Do You Measure Up? posted 7/18/2009 1:48:04 PM | 6 kudos what's this?     report abuse

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I have been looking for my tape measure now for two weeks. I have two or three of them around here somewhere.
My friends are helpful. They help me look for them and say words they think are comforting. Like.... "it's always the last place you look".

Duh....Of course it is. Why in the world would you keep looking after you've found it? When I look in a place, and it isn't there, I go to another place until I find it. Then of course, when I do find it, that is the last place I look. I just want to slap 'em when they say dumb stuff like that.

I don't know...maybe it's me.....but words are important. The ones I just used as examples are silly, and really of no consequence.
But there are others that are. Funny thing about words....once out, they can't be taken back. Maybe we should be more careful which ones come out.

I like words that really do mean something, especially when they mean something to me. Old words interest me it would seem. I am finding great enjoyment in reading about the folks who lived and participated in the creation of our country. Here are a few, written in 1765 that I read last night....it's a great book my parents gave me. They gave it to me quite a few years ago, and now that I have no TV, I am finally reading it.

These words mean as much to me as any I have heard concerning the subject of liberty and the state of our union. They were written by George Washington's Vice President, and our country's second President, John Adams, when he was only around 30 years old.. Carefully written, they should be carefully read.

"Be it remembered, however, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers."

To me, our present day "rulers" have no conception of their position to which we have appointed them to. They are for the most part corrupt, criminal, greedy, and way over paid. Full of themselves, and practice full time disgraceful behavior. Even to the point of the destruction of their own families, their own children. What kind of men are these? Lest you forget America...we elected them!

Just read about the men who signed the Declaration.....read who they were, and what price they paid for their invaluable service.
And they received no lifetime health care. No Sir! They served because they loved and believed in freedom so dearly, they were willing to give everything for it.

Here ...I will make it easy for you....

The Declaration's 56 Men

What has happened to "us." ????

I believe it is time to do something. Past time. Maybe even too late......I for one am sick of the lies and deceit. And the loss of so much that was so dearly paid for.

So many in our past have died, suffered, sacrificed and lost everything....so we could let the Washington Weasels squander it away?

The shame is shifting it's weight...from the people we elect.... to "us"....the people. We should be ashamed of the careless way we are throwing away our hard earned liberties and freedoms...even our country, by the mindless way we pick and choose our "representatives." . We should feel wretched as we sit in front of our tv's and let them lead "us" like a bull with a ring in it's nose, off to slaughter. But do we? Nope.....we have no time for freedom. We are too busy satisfying our own selfish needs and desires. We are concerned with nothing but ourselves.

I am disgusted with "us".
I never intended on writing this blog.
All of "us" better do something...as a society....and we better do it soon.


Now...I need to go find that tape measure.....and see if I can find any one that measures up....besides the dutiful and brave Americans who have served, who do serve, and who will serve....in all the many capacities available for Americans to give to their fellow countrymen...

I do love this country.
But it is not the country it was.
And that's because we aren't the "people" we once were......

Wake up America....Let's stop rolling downhill, like a snowball headed for hell.....(Merle Haggard)


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