Oklahoma did it anyway

 While everyone is focusing on Arizona's new law, look what Oklahoma has been doing! 
An update from Oklahoma:
Oklahoma law passed, 37 to 9, had a few liberals in the mix, an
  amendment to place the Ten Commandments on the front entrance to the
  state capitol . The feds in D.C., along with the ACLU, said it would
  be a mistake. Hey this is a conservative state, based on Christian
  values...! HB 1330
   Guess what .......... Oklahoma did it anyway.
   Oklahoma recently passed a law in the state to incarcerate all illegal
  immigrants, and ship them back to where they came from unless they
want to get a green card and become an American citizen . They all
  scattered. HB 1804. Hope we didn't send any of them to your state.
This was against the advice of the Federal Government, and the ACLU,
  they said it would be a mistake.
   Guess what .......... Oklahoma did it anyway.
   Recently we passed a law to include DNA samples from any and all
  illegal's to the Oklahoma database, for criminal investigative
  purposes . Pelosi said it was unconstitutional SB 1102
   Guess what ........ Oklahoma did it anyway.
   Several weeks ago, we passed a law, declaring Oklahoma as a Sovereign
  state, not under the Federal Government directives . Joining Texas,
Montana and Utah as the only states to do so.
   More states are likely to follow: Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, the
  Carolina's, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, West Virginia,
  Mississippi, Florida. Save your confederate money, it appears the
  South is about to rise up once again. HJR 1003
   The federal Government has made bold steps to take away our guns.
  Oklahoma, a week ago, passed a law confirming people in this state
  have the right to bear arms and transport them in their vehicles . I'm
  sure that was a setback for the criminals. The Liberals didn't like it
  -- But....
   Guess what........... Oklahoma did it anyway.
   Just this month, the state has voted and passed a law that ALL drivers
  license exams will be printed in English, and only English, and no
  other language. They have been called racist for doing this, but the
  fact is that ALL of the road signs are in English only. If you want to
  drive in Oklahoma, you must read and write English. Really simple.
  By the way, the Liberals don't like any of this either.
  Guess what...who cares... 
Oklahoma is doing it anyway.

 MAKES YOU WANT TO BECOME A "SOONER", DOESN'T IT!!!!!!!!

10 Poorest Cities in America, thanks to Democrates!

Poorest Cities in America and how did it happen and Do you want to join them?       City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level 1. Detroit , MI 32.5% 2. Buffalo , NY 29.9% 3. Cincinnati , OH 27.8% 4. Cleveland , OH 27.0% 5. Miami , FL 26.9% 5. St. Louis , MO 26.8% 7. El Paso , TX 26.4% 8. Milwaukee , WI 26.2% 9. Philadelphia , PA 25.1% 10. Newark , NJ Below is how you can join the racks of the worst!  24.2%  U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007  What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?  Detroit, MI    (1st on the poverty rate list)    hasn't  elected a Republican mayor    since 1961 Buffalo, NY (2nd)    hasn't elected one since 1954 Cincinnati, OH - (3rd)...   since 1984 Cleveland, OH - (4th)...  since 1989 Miami, FL - (5th)    has never  had a Republican mayor St. Louis, MO - (6th)...   since 1949 El Paso, TX - (7th)    has never had a Republican mayor Milwaukee , WI - (8th)...   since 1908 Philadelphia, PA - (9th)...   since 1952 Newark, NJ - (10th)...   since 1907. Einstein once said,    'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again    and expecting different results.' It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats ....   yet they are still  POOR.  "You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.    You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.    You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.    You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man    by inciting class hatred.    You cannot build character and courage    by taking away people's initiative and independence.    You cannot help people permanently by doing for them,    what they could and should do for themselves."   Abraham Lincoln Understand?  Obama, Unions, Democrats and Liberals sure don't!

"I'm 63 and I'm Tired"

Robert A. Hall is the actor who plays the coroner on CSI if you watch that show. He also is a Marine Vietnam War veteran.

This should be required reading for every man, woman and child in the United States of America .



"I'm 63 and I'm Tired"
by Robert A. Hall



I'm 63.  Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked hard since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.


I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.


I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.


I'm tired of being told how  bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers.  In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of  Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China  the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Christian people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela.


I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because  they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls;  of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery";  of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.  


I'm tired of being told  that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S.Senators from Illinois.  


I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.


I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but thinks that Obama's, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of  presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News?  Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.


I'm tired of being told  that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.


I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough.  


I'm tired of being told  that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do.  Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off?  I don't think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I #@*# sure think druggies chose to  take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.


I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next?  Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"?  And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion.  I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record  and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military.... Those are the citizens we need.


I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not even close. So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.  


I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need  bipartisanship. I live in Illinois, where the "Illinois  Combine" of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet.  


I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.


Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.


I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.


Yes, I'm real tired.  But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter.


Robert  A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate.
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Living the Western Lifestyle

'WEST' isn't just a direction on the map. It is also a frame of mind. No matter where you are on the map, you can have a piece of the west. Whether you are a "been there, done that" old cowboy / cowgirl, or a streetwise urban cowboy who loves the rustic look and relaxed feel of the Old West, you will find something here to enhance your western lifestyle.

Ahhh, the western lifestyle. Heck no, it ain't easy! The hard work starts before dawn and lasts long past sundown. It all goes back to the days of pioneers and settlers riding west to claim a stake of land on which to raise cattle and crops, to produce food to live on. So much has changed, but in all things western you can still see a shadow of the history of the American Cowboy's lifestyle. For many living the western lifestyle in this day, it means getting up at 2:00 in the morning during calving season to go out to the pasture to check heifers - even if it's raining and cold, yes even in a blizzard! In other seasons, the western lifestyle means mowing, raking, and baling hay in the blazing heat of the summer days, or riding a horse across a pasture of 100's or 1,000's of acres (or larger) to gather calves on a cold windy fall day, to be transported to the sale barn for the next auction. These seasonal chores are just a small portion of the usual year-round duties performed by the cowboys, ranchers, and farmers of the West. Another seasonal duty includes helping neighbors out during the branding season, who in turn reciprocate the favor. While an extensive amount of work goes into each day of branding cattle at each different locale, each event generally turns into a great social time for all. At the end of the day, after all of the calves are branded and vaccinated, and the bull calves have been casterated, participants come together and discuss the top issues in the headlines of the world. This time of social comradery is one of the rewards of living a western lifestyle.

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Happy Trails!