Deep breath in...slowly exhale. Repeat. Feel better? Nah, me neither. Onward!
All of you know me pretty well by now. I am a stay at home mom; home school mom on top of that and a new (?) political activist of sorts. I have just recently ventured into my own blog, The Political Chicken. I was involved heavily over the course of this last presidential election/campaign. I am extremely disappointed in the loss by Romney/Ryan and that's putting it mildly. I truly didn't think that Obama would win again. He did and now we stand at the base of a mile high mountain and we have to decide as conservatives, do we stay at the base of the mountain and set up camp or do we forge ahead with grappling hooks and ropes and climb that bad boy? I say, climb!
There was A LOT of legislation that we as tea party members and patriot groups postponed and delayed in 2010 and 2011. The biggest and baddest in my mind is Obamacare. We did good work but it was shoved through even though it was clearly against the will of the American people by and large. There will be more of that, unfortunately now that Obama has won his bid for reelection. Cap and Trade aka Cap and Tax can be one of those, rest assured. Not to mention a whole host of others that we don't even know about yet, or I for one, can't even fathom.
Most of us, dare I say ALL of us are pretty discouraged today. I am going to keep fighting. I am going to keep fighting to keep our freedoms, though as down and sad and frustrated as I feel today. Why, you may ask. Why bother? I have three little reasons to keep going and those are my children. Not trying to be extreme here, but let's stop a minute and think of some of the freedoms we have now and might take for granted. One is the right to worship. Another is the freedom to buy the car of your choice. How about the reproductive rights we enjoy; to have as many children as you want? How about capitalism, the best system in the world? How about the right to choose your own career? How about the freedom to home school? I can't say without a doubt, that those freedoms are going to be there for them to enjoy.
I am not expecting all of these rights to be taken away over night or
even tomorrow. The problem is that there is something called tyranny
creep. It has already taken hold and continues to 'creep' its way into
our society and personal lives. This is another reason we must stay
vigilant and fight the good fight. It happens little by little. In our
courts, where religious objects are harshly removed or when war
memorials are ordered to be taken down simply because they are symbols of religion or Christianity. Where the TSA has the 'right'
to strip search innocent people just trying to go on vacation with their
families. These freedoms have been eroding for some time now. So
where does it stop? That's the big question for me, and right now I
don't have the answer.
We are ALL made in God's likeness; in the image of God. We were made with the desire to perform a task, learn a trade, earn a living and to be self sufficient. In Ecclesiastes 2:24 it says, "A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment"? I wept last night thinking that my children would possibly grow up not knowing those simple freedoms. To not be able to provide for their families as Godly men are called to do. To not be able to enjoy the fruits of their labor as many generations that have come before them have been able to do. To take away the most innate rights from any human being is just beyond wrong.
All I know to do is to pray and trust God and to pray that His will be done, not ours.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
More Than a Woman...
*Disclaimer: The following blog may offend some readers. This is not a judgement call on anyone's lifestyle choice. This is simply my opinion.
More than a woman.....I thought this might be an appropriate topic what with the war on women the left seems to be waging; and all the while, claiming it's the GOP waging said war. Tsk, tsk. I remember hearing Obama say in the last presidential debate that Romney wanted to take us back to the 1950's or some such nonsense. So? What was so wrong with the 1950's? In the 1950's, moms stayed home and cooked meals and made beds and cleaned house all while wearing heels and pearls. Heh. Oh, and everything was black and white; not gray scale like they show it on Leave it to Beaver.
I digress. I have been in the habit lately of digging up some history or some scripture and comparing it with the things that are happening today in the political realm. If you like that style, then you are in for a treat.
Just for kicks, let's look at what the Bible says about women and their role. I know we are probably all too familiar with Proverbs 31: the wife of noble character. We are also reminded of the Titus 2 woman, who is to to be self-controlled and pure among other things. The Bible also identifies the woman as the weaker sex. It's factual simply because woman came from man. The Bible also says that the man is the head of the household. Whaaaaat?!? Political Chicken, are you waging a war on women, too? Now, don't let that ruffle your feathers (see what I just did there?) With all of these words flying around, you have to wonder if we didn't start waging a war on ourselves when the feminist movement came around.
Think about all of the things that we as women demand from ourselves as well as from the world around us. The song 'Anything you can do, I can do better' comes to my mind often times. We all feel that we have to be as strong as a man physically and/or emotionally, and we have to be as smart as a man. The Bible did put some limits on what women can or should do outside the home; for a REASON. God and the Bible also puts limits on what we as Christians can or should do here on earth for a REASON. What reason is that? To guard our hearts. The Bible also defines the role of a man and a woman very clearly. It's society that has come along and mucked it all up. The woman is to be the helpmeet of the man or the helper. The husband also has a definite role in which he is to "...love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word..." Ephesians 5:25. So while we all have free will given to us by God to do and say all of the things we want, we are reminded in 1Corinthians 10:23 that, Everything is permissible...but not everything is beneficial.
It makes me insane when I hear some women say that they can have it all. By having it all, they mean a college degree, a prestigious career, marriage and children. Okay, I'll play along. You may be able to 'have it all', but there is always a price to pay. Your children make a sacrifice when you go to work when they are babies, because let's face it, our mothers are one of the most important people in our lives. There seems to not be enough of us to go around to meet all of the needs of a family, like cooking meals, cleaning, laundry, homework help, etc. I can almost hear you rolling your eyes when I mention all of the domestic duties as if they only belong to the wife. That to me is where our role of helper comes into play.
I say all of that to say this; maybe if we went back to a more biblical approach to the way we live our lives, we wouldn't be so concerned if there was a war being waged on the female gender. If, for example, you are single, the Bible says you should not have premarital sex. Not in those exact words, but you get the point. If we lived by that standard, then guess what? We wouldn't be worried about where our birth control would be coming from! We also wouldn't be worried about access to abortions either. Extreme, I know. Everything is permissible...but not everything is beneficial.
More than a woman.....I thought this might be an appropriate topic what with the war on women the left seems to be waging; and all the while, claiming it's the GOP waging said war. Tsk, tsk. I remember hearing Obama say in the last presidential debate that Romney wanted to take us back to the 1950's or some such nonsense. So? What was so wrong with the 1950's? In the 1950's, moms stayed home and cooked meals and made beds and cleaned house all while wearing heels and pearls. Heh. Oh, and everything was black and white; not gray scale like they show it on Leave it to Beaver.
I digress. I have been in the habit lately of digging up some history or some scripture and comparing it with the things that are happening today in the political realm. If you like that style, then you are in for a treat.
Just for kicks, let's look at what the Bible says about women and their role. I know we are probably all too familiar with Proverbs 31: the wife of noble character. We are also reminded of the Titus 2 woman, who is to to be self-controlled and pure among other things. The Bible also identifies the woman as the weaker sex. It's factual simply because woman came from man. The Bible also says that the man is the head of the household. Whaaaaat?!? Political Chicken, are you waging a war on women, too? Now, don't let that ruffle your feathers (see what I just did there?) With all of these words flying around, you have to wonder if we didn't start waging a war on ourselves when the feminist movement came around.
Think about all of the things that we as women demand from ourselves as well as from the world around us. The song 'Anything you can do, I can do better' comes to my mind often times. We all feel that we have to be as strong as a man physically and/or emotionally, and we have to be as smart as a man. The Bible did put some limits on what women can or should do outside the home; for a REASON. God and the Bible also puts limits on what we as Christians can or should do here on earth for a REASON. What reason is that? To guard our hearts. The Bible also defines the role of a man and a woman very clearly. It's society that has come along and mucked it all up. The woman is to be the helpmeet of the man or the helper. The husband also has a definite role in which he is to "...love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word..." Ephesians 5:25. So while we all have free will given to us by God to do and say all of the things we want, we are reminded in 1Corinthians 10:23 that, Everything is permissible...but not everything is beneficial.
It makes me insane when I hear some women say that they can have it all. By having it all, they mean a college degree, a prestigious career, marriage and children. Okay, I'll play along. You may be able to 'have it all', but there is always a price to pay. Your children make a sacrifice when you go to work when they are babies, because let's face it, our mothers are one of the most important people in our lives. There seems to not be enough of us to go around to meet all of the needs of a family, like cooking meals, cleaning, laundry, homework help, etc. I can almost hear you rolling your eyes when I mention all of the domestic duties as if they only belong to the wife. That to me is where our role of helper comes into play.
I say all of that to say this; maybe if we went back to a more biblical approach to the way we live our lives, we wouldn't be so concerned if there was a war being waged on the female gender. If, for example, you are single, the Bible says you should not have premarital sex. Not in those exact words, but you get the point. If we lived by that standard, then guess what? We wouldn't be worried about where our birth control would be coming from! We also wouldn't be worried about access to abortions either. Extreme, I know. Everything is permissible...but not everything is beneficial.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
The New Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel:
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said,"If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel_because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth. Genesis 11:1-9
Okay, Political Chicken, what does that have to do with me? Well, I'll tell you. The Lord realized that the people all spoke the same language and they could accomplish anything they set out to do. Thus, leaving the Lord out of the equation. So, he confused their language so they couldn't execute building their tower. I think we can relate to this story present day. I realize this didn't start under the Obama administration, but it has become more prevalent. Obama knows that if we as Americans communicate with each other, there isn't anything we can't do. Just like God, Obama would be left out of the equation. Nah, see. He doesn't want that.
Our problems of today sound similar and I can probably sum it up into two words: Class Warfare. The president (who thinks he is God) is acting like God. He is showing us over and over that he doesn't want us to communicate with one another. He wants us to believe that we all have problems so specific to the different socioeconomic groups he has divided us into that we couldn't possibly have anything in common.
I'll give you an example of this in real time. One of my fellow patriots met with a group called Log Cabin Republicans which is a group of homosexual people who are also Republicans. They reached out to the tea party to discuss some issues and believe it or not, their group and the tea party had a lot in common. Now just think, if we had continued to go along mutually ignorant about each other what would happen? We would have remained divided.
Another example is how often this administration and congress and others in the lame stream media pull out the race card. The media pundits and some representatives in Congress spew hatred and vitriol onto the airwaves just to keep us as Americans thinking that we hate each other. From where I'm standing, that couldn't be farther from the truth.
Let's not forget about another 'divider'; the Occupy Wall Street movement. Remember those little people who made bowel 'movements' all over cop cars? Yeah, them. They represent the 99% who want a level playing field. I have a theory about these people. They were the unfortunate kids who grew up playing Fun Fair Positive Soccer (FFPS). The place where you always get a trophy. No. Matter. How. Bad. You. Sucked. The place where you aren't allowed to keep score. SERIOUSLY? I'm sorry, folks, but there ARE winners and losers in real life. Your buddy might make more money than you, just sayin'.
How about the executive order that Obama signed about how we deal with natural disasters and security emergencies? I think there was something in there about being able to shut down the internet or take control of it for the safety of Americans? There ya go. Cut off the lines of communication. Just. Like. That.
I think it has also more to do than just the communication lines they want to cut off between Americans. Obama has made it clear, because, well, he says 'let me be clear' before every lie he tells, that he does not want us as Americans to be self sufficient people. (Enter life of Julia, stage right). If we get together and solve our own problems without relying on the government, he loses control. If he loses control, he loses power. BOOM.
On a side note, I have never visited Obama's website before, and I did just recently. After seeing it, I have to tell you I'm pretty disgusted. On his home page, he's got the male and female gender symbols integrated into the word 'forward'. How. Lame. Can. He. Be. And what's with all this 'vote with your vagina' crap, anyway? Possibly another post for another day.
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said,"If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel_because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth. Genesis 11:1-9
Okay, Political Chicken, what does that have to do with me? Well, I'll tell you. The Lord realized that the people all spoke the same language and they could accomplish anything they set out to do. Thus, leaving the Lord out of the equation. So, he confused their language so they couldn't execute building their tower. I think we can relate to this story present day. I realize this didn't start under the Obama administration, but it has become more prevalent. Obama knows that if we as Americans communicate with each other, there isn't anything we can't do. Just like God, Obama would be left out of the equation. Nah, see. He doesn't want that.
Our problems of today sound similar and I can probably sum it up into two words: Class Warfare. The president (who thinks he is God) is acting like God. He is showing us over and over that he doesn't want us to communicate with one another. He wants us to believe that we all have problems so specific to the different socioeconomic groups he has divided us into that we couldn't possibly have anything in common.
I'll give you an example of this in real time. One of my fellow patriots met with a group called Log Cabin Republicans which is a group of homosexual people who are also Republicans. They reached out to the tea party to discuss some issues and believe it or not, their group and the tea party had a lot in common. Now just think, if we had continued to go along mutually ignorant about each other what would happen? We would have remained divided.
Another example is how often this administration and congress and others in the lame stream media pull out the race card. The media pundits and some representatives in Congress spew hatred and vitriol onto the airwaves just to keep us as Americans thinking that we hate each other. From where I'm standing, that couldn't be farther from the truth.
Let's not forget about another 'divider'; the Occupy Wall Street movement. Remember those little people who made bowel 'movements' all over cop cars? Yeah, them. They represent the 99% who want a level playing field. I have a theory about these people. They were the unfortunate kids who grew up playing Fun Fair Positive Soccer (FFPS). The place where you always get a trophy. No. Matter. How. Bad. You. Sucked. The place where you aren't allowed to keep score. SERIOUSLY? I'm sorry, folks, but there ARE winners and losers in real life. Your buddy might make more money than you, just sayin'.
How about the executive order that Obama signed about how we deal with natural disasters and security emergencies? I think there was something in there about being able to shut down the internet or take control of it for the safety of Americans? There ya go. Cut off the lines of communication. Just. Like. That.
I think it has also more to do than just the communication lines they want to cut off between Americans. Obama has made it clear, because, well, he says 'let me be clear' before every lie he tells, that he does not want us as Americans to be self sufficient people. (Enter life of Julia, stage right). If we get together and solve our own problems without relying on the government, he loses control. If he loses control, he loses power. BOOM.
On a side note, I have never visited Obama's website before, and I did just recently. After seeing it, I have to tell you I'm pretty disgusted. On his home page, he's got the male and female gender symbols integrated into the word 'forward'. How. Lame. Can. He. Be. And what's with all this 'vote with your vagina' crap, anyway? Possibly another post for another day.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Obama: Just another King Louis?
Louis XV lived at Versailles, about twelve miles from the city of Paris, in the most beautiful palace in Europe, built by his very famous great-grandfather, Louis XIV.
Louis XIV was an absolute ruler, but with the noblemen scattered all over the country it was difficult to keep absolute power over them. So when he had moved to Versailles he made the nobles leave their estates and also come to live at Versailles, where he could have his eye on them. To keep them happy he established for them many more honorary offices at court such as those of Lord High Chamberlain, Grand Master of the Royal Hunt, Lord High Steward of the Kitchen, to which large salaries and no work were attached.
By the time Louis XV became King, it was the well established custom for all important noblemen to live at Versaille as near to the King as possible, every waking moment to follow him about. There were two hundred attendants stumbling over each other in the King's bedchamber alone. From the time he awoke and held out his white hands to be perfumed and jeweled to the time when the Lord High Keeper of it put the nightcap on his head, the King was never alone. The courtiers were always there, to watch his every move and imitate it.
What the King did and had one day, they did and had the next. What he was they became: the most fashionable, bejeweled and lace-trimmed noblemen in Europe, and the most useless. They danced, played games, chatted with each other and made love to the ladies. Every year their manners became more exact and fanciful, their clothes more delicate in color and more hung with lace, their wigs more finely powdered and their furniture more full of curves and scrolls and more richly gilded. And all they did was play. But as too much play becomes monotonous, all their amusements grew tiresome in time.
"Life is boring,"sighed the King. "Life is boring," sighed the noblemen, and yawned behind their white, jeweled hands.
Meanwhile, back on the estates, the peasants still worked and tilled the fields as they had always done. Only now each year they had to work even harder, for each year their lord at Versailles needed more money for his pleasures, to say nothing of the huge amounts needed by the King. So while the noblemen played, their overseers squeezed larger rents for the small fields, larger feudal dues and more enormous taxes from the peasants. When they had turned in their crops in payment, many peasants had barely enough left to keep from starving. "Life is hard," they said as they scuffed off their wooden clogs each sundown and wiped the sweat off with their rough brown hands. "Life is hard."
Between the peasants whose life was all work and the noblemen whose life was all play there was of course a very large middle class of people who worked for a living, but also had some time to play. The French name for them was bourgeois. Some of them were wealthy, most of them were just hardworking and thrifty, but all of them hated to see such a large part of their hard-earned money go for taxes.
"Life is unfair," they were beginning to say. Why should thousands of people work hard for their money, in order that one king and a few extravagant noblemen should have it to squander?
It was plain to see that such an unfair condition of things could not last forever. That, however, did not trouble the King. "It will last as long as I live," Louis would say. "After that," with a shrug of his shoulders, "what do I care what happens to France?"
This is the story of King Louis XV written by Genevieve Foster from the book George Washington's World. I know all of you have probably heard this story before, perhaps some of you have not. This is my first time hearing it, and I keyed in on the things that the peasants and the bourgeois were going through. Wow! Some things never change, do they? You could just insert Obama's name where you see the name King Louis and the story of present day life and politics would sound about the same, wouldn't it?
Take a look first at the noblemen who came to live with the King and in order to make them happy, the King offered them titles with no work and high salaries to go with them. Sounds a bit like all of those 'czars' that Obama employed early on in his presidency. Priceless.
All of those 'noblemen' wanted to be just like Obama, I mean, the King. All they did was play...golf. I mean, play.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, all of the peasants, or tax-payers, worked their fingers to the bone and had little left after all of their taxes were paid in order that the president, I mean, King and his cabinet, I mean, court may amuse themselves. Sound familiar? Some of us might identify more readily with the bourgeois, though. The bourgeois was mostly middle class people, bankers, bakers and such, wondering why they should pay all of their money to a king in order for him to squander it? Insert the word president where you see king and congress where you see noblemen. Makes sense.
King Louis, I mean Obama, is also utterly useless. He does nothing, he thinks of nothing and he only cares for his own pleasure. He has no interest in running a country whatsoever. He also amuses himself and his family, no matter how much it costs the American taxpayer. Hmmmm.....
I also feel that Obama's sentiment is the exact same as the sentiment that King Louis has at the end of the story, this situation will last as long as he is in office and then what does he care what happens to his country? "After that," with a shrug of his shoulders, "what do I care what happens to America?"
Friday, September 28, 2012
Them Bones, Them Bones
Hello there, followers! Ha! I am having a great day with my family and thought I would share some of it with you. Now, my husband normally works all week and stays home on Tuesday and Sunday. Today is Friday and he took the day off to be with the family, besides, they didn't need him at work, anyway. So there.
Well, we have a little wooded area in our neighborhood that our family or the kids, I should say, call "The Woods Park". Our first outing today was there, to the woods park. The boys rode their bikes and scooters and mom and dad walked, of course. We took the football with the intention of tossing the football, etc. However, that came to an end when we found...two bones! They looked long enough to be femur bones and you can imagine how my children's imaginations began to race! Not to mention that prior to that we had found two .20 gauge shot gun shells. Hmmmm. Then my husband's and my imagination began to race! Were they human bones, we all wondered? If they were, was the victim shot dead with those bullets? Where were the rest of the bones if it was in fact of human remains?
We continued on with our manly duties of jumping off 'cliffs' and knocking down trees and climbing up ledges. Not me, though. I just stood and watched and commented on how strong my boys are. Ya know, cause that's what moms do. We also managed to squeeze in a game or two of hide and seek. After a while, we decided to leave the trees and the bones to go home for some lunch. When we got back home we decided to call the Sheriff's non-emergency line to report the bones. They said they would send someone out to take a look. Oh, boy! The excitement meter in my house was pinging! Would they send a detective? Would it be taped off as a crime scene? Would we have to give a statement? I'll admit the last two questions were mine alone. I was channeling Nancy Drew a bit, I guess. Hey, everybody loves a good mystery, right?
About twenty minutes after I'd placed the phone call, the police officer came and knocked on the door. With one of those, you know, no-nonsense authoritative raps on the door? Yeah, one of those. As soon as he knocked, one of my sons squealed with delight, "It's the Sheriff!" One of my other sons just happened to run out in nothing but his underwear. Those of you who know me can guess who that was. Then the police officer offered a ride in his squad car down to the park! My husband and two older sons got in. We all joked that this better be the ONLY time my kids and my husband, for that matter, saw the inside of a squad car. Not long after leaving, they returned only to announce that we had found dog bones. My, that must have been quite a large dog!
Well, I'm writing this at four o'clock in the afternoon, so the day isn't over yet. I wonder what kind of exciting discovery lies around the corner for our family next? Stay tuned...
Well, we have a little wooded area in our neighborhood that our family or the kids, I should say, call "The Woods Park". Our first outing today was there, to the woods park. The boys rode their bikes and scooters and mom and dad walked, of course. We took the football with the intention of tossing the football, etc. However, that came to an end when we found...two bones! They looked long enough to be femur bones and you can imagine how my children's imaginations began to race! Not to mention that prior to that we had found two .20 gauge shot gun shells. Hmmmm. Then my husband's and my imagination began to race! Were they human bones, we all wondered? If they were, was the victim shot dead with those bullets? Where were the rest of the bones if it was in fact of human remains?
We continued on with our manly duties of jumping off 'cliffs' and knocking down trees and climbing up ledges. Not me, though. I just stood and watched and commented on how strong my boys are. Ya know, cause that's what moms do. We also managed to squeeze in a game or two of hide and seek. After a while, we decided to leave the trees and the bones to go home for some lunch. When we got back home we decided to call the Sheriff's non-emergency line to report the bones. They said they would send someone out to take a look. Oh, boy! The excitement meter in my house was pinging! Would they send a detective? Would it be taped off as a crime scene? Would we have to give a statement? I'll admit the last two questions were mine alone. I was channeling Nancy Drew a bit, I guess. Hey, everybody loves a good mystery, right?
About twenty minutes after I'd placed the phone call, the police officer came and knocked on the door. With one of those, you know, no-nonsense authoritative raps on the door? Yeah, one of those. As soon as he knocked, one of my sons squealed with delight, "It's the Sheriff!" One of my other sons just happened to run out in nothing but his underwear. Those of you who know me can guess who that was. Then the police officer offered a ride in his squad car down to the park! My husband and two older sons got in. We all joked that this better be the ONLY time my kids and my husband, for that matter, saw the inside of a squad car. Not long after leaving, they returned only to announce that we had found dog bones. My, that must have been quite a large dog!
Well, I'm writing this at four o'clock in the afternoon, so the day isn't over yet. I wonder what kind of exciting discovery lies around the corner for our family next? Stay tuned...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Consider The Source
Okay, let me first start off by saying that I am not a political analyst nor am I a foreign policy expert. I do however have some thoughts about the upcoming presidential election and the events that have unfolded in the Middle East.
I am saddened first of all by the loss of American soldiers and Ambassadors serving over seas serving our great nation away from their families. My heart goes out to all of those mourning the loss of their loved ones. I think that goes without saying. I am ashamed of the way that the president and the secretary of state handled the situation.
I am an emotional person and I often react to situations based on how I'm feeling about them. I don't often delve into the logical side of thinking about things and I guess you could say this isn't any different. First of all in my mind, the president should have been the one waiting by the phone to find out what happened to our military and embassy personnel. Instead, from what I understand, our dear leader was fast asleep, planning on attending a fundraiser in Las Vegas over the next day or so. I'm stunned. Almost speechless. *Almost*. Then he gave a speech in the Rose Garden and his opponent, Mitt Romney said of the speech that Obama sent mixed signals which I would tend to agree with. President Obama said we wouldn't tolerate these acts of violence and that we would work with the Libyan government to make sure that justice was served. Then he said that America took great pains to respect all religious beliefs. Huh? Seems to me he was pandering to the enemy already.
I almost forgot to mention that Obama couldn't decide if Egypt was an ally or an enemy. Has he decided that yet? Or that he has refused a meeting with Netanyahu. I'm sorry but even if you are on the government 'dole' and you think that Obama has your back, think again. Or if you are a Ron Paul supporter and you are pouting because Dr. Paul didn't get the nod this time, suck it up and vote for someone with some semblance of the same values as you. Romney is the best choice in this circumstance. In Obama, not a chance in HELL.
Now, I'm a Romney supporter (if you haven't already figured that out) so this blog may be a little biased, but to me, in Romney's critique of Obama's response to the news of the attacks and the murders, he seemed much more resolute and steadfast in what his response to that same situation would have been. Much more confident than Obama has ever appeared during his presidency. Okay, except for maybe when Obama was spiking the football over Osama's death, but I digress. I have been impressed with the way Romney has campaigned up until now.
I'm not dissing Romney's campaign at all. No, what I'm upset about is all of the conservative websites who seem to be getting sidelined by the lame stream media. They seem as though they are playing into their hands at a time when it appears to me that WE ARE WINNING!!! Republicans by and large don't know how to win and they don't know how to message. Romney's campaign to me is not in the toilet, so please, let's keep it as far from there as we can. Let's don't start fighting him and each other when we need to stand behind him the most. I realize that Mother Jones has put out some spliced up video of Romney at a fundraiser and everybody's all over it. That is not going to break his campaign. He said there are 47% of the people out there who will vote for Obama again because they don't pay into the system. So what? The idea here is not to get ALL of the votes from EVERYBODY, because you simply can't do that. Focus on your core group of voters and convince them to vote for you. Consider the source.
Also, lots of people are freaking out about the polls and flailing arms and saying Romney is behind in the polls. SO WHAT? If you are concerned, then by golly, go do something about it! My eight year old son saw the headline for Drudge Report, Obama 48%, Romney 47%. He said, whoa, that's bad. He meant for Obama, that poll was bad. An eight year old gets it, folks.
We only have 49 days until election day. I'm begging you, please let's keep it together. Don't start doubting and freaking out if Obama is a few percentage points ahead of Romney or if some liberal slanted website is predicting the demise of Romney. Consider the source!
I am saddened first of all by the loss of American soldiers and Ambassadors serving over seas serving our great nation away from their families. My heart goes out to all of those mourning the loss of their loved ones. I think that goes without saying. I am ashamed of the way that the president and the secretary of state handled the situation.
I am an emotional person and I often react to situations based on how I'm feeling about them. I don't often delve into the logical side of thinking about things and I guess you could say this isn't any different. First of all in my mind, the president should have been the one waiting by the phone to find out what happened to our military and embassy personnel. Instead, from what I understand, our dear leader was fast asleep, planning on attending a fundraiser in Las Vegas over the next day or so. I'm stunned. Almost speechless. *Almost*. Then he gave a speech in the Rose Garden and his opponent, Mitt Romney said of the speech that Obama sent mixed signals which I would tend to agree with. President Obama said we wouldn't tolerate these acts of violence and that we would work with the Libyan government to make sure that justice was served. Then he said that America took great pains to respect all religious beliefs. Huh? Seems to me he was pandering to the enemy already.
I almost forgot to mention that Obama couldn't decide if Egypt was an ally or an enemy. Has he decided that yet? Or that he has refused a meeting with Netanyahu. I'm sorry but even if you are on the government 'dole' and you think that Obama has your back, think again. Or if you are a Ron Paul supporter and you are pouting because Dr. Paul didn't get the nod this time, suck it up and vote for someone with some semblance of the same values as you. Romney is the best choice in this circumstance. In Obama, not a chance in HELL.
Now, I'm a Romney supporter (if you haven't already figured that out) so this blog may be a little biased, but to me, in Romney's critique of Obama's response to the news of the attacks and the murders, he seemed much more resolute and steadfast in what his response to that same situation would have been. Much more confident than Obama has ever appeared during his presidency. Okay, except for maybe when Obama was spiking the football over Osama's death, but I digress. I have been impressed with the way Romney has campaigned up until now.
I'm not dissing Romney's campaign at all. No, what I'm upset about is all of the conservative websites who seem to be getting sidelined by the lame stream media. They seem as though they are playing into their hands at a time when it appears to me that WE ARE WINNING!!! Republicans by and large don't know how to win and they don't know how to message. Romney's campaign to me is not in the toilet, so please, let's keep it as far from there as we can. Let's don't start fighting him and each other when we need to stand behind him the most. I realize that Mother Jones has put out some spliced up video of Romney at a fundraiser and everybody's all over it. That is not going to break his campaign. He said there are 47% of the people out there who will vote for Obama again because they don't pay into the system. So what? The idea here is not to get ALL of the votes from EVERYBODY, because you simply can't do that. Focus on your core group of voters and convince them to vote for you. Consider the source.
Also, lots of people are freaking out about the polls and flailing arms and saying Romney is behind in the polls. SO WHAT? If you are concerned, then by golly, go do something about it! My eight year old son saw the headline for Drudge Report, Obama 48%, Romney 47%. He said, whoa, that's bad. He meant for Obama, that poll was bad. An eight year old gets it, folks.
We only have 49 days until election day. I'm begging you, please let's keep it together. Don't start doubting and freaking out if Obama is a few percentage points ahead of Romney or if some liberal slanted website is predicting the demise of Romney. Consider the source!
Monday, September 17, 2012
It's O-H-I-O, Mr. President
I know cuz I done been there once. Okay, twice, but this last trip was for political reasons. Dare I say, 'work'. Greetings, all of you out there in cyber world. It's me, the Political Chicken, back to share more from, well, from Ohio. I know that's not what you were expecting me to say, but what the heck. Roll with it.
Yes, just back from the Buckeye state of Ohio. The Rust Belt even. Why would a Texan travel to Ohio for a day and a half? Well, I'll tell you. Freedomworks Freepac Ohio and Josh Mandel for U.S. Senate. I don't normally document trips on my blog or post pictures, but this trip warrants both of those things. I really had a great trip and feel that it would be cool to share it with all of you.
First, I arrived on Saturday afternoon in order to attend Freepac Ohio. It was an effort by Freedomworks along with other local tea party groups to inform other activists on, well, how to be better activists! That was the first part of the program. The second half was dedicated to speakers and then it was rounded out by none other than Glenn Beck. I am such a big fan of Freedomworks and Glenn Beck, so the two of them working together was awesome. They had lots of great speakers, and I unfortunately can't remember all of their names, but a few of them stuck with me. One of those in particular was Dana Loesch. She was fabulous. Dana is a conservative (obviously) and the other part that really rocks about her is that she is a home school mom just like me! How cool is that? She is cool, edgy and doesn't mince her words. Once a liberal, she changed to a conservative after the 9/11 attacks. I'm glad she's on our side now.
Another contributor to the program was Reverend CL Bryant. He too was once a Democrat, but saw what the Democratic party stood for and became a Republican. Reverend Bryant was phenomenal. One thing he said, and I'm paraphrasing here, was that the United States of America needs a new leader in order to restore America's swagger. BOOM. Don't you just love that word, 'swagger'? He also just finished making the film titled, "Runaway Slave". It's out in theaters now, so please go and support this man's movie. He is wonderful.
Next on my list of things to do was to go door to door for Josh Mandel. Who is Josh Mandel, you say? Well, he is going to be the next U.S. Senator for the state of Ohio. The state which is a union state, situated in the middle of the rust belt has been represented for the past six years by Democrat Sherrod Brown. Ahem, cue Josh Mandel, stage right. Josh is a young guy but he has been busy. He's a veteran who has served two tours of duty as a marine in Anbar Province, Iraq. Not only that, but he's served in their state legislature and he is currently the state treasurer. Whew, I'm tired just typing all he's done and he's not through yet. Texas is a 'safe' as it goes for being a red state, but Ohio, not so much. Check out his website linked above in his name and donate some money to this guy. Who says you have to stick within your own state? If there was ever a time to cross state lines, it's now!
Speaking of door to door, here is a picture of me and my new buddy Lauren who heads up the Romney/Mandel campaign headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. She was super sweet and I really enjoyed the time we had together going door to door. She's doing a great job. While out walking and talking to folks, it was hard to miss the difference in the economy of Ohio versus Texas. It's easy to see how being a hard and fast union state can really suppress the economy. I'm glad that Texas is a right to work state and I pray it stays that way always. The good news is that there are efforts being made through petitions to make Ohio right to work. Keep up the good work, Ohio!
Well, I hope you have enjoyed our little trip to Ohio and back again. Please, don't be a stranger to Ohio or to the Political Chicken blog. We can do this! Romney/Ryan 2012!
Yes, just back from the Buckeye state of Ohio. The Rust Belt even. Why would a Texan travel to Ohio for a day and a half? Well, I'll tell you. Freedomworks Freepac Ohio and Josh Mandel for U.S. Senate. I don't normally document trips on my blog or post pictures, but this trip warrants both of those things. I really had a great trip and feel that it would be cool to share it with all of you.
First, I arrived on Saturday afternoon in order to attend Freepac Ohio. It was an effort by Freedomworks along with other local tea party groups to inform other activists on, well, how to be better activists! That was the first part of the program. The second half was dedicated to speakers and then it was rounded out by none other than Glenn Beck. I am such a big fan of Freedomworks and Glenn Beck, so the two of them working together was awesome. They had lots of great speakers, and I unfortunately can't remember all of their names, but a few of them stuck with me. One of those in particular was Dana Loesch. She was fabulous. Dana is a conservative (obviously) and the other part that really rocks about her is that she is a home school mom just like me! How cool is that? She is cool, edgy and doesn't mince her words. Once a liberal, she changed to a conservative after the 9/11 attacks. I'm glad she's on our side now.
Another contributor to the program was Reverend CL Bryant. He too was once a Democrat, but saw what the Democratic party stood for and became a Republican. Reverend Bryant was phenomenal. One thing he said, and I'm paraphrasing here, was that the United States of America needs a new leader in order to restore America's swagger. BOOM. Don't you just love that word, 'swagger'? He also just finished making the film titled, "Runaway Slave". It's out in theaters now, so please go and support this man's movie. He is wonderful.
Next on my list of things to do was to go door to door for Josh Mandel. Who is Josh Mandel, you say? Well, he is going to be the next U.S. Senator for the state of Ohio. The state which is a union state, situated in the middle of the rust belt has been represented for the past six years by Democrat Sherrod Brown. Ahem, cue Josh Mandel, stage right. Josh is a young guy but he has been busy. He's a veteran who has served two tours of duty as a marine in Anbar Province, Iraq. Not only that, but he's served in their state legislature and he is currently the state treasurer. Whew, I'm tired just typing all he's done and he's not through yet. Texas is a 'safe' as it goes for being a red state, but Ohio, not so much. Check out his website linked above in his name and donate some money to this guy. Who says you have to stick within your own state? If there was ever a time to cross state lines, it's now!
Well, I hope you have enjoyed our little trip to Ohio and back again. Please, don't be a stranger to Ohio or to the Political Chicken blog. We can do this! Romney/Ryan 2012!
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