this is laid out very odd because i cut and pasted from an e-mail, but here it is MORE GOVERNMENT CRAP!!!! I HEREWITH FIRMLY STATE THAT I WILL NOT VOTE FOR ANY POLITICIAN, REGARDLESS OF THE OTHER ISSUES, IF HE/SHE DOES NOT SPONSOR AND SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING LEGISLATION. THAT INCLUDES EVERYONE STANDING FOR ELECTION IN 2006. LET US SHOW OUR LEADERS IN WASHINGTON "PEOPLE POWER" AND THE POWER OF THE INTERNET. LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE WITH ME. 2008 Election Issue!! GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOCIAL SECURITY. This is worth reading. It is short and to the point. Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years. Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it you see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan. In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan. For all practical purposes their plan works like this: When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die. Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments. For example, Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7,800, 000.00 (that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand Dollars), with their wives drawing $275,000.00 during the last years of their lives. This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries. Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives. Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00. NADA....ZILCH...> This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds; " OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK !" From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into, every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer) we can expect to get an average of $1,000 per month after retirement. Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one (1) month to equal Senator Bill Bradley's benefits! Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made. That change would be to: Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us. Now I don't know any of this for fact, but i have read about such outrageaous deals in Reader's Digest and seen news reports about same. Next post will be about my recent dealings with the federal government in trying to get bidding information. Apparently they DO NOT want small bussiness' in the big picture!! Also i will be my own words and not cut and pasted so just maybe the lay out will look better

title: serpents and demons! "wahhahahah" sorry a ghoulish laugh just doesn't come across well in the cyberworld.

one of our employees has been working down at the river on a barge. the owners brother has been hanging around the past week and "entertaining" him. the bro. has been telling rick about the demons in the barge and how he won't go in it. there was a story about a demon he had shot the other night down by the river and about Jesus telling him to give $50,000.00 to a certain homeless man that was one of the disciples and when he found the man walking down the road he started handing him the money the "glowing red" man started handing him another $50,000.00 so then he knew the demons had caught up to him. charming fellow huh? so this morning when i gave rick his fuel check i also gave him these pics. on the ladst one look in the left top corner. oh yeah that's the guy sitting there. look on rick's arm in the second one. there are several more but i couldn't load all of them. but i guess i paid in advance for it because yesterday when i went to feed karma (the fawn) he wouldn't move so i reached in to get him. THEN i looked down and saw that we had a visitor right under my left arm, see the first pic. needless to say i freaked. well anyway the snake is dead and i survived so all's well that ends well.
in case your wondering i have YET figured out how to get my pics and text to all line up right. they look alright in my draft but them when i publish it's all screwed up.

stomps her foot and whines: does anybody out there read my blog? ;-)

sorry it's just so lonely here in blogworld

since i'm tired of ranting and raving i decided to do pics this time.

this is my oldest son. right now he works for a tv commercial production co. his goal is to be a screen writer/producer. he built this set himself for a theatre production here in town. and believe me that was quiet an accomplishment for someone who's never built anything in his life except a crooked bird house at church camp! ;-)








this is my youngest son and his best bud. they head up the praise band at church. his goal is to go to fullsail in orlando and then be in different aspects of music production. fullsail is very
expensive soooo any donations would be appreciated ;-)


can you tell i'm VERY proud of my boys, though their career choices kind of confuse me.




and here is my new baby deer getting to know daisy. he's a buck and was almost bushhogged out in the front by the pond!! i think i may name him karma.

During some surfing I started to read some of the military blogs. Some the things I've read are amazing, touching, sad, heroic, enraging, there are just not enough adjectives in the English language. Why are these stories not told through the msm? Do they believe we are too stupid to understand? Too insensitive to care? Too self absorbed to hear?
oh wait. Well duh!! We are talking about the general population aren't we? According to what is spouted by media talking heads and their experts of sociology, economics, politics etc. They are always throwing at us, we are all of this and more.
and I'm ashamed to say other then writing here I don't know how to change it. Tonight I'll go home watch the news, then tomorrow surf around some more on some particular topic or topics that caught my attention and try to get more information. But then what? Nothing! Because I simply don't know how to change the content or the way our news is feed to us.
thanks again to ANYBODY that just MIGHT read this for letting me rant.

i watch the news everynight, listen to NPR, read blogs, newspapers etc.... and try to stay as informed as my feeble brain can understand. "granted not a lot" but i wonder a LOT lately where our country is heading.
years ago i said i believed our country would see another revolution and probably within my lifetime. i was teased unmercifully by several people about being paranoid, having an active imagination or becoming a conspiracy nut. now i'll be the first to admit i do have an active imagination and i do tend to be a little nutty. hey it's fun this way, you ought to try it!!
but now more than ever i think we are heading to a show down of some sort, how much are the American people willing to put up with? i mean we are supposed to be the land of the free right, but sooo much is and has been shoved down our throats in the past, oh i don't know 20 or 30 years.
i'm not speaking of any one thing i'm talking about the government and watch dogs collectively.
we are told if we don't like our representatives vote them out and replace them. well how is that accomplished when the pool to choose from is all slimey? this is just another feel good slogan that means NOTHING in the real world. i've voted in every election since i was 18. not ONE time did i vote FOR a particular president, i simply voted what i considered the lesser of the available evils. and the local elections aren't any better.
well today i'll go vote again "sigh" and pray for the best again and be disappointed by my choices within a month or two again!
thanks for reading "all two of you :-)" and God Bless

well i'm getting my trip to orlando, but not the way i would of chosen. my cousin lost her 18 yr old daughter last night. this is her second daughter to bury, they were both born with the same screwed up gene. so i'm going to fly down with my grandmother so she won't be alone.
please pray for my family.

Aren't we just so proud of how our war vets are treated:: she says with a sneer.
Word is that many of the returning injured vets are being billed and even turned over to collection agencies from bills, by guess who, naw really take a guess. THE GOVERNMENT!
I understand that it's mostly bookkeeping mistakes but please.
it makes me ashamed and angry. One of the men had been billed for $2000.00 and threatened with collections, I think it was for receiving combat pay while he was learning to walk on his new prosthetic leg the other had been severely wounded and was being billed for his sign on bonus for not fulfilling his contract. The news highlighted two men with different stories so I may be getting them mixed up. sorry that's just me "mixed up". But the gist of the story is correct.

let's put this into perspective. Somebody somewhere is billing this man for $2000.00 and our President is preparing for some kind of summit (sorry, again, my ignorance is showing here) somewhere and they will be paying $3700.00 a night for a slew of suites per suite per night.

now whether your pro or con Bush and/or Iraq you've got to admit somethings wrong with this picture!!

well once again i thank you, (if there is a you) for listening to me rant.

until next time God Bless!

today i'm dreaming of laying around coco beach witha big ooo margarita with my big ooo white butt hanging out. no phones, no empty ck book, no bitching!
just me the waves and my friend margarita.
oh well. work waits for no man HUH?

hallo everyone.
WOW some crazy crap in the news huh?
last night i heard that Massachusetts is trying for a new state health plan where everyone will be covered. in theory a great idea. but for me and mr. c it was down right frightening. they said that small business' that don't offer health insurance will have to pay $ 300.00 per employee into a state health pool. now i have to do a little research since they never said if this was monthly, qtrly, or annually, but with the ins. shoppping i've been doing i guess it's monthly. for us that would be $1200.00 a month!!!! $14,000.00 a year.
i'm dead serious when i say we would have to lay some people off. can someone explain to me how this would help anything?
i do agree that something has to give in our health system. it's broken and desperately needs to be fixed, but is this really the way to acheive that? i've said many times and say again it feels like state and federal government does not want small business to prosper. heck sometimes it seems like they don't want us to make it from month to month!
i would really love to hear from other business owners out there.
thanks and god bless