Phallic

Thankfully, I don't need Gecko to tell me what this green plant is a symbol of.

Okay, Gecko, What Is It?

It's On The Internet!

I had occasion to do some work today in downtown Denver. The moonbats who are planning protests at the Democrat convention in August are already arriving. They are staking out the best corners from which to yell at people. Did you know that 911 was an inside job, planned years in advance by our president (who was not president years in advance)? "It's on the internet," shouted the loudest moonbat.

One woman was ecstatic that Nancy Pelosi has "cleared the way for impeachment proceedings to begin against President Bush." She wants to get rid of "those people who want war." She asked me what I thought. I said I want to win the war. "Win the war," she screamed. "What does that mean, win the war?" I said it means that we get to stay alive, while the terrorists who want to kill us are, instead, killed by our brave soldiers. She walked away very angry.

The police seemed to be enjoying riding their loud motorcycles by the protestors. I hope they are ready to deal with these fools.

Tonight's Red Hot Sunset on the Rockies

These Alpacas Are Weird

Horse Camp

This week was horse camp. Here is Jon getting ready to jump his horse over the bar.
I was so proud that Sara wanted to try doing as many things as the bigger kids were doing.
"You mean I can lead this big horse around?"
Sara was very reluctant to kick this horse/donkey.
Greg enjoyed himself on several horses.

Jon got to ride this horse who had recently given birth to this colt. The colt followed Jon and mama everywhere.

From Whom Does Our Government Derive Its Powers?

"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..."
Via Geckofeeder

Fed Up!

Congress, led by Democrats Harry Reid in the Senate and Nancy Pelosi in the House of Representatives, has a 9 percent approval rating by the American people. President Bush has a 25 percent approval rating. The people are fed up.

The Candidate Mocks The People of America Before The World

Liberal do-gooder Barack Obama wants us all to teach our children to speak Spanish. He is "embarrassed" that Europeans can come here and speak more than one language, while when Americans go to Europe, all we know how to say is "merci beaucop." He is running for President of the United States, and is mocking the people of the United States before the world!

Do you really want to "unite" our country Mr. Obama? One way to do it would be to unite us around a common language. That common language, sir, is English. Do you want our votes? Don't degrade us and mock us with your arrogant elitism. We are actually a pretty decent group of people. You should get to know us, before you do what liberals do, which is try to control us.

In Honor of Mama Bear

On Being Liberal or Conservative

All of the wonderful words of support and wisdom keep coming in from my dear friends in blog world, and are so deeply appreciated by Colleen and me.

Mona Charen wrote a devastatingly accurate book entitled Liberal Do-Gooders. Michael Savage wrote a book entitled Liberalism is a Mental Disorder. Yes, it may be a mental disorder, but it is not a benign disorder, because it involves power and control over other human beings. Every time we give up control to a liberal do-gooder, we lose some of our liberty.

Conservatives come across as grouches, because we just want to be left alone to pursue our interests. Liberals pride themselves on being open to new ideas. Conservatives appear closed to new ideas, but it is because they do not want someone to steal what they work so hard to achieve. The older people get, the more they want to keep what they have worked for. However, many of us, because we like people, make the mistake of voting for ideas that sound good, but end up causing all of us to give up power and control to liberal do-gooders. Power and control ends up being what liberalism is all about. It is not benign. It is a deadly cancer that is quietly spreading throughout our country.

How can it be stopped? Younger people want to try new and different things. Only experience can teach them the consequences of making decisions that allow liberal do-gooders to take more control of their lives. Luckily, many of our younger people are the cream of the crop in our country. I am thinking of those who are serving in our military.

Our sixteen-year-old said to Colleen yesterday: "See, Mom, I told you God was going to come through for us. You just have to have more faith!"

Know When To Hold em, Know When to Fold em

Eight-year-old Jon loves a good laugh. When the investigating caseworker was fishing for things to use against us, Jon decided to try to make her laugh by telling her how he loves to ride the goats. "They go fast when we pull their tails or poke em in the balls." Needless to say, we sold off our entire goat herd to alleviate any concerns the caseworker might have. Actually, we could not part with Gigi, the female brown boar goat Jon may show in 4H.

Enjoying Gardening

The front rock garden is coming along. The rocks are really there to prevent our Burnese Mountain puppy from napping on the flowers in the moist dirt!

I am really enjoying the bright fuschia blooms on the cacti near our front gate.

The Western Sky on the Fourth Of July

On the Fourth of July I could see that God had something special planned for the skywatchers.
Sure enough, the colors were magnificent, and the fireworks paled in comparison.

Ride to Your Heart's Content!

All of the kids have been riding. This is Jon on Metallica.

Tonight's Sky

Notice how this tree is trying to follow God's rainbow in tonight's sky?

Support

I've been talking to lots of people about what happened to our family. One lady told me I need to start connecting to Liluth, who, as she explained to me, was actually Adam's first wife. She didn't cowtow to Adam, and became involved in darkness, growing horns. I told this kind lady thanks, but no thanks, we have had enough contact with darkness this week to last a lifetime.

An NRA member actually made me laugh. He said next time I should "drag em inside," and not ask them to leave the property. Why? "Because blood cleans up much easier inside the house than outside." Of course, he was joking, and his wonderful sense of humor was just the therapy I needed.

But no one I have met compares to the support given to us from our wonderful blogging friends. Your kind wishes are just so very appreciated.

Moving Forward

Dear readers,
Colleen and I have had a devastatingly sad experience with the foster care system. We are still in the midst of it, so I cannot write about it now. We understand now how Thomas Paine and the others felt; how they were willing to risk everything for liberty. We rely on the promises of God and move forward in good cheer, vigilance, faith, and love.

Profitable

Rush Limbaugh has signed a new contract with Clear Channel for $400 million through 2016, including a signing bonus worth nine figures (that would be at least $100,000,000.) I guess I am going to have a hard time convincing Rush to run for president, since that pays a mere six figure amount of $400,000 per year, although there are some perks, I hear.

The New York Times Magazine is going to say this about Rush on Sunday.

Character

I find it impressive that John McCain does not use his personal heroics for political gain. Abraham Katsman, writing in the Jerusalem Post tells us more.

"How aware is the public that McCain has raised seven children? Or that he adopted his two oldest sons as small boys (children from his wife's prior marriage)? Or that he has raised a Bangladeshi girl with severe health problems adopted from Mother Theresa's orphanage? Or that his own sons have served in the military, including in Iraq?

It's widely known that McCain, a Navy pilot, was shot down, captured and tortured by the North Vietnamese for 5 and a half years - an episode worth a forthcoming column all its own. But few are aware that he refused early release until all the POWs captured before him were freed, and that he refused special treatment offered once it was discovered that he was the "crown prince" (the son of the admiral in charge of the Pacific Fleet) because he wouldn't provide the enemy with any propaganda victories.

Even fewer seem to know that those years were a fraction of a 22-year Navy career. Although broken and battered, after his release from Vietnamese captivity he went right back to the Navy, where he continued to serve for an additional eight years.

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Anyone can talk about "supporting our troops"; the McCains serve. McCain's father and grandfather were respected American admirals. Of McCain's four sons, three have gone the military route. One was a Navy pilot like his father, one enlisted in the Marines at age 17 and recently completed a tour in Iraq, and one is completing his education at the Naval Academy (raising the strong possibility that, for the first time in half a century, the United States will have a president with a son at war).

Yet, likely because of those same values, McCain maintains a strict code of silence about his sons' military service, no matter how legitimate his pride or politically useful their military status. Through 2007, McCain was the strongest Senate advocate of vastly increasing troop levels in Iraq, strongly influencing the administration's wildly successful "surge" strategy.

Yet McCain never brought up his own son's service in some of the roughest areas of Iraq. His principled refusal of political advantage from his son's Iraq service extends to refusal even to be interviewed on the subject, or to introduce his son to campaign audiences.

Also little-known is the story of McCain's youngest child. As a result of a 1991 Cindy McCain visit to Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh, the McCains adopted an infant daughter dying from a host of health issues. The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save the little girl's life, so the McCains, already the parents of six children, brought the child home to America, and paid for desperately needed surgeries and years of rehabilitation. That child is their teenage daughter Bridget. In fact, there was a second infant girl brought back from the orphanage that the McCains saved. She ended up being adopted by one of McCain's aides, Wes Gullett, and his wife. "We were called at midnight by Cindy," Gullett has stated, and "five days later we met our new daughter Nicki at the LA airport."

Via Atlas Shrugs