Friday Quote

Memory is the power to gather roses in winter.

Anon.

Thursday Words

Have you been keeping up with the funniest reality show on television -- congress and the white house.

Yesterday was the best one yet. They are going to spend 800 billion dollars (will probably turn out to be more like 2 trillion) to destroy the health care industry as we know and appreciate it. Here's the punch line, they are going to save us billions in doing it!

Hey prez and congress haven't you heard, you and I are as a nation are broke, as W. Nelson sings, "If whisky were a nickle you couldn't buy a smell." America wake up and smell the coffee. Let finally do something for our children and grandchildren besides burdening them with our debt. Help me vote the B------- out, I truly hope we can wait that long before our nation and economy are turned into a third world country. Thought I would put a picture with this that illustrates our future instead of our past.

Maybe It Is Just Me

Today I have shame in my heart for Americans. Our president today did not meet with the Dali Lama while he is in Washington. Instead he was greeted and given an award in congress where the speaker of the house made reference to standing up for the rights of the oppressed or seeming to be indifferent and unworthy to speak out in the face of moral wrong.
Our president did this for fear of looking bad in the eyes of the Communist Chinese leaders when he meets with them this month. The same Communist Chinese who would imprison the Dali Lama if they could get their hands on him and who have imprisoned and killed and still oppress the people of Tibet (the most peaceful people on the face of the earth).
In my opinion our greed and self-indulgence in Washington has brought us to the point of bankrupcy and need to cow to the Communist Chinese to further the greed and self-indulgence in Washington. Mr. President you need to trust in God and the people of the United States and not the left wing ideologists who seem to have your ear.
Restore moral responsibility in Washington and allow the American People to restore this great country to what it once was. Maybe it is just me......but I am ashamed today.

Tuesday Words

Hiking in the Smokies. It will show you how out of shape you really are. This trail led to a beautiful water fall and I was accompanied by my wife and daughter, we all enjoyed it, the views, the flowers and especially the falls. But at the end we were glad to see the car and a chance to catch a breather.

Stern tasks can be handled if you work together. Depend on and help one another, assure each other the effort is worth the reward and listen to the needs of those you are with. In short depend on each other and respect those you are on the journey with.

Mr. president and congress maybe you should take a little hike in the mountains. Then you might realize the easy way to accomplish a task is to use all the assets at hand. You might try listening twice as much as you talk and depend on each other a little more, after all you weren't sent to Washington to single handily solve the world's problems but to represent the good of the people you are supposed to serve. My mother always used to say, "God gave you two ears and one mouth young man, you should at least listen twice as much as you speak." I have found this to be good advice at home and on the job.

Monday Shot

North Carolina from a lookout on the decent into Cherokee in the Great Smokey Mountains.

What a mighty God created and sustains this land.

While we dispute over health care

While we have rumors of another stimulus package

While we seek to obtain the Olympics (thank God that expense was averted)

Shouldn't we be thinking about repenting and confessing our abandonment of God and dealing with the real problems in America?

We should place our faith in God, our trust in each other and seek to restore accountability in our leaders. Then maybe God bless America will again become a reality instead of a political sound bite.

Friday's Quote

"LET HIM IN"

Theres a stranger at the door,

He has been there oft before,

Let Him in, ere He is gone,

Let Him in, the Holy One,

Jesus Christ the Father's Son,

Let Him in.

E.O. Excell

Thursday Words

If the econmy keeps recovering at its present rate from the huge stimulous package we might have to build more of these. An old grist mill outside Cherokee, N.C.