I wonder if we all realize what’s happening in our Country right now. I think most of us are too comfortable or conditioned to bad things happening to even notice the what’s going on out there. This is just the beginning, you will feel the pain of our hapless politicians and President. I know this rubs some of you the wrong way but if you really think about it, our President is in way over his head. I’m not defending Bush at all as God knows he had many faults but at least he was a leader, even if you think he led in the wrong direction. This President sits on the sidelines and plays mediator rather than taking charge of the situation. There’s certainly a crisis of confidence in this President. Now we have a Super Committee or Super Congress made up of 6 democrats and 6 republicans. I’m telling you, our founders are rolling over in their graves. mark my words, we’re headed down the wrong path. Hold on, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Now to football, both boys played well but it was the older one who really excelled. He’s really taken to being a pass rusher and does it with calculated rage. He’ll line up over the opposing player not more than a few inches from him intimidating him before the ball is even snapped. On a couple of plays he ran in so fast he scared the quarterback who actually just fell down to avoid him and end the play. He’s quite a disruptive force out there. We arrived home around 9pm and had our second dinner of the day and then after a quick shower for both boys, headed to bed. It’s now 5:45 and everyone’s still sleeping. Mom works at 8:15 and were down to one car for a week so we’ll all be driving her this morning. I’m going to take a break now and run to the gym but will resume the post in an hour or so, stand by…..
Ok I’m back, Mom’s now up and it’s 6:37am. Both boys are still sleeping and she’s cleaning the fish bowls. Every channel on tv is either showing riots in England, the stock market crashing here in America or some other sort of not very inspiring news for the day. I’ve got some work to do this morning but I think I’ll try to get the boys to a park or maybe the pool today. Mom, being the great Mom that she is, did get the boys some water time yesterday. Once again it’ll be in the mid 90’s, again. They’re showing 36 degrees in Leadville and 43 in Fraser, both up in the mountains. Looks like the season will soon be changing. I can’t wait for fall as I said before. I hope the winter is not as cold as the summer has been warm. If so, it’s going to be a cold one.
Time for me to get in the shower as the boys will be up soon. We hope everyone is doing well and having a good summer. I need to print some of these posts today so the misses can send them to Grandpa Bob for his birthday on the 12th. I don’t know how anyone can do without a computer these days. We have 4 and another one on the way! I think we’d all go into withdrawals if the internet went down. (thought I was wrapping up for the day didn’t you?) Can you imagine what would happen if we had an EMP (electro magnetic pulse) hit? This last happened in the 1860’s and for those of you that don’t know what this means, anything having to do with electricity would shut down. Imagine life with no power, no cars, (except those pre 1974 with no electronics) no way to pump gas, water or heat, no trucks delivering food, it would be life changing to say the least. I mention this as right now we’re experiencing intense solar storms unlike anything our planet has seen for a long time. Here’s a report from yesterday from the Australian Space Agency (our government chooses not to let you see this information, hmmm)
IPS FLARE ALERT – PART C
PRELIMINARY FLARE DETAILS AT END OF FLARE
ISSUE TIME: Tue Aug  9 18:44:18 EST 2011
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Approximate Flare Start  :  09-08-2011 0800 UT
Approximate Flare Maximum: Â 09-08-2011 0804 UT Â at Flux X 7.0
Approximate Flare End    :  09-08-2011 0842 UT
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Follow the progress of flares on the IPS Web site
http://www.ips.gov.au Click “Space Weather” Click “X-Ray Flux”
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Australian Space Forecast Centre
IPS Radio and Space Services
You have to have a little bit of a science background to understand what this means but in simple terms, solar storms coming from the sun or space are erupting like we haven’t seen in over a hundred years and then flying through space hitting our planet. We (the World) has had disruptions in various satellites and communications but so far we’ve managed to keep this from affecting everyday life. No doom and gloom here as this happens every hundred years or so. I mention it now as this is the main theory by astro physicists of what going to happen between now and then end of 2012. In the 1860’s it wasn’t that much of a disruption because the World wasn’t so dependent on power. Nowadays everything we do or use or consume is somehow connected to the use of power. Hope it doesn’t happen and you could say this is like a potential huge earthquake, or in other words, if it happens it happens, nothing you can do about it. The difference here is we can predict this (where we can’t predict earthquakes) and the brightest minds in the World are warning and preparing for just such an event.
Oh well, just thought I’d share, not much you can do about it (well actually there is and you can protect yourself somewhat pretty easy if you choose to) but it is something everyone should be aware of. Every government on the planet is preparing and paying attention, maybe we should too. My main point is that our leaders or government decide what to tell you and what not to under the guise of it being for your own good. After watching the mess they’ve made of the economy, I don’t know how anyone could trust them to take care of anything relating to our lives. I certainly don’t.
Ok, I’ll stop now, promise. You just need to understand that when things go bad, the government will not be there for you. All these politicians will be running for their private jets and worrying only about themselves, don’t be fooled. Enough said, don’t want to freak anyone out. Besides we’ll always be here for any family, you’ll just need to get to us! God Bless,
Mom here….don’t be too alarmed…I am used to this, so it is all second nature around here. Â But….better to be safe than sorry. Oh…by the way…the Mister is a pretty smart guy…not the “Survivalist” some of you may think he is. Just a good Boy Scout.
A side note…the youngest scored a touchdown and the eldest scored the first safety that his team has ever seen.
Also, Gram Annette….if we ever get an Ikea kitchen (Very affordable) Grandpa Jim will have to come to Denver to install the D#@! thing. Keep us posted on his health please.
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LLF