Photos I restored

These are my maternal grandparents, 1906, before restorationThese are my maternal grandparents, 1906, after restorationThis is my paternal grandmother, 1905, before restoration
This is my paternal grandmother, 1905, after restoration This is my Sunnyslope grade school graduation picture before restoration This is after restoration

beetles do it too

I was hiking up in the Mcdowell mountains near my home in Scottsdale Arizona, taking beautiful photos when I came upon this buggy bedroom scene! Red-eared Blister Beetles or Meloidae.

Socialized medicine in Denmark

I had a young, beautiful customer today from Denmark. In December of 2007, she had a debilitating stroke from a genetic disorder, a hole in her heart. She was living and working, legally in Arizona. She did not have insurance.
Her ability to communicate is seriously impaired; her right hand has no feeling and is curling up.
She had to return to Denmark as there was no one to care for her after she was released from hospitalization and she needed physical therapy to learn how to function and talk again.
Denmark socialized doctors decided that it was not life threatening to leave the hole in her heart as long as she took aspirin.
A friend helped her to visit here and get into Mayo for an opinion. She was advised to get the hole in her heart closed to alleviate the danger of another stroke but since she has no insurance, this simple surgery would cost $200,000 at Mayo. Denmark considers the surgery unnecessary. This is what socialized medicine looks like, folks!!!!!!! Medical care is RATIONED! She still cannot communicate or use her hand but they have also decided her physical therapy needs to be reduced.

This is a profound video about Easter Sunday!

http://www.ignitermedia.com/products/iv/singles/20/Sundays-Comin

makeupmagic: Need to argue your point about who caused the housing market collapse? This is a MUST SEE

makeupmagic: Need to argue your point about who caused the housing market collapse? This is a MUST SEE

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By Ed Barnett, What do we REALLY pay in taxes?

Dear IRS,
I am sorry to inform you that I will not be able to pay taxes owed April
15, but all is not lost.
I have paid these taxes: accounts receivable tax, building permit tax, CDL
tax, cigarette tax, corporate income tax, dog licence tax, federal income
tax, unemployment tax, gasoline tax, hunting licence tax, fishing licence
tax, waterfowl stamp tax, inheritance tax, inventory tax, liquor tax,
luxury tax, medicare tax, city, school and county property tax (up 33
percent last 4 years), real estate tax, social security tax, road usage
tax, toll road tax, state and city sales tax, recreational vehicle tax,
state franchise tax, state unemployment tax, telephone federal excise tax,
telephone federal state and local surcharge tax, telephone minimum usage
surcharge tax, telephone state and local tax, utility tax, vehicle licence
registration tax, capitol gains tax, lease severance tax, oil and gas
assessment tax, Colorado property tax, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma
and New Mexico sales tax, and many more that I can't recall but I have run
out of space and money.
When you do not receive my check April 15, just know that it is an honest
mistake. Please treat me the same way you treated Congressmen Charles
Rangle, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and ex-Congressman Tom Dashelle and, of
course, your boss Timothy Geithner. No penalties and no interest.
P.S. I will make at least a partial payment as soon as I get my stimulus
check.
Ed Barnett
Wichita Falls

You do not have to be a genius to spread the word!

I am 66 years old, high school graduate, entrepreneur, less than one year of college, Real Estate education, one time avid reader of historical novels, ie., War and Remembrance, Exodus, Michener books, Sho Gun and many many more. I was raised in extremely abusive circumstances in roach infested shacks. I was the first in my family to graduate from High School.
The reason I mention all of the above; ANYONE can write a blog! The reason I blog and twitter is to hopefully inform those that have never cared about the life outside of their little world.
The youth of today were raised in such an easy life and do not seem to care about what goes on outside of their circle of comfort. Since they are so electronically engaged, maybe I can wake up awareness in them that they must get involved if they are to continue in a free society in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
Not only are the youth not interested in world events but I have attempted getting my peers interested in the politics of today and typically they are not interested! They are too busy "cruising", living in Sun City enjoying "the good life", golfing and in general, just enjoying the fruits of their labor with no concern about the up and coming generation. The typical comment I hear about their children and grandchildren is that "whatever makes them happy" is ok by me. After all, "who am I to judge?"
It is not “judgmental” to want to pass on your values to your future generations; it is wise to do so!
Well, I have wandered afar from my original thought as to why I was writing this particular blog.
Original thought is not terribly important in enticing your friends and family on face book to follow your blogs. Whatever it takes to wake them up to the events that will directly have impact their way of life is relevant. I am not the “master” of original thought, I am limited in my education; therefore, I plagiarize interesting points of view and paste them into my blogs!
You can do the same, just investigate further than the headlines associated with mass media, (newspapers and CNN) and copy/paste into Face Book so that others can see what is happening to our way of life!
Get a little daring and allow yourself to be open to ridicule by developing principles that you wish to live by! Share those principles with your circle of influence.
Well, that is all for now, I vented, I guess.

World wide experiments in socialism

Socialized medicine is a failure! When you are associating with socialist liberals, and they declare that socialized medicine works in other countries, I have news for them. It might have been true several years ago but as the European societies lost their youth, the system broke down! Europeans tossed out religion and therefore morality. Many chose not to marry or have children. Those that did reproduce had far fewer children than their ancestors and therefore, European countries do not have enough young people paying taxes to support aging societies! Where do you suppose the wealthy Europeans come to get their medical needs taken care of? America…..of course. So far, we have the greatest healthcare system in the world! If you are voting to allow these liberals in control of our country to nationalize healthcare, please, please, I beg you to give Europe a closer look. Once we go in that direction, I do not know that we could ever go back. I am seriously afraid for my grandchildren. I am 66 so the socialists believe I am elderly, so my care is secured. Those under 55 should be afraid!!!!!

Here are some sites to go to:
Great Britain's National Health Service (NHS) was created on July 5, 1948. As with all government programs, bureaucrats underestimated initial cost projections. First-year operating costs of NHS were 52 million pounds higher than original estimates1 as Britons saturated the so-called free system.
Many decades of shortages, misery and suffering followed until 1989, when some market-based health care competition was reintroduced to the British citizens2.
Unfortunately for those requiring care, a mostly socialist health care system still has problems. The articles and commentaries listed below are only a few of the disasters caused by government intervention in the British health care system.
Only five out of 51 hospital trusts pass hygiene test, say inspectors- Sarah Boseley, November 24, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]
Heart patients dying due to poor hospital care, says report- Sarah Boseley, June 8, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]
NHS dentistry loses almost a million patients after new dentists' contract- David Rose, June 6, 2008 [The Times]
Private healthcare managers could be sent to turn round failing NHS hospitals- Philip Webster, Political Editor, and David Rose, June 4, 2008 [The Times]
Cancer patients ‘betrayed’ by NHS- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 1, 2008 [The Times]
NHS scandal: dying cancer victim was forced to pay- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 1, 2008 [The Times]
Pensioner, 76, forced to pull out own teeth after 12 NHS dentists refuse to treat her- Olinka Koster, March 26, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]
Dental patients face care lottery- March 26, 2008 [Metro(UK)]
Lung patients 'condemned to death as NHS withdraws their too expensive drugs'- Jenny Hope, March 24, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]

Other European countries:
Sweden Edges Toward Free-Market Medicine- A. Wess Mitchell, August 31, 2001 [NCPA]
Netherlands aims to tackle health divideSocioeconomic inequalities remain similar to those in the United Kingdom and Scandinavian countries, despite a sustained effort over 20 years. - Tony Sheldon, October 13, 2001 [British Medical Journal]
A Hard Lesson About Socialized MedicineEuropeans are now learning some hard facts of life about socialized medicine: there's no such thing as a free lunch.- September 23, 1996 [CATO]
Paying The Price For Drugs In EuropeWhether they admit it or not, those who advocate 'making drugs more affordable for American seniors' are actually headed down a slippery slope to price controls, free-market analysts charge.- Stephen D. Moore, July 21, 2000 [NCPA]
Canada
Parliament unanimously passed the Canada Health Act in 1984 and established a single-payer, publicly-financed health care system. To ensure a true government monopoly (is there any other kind?) Canadian provinces outlawed private health insurance.
Chaoulli v. Quebec UPDATE (June 9, 2005): In a 4 to 3 decision, the Canadian Supreme Court struck down Quebec's law that prohibits private medical insurance.

Surgery postponed indefinitely for 1,000 Kelowna patients- Cathryn Atkinson, April 8, 2008 [Globe and Mail]
Majority of Que. dentists quit health-care system- March 27, 2008 [CTV.ca]
Why Ontario keeps sending patients south- Lisa Priest, February 22, 2008 [Globe and Mail]
Will Socialized Health Care in the US Kill Canadians?- Don Surber, March 3, 2008 [Acton Institute]
Wait times for surgery, medical treatments at all-time high: report- October 15, 2007 [CBC News (Canada)]
The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care- David Gratzer, Summer 2007 [City Journal]
Cancer patients question why PET scan not covered- May 28, 2007 [CBC News]
BC Medical Association: Waiting Too Long
New Zealand:
Surgical waiting lists numbers come under twin attacks- November 15, 2004 [stuff.co.nz]
Hospital Waiting Lists Under Serious Pressure- October 26, 2004 [Scoop New Zealand News]
Hundreds on waiting list as hospital pleads for help- August 23, 2004 [The New Zealand Herald]
Private hospitals offer help with waiting lists- August 12, 2004 [The New Zealand Herald]
Alarm over GP shortage- July 5, 2004 [The New Zealand Herald]
Hospital urges patients to stay away unless really ill- March 6, 2004 [The New Zealand Herald]
Australia:
Public patients wait longer for surgery- June 29, 2005 [The Sydney Morning Herald]
Painful wait for care- Luke McIlveen, February 17, 2005 [Herald Sun (Australia)]
Hospitals crippled by poor planning- Ruth Pollard, December 1, 2004 [Sydney Morning Herald]
Operating theatres shut to save cash as thousands wait for surgery- Nick O'Malley, November 23, 2004 [Sydney Morning Herald]
Private funds creating 'two-tier' health system- David Uren, November 3, 2004 [The Australian]

From Iraqi soldier who wants to be inolved after tour

Andy Goss has sent you a message on The Conservative Underground
After much thought and discussion, I have decided to wait until May to leave Iraq and head back to Arizona to pursue the Congressional seat in District 8 of Arizona. I realize that ya'll are scattered all over the U.S. and indeed the globe, but I would certainly appreciate any advice and encouragement and knowledge you have to impart. I have never done this before and I detest career politicians. I am not a rhetoric man. I don't care about power and I don't want adulation or money. I have served in Iraq for over 45 months and I love my country. I cannot stand around and watch what so many have sacrificed for get systematically dismantled by our liberal president and his minions. It is wrong. I will not compromise my conservative principles for political gain. I will tell it like it is. I will not sugar coat my beliefs and that will probably be to my detriment but I am not doing this to sell out. I hope you all feel the same and I hope in whatever way you are capable you will help me with this huge undertaking. Thank you all for what you do and for your patriotism and love of America. God bless you and America.

President Obama lambasted businesses that use taxpayer money to visit Las Vegas.
It’s okay, however, to use porkulus money to build pie-in-the-sky rail lines from Los Angeles to Vegas for Harry Reid’s benefit.
A Hill staffer points out this morning that Reid and Obama are pushing for an $8 billion earmark in the conference report (shhh! there are no earmarks, remember?) to “construct high-speed rail lines, quadrupling the amount in the bill that passed the Senate on Tuesday. Reid’s office issued a statement noting that a proposed Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas rail might get a big chunk of the money.”
The Hill staffer notes that Reid earmarked $45 million last year for the public magnetic levitation train project — which is in competition with a completely privately funded rail project being built along a similar route.
No wonder they won’t let us see the bill before they rush to cram it down our throats.

Dr. Adrian Rogers:Read it and weep

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy outof freedom. What one person receives without working for, another personmust work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybodyanything that the government does not first take from somebody else. Whenhalf of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because theother half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets theidea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to getwhat they work for, that, my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

these are the senators that will make final adjustments to that montrosity they call a stimulous bill!

Here is the list of the Stimulus Bill Conference Members. They need to hear from us! Call or send a quick e-mail. (I'm planning on writing an e-mail that I can quick copy and paste in all their contact forms)Senators–Majority Leader, Senator HarryReid: (202) 224-3542 "Dirty" Harry's E-mailSenator Max Baucus, D-Mont.: (202) 224-2651 Baucus' E-mailDaniel Inouye, D-Hawaii: (202) 224-3934 Inouye's E-mailThad Cochran, R-Mo.: (202) 224-5054 Cochran's E-mail.Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.: (202) 224-3744 Grassley's E-mailFrom the House–Reps. David Obey, D-Wis.: (202) 225-3365Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.: Office: (202) 225-4365 **Not surprisingly, Rangel makes it apparently impossible to contact him if you are outside of his district--same goes for Waxman.Henry Waxman, D-Calif.:(202) 225-3976Jerry Lewis, R-Calif.:(202) 225-5861 Lewis's E-mail.Dave Camp, R-Mich.: (202) 225-3561 Camp's E-mail

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I heard the information in my last post at an economic forum just last week. I found the following information in a Tony Blankenship blog on Townhall.com.


Currently, the United States has the second-highest corporate tax rate of all industrial societies, after economically anemic Japan. The U.S. federal rate of taxation is 35 percent, and when the average state and local corporate tax rates are added, American corporations pay, on average, a 39.27 percent tax on their incomes. China is at 25 percent; Mexico is at 28 percent; socialist Sweden is at 28 percent; and prosperous Ireland is at a mere 12.5 percent.

Gee, what would our economy look like if money were "freed up' and corporations were allowed to buy more inventory, expand and hire new employees, create new products!

Wow, can you beleive how long ago since I started this blog? I only signed up so that I had access to other blogs, but, here I go. I am about to start blogging!
I am so disgusted with the lack of education of the general populance, history has been revised in government schools and this mesiah descending down the path to socialism. If he was not such an ego-maniac, he would call on Paul Volker or any number of intelligent economists; he would know that he cannot spend his way out of this economic problem.
Our country charges the second highest corporate tax in the world! Only Japan is higher and they, too are in deep doodoo!
Ireland lowered theirs, (I believe to 15%) and they pulled out of economic woes.
government cannot save this economy, hard working Americans like myself can!

Happy New Year to all, I pray that 2006 will be healthy and profitable and all to the Glory of God!