From my friend Ryan Reid comes this ditty....

Slow me down, LORD, Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time. Give me, amid the confusion of the day, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles with the soothing music of the singing streams that live in my memory. Help me to know the magical, restoring power of sleep. Teach me the art of taking minute vacations of slowing down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to read a few lines from a good book. Slow me down, Lord, and inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life's enduring values that I may grow toward the stars of my greater destiny."

Third dumbest deal in Washington and she is a true winner of the title!

Had the honor to listen to the "third" dumbest person in Washington and she fits the title to a t.
I am convinced they (all in Washington) think we are the stupidest folks on this earth and the only way we can possibly understand is for them to talk in cliches and talk DOWN to us.

I am sick of being treated like a third country.

Would be nice to hear some things like honesty, understanding, appreciation, and consideration.

But hey, we were smart enough to elect them, right!

That must be why they think we are dumb. Look at the mess there we elected to serve. Maybe we are getting treated like we deserve for not doing our homework on choosing the last round and obubba and his band of nuts are exactly what we got because of our apathy?

Boys first practice in the barn!

xaminer Editorial: Obamacare is even worse than critics thought

Six months ago, President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rammed Obamacare down the throats of an unwilling American public. Half a year removed from the unprecedented legislative chicanery and backroom dealing that characterized the bill's passage, we know much more about the bill than we did then. A few of the revelations:

» Obamacare won't decrease health care costs for the government. According to Medicare's actuary, it will increase costs. The same is likely to happen for privately funded health care.

» As written, Obamacare covers elective abortions, contrary to Obama's promise that it wouldn't. This means that tax dollars will be used to pay for a procedure millions of Americans across the political spectrum view as immoral. Supposedly, the Department of Health and Human Services will bar abortion coverage with new regulations but these will likely be tied up for years in litigation, and in the end may not survive the court challenge.

» Obamacare won't allow employees or most small businesses to keep the coverage they have and like. By Obama's estimates, as many as 69 percent of employees, 80 percent of small businesses, and 64 percent of large businesses will be forced to change coverage, probably to more expensive plans.

» Obamacare will increase insurance premiums -- in some places, it already has. Insurers, suddenly forced to cover clients' children until age 26, have little choice but to raise premiums, and they attribute to Obamacare's mandates a 1 to 9 percent increase. Obama's only method of preventing massive rate increases so far has been to threaten insurers.

» Obamacare will force seasonal employers -- especially the ski and amusement park industries -- to pay huge fines, cut hours, or lay off employees.

» Obamacare forces states to guarantee not only payment but also treatment for indigent Medicaid patients. With many doctors now refusing to take Medicaid (because they lose money doing so), cash-strapped states could be sued and ordered to increase reimbursement rates beyond their means.

» Obamacare imposes a huge nonmedical tax compliance burden on small business. It will require them to mail IRS 1099 tax forms to every vendor from whom they make purchases of more than $600 in a year, with duplicate forms going to the Internal Revenue Service. Like so much else in the 2,500-page bill, our senators and representatives were apparently unaware of this when they passed the measure.

» Obamacare allows the IRS to confiscate part or all of your tax refund if you do not purchase a qualified insurance plan. The bill funds 16,000 new IRS agents to make sure Americans stay in line.

If you wonder why so many American voters are angry, and no longer give Obama the benefit of the doubt on a variety of issues, you need look no further than Obamacare, whose birthday gift to America might just be a GOP congressional majority.

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Watch out for the Super Harvest Moon

Watch out for the Super Harvest Moon  (Tonight, Wed., Sept. 22)
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Sept. 22, 2010:  For the first time in almost 20 years, northern autumn is
beginning on the night of a full Moon. The coincidence sets the stage for
a "Super Harvest Moon" and a must-see sky show to mark the change of
seasons.
The action begins at sunset on Sept 22nd, the last day of northern summer.
As the sun sinks in the west, bringing the season to a close, the full
Harvest Moon will rise in the east, heralding the start of fall. The two
sources of light will mix together to create a kind of 360-degree,
summer-autumn twilight glow that is only seen on rare occasions.

Keep an eye on the Moon as it creeps above the eastern skyline. The golden
orb may appear strangely inflated. This is the Moon illusion at work. For
reasons not fully understood by astronomers or psychologists, a
low-hanging Moon appears much wider than it really is. A Harvest Moon
inflated by the moon illusion is simply gorgeous.
The view improves as the night wears on.
Northern summer changes to fall on Sept. 22nd at 11:09 pm EDT. At that
precise moment, called the autumnal equinox, the Harvest Moon can be found
soaring high overhead with the planet Jupiter right beside it. The two
brightest objects in the night sky will be in spectacular conjunction to
mark the change in seasons.
The Harvest Moon gets its name from agriculture. In the days before
electric lights, farmers depended on bright moonlight to extend the
workday beyond sunset. It was the only way they could gather their
ripening crops in time for market. The full Moon closest to the autumnal
equinox became "the Harvest Moon," and it was always a welcome sight.
This one would be extra welcome because it is extra "Harvesty."
Usually, the Harvest Moon arrives a few days to weeks before or after the
beginning of fall. It's close, but not a perfect match. The Harvest Moon
of 2010, however, reaches maximum illumination a mere six hours after the
equinox. This has led some astronomers to call it the "Harvestest Moon" or
a "Super Harvest Moon." There hasn't been a comparable coincidence since
Sept 23, 1991, when the difference was about 10 hours, and it won't happen
again until the year 2029.
A Super Harvest Moon, a rare twilight glow, a midnight conjunction—rarely
does autumn begin with such celestial fanfare.
Enjoy the show!

From Tammy.....

From My ole Jaycee buddy..... Steve Elwart... hehe!

these guys were in Stillwater not long ago... enjoy...

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from my friend Missy comes this ditty... next on Dancing With The Stars....

Before and after!

Andrew in the middle of the Orange Line... on defense, quarterback is ready for snap... notice size of front three players, Andrew is down and ready too....

Grandma and I headed to OKC and then to Edmond last night to watch Andrew and the (Stillwater) Oklahoma Cowboys play football in the Edmond Football League.

Short version here... They WON, again... 19-6!

And guess what... with plays like this... is it any wonder? Andrew is in stance in middle of defense line and in the next photo he has the quarterback on his back, after blowing by not one, not two... but three of the defense's biggest players...

and this was the first series of plays!!! With young men playing like this, this team will be unbeatable!

Needless to say, his level of playing improved with each down and by the end of the game, their opponents were tripping clipping and doing about everything to stop him, and could not do it. I watched as this gentle giant ... came alive, and as the punches were thrown, his elbow found it's way to a player's chin who had actually punched him in the play before, and he fell accidentally on the biggest player holding him to the ground by accident...

In the end ... Andrew Blankinship was the star and my photos prove it, not my words!

PS.. Andrew, this is why you don't want the ball.... they will all try to do what you did so great last night... You were the big monster in the barn... and played great!

This is how it's done!

and he blew by their big 3 and booooooom! have a dirt sandwich Mr. QB!
Uncle Jake will be proud to see this photo.. having gone to the OU and Dallas Cowboys football camps... when he played with the Perkins-Tryon Demons... He could do this too.. 

Andrew, you ruled. It takes a team to win, and in a very short amount of time, the Oklahoma Cowboys have become just that. I saw them pull off plays one might expect from high school boys - with ease, passing and running.
Last night, in Edmond,  it was Blankinship on Defense and Gundy on Offense that "led" their team to victory!

An artist I work some with... Jason Savory... his new video... can you figure out where it was done...

"One Horse Town" music video by Jason Savory from josh catogni on Vimeo.

the Truth??? Obubba's truth...

URL: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100910/D9I5913G1.html

Headed to church...

Gosh, Obubba makes us proud!

By HOPE YEN and LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writers – Sat Sep 11, 2:13 pm ET

WASHINGTON – The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty.

Austyn just won a brand new guitar at the junior show at the ... on Twitpic

Austyn just won a brand new guitar at the junior show at the ... on Twitpic

Why have green grass when you can have bluegrass? Sun is out,... on Twitpic

Why have green grass when you can have bluegrass? Sun is out,... on Twitpic

We remember.... and we pray....

On September 11, 2001, Americans awoke to evil on our shores. On this solemn day of remembrance, we hold the victims and their families in our thoughts andprayers. We recall the many acts of heroism on that day, and we honor those who work tirelessly to prevent another attack. May God bless our great country and those who defend her.

Obubba... in every way the opposite of all our past great leaders... never tells the truth, done nothing honorable, and has done not one thing that would make you hold him up as a man of honor for your children to be 'like'... a human zero, you cannot add to or take away from...

Everyone should read this from an Obama classmate at Columbia.
WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Overwhelm the system

Barack Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.

Barack Obama is my college classmate (Columbia University, class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.
-- Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?
-- Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."
-- Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.
-- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America. But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government. Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security.
-- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America. The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means.
-- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.
With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.
Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan.

Jake from last night's concert... more to come.. these are from Phillip....

Photos from last night 

Phillip Moffat, photographer...

Ryan Reid - Proud Mary