This is a perfect and chilling example of what's wrong with liberal progressivism

Students in England are rioting and threatening the lives of Royals because the government is raising tuition rates. When a people are used to having everything paid for by the government and then the government realizes it can't sustain these programs financially and tries to cut back (or raise tuition) people riot. Once you give someone a handout they won't let you stop without a fight It doesn't matter that the money ran out and this or that just can't continue. People will still riot. These are not thinking people, just feeling people.

Camilla and Charles made a wrong turn in their armored Rolls Royce and found themselves in the middle of a mass of rioting students who then started to beat on their car while shouting "Off with their heads!" and succeeded in cracking a window which I understand is really hard to do.

Entitlement

"Receiving with no opportunity to reciprocate corrodes the soul." --Rabbi Daniel Lapin. This is what's wrong with Big Government and Progressivism and why God finds it so offensive. Rabbi Lapin also said that the word "entitlement" is the worst government word ever invented.

What's with my grandkids getting older???

Today is our grandson, Justin's 7th birthday!! And Monday, Maddie turned 9!! Good grief, these cuties just keep getting older without asking anyone's permission. Hope their birthdays were lots of fun. Grandma and Grandpa (Nana and PopPop) love you very much!!

I Never Do These but Here Goes

1. High heels or boots? Are you kidding? Boots! You don't want to see my bum stick out when I wear high heels.

2. What time did you get up this morning? 9:30am but I struggled to breath all night with a cold.

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Toy Story 3

4. What is your maiden Name? Bond, Like James


5. What is your favorite TV show? So You Think You Can Dance. Glenn Beck.

6. What do you usually have for breakfast? Eggs, over easy.

7. What is your middle name? Carol, but no one uses it. Why did my font change?


8. What food do you dislike? sweet potato, but it makes me sad because it's so good for you.

9. What is your favorite CD at the moment? BYU's Vocal Point. But I just heard Carrie Underwood's song, He's Good, or something like that. I really like that song.

10. What characteristic do you despise? In me or others? In me, it's lack of discipline. Why do think I'm doing this instead of reading a good book?

11. Favorite clothing? On others I love a very tailored classic look, sort of vintage. On me nothing looks good with this bum.

12. Anywhere in the world on vacation? England sounds good but I'm kind of chicken to travel. Hawaii isn't too shabby.

13. Are you an organized person? Very much NOT.

14. Where would you retire to? (To where would you retire? Sorry, had to add that after yesterday's post) I would love a little cottage on a green hill over looking some shimmering water.

15. What was your most recent meaningful birthday? Last year, all but Kyle, were at the beach in Florida and it happened to be my birthday.

16. What are you going to do when you finish this? Take 2 Nyquil and go to bed.

18. Person you expect to send it back first?

19. When is your birthday? July 18

20. Are you a morning person or a night person? It's nice to say "morning" after 15 years of not sleeping at all with fibromyalgia.

21. What is your shoe size? 7

22. Do you own any animals? I'm the mommy to 2 corgis, Sonic and Penny. Good doggies.

23. Any news you'd like to share? I did not design and sew a purse today. I did attend an Institute in-service meeting today. I love teaching Institute!

24. When you were little, what did you want to be? A detective.
25. What is your favorite flower? Use to be the daffodil. Not sure at the moment.
26. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? Well, for 2 years it was the day Kyle came home from his mission. Now that he's home I guess it's sometime after Christmas when all our kids will be together!! That's always the best. Plus, if the world doesn't come to an end Jim and I are going to Hawaii in Jan.
27. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Yellow

28. How is the weather right now? Very mild.

29. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Some dumb political caller I accidentally picked up.

30. Favorite drink? Limeade!

31. Favorite restaurant? Do I even need to say: PAPPASITOS!


32. Hair color? brown

33. What was your favorite toy as a child? tree fort.
34. Spring Summer, Fall or Winter? Fall

35. Chocolate or vanilla? chocolate but if it's a shake I will often choose vanilla.


36. Coffee or tea? Herbal Tea

37. Wish you were still young? I would like to go back and do lots over again-better!

38. Do you want your friends to email you back? or copy this? definitely

39. When was the last time you cried? Watching the Emma video at in-service tonight.

41. What did you do last night? Watched the movie, Date Night with Dad.

42. What are you afraid of? Suffering or seeing my loved ones suffer.

43. Salty or sweet? both, alternating, all day long.

44. Car or Truck? Comfy car.

45. Best quality you have? Sense of humor.

46. How many years at your current job? meaning motherhood? Almost 35

47. Favorite day of the week? Monday, always ready to start over.

48. How many people will you send this to? 0

49. How many will respond? good question. i love comments
50. Do you like finding out all this stuff about your friends? Yeah, but half the # of questions would be fine.

A Hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains and something strange.

This is an amazing lookout platform with a fantastic view. We are not that far from Lookout Mountain.
Pa. One of the few pictures I could get of him.
The view.
I don't know what to make of this but couldn't miss taking a picture of it. Who is old enough to carve this and yet still that enamored with his mother?? I'll bet it was a merry prank.

Recent Trip to Utath

Kaylee, as Lady GaGa took off before I remembered to get a picture. I'll have to make up for that over Thanksgiving. But here are Justin and Ian as Mario and Luigi. Caden is behind the scary mask. Justin didn't get to go trick or treating because he started throwing up about 5 minutes after this picture was taken due to the flu. Then Ian followed suit about 8 hours later.
GiGi
Kyle, Joe, and JoJo watching sports on TV
Dad and I after church Oct. 31, 2010.
Mom and Dad same day.
Mom and I (with crooked smile?) Good visit but always seems too short for all the stuff I try to get crammed in.

2 Lunches in the Mountains

The above pictures are of a picnic site in the southeast corner of Tennessee. Below is where we had our lunch the day before. Both locales were breathtakingly gorgeous!! I thank our Savior that he made this world so beautiful!

Back Home From the Mountains

Don't you love these old national park, etc. signs! Gorgeous Fall color.
Blue Ridge Mountains in North Georgia.
Our cabin! More pictures to follow.

Obama's version of the Declaration of Independence

A total of 4 times now Pres. Obama, while quoting from the Declaration of Independence, has left out the words "by their creator". It is supposed to read, "endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights."

I believe this is very telling and significant.

Progressives believe the government gives people rights and those rights evolve and progress. Therefore Pres. Obama believes that he and/or the government is free to change our rights as THEY see fit. Progressives think they are smarter than the Founders inspired by God.

My girl's beautiful eyes and impressive back legs!

This is 8 year old Penny who put herself in her crate because she heard thunder. Those back legs are impressive, aren't they. She makes up for it with her eyes. The hot spot on her front paw isn't very attractive, though. Actually, her crate is her favorite place unless my lap is available.

Don't believe Obama is a socialist? Listen to their own words.

PLEASE watch this. We've already lost so many of the freedoms God inspired the Founders to protect in the Constitution.

Redistribution of wealth is socialism. The new health care bill is socialism. All this over-regulation is socialism. The government take-over of all students loans is socialism. We must understand Progressivism and why it's such a danger to the American Dream, our liberty, and the Constitution. What seems like the government caring about all of us is really enslavement. People are happiest when they have the most control over their destiny and if we don't wake up Americans will end up with very little left.

Pictures from Art and Bonnie's 60 Wedding Anniversary Weekend

Bev, Natalie, and Lee
Natalie and her husband, David
Evan, Bonnie, Ruth, and Helen.

See more pics in the blog below. Sorry. Had trouble and it's a 2-parter. We had a great time with relatives we hadn't seen in around 20 years. Evan and Beverly Terry and their children Bonnie and Natalie and Nat's husband, David. (I think it was David) John and his wife and kids ran off before I got to my camera.

More pics

For some reason "it" wouldn't let me add any more pictures when I wasn't done. Hence the 2 parts.

Lee showing Bonnie how to do some back stretching movements.
There's a trouble maker back there somewhere. Dear "sweet" Aunt Helen with her fingers in a box of candy.

Mormons referenced by Obama's "safe school" Czar talking about what's coming to public schools

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama%E2%80%99s-safe-school-czar-admits-gay-curriculum-is-the-ultimate-goal/

You need this dog!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmzgkMsf_GQ&feature=player_embedded

Progress

"We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man." ~ C.S. Lewis

Restoring Honor Pics

"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."
George Washington
It was so wonderful to be a part of something that represents the best of America. God, family, country-that's what the whole day was about.

Mom and Dad's 60th!

I'm in Utah to celebrate my parents 60th wedding anniversary which was actually July 1st. I will write more about it soon and post pictures. Plus I will post pics of the Restoring Honor Rally and some neat experiences that happened in conjuntion with that. I know-- blog bait.

The Blaze (of truth!)

Here is a new website that will have stories on it that you won't find anywhere else. Glenn Beck started it because the mainstream media is refusing to ask the hard questions or tell the stories that need to be told.

When I tell my mom that things in the country are falling apart and that freedom of religion is being attacked she says she "doesn't see it". That's because she's watches the news that puts a rosy picture on everything going on so that Obama always looks good. Talk about an agenda!!!! This is so bad for the country and many people are going to be caught unawares as we move deeper into the events of the Last Days.

Let's everyone get their food storage and other preparations in order so we are not going to suffer more than necessary. I don't want to be left outside the gate when the Bridegroom comes. And I don't want my loved ones to suffer.

BTW, "The Blaze" was the name of George Whitfield's publication. He was a preacher and probably one of the most important people responsible for waking up Americans 250 years ago and convincing them that the colonies needed to be and could be free. Without his sermons Adams, Franklin, and Jefferson could not have fulfilled their divine rolls.

www.theblaze.com

The Church "regularizing" in China???

We know that prophecies in the Last Days are being fulfilled right and left and events can really start to escalate fast sometimes. Could this possibly be the "beginning" of China's "opening up?" Let's pray for even more and faster progress in this area.

Check out the interesting article below. I think it feels exciting.

http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/church-in-talks-to-regularize-activities-in-china#continued

Islam has had a long history of building their mosques ON TOP of Christian churches

The Sofia Mosque in Istambul (that used to be Constantinople before that Christian city was conquered by Muslims) is built exactly ON TOP of a Christian church. The Cordoba Mosque in Cordoba Spain is also built directly ON TOP of a Christian church.

This is what Muslims do when they conquer a place. They have stated their goal of destroying America and replacing it with Islam. The Ground Zero mosque is for that purpose!!!!!!!!!!! They know they couldn't build it right at Ground Zero but they're close enough.

I can't believe how blind so many people are. But then again maybe they haven't been reading as many books on The Signs of the Times as I have recently. It ALL fits and it all has to come to pass in one form or another but I'm not ready yet to just roll over and let "them" take it. Evidently there's plenty of other people in power eager to.

Obama to NY Times in 2007: Muslim Call to Prayer is "One of the Prettiest Sounds on Earth"

It's interesting that a new poll shows that 1 in 5 people think he's a Muslim. That's actually up from last year. He does seem to have a BIG soft spot in his heart for Muslims. This makes a lot of people nervous that he might not be thinking clearly when it comes to keeping us safe as a nation. Remember he did not participate in the National Day of Prayer.

In my opinion the proposed Ground Zero Mosque will be an attraction for Islamic terrorists because from it's 15 or 20 stories it will look straight down on their greatest diabolical achievement yet. The imam of this mosque will not denounce Hezbollah as a terrorist group. He originally wanted the mosque to be dedicated on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

This mosque could be the 3rd largest in the world I think I heard. Could we be inviting a snake into our sleeping bag without knowing if it's poisonous?

Hey, Check out MY backyard fowl!!

These are wild turkeys that showed up in our backyard for the first time. Not as huge as farmed domestic behemoths. There were lots of teenage looking birds.

Obama and Hamas co-founder in agreement over Ground Zero Mosque

President Obama, after snubbing the National Day of Prayer and the Boy Scout's 100 year anniversary, has come out in support of building the mosque near Ground Zero. 64% of Americans think this is a bad idea but there is someone who supports the president. A co-founder of the terrorist organization Hamas supports Obama, saying that not only does he agree that Muslims have the right to build it but the "mosque must be built."

My thoughts: Can someone say Trojan Horse?

Obama is a Progressive. Why is Progressivism evil?

DEFINITION-Insidious: operating or proceeding in an inconspicuous or seemingly harmless way but actually with grave effect.

The Center for American Progress is recommending that the following programs be cut from our public schools. It's insidious.

Academics for American History and Civics (reason to cut:too narrow. Yes, we're all global now. Why study American History?)

We the People (course in Civic education) (reason:too narrow. Why study the Constitution or Bill of Rights?)

Excellence in Economic Education (reason:too narrow. Why would anyone in the United States need to learn anything about financial matters?)

Since the Progressive Agenda is to move in the opposite direction from our God-inspired Constitution toward socialism, then it's imperative that they wean the American Public away from the principles of the Founding Fathers. Actually, this has been going on for over 100 years with Progressive Presidents such as Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.

Obama is a Progressive and is moving us toward these progressive goals like he is on speed. The main group to promote the progressive agenda is the Center for American Progress. They are ANTI-CONSTITUTION, ANTI-DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, ANTI-FOUNDING FATHERS, and ANTI-RELIGION (they have a twisted take on religion, or at least Obama does. More on that later).

They believe that the vast majority of people are too stupid to take care of themselves or make good decisions so a huge vast government should tell them what to do. They make this attractive by telling us that they will take care of all our needs. The word for this is SLAVERY!!! Total dependency on something else is a form of SLAVERY. The government will FORCE everyone to do things its way under the guise that it is saving us from ourselves. What they are doing is robbing us of our freedom, liberty, and the agency God gave us to work out our own salvation. This is why Progressivism is so evil. It is just like Satan's plan to FORCE everyone to "do right". Progressive Elites believe "they know best."

But they need our tax dollars and will not hesitate to place huge tax burdens on us to the breaking point. In the Book of Mormon the issue of burdensome taxes being evil is brought up many times.

Pres. Benson talked about the Constitution hanging by a thread and Obama and the Progressives are the ones shredding it. In the Last Days there are many ways that even the very elect will be deceived. I believe that those LDS who support Obama and the Progressive agenda are being deceived, I'm sorry to say. I mean he is a Marxist Socialist for goodness sakes.

For more informatin: www.newzeal.blogspot.com

Michelle Obama as Marie Antoinette??

. . . . It is the kind of impunity that has been highlighted on the world stage this week by Michelle Obama’s hugely costly trip to Spain, which has prompted a New York Post columnist Andrea Tantaros to dub the First Lady a contemporary Marie Antoinette. As The Telegraph reports, while the Obamas are covering their own vacation expenses such as accommodation, the trip may cost US taxpayers as much as $375,000 in terms of secret service security and flight costs on Air Force Two.

This short but excellent article by Nile Gardiner can be found in the UK's The Telegraph. Here's another great paragraph.

The First Lady’s ill-conceived trip to Marbella and the complete disregard for public opinion and concerns over excessive government spending is symbolic of a far wider problem with the Obama presidency – the overarching disdain for the principles of limited government, individual liberty and free enterprise that have built the United States over the course of nearly two and a half centuries into the most powerful and free nation on earth.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR GRANDDAUGHTER, ELLE, ON HER 6TH BIRTHDAY!!! We sure do love you!!!!!!!

FINALLY-Before and After Kitchen Remodel Pics!!

AFTER:

(don't ask me why I decided to start with the afters. Too much trouble to change it)

I LOVE my deep, big single bowl sink. Plenty of room to wash any pot! I also love the fact that it's an undermount. Love the tall faucet, too, though the handle had to be angled to fit. The hot/cold/on/off toggling is still kind of awkward, though.

I absolutely LOVE the faux finish on the walls now!!!
I should have taken a picture of the telescoping downdraft gizmo at the back of the flat cooktop. It's already been repaired once! I still like it even though it isn't as effective as an overhead exhaust fan but I didn't have much choice.
The pic above is supposed to be a close-up of the glazing technique. Compare to the plain paint below. The painter just added a brown glaze to my "pre-school" yellow paint already on the wall. This can be done if the existing paint is not flat.
BELOW:

This floor was hideous. Compare it to the tile in the first picture.
The weirdest thing about the previous kitchen was the lack of a backsplash behind the sink.

How Does 20% of the Country Control the other 80%?

According to research Americans consider themselves thus:

20% Liberal/Progressive

42% Conservative or very Conservative

36% Moderate

Obama is a radical Liberal/Progressive and is governing against the will of the people, meaning his policies are opposed by the vast majority of Americans. How is this possible? (Jeopardy music)

The mainstream media, in fact all the television media, except FOX, are staffed for the most part on all levels by Liberal/Progessives. Sadly, this means we have nearly lost the Free Press. Since the Left leaning press wants to force their Progressive agendas down the throats of unsuspecting Americans they don't cover, or downplay most of the radical policies of our extremely radical president and Congress.

Those who do not watch FOX, listen to talk radio, or read conservative print, I believe, don't know 10% of what is going on. And what's going on is the complete thrashing of the constitution and the free market system among other things.

What is a Progressive?... next post.

In Case you Missed it

In a interview with Al Jazeera, Charles Bolden, new head of NASA said "When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he [Obama] charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering.

Nothing about space exploration in all that.

My thoughts: I don't want my tax dollars going to help the Muslim nations feel good about their contributions to math and science. Thank you very much. Oh, and here's a list of the news agencies who did not cover this story:

New York Times

Washington Post

NBC Nightly News

ABC World News

CBS Evening News

This is how 20% of the country can control the rest of the 80%. More on that tomorrow.