Alan Keyes TELLS IT LIKE IT IS!

To the forefront

He's keeping his promise!

A REAL way to help a veteran that fought for our country!

Now there's a way to get personally involved with helping a veteran that is having real problems on a one-on-one basis. A new site is up and running with individual veterans needing help. One might need a washer machine, one might need a crib. Another might need help with a mortgage payment. And YOU can choose who you want to help. This is awesome!

Here is a link to the story that explains all.

And here is a link to the actual site.

Times are hard here right now, but they are especially difficult for returning veterans. Many with injuries. Let's show our support!

House of Cards

Timeline showing the impending Fanny Mae, Freddie Mac crisis

Watch this and weep!

Lil Matt

I am a little late in getting these two pics posted. They are of Lil Matt at Christmas. Yeah, I know it's February! Anyways, they were on my phone and figuring out how to get from phone, to computer, to blog, well, I did it now didn't I? Ha ha ha ...

This one? L' Matt's starting his smiling and daddy's trying to get him to smile for the camera. But he doesn't have eyes for the camera -- only his daddy.

And last? Christmas day. Mommy worked all night and tried so hard to stay up the whole day until both mommy and baby crashed out on the couch.

America's Nanny Dog

Tyla Hafstrom/My Word/The Times-Standard

Posted: 09/25/2007 04:27:21 AM PDT

Remember “Little House on the Prairie”? The trusted family pet “Jack the Brindle dog” was a pit bull. Jack was not the only pit bull famous for being a faithful family dog, as Helen Keller's beloved companion was also a pit bull. Then there was Petey, the dog from “The Little Rascals” who was indeed an American pit bull terrier.

It seems that many people have forgotten how America has loved this breed over time, and have forgotten that many choose this breed of dog today for a reliable and loving family dog. This was the breed that was affectionately known as “America's Nanny Dog.”

Many celebrities have chosen this wonderful breed over time, including Fred Astaire, President Roosevelt, Mary Tyler Moore, Thomas Edison, Brad Pitt, Ann Bancroft, President Woodrow Wilson, Humphrey Bogart, John Stewart and Bernadette Peters, just to name a few.

Pit bulls are loyal, stable and intelligent dogs that are eager to please, and strive to take on the behaviors that their guardians instill in them. Their behavior is a reflection of the care, training, and socialization (or lack thereof) given by their owners.

The stigma associated with the breed has been caused by careless dog owners who do not socialize or properly train their dogs. Any breed of dog that is left tied in a backyard without experiencing the outside world is bound to have issues. It also seems that careless dog owners tend to choose the pit bull inparticular, possibly due to it's “tough” reputation.

Therefore the majority of neglected, untrained dogs appear to be pit bulls. But even with all these neglected dogs, there are even more sweet, trained and well socialized pit bulls that belong to loving families. According to rigorous testing by The National Canine Temperament Testing Association, the golden retriever, poodle, border collie, English setter, German pointer and numerous other breeds are considered more likely to become aggressive than pit bulls.

The average score of the 122 breeds tested was a mere 77 percent. Pit bulls scored a 95.2 percent on these testings. (The higher the better.)

Not only have pit bulls scored extremely well on temperament tests, but they have been serving key roles in search and rescue efforts, excel in agility training and work nationwide as therapy and service dogs.

Pit bulls are highly trainable, which has been beneficial for anyone wanting a wonderful companion or service dog, but that same trait has also proven to be a downfall when the breed is exploited.

You might find this hard to believe when what is highlighted in the news regarding pit bulls seems to be negative, but there are many more positive stories concerning pit bulls than negative ones. By simply browsing the Internet, one can find an abundance of positive, reputable information about pit bulls.

Another aspect that needs to be mentioned is that most attacks by other dog breeds are misclassified as “pit bulls” by media reports. The fact is, there are far more stories of pit bulls helping, or saving lives, than endangering or ending them.

It seems that the term “pit bull” is only splashed across the headlines when the story is negative. Unfortunately, fear and negativity sells, and this breed is paying the price. If only we were to take the time to look beyond the negative hype, we would find the truth about pit bulls.

Now meet our new Nora. Living in SW Florida that has been hard hit in these difficult economic times people are doing all kinds of things just to survive. We adopted Nora from a couple that had to move into an apartment complex that did not allow pit bulls. All this because he'd been laid off from his decent job and had to take a job with much lower pay.

Nora is five years young and has such a sweet spirit. We've only had her a week and she's just fit right into our family (if she would only leave O.C. the cat alone). She gets along well with Charlie and does not run off when we go outside in the yard. She's very intelligent and eager to please and I am glad I helped out the couple by giving her a good home ALONG WITH having the pure joy of her becoming a part of our family.

Obama and Blagojevich

To understand the next 4 years you have to understand the world according to Chicago . While it is a city of Illinois it is also a completely different country with a whole different set of morals and language.

There are only three rules there which anybody can understand. You don't even need an attorney to understand them and if you need an attorney, well . . . you know too much so look out for Rule #3!

RULE #1 No matter what you see, hear, or do - you don't know anybody and you don't know nutin!

RULE #2 If you capture something on tape or camera - it doesn't reveal nutin!

RULE #3 If you know what anybody knows in Chicago , well . . . dat's da last ting you'll ever know and you'll wish youse never knew nutin!

Now, pay close attention we don't want to have to say this more than once. It's very simple . . . we'll illustrate. If you have too, read slowly!

These two? They don't know each other!

Remember the first picture? Be sure you only remember that they don't know and you certainly don't either! Da fellas in the background in this picture? Well . . . what fellas? We don't see nutin!

Oops! How did that get in here?

Da guy on the left? For all you know he's Santa Claus. And the guy on the right . . .well, he's da Easter Bunny! That's all you need to know and you're better off if you don't know that.

Go to your eye doctor, your eyes is lieing to yas! Capish?

We don't want to know what they're saying.

Remember Jimmy Hoffa!

He knew too much and now . . .well . . . now no one knows where he is.

Is the big picture clear?

Not these pictures gumwad, cuz youse already forgot dem!

Now, ain't that simple?

They don't know nutin and neither do we!

And don't forget it!

P.S. If you pass this on to your friends, don't forget Rule #1 and, that ways, there's nutin to fear about #3!

Ignorance is happiness if you meditate on the right thing.

I do not like Barack Obama

Sorry, I can't change that. And it's nothing about the color of his skin as I am not a hater racist. Yes, I understand the black people believing this is the ultimate victory for their race. And I'm not against a black president. Heck, soon I will be having cafe con leche grandchildren! And I believe that is the ultimate test of racism. But voting in a man to take the highest office in our country and quite possibly the world because of the color of his skin and not for his qualifications is just plain wrong.

Anyways, I found the following floating around on the internet and I couldn't have said it better. A problem with the source though as it is supposedly from the London Daily Mail and yet when I go to their site I am unable to find it. But, take it for what it says.

An editorial from the London Daily Mail (A BRITISH VIEW)

Obama's Victory

A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.

A victory for Hollywood, the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros and Sarandon. Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meager political fashion.

Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative. Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition.

A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers' unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity.

A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation. A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs.

Congratulations America!