Monthly Archives: July 2009

I don’t care if you are Republican or Democrat, rich or poor, liberal or conservative, etc. You have to agree that this is RIDICULOUS!!!!

Stimulus Spending Gone Bad – WalletPop

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This speaks for itself:

My last post was about  how ridiculously high the taxes on cigarettes have gotten, and how it is going to get worse.  Well, I have to say that it has apparently gotten a lot worse than I thought, a lot sooner than I thought!  The following is from Yahoo! Odd News:

NH Man Charged 23 Quadrillion Dollars for Smokes

Wed Jul 15, 9:11 am ET

MANCHESTER, N.H. – A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.

Josh Muszynski (Moo-SIN’-ski) checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number — a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).

Muszynski says he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America trying to sort out the string of numbers and the $15 overdraft fee.

The bank corrected the error the next day.

Bank of America tells WMUR-TV only the card issuer, Visa, could answer questions. Visa, in turn, referred questions to the bank.

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Information from: WMUR-TV, http://wmur.com

See?  I told you!!!

Okay, I do not smoke.  But I am very alarmed about the way the taxes on cigarettes has risen exponentially in the past year!!  And, smoking is being outlawed everywhere.  I know that there are a lot of self-righteous non-smokers out there who think this is a good thing, but beware!  This is exactly how Hitler started de-sensitizing the Germans.  Consider the following quote:

“In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.  Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.  Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.  Then they came for me, and by that time, there was no one left to speak for me.”  by the Rev. Martin Niemoeller, arrested by the Gestapo in 1938 and sent to Dachau concentration camp until freed by the Allies in 1945

So, before you decide that it’s no big deal about cigarattes and smokers, please consider that you are quite likely on the list of those who will become singled out for something that the government will no longer tolerate.  It might be because you are a Christian, a Catholic, a Jew.  Or maybe because you are “Pro-Life” instead of “Pro-Choice”.  Perhaps because you homeschool. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Once again, it is “Independence Day”, and our family will, like we have so many years before, drive down the road to celebrate our Freedom with our friends by eating lots of wonderful food and setting off a ton of fireworks.  But this year, for some reason, it seems more important, more meaningful, perhaps because our Freedom is more endangered now than ever before.

I have been reading headline news, and feel sick.  Honestly, I couldn’t care less if Sarah Palin just resigned as governor of Alaska.  And I think it’s stupid that Obama and McCain are still being compared to one another. (“Obama, McCain Invoke Nation’s Founders in Dueling Independence Day Speeches“).  I personally don’t care what either of them has to say, and am quite convinced that neither of them has any insight or understanding, whatsoever, about our “Founders”.  Well, I suppose that if McCain had been alive at the time he would have been at those secret meetings of the Sons of Liberty, but he would have been the one they would have been worried about blowing their cover, due to his fiery temper!

Our “Founders” were brave men, Patriots, one and all, who were not only willing to give their lives for FREEDOM, but DID give their lives! They did not sell us out to other countries.  They would have died before bowing down to a Muslim leader!!!!!!!  They fought hard, soaking our fields and filling our rivers with their blood, that we might have the freedom to sit here today and kill unborn babies, promote special interest groups above the greater good of the rest of the country, that we might give away our wealth to lazy, no-good losers who have no intention of ever getting a job or to illegal immigrants who would be more than happy to work, but no longer have to. Today, we are taking the coward’s way of closing our eyes, and hoping it will all be okay in the end.  Our “Founders” knew better!

Our “Founders” fought for freedom, for states’ rights, for God.  They believed in prayer, and lots of it.  Not prayer to Allah, either, or to the ‘goddess’.  But prayer to the Almighty God of the Bible.  They went to church, and they protected their families.  They had integrity and dignity.  They were men (and women!) of strong moral character.  Please do not talk to me about  un-American men like Obama on the day we celebrate the freedom that he is working so very hard to destroy.

Today I will remember our Founders, and I will remember that they died for our freedom.  And I will pray, very hard, for our country, and for everyone who thinks freedom means being able to do whatever they want with no accountability.  Freedom is anything but “Free”, and our Founders understood that very well.