Romney narrowly wins Iowa caucuses

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The Iowa citizens want a man, who hasn't discussed the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act 2012, S.1867.

They want a businessman, who participated in taking Massachusetts health care out of private enterprise. He has demonstrated that he believes government does a better job than private enterprise. Also, government health care increases the size of government.
Romney received about 30,000 votes, and Santorum received about 30,000 votes. Link

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Today Obama signed NDAA S.1867 into law-not good

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S.1867 could easily be misused under the same premise. Already there are calls for hiring foreign troops of other nations to make up for the void being felt in the US armed forces as we are presently in a peacetime voluntary recruitment policy that does not make enlistment mandatory as it was in Vietnam. There are plans to recruit soldiers from UN nations to serve in the United States Army. Now ask yourself whether or not foreign troops would have any compunction over marching against US citizens if they were ordered to? They answer would be just as it was in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968. This is but one of many scenarios in which S.1867 could be used in an all together different way than it was supposedly intended.

Not to put rats in your skulls, but can you imagine what Machiavellian event could be orchestrated by the government to give it the "Reichstag Moment" it needed to justify martial law. Does not S.1867 open the door for this horrid possibility? Everything is now in place for such a situation to be realized. Let's go one agonizing step further. Suppose a certain president facing a certain landslide loss at the voting polls was to create a nationwide emergency, a dastardly act of terrorism, or a civil uprising that the law had now been changed to accommodate? S. 1867 would be that very bill, all they needed to deliver the nation into a perpetual state of martial law that would, no doubt, trump a presidential election. The dictatorship would be in place! The opposition neutralized!

In the current Iowa caucus, I didn't hear much about this. It seems to me that it is very important.
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I Want To Be Your Home Schooler | Fear

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – January 3, 2012 –
I see fear mongering used as a talking point. I get the impression that fear mongering has a less than desirable connotation among users of talking points. I propose that fear is a good thing. When I was a kid, I was afraid of bats, and I still am for that matter. Rightly or wrongly, I believe that bats have teeth, and can bite you. They can transmit rabies. I do know that rabies treatment is painful and expensive. So, fear of bats is a good thing.
I remember my mother teaching my younger siblings that hot meant one could get burned. If you were told hot, and then you touched the stove, you learned that hot meant you should fear getting burnt.
I’m adding this: Why do we install sprinkler systems? Answer: Because…we fear fire.
On my recent post, This rather brilliantly cuts thru all the political doublespeak we get  I was accused of fear mongering. I’m telling the world, right now, that we should fear unbridled spending, and irresponsible spending, lest we end up like Greece, et cetera.
Specifically, we should fear President Obama, who just exhibited his unnecessary spending on his and his family's vacation. President Obama should set an example as a leader; he, and his wife, set the worst example possible of spending discipline. Discipline means doing things in an orderly fashion. President Obama and his wife did not do things in an orderly fashion with regard to spending, on his most recent vacation.
The President seems comfortable with increasing the debt limit…again…$1.2 trillion in February 2012.
The race card will probably be used to defend the president. Call me a racist, and it doesn’t bother me at all. I like a lot of black entertainers, black truckers, and I have a black close friend here in Pittsburgh, who I have connected with since around 1985. When I came to Pittsburgh to visit two years ago, he was one of two people, who came to where I was staying, to visit. He was broke down on the Turnpike a couple months ago, and I stopped to offer help. I don’t fear being called a racist.
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This is an illustration of what the government is getting away with, and the people are not at all concerned.

My brother sent this to me in an email. That is how this article was brought to light.

I don’t care what your political connections are, if you agree with this kind of management, you deserve the consequences.

Couple the above with the possibility of marshal law, and imprisonment without trial within the year 2012. Probably there would be no election in 2012.

 

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Oranges

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I spent about 13 years in Texas. I spent about 5 years in Florida. I spent about 5 years in Arizona.

Oranges were grown in all three states. I was able to buy fresh squeezed orange juice in the grove areas of Texas. I also consumed Texas oranges. Texas oranges are my favorite.

My brother in-law’s son married the daughter of the owner of an orange grove near Tampa, Florida. My understanding is that that grove has now been sold for a million, or millions. I learned a little about the strategy, which grove owners use, when a freeze happens.

When we lived in Arizona, we passed orange groves over a hundred times a year. [1] There’s a type of orange called “Arizona sweets”. I stopped at an orange market, and saw the oranges, but I have never tasted one. I have picked oranges off the tree in Arizona, which were as sour as they could possibly be. They are really inedible.

Clementines are very sweet.

There’s a $250 fine for unauthorized picking of oranges in Arizona.

An orange sells for about 50 cents in Pittsburgh in most grocery stores. However, I can buy oranges for 25 cents at a store near our townhouse, and they are high quality, name brand, oranges.

Vitamin C is a natural antibiotic. An orange contains about 60 milligrams of vitamin C. The recommended daily amount of vitamin C is about 100 milligrams. So, if you eat two oranges a day, it will help cure infections, et cetera.

Vitamin C in Foods

http://www.health-boundaries-bite.com/Vitamin-C-Natural-Antibiotic.html

http://www.vitaminstohealth.com/Foods-high-in-vitamin-C.html

Oranges are just one of my many blessings.

 

 

[1] Oranges Next Year’s Crop

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Journey Night Lighting | Et Cetera

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – December 29, 2011 –
This is not the best of all possible pictures, but it illustrates what I wanted to convey. The interior LED lights in a Journey are beautiful. The paint on the outside the rear door is bright silver, which doesn’t show up at night. It contrasts with the white LED lights inside the car. The white LED light lights up the whole interior of the car, front and back.
There’s a LED light under the front door, which lights the area outside the driver’s door. There isn’t one under the rear door, but I suppose there is one under the passenger door. The light from the driver’s door does light up the area outside the rear door.
While I was out taking the picture, I looked at some of the other screen information. The temperature of the coolant is displayed. The temperature of the motor oil is displayed. The temperature of the transmission fluid is displayed, and that’s all I looked at.
We are scheduled to have the “remote start” feature installed on January 3rd. We could have had it installed before the 25th, but we decided to wait, and I’m glad we did. Our son is here from Scottsdale, Arizona, and we wanted to have our car available. He’s going back to Arizona on Saturday December 31, 2011.

To Marlee and Ethan on The Day Before Their Wedding

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – December 29, 2011 –

Marlee is my granddaughter.

Love requires:

1. Physical attraction
2. Sharing
3. Tolerance
4. Trust

Mary Ruth and I have been married 58 years. There was and is physical attraction.

I have always wanted to do well economically and socially. My goals were to share those things with Mary Ruth.

Tolerance was important in our lives. We certainly have had challenges. Tolerance was absolutely necessary to overcome those challenges.

Finally, on the matter of trust, I want to say this: As our lives evolved, we reached a point where it became necessary for Mary Ruth to have general power of attorney. She had the power to buy and sell, anything. She controlled all assets. She was free to leave at any time.