The boy who would be president has been on
shaky ground since his inauguration and he has
failed to get his sea legs. I'm afraid that he is
going to sink us all before he does. Once we
start down that financial ruin hole we won't stop
until we hit bottom.
The cap-and-trade legislation that he wants will
cost our industry $2+ trillion dollars and put many
out of business. Lots more in the unemployment
lines, lost homes and cars, loss of college
education's and no paid vacations. Bummer. This
cap-and-trade thing is suppose to stop global
warming that is man made. NOT going to happen.
There is NO global warming caused by man.
Almost every day there are scientist jumping OFF
the global warming wagon. Today I got an e-mail
saying that 59 more scientist now say there is NO
manmade global warming. That makes the count
since Gores lies about global warming, 700
scientist who say it is not a true story. These
scientist are some of the top weather scientist
in the world.
Some of these global warming alarmist are worried
about Greenland becoming green again. Hello, wake-
up folks before you lose the farm. Socratease8

Cleo

Sometimes a video is just too precious not to
share. The family has talked about this scene
many times. When Cleo's name is mentioned this
scene is always mentioned.

Cleo was a very special kind of man. He never
saw a kid that didn't fall in love with him at
their first meeting. He would always take them
for a ride if the tractor would start and in
an earlier time he let them ride the horses,
always there to protect them of course.

Cleo never married and he stayed on the family
farm until he passed. Cleo was in his early
80's when he died. He fought in the Second
World War and got severe frost bite on his
feet at the "Battle of the Bulge" and had to
be carried to some of his battles. He had
Diabetes an could have lost his feet during
that time. Cleo smoked "roll your own" cigarettes
until he was 70, then quit cold turkey. the
damage had been done so he wore an oxygen
tube, starting when he was in his 80's.
Cleo had some of the best honey in the county
and would use it if he took too much insulin.
He was a small man in stature but a Giant
of a man where it counted. He helped take
care of his mother and a couple of his brothers.
In all the years that I knew him I never heard
a bad word spoken of him. Cleo is missed, God
speed Cleo. Socratease8

Trust

This video happened after my last video at the
little waterfalls. Gee-Gee walked with me to the
falls as she does almost every time I go there.
She loves to walk the trails in our woods and
sometimes will talk about it for several minutes.
You can see the love and trust in her eyes and
if you look real close you can see her soul. There
is no judgment there. To hear her tell it, she has
had the best time of her life. My little four legged
friends talk a lot, and I always learn a lot when I
listen. Socratease8

Lets take a walk

The video pretty much says it all. Everywhere
that I said my or mine I should have said ours.
My wife of almost 49 years also uses the trails
and helps maintain the paths. These trails and
water are a great asset to our peace of mind. It's
a great place to relax and forget the problems
of the world. Socratease8

It's blowing in the Wind

When I need to reflect on the politics of the
day I sometimes walk down to my creek and sit
by the water and think. Sometimes if you listen
very closely you can hear the answers to your
questions blowing in the wind.

I am trying to be less judgmental and more
forgiving. The politicians will do what
politicians have always done. They will give
themselves raises when the economy is down
and lie to us about their need. And amazing
as it may seem most will believe them. We ask
them why they need a pay raise, and they tell
us that the answer is blowing in the wind, my
friend, the answer is blowing in the wind. Hey
that sounds like a song from the 60's. Things
don't change much with time does it. Socratease8

Hands Out

We have become a nation with our hands out.
It's like a spending spree with a credit card. We
can buy stuff that we don't need and not feel the
pain until later. BUT the bill has to be paid. It
will be our descendants who have to pay this bill.

It is going to be an interesting 4 years watching
this inexperienced President do his thing. He doesn't
seem to have a clue but I'll wait for a final judgment.
It may take a lot of years to fix what he screws up.
Socratease8

Politics as Usual

I have waited to give Obama a chance to get
it right, but I am tired of waiting. After just 3
weeks he has proven that he is way below
the pay scale of the Presidency. Three dumb
mistakes and it looks like more to come. Even
I know that you don't pick a tax dodger to run
a government dept. I guess he thinks it's OK
since he admits the mistakes. Three of the
people that he has picked for dept. heads
have avoided paying their federal income taxes.
Most of us would be in jail if we did that. One
of these three actually became head of the
Treasury Dept. Others that he picked are being
investigated for various deeds that are not
legal and had to drop out of the running. These
are the kind of things that happen when you
pick someone who is inexperienced for the
top job. Obama has let Pelosi pick the agenda
for his presidency. That's a shame. She says
that we are loosing 500 million jobs every
month that we don't pass the stimulus bill. That
is about 200 million more people than we
have in these United States unless you count
the people in Mexico. So there should not
be anyone working right now. But I swear
that when I went to Wal-Marts last night
that there was someone there to check me
out. Maybe Nancy had a slip of the tongue
but that seems to be happening more often
with this crew running our government.

The way I see it a stimulus package should
create jobs not a new bureaucracy. It is hard
to get this through to our politicians. This is
the reason I am for term limits with no benefits
after leaving the government. These people
then have to live with the laws and bills that
they passed while in government.
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