{"id":696,"date":"2012-03-17T11:37:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T11:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2012-03-17T11:37:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T11:37:46","slug":"500-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"500 miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I left at5am and was home by 1:45 in the afternoon. Although I drove 500 miles, it didn&#8217;t seem all that bad. Meanwhile the misses went to acupuncture and finally found some relief. For the first time in 2 months, she said her head was a 5 out of 10! This is great news as the best it had been before then was 7 or 8 out of 10. Let&#8217;s hope it holds.<\/p>\n<p>Last night was the kids school auction which we had to show up for. We arrived around 6:30 and were on the way home by about 8:30 after a few adult beverages and bidding on some activities for the kids. I couldn&#8217;t sleep much and woke up at 4:30 and it&#8217;s now a bit after 5.<\/p>\n<p>Today is St Patricks Day, whoo hoo. Now we&#8217;re not big party people these days but we&#8217;ll try to do something fun for the kids. Did you know St Patrick wasn&#8217;t irish? He was born in Britain. Also the original color of St Patricks Day was blue, not green. So there&#8217;s your useless information for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Not much on tv at 4:30 on a Saturday morning but ladies, I have to tell you, I think this Brazilian Butt Lift program actually looks like it works!<\/p>\n<p>I have a few more loads of wine to ship out on Monday and one to deliver to Longmont. It&#8217;s much much closer than Grand Junction where I went yesterday, about 200 miles closer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sick of all the tv ads being run by the Obama campaign. Sorry to dive into politics, but they just flat out lie. (lots of ads on at 5am also, I&#8217;d better switch back to Brazilian Butts!) I cannot believe how they &#8220;twist the truth&#8221; to fit their agenda. Bottom line is, we need less government. They need to get out of our lives. Here&#8217;s a few interesting quotes from history which if you don&#8217;t know, is a good teacher and always repeats itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.&#8221; &#8211; Friedrich A.\u00c2\u00a0 Hayek, 1974 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Corruptisima republica plurimae leges<\/em>.&#8221; (&#8220;The more corrupt a republic, the more laws.&#8221;) &#8211; Tacitus ,\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Annals of Imperial Rome<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A black market is a free market operating against the wishes of the state.&#8221; &#8211; Harry Browne<\/p>\n<p>Chew on those, we&#8217;re headed in the wrong direction. Stop intruding into every aspect of our lives. Enough already. Ok ok, I&#8217;ll stop for now but sooner or later, we&#8217;re going to have to face it or everything we do everyday will be somehow regulated. People are like frogs. Did you know you can put a frog in a pot of cold water on the stove and turn on the heat and it&#8217;ll just sit there as the water boils until it&#8217;s cooked to death. People are the same way, we just sit around and slowly watch all our rights be taken away a little bit at a time and don&#8217;t seem to notice or care. Imagine if your grandparents came back to life or if you were in a coma for 20 years and you woke up. You&#8217;d be stunned at what you&#8217;re told you can now do or worse, can&#8217;t do! Alright I&#8217;ll stop as I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve lost some of you already but people better wake up or before you know it, you&#8217;ll have no rights left at all. Think about it, it doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re a republican or democrat, our freedom is being taken away, enough said.<\/p>\n<p>Time to run as it&#8217;s now 5:36. I&#8217;m a bit tired, wish I could go back to sleep. Have a good weekend and if you drink, don&#8217;t drive! Take care and God Bless,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I left at5am and was home by 1:45 in the afternoon. Although I drove 500 miles, it didn&#8217;t seem all that bad. Meanwhile the misses went to acupuncture and finally found some relief. 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