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A review of Disasters 101: A list for those that think it will never happen to them by Survival Woman

2011-07-24T08:21:00.000-05:00

Happy Blessed Sunday Folks,

I found this to be an interesting list of some of the disasters that have and can happen to us. A couple of things to keep in mind are Hurricane Ike three years ago and the power, water loss and sewage problems it caused us here. TS Allison, in 2001, dumped 48 inches plus (that's four feet) of rain in a couple of days on the med center, down town and the north side of Houston, imagine that happening in our area instead. The federal government wants Texas to connect its power grid to the rest of the country and also, at the same time, to stop using coal fired electrical generating plants (almost 50% of our current generating capacity). Remember the rolling blackouts last winter? Think, at least, ten times worse than that and several times more expensive. Now then, don't forget about Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the criminal hoards invited to our area by our do good politicians. While you are reading this list, keep all of that in mind. Oh, and, please pass this on!

http://www.backdoorsurvival.com/index.php/2011/07/23/disaster-101-list/

Help promote Texas Constitutional Carry!

Steve and Baron

The Federal debt limit hype and garbage

2011-07-16T07:36:00.000-05:00

Hey Folks,

Here's a great website to see exactly how the August expenditures go up against the US Gov's revenue if the debt ceiling isn't raised. Don't believe the President's and news media (including Fox News) hype about it. There is no reason to default even with no increase in the debt limit. Not raising the debt limit doesn't mean there will be a default. It just means President Obama and the Fed Gov won't be able to spend money on pet projects. There will be no problem paying SS, Medicare, Medicaid, defense and military expenditures. Click the link below to see for yourself. Please send this around, this needs to get out.

http://about.bgov.com/2011/07/12/august-invoices-show-u-s-treasury%E2%80%99s-limited-choices/

Help promote Texas Constitutional Carry!

Steve Haynes

How to make money as a City Of Houston Employee

2011-07-05T15:21:00.000-05:00

Howdy Mayor and City Council Members,

I figured it out. The PWE crews know they can break a gas line while doing a water line repair job (today at 11223 Forked Bough, 77042) and then take three times as long to repair the water line break. Oh and also, they can tie up six fire vehicles while they are at it. Absolutely pathetic. No wonder the city is so broke. Privatize PWE, make the contractors pay for all of the damage caused when a gas line is cut on the first incident. The next incident results in getting a new contractor. Stop paying for idiots to work for the city!

Steve Haynes

bcc: all of my neighbors in the subdivision

It's "Independence Day," not just a date!

2011-07-02T13:50:00.000-05:00

I have this peeve with those you constantly use the term "Fourth of July" instead of the correct term "Independence Day." The date term is probably another progressive attack, initially, to water down and detract citizens of the real reason for celebrating this sacred holiday. Please be bold and correct any and all references to the incorrect label. Happy Independence Day fellow citizens of the Republic!

Declaration of Independence

(Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776)

The Unanimous Declaration
of the Thirteen United States of America

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Source: The Pennsylvania Packet, July 8, 1776

Sheila Jackson Lee Loves, I mean, hates her staffers

2011-03-02T08:16:00.000-06:00

quote: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas also hands out nicknames to the people who work for her. The Houston Democrat addressed one of her employees as “you stupid m*****f*****.” And not just once, but “constantly,” recalls the staffer, “like, all the time.”

You folks in her district should fire her and get someone with more civility. She doesn't have any!

Jolanda "Jo" Jones, Houston Council Member At Large 5

2011-02-17T21:59:00.002-06:00

Hey Folks,

Don't you just love what JJJ is doing for HPD. Check out this item she's passing out. Notice she has herself listed a "lawyer."

This is her City of Houston Council Member web page link. Tell her what you think about this document she's passing out. Email: atlarge5@houstontx.gov

While your at it, you might as well let Sheila Jackson Lee know what you think too. Here's her contact stuff: http://www.jacksonlee.house.gov/

Washington Office

2160 Rayburn BuildingWashington, DC 20515(202) 225-3816Phone(202) 225-3317Fax

1919 Smith StreetSuite 1180Houston, TX 77002(713) 655-0050Phone(713) 655-1612Fax

Heights Office

420 West 19th StreetHouston, TX 77008(713) 861-4070

Acres Home Office

6719 West MontgomerySuite 204Houston, TX 77091(713) 691-4882

Fifth Ward Office

4300 Lyons Ave.Houston, TX 77020(713) 227-7740Phone(713) 227-7707Fax

Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals

2011-02-12T10:56:00.000-06:00

Tactics of the Left
(Use these tactics against them)

Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.

Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people.

Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of the enemy.

Rule 4: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

Rule 5: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag.

Rule 8: Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period.

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself.

Rule 10: Maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.

Rule 11: If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.

Rule 12: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

Rule 13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it.

All It Takes Is For A Non-Muslim To Approach A Mosque

2010-08-26T10:34:00.000-05:00

"Aug 26 (Reuters) - Palestinians torched half a dozen vehicles in East Jerusalem on Thursday and threw stones and firebombs at Israeli police after Jewish settlers approached a mosque, local residents and police said." Read the complete article here.

Well now, isn't that interesting. So what this article says is that if the near ground zero (Twin Towers in NYC) mosque is approached by non-muslim believers, the idiots will riot and destroy stuff. What does that say about muslims? It says a whole lot to me, at least. Don't believe anyone when they tell you that muslims are peaceful!

Baron - The Champion Treat Catcher

2010-08-24T13:05:00.000-05:00

Everyone knows that my Doberman Pincher, the Red Baron von Doberman, loves his treats. The YouTube video below shows him doing a pretty good job of catching them too.

The Death of the Dollar

2010-08-13T08:41:00.000-05:00

I found this great article on The American Thinker website by Vasko Kohlmayer

excerpt: "In 1913, five dollars could get you the following:

15 pounds of potatoes, 10 pounds of flour, 5 pounds of sugar, 5 pounds of chuck roast, 3 pounds of round steak, 3 pounds of rice, 2 pounds each of cheese and bacon, and a pound each of butter and coffee ... two loaves of bread, 4 quarts of milk and a dozen eggs."

Read the full article at :http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/the_death_of_the_dollar.html

For more articles by Vasko Kohlmayer visit here.

For those of you interested in fictionalized account of a financial collapse of the US economy should read this great book by James Wesley Rawles, "The Patriot"

Baron Loves Carrots

2010-08-08T11:10:00.001-05:00

Baron just loves carrots. Everyday at suppertime, Baron gets one whole carrot broken into two pieces. He is a very unhappy puppy until he gets it. He is also very animated while anticipating his daily carrot. See below to view one of his YouTube videos.

A Great Video That All Should View

2010-08-07T05:56:00.000-05:00

I found this very interesting video shot on Friday and I thought you may be interested. It's about 10 minutes long and the very best part is at the end of it just before it ends. There are numerous points made that all should consider, especially if your news channel is less than forthcoming as many seem to be these days. Finally, it is not my intention to offend anyone, just to be informative. I consider myself a very non-racial person. Although, I don't care for ILLEGAL immigrants no matter where they come from nor do I care for RADICALIZED Muslims who seem to be trying to kill us all. Click the large arrow to view the video.

Baron's First Blog Post

2010-08-04T13:33:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone, my name is Red Baron von Doberman, but you can call me Baron. This is me:

As you can see here, I'm kind of a "laid-back" kind of pooch. Of course, the above photo was taken while I was trying to catch a few winks in the winter. Don't you just love my camouflage blanket! No, you can't have it!