Santa Barbara Beach ... Thx Pidge F!

	This is  quite amazing

  
   SANTA  BARBARA BEACH ................ 
   
   
   
   
   
 The first  to the last picture are taken at the beach in  Santa Barbara right next to the  Pier.   There is a veterans group that  started putting a cross and candle for every  death in Iraq and Afghanistan.  The amazing  thing is that they only do it on the  weekends.

They  put up this graveyard and take it down every  weekend. Guys sleep in the sand next to it and  keep watch over it at night so nobody messes  with it.   Every cross has the name,  rank and D.O.B. and D.O.D. on it.Very moving,  very powerful.   So many young  volunteers.   So many 30 to 40 year  olds as well.

Amazing!

The ACLU  (American Civil Liberties Union) has filed a  suit to have all Military Cross-shaped  headstones removed.

And that they filed  another suit to end prayer from the military  completely.   They're making great  progress.

The Navy Chaplains can no  longer mention Jesus's name in prayer thanks to  the ACLU and our new administration.

Keep forwarding  this e-mail to others.   I'm not  breaking this one.   I'm asking that  you don't break it either.

If I get it a 1000  times, I'll forward it a 1000 times!    Prayer for all allied soldiers... please don't  break it!   Please send this on after  a short prayer.

Please, let us  pray:  GOD BLESS  YOU FOR PASSING IT ON!
   
   

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The Summer of Americans’ Discontent with Obama

August 16, 2013 By Daniel Flynn 1 Comment

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Barack Obama isn’t very popular anymore. Gallup pegged his job approval rating over the weekend at 41 percent, twenty-seven points below his Inauguration Day numbers. It’s not Obama’s approval nadir—he dipped below 40 percent several times last year—but one can’t help but notice the downward trajectory. If Obama were a stock, America would be short selling.
Why doesn’t Obama provoke the thrill up the leg that he once did?

The answer can be found in a new book, Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Be Stopped?, by James Antle. Therein, Antle, a veteran reporter who serves as an editor for the Daily Caller, chronicles the expansion of the federal government during the Obama presidency. “Big government has never looked so invincible,” he contends. But as the summer approaches its end one might revise: big government has rarely looked so vulnerable. At least that’s true for the once-formidable political figure who personifies big government. Obama isn’t popular because his animating philosophy doesn’t work.
The president has grown the state. The economy? Not so much. And as the previous successful Democratic presidential candidate reminded itself, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
On the economy, Obama launched his presidency by signing the largest spending bill in human history into law. The stimulus worked as a sleeping pill.
The president’s health care law, has similarly unleashed unintended consequences. Examples include employers reducing worker hours to avoid paying for their medical coverage and insurance rates that “could double or even triple” for healthy people who buy plans on their own, according to Louise Radnofsky of the Wall Street Journal. The Affordable Care Act makes care less affordable.
The administration’s fetishization of public “investment” in private projects has harmed both sectors. Green jobs have been a boondoggle for crony capitalists, perverting entrepreneurship toward pleasing the bureaucracy instead of the market. To put the federal government’s foray into auto manufacturing in perspective, Antle points out that Ford sold ten times as many Edsals as General Motors has sold of its Volt. For whatever reason, Edsal is a punch line and Volts still roll off assembly lines.
Such failures often prompt Washington to double down when they should fold. “Big government is the only institution that is touted as the solution to its own failures,” Devouring Freedom explains. “If there is a major national security breach because some government agency didn’t do its job, the immediate response is to give the agency more power. It’s as if, at the height of the Enron scandals, people concluded that the problem was that Ken Lay didn’t have enough authority.”
The effects on the economy, health care, and the cars driving on the roads weren’t what the administration hoped for. Neither was the effect on the deficit, which has skyrocketed from under $11 trillion to almost $17 trillion during the Obama presidency.
The president, who brought a wealth of experience in government and the classroom to his office, never worked in private enterprise. Not familiar with what it takes to create a job, Obama unsurprisingly appears obtuse to the concerns of job creators. With unemployment at 8 percent or more for in excess of three years of his presidency, Obama oversaw the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression. The gross domestic product expanded at 1.7 percent for the second quarter after growing by an anemic 1.1 percent during the first three months of 2013. Stocks approach record highs. So do the number of young people living at home. If Obama were a Republican, this would be an opposition talking point. He’s a Democrat, so it remains an unspoken irony.

At various times during his tenure, the president has blamed his predecessor, amorphous “headwinds,” the Arab Spring, European instability, the Japanese tsunami, and Republicans in Congress for the stalled economy. The man historian Michael Beschloss labels the “smartest guy ever to become president” surely isn’t the most introspective person to hold the office. Considering whether his policies cause his, and the country’s, problems seems beyond him. The pivot never comes for those stuck in their ways.
That’s why the morass in which Obama finds himself, much like the morass in which many Americans find themselves, may be the new normal—at least until a change of administrations. Surely the president isn’t about to change his mind on the virtues of an activist state. “As government grows beyond its constitutional boundaries,” Antle concludes, “it really does devour freedom.” It eventually devours job approval numbers, too.
Daniel J. Flynn is the author of The War on Football: Saving America’s Game (Regnery, 2013).
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About Daniel Flynn

Daniel J. Flynn is the author of numerous books, including "Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America," now available from ISI Books. Read Daniel's blog at www.flynnfiles.com.

Hi handsoome, my nme is Rose ... Thanks Jim K and Ron W!

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.

 

I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being.. She said, 'Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?'

 

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, 'Of course you may!' and she gave me a giant squeeze.. 'Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?' I asked. She jokingly replied, 'I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids...'

 

'No seriously,' I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. 'I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!' she told me.

 

After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months, we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this 'time machine' as she shared her wisdom and experience with me...

 

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

 

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, 'I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.'

 

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, ' We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

 

We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets..'

 

She concluded her speech by courageously singing 'The Rose.' She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives. At the year's end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those months ago.

 

One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

 

When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to your friends and family, they'll really enjoy it! These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.

 

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL. We make a Living by what we get. We make a Life by what we give.

God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it. Pass this message on to 7 people. You will receive a miracle tomorrow (if you don't think so....look out your window when you wake in the morning and think about it)

 

If you choose not, then you refuse to bless someone else. 'Good friends are like stars... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.'

Military- The best tribute I have seen ... Thx ramey H! I pray for all of the war wounded also. Powerfully respectful!

The best tribute I have seen.

Powerful… 

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Power-water in the southwest ... Thx Sergeant John BobCat L!

John Bob,  

Jeanie and I were in Lake Havasu, AZ for a job interview and they warned us of these gulley-washers.  A low spot can quickly become a river .  Not to be caught in!

SamKat



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From the sublime to the ridiculous ... Thx Ckay V!

I've received many remarkable nature photographs over the years but this photo of a nesting Falcon is perhaps the most remarkable Nature shot that I've ever seen. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Nature is truly breath-taking! A FALCON NESTING IN A TREE http://i.imgur.com/YW6Fufm.jpg

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SamKat's thoughts 8/14/2013

Factoids

There are Less than 22 % leftists in country who:      Nearly all vote democrat; most are in national media or hollywood; most support obama and his czarist regime; most ignore any reference to the Benghazi cowardice by obama and hillary; and most would rather win elections for demos than preserve our great country and its' freedoms.  They also support the 'gimme' side of big government and will until full bankruptcy of our rapidly declining democracy.  History has so many warnings which leftists care less about.

Polls still show 86 % of Americans believe in God, although many are apathetic about voting and ignore the important world news, e.g. O'Reiley's regular polling of our vast public. 

I hope to offend all leftists with my own political thoughts.  I wish I, or some American patriots, could get the good, but apathetic, Americans to wake up vote and achieve things such as:

Term limits
Tort reform
Simplified  National tax- dissolve the IRS
Overhaul of the foreign aid program
Efforts to assist the poor and malnourished of the world
Strong military support- "if you want peace, prepare for war".
Reinvigorate the belief that God is still in control
All believers are sinners but have God's forgiveness through the truths of Jesus Christ
On a 1 to 10 scale, Hillary and Biden are zeroes and Palin- 10; Ryan- 10; Cruse- 10; and I'm sorry that I can't remember the things in my short term memory.

I, sadly, remember Hitler, Soros, Mussolini, Castro, the deceased idiot in Venezuela, Stalin, and obama.  They are each zeroes in seeking world freedoms for all citizens.

I believe every person who has ever lived on this earth is acceptable in God's sight if they accept that He is the almighty, and that Jesus came for the purpose of forgiving our sins if we will only accept Him.

The heroes in life are the integrous people, who sin, but seek forgiveness.

Firstly we should love God and secondly we should love our neighbor as the great teacher Jesus taught.

These factoids of my mind are far from being comprehensive; however, I hope the points are made.  I am far from my desire to be a Conservative Christian who doesn't mind offending leftists.  I am so thankful but so sad for each person who remained dead after the battles ended, or who must continue living with terrible wounds from war.  Each will have the righteous judgment of God.