The youngest, Mom and I are up reading the paper and watching the end of the Phineas and Ferb movie the youngest started a few days ago, thankfully it just finished! Mom’s neck is sore but her head seems to be hanging in there. Today we have soccer at 11:30 and then we’re free for the day. I need to see if I have time to run to Boulder sometime to have my scope mounted on my 270 Winchester. It’s never too early to get out there and practice as it’ll be October and hunting season before we know it.
It’s still cloudy and cool this morning which is a nice change. In fact the misses has the fireplace going. Mothers Day is tomorrow and we’re going to lay low but will go up to Grandma’s to visit for awhile.
I’ve stayed away from politics intentionally which is a good thing as we’re starting to be bombarded by tv ads every few minutes. in fact our loser Pres is on tv right now spinning his faults trying to fool the people once again. I don’t know about you but I think it’s time to give the other team the ball, it can’t be any worse. How’s that for ya?
The oldest one just came down in a good mood meaning he got enough sleep which is a good thing.
In the newspaper today there’s an article about a tiny house. I guess that’s a movement that’s going on right now. Anyhow the article has a couple who built a 133 square foot house on a trailer out of old beetle kill lumber. It has a loft, a kitchen, a sofa and compost toilet and propane stove like those found on a sailboat. The entire cost was something like $20,000 and it’s really cool! Can you hear our wheels turning? Now of course we’d need more space with the boys but our life long dream, (and my dad’s) is a cabin up at the ranch. Maybe this is our answer as I do not want to be sitting around, again like my dad, in 10 or 20 years, saying “I wish I would have done that”. After all, no one is ever on their death bed saying “I wish I worked more” right?
We’ve also been investigating high altitude gardening and the feedback from professional gardeners and others has been really positive. It turns out you can grow all kinds of good stuff at 7000 plus feet of altitude. You do need a greenhouse of some sort (for year round growing) but that’s doable too. The missing piece is who do you sell your harvest to? Well that’s been solved too as our friend who owns Brush Creek Ranch (the uber exclusive guest ranch that cooks for 50 to 100 people each day) can buy all we can produce. So there you have it, now all we need to do is gear up to grow some stuff up there and have someone manage it. Maybe our dream of a farm/ranch will come true someday. Of course we’d still have to live in the city, for now anyhow but who knows what the future will bring.
Mom’s cooking away in the kitchen and Grandma Dix, Pa Don and company are having fun in Hawaii as she calls just about everyday.
Here’s some quotes to chew on for the day, see if you can guess who said them before I tell you below,
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,†because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
I wish I could say that I said all those things…
Those are quotes from Thomas Jefferson, who definitely had it right. They sure still ring true today.
How about the last quote, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground�! This sure is what has been happening in America lately. No doubt about that.
People have been relinquishing their liberties with frightful and ever increasing speed. The liberty reduction curve has gone parabolic. All in the name of ‘terrorism’ it seems. We all went willingly following 9/11, but here we are 11 years later and we are seeing executive order after order, and laws upon laws further diminishing our freedoms as free individuals.
I sense in my bones that something is going down, and that the guberment is getting their ducks in a row. No, I’m not paranoid. I’m a skeptical person, who can add 2+2… My gut tells me that the end game is nearing regarding the world economic condition (nations and their banksters). Since it is all tied together in a corrupt web of electronic bets and counter-bets, that a rapid collapse domino effect could finish it all. A best case scenario will be a somewhat controlled crash landing – but the real crash is still to come.
In the mean time, we can fight for our rights for liberty by raising awareness and talking about any attempts at takeaway to our friends and family whenever you hear about a story or news report as such (it will mostly come from the alternative news media – not the main stream who only wants you to focus on fluff).
When you hear or read something that doesn’t sound quite right to you (e.g. the Dept. of Homeland Security buying 450 million rounds of ammunition, or the NSA building the world’s largest spy center in Utah to track Americans, or that congress is introducing an amendment to outlaw self defense), check it out for yourself. Check multiple sources and dig for the source of the original information. The main stream will NOT report on such things. It is up to you to find and expose the truth as to what is going on. Sure, there will be some alternative news that turns out to be stretched way out of reality, but there is an alarming amount of reality as to what has been going on too.
When you find a truth that is stripping more of your liberty, do not accept it or the excuse that is used. Fight back. Even though I suspect that most of us don’t have much hope in the results of calling or writing our representatives, but, if we do not, then we are doing nothing within the system to make a difference. Do it anyway. Even if it seems futile. Plus, talk about it with others. If we keep to ourselves, we are to blame when our liberty is stripped from us.
Hope this wasn’t too much for you to think about so early in the morning but once you lose something, it’s hard to get it back. Just think for yourself, you don’t have to let NBC news and politicians think for you. Think bout it, Â your parents and Grandparents did just fine without all the regulations and supervision from the gov, didn’t they? I sure think so, what do you think?
Take care and God Bless,