Our extra long working weekend

So what did we do on our long weekend?? We had 4 cords of firewood delivered of which I had to re-cut @2.5 cords of. Our supplier likes to cut his wood long, 18-20 inches. The problem is that our wood stove is only 16 inches deep and wide, so most of what he brought us will not even come close to fitting, grrr!! I cut just about all of the 2.5 cords when my awesome wife whom was stacking it all while I was cutting it, had had enough and decided to just pile up the remaining wood for cutting at a later date. I must mention just how awesome my wife is! She stacked nearly ALL the 3.5 cords we got put up by herself as I was re-cutting the rest of it! I was cutting it one piece at a time with my power miter saw when my awesome wife suggested piling the wood up on timbers over a ratchet strap, tightening it up to hold it all together and cutting it en masse with the big chainsaw. I am going to try that at a later date as we also had a friend from work out to try to cut down our dying walnut tree.

Our friend had said he'd probably be able to cut it down without a bucket lift but after cutting 3-4 big limbs off having one clip the power line coming to the house, he re-evaluated this decision and told us he needed a bucket, we agreed, no harm no foul ;o) He agreed to sell me one of his small chiansaws, a 14" bar McCulloch 130. This little saw is going to save my back when limbing out trees that are coming down as now all I have is Poulan 20" bar monster that gets pretty heavy when working with smaller limbs, etc... He also agreed to bring me out his wood chipper so I could start chipping up the mountainous pile of brush I have piled up from our basswood tree that came down last fall. My original idea was to save the brush to cut into small enough pieces to use for kindling to light our fires with..... I worked about an hour one day a couple weekends ago on that idea and let's just say that plan was a bust as I simply do not enough time nor patience to try and accomplish that goal.

I spent the whole next day splitting and stacking all the wood from the limbs and cutting, splitting and stacking more big wood we had out back. All total, I cut, split, and stacked @ another half cord. We now have @ 3 full cords out back seasoning, our friend thinks we probably have @ another 2 cords in the walnut tree to add to that in a few weeks. We have a bunch, 4-50 gallon trash cans FULL of end cuts from the @2.5 cords I had to cut to length so we decided to cook our steaks over it that evening. AWESOME! I had never had a steak cooked over hardwood before, but now we know we will be able to use all those end cuts eventually. I also plan to try my hand at making homemade charcoal with some of that stuff.

Yesterday I spent the day cleaning up all the brush and bark that was left over from the walnut limbs and 4 cords we had delivered.... Then my friend showed up with his brush chipper and the small saw I bought. He helped me chip up a bit of the brush just to show me how everything operates and of course we chatted for a while ;o) He took off and I finally was able to get my mowing done and of course as usual, crazy neighbor had to drive his car on his property to be sure I hadn't mowed over the property line..... Yes, he is a douche and then some, it's a long story I won't get into here.

Now that I have a chipper here I would really like to be able to take the rest of the week off to get the brush all done but, I guess I'll have to try to get at it on the weekends. The way the forecast looks for the upcoming weekend, I'll not be able to get anything done outside as it's saying there's a 60% chance of rain ;o((...... So again, we had an extra long weekend that we spent working, not vacationing ;o) I suppose that's the price we pay for wanting to be prepared ;o)

So you say you believe in freedom... Do you really?

Since the election of chairman maobama I've been hearing folks yelling about getting government out of our lives and that chairman maobama is creating a dictatorship. His actions would definitely incline many to believe he is indeed on the path to creating such an environment. However, one must look at the amount of power and control our government's, federal, state and local, have been allowed to accumulate over the generations by the only folks supposedly with the power to stop it, We the People. This did NOT start under chairman maobama's reign. This downward slide into tyranny began long ago while our great grandparent's, grandparent's and parent's were in charge of keeping our once great and free republic FREE. Little by little as life became more complicated they lost track of what it meant and what it took be a free citizen of this Representative Republic that was so ingeniously formed by our Founding Fathers. Our Founders REQUIRED participation and education of our citizens in our political process. They rightly believed that the only way a republic could be maintained was for the PEOPLE to know what was going on and PARTICIPATE in deciding issues of the day. How far we have fallen from that model. Hell these days MOST of our "citizens" cannot even name those that they send to the capitals to represent them. So again, why are we sliding into the deep, dark, black hole of tyranny?

Besides citizen inaction, non-participation, and general apathy one would have to look at what our citizens consider freedom. For some it means anarchy, for some it means no limit on governmental authority, for some it means something in between. Sadly far too few of our citizens ESPECIALLY those in the patriot movement have had an honest discussion with themselves as to what they believe freedom means. I've even heard Libertarians, the so called vanguards of the liberty movement, state that the government should legalize then REGUALTE marijuana..... Yes, that's right, those who claim to believe in limited government want to give the government MORE power by allowing it to regulate a common weed anyone can grow for themselves in their back yard or basement! I've also had Libertarians ban me from their facebook pages for merely asking a question on their pro gay marriage postings. I asked if the gay marriage legislation they were supporting was going to include language regarding those whom believe in plural marriages (similar to polygamy) as well ? What was the answer I received? Any guesses? I received NO answer, I was merely banned from commenting on that person's posts, a person by the way, running for elected office as a Libertarian and whom I voted for in the primary! Thus the title of this posting here. Do you REALLY believe in freedom?

It is not just the Libertarians whom have this inconvenient problem with their positions when it comes to freedom. The republikrats are possibly the worst of the bunch. They all espouse their belief of freedom yet pass laws that restrict freedoms of certain groups they deem not deserving of freedom.... The last few election cycles of republikrats (think bush and his merry band of usurpers) are even worse than the damn demoncraps (at least the demoncraps tell us they plan to restrict our freedoms). Passing such freedom robbing laws like the un-patriot act that created the department of homeland security and the tsa were the most Un-Constitutional power grabs in recent American history yet because the republikrats did it "for own safety" no-one bats an eye at this most egregious transgression!

So the question stands.

Do you really believe in freedom?

Do you think I should be "allowed" to have more than one wife?

Do you think I should be "allowed" to smoke a little herb in the privacy of my own home on my off time?

Do you think a woman should be "allowed" to choose to have an abortion or not?

Do you think I should be "allowed" to plant a garden in my FRONT yard?

Do you think I should be "allowed" to shoot my firearms on my own property as long as I'm doing it safely regardless of where I live?

Do you think I should be "allowed" to let my grass grow as long as I want to provide cover for mother natures creatures and allow wildflowers to grow?

Do you think I should be "allowed" to euthanize a pet dog of mine if said dog is old, sick, and in pain?

Do you think I should be "allowed" to keep dogs WITHOUT paying the county for a license to keep them?

If you answered no to any of the questions, why? I could write more questions asking about what some believe is freedom, but I think my point has been made. So ask yourself....... Do you REALLY believe in freedom? I believe that far too many of our citizens do NOT believe in freedom. All we have to do is look at the assbag our citizens seem hell bent on electing..... Romneycare? Seriously? WTF?!

Just remember when our republic slides the rest of the way off the cliff into tyranny, smile and say thanks because you brought it upon yourselves and all of the rest of us!

Wasting Your Vote!

I hear all sorts of folks claiming that those of us whom have refused to play the maitain the status quo game regarding our elections are wasting our votes if we do not support either of the two major parties. I counter this statement with, if status quo is working so well, why is the republic all but lost, why our nation teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and why do our freedoms continue to be eroded? Republikrats and demoncraps alike steal our freedoms and flagrantly waste our tax dollars. Do some research, get some facts to enlighten yourself to the reality of the situation we are really in. Our country is broke, it borrows over 40 cents of every dollar it spends. That SHOULD tell any sane and reasonable people to STOP SPENDING! But, hell no, our politicians refuse to do that. They are more concerned with getting re-elected and maintaining their power over we the people than doing what truly needs to be done to save our republic. They are beholden to the money powers that lurk in the shadows behind the scenes convincing the American people that they are not the problem, not the cause for our pain and worse, not the cause of the terrible strife and tribulation that will eventually have to come when the shell game known as our monetary system runs it's course. What's that saying? The greatest lie ever told was told by the devil convincing people he didn't exist..... We are in the same situation now, we have been in this situation for generations, it has incrementally gotten worse. Our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents dropped the ball. They lost sight of what it takes for the people to be truly represented in our REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC. Now we are left with a populace that has no clue about how our founding documents were penned to LIMIT the central government's power and allow our citizens to be free to make their own decisions, even bad ones..... Even worse our populace has no clue that for our republic to be successful they are REQUIRED to be involved and educated about the process!
So go ahead and tell me and others like me that we are wasting our vote by voting third party. It's o.k.. But when the status quo continues to make things even worse and you find yourself in dire straits, look in the mirror because the only person to blame is staring back at you.....

Good luck America!

I've been away from this for quite some time now and I figured since I was leaving facebook in about a week because of their new profile bullshit I'd start writing again here.

Now, on to business. WTF is up with the still retarded American people? Have they still not been able to see how things are only becoming more and more fucked up in our country? Have they not stopped sucking off the teat of big media and big government? About half our citizens (those nearly 50% getting a check from government) think chairman maobama is doing a great job (idiots) and the other half think he's doing a horrible job. Those that believe maobama is fucking things up however, are now casting their lot in with the same tired old republikratic establishment assholes whom have helped put our republic in this position to begin with! Seriously, romneycare, sanitorium, or gringrich (yes dolts, I know the names are mispelled, it's on purpose)? Really? That's the best these assholes could come up with?

These jackasses are the exact type of republikrats that helped get chairman maobama elected in the first place. Doesn't anyone remember dubya's failed "conservatism"? That's right, dubya took pages right out of the demoncraps play book but getting the patriot act passed which created 2 whole new massively expensive and freedom robbing agencies, the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, it has made patriots enemies of the state. Let us not forget the "conservative" medicare prescription drug program, we'll be paying for that boondoggle for generations if the nation lasts that long. Let us recall the original TARP bailouts, $700 BILLION going to the very bankers that the government allowed to cause the trouble to begin with! Remember dubya's infamous proclamation? He was abandoning the free market to save the free market? Talk about political double speak!

Back to the topic. How can folks truly believe that romenycare has a snow balls chance in hell at defeating maobama. Just romneycare's state government run mandatory health care fiasco should be enough to disqualify him from consideration to anyone whom has half a brain. But add to that his signing of a PERMANENT assault weapons ban in Massachusetts and the un-electability of this boob by those who truly believe in freedom goes through the roof. Good luck with maobama for another 4 years.

Now on to sanitorium..... Little ricky is a big hit with the bible thumpers whom wish to tell the rest of us how to live. Let me just say that I believe in religious freedom and the freedom to speak about your religion or lack there of. However, when one uses that religion to dictate to others how to live their lives it becomes a problem. Freedom requires all us to be allowed to do what we want as long as we aren't infringing upon the rights of others. Just because something offends you does not mean you have the right outlaw/ban said behavior. You do NOT have the right to NOT be offended. GET OVER IT!

And finally the last of the establishment republikratic hacks is newtster gringrich. This guy hasn't found a problem yet that can't be solved by a bigger and more intrusive federal government. Add to that the ethics investigations levied (politically motivated for sure but the masses won't care about that) upon him while he was in the house of representatives and he becomes an even more unattractive candidate. I wouldn't normally mention anyone's illict extra-marital affairs, but since this ass hat is running as the "conservative" alternative to romneycare I believe it must be mentioned. The same bible thumpers I mentioned above while talking about sanitorium will certainly NOT support a known multiple adulterer over even a morman who has been married for 20+ years to the same woman.

The only other republikrat and frankly the only one deserving of support by freedom loving folks is Dr. Ron Paul. However, the establishment and the media have doomed him to also ran staus. The media and the establishment are afraid of Dr. Paul removing their easy meal ticket created by back rooms politics. Dr. Paul knows the trouble we are in and actually has plans to address the issues we face, but his message falls on the deaf ears of those too stupid or ignorant to understand it. Our nation is in a world of hurt folks. We cannot continue to print money that is backed by worse than nothing, it is backed by DEBT. Dr. Paul understands this, but no-one wants to hear it, I believe because no-one has the balls to be the one whom takes responsibility to solve the problems that have been created by those who refuse govern based upon the Constitution. Were you wondering when I'd get around to mentioning that sacred document? Governing based upon the limits placed upon the government by the Constitution would solve all the problems we face but, it will not happen because far too many folks have gotten used to allowing the government to do all government does because they are afraid of the responsibility to run their own lives.

In short we're fucked, good luck America!