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Life in The Country

Posted by trunthepaige on May 20, 2009


A programmer from Microsoft is fed up with his job, his life, so he quits and moves up to the Montana. Two weeks go by and while thinking how happy he is with his new life, there is a knock at the door. He answers the door to find a huge rancher who extends his hand and says “I’m your neighbor Butch. I live about a mile north across the stream. I am having a party tonight and I would like to invite you.”

The guy says, “Hi Butch, my name is Bill, nice to meet you. I would love to come to your party tonight.”

Butch: “Great, but I have to warn you, there is going to be some drinking. And there is going to be some sex. And there may be some fighting.”

Bill: “That’s great Butch. I like my beer.” I’ve been up here two weeks so the sex sounds good. And I get along great with everyone.”

Butch: “Great then. I’ll see you tonight.”

As Butch begins to walk away Bill yells, “Hey Butch, what should I wear?”

Butch replies, “Don’t matter, just gonna be me and you.”


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You just got to “love” the goverment.

So you think you “own” some farmland. If you would like to keep it, you need to know a few things.

Never let it flood. If the land floods around where I live, even if it is just for a month or two out of the year. The county will try and take the land from you. They will call it a wetland and it will no longer really be yours (other than paying taxes on it). Every flat piece of ground is a “natural” wetland in western Washington, if you do not keep it drained.

If you let it go and find you have a marsh or pond forming (also called a puddle). Holidays are the best time to to fix that problem by creating “natural” drainage. Government workers are a rather predictable and lazy lot. They do use aerial photography where I live, so it is best to do the work during the rainy season. Things get grown over fast when it rains. And yes it is best not to let an eagle nest on your property. Eagles traditionally are another reason for the government to tell you that some of your land is really not yours at all. If you see a nest being started, destroy it, do it now. For a protected animal Bald Eagles are thick around here. There is nothing rare about them. They are beautiful animals, it’s a shame you can’t let them nest on your land. But only a fool would allow it.

There was this old couple’s place, not far from where I live. They stopped using their land as pasture, but still lived in the house. They were going to sell it off in a few years, when they retired. A farm next to them unintentionally pushed up a small ridge against their land. The water level went up during the winter. Not too badly, it was not worth doing anything about it. The ducks liked it during the winter and spring, and it was dry before any mosquitoes hatched . The county came by and called their back 10 acres an endangered wetland. They had to put a fence around it and are not even allowed to walk in their own back yard. Yes they had their land stolen from them. And no they were not paid for it. I just got to just love those noble folks with their progressive politics. No I don’t love them, I don’t even respect them.They are just thieves being paid by the hour, out of the taxes being paid by the people they are stealing from.

So remember to kill a beaver on sight, use weed killer on anything that looks like wetland vegetation. And drain it fast, even if you like ducks. And never ever get a permit, unless you want the land stolen from you. Beware of Seattle people (or the big city closest to you) buying the land next to you and making a little hobby farm out of it. They will turn you in every time they think something you are doing is bad. And those people think everything is an environmental crime. So make certain you point your French drains toward their land. Yes they tend to be too stupid to understand these things and end up with a fence around part of their land. Yes a part of their property, where they are not even allowed to walk. Sometimes there is justice in this world.

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Medically negligent-a parent’s worst nightmare

Posted by crunchymountainmomma on May 15, 2009

I’m not as stunned as I wish I could be. A Minneapolis judge has ruled, despite a family’s objections, that they must allow their son to be evaluated to see if he would benefit from chemotherapy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090515/ap_on_he_me/us_med_forced_chemo

This is just insane. A parent chooses(in the best of cases-I’ll admit there are some parents who don’t give 2 hoots for their child’s welfare) to give the best to their children.
If my children were to ever be diagnosed with cancer, I would fight tooth and nail for the treatment *I* saw to be best for them. The bad thing to chemotherapy is that it’s a poison that you hope kills the cancer before it kills you.
This family’s religious rights are being violated. The courts will rule that because they allowed one treatment, they violated their own religious rights. Perhaps this family had no knowledge of the dangers or the exact nature of chemotherapy. The hard reality is that most doctors have a “I’m the doctor and I know better than you do” mentality. They frequently assume that people know without question what all the treatments entail and when they are questioned, talk down to them.
My family uses naturopathic and holistic treatments almost exclusively. We do use allopathic treatmetn when it’s become patently obviuos that I cannot treat it myself. But to know that a judge might order me to hand my children over for poison just infuriates me.

When did we abdicate our authority as those that deem what’s best for our family and how can we get it back?

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With Liberty and Justice for All?

Posted by shamelesslyred on May 13, 2009

I have heard stories of the poor being penalized in the United States. Stories such as the one here ,outrage the social justice freak in me. However, I read a story today that has taken the cake. While our government hands failing banks trillions of tax payer dollars, while this economy is creating homeless families in numbers not seen since the Great Depression, while jobs are being lost at an explosive rate, and the Fed can’t account for 9.7 trillion dollars of OUR money–while the government is evicting Americans from tent cities forcing them to shelters, New York has decided that charging the homeless rent is a good thing.  That’s right. Taking advantage of homeless people and families who are working and trying to save to get out of shelters are now being charged up to half of their income as rent. This only applies to the poor who are actually trying to make a better situation for themselves by finding and keeping jobs. The people who do not work, of course are not being forced to pay anything. (story link here)
The policy of rent for shelter was enacted in 1997, but never enforced until this month. I guess in a failing economy, when a city does not have the privilege of printing money out of thin air like Washington does, the appropriate course of action to get more money is to squeeze it out of every citizen who can cough it up. Usually this money grabbing scheme is carried out in tax hikes, or police ticketing for speeding at 3 whole miles over the speed limit. Somehow though, the sudden enforcement of this law is particularly disgusting and smacks of tyranny.

Lets get something straight. There are those who are a “soak” on tax payer dollars. Drug addicts who are homeless, those who will not support their children, drunks who can’t hold a buck in their pocket longer than it takes to buy a bottle from the corner liquor store are people who line up for shelter and food every night of the blessed year, and they are not ever turned away or forced to spend a single cent for it. Charging those who are working to get a leg up in an economy that keeps knocking them down, is only forcing them to stay in homeless shelters longer. Then again, this is what the Mafia would consider a “deal”. Protection for dollars. It’s a deal that never ends. It’s the same logic – pay, and you stay. Except the paying families will no longer be able to save for an apartment to get out. The more money they make, the more money government takes. Maybe they should all quit and collect welfare for life, because it seems as if that’s what the government would prefer.

WTF
has our country come to when we shovel billion upon billions upon more billions of dollars on big banks
then force the working homeless to shell out half of their wages to sleep in a cot in a room shared with 20 other people??

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The Declaration of Dependance

Posted by Guest Author on May 13, 2009

This guest post by: Mike (SirDoc)

In Congress, July 4, 2009.
A Declaration
By the Representatives of the
United Socialists of America,
In general Congress assembled

To The Citizens of the Former united states.

When in the course of human events, through years of subversion by anti-American professors, liberals, politicians and left-wing radicals, it has become possible for a People to dissolve the free form of government which had made Amercia so successful, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth,  Socialist Tyranny equal to few which have ever existed, to which we feel we are entitled to.  A total lack of Respect to the Opinions of the Average American emboldens us to declare the causes and methods we will use to burn the old America to the ground.

Therefore we, have as a direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

We shall destroy all Christian Laws, even the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.

We forbid the State Governors to pass any Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless our Assent should be obtained .

We will  refuse to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People; unless those People would relinquish their Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right they no longer need.

We will call together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of your public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing you into Compliance with our Measures.

We will dissolve any Representative Houses for opposing with manly Firmness our Invasions on the Rights of the People.

We will not honor the results of contested elections but will cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, can be assured to work in our favor, regardless if the State remains in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within.

We will endeavour to Populate the States with illegal aliens; and for that Purpose obstruct the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refuse to pass others to discourage their Illegal Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands for natural Citizens, while lowering them for the Illegals.

We will obstruct the Administration of Justice, by refusing to recognize States Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

We will make Judges dependent on our Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and Amount and Payment of their Salaries.

We will erect a Multitude of new Offices, and send hither Swarms of ACORN Officers to harass your People, and eat out your Substance.

we will keep among you, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies of Lawyers, and Activists, without the consent of your Legislature.

We will render the Military incapable of protecting this country. We will create a National Police force (Gestapo) which is equipped the same as or better than the military, and make it  independent of and superior to the Local Civil Power.

We will combine with others to subject you to a Jurisdiction foreign to your Constitution, and unacknowledged by your Laws; and give our Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

We will  quarter large Bodies of Armed ACORN thugs among you:

We will protect them, by mock Trials, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of the States:

WE will  cut off your Trade with all Parts of the World to bust your budgets:

WE will  impose taxes on you without your Consent:

WE will deprive you, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:

WE will transport you beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:

WE will abolish the free System of English Laws in any neighbouring Province which resists, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule in the States:

WE will take away your Charters, abolish your most valuable Laws, and alter fundamentally the Forms of your Governments:

WE  will suspend your own Legislatures, and declare themselves invested only with such Powers to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.

WE will delclare your State Government void, out of Federal Protection and wage War against you.

WE will plunder your Accounts, ravage your Coasts, burn your Towns, and destroy the Lives of your People.

WE are, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally worthy for your  Heads of State.

WE will constrain your fellow Citizens take them Captive on charges of high treason and make them bear Arms against your Country, to become the Executioners of your Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

We will excite domestic Insurrections among you, and will endeavour to bring on the Gangs of the Drug Lords, the merciless terrorist Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions you may Petition for Redress in the most humble Terms: But your repeated Petitions will be answered only by repeated Injury. Our party, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, may be unfit to be the Ruler of a free People,  but then you are no longer FREE.

You may be inclined to seek help from your British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time about Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of your Demise. We have appealed to their native fears and threatened them with activisim, and we have reminded them of the Ties we have with Islamic Fundamentalists in their country and have urged them disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, celebrate in the Reality that we can denounce them  and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, Enemies in Peace.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United SOCIALISTS of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Socialists, Communist, and Facist Governments of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of Barrack Hussein Obama, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United States are, and by our Direction ought to be, SOCIALIST and ENSLAVED States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, to all other Democratic and free peoples of the world, and that all political Connection between them and the new United States, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as SOCIALIST and ENSLAVED States, they no longer have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

And to support this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and the Iranian Regime, etc. we mutually pledge to take each of your Lives if necessary, all of your Fortunes, and to crush your sacred Honor.

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The Nanny Tax Rap

Posted by swearnoallegiance on May 8, 2009

Love that last line!

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