2012-01-30

Andy has been coloring

Andy has been coloring by FlickPics88
Andy has been coloring, a photo by FlickPics88 on Flickr.

Grandma Barton gave him a little puzzle in his get well card. He found the objects, the. Colored it. Notice anything "funny"?

2012-01-24

Turns out it only takes 5 stitches to put Humpty back together again :)

"I only said ow once!"

He did great! Even said thanks and no problem a few times. Haha

A bandage for the boy

A bandage for the boy by FlickPics88
A bandage for the boy, a photo by FlickPics88 on Flickr.

"to hold the magic numbing gel on"

Now Andy gets his turn...

Now Andy gets his turn... by FlickPics88
Now Andy gets his turn..., a photo by FlickPics88 on Flickr.

We're at the ER. We both got our first stitches at the same age. He thought that was great.

John, my boss, said "Tell Andy that chicks dig guys with stitches". Andy says, "Really?! Maybe Madison will like me now!" haha.

He fell off the chair during school and cracked his head on the edge of the fan. He's fine. They said he just needs to be put back together again.

2012-01-21

2012-01-19

Pinfire Fun. 2mm

Fun with 2mm Pin Fire

Fun with 2mm Pin Fire by FlickPics88
Fun with 2mm Pin Fire, a photo by FlickPics88 on Flickr.

Julie's last Birthday present finally got here. A little conversation piece straight from Germany!

2012-01-18

The Original Pillow Pet!

The Original Pillow Pet! by FlickPics88
The Original Pillow Pet!, a photo by FlickPics88 on Flickr.

Of course, this one is more expensive and requires maintenance. ;o)

--posted by Julie

2012-01-15

Dog dreaming



Now he's even barking in his sleep...!

2012-01-14

2012-01-12

A dog's dream



I wonder what Brutus is dreaming?

2012-01-11

Where are the years going?

Johnny lost his booster seat tonight!

Are you a parking procrastinator?

Start the New Year right... Backing Up

http://www.madeindaytonblog.com/2012/01/start-new-year-right-backing-up.html

Are you one of those people who always pulls head first into a parking space? You are? … I was afraid of that. I hate to say it but you may be guilty of procrastination parking. 

Now, I don't mean to pick on you for the way you park. I'm actually more concerned with the way you start your day. Here’s what I mean. Backing into a parking spot is hard - at least harder than pulling straight in - but so is backing out. Whether it’s now or later, you will have to back up and it will be challenging.

Having spent many years as a highly successful procrastinator, I can attest to the fact that putting off a hard task brings only short term satisfaction. And that satisfaction quickly erodes into stress and worry about what still lies ahead. Those feelings of fear can render you unproductive in even the simple and easy tasks. A double whammy! 

I had a teacher that used to say "swallow your biggest frog first". I have no idea why someone would ever want to swallow a frog, but I get the point - tackle your biggest challenge first. When you do, not only will you find that everything else is easy after that, but you will be encouraged by your accomplishment and that motivation can help carry you throughout the day. 

So how do you break the procrastination cycle? You start by changing your behavior in the small things. Make a choice to put off the easy stuff till later and complete that one task you dread. You’ll be thrilled with the results! 

Starting the New Year right is easy. You can begin right in the parking lot!

Submitted by Gary Weldon

 

My two cents: And you never know when you might be leaving in a rush or emergency.  At that point, you’ll be really glad you only had to pull out forward.

 

2012-01-09

2012-01-06

BIG fun!

BIG fun! by FlickPics88
BIG fun!, a photo by FlickPics88 on Flickr.

Just another day at the office.

Four separate discussions from today, plus a smiley from Julie.

A nice addition to my office wall.

That's a five point rack from my great uncle. Harvested in November 1942. My mom and dad gave it to "the hunter" for Christmas.

A nice addition to my office wall.

That's a five point rack from my great uncle. Harvested in November 1942. My mom and dad gave it to "the hunter" for Christmas.

Boys and their pups

Boys and their pups by FlickPics88
Boys and their pups, a photo by FlickPics88 on Flickr.

2012-01-05

Science gone horribly wrong...

Dad, "Johnny, what is the inclined plane part of a screw called?"

Johnny, "a road block?"

Dad, "haha, did you mean a block and tackle?"

Johnny, "yeah, that!"


Oops! We got a good laugh out of that one!! ;)

Still not sure what happened

But it was quite a mess. 3,000 pound rolls of paper on fire. I can't figure out what the big boom was. It shook our windows! The highway just now opened back up.

Large boom this morning...

2012-01-04

Red squishy, you served us well. :)

Reality

"I spent a long time trying to come to grips with my doubts, when suddenly I realized that I had better come to grips with what I believe. I have since moved from the agony of questions that I cannot answer to the reality of answers that I cannot escape . . . and it's a great relief!"

-Tom Skinner, Washington Redskins Team Chaplain

2012-01-03

Andy made a micro scale coffee maker!

R.I.P. Bill of Rights 1789 - 2011

A lot of people looked at me like I was some kind of whacko conspiracy theorist for the last 3 years when I said the government was out to remove our liberties and destroy our country. Everyone is all up in arms that Obama signed this. What about the fact that congress (Senate AND House) passed it!?

At any rate if the government decides you are the threat, it is now possible that you just disappear, and are detained as long as they want.  They don't need cause, you don't get a trial, or a lawyer, and they don't even have to present cause.  This applies to you and I, American Citizens.

Wake up America!

R.I.P. Bill of Rights 1789 - 2011
(NaturalNews) One of the most extraordinary documents in human history -- the Bill of Rights -- has come to an end under President Barack Obama. Derived from sacred principles of natural law, the Bill of Rights has come to a sudden and catastrophic end with the President's signing of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a law that grants the U.S. military the "legal" right to conduct secret kidnappings of U.S. citizens, followed by indefinite detention, interrogation, torture and even murder. This is all conducted completely outside the protection of law, with no jury, no trial, no legal representation and not even any requirement that the government produce evidence against the accused. It is a system of outright government tyranny against the American people, and it effectively nullifies the Bill of Rights.

In what will be remembered as the most traitorous executive signing ever committed against the American people, President Obama signed the bill on New Year's Eve, a time when most Americans were engaged in the consumption of alcohol. It seems appropriate, of course, since no intelligent American could accept the tyranny of this bill if they were sober.

This is the law that will cement Obama's legacy in the history books as the traitor who nullified the Bill of Rights and paved America's pathway down a road of tyranny that will make Nazi Germany's war crimes look like child's play. If Bush had signed a law like this, liberals would have been screaming "impeachment!"

Why the Bill of Rights matters

While the U.S. Constitution already limits the power of federal government, the Bill of Rights is the document that enumerates even more limits of federal government power. In its inception, many argued that a Bill of Rights was completely unnecessary because, they explained, the federal government only has the powers specifically enumerated to it under the U.S. Constitution. There was no need to have a "First Amendment" to protect Free Speech, for example, because there was no power granted to government to diminish Free Speech.

This seems silly today, of course, given the natural tendency of all governments to concentrate power in the hands of the few while destroying the rights and freedoms of their own people. But in the 1780's, whether government could ever become a threat to future freedoms was hotly debated. By 1789, enough revolutionary leaders had agreed on the fundamental principles of a Bill of Rights to sign it into law. Its purpose was to provide additional clarifications on the limitation of government power so that there could be absolutely no question that government could NEVER, under any circumstances, violate these key principles of freedom: Freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, freedom from illegal searches, the right to remain silent, the right to due process under law, and so on.

Of course, today's runaway federal government utterly ignores the limitations placed on it by the founding fathers. It aggressively and criminally seeks to expand its power at all costs, completely ignoring the Bill of Rights and openly violating the limitations of power placed upon it by the United States Constitution. The TSA's illegal searching of air travelers, for example, is a blatant violation of Fourth Amendment rights. The government's hijacking of websites it claims are linking to "copyright infringement" hubs is a blatant violation of First Amendment rights. The government's demand that all Americans be forced to buy private health insurance is a blatant violation of Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution -- the "commerce clause."

Now, with the passage of the NDAA, the federal government has torpedoed the entire Bill of Rights, dismissing it completely and effectively promising to violate those rights at will. As of January 1, 2012, we have all been designated enemies of the state. America is the new battleground, and your "right" to due process is null and void.

Remember, this was all done by the very President who promised to close Guantanamo Bay and end secret military prisons. Not only did Obama break that campaign promise (as he has done with nearly ALL his campaign promises), he did exactly the opposite and has now subjected all Americans to the possibility of government-sponsored kidnapping, detainment and torture, all under the very system of secret military prisons he claimed he would close!

"President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law," said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Obama's signing statement means nothing

Even while committing an act of pure treason in signing the bill, the unindicted criminal President Obama issued a signing statement that reads, in part, "Moving forward, my administration will interpret and implement the provisions described below in a manner that best preserves the flexibility on which our safety depends and upholds the values on which this country was founded..."

Anyone who reads between the lines here realizes the "the flexibility on which our safety depends" means they can interpret the law in any way they want if there is a sufficient amount of fear being created through false flag terror attacks. Astute readers will also notice that Obama's signing statement has no legal binding whatsoever and only refers to Obama's momentary intentions on how he "wishes" to interpret the law. It does not place any limits whatsoever on how a future President might use the law as written.

"The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield," says the ACLU (http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-s...).

What this means is that the next President could use this law to engage in the most horrific holocaust-scale mass round-up of people the world has ever seen. The NDAA legalizes the crimes of Nazi Germany in America, setting the stage for the mass murder of citizens by a rogue government.

United States of America becomes a rogue nation, operating in violation of international law

Furthermore, the NDAA law as written and signed, is a violation of international law as it does not even adhere to the fundamental agreements of how nations treat prisoners of war:

"...the breadth of the NDAA's detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war" says the ACLU (http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-s...).

In 1789, today's NDAA law would have been called "treasonous," and those who voted for it would have been shot dead as traitors. This is not a call for violence, but rather an attempt to provide historical context of just how destructive this law really is. Men and women fought and died for the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. People sacrificed their lives, their safety and risked everything to achieve the freedoms that made America such a great nation. For one President to so callously throw away 222 years of liberty, betraying those great Americans who painstakingly created an extraordinary document limiting the power of government, is equivalent to driving a stake through the heart of the Republic.

In signing this, Obama has proven himself to be the most criminal of all U.S. Presidents, far worse than George W. Bush and a total traitor to the nation and its People. Remember, Obama swore upon a Bible that he would "protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic," and yet he himself has become the enemy of the Constitution by signing a law that overtly and callously nullifies the Bill of Rights.

This is nothing less than an act of war declared on the American people by the executive and legislative branches of government. It remains to be seen whether the judicial branch will go along with it (US Supreme Court).

Origins of the Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights, signed in 1789 by many of the founding fathers of our nation, was based on the Virginia Declaration of Rights, drafted in 1776 and authored largely by George Mason, one of the least-recognized revolutionaries who gave rise to a nation of freedom and liberty.

Mason was a strong advocate of not just states' rights, but of individual rights, and without his influence in 1789, we might not even have a Bill of Rights today (and our nation would have slipped into total government tyranny all the sooner). In fact, he openly opposed ratification of the U.S. Constitution unless it contained a series of amendments now known as the Bill of Rights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George...)

SECTION ONE of this Virginia declaration of rights states:

"That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." (http://www.constitution.org/bcp/vir...)

Section Three of the declaration speaks to the duty of the Citizens to abolish abusive government:

"That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and that, when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal."

By any honest measure, today's U.S. government, of course, has overstepped the bounds of its original intent. As Mason wrote over 200 years ago, the People of America now have not merely a right but a duty to "reform, alter or abolish it," to bring government back into alignment with its original purpose -- to protect the rights of the People.

Obama violates his Presidential Oath, sworn before God

Article II, Section I of the United States Constitution spells out the oath of office that every President must take during their swearing in:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

In signing the NDAA law into office, Obama has blatantly and unambiguously violated this sacred oath, meaning that his betrayal is not merely against the American people, but also against the Divine Creator.

Given that the Bill of Rights is an extension of Natural Law which establishes a direct heritage of sovereign power from the Creator to the People, a blatant attack upon the Bill of Rights is, by any account, an attack against the Creator and a violation of universal spiritual principles. Those who attempt to undermine the Bill of Rights are attempting to invalidate the relationship between God and Man, and in doing so, they are identifying themselves as enemies of God and agents of Evil.

Today, as 2012 begins, we are now a nation led by evil, and threatened with total destruction by those who would seek to rule as tyrants. This is America's final hour. We either defend the Republic starting right now, or we lose it forever.

Read the language analysis of WHY and HOW the NDAA applies to American citizens

Many people have been fooled by the obfuscated language of the bill, and they wrongfully believe the NDAA does not apply to American citizens. They have been hoodwinked!

In this follow-up article, I parse the language of the NDAA and explain, in plain language, how and why the NDAA does apply to American citizens:
http://www.naturalnews.com/034538_N...

Also, read this explanation by Rep. Justin Amash, who voted against the bill:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?no...

Make no mistake, folks: The U.S. government has just declared all Americans to be "enemy combatants," and that the USA is now a "battleground" over which the military has total control. We are now a nation living under military dictatorship, whether you realize it or not.



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