The Conservative Thread: Back to Basics. Pass the Lasagna and Have a Flower!!

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MM and Honu, glad to hear you had promising results with your doctor's visits this week. :) Honu, lots of prayers for your course of treatment.

Grog, thanks for posting the Craigslist ad. That was awesome! I emailed it to my hubby in Iraq, and he just PMed me to tell me he loved it too.

I don't wear high heels, so my girls have never worn mine. I bought them their own. OH THE HORROR!!!
 
So an update on my health situation, this is going to be short, I'm at the airport about ready to board in a few minutes. I met my new endocrinologist last night. It went very well! It looks like I do have Cushing's Disease. I will need to do a little bit more testing with him because he can't diagnose me off my old doctor's labs, even though he can take them into account. He thinks we can possibly get me to surgery in under 3 months. So that is VERY GOOD news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm very excited. So, I'll write more when I get home. Oh, and he thinks he has an answer to my vision issues as well, so that's another plus!!!!!!!! :thumbsup2

Oh that is good news. I don't know much about Cushing's Disease, but it's good to know what you're fighting and that things can be resolved for you.

Have a safe trip!
 
I missed the news yesterday. What does he plan on doing with the prisioners at Gitmo? What is he doing with healthcare?

Don't know exactly I'll have to do some more reading, the only thing I've heard so far is basically they'll just be farmed out to random prisons across the country.


Oh yeah - this isn't it, but how's the Christmas shopping coming along? We have $1200 saved up in cash, so somehow we need to get all of our kids, family, teachers, etc in that budget. We have a HUGE family, so hopefully I'll stay under budget this year.

This morning I made a pact with myself that I will only spend money on necessary items. I have a habit of relying on fast food, buying books, gum, soda, etc. With the economy (and the fact that BO may take 50% of our 401k), we've decided to get back on the Dave Ramsey plan and knock out our debt. We have tons of it from DH's med school (and stupid decisions on our part) that I want it gone now more than I ever have. It'll be hard giving up soda, but in the long run, it will not only be better for my wallet, but for my health as well.

Hope you all have a great day today! Don't talk too much!!

We have about $800 right now and I have another $200 on my Disney visa rewards card so we should do pretty good with that. I used to buy for everyone in the family but a couple of years ago we all got together and said sorry but it's just too much. Now we only buy for the kids and our parents.

We also have tons of debt from college and stupid decisions. We have also gotten back on Dave Ramsey, we've been doing it for a couple of months and have gotten some smaller things paid off now it's time to start on the big ones:scared1: .

Tina
 
The application also asks applicants to “please list all aliases or ‘handles’ you have used to communicate on the Internet.”
Lord, I can't let my mother see this. She is soooo afraid of the new "administration. She grew up during WWII and believes this will happen to the US overnight. She told me this morning ...this Christmas was going to be sad....knowing he is going into office the next month. She's worried about us being on the internet and bo "knowing" what is said and by whom.
 

Lord, I can't let my mother see this. She is soooo afraid of the new "administration. She grew up during WWII and believes this will happen to the US overnight. She told me this morning ...this Christmas was going to be sad....knowing he is going into office the next month. She's worried about us being on the internet and bo "knowing" what is said and by whom.

I think you should reassure her that it will not be like that. Being paranoid doesn't help anything. We do have to trust the Constitution and the Freedom we have in America. It would take a lot to change that:thumbsup2 Obama wasn't my choice but we still have a voice in America and we can still choose how to use our voice. We can still promote our values:hug:
 
I think you should reassure her that it will not be like that. Being paranoid doesn't help anything. We do have to trust the Constitution and the Freedom we have in America. It would take a lot to change that:thumbsup2 Obama wasn't my choice but we still have a voice in America and we can still choose how to use our voice. We can still promote our values:hug:

I've tried but, she's not in the "listening" mode. My DH thinks like you. He doesn't believe Americans will stand for it. I told him, I not so sure that would be the reason. He needs to read "the other thread". Some people would be very pleased with anything and everything BO does
 
I was replying to multiple posts, and was almost done, when my computer restarted...so I lost it all!

At any rate, I'm glad MM that your test results came back good. That must be a relief. :hug:

Honugirl - I'm glad for the positive news so far...I'll keep you in prayer, too.

About Christmas gifts and $$...I make our Christmas gifts. :)



I think someone posted this article on here before, but I heard this guy this a.m. on Laura Ingraham. Basically, he said that the U.S. has become a laughing stock to Britain because of the election results...He said that even the British can see what a joke the media was this election cycle. This just isn't good for our standing internationally...




"The night we waved goodbye to America... our last best hope on Earth"
Peter Hitchens

Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead.

The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation. At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is focused on a man who actually did something.

I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts. ...

If you can believe that this undistinguished and conventionally Left-wing machine politician is a sort of secular saviour, then you can believe anything. He plainly doesn’t believe it himself. His cliche-stuffed, PC clunker of an acceptance speech suffered badly from nerves. It was what you would expect from someone who knew he’d promised too much and that from now on the easy bit was over.

He needn’t worry too much. From now on, the rough boys and girls of America’s Democratic Party apparatus, many recycled from Bill Clinton’s stained and crumpled entourage, will crowd round him, to collect the rich spoils of his victory and also tell him what to do, which is what he is used to...

Just look at his sermon by the shores of Lake Michigan. He really did talk about a ‘new dawn’, and a ‘timeless creed’ (which was ‘yes, we can’). He proclaimed that ‘change has come’. He revealed that, despite having edited the Harvard Law Review, he doesn’t know what ‘enormity’ means. He reached depths of oratorical drivel never even plumbed by our own Mr Blair, burbling about putting our hands on the arc of history (or was it the ark of history?) and bending it once more toward the hope of a better day (Don’t try this at home).

I am not making this up. No wonder that awful old hack Jesse Jackson sobbed as he watched. How he must wish he, too, could get away with this sort of stuff...

Perhaps, being a Chicago crowd, they knew some of the things that 52.5 per cent of America prefers not to know. They know Obama is the obedient servant of one of the most squalid and unshakeable political machines in America. They know that one of his alarmingly close associates, a state-subsidised slum landlord called Tony Rezko, has been convicted on fraud and corruption charges...

They grasped the real significance of this moment. They knew it meant that America had finally switched sides in a global cultural war. Forget the Cold War, or even the Iraq War. The United States, having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of the world.

Suspicious of welfare addiction, feeble justice and high taxes, totally committed to preserving its own national sovereignty, unabashedly Christian in a world part secular and part Muslim, suspicious of the Great Global Warming panic, it was unique.

These strengths had been fading for some time, mainly due to poorly controlled mass immigration and to the march of political correctness. They had also been weakened by the failure of America’s conservative party – the Republicans – to fight on the cultural and moral fronts.

They preferred to posture on the world stage. Scared of confronting Left-wing teachers and sexual revolutionaries at home, they could order soldiers to be brave on their behalf in far-off deserts. And now the US, like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad. Where now is our last best hope on Earth?[/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-waved-goodbye-America--best-hope-Earth.html#B]
 
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Great news for both honu and MM!

I don't get why the OS come barging in here. If you don't like what we say, don't lurk, plain and simple. :confused3 I don't lurk in your group and I'm sure most of us don't. Even if they do I don't know if they post.

Christmas gifts? We'll get a few (got the big one early, just got it last week) but mostly we've saved for the trip to CA to see family.


Loved the Craigslist ad. :thumbsup2
 
I think you should reassure her that it will not be like that. Being paranoid doesn't help anything. We do have to trust the Constitution and the Freedom we have in America. It would take a lot to change that:thumbsup2 Obama wasn't my choice but we still have a voice in America and we can still choose how to use our voice. We can still promote our values:hug:

With the liberal media totally slanting journalism and people like George Soros - who's son btw, happens to own/run youtube we have a hard fight ahead of us. Have you noticed all the negative bo clips that have already been removed from youtube? Chuck Shumer is trying his damnest to get the fairness doctrine passed and I think with the house, senate and potus all Dems, it WILL be done. Whatever happened to supply/demand? Liberal shows are going to be crammed down our throats. If more people WANTED to listen to lib radio, Air America wouldn't have filed bankruptcy.

Don't get me wrong, I intend to fight it every step of the way. IT's just annoying that so many people are oblivious to what's going on in our FREE country.
 
Ward, I'm going to go a long way out on a shaky limb and guess that the Fairness Doctrine will not be revived. It would seem to be too much of a hot button issue that opponents could jump all over in the next election. Republican ads would practically write themselves if the clowns we just elected revived the FD.
 
Ward, I'm going to go a long way out on a shaky limb and guess that the Fairness Doctrine will not be revived. It would seem to be too much of a hot button issue that opponents could jump all over in the next election. Republican ads would practically write themselves if the clowns we just elected revived the FD.

I hope you're right ZIP. I saw an interview last Wednesday with Chuck Shumer on Fox News-it was all about the fairness doctrine. He is pushing it as hard as he can right now and Pelosi is right there with him. It's very scary, hopefully there are enough moderate Dems to stop it from going any farther.
 
Great news for both honu and MM!

I don't get why the OS come barging in here. If you don't like what we say, don't lurk, plain and simple. :confused3 I don't lurk in your group and I'm sure most of us don't. Even if they do I don't know if they post.

Christmas gifts? We'll get a few (got the big one early, just got it last week) but mostly we've saved for the trip to CA to see family.


Loved the Craigslist ad. :thumbsup2

I lurk on the OS thread because I like knowing what the enemy's up to. :p However, I've never posted over there. I don't have a problem with them lurking here, but I find posting here rather rude.
 
MM and Honu>> I am glad the news seems to be good! Positive outlook! Positve outlook! You have lots of cheerleaders here!
 
I lurk on the OS thread because I like knowing what the enemy's up to. :p However, I've never posted over there. I don't have a problem with them lurking here, but I find posting here rather rude.

I lurk over there when I'm bored. I post there very rarely, but did post one PSA there last night.
 
This arrived in my email box via my dad. I have no idea if it is true or not, but I hope it was, and continues to be as more people read it.

The Sack Lunches
I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned seat. It was going to be a long flight. 'I'm glad I have a good book to read Perhaps I will get a short nap,' I thought.
Just before take-off, a line of soldiers came down the aisle and filled all the vacant seats, totally surrounding me. I decided to start a conversation. 'Where are you headed?' I asked the soldier seated nearest to me.
'Chicago - to Great Lakes Base. We'll be there for two weeks for special training, and then we're being deployed to Iraq'
After flying for about an hour, an announcement was made that sack lunches were available for five dollars. It would be several hours before we reached Chicago, and I quickly decided a lunch would help pass the time.
As I reached for my wallet, I overheard soldier ask his buddy if he planned to buy lunch. 'No, that seems like a lot of money for just a sack lunch. Probably wouldn't be worth five bucks. I'll wait till we get toChicago '
His friend agreed.
I looked around at the other soldiers. None were buying lunch. I walked to the back of the plane and handed the flight attendant a fifty dollar bill. 'Take a lunch to all those soldiers.' She grabbed my arms and squeezed tightly. Her eyes wet with tears, she thanked me. 'My son was a soldier in Iraq ; it's almost like you are doing it for him.'
Picking up ten sacks, she headed up the aisle to where the soldiers were seated. She stopped at my seat and asked, 'Which do you like best - beef or chicken?'
'Chicken,' I replied, wondering why she asked. She turned and went to the front of plane, returning a minute later with a dinner plate from first class. 'This is your thanks.'
After we finished eating, I went again to the back of the plane, heading for the rest room. A man stopped me. 'I saw what you did. I want to be part of it. Here, take this.' He handed me twenty-five dollars.
Soon after I returned to my seat, I saw the Flight Captain coming down the aisle, looking at the aisle numbers as he walked, I hoped he was not looking for me, but noticed he was looking at the numbers only on my side of the plane. When he got to my row he stopped, smiled, held out his hand, an said, 'I want to shake your hand.'
Quickly unfastening my seatbelt I stood and took the Captain's hand. With a booming voice he said, 'I was a soldier and I was a military pilot. Once, someone bought me a lunch. It was an act of kindness I never forgot.' I was embarrassed when applause was heard from all of the passengers.
Later I walked to the front of the plane so I could stretch my legs. A man who was seated about six rows in front of me reached out his hand, wanting to shake mine. He left another twenty-five dollars in my palm.
When we landed in Chicago I gathered my belongings and started to deplane. Waiting just inside the airplane door was a man who stopped me, put something in my shirt pocket, turned, and walked away without saying a word. Another twenty-five dollars!
Upon entering the terminal, I saw the soldiers gathering for their trip to the base. I walked over to them and handed them seventy-five dollars. 'It will take you some time to reach the base. It will be about time for a sandwich. God Bless You.'
Ten young men left that flight feeling the love and respect of their fellow travelers. As I walked briskly to my car, I whispered a prayer for their safe return. These soldiers were giving their all for our country. I could only give them a couple of meals.
It seemed so little...
A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life,
wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America'
for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'
That is Honor, and there are way too many people
in this country who no longer understand it.'
 
I hope you're right ZIP. I saw an interview last Wednesday with Chuck Shumer on Fox News-it was all about the fairness doctrine. He is pushing it as hard as he can right now and Pelosi is right there with him. It's very scary, hopefully there are enough moderate Dems to stop it from going any farther.

Another thing about the FD, I honestly don't see what Chucky Shumer and his pals would gain by bringing it back up. :confused3 Sure, they might silence Limbaugh and Hannity, but to what end? It's not like they could silence conservative thought and speech. The FD would be a move made out of spite, pure and simple. It would be a power play, an overreach, which would perhaps win a battle but lose a war. Maybe I'm giving the Dem clowns too much credit, but I think they're smarter than that. Surely they know they'd be facing a barrage of First Amendment questions in two years.
 
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