offer a bill to extend the benefits just a little longer.

Keep in mind that there is an election next November with one-third of the Senate up for election and all of the House. They need to keep the checks flowing because they need these bought votes.

Just for the heck of it, watch the news closely and you will see a democratic senator or house member justify the delay of this scaleback. But obamacare is costly, improperly managed and is causing problems for people who have responsibly purchased insurance and it will be overfunded because to not do so would be racist...which will be the tactic used by a house member to keep people from taking welfare cuts.

Ain't it all just one big old mess?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/01/stateline-food-stamps/3345823/