Food Pantry Football

Okay y'all - Wendy Robinson and I are going to play food pantry football again this year. She will be donating a food item to a local food pantry for every point the Packers score this evening, and I will be doing the same for every point the Bears score. Pick your team and join the fun!! And let's hope for a high scoring game - for BOTH teams! :)

Merry Christmas

Wishing you all a blessed Christmas.

Protect the Vote!

Okay, by now I'm sure y'all have seen stories about the Wisconsin Recall efforts - and the fraud that is sure to be involved. If you haven't, allow me to present this little tidbit from WISN:

MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- A man told 12 News that he has signed as many as 80 petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker.

The man had the following exchange with 12 News' Kent Wainscott on Thursday:

Man: "I think I signed about 80 times."

Wainscott: "You've signed 80 petitions, you think?"

Man: "I signed a lot of them for the past two weeks. I've been seeing them at the Grand Avenue Mall. Out here by Pick 'n Save and stuff like that."

Wainscott: "Well, you know they're only going to count one of your signatures?"

Man: "Oh well. Whatever it takes to get Scott Walker out of here, I'm happy."

Wainscott: "That means signing repeatedly?"

Man: "Yeah. They cheated for Bush, so hey, I'm going to cheat to get Scott Walker out of here."

You can see the video here.

Wow! Good thing we have the Government Accountability Board to protect us from duplicate and fraudulent signatures, right? Wait...what?

The signatures of Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler will be counted on recall petitions targeting Gov. Scott Walker as long as they are properly dated and include a Wisconsin address, the board charged with reviewing the petitions was told Tuesday.

Suspicious signatures will be noted when the Government Accountability Board reviews the petitions, but reviewers will look to see that signatures are accompanied by a Wisconsin address and are dated as having been signed during the circulation period, board elections specialist David Buerger said.

"We will flag them, but we will not strike them without challenge," Buerger said after being asked whether Mickey Mouse's signature would be counted. He noted that in previous recall petitions, Adolf Hitler's name was struck because the address given was in Germany, not because of the name itself.

Soooo, the agency that is supposed to protect the integrity of the democratic process will allow Mickey Mouse, Hitler, Donald Duck, or anyone else to sign a petition as long as it has a Wisconsin address and is dated correctly???? Are you KIDDING me? And don't think it's not happening my friends. Wisconsin conservative radio talk show host Vicki McKenna's name has already shown up on at least one petition.

Sooooo, what's a person to do? VOLUNTEER!!! There are two sites out there and admittedly, I'm not sure which one is the real deal so I signed up for both. One of the sites is http://www.verifytherecall.com/ and the other is http://www.scottwalker.org/verify.

In any event, if you know how to use a computer...and who doesn't these days...and you want to do whatever you can to keep this ridiculous recall effort as honest as possible (I know - quit laughing - that's why they need us), PLEASE sign up to help with data input. Since the Government Accountability Board is too busy (with what I have NO idea)to actually CHECK for multiple signatures, etc., it's up to us to help out. From what I understand, they simply need volunteers to input data and their software will tag duplicate names and the like. More details will be forthcoming as the time for volunteering nears.

I ask you my friends - if you value the democratic process at all, think about signing up to help. Thanks!

Christmas - American Style

I saw this on facebook last night and just HAD to share it. While the quality isn't the best, I think the message comes through pretty clearly, don't you?



Oscar. Foxtrot. Sierra.

Happy Thanksgiving

I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you and yours a very blessed Thanksgiving. I have a LOT to be thankful for...friends, family, freedom. A special shout out to our troops AND their families who are unable to spend this holiday together. God bless you all.

I do NOT stand with Governor Scott Walker

I don't often post something without adding commentary, but this post by Dr. Tim Nerenz needs none.

Bring It

They are at it again in Wisconsin. The perpetual hissy fit that is the Union Democrat Party in this state has launched its campaign to recall Governor Scott Walker. The rallying cry of Walker's Republican supporters is "I stand with Scott Walker".

Well, not me. I don’t stand with Scott Walker.

Nope. I stand for the right to work. I stand against compulsory unionization. I stand for the right of every employee to join a union, and for the equal right of every employee to work free of union impairment. I stand for the right of every union to collect its own dues directly from its members. I stand for the right of every business owner to deal directly with his/her employees or to work through an intermediary as he or she sees fit. I stand for the right of any business to refrain from political activity altogether without being targeted for boycotts by extortionists.

I don't stand with Scott Walker. Scott Walker stands with me.

I stand for fiscal responsibility. I stand for balancing the state budget. I stand for making government services both accessible and affordable. I stand for repaying our old debts and not taking on any new ones. I stand against raiding trust funds set up for one purpose to pay for another. I stand against increasing taxes on the overtaxed to fund lavish new benefits for the over-lavished.

I don't stand with Scott Walker. Scott Walker stands with me.

I stand for choice and competition that will improve the quality and reduce the cost of our schools. I stand for letting local school boards, teachers, parents, and taxpayers decide how best to educate their kids. I stand for rewarding the great teachers and I stand against letting the bad ones waste one more hour of our children’s precious learning time. I stand against spineless administrators, conniving pension-grubbers, placeholders counting down their days to retirement and serial indoctrinators who see 4th graders as political props.

Read the rest here.

Well said sir, well said.

Corporal Joshua Busch

On this Veterans Day, I bring you the story of Joshua Busch.

Flying in to a valley in Afghanistan's dangerous Kunar province, Busch, a 21-year-old corporal, was the first to hop off the Chinook in the November darkness. On the mission were Busch's platoon of 22 guys plus six Afghan soldiers; another U.S. Army platoon landed a few miles away.

Their task? Find the enemy.

When what was left of his unit flew out of the valley six days later, Busch had assumed command of his platoon, watched his medic and all the Afghan soldiers die, called in airstrikes near his position and helped save the lives of his wounded comrades.
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As soldiers began dropping around him, Busch transitioned from being a team leader in charge of three soldiers to platoon leader. Busch immediately began triaging the wounded and calling on the radio for close air support to drop rockets within 150 feet of his platoon's position.

"Josh, all of a sudden he went from in charge of his (team) to in charge of the whole platoon," said Spc. Robert Yates, a member of Busch's platoon.

As he was on the radio, bursts of small-arms fire missed Busch by inches.

The rest is a must read.

Compare this hero to the whining, entitlement-minded, lazy children who are a part of the "occupy" movements across the country. They are basically the same age, yet they are a WORLD apart in mind set. That this soldier has shown such bravery and leadership is is awe inspiring.

Thank you Corporal Busch. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your story. Thank you for your bravery and leadership. God Bless You.