The Opposite of Depression

A psychologist, noting the upswing in counseling appointments around the holidays said something profound-
"The opposite of depression isn’t ‘Yippee!’
The opposite of depression is gratitude."

Read this article.

Happy Thanksgiving Day !!

Hey, I got one ahead of the curve!!

It isn't often you can visit here
and read something ahead of the curve
(or even a recent post)
and don't think it will happen again, but it happened September 14th.
read " O "- The Mini Series.
The only thing missing are styrofoam columns.

THIS WEEK catches up.

A platter of fresh Guinea pigs for them!

I Never knew they were getting $billions in my stimulus bill.

"Knock, Knock."

Who's there?

"ACORN."

"ACORN who??"

"C'mon, Mr President, open the door!"

If you disagree with this post , you are a RACIST!!

So many racists in the music world..

Kanye West tries to restore the MTV Female Video Award to its rightful owner, and he is met with a backlash that is obviously based in racism. People mag reports:

Stars watching the show and tweeting immediately posted their thoughts on the incident. "Kanye needs to learn how to wait his turn," Zac Hanson wrote. "I am sure he will get plenty of mic time to say something stupid later in the show."

Wait his TURN ! What do you mean by THAT? Kanye doesn't have to follow the MAN's clock , when he has something stupid to say, it IS Kanye's turn.

Country singer John Rich went even further with his tweet: “KanyeWest is a lowlife. He needs to have his @@@ kicked in the middle of the stage right now! What a piece of @@@@!!! Go TAYLOR SWIFT.”

See there, a 'Rich ' white man puts Kanye down and threatens to lynch him .

Pink, who was also nominated for best female video, tweeted: “Kanye west is
the biggest piece of s– on earth. Quote me.” And Katy Perry followed suit: “F– U
KANYE. IT'S LIKE U STEPPED 0N A KITTEN.”

Look girls, Kanye just thought it would be better to spread the award around to people who didn't win it, you know, like the President told that white plumber Joe that he wants to spread around Joe's stuff. If you are against THAT, you are an obvious racist.

Speaking of the President, Drudge reported an ABC reporter’s tweet quoting Obama as saying “Kanye is a jackass” . That's two Presidents in a row that 'hate black people' by Kanye's count.

"O" - This Fall on A B C

It looks like the Obama worship will be parodied by none other than ABC this fall.

See this preview in which:

the world awakens to new overlords hovering above the populace like czars or commisars,

a charming face and soft demeanor disguise an agenda obvious to a few though invisible to most,

young people are enthralled by the 'coolness' of the leader who is worshiped for spreading "hope" and gifts,

the 'watchdog' press has its choke chain jerked,

those who won't bow the knee are not reasoned with but chided for refusing 'change',

false messiah topples a symbol of THE Messiah,

and the soft, cuddly hope and change army reveals a cold-blooded reptilian core.
　
Watch it here.

Looks like the only things left out are Styrofoam Greek columns

Pray for your President.

...besides, class, decorum and propriety far beyond that of leftists,
this is the reason that assassination chic hasn't caught on with
the right in Obama's term like it did during George W. Bush's administration.

Long life to you , Mr. President.

Move On (to self destruction)

Pinheads.

----- Original Message -----
From: Nita Chaudhary, MoveOn.org Political Action
To: TJ H
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:05 AM
Subject: Bush's torture

Dear MoveOn member,
On Thursday, President Obama released memos that describe,
in horrific detail, the torture techniques authorized by the Bush administration.
The memos make clear that top Bush officials didn't just condone torture—
they encouraged it.
So far there's been no accountability for the architects
of Bush's torture program—the top officials who justified
keeping detainees awake for 11 days straight,
waterboarding them repeatedly,
and forcing prisoners into coffin-like boxes with insects.1
We need real consequences for those responsible—
it's the only way to keep this from happening again.
Attorney General Holder can open an investigation into the
torture program—but he most likely won't unless people
everywhere speak up and demand it. Can you sign our
petition to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him
to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate
the torture program? If we can reach 200,000 signatures,
we'll deliver the petition to Holder by the end of the week.

The petition says: "No one is above the law.
It's time to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate
and prosecute the architects of the Bush-era torture program."
Calls for action, from the United Nations, the ACLU, Amnesty International,2
Senators Leahy and Feingold, and others, are gathering steam.
The New York Times made the case for accountability in an editorial:3
"...[Obama] has an obligation to pursue what is clear evidence of a government policy sanctioning the torture and abuse of prisoners—in violation of international law and the Constitution.
" This isn't about retribution or politics. It's about accountability. If hundreds of thousands of us speak up, we can make sure Holder hears this loud and clear.

Thanks for all you do. –Nita, Kat, Peter, Ilyse, and the rest of the team

P.S. You can see all the Bush administration memos here. Sources: 1. "Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A.," The New York Times, April 17, 2009. http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51338&id=15952-10409880-o0_9Itx&t=5 2. "Opposition Grows To Obama's Decision Not To Prosecute CIA Agents," The Huffington Post, April 19, 2009. http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51336&id=15952-10409880-o0_9Itx&t=6 3. "A Torturers' Manifesto," The New York Times, April 19, 2009. http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51334&id=15952-10409880-o0_9Itx&t=7 Want to support our work? We're entirely funded by our 5 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. This email was sent to TJ H on April 21, 2009.
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Nita, Kat, Peter, Ilyse, and the rest of the team ,
You are stupid fools to be aghast
at locking a mass murderer up with a caterpillar.
(An interrogation method that WAS NEVER USED.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-released-cia-memos-to-please-aclu )

There are thousands of reasons to use agressive interrogation
techniques against these killers,
starting with the thousands killed in NYC on 9/11/01,
and including the thousands of people saved in L.A.
by the information gained by the LEGAL ,
judicious use of these tactics.
There was no torture, compared to the hundreds
who chose between burning to death in the World Trade Center,
or escaping the flames for a few seconds to fall to their deaths.
There was no torture, compared to the gleeful beheading of Daniel Pearl

Silly asses, those murderers would sooner slit your throats until your empty
heads left your lifeless bodies than give you the praise you think you
deserve for for taking up their cause against America.

You are useful idiots.

Happy Lenin's Birthday
You Bastards,

Terry

Thank God For Carbon Dioxide

Earth Day 2009.

Thank God for CO2.

Almost planting time.

Happy 17th Birthday, Son

It doesn't take very many years to go from being a proud Dad, to an idiot.
What parent isn't an idiot to teenaged eyes?

Hopefully, the reverse process will take less time.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly
stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at
how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

Earth Hour - Get Used To It!

Like The Death Star , but run by Spaceballs.

Saw this picture at Cookie's blog, with some other good ones.

The Debt Star photo is pretty good,
but I think a better picture of the triumvitrate of Pelosi, Reid, and Obama is in Spaceballs.

After all, the Spaceballs' inept troika of leaders weren't out to destroy the planet, just re-distribute oxygen.

The Congress and Administration aren't aiming to destroy the economy, but to own it.

Same difference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VptOUWC-Itc

Rules Kids Won't Learn in School

I saw a poster at Jimmy John's Sandwich shop the other day.
The words were ascribed to "a wealthy software developer"(Bill Gates).

Snopes.com says otherwise.
But, the words are wise, regardless of their authorship
and I hope my kids learn these rules faster than I did.

Rules Kids Won't Learn in School

• Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it.
  
• Rule No. 2: The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
  
• Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won't make $80,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a Hollister label.
  
• Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you feel about it.
  
• Rule No. 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about musicians all weekend.
  
• Rule No. 6: It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a baby boomer.
  
• Rule No. 7: Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.
  
• Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't. In some schools, they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears no resemblance to anything in real life.
  
• Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don't get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on.
  
• Rule No. 10: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs.
  
• Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.
  
• Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.
  
• Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.
  
• Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life can be depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid.
  Maybe you should start now. You're welcome.

Adapted From www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.asp

Premature adulation

Premature adulation.

Some gentle humor from here.

I will :
1st- Protect and defend the Constitution
2nd- Honor the office of President of the USA
and 3rd- respect the man in office.

If President Obama does not do #1 & #2
it will make #3 more difficult,
but I will oppose his ideas
and not tumble into the Buck FusH, or BusHitler style of
derangement the DU and KosKids have pumped up for 8 years.

God, Bless America.
God, Bless President-Elect Obama.

I Timothy 2:1-4

1 I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them;
intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. 2 Pray this way for kings
and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked
by godliness and dignity. 3 This is good and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants
everyone to be saved and to understand the truth.

It was a Caesar, not an elected President that the Apostle was urging Timothy to pray for.

The good things about the Election

-The world's longest election season is over.
-Congressman Steve King (IA-5th) wins-re election
-40+ GOP Senators.( 42? If Al Franken gets in,
I will not spend another dime in MN. )
-Sarah Palin, an articulate,bright,conservative voice
is on the scene.
-3 ballot measures to define marriage = one man + one woman, are passing.
-Nebraska's measure to end racial preferences passed.
-Michell Bachmann is winning her house seat.
-Increased security.

-Time to stand on principle, regroup, fight on!

The Hopeful Change, A Nationale ZivilSicherheitskraft

Basil at www.IMAO.US writes:

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objective that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

What was that organization that Adolf Hitler had? Sturmabteilung? You know, the “Brown Shirts.”

Or maybe he wants to go straight to the Schutzstaffel, the “SS.”

Are those of us on the right the only ones that ever read books? Or that watched the Nazi shows on the History Channel instead of their “Search for Bigfoot” or “Roswell Uncovered” shows? Or that can think for ourselves?

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Well sure, there are downsides to having the streets clogged with a civilian national security force. Let’s look on the plus side- a civilian national security force equal to the bad, bad military would be able to nuke Yosemite and bring about world peace, ala the IMAO.US author's famous “Nuke the Moon” thesis.
A civilian national security force is necessary to bring about peace, as Karl Marx famously said,”The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition of socialism.”

That term ‘civilian national security force’ is a bit wordy though.
So let’s try this.Babelfish translates the English “civilian national security force”to the German “Nationale ZivilSicherheitskraft”

That is quite the tongue tangler for us,
the (current) English speakers who could only say, “merci bocoup” when Europeans take over our country come to chat.
So, I modestly propose we call the “civilian national security force”
or “Nationale ZivilSicherheitskraft”by the first two letters of
“NA tionale ZI vilSicherheitskraft”.

There!

That’s much more hopeful and changy sounding, isn’t it?

Get out and VOTE!

Two weeks

Two weeks until Obama
becomes the next President...
.
.
. Dewey.

The cries of 'certain victory' from NBC and Pelosi, Schumer,
and Reid are too soon.

The Grant Park Victory Speech and Transition Team selection
is premature. The ACORN voter fraud, foriegn campaign contributions,
and the 'spread the wealth around' comment to Joe Wurzelbacher and
the media lynching of the man are just too much.

The media bias and cocky presumption is turning
voters away from Obama. Americans like fair play and humility,OK-
not all Americans, but the demographic groups that show up to vote do.

The IBD TIPP poll was the most accurate in 2004,
and it shows a tightening race with huge McCain gains
among voters in the $30,000 to $75,000 income range.

There are a lot of 'Joe' s in that group.

The Difference

Q : What's the difference between
a live Republican and a dead Republican?






A: In Illinois, dead Republicans
vote for Democrats.


Hat tip : "Trish"

logobama

www.Logobama.com invites you to create your own logo using the famous blue doughnut with peppermint stripes. have fun!

Communists for Che-nge

Paid for by "Orcs for Change" a Section 527 Organization; George Sauron, Treasurer

Next debate

Next debate-
Have Dan Rather read insane
questions and accusations from KosKids.

It would sure beat watching Bob Schieffer
try to stay awake by sucking all the oxygen
out of the room a la Brokaw.

Obama would tiptoe through the mine field
of not alienating his moonbat base-
while trying not to sound like one of them.

And, McCain might look conservative.

Debate in the Age of Obama

Vice Presidential debate “moderator” Gwen Ifill's book:
“Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.”
Will include a CD with this song sung by the author
and the 5th Dimension:

The Age Of Obama

Ban Ki-moon is worshiped in New York,
burn no more gas in our cars.
Barack will heal the planet,
with big buck$ raised by the stars!

This is the dawning of the Age of Obama,
Age of Obama,Obama!
O-Ba-ha-ma!!

Free from thought and understanding,
Touchy-feely rule abounding.
No more rich men or religions,
in our Leader’s Marxist visions.
Change us to a new direction,
ACORN running all elections.
Oba-ha-ma, Oba-ha-ma!!

The moon and space belongs to China ,
Middle East oil owned by the Tsar.
Barack will heal our planet,
with surrender near and far!

This is the dawning of the Age of Obama,
Age of Obama,Obama!
O-Ba-ha-ma!!

Let the One shine,
Let the One shine in
The One shine in…..
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McCain's -bias? I don't see no steenking bias-
comments about Ms.Ifill is just spin.

He knows Gov. Palin will mop the floor with Lunchbox Joe's plugged scalp,
and perhaps Ms.Ifill will write
Breakthrough: Politics and Gender in the Age Of Palin.

If she had written THAT book ,
she would not be moderating the debate.

Constitution Day

The Constitution of The United States of America, MY community organizer.

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Mark Alexander wrote: "A Living Constitution for a Dying Republic"

Our Constitution was written and ratified "in order secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" as set forth in the Declaration of Independence "endowed by their Creator." It established a Republic intended to reflect the consent of the governed, a nation of laws, not men.

At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was asked if the delegates formed "a republic or a monarchy." He responded, "A republic if you can keep it."

We have all but lost it.

Democrats to America- "Not even at $10.00 per gallon"

The media's Messiah returns to Jerusalem

Drudge reports a 12 minute Obamessiah visit to the Western or Wailing Wall,
certainly only the photos he posed for will make the campaign commercials .
Not the shouting and ensuing chaos.

“SHOUTING MAN: ‘JERUSALEM IS NOT FOR SALE, OBAMA’… MOB SCENE… CHAOS… BOWING HIS
HEAD IN PRAYER… PLACES NOTE IN WALL… POSES FOR PHOTOS… LOTS OF SHOUTING…
LEAVES
5:20 AM… DEVELOPING…

What did the note say?

Perhaps-

- “Uuuummmmm, uuuhhhh.”
- “These pants inspected by number 19″
- “I’m Ba-a-ack !!”

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/23/obamas-latest-campaign-prop-jerusalems-western-wall/#comment-384650

A few things that I never thought 30 years ago

Our 30 year reunion is this week.
Amazing how the years fly past.

My High School is one of only two in America
(probably anywhere else as well)
to have "Bunnies" as the mascot-
hence the eponymous 'Grey Hares' greeting.

A pre-reunion profile @ classmates.com.
Subject- "I never thought 30 years ago that..."

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Hello, Grey Hares! Hope you are well.

"Me? I've been a few places,Mostly here and there once or twice.Still sortin'
out life, but I'm doing alright."-Rascal Flatts :"These Days"

-A few things that I never thought 30 years ago-

I never thought I'd be a country music fan,but I am one.

Some other things I've done or been that I wouldn't have imagined in 1978 are: Salesman, Telemarketer, Soldier, Council Bluffs resident, Surgical Technologist, War Veteran, Mailman, Blogger.What a ride!

I married my Bride, Mary in April of 1989.She is from Henderson, NE.
We have a son , Steve who is 16, Daughters Rachel -13, and Libby, 11.
The kids are doing well in school, and are pretty good athletes, too.
Steve is a pitcher and first baseman,
(H.S baseball is a Summer sport in Iowa, so they are just gearing up for the season as I write this in May, 2008),
the girls are playing club soccer, both are brave,
tenacious goalies.
Most of our spare time is spent on the sidelines of one sport or another.

Looking forward to the reunion in July, hope you are , too.

There are lots of things about life that I never would have imagined thirty years ago.
I never would have imagined that I would find faith in God to be central to life. I thought faith was a crutch for the weak-minded, fact is, it's more of a stretcher than a crutch. Good thing, we all need to be carried, we can't 'clean up our act' enough to enter Heaven through our own striving, but through faith.

Blogging occasionally at w w w /TheLazyHalfSRanch/dot/ blogspot/ dot/ com

Saddle up at the computer, pour a cup of coffee, and drop by there anytime.

Regards, Terry

Atlas is getting ready to shrug.

" Get Our Petroleum ."
About time, Mr. President.

This is an issue voters can grasp, and polls show that they are,
as 81% support using more American oil and coal,
and "69% of Americans support lowering energy prices by using
domestic energy sources, even if it means drilling off our coasts
and in Alaska, rather than suing OPEC."
I got a haircut today. The customers at the barber shop
strongly advocate drilling American oil, for American cars, factories and jobs.
They know that corn ethanol is not the answer,
increasing domestic oil, coal , natural gas and
nuclear energy production is.
They are angry. Look out, Senator Harkin.

Is America 'addicted to oil' ?
Are you 'addicted' to oxygen? food? water?
The greatest gains in prosperity , productivity, comfort,
and liberty in America and the world have come in the age of petroleum.
Someday, perhaps, we will have some kind of generators and autos
that run on rainbows and exhaust butterflies and lollipops but it isn't so today,
and Congress can neither legislate or litigate them into existence.

Do you think CO2 is a pollutant?
Plants, green plants , thrive on it.
Do you think CO2 is a pollutant?
Don't exhale.
Do you think CO2 is a man made pollutant?
Volcanoes belch out more CO2
than man's entire history of energy production.


In an IBD editorial cartoon , Michael Ramerez compares the
proposed ANWR drilling site in Alaska to a flea on a caribou.

I prefer to use this illustration.
If Speaker Nancy Pelosi was tattooed with
a map of the state of Alaska over her body,
the ANWR oil drilling area would be smaller
than her botox injection sites,
well,
as far as I can see.