Phillip Moffat, photographer...
Friday, September 10, 2010
Thursday, September 09, 2010
usdebtclock.org
clock online is live, can not use iPhone as it is flash... contact adobe.. haha.. yeah right!
Anyho... it was 11+ Trillion when obubba took office, check it out now..
this was posted at 9:36AM on 9/9/2010 (this am). Go and watch and wonder where the money is being spent.. it is truly amazing to watch. Remember, right now each month we have to find a BILLION dollars interest for each Trillion dollars we have spent. This amount of debt means we need 13.5 Billion for just interest each month!
The clock shows what each person in the USA owes as part of the national debt.
(It takes 34,000 years spending one dollar a second to spend ONE Trillion dollars and we are in debt 13.5!)
Isabella Ann, at two - now owes as part of her birthright of being born a US citizen, $52,298 and climbing!
This is the amount of the national debt each of us has on our back... this is what we are leaving behind if we don't stop the spending NOW!
We need new ideas in Washington. Anyone who has been there over two terms needs to go. If we cannot get things done in hour meetings, or in two years of trying, then replacement is in order! Enough of this crazy merrygoround ... Obubba is now running around saying he is for conservative values, and pushing Health care,Climate care, Car care, Appliance care, etc care, and all the progressive liberal policies on the citizens! ( He wants more dollars for the unions calling it jobs care instead of a political payoff; it is what it is... haha.. we need a brain fix if we keep "caring"... )
The Republicans may have started the train running away... but even they did not ask for 9/11 to happen and this wonderful huge country to come to stand still.... and the war that followed to protect us and make us stronger, so it took a lot to get things going again...
So what did Democrat Obubba do, he took over by offering us change. We were not going broke fast enough, so he threw open the throttle, and we now have a runaway train... with him in the cabin sticking his head out hollering " not my deal"... I don't know what happened, it all started before me... instead of throwing on the brakes, stopping, fixing and then start moving again...
and in Washington, they believe we average Americans are the dumbest folks alive and won't figure it out.
I am not sure how many of us might be close to bankruptcy, but imagine being dead broke and spending a 10000 dollars a day and going to your banker and asking for a loan... and telling him your business has no workers and no plans to have workers, as working is not important since you make no goods, you have no costs, just need to spend 10000 a day. (Well, I do know mine might have me committed before he laughed and said not NO but Heck NO!)
We have no jobs in this country since we produce nothing here. We are a nation of consumers. Everything we buy is made overseas.
I think we need a don't buy it if its not built in the USA mentality. The way Wal mart was when they rose to fame in their early years touting "Made in America"... before they became china mart... It might cost more, since no one buys much of it, but as we all would go to buying, the cost would come down.. To heck with the world, let's save the USA!
your thoughts...???
Take it for what it is...
A guy was traveling through Mexico on vacation when, low and behold,he lost his wallet and all identification. Cutting his trip short,he attempted to make his way home, but was stopped by a MexicanCustoms Agent at the Tijuana border."May I see your identification, por favor, señor?" asked the agent."I'm sorry, but I lost my wallet," replied the guy."Si, amigo, I hear that every day. No ID, no crossing the border,"said the agent."But I can prove that I'm an American!" he exclaimed. "I have apicture of Bill Clinton tattooed on one butt cheek and a picture ofHillary Clinton tattooed on the other.""This I must see," replied the agent. With that, the Americandropped his pants and bent over in front of the agent."Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, you're right!" exclaimed the agent. "Have a safe trip back to Chicago, Senor.""Thanks!" he said. "But why do you think I'm from Chicago ?"The agent replied, "I recognized Barack Obama in the middle!
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Monday, September 06, 2010
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Saturday, September 04, 2010
Football....
Perkins Tryon beats JONES on their field.... 19-14!
Way to go Demons!
Coyle Bluejackets beat Agra Bearcats 45-0 at Agra!
Rock on ... gonna be a great High School Football season!
Way to go Demons!
Coyle Bluejackets beat Agra Bearcats 45-0 at Agra!
Rock on ... gonna be a great High School Football season!
Thursday, September 02, 2010
best analyst of the 828 Rally I have seen.... I am proud to be an American!
I Think I See What Glenn Beck is Doing
Posted By Lexington Green On August 31, 2010 @ 11:54 am
The Glenn Beck rally is confusing people.
Why?
He is aiming far beyond what most people consider to be the goalposts.
Using Boyd’s continuum for war: Material, Intellectual, Moral.
Analogously for political change: Elections, Institutions, Culture.
Beck sees correctly that the Conservative movement had only limited success because it was good at level 1, for a while, weak on level 2, and barely touched level 3. Talk Radio and the Tea Party are level 3 phenomena, popular outbreaks, which are blowing back into politics.
Someone who asks what the rally has to do with the 2010 election is missing the point.
Beck is building solidarity and cultural confidence in America, its Constitution, its military heritage, its freedom. This is a vision that is despised by the people who have long held the commanding heights of the culture. But is obviously alive and kicking.
Beck is creating positive themes of unity and patriotism and freedom and independence which are above mere political or policy choices, but not irrelevant to them. Political and policy choices rest on a foundation of philosophy, culture, self-image, ideals, religion. Change the foundation, and the rest will flow from that. Defeat the enemy on that plane, and any merely tactical defeat will always be reversible.
Beck is unabashed that God can be invoked in public places by citizens, who vote and assemble and speak and freely exercise their religion. They are supposed to be too browbeaten to do this. Gathering hundreds of thousands of them to peaceably assemble shows they are not. But showing that the people who believe in God and practice their religion are fellow-citizens who share political and economic values with majorities of Americans is a critical step. The idea that these people are an American Taliban is laughable, but showing that fact to the world — and to potential political allies who are not religious — is critical.
Beck is attacking the enemy at the foundations of their power, their claim to race as a permanent trump card, their claim to the Civil Rights movement as a permanent model to constantly be transforming a perpetually unjust society.
He is nuking out the foundations of the opposition’s moral preeminence, the very thing I proposed in this post [1].
Ronald Reagan said we would not defeat Communism, we would transcend it.
Beck is aiming to have America do the same thing to its decaying class of Overlords, transcend them.
Beck is prepping the battlefield for a generation-long battle.
He is that very American thing: A practical visionary.
See, simple.
Restore pride and confidence to your own side, and win the long game.
As Ronald Reagan also said, there are simple solutions, just no easy solutions.
God bless America.
UPDATE: One commenter, Richard40 [2] who attended the rally said “As a conservative secular libertarian, I felt a bit left out … .” He said Beck could have included him by having a non-religious person on stage, and by saying “our only requirement is you believe in the founding principles of America, and wish to return to those principles.” He noted further, correctly in my view, that “The key to the Tea Party coalition is to stay unified on issues where conservatives and libertarians agree, like spending, deficit, size of government, and honest government, but allowing a big tent, that respects differences on social issues … .”
I did not go to the rally, I don’t know Glenn Beck, I don’t have a TV so I don’t know watch his show, and I am not a mind reader. So I can only speculate about this event. Other people have been a little bit stumped by it, too. I think that it was expressly not labelled as a Tea Party event. If so, that would make sense. The Tea Party is one circle on the Venn Diagram. The target audience for this event is an overlapping but not identical circle. The goal here seems to have been to encourage and mobilize one very large group of people, a huge segment of the population. No event is going to accomplish everything or appeal to everybody. Since the event included a call for forty days of prayer for the country, it was pretty obviously directed to people who pray. The totality of the coalition which is growing, which I think of as The Insurgency, is made up of several components. The unifying element is exactly the political and economic factors Richard40 mentions. A purely political event would have been a different event. There is room for all kinds of events.
And as a Roman Catholic, I will extend my hand to Richard40 and all other non-religious fellow citizens who share the same civic, political, economic and Constitutional principles I do. For the small number of doctrinaire libertarians who cannot stand dealing with someone who goes to church, I can only say, wake up, look hard at what is happening, and see who your real opponents are. We can have a civil discussion about the issues we disagree about when this current menace has been beaten back. We are in this thing together.
UPDATE II: Whoa. Mr Beck himself [3] linked to this post, and tweeted: “The ONLY guy to actually get it!”
So, the accuracy of my penetrating analysis is confirmed.
Is the Internet the most groovy thing ever, or what?
He also mentioned his new news site The Blaze [4], which I am now going to look at … .
Why?
He is aiming far beyond what most people consider to be the goalposts.
Using Boyd’s continuum for war: Material, Intellectual, Moral.
Analogously for political change: Elections, Institutions, Culture.
Beck sees correctly that the Conservative movement had only limited success because it was good at level 1, for a while, weak on level 2, and barely touched level 3. Talk Radio and the Tea Party are level 3 phenomena, popular outbreaks, which are blowing back into politics.
Someone who asks what the rally has to do with the 2010 election is missing the point.
Beck is building solidarity and cultural confidence in America, its Constitution, its military heritage, its freedom. This is a vision that is despised by the people who have long held the commanding heights of the culture. But is obviously alive and kicking.
Beck is creating positive themes of unity and patriotism and freedom and independence which are above mere political or policy choices, but not irrelevant to them. Political and policy choices rest on a foundation of philosophy, culture, self-image, ideals, religion. Change the foundation, and the rest will flow from that. Defeat the enemy on that plane, and any merely tactical defeat will always be reversible.
Beck is unabashed that God can be invoked in public places by citizens, who vote and assemble and speak and freely exercise their religion. They are supposed to be too browbeaten to do this. Gathering hundreds of thousands of them to peaceably assemble shows they are not. But showing that the people who believe in God and practice their religion are fellow-citizens who share political and economic values with majorities of Americans is a critical step. The idea that these people are an American Taliban is laughable, but showing that fact to the world — and to potential political allies who are not religious — is critical.
Beck is attacking the enemy at the foundations of their power, their claim to race as a permanent trump card, their claim to the Civil Rights movement as a permanent model to constantly be transforming a perpetually unjust society.
He is nuking out the foundations of the opposition’s moral preeminence, the very thing I proposed in this post [1].
Ronald Reagan said we would not defeat Communism, we would transcend it.
Beck is aiming to have America do the same thing to its decaying class of Overlords, transcend them.
Beck is prepping the battlefield for a generation-long battle.
He is that very American thing: A practical visionary.
See, simple.
Restore pride and confidence to your own side, and win the long game.
As Ronald Reagan also said, there are simple solutions, just no easy solutions.
God bless America.
UPDATE: One commenter, Richard40 [2] who attended the rally said “As a conservative secular libertarian, I felt a bit left out … .” He said Beck could have included him by having a non-religious person on stage, and by saying “our only requirement is you believe in the founding principles of America, and wish to return to those principles.” He noted further, correctly in my view, that “The key to the Tea Party coalition is to stay unified on issues where conservatives and libertarians agree, like spending, deficit, size of government, and honest government, but allowing a big tent, that respects differences on social issues … .”
I did not go to the rally, I don’t know Glenn Beck, I don’t have a TV so I don’t know watch his show, and I am not a mind reader. So I can only speculate about this event. Other people have been a little bit stumped by it, too. I think that it was expressly not labelled as a Tea Party event. If so, that would make sense. The Tea Party is one circle on the Venn Diagram. The target audience for this event is an overlapping but not identical circle. The goal here seems to have been to encourage and mobilize one very large group of people, a huge segment of the population. No event is going to accomplish everything or appeal to everybody. Since the event included a call for forty days of prayer for the country, it was pretty obviously directed to people who pray. The totality of the coalition which is growing, which I think of as The Insurgency, is made up of several components. The unifying element is exactly the political and economic factors Richard40 mentions. A purely political event would have been a different event. There is room for all kinds of events.
And as a Roman Catholic, I will extend my hand to Richard40 and all other non-religious fellow citizens who share the same civic, political, economic and Constitutional principles I do. For the small number of doctrinaire libertarians who cannot stand dealing with someone who goes to church, I can only say, wake up, look hard at what is happening, and see who your real opponents are. We can have a civil discussion about the issues we disagree about when this current menace has been beaten back. We are in this thing together.
UPDATE II: Whoa. Mr Beck himself [3] linked to this post, and tweeted: “The ONLY guy to actually get it!”
So, the accuracy of my penetrating analysis is confirmed.
Is the Internet the most groovy thing ever, or what?
He also mentioned his new news site The Blaze [4], which I am now going to look at … .
Monday, August 30, 2010
In our country ... this great USA....
The Secretary of Education just stated this fact that blew me away...
Today, in American, only 3 of every 4 kiddos... graduates. Wow...
but put it into this perspective.... this equates to 7000 students A DAY dropping out of school.
This alone might be the biggest reason we are in the mess we are in. These kiddos head to the hand out lines of America... and that line grows and grows...
That is staggering! 7000 a day drop out!
your thoughts?
Sunday, August 29, 2010
news you can use......
TODAY.... IS SPECIAL FOR ....
PATRICIA MAE MOFFAT, AKA TRISHA TO MOST AND TRISH TO ME... HAHA.... Birthday girl all day long today...
plus she is being baptized this morning service at University Heights Baptist Church in a bit....
and... of course....
last night's big winners were Jake and Austyn..... Moffat at Payne County's Got Talent...
Jake sang his amazing original 'your eyes' and blew us away... he is truly back in the saddle and gaining new ground and fans and has some super new songs coming soon, plus working on putting a band and a new record with full band together. Last night he put out the call to some players here who have stellar careers in other bands to work on his project, and they indicated, not only yes, but ... we've been waiting on the call!!
jakemoffat.com is his website...
but I am straying off subject.. haha....
and where.... MR. AUSTYN MOFFAT picked up second place performing 'Right Direction', another Austyn Moffat original - and .....
PATRICIA MAE MOFFAT, AKA TRISHA TO MOST AND TRISH TO ME... HAHA.... Birthday girl all day long today...
plus she is being baptized this morning service at University Heights Baptist Church in a bit....
and... of course....
Jake sang his amazing original 'your eyes' and blew us away... he is truly back in the saddle and gaining new ground and fans and has some super new songs coming soon, plus working on putting a band and a new record with full band together. Last night he put out the call to some players here who have stellar careers in other bands to work on his project, and they indicated, not only yes, but ... we've been waiting on the call!!
jakemoffat.com is his website...
but I am straying off subject.. haha....
and where.... MR. AUSTYN MOFFAT picked up second place performing 'Right Direction', another Austyn Moffat original - and .....
yes.. you read it right 125.00 dollars, which I am sure is going to help pay for his new guitar... Austyn's improvement was simply the difference between NIGHT and DAY! His new guitar sounded great, he had excellent eye contact with everyone, and sang the words clearly so we could all sing along if we wanted to. GREAT JOB AUSTYN!! And I heard some talk about a new record from Austyn as well... coming in the future... austynmoffat.com is his website.
but for now - off to church to witness a another miracle.
top photo by Phillip and bottom by Tammy. (I took videos... and they are big and uploading to youtube now)
Saturday, August 28, 2010
No wonder our country needs help financially
Our federal workers salaries total 4 Trillion dollars. Average federal
worker... Now this is AVERAGE... Is 124,000 dollars. Average private
sector worker for same job is 61,000.00.
Federal worker cannot be fired and has almost twice the benefits
worker... Now this is AVERAGE... Is 124,000 dollars. Average private
sector worker for same job is 61,000.00.
Federal worker cannot be fired and has almost twice the benefits
Thank you.
Stan Moffat
Friday, August 27, 2010
Paul and Heather Blankinship with Andrew Paul and his "bucket calf" project for Payne County Fair.
Andrew and Gracey... did great and he has a big ole trophy to prove it! Lots of hard work went into this project that almost was not to be... from the calf being saved from a "mother cow" that was thought to be dead at the butcher's, and on and on... I think the heifer's name should have been LUCKY! haha... maybe I can get Andrew to share his book with us sometime online, to tell Gracey's and his story.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
A Mother is.....
"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."
Cardinal Mermillod
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Mindset List for the Class of 2014 (college graduates in 2014)
The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014
Most students entering college for the first time this fall—the Class of 2014—were born in 1992.
For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Bert Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead.
1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive.
2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.
3. “Go West, Young College Grad” has always implied “and don’t stop until you get to Asia…and learn Chinese along the way.”
4. Al Gore has always been animated.
5. Los Angelenos have always been trying to get along.
6. Buffy has always been meeting her obligations to hunt down Lothos and the other blood-suckers at Hemery High.
7. “Caramel macchiato” and “venti half-caf vanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo.
8. With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs, and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities.
9. Had it remained operational, the villainous computer HAL could be their college classmate this fall, but they have a better chance of running into Miley Cyrus’s folks on Parents’ Weekend.
10. A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority…unless it involves “real” aliens from another planet.
11. John McEnroe has never played professional tennis.
12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.
13. Parents and teachers feared that Beavis and Butt-head might be the voice of a lost generation.
14. Doctor Kevorkian has never been licensed to practice medicine.
15. Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause.
16. Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways.
17. Trading Chocolate the Moose for Patti the Platypus helped build their Beanie Baby collection.
18. Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.
19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.
20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed.
21. Woody Allen, whose heart has wanted what it wanted, has always been with Soon-Yi Previn.
22. Cross-burning has always been deemed protected speech.
23. Leasing has always allowed the folks to upgrade their tastes in cars.
24. “Cop Killer” by rapper Ice-T has never been available on a recording.
25. Leno and Letterman have always been trading insults on opposing networks.
26. Unless they found one in their grandparents’ closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.
27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.
28. They’ve never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day.
29. Reggie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown.
30. “Viewer Discretion” has always been an available warning on TV shows.
31. The first computer they probably touched was an Apple II; it is now in a museum.
32. Czechoslovakia has never existed.
33. Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen.
34. “Assisted Living” has always been replacing nursing homes, while Hospice has always been an alternative to hospitals.
35. Once they got through security, going to the airport has always resembled going to the mall.
36. Adhesive strips have always been available in varying skin tones.
37. Whatever their parents may have thought about the year they were born, Queen Elizabeth declared it an “Annus Horribilis.”
38. Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
39. Pizza jockeys from Domino’s have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes.
40. There have always been HIV positive athletes in the Olympics.
41. American companies have always done business in Vietnam.
42. Potato has always ended in an “e” in New Jersey per vice presidential edict.
43. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.
44. The dominance of television news by the three networks passed while they were still in their cribs.
45. They have always had a chance to do community service with local and federal programs to earn money for college.
46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.
47. Children have always been trying to divorce their parents.
48. Someone has always gotten married in space.
49. While they were babbling in strollers, there was already a female Poet Laureate of the United States.
50. Toothpaste tubes have always stood up on their caps.
51. Food has always been irradiated.
52. There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church.
53. J.R. Ewing has always been dead and gone. Hasn’t he?
54. The historic bridge at Mostar in Bosnia has always been a copy.
55. Rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties.
56. They may have assumed that parents’ complaints about Black Monday had to do with punk rockers from L.A., not Wall Street.
57. A purple dinosaur has always supplanted Barney Google and Barney Fife.
58. Beethoven has always been a dog.
59. By the time their folks might have noticed Coca Cola’s new Tab Clear, it was gone.
60. Walmart has never sold handguns over the counter in the lower 48.
61. Presidential appointees have always been required to be more precise about paying their nannies’ withholding tax, or else.
62. Having hundreds of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine.
63. Their parents’ favorite TV sitcoms have always been showing up as movies.
64. The U.S, Canada, and Mexico have always agreed to trade freely.
65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus.
66. Galileo is forgiven and welcome back into the Roman Catholic Church.
67. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always sat on the Supreme Court.
68. They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S.
69. The Post Office has always been going broke.
70. The artist formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg has always been rapping.
71. The nation has never approved of the job Congress is doing.
72. One way or another, “It’s the economy, stupid” and always has been.
73. Silicone-gel breast implants have always been regulated.
74. They’ve always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi Channel.
75. Honda has always been a major competitor on Memorial Day at Indianapolis.
Well, someone voted for this change... sure wasn't the average American, and now... can not find anyone who did... no one claims they voted for the biggest mistake in history...
This is chilling...
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In 1952 President Truman
established one day a year as a
"National of Prayer."
established one day a year as a
"National of Prayer."
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In 1988 President Reagan
In 1988 President Reagan
designated the First Thursday in May of each year as the National Day of Prayer.
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In June 2007 (then) Presidential Candidate Barack Obama
In June 2007 (then) Presidential Candidate Barack Obama
declared that the USA Was no longer a Christian nation. ------------------------------
This year President Obama
canceled the 21st annual National Day of Prayer ceremony
at the White House under the ruse Of "not wanting to offend anyone"
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On September 25, 2009 from 4 am until 7 pm,
a National Day of Prayerfor the Muslim religion was Held on Capitol Hill, Beside the White House.
There were over 50,000 Muslims that Day in D.C.
HE PRAYS WITH THE MUSLIMS!
I guess it Doesn't matter if "Christians"
I guess it Doesn't matter if "Christians"
Are offended by this event - We obviously Don't count as "anyone" Anymore.
The direction this country is headed should strike fear in the heart of every Christian,
especially knowing that the Muslim religion believes that if Christians cannot be
converted, they should be annihilated.
especially knowing that the Muslim religion believes that if Christians cannot be
converted, they should be annihilated.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
America lives in the heart of
"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses."
Woodrow Wilson
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