1/31/2012

Congressional Budget Office reports another $1 trillion deficit

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    In August, for example, the agency predicted 2.7 percent growth in real GDP for 2012, when measured fourth quarter to fourth quarter. Unemployment was expected to fall to 8.5 percent. The new forecast predicts 2 percent growth by comparison, and 8.9 percent unemployment.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72205_Page2.html#mainContent President Obama only knows how to dispense fruits, he is either unable or unwilling to plant trees of affluence. The same holds true for President Obama’s administration.




1/29/2012

Shake Your Finger in President Obama’s Face

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – January 29, 2012 –
Jan Brewer did.
Jan was able to express her dissatisfaction with President Obama. We are entitled to express our thoughts and feelings as well. I keep thinking about the colonies, and King George III. The colonists didn’t believe that it was necessary, or proper, to bow and curtsy to the king. ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is disrespected. Community organizers in general are disrespected. Unions are disrespected as indicated by the number of states passing right to work laws. Governor Walker is in a battle against unions. He may or may not win, but unions won’t boost the economy in Wisconsin, or anywhere else.
Occupy Wall Street is a group dedicated to the idea that Wall Street is bad and harmful to our society. The Occupy Wall Street group are President Obama’s kind of people. He said in effect that they are the kind of people that was the reason he ran for president.
Dennis Prager said this:
 “Leftism has never planted the trees of affluence; it only knows how to dispense the fruit.”
I think Prager hit on the key to the flaw in President Obama and community organizing in general. “Leftism has never planted the trees of affluence”. President Obama mistakenly tried to use Petrobas, but the beneficiary was China. President Obama tries to promote green energy, but he never has “planted the trees of affluence”. He wants desperately to tax the rich. He wants to spend beyond any rational standard.
President Obama has earned the disrespect of Jan Brewer. Say what you want about Jan Brewer. Enough people respected her to make her governor of Arizona. Millions of dollars have been donated to defend the state of Arizona’s SB 1070. She has written a book. I wish that I was capable of writing a book, and getting it published.
[1] I might add that I think about Bill Clinton. He attempted to shake hands with someone, who didn’t want to shake hands with him. The guy was taken to the police station and questioned.
I was involved in a law suit. The opposition won. The opposition lawyer wanted to shake hands with me at the end of the trial. I didn’t want to, and I didn’t.




1/19/2012

Photo Friday | From Soup to Nuts

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – January 20, 2011 –

Our area is covered with snow. It came down as a light powder.
I have an ear infection. I’m trying to treat it with vitamin C, among other things. It’s not getting any worse, but it isn’t much better either. If I succeed in healing it, I’ll let you know. In case you don’t hear from me: I dropped dead!
My daughter sent the yellow rose to my wife. I like it just as much as I would a bouquet of a dozen yellow roses, which we have had on several occasions. There was no special occasion. She was in the area, and dropped by to give it to her mother.
Life is good!

1/11/2012

Ear Infection | Alternative Treatment

 

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  –  January 11, 2011  – 

I have had an ear canal infection for several days now. The first thing I would like to mention is: Don’t use Q tips to clean ear wax from your ears. It is likely that you will push ear wax further into your ear canal. There are plastic devices to remove ear wax in the stores, but I chose not to use one of those either.

I did use an infrared light to heat the ear canal area, but didn’t see any obvious results of melted ear wax.

I read that vitamin C is a natural antibiotic, and that there are other natural antibiotics. I went the vitamin C route.

There are quite a few foods, which contain vitamin C. I decided to try to use my body to fight the inflammation from inside my body.  We had clementines available, and I ate at least 2 clementines every three hours. I had frozen strawberries, so, I thawed them, and ate strawberries and bananas. I ate cauliflower and broccoli with my meals. I ate tomatoes, onions, and cucumbers in my salad. Garlic would have been good, but I didn’t use it.

My wife had sweet oil, which I heated and put into my ear every three hours or so. It reduced the pain, and seemed to fight the germs. I read about tea tree oil, so I bought some, and used it. It will kill germs, fungus, and viruses. I wanted to kill germs from the outside. It burns like alcohol. They don’t recommend putting it on irritated or broken skin, but I did anyway. I used it sparingly.

I bought a syringe, which is like a hypodermic needle syringe, but it has a device on the end, which fits the outside of the ear canal. It irrigates the ear canal, and washes out debris. I used hydrogen peroxide to flush out the ear canal. It seemed to irritate the inflamed skin inside the ear, so I only flushed the ear canal out once so far.

Just because I did these things, does not mean that it is the right thing to do. I did it, and I’m still alive. My ear isn’t healed, but it has improved, instead of getting worse.


1/10/2012

What is Being Ignored | Campaign 2012

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I belong to a secret group on Newsvine called Dumbasses. Here are two of the articles, which got the Dumbasses started: http://www.facebook.com/groups/165748923454011/doc/239742256054677/#!/profile.php?id=100001085634534&sk=notes

Reducing the deficit is important. The candidates don’t seem to me to be discussing it.

I do hear gay rights being discussed, but I don’t hear how to save Social Security and Medicare being discussed.

As far as I’m concerned, the Iowa caucus, New Hampshire primaries, and South Carolina primaries, are a waste of resources.

While the Republican candidates carry on their charade, President Obama engages in releasing terrorists from Gitmo.

There’s something that doesn’t seem right, but I’m a Dumbass.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/09/republican-blasts-obama-after-national-debt-surpasses-economic-output/ Good picture!

 

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/138/244/funny-barack-michelle-obama-face.jpg Better picture!

 

1/08/2012

One Day at a Time

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – January 8, 2012 –

My wife was listening to music on the TV, and this song was played. I thought, that would be an appropriate video to post. It is also in the spirit of Sunday.

God Bless America!



1/06/2012

Reregistering

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – January 6, 2012 –
To members of Reality Check on Facebook:
There’s a Doc in Reality Check by Chris McCallister about reregistering. “Changing your IP”. The links don’t work.
That same Doc is posted on Terry Falcon’s Facebook wall. It has been edited.
Link to Terry Falcon’s reregister document.
If you are reregistering, those two docs are helpful.
I would like to post this web address to find your IP number, your ISP, and your router address. If someone wants to check your reregistering, they can use all three to check you out.
http://www.find-ip-address.org/
I was going to try to reregister recently, but didn’t.
I got a new email address, and I was going to have my son, who lives in Scottsdale, AZ register me on his I Pad. He was visiting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at my daughter’s house. His I Pad was connected to my daughter’s ISP, and her router. I’m just letting you know, how I planned to reregister. I was going to use the new reregister on my old desktop computer, which had been formatted. The old desktop computer is connected to my daughter’s ISP and router. So there would have been no cookies, or history.
I did reregister once. I was living in Scottsdale, AZ at the time, and was visiting my daughter’s house in Pittsburgh. I registered with a new email address on her desktop computer.
I’m hoping this information will be helpful at this time. If it becomes outdated, or if you want to provide additional information, please comment.
I read that you can change your IP number by unplugging your modem. One suggested unplugging it for 8 hours. My comment: If you change your IP number, your router or modem will remain the same. Also, your host will remain the same.
IP: Internet Protocol
ISP: Internet Service Provider
Host: Comcast for example
Router or Modem: Electronic device, which connects cable to computers
Formatted: Everything removed, including the Operating System.

1/05/2012

I Want To Be Your Home Schooler | President Obama

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"We are five days from fundamentally transforming the United States of America," Obama said. "If you'll stand with me and fight beside me and cast your vote for me, we will not only win Missouri, we will win this general election."
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You asked for it, and now you have it, the transformation of your once great Republic into a country where the State is the all powerful force that controls almost every aspect of your life from cradle to grave. In fact with their new healthcare plan they'll even hasten your entry into your grave by denying you care if they deem you not worthy of it because of your age and your lack of usefulness to the collective. For the youth of the country they are now stopping the private government backed college loans in favor of government only loans that do not need to be paid back if you "choose" to serve the government for ten years. So now instead of starting your career in the private sector where all the wealth is created, they want you to serve the government, the very government that is sucking the private sector dry of its wealth. I heard Obama talk about how he wanted to fundamentally (relating to or affecting the underlying principles or structure of something) transform (to change something completely) America during the campaign, but I never saved any video of it. Now that Glenn Beck has discovered this video we can look back and see that Obama is only doing what he promised to do, which is to fundamentally change America. How can you criticize a politician for doing what he said he would do if elected? But I would ask you what is so fundamentally wrong with America that we need to change its underlying principles, the very principles that made us the greatest country in the history of the world. Is this the change that American's voted for in 2008? Do we really want to fundamentally change our great nation? Are the founding principles now obsolete? Jbranstetter04
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. — Marcus Cicero, speaking to Caesar, Crassus, Pompey and the Roman Senate.
He said it more than once: http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/10/30/obama-speaks-crowd-40000/

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1/04/2012

Romney narrowly wins Iowa caucuses

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The Iowa citizens want a man, who hasn't discussed the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act 2012, S.1867.
They want a businessman, who participated in taking Massachusetts health care out of private enterprise. He has demonstrated that he believes government does a better job than private enterprise. Also, government health care increases the size of government.
Romney received about 30,000 votes, and Santorum received about 30,000 votes. Link

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1/03/2012

Today Obama signed NDAA S.1867 into law-not good

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S.1867 could easily be misused under the same premise. Already there are calls for hiring foreign troops of other nations to make up for the void being felt in the US armed forces as we are presently in a peacetime voluntary recruitment policy that does not make enlistment mandatory as it was in Vietnam. There are plans to recruit soldiers from UN nations to serve in the United States Army. Now ask yourself whether or not foreign troops would have any compunction over marching against US citizens if they were ordered to? They answer would be just as it was in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968. This is but one of many scenarios in which S.1867 could be used in an all together different way than it was supposedly intended.
Not to put rats in your skulls, but can you imagine what Machiavellian event could be orchestrated by the government to give it the "Reichstag Moment" it needed to justify martial law. Does not S.1867 open the door for this horrid possibility? Everything is now in place for such a situation to be realized. Let's go one agonizing step further. Suppose a certain president facing a certain landslide loss at the voting polls was to create a nationwide emergency, a dastardly act of terrorism, or a civil uprising that the law had now been changed to accommodate? S. 1867 would be that very bill, all they needed to deliver the nation into a perpetual state of martial law that would, no doubt, trump a presidential election. The dictatorship would be in place! The opposition neutralized!

In the current Iowa caucus, I didn't hear much about this. It seems to me that it is very important.
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I Want To Be Your Home Schooler | Fear

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I see fear mongering used as a talking point. I get the impression that fear mongering has a less than desirable connotation among users of talking points. I propose that fear is a good thing. When I was a kid, I was afraid of bats, and I still am for that matter. Rightly or wrongly, I believe that bats have teeth, and can bite you. They can transmit rabies. I do know that rabies treatment is painful and expensive. So, fear of bats is a good thing.
I remember my mother teaching my younger siblings that hot meant one could get burned. If you were told hot, and then you touched the stove, you learned that hot meant you should fear getting burnt.
I’m adding this: Why do we install sprinkler systems? Answer: Because…we fear fire.
On my recent post, This rather brilliantly cuts thru all the political doublespeak we get  I was accused of fear mongering. I’m telling the world, right now, that we should fear unbridled spending, and irresponsible spending, lest we end up like Greece, et cetera.
Specifically, we should fear President Obama, who just exhibited his unnecessary spending on his and his family's vacation. President Obama should set an example as a leader; he, and his wife, set the worst example possible of spending discipline. Discipline means doing things in an orderly fashion. President Obama and his wife did not do things in an orderly fashion with regard to spending, on his most recent vacation.
The President seems comfortable with increasing the debt limit…again…$1.2 trillion in February 2012.
The race card will probably be used to defend the president. Call me a racist, and it doesn’t bother me at all. I like a lot of black entertainers, black truckers, and I have a black close friend here in Pittsburgh, who I have connected with since around 1985. When I came to Pittsburgh to visit two years ago, he was one of two people, who came to where I was staying, to visit. He was broke down on the Turnpike a couple months ago, and I stopped to offer help. I don’t fear being called a racist.
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1/02/2012

This rather brilliantly cuts thru all the political doublespeak we get

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This is an illustration of what the government is getting away with, and the people are not at all concerned.

My brother sent this to me in an email. That is how this article was brought to light.

I don’t care what your political connections are, if you agree with this kind of management, you deserve the consequences.

Couple the above with the possibility of marshal law, and imprisonment without trial within the year 2012. Probably there would be no election in 2012.

 

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1/01/2012

Oranges

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I spent about 13 years in Texas. I spent about 5 years in Florida. I spent about 5 years in Arizona.

Oranges were grown in all three states. I was able to buy fresh squeezed orange juice in the grove areas of Texas. I also consumed Texas oranges. Texas oranges are my favorite.

My brother in-law’s son married the daughter of the owner of an orange grove near Tampa, Florida. My understanding is that that grove has now been sold for a million, or millions. I learned a little about the strategy, which grove owners use, when a freeze happens.

When we lived in Arizona, we passed orange groves over a hundred times a year. [1] There’s a type of orange called “Arizona sweets”. I stopped at an orange market, and saw the oranges, but I have never tasted one. I have picked oranges off the tree in Arizona, which were as sour as they could possibly be. They are really inedible.

Clementines are very sweet.

There’s a $250 fine for unauthorized picking of oranges in Arizona.

An orange sells for about 50 cents in Pittsburgh in most grocery stores. However, I can buy oranges for 25 cents at a store near our townhouse, and they are high quality, name brand, oranges.

Vitamin C is a natural antibiotic. An orange contains about 60 milligrams of vitamin C. The recommended daily amount of vitamin C is about 100 milligrams. So, if you eat two oranges a day, it will help cure infections, et cetera.

Vitamin C in Foods

http://www.health-boundaries-bite.com/Vitamin-C-Natural-Antibiotic.html

http://www.vitaminstohealth.com/Foods-high-in-vitamin-C.html

Oranges are just one of my many blessings.

 

 

[1] Oranges Next Year’s Crop

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