A Year of Change

The day flew by, I ran to our friends house where the dinner was last night to drop off the gifts, then it was back home to get the kids, then back across town on another errand. Finally I was home by 2 or so. Meanwhile the misses was trying to rest and the boys were playing, what’s new.

We worked and hung out the rest of the day and then threw together some leftovers for dinner. Spaghetti for me, ramen for the boys and I’m not sure what Lori had.

We spent some time trying to figure out what the next few months will entail and how we’re going to get through them. Lots of things happening. We are trying to prepare the best we can for winter, kind of like they did decades ago, get our food stocks up, (buy in bulk) somehow insulate the house, make sure the kids have snow boots and gear that fits, pay the taxes and bills, then there’s Christmas, and so on.

Lots has changed since I was a kid and I’m sure even more so for those of you that are older than I. You see, we are simply not the same country that we used to be.  Americans are proud, selfish, greedy, arrogant, ungrateful, treacherous and completely addicted to convenience, entertainment and pleasure.  Our country is literally falling apart all around us, but most Americans are so plugged into entertainment that they can’t even be bothered to notice what is happening. Am I off base here? I don’t think so.

Perhaps some of you don’t want to hear this or don’t believe it. I sincerely hope it’s the former rather than the latter as you’d have to be really isolated (trying to be politically correct here) not to believe life as we knew it, has certainly changed.

So, I’m going to do you all a favor now and stop trying to convince you of what I or we think is coming. If you don’t get it by now, you probably don’t want to hear it which is natural, (nobody likes to hear about bad things) so I’ll let it go. So moving forward I’ll try to refrain from political posts and the such unless I really think there is an imminent threat to your safety. I’ll try to focus on the kids and happy things as there’s enough bad stuff in the papers and on the news. But in closing, know it’s coming, things have changed, they will change even more, and not for the better. It’s not as bad if you just face it head on like any problem or issue, just cowboy up and tackle it head on! I post all this stuff as we’re worried for those we care about who we feel are not aware of how things are going to change in the future. But alas, I can’t make you believe it if you don’t want to so in closing, check this out before we go,

I don’t know if you like Ron Paul but he’s a pretty straight shooter who has been around for a long long time. Check out his thoughts,

“You know, the day before, the month before, the year before, if someone would have said, ‘Oh, you know, next year,’ the Soviet system would be gone, everybody would have considered that person nuts.

But it was fragile, and it fell apart, and quickly, and thank goodness we didn’t have to have a nuclear war in order to get rid of the Soviet system.”

“We’re probably in 1987, like the Soviets in ’87, in two years they were gone…”

Just think how quickly the Soviet system disappeared. (Almost) nobody saw it coming.

Former congressman Ron Paul recently spoke the words quoted above, and said he sees the “bust coming soon.”

“They’re (the government) not going to work their way out of it, so it’s just going to collapse,”

“I think we should anticipate that, you know, in the future…
like in the next several years, you’re going to see a big, big collapse,”

“It’s hard to predict the timing,” Paul said, “but I think I agree… that it will end…”

I look at it like a building standing with no foundation. It’s sort of sitting there and wobbling, but it hasn’t crashed, and I think it will, because you know, the financial system is so unstable…

It’s totally based on debt, and confidence in the dollar and confidence in the Federal Reserve, that they’ll always print the right amount of money and they’ll always keep the interest rates right, and they’ll always bail out everybody that needs bailed out – which I think is a total hoax…

-Ron Paul interviewing with infowars.com

The big event could occur next week, or it could occur five years from now, but especially whenever the dollar is no longer credible as a reserve – or primary – currency.

People are losing faith in their government…

They’re seeing the 2-party system for what it really is (two sides of the same coin.)

They’re seeing the manipulated economic numbers which don’t make sense with what they are really experiencing at home.

They see the government lying to them, and spying on them.

They’re seeing an increased police state.

They’re seeing more and more rights being attacked by the government, especially those related to privacy, freedom of speech, and firearms.

They see other nation blocks establishing their own currency trade and moving away from the dollar for goods and transactions (China-Russia-Brazil-Iran, and many more.)

They see the many tens of billions of dollars being printed into (debt) existence each month just to keep the system afloat.

They are seeing the writing on the wall, and they (we) instinctively know that this ship is going down…

So take this for what it is, but please, think for yourself, stop trusting what you read and watch on the boob tube, before it’s too late, and oh yea, God Bless (better get right with him if you’re not already!)

No comments yesterday? We thought it was a pretty revealing post. Hopefully everyone was just too busy to say “I agree”.

Ok, let’s get back to our day. First off I ran across town to drop some wine at our friend Colleen’s house for the Women’s Foundation Dinner which is tonight at her house. The guest this year is Ugly Betty, or America Ferrera which is her real name. I think Lori and I are going to pass on dinner tonight as we just aren’t up for it. Tomorrow is the 2000 women lunch with “Betty” also but the misses is skipping that too. We do need to drop off 100 packages of eye cream that Lori is donating to the VIP’s to get the skin care line some exposure.

After that I took the good looking one to acupuncture. I dropped her off and then ran over to Dr Rodgers office to pick up the eye cream for the donation. After a quick stop at the grocery store I made it back a couple of minutes before she was through. It seemed to help a little bit which we’re happy about. We made it home around 1:30 and soon it was time to pick up the kids.

Everyone had a good day at school. Jag is lobbying hard to go on the 6th grade trip to Washington D.C. and Williamsburg Virginia next May. I guess its like $2000 and low and behold, we’re supposed to pay by October 31st! We just can’t afford this but don’t be surprised if you get a call from the misses on his behalf! I’m sure it’ll be a great trip and very educational. Washington D.C. is a great place full of history that everyone should see sometime in their life. We’ll see.

Now, click here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li0no7O9zmE

Hope all’s well, take care and God Bless.

Alright, here we are facing another week, they seem to come and go fast these days. I started off yesterday with a gym trip (what’s new) and then ran Jag to inter-murals only to be met by Lori at the front door telling me to go right back and get him as they didn’t have inter-murals until Tuesday! Off I went back to school and then took off 45 minutes later with both boys in tow.

I ran a few errands in the morning and then was on the computer working up pricing for various markets across the country. Prior to that of course, I had my Monday morning conference call.

Meanwhile the good looking one was off to school to grade papers and then to Bed Bath and Beyond to return some things. We crossed paths finally around 3:30 pm for the first time since the morning.

Now to the news of the day. This is where those of you that don’t enjoy my musings can tune out! I promise though, you might learn something and I’ll be gentle.

First up, sometimes it’s easier to understand things when they are compared to things in our every day life. Check this out and see if you can relate,

Lesson 1

US Tax Revenue $2,170,000,000,000

Fed Budget         $3,820,000,000,000

New Debt           $1,650,000,000,000

National Debt   $14,271,000,000,000

Recent Budget Cuts $38,500,000,000

Let’s now remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget…

Annual Family Income $21,700

Money They Spent        $38,200

New Debt on the Credit Card $16,500

Outstanding Balance on the Credit Card $142,710

Total Budget Cuts So Far $38,500

Got It So Far?

Lesson 2

Here’s another way to look at the debt ceiling

Let’s say,  You come home from work and find there has been a sewer backup in your neighborhood…….. and your home has sewage all the way up to your ceilings………

What do you think you should do,

Raise the ceilings or remove the shit?

Get it, I hope so as my kids are not going to be happy when they grow up and find out how much of their money we spent on crap that didn’t do a damn thing!

So that pretty much sums it up. I could go on about the train wreck known as Obama Care but it’s doing more harm to itself than anyone could. I didn’t agree with the GOP trying to stop it as it’s so bad on its own, they should have just let it play out. Doesn’t look so good now no matter which side you’re on.

In closing, sometimes I feel like I’m beating a dead horse (who comes up with these sayings? I mean who ever beat a dead horse…. and why?) but you’d better get ready for some changes in your life as things are going to get much worse before they’ll get better. Don’t believe me, still have your head in the sand? Don’t take my word for it, our own gov tells us were headed for a big correction and then there’s guys like Warren Buffet and others sounding alarm bells as well.

There now, that wasn’t too bad was it? I thought the debt ceiling lesson was entertaining. Oh well, that’s it for the day, take care and God Bless.

Well as I’m sure you all know, the Broncos lost a close one last night. This is despite the flat out bad officiating for the entire game. But like I said, no one will remember the bad calls, only the loss. So time to cowboy up and move on and come back strong next week. See how that works!

Yesterday Jag and I left around 10 for baseball. It was a long cold game against a clearly superior team. It was so bad we looked like the Bad News Bears from the movie. We even had a 9 year old (it’s a 12 year old league) who’d never played, playing for us so we had 9 players. It was pretty comical but the kids played their best which is all you can ask for. I think we have a game next week but we’ll see, we just might be done.

The boys played hard for the rest of the day until dinner and then bed. I tried to keep the misses quiet on the couch but she made dinner and other stuff.

Here in Denver a mother with her 1 year old was stabbed at 12:30 yesterday afternoon at a light rail (train) station during a robbery. We just don’t know what’s going on these days. People are really really desperate and violent crime is up. I only mention this as if this can happen in the middle of the day to a young mother with her baby in a stroller, it can happen to anyone. You’ve got to be aware and be careful! I’ll leave it at that.

It’s 5:10 and Jag has inter-murals so I need to run to get to the gym to get back in time to take him. Hope all’s well, take care and God Bless.

Today is Jag’s last game of fall ball. This is good news as he really doesn’t like this team and didn’t want to go but he signed up, so he’s going. Yesterday we went to the corn maze instead of the zombie thing. I think a Mom from school is taking Jag and 5 other kids next weekend.

As Lori said, the boys played and played, what’s new. Finally we all wound down around 7 for some tv and we went to bed around 9 leaving the two guys downstairs to watch some more tv. It’s 5:42 now and everyone else is sleeping. We’ll leave at 10 for baseball while Ty and Mom stay home. The misses head is still killing her.

It’s nice and cool outside with leaves blowing everywhere. This evening we’re supposed to get a rain snow mix. That’s about it, guess I’ll go you know where, the gym. Take care, God Bless you and God Bless Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos who play tonight!

The Mr. picked up the kiddos from school yesterday, and the youngest brought his friend Jack home for a playdate. We knew that he would eventually ask to have Jack stay for the night. The boys played legos and some make believe games outside. They were in and out multiple times dropping leaves each time they came in…unfortunately they didn’t take the leaves with them on their way back out.

The Mr. brought home all kinds of fun, yummy activities for the kids…caramels to melt and dip apples, marshmallows, milk chocolate and graham crackers for s’mores and carving kits for pumpkins. What a thoughtful daddy!

The oldest went to sleep at 9:30…the other two were awake until well after midnight. The youngest came in to wake me up to make breakfast at 5:18 a.m. Are you kidding me? I came down at 5:30..fed the dogs, made coffee and gave each boy a banana to hold them over until I was ready to make breakfast.

The Mr. has a few work related errands to run this morning..he’s already been to the gym and back. The day is gorgeous, so I’d like to take advantage and get the boys up to Red Rocks for a walk.

Tonight we are taking a few kids to…get ready for it…”Field of Corpses.” A haunted house with fields of Zombies. It may be too scary for the youngest and Dad, so I may have to find another option for them.

I’m off to shower…have a great day and God Bless.

It’s here, and it’s wet, I already used the boys Nerf sword to knock the snow off the trees when I was getting the morning paper. We all slept in as I didn’t roll out of bed until about 6:10. Oh well, we must have needed the sleep.

Here’s a comment from Annette,

Annette says:

Sorry about yesterday, it just got away from us! Field Day was a success for both boys, Lori will try to post pictures later.

Today the misses is already on a conference call and then has to get ready for an MRI across town at noon. I think it’s both with and without contrast meaning she’ll get shot full of dye.

Tax day came and went, we managed to get Colorado, New Jersey, New York and California paid (still don’t understand why I’m filing and paying in CA, NJ and NY!) but couldn’t swing the Fed’s. Oh well, I’ll just get a nasty letter along with a nice penalty and pay it when I can. You can’t let things like money get to you, in the grand scheme of things, it’s just not worth it and trust me, it’ll flat out kill you.

It’s cool outside this morning, just how I like it. They say we’ll have a rain and snow mix starting around 8pm tonight through tomorrow.

Our four legged alarm clock woke me up again around 5am. I seem to get up that time every morning anyhow, I’d make a good farmer/rancher as that’s when they have to get up! Everyone else was up a bit after 6.

Not much else going on, just trying to keep it all in perspective and get through another day. We’re really hoping the MRI shows us something that can be fixed as this has been going on for too long.

Oh yeah, our honorable Congressmen and the Pres have come to an agreement that’ll allow them to spend more of our money (mainly my kids kids) on useless pet projects in their own districts and of course line their own pockets for a couple of months. Then we can do this all over again, yea!

So have a great day, check back this afternoon and look for pictures, they’re great,

God Bless

Well, Lori thought I was writing this morning and obviously I thought she was. Anyhow, we had a good long day at school with Field Day. It was fun for everyone involved, more to come tomorrow,

Bye!

It’s 5:14 and I really don’t have much time today to write much. On top of that, with it being tax day, I’m not really in the mood. Hope everyone is well,

God Bless