An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
The Water Tank
Via email from the Mr.
Take a look at what shows up at a South Texas stock water tank in dry weather. For those of you that have never hunted in South Texas , sometimes we post motion detector cameras at our feeders/tanks to see what is going on. Check out the sequence:
Mountain Lion
Deer
Glenn Beck 07/30/10
Last Day
If you haven’t voted yet, tomorrow, Saturday the 31st, is the last day of early voting. No excuses! If you don’t make it tomorrow, you’re going to have to wait till next Thursday, the 5th, and you know full well you’ll forget, or get too busy to make it to the polls before they close, or any number of excuses. Why not go ahead, and just do it, fer Pete’s sake! It’s going to be too bloomin’ hot to do much of anything else, right? Might as well exercise your RIGHT to cast your vote. Some folks may not think primaries are important! Just think about 2008. 
I’m not even going to tell you for whom you should cast your vote. That’s your decision. Do you really want someone else making that choice for you? Nope….didn’t think so! So, get off your hind end, and remember what you stand for, and what the candidates have done, or not done, as the case may be.
And yes……
LAST WEEK!
Lobbying For Criminals
Tennessee businesses lobby for amnesty for illegal immigrants
While Tennessee’s lawmakers work to make state immigration policy as tough as Arizona’s, Tennessee businesses and professional groups are lobbying to make life easier for immigrants.
The new law breaking slave owners, eh? First off…the key word here is ILLEGAL!
not according to or authorized by law : unlawful, illicit;
Since these businesses see cheap labor in the form of illegals, I’d say these businesses should be shut down. Slavery was outlawed a long time ago.
The Nashville Music Association union, Tyson Foods and the National Pork Producers Council, with a local office in Rutherford County, all lobby for immigration reform that would raise the cap on worker visas. They also want to create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with raising the number of worker visas, for skilled labor, under most circumstances. Considering this state has a higher than average unemployment rate, wouldn’t it be a real good idea to make sure everyone in the state who wants/needs a job be given first shot at any jobs? There is already a path to citizenship….it’s called obeying the law. Why should sneak thieves be rewarded for breaking the law when so many others have followed the rules, taken the correct route, and done what has been asked of them to become citizens. Do we really want MORE criminals in the country? Don’t we already have enough of our own? Just look at D.C. That town is FULL of criminals!
The Arizona law would have required non-citizens to carry identification papers at all times and required police to check the immigration status of anyone suspected of being in the U.S. illegally. But a federal judge blocked most of its provisions on Wednesday, hours before they were to take effect. The state has appealed and the case may end up in the Supreme Court.
Well, guess what Skippy! FEDERAL law requires “non-citizens to carry identification papers at all times”!
United States Code – TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER II > Part VII > § 1304
(e) Personal possession of registration or receipt card; penalties
Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d) of this section. Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
I really, REALLY, wish these people would read the bloomin’ bill! It’s only 17 pages, and is quite simple. No real big words, so even the pro-ILLEGALS should be able to understand. If y’all come across a few, dictionaries come in real handy.
If you want to get annoyed, go ahead and read the whole column. It never ceases to amaze me that there are so many people in this country who still don’t understand the concept of LAWS!
The Path Of Indoctrination
The Quiet Education Overhaul
The Foundry
Yesterday, President Obama delivered a major speech on education in an effort to garner support for his Race to the Top grant program and his push for national education standards and tests. The President’s remarks came on the heels of a speech delivered by Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday at the National Press Club, during which Duncan attempted to paint the Administration’s policies as part of a “quiet revolution.”
Duncan certainly got the quiet part right. Since his Administration came into office, President Obama has quietly been reworking the country’s education system, doing an end-run around normal legislative procedure. With the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) funding doubled thanks to the so-called “stimulus,” the Administration has little need or incentive to bother negotiating its education agenda through Congress. Instead, the DOE is using that windfall of funding and power to stage a significant overhaul of local schools; dangling grant money before cash-strapped states on the condition they adopt key pieces of the Obama education agenda. And this is all happening without public consideration, even though it means that parents will now have to trek to Washington to petition an unaccountable bureaucracy if they want to see changes in their children’s curriculum. Knocking on the door at the DOE (the lowest rated federal department) is unlikely to produce a response.
Glenn Beck 07/29/10
Verse of the Day
Matthew 5:14-16
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
I’ve noticed my light hasn’t been too bright in recent weeks. Well, it might be into months now. I’ve been angry and frustrated, just like so many millions of others of my fellow Americans. I’ve let that anger invade, and have actually hated for the first time in my life. I don’t hate. Hatred takes way too much energy, and I’m about as lazy as they come…..no energy to spare. So, I’m going to work on getting rid of that hate, and replace it, with prayers and love. And pity. It took my pastor’s sermon Wednesday night for me to even realize I was harboring such emotions. I don’t like it.
We are instructed to love, even the sinner, and gracious sakes, we sure are being sinned against lately, aren’t we! I know it’s going to be easy to rid myself of such a strong emotion. It didn’t crop up over night, and it was be expelled overnight either.
So, I apologize for letting my bitter hatred overwhelm me, and will do all I can to resolve the problem. And it is my problem. The person hated doesn’t care, one way or the other. The object of hatred never does, and it never hurts them. It hurts me/us.
I choose to use my light, instead of burying it under the bushel of my own making. Bear with me. 
Weasel Time
*snicker*
Thanks Fred. I needed this today.
Where can I get som’a dem seeds?? 
TN Rep. Joe Carr States The Facts
I don’t know this guy, but he sure sounds like he know the facts. Isn’t a shame that folks on the local level in Tennessee know more about what’s going on in Arizona, and across the country, than our so called elected officials in The Swamp.
Justice Denied LEGAL Citizens
Surviving the Obama Assault on the Rule of Law
The Foundry
Hours after yesterday’s decision by President Bill Clinton judicial appointee Susan Bolton to preemptively stop enforcement of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, Thomas A. Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), told The New York Times: “This is a warning to any other jurisdiction.” Just in case the message from the Obama administration and its leftist allies was not clear, Obama appointee U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke told The Associated Press: “Surely it’s going to make states pause and consider how they’re drafting legislation and how it fits in a constitutional framework.”
But no amount of pause by states and localities could ever possibly satisfy the Obama administration, its amnesty allies, and activist judges like Bolton. In a textbook case of judicial activism, Judge Bolton rewrote the Arizona law to her own needs, invented her own facts and ignored clear federal law. President Jimmy Carter appointee and immigration law professor at Yale Law School Peter Schuck told The New York Times: “She rushed to judgment in a way I can only assume reflects a lot of pressure from the federal government to get this case resolved quickly.”
Glenn Beck 07/28/10
I Wanna Break The Law Too!
Judge guts immigration law, sides with illegals
An immigration enforcement activist is outraged that a federal judge has caved to president Obama and illegal alien supporters in halting the implementation of most of Arizona’s border enforcement law that will take effect tomorrow.
1070 is pretty much the same as the federal law (check out chapter 8). Is the judge saying that the federal law is wrong too? I thought people who break the law were suppose to be punished. Why should any of us carry a driver’s license? Or wear our seat belts? Or not steal from our neighbors? If it’s ok for foreigners to break the law, why can’t we?
William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC), says it is hard to find words to express the anger and dismay this decision brings.
You have no idea how difficult it is to come up with the right words. Or maybe you do.
“This judge is obviously part of the same cabal as McCain and Obama, [who] want to take sides with illegal immigrants against American citizens,” Gheen contends. “My main message to the country today is for people to stay calm, get politically involved and make every special interest politician and business leader that’s responsible for this invasion of our nation pay in the approaching elections.”
Wouldn’t it be nice if this administration was more concerned with the safety and well being of LEGAL residents of the country for a change?
Ann On Olberdud
With friends like these, who needs Keith Olbermann?
by Ann Coulter
While engaging in astonishing viciousness, vulgarity and violence toward Republicans, liberals accuse cheerful, law-abiding Tea Party activists of being violent racists.
Responding to these vile charges, conservative television pundits think it’s a great comeback to say:
“There is the fringe on both sides.”
Both sides? Really? How about: “That’s a complete lie”? Did that occur to you simpering morons as a possible reply to the slanderous claim that conservatives are fiery racists?
Obama and His Environazis
100 Days Later, Obama Still Failing the Gulf
The Foundry
Over the last four weeks, The Heritage Foundation sent multiple teams of respected energy, environment, homeland security and response experts to the Gulf to study the federal response to the oil spill. These three delegations, with more to come, have traversed the areas hit hardest by the crisis, talking to response workers, affected oil crews, fishermen, elected leaders and BP representatives. What we found is simple: President Obama’s administration has turned a crisis into a disaster, and someone needs to be held accountable.
Accountability is in short supply in Washington these days. Fingers are pointed in every direction for our nation’s economic woes. President Obama’s favorite target of choice is the past administration for nearly every problem he faces. Yet, the oil spill has only two central characters: BP and the Obama administration. BP is (very) slowly taking accountability for its creation of this crisis. Tony Hayward was finally dismissed as CEO, and they have promised full financial restitution for direct and indirect victims. On Day 100 of the spill, it’s time the Obama administration followed suit.
