"I guess my feet know where they want me to go walking on a country road." James Taylor

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Jersey Shore/Seaside Heights Pier before and after Hurricane Sandy



I saw the above photo of Seaside Heights Pier after Hurricane Sandy hit the Jersey Shore on October 29, 2012 and thought of the last time I had been there.  Here is a slide of my memories of our 2010 Jersey Shore vacation which included Seaside Heights.  This past year we vacationed in Avon By The Sea, and Sea  Bright.
Stewarts Root Beer Stand Tuckerton Oct.29, 2012
Stewarts Root Beer Stand Tuckerton 2010



Sunday, October 28, 2012

Russell Means



SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Russell Means died Monday, October 22nd, 2012, at the age of 72. In this program, Means speaks about his experiences at Wounded Knee forty years after the attack in South Dakota and highlights the history of Native Americans in the U.S., specifically his personal struggles with the American government. In February of 1973, Oglala Lakota Indians and members of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. For the next few months hostilities ensued, resulting in both Native American and U.S. officials’ deaths. Russell Means was indicted on charges related to the event but was never convicted. Means was also a film and television actor and has published an autobiography titled, “Where White Men Fear to Tread.” This program was hosted by the Center for Western Studies at Augustana College.
Please go to this link and watch this video, you will be all the better for taking this time to learn about our Native American People: http://www.c-span.org/Events/C-SPAN-Event/10737432361/




 I Love A People ~ George  Catlin


I love a people who have always made me feel welcome to the best they had.




I love a people who are honest without laws, who have no jails and no poorhouses.



I love a people who keep the commandments without ever having read them or heard them preached from the pulpit.



I love a people who never swear, who never take the name of God in vain.



I love a people who love their neighbor as they love themselves.



I love a people who worship God without a bible, for I believe that God loves them also.



I love a people whose religion is all the same, and who are free from religious animosity.



I love a people who have never raised a hand against me, or stole my property, where there was no law to punish them for either.



I love a people who have never fought a battle with white men, except on their own ground.



I love and don't fear mankind where God has made and left them, for there they are children.



I love a people who live and keep what is their own without locks and keys.



I love a people who do the best they can.



And oh, how I love a people who don't live for the love of money






American Indian Movement: http://www.aimovement.org/

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Voting Green Party November 6th

This is from my son-in-law Mike:


  • I posted this to my wall as one of my normal political rants, but I thought this one was so important that I'd personally send it to some of my favorite political chatters online in case you missed my wall. Even if you don't totally agree, please consider sharing with anyone you know who leans 3rd party.
    I think I finally have an OUTSTANDING argument for you to vote Green Party (or another 3rd party) on November 6th. I'd like to think ALL my arguments were good over the past year that I've been so heavily on this bandwagon, but this one I think answers your final concerns. Ok, I'll admit. Even though it is mathematically possible, the chances of enough Americans having a "coming to Jesus" moment to miraculously get Jill Stein in office on November 6th are quite slim. So therefore, the skeptics' argument to me is "don't waste your vote and vote for the lesser of two evils." Well, here's ANOTHER reason your vote is not wasted. If a third party gets 5% of the national vote on November 6th, that will give them $20+ million in federal matching funds in the next major election. And unfortunately, we know that the only reason Obama or Romney will be our next President is because they have $$. An extra $20+ million would be HUGE in getting a Green candidate actually elected in the near future. But even if we don't make 5%, then 3% would be the best independent party showing in recent history, which would also get us more on the map by the media. And again, what's the second most important thing after money? The media. So YOUR VOTE IS NOT WASTED even if Stein/Johnson/Anderson/Goode/Barr/etc. don't win! There. Do you feel better now? VOTE THIRD PARTY and tell Romney and Obama to forget it.

Where did piss poor come from ?

Interesting facts that I received in an email today, and thought I would share them: 


Where did piss poor come from ?
We older people need to learn something new every day...
Just to keep the gray matter tuned up.
Where did "Piss Poor" come from?
Interesting History.
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot.
And then once it was full it was taken and sold to the tannery...
if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor".
But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot...
They "didn't have a pot to piss in" and were the lowest of the low.
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature
Isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.
Here are some facts about the 1500's:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May,
And they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell,
Brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.
Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.
The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water,
Then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children.
Last of all the babies.
By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.
Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath.
It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof.
When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.
Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs."
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.
This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings
Could mess up your nice clean bed.
Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection.
That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.
Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery
In the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing.
As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door,
It would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way.
Hence: a thresh hold.
(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.
Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables
And did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers
In the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day.
Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while.
Hence the rhyme:
Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off.
It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon."
They would cut off a little to share with guests
And would all sit around and chew the fat.
Those with money had plates made of pewter.
Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death.
This happened most often with tomatoes,
so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status.
Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle,
and guests got the top, or the upper crust.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky.
The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days.
Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.
They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around
and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up.
Hence the custom; of holding a wake.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people.
So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave..
When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive.
So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.
Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be,
saved by the bell or was "considered a dead ringer.
And that's the truth.
Now, whoever said History was boring!!!
So get out there and educate someone! ~~~
Share these facts with a friend.
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering,
'What the heck happened?'
We'll be friends until we are old and senile.
Then we'll be new friends.
Smile, it gives your face something to do!
Soon we'll all be Piss Poor

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Michelle Obama is a LOYAL American, proving the liars wrong again!

Just another example of the LIARS who love to PHOTO SHOP and disseminated their lies on the Internet! This makes me so angry! Who comes up with this CRAP? How desperate are they to use deception to promote their agenda!
Here is the REAL photo!

Here is a link to the entire story with more photos: http://theobamadiary.com/2011/11/11/san-diego/

Go Get Em Joe


Friday, October 12, 2012

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Rash Decisions

A huge fear of mine, is that young girls who think that they are wiser than the adults in their lives can handle a relationship and will fall prey to their desire to be loved by that "perfect boy". Then they make rash decisions that can alter their entire life in a single moment. I wonder what awaits this teen because of this rash decision: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news/index.ssf/2012/10/kara_alongi_teen_whose_tweet_s.htm

Monday, October 1, 2012

The Real Cost Of Fossil Fuel...

Sharing from Facebook: 
In fact, coal is so economically disastrous that the mainstream journal American Economics Review found that the electricity generated from coal actually does more damage to the economy than the electricity is worth. Grist’s David Roberts notes that “Coal-fired power is a net value-subtracting industry. A parasite, you might say. A gigantic, blood-sucking parasite that’s enriching a few executives and shareholders at the public’s expense.”

http://www.treehugger.com/energy-policy/true-cost-fossil-fuels.html