Sunday, April 19, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
We just learned that Jackie "Jack" Hayes died. More later..
Patriotic Quilt Contest & Exhibits
Benefit Wounded Soldiers
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jack Hayes, 405-341-8193, 2601 Portofino Pl, Edmond, Judy Howard, 405-751-3885, BuckboardQuilts@cox.net
Re: Wounded Vietnam Veteran Honored with American Eagle Quilt on His Birthday
Setting up a cannon to defend an airstrip, Edmond resident Jack Hayes turned around to return fire when North Vietnam Regulars burst out of the rubber trees twenty yards away shooting. A K47 bullet pierced Jack’s stomach and exited through his back. The Medvac airlifted him to the Saigon Field Hospital where they immediately honored Jack with a Purple Heart, Bronze Star and V for valor, not expecting him to live.
Only by God’s grace did Jack survive that injury that fractured his back along with the Agent Orange that poisoned his organs. Forty-one years later after undergoing thirty-five major abdominal operations to remove his stomach, appendix, pancreas, abdomen and gall bladder, Jack nonetheless radiates the joy of the Lord and praises him each morning for the blessing of life.
For his birthday October 17th, Jack received a replica of a Civil War American eagle quilt top with olive branch in its beak that Kristen Chenoweth’s great-great-great grandmother Mary made for her soldier son Benjamin Franklin in 1862. Benjamin brought that eagle quilt top in a covered wagon in the Land Run of 1889 to homestead in Hinton Indian Territory where it was quilted.
That Civil War eagle quilt now adorns the cover of Oklahoma Heritage Quilts book and is featured in Centennial Stitches—Oklahoma History in Quilts. A smaller version of the quilt is featured in Buckboard Quilt’s God Bless America Quilt exhibit that is touring the U.S. for three years with all profits from the $100 rental fees going to provide quilts for wounded soldiers like Jack. See patriotic quilt exhibit photos and rental information on www.HeavenlyPatchwork.com
“How do I love America? Let me quilt the ways” is the theme of Buckboard Quilts "God Bless America 22” Quilt Contest for children and adults. All quilts will tour the U.S.A. in several exhibits for three years to unify and support our great nation.
These pictorial quilts capture the essence of “America the Beautiful”,
Stars and Stripes Forever" by paying tribute to our American Heroes, Troops, Presidents and depicting “Liberty and Justice for All,” or expressing flag-waving loyalty to our “One Nation Under God.”
With your help, we can blanket the nation with patriotic fervor and love of God and Country in these troubled times.
All profits from the $100/week-end rental fee and possible publication of the quilts go to provide quilts for wounded soldiers— those most in need of the touch of love that quilts represent. See www.HeavenlyPatchwork.com/centennial for photos, entry forms, rental contracts and updates. Reserve your exhibit today by emailing BuckboardQuilts@cox.net or calling Judy Howard at 405-751-3885.
Please mail each quilt to 12101 N. MacArthur, #137, Oklahoma City, OK 73162, preferably to arrive by March 26. Quilts will be accepted through December, 2008 for touring. , “cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land, God bless the U.S.A.”
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Posted 04/15/2009 ET
Updated 04/15/2009 ET
Updated 04/15/2009 ET
I had no idea how important this week's nationwide anti-tax tea parties were until hearing liberals denounce them with such ferocity. The New York Times' Paul Krugman wrote a column attacking the tea parties, apologizing for making fun of "crazy people." It's OK, Paul, you're allowed to do that for the same reason Jews can make fun of Jews.
On MSNBC, hosts Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have been tittering over the similarity of the name "tea parties" to an obscure homosexual sexual practice known as "tea bagging." Night after night, they sneer at Republicans for being so stupid as to call their rallies "tea bagging."
Every host on Air America and every unbathed, basement-dwelling loser on the left wing blogosphere has spent the last week making jokes about tea bagging, a practice they show a surprising degree of familiarity with.
Except no one is calling the tea parties "tea bagging" -- except Olbermann and Maddow. Republicans call them "tea parties."
But if the Republicans were calling them "tea-bagging parties," the MSNBC hosts would have a fantastically hilarious segment for viewers in San Francisco and the West Village and not anyplace else in the rest of the country. On the other hand, they're not called "tea-bagging parties." (That, of course refers to the cocktail hour at Barney Frank's condo in Georgetown.)
You know what else would be hilarious? It would be hilarious if Hillary Clinton's name were "Ima Douche." Unfortunately, it's not. It was just a dream. Most people would wake up, realize it was just a dream and scrap the joke. Not MSNBC hosts.
The point of the tea parties is to note the fact that the Democrats' modus operandi is to lead voters to believe they are no more likely to raise taxes than Republicans, get elected and immediately raise taxes.
Apparently, the people who actually pay taxes consider this a bad idea.
Obama's biggest shortcoming is that he believes the things believed by all Democrats, which have had devastating consequences every time they are put into effect. Among these is the Democrats' admiration for raising taxes on the productive.
All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving "tax cuts" to people who don't pay taxes. Evidently, offering to expand welfare payments isn't a big vote-getter.
Even Bush had a "stimulus" bill that sent government checks to lots of people last year. Guess what happened? It didn't stimulate the economy. Obama's stimulus bill is the mother of all pork bills for friends of O and of Congressional Democrats. ("O" stands for Obama, not Oprah, but there's probably a lot of overlap.)
And all that government spending on the Democrats' constituents will be paid for by raising taxes on the productive.
Raise taxes and the productive will work less, adopt tax shelters, barter instead of sell, turn to an underground economy -- and the government will get less money.
The perfect bar bet with a liberal would be to wager that massive government deficits in the '80s were not caused by Reagan's tax cuts. If you casually mentioned that you thought Reagan's tax cuts brought in more revenue to the government -- which they did -- you could get odds in Hollywood and Manhattan. (This became a less attractive wager in New York this week after Gov. David Paterson announced his new plan to tax bar bets.)
The lie at the heart of liberals' mantra on taxes -- "tax increases only for the rich" -- is the ineluctable fact that unless taxes are raised across the board, the government won't get its money to fund layers and layers of useless government bureaucrats, none of whom can possibly be laid off.
How much would you have to raise taxes before any of Obama's constituents noticed? They don't pay taxes, they engage in "tax-reduction" strategies, they work for the government, or they're too rich to care. (Or they have off-shore tax shelters, like George Soros.)
California tried the Obama soak-the-productive "stimulus" plan years ago and was hailed as the perfect exemplar of Democratic governance.
In June 2002, the liberal American Prospect magazine called California a "laboratory" for Democratic policies, noting that "California is the only one of the nation's 10 largest states that is uniformly under Democratic control."
They said this, mind you, as if it were a good thing. In California, the article proclaimed, "the next new deal is in tryouts." As they say in show biz: "Thanks, we'll call you. Next!"
In just a few years, Democrats had turned California into a state -- or as it's now known, a "job-free zone" -- with a $41 billion deficit, a credit rating that was slashed to junk-bond status and a middle class now located in Arizona.
Democrats governed California the way Democrats always govern. They bought the votes of government workers with taxpayer-funded jobs, salaries and benefits -- and then turned around and accused the productive class of "greed" for wanting not to have their taxes raised through the roof.
Having run out of things to tax, now the California legislature is considering a tax on taxes. Seriously. The only way out now for California is a tax on Botox and steroids. Sure, the governor will protest, but it is the best solution ...
California was, in fact, a laboratory of Democratic policies. The rabbit died, so now Obama is trying it on a national level.
That's what the tea parties are about.
On MSNBC, hosts Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have been tittering over the similarity of the name "tea parties" to an obscure homosexual sexual practice known as "tea bagging." Night after night, they sneer at Republicans for being so stupid as to call their rallies "tea bagging."
Every host on Air America and every unbathed, basement-dwelling loser on the left wing blogosphere has spent the last week making jokes about tea bagging, a practice they show a surprising degree of familiarity with.
Except no one is calling the tea parties "tea bagging" -- except Olbermann and Maddow. Republicans call them "tea parties."
But if the Republicans were calling them "tea-bagging parties," the MSNBC hosts would have a fantastically hilarious segment for viewers in San Francisco and the West Village and not anyplace else in the rest of the country. On the other hand, they're not called "tea-bagging parties." (That, of course refers to the cocktail hour at Barney Frank's condo in Georgetown.)
You know what else would be hilarious? It would be hilarious if Hillary Clinton's name were "Ima Douche." Unfortunately, it's not. It was just a dream. Most people would wake up, realize it was just a dream and scrap the joke. Not MSNBC hosts.
The point of the tea parties is to note the fact that the Democrats' modus operandi is to lead voters to believe they are no more likely to raise taxes than Republicans, get elected and immediately raise taxes.
Apparently, the people who actually pay taxes consider this a bad idea.
Obama's biggest shortcoming is that he believes the things believed by all Democrats, which have had devastating consequences every time they are put into effect. Among these is the Democrats' admiration for raising taxes on the productive.
All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving "tax cuts" to people who don't pay taxes. Evidently, offering to expand welfare payments isn't a big vote-getter.
Even Bush had a "stimulus" bill that sent government checks to lots of people last year. Guess what happened? It didn't stimulate the economy. Obama's stimulus bill is the mother of all pork bills for friends of O and of Congressional Democrats. ("O" stands for Obama, not Oprah, but there's probably a lot of overlap.)
And all that government spending on the Democrats' constituents will be paid for by raising taxes on the productive.
Raise taxes and the productive will work less, adopt tax shelters, barter instead of sell, turn to an underground economy -- and the government will get less money.
The perfect bar bet with a liberal would be to wager that massive government deficits in the '80s were not caused by Reagan's tax cuts. If you casually mentioned that you thought Reagan's tax cuts brought in more revenue to the government -- which they did -- you could get odds in Hollywood and Manhattan. (This became a less attractive wager in New York this week after Gov. David Paterson announced his new plan to tax bar bets.)
The lie at the heart of liberals' mantra on taxes -- "tax increases only for the rich" -- is the ineluctable fact that unless taxes are raised across the board, the government won't get its money to fund layers and layers of useless government bureaucrats, none of whom can possibly be laid off.
How much would you have to raise taxes before any of Obama's constituents noticed? They don't pay taxes, they engage in "tax-reduction" strategies, they work for the government, or they're too rich to care. (Or they have off-shore tax shelters, like George Soros.)
California tried the Obama soak-the-productive "stimulus" plan years ago and was hailed as the perfect exemplar of Democratic governance.
In June 2002, the liberal American Prospect magazine called California a "laboratory" for Democratic policies, noting that "California is the only one of the nation's 10 largest states that is uniformly under Democratic control."
They said this, mind you, as if it were a good thing. In California, the article proclaimed, "the next new deal is in tryouts." As they say in show biz: "Thanks, we'll call you. Next!"
In just a few years, Democrats had turned California into a state -- or as it's now known, a "job-free zone" -- with a $41 billion deficit, a credit rating that was slashed to junk-bond status and a middle class now located in Arizona.
Democrats governed California the way Democrats always govern. They bought the votes of government workers with taxpayer-funded jobs, salaries and benefits -- and then turned around and accused the productive class of "greed" for wanting not to have their taxes raised through the roof.
Having run out of things to tax, now the California legislature is considering a tax on taxes. Seriously. The only way out now for California is a tax on Botox and steroids. Sure, the governor will protest, but it is the best solution ...
California was, in fact, a laboratory of Democratic policies. The rabbit died, so now Obama is trying it on a national level.
That's what the tea parties are about.
| Ann Coulter |
lost tomatoes and peppers in my garden... and had to re plant.. however...
this is another story regarding the past hard freeze... the white beards, 
yellow heads, and white heads tell the tale as well and this might be costly. most all wheat on our farm has suffered some damage from the late freeze.... sigh.. but then.. this is farming....
yellow heads, and white heads tell the tale as well and this might be costly. most all wheat on our farm has suffered some damage from the late freeze.... sigh.. but then.. this is farming....
DONE... DONE... DONE...
OFF TO MAIL MY CONTRIBUTION TO THE OBAMA STIMULUS PLAN....
as soon as I can figure out how to write all those figures into one number and drop in the mail.. sigh... what a pity... with the nation's number one tax cheat as head of the IRS I feel like prehaps I don't need to contribute this year .. but alas... I am not in line for a federal Obama administration job, or I might get by with it..
Anywho... enough.. now to mail and back to work...
have a great day.. and enjoy the Tea partys... that according to MSNBC and CNN are not happening at all today, it is only a hand full who care.... yelp, we will see.. haha how small the hand full is.. you know it's going to be large when big daddy steps out yesterday to bore us with his yuck yuck lawyer talk.... and says nothing again, as usual... but never mind.. cnn says its not happening.. haha...
i am out of here....
Laura Ingraham, Pirate Advocate
The nationally syndicated talk show host Laura Ingraham is waiting for the United States to issue an apology to the Somali pirates.
"It's just a matter of time before we announce an interagency report on reparations for the pirates," she told Imus. "The stereotyping of pirates throughout American history has been very negative and deleterious! We need to do something!"
Imus was awed by the sheer stupidity of the pirates, who he prefers to call Bob, Larry, and Squiggy, just for the hell of it.
"So they shot Bob through the window of the boat," Imus explained. "But the other two morons stick their heads up simultaneously, and the Navy Seals blow them off!"
Ingraham pointed out that these pirates were not exactly Mensa members. Yet, the one captured pirate will certainly be treated well upon arrival to the U.S., where he's likely to be tried.
"He will get culturally appropriate meals, he will get an appointed lawyer paid for by us," Ingraham said. "The question is, will it be Dershowitz or Gerry Spence?"
Ingraham then shared with Imus the tactics employed by President Obama's team during his surprise trip to Iraq last week.
"They passed out instant cameras to the troops to make it appear as if there was even more enthusiasm and excitement to snap photos with the President than there was!" said Ingraham. "They went soldier to soldier to ask who had voted for OBama, and those who raised their hands were shuffled to the front of the receiving line."
She acknowledged Imus's point that Bush had done exactly the same thing. "What I'm saying is, this is change you can believe in!" she joked.
As if Ingraham, a devout Catholic, needed any further proof there is a God, Imus observed the Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain, had recently nabbed a six-figure book deal.
"She has a very interesting perspective on tattoo selection, which I find to be a page turner," Ingraham said. "She became a Republican last June!"
Calling her turn to Catholicism "the best thing I ever did next to getting my daughter," Ingraham pointed out the sheer lunacy of Caroline Kennedy, who is ardently pro-choice, jockeying for the position of Vatican Ambassador.
"You know, she was living a pretty good life being a book editor," Imus said about Kennedy. "And now she has turned herself into a loser!"
-Julie Kanfer
Sunday, April 12, 2009
The cousins (grandkids, and greatgrand kiddos..).... all .... for now!
Madison Ann and Andrew Paul Blankinship with Isabella Ann Moffat. Austyn Lee Moffat with Katilyn Brooke and Dylan Scott Moffat.
Isabella's first birthday and Easter with the family...
Saturday, April 11, 2009
This and the next photo taken by Jonathan as kiddos get ready to hunt eggs on Saturday
Thursday, April 09, 2009
From Trisha
$20.00
Sometimes we just need to be
reminded!
A well-known speaker
started off his seminar by:
holding up a $20.00
bill. In the room of 200, he asked,
'Who would like this
$20 bill?'
Hands started going up.
He said, 'I am going to give this
$20 to one of you
but first, let me
do this.
He
proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill.
He then asked, 'Who
still wants it?'
Still the hands
were up in the air.
Well, he
replied, 'What if I do this?'
And he
dropped it on the ground
and started
to grind it into the floor with his shoe.
He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.
'Now, who still wants it?'
Still the hands went into the air.
My friends, we have all learned a
very valuable lesson.
No matter what
I did to the money, you still wanted it
because it did not decrease in value.
It was still worth $20.
Many times in our lives,
we are dropped, crumpled, and ground
into the dirt
by the decisions we
make and
the circumstances that come
our way.
We feel as though we are
worthless.
But no matter what has
happened or
what will happen, you
will never lose your value.
Dirty or
clean, crumpled or finely creased,
you are still
priceless to those who DO LOVE you.
The worth of our
lives comes not in what we do or who we know,
but by WHO WE ARE and
WHOSE WE ARE.
You are special
-
Don't EVER forget it.'
If you do not pass
this on, you may never know the
lives it touches, the
hurting hearts it speaks to,
or the hope that it
can bring.
Count your blessings,
not your problems.
'And remember:
amateurs built the ark ..
professionals
built the Titanic.
If God brings you to
it - He will bring you through it.
Sometimes we just need to be
reminded!
A well-known speaker
started off his seminar by:
holding up a $20.00
bill. In the room of 200, he asked,
'Who would like this
$20 bill?'
Hands started going up.
He said, 'I am going to give this
$20 to one of you
but first, let me
do this.
He
proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill.
He then asked, 'Who
still wants it?'
Still the hands
were up in the air.
Well, he
replied, 'What if I do this?'
And he
dropped it on the ground
and started
to grind it into the floor with his shoe.
He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.
'Now, who still wants it?'
Still the hands went into the air.
My friends, we have all learned a
very valuable lesson.
No matter what
I did to the money, you still wanted it
because it did not decrease in value.
It was still worth $20.
Many times in our lives,
we are dropped, crumpled, and ground
into the dirt
by the decisions we
make and
the circumstances that come
our way.
We feel as though we are
worthless.
But no matter what has
happened or
what will happen, you
will never lose your value.
Dirty or
clean, crumpled or finely creased,
you are still
priceless to those who DO LOVE you.
The worth of our
lives comes not in what we do or who we know,
but by WHO WE ARE and
WHOSE WE ARE.
You are special
-
Don't EVER forget it.'
If you do not pass
this on, you may never know the
lives it touches, the
hurting hearts it speaks to,
or the hope that it
can bring.
Count your blessings,
not your problems.
'And remember:
amateurs built the ark ..
professionals
built the Titanic.
If God brings you to
it - He will bring you through it.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Heather won, Heather won.... Egg Decorating contest at work... congrats...
be sure and stop by www.reddirtdiaries.com and see the injured Andrew and read up on last nights game..... what a tough young man he is...!! I remember one hitting me like that back in the yesteryear.... I decided I would stay after school and go out for baseball with my friends without asking my mom and dad who were home milking cows and waiting on the school bus to arrive so I could finish my chores... ha ha... imagine their surprise when a car they did not know pulled down to the milk barn with me as a passenger... and a man they had never seen helping me out with about a 2" golf ball on my forehead.... I still am not sure the punishment for "missing" my chores, licks from my dad, was much worse than the golf ball on my head... but at the time, my head hurt worse! Needless to say, I never did the ball thing again... so Andrew, you are a much better man than I for keeping after it!
In honor of Isabella today, here is Austyn performing his song "Isabella"
I know we posted this once... sometimes it's nice to revisit old news.. haha... since I am a has been... hehe...
did hear from Andrew last couple of times he was over he would like to start taking guitar lessons too......... passing on the hint, hint hint... haha
the wheat berries don't look to damaged after our hard hard freeze... 9 hours below freezing dropped to 22
thank you Paul, Heather, Andrew and Madison for the awesome gift.... the OK flag!
and to Craig, Missy and Reese for the AWESOME Moffat Park sign. OK Flag actually flew over our State Capitol. I am so very proud of it! thanks... thanks thanks
dumb ....... or dumb.... or just dumb?
Farrah Fawcett's son charged with drug possession
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Redmond O'Neal, the 24-year-old son of actors Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett, was charged on Tuesday with felony drug possession, after he was found with heroin while trying to visit a jail.
Redmond O'Neal's arrest Sunday came as Fawcett, who suffers from cancer, was treated at a Los Angeles hospital for bleeding after a medical procedure in Germany.
Authorities say Redmond O'Neal was taking a friend to visit an inmate at a Los Angeles County jail when he was stopped and found to have heroin in his car. Redmond O'Neal was in jail on Tuesday, and his arraignment was postponed to April 24.
His detention is the latest in a string of drug-related arrests, and it comes as he was free on bail in another case in which he was charged with possession of methamphetamine.
That case resulted from a September 2008 search of the O'Neals' home in Malibu. The search also turned up methamphetamine in Ryan O'Neal's bedroom, and in January the star of 1970 film "Love Story" pleaded guilty to possessing the drug and was ordered to complete a rehabilitation program.
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