HOW THE OKLAHOMA ICE STORM AFFECTED ME

As some of you know I have a house in Tulsa even though I live here in Vegas, and I have been waiting to get these pictures that show the damage done to a tree in the front of my house.

It was a large, lovely tree that was actually more like 6 trees that had spiraled together and then grown into one very large tree, so when the ice storm destroyed it last month it fell in several different directions.

One part fell to the left into my neighbor's yard, two parts fell to the right into my other neighbor's yard, two parts fell out into the street completely blocking the road, and one part was left standing.

Amazingly there were cars in everyone's driveways and parked on the street and not one of them was hit by the tree.
Nobody's house, including mine, was hit either, THANK GOD!!!

Anyway, I just got the pics in the mail today so I thought I would share a few of them. If you click on the pics you can see them enlarged.

This used to be my tree!!!
This view is from the street.
You can see my neighbor's house,
and that some of her trees came down also.

As you can see it barely missed my neighbor's car!!!
This view is from my front yard.

This is part of the tree that was laying in the street!
You can see the edge of my driveway at the bottom of pic.

This is another view of what was laying in the street
This view is from the street.

This is a view taken from my front porch.
This used to be such a beautiful tree during the summer.
It shaded most of my house.

This is just a close up view of my poor tree.
You can see a large chunk of it came right out by the roots!

This last picture shows the part of the tree that fell into my other neighbors yard. As you can see it went down right over my driveway
and just barely missed the car that was sitting there!
This view is from the street.

If you look carefully through that pine tree you can just barely
see my little house. It's the gray one.

THE TRUE FAITH OF BARACK OBAMA

I visited Blonde's blog today and she has written a post regarding the "Christian" church that Barack Obama belongs to.
I felt it was so important that we all see this that I wanted to bring it to my blog too.
Now as we all know Barack Obama denies being muslim and affirms his Christianity at every turn. However it might do us all well to look at the particular church to which he belongs!
This church is being called, by some, more of a cult than to a true religion, and after going to the churches web site and watching the videos below I tend to agree.
It certainly affirms the fact that I do NOT want HIM as my president because as a white person and an American it is completely clear that he would not have my personal best interests at heart.

The church follows a "10-point vision", which is refered to, by the church itself, as "Afro-centric"

This is the churches website
http://www.tucc.org/about.htm
You should all read the short paragraph and watch the short video produced by the church.
It's quite interesting and eye opening too!!!

You should also watch the following videos to get an idea of just how this church really works!!!

Part 1 of FOX news investigation on Baracks church (2 min 53 sec)

Part 2 of Fox news interview with pastor of the church (6 min 14 sec)

I WOULD LIKE TO GET YOUR OPINIONS ON THIS

I didn't want to write about this until I had a couple of days to digest it, think about it, and get some facts.
As you all surely must know a few days ago 5 small Iranian boats harrassed and provoked 3 U.S. Navy ships in the Straits of hormuz, which is the entrance to the persian gulf where most of the world's oil travels through.
Apparently it went like this....

U.S. ships were sailing along
Suddenly 5 little Iranian speed boats, operated by the republican guard, charged towards the U.S. ships.
Then over the radio the Iranians announced that the U.S. ships would explode in a couple of minutes, and followed that announcement by tossing white boxes into the sea.
The U.S. personnel manned their weapons and were just about to fire when the Iranian boats sped away from the scene.

The whole ordeal took approx. 5 minutes.

The Iranians now say the whole thing was fabricated by the U.S. and that the incident was simply a routine communication between them and the U.S. ships.

Now I would like your opinions on the TRUE motives of the Iranians for doing this.
I know what I think, what do you think???

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NOW AND THEN

In the "good ol' days" parents used to send their children outside to play when they got under foot and became annoying.
Children used to play all over the neighborhood and return home only when it was dinner time.
Children who were bored or had to much energy were given chores to do, the premise being idle hands breed mischief, and therefore mischief was kept in check by exhausting the child.
Chores were also given as a way to teach the child that no one gets a free ride in this world.
Chores taught them ethics, taught them that by working hard they could accomplish many things. Chores gave them a sense of pride in themselves.
Playing hard and working hard kept the children out of trouble.

But as I said...those were the good ol' days!
Times have certainly changed.

Today children cannot run the neighborhoods as they once did because it is simply not safe for them.
This automatically puts them under foot of the parents, and playtime has been replaced by television and video games.
Their little minds and bodies have become somewhat atrophied and less necessary than they once were.
Another effect of being "home bound" is the frazzeled nerves of parents, who instead of taking the time to stimulate their childs brain have instead demanded the creation of so-called diseases
(ADD & ADHD) and have demanded medication in which to combat it. Parents in essence have medicated their children in order to make their own lives more tolerable!!!

A child naturally has a short attention span, and exsist in a hyperactive state of being. They go from one interest to another in quick succesion, and because of this they stimulate their imaginations, they stimulate their brains, which in and of itself stimulates their brain capacity and learning abilities.

But in todays world parents seeking a way to "calm" and control the child, drug companies seeking a way to profit from it, and doctors seeking a way to explain what is "abnormal" about normal behavior, have labeled this inate and natural part of a child's being a "disease".

"Chores" is also becoming and extinct word in the vocabulary of children.
They no longer believe they have to earn what they get. These days more and more children believe they deserve everything for doing nothing.
This translates into many of them taking what belongs to others when they get big enough to do so.
This also translates into one more thing a child does NOT have to keep their little brains and bodies busy these days.
Children who have no purpose and who have nothing in their little lives to be proud of WILL, in the end, wreak havoc upon society.
The state of the world today proves my postion on this.

I do not have to explain the detrimental effect this has had on our society as a whole. All you have to do is look around you.
Think about how it was in your childhood. Think about how it was in your parents childhood. The difference between then and now is like night and day!!!

The relatively docile reaction to perverts who prey on kids, the lack of a good work ethic, the belief in being "owed" something for doing absolutely nothing, and the mind numbing boredom of childhood has created a world that would be completely unrecognizable to our ancestors.

Shame on us all!!!

NUKE I SEE YOUR VIDEO AN RAISE YA ANOTHER

NOW THAT WAS FUCKING FUNNY!!!

MAKING HISTORY

Well the new year has barely started and already we are setting records.
Today the price of oil reached the $100 a barrel mark for the first time EVER!!!
When the markets finally closed, oil had gone down to $99.62 a barrel.

20 or 30 years ago there would have been rioting in the streets if oil had reached $50 a barrel, but today when it reached $100 most of us didn't even notice, and those of us who did notice managed a roll of the eyes and a shrug of the shoulders but that's about it.

Once again the U.S. national reserve say they will not dip into the national oil reserve.
I wonder what they are saving all that oil for!!!

It's not only your gas tank that is affected here....
You can expect record food prices because of the cost of the oil/gas to harvest, process, and ship food to market.
The price of oil based products such as makeup has already risen dramatically. The cost of lipstick for instance is up 7%.
Home heating cost expected to be of record highs this winter season.
Etc, etc, etc.....

Now I realize that many of you guys are "internet rich" but for the rest of us this shit is getting out of hand.

A few months ago I finally bit the bullet and traded in my beloved Suburban for a stupid little gas efficient car that I absolutely hate!!!

Also one of the pros for me moving to Vegas was to save on home heating costs but shit lately it's been down into the 30's at night here. My gas bill is as high as it was when I lived in Oklahoma!!!

You can't drink the water out of the faucet here in Vegas, well you can but it has so many minerals in it that it tastes like shit and is not exactly clear in color, so most people buy bottled water for drinking here.
Less than 2 weeks ago I paid $3.50 for a case of water.
The other day I bought water and paid $4.99 for a case.
I am told it's due to higher fuel costs!!!

Well I could go on but you get the point!!
My big question is...
Just how high can the price of everything go before we say enough is enough???

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