Visiting articles on Yahoo! News brought more tears as I read comments made by heartless people.

I look around and wonder where happiness went?

The fear I see in many people’s eyes, and hear in their blog posts, makes the tears flow more.

I am afraid.

Many are afraid.

The world as we know it has changed.  We all know at times change is good.  But the change we are seeing and living is not so good.  The fear of the unknown has tripled for many people.  Dreams have turned to nightmares.  We wake from the nightmares to only see we are closer to them coming true than ever before.

Hatred oozes from the pores of many.  At times it appears physical in a black, ugly cloud around them.  They smile an evil grin, not understanding how consumed with hate they are.   Tolerance of the different has vanished.

… and so I weep.

We have one chance to chase the nightmares away.

We have one chance to bring tolerance out of hiding.

We have one chance to bring hope back to the eyes of the elderly and the young.

We have one chance to wrap our arms around this great lady and pull her up out of despair and doom.

We have one chance.

… and so I weep.

I grew up in southern Minnesota.  Living mostly in rural communities and on farms where working was something you just did.  There were crops to weed and bring in; cattle, pigs, chickens, horses, etc to feed and take care of.  Machinery had to be cleaned and maintained properly and grass had to be mowed.

I never thought working for a living was wrong.  My grandmother always told me to earn my way.  Mother said the same thing at times.  I’ve worked at pulling weeds from soybean fields, de-tassling corn, and building grain silos.   When I was got older, I starting working as a bus girl, then waitress at a local restaurant.

Being from a farming family, college was never discussed as an option when I left high school.   I never excelled at anything to even think about a scholarship, so what to do after graduation was limited.  What I did know for sure was living in that part of the country for the rest of my life wasn’t going to happen.  One way or another I was getting out of that hole where you either worked in the factory or pumped out babies as a living.

No thanks – I wanted better for myself.

One of my classmates signed up for the delayed entry program for the United States Army.   She too did not want to be part of the dirt that made up that community.  (Unfortunately, she is back there and part of it now – last I heard).  I followed her lead and signed up.  In November after graduation, I left Minnesota for the southern states of the US.

I have been working at one job  or another since that time.  One year out of my life while married to my first husband I did spend seeing what it was like being a stay at home housewife.   I’m surprised I survived that.  Yucko!

I pay my taxes.

I support local charities.

I buy what I can pay for and save for what I want.

My husband served this country for 23 years.

He pays taxes.

He supports local military charities.

He buys what he can pay for and saves for what he wants.

Our debt is only in our home and one vehicle.

Our credit cards are paid off.

We are of the 53%.

We want no hand out from the government.

We want our freedom to be and do what we want.

We will continue to fight for that freedom.

And in about 20 days, those resolutions will be excuses.

Yes, making lists helps people focus on a goal.   I make lists at work.  Before I go home at night, I jot down what I need to do first thing when I get in the next day.

The biggest resolution heard is people want to lose weight.   They vow to eat better and go to the gym.   Some even say, “I want to lose XX pounds by next Christmas”   These are all well meaning goals, but ones that must be looked at in reality.

Losing 25 pounds for anyone is a mountain when looking at it.  How about instead of putting a mountain in front of you, put a mole hill.   Resolve to lose weight healthily but changing a lifestyle choice that can put you over that hill.   How about instead of losing 25 pounds, you start out with trading out that weekly, or daily, Starbucks triple chocolate latte with a Starbucks skinny vanilla latte?  It is a small, mole hill, goal  but one that can put you on the road to the mountain of 25 pounds lost.

Join a gym is another resolution often heard.  Bravo!  But — cost is a factor now a days.  Research gyms in the area.  You don’t need to go to the brand name gyms to lose weight.   And oft times those gyms are packed and when you walk in the door to work out, you feel intimidated around all those hard bodies, or the equipment you want to use is unavailable.   I use a small, local area gym myself.  It is on the way home from work, or five minutes from my house the other way.   More times than not, when I go in the treadmill I like to use is available.   Start out slow.  Adding just 30 minutes every other day to your normal routine isn’t so daunting you stop after your 3rd visit.

My advice is if you do make resolutions – make them attainable.   Then you won’t quit so fast.  I’m sure when I go to the gym today, there will be new faces hitting all the machines.   They will be so sore tomorrow that soon enough, I won’t see their faces again.

Goals are a good way to keep you focused, but unrealistic goals burn you out.

I do not make resolutions myself.  But I wish you good luck in yours!

There is no valid reason they can spin for the below.  Monitoring blogs, websites, Twitter, Facebook, etc in the name of security bleeds into the same complaints the liberals have about the Patriot Act.

Privacy Group Sues DHS Over Social Media Monitoring Program
A privacy advocacy group is suing the Department of Homeland Security for information about an emerging program designed to monitor social media activity. The Electronic Privacy Information Center, claiming the “legal authority for the DHS program remains unclear,” went to federal court in Washington, D.C., this past week to try and compel the department to turn over documents on the initiative.

Read more: Source

I would remind those liberals who try to justify away the above that their President has renewed the Patriot Act while in office, as recently as May 2011.

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The Obama Administration is serious.

They want to regulate everything.

Including …. wait for it …. Goat Herders.

The Obama administration is setting new workplace regulations to assist foreign workers who fill goat herding positions in the U.S. , including employee-paid cell phones and comfy beds.

These new special procedures issued by the Labor Department must be followed by employers who want to hire temporary agricultural foreign workers to perform sheep herding or goat herding activities.  It describes strict rules for sleeping quarters, lighting, food storage, bathing, laundry, cooking and new rules for the counters where food is prepared.

“A separate sleeping unit shall be provided for each person, except in a family arrangement,” says the rules signed by Jane Oates, assistant secretary for employment and training administration at the Labor Department.

“Such a unit shall include a comfortable bed, cot or bunk, with a clean mattress,” the rules state. [source]

Head Explosion in 5, 4, 3, 2, ……

Spreading the wealth is socialism. 

So is Shared Sacrifice.

In February, Obama came out with a pressor on his budget, saying:

“Everybody’s going to have to give a little bit” to solve the nation’s fiscal problems, President Obama told reporters at a hastily called White House press briefing Tuesday morning. Source

It came up again after liberal senators drug oil company executives to Washington last week demanding to know why gas prices had gone up so much (since Obama took office).

But here is the biggest problem with shared sacrifice that liberals won’t admit, or mention. 

Approximately 47% of Americans DO NOT PAY ANY FEDERAL TAXES.

True shared sacrifice would mean that those 47% would have to START paying federal taxes.  But if that would happen, then the democrats would loose a major voting block for them.  The majority of those that do not pay federal taxes already live on a government hand out and they keep voting for those pigs, er, democrats who give them their hand outs.

Can you imagine what would happen if those that don’t pay any federal taxes started paying say $5 a year in taxes?  Let’s say that the 47% is actually 47,000,000.  Multiply in your head that amount by $5.  Staggering isn’t it?

For those that don’t do math that well, it comes to $235,000,000. That amount would be added to the rest of the taxes being paid by good Americans to Jabba the Hutt, er, I mean the US Government.

If you want true shared sacrifice by Americans, start demanding those that don’t support their own government to start ponying up their share.

Don’t get your panties in a snit because some of us out here in the general public believe supporting cop killers is offensive and someone who does shouldn’t be allowed near the White House.  The White House represents America and frankly, that peice of trash “Common” (like common folk?), doesn’t represent me.

I have determined that liberals have the brains of rocks and really should not be allowed near sharp objects. 

Goes on vacation.

Again.

To Rio.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama’s trip to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador beginning this week is still on, despite fears of a nuclear disaster in Japan and turmoil in the Middle East, officials said.

“Obviously, the trip is on. The president will be going to Latin America,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said, ahead of Obama’s departure for Brazil Friday on a visit billed as advancing major goals of US foreign policy.

Obviously?

“He is the president of the United States. There are major issues all the time that a president has to contend with, which is one of the reasons why he has such a substantial support framework around him when he travels.”

Yeah – and if Bush had traveled out of the country right after 9/11 or Katrina – the left would have ripped him to shreds. And we do know what “issues” Obama is having to contend with now don’t we?

“You have to remember that economic growth in the United States is the president’s top priority. This trip is very focused on economic opportunities for the United States and the trade relationship.”

 Carney – really. We can tell when you’re lying – stop moving your lips.

This president is clearly the empty suit the majority of us with half a brain knew he was before the election. 

He plays at being the president and is using the presidency to play at whatever he wants to.

We need back bone, strength and clarity in our President. 

Not the ability to fly to Rio and dance or pull a basketball team’s name out of a hat.

Someone show me the proof this Jared Loughner was deemed to be mentally unbalanced “before” the time he purchased the gun used in the shooting in Arizona.

… I’m waiting …

…. still waiting ….

That’s right – there is no evidence.

So if Loughner had no record, criminal or physiologically, that would prevent him from purchasing a hand-gun; then why the hell are liberal puke democrats DEMANDING people with mental defects not be allowed to buy hand-guns.

Its the law already in most states with gun carry laws.

But if the person has not been deemed mentally unbalanced to where it could be placed in the data-base checked before people can buy one, THEN THEY WILL BE ALLOWED TO BUY ONE!!!

And don’t try this crap with me that I have no clue – because I have a gun carry permit and own one.  I also have an FBI file – so there.

Liberals are using a crisis once again to demand rights giving to us by the Constitution be demonized or removed.

This idea of banning hate speech is one.   The liberal pukes in this country want control and power so badly, they don’t care what part of the Constitution they damage, or how many people in this country they damage.

Loughner is crazy.  It doesn’t take someone with a PhD to figure that out.  But because his parents are too stupid to know that and never called the police on their crazy ass spawn, six people are dead.

This is the fault of the parents and the teachers who never reported Loughner to the authorities.

It is NOT the fault of the gun laws, or lack thereof.

Get your facts straight.

… and the first liberal talking-points repeating puke that mentions Bush or Palin gets permentaly banned.

Festivus and Kwanzaa are FAKE holidays.

One was created by a stupid, supposedly funny, television show that was unfortunately on the air waves too long (one show should have been enough to put that show in the crapper).

The other was created by a convicted felon, claiming it as the Black Alternative to Christmas.  Please tell me where we need an alternative to Jesus?  Most black people I know are very devote to the Bible and don’t need an alternative to Christmas.  But then there are those that fall into the trap of wanting to “fit in”, so go along with Kwanzaa.

Festivus is supposedly just a fun way of celebrating something stupid and since the whole concept is stupid, I can believe that.  Anyone celebrating or taking it serious needs their heads examined and taste in comedy shows questioned.

People who fall into the Kwanzaa trap though are really scary.  Kwanzaa is NOT A FEDERAL OR OFFICIAL holiday.  This abomination of a celebration as an alternative to Christmas should be shunned by EVERYONE that even basically understands the idea of Christmas and what it stands for.  Kwanzaa wants to take away the belief in Jesus Christ and replace it with some mumbo jumbo cooked up in a jail cell.

You who celebrate either should be ashamed …

… there is only one reason for the season — and that’s to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ our Saviour.