tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-307174892024-03-23T12:45:56.675-05:00Cedar River SalmonScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.comBlogger824125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-18369103751450525442011-10-09T16:19:00.013-05:002011-10-10T09:04:38.844-05:00I havent darkened your doorstep for a while but this really is troubling.
I came across a news story that reported that leftist protestors refused to let congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis talk at their little hoohaa down in Atlanta. . You can see the report here at Human Events.....
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46728
OK to be fair, its their party and they can be Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-34740040455907221442011-07-30T10:40:00.000-05:002011-07-30T10:40:15.603-05:00"He (Obama) is not a devil, an alien, a socialist. He is a loser. And this is America, where nobody loves a loser." Peggy Noonan, WSJScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-34630624096770879972011-07-09T08:45:00.000-05:002011-07-09T08:45:05.946-05:00Economic Freedom & Quality of LifeScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-15462167203974167352011-07-09T08:43:00.001-05:002011-07-09T08:43:47.483-05:00Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-46742422598184399852011-07-04T08:30:00.000-05:002011-07-04T08:30:17.859-05:00Fr. Barron comments on A Nation Under God; A Nation that Keeps the SabbathScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-56287477934671508202011-07-04T08:28:00.000-05:002011-07-04T08:28:22.529-05:00National Anthem by 5 little girls!! amazing...Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-25531218371509843232011-07-04T08:11:00.002-05:002011-07-04T08:55:57.876-05:00America, We Salute You.
Defence of Fort McHenry
O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-15174808996638433062011-05-02T07:31:00.000-05:002011-05-02T07:31:31.491-05:00Osama Is DeadFirst Reactions:
So Osama is finally taking a long deserved dirt nap but I am feeling a little ambivalent at the moment. Maybe a picture of the dead dirtbag would help. Perhaps its because retribution was so long in coming. Or perhaps its because at the moment I have more questions than President Obama's speech answered.
President Obama: "A small team of Americans Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-9724043206864763512011-04-21T12:16:00.001-05:002011-04-21T12:17:07.226-05:00MMMM Beer... for LentIowa Man On Beer-Only Diet For Lent
CORNING, Iowa - Instead of giving something up for Lent, a central Iowa man is only drinking beer.
J Wilson is from Corning. On Ash Wednesday, he pledged to live though lent only on beer and water. And with Easter just days away, he's made good on his promise.
And if you were expecting a beer belly, you won't find it. He's lost 22 and a half pounds, and is Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-10993985052120626532011-04-19T09:28:00.003-05:002011-04-19T12:18:49.319-05:00Austin's Man Made DisasterI heard that Austin Texas was ablaze as is several thousand acres of West Texas prairie so I wrote my little brother to see if they were homeless. His reply:
West Texas wildfires have burned over a million acres of land so far and none of them are under 50% contained. These fires are normal during this time of year but things are dryer than normal and the reason for the more than double the acresScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-13557526209233067572011-04-16T09:53:00.004-05:002011-04-16T10:21:01.966-05:00The Life of Iowan Henry Wallace.I am currently working on a research project about Iowan Henry Wallace and his role as a New Dealer in the Roosevelt administration. The Wallace family published the influential Wallace's Farmer magazine in Des Moines and were active in Midwest farm politics throughout the early part of the 20th century which led to his father's appointment to the Secretary of Agriculture post in the Harding Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-26014152647916855282011-04-16T08:30:00.005-05:002011-04-16T10:22:46.389-05:00A Lazy SaturdayHmmm, the family is off to the spring cleanup at Church Camp. It is April 16th and as I gaze out across the Salmon Estate big wet fluffy flakes are again covering the lawn. Just more signs of global warming. On lazy days like these the mind naturally turns to things like Zombies.
How long could you hold out. Take the quiz, and no cheating, the only one youll be fooling is yourself.
76%
Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-16477065373037540812011-04-14T16:26:00.001-05:002011-04-14T16:49:05.434-05:00Obama Lied, People DiedObama Lied, People Died is not a refrain your likely to hear from the anti-Bush anti-war crowd anytime soon, but you should. From the Boston Globe:
EVIDENCE IS now in that President Barack Obama grossly exaggerated the humanitarian threat to justify military action in Libya. The president claimed that intervention was necessary to prevent a “bloodbath’’ in Benghazi, Libya’s Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-42944194198974394282011-04-14T11:59:00.000-05:002011-04-14T11:59:49.803-05:00Nobel Prize for HypocrisyFrom the desk of Victor Davis-Hanson:
Obama VS. Obama
The president gave the sort of scare speech he not long ago warned against, and blasted the income-tax rates he not long ago agreed were necessary — in a context in which he has just presented a budget with a $1.6 trillion deficit of the sort he now says is unsustainable, and has warned about recklessly voting against raising the debt Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-18222341191106125662011-04-13T06:16:00.006-05:002011-04-14T10:42:53.383-05:00Shut Her Down Boys.I just love the feel of smoke being blown up my backside, don't you? Yesterday, after the world hailed the budget deal as a divine miracle pulling us back from the brink of disaster we learn the comprimise was just smoke and mirrors, it was just a fabrication, it was just plain made up. From John Podhoretz: The big news today is that the $38.5 billion in Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-14610294602010377112011-04-11T12:19:00.048-05:002011-04-12T16:56:56.377-05:00Krugman: A Dose of RealityNobel Economist Paul Krugman has gone off on the policies of Barack Obama in the past but I think this is a first in attacking him personally. Evidently the Ones performance in last weeks budget debate rose up and smacked Krugman with a big right cross. Today he writes:
What have they done with President Obama? What happened to the inspirational figure his Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-34238474700825762232011-04-11T09:53:00.001-05:002011-04-11T12:28:35.656-05:00News from Kandahar.The Salmon son just extended another six years. In a response to his friends he writes:
Even with all the talk of not getting paid 2 of us extended our contracts till 2018 today. I have already been called crazy and out of my mind amongst other things but we all know we do it for the pride, the men and women we stand beside everyday, and above all else our loved ones. I am proud to say that I am Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-14419753199714525492011-04-10T08:39:00.003-05:002011-04-10T12:17:28.240-05:00Progress means not just changing, but changing for the better. -C. S. LewisScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-70818528465336482212011-04-04T13:23:00.001-05:002011-04-04T13:24:03.267-05:00Nobel Prize for HypocrisyToday we grieve for the families who have lost loved ones, the hearts that have been broken, and the young lives that could have been. America, it's time to start bringing our troops home. It's time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war. -Barack H. ObamaScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-9054577484227688372011-04-04T06:48:00.000-05:002011-04-04T06:48:01.022-05:00MMMMMM BEERWhat took so long?Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-24814268240348637822011-04-03T07:53:00.000-05:002011-04-03T07:53:28.875-05:00Be PreparedI caught this on CNN this morning and I have to wonder who has the means to build a steel Ark for 180 of their closest friends and large enough to store five years worth of food and supplies. What do these people know that you don't know? Or did they think "2012" was a documentary?
Check it out here. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-83663226905946561402011-04-01T13:17:00.001-05:002011-04-04T13:22:08.292-05:00Nobel Prize for HypocrisyThe President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” -Barrak H. ObamaScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-21641707999025452011-04-01T10:01:00.000-05:002011-04-01T10:01:30.569-05:00Can You Afford Four More Years?Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-14810117269941905152011-03-31T07:36:00.004-05:002011-04-04T13:22:34.185-05:00Nobel Prize for HypocrisyNow, let me be clear – I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied U.N. resolutions, thwarted U.N. inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.
... Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30717489.post-77045488073569884652011-03-26T08:58:00.005-05:002011-03-26T09:01:28.722-05:00While giving alms may sometimes require contributing what has been earned through human labor, the gift of oneself is of greater value. After all, the debt incurred by sin wasn't paid in the currency of the world but in the flesh of Christ. ~ Fr. Gary Caster, The Little Way of LentScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368531461950215732noreply@blogger.com0