Here's where I am politically right now. Click on the link above to hear the song and make the pledge.
Just a workin’ man without a job
It got shipped off to China via Washington, D.C.
And I know I’m nothin’ special, there are plenty more like me
Just the same
I thought I knew the rules of the game
I stood up for this country that I love
I came back from the desert to a wife and kids to feed
I’m not sayin’ Uncle Sam should give me what I need
My offer stands
I’ll pull my weight you give me half a chance
I went up to a congressman and said to him “you know
Our government is letting people down”
He said he’d need a lot of help to buck the status-quo
I said there was a bunch of us around
I’m a Born Again American, conceived in Liberty
My Bible and the Bill of Rights, my creed’s equality
I’m a Born Again American, my country ‘tis of me
And everyone who shares the dream from sea to shining sea
My brother’s welding chassis at the plant
He’s earning what our granddad did in 1948
While CEOs count bonuses behind the castle gates
How can they see
When all they care about’s the do re mi
It’s getting where there’s nowhere left to turn
Not since the crash of twenty-nine have things been so unfair
So many of our citizens are living in despair
The time has come
To reaffirm that hope’s not just for some
The promise of America’s surrendering to greed
The rule is just look out for number one
But brace yourself ‘cause some of us have sown a different seed
A harvest of the spirit has begun
I’m a Born Again American conceived in liberty
My Bible and The Bill Of Rights
My creed’s equality
A Born Again American, my country ‘tis of me
And everyone who shares the dream from sea to shining sea
It’s clear my country’s soul is on the line
She’s hungering for something that she lost along the way
The principle the framers called upon us to obey
That in this land
The people’s will must have the upper hand
I felt the calling once before and took a sacred vow
And faithful to that vow I have remained
I hear the calling once again, my country needs me now
And to her cause I have been re-ordained
I’m a Born Again American conceived in liberty
My Bible and the Bill Of Rights, all people living free
A Born Again American, my country ‘tis of me
And everyone who shares the dream
From sea to shining sea
And everyone who shares the dream
From sea to shining sea
A M E R I C A
My Grandson
That cute baby in the photo on the right is my 9 month old grandson Mikil Lucus McGarr. (Don't blame me for the spelling of his name - it sounds like some sort of disease if spoken quickly). He's the son of my daughter who is battling cancer.
Mikil is what we consider a miracle baby. Perhaps a more appropriate name would have been Miracle...but I got no sayso in the naming department. Mikil is a miracle baby because he endured nine months of chemo and radiation treatments. Two injections intended to cause a miscarriage failed as the doctors tried to protect my daughter's life. On top of all that, his mom smoked the entire pregnancy - for her nerves. He wasn't given much of a chance by the doctors; and those who thought he could make it to full term suspected that he would be born retarded (such a nasty word - only fit for liberals).
Mikil was born with jaundice and with undeveloped lungs. He stayed at the Duke neonatal ICU for two weeks before they could take him off oxygen and allow him to go home. He's a fighter though and is doing extremely well now. He wants to be held by his mom most of the time, and he's not too thrilled around males, but the family is very happy he's made it into our world. God has plans for little Mikil and we're blessed to have such a beautiful child in our lives.
Mikil is what we consider a miracle baby. Perhaps a more appropriate name would have been Miracle...but I got no sayso in the naming department. Mikil is a miracle baby because he endured nine months of chemo and radiation treatments. Two injections intended to cause a miscarriage failed as the doctors tried to protect my daughter's life. On top of all that, his mom smoked the entire pregnancy - for her nerves. He wasn't given much of a chance by the doctors; and those who thought he could make it to full term suspected that he would be born retarded (such a nasty word - only fit for liberals).
Mikil was born with jaundice and with undeveloped lungs. He stayed at the Duke neonatal ICU for two weeks before they could take him off oxygen and allow him to go home. He's a fighter though and is doing extremely well now. He wants to be held by his mom most of the time, and he's not too thrilled around males, but the family is very happy he's made it into our world. God has plans for little Mikil and we're blessed to have such a beautiful child in our lives.
News To Kick off the New Year
The year is young and most of the news is about the poor economy, failing automakers, the uproar over "Barack the Magic Negro" song, and Al Franken becoming a Senator. You know our country is messed up when people like Franken are in office.
In the past couple of days I've learned that the same people who predicted in June that the ice caps in the North Pole would melt are now startled that the ice there is thicker now than it was in the 1970s - just six months later. After visiting Nebraska at Christmas, I can tell you first hand that there's no global warming there.
The state of Washington is having a hard time clearing snow from the roads because they've decided that salt and brine are too corrosive and might endanger the Pugeot Sound. Meanwhile, police cars and garbage trucks are having a hard time climbing the hills - so much so that the trash sitting on the curbs and sides of the roads now makes parts of Washington state look like our third-world neighbors to the south.
A bit of funny news today comes from Wicomico Church, Virginia, where a six year old boy who missed his school bus went back inside the house and grabbed the keys to the family's 2005 Taurus. He drove about six miles, passing cars and making a couple of 90 degree turns before running off the road and hitting a light pole. Rather than cry about his boo-boos, the boy got out of the car and started walking to school - he didn't want to miss breakfast and PE. Police report that the boy learned to drive by playing Grand Theft Auto and Monster Truck Jam. Now that's funny. Perhaps not to the parents who were charged with child endangerment, but compared to the stupidity of our government, it's down right patriotic. The boy took responsibility for himself; he didn't call the school and demand the bus turn around to pick him up; nor did he expect someone from the school to bring him his breakfast that his parents had already paid for. Who says kids can't benefit from video games?
A couple of weeks ago, WPTF talk show host Bill Lumaye reported that North Carolina is considering using GPS devices in automobiles to track our mileage so they can tax us at the end of the year for the use of our roads....as if we didn't already contribute when we bought gas at the pumps and paid for our license tags. Not only would these GPS devices keep track of our miles, but if we were to speed a little bit, the person monitoring the GPS system could send us a speeding ticket in the mail. Talk about Big Brother! The other alternative being kicked around is to use the mileage from the previous year's inspection to the new year's inspection and tax us on that. How many of us drive out of state sometime during the year? Should we pay for the miles we drive on somebody else's roads?...or don't North Carolinians already pay more than most other states when it comes to gas taxes? I'm liking that kid's spunk more and more. He'll make a great governor some day.
I think I'm going to start collecting all the stupid news and put them in my book. I should have enough material by February at this rate.
In the past couple of days I've learned that the same people who predicted in June that the ice caps in the North Pole would melt are now startled that the ice there is thicker now than it was in the 1970s - just six months later. After visiting Nebraska at Christmas, I can tell you first hand that there's no global warming there.
The state of Washington is having a hard time clearing snow from the roads because they've decided that salt and brine are too corrosive and might endanger the Pugeot Sound. Meanwhile, police cars and garbage trucks are having a hard time climbing the hills - so much so that the trash sitting on the curbs and sides of the roads now makes parts of Washington state look like our third-world neighbors to the south.
A bit of funny news today comes from Wicomico Church, Virginia, where a six year old boy who missed his school bus went back inside the house and grabbed the keys to the family's 2005 Taurus. He drove about six miles, passing cars and making a couple of 90 degree turns before running off the road and hitting a light pole. Rather than cry about his boo-boos, the boy got out of the car and started walking to school - he didn't want to miss breakfast and PE. Police report that the boy learned to drive by playing Grand Theft Auto and Monster Truck Jam. Now that's funny. Perhaps not to the parents who were charged with child endangerment, but compared to the stupidity of our government, it's down right patriotic. The boy took responsibility for himself; he didn't call the school and demand the bus turn around to pick him up; nor did he expect someone from the school to bring him his breakfast that his parents had already paid for. Who says kids can't benefit from video games?
A couple of weeks ago, WPTF talk show host Bill Lumaye reported that North Carolina is considering using GPS devices in automobiles to track our mileage so they can tax us at the end of the year for the use of our roads....as if we didn't already contribute when we bought gas at the pumps and paid for our license tags. Not only would these GPS devices keep track of our miles, but if we were to speed a little bit, the person monitoring the GPS system could send us a speeding ticket in the mail. Talk about Big Brother! The other alternative being kicked around is to use the mileage from the previous year's inspection to the new year's inspection and tax us on that. How many of us drive out of state sometime during the year? Should we pay for the miles we drive on somebody else's roads?...or don't North Carolinians already pay more than most other states when it comes to gas taxes? I'm liking that kid's spunk more and more. He'll make a great governor some day.
I think I'm going to start collecting all the stupid news and put them in my book. I should have enough material by February at this rate.
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