<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426</id><updated>2012-01-29T18:42:35.461-07:00</updated><category term='Interest'/><category term='Animals'/><category term='Government'/><category term='Politics'/><title type='text'>Thoughts from Apache Junction</title><subtitle type='html'>Thoughts about life, liberty, and our pursuit of happiness from a middle aged man in the South Western United States.      Sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, but always from the heart.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>109</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-9117633486673758925</id><published>2012-01-29T18:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T18:42:35.470-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Allen West:  Short, Sweet, To the Point!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/o8YDnd1Yoyk" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-9117633486673758925?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/9117633486673758925/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=9117633486673758925' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/9117633486673758925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/9117633486673758925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2012/01/allen-west-short-sweet-to-point.html' title='Allen West:  Short, Sweet, To the Point!'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/o8YDnd1Yoyk/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-2356203358730997869</id><published>2012-01-28T16:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T16:52:31.724-07:00</updated><title type='text'>From the Patriot Network</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Yanone Kaffeesatz Regular', 'arialm sans-serif'; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Saul Alinski Would Be Proud of Obama, So Would Marx.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;by Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer- P.A.N. Admin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Yanone Kaffeesatz Regular', 'arialm sans-serif'; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;The Bullet Points.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;President&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/barack-obama/" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-image: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #123160; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Obama&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on Friday called on all Americans to share in the responsibility of shoring up the country’s still wobbly economy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Translated: You thought your taxes were high? Wait til we&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;really RAISE THEM&lt;/span&gt;! Obama’s idea of “everyone doing their share” is for the workers, producers, and job creators to PAY MORE TAXES.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Building on his State of the Union speech on Tuesday,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/barack-obama/" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-image: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #123160; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Mr. Obama&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;speaking to House Democrats&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;gathered at the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/hyatt-regency-chesapeake-bay-hotel/" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-image: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #123160; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Hotel&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for their annual strategy retreat, said “&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;common purpose&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;common resolve&lt;/span&gt;” will ensure the United States is the “greatest country, the largest economy and [has] the&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;broadest middle class&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;on earth.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crikey! The call for us to ALL have ALL things in&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;common&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the call for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;broadest&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;middle class is straight out of Marx, Lenin, trotsky, Stalin et al!! “For the good of the state, the COMMON GOOD.”&amp;nbsp; Give Me LIBERTY or Give Me Death!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Then Obama said- “We do not succeed on our own, we all have to pull weight and to our own work,” he said. “America is not about handouts but we always understand we’re more successful when we do it together.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Translated: NO MORE American dream! NO MORE LIBERTY! NO MORE Individualism! NO MORE Bill of Rights! NO MORE Constitution! NO MORE of a person, and individual, chasing their dream! NO MORE AMERICA!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/barack-obama/" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-image: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #123160; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Mr. Obama&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;reaffirmed his support for the so-called “Buffett Rule”&lt;span style="color: red; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;setting a higher minimum tax rate on millionaires&lt;/span&gt;, but dismissed criticisms he is demanding the nation’s wealthy shoulder an unfair share of the nation’s tax burden.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;This Marxist TRAITOR! The Top 1% ALREADY pay 40% of all taxes in America!!!! CUT Taxes! CUT ALL Taxes!!! CUT ALL TAXES ON EVERYONE!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/barack-obama/" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-image: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #123160; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Mr. Obama&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;said he will push hard to ensure those earning more than $1 million dollars annually aren’t getting tax breaks and subsidies&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;“they&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;don’t need.”&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;He said his proposal is “not out of envy,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;but out of a sense of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;fairness&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and a sense of&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;mutual responsibility&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and a sense of commitment to this country’s future.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;WHO determines WHAT is “fair”? WHO decides what taxe breaks, subsidies and tax cuts “the eViL rich” don’t need? What a pant load! This is more Coomie-speak strait out of Marx (a Satanist) and Saul Alinski (a Traitor)!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;6. But the president added “the job is&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;done —&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;not even close&lt;/span&gt;” to help bolster the U.S. manufacturing base. To to that, he said, requires a more fair tax code that&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;doesn’t&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;provide tax breaks&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;for companies that ship jobs overseas.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;What a glistening jewel of colossal ARROGANCE!&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;THE Problem&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;with companies and jobs going over seas or out of the country&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;IS TOO HIGH OF TAXATION, TOO MUCH GOV./MARXIST REGULATION, AND YOUR STALINIST COHORTS IN THE UNIONS&lt;/span&gt;!!! &amp;nbsp; Get rid of all these LIBERAL impediments and comapnies and businesses will QUIT going over seas!!!&amp;nbsp; It is&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;YOUR&lt;/span&gt;oppressive, tyrannical, Stalinist taxation and regulating that is DESTROYING AMERICA!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;7. Lastly, and mercifully, Obama said this-&amp;nbsp; “&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Oil is not enough,&lt;/span&gt;” he said. Republicans “think that the only subsidy that’s worth providing is subsidies to oil companies.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Well, as I said, we’ve been subsidizing oil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;companies for close to a century now&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Rarely have they been more profitable.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;If you could see and hear me I just screamed and began pounding my head against a wall!! Obama, you IDIOTIC COMMUNIST,&amp;nbsp; we have PLENTY OF OIL, LOTS OF IT, HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF IT…but YOU and the DNC/EPA wont let us get it!!! You are a lying liar of all liars!!!&amp;nbsp; You can subsidise a company all you want…but if you will NOT let them do ALL they can to promote their industry and create jobs&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;YOU are NOT helping them YOU ARE PUNISHING AND PROHIBITING THEM&lt;/span&gt;!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;Obama, mouths the words “this is not about class warfare or class envy”…but his every action, his every proposal, his entire attitude says it IS.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Yanone Kaffeesatz Regular', 'arialm sans-serif'; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: olive;"&gt;-Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer- P.A.N. Admin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc99ff;"&gt;“Disobedience to tyrants is Obedience to God.” -Benjamin Franklin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-2356203358730997869?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/2356203358730997869/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=2356203358730997869' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2356203358730997869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-3773751354160451353</id><published>2012-01-16T20:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T20:58:17.163-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Senate Bill Authorizes Feds To Revoke Citizenship Of Americans | United States Justice Foundation</title><content type='html'>I used to like Joe Lieberman. &amp;nbsp;What has happened to the minds and morals of those who are representing us?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://usjf.net/2012/01/senate-bill-authorizes-feds-to-revoke-citizenship-of-americans/"&gt;Senate Bill Authorizes Feds To Revoke Citizenship Of Americans&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;United States Justice Foundation&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;'via Blog 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title='Senate Bill Authorizes Feds To Revoke Citizenship Of Americans | United States Justice Foundation'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-29098594110263216</id><published>2012-01-15T07:38:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T07:53:59.762-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Senators warn new EPA rules would raise gas prices | CowboyByte</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Time to get on the phones to our Reps and Senators and crank up the email machine.  I don't know about you but I sure can't afford a 25 ȼ per gallon increase.  The EPA has been overstepping its bounds for some time now.  I think we must urge our government to disband them.  Please read the link below.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://cowboybyte.com/3305/senators-warn-new-epa-rules-would-raise-gas-prices/"&gt;Senators warn new EPA rules would raise gas prices | CowboyByte&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;'via Blog this'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-29098594110263216?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://cowboybyte.com/3305/senators-warn-new-epa-rules-would-raise-gas-prices/' title='Senators warn new EPA rules would raise gas prices | CowboyByte'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/29098594110263216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=29098594110263216' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/29098594110263216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/29098594110263216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2012/01/senators-warn-new-epa-rules-would-raise.html' title='Senators warn new EPA rules would raise gas prices | CowboyByte'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-904884641777601891</id><published>2011-12-29T22:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T22:02:34.540-07:00</updated><title type='text'>MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the Internet as We Know It - Popular Mechanics</title><content type='html'>Like the refreshing&amp;nbsp;forthrightness of the Internet? &amp;nbsp;If Congress has their way it's going to disappear. &amp;nbsp;What can you do to stop them? &amp;nbsp;Read the article below by clicking on it then email or call your representatives and tell them you do not want this. &amp;nbsp;Time is of the&amp;nbsp;essence&amp;nbsp;here. &amp;nbsp;Don't sit on your hands on this one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/mythbusters/articles/mythbuster-adam-savage-sopa-could-destroy-the-internet-as-we-know-it-6620300?src=nl&amp;amp;mag=pop&amp;amp;list=nl_pnl_scn_non_122911_sopa&amp;amp;kw=ist"&gt;MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the Internet as We Know It - Popular Mechanics&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;'via Blog this'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-904884641777601891?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/mythbusters/articles/mythbuster-adam-savage-sopa-could-destroy-the-internet-as-we-know-it-6620300?src=nl&amp;mag=pop&amp;list=nl_pnl_scn_non_122911_sopa&amp;kw=ist' title='MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the Internet as We Know It - 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Washington Times</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/19/fcc-official-delivers-warning-on-threat-to-interne/"&gt;FCC official: 'Internet freedom' threatened - Washington Times&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;'via Blog this'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-5903139647177041647?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/19/fcc-official-delivers-warning-on-threat-to-interne/' title='FCC official: &apos;Internet freedom&apos; threatened - Washington Times'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/5903139647177041647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=5903139647177041647' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/5903139647177041647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/5903139647177041647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/12/fcc-official-internet-freedom.html' title='FCC official: &apos;Internet freedom&apos; threatened - Washington Times'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-5317322655229464010</id><published>2011-12-16T21:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T21:50:53.918-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What is Agenda 21?</title><content type='html'>Another nifty idea from the United Nations that is really not so nifty at all. &amp;nbsp;See the video below for a great explanation,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TzEEgtOFFlM" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-5317322655229464010?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/5317322655229464010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=5317322655229464010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/5317322655229464010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/5317322655229464010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-is-agenda-21.html' title='What is Agenda 21?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/TzEEgtOFFlM/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-6571092163804363113</id><published>2011-12-07T19:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-07T19:59:43.572-07:00</updated><title type='text'>LOOK!  LISTEN!  LEARN!!!</title><content type='html'>Obama's speech may sound good to those who do not know history. &amp;nbsp;But to those who do??? &amp;nbsp;PLEASE FOLKS, WATCH THIS, LISTEN, AND LEARN, and if you don't believe what you see and hear in this video, then Google the&amp;nbsp;facts&amp;nbsp;for yourselves. &amp;nbsp;We MUST elect a NEW President if we want AMERICA to survive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object height="254" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://web.gbtv.com//shared/flash/video/share/ObjectEmbedFrame.swf?width=400&amp;amp;height=254&amp;amp;content_id=20023385&amp;amp;property=gbtv" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="noscale" /&gt;&lt;param name="salign" value="tl" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://web.gbtv.com//shared/flash/video/share/ObjectEmbedFrame.swf?width=400&amp;amp;height=254&amp;amp;content_id=20023385&amp;amp;property=gbtv" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" window="transparent" width="400" height="254" scale="noscale" salign ="tl" /&gt; &lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-6571092163804363113?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/6571092163804363113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=6571092163804363113' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6571092163804363113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6571092163804363113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/12/look-listen-learn.html' title='LOOK!  LISTEN!  LEARN!!!'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-2044216034439157766</id><published>2011-12-07T16:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-07T16:48:34.564-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Can The Government Force You to Lose Weight?</title><content type='html'>I'm a fat guy and I admit it. &amp;nbsp;However, thank God, I am also a very healthy guy. &amp;nbsp;But would the Government take that into consideration or would they go by the numbers on the scale? &amp;nbsp;Take a look at the video below and decide for yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;script src="http://player.ooyala.com/player.js?embedCode=1yN3UzMzroQdFRoPmMqjbj5ks3eHjf6C&amp;amp;deepLinkEmbedCode=1yN3UzMzroQdFRoPmMqjbj5ks3eHjf6C"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-2044216034439157766?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/2044216034439157766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=2044216034439157766' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2044216034439157766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2044216034439157766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/12/can-government-force-you-to-lose-weight.html' title='Can The Government Force You to Lose Weight?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-8433787499796502469</id><published>2011-12-06T11:16:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T11:25:31.929-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Glenn Beck's Interview with Newt Gingrich</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;object height="254" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://web.gbtv.com//shared/flash/video/share/ObjectEmbedFrame.swf?width=400&amp;amp;height=254&amp;amp;content_id=20022247&amp;amp;property=gbtv" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="noscale" /&gt;&lt;param name="salign" value="tl" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://web.gbtv.com//shared/flash/video/share/ObjectEmbedFrame.swf?width=400&amp;amp;height=254&amp;amp;content_id=20022247&amp;amp;property=gbtv" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" window="transparent" width="400" height="254" scale="noscale" salign ="tl" /&gt; &lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-8433787499796502469?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/8433787499796502469/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=8433787499796502469' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/8433787499796502469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/8433787499796502469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/12/glenn-becks-interview-with-newt.html' title='Glenn Beck&apos;s Interview with Newt Gingrich'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-2929807744036724608</id><published>2011-12-03T15:31:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T15:37:07.311-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cain "Suspends" his campaign</title><content type='html'>Well it seems that the media has been successful in assassinating Herman Cain's character.  Today, December 3, Herman Cain got on nationwide television and announced he was suspending his campaign.  To some, that may still offer hope, as suspending doesn't mean ending.  But in this case I fear that it does.  Herman Cain is a marvelous communicator.  Whether or not he would've made a good president or vice president, we will never know.  I for one, feel that the media has been totally biased in this matter.  There are so many things regarding Barack Obama that could be looked into but have not been.  Leaving the birth certificate issue aside, there are some things that are absolutely factual that have been given far distance.  For example, Obama has a Social Security card that was issued in Connecticut, yet he is never lived in Connecticut.  If one of the Republican candidates had a Social Security card issued in a state that he had never lived in, do you think the media would overlook that?  I fear we are moving ever closer to a socialist country.  We have but one peaceful chance left to right this wrong, and that is to vote Obama out of office in 2012 and get back to running our country in the manner the Constitution calls for it to be run.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See the link below for more information on the Cain campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/2/end-line-cain-announcement-saturday/"&gt;Cain Suspends Campaign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-2929807744036724608?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/2929807744036724608/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=2929807744036724608' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2929807744036724608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2929807744036724608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/12/cain-suspends-his-campaign.html' title='Cain &quot;Suspends&quot; his campaign'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-6931872795197019775</id><published>2011-11-25T19:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-25T19:38:12.965-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Want to see what a Cloud Site looks like?</title><content type='html'>This is a Cloud Storage Site in North Carolina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EtuUDfffp-8/TtBQ0RX-pXI/AAAAAAAACWM/gBXzGXlvH8o/s1600/CloudSite.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EtuUDfffp-8/TtBQ0RX-pXI/AAAAAAAACWM/gBXzGXlvH8o/s400/CloudSite.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This particular site is for the "Apple Cloud".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-6931872795197019775?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/6931872795197019775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=6931872795197019775' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6931872795197019775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6931872795197019775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/11/want-to-see-what-cloud-site-looks-like.html' title='Want to see what a Cloud Site looks like?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EtuUDfffp-8/TtBQ0RX-pXI/AAAAAAAACWM/gBXzGXlvH8o/s72-c/CloudSite.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-3357785498655609456</id><published>2011-11-22T15:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-22T15:29:10.974-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SHOCKING!  Why does Glenn Beck feel this way?  What do THEY know that we don't?</title><content type='html'>Glenn Beck appeared on "Imus in the Morning" on 77 WABC in New York and Imus asked Glenn if he thought Obama would be re-elected.  Watch the video and see and hear his answer below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/embed.js?id=1288956360001&amp;w=466&amp;h=263"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;noscript&gt;Watch the latest video at &lt;a href="http://video.foxbusiness.com"&gt;video.foxbusiness.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/noscript&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-3357785498655609456?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/3357785498655609456/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=3357785498655609456' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3357785498655609456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3357785498655609456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/11/shocking-why-does-glenn-beck-feel-this.html' title='SHOCKING!  Why does Glenn Beck feel this way?  What do THEY know that we don&apos;t?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-2621302035838894320</id><published>2011-11-12T17:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T17:09:32.069-07:00</updated><title type='text'>We Don't Get Fooled Again</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2JGGKmtMPkE" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-2621302035838894320?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/2621302035838894320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=2621302035838894320' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2621302035838894320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2621302035838894320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/11/we-dont-get-fooled-again.html' title='We Don&apos;t Get Fooled Again'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/2JGGKmtMPkE/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-7219121562734650487</id><published>2011-11-11T16:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-11T16:49:17.339-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nov. 20 May Be The End of The (Internet) World</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;The Internet World as we know it may well end on November 20th, 2011, thanks to the &lt;b&gt;COWARDLY&lt;/b&gt; stance of many United States Senators. &amp;nbsp;Please click on the link below for the full story.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-net-neutrality-20111111,0,3415946.story"&gt;Senate votes to retain net neutrality regulations - latimes.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;'via Blog this'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-7219121562734650487?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-net-neutrality-20111111,0,3415946.story' title='Nov. 20 May Be The End of The (Internet) World'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/7219121562734650487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=7219121562734650487' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/7219121562734650487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/7219121562734650487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/11/nov-20-may-be-end-of-internet-world.html' title='Nov. 20 May Be The End of The (Internet) World'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-6633081170297097723</id><published>2011-11-09T18:02:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T17:13:20.214-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Unified March on Washington DC - 11/11/11</title><content type='html'>Please watch and LISTEN to this video. &amp;nbsp;The&amp;nbsp;animated&amp;nbsp;characters&amp;nbsp;are used to deliver a message that would get identifiable citizens arrested. &amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;The content is sincere. &amp;nbsp;It is NOT a joke&lt;/b&gt;. &amp;nbsp;If you are a Veteran and you can get to Washington DC on November 11th, please go and join your brother Veterans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MYycZOCJv4k" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also see article here: &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://mellie.patriotactionnetwork.com/2011/11/09/11-11-11-veterans-day-where-will-you-be/"&gt;http://mellie.patriotactionnetwork.com/2011/11/09/11-11-11-veterans-day-where-will-you-be/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-6633081170297097723?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/6633081170297097723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=6633081170297097723' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6633081170297097723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6633081170297097723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/11/unified-march-on-washington-dc-111111.html' title='Unified March on Washington DC - 11/11/11'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/MYycZOCJv4k/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-322960773524375077</id><published>2011-11-01T17:11:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T17:11:25.788-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;The freeloading, socially misfit, lackadaisical youth of America, have taken to cities across our country in their Occupy Wall Street movement. &amp;nbsp;They want to be spoon fed. &amp;nbsp;Give them a living stipend but don't even think about making them work for it to earn it fairly. &amp;nbsp;Several sad organizations and miscreant personalities have thrown their support behind them. &amp;nbsp;THAT is the interesting part. &amp;nbsp;Click on the link below to find out who they are and above all - &lt;b&gt;remember who they are when you vote in November 2012.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2011/10/31/the-99-official-list-of-ows/"&gt;Zombie » The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;'via Blog this'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-322960773524375077?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2011/10/31/the-99-official-list-of-ows/' title='The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/322960773524375077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=322960773524375077' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/322960773524375077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/322960773524375077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/11/99-official-list-of-occupy-wall-streets.html' title='The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-872402608791273698</id><published>2011-10-22T13:44:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-10-22T13:44:50.860-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Immigration Agents Ordered to Defy Court Orders | Godfather Politics</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;The Country is beginning to simmer.  How long before it boils over due to the very efforts of those sworn to protect and uphold its Constitution?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://godfatherpolitics.com/1651/immigration-agents-ordered-to-defy-court-orders/"&gt;Immigration Agents Ordered to Defy Court Orders | Godfather Politics&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-size:13px" href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk"&gt;'via Blog this'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-872402608791273698?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://godfatherpolitics.com/1651/immigration-agents-ordered-to-defy-court-orders/' title='Immigration Agents Ordered to Defy Court Orders | Godfather Politics'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/872402608791273698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=872402608791273698' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/872402608791273698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/872402608791273698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/10/immigration-agents-ordered-to-defy.html' title='Immigration Agents Ordered to Defy Court Orders | Godfather Politics'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-1822482639663574330</id><published>2011-09-21T14:20:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-09-21T14:20:22.513-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Ann Barnhardt - "Islamic Sexuality: A Survey of Evil"</title><content type='html'>Ann Barnhardt is a very outspoken woman on the subject of Islam. &amp;nbsp;She tells it like it is. &amp;nbsp;Here is her latest series on Islamic Sexuality. &amp;nbsp;The videos speak for themselves. &amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;THIS IS FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aCfbYkXtHuA" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6mZPIbz-n_c" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FEKAuJewbXg" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rfqNPJVWzpw" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-1822482639663574330?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/1822482639663574330/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=1822482639663574330' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1822482639663574330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1822482639663574330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/09/ann-barnhardt-islamic-sexuality-survey.html' title='Ann Barnhardt - &quot;Islamic Sexuality: A Survey of Evil&quot;'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/aCfbYkXtHuA/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-1294504107421029152</id><published>2011-08-20T16:39:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-08-20T16:39:32.803-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Ten Ways Progressive Policies Harm Society's Moral Character - Opinion - PatriotPost.US</title><content type='html'>Here is an&amp;nbsp;excellent&amp;nbsp;treatise on how liberal&amp;nbsp;Progressiveness&amp;nbsp;is unraveling the moral fiber of our society. &amp;nbsp;Mr.Prager is right on target!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://patriotpost.us/opinion/dennis-prager/2011/07/19/ten-ways-progressive-policies-harm-societys-moral-character/"&gt;Ten Ways Progressive Policies Harm Society's Moral Character - Opinion - PatriotPost.US&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-1294504107421029152?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://patriotpost.us/opinion/dennis-prager/2011/07/19/ten-ways-progressive-policies-harm-societys-moral-character/' title='Ten Ways Progressive Policies Harm Society&apos;s Moral Character - Opinion - PatriotPost.US'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/1294504107421029152/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=1294504107421029152' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1294504107421029152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1294504107421029152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/08/ten-ways-progressive-policies-harm.html' title='Ten Ways Progressive Policies Harm Society&apos;s Moral Character - Opinion - PatriotPost.US'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-1390265144269316739</id><published>2011-08-18T10:58:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-08-18T10:58:34.063-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Grinding Down America</title><content type='html'>This is a video about how the Communist Party wants to&amp;nbsp;destroy&amp;nbsp;America. &amp;nbsp;You&amp;nbsp;might&amp;nbsp;be surprised to learn their&amp;nbsp;objectives&amp;nbsp;are not&amp;nbsp;immediate&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;nature&amp;nbsp;but progressive; slowly applied over time. &amp;nbsp;Take a look and see if you recognize any of their objectives taking place today. &amp;nbsp;If you do, ask yourself what you are going to do about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xQf_QfitmKE" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-1390265144269316739?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/1390265144269316739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=1390265144269316739' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1390265144269316739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1390265144269316739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/08/grinding-down-america.html' title='Grinding Down America'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/xQf_QfitmKE/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-815852104497607582</id><published>2011-08-08T17:10:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-08-08T17:10:56.180-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama Golfs After Downgrade | Conservative Byte</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;The fact that America has lost its premier credit rating, stocks are plunging, and the American People are frightened, has caused President Barack Husein Obama to react.  He has gone to play golf.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://conservativebyte.com/2011/08/obama-golfs-after-downgrade/"&gt;Obama Golfs After Downgrade | Conservative Byte&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-815852104497607582?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://conservativebyte.com/2011/08/obama-golfs-after-downgrade/' title='Obama Golfs After Downgrade | Conservative Byte'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/815852104497607582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=815852104497607582' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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Stupid</title><content type='html'>This article in American Thinker sums up the situation better than anything else I have seen so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/we_the_stupid.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-4010046750409867616?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/4010046750409867616/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=4010046750409867616' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GQlXmQQYLV0/ThoPSukJlPI/AAAAAAAACLc/WgK_6gnvP7M/s1600/SellBoehner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="215" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GQlXmQQYLV0/ThoPSukJlPI/AAAAAAAACLc/WgK_6gnvP7M/s400/SellBoehner.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-3850258111165051113?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/3850258111165051113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=3850258111165051113' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-3259806409585773411</id><published>2011-07-06T17:55:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-06T17:55:57.501-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Federal bulb ban approaches--editorial - NYPOST.com</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;The Department of Energy (DOE) was created to stop dependence on foreign energy and save Americans much money. &amp;nbsp;But, like most of the Federal&amp;nbsp;Bureaucracy's, they grew and grew and grew until essentially they were out of control with maybe (if they were lucky) only a few people who actually knew what was going on. &amp;nbsp;But THAT is a subject for another post. &amp;nbsp;THIS post deals&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;the fact that as on January 1st, 2012,&amp;nbsp;you&amp;nbsp;can no longer burn incandescent light bulbs in your home. &amp;nbsp;The DOE has determined that the "CFR" type bulbs must be used - and they cost a LOT more than conventional incandescent bulbs do. &amp;nbsp;They have put the companies that manufacture these bulbs out of business in America and caused them to move to other countries if they wanted to continue their business enterprise. &amp;nbsp;Please read the article below. &amp;nbsp;The darkness approaches.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/comes_the_darkness_GmJyeYk8rLz9qC4037No6J?CMP=OTC-rss&amp;amp;FEEDNAME=&amp;amp;utm_content=PostOpinion&amp;amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlowNewYorkPost&amp;amp;utm_source=SFnewyorkpost"&gt;Federal bulb ban approaches--editorial - NYPOST.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-3259806409585773411?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' 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href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/07/federal-bulb-ban-approaches-editorial.html' title='Federal bulb ban approaches--editorial - NYPOST.com'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-1434933977776597840</id><published>2011-07-05T13:06:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-05T13:06:19.323-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Casey Anthony Acquitted of Murder</title><content type='html'>Also&amp;nbsp;found&amp;nbsp;not guilty of child abuse and man slaughter. &amp;nbsp;The Justice system did its work. &amp;nbsp;See video below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-4962211000085921504</id><published>2011-07-03T11:02:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-03T13:27:31.804-06:00</updated><title type='text'>It's NOT Happy July 4th, It IS Happy Independence Day!</title><content type='html'>I cringe when some fatuous dork cheerily wishes a "Happy 4th of July". &amp;nbsp;I ask them "What do you mean?" &amp;nbsp;They usually reply that it means a holiday, a day off, a&amp;nbsp;barbecue, fireworks, etc. &amp;nbsp;Few ever hit on the real reason and I love telling them that on July 4th, 1776, a group of American Patriots had the stones to stand against tyranny, put their lives and fortunes on the line, and the end result became America. &amp;nbsp;So they should be saying "Happy Independence Day!" &amp;nbsp;Ronald Reagan said it best:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Somewhere in our growing up we began to be aware of the meaning of days and with that awareness, came the birth of patriotism. July Fourth is the birthday of our nation. I believed as a boy, and believe even more today, that it is the birthday of the greatest nation on earth."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;— President Ronald Reagan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another man who eloquently shares that passion is Ted Nugent. &amp;nbsp;He is a heck of a guitar player and a hell of a Patriot. &amp;nbsp;Please read his &amp;nbsp;comments below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/30/independence-day-revival/"&gt;NUGENT: Independence Day revival - Washington Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-4962211000085921504?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/30/independence-day-revival/' title='It&apos;s NOT Happy July 4th, It IS Happy Independence Day!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/4962211000085921504/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=4962211000085921504' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/4962211000085921504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/4962211000085921504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/07/its-not-happy-july-4th-it-is-happy.html' title='It&apos;s NOT Happy July 4th, It IS Happy Independence Day!'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-3799929776393970791</id><published>2011-07-02T18:35:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-02T18:35:11.782-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Have We Been Set Up By Those Sworn To Represent Us?</title><content type='html'>Please view the video below and form your own conclusions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/H3aCfR8rmrw" width="425"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-3799929776393970791?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/3799929776393970791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=3799929776393970791' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3799929776393970791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3799929776393970791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/07/have-we-been-set-up-by-those-sworn-to.html' title='Have We Been Set Up By Those Sworn To Represent Us?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/H3aCfR8rmrw/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-3593679662439895682</id><published>2011-06-25T17:42:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-25T17:42:20.367-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Quote from 5 Years Ago</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Quote from 5 years ago&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that "the buck stops here." Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better!"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;-- Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;These were his own words - check it out if you don't believe me. &amp;nbsp;WE HAVE TO VOTE HIM &lt;u&gt;OUT!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 900;"&gt;Not too often I use the Huffington Post as a source, but here it is:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 900;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 900;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/thinklib/obama-2012-voter-anxiety_n_875384_92269079.html"&gt;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/thinklib/obama-2012-voter-anxiety_n_875384_92269079.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 900;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 900;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-3593679662439895682?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/3593679662439895682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=3593679662439895682' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3593679662439895682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3593679662439895682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/06/quote-from-5-years-ago.html' title='Quote from 5 Years Ago'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-4636190315492392905</id><published>2011-06-25T09:27:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-25T09:27:33.579-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Sowell: The Missing Money for Seniors Commentary</title><content type='html'>It's gone, not coming back, not&amp;nbsp;retrievable. &amp;nbsp;Open your eyes and plan for your survival. &amp;nbsp;Get rid of the politicians responsible. &amp;nbsp;Would that be ALL of them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2011/06/21/sowell-the-missing-money-for-seniors/"&gt;» Sowell: The Missing Money for Seniors Commentary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-4636190315492392905?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2011/06/21/sowell-the-missing-money-for-seniors/' title='Sowell: The Missing Money for Seniors Commentary'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/4636190315492392905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=4636190315492392905' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/4636190315492392905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/4636190315492392905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/06/sowell-missing-money-for-seniors.html' title='Sowell: The Missing Money for Seniors Commentary'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-6740563817212119192</id><published>2011-06-17T09:38:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-17T09:41:05.479-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate</title><content type='html'>What has happened to the backbone of our country? &amp;nbsp;They are more afraid of seeing a group of brainwashed non producers riot than seeing our Constitution violated and&amp;nbsp;eroded. &amp;nbsp;Do not the people in government&amp;nbsp;realize the importance of one as compared to the importance of the other? &amp;nbsp;Or is it that is exactly the effect they desire? &amp;nbsp;The gentleman quoted in &amp;nbsp;the article below has impeccable credentials. &amp;nbsp;I think he should be taken very seriously. &amp;nbsp;America, your very freedoms are being stolen from you as you sit numbly not comprehending. &amp;nbsp;WAKE UP!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=311433"&gt;Ex-CIA: 'Forged document' released as birth certificate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-6740563817212119192?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' 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Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-8469267366228190767</id><published>2011-06-05T15:58:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-05T15:58:46.514-06:00</updated><title type='text'>New Medicare 'Efficiency' Measure Deadly to Seniors</title><content type='html'>I don't know what it will take to get Seniors (of which I am one) to realize that this guy Obama is a snake oil salesman. &amp;nbsp;They (for the most part) seem to think that this "Obamacare" is a good thing. &amp;nbsp;Let me make an&amp;nbsp;analogy. &amp;nbsp;Obamacare is like the bullet in a rifle that is aimed at your head, being held by a bureaucrat, just waiting to hear the command "FIRE!" Upon that command, it will leave the barrel, enter your head, and &lt;b&gt;END YOUR LIFE.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;You will &lt;b&gt;NOT &lt;/b&gt;receive the treatment you have been accustomed to. &amp;nbsp;You will &lt;b&gt;NOT &lt;/b&gt;get to spend as much time with your doctor asking your healthcare questions. &amp;nbsp;You will &lt;b&gt;NOT &lt;/b&gt;automatically receive that operation you need and if a panel of bureaucrats determines you are too old to&amp;nbsp;benefit&amp;nbsp;from the operation, they will just give you a big bottle of pain killers and say "Sorry." &amp;nbsp;These things were originally called "Death Panels" but the&amp;nbsp;Democrats&amp;nbsp;poo pooed the information and then turned right around and&amp;nbsp;are&amp;nbsp;now accusing the Republicans of wanting to kill Grandma. &amp;nbsp;Folks, this ain't about politics. &amp;nbsp;It's about our quality of life in our senior years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please read the article below by&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D. who is a patient advocate for the State of New York and the former Lieutenant Governor of that state. &amp;nbsp;And please, don't accept anything ANYONE tells you. &amp;nbsp;Do your own research. &amp;nbsp;Know what your options are, &amp;nbsp;Your life&amp;nbsp;literally depends on it!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newsmax.com/McCaughey/hmo-medicare-seniors-RichardFoster/2011/06/03/id/398743"&gt;New Medicare 'Efficiency' Measure Deadly to Seniors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-8469267366228190767?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' 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Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-2582273946354373125</id><published>2011-05-27T12:40:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-05-27T12:40:42.595-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Barack Obama - Turncoat</title><content type='html'>How this man is threatening our National Security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xRYXGIi5340" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-2582273946354373125?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' 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height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/xRYXGIi5340/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-5550330880529208991</id><published>2011-05-27T09:33:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-05-27T09:33:26.405-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The Video Speaks for Itself</title><content type='html'>Meant to wake up America. &amp;nbsp;I hope it will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OTSQozWP-rM" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-5550330880529208991?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' 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height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/OTSQozWP-rM/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-5204051122106979873</id><published>2011-05-27T09:25:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-05-27T09:25:00.659-06:00</updated><title type='text'>CAGW Names Sebelius Porker of the Month</title><content type='html'>We're watching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cagw.org/newsroom/porker-of-the-month/"&gt;CAGW Names Sebelius Porker of the Month&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-5204051122106979873?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' 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Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-119022096803752212</id><published>2011-05-25T15:45:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-05-25T15:45:40.535-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Chuck Baldwin -- Government Cannot Be Trusted To Police Itself</title><content type='html'>Further proof that our Constitution is being disregarded by the very people who should be the steadfast protectors of it. &amp;nbsp;America, you have GOT TO WAKE UP! &amp;nbsp;It is time to do some house cleaning. &amp;nbsp;Please read the column below (click on it) for more eye opening examples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin650.htm"&gt;Chuck Baldwin -- Government Cannot Be Trusted To Police Itself&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-119022096803752212?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin650.htm' title='Chuck Baldwin -- Government Cannot Be Trusted To Police Itself'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/119022096803752212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=119022096803752212' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/119022096803752212'/><link rel='self' 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Video says it all. &amp;nbsp;Please ... watch it ... absorb it &amp;nbsp; ... think about it. &amp;nbsp;We will be defeated by our own lifestyles if we don't listen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="359" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6-3X5hIFXYU" width="475"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-5080859780933868471?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/5080859780933868471/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=5080859780933868471' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-1600977790338507122</id><published>2011-05-21T18:14:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-05-21T18:14:10.924-06:00</updated><title type='text'>I was wrong</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;I had said in an earlier post that Donald Trump was offered $60 million dollars by NBC to &lt;b&gt;NOT &lt;/b&gt;run for President and do another season of "The Apprentice". &amp;nbsp;Seems that I was off by a bit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Read here: &amp;nbsp;http://tinyurl.com/3rebyak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-1600977790338507122?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/1600977790338507122/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=1600977790338507122' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1600977790338507122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1600977790338507122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/05/i-was-wrong.html' title='I was wrong'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-5032909861039972180</id><published>2011-05-19T18:17:00.015-06:00</published><updated>2011-05-19T18:44:48.288-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama SELLS ISRAEL OUT</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sNdjFLVUL8A/TdWxGPJPMVI/AAAAAAAACJk/qt4HrDD675g/s1600/ONA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="310" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sNdjFLVUL8A/TdWxGPJPMVI/AAAAAAAACJk/qt4HrDD675g/s400/ONA.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;How long is it going to take for the people to awaken to what&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;this Usurper is doing? &amp;nbsp;Time is running out.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Click here:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;http://tinyurl.com/3mkxpez&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-5032909861039972180?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sNdjFLVUL8A/TdWxGPJPMVI/AAAAAAAACJk/qt4HrDD675g/s72-c/ONA.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-3541814221306157050</id><published>2011-05-15T21:02:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-05-15T21:02:40.316-06:00</updated><title type='text'>So long Newt!</title><content type='html'>Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that he strongly supports a federal mandate requiring citizens to buy health insurance – a position that has been rejected by many Republicans, including several who likely will be running against him for the Republican presidential nomination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a 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get $30 million for his show. &amp;nbsp;Now, Mr. Trump is a billionaire&amp;nbsp;but even to a billionaire, $60 million is not just pocket change. &amp;nbsp;If Mr. Trump decides to run for President, he will have to turn that offer down. &amp;nbsp;By a far stretch of my imagination, I ask myself, 'Isn't it just possible that NBC, who has proven ties to George Soros, is&amp;nbsp;trying&amp;nbsp;to buy Mr. Trump off because they fear what he would do to Barack Obama in an election?' &amp;nbsp;Oh Golly, could it be so?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Trump-NBC-Apprentice-60million/2011/05/13/id/396248?s=al&amp;amp;promo_code=C43C-1"&gt;NBC Offers Trump $60 Million for Next 'Apprentice'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-5281914700753980711?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' 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this,&amp;nbsp;but&amp;nbsp;now I wonder. &amp;nbsp;Take a look at what they have to say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://wakeup1776.blogspot.com/2011/05/bin-laden-has-been-dead-for-years.html"&gt;Wake Up 1776: Bin Laden Has Been Dead for Years&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-3651712105231472382?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://wakeup1776.blogspot.com/2011/05/bin-laden-has-been-dead-for-years.html' title='Wake Up 1776: Bin Laden Has Been Dead for Years'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/3651712105231472382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=3651712105231472382' title='0 Comments'/><link 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equality are just ‘myths’ | Conservative Byte&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-4550981006277046569?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://conservativebyte.com/2011/05/obama-adviser-american-freedom-equality-are-just-myths/' title='Another Guy To Get Rid Of'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/4550981006277046569/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=4550981006277046569' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/4550981006277046569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CpE8HZoosng/Tb4gr65XjYI/AAAAAAAACIs/YCu3SvtVLw4/s1600/Osama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="325" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CpE8HZoosng/Tb4gr65XjYI/AAAAAAAACIs/YCu3SvtVLw4/s400/Osama.jpg" width="475" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Osama Bin Laden, Muslim Madman, finally confirmed dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/US-Obama/2011/05/01/id/394737"&gt;Click here for story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-4885505664521189972?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link 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were determined to DAMN the Democrats and take possession of America for the conservative lovers of country among us. &amp;nbsp;Have they succeeded? &amp;nbsp;No! &amp;nbsp;Conservative, Pastor Chuck Baldwin. sheds some light on what is going on. &amp;nbsp;I say, that we, the voters, have been conned and perhaps the next time around, in 2012, we will be more discerning and careful. &amp;nbsp;The way I see it, 2012 is our last chance to get OUR America back. &amp;nbsp;If we don't, it will be because of sheer laziness and apathy among those who will scream loudest when their tidy lives are altered. &amp;nbsp;No one will hear their screams. &amp;nbsp;Please enjoy the article below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin645.htm"&gt;Chuck Baldwin -- Have The Tea Parties Been Neoconned?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/04/chuck-baldwin-have-tea-parties-been.html' title='Chuck Baldwin -- Have The Tea Parties Been Neoconned?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-3785989144228957777</id><published>2011-04-16T19:22:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-04-16T19:22:55.758-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Surprise!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xDOZQKw7pj0/TapA3rS1QII/AAAAAAAACHk/V2d9_t1xUwM/s1600/Surprise.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 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style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;A lot of people have stated, that under our own&amp;nbsp;Constitution, it is impossible to ban those of other religions from immigrating to our country. &amp;nbsp;Please click on the link below to see an argument presented as to how this COULD be done and quite legally too. &amp;nbsp;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/answering_our_critics/kc-reply-ban-muslim-immigration-2011feb02.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-6716750091774792925?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' 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rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-4298223038116066220</id><published>2011-04-12T10:08:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T10:08:45.078-06:00</updated><title type='text'>VERY Interesting</title><content type='html'>It's often said you are only as good as the people you choose to surround you. &amp;nbsp;We have seen repeated examples of Mr. Obama's choices in the past. &amp;nbsp;Here's another one I was not aware of until recently. &amp;nbsp;Please watch the video and draw your own conclusions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/q9EjOGcTCH0" title="YouTube video player" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/q9EjOGcTCH0/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-330823075350388982</id><published>2011-04-09T11:57:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-04-09T11:57:59.033-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama announced he's running for 2012</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Barack Obama announced he is running for president in 2012. &amp;nbsp;Since the Republicans do not yet have a candidate to run against him I will post my sentiments 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He has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly&lt;br /&gt;who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the&lt;br /&gt;judgments made that impact each one of us every day.  &lt;br /&gt;It's a short but good read.  Worth the time.&lt;br /&gt;Worth remembering!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;545 vs. 300,000,000 People -By  Charlie Reese&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems&lt;br /&gt;and then campaign against them.&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans&lt;br /&gt;are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against  &lt;br /&gt;inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank&lt;br /&gt;does.&lt;br /&gt;One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine&lt;br /&gt;Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300&lt;br /&gt;million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the&lt;br /&gt;domestic problems that plague this country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that&lt;br /&gt;problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its&lt;br /&gt;Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered,&lt;br /&gt;but private, central bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.&lt;br /&gt;They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator,&lt;br /&gt;a congressman, or a President to do one cotton- picking thing. I don't care&lt;br /&gt;if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the&lt;br /&gt;power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the&lt;br /&gt;legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you&lt;br /&gt;that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con&lt;br /&gt;regardless  of party. What separates a politician from a normal human being&lt;br /&gt;is an excessive amount of gall.  No normal human being would have the gall&lt;br /&gt;of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.&lt;br /&gt;The President can  only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to&lt;br /&gt;accept it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole&lt;br /&gt;responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and&lt;br /&gt;approving appropriations and taxes. House and Senate members, not&lt;br /&gt;the President, can approve any budget they want.  If the President vetoes&lt;br /&gt;it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace&lt;br /&gt;545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and&lt;br /&gt;irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable&lt;br /&gt;directly to those 545 people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power&lt;br /&gt;of the federal  government, then it must follow that what exists is what&lt;br /&gt;they want to exist.  If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it&lt;br /&gt;unfair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Army &amp;amp; Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want&lt;br /&gt;them in  Iraq and Afghanistan ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement&lt;br /&gt;plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are no insoluble government problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they&lt;br /&gt;hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice&lt;br /&gt;they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and&lt;br /&gt;from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into&lt;br /&gt;the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy,"&lt;br /&gt;"inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to&lt;br /&gt;do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those 545 people, and they  alone, are responsible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They, and they alone, have the power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are&lt;br /&gt;their bosses.&lt;br /&gt;Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...&lt;br /&gt;We should vote all of  them out of office and clean up their mess!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando  Sentinel Newspaper. He is&lt;br /&gt;now retired.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-7634760099650529215?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/7634760099650529215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=7634760099650529215' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/7634760099650529215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/7634760099650529215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/03/time-to-be-reminded-again.html' title='Time to Be Reminded Again'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-5454906606055491690</id><published>2011-03-22T18:30:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T18:30:24.906-06:00</updated><title type='text'>This is Treasonous - where is the FBI and the DOJ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;We are all aware that President Obama is a friend to the Unions - especially the SEIU. &amp;nbsp;Well, take a look at this. &amp;nbsp;Take a look at how the SEIU plans to destroy the financial institutions in America. &amp;nbsp;Eric Holder recently&amp;nbsp;successfully prosecuted a man who was minting&amp;nbsp;his&amp;nbsp;own silver&amp;nbsp;coinage - called the Liberty Dollar - for economic terrorism. &amp;nbsp;The man was offering a genuine silver dollar in exchange for goods and products. &amp;nbsp;Our dollars are backed by NOTHING. &amp;nbsp;This man had real silver to back his up - and oh yes, the government at Holders direction, seized $7,000,000 of the man's silver. &amp;nbsp;A dangerous fellow he was! &amp;nbsp;But it seems like people like this Steve Lerner of the SEIU can operate AGAINST our Republic with impunity. &amp;nbsp;I call upon the government to go after him and his associates just as they did the man minting money of REAL value. &amp;nbsp;But you watch and listen to what is said and draw your own conclusions.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/RvlvejSxBVQ/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-4272851951364409106</id><published>2011-03-10T09:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-10T09:13:06.479-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kudos to Wisconsin</title><content type='html'>Kudos to Governor Scott Walker and the Republican Legislature of Wisconsin for standing firm on their beliefs and more importantly, acting upon them. &amp;nbsp;Once the hysteria wears down, the citizens (many of whom already do) will realize what an important move this was for their state - especially when their fiscal situation shows concrete improvement. &amp;nbsp;I applaud these men and women of the legislature for their tenacity and bravery in the face of faux prophets of doom and the screaming bullies, who in fact proved not even to be useful idiots. &amp;nbsp;You have set an&amp;nbsp;example&amp;nbsp;for America.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-4272851951364409106?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/4272851951364409106/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=4272851951364409106' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/4272851951364409106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/4272851951364409106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/03/kudos-to-wisconsin.html' title='Kudos to Wisconsin'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-8372662988838117170</id><published>2011-03-06T11:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-06T11:51:24.902-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What is Collective Bargaining?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;As I'm sure you all know, there is a huge controversy going on Wisconsin between the governor and the labor unions. &amp;nbsp;Labor unions are claiming the governor is trying to bust the unions. &amp;nbsp;This is simply not true. &amp;nbsp;He is asking that they pay for a portion of their retirement fund and their medical benefits. &amp;nbsp;The unions also claim he is trying to take away their right of collective bargaining. &amp;nbsp;This also is not true. &amp;nbsp;Many people are regarding this is a battle between the governor and the unions. &amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;What it really is, is a battle between the unions and the taxpayers of the state of Wisconsin. &amp;nbsp;Who is going to run the state of Wisconsin, the labor unions, or the citizens and voters of the state? &amp;nbsp;That is what the battle is.&lt;/b&gt; &amp;nbsp;The video below, from the Heritage Foundation, explains the whole concept of what collective bargaining is today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" 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type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;F&lt;/span&gt;ebruary 27th, 2011. &amp;nbsp;I was watching the news on TV when some movement outside my window caught my eye. &amp;nbsp;It took a moment but then I realized it was snow! &amp;nbsp;Snow here in this part of Arizona is a big deal!! &amp;nbsp;So, out came the camera and a brief video was made. &amp;nbsp;You can see it below. &amp;nbsp;Hope you enjoy it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="310" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/l8uxsiRkV-g" title="YouTube video player" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-2435291955405813726?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/l8uxsiRkV-g/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-7998994803172394459</id><published>2011-02-16T15:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-16T15:28:40.159-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The new year – things that really count</title><content type='html'>I'm an old motorcycle rider. &amp;nbsp;I've been riding for over 35 years now. &amp;nbsp;There is a saying amongst motorcycle riders and it says, "There are bold riders and there are old riders, but there are no old bold riders". &amp;nbsp; For the most part that is true, but this video offers a different perspective on that. It is also one of the most touching videos I've ever seen. &amp;nbsp;If you're a motorcycle rider you will understand immediately. &amp;nbsp;If you want to get the full effect, click on the 4 arrows on the right side of the video screen and it will put you into the&amp;nbsp;full&amp;nbsp;screen mode.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vksdBSVAM6g" title="YouTube video player" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-7998994803172394459?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/7998994803172394459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=7998994803172394459' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/7998994803172394459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/7998994803172394459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-year-things-that-really-count.html' title='The new year – things that really count'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/vksdBSVAM6g/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-2943731863291091191</id><published>2010-12-31T17:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-12-31T17:36:38.725-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Old Year</title><content type='html'>In about 6 1/2 hours it will be the new year, 2011.&amp;nbsp; I did not enjoy 2010 at all!&amp;nbsp; In fact, from 2008, up to and including 2010, were totally miserable years.&amp;nbsp; I saw things happen in my country in those two years that I never dreamed I would see in my lifetime.&amp;nbsp; It is my sincerest hope that 2011 will be a good year for all of us.&amp;nbsp; It is also my sincerest hope that We The People, will continue to get involved in our political process and determine our own destiny rather than have it determined for us.&amp;nbsp; I wish you one and all, a very Happy, Healthy, Prosperous New Year.&amp;nbsp; May God bless the United States of America.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-2943731863291091191?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/2943731863291091191/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=2943731863291091191' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2943731863291091191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2943731863291091191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/12/old-year.html' title='The Old Year'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-3917383418812865522</id><published>2010-12-21T09:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-12-21T09:26:47.670-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Angel Flight</title><content type='html'>It's the holiday season, and most of us are looking forward to getting together with our families.&amp;nbsp; However, some of us never will – ever.&amp;nbsp; This wonderful video honors the men and women of our armed services who have given their all for their country and the men and women who return them home. Please listen to the lyrics carefully and then take a moment to pray for the brave men and women who are protecting our way of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GgkxiqKj0nU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GgkxiqKj0nU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-3917383418812865522?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/3917383418812865522/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=3917383418812865522' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3917383418812865522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3917383418812865522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/12/angel-flight.html' title='Angel Flight'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-8498610981683167682</id><published>2010-11-20T21:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-20T21:59:55.483-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Are We Citizens of America or Inmates of Political Insanity?</title><content type='html'>The situation with the TSA is completely out of hand and apparently so with the blessings of the Department of Homeland Security and the White House.&amp;nbsp; As this video shows, this has been going on for some time now - not just recently.&amp;nbsp; Why are they doing this?&amp;nbsp; My wife thinks she has it figured out and I totally agree with her.&amp;nbsp; If you remember, back in March of this year (2010), Senators Chuck Schumer and Lindsay Graham wanted the American Public to have a National ID Card.&amp;nbsp; The card would have been a biometric card, that is to say it would have had fingerprint information, DNA codes, retinal scan information - anything that could be a 100% identification factor.&amp;nbsp; Well, we, the American Public, told them to shove the idea.&amp;nbsp; So since that time, the TSA has started acting like barbarians, doing every outrageous thing imaginable to enrage the public.&amp;nbsp; Folks, we are being &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Socially Engineered&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp; The government wants to get us to the point where we will ask them to go to a biometric form of identification and then BINGO.&amp;nbsp; We will all have National ID Cards.&amp;nbsp; Let us not be fooled, and continue to stand up for ourselves.&amp;nbsp; We are AMERICANS who live in a Republic that follows the rules of our Constitution,&amp;nbsp; We are NOT SUBJECTS of a socialistic/communistic political system.&amp;nbsp; We must DEMAND the firing of John Pistole, Head of the TSA and DEMAND the firing of Janet Napolitano, head of the Department of Homeland Security and then we should demand that the DHS be disbanded.&amp;nbsp; Please watch the video below to see how long this abuse has been going on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RhkQoiaf7Uc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RhkQoiaf7Uc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;GOD BLESS AMERICA!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-8498610981683167682?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/8498610981683167682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=8498610981683167682' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/8498610981683167682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/8498610981683167682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/11/are-we-citizens-of-america-or-inmates.html' title='Are We Citizens of America or Inmates of Political Insanity?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-1150724722422859575</id><published>2010-11-01T11:29:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-11-01T11:29:39.795-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Tomorrow is the day</title><content type='html'>Tomorrow, November 2nd, 2010, may well be the most important election day America has ever seen.&amp;nbsp; Tomorrow we either retain our Republic or surrender to the road of Socialism.&amp;nbsp; I, for one, want to retain our Republic and see it kept intact for my children, their children and their children's children all the way down the line.&amp;nbsp; I am reposting a video here which teaches what type of government our forefathers meant for us to have.&amp;nbsp; I hope you watch it and please, PLEASE, vote tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KFXuGIpsdE0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KFXuGIpsdE0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-1150724722422859575?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/1150724722422859575/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=1150724722422859575' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1150724722422859575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1150724722422859575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/11/tomorrow-is-day.html' title='Tomorrow is the day'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-2000884678994230129</id><published>2010-10-05T10:08:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-10-05T10:08:03.486-06:00</updated><title type='text'>A Smart Idea!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hVLs2CE4eps/TKtM8s2DUAI/AAAAAAAACFY/R7j2JbQBj2g/s1600/Smart+Idea.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="107" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hVLs2CE4eps/TKtM8s2DUAI/AAAAAAAACFY/R7j2JbQBj2g/s640/Smart+Idea.jpg" width="463" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-2000884678994230129?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/2000884678994230129/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=2000884678994230129' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2000884678994230129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2000884678994230129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/10/smart-idea.html' title='A Smart Idea!'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hVLs2CE4eps/TKtM8s2DUAI/AAAAAAAACFY/R7j2JbQBj2g/s72-c/Smart+Idea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-2668349181656851524</id><published>2010-10-02T19:52:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-10-02T19:52:45.364-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Have They Given In To "The Establishment"?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hVLs2CE4eps/TKfgQ7-zqWI/AAAAAAAACFU/Yu14CbRrKdk/s1600/NotReal.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="105" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="313" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hVLs2CE4eps/TKfgQ7-zqWI/AAAAAAAACFU/Yu14CbRrKdk/s320/NotReal.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-2668349181656851524?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/2668349181656851524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=2668349181656851524' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2668349181656851524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2668349181656851524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/10/have-they-given-in-to-establishment.html' title='Have They Given In To &quot;The Establishment&quot;?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hVLs2CE4eps/TKfgQ7-zqWI/AAAAAAAACFU/Yu14CbRrKdk/s72-c/NotReal.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-4124379532711460090</id><published>2010-08-23T18:28:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-08-23T18:28:36.086-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Short, Sweet, To The Point</title><content type='html'>In Arizona as well as a few other states, August 24th is Primary Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hVLs2CE4eps/THMR5htp7vI/AAAAAAAACFE/_c4dCWvuQOs/s1600/vertvoteburst.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hVLs2CE4eps/THMR5htp7vI/AAAAAAAACFE/_c4dCWvuQOs/s320/vertvoteburst.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;It's how we take back America!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-4124379532711460090?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/4124379532711460090/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=4124379532711460090' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/4124379532711460090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/4124379532711460090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/08/short-sweet-to-point.html' title='Short, Sweet, To The Point'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hVLs2CE4eps/THMR5htp7vI/AAAAAAAACFE/_c4dCWvuQOs/s72-c/vertvoteburst.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-773368527416146861</id><published>2010-08-08T21:31:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-08-08T21:31:36.376-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Here's an Excellent Video on SB1070</title><content type='html'>While the controversy is still up in the air over SB1070, here is a man who approaches the problem in an intelligent and rational manner.&amp;nbsp; I wish we had people in Government like him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tsH8xvjTAlo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tsH8xvjTAlo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-773368527416146861?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/773368527416146861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=773368527416146861' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/773368527416146861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/773368527416146861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/08/heres-excellent-video-on-sb1070.html' title='Here&apos;s an Excellent Video on SB1070'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-1347543478644570596</id><published>2010-08-04T21:52:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-08-04T21:52:07.346-06:00</updated><title type='text'>It would seem to me ...</title><content type='html'>that there is a problem with the ruling on California’s Proposition 8. The problem I have is that it went before the Federal Court to start with. Proposition 8 was a measure placed on the ballot for the citizens of California to decide by popular vote. They did. The People spoke through the ballot box and that should have been the end of it. Whether you agree or disagree with the results of the vote, the voting was handled in a legal and proper manner. It seems that in this day and age if the few do not agree with the wishes of the many they will haul them to court and do their best to have their views prevail. This means one man or woman (judge) can literally over ride the feelings of thousands, perhaps millions of other people. There is a name for a system like that and it does not stem from democracy nor fit in a Republic.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-1347543478644570596?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/1347543478644570596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=1347543478644570596' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1347543478644570596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1347543478644570596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/08/it-would-seem-to-me.html' title='It would seem to me ...'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-2148838147139009504</id><published>2010-08-03T19:57:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-08-03T21:54:03.178-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Great Video!</title><content type='html'>This fella's name is Brian Haner and he has written a heck of a song about Arizona.  I'm happy to give him space here on my blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="245" width="500"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GKFuYykPSxI&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GKFuYykPSxI&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="245"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-2148838147139009504?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/2148838147139009504/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=2148838147139009504' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2148838147139009504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2148838147139009504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/08/great-video.html' title='Great Video!'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-4607308503777786930</id><published>2010-08-03T19:38:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-08-03T19:38:52.174-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Was the SB1070 Ruling Constitutional?</title><content type='html'>I came across a &lt;b&gt;VERY&lt;/b&gt; interesting article in The Canada Free Press today.  It pointed out that perhaps, just perhaps, the ruling handed down by Federal Court Judge Susan Bolton may not be constitutional.  Please click &lt;a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/25983"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to read the article for yourself and draw your own conclusions.  If there is indeed merit to this article I can not help but laugh out loud at the ineptness of the gang of thugs we refer to as "our federal government".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-4607308503777786930?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/4607308503777786930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=4607308503777786930' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/4607308503777786930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/4607308503777786930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/08/was-sb1070-ruling-constitutional.html' title='Was the SB1070 Ruling Constitutional?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-6672557060062190631</id><published>2010-07-20T08:40:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-07-20T08:40:28.912-06:00</updated><title type='text'>LIED TO - By an American (?) President</title><content type='html'>Back when he was campaigning to become President of the United States, then-candidate Barack Obama &lt;a href="http://www.wjfw.com/stories.html?sku=20080612145010" title="http://www.wjfw.com/stories.html?sku=20080612145010"&gt;promised&lt;/a&gt;  the American people: “If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year  or less, you will see no increase in your taxes.”&amp;nbsp; He repeated that promise several times, including &lt;b&gt;after &lt;/b&gt;he was elected.&amp;nbsp; Well Folks, it may interest you to know that the President of The United States of America &lt;b&gt;LIED &lt;/b&gt;to you ... again.&amp;nbsp; The White House is now admitting that Obama's Individual Mandate &lt;b&gt;is &lt;/b&gt;a tax.&amp;nbsp; Read more in this in depth article from The Heritage Foundation &lt;a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2010/07/20/morning-bell-white-house-admits-obamacares-individual-mandate-is-a-tax/?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell"&gt;http://blog.heritage.org/2010/07/20/morning-bell-white-house-admits-obamacares-individual-mandate-is-a-tax/?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The article closes with a question. "At what point do the American people lose all faith in this President’s  word?"&amp;nbsp; I don't know about you, but I did a long time ago.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-6672557060062190631?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/6672557060062190631/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=6672557060062190631' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6672557060062190631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6672557060062190631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/07/lied-to-by-american-president.html' title='LIED TO - By an American (?) President'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-3624848933018889492</id><published>2010-07-10T10:15:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-07-10T10:15:46.081-06:00</updated><title type='text'>What Happened July 4th, 1776?</title><content type='html'>I saw this clip on the Jay Leno Show.&amp;nbsp; It saddened me greatly.&amp;nbsp; Evidently it's just guys like me and "Grandpa" who knows the history of our great country.&amp;nbsp; I hope everyone had a very Happy July 4th holiday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RkQ6XgXeNuY&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RkQ6XgXeNuY&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-3624848933018889492?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/3624848933018889492/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=3624848933018889492' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3624848933018889492'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3624848933018889492'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-happened-july-4th-1776.html' title='What Happened July 4th, 1776?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-3756616946459450946</id><published>2010-06-19T21:11:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-06-19T21:11:44.157-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Obama Intentionally Dragging His Heels in the Gulf Oil Crisis?</title><content type='html'>We have had offers of very competent help from numerous countries using proven technologies, yet Obama has turned them down.  What is happening here?  Please read the following (click &lt;a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/could-the-obama-administration-be-blocking-gulf-clean-up-efforts-intentionally/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; ) article for one man's perspective.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-3756616946459450946?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/3756616946459450946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=3756616946459450946' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3756616946459450946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3756616946459450946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/06/is-obama-intentionally-dragging-his.html' title='Is Obama Intentionally Dragging His Heels in the Gulf Oil Crisis?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-3657914071259877220</id><published>2010-06-05T14:17:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-06-05T14:17:42.297-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Stand Up!</title><content type='html'>An excellent video that says it like it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="440" height="285"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/83Het3H9iQI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/83Het3H9iQI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="440" height="285"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-3657914071259877220?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/3657914071259877220/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=3657914071259877220' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3657914071259877220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3657914071259877220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/06/stand-up.html' title='Stand Up!'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-6955327574025906641</id><published>2010-04-21T18:22:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-21T18:22:17.387-06:00</updated><title type='text'>It Says Something About Their State of Mind</title><content type='html'>The State of Arizona has a bill pending known as "The Birther" Bill.  Under this bill, presidential candidates who want to appear on the Arizona ballots for presidential elections would have to prove that they are qualified natural born citizens of the United States.  The Democrats have stated that if this bill is passed, Arizona will become the laughing stock of the nation.  Our US Constitution requires presidents to be natural born American citizens so a law of this nature is not something new, it is further in support of our Constitution.  Is it not interesting that the Democrats would find a state that is fully complying with the law to be the laughing stock of the nation?  Does that not say something about their state of mind?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-6955327574025906641?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/6955327574025906641/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=6955327574025906641' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6955327574025906641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6955327574025906641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/04/it-says-something-about-their-state-of.html' title='It Says Something About Their State of Mind'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-8541073130796855542</id><published>2010-04-18T10:22:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T10:26:49.528-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Are We Just Sitting Back and Doing Nothing About This?</title><content type='html'>In a recent exchange between Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Representative Jose Serrano of New York, the issue of Obama's eligibility was made light of by the Supreme Court Justice himself.  Folks, with all that is going on in this day and age, why are we sitting still for this?  Do we not have the right to know if our "Leader" is really qualified to be our Leader?  This is the man who is sending our Husbands, Wives, Sons, Daughters, Brothers and Sisters off to war.  Do we not have the right to know if he has the authority to do this?  Please, please &lt;b&gt;America - WAKE UP!&lt;/b&gt;  Every day wasted makes it just that much harder to get to the truth.  The video is below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="440" height="285"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/O7qEH-tKoXA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/O7qEH-tKoXA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="440" height="285"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-8541073130796855542?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/8541073130796855542/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=8541073130796855542' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/8541073130796855542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/8541073130796855542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/04/why-are-we-just-sitting-back-and-doing.html' title='Why Are We Just Sitting Back and Doing Nothing About This?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-3609111897496537502</id><published>2010-04-17T22:27:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T22:27:03.730-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Rush Limbaugh says Thank you Mr. President</title><content type='html'>After Barack Obama said the American People should be thanking him for the tax cuts he had given us (he hadn't), Rush had this excellent reply for him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="440" height="285"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_d6-Dg_bmYA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_d6-Dg_bmYA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="440" height="285"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May God Bless America and may We begin taking Our Country back in November.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-3609111897496537502?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/3609111897496537502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=3609111897496537502' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3609111897496537502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3609111897496537502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/04/rush-limbaugh-says-thank-you-mr.html' title='Rush Limbaugh says Thank you Mr. President'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-161062629871576208</id><published>2010-04-10T10:43:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-10T10:43:06.737-06:00</updated><title type='text'>A Couple of Things</title><content type='html'>The true patriots of the 2000's have been the Tea Party Patriots.  They have awakened themselves, their friends, their families to the atrocities our own government is trying to perpetuate upon us.  They have organized.  They have spoken as one voice to a government delivering the message &lt;b&gt;"You work for us! - not the other way around"&lt;/b&gt;.  They have given up their evening TV shows, their weekend sports events, and in many cases a whole lot of time with their other family members, to make sure this message keeps getting across.  They want a Republic for their grandchildren and their grandchildren's grandchildren to grow up in.  NOT a socialist regime.  They have donated selflessly of themselves.  They have been effective.  So doesn't it just figure that the pinko socialists have been chomping at the bit to find a way to defeat them.  They have been unable to so far.  But now, they have developed an insidious plan based on an old principle (or should I say lack thereof):  If you can't lick 'em, join 'em.  They plan to infiltrate and try to destroy the movement from within.  Here is a website they have put up:  &lt;b&gt;http://www.crashtheteaparty.org/&lt;/b&gt;  I urge you to visit this website - NOT TO JOIN - but to learn and observe what their methods will be.  All Tea Party Members AND Leadership should be aware of this site and start to develope methods to defeat its intent. Please take this seriously.  This is their Trojan Horse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now, for a bit of truthful humor, please visit this link:  &lt;br /&gt;                            http://www.pjtv.com/v/3352&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May we all live, love, and breath our liberty and freedom.  May God Bless America.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-161062629871576208?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/161062629871576208/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=161062629871576208' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/161062629871576208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/161062629871576208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/04/couple-of-things.html' title='A Couple of Things'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-5272213648963127088</id><published>2010-03-25T21:28:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-03-25T21:32:11.512-06:00</updated><title type='text'>So You're Going to Depend on the Goverment for Health Care?</title><content type='html'>I think you will be surprised by the following comments written by a Black American doctor regarding our new health care plan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please click &lt;a href="http://biggovernment.com/egeorge/2010/03/23/depend-on-the-government-for-your-health-care-good-luck/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to see what she has to say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-5272213648963127088?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/5272213648963127088/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=5272213648963127088' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/5272213648963127088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/5272213648963127088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/03/so-youre-going-to-depend-on-goverment.html' title='So You&apos;re Going to Depend on the Goverment for Health Care?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-2301254097426144077</id><published>2010-03-22T08:56:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-03-22T10:10:25.123-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Do You Realize What Just Happened?</title><content type='html'>I woke up to day one of living in a socialist country.  It didn't seem so bad.  Nothing seemed to have changed.  Then I read this http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/where_were_you_when_the_republ.html and the realization that this really was day one bore down upon me.  I can roll over and accept this and go baaa with the rest of the sheep or I can fight to my last breath.  I am an American, and I am ready to fight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To see the list of the 219 who sold our country out and the 212 who tried to save our Republic, click &lt;a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll165.xml"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-2301254097426144077?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/2301254097426144077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=2301254097426144077' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2301254097426144077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2301254097426144077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/03/do-you-realize-what-just-happened.html' title='Do You Realize What Just Happened?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-8700102238405270181</id><published>2010-03-21T21:05:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-03-21T21:15:33.211-06:00</updated><title type='text'>They Do Not Know What They Have Done</title><content type='html'>This evening, the House of (so called) Representatives passed the Obama Health care bill by a vote of 219 to 212.  These mental miscreants have shoved it down the throat of the American People.  They should prepare themsellves for the results.  A lot of interesting things will happen as a result of this.  There will be lawsuits galore, since the government has now, through passage of this law, mandated that you buy health insurance.  The problem with this is, that action is unconstitutional.  I can also see a substantial risk of civil unrest.  The most important action we can all take is &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;VOTE THESE SOCIALIST JERKS OUT OF OFFICE IN NOVEMBER.  EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!  NO EXCEPTIONS!  THEY ALL MUST GO!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-8700102238405270181?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/8700102238405270181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=8700102238405270181' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/8700102238405270181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/8700102238405270181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/03/they-do-not-know-what-they-have-done.html' title='They Do Not Know What They Have Done'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-1910340929605958414</id><published>2010-03-21T00:38:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-03-21T00:49:43.827-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Today IS the Day - March 21st, 2010</title><content type='html'>Today is the day - March 21st, 2010.  Either America will stand firm as a Republic of, by, and for the people, or the corrupt politicians in Washington DC will sell the Citizens of this country out by passing Obamacare  The entire world will be watching to see what happens.  I am praying that the will of the people will prevail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the mean time, here is something you can watch that pretty much says it all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="285" width="440"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QdKmc9aBELM&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QdKmc9aBELM&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="285" width="440"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May God Bless America.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-1910340929605958414?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/1910340929605958414/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=1910340929605958414' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1910340929605958414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1910340929605958414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/03/today-is-day-march-21st-2010.html' title='Today IS the Day - March 21st, 2010'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-6265872282222239677</id><published>2010-03-16T15:16:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-03-16T15:22:09.078-06:00</updated><title type='text'>These are the people</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;PLEASE CALL!    DC OFFICE    LOCAL OFFICE    State    District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Harry Mitchell    (202) 225-2190    (480) 946-2411    AZ    5th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Gabrielle Giffords    (202) 225-2542    (520) 881-3588    AZ    8th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Ann Kirkpatrick    (202) 225-2315    (928) 226-6914    AZ    1st District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Jerry McNerney    (202) 225-1947    925-833-0643    CA    11th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;John Salazar    202-225-4761    970-245-7107    CO    3rd District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Jim Himes    (202) 225-5541    (866) 453-0028    CT    4th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Alan Grayson    (202) 225-2176    (407) 841-1757    FL    8th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Bill Foster    (202) 225-2976    630-406-1114    IL    14th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Baron Hill    202 225 5315    812 288 3999    IN    9th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Mark Schauer    (202) 225-6276    (517) 780-9075    MI    7th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Gary Peters    (202) 225-5802    (248) 273-4227    MI    9th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Dina Titus    (202) 225-3252    702-256-DINA (3462)    NV    3rd District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Carol Shea-Porter    (202) 225-5456    (603) 743-4813    NH    1st District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Tim Bishop    (202) 225-3826    (631) 696-6500    NY    1st District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;John Hall    (202) 225-5441    (845) 225-3641 x49371    NY    19th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Bill Owens    (202) 225-4611    (315) 782-3150    NY    23rd District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Mike Arcuri    (202)225-3665    (315)793-8146    NY    24th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Dan Maffei    (202) 225-3701    (315) 423-5657    NY    25th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Earl Pomeroy    (202) 225-2611    (701) 224-0355    ND    At-Large District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Steven Driehaus    (202) 225-2216    (513) 684-2723    OH    1st District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Mary Jo Kilroy    (202) 225-2015    (614) 294-2196    OH    15th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Zach Space    (202) 225-6265    (330) 364-4300    OH    18th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Kathy Dahlkemper    (202) 225-5406    (814) 456-2038    PA    3rd District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Patrick Murphy    (202) 225-4276    (215) 826-1963    PA    8th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Christopher Carney    (202) 225-3731    (570) 585-9988    PA    10th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Paul Kanjorski    (202) 225-6511    (570) 825-2200    PA    11th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;John Spratt    (202) 225-5501    (803)327-1114    SC    5th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Tom Perriello    (202) 225-4711    (276) 656-2291    VA    5th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Alan Mollohan    (202) 225-4172    (304) 623-4422    WVA    1st District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Nick Rahall    (202) 225-3452    (304) 252-5000    WVA    3rd District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Steve Kagen    (202) 225-5665    (920) 437-1954    WI    8th District&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The people listed above are the representatives who may vote "Yes" for Obamacare.  The vote will probably come this week, possibly by Thursday or Friday.  Folks, please take a moment to call all, some, or one of these people and ask them to vote &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO&lt;/span&gt; on this bill.  This is socialized medicine and will destroy the excellent quality of health care we all have become used to.  Yes, I said "All".  Even if you have no healthcare insurance, if you are seriously ill, you can go to a hospital emergency room and they must take care of you.  Granted, there are some private hospitals this does not apply to, but they are few and far between.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, the federally funded abortion provisions are still in this bill.  Pelosi and others have said that once the bill has been passed, they will be taken out.  Do you believe that?  I don't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Fathers and Mothers will suffer if this bill is passed as funding will be pulled from Medicare to fund this piece of socialism.  Would you be willing to see your Grandmother or Grandfather, Mother or Father, die because treatment that was formerly available was now being withheld?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please, please call the people listed above.  If you can not afford to make the toll calls, call the Capitol Switchboard at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;1-800-828-0498 and 1-877-762-8762 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;and ask to be connected to the representatives office by name.  For example, if you called the switchboard number and wanted to speak to Congressman Harry Mitchell you would simply say "Please connect me with Congressman Harry Mitchell's office".  The Congressman will not answer the phone, but an aide will.  Simply tell them you want the Congressman to vote &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;NO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt; on the healthcare bill.  Do not be nervous.  Remember, we elected these representatives and therefore THEY WORK FOR US and not the other way around.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;This is a monumental moment in the history of our country.  We are, and always have been, a Republic.  Please take action to ensure that we stop socialism dead in its tracks and preserve the way of life we have always enjoyed.  Please - pick up the phone and make some calls.  The time for action is now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-6265872282222239677?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/6265872282222239677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=6265872282222239677' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6265872282222239677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6265872282222239677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/03/these-are-people.html' title='These are the people'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-3056592392979566324</id><published>2010-03-11T23:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-11T23:30:53.696-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It Has Been a While</title><content type='html'>Wow!  Seven months have just flown by.  I have gotten so involved in the political process that I just have not had the time to devote here.  I have not done anything special in the political arena - I just became a precinct committee man.  In so doing, I have done a lot of the little things that are done behind the scenes to make things work.  Nothing special - just grunt work that must be done.  It has been quite enlightening and I have enjoyed it.  Right now we are faced with the spectre of Obama Care.  I am hoping that enough of the public is now enlightened enough to make sure this does not become a part of America.  I urge everyone I meet to contact their representatives and senators and make their feelings known on the issues.  Most important of all, I urge people who have not registered to vote to do so.  This November will be a memorable time in our country's history.  I am hoping the People will clean out the dead wood and get new representatives and senators elected who know that they work for the People and not vice versa.  Well, that's about it for now.  I will try to make more frequent contributions.  Remember, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;VOTE THIS NOVEMBER!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-3056592392979566324?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/3056592392979566324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=3056592392979566324' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3056592392979566324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/3056592392979566324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2010/03/it-has-been-while.html' title='It Has Been a While'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-8470170633032490846</id><published>2009-08-15T16:05:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-08-15T16:37:15.988-06:00</updated><title type='text'>I Was SO PROUD</title><content type='html'>Yesterday, August 14th, 2009 was a first.  Over 3 1/2 years ago, my wife and I got our two Burros, Alexander and Sebastian, from a Bureau of Land Management auction.  They were both totally wild.  For the next year, we devoted a lot of our time getting them to trust us (and us to trust them) and become docile.  It was a learning experience for both sides.  Alexander responded more readily than Sebastian, but gradually Sebastian came around.  The next thing we wanted to do was let them out in our fenced yard so they could have a good run if they wanted to and so they could explore their surroundings.  We decided for starters, we would make it a weekly event.  Since Alexander had responded so well to our "gentling", I fully expected him to be the first out.  We were both surprised when he did &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; want to leave his corral.  Sebastian, on the other hand was eager to get out and we let him.  He ran and played and just had fun - all under the watchful eyes of Alexander - but he still would not come out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday, it was much the same.  I opened both corrals and Sebastian was happy to get out.  Alexander ran around in his corral but that is where he stayed.  Sebastian ran in to play with him and my wife called to him to take his little brother outside with him.  Well, they played a little longer then Sebastian slowly walked out of Alexander's corral and Alexander followed him.  Sebastian walked down the walkway and out the front gate and ... Alexander followed him!!  He looked around and realized he was in the "Big Yard" and for a moment I thought he was going to run back in.  But then Sebastian bit him on the butt and ran off - and Alexander went after him in full pursuit.  For the next hour Alexander and his big brother explored their "Big Yard" while my wife and I, bursting with pride, watched on and enjoyed every moment.  Here is a short video to commemorate the event. &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zaSyX8eCvVk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zaSyX8eCvVk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-8470170633032490846?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/8470170633032490846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=8470170633032490846' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/8470170633032490846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/8470170633032490846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-was-so-proud.html' title='I Was SO PROUD'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-2111303338238511945</id><published>2009-08-05T21:12:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-08-05T21:18:19.789-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Government'/><title type='text'>What Kind of Government Are We, Anyway?</title><content type='html'>With all the scare and hype about the Cap and Trade and Obama Health Care Bills that will surely sound the death knell for this Country and our form of government, many have said that our democracy will end.  But this is not true.  We live in a Republic, not a Democracy.  Please set back and enjoy the following video.  I feel that it should be shown to elementary, secondary, and high school students twice a year, and college students twice a month.  It is an excellent history lesson - short, sweet, and to the point.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GGk6LG0GA4A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GGk6LG0GA4A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-2111303338238511945?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/2111303338238511945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=2111303338238511945' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2111303338238511945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/2111303338238511945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-kind-of-government-are-we-anyway.html' title='What Kind of Government Are We, Anyway?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-7416664233198904898</id><published>2009-07-27T12:28:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-07-27T12:36:22.181-06:00</updated><title type='text'>More on the Scary Health Care Bill</title><content type='html'>I hear today that Speaker Pelosi is again going to try to get this passed by the House of Representatives BEFORE the August recess.  We had heard that it would be after.  Here is a list of some of the many &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;undesirable&lt;/span&gt; items in that bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;OBAMA HEALTH CARE BILL SICKNESS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following the mad recommendations of Peter Singer made in New York Times’ Sunday magazine, it pays to take a look at what is actually in the healthcare bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's worse than you can possibly imagine. Somehow, it manages to be Singer on steroids. Who wrote this bill? It has Singer's footprints all over it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter Fleckstein (aka Fleckman) is reading it and has been posting on Twitter his findings. This is from his postings (Note: All comments are Fleckman's)&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the Government will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill - YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Pg 42 of HC Bill - The Health Choices Commissioner will choose YOUR HC Benefits for you. You have no choice!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 50 Section 152 in HC bill - HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Pg 58HC Bill - Government will have real-time access to individuals’ finances &amp; a National ID Healthcard will be issued!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 59 HC Bill lines 21-24 Government will have direct access to your bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;PG 65 Sec 164 is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions &amp; community organizations (ACORN).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 72 Lines 8-14 Government is creating an HC Exchange to bring private HC plans under Government control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 84 Sec 203 HC bill - Government mandates ALL benefit packages for private HC plans in the Exchange&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 85 Line 7 HC Bill - Specifics for of Benefit Levels for Plans = The Government will ration your Healthcare!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;PG 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill - Government mandates linguistic appropriate services. Example - Translation for illegal aliens&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18 The Government will use groups i.e., ACORN &amp; Americorps to sign up individuals for Government HC plan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 85 Line 7 HC Bill - Specifics of Benefit Levels For Plans. #AARP members - Your Health care WILL be rationed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill - Medicaid Eligible Individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 124 lines 24-25 - HC No company can sue GOVERNMENT on price fixing. No "judicial review" against Government Monopoly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill - Doctors/ #AMA - The Government will tell YOU how much money you can make.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 145 Line 15-17 An Employer MUST auto-enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 126 Lines 22-25 Employers MUST pay for HC for part-time employees AND their families.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 149 Lines 16-24 ANY Employer with payroll $400,000 &amp; above who does not provide public option pays 8% tax on all payroll&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 150 Lines 9-13 Business with payroll between $251,000 &amp; $400,000 who doesn’t provide public option pays 2-6% tax on all payroll&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 167 Lines 18-23 ANY individual who doesn’t have acceptable HC according to Government will be taxed 2.5% of income.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 195 HC Bill -Officers &amp; employees of HC Administration (GOVERNMENT) will have access to ALL Americans’ financial/personal records&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 203 Line 14-15 HC - "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax" Yes, it says that&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill Government will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors. Low income, poor affected&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill - Doctors, doesn’t matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 253 Line 10-18 Government sets value of Doctor's time, professional judgment, etc. Literally value of humans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 265 Sec 1131Government mandates &amp; controls productivity for private HC industries&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 268 Sec 1141 Federal Government regulates rental &amp; purchase of power driven wheelchairs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 272 SEC. 1145. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS - Cancer patients - welcome to rationing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 280 Sec 1151 The Government will penalize hospitals for what Government deems preventable readmissions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 298 Lines 9-11 Doctors who treat a patient during initial admission that results in a readmission - Government will penalize you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 317 L 13-20 Oh My God!! PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Government tells Doctors. what/how much they can own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 317-318 lines 21-25,1-3 PROHIBITION on expansion- Government is mandating hospitals cannot expand&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 321 2-13 Hospitals have option to apply for exception BUT community input required. Can you say ACORN?!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339 - Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures. HC the way they want. Rationing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 341 Lines 3-9 Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc, Forcing people into Government plan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 354 Sec 1177 - Government will RESTRICT enrollment of Special Needs people! My sister has Down Syndrome!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 379 Sec 1191 Government creates more bureaucracy - Tele-health Advisory Committee. Can you say Health Care by telephone?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 425 Lines 4-12 Government mandates Advance Care Planning Consultation. Think Senior Citizens end of life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 425 Lines 17-19 Government will instruct &amp; consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney. Mandatory!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3 Government provides approved list of End Of Life resources, guiding you in death&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 427 Lines 15-24 Government mandates program for orders for end of life. The Government has a say in how your life ends&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 429 Lines 1-9 An "Advanced Care Planning Consult" will be used frequently as patient’s health deteriorates&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 429 Lines 10-12 "Advanced Care Consultation" may include an ORDER for End Of Life plans. AN ORDER from GOVERNMENT!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 429 Lines 13-25 - The government will specify which Doctors can write an End Of Life order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 430 Lines 11-15 The Government will decide what level of treatment you will have at End Of Life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 469 - Community Based Home Medical Services=Non-profit organizations. Hello, ACORN Medical Services here!!?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 472 Lines 14-17 PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS. One monthly payment to a community-based organization. Like ACORN?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PG 489 Sec 1308 The Government will cover Marriage &amp; Family therapy. Which means they will insert Government into your marriage&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pg 494-498 Government will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, rationing those services&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the full Health Care bill that sits in the House.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&amp;docid=f:h3200ih.pdf"&gt;Click here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Give it a read, Folks.  Decide if this is what you want the future of YOUR Healthcare to become.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-7416664233198904898?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/7416664233198904898/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=7416664233198904898' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/7416664233198904898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/7416664233198904898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/07/more-on-scary-health-care-bill.html' title='More on the Scary Health Care Bill'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-1305443360315530445</id><published>2009-07-26T22:53:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-07-26T23:03:58.638-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Raising Donkeys</title><content type='html'>I had mentioned before that I have two Donkeys, Alexander and Sebastian.  They were both wild burros when I got them and they have spent their lives, since being at my home, in their corrals in back of the house.  Their corrals are good sized corrals but they are not huge.  I figured they might want to get out of those corrals and have a good run in the back yard.  So, I opened all the gates and figured they would walk or run out and explore their yard.  Not so.  For the next hour, they chased each other back and forth into each other's corral.  Never once did they run down the short walkway between the corrals and out into the yard.  I decided I'd better take a video of the event.  I will continue to entice them out each week and I hope to someday have a video here that shows them happily running around their yard.  In the mean time, this video is about 4 minutes long.  I hope you enjoy it.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nuvezKngh9w&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nuvezKngh9w&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-1305443360315530445?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/1305443360315530445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=1305443360315530445' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1305443360315530445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/1305443360315530445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/07/raising-donkeys.html' title='Raising Donkeys'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-6327343285810097219</id><published>2009-07-21T09:25:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-07-21T10:39:18.697-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama admits He's "Not Familiar" with House Bill</title><content type='html'>Well Folks, we are going through the biggest political battle of our lives right now.  If we don't win, we will lose our Country.  It's really that simple.  We must &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK&lt;/span&gt; from these dunderheads who claim they know what's best for us.  We must continue to write, e-mail, fax, and call our Senators and Representatives and demand that right be done.  Next year is an election for much of the House and some of the Senate.  If you know there is a good incumbent in office keep him/her there - otherwise &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;VOTE THEM OUT!&lt;/span&gt;  Let's get rid of the dead wood and get people who are willing to represent US in those offices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The present health care bill, H.R. 3200, if passed, will be the death knell for this country as well for those of us truly needing health care.  President Obama says we desperately need this to be passed.  Everything he has gotten passed so far has only dug us farther into a hole.  I simply do not believe a thing the man says anymore.  In 2012, it will be my pleasure to cast a vote for someone else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the present version of H.R. 3200, on page 425, the bill outlines provisions for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the voluntary suicide of the elderly.&lt;/span&gt;  This means that all of us will get old and our government out of the kindness of its heart will counsel us on ways to do ourselves in - and this will be MANDATORY every five years.  Also, we have been told that if we already have health insurance, we will be allowed to keep it.  More lies from the Hope and Change group. That can be verified by going to Section 102, starting on page 16 of the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fredthompsonshow.com/premiumstream?dispid=320&amp;amp;headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD03MzUxJnBsYXlsaXN0PXRydWUmY2hhcnR0eXBlPWNoYXJ0JmNoYXJ0SUQ9MzIwJnBsYXlsaXN0U2l6ZT01"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; for an 8 minute audio report from former Lt. Governor of New York State, Betsy McCaughey, who has read and analyzed the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After you have heard her report, &lt;a href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/hostedemail/email.htm?h=f0a6886cb69b28ec14438e7206366c7d&amp;amp;CID=4428629538&amp;amp;ch=656094A567AE3731E66A1F36247D61E1"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; for an article from the Heritage foundation where Obama admits he is not entirely familiar with this bill he so desperately wants passed.  Don't you do it, America.  Stand firm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you would like your own copy of H.R. 3200 (all 1018 pages), &lt;a href="http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html"&gt;please click here.&lt;/a&gt;  This will take you to the Government printing Office page where it is located.  Click on Congressional Bills. On the next screen, enter H.R. 3200 in the Search Box. Scroll down to paragraph number 8 and click on PDF and you can download it to your own computer and read it for yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keep in mind, Folks, we are being governed by a man who has not proven that he is a natural born American Citizen (and refuses to).  The folks who are supposed to represent us have proven to be sheeple and just won't address the issue.  There are many of us here in America who are not sheeple.  We are known as "WE, the People", and we will stand up to this attempt to permanently erode our Country, and we will stand tall.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-6327343285810097219?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/6327343285810097219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=6327343285810097219' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6327343285810097219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6327343285810097219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/07/obama-admits-hes-not-familiar-with.html' title='Obama admits He&apos;s &quot;Not Familiar&quot; with House Bill'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-6314900378000161810</id><published>2009-07-13T22:52:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-07-13T22:57:53.647-06:00</updated><title type='text'>So, what's new?</title><content type='html'>A new commercial was made this week.  It was made to make people aware of what really is happening in their world.  Of course, some people will not be too happy about this commercial.  To that, I say "Too Bad!."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch the commercial, form your own opinion, make up your own mind.  It's the least you can do while we still have a free America.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PWFb1Yvlem4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PWFb1Yvlem4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-6314900378000161810?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/6314900378000161810/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=6314900378000161810' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6314900378000161810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6314900378000161810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/07/so-whats-new.html' title='So, what&apos;s new?'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-5290358197188063354</id><published>2009-07-06T20:00:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-07-07T15:55:09.745-06:00</updated><title type='text'>More Public Deception</title><content type='html'>Recently, the House of Representatives, passed H.R. 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, also known as The Cap and Trade Bill that allegedly will create jobs, help end our dangerous dependence on foreign oil, and combat global warming. It is supposed to create millions of clean energy jobs.  These would be jobs, in among other areas, solar power and wind power.  The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) sent a report to Congress outlining the reasons this would be beneficial to America and this was supposed to sway their opinion into voting for it.  But wait!  It turns out the EPA &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;suppressed&lt;/span&gt; a report that actually pointed out that all of this was not truly necessary.  Keep in mind that if the Senate passes this Bill, we can all expect our yearly expenditures for energy to rise $1,500.00 to $3,000.00 per year in taxes.  Hey wait a minute, Didn't Mr. Obama state he would NOT raise our taxes unless we made more than $250,000.00 per year.  Oops!  Another little oversight for the Obama administration of thieves and thugs.  Please watch the video and form your own opinion.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aL9FkkDhOwg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aL9FkkDhOwg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Once you have watched the video, please go &lt;a href="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/peter-roff/2009/07/06/democrats-admit-that-their-cap-and-trade-bill-is-a-job-killer.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;  to see how jobs will actually be eliminated in this country, instead of being increased as those who are trying to sell us this bill are saying. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-5290358197188063354?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/5290358197188063354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=5290358197188063354' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/5290358197188063354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/5290358197188063354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/07/more-public-deception.html' title='More Public Deception'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-7795153044552960848</id><published>2009-06-21T09:52:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-06-21T10:05:55.577-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Fire Congress - Kick them all out!!</title><content type='html'>Representative Michele Bachmann, a Republican from Minnesota, is one of the FEW people we have in congress that is still desperately trying to represent us, the American People.  It certainly appears that the rest of congress is just going through the motions and supporting whatever the president wants - whether it is constitutionally legal or not.  &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;WE MUST GET RID OF THESE PEOPLE!&lt;/span&gt;  If we are to survive as the America we all once knew, we must &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;VOTE THEM OUT&lt;/span&gt; in the coming 2010 elections.  The time is short so, regardless of our party affiliations, we should be looking for willing and suitable replacements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please watch the video to get a better idea of what is really happening in our country.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/thR-lVuztIY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/thR-lVuztIY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-7795153044552960848?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/7795153044552960848/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=7795153044552960848' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/7795153044552960848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/7795153044552960848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/06/fire-congress-kick-them-all-out.html' title='Fire Congress - Kick them all out!!'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-6163319559291343231</id><published>2009-06-18T10:45:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-06-18T10:51:41.525-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Tell it like it is.  Bless You!</title><content type='html'>Yesterday, June 17th, 2009, Glen Beck read a letter on his program that was sent to him by a Grandmother from Arizona.  Her name is Janet Contreras.  The letter was an open letter to those that represent us in government.  Its beauty was in its simplicity and directness.  I sincerely hope her letter inspired a LOT of people to stand up for their country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read her letter for yourself, &lt;a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/26742/?ck=1"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-6163319559291343231?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/6163319559291343231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=6163319559291343231' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6163319559291343231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6163319559291343231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/06/tell-it-like-it-is-bless-you.html' title='Tell it like it is.  Bless You!'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-6507341430994078843</id><published>2009-06-12T15:20:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-06-12T15:35:17.730-06:00</updated><title type='text'>There will be more efforts to control guns</title><content type='html'>Recently, an 88 year old man took a weapon to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC and killed one of the guards there.  The guard he killed had actually been nice enough to hold the door open for him.  He did not realize he was carrying the weapon and unfortunately, it cost him his life.  Two other guards in the Museum responded and traded fire with the deranged man and critically wounded him.  He was down and no further people were shot.  Let me restate that in another way.  The guns of the two guards shot and put down the deranged man who wanted to use his gun to commit further mayhem.  A gun prevented further killing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course this is NOT the way the politicians are seeing it.  Guns are what caused this event.  It was not the deranged thinking of an old white supremacist man who decided to go to the Museum and kill people – it was the gun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Stossel, of ABC’s 20/20, investigated whether or not guns cause more crime and whether or not gun control resulted in lesser crime.  Here are his results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 0px; display: none;" ontop="true"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qyoLuTjguJA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qyoLuTjguJA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-6507341430994078843?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/6507341430994078843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=6507341430994078843' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6507341430994078843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6507341430994078843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/06/there-will-be-more-efforts-to-control.html' title='There will be more efforts to control guns'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-5705810955309199097</id><published>2009-05-08T14:19:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-05-08T14:32:12.095-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Sound Advice from a Decade Ago</title><content type='html'>I've been reading with great dismay about the Hate Crime Bill that is presently in the United States Senate, having passed the House of Representatives.  This bill if passed would actually protect a good many sexual predators, including pedophiles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allegedly, the bill was submitted to make us all more respectful and tolerant of those with different lifestyles.  I certainly do not believe that.  I believe this bill is just one more step down the road to depravity.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In doing some research on this area, I came across a speech given by Charlton Heston some ten years ago to students at Harvard Law School.  It is even more poignant today than at the time it was delivered.  I want all of you to see it, as it gives us much to think about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlton Heston, the actor and conservative activist, delivered a stem-winder to about 200 listeners about "a cultural war that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart."&lt;br /&gt;"He knew he was coming to a liberal environment, and clearly a group of his listeners was conservative and another was more liberal," said David Christopherson, president of the forum. "About half respectfully challenged him during the questions. It generated a lot of debate around the campus. But what happened caught us off-guard."&lt;br /&gt;What happened was Rush Limbaugh's radio talk show. On March 15, Limbaugh read the entire speech on the air, only to find himself bombarded with thousands of requests for a copy of it. The same thing happened at Harvard Law.&lt;br /&gt;"We couldn't keep up with all the requests," said Mike Chmura at Harvard. "It really didn't have legs and might have been forgotten if Mr. Limbaugh hadn't decided to deliver it."&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;'Winning the Cultural War' Charlton Heston's Speech to the Harvard Law School Forum Feb 16, 1999&lt;/b&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember my son when he was five, explaining to his kindergarten class what his father did for a living. "My Daddy," he said, "pretends to be people." There have been quite a few of them. Prophets from the Old and New Testaments, a couple of Christian saints, generals of various nationalities and different centuries, several kings, three American presidents, a French cardinal and two geniuses, including Michelangelo.&lt;br /&gt;If you want the ceiling repainted I'll do my best. There always seem to be a lot of different fellows up here. I'm never sure which one of them gets to talk. Right now, I guess I'm the guy.&lt;br /&gt;As I pondered our visit tonight it struck me: If my Creator gave me the gift to connect you with the hearts and minds of those great men, then I want to use that same gift now to reconnect you with your own sense of liberty of your own freedom of thought ... your own compass for what is right.&lt;br /&gt;Dedicating the memorial at Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln said of America, "We are now engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure." Those words are true again. I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural war that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart. I fear you no longer trust the pulsing lifeblood of liberty inside you ... the stuff that made this country rise from wilderness into the miracle that it is.&lt;br /&gt;Let me back up. About a year ago I became president of the National Rifle Association, which protects the right to keep and bear arms. I ran for office, I was elected, and now I serve ... I serve as a moving target for the media who've called me everything from "ridiculous" and "duped" to a "brain-injured, senile, crazy old man." I know ... I'm pretty old ... but I sure, Lord, ain't senile.&lt;br /&gt;As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that.&lt;br /&gt;I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are&lt;br /&gt;mandated. For example, I marched for civil rights with Dr. King in 1963 - long before Hollywood found it fashionable. But when I told an audience last year that white pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone else's pride, they called me a racist.&lt;br /&gt;I've worked with brilliantly talented homosexuals all my life. But when I told an audience that gay rights should extend no further than your rights or my rights, I was called a homophobe. I served in World War II against the Axis powers. But during a speech, when I drew an analogy between singling out innocent Jews and singling out innocent gun owners, I was called an anti-Semite. Everyone I know knows I would never raise a closed fist against my country. But when I asked an audience to oppose this cultural persecution, I was compared to Timothy McVeigh.&lt;br /&gt;From Time magazine to friends and colleagues, they're essentially saying, "Chuck, how dare you speak your mind. You are using language not authorized for public consumption!" But I am not afraid. If Americans believed in political correctness, we'd still be King George's boys -- subjects bound to the British crown.&lt;br /&gt;In his book, "The End of Sanity," Martin Gross writes that "blatantly irrational behavior is rapidly being established as the norm in almost every area of human endeavor. There seem to be new customs, new rules, new anti-intellectual theories regularly foisted on us from every direction.&lt;br /&gt;Underneath, the nation is roiling. Americans know something without a name is undermining the nation, turning the mind mushy when it comes to separating truth from falsehood and right from wrong. And they don't like it."&lt;br /&gt;Let me read a few examples. At Antioch college in Ohio, young men seeking intimacy with a coed must get verbal permission at each step of the process from kissing to petting to final copulation ... all clearly spelled out in a printed college directive.&lt;br /&gt;In New Jersey, despite the death of several patients nationwide who had been infected by dentists who had concealed their AIDs --- the state commissioner announced that health providers who are HIV positive need not ..... need not ..... tell their patients that they are infected.&lt;br /&gt;At William and Mary, students tried to change the name of the school team "The Tribe" because it was supposedly insulting to local Indians, only to learn that authentic Virginia chiefs truly like the name.&lt;br /&gt;In San Francisco, city fathers passed an ordinance protecting the rights of transvestites to cross-dress on the job, and for transsexuals to have separate toilet facilities while undergoing sex change surgery.&lt;br /&gt;In New York City, kids who don't speak a word of Spanish have been placed in bilingual classes to learn their three R's in Spanish solely because their last names sound Hispanic.&lt;br /&gt;At the University of Pennsylvania, in a state where thousands died at Gettysburg opposing slavery, the president of that college officially set up segregated dormitory space for black students. Yeah, I know ... that's out of bounds now. Dr. King said "Negroes." Jimmy Baldwin and most of us on the March said "black." But it's a no-no now. For me, hyphenated identities are awkward ... particularly "Native-American." I'm a Native American, for God's sake. I also happen to be a blood-initiated brother of the Miniconjou Sioux. On my wife's side, my grandson is a thirteenth generation native American ... with a capital letter on "American."&lt;br /&gt;Finally, just last month ... David Howard, head of the Washington D.C. Office of Public Advocate, used the word "niggardly" while talking to colleagues about budgetary matters. Of course, "niggardly" means stingy or scanty. But within days Howard was forced to publicly apologize and resign. As columnist Tony Snow wrote: "David Howard got fired because some people in public employ were morons who (a) didn't know the meaning of niggardly, (b) didn't know how to use a dictionary to discover the meaning, and (c) actually demanded that he apologize for their ignorance."&lt;br /&gt;What does all of this mean? It means that telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me:&lt;br /&gt;Why did political correctness originate on America's campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who're supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression?&lt;br /&gt;Let's be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. You are&lt;br /&gt;the best and the brightest. You, here in the fertile cradle of American academia, here in the castle of learning on the Charles River, you are the cream. But I submit that you, and your counterparts across the land, are the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord ridge. And as long as you validate that ... and abide it ... you are -- by your grandfathers' standards -- cowards.&lt;br /&gt;Here's another example. Right now at more than one major university, Second Amendment scholars and researchers are being told to shut up about their findings or they'll lose their jobs. Why? Because their research findings would undermine big-city mayor's pending lawsuits that seek to extort hundreds of millions of dollars from firearm manufacturers.&lt;br /&gt;I don't care what you think about guns. But if you are not shocked at that, I am shocked at you. Who will guard the raw material of unfettered ideas, if not you? Who will defend the core value of academia, if you supposed soldiers of free thought and expression lay down your arms and plead, "Don't shoot me."&lt;br /&gt;If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe. Don't let America's universities continue to serve as incubators for this rampant epidemic of new McCarthyism.&lt;br /&gt;But what can you do? How can anyone prevail against such pervasive social subjugation? The answer's been here all along. I learned it 36 years ago, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, standing with Dr. Martin Luther King and two hundred thousand people.&lt;br /&gt;You simply ... disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely.&lt;br /&gt;But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom. I learned the awesome power of disobedience from Dr. King ... who learned it from Gandhi, and Thoreau, and Jesus, and every other great man who led those in the right against those with the might.&lt;br /&gt;Disobedience is in our DNA. We feel innate kinship with that disobedient spirit that tossed tea into Boston Harbor, that sent Thoreau to jail, that refused to sit in the back of the bus, that protested a war&lt;br /&gt;in Vietnam. In that same spirit, I am asking you to disavow cultural correctness with massive disobedience of rogue authority, social directives and onerous laws that weaken personal freedom.&lt;br /&gt;But be careful ... it hurts. Disobedience demands that you put yourself at risk. Dr. King stood on lots of balconies. You must be willing to be humiliated ... to endure the modern day equivalent of the police dogs at Montgomery and the water cannons at Selma. You must be willing to experience discomfort. I'm not complaining, but my own decades of social activism have taken their toll on me. Let me tell you a story.&lt;br /&gt;A few years back I heard about a rapper named Ice-T who was selling a CD called "Cop Killer" celebrating ambushing and murdering police officers. It was being marketed by none other than Time/Warner, the biggest entertainment conglomerate in the world.&lt;br /&gt;Police across the country were outraged. Rightfully so - at least one had been murdered. But Time/Warner was stonewalling because the CD was a cash cow for them, and the media were tiptoeing around it because the rapper was black. I heard Time/Warner had a stockholders meeting scheduled in Beverly Hills. I owned some shares at the time, so I decided to attend.&lt;br /&gt;What I did there was against the advice of my family and colleagues. I asked for the floor. To a hushed room of a thousand average American stockholders, I simply read the full lyrics of "Cop Killer"- every vicious, vulgar, instructional word.&lt;br /&gt;"I GOT MY 12 GAUGE SAWED OFF. I GOT MY HEADLIGHTS TUNED OFF. I'M AOUT TO BUST SOME SHOTS OFF. I'M AOUT TO DUST SOME COPS OFF..."&lt;br /&gt;It got worse, a lot worse. I won't read the rest of it to you. But trust me, the room was a sea of shocked, frozen, blanched faces. The Time/Warner executives squirmed in their chairs and stared at their shoes. They hated me for that. Then I delivered another volley of sick lyric brimming with racist filth, where Ice-T fantasizes about sodomizing two 12-year old nieces of Al and Tipper Gore.&lt;br /&gt;"SHE PUSHED HER BUTT AGAINST MY ...."&lt;br /&gt;Well, I won't do to you here what I did to them. Let's just say I left the room in echoing silence. When I read the lyrics to the waiting press corps, one of them said "We can't print that."&lt;br /&gt;"I know," I replied, "but Time/Warner's selling it." Two months later, Time/Warner terminated Ice-T's contract. I'll never be offered another film by Warner's, or get a good review from Time magazine. But disobedience means you must be willing to act, not just talk.&lt;br /&gt;When a mugger sues his elderly victim for defending herself ... jam the switchboard of the district attorney's office.&lt;br /&gt;When your university is pressured to lower standards until 80% of the students graduate with honors ... choke the halls of the board of regents.&lt;br /&gt;When an 8-year-old boy pecks a girl's cheek on the playground and gets hauled into court for sexual harassment ... march on that school and block its doorways.&lt;br /&gt;When someone you elected is seduced by political power and betrays you...petition them, oust them, banish them.&lt;br /&gt;When Time magazine's cover portrays millennium nuts as deranged, crazy Christians holding a cross as it did last month ... boycott their magazine and the products it advertises.&lt;br /&gt;So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience's of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men, by God's grace, built this country.&lt;br /&gt;If Dr. King were here, I think he would agree. Thank you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-5705810955309199097?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/5705810955309199097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=5705810955309199097' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/5705810955309199097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/5705810955309199097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/05/sound-advice-from-decade-ago.html' title='Sound Advice from a Decade Ago'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-7188689226062206019</id><published>2009-05-05T15:09:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-05-05T15:14:50.113-06:00</updated><title type='text'>305 Million Vs 545</title><content type='html'>Another article floated through my in box the other day.  It makes a terrific amount of sense so I am sharing it with you here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.  I am sure as you read this you will realize he is from the old school and not from the drooling throng of Obamatrons we are used to in this day and age.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                       545 PEOPLE&lt;br /&gt;                                                   By Charlie Reese&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't propose a federal budget.  The president does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of representatives does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices  545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress.   In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority.  They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing.  I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault.   They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall.   No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.   The president can only propose a budget.   He cannot force the Congress to accept it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.   Who is the speaker of the House?   Nancy Pelosi.  She is the leader of the majority party.  She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility.   I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.  When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Army &amp; Marines are in   IRAQ  , it's because they want them in IRAQ . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are no insoluble government problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.   Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;They, and they alone, have the power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlie Reese is a former columnist of theOrlando Sentinel Newspaper.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-7188689226062206019?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/7188689226062206019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=7188689226062206019' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/7188689226062206019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/7188689226062206019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/05/305-million-vs-545.html' title='305 Million Vs 545'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-8972698274123598681</id><published>2009-04-25T15:23:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-25T15:26:25.421-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Telling It Like It Is</title><content type='html'>I received the following email in my inbox today.  I don't know who wrote it but I do know it expresses the sentiments of many, many Americans.  To the Author, whomever you may be, I salute you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 17, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The White House&lt;br /&gt;1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW&lt;br /&gt;Washington , DC 20500&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Obama:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have had it with you and your administration, sir.  Your conduct on&lt;br /&gt;your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate&lt;br /&gt;representative of the United States of America collectively or of me&lt;br /&gt;personally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world&lt;br /&gt;that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the&lt;br /&gt;United States of America.  You are responsible to the citizens of the&lt;br /&gt;United States.  You are not responsible to the peoples of any other&lt;br /&gt;country on earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the&lt;br /&gt;United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care&lt;br /&gt;about their status in the world.  Sir, what do you think the First World&lt;br /&gt;War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of&lt;br /&gt;the peoples of Europe?  Are you brain dead?  What do you think the&lt;br /&gt;Marshall Plan was all about?  Do you not understand or know the history&lt;br /&gt;of the 20th century?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United States&lt;br /&gt;does not consider itself a Christian country?  Have you not read the&lt;br /&gt;Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States?&lt;br /&gt;This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles&lt;br /&gt;governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly&lt;br /&gt;from this heritage.  Do you not understand this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans..&lt;br /&gt;Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi&lt;br /&gt;Arabia .  You don't show Great Britain, our best and one of our oldest&lt;br /&gt;allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi&lt;br /&gt;Arabia .  How dare you, sir!  How dare you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can't find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation&lt;br /&gt;because you don't want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a&lt;br /&gt;mosque in Turkey .  You offended our dead and every veteran when you&lt;br /&gt;give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German&lt;br /&gt;people from themselves.  What's the matter with you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the&lt;br /&gt;historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed&lt;br /&gt;of yourselves, all of you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American&lt;br /&gt;automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this&lt;br /&gt;situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the&lt;br /&gt;Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses.  What do you intend to&lt;br /&gt;do about them?  Anything?  I seriously doubt it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to&lt;br /&gt;their staff members on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises&lt;br /&gt;that lawmakers gave themselves?  I understand the average House aide got&lt;br /&gt;a 17% bonus.  I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer.&lt;br /&gt;You haven't said anything about that.  Who authorized that?  I surely&lt;br /&gt;didn't!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million&lt;br /&gt;in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that's $45 million more than&lt;br /&gt;the AIG bonuses..  In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already&lt;br /&gt;been awarded $51 million not a bad take.  Who authorized that and why&lt;br /&gt;haven't you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely&lt;br /&gt;responsible for the economic mess we have right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not&lt;br /&gt;caring about what you idiots do.  We are watching what you are doing and&lt;br /&gt;we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you.  I also want you to&lt;br /&gt;know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be&lt;br /&gt;offensive to every one of my sensibilities.  I promise you that I will&lt;br /&gt;work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms&lt;br /&gt;destroying my beautiful country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every real American&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-8972698274123598681?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/8972698274123598681/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=8972698274123598681' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/8972698274123598681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/8972698274123598681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/04/telling-it-like-it-is.html' title='Telling It Like It Is'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-10730496043481621</id><published>2009-04-14T09:37:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-14T10:14:51.745-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Oath Keepers</title><content type='html'>For over 25 years, I was an Oath Keeper.  I still am, the only difference being now is that I am out of the military service and I have retired from the Police Department.  But I still hold the oath I took as a young soldier and later as a young rookie cop, right hand raised, dear to my heart.  Although I have no official capacity now, I will still support that oath to the best of my ability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is much talk of very hard times befalling our country in the near future.  Many people are saying that is all it is - just talk.  I hope they are right.  Others, however, are stock piling food stuffs and yes, guns and ammunition.  There is much worry that the government will try to seize all firearms from the populace, disarming them, and violating the Second Amendment to our US Constitution.  They are worried about warrantless searches of our homes and moving and separating families into civilian relocation centers; further violating our Constitution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what will the Oath Keepers do?  This video is almost 10 minutes long, but it is a breath of fresh air.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf2K4-BQYAI"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zf2K4-BQYAI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zf2K4-BQYAI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let us hope if any of this should come to pass that we encounter the true Oath Keepers of our Nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-10730496043481621?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/10730496043481621/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=10730496043481621' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/10730496043481621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/10730496043481621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/04/oath-keepers.html' title='Oath Keepers'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-7530990626549282711</id><published>2009-04-09T17:30:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-09T18:15:13.666-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Stand Up Straight and Act Like a President</title><content type='html'>Since when does a sitting President of the United States &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;BOW&lt;/span&gt; to another ruler?  Well that's what President Obama did.   The White House denies the President bowed.  They said our eyes are lying to us.  Well, you take a look at the video and decide for yourself.  I wonder how much longer the video will be available on Youtube?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did he or didn't he?  You decide.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;http: com="" v="leuif1--r38&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LEUif1--r38&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LEUif1--r38&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-7530990626549282711?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/7530990626549282711/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=7530990626549282711' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/7530990626549282711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/7530990626549282711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/04/stand-up-straight-and-act-like.html' title='Stand Up Straight and Act Like a President'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-6087963274836427298</id><published>2009-04-09T14:58:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-09T17:53:46.837-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Know Your Constitution - Don't Be Misled</title><content type='html'>In light of the recent shootings, where innocent civilians and police officers were murdered by madmen, the Federal Government has once again raised the specter of gun control and the erosion of our Second Amendment rights.  As usual, the Government is blaming the tool rather than the cause of these tragedies.  This is the easy way out and it is also a red herring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Government would like all to believe that guns are insidious and evil.  The premise is flawed as guns are not living things.  They have no personality.  They are plain and simply tools. Any tool, whether it is a pocket knife, baseball bat, shovel, et al. when placed in the hands of a murderous deviant can achieve similar results.  It's an issue of personal responsibility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In some of these situations, had the civilians involved been legally armed, the carnage in all probability would have been greatly reduced.  Would there have been deaths?  Yes.  But wouldn't it have been a nicer scenario if the only death would have been that of the murderer intending to inflict many?  Because someone was legally armed.  Because of the Second Amendment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Constitution is under attack by the very people we have elected to represent us.  There are a few, like Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R. Minnesota, who very correctly has seen fit to question those making the laws as to their Constitutional authority.  She is asking the august body we call Government just exactly where in the Constitution it says they can do what they are doing?  She's not getting any answers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please do not be fooled by Government misdirection.  Read our Constitution.  Know what it says.  Support it, for if you do not, you will no longer be citizens, you will be subjects.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-6087963274836427298?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/6087963274836427298/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=6087963274836427298' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6087963274836427298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/6087963274836427298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/04/know-your-constitution-dont-be-misled.html' title='Know Your Constitution - Don&apos;t Be Misled'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321092138895960426.post-258294558485977841</id><published>2009-02-04T11:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T11:00:25.463-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I can’t believe this!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;I just got done commenting on the ignorance of our media and now, today, I hear Nancy Pelosi, The Speaker of the House of the United States of America state that every month the “Stimulus” package is not passed, 500,000,000 (that’s 500 million) jobs are lost.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You can check it out for yourself right here on this link: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8hMJVXt09E"&gt;Pelosi's Comment&lt;/a&gt; and hear it for yourself.&amp;#160; Well, this is terrible!&amp;#160; It’s terrible because the population of the U.S. is presently just shy of 306 million people.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Speaker of the House does not even know how many people are in America!&amp;#160; Something &lt;strong&gt;MUST&lt;/strong&gt; be done about this politician and I suggest that something is for her constituents to wake up and vote her right out of office.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Speaker of the House position should be held by someone who cares more about representing the People of our great country than by someone who tries to bully the bills she wants to be passed through the political process.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Please America, wake up before it is too late!&amp;#160; Take charge of your lives so we will always be a land of the free.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Sigmund Freud (an Austrian) said “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves   &lt;br /&gt;responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. “&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Freedom was lost in Austria when Nazi Germany took over.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Let’s prove Freud wrong in the United States of America.&amp;#160; Stand up and take responsibility for your life.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6321092138895960426-258294558485977841?l=thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/feeds/258294558485977841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6321092138895960426&amp;postID=258294558485977841' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/258294558485977841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6321092138895960426/posts/default/258294558485977841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thoughtsfromapachejunction.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-cant-believe-this.html' title='I can’t believe this!'/><author><name>Mark Hawthorne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00008407768679307482</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eogQtBmR5fc/Tf1UXV4_7mI/AAAAAAAACKk/2ARtQC-WkUk/s220/MDH_1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
