Walking Away From Facebook

Today I made a decision. I am walking away from Facebook. No seriously. No more Facebook.

Why?

For the same reason I don't carry my cell phone around with me anymore. Not for two years now.

My business allows me to meet with a lot of people. I once had lunch with a very successful business man, when my cell phone rang. At the time, I had made it clear to all my clients that they could call me anytime and I would pick up the phone. So I did. I excused myself politely and took the call. When I came back, I was taught one of the most important lessons I have ever had.

I apologized to the business owner, after all, it wasn't a business meeting, we were just having lunch and talking about his business. He accepted, then told me something I will never forget.

"Life was simpler when people could only reach us on our terms." He said. "Just because people can reach you, doesn't mean that they should. The day is fast coming when we will not know when enough is enough, and society's eagerness to communicate will corrode our ability to communicate. We will all be trying to say so much, that what everyone says will mean nothing."

Since that day, I told clients to call me at my business, during business hours and I would be happy to talk with them. I told friends to call me at home at appropriate times, and kept my cell phone for emergencies and for my family.

I am much happier. Work stays at work, and I am not tied to my phone like an addict tied to his meth. Facebook was becoming the same thing. Just because people can access information about each other doesn't mean they should.

But more importantly for me, It is one less thing I have to worry about during the day.

Despair, Apathy, Bliss, Warning

Sorry I haven’t blogged for a while. I had to stop watching the news. Every time I turned it on I felt more and more despair and had a hard time seeing from all the blood that was spurting out of my eyes.

So I put my head down at work and started to focus on saving my business, earning “Screw You, Obama” money and making sure I would last through this crisis. By doing so, I actually became apathetic. I couldn’t change the fact that political novice Obama and Queen Pelosi were setting a foundation that we will never recover from, so I changed my business and got my own house in order (gardens, food storage, guns and ammo, etc.( no I am not kidding)). I didn’t have time to worry about what I cannot change until the next election.

What I found was bliss. My garden is producing food on an almost daily basis now. I am comfortable knowing that if all hell breaks loose I have enough to at least survive. Watching food grow is incredibly hypnotic and calming. Planting something and seeing it break through the dirt and become greed, or flower, or turn into something you can eat is amazingly blissful. It is quite reminder that God is in control and we only need to align ourselves with his will.
Which brings me to my next phase of warning.

I only write this blog for myself and usually the only ones who ever read where my friends and family. So this is for them as well as anyone who reads. . .

1. This is not a normal recession. Do not believe anyone who tells you that this will be over soon and we will get back to normal. There is no normal. There are new factors involved now that have never been involved before. There will be a new economy, one we have never seen before, and it will not be kind to us as it stabilizes.

a. Banks are still not lending to businesses at the level that is necessary to function. Many, many small businesses are at the brink of failure. Small businesses employ 40-50% of the U.S. population. IF they fail, larger and larger businesses will fail too.

b. Commercial real estate is beginning to falter and foreclose just as the housing did a yar ago. The same signs are there and it will have the same if not a larger effect then what has happened so far.

c. We do not produce much anymore. Almost 63% of our GDP is based on the “exchange” of products and services not in production. This means that it is like dominos. One business fails and that will affect ten others that will affect ten others. Look at people you know, think about what they do for a living. Do they make something or do they service, exchange, or support those who do? All those jobs are in jeopardy.

2. Your government is not your government. They no longer represent you.

a. Whether you like Obama or not, one thing is very clear. He has no intention of keeping any of his promises. Line for line, all the promises he made in speeches and on the campaign, have fallen away. He has kept none of them. Since taking office he has paid back every favor, every donor, and every special interest group that put him in office, at incredible disregard to you, its citizens and the country in whole. He had plenty of opportunity to do what he promised, but never did.

b. The Congress and the Senate are no longer listening to their constituents. They do not care. There has never been a time where so many people are out do what is best for them, not the country. It is appalling to see our system abused in this way.

c. You can’t do anything right now. Until there is an election all you can do is wait. Our only hope is that enough people in the middle will see that they need to oust congress and senate to get new people with more level heads into the mix. Our only hope is to replace as many people as we can with new ones.

3. Debt is crippling the country.

a. In less than 12 months we have pledge to spend 4.6 years of tax revenue (when the economy is good). This is like saying that you make $100k and you have $100k in debt, so to solve the problem you take on $460k in new debt to solve the old debt. But here is the kicker, in a recession your salary is going to be cut 40%. How are you going to repay the new debt with less when you couldn’t repay the old one?

b. Your government wants you to think that they are the only ones who can save you. They will promise everything and produce nothing but make new promises to cover that up. How do they do it? By putting you in debt. You pay taxed now, not because the government uses the money to make your life better, but to finance promises that can never be kept, and new promises to hide that fact. Once it begins it will never end. Governments are like freight trains; once they get rolling nothing short of derailment will stop it.

c. Your children will have less opportunity, not more. All you need to do is look to the past and you will see that all empires die and new ones will begin. China will be the next super power. They are the only ones that are funding our debt, and your children will pay for it deeply. The U.S. will shrink back into socialistic oblivion and will feed off the scraps from China just as Europe did from us the last 100 years. Look to China for opportunities, maybe have your children learn Chinese.

4. It will be a tough transition.

a. The dollar is exactly like the stock of a company. It is the stock of the U.S. Right now it is being held up in the exact same way that Enron held up their stock. The government has four sets of books, barrowing huge amounts of money from outside and from each of the books. It will fail, just like Enron.

b. Think it can’t happen? Why? DO you think the U.S is so important that the rest of the world will not let it fail? That is like saying that other companies will support Enron so it won’t fail. Watch closely to what is happening with Russia and China, they are pushing for things that erode the U.S’s economy and guess who is slapping them on the back and agreeing to it. Your president.

c. Hillary Clinton has already used land rights to secure loans from China. What does that mean? It means when we can’t pay, they get land in the U.S. What land? Well, that is the question isn’t it? China may just want the northern half Alaska. And believe me, they won’t have a problem sucking ALL the oil out of the ground. All you green idiots will be shot on sight when you try to protest it.

d. The Dollar will fail. There will be a time when nothing is available because of hyper inflation. People don’t want to sell a load of potatoes for $500 when that $500 might be only worth $50 the very next day. You will need your own storage, and your own bartering chips to survive the 3-6 months until it is stabilized. Gee, three to six months, where have I heard this before?

e. When we come out, we will not know what to do, and most people will have to restructure their lives to survive. We will all have to get back to basics. You will not be making $100K a year selling anything.

Could I be wrong. I pray I am. I am not taking any chances though. I would rather be prepared for it and have it not happen then be right and not be prepared.

For those who have ears let them hear.

The Messiah's comming.

Obama will arrive at my airport in Phoenix today and speak in a high school in my city on Wednesday.

I can't get close enough to protest. There is no "sanctioned area" for protesters. I guess he hasn't ticked off enough people yet.

It makes me sad, so here is what I would have put on my signs and held them high.

"You Lied. You brought no hope or change to Washington."

"You lied. Your government is not transparent."

"You & Congress just robbed the American people."

I have to admit, I feel helpless. There are so many things wrong with what is going on right now, and most people don't care.

I can't figure out how to make a difference. If the silent majority stays silent, the loudest of the minority takes over. If we don't put up a fight, we will always lose.

Why I Voted Democrat This Last Election

Got this from a friend. Obviously he didn't vote that way, but I thought it summed up a few things.

He wrote:

I voted Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my dog (as soon as she is 18; I'm not a pedophile).

I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.

I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

I voted Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

I voted Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they're doing because they now think we're good people.

I voted Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.

I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius.

I voted Democrat because I'm not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.

I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as THEY see fit.

I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite The Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters. Face it; this is the legacy of "multiculturalism."

I voted Democrat because I like that idea that a tax cheat could become the tax chief.

I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my A-- that it is unlikely that I'll ever have another point of view. (Party loyalty is very powerful--and it excuses me from learning the truth.)

"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own."

Excuse me while I blow a fuse

What happened to the guy who stumped across America talking about change and hope? What happened to the guy that promised that he would reach across the isle and work with the opposition? What happened to the guy who promised in his inaugural speech to be open and honest with his government?

What happened to that guy?

I'll tell you what happened. HE LIED! THEY ALWAYS LIE!

All you sanctimonious Obamacrack addicts would be in an uproar if this was a Republican. But since he's a fellow liberal all of this is just hunky dory when he lies to your face, and forgets every promise that he made during campaigning. He could sell your soul and all you can think about is "that audacity of hope." If you voted for this Bozo you were taken in the biggest scam in history.

Want proof?

Name one thing he has done that he promised to do? ONE. Not five, ONE! He isn't even trying to do most of the things you voted him to do.

"He's working on the economy." You say.

Really? Let's take a look shall we? He could have worked for a bill that was ONLY stimulus and NONE of the PORK and it would have sailed through congress and the senate and be working for you weeks ago. HE DID NOT DO SO! He could have rained in Queen Pelosi and Prince William to get a bill that would actually help the U.S. HE DID NOT DO SO. He isn't working for you. He has no intentions of working for you. IF HE HAD HE WOULD DO IT ON HIS FIRST ITEMS OF BUSINESS! Why make a poor first impression?

If he really cared about you, about his promises, about the country, he would have made an extra concerted effort to be what he said he was in the first month.

He did not.

What does that tell you?

It has nothing to do with the Republicans. This is how your president is acting.

What Rights?

This article chaps my hide. Someone please explain to me why a judge would even allow this case to go to court.

Illegal aliens do not have rights to trespass on private property. They do not have rights to damage, litter, poop, or walk on a U.S. citizens land without permission.

Welcome to liberal hell. Where people with no rights are given them by a government to stupid to understand that rights are earned not rewarded.

From the Washington Times
16 illegals sue Arizona rancher
Claim violation of rights as they crossed his land
Jerry Seper (Contact)Monday, February 9, 2009

An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Roger Barnett, 64, began rounding up illegal immigrants in 1998 and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol, he said, after they destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home.

His Cross Rail Ranch near Douglas, Ariz., is known by federal and county law enforcement authorities as "the avenue of choice" for immigrants seeking to enter the United States illegally.

Trial continues Monday in the federal lawsuit, which seeks $32 million in actual and punitive damages for civil rights violations, the infliction of emotional distress and other crimes. Also named are Mr. Barnett's wife, Barbara, his brother, Donald, and Larry Dever, sheriff in Cochise County, Ariz., where the Barnetts live. The civil trial is expected to continue until Friday.

The lawsuit is based on a March 7, 2004, incident in a dry wash on the 22,000-acre ranch, when he approached a group of illegal immigrants while carrying a gun and accompanied by a large dog.

Attorneys for the immigrants - five women and 11 men who were trying to cross illegally into the United States - have accused Mr. Barnett of holding the group captive at gunpoint, threatening to turn his dog loose on them and saying he would shoot anyone who tried to escape.
The immigrants are represented at trial by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), which also charged that Sheriff Dever did nothing to prevent Mr. Barnett from holding their clients at "gunpoint, yelling obscenities at them and kicking one of the women."

In the lawsuit, MALDEF said Mr. Barnett approached the group as the immigrants moved through his property, and that he was carrying a pistol and threatening them in English and Spanish. At one point, it said, Mr. Barnett's dog barked at several of the women and he yelled at them in Spanish, "My dog is hungry and he's hungry for buttocks."

The lawsuit said he then called his wife and two Border Patrol agents arrived at the site. It also said Mr. Barnett acknowledged that he had turned over 12,000 illegal immigrants to the Border Patrol since 1998.

In March, U.S. District Judge John Roll rejected a motion by Mr. Barnett to have the charges dropped, ruling there was sufficient evidence to allow the matter to be presented to a jury. Mr. Barnett's attorney, David Hardy, had argued that illegal immigrants did not have the same rights as U.S. citizens.

Mr. Barnett told The Washington Times in a 2002 interview that he began rounding up illegal immigrants after they started to vandalize his property, northeast of Douglas along Arizona Highway 80. He said the immigrants tore up water pumps, killed calves, destroyed fences and gates, stole trucks and broke into his home.

Some of his cattle died from ingesting the plastic bottles left behind by the immigrants, he said, adding that he installed a faucet on an 8,000-gallon water tank so the immigrants would stop damaging the tank to get water.

Mr. Barnett said some of the ranch´s established immigrant trails were littered with trash 10 inches deep, including human waste, used toilet paper, soiled diapers, cigarette packs, clothes, backpacks, empty 1-gallon water bottles, chewing-gum wrappers and aluminum foil - which supposedly is used to pack the drugs the immigrant smugglers give their "clients" to keep them running.

He said he carried a pistol during his searches for the immigrants and had a rifle in his truck "for protection" against immigrant and drug smugglers, who often are armed.

ASSOCIATED PRESS DEFENDANT: Roger Barnett said he had turned over 12,000 illegal immigrants to the Border Patrol since 1998.

A former Cochise County sheriff´s deputy who later was successful in the towing and propane business, Mr. Barnett spent $30,000 on electronic sensors, which he has hidden along established trails on his ranch. He searches the ranch for illegal immigrants in a pickup truck, dressed in a green shirt and camouflage hat, with his handgun and rifle, high-powered binoculars and a walkie-talkie.

His sprawling ranch became an illegal-immigration highway when the Border Patrol diverted its attention to several border towns in an effort to take control of the established ports of entry. That effort moved the illegal immigrants to the remote areas of the border, including the Cross Rail Ranch.

"This is my land. I´m the victim here," Mr. Barnett said. "When someone´s home and loved ones are in jeopardy and the government seemingly can´t do anything about it, I feel justified in taking matters into my own hands. And I always watch my back."

Let's do some math shall we?

Although there is great debate on the actual amount of money that our government has tried to pump into our system with the old bills, the new one's and the emergency spending, the popular figure is over $9 trillion dollars.

What would that buy?

Obama says it will save or create 4 million jobs.

If he is correct, each of those 4 million jobs cost us $2,250,000 each. Where do I go to get one of those jobs?

It would also pay for 78% of all the mortgages in America, including every one of the "sub prime" mortgages that caused this whole mess.

Now I ask you, what could you do to help the economy if you no longer had to pay a mortgage payment every month?

If we had this type of money, socked away somewhere in the government's coffers, why wouldn't they pay off all our mortgages?

Answer: The government is no longer here for your benefit. They exist for their own.

Because this money is 'fiat currency' (not backed by gold), not 'specie currency' (backed by gold), your government (both Bush and Obama) have just begun printing money with reckless abandon. We don't have $9 trillion. They just made it up, born from thin air, hoping you didn't notice while you tell the surveyor that Obama get high marks for the job he's doing.

We are a country of elected morons, that we allow to ruin our future, re-elect them to continue to do nothing but pad their own pockets and the pockets of their friends.

It is time to revolt. What would our forefathers have done? Did they sit back and allow the English government to tax and spend for them?

Those who have ears let them hear

I spent a lot of time this past week, as some of you did too, studying Mathew Chapter 13. It struck me that there are a lot of similarities from that time a couple thousand years ago and our time.

In this chapter Jesus Christ taught the people in parables. Why did he teach them in parables? His reasons were two fold.

First, parables are a unique way of telling everyone a story that has multiple meanings. To some, it meant a nice little story. To others it had deep meaning that they needed to ponder. But to those who knew, it meant specific things in specific ways, that had specific results.

Second, it was a way to convey information out in the open, even though it might not be for everyone who can hear.

Thus the saying, "Let those who have ears hear."

Right now we are in the midst of an economic crisis which the prevailing government has chosen to use to grab power, change the course of our country, disrupt Conservative beliefs and morals, and implement their own. It is nothing less than a pivotal point in our country's development.

They are buying votes with special interest spending.

Right now the president is going on a whirlwind tour to get people to accept his Spedulis Plan. He wants people to pressure congress, no scratch that, Republicans to vote for the bill.

Problem: He doesn't need the votes. If the democrats wanted to pass the bill there is nothing the Republicans can do about it. They just need to vote and be done with it.

But they won't. Not without Republican finger prints on it.

"Let those with ears hear, and those with eyes see."

Why don't the Democrats vote for it pass it and get on with it if it is so important?

Why will they not risk their own political capital by passing it themselves?

Why are they so concerned about Republican support?

"Let those with ears hear, and those with eyes see."

Why don't the democrats scale down the bill, cross over and add some of the Republican ideas to get more support?

Why are democrats hell bent on leaving in spending that has no place in a stimulus bill, that if they took it out, it would have more support?

Why is the president traveling and rallying support for a bill written in congress that the White House only had a small amount of input on?

"Let those with ears hear, and those with eyes see."

Wake Up Call

As I watch the news, which I rarely do anymore, I see people gushing at this new political wonder. Pick any station ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC they all have a serious, unabashed, flaunting crush on the liberals and Obama. They swoon when he talks, they're hearts go all a flutter when he meets with them, and their news casts do everything they can to give him the best possible light, while trying to do all they can (without even a morsel of regret) to destroy anyone who has a conservative voice or opinion.

So here's some common sense:

You're a moron if you think Obama is going to spend his way out of this recession. Go read about FDR and how his spending didn't stop the depression only WWII did that.

You're a moron if you think that the world is going to be safer with liberals in charge. Muslim extremists don't want to sit around a campfire and sing, give you a hug, or exchange phone numbers. They want to kill you, me and everyone else.

You're a moron if you think that Obama's energy policy is going to help you in any way. He does not want to drill anywhere. He does not want nuclear power. He does not want coal. He does not want to process shell. All he wants to do is tax the oil companies and harness wind and solar. You are simply a moron if you think that is going to help our country.

You're a moron if you think that "sharing wealth" helps you. Obama and his liberal lackeys can spread the wealth around all they want, but it won't ever do two things. One, it will not create jobs. Two, it will not help people climb out of the dole.

You're a moron if you think Global Warming is science rather than political. For years people who did not believe all the rhetoric about G.W. were made fun of. Now it is my turn to laugh. You are a moron if you believe that it is more about science than it is about politics.

You're a moron if you think that the government will create jobs.

You're a moron if you think that congress is there to help you.

You're a moron if you think that actors or actresses in Hollywood should be listened to just because they have a stage to say something.

You're a moron if you listen to the news without thinking, What a bunch of morons.

How did you get to be a moron? Go back and watch more news until you figure it out.

Go Big for the Environment: Refridgerator Lust

O.K. this is the dumbest thing I have ever read in my entire life.

People are unplugging their refrigerators for good, to lessen their carbon footprint.

(ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, breathe, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, wipe tears, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, breathe, ha ha ha ha ha ha whoops, sorry, I wet myself a little.)

No seriously, it's a badge of honor that they can get ride of their refrigerator. See for yourself,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/garden/05fridge.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

My favorite part of the article is :

"PEOPLE who do best without a refrigerator often have certain built-in lifestyle advantages — they live alone and don’t have to cook large meals for a family, say, or they live on a farm or within walking distance of a grocery store."

So these people, these enlightened ones, who are the shinning light of liberalism and enviromentalnuttyism, live where? Big cities, liberal bastions on either coast?

I once heard a comedian say that if the power went out in NYC that within a week, half the population will cannibalize the other half.

Without fridges, it will happen a lot sooner.

This is stupid because these are the same people who go out to eat at restaurants, WHO USE POWER. They want to shop at grocery stores, THAT USE POWER. They ride public transportation, THAT USE POWER. And they live in cities, THAT USE POWER! What good is giving away your fridge to lesson the "carbon footprint" if everything else you do in your life also takes power?

Idiots. Power monks. Carbon Nazi's. The article actually says we have refrigerator lust. Morons. I got a better way for you to lesson your carbon footprint that won't be so annoying. Move to the woods, take off all your cloths, and live like the animals you think you evolved from. I bet monkey's carbon footprint is ZERO!

Oh, and by the way, the reason that they live alone is not because they don't have a refrigerator, it is because they don't believe in showering either. "Water is precious, why waste it on our bodies."