A cool Oklahoma November morning after a very stormy night!

Good Thursday morning on this 6th of November, 2008! Come on in and have a hot cup of Internet coffee with me while we share our thoughts on the election, the economy and just life in general. I'll let you have the easy chair over there and I'll put the coffee pot right here between us. :)

Last night some pretty severe thunderstorms came rolling in with lots of hail (mostly small, fortunately!) that looked like snow in places, some fierce winds, lots of lightning and some very hard rain. I still keep thinking about putting one of those big shatter proof skylights over our bed so I can watch the lightning. Until then, I like to slide the French bathrooom doors open so I can listen to God's blessings pouring down upon us...if the rain isn't blowing sideways and getting onto the bathroom floor. I have a bar-type lock on the sliding doors so no bad guys can get in while I'm sleeping and enjoying the fresh scent of rain and hear the thunder rolling.

Well, if you are a political conservative and you don't already live in Oklahoma, you might want to consider moving here. Not only is gasoline down to $1.89 and lower, but all seventy-seven (77) counties in Oklahoma went for McCain/Palin and for the first time in Oklahoma's history, we now have a Republican majority in the State Senate. We have had a Republican majority in the State House of Representatives for about 4 or 6 years (I'll have to look that up!) so I guess Oklahoma will be definitely considered "the dumbest state" in the Union by liberals everywhere. If that is what they think, I will wear that label proudly!

Obama has to be the best public speaker (at least with a teleprompter in front of him) to come down the pike since Ronald Reagan. I have every hope that he will try to govern from the center but at the same time, I have great fear that he will actually try to do what he said he will do during the campaign. Most people are defined by the company they keep and this guy has had some very radical company over the past 20 + years. Four things specifically absolutely terrify me about this new president-elect:

1. That he will support the Fairness Doctrine...which in effect will silence most or all of conservative talk radio. (By the way, several liberals also want to figure out a way to adapt this to the Internet blogs..seriously!) If you silence all opposition, you will have set the stage for a fully fledged socialist state!

2. That he will be successful in building a national "civilian" force of some 250,000 to 1,000,000 young people who will be trained and funded "equally as well as our military" to "help" in our communities by providing security, community projects, etc. Folks, spell this "Hitler's Brown Shirts" of the 1930's. While Obama may try to disguise this, keep an eye out on this "little" project because if he succeeds, watch for confiscation of your guns and other governmental watch over your home thermostat, how often you mow your lawn, etc, etc, etc. Think I'm radical? Just write this down and see if he succeeds in getting his "civilian army" funded then let me know what you think when it actually happens.

3. That he will be successful in taking over all 401K retirement funds in this country and bring them into the Social Security administration where they will pay 3% interest. Folks, money market funds and CDs pay 4% or more right now.
Look for this to happen with the House and Senate totally controlled by liberals now and say bye-bye to your 401K if you have one.

4. One of Obama's Senate bills that he sponsored is S2433RS, the Global Poverty Act. Please learn all you can about it because it should get your hackles up...particularly if you are currently working in the United States of America. Here is some information to get you started but you can Google much, much more about this bill. Keep your eye on what happens as this bill, which was delayed by Republicans earlier this year, makes it way to the Senate floor. The following information was provided by "Hope for America," October 22, 2008.

S. 2433RS: Global Poverty Act of 2007 (Sponsored by Obama)
We, that means you and I can not, must not, let Congress pass the dangerous legislation. This bill has already passed the House of Representatives and is now on a fast track to pass the Senate.
This bill is not a bill that Obama just made us as a way to help the poor of the world. This bill was literally written by the United Nations for Obama.
This bill passed the House by a unanimous vote. Senator Joe Biden, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has place the Global Poverty Act on the Senate calendar to prepare it for a vote by the full Senate. Worse the ranking Republican on the committee, Richard Lugar is a major force behind the bill. It appears bi-partisan and innocent but it is a LIE.
This is designed to redistribute wealth from the American people to The United Nations. It will actually create more poverty in the United States of America at the expense of the American taxpayers.
It is estimated to be a U.N. Tax of approximately 0.7% of the United States GNP costing a phenomenal total of $845 billion to American Taxpayers over the next 7 years. MORE that the 770 billion Treasury bill. That’s $845 billion above and beyond what the US is already contributing to world poverty and charities. If passed, the UN is authorized to assess American taxpayers with a “global poverty tax”.
Taxation Without Representation!
Coordinating the goal of poverty reduction with the other internationally recognized Millennium Development Goals….” this might be interpreted to promote the other goals thereby opening the door to more legislation that specifically address the United Nations Millennium Goals (MDG). It’s a big step toward losing our sovereignty and literally giving the U.N. world body money and power to transform the world – leading to nothing less than global governance led by the U.N.
The Millennium Declaration sounds innocent making us feel all warm and fuzzy inside thinking we are helping rid the world of poverty. However, when you take the innocent language away you are left with, committing the United States to banning “small arms and light weapons. As well as ratifying a series of U.N. treaties including the International Criminal Court Treaty; the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity; the Convention on All Forms ofDiscrimination on Women; and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The United States has resisted all of the treaties over the years because they would literally give the U.N. control over our economy, over local community development, even over how parents raise their children.
Remember the Kyoto Treaty? Thank God it was vetoed! You will be surprised that the United States did better on the goals than ANY signor of the bill, without signing it. The Millennium Declaration calls for currency tax to be imposed on all companies and individuals who must exchange dollars for foreign currency thus leading to one world currency controlled by guess who? The UN imagine that!!!
Make no mistake this is a U.N. tax. The tax scheme is known as the Tobin Tax and has been a goal of the UN’s for over a decade. It would give a massive source of money to make the UN the world’s most powerful force. A tax on the rental value of land and natural resources including in the U.S.A., this would literally make the UN the world’s landlord over all property and all natural resources. A royalty on worldwide fossil energy projections-oil, natural gas and coal. It would also place fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum..see where they are going…UN control of the world. “Global Commons” a term that means the UN claims ownership of the earth and therefore must tax for the use of the air, the water and the sky.
See this entire bill at The Library of Congress http:Thomas.loc.gov/home.
Obama wants to spend our money on world problems instead of American problems as he claims during his talks. Tell him to stop spending our money. We need it here; the UN is not anyplace to send money.
Obama wants the Unions and the poor to think they will get the money from his redistribution of wealth – but he doesn’t think there is a really poor person in the United States. This money is intended for Africa and Asia. His brother lives on $1/day and gets no HELP. Somebody help me understand, aren’t the UN the same people that helped in the “oil for food program”? You really think the tax would end in 2015 years? “Get ‘U.S.’ out of the U.N. now!” The U.N. has a record of getting no more that 30% of our funds where they are supposed to go. After removing/rebagging our donation to read U.N. instead of U.S.A., so recipients give us NO credit. The U.N. wants “the most generous nation on earth” to be hated.
What incentive does a third-world country have to improve itself if annually awarded money, food and supplies? What determines how the money will be distributed? Who will provide the accounting of how the money is spent (if this bill is passed)? After taxpayer rejection of U.S. paying the lion’s share for a new U.N. building, our Congress helped them work-out loans that we will be forced to pay when they don’t.
Short and simple! We have enough governmental financial issues in our country now. With our homeowners being foreclosed on, corporations’ moving to the countries this bill is going to give money to; should I keep going? Let’s fix our financial, business and job status in this country FIRST. We don’t need to dabble in other countries economies any more than we already are. This bill/law will just muck things up more and make us go further into a financial abyss. You think $4.00 per gallon of gas and rising food prices are bad now, wait until the UN gets control of our nation’s resources and redistribute the wealth.
What’s wrong with using the money that we, as American taxpayers, pay for economic issues in the United States? Why do we, as Americans, have to bail every other country out of debt and raise their citizens out of poverty when we have our own issues to deal with? It’s not our responsibility.
You know, it’s kind of like that speech flight attendants make before every flight, regarding the oxygen masks…put the mask on yourself first before helping others. If you can’t take care of yourself first, then you, along with the others will die.
Don’t we have enough debt as a nation? It is the responsibility of the other nation’s leaders to take care of their people. Instead of sticking the money in their pockets figure out a stimulus package that will bring agricultural or manufacturing business for their own wealth. Why are we to be punished because our nation’s forefathers fought to create an environment where men and women use their God given gifts to create wealth? Every nation has that ability but will not think of the people first. It is not our responsibility to be a baby sitter for the world… We need to take care of our home first.
This bill also includes a Law of the Seas – controlling where we can drill for oil and gas AND giving the U.N. CONTROL of where our military ships can go!
Also, I hope that no member of the United States military is ever controlled by the U.N. again. There will be enough money for the U.N. to keep a huge standing army-larger than ours!
THIS BILL MUST BE STOPPED IN ITS TRACKS NOW!!!

Well, make of it what you will. Obama can be a great leader because of his speaking skills...but his ultra left-leaning background absolutely scares me to death. I WILL BE WATCHING....I hope you will as well.

Okay, enough of politics for the day. I'm not going to be hateful but I AM GOING TO BE VIGILANT!!! Besides, my two little grandsons in Springfield just called me to tell me they will be here on November 21st and that I should have plenty of chocolate milk and honey buns for them. At our home that is the first thing the grandchildren go for once they hug our necks and give us our mandatory kisses! :) Of course they ALWAYS insist on getting into the hot tub with Papa and Grandma...they absolutely love it and it is delightful having them there with us and listening to all the wonderful chatter and answering all the multitude of questions they can come up with.

Well, time to get some things done around here for the day so I will show you to the door and thank you for stopping by to visit. Now, as you go about your busy day, please take the time to tell someone you love them that you really do!!

Oh, a p.s. to this journal entry: Youngest son, Scott, will be departing for his place of birth, Oahu, Hawaii, on his 40th birthday, the 19th of this month. Excuse me but I sure have trouble saying my "youngest" son will be 40 years old since I am only 45....just kidding!!! I know he will have a grand time over there. I gave him directions on how to find the place where we lived for 3 years on Ewa Beach so I hope he will take a lot of pictures while he is there.