I don’t want to be hysterical, but I am right now. It is the most helpless feeling in the world to have a friend in crisis, be unable to get him on the phone or by email, or any other way - because of distance and geography. Damnit it all.

May God protect him and keep him tonight and every night until we hear something.

And I pray to God we hear something. Soon.

As Rick Moran points out in his post here asking to help out a friend in need:

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We need to support people like that, there are too few of them around. Kender is a one of a kind - manly funny man, who I am proud to call “friend”. And should any of us hit a low point in our lives, it is a nice thing to know that we have friends that can rally around us. That can make all the difference in the world, and that’s why I’m joining Rick and others in asking for you to help - in whatever amount you can.

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If we don’t listen to the voices of experience…we are destined to repeat history.

Obama’s people say that McCain and other people are “living in the past”.

There is nothing wrong with learning from history and pledging not to repeat those mistakes.

Too many Americans, it would seem, don’t agree with taking on that kind of debt - and forcing it on future generations.

Michelle Malkin cracked me up, calling it ‘rejection of the crap sandwich’.

Still, after reading what Pelosi said about it, it would seem that people from both sides of the aisle who have brains and are in touch with reality - realize that what she said is a bunch of BS.

PELOSI: When was the last time anyone ever asked you for $700 billion?

It’s a staggering figure and many questions have arisen from that request. And we have been hearing a very informed debate on all sides of this issue here today. I’m proud of the debate.

$700 billion. A staggering number, but only a part of the cost of the failed Bush economic policies to our country. Policies that were built on budget recklessness when Pres. Bush took office, he inherited Pres. Clinton’s surpluses - four years in a row budget surpluses on a trajectory of $5.6 trillion in surplus. And with his reckless economic policies, within two years, he had turned it around. And now 8 years later, the foundation of that fiscal irresponsibility, combined with an “anything goes” economic policy, has taken us to where we are today.

They claim to be free-market advocates, when it’s really an anything goes mentality. No regulation, no supervision, no discipline. And if you fail, you will have a golden parachute and the taxpayer will bail you out.
Those days are over. The party is over in that respect.

Democrats believe in a free market. We know that it can create jobs, it can create wealth, many good things in our economy. But in this case, in this unbridled form, as encouraged and supported by the Republicans — some Republicans, not all — it has created not jobs, not capital, it has created chaos. And it is that chaos that the Secretary of the Treasury and the Chairman of the Fed came to see us, just about a week and a half ago. It seems like an eternity, doesn’t it? So much has happened. The news was so bad. They described a very dismal situation.

Sure they believe in capitalism; that’s why they blame capitalism and not the illegal alien problem, and not the activist groups putting pressure on the banks to give loans to people who had little HOPE to pay them off.

It’s liberal politics that brought us here…not repugnitards, although it’s convenient to throw the blame elsewhere and typical that they wouldn’t accept responsibility for their part in this mess.

Here’s a refresher for you, Nancy.

It happens to be the sunrise this morning while I was in traffic.

From Jake and MJ and Freedom Folks.

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Link to the map is here.

The is all I was able to put in there–ending in Florida; but the tour continues from Florida, according to Larry’s preliminary plans.

From Florida, he goes to Georgia…I’ll map out the rest of it this afternoon.

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Link to the 2nd map is here.

It starts to get funny when the gaffes are shown here, about 1/2 way through.

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Is to employ the Cloward-Piven strategy, and it is in its advanced stages of development, as we’ve already seen, much to our surprise and horror.

Read the very important article at the American Thinker by James Simpson, entitled Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis. Created by two socialist Columbia University Professors, ~

The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. (David Horowitz)

Read the whole thing.

That’s the rumor. Malkin links to a draft, but there is no final bill yet.

This reminds me of an article at the American Thinker that was sent to me by a friend…

Barack Obama and the strategy of manufactured crisis

Reminds me of what’s happening right now with the urgency behind “savings” the banks.

Upon closer examination, Soros’ hands are all over this - he was at the top of the beneficiaries of this whole scam.

Despite the Obamanots’ best efforts, despite the threat of lawsuits, you just can’t argue with the facts.

Listen to it live or archived on the player above, or go to the segment, here to join in the chat.

This video has a lot in it for the short time that it runs; it’s by CameraLabs.com - and the fellow is indeed British as he refers to the camera as the “F” “Zed” “Eight”.

Camera Labs has their own youtube channel, check it out. The full review of the FZ8 is here at Camera Labs dot com.

This video is by TigerDirect, and it’s also very comprehensive and fast-moving.

I like it when he says…”Leica is some of the best glass in the world…”

From Larry Sinclair:

“…a spouse of a very high ranking Barack Obama campaign adviser, has expressed publicly her anger with her husband’s on going actions. She found out her husband, along with Barack Obama and two other advisers, one female, have/still are smoking pot on several occasions after campaigning events.”

This explains his incoherent speeches, his inability to remember things, etc. I wouldn’t be very happy with it, either, if I found out about my husband doing that…

Somebody needs to get a hair sample from this man.

Paul Newman, 83, the actor and sex symbol who surged to stardom by playing loners as well as criminal and moral outlaws — anything to downplay his astonishing looks — died of cancer yesterday at his home in Westport, Connecticut.

Adam Bernstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 27, 2008; 10:24 AM

See the very well done explanation of it, here.

Prosecutors for Obama hunting for ‘lying ads’

A team of Obama-supporting prosecutors and sheriffs in Missouri is preparing to pursue legal challenges to any presidential campaign ads deemed to be false or misleading.

KMOV-TV in St. Louis reports District Attorney Robert McCulloch, a past president of the National District Attorneys Association, said that whether the ads could be attributed to an opponent’s campaign itself, or another organization, “If they’re not going to tell the truth, somebody’s got to step up and say, ‘That’s not the truth. This is the truth.’”

It appears as though they’re inventing a version of the truth; a “truth” that the rest of us would call something ELSE.

The effort appeared to be part of a move by the Obama campaign to block advertisements to which it objects. The campaign also sent “threatening” letters to several news agencies in Pennsylvania and Ohio demanding they stop airing ads exposing Obama’s gun stance, according to the National Rifle Association.

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Just this past August 25, Jen Hall and her fiance. a Marine Corps veteran, had come out of a tavern, celebrating Hall’s birthday. They were headed for the grocery store in the South Loop last month when they were attacked by two homeless people, in retaliation for not giving them a cigarette. The homeless man ended up kicking Jen viciously and repeatedly in the head. She sustained brain damage, nerve damage, and lost all but four of her teeth. Of course, she wound up in the hospital; numerous people called 911 after the attack, but no one intervened.

Incredibly, all of this happened just this past August 25 and has, understandably, shattered their lives. But one saving grace is that - her injuries were so severe, they expected that she would be brain dead; her doctors call her recovery a ‘miracle’.

Hall has no medical insurance, and as she continues her physical therapy, the medical bills have already piled up to over $100,000.

Joyce Burgess and Derrick King have been indicted on attempted first degree murder of Hall, and are in jail now.

Hall got out the hospital a little over a week ago. But she had another scare when she had a seizure. She struggles daily with pain and increasingly how to pay for her medical treatment, because she has no medical insurance. She is facing a rough recovery after surviving this senseless and brutal attack.

www.thewalkingmiracle.com
“Jennifer Hall Charitable Trust Fund”
125 E. 13th Street Unit 915
Chicago, IL 60605

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I went to Perfecta Farm today, because I found out that it’s the only farm that has a Streamwood address. They are very specialized in what they do; they teach kids and adults how to ride English. The corral where the people were riding today was set up for jumping.

The horses there are fit, well-groomed, elegant and tall; except for the ones that the kids are learning to ride on; there were a few ponies in the ring today.

All of the riders except one were females, and very young. It was great to see them out there today, although I was cautioned that more would be coming out - it was getting warm and I was getting hungry for dinner, so I had to leave. They were enjoying themselves, and had a small audience. Parents like to watch their kids practice and improve, and one little girl was being coached as her horse/pony had a mind of her own.

The sign says jumpers, hunters, lessons, training, boarding and sales. The jumpers and hunters part was the part that was intriguing - plus the fact that this appears to be the only farm that I’m aware of that is left in the village.

We still do, though, have quite a few farms in the area, which I’ll be scoping out in the coming months. Goebberts, which was pointed out by Chicago Ray is high on the list, because theirs is a pumpkin farm, and they have hayrides and a number of things going on that would be worthy of shooting. We also have at least one dairy farm in South Elgin which I’d like to check out; and there are a lot of old farm out buildings that are still standing in the area that deserve to be recorded….

Still, I’m particularly interested in what’s going on in the Tri Village area; Streamwood, Hanover Park and Bartlett; and because that’s all close to me, I’ll probably be focusing on that; and occasionally what’s happening in St. Charles.

Eventually i’d like to try my hand at street photography, and coming up soon….portraits of people by themselves, and portraits of people and their pets. We’ll see how that shakes out.

Obama’s garden to nowhere

You would think that Obama would be up on charges for these dishonest dealings. Instead, you have an Obama supporter conducting the “investigation”.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan — a Democrat who is supporting Obama’s presidential bid — is investigating “whether this charitable organization properly used its charitable assets, including the state funds it received,” Cara Smith, Madigan’s deputy chief of staff, said Wednesday.

I wonder if we could get together a number of attorneys and investigators to dig into this.

Or maybe even….Larry Sinclair.!