The Greatest Boxer of all time?

The "Greatest Boxer of All Time"

A lot of people have this title confused.

The Greatest Boxer of All Time didn't die recently...he died 47 years ago.

He didn't have 5 losses, he had 0.

He didn't have 37 Knock Outs he had 43 (88%).

He didn't dodge the draft.

He wasn't a race baiter and didn't convert to Islam.

He was a local kid named Rocky Marciano aka The Brockton Blockbuster (49-0).

Don't let mainstream media idolize false prophets.

When he was asked on tv if he could've knocked out Ali in his prime his response was oh so classical!!
"I’d be conceited if I said I could've, but I'd be a liar if I said I couldn't"

Reeboks Rest in Peace

I bought my last pair of tennis shoes in about 2001.  Although I don't remember the actual date, I do remember the price.   15 bucks on sale!     I seem to recall they were 50 or 60 shoes but I thought it was a bargain, plus I had no tennis shoes and I bought them.

I've worn them now for 15 years.   I often go for walks in a pair of loafers, but sometimes wear the tennis shoes.   Where I walk now is on a gravel road and I'd been noticing the past few times I walked that it felt just a little uncomfortable.   But I didn't stop to wonder why.

It rained last night, so the road was a little damp today and I got some mud on them.   When I came in, I took them off at the door and carried to the sink so I could wash them off.   When I held them under the water, I immediately saw the reason for the discomfort.

I believe these shoes are gone now.    Beyond repair.   But they have been a good ole pair of shoes for me for 15 bucks.    Now I'll have to find another bargain?

Texas Property Taxes grown out of control? Up 41% in past decade

Texas-sized property appraisals fuel tax-swap talk

By Kenric Ward   /   May 12, 2016 

Another year of soaring property appraisals is spurring talk of scrapping Texas’ property tax in favor of an expanded sales tax.

“The most appealing part of the plan is the ability to own your own property as opposed to ‘renting’ from the government,” says James Quintero, director of the Center for Local Governance at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Texas’ property taxes — the sixth highest in the nation — are anything but transparent. More than 4,000 localities and special taxing districts levy property taxes, obscuring exactly who is responsible for raising them, how that money is spent, and whether any increases are necessary.

“The tax system is absolutely broken,” Bexar County deputy appraiser Mary Kieke told the San Antonio Express-News . She says a lack of disclosure requirements makes it nearly impossible to systemically determine the fair market value of properties.

The result is highly subjective and hotly contested appraisals. More taxpayers are challenging their assigned property values; some 90,000 protests were filed in Bexar County alone last year.

“Currently, a disproportionate share of taxes are paid by a few,” notes Allen Tharp, president of the San Antonio Tea Party . Schools account for half of most tax bills, whether the assessed homeowner has children or not.

Politicians deflect an outright revolt by boasting that they are holding steady, or even reducing, tax rates. When aggressive county appraisers boost values by double-digit percentages, local governments reap record revenue increases without raising rates.

While mainstream media outlets trumpet the “reductions,” Texas property tax collections have roughly doubled since 2003 — from $29 billion to more than $50 billion today.

In addition to property taxes, Texans are saddled with a sales tax of about 8.25 percent (rates vary by county).

TPPF’s Quintero estimates that a statewide 10.98 percent sale tax would cover all government and school operations currently funded through property taxes.

“This would invite significant job growth and opportunity,” he told Watchdog.org. “The property tax right now acts as a deterrent to investment, particularly with regard to capital-intensive industries.”

A report, “The Freedom to Own Property,” estimates that a reformed sales tax would:

·        Add 124,900 to 337,400 net new jobs over a five-year period, beyond the job growth Texas would have without the tax reform.

·        Boost personal income in the range of $3.6 billion to $3.68 billion in the first year. Over five years, personal income could increase between $22.85 billion and $63 billion, or 1.8 percent to 4.7 percent higher than it would have been otherwise.

Mark Pulliam, a retired attorney and Travis County activist, said he has reservations about switching to an expanded sales tax. “In addition to being politically difficult, we could end up with both taxes,” Pulliam predicted.

He prefers statutory curbs on government spending, as well as limits on property taxes.

Republican state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, who is chairing a series of hearings on property tax reform , last year introducedSenate Bill 182 to cut the property tax “rollback” rate to 4 percent. Heavy lobbying from the Texas Municipal League, the Texas Association of Counties and local school districts helped kill the measure.

“Mayors and county judges effectively admitted that their local governments are so badly mismanaged that they can’t make ends meet on increased revenue of 4 percent per year without cutting public safety, parks and libraries,” said Jerome Greener, president of the Texas chapter of the free-market Americans for Prosperity.

Dean Wright, co-founder of the Austin Tea Party, calls limits on property tax increases “a good first step.” But he said the ultimate goal is to eliminate the property tax and replace it with the TPPF-endorsed sales tax that would include a sales tax on home purchases and levies on services that are taxed in other states.

“Zero-based budgeting also needs to happen,” he added.

Meantime, Bettencourt notes that while property tax levies have grown 41 percent in the past decade , Texans’ median incomes rose just 6.2 percent.

“We can’t afford this over the long term,” the Houston Republican said.

Kenric Ward writes for the Texas Bureau of Watchdog.org. Contact him atkward@watchdog.org . @Kenricward.

My 1st Grade Grand daughter. I'm as proud of her as any moment of my life.

One of my grand daughters, Vivi, is in the first grade this year.   She's the epitome of a "people person".    She's happy to be a friend to all.  She seems to never meet a stranger, and I love her so much, just as I do all my grand children.

Once in a while a child does something that make us examine our own selves to see how we have succeeded or failed in our own lives.

Yesterday, her mother sent me an Instagram that she had received from the mother of one of Vivi's classmates, who has Spina Bifada.   I wept.    And today my heart is still warm from seeing the love and character that is already present in the heart and life of a 6 year old child.

Below is a copy of the Instagram:

US Congress makes themselves a Small Business to qualify for Subsidies

Obamacare’s insurance subsidies for ordinary Americans are generous, but capped by income. No one with an annual income over $47,080 gets a subsidy. That’s well below typical Capitol Hill salaries. Members of Congress make $174,000 annually, and many on their staff have impressive, upper-middle-class paychecks.

Maybe the lawmakers didn’t understand what they were doing, but The New York Times’ perspicacious Robert Pear certainly did.

On April 12, 2010, Pear wryly wrote, “If they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?”

Click here for the full article and details on more of Congress corruption and the federal government's collusion in outright lies and criminal distortions to fit their own oligarchal needs.

Saudi Arabia collaboration with 911 Hijackers.

28 pages of documents buried away in the vaults of the Capital contain numerous redacted references to Saudi government complicity in the 911 attacks.

It's time for the release of those documents and stop coddling a foreign power who is NOT our friend, nor ally.

Click here for more details.

Gun Control and Gun Violence. Related?

London England's Most likely new Mayor

A Muslim England?   A Muslim London?

An illuminating look at the new voice of London.

Click here.

Derivatives of major Banks 2008 and now

It has been said, that unless we learn from history, we are doomed to repeart it.  In the financial industry collapse of 2008, many major banks were almost brought down by having such a large exposure to Derviatives.   The reason they were not brought down, is because the federal government stepped in and bailed them out.

So?  What did they do after getting rescued?

They have gone on and done it again.  Only this time, much larger.   Look at the chart below and see (in millions) how much greater their risk is in derivatives, than their equity.

When the music finally stops there are going to be trillions lost this time.  Not billions.

Sheesh!

In Him I shall Trust. In all things and matters.

 One of my son-in-laws has a problem with high altitudes because of something to do with having the sickle cell gene.  I was approached by a couple of men who were trying to get me to invest in a small coffee plantation in Colombia and had written to my daughter to find out if 5,000 feet altitude would bother him, because I wouldn't even consider such an investment if it wasn't somewhere that she and her family could come for a holiday.    As you can see below, she emailed me back about her concern about the current ZIKA virus and her concern about my possible exposure to it in S. America.     I replied to her:

In a message dated 4/2/2016 10:45:13 P.M. Central Daylight Time, writes:

Dearest One


I do not think about such things as a virus or other illness. I've never given thought to them and at my age I'm not going to worrying bout it now.  I get a physical once a year and that's about all i will do and i really just do that not cuz i am worried but just so i could have some advance notice if there was somr mortal issue so i could hurry up and squeeze in one quick trip to Disneyworld.

I know that it may bother you, or may even seem silly, or not realistic, but I am not afraid of sickness or disease or even death itself.

I trust in God to take care of me and He's all I have. I am not judging anyone else for taking precautions, or having Health Care, but it is just simple fact that I cannot have such things, nor do I really want them. I have even made a personal decision to not accept Social Security or enroll in Medicare.  I have just chosen to put all of my faith in God to take care of me, just as I always expected Him to take care of my family when I was Raising you girls. And after all, what's the worst that could happen? I get the virus? And die? That is no problem at all for me dear Katy. I want you to know, I am ready to go to the Other Side. Anytime, that God chooses to let me come Home, I am ready to be There.

Every day I fall more and more in love with the Lord and want to be with Him.

Not that I don't want to see you, or your sisters, or your children, but I have raised you all, you are good women, good Mother's, good wives, and I have done what I believe God gave me to do. Now I'm ready to go be with Him. In the meantime, He seems to keep me here, I will assume for some purpose. But if I felt He was calling me to Colombia, I would not go with any fear of disease, kidnappings, evil, or anything else that might harm me. He will take care of me.
Greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world.
He is my Mighty Fortress.

I love you so much. You're so sweet to think of such things about my health and safety. But it's not a concern for me. Goodnight. I love you so much.

Poppy

------ Original message------
From: xxxx xxxxxx @ xxxxx
Date: Sat, Apr 2, 2016 7:03 PM
To: BMcElhaney2350@aol.com;
Subject:Re: altitude

Is ZIKA virus not an issue there? I would be worried about about in south or Central America.

xxxx xxxxx

On Apr 2, 2016, at 3:33 PM, wrote:

I had a couple of men trying to interest me in helping them develop a piece of land to grow coffee in Columbia.   But it's a 5,000 foot elevation and I was going to rule it out if there was no chance it would be a place you could ever visit.

we'll see.   thanks.

i love you.  and miss you always.

poppy

Winston Churchill on Mohammedanism 1899

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy,
which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture,
sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the
Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement,
the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to
some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction
of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Muslims may
show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant
and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step;
and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had
vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
Sir Winston Churchill; (Source: The River War, first edition, Vol II, pages 248-250 London).

The US Government. The perfect model for the bizarre.

   by Luke Rosiak, Reporter for the Daily Caller.   April 9, 2016

A federal agency apparently interprets union-backed civil service protections to be so strong that employees, and even interns, can’t be fired for work-related misconduct unless they have also been convicted of it in a court of law.

That would mean a federal employee couldn’t be sacked for coming in to work drunk, not showing up at all, or anything else that is not a crime — or is a crime but is unlikely to be independently pursued by criminal prosecutors.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was unable to sustain a firing when its inspector general determined that an intern took two housing project units for herself, one of which she sublet out to someone else, and then lied about it.

The agency said it would be taking strong action, but also cautioned that the union would have a chance to make an argument. Soon after, the intern, Markquonda Mathis, was back at work and promoted to a position overseeing millions of dollars in grants.

 Her misconduct had been fully established by the inspector general, the department’s internal investigators. The only mitigating factor she could have raised at a union hearing is that she didn’t wind up being charged criminally, since Virginia prosecutors said housing authorities’ forms didn’t ask basic anti-fraud questions that would help them prosecute swindlers.

“While HUD does not condone any employee misconduct, federal laws and regulations afford all federal employees due process and privacy rights even if they have engaged in confirmed misconduct,” HUD said in a statement.

“Confirmed misconduct” means that the inspector general officially found that the HUD employee stole benefits. The assertion would suggest that inspector generals’ findings have no weight on their own, unless they serve as a precursor to criminal action.

IGs don’t have the power to discipline, instead leaving that to the agency, so it is a catch-22 to say an employee can’t be disciplined based on the findings of an IG report because she has not already been disciplined by an outside authority. A large portion of IGs’ findings are issues that violate rules but not laws.

And since prosecutors often only bother to take cases that could result in years in prison, the idea that an employee can only be disciplined following criminal sentencing is fairly irrelevant, since if they were in prison, they would be unable to hold their job anyway.

The outcome illustrates the shape-shifting excuses that federal managers and unions use to ensure that federal employees aren’t held accountable. HUD is saying that workplace discipline is inseparably coupled to the results of a criminal trial. Just weeks prior, the Department of Veterans Affairs said the opposite — that discipline and criminal trials have no relation — to explain why an employee who was convicted of a crime after an armed robbery was not disciplined. 

“Criminal prosecution or conviction for off-duty misconduct does not automatically disqualify an individual from federal employment,” VA spokesman Axel Roman told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “The administrative discipline process for poor performance or misconduct on the job, operates distinctly from the administrative process associated with off-the-job misconduct. Accordingly, one is not necessarily impacted by the other.”

New federal employees are on a probationary period and have drastically fewer protections than tenured employees. As many employees are fired during their initial probationary period as during the subsequent decades combined,  since it is so much easier.

Mathis was only a “student trainee intern” at HUD, and her $31,000 salary was far higher than most interns.  “When this occurred, she was a student intern at HUD,” spokesman Jereon Brown acknowledged. “You obviously haven’t worked in federal service with these unions that we have,” he said.

The fact that the American Federation of Government Employees has become concerned with making sure an intern can’t be fired for stealing from the government indicates that there is virtually nothing a federal employee could do to get the ax.

Federal managers’ perceptions of what they must allow because of the unions are out of whack with actual regulations and precedent, observers say. In this case HUD managers should have been able to fire Mathis, but probably didn’t try hard enough to build a serious case, according to government-wide Office of Personnel Management (OPM) rules.

“If the person is a probationary Federal employee without adverse action procedural rights, instead of taking disciplinary action the agency could terminate the probationer’s services,” OPM said in a statement.

“If a tenured Federal employee engages in misconduct, there are established procedures to discipline the individual … An agency may take disciplinary action for misconduct regardless of whether criminal prosecution occurs.”

In Mathis’ case at HUD, a “notice of indefinite suspension” said “Your access card will be deactivated and the building security was directed to deny you access.” The department “will take the necessary administrative action to preclude the continuation of harm or financial loss to the department,” it said, noting the “notoriety of the offence” and the “impact on the agency’s reputation.”

But the suspension was dependent on factors including the “disposition of possible criminal charges.” And it noted that “your position is a bargaining unit position” and that the union could challenge any punishment.

Even though agencies all operate under the same government-wide personnel rules, HUD managers seem less willing to fire employees than other agencies, casting it as an inability rather than unwillingness. HUD fired only 5 of its 7,400 tenured employees in 2013    –a much lower rate than anywhere else in government.

The Septuagint

The Septuagint is a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. It was commissioned by an Egyptian Pharaoh who wanted to promote learning. At the time (3rd century BC), Alexandria was a center of learning, and it would continue to be for several centuries. Alexandria also had a sizeable Jewish population, and so Pharaoh Ptolemy Philadelphus commissioned a Greek translation that commenced somewhere around 250 BC.
The story of the translation of the Septuagint is told by some famous people. Philo of Alexendria and Josephus, two famous Jewish writers from the time of Jesus, both tell the story I'm about to tell you. It's repeated by at least Justin Martyr (AD 150) as well as other early Christians.
As the story goes, the Pharaoh wanted an honest, excellent translation, so he sent to Israel to get their best scholars. Seventy-two scholars showed up to translate the Law of Moses, and he put them all in separate cells. Despite the separation, they produced 72 translations that were word-for-word the same.
I'm not telling you this story is true. I'm telling you a lot of people believed it, such as:
By the first century a lot of Jews, especially outside Jerusalem, were more Greek-speaking than Hebrew-speaking. Many of them, like Philo and Josephus, believed the story about the translation of the Septuagint, and thus they thought the Septuagint was an inspired translation. Many early Christians agreed.
By the time of Jesus all the Hebrew Scriptures (the whole Old Testament) had been translated into Greek, not just the Law of Moses, and churches, who were mostly Greek-speaking, used the Septuagint as their primary Bible, considering it inspired.
The term Septuagint means "the translation of the 70," and as a result it is also called the LXX (Roman numerals for 70).
Most of the quotations found in the New Testament are from the Septuagint rather than the Hebrew texts from which our modern English Bibles are translated. I found an awesome quote on the internet showing the agreement of scholars, Catholic and Protestant, about how much the Septuagint is quoted in the New Testament. (I'm using asterisks to help set off the quote.)
***Of the places where the New Testament quotes the Old, the great majority are from the Septuagint version. Protestant authors Archer and Chirichigno list 340 places where the New Testament cites the Septuagint but only 33 places where it cites from the Masoretic Text rather than the Septuagint (G. Archer and G. C. Chirichigno, Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament: A Complete Survey, 25-32).***
This paragraph is found on a Catholic web site (http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/in-which-passages-does- jesus-quote-the-septuagint-and-where-does-the-new-testament-al), and it is written by a scholar who graduated from a Franciscan university. Yet here he is able to appeal to Protestants to justify his statement that it is the Septuagint that is primarily quoted by the New Testament authors.
One notable example is Jesus rebuke of Pharasaic tradition. Part of the quote from Isaiah that he uses is "in vain do they worship me, teaching for commandments the traditions of men" (Mark 7:6-7). That passage is found only in the Septuagint of Isaiah 29:13.
THE LXX AND PROPHECY
The Christians proved so adept at using the prophecies in the Septuagint that Jewish leaders stopped using it and began claiming that it had errors. They switched to a Hebrew text and claimed that it was pure. In return, second century Christians began accusing Jews of changing Scripture to hide the prophecies of the Messiah because they predicted Jesus and his crucifixion too accurately.
The Jews managed to win at least one Christian over to that idea, but not until early in the fifth century (the 400's). Jerome made a Latin translation of the Scriptures in the early fifth century because a lot of the western Roman empire had been speaking Latin primaritly for a couple centuries.
That translation is called the Vulgate, and it managed to become the Bible of choice in the west.
The western empire, including Rome and north Africa fell to Barbarians later in the fifth century. The eastern empire, with a capital at Constantinople, continued for another thousand years, still speaking Greek and still using the Septuagint. To this day, it is still the Bible of most of the Orthodox branches of Christianity.
This article only brushes the surface of the history of the Septuagint, but I do want to cover one more thing.
Somewhere along the line, the Jews began a very careful campaign to ensure the accuracy of their Hebrew manuscripts. A group (or a family?) called the Masoretes began keeping strict rules when they copied manuscripts, even counting the number of characters on a page, making sure they were an exact match.
Nonetheless, the oldest Masoretic text we have comes from the 9th century. Thus, to scholars, when it comes to determining the most accurate text, there is a choice between a Greek translation of a Hebrew text dating to the couple centuries before the birth of our Lord or a Hebrew text that cannot be proved accurate until the 9th century. That's a tough choice.

It's a slow process, but more and more Protestants are moving to reading English translations of the Septuagint. The differences aren't great, but some are important. There are seven different chapters in the book of Jeremiah, and the Dead Sea Scrolls backed up the Septuagint version of that book. One other interesting thing is that the Septuagint of 2 Samuel clears up a difficulty concerning Saul's recognition of David when he volunteered to kill Goliath. 

humor from Will Rogers

Never Squat With Your Spurs On - Will Rogers

Will Rogers, who died in a 1935 plane crash in Alaska with bush pilot Wiley Post, was one of the greatest political country/cowboy sages this country has ever known.  Some of his sayings:

1.  Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.

2.  Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. 

3.  There are two theories to arguing with a woman ... Neither works.

4.  Never miss a good chance to shut up.

5.  Always drink upstream from the herd.

6.  If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

7.  The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back into your pocket.

8.  There are three kinds of men:

The ones that learn by reading;

The few who learn by observation;

The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.

9.  Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

10.  If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.

11.  Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back.

12.  After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring.

He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.

The moral:  When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

ABOUT GROWING OLDER...

First ~Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

Second ~ The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

Third ~ Some people try to turn back their odometers.

Not me; I want people to know 'why' I look this way.

I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved.

Fourth ~ When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

Fifth ~ You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.

Sixth ~ I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

Seventh ~ One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Eighth ~ One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been.

Ninth ~ Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable and relaxed.

Tenth ~ Long ago, when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.

And, finally ~ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

An Obama Legacy? Probably not.

Sylvia Thompson is a black conservative writer whose aim is to counter the liberal spin on issues pertaining to race and culture.

Sylvia Thompson on Obama's "legacy"...  THIS IS WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY:

 

To the many gullible souls out there who truly think that Barack  Hussein Obama is "legacy building" in his all-out assault on America, I implore you to bow out of the conversation because you are not seeing clearly.

 

The term legacy carries positive connotations of something bequeath that is to the receiver's benefit. Everything that Barack Hussein Obama does is calculated to destroy America, which he despises. This man no more cares about legacy than he fears being properly prosecuted by the white political leaders whose responsibility it is to remove him from office.

 

I focus on white leaders, because whites are still in the majority and they fill the majority of political offices. If the majority of political operatives were of some other ethnicity, I would lodge my complaint against that group. Ethnicity is an issue only because Obama is half-black and he uses that fact to intimidate guilt-conflicted white people. Otherwise, he would have been impeached and likely in prison for treason by now.

 

Barack Hussein Obama's sole aim has been, since he first entered politics and continues as he winds down this presidency, the complete destruction of America as it was founded.

 

It is an insult to the intelligence of all Americans who must listen to elitist pundits on Fox news and elsewhere, and political drones in either party endeavor to make Obama's behavior fit a pattern of normalcy. Attributing his destructive policies to "legacy building" is either self-delusion on the part of the people who make that claim or cowardliness.

This is my take.

Obama's nuclear deal with Iran has nothing to do with legacy but rather to enable a Muslim nation to wage nuclear war with America and Israel the two nations that he most despises. Does anyone wonder why Russians praise Vladimir Putin despite what the rest of the world might think of him? Putin cares about his country, that's why.

 

Obama despises the American military because traditionally it has been a mainstay of America's strength, and our strength infuriates him.

Imposition of a polluting homosexual, anti-Christian agenda upon the military ranks destroys unit cohesion and literally terrorizes male members with the prospect of sodomy rape. Such rapes have increased since the forcing of open homosexuality in the ranks, against the will of a majority of members I might add. Couple that with an infiltration of women, for whom all standards of strength must be reduced, and Obama attains his goal of emasculating and demoralizing the forces.

 

He could not care less about a legacy of making the forces more diverse. Besides, President Truman diversified the military as much as it should be when he integrated it. Obama's objective is its destruction.

 

Obama reopened relations with Cuba because Cuba is Communist. Legacy is not his concern here either, but rather to scuttle America's attempts to keep Communist influence out of the Americas. That Cuba has major issues with human rights does not matter. Like his Marxist African father before him, he despises the West and all that it represents.

Obama lawlessly declares open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens, because he wants to overrun America with third-world people who bring little more than dependency with them. This tactic not only does not ensure a legacy, but rather it guarantees the eventual conversion of America itself into third-world status, if it is allowed to continue.

Bill Clinton started the travesty of increasing the numbers of third-world immigrants at the expense of culturally more suited immigrants from European and European-influenced nations, but Obama has taken the trend to lawless, destructive extremes. He is fully aware that many of these invaders have no intention of assimilating.

 

It is only the outcry of a majority of Americans that holds back this hateful invasion scheme, and Donald Trump's entry onto the political scene to oppose that scheme is a saving grace for our nation.

 

These are but a few instances of behavior that display the loathsome character of Barack Hussein Obama. And he is allowed to roam freely through the American landscape poisoning and polluting as he goes, sure in the realization that no one will stop him because he is "black."

 

The day that we no longer have to hear the prattle about his "legacy building" will not be soon enough for me.

 

Many, many Americans are thoroughly fed up with Barack Obama and the spineless crop of political leaders who ignore his criminality. It is yet unknown whether Republicans will ever garner the backbone to become a true opposition party and hold him accountable. Promising signs are the House conservatives' getting rid of establishment types John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker and Speaker hopeful, respectively, and Donald Trump's entry into the 2016 presidential race with enough money and testicular fortitude to tell the Establishment and the Left where to shove it.

 

Should these positive trends not continue and the 2016 election cycle yield no movement to counter all the harm that Barack Obama has done to this nation, I think there will be massive disruption. Those folks in the National Rifle Association ads currently running on television seem very serious to me, and that is a good thing.    

washing the cat in the washing machine

not sure why I just remembered this, but I used stay with my great grand mother on weekends when I was in elementary school.

then she died.

and then,  in jr. high I would often go and stay with my grandmother and her husband, George, on weekends.

George was her second husband, and he'd had a stroke and couldn't walk and was in a wheel chair.   She called him George.  My mom called him George.  So I did too.

He and I would play checkers for hours.  and hours.

Sometimes, I'd spend time with her in the living room listening to old big band sounds on her collection of records.    Or sometimes I spent time with George playing checkers or reading him his True Detective magazines.  Looking back, I just now realized that they didn't really spend time together, so I didn't either.  It was one or the other and me.

My grand mother, Momma Kathy, was a bit absent minded.  or ditsy.

They had an old front style washing machine.   Now front loaders are modern.  But in the 60's top loaders were modern and front loaders were old fashioned.

I remember that George and I were in the den playing checkers, next to the room where the washing machine was.  and we heard her slam the washer door closed, and start it and then she walked off.

A few moments later . . . .he and I looked at each other.   cuz we could hear this screaching,  gurgle, gurgle, eeeeowwww, screaching, gulp, gulp eeeeoowww, gurgle sound.  

And he yelled . . . .Katherine, you've got the damn cat in the washing machine!!!!! and then just went right back to making his next move.  

omg.  she came running in, and stopped it and opened the door, and I swear . .  .

I saw a flying cat for the first time in my life.  that cat came out of that washing machine like a bullet dragging clothes behind it.   dripping wet.   and tried to run off to the back porch room. But he kept falling down, and then get back up again. I guess he must have had at least a 2 or 3 dozen fast rotations in the time it took her to stop the machine.   plus the water pouring in. It must have made him very dizzy.  

this picture is NOT Butch, but I had to find one to remember what he looked like.

I was laughing so hard at the very-dizzy, wet cat, and George, who didn't like Butch the cat, just looked up like it was a perfectly normal occurrence and said "well.  one down.  eight to go." 

this has gotta rank as one of the funniest things I can remember ever seeing.  And for a 12 year old it was the most hilarious.  and it just randomly popped into my head now.

anyway . . I'm just teary eyed from laughing again so hard.   I had to tell someone.c