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We’ve Moved

thenatureboy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:06:36 +0000

We’ve moved to http://yddovm.blogspot.com.

Please update your links.

You can also access the RSS feed — if you’re into that — at http://yddovm.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default.

See you at the new site!

Quote of the Day

thenatureboy — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:21:05 +0000

OK, I now I said I wasn’t going to post for a few days, but I have a quote from the movie Akeelah and the Bee. This was a WONDERFUL movie that I recommend for everyone. Here’s the quote:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” -Marianne Williamson

Dog vs. RC Jeep

thenatureboy — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:26:44 +0000

FYI — I have new camera with an acceptable video mode. You’ll probably be seeing more videos in the future.

Our dogs didn’t particularly care for Bennett’s new remote-control Jeep (a present from his Uncle Morgan and Aunt Randy — Ann’s sister):

2nd FYI — I’m REALLY busy on Monday so I probably won’t post again until Tuesday…maybe Wednesday.

Indian Summer Sunday

thenatureboy — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:23:51 +0000

We took advantage of the beautiful weather and spent the day outside.

Bennett and I setup & prepped our new tent.

We then took Ann on her first geocaches! She was quite good and found all three. The first two she spotted with a little help from us, but on the third one she did it all by herself — handled the GPS and everything.

The picture below shows Bennett and Ann on top of the rock where the third geocache was located. An experienced eye can find the geocache. Can you?

Fish Friday

thenatureboy — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:11:46 +0000

We went to the all-you-can-eat catfish and shrimp night at the Copper Kettle this evening (Friday). It gave us a chance to see Dane and have a good meal. Below are pictures of Ann (with her Wicked hat) and Spencer. I errored in not getting a picture of Dane.

Media Bias? Oh Yeah!!!

thenatureboy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:27:29 +0000

Just one example of thousands.

How did Harry Smith describe Barack Obama this morning after the Iowa primary — as the “big winner”. So, how did he describe Mike Huckabee, the Republican winner? In not so gracious terms. Rather that saying this was an important win for Huckabee — who I don’t like by the way — he held up a copy of today’s Boston Herald with its one-word front page “Shazam!” above a photo of Mike Huckabee.

Comparing the Republican winner to Gomer Pyle while referring to the Democratic winner as the “big winner”. A little bias? Perhaps. (FYI — Obama had 38% of the vote while Huckabee had 34%, but their margin-of-victory was nearly identical.)

Boortz’s 2008 Opening Comments

thenatureboy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:54:37 +0000

This is the first of several 2007 or 2008 lists that I will publish over the next week or two — filler for when our lives are just ho-hum.

From Neal Boortz’s website:

Sorry, I’m not in the mood for all of this Happy New Year nonsense. This is getting to be about as phony as the 4th of July. (Freedom … right. Like the people of this country are still in love with the idea of liberty.) This is 2008. This is an election year. We’re choosing a new House of Representatives, about one-third of the Senate and a president. This is not the type of New Year you launch with the traditional expressions of optimism. We’re in trouble. An election is coming in 11 months and millions of parasites, led by single females, are getting ready to accelerate the destruction of the concepts of individuality, private property rights, self-reliance, and this very country by putting a hideous, power-hungry, big-government socialist* into the White House.

I think I’ve made a bit of a mistake over the past few months. Trying to be a bit to nice to the people I think are destroying this country. I’ve been trying to cut them some slack .. be a little understanding. You know, the compassion thing. Well, something must have clicked during the last two weeks off. No more free passes. Identify the leeches. Call them out. They’re destroying the greatest system of governance this world has ever known, and they should not be allowed to go unchallenged.

If you squandered every opportunity for an education to end up an unemployable semi-literate loser, that’s your problem, not mine. If you’ve destroyed your health with cigarettes and fast food … then by what right do you demand that people who lived their lives more responsibly than you cover the cost of your medical care. You cry about your “right” to health care. You dare to claim a right to the services of another human being to correct problems you created for yourself? Further, if it is more important for you to spend your money on a cell phone, flat-screen televisions, the best new car, meals at expensive restaurants and fancy vacations than it is to spend your money on a health insurance policy .. then you should be on your own. Don’t beg the government to steal from someone else so that you don’t have to change your lifestyle.

And a word for you welfare brood mares out there. That’s right .. welfare brood mares .. it’s time for someone to call you out for what you are. Perhaps one of the greatest social wrongs a person can commit in this country is to have a child that you cannot afford to care for. Do you really think that it’s perfectly OK for you to get yourself knocked up, download your baby, and then tell the taxpayers “Hey, look what I did! Now you folks cough up the money I need to take care of this child.” Yeah .. that’s what America is all about .. and you’re going to be right there in November to vote for Hillary, aren’t you. In fact all of you are: the uneducated and unmotivated, the “I’m not responsible for my own health care” crowd, and the single moms. All of you want someone else to step in and take care of you after you’ve screwed up your own lives, and who better than Hillary, a woman more than ready to use the police power of government to reward you for your votes.

You do know, don’t you, that you have absolutely no constitutional right to cast a vote in this presidential election. No .. you probably don’t know that. That would mean you are educated, but you’re not. You were educated by the government … and the government sure isn’t going to disclose that inconvenient little fact to you. Somehow the media in this country has bought the politician’s about this “right to vote.” It’s not there. Doesn’t exist. And to save this country we need to figure out a way to get tens of millions the parasite class off the voter roles. Welfare? No vote. Illiterate? Stay home on election day. Begging for the government to be your lifetime nanny? Let the doers, the achievers cast the votes. Just stay away.

Historians have said that this country will start to slide when the people learn that they can vote largess for themselves out of the public treasury. Well, you’ve learned, and now you’re heading to the polls later this year to vote for government as an instrument of plunder .. plunder for you .. plunder to pay you for your votes. It’s all about you, your wants and needs. Look for the politician who promises to transfer the most wealth from the achievers to you … and that’s the politician who gets your vote. You don’t care even a little bit about the type of America you’ll leave generations to come … it’s all about you, right now, right here.

Don’t you have some soap operas you need to catch up to on election day?

* About that asterisk. Current language usage compels me to use the term “socialist” when describing Hillary Clinton. The actual word we need to use is “fascist.” The left, however, has managed to take the “fascist” word and turn it into an epithet against right-wingers. Nazis were fascists, right? Perhaps you might be one of the few to learn that “Nazi,” in German, is “Nationalsozialismus.” The true name of the Nazi Party in Germany was the National Socialist German Worker’s Party.” German Nazis weren’t at all fond of capitalism .. and neither is Hillary Clinton. When it comes to the free market Hillary has quite a lot in common with these folks … not that you’ll ever read that in the mainstream media.

links for 2008-01-04

thenatureboy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:40:37 +0000

Home – SPOT Satellite Messenger

(tags: gps survival backpacking hiking)

Back to School

thenatureboy — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:51:44 +0000

Spencer & Bennett both returned to school today from the Christmas Break. Although it was nice to see them for an extended period, it’s good to have them back in school. My work was starting to suffer and they were beginning to drive me a little batty.

FYI — It’s a cold, cold morning. The temperature is 10 degrees and the wind is blowing 15mph. Don’t know what that makes the wind chill, but it’s COLD. However, it’s going to warm up to the mid-30s by the time the boys return home. And they’re talking 50s on Saturday and 60s on Sunday. Sounds like geocaching time to me.

Let’s hope Spencer & Bennett work hard this semester and achieve their goals!

Wicked

thenatureboy — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:45:31 +0000

Last Saturday a group of us — Andrea & Nancy Graviett, Ann, Todd, Mom, Dane, Bennett and myself — went to see the musical Wicked.

This was probably the best musical I have ever seen. Many of the productions at the Muny are on the same level, but the sound/acoustics at the Fox Theatre just couldn’t be beat. I STRONGLY encourage everyone to see this play. It really is an interesting twist on The Wizard of Oz. You’ll never watch The Wizard of Oz again without thinking of Wicked.

Rather than try to explain it, watch this trailer: