Toy Drum Recall

This proves that other countries think we are a joke and will buy anything, according to U.S. Consumer Products, they know we have rules about lead content, and they continue to manufacture dangerous lead paint, and we continue to sell the items...who's more stupid?

Bill O'Reilly: Bill's Daily Briefing - June 29, 2011 - Bill's Daily Briefing

Bill O'Reilly: Bill's Daily Briefing - June 29, 2011 - Bill's Daily Briefing

Travel and TSA followup

I am back alive and well after flying to the West Coast and back. It was an interesting flight on the way there. After we found our seats on our flight out of Dallas, we watched an Asian man come down the aisle, clearly dealing with some mental or nervous issues...anytime he would have anyone come near him he would have big drama and throw his hands in the air and roll his eyes and then kind of hug himself...I watched him sit in an aisle seat with 2 women who were clearly disturbed by what they had seen also.  He immediately stuck fingers in both ears and rocked back and forth, which didn't help the situation any, making people wonder if there was going to soon be a loud noise on-board. Immediately after takeoff he jumped up out of his seat and crouched down with fingers in his ears and ran all the way up the aisle and all the way back to the back of the plane, by now, everyone was watching this guy as he ducked into the restroom on his way back up the aisle. I must admit, by now, I'm saying silent prayers, and I shook my already sleeping husband awake, not knowing what would happen next. One of the ladies called the flight attendant and told him that the man carried a lighter into the restroom with him. At this point the attendant went back to the back and banged on the door and asked him if he had a lighter, of course the answer was no, so the attendant opened the door and removed the lighter.  The man eventually came out of the restroom in the same position that he entered in, fingers in ears, and took his seat where he rocked for the remainder of the trip, while under the watchful eyes of every other passenger on that plane. I understand that there are a lot of people with mental issues, and this may be the case, but, my first question is, if all passengers have to pass through the scanner, how would this man get through with the lighter? I truly believe that all the drama that goes on in the lines with having to take all jewelry, belts, and shoes off and opening your laptop to put through the scanner is for no other reason that to cover their backsides when someone does take out another plane load of people.

Travel and TSA

While preparing for a trip and not only trying to decide how little I can take and not have to pay the bag fee of $50.00, I got to thinking of how everytime we enter into the line to have our carry on bags inspected, whether it is Domestic or International travel, I am always one of the "Chosen Ones" to be pulled into the little clear booth and get the "Wand". EVERYTIME! Hmm, random? Don't think so. I thought about how the inspectors wear the baggy little plastic gloves to shove their hands inside of suitcases and bags as well as do the "underwire" check on women, and they wear the same pair of gloves for their entire shift! I understand that they don't want to get whatever chemicals, powders, or, bacteria on their hands, but, do you think that I want whatever is on the outside of those gloves to get shoved into my suitcase or bag and on my belongings and under things? I think I will slow the process down a little from now on and ask for a new pair of gloves to be used on my bags.

Here Comes That Soapbox again.....

BIG News,DUH!  Mothers are unhappy with Sketchers making the "Shape-Up" Shoes for toning little girls behinds, push up bras for little girls, make up for little girls...I too, find this appalling, but companies would not bother making this CRAP if there weren't mothers out there buying it....Make you $ be your words WOMEN!! Don't buy something if you're offended by it, it will then disappear! Of course, this didn't work for me and Barney, we never, ever watched that ridiculously stupid purple dino show and it's still on!!! lol Can you hear my soap box screeching across the floor......Also, I again make a plug for the website Digusout.com, you can see companies that are BORN IN THE USA, buy from them and your $ will talk and lower prices and get more jobs here in the GOOD 'OL US OF A!

Declaration of Independance

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

Then in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Government: Of the people, by the people, for the people

How long has it been since you read the Gettysberg address? Beautiful words.