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I can remember when I was amazed by the first instant message systems on the Internet. Now they are interactive. If you have not yet seen this new one, click on the title and run your mouse over the page and see all the things this messenger has in addition to everything on the house menu. Technology expands way faster than any of us can keep up! This is pretty cool.

Tony vs. Paul! Best "stop motion video" I have ever seen made!

New York, New York!

Rodney and I flew to New York to see our son, Jeff and his wife Ginger. These are pictures of Jeff in Times Square, a picture of me and Rodney in Times Square, me coming out of Penn Station - we had taken the train from Long Island to NYC, and Madison Square Gardens. I think we took close to 300 pictures and I haven't been through them all yet! We only spent one day in NYC. The rest of the time we spent in the Hamptons. Hopefully I will be able to post some info about our time there also! Ever have one of those vacations that you need a vacation when you return home? This was one of those! I think it took me about 3 days to recover!

Senate rejects extra $300 million for Real ID

Great news! In reference to The New World Order is Here, Congress recently has stalled this action. Click on the title and check it out!

The New World Order is Here

Although this is a very difficult video to watch - I strongly recommend that you do and that you think about what it says and means, even if you decide that you don't believe it. Just be aware of this and as you watch world events unfold, it may help you decide who you will vote into office in 2008. It does not endorse ANY candidates or either party. But it is information all true AMERICANS need to hear.

Tribute to the Troops - Nickleback Double Feature

Click on the title to see this awesome collection of pictures of our troops fighting in Iraq, set to the music of two songs by Nickleback.

4th of July - Meaning lost in 2007

Frederick Douglass, the most influential African American of the 19th century, was asked to speak in New York and deliver an address regarding Independence Day in 1852. His speech is long, eloquent, but reminds his listeners that there is not freedom and independence for his own race, and, indeed, slavery lasted another 13 years after his speech. We throw the word "freedom" around way too much today. Freedom is becoming a precious and precarious concept in the 21st century.

If you read the ENTIRE Declaration of Independence numerous times and study it, you cannot help but see the irony of how far off base we are from what is set forth in that extensive document. The current Patriot Act is a direct violation of what the declaration sets forth when it declared war on Great Britian and declared that it would separate itself from a ruler when the founding fathers truly believed that man could govern himself and did not need a King. Checks and balances were put into place. The framers of the declaration - many of whom also wrote the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, looked for less government and more independent freedoms for the citizens.

Today, we are not a government by the people and for the people, but a people being dictated to as to how to live our personal lives as well as our civic lives. Our tax system is unfair, our justice system is completely out of wack, our healthcare compared to other industrial nations is inferior, and we are the only industrial and technological country without national healthcare - given to all people and free. Worldwide we have the reputation of the school bully. I find this very disheartening.

America, for all its shameful past of the slaughter of the Native American population, and the horrific institution of slavery that lasted over 200 years here, somehow became the most wonderful country in the world. We helped, and still help so many other countries. We give and give and give. At the same time, we have been at war almost non-stop since Columbus landed in the West Indies. We are a warring country and always have been and maybe that's just what it takes to become a super power. But at some point, enough is enough.

The war in Iraq was supposed to last about 3 months. Now, as we go into our 5th year at war, there seems to be no end in sight. It is looking like another Korean or Vietnam war - those wars we simply cannot win. Will we stay in it for 20 years and have the casualties we did in Vietnam?

We have a statue that invites everyone "yearning to be free" called the Statue of Liberty, yet we are building a wall to keep Mexicans out. We need to make up our mind. We are a country built by and for immigrants. We need to take down the Statue of Liberty or change the wording, or we need to solve the immigration problem and debate. We cannot have our cake and eat it, too. Eventually someone strikes back, and unfortunately, that has happened to us. I fear it will get worse as we continue to alienate more and more countries each passing year.

It seems wrong to celebrate the 4th of July when we are celebrating a document that we have defied and denied as badly as we have already. And I am afraid it is going to get worse before it gets better.

Rodney's new ride....my biker babe!

This is my husband, Rodney's, motorcycle. It is a Honda Shadow Ace 1100 American Classic Edition.

He has done everything but dip it in chrome! I tell him he has definitely "pimped his ride!"

He loves it and is currently on a solo road trip to Florida to visit his uncle.

I took a picture of him before he left with it loaded for camping on the road and for the 10 day trip.

Last summer he bought a new boat. He was in it every single day almost. Since he got this bike, I don't think he has taken the boat out a single day. Of course, it has been raining non stop this entire spring and summer so far! Not stopping him from riding though!

Are there any Einsteins left in the World?

Albert Einstein said:



"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

and......

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

No question about the brilliance of this man....and what if he is right? We certainly are headed in the right direction to make his prediction true.