Celtic Woman - Amazing Grace

The Art of Fermentation with Sandor Katz

A letter to AARP

THE LADY WHO WROTE THE LETTER BELOW NOT ONLY HAS A GRASP OF THE SITUATION, BUT AN INCREDIBLE COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!     Her letter was sent to Mr. Rand who is the Executive Director of AARP.  It only takes a few days on the Internet and this will have reached 75% of the public in the U.S.A.           Dear Mr. Rand,   Recently, you sent us a letter encouraging us to renew our lapsed membership in AARP by the requested date.  This isn't what you were looking for, but it is the most honest response I can give you.   Our coverage gap is a microscopic symptom of the real problem, a deepening lack of faith.  While we have proudly maintained our membership for years and long admired the AARP goals and principles, regrettably, we can no longer endorse its abdication of our values.  Your letter stated that we can count on AARP to speak up for our rights, yet the voice we hear is not ours.  Your offer of being kept up to date on important issues through DIVIDED WE FAIL presents neither an impartial view nor the one we have come to embrace.  We do believe that when two parties agree all the time on everything presented to them, one is probably not necessary.  But, when the opinions and long term goals are diametrically opposed, the divorce is imminent.  This is the philosophy which spawned our 200 years of government.      Once upon a time, we looked forward to being part of the senior demographic.  We also looked to AARP to provide certain benefits and give our voice a power we could not possibly hope to achieve on our own.  AARP once gave us a sense of belonging which we no longer enjoy.   The Socialist politics practiced by the Obama Regime and empowered by AARP     serves only to raise the blood pressure my medical insurance strives to contain.  Clearly a conflict of interest there!  We do not understand the AARP posture, feel greatly betrayed by the guiding forces that we expected to map out our senior years and leave your ranks with a great sense of regret.  We mitigate that disappointment with the relief of knowing that we are not contributing to the problem anymore by renewing our membership.  There are numerous other organizations which offer discounts without threatening our way of life or offending our sensibilities and values. This Obama Regime scares the living daylights out of us.  Not just for ourselves, but for our proud and bloodstained heritage.  But more importantly for our children and grandchildren.  Washington has rendered Soylent Green a prophetic cautionary tale rather than a nonfiction scare tactic.   I have never endorsed any militant or radical groups, yet now I find myself listening to them.  I don't have to agree with them to appreciate the fear which birthed their existence.  Their borderline insanity presents little more than a balance to the voice of the Socialist Mindset in power.   Perhaps I became American by a great stroke of luck in some cosmic uterine lottery, but in my adulthood I CHOOSE to embrace it and nurture the freedoms it represents as well as the responsibilities.  Your web site generously offers us the opportunity to receive all communication in Spanish.  ARE YOU KIDDING???   The illegal perpetrators have broken into our 'house', invaded our home without invitation or consent.  The President insists we keep these illegal perpetrators in comfort and learn the perpetrator's language so we can communicate our reluctant welcome to them.   I DON'T choose to welcome them, to support them, to educate them, to medicate them, or to pay for their food or clothing.  American home invaders get arrested.  Please explain to me why foreign lawbreakers can enjoy privileges on American soil that Americans do not get?  Why do some immigrants have to play the game to be welcomed and others only have to break and enter to be welcomed?   We travel for a living.  Walt hauls horses all over this great country, averaging over 10,000 miles a month when he is out there.  He meets more people than a politician on caffeine overdose.  Of all the many good folks he enjoyed on this last 10,000 miles, this trip yielded only ONE supporter of the current Regime.  One of us is out of touch with mainstream America.  Since our poll is conducted without funding, I have more faith in it than ones that are driven by a need to yield AMNESTY (aka-       make voters out of the foreign lawbreakers       so they can vote to continue the government's free handouts).   This addition of 10 to 20 million voters who then will vote to continue Socialism will OVERWHELM our votes to control the government's free handouts.  It is a "slippery slope" we must not embark upon!   As Margaret Thatcher (former Prime Minister of Great Britain) once said  "Socialism is GREAT - UNTIL you run out of other people's money". We have decided to forward this to everyone on our mailing list, and will encourage them to do the same.  With several hundred in my address book, I have every faith that the eventual exponential factor will make a credible statement to you.  I am disappointed as all get out!  I am more scared than I have ever been in my entire life!  I am ANGRY!  I am MAD as heck, and I'm NOT going to take it anymore!   Walt & Cyndy Miller,  Miller Farms Equine Transport     KEEP THIS MOVING!!!     Furthermore, if you do a little checking on ARRP's website, you will find their      anti-second amendment position to disarm us.

Frédéric Pignon et ses étalons

Five Types of Horse Owner

  Came across this article and though it worth the share.  Would like to add, we are breeders of fine Gypsy Vanner Horses and consider ourselves a little bit of all.  Having said that, when it comes to selling one of the horses, I am always evaluating ...'what type of owner will they be or are"......so read on and see what you think.

Five Types of Horse Owner

Obama Care

 10,535 pages reduced to 4 sentences

Best explanation I have seen, kinda sounds like Abbott and Costello's "Who's on first".

4 simple sentences 

Great summary by a Notre Dame University ENGINEER****..... Here are the 10,535 pages of Obama Care condensed to 4 simple sentences..  As humorous as it sounds..every last word is absolutely TRUE!

1. In order to insure the uninsured, we first have to un-insure the insured.

2. Next, we require the newly uninsured to be re-insured.

3. To re-insure the newly uninsured, they are required to pay extra charges to be re-insured.

4. The extra charges are required so that the original insured, who became un-insured, and then became re-insured, can pay enough extra so that the original un-insured can be insured, so it will be "free-of-charge" to them.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is called "redistribution of wealth" ...or, by its more common name, SOCIALISM, the politically correct name for COMMUNISM! 

**** give all problems to ENGINEERS who were rigorously driven to solve problems.

Never Again, Again? - The Catholic ThingThe Catholic Thing

Never Again, Again? - The Catholic ThingThe Catholic Thing

CONUNDRUM

Conundrum
 
Free people are not equal.  Equal people are not free. (Think this one over and over…makes sense!)

"A gun is like a parachute.  If you need one, and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again."
 

The definition of the word Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or confusing.
 Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America:
 1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.
 2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.
 3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.
 4.. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.
 5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
 6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.
 
Think about it! And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century.     Makes you wonder who is doing the math.

 

 
These three, short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our current government and cultural environment:
 1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.
 Funny how that works.  And here's another one worth considering...
 2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money..  But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money! What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their money, but the second didn't and apparently won't.
 Think about it.....and Last but not least:
 3. Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, no pay raises for our military and cutting our army to a level lower than before WWII, but we are not stopping the payments or benefits to illegal aliens. In fact we are suggesting more to come to America?

 

WHAT ELSE AM I MISSING?

 

7% Written by a 90 year old

7% Written by a 90 year old This is something we should all read at least once a week!   Make sure you read to the end. Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio .. "To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more: 1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good. 2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 3. Life is too short, enjoy it. 4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will. 5. Pay off your credit cards every month. 6. You don't have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself. 7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone. 8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it. 9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck. 10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile. 11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the future. 12. It's OK to let your children see you cry. 13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about. 14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it. 15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye, but don't worry, God never blinks. 16.. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind. 17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful. Clutter weighs you down in many ways. 18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger. 19.. It's never too late to be happy. But it’s all up to you and no one else. 20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer. 21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special. 22. Over prepare, then go with the flow. 23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple. 24. The most important sex organ is the brain. 25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you. 26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?' 27. Always choose life. 28. Forgive 29. What other people think of you is none of your business. 30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time. 31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change. 32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does. 33. Believe in miracles. 34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do. 35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now. 36. Growing old beats the alternative of dying young. 37. Your children get only one childhood. 38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved. 39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere. 40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back. 41. Envy is a waste of time. Accept what you already have, not what you need 42. The best is yet to come... 43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up. 44. Yield. 45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift." Its estimated 93% won't forward this. If you are one of the 7% who will, forward this with the title '7%'. I'm in the 7%. Friends are the family that we choose.