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Make Mine Freedom 1948 cartoon

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Signs of a Recession

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Sad, But TRUE? We owe our souls to the Federal Reserve?

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SWINE FLU -- YOU NEED TO KNOW

noreply@blogger.com (BuffaloGal) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:45:00 PDT

It's the DOI Management team here with an URGENT update...

Hope you are well.

As you know we normally keep our focus on this relay to
business. But due to extraordinary circumstances that we have
been informed about, we had to contact you today with some really
important information that concerns every member all around the
world and we need your help to pass this information on.

We have all heard of the new swine flu right?

Well there is a lot of information for good reason that the
governments around the world are not telling you. They are
really doing an awesome job right now at running fear campaigns
to have everyone in the community running scared about H1N1.

Before you decide to get your shots voluntarily please take your
time to weigh the facts that could ultimately lead to harming
your health rather than just rushing into vaccination because
your Government says it’s the right thing to do.

Did you know that the Australian Government has completed a deal
with CSL to buy 21 million vaccinations for the Australian people
and they start Australia’s single biggest immunization program
ever on the 30th September 2009? – see
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfX&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=D
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfv&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=a
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfK&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=4

Did you know that the Irish Government is making it Mandatory?
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDf2&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=A &
- there is a huge list of articles on the right hand side of this
article – all on the H1N1 along with further info and videos
you can watch.

Did you know that the UK Government is planning mass
vaccinations?
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfZ&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=6

Did you know that a Baxter International research facility in
Austria sent a quantity of the H3N2 viral material to 18 European
Laboratories? Watch this -
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfe&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=E

Here is information about the law suit filed against Baxter &
Avir:
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfo&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=B

Did you know that 4.9 Billion Vaccines have been made for the
H1N1 flu and they are about to be administered around the globe
voluntarily to begin and eventually planned to be mandatory? Mass
Vaccination Documents Leaked
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfL&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=S & - Part 1
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfH&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=h & - Part 2

Ok so the vaccine is coming but what does this really mean for
you?

Of course, everyone has free will to do what they want but
before you make your decision, we just want to bring many
important facts to your attention before you run out to get your
shot…. Take some time to read and watch the links below and
you maybe shocked about the real facts of the H1N1 Flu….

This is the stuff the Governments wont tell you….

If you want more info on the affects of what this vaccine for
swine flu can do along with the real facts of the swine flu then
go to: http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfm&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=z

Here is an interview by Dr Mercola talking about the Vaccine: -
please disregard any advertising on this video.
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfP&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=G

As of August 28th 2009 (update 63) (
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDff&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=w ), there
have been 2185 deaths world wide from H1N1. Compared to seasonal
flu, this does not constitute a pandemic let alone justify
mandatory mass vaccination with a vaccine that will have
dangerous side effects and little proof of efficacy.

Approximately 36 thousand Americans die from seasonal flu every
year, 200 thousand are hospitalised. Between 250 - 500 thousand
people die from seasonal flu world wide, also resulting in three
to five million cases of severe illness.
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDf8&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=y The world
wide 2185 deaths from H1N1 virus, does not constitute a pandemic
yet alone grounds to begin mandatory vaccination around the
world.

This doesn’t make sense to us and it seems there is some
higher order or reason to be running this scare campaign around
the world. There is also a massive cost to each tax payer along
with a huge profit being made by the manufacturer of the vaccine.

While we are on manufacturers, can you believe a company called
Medimmune filed a patent on the latest H1N1 flu more than a year
before the first case? Yes you heard, a year before the swine
flu started!!! Don’t believe us then watch this….
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfj&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=Q - H1N1 Swine
Flu Virus Patented by Medimmune Back in 2008

Funny that the Australian government cant even come clean on the
actual cost yet they have put in an order for 21 million H1N1
vaccinations and there are only 21 Million people in the country!

If that is not starting to look like mandatory vaccination then
what is? Why would the Government buy 21 Million Vaccines at a
cost they can not even tell the tax payers of Australia about if
they didn’t have a plan to max vaccinate? You be the judge…
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfv&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=a
–Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon says near the end of the
article and we quote…

Ms Roxon was unable to put a precise figure on the cost of the
vaccine.

"There are some confidentiality issues. We have a private
contractual agreement with CSL for the priority provision for
this vaccine," she said.

"I have made clear on the record before that it is over $100
million. It is not appropriate for us to be itemizing the exact
cost, given the commercial interests that are also at stake."

Personally we find that very interesting that the government who
has gone into contract with CSL can not give the Australian
people (who will be consuming the vaccine should they choose to
have it) an honest answer of what this vaccine is going to cost
the tax payers nor the real facts behind the vaccine.

It is really interesting that CSL the makers of the vaccine have
posted a tidy 63% profit also:
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfU&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=M

Some more interesting sites, articles & videos worth reading
& Watching before you make your choice to be vaccinated….

http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDf5&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=t
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfk&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=C

http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfY&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=I

http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfu&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=V
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfx&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=J
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfT&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=9
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfc&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=F
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfp&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=R
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfs&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=r
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDf1&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=l
- action you can take if you are a US citizen
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfb&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=0

http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDf3&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=O
- Bioterrorism Evidence - 134page document
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfN&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=W - US troopers reacting
to flu vaccine

US National Vaccine Information Center
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDf7&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=i
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfd&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=X
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfq&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=v

Other non relevant Articles about what is going on right now:
Ok, what can you do?

Choose to take it or choose not to take it? Your choice of
course….

If you do decide to take it please follow Dr Mercola’s steps
in this video -
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfP&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=G

If you decide not to take it, stand up and be counted now,
please! Please tell everyone you love and care about what is
really going on with the H1N1. There is a game being played by
the powers to be and now more than ever before, the people of the
world need to stick together to defeat the barrage that is about
to be onslaught to the worlds people.

Don’t believe us that there are some serious games going on?

Even world renown actor and bad boy Charlie Sheen has stood up
addressing President Obama asking questions about so many things
in an Address on the anniversary of the 9/11 bombing – see:
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfg&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=K

Don’t know who is really controlling the world right now?
Watch this video and make up your own mind….
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfn&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=2
- on the right hand side of the video you will see a lot more to
watch. Feel free to research more at your own free will…
Believe what you will from it…

We believe there is a game being played in a big way right now
and you need to know about it to assist you with the decisions
you make for you and your family and to take action.

If what you have read and watched has you wanting to take action
and you live in Australia then Michael Bending of Alliance for
Health Freedom Australia has a petition against mandatory swine
flu vaccination on his site, he is aiming for 100,000 signatures
and has only just posted it so there are less than 1000 so far.

He needs as many health-wise people to sign this petition and
send the message to Rudd and Roxson that mandatory vaccinations
are TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.

The link is:
http://getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=lDfD&mc=m&s=B6IuE&y=Z

Read the letter on the right hand side along with review the
links in the letter. You can also send a copy of the letter to
your local member if you live in Australia.

If you are not from Australia, research this more in your local
country and make a stand now!

Please take action with your research today – time is ticking
fast!

Please take it upon yourself to research the internet in your
own country. Please google any of the following; “H1N1
Vaccination” “H1N1 vaccine” “H1N1” “H1N1 Update”
“H1N1 Forced Vaccinations” to get you started.

Please pass this message on to as many as possible before it is
too late.

Thank you for reading and researching this very important topic.

Love and blessings,

DO Management Team

Just 545 people are responsible for our woes

noreply@blogger.com (BuffaloGal) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:28:00 PDT

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We could use some mirth... Happy Sunday!

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Tea Party Express Arrives for 'March on Washington' to Protest Government Spending - Political News - FOXNews.com

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In Memory of September 11, 2001

noreply@blogger.com (BuffaloGal) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:17:00 PDT

American Thinker Blog: Dust off that Obama 'pledge' for your kids

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On Cat Attacks and National Health

noreply@blogger.com (BuffaloGal) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:13:00 PDT

8 pm now, home a few minutes ago. To recap: Sunday evening I got into a situation between my cat, Karma, and a wee stranger kit I was calling Bunny. Never get between two cats. Even when the wise older cat looks like he is just thinking about what he had for breakfast or when is supper, he is in attack mode. And if you attempt to touch his throat to ascertain whether that strange baritone is coming from him or the teeny kitten, he will attack. You. Me.

Tuesday (today) I decided to go to ER because pus was oozing from a couple of sites. Daughter Lynette went with me.

So. Turned out was 2 abscesses. Doctor who treated me is hand injury specialist. He didn't let the resident incise and drain the wounds because of proximity to tendons and artery.

So anesthetic at sites, drain, dress... antibiotic IV, and a scrip for home. I am to go to my doc in morning, but if can't get in, back to ER for check. Any creeping redness get to ER asap. [Duh.]

But here's the thing: Talked to doc, who has published a book on hand injuries, and nurse about HR 3200. PEOPLE, we must talk about this-- voice opinions. Most damage is from people not caring, or thinking que sera, or that there's no difference they can make. In this information age, each one of us can make a difference.

Tried to include the resident intern too, but her English was such that the most she would say is that she has no comment.

Doctor and nurse both had a lot to say. Doc's most voiced concern is that fewer people will go into medicine. He said "socialized medicine does not work in Canada and it won't work here." He said Buffalo has a doctor shortage and Boston has too many docs. These things would be evened out, but as fewer people become doctors, waiting lists will grow and quality will be sacrificed to the bottom line. He also said he thought the biggest problems with national health is propensity for abuse. In the Buffalo News today was an article about a man (Lynette knew him from ECMC) who has already taken 600 free ambulance rides. Medicaid pays for it and hospital cannot refuse him, even though they know he is out just for something to do, sometimes a free lunch if it's around meal time. [Good thing i didn't find out years ago that medicaid paid for emergency meals at the hospital. lol]

Doctor said if the bill passes they can expect fraud and abuse to be about 2,000 times what it is now. Or more. And the abuse is already phenomenal.

The nurse said the really bad part in hospitals is nurses will be paid by trickle down.... whatever is left after all other operating costs will be paid to nurses. She said this also means that fewer people will go into nursing. She added that she thinks the costs for medical educations, including nursing, will drop -- as well as standards for admission. [Well, I say this is right in keeping with the dumbing down of America: now the process is hitting the professionals]

Both agreed that pharmaceutical companies must be prevented from having billion dollar advertising budgets. And that, they concurred, is probably the only silver lining of this bill.

He also said, however, that medicine already is socialized in this country, with the exception of private hospitals and treatment centers. "While we have to-- and want to-- treat everyone who comes through the door, the potential for abuse [under HR 3200] is staggering and will bankrupt the country."

I said the country is already bankrupt. Of course he agreed, sadly. And on China being the next super power he said, "Right. The plan must be to put an end to world aid for hunger and drought, flood, disasters, because certainly the Chinese aren't about to do that. They don't even take care of their own."

I watched as he went about his business, which there wasn't much of early on a Tuesday evening. I'd told him I marvel at his calmness talking about this because "sometimes I get just livid." Now as I watched him with his paperwork, with consults, with patients, I realized that all he can do, all any of us can do is keep on keeping on.

But until this bill passes, everyone of us who has the time (most doctors do not) can and must speak up.

Ask your doctor. Talk to your relatives.

Oh, another thing I'd asked was about the public-option.... which I prefer to call the national option. Keep the feds out of the private sector. Make national health an OPTION for those who want and need it. Leaving the private sector alone will reduce the projected abuse from the medicaid/medicare systems.

And on that note, good night. I pray.

3rd choice for HR 3200

noreply@blogger.com (BuffaloGal) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:47:00 PDT

Let's focus on the benefits of OPTIONAL national health insurance... so that those 45 million without health insurance are covered. Let those who want national health have it. But let the private sector keep its coverage and carriers and choices.

This should satisfy all who want universal coverage as well as those who do not want socialized medicine for America. There are ALWAYS more than two choices.

WIN / WIN

Mary, Our Mother

noreply@blogger.com (BuffaloGal) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:36:00 PDT

Blessed Virgin Mary with children

it REALLY is NOT too late

noreply@blogger.com (BuffaloGal) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:36:00 PDT

EFUSJON best healthy energy drink!

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Born Again American

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SMART DOG

noreply@blogger.com (BuffaloGal) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:23:00 PDT

This dog won't take anything from Obama http://disneyesque.blogspot.com

Michael Jackson Syndrome -- While Rome Burns

noreply@blogger.com (Dumb Ox) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:22:00 PDT

Here's Pete King's take on this mania:

And here's Whoopi Goldberg, one of the official spokespersons for the idiocracy on the Left, "defending" Michael Jackson (or is it attacking King?) It's all about you, Whoopi!

Soldiers dying in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Unemployment sky-rocketing.

Higher taxes and socialism around the corner.

Inflation and loss of savings.

Families disintegrating.

Murders by gangs, illegal aliens, jihadists, homocidal maniacs.

And the lame stream media? MJ 24/7... Maybe there's a method to their madness?

How many ways can we say "circus" here?

What does the fact that so many thousands, nay, millions of people, identify with a sad, sick, abused and child-abusing wreck of a human being? True, he had great musical talent. So what?

What are we coming to that morality is just a footnote to a person's life and not the central feature of ones character?

A bunch of soft-Nietzschean idiots, that's what.

God bless America! We need it.

A Hole In My Heart

douglasvgibbs@yahoo.com (Douglas V. Gibbs) — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:42:00 PDT

Upon approaching my grandfather's grave at Riverside National Cemetery, I laid a single rose along the right edge of the plaque that identified his grave as one belonging to a World War II Veteran, United States Army-Air Corps. I planted two small American flags, one at each top corner. They waved slightly under the force of the light breeze. I removed my hat, knelt to a single knee, closed my eyes, and prayed a silent prayer.

I remained silent after my prayer, and remained knelt down for an additional moment, also remembering his brothers in arms that had died on the battlefield so many years ago, and recently in the Middle East. As I rose, placing my hat back upon my head, I looked around, and caught the momentary glance of Dad. The other members of my extended family were standing around talking to each other, conversing with my cousin visiting from Arkansas, and sharing stories about Grandpa. My dad stood off to the side, no longer looking in my direction. Perhaps he was in thought. Maybe he simply decided not to talk at that moment. Nonetheless, like me, he understands Grandpa's service to our nation in ways the others in our party may not. After all, Dad is a Vietnam Veteran, and a United States Marine. We, the ones that took an oath to give our lives for liberty during our service to this nation, feel our patriotism in our soul. It lives and breathes inside of us. It begs for a tear when we look upon Old Glory, and remember the lives of the fallen that gave the ultimate sacrifice on the battlefield.

As much as I desire to recognize the taste of freedom as my Grandfather and Dad did, as a peacetime veteran I will never fully understand their experiences on the battlefield. Grandfather served in France during the 1940's, and Dad in Vietnam during the 1960's. I served in the Pacific Ocean during the Reagan years. The most action I saw was when a Soviet vessel followed the Guided Missile Destroyer I was stationed on for thirteen miles.

My cousin, happy to meet me for the first time in person, shook my hand. I gave her a hug when it came time to depart later. Like my Grandfather and Dad, my cousin and I share a bond that few understand. We both have a hole in our heart, one that will never be filled, one that will never be satisfied.

Dad has been my dad since I was two years old. I rarely refer to him as my step-dad since he has been more of a father to me than most biological fathers are capable of being. Mom ensured our lives were grounded in faith and moral clarity, and Dad made sure our lives were grounded in ethics and strong work habits.

Father, the biological one, was not one to spend a whole lot of time with me during my life. I know that he loved me in his own way, but his ability to show that emotion was somehow limited by a lifestyle that he placed an importance upon that overshadowed any semblance of a sound fatherhood. Usually, I received the privilege to see him once a year, with the occasional deuce when he decided to pop up in my life at Christmas and my birthday during the same year. The time I spent with him was fun, a nice change from my otherwise doldrum existence. He bought me things, took me to movies that my parents may not have, and he had a BETA Machine, which played movies on tape - something my parents did not possess, nor could afford. His was a life funded easily through is businesses, and family heritage. Money was something the Gibbs Family was not short of.

Dad, the step-dad, provided everything he could, sometimes working a couple jobs to maintain his household. He poured his energies into keeping a roof over our heads, and food on the table. Dad never treated me as a step-son. As far as he was concerned, I was no different than the two children he and my mother produced after they married. He did everything to make my life normal, and to ensure I didn't notice the hole in my heart.

Even my grandparents, Dad's folks in Arkansas, got to the point where I was so much a part of the family they even forgot the fact that I was not blood related. Grandma often made remarks saying something along the lines of, "Oh, you got that from your dad," referring to her son, of whom I shared no genetics with.

He was twice the Dad I could ever hope to be, yet after that once a year visit with my father I would come home with the attitude that the biological version was the best guy in the world. The attitude lasted about two weeks, usually, and it surely hurt the feelings of the man that was doing all the work to raise me, and love me. But Dad never said anything about it. If it bothered him, I never knew. He understood, I believe, that it was the hole in my heart talking. The hole was acting out. The hole in my heart wished it did not have to suffer an abandonment issue caused by my father by blood. What I didn't understand at the time was that the man who was my biological father never really thought about fatherhood, never expected to have an heir, and didn't know how to be anything else other than a once or twice a year visitor.

As an adult, now, I understand the hole in my heart. I recognize that it is simply a natural occurrence for children who never knew one of their parents as much as they hoped. Throughout my childhood I strove to earn the pride of a man that didn't know how to be proud of a son he accidentally fathered. I secretly imagined him sitting in the stands during my baseball games. I wished, after he vanished during my teenage years, that he would appear just in time to see me finish a race and receive a medal, or grin at the fact that I was a Letterman. I hoped that he would surprise me by showing up to my high school graduation, or appear just in time to see me off to boot camp when I joined the U.S. Navy. I wondered how much like him I truly was, even though any environmental factors that may mold my personality to be like his did not exist. I wondered if I was anything like him, and secretly feared that I might be.

He reappeared in my life after my aunt, his sister, passed away. I was beyond my teenage years, and married long enough to have a son. His appearance was long after the accident that left me in a coma, and hospitalized for months. He appeared long after I needed him to. He missed the right moments. He failed to live up to my expectations.

During our reunion, I introduced him to his grandson, and asked him his feelings about my child. He responded, "I don't like children."

I suppose I should have figured it out at that moment that my attempts to win a relationship with him were more or less futile, but as hard headed as I am, I continued to pursue getting to know my father better.

In 1998 our relationship finally began to grow. I called him every Saturday, visited him a few times up on the Oregon Coast. He died six months later, before the relationship could truly grow.

His friends say he had a heart attack while driving up the main road to the house. The alcohol level in his blood told me otherwise. He was a drinker, and had always been one. He took a turn too fast and drove his car right off the road, over a long drop, into the Chetco River. The head injury he received when the car slammed into a multitude of trees on the way down killed him instantly. A lucky break, I suppose, since the car wound up under eight feet of cold water when the vehicle finally came to rest.

Again, he had abandoned me.

My mother, his ex-wife, drove up to Oregon with me to tend to his body. During the 16-hour drive we exchanged a few thoughts about the man who had fathered me, but the conversation never left the realm of the surface. Emotions were carefully tucked away, and sensitivities were respected.

In Oregon, when it came time to view his body, I did not wish to do so. My mother urged me to, explaining that I needed closure. So, reluctantly, I entered the room and sat down. I could have sworn I saw movement in his lifeless body. A twinkle in his closed eye. A smile.

I wiped my tears, walked up to the man, and placed my hand on his stiff body. The tears returned, and I spent the next twenty minutes telling the man everything I ever wanted to say. I spilled my heart out, emptying the aging hole that resided deep in my angry heart. I poured all of my emptiness upon the corpse that lay before me, often approaching the threshold of yelling at him. Then, afterward, when I had said all that shored the hole in my heart, I sat down on the bench across from him and wept. I wept for him. I wept that he didn't know the Lord. I wept that he never understood me. I wept that he was incapable of caring about anyone other than himself. I wept for my own self-pity, that he didn't fill the hole in my heart as I desired, that he refused to live up to the hopes I secretly held deep in my soul.

Today, on Memorial Day, after the memories of my biological father forced a couple tears to well up in my eyes, I looked over at the man that has been "Dad" most of my life. Some would call him my step-dad, but to me he is Dad. He was happy to be with his family. He was surely remembering fond thoughts of his father-in-law that lay in the grave below the plaque that was adorned with my rose and two flags. He was there to love me as his son, even though the hole in my heart sometimes made me say things that broke his. He hugged me, and told me he loves me.

The hole in my heart remains, and I suppose it will never be filled, but the love of the ones around me, many of whom "decided" to love me, regardless of whether or not their blood runs through my veins, makes living with that hole in my heart a little bit easier.

Gay Gene Debunked

noreply@blogger.com (Dumb Ox) — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:57:00 PDT

Well this is big news, and coming from one of the many professional organizations captured by radicals and activists over the last 40 years it can hardly be written off as homophobic religious intolerance... No, the American Psychological Association has conceded that there is no such thing as a "gay gene"!

Note that radical gay activists have ALWAYS played a game of double-talk, claiming on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays that homosexuality is genetic and a congenital aspect of a persons identity, demanding civil rights and equality like blacks or women (no one ever raises the counter-point to those arguments that nature frequently errs), and then on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays they argue that homosexuality is a "lifestyle" choice and a manifestation of personal liberty, etc. Well, the jig is up. ...

Tolerance, love, and understanding on society's part is called for, some recognition of certain economic rights in enforcing civil union private contracts is constitutionally and morally due. ...

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Weathering The Storms of Life

douglasvgibbs@yahoo.com (Douglas V. Gibbs) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:28:00 PDT

The world of politics, I believe, is directly linked to the state of our society. The state of our society is linked directly to our faith. Faith guides ethics and morals. This is not to say that those without faith have no morals or ethics. However, I believe that when the morality of a community, or nation, breakdown, it can be directly contributed to the breakdown of faith. And as these morals breakdown, so does society, and ultimately, so follows our government.

Growing up, my mom was an integral part of ensuring that I was exposed to the good news of Christ. I attended church, and I believed in the crucifixion of Christ. My letterman's jacket had a descending dove on the back with the words, "Runner for Christ" below it.

My wife, raised a Catholic, but whose family was non-practicing, was attracted to me, she says, because of my firm belief in the faith of Christianity.

Problem was, I believed in Christ, but I was not to the point in my life where I "knew" Christ, as much as I thought otherwise at the time.

By the time I was married and entered the U.S. Navy, I was beginning to wonder about this belief system of Christianity that my parents tried to convince me of, and of which I thought I was a believer throughout my younger years.

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noreply@blogger.com (Dumb Ox) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:27:00 PDT

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/fy2010_new_era/Inheriting_a_Legacy1.pdf

You can read the whole budget philosophy in Obama’s document called “A New Era of Responsibility” that accompanies the proposed budget. The chapter on "Misplaced Priorities" is linked above and particularly worth your time. Did you know that Education, Environment, and Health Care problems were what has caused the situation we are in today economically?

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Planned Parenthood Christmas Present...

noreply@blogger.com (Dumb Ox) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:02:00 PST

God help us. Christmas? Gift certificates. For birth control pills and abortion. Birth of Jesus? Opportunity to sell murder of innocents.

Yes that's Planned Parenthood.

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Ike, Houston, and the Ox

noreply@blogger.com (BuffaloGal) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:35:00 PDT

Maybe you can send news around or post it on ox ...after dark. School in the city (and St. Thomas follows them) is closed for "a week to 10 days." Absolutely insane. U of H is open today...some sort of admin macho thing. I cancelled my class, as did many profs. My other office at CAI is locked down. Stop lights most not working. I give HUGE credit to Houstonians for driving with respect...chokes me up how good strangers can be.
F went to school to post things on her website. I have a big agenda today, plan on sleeping most of it. There is more plywood to take down, but considering i may have ruined my back the other day, it may stay up until next hurricane season. Like christmas lights.
Tons of trees down everywhere. I'm actually amazed that they cleared the big trees from our little street. A result of community organizing! Obama would be proud. Gas stations have no power. We have enough gas if a get away is in order.
Ike wasn't as bad as they thought, surge much lower. Amazingly small loss of life. We are grateful and thank God. The gov made a point, that texas should be treated as well as louisianna...we shall see... Our house is intact, we are safe. God bless all who are struggling and in danger.

Hurricane Ike and the Ox Family

noreply@blogger.com (BuffaloGal) — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:22:00 PDT

Just got off the phone with the Dumb Ox himself. He reports he and Mrs Ox and the not-so-little Oxen are well and safe.

In spite of his house being built by extraterrestrials, the roof stayed on and they have no damage. The lack of hurricane clips was not a problem -- this time, but something the D.O. will have to see about having done.

Services are few: They have no water, no electricity, no phone. But they do have gas and so are able to make pasta for supper tonight. They have two tubs filled with water for flushing toilets. (You dump a bucket of water into a toilet bowl and, voila, it flushes) And they had stocked up with cases of bottled water. (Hey, Ox.. better hang onto those bottles for recycling!)

The Ox reports 2 feet of water on his street. He nixed going to Mass this morning because "you never know what's under the water." Too much debris of all kinds following Ike's visit. He has, however, seen a couple of trucks on the street. People with important places to go? Or scavengers? A neighbor boy is visiting from across the street, waded over in storm boots-- which of course he was asked to leave at the door. The water outside is contaminated.

Bottom line is: Pray, but don't worry. They are fine and counting their blessings. The Oxen have a solar powered crank radio, lots of rations, lots of bottled water. It's very hot, but when temps cool down in the night, they can open windows for fresh air. It'll be a while before they are showering. At least a week before running water is restored.

When his cell phone dies, he will be unable to recharge it until they have electricity. But, he reports, they are safe and have essentials ... including a little Parmesan cheese. And vino. Tomorrow the Ox will venture out to visit his elderly neighbors. Since yesterday the Oxen have been turning down invitations to hurricane parties, but tomorrow is another day.

Welcome to New "Ox ...After Dark" Contributor: Melissa of "Simple Country Girl"

noreply@blogger.com (Dumb Ox) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:14:00 PDT

"Ox ...After Dark" is pleased to announce that Melissa of "Simple Country Girl" has joined the ranks of our great Contributors. We'll look forward to her posts!

Melissa is one smart and sassy conservative gal--reminds me of Sarah Palin!

Gosh, who would've ever thought a week ago that anyone would be saying such things?

Well, enjoy Melissa's posts, visit her great blog, and try to keep your sanity and your faith and family intact in this crazy political season.

This too will pass.

All the best,
D. Ox