Old Timers
According to ‘Old Timer’s’ you are not an ‘Old Timer’ unless you are their age. That also means that you do not have bragging rights until you are that magical age. That age is when you have earned the badge of life the hard way.
Now this is all relative. Those that are close to a hundred will say those that are eighty are babies. Those that are eighty will say the babies are in their fifties. I am fast approaching fifty and think all those under me are kids and babies. One thing I hear all these groups add is to be careful not to hang with old folks; those that are old in spirit. The best advice that has been given by all those older than me is to remain young in spirit.
A lady I was checking out, at my job when I was sixteen, set me straight once. I told her, “Don’t you think you ought to slow down.” She had just gotten back from Europe and was going golfing.
“Honey dear, if I slow down. I just might find something wrong.” replied a spry white haired lady in her late seventies dressed ready to golf.
That has always made me stop and think. Now when I feel sad as I approach fifty, I think of her and Lyle.
Lyle came into the pharmacy and said, “Hurry Sandy! I have to go to work. I mow yards. I work for an old man.”
I had to ask how old the man was. Lyle was in his late eighties. As it turned out the old man was in his late nineties. So, according to the ‘Old timers’ we are not old unless we are their age, have lived through and shared the ‘Old timer’s’ hardships.
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By Ollamok
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In 1960 Kansas, almost everyone I knew seemed happy and content. I did not know anyone who didn't have a father and mother, at home, and divorce was nonexistent. I was 10 years old. We walked or road our bikes to school. We came home for lunch which our mother fixed! My older brother and I ate super every night with both parents who played games, like Bridge, with us afterward. On weekends we fished, hunted, or drove to Kansas City to see our relatives.
We loved to be outdoors, even when the weather was unpleasant. My brother and I would brag we could go to a fixing spot and catch a fix just from what people left behind. Our poles were branches. Usually a hook was around. A twig was our bobber. We built sod forts and staged dirt clod fights with other kids. There was plenty of spare wood around to make swords, and use trash can lids as our shields.
In the Summer we would ride our bikes downtown to swim at the public pool. My mother would take me to the golf course to walk and carry my own bag of clubs. Church and church activities were a large part of our lives. It seems you were either a Baptist or Church of Christ. We managed to get along with each other.
In school the day was started with the Lords Prayer, and saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Our teachers were like aunts and uncles and most people learned and memorized things like our spelling words and multiplication tables.
My father gave me a good allowance. I wasn't happy with that and arranged to sell TV guides door to door. I made 4 cents a copy. I enjoyed working with my father on Saturdays in the yard or home. As I got older, I started selling stamps by mail and published a newspaper for stamp collections from a mimeograph my parents bought we for Christmas.
How I cringe at the youth of today. They can't talk, spell or make change. The can punch keys all day long and use four letter words with ease. One author referred to them as "deluded narcissists." The self absorbed society we have created should worry any patriot. Only 20% of high school student in my state know why we celebrate the 4th of July. I bet they know the name of every Ipod out there.
Just heard on Greta Van Susteren that the Republicans are planning a retreat for this week-end. House Republicans will hold their annual retreat at a waterside resort on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Although Republicans will deny what I’m about to say vehemently, deals behind closed doors not exactly kosher. The bottom line is they’re wining and dining with some high powered lobbyists from big corporations and various associations. The lobbyists just purchased themselves a free pass to wheel and deal behind closed doors with the Republican Party.
I know what their song and dance will be about my comment – they’re going to say that the Republican Party doesn’t get any of the lobbyist’s money – it all goes to the Congressional Institute. Lobbyists at Your retreat?????
Shame on all of you – here’s your lousy report card for the past five years which will show beyond a doubt that you haven’t been doing your job.
Starting back in 2009 Americans were forced into handing the Government 787 billion dollars for the sole purpose of jump starting our economy, creating jobs, helping those who are losing their homes and jobs due to the housing bubble. That didn’t happen!
For starters let’s discuss the $312 billion in tax breaks available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act which are being claimed legitimate yet no one in Congress could get a handle on these tax breaks or verify the actual eligibility of the recipients. All were too busy playing politics and as usual taxpayers got gouged once again.
Where were the Republicans when the DOE kept handing our millions of our stimulus money for the “Green Energy” scams? Reports verify that over 90% of our loans to the green scam went to Obama’s big bundlers or donors, Harry Reid and other high ranking Democrats. Not a bleeping peep out of you! You didn’t bother telling us about this scam until you were caught with your pants down and companies started going belly up.
Let’s revisit the 75 billion dollars that Obama said was set aside for mortgage relief – this money once again went to risky lenders who were in lawsuits up to their armpits. Everyone was too busy to oversee and monitor this relief fund.
My daughter was a victim of the HARP program, which was a blooming nightmare with more holes in it then tea strainer! All this program did was prolong the agony of foreclosure. Not one of you bothered monitoring this program either – it was easy come easy go, taxpayers and homeowners took another financial hit due to your negligence.
Let’s talk about the Fast and Furious Gunrunner operation – Obama funded the program with our money, Holder & Napolitano choreographed and launched the program. In April 2009, they toddled down to Cuernavaca Mexico City to discuss the Fast and Furious operation with Mexican officials. Holder and Napolitano both perjured themselves lying under oath feigning that they didn’t know about the operation. End of story!
The rest of the story about the gunrunner operation is this: OIG sent a letter to CIA, FBI, ATF, Homeland Security and Congress warning them that the gunrunner operation was flawed and dangerous. You can find this information on the DOJ website if you’re having a lapse of memory.
Not one Republican raised their hand to notify Americans about the deadly operation, not until two of our brave border agents were killed and hundreds of innocent Mexican men, women and children were murdered. Once again you were AWOL – now years later Obama, Holder & Napolitano are walking our streets free as “jay birds.”
The Benghazi murders are still unsolved after all of these months, yet you regularly get on National TV putting on your dog and pony show pointing fingers, naming names and no one is responsible. If you’re afraid of Obama, Clinton, Panetta, Lamb, Carney and Rice – then kindly step down, the last thing we need is cowards in the Republican Party.
In closing the other scandals that you seem to avoid like a plague are the IRS, NSA and Obama care – all of these scandals have harmed Americans and been a horrendous cost to taxpayers. Yet, you opt to play politics and worry more about job security rather than fulfilling your oath to our Nation and all Americans.
The Old Republican establishment is a disgrace – you are self- serving back biting leeches. You turned on the tea parties and the new faces that entered the House and Senate in 2012. For five years you’ve refused to be good stewards of our money. Originally I thought the House was in charge of our money or is it no one is in charge of our money?
The Old Republican dogs are the gutless wonders that kicked Ted Cruz under the bus when he wanted to repeal Obamacare. Obamacare is the most deadly dangerous law that Obama has jammed thru - Republicans better believe if it isn’t repealed and Obama gets his way he will control our beautiful America.
Alinsky was right, if you control the healthcare, you control the people. The other thing the Republicans have ignored is the extreme increase in the poverty level – Obama is truly the food stamp President and he’s damned proud of it.
Alinsky said increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back of you are providing everything for them to live.
So enjoy your retreat, but understand that you have failed in your promises to Americans and you’ve fractured, sliced and diced what was once a political party that Americans were proud of and embraced. Not much to be proud of now, is there?
As Always,
Little Tboca
Hello….
I am new here to the tea party… I embrace your values, and the constitution. But let me point out, I am Catholic, before I am anything. I am a free man. What is the price of freedom, death… It was Christ who taught us this. So…??? What makes me free? The fact I will live no other way, least I die. Through the resurrection of Christ, we have no fear of death, so we are free… To live free. Take this Easter to consider this gift, and the power it puts in your hands to change the world. Another question I’d like you to consider, do you want the American Way to return for yourself? Or because it’s the right thing to do?
Remember a few words of JFK, “Ask not what your country can do for you, instead, Ask, what you can do for your country.” And, “We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
We are making a fundamental mistake in our thinking. There is an old saying… “The devil is in the details.” We are playing the democrat’s game, we are in the mire. The devil fights best in the mud. And in the mud is were he wants to keep you, cause he can whip your ass in the mud. Get out of the mire. If what you are doing is the right thing, then why would it lead to mud?
First of all you have to back off a moment, get off the field, go up into the bleachers, and have a look at it from on high, and you’ll see they are not playing the game, they have you playing.
What is the game?… Man is an animal, no getting around it, and as an animal, he has three basic motivating factors…Food, sleep and sex. In that order. Food, sleep and sex. The driving forces behind liberalism focuses on these three. Think about it… Food Stamps… Housing… Free condemns.
Get the picture?
Our grandparents, and theirs before them, condensed wisdom into the form of ole sayings. Something the hippy’s thought was stupid, and threw out, and didn’t teach it to their children.
Things like, “Birds of a feather flock together.” “A stitch in time saves nine.” “Well done, is better than well said.” “Action speaks louder than words.” “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” “A fool and his money are soon parted.” “Feed a cat, and he’s yours.” “I’m not your friend, I’m your father.” “I carry a gun not to kill, but to stay alive.” “You’ve got the horse before the cart.” “First punch wins the fight.” “If it’s worth doing, then it’s worth doing well.” “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck… It’s a duck.” “High tide lifts all boats.” A man might be king of his castle, but a woman rules the root.”
I think much of our thinking could be cleared up if we would go back and read some bedtime stories (out of very old books). Like; “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Obama is running around as naked as a jaybird, and nobody can see it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8iNxwHttBY
“The Three Little Pigs.” “The Little Red Hen. ”Midas.” “Little Red Hiding Hood.” For God’s sake… You don’t dress your little girls up in a nice red hood and cape and then send her out among wolves. And then act suprized when she’s eaten. “The Tar Baby.”
The Tar Baby… The Democrats are using exactly that against us in the public arena. This is one of the reasons incumbents have got to go, because they are tangled in the tar baby. That’s what these ginned up news stories are all about, each one is no more than a new tar baby. Quit touching it! Quit struggling! Learn the game, and just like Briar Rabbit, use who they are, against them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX44YHK5Bik
Gary Bernius
