Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
this man we call President shows zero respect for even those he commands.. no salute from commander in chief???
can't even remember who he is President of ... wow...
now if we can just throw him out of office in a couple of years.. if we are still a country...
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Brenda Dale services...
Brenda Dale Funeral will be at Mehan Union Church at 2pm on Wednesday afternoon under the direction of Palmer Funeral Home, Cushing, OK. More later..
She was wife of Jim Dale and mother of Justin Dale.
The Dale's were customers of ours at our feed store and Brenda worked with Ann for many years, hiring our daughter Heather to work there.
Brenda died of a heart attack Saturday night.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Obama
Fratto: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Obama
Tony Fratto | November 14, 2009 | 11:00 am
As published for The Roosevelt Room:
"[T]he absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant." — Milan Kundera
As someone who in the Bush Administration traveled to Hanoi, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore and Seoul more often than Chicago, Los Angeles or Seattle, was I surprised to hear President Obama proclaim that an era of disengagement with Asia was over?
No, not really.
This is a president absolutely unburdened by what came before. "Being Obama" means to fly high and lightly above the evidence of the past.
"Being Obama", for the purposes of this White House, is more than sufficient — it is all.
On his inaugural visit to Asia, President Obama announced a "new" orientation toward Asia, leaving an impression that prior White House maps merely employed pictures of sea monsters to depict the strange lands beyond the Hawaiian Islands.
If you were looking for a new initiative, a new program, some new evidence breaking with the past to mark the end of the old era, you would be disappointed. Understand that "Being Obama" is the difference.
"Being Obama" is the self-proclamation of "America's first Pacific president".
Never mind the previous presidents who hailed from the Pacific rim state of California. Never mind that a prior president served as an ambassador to China. Never mind that prior presidents served in battle in Asia, negotiated peace in the region, opened China, initiated historic diplomatic, security and economic initiatives with Asian nations and guaranteed the region's safety.
"Being Obama" is to lightly, and without shame, disregard the irony that the nation he visits today, Singapore, was the first Asian nation to sign (during the era of disengagement!) a free trade agreement with the U.S. It is to ignore the irony that the country he will soon visit, South Korea, awaits his leadership in passing its own free trade agreement with the U.S.
It would be unbearable to acknowledge that the key initiative cited to highlight a "new" engagement with Asia in the Obama era — the Trans-Pacific Partnership — was actually agreed to and announced by President Obama's predecessor after years of careful work and engagement.
The President spoke of a "new" engagement with China, one that recognized that nation as important to the U.S. economy, welcoming its economic rise — not a competitor, but as an engine of growth and opportunity in the global economy. An enterprising reporter with access to Google might find these very same words, almost verbatim, used by President Bush and a succession of Bush Administration Treasury and Commerce secretaries.
Never mind that.
Never mind that the hallmark forum for engagement with China in the "new" era of engagement — the Strategic and Economic Dialogue — is a continuation of the Bush Administration's Strategic Economic Dialogue. (A new era accomplished by the mere addition of a conjunction.)
Never mind that the hallmark multilateral forum for engagement with China on the priority strategic regional security concern — the Six-Party Talks to deal with a nuclear North Korea — is a continuation of a Bush Administration initiative.
Never mind that the hallmark multilateral forum for engagement with China on climate change — the Major Economies Forum — is, once again, a continuation of President Bush's initiative.
Never mind all that. Shed the heavy burden of the work and sacrifice of history that preceded and fly lightly above it.
"Being Obama" is enough, and it is all.
Tony Fratto | November 14, 2009 | 11:00 am
As published for The Roosevelt Room:
"[T]he absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant." — Milan Kundera
As someone who in the Bush Administration traveled to Hanoi, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore and Seoul more often than Chicago, Los Angeles or Seattle, was I surprised to hear President Obama proclaim that an era of disengagement with Asia was over?
No, not really.
This is a president absolutely unburdened by what came before. "Being Obama" means to fly high and lightly above the evidence of the past.
"Being Obama", for the purposes of this White House, is more than sufficient — it is all.
On his inaugural visit to Asia, President Obama announced a "new" orientation toward Asia, leaving an impression that prior White House maps merely employed pictures of sea monsters to depict the strange lands beyond the Hawaiian Islands.
If you were looking for a new initiative, a new program, some new evidence breaking with the past to mark the end of the old era, you would be disappointed. Understand that "Being Obama" is the difference.
"Being Obama" is the self-proclamation of "America's first Pacific president".
Never mind the previous presidents who hailed from the Pacific rim state of California. Never mind that a prior president served as an ambassador to China. Never mind that prior presidents served in battle in Asia, negotiated peace in the region, opened China, initiated historic diplomatic, security and economic initiatives with Asian nations and guaranteed the region's safety.
"Being Obama" is to lightly, and without shame, disregard the irony that the nation he visits today, Singapore, was the first Asian nation to sign (during the era of disengagement!) a free trade agreement with the U.S. It is to ignore the irony that the country he will soon visit, South Korea, awaits his leadership in passing its own free trade agreement with the U.S.
It would be unbearable to acknowledge that the key initiative cited to highlight a "new" engagement with Asia in the Obama era — the Trans-Pacific Partnership — was actually agreed to and announced by President Obama's predecessor after years of careful work and engagement.
The President spoke of a "new" engagement with China, one that recognized that nation as important to the U.S. economy, welcoming its economic rise — not a competitor, but as an engine of growth and opportunity in the global economy. An enterprising reporter with access to Google might find these very same words, almost verbatim, used by President Bush and a succession of Bush Administration Treasury and Commerce secretaries.
Never mind that.
Never mind that the hallmark forum for engagement with China in the "new" era of engagement — the Strategic and Economic Dialogue — is a continuation of the Bush Administration's Strategic Economic Dialogue. (A new era accomplished by the mere addition of a conjunction.)
Never mind that the hallmark multilateral forum for engagement with China on the priority strategic regional security concern — the Six-Party Talks to deal with a nuclear North Korea — is a continuation of a Bush Administration initiative.
Never mind that the hallmark multilateral forum for engagement with China on climate change — the Major Economies Forum — is, once again, a continuation of President Bush's initiative.
Never mind all that. Shed the heavy burden of the work and sacrifice of history that preceded and fly lightly above it.
"Being Obama" is enough, and it is all.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Fidel Castro one of obama's biggest buddies... wow.. not sure what that tells us, but it cannot be good!
HAVANA – Think you're obsessed with President Barack Obama and the many challenges he faces at home and abroad?
Well, you're not alone.
Fidel Castro appears to have a fascination with the American leader that would make Obama Girl jealous, writing obsessively not only about his politics, but of his youth and vigor.
And unlike with past American heads-of-state — he slammed President George W. Bush as a genocidal drunk — Castro seems to genuinely like the fresh face in Washington.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
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May God continue to bless America and always keep the Altar of Freedom lit by Liberty's brightest light
Andrew explains it the way it was.. way to go Andrew Griffin...
Oklahoma delegation sends a resounding ‘no’ to Pelosi
By Andrew Griffin on November 9, 2009
Oklahoma Watchdog, editor
andrew@oklahomawatchdog.org
OKLAHOMA CITY – It was refreshing to see Oklahoma’s congressional delegation – Republican Reps. John Sullivan, Frank Lucas, Mary Fallin and Tom Cole along with Democrat Rep. Dan Boren – vote “no” against the Pelosi-Obama health care bill.
The House bill, sneakily passed late Saturday night and approved with a vote of 220-215 – with lone Republican Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao of a New Orleans district voting in favor of it – faces an uphill battle in the Senate.
Rep. Fallin, who is also running for governor of Oklahoma, said in an email dispatch to voters, soon after the vote, that she voted “no” on the health care bill, saying that “a government-run health care system is not the answer.”
Continuing, Fallin said, “Speaker Pelosi and President Obama have produced a 2000-page bureaucratic nightmare that will increase taxes, spend more, and do nothing to alleviate the high cost of health care that is threatening family budgets and hurting small businesses.”
While Fallin was not available to speak with Oklahoma Watchdog on Monday, her message was clear.
The other House members echoed Fallin’s sentiments and the bill’s serious problems.
Talking to The Oklahoman, Sullivan said: “Let’s be very clear about what this bill does: It writes the American people a prescription for disaster by spending more, taxing more and letting Washington bureaucrats make health care decisions that are better left to you and your families.”
Lucas noted that Pelosi and her leadership team “have once again ignored the will of the people and forced this trillion dollar government taxkevoer of our health care system on them.”
Cole called the bill a “giant step backwards” while Boren said he has told his constituents that he “could not vote for health care legislation that included a public option, burdensome mandates on businesses or the possibility of taxpayer funded abortion.”
It is good to the Oklahoma delegation – Republican and Democrat alike – standing firm for Oklahomans. We expect when the bill goes to the Senate, Sens. Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe will cast a “no” vote as well.
Copyright 2009 Oklahoma Watchdog
By Andrew Griffin on November 9, 2009
Oklahoma Watchdog, editor
andrew@oklahomawatchdog.org
OKLAHOMA CITY – It was refreshing to see Oklahoma’s congressional delegation – Republican Reps. John Sullivan, Frank Lucas, Mary Fallin and Tom Cole along with Democrat Rep. Dan Boren – vote “no” against the Pelosi-Obama health care bill.
The House bill, sneakily passed late Saturday night and approved with a vote of 220-215 – with lone Republican Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao of a New Orleans district voting in favor of it – faces an uphill battle in the Senate.
Rep. Fallin, who is also running for governor of Oklahoma, said in an email dispatch to voters, soon after the vote, that she voted “no” on the health care bill, saying that “a government-run health care system is not the answer.”
Continuing, Fallin said, “Speaker Pelosi and President Obama have produced a 2000-page bureaucratic nightmare that will increase taxes, spend more, and do nothing to alleviate the high cost of health care that is threatening family budgets and hurting small businesses.”
While Fallin was not available to speak with Oklahoma Watchdog on Monday, her message was clear.
The other House members echoed Fallin’s sentiments and the bill’s serious problems.
Talking to The Oklahoman, Sullivan said: “Let’s be very clear about what this bill does: It writes the American people a prescription for disaster by spending more, taxing more and letting Washington bureaucrats make health care decisions that are better left to you and your families.”
Lucas noted that Pelosi and her leadership team “have once again ignored the will of the people and forced this trillion dollar government taxkevoer of our health care system on them.”
Cole called the bill a “giant step backwards” while Boren said he has told his constituents that he “could not vote for health care legislation that included a public option, burdensome mandates on businesses or the possibility of taxpayer funded abortion.”
It is good to the Oklahoma delegation – Republican and Democrat alike – standing firm for Oklahomans. We expect when the bill goes to the Senate, Sens. Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe will cast a “no” vote as well.
Copyright 2009 Oklahoma Watchdog
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Dear Stan and Ann,
Today, our nation will honor the men and women who have worn the uniforms of our Armed Forces with ceremonies across the United States. This Veterans Day, please join me and Oklahomans from across the state in honoring those who have bravely served our nation.
For generations, men and women have given their lives at home and in lands across the globe in defense of our freedom. Our military serves as an example of the values upon which our country was founded: service to a cause greater than self.
The blessings of freedom and liberty that we hold dear are secured each day by the military men and women who protect us at home and abroad. Each of us owes a debt of gratitude to the generations of veterans who have kept this country free and safe and I ask that you join me in honoring their service.
This Veterans Day, let us also pay respect to the memories of those who have given their lives in service to our country. We can never repay that debt, but can promise to honor them through remembering their ultimate sacrifice.
Again, I hope you will join me in sending encouragement and support to our veterans and military families for all their service and sacrifice.
God bless America!
Mary Fallin
Today, our nation will honor the men and women who have worn the uniforms of our Armed Forces with ceremonies across the United States. This Veterans Day, please join me and Oklahomans from across the state in honoring those who have bravely served our nation.For generations, men and women have given their lives at home and in lands across the globe in defense of our freedom. Our military serves as an example of the values upon which our country was founded: service to a cause greater than self.
The blessings of freedom and liberty that we hold dear are secured each day by the military men and women who protect us at home and abroad. Each of us owes a debt of gratitude to the generations of veterans who have kept this country free and safe and I ask that you join me in honoring their service.
This Veterans Day, let us also pay respect to the memories of those who have given their lives in service to our country. We can never repay that debt, but can promise to honor them through remembering their ultimate sacrifice.
Again, I hope you will join me in sending encouragement and support to our veterans and military families for all their service and sacrifice.
God bless America!
Mary Fallin
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
wondering where Al Gore got his stupid science for noble peace prize.. I'd sure like to get mine...
The average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average and ranked as the 3rd coolest ever recorded in history... based on preliminary data.
from noaa.org
Monday, November 09, 2009
TV Star in the making???
Tammy Moffat
Highland Park Elementary
Pre-Kindergarten Teacher
Brodie Meyers
It is that time again....
To vote for Brodie, please go to www.todayshow.com <http://www.todayshow.com/> and vote for #2. You may also send a text to 622-639 and then press 2. The voting ends tomorrow at 5:00 est!
Jill Metzger, Principal
Westwood Elementary
502 S Kings
Stillwater, OK 74074
405-533-6370
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