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Posted on 08/01/2009 12:38:43 AM PDT by JustAmy
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They go out in the garage when i would pass out from the heat..so heat does not bother them so much..Of course they acted like the monster had arrived and hid when the A/C guy knocked on the door.
It takes someone a lot tougher than I am to stay out in the heat very long. Neither of the dogs can stand it either. About 15 minutes and they’ve covered all the places they want to and are ready to get back inside where it’s cool. :)
Thanks, Meg! Interesting article. I am going to try and find a news video - and I will post it here, when I do.
I hope that awful fire isn’t getting closer to your lovely home! Scary stuff, Yorkie!
“Our crowd do not raise animals without intelligence, do we?” I finished my watering, ferns and all. Then I sat out there and enjoyed the nice quiet. I could feel it cooling down on my patio. Now is a good time to sit out but I felt like coming in and getting settled.
Goodness, it isn’t getting anywhere close to you, is it yorkie? Please let me know! Sounds scary!
It is now in Sycamore Canyon - about ten miles away from my home (maybe 15). But, the problem is - flying ash. It has been known that a red hot ash can be blown ten miles, sparking a fire. I am thankful the winds are low, right now.
I am praying hard for rain (but it doesn’t look like it will come before Thursday.)
in truth I often believe they all come one mold marked
‘Politician’ which is Latin for;
“Lying, no-good, dishonest, self-serving polecat!”
How cute, JC! I love every single one of them. We ALL need to see as many happy faces as we can! Thank you, my Suthin’ FRiend!!
Yeah, well it’s not like anything is different.
He just represents the worst of them.
Why, you’re so welcome, Maam! (be sure and read this in suthin speak, ya hear~~~!
THIS OUGHT TO BE A GOOD READ THEN!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107095
Joseph Farah
BETWEEN THE LINES
WORLDNETDAILY EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
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Who most resembles ‘Nazis’?
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Posted: August 17, 2009
1:00 am Eastern,
© 2009
This is going to be, shall we say, “a controversial column.”
Outfits like the George Soros-subsidized Media Matters will have a field day with it – excerpting passages out of context, deliberately distorting the words I am carefully choosing and, in typical knee-jerk fashion, mocking its premise.
Cable TV propagandists posing as “newsmen” will hurl invectives and dub me as a villain for expressing my honest and candid opinions – all of which are based on reality and truth. Lately, both sides of the political spectrum have suggested their political opponents resemble Nazis or fascists. Are both sides equally wrong?
Let’s talk about “national socialism” – because that, indeed, is exactly what Barack Obama and his friends in the Congress are actively promoting and enacting in America today. The very word “Nazi” is indeed an acronym for National Socialism – the political and economic system Hitler infamously imposed on Germany in the 1930s. It was then and remains today, despite the denials of historical revisionists, a “left-wing” idea. All socialism is, by definition, a left-wing notion.
If the left-right political spectrum has any meaning, it is that those on the left tend to favor government intervention while those on the right favor non-government solutions to problems. That is the traditional and accepted definition – much as those on the left would like to blur that understanding.
National socialists, whether they seek to kill Jews or old people or the disabled or unborn babies, will always be national socialists – no matter what kind of lipstick they put on the pig. Furthermore, people like our Founding Fathers, who sought to diffuse power because they understood its unchecked and unlimited centralization represented a grave threat to personal liberty, represent the polar opposite of national socialists.
While it may be an overstatement to compare Obama with Hitler, it is even more far-fetched to characterize his political opponents as Nazis and fascists because they very clearly want to limit the size and scope of government – preferring that people be free to govern themselves to the greatest extent possible.
Obama has power. His opponents, for the most part, do not. Furthermore, Obama seeks to use his power to impose policies that have, like it or not, a striking resemblance to those Hitler promoted in the 1930s.
Like what?
• Abortion
• Infanticide
• Government deciding life-and-death issues in dispensing medical care for both older people (and those with serious illnesses);
• Unfair treatment of Jews, in Obama’s case, with regard to Middle East conflict;
• So-called public-private partnerships – blurring the line between government responsibilities and the private sector. This is one of the definitions of fascism;
• Picking winners and losers among corporations and the dispensing of government favors and punishments to them;
• Hiring and firing of supposedly private corporation executives;
• Attacking free expression;
• Secrecy
• Using taxpayer funds for the hiring of political partisans to “organize” communities and sign up new voters;
• Demonizing political opponents;
• Encouraging citizens to “rat out” friends, family members and others who oppose his policies;
• Keeping tabs on political opponents;
• Filling top government posts with like-minded political extremists who would normally be regarded as internal security threats;
• Ignoring the Constitution;
• Blaming his predecessor and the fundamentals of the American political and economic system for all the problems besting the country;
I mean, I could go on and on. George W. Bush and other predecessors in the White House had their faults. Some of them did terrible things, showed incredibly bad judgment, made horrible mistakes. But I can think of no precedent for someone in the White House doing all of the above at once – all of which bear striking parallels to the leadership of infamous fascists such as Benito Mussolini and Hitler.
Worse, the leaders of his party and his acolytes in the media can see no danger posed by any of these policies. In fact, like good Germans, they blame the opposition in the most disgusting, vile ways – often unfairly accusing them of doing what they themselves do.
Why is it acceptable for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to say American citizens attending congressional town halls are swastika-carrying thugs, but wrong for her political opponents to point out the similarities between her party’s policies and those of Nazi Germany?
Why is it acceptable for Gary Trudeau of Doonesbury fame to compare those who want to see Barack Obama’s birth certificate with Adolf Hitler, but wrong for his political opponents to point out the similarities between the way the president and Democratic Congress are attempting to squelch dissent and grab unchallenged, unchecked power and the way fascists of the past have?
Why is it acceptable to accuse Americans devoted to preserving their constitutional republic of resembling neo-Nazis, but wrong for those same Americans to point out the death-worshipping, eugenics-friendly notion of government health care rationing?
Am I calling Obama a little Hitler, a Nazi or a fascist?
I am saying American liberty faces very serious challenges from the country’s own leadership – not from citizens who dissent against those policies. That’s what happened in Weimar, Germany, too.
To ignore history would be to commit one of the same sins that were committed in the 1930s – and every time totalitarianism has reared its ugly head before or since.
Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate.
Is it to point you should get out the hose & wet the place down?
Are the critters migrating?
Connie, all the vegetation has been cut back - nothing touches the house. It is the roof I worry about. I may have to get a tile (or tin) roof soon - I would feel so much safer.
The fire is massive!
The usual critters are hanging around here - but tonight I was thinking about all those up there, being threatened by the fire - I hope they get out safely.
For some reason I thought is was tile.
My brothers in Utah both have “tin” roofs & love them.
I remember when we had a fire here the FD said they hated the tile roofs. Heavy & dangerous were the keywords I heard.
Prayers up for the firefighters & their success!
Read the lines and then read between the lines and you get more than the sum of the two.
Bill Clinton tested the nation’s intelligence and attention span during his 2 admins and I observed him ramping up the testing year by year as he discovered and lefties don’t care about anything but a free lunch.
Zero has taken those result and gone full out to recklessly ramp different stuff down our throats every day.
Will the awkened zombies maintain conscousness till 2010? Remains to be seen.
They’re all crooked.
It’s the old asphalt shingles, Connie. I have replaced them over the years, but I think it is time to go to something a bit safer. (And, fire proof.)
I know what you mean about the tile being heavy - and also - the critters get in the openings, easily. One of my neighbors got a copper roof - and another got a green metal of some kind. Neither will burn. (Smart neighbors.)
So - Looks like I’ll be looking into the ‘tin’ ones. Thanks for letting me know your brothers are happy with theirs.
Well I’m thinking a green or copper tin roof would look lovely....course anything would look lovely at your place.:)
You know me - nothing flashy or showy. I might consider a dark taupe steel or tin - it won’t be so obvious. Now, I’m all excited about looking into it. HUGS!
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