Since you've been in heaven

I miss you so much...

I used to help you as we made the train
and stacked the wood
or built things in the workshop
my parents weren't happy I knew how to use the chainsaw
when I was just 11
these are the things I have been thinking about
since you have been in heaven,
You would come home and tell me
who was in the hospital
and who you discharged
as you sat with your crossword
or crotched some more yarn
I still have some of those stuffed animals you made
now they have gone to my kids
I was happy I thought you at least got to meet them all
Now we are expected number four
I miss seeing you walk through the door
I miss most the things when I was seven
the long walks and talks near the pond in the woods
this is what I miss since you've been in heaven
I hoped that you would last long enough for me to say
how much I loved you
when everyone else wasn't in the way
I missed my chance because my pride wouldn't let me
We did have that talk the night she passed away
I did say most of the things I had to say
these are some of my thoughts
Since you've been in heaven

domino effect

First of all, I would be remiss in not mentioning that Governor “no taxes” is now responsible for over 60 new taxes and fee increases and as if that wasn’t enough: the single largest LLC tax in the country (during a recession that is causing so much unemployment it has conjured images of the great depression.) The details of what this LLC tax is frightening to business owners. The state will allow an adjuster to come in to our business and decide what we should be paid and then tax the rest. Forget about the fact that this LLC tax is constitutionally questionable. Could this be any more arbitrary? In a time when jobs are scarce enough to find we are going to attack the source of funding for growth of new businesses? This is just poor policy and even worse timing. This is retro-active to last year and just plain dangerous. My company allows me to come into contact with many other small business owners and this is going to have a horrible effect of what is left of New Hampshire’s economy. The domino effect with this legislative change is this. This is a tax designed to increase revenue in a time when revenue’s are falling. In a few months once enough businesses have been hit with this new tax many are going to need to start either A. cutting staff to cover the new tax or B. not have enough money to grow. So in a year this tax will ultimately be responsible for less revenue not more and further cut jobs. Governor Lynch, Attorney General Michael Delaney please perform your duty and challenge this tax before it further cripples New Hampshire’s struggling small business owners.

Starting line or finish line

I have these sayings, my wife calls them Robisms. The one I wish to share today is: although with the internet we are capable of being closer as a civilization than ever before we are further apart than ever. Recently there was a massive earthquake in Haiti. The people of these United States once again showed their compassion and heart by donating what is approaching almost a trillion dollars. While money isn’t going to help those that lost loved ones it will help a ravaged country get back on its feet. We have an unemployment rate around 17% when you factor in all the information. We all (it seems) know someone that is laid off. There are other families that are on fixed incomes, still more that are receiving help from the state. There are many more that are neighbors, friends “or just someone from the block”. Where is the help for them? Why is it easier for us to write a check for people in a different country than it is to help our neighbors? While we face many challenges with the weakened state of our economy: prices, medical care, and taxes are all going up. We are afraid. We have a fear that we are going to lose our job, or business. A fear that we are going to get taxed so all our comfort money is going to disappear. So many uncertainties and no one seems to be giving answers. Recently I saw a petition going around that claimed we should support drug testing people that are receiving state and/or federal assistance. While I support the idea behind it; I can’t support further limiting freedom. Healthcare is looming. Although 60-70% of Americans are against it Nanci Pelosi and company have made every threat and intention known that they are going full steam ahead. Forgetting about the fact that we are supposed to live in a representative republic. What I can’t understand is why anyone would be for it. I have financial struggles. While I don’t require assistance for anything I am certainly not financially secure as I know most people feel the same way. We live in a country that was founded by men that said:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
These men wanted it made clear. We the people give “our” just consent not the other way around. They offered us the hope, (the same hope our President doesn’t understand) in these simple words:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Posterity is what most of us miss. Let alone that we don’t really understand what posterity means. So I will define it. It means how we want future people to view us. So I ask: would people that believe in the right of each other to run the government be on board with our government deciding proper amounts of water used to flush our toilets? Would they be okay with the FCC tacking on a small tax to our phone bills every month (or would they even be okay with an FCC)? We need to ask if we really are the greatest country on earth than why do people in other countries see more generosity from those that live 100 yards up the road? The truth is we are falling. Not from differences of party or politics but from God. Marx believed that in order to make a civilization want government control you had to take their soul. Are we there, I ask you? Where is the soul of a country that turns its back on their neighbors to help those far away? Where is our heart? George Washington and company stood up for what was right and they faced the most feared armies on earth and a 33% approval rating when they first started. We are worried about how we’ll transport our children if the government outlaws S.U.V.’s. Franklin said that if we embraced security rather than liberty we deserved neither and right now those questions are coming. If you haven’t seen the vanity run amuck in D.C. enough to stand and fight what are you waiting for? This time the enemy is not coming with guns and bombs they are here with their bagged media and fancy slogans. The weak have all ready fallen. One of the founders quotes I like best is very simple in concept and deadly true. All evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing. Are you good men (or women)?

The first cut is from the Declaration of Independence.
The second is the preamble to the Constitution.
Written by Rob Huxley
Rob@robhuxley.us

The Flags of our Founding Fathers have Fallen!

There were men that gathered in drafty meeting halls and churches spread throughout 13 colonies ruled by the King of England. These men's background varied but they all shared a common thread: A dream of Liberty! These men talked to neighbors and friends and with courage and tenacity wrote a seccession document that we call the Declaration of Independance. They were great men. Not because they defied a king, not even because they took on the world's best army. They were great because when it was all over they could have ruled as King's themselves (in fact many wanted Washington to be the King of the America's). They were great because they saw what power and governments were capable of and they said no. They fought convention for a chance at true freedom. As they ratified their Constitution they knew with great satisfaction that (while not perfect) Freedom was the new King. We have seen so many abuses of these ideals that most of us are numb to them. Some are numb and ask themselves questions like; What could I do about it? Some are numb because our education system has stopped teaching of the founders and their quest for posterity and therefore have truly crushed hope. Hope in freedom, Hope in liberty; and by crushing this hope have crushed our path back to freedom. Over the last several years we have had 3 seperate Presidents that have all usurped our Constitution; and yet we do nothing. The time for doing nothing is over! The time for reverance to the Constitution and to reclaim our founders prosperity is now! How can we stand still and watch our freedom's end? Inaction now will lead us to that cliff which we are being rushed to be pushed over. Langdon (NH leader in the ratification of the Constitution)said that "death is not the worst of all evils". He meant that living under tyranny was worse than death. Most people are familiar with Patrick Henry's famous "give me liberty or give me death" quote; yet don't know that he also said that liberty is a precious jewel which needed vigilante protection. Who were to be the protectors of this jewel? I am, you are, otherwise known as the "We the people..." from that most sacred Declaration. That jewel Henry referred to is being abused and stolen by a Congress of these United States, and they should be ashamed of themselves as should we for doing nothing. Scott Brown's Massachusetts election was a signal to many that everything is going to be okay because he will stop healthcare. He will not stop healthcare! We should! We won't though, too many of us have become complacent and lazy when protecting that which should be most sacred. Our Liberty, Our Freedom: and this complacency is going to cost us all dearly. I want you to think of something: If you believe that even if Scott Brown managed to stop healthcare; Would that make it all better? Would California, Arizona, New York and so many other states suddenly become financially solvent? Would the Supreme Court suddenly stop interfereing in the practices of soveriegn states just because healthcare was stifled? We need solutions and most of all we need leaders. If you think someone that has an R beside their name is the solution you are wrong. Liberty and Freedom are not jewels that can be stared at in meusems, or around someone's neck, they are the backbone of our life. Without it all is lost. If you say you support the troops, yet fail to speak up about the attacks what are you really supporting? If you say you value Liberty and Freedom yet fail to fight for it's survival do you really value it? I value our Liberty and our Freedom and I fight for it everyday and I will not allow this Congress to borrow, steal or undermine the most precious gift of the three: Life....then Liberty, then the pursuit of happiness:Will you?

Make up my mind!

John Lynch speaks a great game and hopes people don't see the obvious. He is full of it! He says he is against an income tax. He vetoes a couple of income tax bills then hooks up with friends to help create the new and exciting LLC tax. As a business owner I must tell you that this is an income tax. It will have a worse effect than an actual income tax because of the amount of truly small businesses in our state. Many of our small businesses have less than 20 employees and this LLC tax increase will mean the difference between hiring someone and laying them off. I am losing faith in our Governor because of this wishy-washy stance and others like his statement that he wouldn't approve a gay-marriage bill then he signs it. No matter if you are for or against this doesn't it make you wonder what else he will compromise on? No sales tax etc. I am hoping he isn't the typical politician speaking out of both sides of his mouth but I really just don't know. Do you?

poem

How do we described a fear that dwells in places we don't talk about?
Why do we feel pain that is so intense we don't talk about it?
What do we decide what to do when we get faced with something that scares us so much? Yet we are drawn to it like a moth to a flame?
Life plays it's games
drives us to be insane
makes us laugh
makes us cry
makes us all want to die
Hate? Hate does not exist
Hate is the point in our life when we despise we have become but love being that person we are.
So who do we trust when we no longer trust ourselves?
How are we suppose to feel when we can't trust our own feelings?
Where do we turn when all the roads feel like dead ends, and the one road left to choose is the one road that is going to force us to deal with the things we have been avoiding for years?

random thought

I just heard an ad paid for by the Democrat Senatortial committe, where they assert Mass voters can't elect Brown because he would be a deciding vote on OBAMA's Agenda. So the Dem's are admitting they don't care about health care reform just Obama socializing health care?? HMMM that seems wrong to me!

Brown Vs. Coakley

We have many choices in life. Political choices are hard enough without trying to decipher through all the BS. I am very amused though that there are 9 different unions (unions that have laid people off and cut, cut, cut expenses because of the BAD economy!) that are supporting Martha Coakley. Now President Obama has decided to come to Boston to root for his 60th vote. This is sad. It is sad the President is coming to support another loss by a Democrat. Most people would have learned from their previous failures but not President Obama. Instead of changing or (dare I say) improving their ideas they chose to plug forward no matter how terrible, socialist or whatever derogitory word for it their ideas are recieved. On Tuesday Mass voters will have a choice Obama or Brown. For freedom's sake I hope they choose Brown.

Sadness

Another month has passed (Dec)and unemployment continues to rise. So I want to ask you that can't wait till the Nov. Elections again does just having an R beside their name mean they will save the day?? Charlie Bass has an R is he the type of republican that is going to save us from things like....s-chip or the patriot act?? Be careful what you vote for because you just may get it! Besides as unemployment numbers go up, and up, and up remember those of youthat voted in NOV 08 This is CHANGE we can believe in??!!

Navy Seals in trouble

HAPPY NEW YEAR
I hope and pray that this year proves the return to common sense that
out beloved country so needs.
We can start in that direction by insuring that the three young Navy
SEALs- Matthew Mccabe, Jonathan Keefe, Julio Huertas - arrested for
allegedly abusing a high placed al Queda operative are returned to
active duty with this sorry mess wiped from their records. They were
charged on the word of their captive- for a fat lip. Most people I've
spoken to say that this situation should have never gotten to this
stage. My understanding is that with enough of us throughout the
country raising our collective voices through the instruments we
control, email and regular mail, this matter will get the attention of
Secretary of Defense Gates who has the power to dismiss this.From what
I gathered they can be issued admonitions called "Non punitive
Letters of Caution" that would dismiss the charges and let them return
to their careers and also, BTW, successfully overcome the TERRORIST'S
claims and serve notice to his buddies that Americans aren't going to
allow them to use our own PC obsessiveness as their weapon- at least
not without a fight.
Just go to Petition2Congress and let them know your stand on this issue.
Its simple and free and takes but a minute. We need thousands and
thousands to get the word to Congress so please forward this letter to
your list in hopes that we can start the New Year off with a
nationwide reminder to Washington that we will not tolerate injustice
to our warriors and that TERRORISTS need to be treated as such.
Also, write directly to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at 1400
Defense Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20301-1400.
This is an AMERICAN cause not a bi partisan cause. Lets show our
enemies what America is made of !!!

This is an excellent commentary on liberty Thank you Mike Church

Begin Mike Church Show Transcript

Mike: Your care, the care of your life, your freedom to negotiate a deal that might bankrupt you, true, but would save your life, your freedom to do that isn’t worth the piece of paper that you would sign it away for in the eyes of those people that live inside that 10-mile square. And they’re aghast that you’ve figured this out. They have been running roughshod over you and I, you and me, for seven decades now. They’ve taken over our schools and ruined them. They’ve taken over our institutions and told us that our institutions don’t represent what we thought that they do. They have rendered our documents irrelevant. They have bastardized our founders. They have taught us history that never was history.

They’ve told our children to go out and contract sexual diseases, and it’s okay because your government will give you a pill to fix it. They’ve told our young people to go out and get pregnant, don’t worry about starting a family, start one on your own. You don’t need a husband. Just go out and do it. It’s what all the kids are doing. Don’t worry, the government will pay you for it. They have taken our minority citizens, they have sold them a phony bill of goods. They have told them that they are to be cared for, and that they need not care for themselves. And they have told entire generations of young black children, “You don’t need a daddy. I am yo’ baby daddy.”

And it’s all rolled into – you can take all of that, every single last stitch of it, every period, every comma, every word, every character in a word that has been printed on a piece of legislation that has come out of that gristmill of tyranny in Washington, D.C. And you can roll all that, baby, into that one simple discovery. They were willing to kill you. Yeah, I said it, Ed. That’s right. I said it. They were willing to stand in judgment of you. They were willing to stand in judgment, to appoint a board to stand in judgment of whether or not you were worthy as a human being of receiving a medical procedure that they deemed you are not worthy of because they hadn’t approved of it. That’s all you need to know. You don’t need to know anything else to revolt. If that’s not enough, I don’t know what is. What else could they possibly do to us? Or conspire to do to us?

And guess what, they’re not finished yet. They’ve been told over and over and over again, they’ve been protested against – you know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of the run-up to the American Revolution. You had people that were saying, oh, no, we’ve got to give King George III another chance. Men such as John Dickinson, who came from Pennsylvania at the time, who were writing these things called “olive branch petitions.” “Please, King George, we beg you to reconsider.” Then you had guys like Jefferson and Adams going, like, these people will kill us, dude [chuckling]. They don’t want to hear your stupid petition. They’ve got 20,000 Hessian mercenaries on a boat headed this way to force us to do what they want us to do. They don’t care about us. They’ll kill us if we don’t do what they tell us to do. And then the light bulb goes off, and other people begin to wake up and say, wait a minute, this Jefferson guy, this Adams guy might be on to something here. Better pay attention. Read the Declaration of Independence and read the complaints lodged against the King of England and tell me that you’re not seeing the exact same thing.

So that is what is going on out there. I don’t need 700 eyewitness accounts from this town hall or that town hall. I don’t need Chuck Todd. I don’t need David Gregory. I don’t need Brian Williams or Katie Couric or any of these other elite, lofty, having ascended to the highest ranks of journalism fools, to tell me who showed up and what they discussed. I don’t need to hear about your healthcare debate because it’s not a debate about healthcare. It’s a debate about life. It’s a debate about liberty. It’s a debate about happiness. And you nimrods, I am thankful to you, Nancy Pelosi, thank you. I am thankful to Ted Kennedy that he finally got his wish, and that European-style execution denial of medical service healthcare, put upon the people, managed against the people, for the benefit of the few, and it finally tried to rear its ugly head here. Let me serve notice to you, too, sirs. Your constituents are not finished protesting. If you don’t back off, you’re going to cause more backlash. You’re going to instigate more protest, not less. People aren’t going to fold their tents up and say, oh, well, they passed ObamaCare, and Grandma will stand in front of the death panel, like Sarah Palin said. Oh, so what. You do not entrust the state your life and death. You just don’t do it. Our forefathers demanded this of us. They warned us about it. And yet here we were.

You know who I heard the other night, and I thought he summed this up really well. You know that guy from England, the minister of Parliament Daniel Hannan? He was on with Sean Hannity, on “Hannity’s America” the other night. And Hannity asked him some really good questions. Well, actually what he did was he let Hannan speak and just got out of the way. No offense, Sean. And Hannan said, “Do not do this, Sean. Do not allow this to happen in America. The rest of the world has made the godawful mistake of trading just a little bit of security for the alleged – a little bit of liberty for the alleged security of healthcare. Don’t do it. You’ll never be able to get it off your backs. It is the most disgusting thing to watch people being denied care and services. And it has suppressed our people.”

People that are living this are begging us and telling us don’t do it because they don’t have anywhere else to go if we do. And they know what destructive nature – they know the destructive nature of it, I should say. We should listen to the British. We should listen to the Italians. We should listen to some of the other countries that are trying to repeal these things now, that are trying to get rid of them. And here we go, ready to dive into the pool. It’s not going to happen on our watch, is it, ladies and gentlemen

video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaYaN9QxzKQ

2 poems untitled

Vision is such a wounding thing
driving you slowly insane
wishing that you could block out this pain
yet trying so hard to refrain
when did I drive down incompetent lane
unable to escape this mess
totally disdained
yet we both keep filling ourselves
with so much pain

2.
Should I feel the same?
submit to blame
and all that is insane
or should I just try to be me
so run over by idiocy
and thrown into a sea of stupidity
why should I change
just to fit in
loneliness grips me again and again

Someway Written 1993

What is it about you?
that I can't drive from my mind
I think I have mourned
for a long enough time
your mother she knows
so why won't she tell
does she think I desreve this rotting in hell?
I always thought I was good enough for you
I guess I'm not
at least your mom must think it's true
I feel so empty without you
I know your out there so alone
time should re-unite us
or at least that's what I pray
morning, noon and night
at least four times a day
I can't look into those beautiful eyes
and hold you so close to my heart
your absence is just tearing me apart
I long to have you hear me say
I love you baby
God, isn't there some way?

Anger

Anger only hides
behind what we put in the way
stays by itself
until other issues make it come out and play
though we would never say
anger and fear are one in the same
maybe its why we react this way
it's hiding right now
behind a bookshelf in my mind
waiting patiently
biding it's time

Must read books

Virginias American Revolution
This is a book written by Dr. Kevin Gutzman 2007 Lexington Books.
This book takes an inside look at many things including the ratification of the Federal Constitution. Those that believe we don't know what original intent was..oops your wrong because here it is. This book should be a must read for any that would like to learn about our founding.
Willful Blindness
This book is written by Andrew McCarthy
About the Jihad this is a scary look at Muslim extremists.