Friday, May 28, 2010

Additions to our family... to show you all it's never to late to set the record straight!!

 From Connie LaGrow....   Thanks much Connie... it's greatly appreciated!

To our family are the twin sons of Jeffery LaGrow, Born Jan. 20, 1993 In Edmond, Oklahoma. Collin Steven and Austin Layne.  They will be seniors next year at Memorial High school in Edmond.  They are both on the Supt. honor roll, National Honor Society, and top 10% of their Math classes.


Ed's note... photos are welcome too... we love to have pics to put with names...  

From Connie Shaklee LaGrow - update for family books

I was reading the genealogy of the Peter Shaklee Family and it showed that Grandpa Fred Shaklee was married twice which is correct but his first wife died in child birth and their baby is buried in her arms in the Enid Cemetery on Willow.  Daddy had one time shown me the grave and a few years ago I sought it out again.  When I said I had heard that the baby was buried in her arms they knew immediately where the grave was located and knew the story.   The tombstone was hard to find as the name is on top of the stone of instead of on the front or back.
I have had several stories published in an OHCE Life Story book that I have written about the loss of my first tooth, my first date with Jerry, our wedding day, my most embarrassing moment, a telephone party line.  I have tried to write a new one every year to pass on down to my grandsons.  The one I wrote this year was entitled Soapy Chicken Salad Sandwiches.  They are all true and happened to me and my family.  
Was so good to see all of you but sorry that it was such circumstances.
Jerry is hurriedly trying to get ready for harvest before it gets here.  Some day I will get all of you web site viewed.

------Connie, would love to have copies of all your writings...  to include in our history. PLEASE???

Ever wonder what it feels like to drown in a 'sea of debt'?

Well..... you are now experiencing it! And you are not spending it. The nuts in Washington are.  No one will lead. No one will say NO.  No one can be found!  No one takes responsibility.  No one cares.  No one shares.  

Damn that NO ONE!

Stop it, before we all lose what little we have left after taxes....  and have spent our lives accumulating!

A favorite saying of a neighbor of mine growing up was (when he messed up something)... this is what happens when you send a boy to do a man's job! How true its been with this past election. You can throw politics out the window on this deal. This is just bad or non existent leadership!

spend and tax...  and inflation will follow... just give it enough time.

When my youngest started in the oil patch as an independent welder welding 'over the hole' keeping rigs 'turning to the right', he made an ungodly amount of money... and spent even more.

In Oklahoma, for every dollar earned.... all taxes, federal, state, etc... all hands on the dollar... I told him he would lose 58 cents on the dollar. that left 42 cents for him to pay expenses... and if you have ever been in a small business you are well aware that about 2/3 plus goes to expenses... so he was behind as an small business... but oh no, dad didn't know ... haha.. well that proved to be true.  he could have kept working for someone else and get 10 an hour and made twice the money!!!

And now... after the big O has been in for a year and half, we are spending more and more... I wonder if folks with their hands out ever wonder where the money comes from?
The one thing I do know... there will be nothing left for our grandchildren at the rate we are spending...

This country needs a leader. Someone who can say NO and mean it and not give out behind his back.. or her! Someone who's character from years of being in leadership position can lead us out of this mess. Someone who has a strong back and wide shoulders. Someone who says what they mean and means what they say. Someone who knows the helping hand we need is at the end of our own elbow! Not from foreign identities. And someone who is not a cheat, tax or otherwise...
Can you imagine ... or did you ever think there would be in a time in our country when...  The Secretary of the Treasure and head of the IRS... would be an admitted tax cheat? Or the head of our Ways and Means Committee who is responsible for writing the IRS tax code would be a tax cheat (couldn't remember which account had 500,000 in it, or if he paid taxes on rent income from his rentals...sigh) or the number two man on that committee would also be accused of the same problems...  or a Secretary who is a communist, admitted, or another who can't put sentences together, or another we'd have a one who is Secretary of Health who was head of her states Trial lawyers association... no wonder tort reform is not part of the new obamhealth care bill that will kill us all....  and on and on...

lots of problems...   what we need is a leader.  If you know of such, please share this information, so we can save this boat from sinking...

All we need is a man like some of the ones I have known in my life time... the Shaklee brothers, my father, my neighbor Mannford Cook, and you each know someone like this.  What we need is someone like those men, who will say yes to serving.. and clean up this mess!

sorry... i just needed to vent!!  thanks for allowing me to.

But Peggy, if you had asked most of middle America, they could have shared with you what inexperience creates... he was NEVER in charge solely of any one thing or business or ....


I don't see how the president's position and popularity can survive the oil spill. This is his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all, as they say, unforced errors, meaning they were shaped by the president's political judgment and instincts.
There was the tearing and unnecessary war over his health-care proposal and its cost. There was his day-to-day indifference to the views and hopes of the majority of voters regarding illegal immigration. And now the past almost 40 days of dodging and dithering in the face of an environmental calamity. I don't see how you politically survive this.
The president, in my view, continues to govern in a way that suggests he is chronically detached from the central and immediate concerns of his countrymen. This is a terrible thing to see in a political figure, and a startling thing in one who won so handily and shrewdly in 2008. But he has not, almost from the day he was inaugurated, been in sync with the center. The heart of the country is thinking each day about A, B and C, and he is thinking about X, Y and Z. They're in one reality, he's in another.
The American people have spent at least two years worrying that high government spending would, in the end, undo the republic. They saw the dollars gushing night and day, and worried that while everything looked the same on the surface, our position was eroding. They have worried about a border that is in some places functionally and of course illegally open, that it too is gushing night and day with problems that states, cities and towns there cannot solve.
And now we have a videotape metaphor for all the public's fears: that clip we see every day, on every news show, of the well gushing black oil into the Gulf of Mexico and toward our shore. You actually don't get deadlier as a metaphor for the moment than that, the monster that lives deep beneath the sea.
In his news conference Thursday, President Obama made his position no better. He attempted to act out passionate engagement through the use of heightened language—"catastrophe," etc.—but repeatedly took refuge in factual minutiae. His staff probably thought this demonstrated his command of even the most obscure facts. Instead it made him seem like someone who won't see the big picture. The unspoken mantra in his head must have been, "I will not be defensive, I will not give them a resentful soundbite." But his strategic problem was that he'd already lost the battle. If the well was plugged tomorrow, the damage will already have been done.
The original sin in my view is that as soon as the oil rig accident happened the president tried to maintain distance between the gusher and his presidency. He wanted people to associate the disaster with BP and not him. When your most creative thoughts in the middle of a disaster revolve around protecting your position, you are summoning trouble. When you try to dodge ownership of a problem, when you try to hide from responsibility, life will give you ownership and responsibility the hard way. In any case, the strategy was always a little mad. Americans would never think an international petroleum company based in London would worry as much about American shores and wildlife as, say, Americans would. They were never going to blame only BP, or trust it.
I wonder if the president knows what a disaster this is not only for him but for his political assumptions. His philosophy is that it is appropriate for the federal government to occupy a more burly, significant and powerful place in America—confronting its problems of need, injustice, inequality. But in a way, and inevitably, this is always boiled down to a promise: "Trust us here in Washington, we will prove worthy of your trust." Then the oil spill came and government could not do the job, could not meet need, in fact seemed faraway and incapable: "We pay so much for the government and it can't cap an undersea oil well!"
This is what happened with Katrina, and Katrina did at least two big things politically. The first was draw together everything people didn't like about the Bush administration, everything it didn't like about two wars and high spending and illegal immigration, and brought those strands into a heavy knot that just sat there, soggily, and came to symbolize Bushism. The second was illustrate that even though the federal government in our time has continually taken on new missions and responsibilities, the more it took on, the less it seemed capable of performing even its most essential jobs. Conservatives got this point—they know it without being told—but liberals and progressives did not. They thought Katrina was the result only of George W. Bush's incompetence and conservatives' failure to "believe in government." But Mr. Obama was supposed to be competent.
Remarkable too is the way both BP and the government, 40 days in, continue to act shocked, shocked that an accident like this could have happened. If you're drilling for oil in the deep sea, of course something terrible can happen, so you have a plan on what to do when it does.
How could there not have been a plan? How could it all be so ad hoc, so inadequate, so embarrassing? We're plugging it now with tires, mud and golf balls?
What continues to fascinate me is Mr. Obama's standing with Democrats. They don't love him. Half the party voted for Hillary Clinton, and her people have never fully reconciled themselves to him. But he is what they have. They are invested in him. In time—after the 2010 elections go badly—they are going to start to peel off. The political operative James Carville, the most vocal and influential of the president's Gulf critics, signaled to Democrats this week that they can start to peel off. He did it through the passion of his denunciations.
The disaster in the Gulf may well spell the political end of the president and his administration, and that is no cause for joy. It's not good to have a president in this position—weakened, polarizing and lacking broad public support—less than halfway through his term. That it is his fault is no comfort. It is not good for the stability of the world, or its safety, that the leader of "the indispensble nation" be so weakened. I never until the past 10 years understood the almost moral imperative that an American president maintain a high standing in the eyes of his countrymen.
Mr. Obama himself, when running for president, made much of Bush administration distraction and detachment during Katrina. Now the Republican Party will, understandably, go to town on Mr. Obama's having gone only once to the gulf, and the fund-raiser in San Francisco that seemed to take precedence, and the EPA chief who went to a New York fund-raiser in the middle of the disaster.
But Republicans should beware, and even mute their mischief. We're in the middle of an actual disaster. When they win back the presidency, they'll probably get the big California earthquake. And they'll probably blow it. Because, ironically enough, of a hard core of truth within their own philosophy: when you ask a government far away in Washington to handle everything, it will handle nothing well.

BAT WATCH 2010!

Just a friendly reminder that the registration form for the 2010 Selman Bat Watch will be available Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 at 8 am.

NEW REGISTRATION PROCESS FOR THE 2010 BAT WATCH!

NEW this year, bat watch registration will be a lottery-style process from mailed in registration forms. 

Step 1.  Print off registration form available for the first time on Tuesday, June 1st at 8 am from website: Selman Bat Watch - See millions of Mexican Free-tailed bats in Oklahoma

Step 2. Fill out registration form.  PLEASE select as many dates as you can and rank dates in order of preference starting with first choice (#1).

Step 3.  READ the rules for the evening event and SIGN the form indicating that you have read the rules.

Step 4.  Make checks or money orders payable to Wildlife Diversity Program.  Credit cards are not accepted.

Step 5.  Mail completed registration form and check to:  Bat Watch Program, P O Box 53465, OKC, OK 73152. 
*ONLY MAILED IN REGISTRATION FORMS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

REGISTRATION FORMS MUST BE POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN JUNE 7TH.

haven't been go now and see them stop the leak in action... awesome just remember its 1 mile below surface...

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