Just wanted to wish you a happy anniversary today .... and many many more...
We love you
Mom and Dad M
Wanted to share now instead of waiting till tomorrow!!
Friday, July 30, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL.... Happy birthday to you!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PAUL.... AND MANY MANY MORE....
May your birthday be full of the many things you wished for, a lot of what you hoped for, and all of what you need....
I am reminded Paul of an ole Irish saying and to you ... from Ann and I...
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
May the rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we celebrate your birth again,
may the Lord hold you safely in the palm of His hand.
Happy Birthday Paul and many many more....
Stan and Ann
May your birthday be full of the many things you wished for, a lot of what you hoped for, and all of what you need....
I am reminded Paul of an ole Irish saying and to you ... from Ann and I...
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
May the rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we celebrate your birth again,
may the Lord hold you safely in the palm of His hand.
Happy Birthday Paul and many many more....
Stan and Ann
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Rush says, and it's an eye opener.... like him or hate him, he is right on this one~
By Rush Limbaugh:
I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I can't let the numbers pass by because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a family member in the September 11 attack, you're going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million...
If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action, the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable.
Next, you get $1,750 for burial costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get $833 a month until you remarry. And there's a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to a screeching halt.
Keep in mind that some of the people who are getting an average of $1.185 million up to $4.7 million are complaining that it's not enough . Their deaths were tragic, but for most, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Soldiers put themselves in harms way FOR ALL OF US, and they and their families know the dangers... (Actually, soldiers are put in harms way by politicians and commanding officers.)
We also learned over the weekend that some of the victims from the Oklahoma City bombing have started an organization asking for the same deal that the September 11 families are getting. In addition to that, some of the families of those bombed in the embassies are now asking for compensation as well.
You see where this is going, don't you? Folks, this is part and parcel of over 50 years of entitlement politics in this country. It's just really sad. Every time a pay raise comes up for the military, they usually receive next to nothing of a raise. Now the green machine is in combat in the Middle East while their families have to survive on food stamps and live in low-rent housing. Make sense?
However, our own US Congress voted themselves a raise. Many of you don't know that they only have to be in Congress one time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month. And most are now equal to being millionaires plus. They do not receive Social Security on retirement because they didn't have to pay into the system. If some of the military people stay in for 20 years and get out as an E-7, they may receive a pension of $1,000 per month, and the very people who placed them in harm's way receives a pension of $15,000 per month.
I would like to see our elected officials pick up a weapon and join ranks before they start cutting out benefits and lowering pay for our sons and daughters who are now fighting. "When do we finally do something about this?"
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
VOTE
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE... REGARDLESS OF WHO YOU VOTE FOR, VOTE, IT'S THE ONE RIGHT WE HAVE NOT LOST YET AS AN AMERICAN! EMBRACE IT... AND VOTE BEFORE 7PM TODAY.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Tony Pearce's grandfather passed away. Tony is our Sound Engineer at our recording studio.
Grady Harley Allen, 74, of Altus, passed away Thursday, July 22, 2010, at his home. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Kincannon Memorial Chapel with Tony Pearce officiating.
Grady was born May 18, 1936, in Altus to Hogy and Ruth (Britton) Allen. He attended schools in Altus and married Patsy Biddy on February 18, 1956, in Vernon, Texas. Grady was in the 445th Division of the National Guard. He owned and operated A & A Construction Company. He loved hunting, fishing and working on his farm. Every year, Grady and Anthony Hines, his cousin and best friend, took a “Bucket List” trip. Grady will always be remembered for going out of his way to help anyone in need.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Alvin Allen.
Grady is survived by his wife; and a grandson, Brady McCombs, both of the home; two daughters and sons-in-law, Caroll McClelland and Mike of Lawton, and Debbie Pearce and Tony of Altus; two sons, Grady E. Allen and wife Tamela, and Donnie Allen, both of Altus; a sister and brother-in-law, Mildred Elder and Floyd of Parkersburg, West Virginia; three brothers and sisters-in-law, Glendon Allen and Carmie, and Donald Bob Allen and Sonya, both of Altus, and Alfred Allen of Parkersburg; 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren; and a host of other family and friends.
There will be a visitation for family and friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Online tributes may be made at kincannonfuneralhome.com
Grady was born May 18, 1936, in Altus to Hogy and Ruth (Britton) Allen. He attended schools in Altus and married Patsy Biddy on February 18, 1956, in Vernon, Texas. Grady was in the 445th Division of the National Guard. He owned and operated A & A Construction Company. He loved hunting, fishing and working on his farm. Every year, Grady and Anthony Hines, his cousin and best friend, took a “Bucket List” trip. Grady will always be remembered for going out of his way to help anyone in need.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Alvin Allen.
Grady is survived by his wife; and a grandson, Brady McCombs, both of the home; two daughters and sons-in-law, Caroll McClelland and Mike of Lawton, and Debbie Pearce and Tony of Altus; two sons, Grady E. Allen and wife Tamela, and Donnie Allen, both of Altus; a sister and brother-in-law, Mildred Elder and Floyd of Parkersburg, West Virginia; three brothers and sisters-in-law, Glendon Allen and Carmie, and Donald Bob Allen and Sonya, both of Altus, and Alfred Allen of Parkersburg; 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren; and a host of other family and friends.
There will be a visitation for family and friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Online tributes may be made at kincannonfuneralhome.com
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
T'was a wonderful birthday party with family and friends....
Mr. Andrew Paul Blankinship turned a big ole' NINE, yes, 9 years old, today!
Happy Birthday Andrew and many many more.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
From Missy.... oh my goodness, ...
Bats ya gotta love em.....
This is very timely: the latest newsletter from Texas Gardener' Seeds said: Put up a bat house to encourage the presence of these shy animals. Bats consume 3,000 or more mosquitoes and other insects nightly, and bats are less likely to be rabid than dogs are. Need another reason? Bats are responsible for up to 95 percent of the seed dispersal essential to the regeneration of forests.
Our planet is populated with plenty of bizarre and astonishing creatures. Here are three from the Bat Family ...... Without the need for resorting to fiction.
Sucker-footed Bat
Red-Winged Fruit Bat
Left-Winged Ding Bat
So 2 out 3 bats have a useful purpose!
Saturday, July 17, 2010
My boys... from No Justice... You never know what to expect, haha!
The boys of No Justice are out to avenge their beat up bassist, Joey.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Global Cooling needed....
NOAA: June, April to June, and Year-to-Date Global Temperatures are Warmest on Record
July 15, 2010
Last month’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made it the warmest June on record and the warmest on record averaged for any April-June and January-June periods, according to NOAA. Worldwide average land surface temperature was the warmest on record for June and the April-June period, and the second warmest on record for the year-to-date (January-June) period, behind 2007.
The monthly analysis from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, which is based on records going back to 1880, is part of the suite of climate services NOAA provides government, business and community leaders so they can make informed decisions.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
My Biggest Mistake in the White House
My Biggest Mistake in the White House
Failing to refute charges that Bush lied us into war has hurt our country.
By KARL ROVE
Seven years ago today, in a speech on the Iraq war, Sen. Ted Kennedy fired the first shot in an all-out assault on President George W. Bush's integrity. "All the evidence points to the conclusion," Kennedy said, that the Bush administration "put a spin on the intelligence and a spin on the truth." Later that day Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle told reporters Mr. Bush needed "to be forthcoming" about the absence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Thus began a shameful episode in our political life whose poisonous fruits are still with us.
The next morning, Democratic presidential candidates John Kerry and John Edwards joined in. Sen. Kerry said, "It is time for a president who will face the truth and tell the truth." Mr. Edwards chimed in, "The administration has a problem with the truth."
The battering would continue, and it was a monument to hypocrisy and cynicism. All these Democrats had said, like Mr. Bush did, that Saddam Hussein possessed WMD. Of the 110 House and Senate Democrats who voted in October 2002 to authorize the use of force against his regime, 67 said in congressional debate that Saddam had these weapons. This didn't keep Democrats from later alleging something they knew was false—that the president had lied America into war.
Senate Intelligence Chairman Bob Graham organized a bipartisan letter in December 2001 warning Mr. Bush that Saddam's "biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs . . . may be back to pre-Gulf War status," and enhanced by "longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies." Yet two years later, he called for Mr. Bush's impeachment for having said Saddam had WMD.
On July 9, 2004, Mr. Graham's fellow Democrat on Senate Intelligence, Jay Rockefeller, charged that the Bush administration "at all levels . . . used bad information to bolster the case for war." But in his remarks on Oct. 10, 2002, supporting the war resolution, he said that "Saddam's existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose real threats to America."
Even Kennedy, who opposed the war resolution, nonetheless said the month before the vote that Saddam's "pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated." But he warned if force were employed, the Iraqi dictator "may decide he has nothing to lose by using weapons of mass destruction himself or by sharing them with terrorists."
Then there was Al Gore, who charged on June 24, 2004, that Mr. Bush spent "prodigious amounts of energy convincing people of lies" and accused him of treason, bellowing that Mr. Bush "betrayed his country." Yet just a month before the war resolution debate, the former vice president said, "We know that [Saddam] has stored away secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
Top Democrats led their party in making the "Bush lied, people died" charge because they wanted to defeat him in 2004. That didn't happen. Several bipartisan commissions would later catalogue the serious errors in the intelligence on which Mr. Bush and Democrats relied. But these commissions, particularly the Silberman-Robb report of March 31, 2005, found that the "Bush lied" charge was false. Still, the attacks hurt: When they began, less than a third of Americans believed the charge. Two years later, polls showed that just over half did.
The damage extended beyond Mr. Bush's presidency. The attacks on Mr. Bush poisoned America's political discourse. Saying the commander-in-chief intentionally lied America into war is about the most serious accusation that can be leveled at a president. The charge was false—and it opened the way for politicians in both parties to move the debate from differences over issues into ad hominem attacks.
At the time, we in the Bush White House discussed responding but decided not to relitigate the past. That was wrong and my mistake: I should have insisted to the president that this was a dagger aimed at his administration's heart. What Democrats started seven years ago left us less united as a nation to confront foreign challenges and overcome America's enemies.
We know President Bush did not intentionally mislead the nation. Saddam Hussein was deposed and eventually hung for his crimes. Iraq is a democracy and an ally instead of an enemy of America. Al Qaeda suffered tremendous blows in the "land between the two rivers." But Democrats lost more than the election in 2004. In telling lie after lie, week after week, many lost their honor and blackened their reputations.
Mr. Rove is the former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Austyn's OSU Children's Choir Camp Concert Friday at 3:30pm
Austyn's OSU children's choir camp concert will take place this FRIDAY AT 3:30 at the Seretean Center. Come prepared to be blown away.
Theme "Music-the thread that binds"
They will be performing songs from: Appalachian,Newfoundland, Israel,Ireland,England,Jamaica,Africa,Hungary, and Germany.
Just guessing I would say it will last about an hour.
Tammy Moffat
Theme "Music-the thread that binds"
They will be performing songs from: Appalachian,Newfoundland, Israel,Ireland,England,Jamaica,Africa,Hungary, and Germany.
Just guessing I would say it will last about an hour.
Tammy Moffat
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
From Connie LaGrow... a Saturday Morning Chuckle... No it was not her!!
| I was driving when I saw the flash of a traffic camera. I figured that my picture had been taken for exceeding the limit even though I knew that I was not speeding. Just to be sure, I went around the block and passed the same spot, driving even more slowly, but again the camera flashed. Now I began to think that this was quite funny, so I drove even slower as I passed the area once more, but the traffic camera again flashed. I tried a fourth and fifth time with the same results and was now laughing as the camera flashed while I rolled past at a snail's pace. Two weeks later, I got five tickets in the mail for driving without a seat belt. You know, you just can't fix stupid |
Friday, July 09, 2010
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