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Welcome to my blog http://www.skegley.blogspot.com/ . CAVEAT LECTOR- Let the reader beware. This is a Christian Conservative blog. It is not meant to offend anyone. Please feel free to ignore this blog, but also feel free to browse and comment on my posts! You may also scroll down to respond to any post.

For Christian American readers of this blog:


I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.











Saturday, August 14, 2010

Great things from great people Carol and Clay Vice

Aren't we the lucky ones to have such as friends?


HEY GUY'S I THOUGTH YOU MIGHT LIKE THIS, I KNOW I DID, IT A LITTLE LONG BUT WORTH THE TIME. CLAY
























Carl was a quiet man. He didn't talk much. He would always greet you with a big smile and a firm handshake.









Even after living in our neighborhood for over 50 years, no one could really say they knew him very well.









Before his retirement, he took the bus to work each morning. The lone sight of him walking down the street often worried us.









He had a slight limp from a bullet wound received in WWII.









Watching him, we worried that although he had survived WWII, he may not make it through our changing uptown neighborhood with its ever-increasing random violence, gangs, and drug activity.









When he saw the flyer at our local church asking for volunteers for caring for the gardens behind the minister's residence, he responded in his characteristically unassuming manner. Without fanfare, he just signed up.









He was well into his 87th year when the very thing we had always feared finally happened.









He was just finishing his watering for the day when three gang members approached him. Ignoring their attempt to intimidate him, he simply asked, "Would you like a drink from the hose?"









The tallest and toughest-looking of the three said, "Yeah, sure," with a malevolent little smile.









As Carl offered the hose to him, the other two grabbed Carl's arm, throwing him down. As the hose snaked crazily over the ground, dousing everything in its way, Carl’s assailants stole his retirement watch and his wallet, and then fled.









Carl tried to get himself up, but he had been thrown down on his bad leg. He lay there trying to gather himself as the minister came running to help him.









Although the minister had witnessed the attack from his window, he couldn't get there fast enough to stop it.









"Carl, are you okay? Are you hurt?" the minister kept asking as he helped Carl to his feet.









Carl just passed a hand over his brow and sighed, shaking his head. "Just some punk kids. I hope they'll wise-up someday."









His wet clothes clung to his slight frame as he bent to pick up the hose. He adjusted the nozzle again and started to water.









Confused and a little concerned, the minister asked, "Carl, what are you doing?" "I’ve got to finish my watering. It's been very dry lately," came the calm reply.





Satisfying himself that Carl really was all right, the minister could only marvel. Carl was a man from a different time and place.









A few weeks later the three returned. Just as before their threat was unchallenged. Carl again offered them a drink from his hose.









This time they didn’t rob him. They wrenched the hose from his hand and drenched him head to foot in the icy water.









When they had finished their humiliation of him, they sauntered off down the street, throwing catcalls and curses, falling over one another laughing at the hilarity of what they had just done.









Carl just watched them. Then he turned toward the warmth giving sun, picked up his hose, and went on with his watering.









The summer was quickly fading into fall Carl was doing some tilling when he was startled by the sudden approach of someone behind him. He stumbled and fell into some evergreen branches.









As he struggled to regain his footing, he turned to see the tall leader of his summer tormentors reaching down for him. He braced himself for the expected attack.









"Don't worry old man, I'm not gonna hurt you this time."



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The young man spoke softly, still offering the tattooed and scarred hand to Carl. As he helped Carl get up, the man pulled a crumpled bag from his pocket and handed it to Carl.









"What's this?" Carl asked. "It's your stuff," the man explained "It's your stuff back. Even the money in your wallet." "I don't understand," Carl said. "Why would you help me now?"









The man shifted his feet, seeming embarrassed and ill at ease. "I learned something from you," he said. "I ran with that gang and hurt people like you we picked you because you were old and we knew we could do it But every time we came and did something to you, instead of yelling and fighting back, you tried to give us a drink You didn't hate us for hating you. You kept showing love against our hate."









He stopped for a moment. "I couldn't sleep after we stole your stuff, so here it is back."









He paused for another awkward moment, not knowing what more there was to say. "That bag’s my way of saying thanks for straightening me out, I guess." And with that, he walked off down the street.









Carl looked down at the sack in his hands and gingerly opened it. He took out his retirement watch and put it back on his wrist. Opening his wallet, he checked for his wedding photo. He gazed for a moment at the young bride that still smiled back at him from all those years ago.









He died one cold day after Christmas that winter. Many people attended his funeral in spite of the weather.









In particular the minister noticed a tall young man that he didn't know sitting quietly in a distant corner of the church.









The minister spoke of Carl's garden as a lesson in life.





In a voice made thick with unshed tears, he said, "Do your best and make your garden as beautiful as you can. We will never forget Carl and his garden."









The following spring another flyer went up. It read: "Person needed to care for Carl’s garden."









The flyer went unnoticed by the busy parishioners until one day when a knock was heard at the minister's office door.









Opening the door, the minister saw a pair of scarred and tattooed hands holding the flyer. "I believe this is my job, if you'll have me," the young man said.



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The minister recognized him as the same young man who had returned the stolen watch and wallet to Carl.









He knew that Carl’s kindness had turned this man's life around. As the minister handed him the keys to the garden shed, he said, "Yes, go take care of Carl’s garden and honor him."









The man went to work and, over the next several years, he tended the flowers and vegetables just as Carl had done.









During that time, he went to college, got married, and became a prominent member of the community. But he never forgot his promise to Carl's memory and kept the garden as beautiful as he thought Carl would have kept it.









One day he approached the new minister and told him that he couldn't care for the garden any longer. He explained with a shy and happy smile, "My wife just had a baby boy last night, and she's bringing him home on Saturday."









"Well, congratulations!" said the minister, as he was handed the garden shed keys. "That's wonderful! What's the baby's name?"





"Carl," he replied.









That's the whole gospel message simply stated.





Take 60 seconds give this a shot! Let's just see if Satan stops this one.





All you do is:









1. Simply say a small prayer for the person who sent you this.









Father, God bless this person in whatever it is that You know he or she may be needing this day!?









2. Then send it on to five other people. Within hours five people have prayed for you, and you caused a multitude of people to pray to God for other people.









Then sit back and watch the power of God work in your life for doing the thing that you know He loves.









GOOD FRIENDS ARE LIKE ANGELS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SEE THEM TO KNOW THEY ARE THERE



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UK basketball games in Canada on Fox Sports Ohio Snday, Monday, and Tuesday

UK Basketball will be on TV and some radio Sunday (6:30 PM- game to follow at 7), Monday same times, and Tuesday at 11 AM! Many of you may care less, but also many of you may care a lot more- but none more than me! More and more stations are picking up the games. It can also be watched on www.ukathletics.com (streaming) and followed on www.kentuckysportsradio.com .




I hope you may pick up the games in Costa Rica, Jack Plymale or in Bangkok, Dave Kaelin.



GO CATS!

Shirley Sharrod- o didn't act quickly enough to shut Sharrod up

----- Original Message -----

From: judith Cole

Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 16:07

Subject: Breitbart lays the trap for Sherrod's fraud

















For whatever it's worth!











Didn't see anything on Snopes about this, trust but verify.........John Cress says truth so he's usually right., he also said that the attorney for the group that sued owns half of Dewey Beach, Del......



"Except For Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism, and Communism, WAR has Never Solved Anything". God Bless Our Troops! Cheers, Smoke



*Andrew Breitbart is a media genius*. I don't know who wrote this but this is just terrific. Take the time to read to the end. and then forward to every single person on your email list. Awesome and needs to be seen by the world! --- Sally He proved it originally with his brilliant handling of the ACORN ‘hooker’ scandal which he skillfully manipulated so that the corrupt media was forced, against its will, to broadcast corruption in one of Obama’s most powerful political support groups. But Breitbart’s handing of that affair is *nothing *compared to his brilliant manipulation of the Shirley Sherrod ‘white farmer’ scandal. It all began last Monday, July 22, 2010. As the country watched in horror, Breitbart released a snippet of a tape on his “Big Government” site which showed an obscure black female official of the Dept. of Agriculture laughing to a roomful of NAACP members about how she’d discriminated against a destitute white farmer and refused to give him the financial aid he desperately needed. As she smirked to the room, she’d sent him instead to a white lawyer – ‘one of his own kind’ – for help. The black woman was Shirley Sherrod – and almost immediately she became the center of a firestorm of controversy which exploded throughout the country. Within a day of the release of that infamous tape, the head of the Dept. of Agriculture, spurred on by Obama, demanded – and received – Sherrod’s resignation. Breitbart had won. But then seemingly Breitbart’s actions began to explode in his face. As Sherrod screamed in protest, FOX News released the *entire *text of her speech last March to the NAACP. And there on tape Sherrod was shown supposedly repenting of her racism against a white farmer and instead championing his fight to win funds to keep his farm afloat. Within hours of that entire tape being revealed, the entire world turned against Andrew Breitbart. Conservatives throughout the country were enraged that he’d endangered their reputations by releasing a ‘doctored’ tape. Breitbart, they thundered, had dealt a fatal blow to the conservative media. I confess that I *also* was horrified at what I saw as the clumsiness and stupidity of Breitbart in ‘doctoring’ a tape to make a supposedly innocent woman look guilty. But now I discover I have been as guilty of haste to judgment of Breitbart as the Dept. of Agriculture was of Ms. Sherrod. Only now am I realizing the *real *purpose for Breitbart’s release of that tape snippet. It was to allow him to cunningly trick the media into exposing one of the most shocking examples of corruption in the federal government – a little known legal case called “*Pigford v. Glickman*”*. *



http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/07/27/pigford-v-glickman-86000-claims-from-39697-total-farmers/?singlepage=true “*In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997*.” The case was entitled “*Pigford v. Glickman” *and in 1999, the black farmers won their case. The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle their claims. But then on February 23 of this year, something shocking happened in relation to that original judgment. In total silence, the USDA agreed to release *more *funds to “*Pigford”. *The amount was a staggering $1.25 billion. This was because the original number of plaintiffs – 400 black farmers – had now swollen in a class action suit to include a total of

86,000 black farmers throughout America. There was only one teensy problem. The United States of America doesn’t

*have *86,000 black farmers. According to accurate and totally verified census data, the total number of black farmers throughout America is only

39,697. Oops. Well, gosh – how on earth did 39,697 explode into 86,000 claims? And how did $50,000 explode into $1.25 billion? Well, folks, you’ll just have to ask the woman who not only spearheaded this case because of her position in

1997 at the “Rural Development Leadership Network” but whose family received the highest single payout (approximately $13 million) from that action – Shirley Sherrod. Oops again.



http://beforeitsnews.com/story/110/024/Is_There_More_to_Sherrods_Dismissal.html Yes, folks. *It appears that Ms. Sherrod had just unwittingly exposed herself as the perpetrator of one of the biggest fraud claims in the United States – a fraud enabled solely because she screamed racism at the government and cowed them into submission. And it gets even more interesting. Ms. Sherrod has also exposed the person who aided and abetted her in this race fraud. As it turns out, the original judgment of “Pigford v. Glickman” in 1999 only applied to a total of 16,000 black farmers. But in 2008, a junior Senator got a law passed to reopen the case and allow moreblack farmers to sue for funds. The Senator was Barack Obama.

*

*Because this law was passed in dead silence and because the woman responsible for spearheading it was an obscure USDA official, American taxpayers did not realize that they had just been forced in the midst of a worldwide depression to pay out more than $1.25 billion to settle a race claim. *



But Breitbart knew. And last Monday, July 22, 2010, he cleverly laid a trap which Sherrod – and Obama – stumbled headfirst into which has now resulted in the entire world discovering the existence of this corrupt financial judgment. Yes, folks – Breitbart is a genius.



As for Ms. Sherrod? Well, she’s discovered too late that her cry of ‘racism’ to the media which was intended to throw the spotlight on Breitbart has instead thrown that spotlight on herself – and her corruption. Sherrod has vanished from public view. Her ‘pigs’, it seems, have come home to roost. Oink!









--

Sincerely,

Judi Cole

Realtor and Relocation Specialist

CENTURY 21 Joe Walker & Assoc.

614-895-7578

614-562-7578 (cell)

614-899-0955 (fax)



"A referral, anywhere in the world,,

is the best compliment you could pay

me and it's the life of my business"
----- Original Message -----

From: "John Massey"

To:

Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 11:29

Subject: The Fundamental Transformation











The Fundamental Transformation of America from Capitalist to Socialist to

Muslim... the demise of America -



When Obama took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it

to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected,People

said it didn't matter.

When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher

spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology,People said it

didn't matter.When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election

campaign, as other candidates had done,People said it didn't matter.When he

traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her

greatness,People said it didn't matter.



When he wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank

Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist,

People said it didn't matter.

When it was discovered that his grandparents,were strong socialists, sent

Obama's mother to a socialist school, introduced Frank Marshall Davis to young

Obama,

People said it didn't matter.

When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his

father and step father were both Muslims,

People said it didn't matter.



When he wrote in another book he authored that, "I will stand with them

(Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

People said it didn't matter.



When he admittedly, in his book, said he chose Marxist friends and professors in

college,

People said it didn't matter.



When he traveled to Pakistan , after college on an unknown national passport,

People said it didn't matter.



When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist party in 1996 as he ran for the

Illinois Senate,

People said it doesn't matter.



When an independent Washington organization, that tracks senate voting

records, gave him the distinctive title as the "most liberal senator",



People said it didn't matter.



When the Palestinians in Gaza , set up a fund raising telethon to raise money

for his election campaign, and he gratefully accepted their contributions,

People said it didn't matter.

When his voting record supported gun control, through the confiscation and

destruction of all civilian firearms,

People said it didn't matter.



When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan and Mummar

Kadaffi and Hugo Chavez,



People said it didn't matter.



When it was pointed out that he was a total, newcomer and had absolutely no

experience at anything except community organizing,

People said it didn't matter.



When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn

who were revolutionary radicals,

People said it didn't matter.



When his voting record in the Illinois Senate and in the U.S. Senate came into

question,

People said it didn't matter.

When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry,

People said it didn't matter.



When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were

taught to sing his praises,

People said it didn't matter.



When he surrounded himself in the White house with advisors who were pro gun

control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of

speech to silence the opposition,

People said it didn't matter.



When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other issues,

People said it didn't matter.

When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten, including homosexual

indoctrination,

People said it didn't matter.

When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found

about him,

People said it didn't matter.



When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco, a man of questionable

character, who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the

purchase of his home,



People said it didn't matter.



When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton

of money to get him elected,

People said it didn't matter.

When he started appointing czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even

avowed Marxist/Communist,

People said it didn't matter.



When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to

"fundamentally transform this nation" into something else,

People said it didn't matter.

When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served

as an attorney for ACORN,

People said it didn't matter.

When he appointed cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats and

socialists,

People said it didn't matter.

When he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced

abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers,

People said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar and he believes in "Explicit

Consent", harvesting human organs without family consent, and to allow animals

to be represented in court, while banning all hunting,

People said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual, and organizer of a group called

gay, lesbian, straight, Education network, as safe school czar and it became

known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers,

People said it didn't matter.



When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar and he believed in curtailing

free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and

admires Hugo Chavez,

People said it didn't matter.

When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama's senior White House advisor and she

is an avowed Socialist,

People said it didn't matter.



When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director said Mao Tse Tung was her

favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration,

People said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Carol Browner as global warming czar, and she is a well known

socialist working on Cap and trade as the nations largest tax,

People said it doesn't matter.

When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as green energy

czar, who since had to resign when this was made known,

People said it didn't matter.

When Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for health and human services secretary could not

be confirmed, because he was a tax cheat,

People said it didn't matter.



When as president of the United States , he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia,

People said it didn't matter.



When his actions concerning the middle-east seemed to support the Palestinians

over Israel , our long time friend,



People said it doesn't matter.



When he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile defense system

against the Russians,

People said it doesn't matter.

When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops the Field

Commanders said we had to have to win,

People said it didn't matter.

When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off,

People said it didn't matter.

When he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc.

People said it didn't matter.



When he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the

government,

People said it didn't matter.



When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under

government control,

People said it didn't matter.



When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the

United States through Cap and Trade,

People said it didn't matter.

When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist

State ,

People finally woke up........ but it was too late.

If you are an Obama Supporter, do not be angry with this because your president

is a socialist. There are too many facts supporting it. If you seek the truth

you will be richer for it. Don't just belittle the opposition. Search for the

truth. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalists, Libertarians

and what have you, we all need to pull together. We all must pull together or

watch the demise of a society that we all love and cherish. If you are a

religious person, pray for our nation.



Our biggest enemy is not China , Russia , North Korea , or Iran; no, our

biggest enemy is a contingent of politicians in Washington DC .

John & Yvette Massey


http://www.eset.com

Where Americans should buy gasoline... Thanks Lou Flores!

Why don’t we patronize companies who give jobs and pay taxes to us.









You might want to pass this on. I buy 90% of our gasoline at ARCO...................but take a look at WALMART. WOW they do it right



(Notice where WalMart gets their gasoline!)



WHERE TO BUY AMERICAN GASOLINE. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON.



Gas rationing in the 70's worked even though we grumbled about it. It might even have been good for us!



Are you aware that the Saudis are boycotting American products? In addition, they are gouging us on oil prices.

Shouldn't we return the favor? Can't we take control of our own destiny and let these giant oil importers know who REALLY generates their profits, their livings? How about leaving American Dollars in America and reduce the import/export deficit?

An appealing remedy might be to boycott their GAS. Every time you fill up your car you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia . Just purchase gas from companies that don't import their oil from the Saudis.

Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill up my tank, I'm sending my money to people who I get the impression want me, my family and my friends dead.

The following gas companies import Middle Eastern oil:



Shell...................................... 205,742,000 barrels

Chevron/Texaco.................... 144,332,000 barrels

Exxon /Mobil.......................... 130,082,000 barrels

Marathon/Speedway............. 117,740,000 barrels

Amoco................................... 62,231,000 barrels

And CITGO oil is imported from Venezuela by Dictator Hugo Chavez who hates America and openly avows our economic destruction! (We pay Chavez's regime nearly $10 Billion per year in oil revenues!)





Also avoid PETROBRA oil from Brazil.



The U.S. Currently imports 5,517,000 barrels of crude oil per day from OPEC. If you do the math at $100 per barrel, that's over $550 million PER DAY ($200 BILLION per year!) handed over to OPEC, many of whose members are our confirmed enemies!!!!! It won't stop here - oil prices could go to $200 a barrel or higher if we keep buying their product.



Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil: Error! Filename not specified.

Sunoco.....................0 barrels

Conoco.. .................0 barrels

0ASinclair..................0 barrels

BP / Phillips........... 0 barrels

Hess........................0 barrels

ARC0.......................0 barrels

Maverick..................0 barrels

Flying J...................0 barrels

Valero.......................0 barrels

Murphy Oil USA*.....0 barrels

*Sold at WalMART http://www.walmart.com/%3E> , gas is from South Arkansas and fully USA owned and produced.

*Not only that but they give scholarships to all children in their town who finish high school and are legal US citizens..



All of this information is available from the U.S. Department of Energy and each company is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.



But to have a real impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers With the help of the Internet, it's really simple to do.. Now, don't wimp out at this point....keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!



I'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at only ten more (30 x 10 = 300)....and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)....and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers!!!!!!!



If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it...THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE-the entire population of the United States of America !!!!



Again, all you have to do is forward this message to 10 people. How long would that really take you? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people, within one day all 300 MILLION people could theoretically be contacted during the next eight days

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