homesick

These images of the Ruby Range near Crested Butte, Colorado completely made me homesick for the high Rocky Mountain. My good friend Lori Stone shot these. Her talent amazes me. Our family truly loved living in the Colorado Rockies. Even Joshi and Zayne wax nostalgic listening to John Denver.

so hot she's on fire

Enough yak and wail about politics. Here's a cute snip it on nine year old Zayne.

Thursday Dan was driving children home from a school volleyball game when he announced that they were going to swing by and pick up one of Joshi's girlfriends. Zayne's friend in the car freaked and yelled, "Holy crap! You know her! She's hot! Man she's hot, so hot. Dang hot. Zayne don't you think she's hot?" Zayne didn't quite get what his friend was getting at and replied, "If she was so hot she'd be on fire."

comrads, our time has come!

US communists say their time has come
2 days ago
NEW YORK (AFP) — A rare bird in the political world, the US Communist Party is feeling rather smug in these days of capitalist turmoil. At the party's New York headquarters on 23rd Street in Manhattan, regional party chairman Libero Della Piana, 36, laid out why he thinks Marxist-Leninism's time has finally come. "We are very excited, we feel that we are at a turning point," Della Piana, an imposing half-Italian, half-African American with a pony tail, told AFP. "We can afford to be less on the defensive for the first time since Ronald Reagan, and we can say our word in rebuilding America on a new basis, rebuilding a better world, instead of one based on the greed of the few."

Let us all remember what Abraham Lincoln said, "You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich."

Kruschev would be so happy to see socialist Obama in the lead.

A former president for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was at one time U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. He tells this story of an experience with Kruschev.

“I have talked face to face with the godless communist leaders. It may surprise you to learn that I was host to Mr. Khrushchev for a half day when he visited the United States, not that I’m proud of it. I opposed his coming then, and I still feel it was a mistake to welcome this atheistic murderer as a state visitor. But, according to President Eisenhower, Khrushchev had expressed a desire to learn something of American Agriculture — and after seeing Russian agriculture I can understand why. As we talked face to face, he indicated that my grandchildren would live under communism. After assuring him that I expected to do all in my power to assure that his and all other grandchildren will live under freedom he arrogantly declared in substance:

“ ‘You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.’

“And they’re ahead of schedule in their devilish scheme.” (Ezra Taft Benson “Our Immediate Responsibility.” Devotional Address at Brigham Young University. circa 1968).

British author John Maynard Keynes wrote in his book
The Economic Consequences of Peace, 1920, that Lenin is said to have stated, “The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency” Lenin be content right now if he were alive.

Butty is now naked

This is Butty last July with his Rastafarian dreads. They fit his laid back personality. Dan shaved him completely down today. I couldn't help laughing at Butty. He looked so naked without his moppy head and pom poms. I think I hurt his feelings.

am I alone in feeling like this?

This cartoon fits some of my views of the bailout that was passed. I feel like so many politicans are out of touch with us common folk. I am frustrated. I also do not like the fact the the government will be more into the banking sector now. I am a believer in laissez-faire capitalism, with no socialism mix in for good feelings. Is this the end of our already weakened laissez-faire economic system? Were we really practicing laissez-faire policies since FDR added all of his government programs? I get so frustrated watching Americans' tax money be wasted and our freedoms be whittled away bit by bit. What can I can do? I am a homeschool mom. I do not have the gift of rhetoric nor writing to call attention to the grievances that many of us have. Other writers write and pundents talks, but nothing is being done. Call my representatives? They are not listening. Start a grass root movement of fed of mothers? Money talks, but I don't have enough of that. Sorry. Like I said, I am frustrated. I cannot be alone feeling like this.