Circa sixty seven years ago, the "Cold War" between "True" Democracy and "Marxist" based Communism began. East Berlin had fallen to the Soviet Bloc and West Berlin to the United States, Britain and their Democratized Allies. Almost immediately the flood of refugees from East Berlin to West Berlin began with the realization of the Refugees that they had at last been freed from Hitler's tyrannical regime only to be dumped into the Clutches of Russian Communism.
The Communists saw this mass exodus going on and to stop it, they erected the infamous Berlin Wall.
The weapons race was on with the Allies continually gaining the upper hand as the Cold war progressed over the years. The Communist inspired Nations, mainly the Chinese and North Koreans became involved in the race, mainly backed by the United Soviet Socialist Republic. The "U.S.S.R."
The USSR had simply enveloped the Slavic/Russian speaking Nations that had previously been invaded and held by the Nazi Regime of Adolph Hitler. From the frying pan into the fire, you could say, because life under the Russian rule, was worse for them after the Soviet takeover than before.
Their lives were now governed by Socialist Mandates, one after the other.
I must point out that although the Communists competed with us in both domestic and military means, only once did they excel over us in the regard that they managed to put an astronaut into space just shortly before we did. That was very short lived because on July 21st, 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon and no one else from another country has ever done it since.
The Communist nations, their populace living perpetually in Socialist world poverty, have not even tried it, even with the help of the Administration of Bill Clinton and now the Marxist/Socialist Administration of Barack Obama allowing them to help themselves to our latest technology.
Under Democracy and Free market Capitalism, the United States and the common people have flourished beyond any other country in the World, bar none.
Our big mistake in my way of thinking, is we're killing ourselves with kindness to the other envious nations who would like nothing better, than to see America reduced to a 3rd world status.
With the Socialist Countries having bankrupcy around their necks like a hangman's noose, a true proof of philosophy failure because of the tail wagging the dog, here we are about to watch the "Well oiled Socialist Regime" led by Barack Obama, force it down our throats! Is there something wrong with this picture?
Does this make sense to you??? Instead of the Marxist/Socialist nations developing their own technology, they were and are, simply letting us go to the expense of developing it, and then sucking it out of us by one means or another. For example, during the Clinton Administration, diplomat by the last name of Lee, a scientist and assistant to the North Korean Ambassador at the time, was allowed to come and go without restriction into the Dept. of Energy. His visits were back and forth many times.
The Dept. just happens to house the latest in Nuclear and Top secret energy technology. It's curious to note that Bill Richardson, the Secretary of Energy, claims to have known nothing about it at the time.
Duh!! Many top secret documents disappeared concerning nuclear weapons and long range missile technology. The next thing you know, North Korea announced it had finally developed this technology. Coincidence? I don't think so.
The next "oops" was when they finally got bin Laden and had to leave a disabled transport helicopter behind that just happened to have the latest in battle technology aboard. No self destruct capabilities though!! And then a drone with the latest search and destroy capabilities aboard wanders away and safely lands itself in hostile Pakistani territory. Again with no self destruct capabilities aboard. The Pakistanis (and who else) set to dismantling that equipment immediately.
My question to all of this is; After analyzing the whole World situation, why on earth would we want to change from the best standard of living in the world, to follow the lead of a bunch of proven failures? Why should we feel ashamed of our standard of living just because the rest of the world didn't have the gumption to follow us instead of Communism and Socialism? They lost, we won! Why give up the luxuries we enjoy for the sake of the rest of the world? Why??? It's obvious that if we do, they're still going to despise us anyway! I'll repeat what I quoted from a retired American General in an earlier blog, "I wonder who dislikes us the most, the ones where we kicked their asses, or the ones where we saved them??" It's food for thought. Just sayin'.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
ON APRIL 29th, 1900, MY MOTHER ELLA JEAN BEUTEL WAS BORN.
She was born of Bavarian descent in a Jackson, Minnesota hospital, just a few miles across the border from her home in Spirit Lake, Iowa.
At the age of 4, Ella Jean Beutel and her parents left by train for Kalispel, Mont., enroute to their planned homestead at the settlement town of Eureka, Mont.. After reaching Kalispel, they then traveled the remaining distance of 85 miles to Eureka by horse and wagon, taking 3 additional days.
There, they finally established their family homestead. Ella Jean grew up in that quiet little logging and mining community, but not before being joined at the age of six by her sister Alice and then a brother Lawrence 2 years later. She rode her horse back and forth to school, both winter and summer, and until she graduated at the age of 18.
At the tender age of 19, she met and married our father, John D. McNaughton who had just been honorably discharged from the Canadian Army and fresh from being a machine gunner in the 1st world war. They went on to produce 11 children over a period of the next 18 years. With our Dad being a casualty both physically and mentally of the war, the increasing family burden on our mother was more than a cross to bear, but she withstood it in a way throughout the years that couldn't be outdone by anyone else, and particularly the manner in which she did it. Through all of the chores she had no choice but to undertake, she walked proudly and with dignity ahead of us to the Catholic Church each week. Even when all she could afford was a dime for the collection plate, she made sure we got there every Sunday.
I'm sure my mother's biggest challenge was in making sure there was enough food for the table, since our Dad hardly ever brought a paycheck home in support of the family. When he did land a job, he would be in a logging camp somewhere for a month or two. When he did get paid, he seldom ever made his way home until it was gone. At which time he would come home and devour part of a venison roast that was mean't for the rest of the family. Then he'd leave again on his drinking spree.
I don't intentionally mean to demean my father, since I can only imagine what he suffered during the first world war with it's mustard gas and all, but I find it necessary to describe it in illustrating what it put our beautiful, dear mother through in her trying efforts to raise a family of eleven.
At times, she would sit us all down to dinner and then take up her position in a chair by the kitchen window, gazing out at the neighborhood while the rest of us ate, and going without food herself so we would have enough for us kids.
More than enough times that I want to remember, she would burst out sobbing at the challenge of it all, with no one to appeal for help to but God. We would all gather around her while she did this and coax her not to cry, telling her things would get better, even though we didn't know how.
We all made it through that life, with the 2nd world war on, and two of our oldest brothers, a brother-in-law and our Dad again in the mix. But we all made it through as we watched Mom baking dozens and dozens of cookies to send to them wherever they were in overseas service. They all came home.
After the last of the brood married and moved away from home in our small town of Fernie, B.C., Canada in 1959, Our mother returned to the States and settled down to the job of raising retarded children in a hospital facility in Boulder, Mont. until she retired at the age of 65. From then on, although she could have lived with anyone in the family, she took up residence in Seattle Wa. where she could be near all of us, and we visited her frequently. At the ripe old age of 99, she passed away in her sleep as she always wished she would.
Since then, I decided to look up the history of my mother's maiden name, Beutel. I was pleasantly surprised with what I learned. The name goes back to the middle ages in Bavaria when a family's last name was sometimes attached to the trade they were in for earning a living. In the Beutel case,They were a family of wood stave barrel makers for beer and wine casks. they became so well known in their talent for producing these "butes" (containers) that the name became a part of Bavarian Aristocracy as the name Beutel. They were a well known, well off family and were so much a part of the wine and beer system that they also had a special tartan in their name. I must say it is a very pretty 3 tone blue and something my mother, with her astute manner of walking and always with her head held high each week as we followed her to church, would have been so proud of.
I know now why she was so adept in the making of beautiful wedding dresses she used to sew in order to enhance the family income. I'm so honored to be one of her sons.
I have written this story in honor of my mother, who is I'm sure, celebrating her 112th birthday somewhere with some of our older siblings in the great beyond, and smiling down on the rest of us this day. a day when Prince William and Kate are celebrating their first anniversary as well.
Also on a day of infamy when Hitler married Ava Braun. Where they died in a bunker by their own hand a short time later. April 29th, 1945. Just sayin'.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
BEFORE THE PERFECT STORM OF ILLNESSES.
In the beginning of my youthful years in which I never thought far enough ahead to realize they would someday leave me, I was of the foolish notion that they would never end. Simply because the last years of my life seemed so far away to waste time thinking about it.
I glided through each year day by day, and although I lost friends along the way to accidents and illnesses, it never happened to me. Sometimes I wondered if for some unknown purpose, I was being kept immune from all that stuff. Why not me?
Although I saw other friends injured or killed in accidents, I was always the witness and not a participant. My second oldest son for example, climbed aboard an offroad motorbike at the age of 17 after being asked by me to not do it. He had never been on one before in his life, but he did it anyway and it resulted in him hitting a house, smashing his head in and setting off a chain of disastrous events that, later in his life would haunt him and eventually kill him by means of a brain tumor at the age of 49. The doctors determined it was that very serious accident that started the benign growth. But I went on, thinking why not me?
I had two friends along the way who loved to drive their cars on 2 wheels around sharp, dangerous curves and with whom I rode many times when they did. They both died in separate accidents at different times. I wasn't there both times. Why not me?
I took more than my share of chances in my life, but always came away unscathed. I worked in the hard rock mines for three years in Butte Mont. in 1963, '64 and '65 alongside my older brother John, and although I had a partner killed in an explosion, I came away uninjured throughout those dangerous years. I saw others injured, but not me!
Sometimes I paused to wonder again, why not me?
In 1987, I lost my oldest son at the age of 30 to a deadly encounter with the Hell's Angels in Cranbrook, B.C. Canada. They robbed him of his prescription Demerol for his arthritic knees. They murdered him. No one was ever charged. But I went on, wondering, why not me?
Then at the age of 73, I decided it was time for me to find a doctor of my choice and have a general checkup. I had been treating myself for mild Diabetes over the past years but suspected nothing else. It was discovered I had stage 2 prostate cancer and radiation was administered for the next four months with the latest in cancer treatment technology. The treatment has proven to be successful. Approximately three weeks after the treatments concluded, I was affected by dizziness and after being treated at the Skagit Valley Emergency Room, it was determined I had 4 four major blockages in my aorta and heart. Three total and one 90%. After considering the seriousness and the delicate condition of my veins. I was transferred to Providence Hospital where I received stents to correct the condition. That also seems to have worked. Eight months after and just two weeks ago, I awoke having to go to the bathroom and to my surprise discovered my colon had released a heavy amount of blood. 8 days followed, during which time I came dangerously close to passing on. They were simply having a hard time keeping me supplied with blood to keep up with the amount I was losing. I have gradually recovered with the determination that I am afflicted by Diversiticulitis. A thinning of the sidewall of the lower bowel. (Colon). Treatment will continue as I speak. But now the question arises in a different respect. Why not me? Just sayin'.
Friday, April 27, 2012
TO WHOM IS A SECRET SERVICE ULTIMATELY LOYAL TO WHEN ASSIGNED TO THE PRESIDENT?DOES HE OR SHE SWEAR TO BE LOYAL TO THE MAN OR THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES?
Ultimately, Who would they respond to?
Because, in the case of Barack Obama, he or she can't possibly be both! This President is already making it more increasingly awkward every day for any agent who has sworn to be loyal to the American flag and what it represents, and still be loyal to him with his mandating the laws of this country over the authority of the Congress and the Constitution of the United States. He has been currently, systematically doing just that!
Let's nightmarishly pretend he declares Martial law under which he presumes ultimate power over the Country. Then he orders them and the Military to Quell all civil objections that may arise. He suspends all civil law that may interfere with his intentions. then he throws us into the socialist, political mix along with the New World Order which of course follows his lead.
Aren't you wondering why he is bypassing the House And the Senate with his executive orders and sending billions of dollars to the countries such as Egypt who have failed and have adopted Sheriah Law? Have you wondered what he mean't when he was caught on camera telling our cold war enemy Russian President to wait for the defensive weapons reduction until after his Nov. 2012 Election, at which time he would have more flexibility to act on it? We weren't supposed to hear that!
I believe he's paving the way with our taxpayer dollars, Folks! Then after and above all of that, Obama can become President of the New World Order.
But he can't become any of this until he gets re-elected to the Presidency in Nov. 2012, which he's already campaigning for at the expense of the American taxpayer, with the help of the illegal immigrants being allowed to vote if he can swing it, and the fraudulent voters he's amassing through the new organizations that have resurrected themselves from the infamous "Acorn" bunch who were disbanded due to Fraudulent,illegal activity in 2010.
Is any of this likely? Hardly for now. Is it possible? Yes!! Go to Google and click onto "Martial Law in the U.S." You can bet he thinks so! Can it be avoided? Yes, if you wake up from this nightmare now instead of after the Nov. 2012 election! WAKE UP AND BEWARE FOLKS! You'd be crazy to put anything past this guy and his "Well Oiled Machine" standing behind him and doing the navigating.
Haven't you noticed the extreme arrogance and confidence all of his staff are proceeding with, even when faced with all the illegal activity they've been caught doing, such as the "Fast and furious" debacle where they've been caught selling thousands of automatic weapons to the Mexican Drug Cartels? The billions of dollars that have disappeared into thin air to who knows where? Wouldn't you think they have been assured by Barack Obama not to worry, that he'll protect them when he wins the next election? Do you not see the over-confident assurance they behave with when confronted by Congress concerning all these underhanded activities? To the very last one, they're being loyal to the core, and it has to be with the assurance of someone who has promised to protect them. Barack Hussein Obama and his "Well Oiled,Political Machine."
At what point in time would they, the Secret Service and Military, refuse to take his orders?
Oh gosh, I just woke up!! Thank Heaven!!! Just sayin'.
Because, in the case of Barack Obama, he or she can't possibly be both! This President is already making it more increasingly awkward every day for any agent who has sworn to be loyal to the American flag and what it represents, and still be loyal to him with his mandating the laws of this country over the authority of the Congress and the Constitution of the United States. He has been currently, systematically doing just that!
Let's nightmarishly pretend he declares Martial law under which he presumes ultimate power over the Country. Then he orders them and the Military to Quell all civil objections that may arise. He suspends all civil law that may interfere with his intentions. then he throws us into the socialist, political mix along with the New World Order which of course follows his lead.
Aren't you wondering why he is bypassing the House And the Senate with his executive orders and sending billions of dollars to the countries such as Egypt who have failed and have adopted Sheriah Law? Have you wondered what he mean't when he was caught on camera telling our cold war enemy Russian President to wait for the defensive weapons reduction until after his Nov. 2012 Election, at which time he would have more flexibility to act on it? We weren't supposed to hear that!
I believe he's paving the way with our taxpayer dollars, Folks! Then after and above all of that, Obama can become President of the New World Order.
But he can't become any of this until he gets re-elected to the Presidency in Nov. 2012, which he's already campaigning for at the expense of the American taxpayer, with the help of the illegal immigrants being allowed to vote if he can swing it, and the fraudulent voters he's amassing through the new organizations that have resurrected themselves from the infamous "Acorn" bunch who were disbanded due to Fraudulent,illegal activity in 2010.
Is any of this likely? Hardly for now. Is it possible? Yes!! Go to Google and click onto "Martial Law in the U.S." You can bet he thinks so! Can it be avoided? Yes, if you wake up from this nightmare now instead of after the Nov. 2012 election! WAKE UP AND BEWARE FOLKS! You'd be crazy to put anything past this guy and his "Well Oiled Machine" standing behind him and doing the navigating.
Haven't you noticed the extreme arrogance and confidence all of his staff are proceeding with, even when faced with all the illegal activity they've been caught doing, such as the "Fast and furious" debacle where they've been caught selling thousands of automatic weapons to the Mexican Drug Cartels? The billions of dollars that have disappeared into thin air to who knows where? Wouldn't you think they have been assured by Barack Obama not to worry, that he'll protect them when he wins the next election? Do you not see the over-confident assurance they behave with when confronted by Congress concerning all these underhanded activities? To the very last one, they're being loyal to the core, and it has to be with the assurance of someone who has promised to protect them. Barack Hussein Obama and his "Well Oiled,Political Machine."
At what point in time would they, the Secret Service and Military, refuse to take his orders?
Oh gosh, I just woke up!! Thank Heaven!!! Just sayin'.
THE PROGRAMMED, PLASTIC SMILES OF THE MARXIST, SOCIALIST SPOKESMEN OF THE "WELL OILED, OBAMA REGIME"
A perfect place to see an example of it is when they're being interviewed by an honest to goodness Host of "Fox News". They all behave the same way, no matter who they are. I've pointed it out in a previous blog, but I want to emphasize it again to the unaware, earnest listener who assumes the honesty of it all.
Allan Colmes , a dedicated "Lefty" is a good one to watch. Like the rest, he always poses with a smile like he is ready and amused by any question that's about to be asked. It's the "I know something you don't" smile concerning the "secrets" behind the "Well oiled, Obama Regime".
When asked a serious question he knows he can't give an honest answer to, He, again like the others, busts out laughing to avoid having to respond verbally to it. And it works!!
As I speak, they all conduct themselves the same way. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, pick one!!
The interviewer follows up, pointing out the gist of his or her question and remarking that Alan is avoiding the answer, but Alan begins overtalking the interviewer, staring off into space as though programmed by hypnosis and, without hearing a word that's being said, continues on doubletalking until silence pursues. It's commonly referred to as "fillibustering." The plastic smile never leaves, though.
It's one of the oldest, unpleasant but successful means of stopping the opposition from making an honest point that exists today. Any prominent Socialist does it, and when they do run out of words, which isn't often enough, they aren't hearing any other word that's being said anyway. it's almost as though they've totally shut their minds off to what makes sense until they themselves dream up something else for them to say. Sometimes during that lull, they stare off into space and bust out laughing as though Bill Maher just whispered something vulgar in their ear. You all know Bill Maher don't you? The pig headed guy with the obscene, oversized face that's thinks he's funny?
He's the Marxist/Atheist who never knows when to shut up and gets paid while doing it.
Boy oh boy, is God gonna have fun with that guy!!!
He's the fella that showed up at one of the latest actor's guild ceremonies holding hands with a gal with a herpes cold sore on her lip. Wonder where she got that??? Just sayin.'
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN ROMNEY AND THE UNDECIDED VOTER
There's a large bloc of undecided voters out there, just waiting to be convinced who to vote for. Their knowledge on politics is limited because the only time they usually pay attention to the incumbents and the challengers is at election time.
For various reasons of their own in the past, they felt they had better things to do with their off work hours than to keep track of politics. They simply depended on their favorite News channel to convey the election information in a simple way to indicate who they should vote for, and that was good enough for them. If they are convinced by the superficial reporting of the facts and figures they hear and see, they vote that way, assuming naturally that they're being told the truth as they have been in the past. If they only knew!!! There is no honest Democratic Party anymore!
These listeners are the real, Independent citizen who knows there's something wrong with the Country, but since they haven't had to learn more about the system in the past, they aren't aware of the mistruths that are being peddled to them and who's doing it. They only want things to get better.
Now, Among'st these people who are also called the "swing" voters, if you take an expert, convincing speaker who is bettered by none in communications and public speaking, he or she can spellbound the audience with simple understandable lingo that they understand. The speaker knows he is captivating the audience and while they're in that captivated mode, gives out facts and figures that can be totally erroneous, but it doesn't matter,because the speaker knows that at least half of the listeners are going to believe it anyway and he has their vote. Who fits the "speaker" bill?? Barack Hussein Obama!!!!! And totally at the taxpayer's expense because he has manufactured some fickle reason he's in that particular town on official business.
My point is, because the figures and comments aren't necessarily coming from him, but from one of several teleprompters in front of him, it's a speech that's not manufactured by him, but by the great, "Well oiled machine" that's really running the show from behind the scenes. The Marxist/Socialist group who always hides in the wings. Debbie Wasserman Schultz for example.
Romney isn't necessarily at fault here. He's right in his messages, but he's failing to communicate to the same crowd Obama is talking to because he's talking over their heads with information that's too involved and too much all at once for them to take the time to understand. Bad economy, jobs, creating private sector stability and lowering unemployment they've already heard a hundred times, and half of it out of the mouth of Barack Obama! They don't know who's telling the truth except to know Obama's more convincing and therefore his remarks are going to stay in their mind longer.
They don't know when he's lying or when Romney is. Obama and the "Well oiled machine" knows they can cinch 50% of the Independent vote as long as half the group I'm referring to believe him. They will then depend on the usually expected fraudulent voters to push them over the top.
BINGO!!! They're in!!! So unless Romney and his backers start playing hardball and get directly down to pointing out to the voters the blatant dishonesty in the remarks and disinformation being fed them and in a way this particular bloc of Independent voters understand, they're going to allow Barack Obama to smirk his arrogant way back into the White House. His secret is talking in their language. The truth, to him, matters not. He simply blurts out things you want to hear with absolutely no regard to the dishonesty in it. Every day they can prove something he says a lie, because it is!!
If they can't dig up the gonads to bring out the hypocrisy and fight fire with fire, they don't deserve to win. Once they have proven the dishonesty that truly exists in this guy and hit below the belt in the same manner he is doing, his manner of sounding honest will diminish in the eyes of the people who count the most in this election. The Independent voter.
Just sayin.
For various reasons of their own in the past, they felt they had better things to do with their off work hours than to keep track of politics. They simply depended on their favorite News channel to convey the election information in a simple way to indicate who they should vote for, and that was good enough for them. If they are convinced by the superficial reporting of the facts and figures they hear and see, they vote that way, assuming naturally that they're being told the truth as they have been in the past. If they only knew!!! There is no honest Democratic Party anymore!
These listeners are the real, Independent citizen who knows there's something wrong with the Country, but since they haven't had to learn more about the system in the past, they aren't aware of the mistruths that are being peddled to them and who's doing it. They only want things to get better.
Now, Among'st these people who are also called the "swing" voters, if you take an expert, convincing speaker who is bettered by none in communications and public speaking, he or she can spellbound the audience with simple understandable lingo that they understand. The speaker knows he is captivating the audience and while they're in that captivated mode, gives out facts and figures that can be totally erroneous, but it doesn't matter,because the speaker knows that at least half of the listeners are going to believe it anyway and he has their vote. Who fits the "speaker" bill?? Barack Hussein Obama!!!!! And totally at the taxpayer's expense because he has manufactured some fickle reason he's in that particular town on official business.
My point is, because the figures and comments aren't necessarily coming from him, but from one of several teleprompters in front of him, it's a speech that's not manufactured by him, but by the great, "Well oiled machine" that's really running the show from behind the scenes. The Marxist/Socialist group who always hides in the wings. Debbie Wasserman Schultz for example.
Romney isn't necessarily at fault here. He's right in his messages, but he's failing to communicate to the same crowd Obama is talking to because he's talking over their heads with information that's too involved and too much all at once for them to take the time to understand. Bad economy, jobs, creating private sector stability and lowering unemployment they've already heard a hundred times, and half of it out of the mouth of Barack Obama! They don't know who's telling the truth except to know Obama's more convincing and therefore his remarks are going to stay in their mind longer.
They don't know when he's lying or when Romney is. Obama and the "Well oiled machine" knows they can cinch 50% of the Independent vote as long as half the group I'm referring to believe him. They will then depend on the usually expected fraudulent voters to push them over the top.
BINGO!!! They're in!!! So unless Romney and his backers start playing hardball and get directly down to pointing out to the voters the blatant dishonesty in the remarks and disinformation being fed them and in a way this particular bloc of Independent voters understand, they're going to allow Barack Obama to smirk his arrogant way back into the White House. His secret is talking in their language. The truth, to him, matters not. He simply blurts out things you want to hear with absolutely no regard to the dishonesty in it. Every day they can prove something he says a lie, because it is!!
If they can't dig up the gonads to bring out the hypocrisy and fight fire with fire, they don't deserve to win. Once they have proven the dishonesty that truly exists in this guy and hit below the belt in the same manner he is doing, his manner of sounding honest will diminish in the eyes of the people who count the most in this election. The Independent voter.
Just sayin.
Monday, April 23, 2012
GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER LYNN. YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN THROUGH HELL, GOD SPEED YOU TO ETERNAL PEACE.
Lynn was born in A little coal mining town of Fernie, B.C. Canada, 4 years before me and under the same circumstances as us younger siblings of the John D. McNaughton family. My sister Joyce came along after that and then me, followed lastly by sister Jeannie.
Our family, like many other families in the same situation as ours, was truly poor. Our's more extremely so, not just because of the Great Depression, but also due to an alcoholic father who never mentally survived the first World War as a machine gunner in the Canadian Army. But this is about Lynn, not the rest of us.
Being the 8th of 11 children and the seventh of eight boys, he was part of a hand-me-down world for pretty well everything he received. At a time such as it was, Stark reality was the norm. For my Mother it was even more so and with her being so busy trying to make a life for us all, there wasn't time for her to sit down with us separately each time for long when we needed comfort and sympathy over a minor scrape. There simply wasn't the time! It was no different for Lynn. He grew up in a "struggle for survival" mode right through his teenage years and until he became a member of the survey crew with the Construction Branch of the B.C. Dept. of Highways.
But as Lynn grew up through the ranks of the teenage era, I want to recall some of the good things he did for me as a protective, older brother in those same years along the way.
I remember an incident when I was ten years old. It was summer, the Swimming pool had opened and school was out for the Summer Season. Lynn had gotten his first job doing summer work on Bricker's farm just 2 miles out of town. It was a sunny, fun day and all the kids were playing soccer on the grass beside the pool. I noticed Lynn come into the pool area in his work clothes, all tired and dusty. He simply watched as we continued to play. There was a 14 year old Scottish boy visiting from Scotland who had decided who could play and who couldn't. I was chosen not to play. so as the game went on, the ball accidentally came my way, so I attempted to kick it back but it rolled into the pool. In a fit of temper, Scottie ran over to me and slugged me on the side of the face, not knowing Lynn was sitting there watching. Too bad for Scottie is all I can say.
Lynn was always there for me in hockey season, with me playing in the PeeWee league and him playing in Juvenile. He would be there to cheer me on. He pretty well had to stay, with me wearing some of his equipment and all. Especially using his hockey stick which always seemed to be at a premium, then and now as a matter of fact!
As we grew older, I too joined the Dept. of Highways Construction Branch and we worked together on the same projects survey wise, with Lynn being a senior Instrumentman on one crew and me as a levelman on another. I had already married and Lynn hadn't.
Lynn had a chainman on his crew named Lou Bootsma and on week-ends they would take off in Lou's car and head for the city lights looking for female company,but they always were back for work on Monday morning. Except for one very unfortunate Labor Day weekend that will never be forgotten in our family.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and then Thursday came with still no sign of Lynn and Lou. Then the office phone rang beside my elbow. It was an R.C.M.P. officer wanting to know if a Lou Bootsma worked for us. I replied "Yes". He went on to say he had died instantly in a car accident sometime on Sunday afternoon, after blowing a tire on a sharp curve and plummeting over a 300 foot cliff on the Creston/ Nelson highway along Kootenay Lake. My heart raced as I asked him,"Well, what about the other guy that was with him?" After a long pause off the phone he came back and asked, "What was his name?" I replied "Lynn McNaughton." Another long pause and then," We didn't know Lou had anyone with him, but he's in the Creston Hospital suffering from severe head injuries. He was also found miles down the road by a traveler who saw him wandering in a roadside ditch all bloody and mosquito bitten just today, four days later."
Well, Lynn fully recovered from that accident as far as the doctors were concerned, but it took a long while to. He had multiple head fractures with multiple areas of concussion. But to our family, Lynn was a different man from that time on. His moods of depression certainly increased over the years.
Not long after that, I was offered a job by the City of Cranbrook as a surveyor for them. I knew that Lynn wanted to have that job and told him if he wanted it, I would introduce him to the engineer who offered it to me. I did and he got the job.
In 1963, Lynn met a pretty lady 10 years his elder and they married. No children were in the making and as the years went on, his wife Elizabeth was stricken with Rheumatoid Arthritis and quickly became unable to dress or undress herself, do her hair or even cook for that matter.
Lynn never complained. He took care of everything.
Good luck came his way in the purchase of a Canadian Lottery ticket right about then!. He won $100,000.00 tax free. A joyful time for them indeed. As far as money was concerned, it wasn't a problem for the rest of their lives.
Lynn retired when he turned 65 and settled down to care for Elizabeth.It was tremendously difficult for him because all there was left of her was a frail, totally helpless and twisted up old lady.
Eventually Elizabeth was placed in a care home where she could continue to be cared for.
Soon after that, Lynn was found wandering aimlessly on the streets and was escorted to the hospital. His mental and health condition failed, he went blind to the point where he refused to acknowledge anyone.
He passed away this morning in his sleep, just as our Mother did in 1999.
We all love you Lynn, and know with all the hell you've been through, you'll rest peacefully in the arms of our Sacred Mother along with Stanley, John, Duane and my two sons, Danny and Allan.
Just sayin'. Your Brother George.
Our family, like many other families in the same situation as ours, was truly poor. Our's more extremely so, not just because of the Great Depression, but also due to an alcoholic father who never mentally survived the first World War as a machine gunner in the Canadian Army. But this is about Lynn, not the rest of us.
Being the 8th of 11 children and the seventh of eight boys, he was part of a hand-me-down world for pretty well everything he received. At a time such as it was, Stark reality was the norm. For my Mother it was even more so and with her being so busy trying to make a life for us all, there wasn't time for her to sit down with us separately each time for long when we needed comfort and sympathy over a minor scrape. There simply wasn't the time! It was no different for Lynn. He grew up in a "struggle for survival" mode right through his teenage years and until he became a member of the survey crew with the Construction Branch of the B.C. Dept. of Highways.
But as Lynn grew up through the ranks of the teenage era, I want to recall some of the good things he did for me as a protective, older brother in those same years along the way.
I remember an incident when I was ten years old. It was summer, the Swimming pool had opened and school was out for the Summer Season. Lynn had gotten his first job doing summer work on Bricker's farm just 2 miles out of town. It was a sunny, fun day and all the kids were playing soccer on the grass beside the pool. I noticed Lynn come into the pool area in his work clothes, all tired and dusty. He simply watched as we continued to play. There was a 14 year old Scottish boy visiting from Scotland who had decided who could play and who couldn't. I was chosen not to play. so as the game went on, the ball accidentally came my way, so I attempted to kick it back but it rolled into the pool. In a fit of temper, Scottie ran over to me and slugged me on the side of the face, not knowing Lynn was sitting there watching. Too bad for Scottie is all I can say.
Lynn was always there for me in hockey season, with me playing in the PeeWee league and him playing in Juvenile. He would be there to cheer me on. He pretty well had to stay, with me wearing some of his equipment and all. Especially using his hockey stick which always seemed to be at a premium, then and now as a matter of fact!
As we grew older, I too joined the Dept. of Highways Construction Branch and we worked together on the same projects survey wise, with Lynn being a senior Instrumentman on one crew and me as a levelman on another. I had already married and Lynn hadn't.
Lynn had a chainman on his crew named Lou Bootsma and on week-ends they would take off in Lou's car and head for the city lights looking for female company,but they always were back for work on Monday morning. Except for one very unfortunate Labor Day weekend that will never be forgotten in our family.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and then Thursday came with still no sign of Lynn and Lou. Then the office phone rang beside my elbow. It was an R.C.M.P. officer wanting to know if a Lou Bootsma worked for us. I replied "Yes". He went on to say he had died instantly in a car accident sometime on Sunday afternoon, after blowing a tire on a sharp curve and plummeting over a 300 foot cliff on the Creston/ Nelson highway along Kootenay Lake. My heart raced as I asked him,"Well, what about the other guy that was with him?" After a long pause off the phone he came back and asked, "What was his name?" I replied "Lynn McNaughton." Another long pause and then," We didn't know Lou had anyone with him, but he's in the Creston Hospital suffering from severe head injuries. He was also found miles down the road by a traveler who saw him wandering in a roadside ditch all bloody and mosquito bitten just today, four days later."
Well, Lynn fully recovered from that accident as far as the doctors were concerned, but it took a long while to. He had multiple head fractures with multiple areas of concussion. But to our family, Lynn was a different man from that time on. His moods of depression certainly increased over the years.
Not long after that, I was offered a job by the City of Cranbrook as a surveyor for them. I knew that Lynn wanted to have that job and told him if he wanted it, I would introduce him to the engineer who offered it to me. I did and he got the job.
In 1963, Lynn met a pretty lady 10 years his elder and they married. No children were in the making and as the years went on, his wife Elizabeth was stricken with Rheumatoid Arthritis and quickly became unable to dress or undress herself, do her hair or even cook for that matter.
Lynn never complained. He took care of everything.
Good luck came his way in the purchase of a Canadian Lottery ticket right about then!. He won $100,000.00 tax free. A joyful time for them indeed. As far as money was concerned, it wasn't a problem for the rest of their lives.
Lynn retired when he turned 65 and settled down to care for Elizabeth.It was tremendously difficult for him because all there was left of her was a frail, totally helpless and twisted up old lady.
Eventually Elizabeth was placed in a care home where she could continue to be cared for.
Soon after that, Lynn was found wandering aimlessly on the streets and was escorted to the hospital. His mental and health condition failed, he went blind to the point where he refused to acknowledge anyone.
He passed away this morning in his sleep, just as our Mother did in 1999.
We all love you Lynn, and know with all the hell you've been through, you'll rest peacefully in the arms of our Sacred Mother along with Stanley, John, Duane and my two sons, Danny and Allan.
Just sayin'. Your Brother George.
! DON'T WANT TO TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM THE SECRET SERVICE< BUT.....
WHAT DO THE WARRIORS IN AFGHANISTAN GET??
I recently heard a Democratic Congressman remark on the disgusting Secret Service Scandal; " I don't know what the Republicans are complaining about. These men are the strongest, bravest heroes who protect the President of the United states. They're ready at any moment to step in front of a bullet to save his life. A little R&R doesn't hurt a thing."
I ask you, what on earth do you think the Warriors in Afghanistan do every day? Where they're asked to walk along roadside bombs and suicide bombers that may unsuspectingly be a 10 yr. old child or an old woman that would blow them apart any moment? And all this before they reach the true enemy that sent them with the promise of death to the rest of their family if they don't.
When was the last time anyone saw a Secret Service Agent shot dead or wounded?
Yes, protecting the President and his entourage is a special job. But are the soldiers in Afghanistan given breaks to vacation in plush resorts at the taxpayer's expense while they're on duty? Are they supplied with all the booze they can drink? Do they get hot tubs to soak in and their choice of 21 prostitutes to choose from? Do they get an expense account to charge their illegal purchases to?
A resounding,"NO.!!!"
Is there any reward for good, expected, everyday performance? Is their pay so good for their working hours that it's second to none? Another resounding "NO!!"
The question here is though, Where is the GSA letting the blame flow to? The Secret Service warriors, of course. The guys who take orders to the letter without question from their sacred superiors. So why wouldn't they take offerings of reward for their deeds? You can bet that's the way the offerings were presented to them. Putting personal morals aside for the moment, why on earth would they turn an event like this down that they've been told they earned?
I have no qualms with that except for one thing, What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Either offer it to all of the great volunteer military of this country and not to just a select few. Discrimination is a big word at this time in this politically volatile country and we don't need to demonstrate it in the Obama Regime, do we now?
The investigation is far from over, but someone independently driven needs to shift the blame to where the shoe really fits and not let it lay at the bottom of the corruption pile to permeate and stink like Obama's gym sneakers. Place the blame where it belongs, and after that, the responsibility where it belongs as well. At the top of the manure pile.
It's a shame that the natural thing to do is look at the videos of those front line agents loosening up once in a while just as us civilians did or do in our private lives. It's not a forgotten practice in America yet.
But it does show a misplaced view of the Liberal Media who, in their politically driven attempt to get Obama re-elected, would keep the investigation at or near the bottom of the sneaker smell.
If Barack Obama didn't know about all these unfortunate happenings, it doesn't absolve him of it. He is still ultimately responsible. He accepted responsibility the second he became the President of the United States. Blame is properly placed, responsibility is properly designated.
Any good organization of any kind ever places blame without designating responsibility. No one knows this procedure better than the Socialist left and they execute it perfectly when someone from the opposition goes awry. They forget it only too quickly when it comes to their hypocritical selves.
Barack Obama, although in his 4th year of his Presidency, is still getting drunk every day on power, and his drunken spending spree is a hell of a lot more expensive than just that one party.
He doesn't seem to be concerned about his careless antics and the leaking of top secret information being leaked to other countries by way of loose lips and prostitutes.
Hitler allowed lots of parties. Just sayin'.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
FOLLOW THE LEADER? HOW IMPORTANT IS HE? HOW SINCERE IS HE?
No matter what the philosophy, what the belief, what the politics and what the religion, everyone follows the teachings and guidance of a Leader.
The question is, how sincere is the Leader? How dedicated is he? What are the "true" intentions and the ultimate goal of the "Leader?" Is it to have you serve his intentions for "his" goals or yours?
Or even for a more self serving thought, is the Leader merely a sociopathic, highly trained orator whose only selfish purpose is to achieve an ultimate dream of symbolic power in return for his talents as a Community Organizer. who is devoid of compassion and willing to tell you whatever it takes for you to follow his lead? And he leaves a baited trail of promised money if only you would follow him to his Eutopia.
But the more you follow the trail of this Leader the more inconsistent he becomes, sometimes in his life he's a Christian among Christians, a Muslim among Islamists and an Atheist among Atheists.
His past life is crowded with conflicting memories from the past. He was, as "Barack Hussein Obama", born in Hawaii, Aug. 4th, 1961. In another life, he was born "Barry Soetoro", Aug. 4th in Kenya, 1961. This was information produced to the Indonesian and Pakistani Gov'ts proving his birthplace so he could obtain passports which he indeed received. It's believed he lied about his birthplace being in Kenya in order to obtain entry to Pakistan due to a "No Entry" status issued to U.S. citizens at the time. For whatever purpose, he lied about his past to achieve something.
He was raised by white, Christian, Missionary Grandparents not in the U.S., but in Indonesia and raised a Muslim at the same time in a Muslim school. He claims to have converted to Christianity after he migrated to the U.S. around 1984. He started his Community Organizing career in "Midwest Academy" in Chicago and smack in the middle of the most corrupt city in U.S. politics today, an Atheist based college founded by an Atheist, Communist minded professor named Saul Alinsky.
He has Surrounded himself with people who have practically all attended this Academy around the same time as him, including Hilary Rodham. Currently Hilary Rodham Clinton.
He had no prior political Knowledge whatsoever before taking over Senator Ted Kennedy's vacant Senate seat.
So do you think he's the mastermind behind all this "New Direction" he's taking us? Not on your life!! As I mentioned in a previous blog, It's the "Well oiled, Marxist, Socialist Regime" that writes his speeches, programs his every move including his trips out of the country and creates his dialogue to the American people. He merely does what he excels at best. Reads the teleprompters.
But along with the power of the Presidency, he has been placed in a position he never before imagined or dreamed of. I believe the "Well oiled Machine" that made it all possible may be starting to worry about the guy. One day he's a conservative, the same evening he's a liberal. Then he's on Air Force One on his way to China, North Korea and Russia to play the role of Communist. Next to Libya and Syria where he's back in his original true role of Muslim and an advocate of Sheriah Law.
You tell me, is he Pro-American, Anti-American, Muslim, Christian, Socialist, Marxist/Atheist?
Is he a Constitutional lawyer for the purpose of advocation or revocation of the U.S. Constitution? WELL!! What is he?
Whatever he is, whether he gets re-elected or not, he's going to leave behind a divided nation of confused, deceived and broken people such as never before. You never know what this man is going to be tomorrow, but he's learning well from a "Well Oiled Machine" leader, Atheist Billionaire George Soros, considered to be the most powerful Anti-American in the world, who owns and operates several known ultra left wing media organizations such as Media Matters, the Huffington Post and left behind a string of Bankrupt, smaller countries in the world before he arrived here. So again, What, and who, really is Barack Obama??? Just askin?
Monday, April 2, 2012
TODAY BEGINS THE HOLY EASTER WEEK. DON'T INSULT US BY HONORING IT IF YOU ARE AN ATHEIST.
It's Easter, and If you are an Atheist, Keep your dissenting mouth shut and out of the mix! There's already an overwhelming number of us, that we don't need you, and personally, I don't care to have you around anyway at a time such as this. It's truly a Christian time to reflect back, to mourn Jesus' crucifixion and to honor his resurrection on the third day.
Having said that, we'll all have our various celebrations on these Holy days, such as the week of Lent, Good Friday and then the main event of Easter Sunday! A day when families and groups get up early and arrange for the Easter egg hunts that will joyfully come to the children as they awake, have a healthy breakfast and on cue, gather at the starting line to find the hidden eggs. It's a beautiful time for all involved when it takes place. Especially to watch the toddlers who are involved for the first time. It's a real kick to say the least.
Let's not forget the Religious ceremonies that take place throughout the day. I think it's safe to say that everyone goes to bed that night with peace of mind to one degree or another, but there will be undoubtedly, a feeling of peace to each and everyone, along with the gas that follows those who ate a lot of boiled eggs throughout the day. I wish to be excused from that bunch, as I should have learned my lesson by now.
The memorable pictures that follow will be there to reflect back on in the future.
What especially comes to mind is an Easter Sunday back in 1982 when I paid a visit to my Sister Joyce and brother-in-law Claire. I arrived at their house early that day since my wife was out of town visiting her relatives in Canada. Joyce was already up and Claire was still asleep, so she made the two of us some coffee and sat near a big bay window facing the back yard. There was a five foot solid board fence that separated the back yard of the house on the other side. Immediately on the other side was a fruit tree just coming into bloom.
As we sat there looking towards the back yard, the father of the children came out and began placing colored Easter eggs around about in the branches of the tree. Then he retreated back into the house. With him no sooner gone, A large squirrel appeared along the top of the fence from a nearby tree. With easy access to the tree with the eggs, it handily jumped over and took an egg in it's mouth and danced back to the tree it came from and disappeared. Within seconds it reappeared and repeated the same process, with us laughing in the midst of it all. I guess it happened two or three times more, enough for us to be giggling in astonishment.
Then out came the children anxiously looking for the eggs,finding what was left but with the Dad looking on in wonderment because he knew he had placed more eggs than the children found. With a quizzical look he disappeared into the house shaking his head and glancing back to see if he could possibly see some sort of thief. He didn't, and we didn't want to convict the very lovable little squirrel.
Just sayin'.
Having said that, we'll all have our various celebrations on these Holy days, such as the week of Lent, Good Friday and then the main event of Easter Sunday! A day when families and groups get up early and arrange for the Easter egg hunts that will joyfully come to the children as they awake, have a healthy breakfast and on cue, gather at the starting line to find the hidden eggs. It's a beautiful time for all involved when it takes place. Especially to watch the toddlers who are involved for the first time. It's a real kick to say the least.
Let's not forget the Religious ceremonies that take place throughout the day. I think it's safe to say that everyone goes to bed that night with peace of mind to one degree or another, but there will be undoubtedly, a feeling of peace to each and everyone, along with the gas that follows those who ate a lot of boiled eggs throughout the day. I wish to be excused from that bunch, as I should have learned my lesson by now.
The memorable pictures that follow will be there to reflect back on in the future.
What especially comes to mind is an Easter Sunday back in 1982 when I paid a visit to my Sister Joyce and brother-in-law Claire. I arrived at their house early that day since my wife was out of town visiting her relatives in Canada. Joyce was already up and Claire was still asleep, so she made the two of us some coffee and sat near a big bay window facing the back yard. There was a five foot solid board fence that separated the back yard of the house on the other side. Immediately on the other side was a fruit tree just coming into bloom.
As we sat there looking towards the back yard, the father of the children came out and began placing colored Easter eggs around about in the branches of the tree. Then he retreated back into the house. With him no sooner gone, A large squirrel appeared along the top of the fence from a nearby tree. With easy access to the tree with the eggs, it handily jumped over and took an egg in it's mouth and danced back to the tree it came from and disappeared. Within seconds it reappeared and repeated the same process, with us laughing in the midst of it all. I guess it happened two or three times more, enough for us to be giggling in astonishment.
Then out came the children anxiously looking for the eggs,finding what was left but with the Dad looking on in wonderment because he knew he had placed more eggs than the children found. With a quizzical look he disappeared into the house shaking his head and glancing back to see if he could possibly see some sort of thief. He didn't, and we didn't want to convict the very lovable little squirrel.
Just sayin'.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
CHINA"S FIRST OFFICIAL GOV'T. DECLARED ATHEISM AS IT'S COUNTRY'S BELIEF.
In case anyone wonders why China so adamantly resists the introduction of modern day religion in it's claim to territorial dominance, it really never ever had one basic religion until Buddhism was introduced in the middle of the 1st century by central Asian traders from Korea, Mongolia, Tibet and Japan. Although still allowed in some provinces of China, it is severely disregarded and restricted. Hence the practice of Buddhist Monks burning themselves to death in protest continues on.
At one time in past and Ancient history, there was one theory presented by Confucius referred to as Confucianism and another theory produced by Tao believers called Taoism. Those weren't beliefs in one God, but several of them. This occurred somewhere around 2500 years ago. The Holy men of the Gods were referred to as "Shamans." (Shenism)
Christianity was introduced in the 7th century but was doomed to failure, again because of language variations among the masses. It was re-introduced again in the 16th century by Jesuit missionaries, but survived only marginally, and in 1949 was considered backward and abolished by the Totalitarian Regime.
Because of hundreds of different dialects, the actual communicating of those varying beliefs was difficult to say the least, and still stands in the way of modern day communications. Only a small fraction of the 1.5 billion population is "retrofitted" with modern day beliefs as they presently exist, or for that matter, have the modern facilities to hear, see or read about them.
You can thank the modern World for even that amount. So in order to maintain control of the masses, Chinese Rulers in control of China in 1949, established Totalitarianism by way of Atheism. They rule with Atheism as there guide today.
Can you sense the familiarity of the true purpose of Atheism here in this country as it gets mixed in with the Marxist/Socialist beliefs of some of our Gov't sponsored Schools, Colleges and Universities in our United States?
On Fox News this morning, they pointed out a recent survey of 400 teaching facilities and were astounded to find that Atheism is being slowly introduced into the system and advocated by the Adminstrations and staff. Along with the promotion of restrictions of freedom of speech if it doesn't agree with their philosophy, some students and Faculty members have already been prohibited from entering these facilities because of their conflicting religious and political beliefs.
Wake up America. If they get their way, Totalitarianism is just around the corner if the current Administration gets re-elected. A wolf in sheep's clothing is poised to take over this country.
The handwriting is already on the wall! Just sayin'.
At one time in past and Ancient history, there was one theory presented by Confucius referred to as Confucianism and another theory produced by Tao believers called Taoism. Those weren't beliefs in one God, but several of them. This occurred somewhere around 2500 years ago. The Holy men of the Gods were referred to as "Shamans." (Shenism)
Christianity was introduced in the 7th century but was doomed to failure, again because of language variations among the masses. It was re-introduced again in the 16th century by Jesuit missionaries, but survived only marginally, and in 1949 was considered backward and abolished by the Totalitarian Regime.
Because of hundreds of different dialects, the actual communicating of those varying beliefs was difficult to say the least, and still stands in the way of modern day communications. Only a small fraction of the 1.5 billion population is "retrofitted" with modern day beliefs as they presently exist, or for that matter, have the modern facilities to hear, see or read about them.
You can thank the modern World for even that amount. So in order to maintain control of the masses, Chinese Rulers in control of China in 1949, established Totalitarianism by way of Atheism. They rule with Atheism as there guide today.
Can you sense the familiarity of the true purpose of Atheism here in this country as it gets mixed in with the Marxist/Socialist beliefs of some of our Gov't sponsored Schools, Colleges and Universities in our United States?
On Fox News this morning, they pointed out a recent survey of 400 teaching facilities and were astounded to find that Atheism is being slowly introduced into the system and advocated by the Adminstrations and staff. Along with the promotion of restrictions of freedom of speech if it doesn't agree with their philosophy, some students and Faculty members have already been prohibited from entering these facilities because of their conflicting religious and political beliefs.
Wake up America. If they get their way, Totalitarianism is just around the corner if the current Administration gets re-elected. A wolf in sheep's clothing is poised to take over this country.
The handwriting is already on the wall! Just sayin'.
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