I Do Believe

My beautiful wife gets
more and more

beautiful every day!
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New coffee shop with EXCELLENT food.

Our favorite little local coffee shop is just that.
Locally owned, one store in a converted house.

We stopped by last week for a much needed break to find it over flowing with,

dun dun dunnnnn!

Young people...

It is a testimony to the owner that he has a hip place that is popular and safe to hang out.

Sadly, it is not the quiet, have a cozy conversation with your spouse kind of place it once was.

It's too small for a live band AND older customers with or with out small children...

So we kept our eyes and ears open for a new place.

We have found it in Buzzbrew, a 24 hour dinner that serves great coffee and excellent food.

We are hooked!

When in Dallas, check it out!

(Interestingly enough, they buy their deserts from another local, independent, favorite restaurant of ours, Zaguans)

Livid!

After listening to Ron Paul's book, "The Revolution: A manifesto", I have changed my views on a number of things.

Modern politicians would have us believe that the only way to take care of the poor, sick, the weak, is to form regulations and have the Government take care of them.

This requires money most of the time.
Where to get this money?

Your back pocket.
My back pocket.

Each year we Americans work aprox. 5 months out of the year for the Fed. Gov.
(This does not include the hidden tax that is Inflation caused when the Gov. prints more money. $700b bailout anyone?)

Ron Paul, an OBGYN, asks the question, "How did we survive and take care of those in need of help prior to Government Programs?"

We the People helped each other out.

Fraternal organizations raised money, Ie. the Shriners, to provide FREE hospital care for children below a certain age. (My brother helped sister's son get that help).

In addition, Doctors reduced their prices, bartered for goods in return for medical services, or worked gratis for those who could not afford to pay.

What has happened is the Fed has stepped in, created Medicare and Medicade, the Insurance Industry has blossomed and now very few of us can afford anything.

Unintended consequences...

On his congressional web site he has video of his speaches to the House on the financial problems they have created and which we now see in our economy.

And unlike most everyone else, he has a step by step plan to help fix the problems.

The founding Fathers created the Constitution to protect us from Big Gov., to protect our Liberties, a French word by the way, meaning Freedom.

I visited my House Rep this week to see what she was doing for me.

I am LIVID!

Passing bills to do "great things" by the Gov. (Great things that get votes.)

Things we could do, and did in the past, more effectively, more economically, on our own with our neighbors, churches, and Fraternal societies.

Things we were all Free to do.

I have a black congress woman taking more of my money out of my back pocket to pay for things that are not the venue of the Feds.

She has no idea what her spending is doing to her constituents.

Abolish Slavery!

babies, dollars, and presidents

In high school they made baby making sound so easy and simple.
She got pregnant and presto a baby nine months later.

They didn't tell (us boys) bout the sick stomach, gestational diabetes, and all those other adventures.

Z is testing her blood sugar 5 times a day and is now on insulin.

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Z and I voted for Pres.
In the past elections, it's been a choice of who's the less bad of the two.

In this election, it's been obvious that Obama is the better leader of the two.
I am not sure he is willing or able to fix the problems with the economy.

There were three options for President on the Texas ballot.
I chose to write in the best man for the job, Ron Paul.

So one could say that I knew my choice would lose. But I also can say that I chose the best person versus the lesser of two evils.

That being said, I am so hopeful and relieved that our next president will be President Obama.
I'm hoping his leadership and political smarts will help him work through what needs to be done.
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Gold takes energy and time to mine, process, mint, and distribute. It can't be burned, it does not tarnish or ware out.

It's takes the same amount of energy and resources to print a one dollar bill as a thousand dollar bill.

What is to keep the government from just printing their way out of debt?

Newton said that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Pump money into the system ...more money means each dollar becomes worth less (and eventually worthless).

That's what they have been doing for decades.

But since 1971 our currency has not been tied to anything other than paper.

Prior to 71 our dollar was tied to one ounce of gold. $20.00 paper dollars would be exchanged at any bank for one ounce of gold, a $20.00 gold coin.

The currencies of all the other world are tied to the dollar through the Bretton Woods agreement.

The emperor has no clothes.

Free market tells us that the more something is in demand, the more it should cost due to limited supplies.

Prices go up...

There is a 6 month delay on receiving silver bullion. This has been true for three months now.
Yet the price of silver has actually dropped...

The big boys are playing with the markets...

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The good news is...

there is a way out of this mess,

let's hope the new pres will make it happen...