Sunday, December 16, 2012

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Fwd: Scary Obituary

Very Interesting!

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From: "Karen Yates" <kyates@fasmart.com>
Date: June 26, 2012 6:28:42 AM MDT
To: "Courtney Winters" <courtneycougar@yahoo.com>, <heatherhaacke@gmail.com>, "Lindsey Shaw" <lindseylshaw@gmail.com>, <ady2byu@gmail.com>, "Kristen Weidner" <kbydner@gmail.com>
Subject: FW: Scary Obituary

Fw: Scary Obituary

This should sounds very familiar (the first part) – we've been teaching it for almost 200 years!



                                                In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh,
                had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
               
                "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent
                form of government.  A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.  From that moment on, the majority always votes for               the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."
               
                "The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has
                been about 200 years.  During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
               
                From bondage to spiritual faith;
                From spiritual faith to great courage;
                From courage to liberty;
                From liberty to abundance;
                From abundance to complacency;
                From complacency to apathy;
                From apathy to dependence;
                From dependence back into bondage."
               
                The Obituary follows:
               
                Born 1776, Died 2012
                It doesn't hurt to read this several times.
                           
                Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in  St. Paul , Minnesota,
                points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:
               
                Number of States won by:              Obama:  19                     McCain:  29
                Square miles of land won by:        Obama:  580,000          McCain:  2,427,000
                Population of counties won by:    Obama:  127 million   McCain:  143 million
                Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:  Obama:  13.2    McCain:  2.1 
               
                Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was
                mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.  Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."
               
                Olson believes the  United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase."
               
                If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
               
                If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.
               
                If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom..
               
                This is truly scary!
                
                Of course we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic.  Someone should point this out to Obama.
                
                Of course we know he, and too many others, pay little attention and shows even less respect to The Constitution.
                
                There couldn't be more at stake than on November 6, 2012.
                       
                

       

Friday, May 25, 2012

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Kierra's Kitchen


I forgot to post a picture of Kierra's Kitchen that we made for her. She loves it! All we had to buy was the faucet everything else was junk around the house. Yay for upcycling!