A young man gets up and says, Sirs and Ma’am I have listened to the last few debates and I not liking what i see from candidates. All of you save one are clawing, biting and scratching at each other like wounded dogs backed in a corner. all of you more worried about your candidacy more than then your fellowman. when instead you should all be united in what you do believe in.

1. this country is serious financial trouble.
2. the tax code needs changing so congress cant us it to buy elections and help or hurt private companies
3. we need a president who wants to cut back the power of the president so we don’t have to deal with executive orders that defy the people

In time of despair and fear where unity is most needed you remind me of the french in pre-World War II who fought so much amongst themselves they where defenseless.
Personally I think your policies can go hang. I’m not interested in Policies or Agendas. Policies change for the very reason that so many hands touch it. its like a movie script sent to a producer who likes the scrip but wants changes then the director wants changes, and finally the actors want changes. at the end if the script still resembles the original copy its a major miracle. You don’t write the law you just sign it in. You people need to stick together and show us as a man or as a women why you have the integrity to make good decisions.

What I want to know is do you love your fellowman more than your job. Does your Faith help give you the integrity to make decision on truth instead of wishful thinking. last but not least do you have a healthy fear of your Creator knowing everything you do in this office you will be held accountable by Him.

Just remember the poem about the Ambulance in the Valley
and that pity never cured man from self destruction it just enables him to continue on this path a little longer to further destruction. love is just it does not steal from Peter to pay Paul.

Thomas Jefferson said “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. “

I know all of us would like to give any candidate a peace of our minds; our two cents worth as it were, the kind of money we don’t mind giving.

thank you very much for your time
a 27 year old truckdriver aka Ironic Shadow

I’m not sure how to say this… well let me start out by saying that I”m am not offended, this is not a censure. it is a caution… Remember a caution… I’m going to try to be light as possible because its just a thought not a problem. what I’m about to say is something everyone has to keep an eye on because it can turn into a problem.
OK. when people meet their total strangers. then they become friends as friends there again strangers. Why? Because before they only new each other as total strangers now their learning about each other again as friends. this cycle continues from friend < good friend < close friend < best friend. for couples it extends to boyfriend girlfriend, fiance fiancee and husband wife.(close friend might parallel boyfriend and girlfriend and best friend will parallel husband and wife)
with each level of friendship you extend more information at each level. at each extension besides information, trust and emotion are tied on to that information, sort of a package deal. (or hitch hiker as it where)
The caution is knowing the friendship your at and knowing the friendship line you don't want to cross. the reason for this caution is information is like a snowball it starts small and grows bigger and if you don't keep an eye on the two hitch hikers that go along it can turn into something very hard to stop.
there was nothing wrong in telling me what you did just as long as you know the identity of the two hitch hikers or packages:(identity) one knowing that their there and what they are; two the form of friendship your sending them in. these hitch hikers will decide what context the words will be read in. In letters it can be a little hard to figure out the context.
I understand that the context is good friend. when people find out where they are as friends where their going as friends and as friend realize where of the progression should end this is called defining a friendship or relationship.

the reason for chaperons in the 1800's what not only to see things stayed proper but to make sure things didn't progress to fast information wise.

I hope this was edifying not terrifying. please if you would share it with your family.

I was listening to a Dr. Jim Binney, a pastor and counselor, and he told a story about time management counselor who was speaking. This speaker had a lady who had a baby on the stage and he asked her, “I have this iron beam and if I put it in front of your house would you walk from one side to the other for a hundred bucks?” she said “yes.” This is before 9/11. he asked “If I took this beam and attach an end one Twin Tower and the other end to the second Twin Tower, those two buildings each have a sway factor of 40 feet that high, would you walk it for a hundred dollars?” she said “No.” He asked, “for a thousand?” answer, “No” “a Million Dollars…? she said “absolutely no!” The speaker said, “Ok, what if I had your baby and i was on the top of the other tower. If had your baby by the heels and I said if you don’t walk across I’ll drop the baby. would you walk it? the lady started to cry.”
Why? He just found her Governing Value, every decision she made ended up coming back to her baby and the baby’s safety. (this is natural for a mother). He had taken her governing value and put it out of her control. This is an example that each one of us has a Governing Factor. the goal that all of are decisions work towards . The question we have to ask ourselves is our Governing factor. the number one governing factor other than God that I have found is Happiness by means of Marriage, Friends, Tv, Video Games, Work, School etc… and all my and your decisions have been or will be for God or our happiness.
The Lord our God will have no other Gods before Him. He who keepeth his life shall lose it. He(God) will tear down all idols sooner or later. What we what more than God we will never get and be happy because only God can give abundant joy.
Some how we all think that there is a specific time where we find happiness that will stay with us till the end of time. Not realizing with the wrong Governing Value we’re like Dan the donkey, in a song called Cool Water, looking for water in a desert of sand and never finding it. God our Savior has Living Water that we may never thirst no more. So the real question is our we willing to give up our “happiness” we think we need to God and humbly accept His plan of abundant Joy

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mohandas Gandhi

You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
C. S. Lewis

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis

A vision without action is a dream.
action without vision is a nightmare.

outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend,
Inside a dog its too dark to read.

Look!!! A Distraction!

I wouldn’t have had that emotion
If I hadn’t had a logic reason for it.

The only way three people can keep
a secret is if the other two are dead.

This is a Family vacation and your going to enjoy
it whether you like it or not.

“A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.”
Greek Proverb

“An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.”
Hebrew Proverb
“Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.” another Hebrew Proverb

“Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.” Hebrew Proverb

“Everyone is wise until he speaks. Irish Proverb

“The best way to keep loyalty in a man’s heart is to keep money in his purse.” Irish Proverbs

“Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.”
Winston Churchill

“They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.”
Winston Churchill

“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
Winston Churchill That was just Wrong.

“Those who forget history are bound to repeat it”
Winston Churchill

“Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.” Swedish Proverbs

“Gold’s father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.”
Yiddish Proverbs

“He who marries for money earns it.”
Yiddish Proverbs

A man should go on living — if only to satisfy his curiosity.”
Yiddish Proverbs

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.”
Yiddish Proverbs

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. by Groucho Marx

I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up. Groucho Marx

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it. Groucho Marx

I intend to live forever, or die trying. Groucho Marx

I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception. Groucho Marx

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again. Groucho Marx

“A chip on the shoulder indicates wood higher up.” Yiddish Proverb

“A rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper.” Yiddish Proverb

“Money buys everything but good sense.” Yiddish Proverb

“Provide for the worst; the best can take care of itself.” Yiddish Proverb

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” Spencer Johnson

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Groucho Marx

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx

I must confess, I was born at a very early age. Groucho Marx

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.
Groucho Marx

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. Groucho Marx

As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Buddy Hackett

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. Hedy Lamarr

I love to go to Washington – if only to be near my money.
Bob Hope

Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a rock. Will Rogers

The problem with society today is that the “men” are not Man enough to fulfill their responsibilities towards the women and the “women” are not Women enough to accept the deeds of responsibility done toward them.

Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow,
And dart not scornful glances from those eyes,
To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor:
It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,
Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,
And in no sense is meet or amiable.
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty;
And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.
Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
And for thy maintenance commits his body
To painful labour both by sea and land,
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
And craves no other tribute at thy hands
But love, fair looks and true obedience;
Too little payment for so great a debt.
Such duty as the subject owes the prince
Even such a woman oweth to her husband;
And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
And not obedient to his honest will,
What is she but a foul contending rebel
And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
I am ashamed that women are so simple
To offer war where they should kneel for peace;
Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway,
When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,
Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
But that our soft conditions and our hearts
Should well agree with our external parts?
Come, come, you froward and unable worms!
My mind hath been as big as one of yours,
My heart as great, my reason haply more,
To bandy word for word and frown for frown;
But now I see our lances are but straws,
Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare,
That seeming to be most which we indeed least are.
Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,
And place your hands below your husband’s foot:
In token of which duty, if he please,
My hand is ready; may it do him ease.

vail your stomach (“to lower ones pride.”)
no boot (“no advantage, no use, in delay or refusal”)

Some people would say that Shakespeare wrote with “tongue in cheek” when he wrote this but I’m not so sure. If you read carefully Shakespeare wrote down the duties of both sexs not just the women who where being addressed.

I looked at her, and then at the garden walls extending out to the right and left. Behind her was the Garden gate.

I said, “I am very thirsty … for something clean.”

She smiled, and her smile made me thirstier still. But she said nothing.

“Is there water here?” is asked.

“There is a stream within my garden.” Her statement was simply a statement of fact; there was no invitation at all in it.

I asked, “May I come in and drink?”

“No.” she said. “The lord of my mother’s garden does not permit that.”

“Why is this? Other women have let me drink from the gardens that they tend.” I glanced at the fruit-laden branches which were visible over the top of the garden wall. “You have a lovely Garden but those who let me drink had gardens just as beautiful.

She laughed at this, and hers laugh was merry indeed.

“I have no doubt that you have been in some lovely gardens. But was the water clean?”

“No” I said, and in spite of myself, turned my head and looked down. She continued with a question. “Is that why you are no longer in the gardens tended by these women?”

I was ashamed so I did not answer her. Instead I looked past her into the garden. The path through the gate disappeared after a few feet, leaving the view of anyone on the road.

“It seems like a shame for such a garden to go to waste.”

She seemed both puzzled and amused. “How does it go to waste?”

“Does any man drink form your stream?”

“No, but no man fouls it either.”

“But is that not a waste? Was not your stream made to quench the thirst of travelers?”

“I’m afraid you are seriously mistaken. It was made to quench the thirst, not of travelers, but of the lord of the garden.”

“Oh,” I said, “This garden has a lord?”

“No,” she said

“Then I don’t understand. Are you speaking in riddles?”

She smiled, “no, I do not. The garden will one day have a lord, although it does not yet. The stream is for him alone.”

“And who will you lord be?

“When my mother’s lord gives a blessing, the one whom I appoint.”

“How can the lesser appoint the greater?”

“How can it not be so? When my lord comes, I will grant to him my garden. But until I do, he is just another traveler.”

“And what do you look for? I am sure there are many who knock at your gate.’

At this she blushed slightly but looked straight at me. “I will not have a lord who does not have a lord himself—my lord must have taken an oath of fealty to the Landlord.”

“The Landlord? Who is he?”

“He is the owner of all the gardens along this road. In order to come in to my garden, my lord must take an oath before the Landlord to tend the garden well. He must also swear that he will enter no other garden.”

I had never heard such words as these before. How long must he stay out of other gardens?”

“Forever.”

“But what if he is born to travel?”

“Then he is not born for my garden.”

“I see,” I said, becoming a little angry. “Then why have I never heard of such an oath? I have been in many gardens.”

“Yes, you said that before. But was the water clean? Where the gardens tended? That is what happens when there is no oath.”

“So that is all? If someone takes an oath before this Landlord, you will make them your lord?

“No.”

“Well what else then?”

“There are many men who think they can tend my garden as well, and who would be willing to swear an oath before the Landlord saying so, But that does not mean that my mother’s lord, or I, Share their confidence.”

What do you mean?”

“I mean that I know the extent of the garden. I have a knowledge of it that cannot be gained from the road. But no man can share that knowledge until after I have made him my lord and husband. So I must have the measure of the man before.”

“So what must a man do? I seems like much work.”

She smiled once again. “There is much work. There is also much fruit.”

“So what must a man do?

“The first thin is to—”

“Yes, I know. He must swear to the Landlord. But after?

“He must return to me, and ask to see my mother’s Lord.”

“And what would he say?”

“That Depends on the man.” At this parting comment, she turned and walked slowly back into the garden, pulling the gate closed behind her. I spurred my horse, which began to trot down the road, I did not know what to think, but I needed to find this Landlord.