The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend?

I recently watched a long You Tube video of the jet streams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K9rXydMmfw&feature=player_embedded

I'll summarize: Remember just a few years ago (they say two, but I say longer, even into the Bush administration) the con-trails of regular jets, when you look up in the skies? They are relatively small. They follow the jets a short distance and depending on whether it's a sunny day or cloudy dissipate fairly fast. That's because they're made up of ice crystals. The jet is so high up that the water vapor coming out of the jets forms ice crystals. From the surface, it makes a cloud-looking stream of stuff.

Well, now they are spraying intentionally, stuff out the back that doesn't go away. It forms into these really wide jet stream trails that stretch from horizon to horizon and don't go away very quickly, sometimes staying the whole day.

Well, there are 7 parts to this video. I got through 4. They held a conference with these environmental wackos. Now, I'm not talking about the average guy on the street who wants to recycle aluminum cans and use reusable water bottles instead of buying water bottles to save plastic. I'm not talking about the average Joe who wants to save the planet by planting a tree. These are the elites who frankly, have a different agenda all together. They discussed, what if they got a plane to throw out either aluminum chaff (like the kind jets use to throw a missile off target when being pursued)? It would reflect the sun's light back into outer space and therefore cool the earth. Better yet, why don't we use aluminum oxide? It's dust like and would stay up in the stratosphere longer before settling down to earth. They were specifically asked about the human toll. I don't have the exact quote in front of me, but it was to the effect that we have to be very careful here. We've done the research, we just haven't published it. There's a difference between health risks and something or other. In other words, he believed that if the people knew what it did to them they would be against it, so they aren't going to publish their results.

You can look up on line what aluminum poisoning does to your system. It's a bad thing. There is no chalation method to remove aluminium from the body. Once it's there, it's there. It's the leading cause of Alzheimer's. They claim it's from drinking out of aluminum cans. Yeah, right. I believe the aluminum in that can leached out into my drink. And the aluminum in all my vegetable cans?

Further in another one of the videos, they have a gardener on. I know this is a fact, because I garden. You need slightly acidic soil to raise food crops. Where ever they're spraying this aluminum oxide (and barium, by the way) it's making the soil neutral. It's killing the trees. Why would someone interested in global warming, kill the trees? They obviously have a different agenda. I'm with the guy on the video, I'm not going to guess what it is. It could be population control, It could be just control. It doesn't matter. My whole point is, we, the conservatives need to get with the tree huggers (the honest ones) and fight against these elites.

Don't you people understand? We shouldn't be fighting against each other. That's what they want. I'll be one of the first on my side to admit that Bush did it too. I know I remember these trails starting more than 2 years ago. I know that George W. was for the super highway all the way from Mexico to Canada. That made me made even back when I wasn't politically awake. I remember my MIL saying there's no way he'd be for that. It's one-world government stuff. The elite either know something they aren't telling us, or they're manipulating us into an end they want. We don't have to be manipulated. I hate being manipulated. I'd rather make friends with people than let someone who REALLY wants to destroy the planet win. They don't care about people, trees or animals.

I don't know if the honest Joe tree hugger puts animal/plant life above humans or not. I do know that the Bible tells us to take care of the earth...we're supposed to be stewards of what we were given. That means those who blatantly destroy are bad in our eyes, too. We won't necessarily move a community for the spotted owl, but we may not build there if we can't move them to another place. I don't think God would have made a species that couldn't be moved.

So, let's really get under the skin of the elites, and unite against them!

Lori Ann Smith

The American Flag - Does Fringe Make a Difference?

I have to admit, I don't really pay that much attention to the various flags. I see they're American, but I don't notice they have fringe on them. They've sneaked that one in on me. Apparently they're in all the courts in the land now except a court in Washington, DC. Do you know what the yellow fringe means? I didn't. I had to research it.

Here is the regulation for our flag. I had to go back to 1818. This is from an Act of April 4, 1818, Chapter 34 (3 Stat, 415), reenacted as sections 1791 and 1792 of the revised statutes of the United States. Section 1791 provides that, " the flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white, and the union of the flag shall be thirty-seven stars, white in blue field." Section 1792 provides that "on the admission of a new State into the union one star shall be added to the union of the flag., and such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July then next succeeding such admission."


It doesn't say anything about a gold fringe.Taken from 34 Opin Attorney General, pg 34, "The use of such a fringe is prescribed in current Army regulations, No. 260-10 The yellow fringed flag is therefore , a "Military Flag"." The Flag is trimmed on three sides with Fringe of Gold, 2 ½ inches wide. Such flags are flown indoors, only in military courtrooms. The Gold Fringed Flag is not to be carried by anyone except units of the United States Army, and the United States Army division associations (United States Army Regulations, AR 840-10, 1 October 1979).


So that means that whenever you enter into a civilian court, you are actually submitting to a court martial. Does that make it clear why President Obama had the terrorists tried by a civilian court while he tried Major Hasan by the Military? There's no difference. They're both basically the military.

But this actually goes deeper than that. Look at the flag behind the President of the United States. It has gold fringe on it, too. That means we are considered under martial law. I tried to go back and see when we got that flag. George W. Bush's flag had the gold fringe. I can't tell from the pictures I've seen if George H. W. Bush. And it took a lot of looking, but I finally found that Bill Clinton had gold fringe on his flag, so I guess it started with him. But George W. could have stopped it. Since President Obama got elected, I've revised my opinion on the Bush's. They were good for our country, but they were still progressives. They were headed in the same place Obama wants to go, they just would have gotten us there much slower. Or at least George W. would have.

From what I've found, "Pursuant to the "Law of the Flag," a military flag does result in jurisdictional implications when flown (Ruhstrat v. People, 57 N.E. 41, 45, 185 Ill. 133, 49 LRA 181, 76 Am)." But, that said, martial law is carried out in individual cases and if we go to war.

What happens if President Obama determines that the Tea Party is such a threat that we are about to have another Civil War? Is it possible that they (meaning the establishment of both parties) have been working at this for years).

So, to sum this up, according to the end of the land, our courts are ruled by admiralty law, not the constitution. That means when ever you walk into a court room, you give up your rights given to you in the constitution. The judge can basically rule however he wants to...sound familiar? So you step onto their "ship" (courtroom) and they become the captain of that ship and can rule however they please. Have we seen that happen before? Laws being overturned by judges? The will of the people being ignored because a judge said so?

So what's wrong with an Admiralty court? For one thing, they use presumed guilty until proven innocent. That's the opposite of our judicial system. They also use heresy as evidence. That means you can be convicted just because someone said so. So If I had it out for my neighbor because his fence wasn't high enough, I could lie and get him in trouble. If the government didn't like my politics, they could trump up charges and put me away. Are you getting nervous yet? They can also take land away. You think eminent domain was bad. They don't need to have a common good. They can say you did something bad and take your house. They can say so-and-so said you were a drug dealer, or a threat to national security, so we're taking your house.

There are so many workings in government that we aren't told of. I discovered today that the Post Office has to give a large chunk of money to Congress. No wonder they're going broke and our stamps keep going up. Why are they paying Congress? They should be a self-supporting entity. Congress doesn't deliver the mail. They don't even monitor the Postal Service. And they used to pay disabled (due to injury) workers to sit at home. So they got to sit at home and do nothing and collect a full pay check. And this is the government we want to have martial law over us?

But, they sneak in and try to control us every way they can. We have to be ever vigilant. The founding fathers were concerned that we would fall into this trap and proof can be found in the 5th Amendment which states, "No person shall...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of Law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation."

And what kind of law is it talking about when it says due process of law?

That answer can be found in the 7th amendment:

It says, "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed 20 dollars, the Right of trial by jury shall be preserved; and no fact, tried by a jury shall be reexamined in any Court of the United States than according to the rules of the Common Law."

That's pretty plain. NO ADMIRALTY LAW! That's common law. But if we walk into court, we're subjecting to their rule. I don't have an answer as to what to do. Make them change their flag? I don't think that would go over very well. Maybe if enough of us refuse to have our cases heard until they have a non-tasselled flag displayed, they'll listen. Maybe they'll realize we've caught on.

A Tale of Two Families

I want you to take a walk through time with me with two families. They're basically the same make-up. Family of four, kids are 14-16 months apart, moms work outside the home for a while.

The first family starts out in 1971 having just left a Union job for a non-Union job. He buys a house that he expects will be the last house he ever buys. He knows he's looking, but he isn't REALLY looking. God smiles on him and he finds it on the way home from work. It sort of lands in his lap, just like the job did. He's disabled in a way. He lost his eye as a teenager, but he never let that get him down. He never considered it a disability. He worked hard and taught his kids to work hard. A job worth doing is worth doing right. Never start anything you don't plan on finishing.

So, this house is a 3 bedroom ranch, exactly what he wants. One bedroom is a bit small, but that's ok. They probably got a 6-7% loan. They watched people who got an adjustable loan as they soared to 19.5% They dug in and stayed in their house. They even, while the rates were low, got a loan for the 1/2 acre plot next to them so that they had an acre of land. They stayed in this house while their kids grew up and left. As a matter of fact, they are still in this house. Their house is now paid off and they don't have a mortgage.

The second family in the early 70's lived in a 2 bedroom house. The husband worked repairing appliances. He had several employers, and at one time was self-employed. They bought a 3 bedroom, well, actually a 2 bedroom that had been converted to a 3 bedroom. It had a 3rd bedroom in the basement. The wife liked to entertain so she converted the upstairs living room into a dining room (the kitchen wasn't big enough) and moved the family room to the basement. In the 80's they bought another house because they wanted to have foster children and this house didn't have enough bedrooms. They bought a larger 4 bedroom house with a swimming pool. Later, they decided that they didn't like living in Illinois, and God was calling them to Texas, so they moved again. They had already bought another house for rental property and still had the house with the converted basement. They sold all three houses and bought one house in Texas for cash. So, here they are, 25 years later, with a house they bought for cash, but really no better off. If they hadn't had the rental property, they would have been in trouble.

My dad, who worked at the same job for 25 years and was able to retire at the age of 59.5 and then use his stock to live off of until now (he's 78). My mom, who worked as a nurse and dad put her through LPN school so she could get a better job. She did take a break from working when we were very little.

We have an excuse for not following in my prents footsteps. My husband was active duty for 20 years and we had government housing. We rented her house (with the converted basement) for a year, then bought our first house. We lived there for almost 3 years before moving to Texas. We (in our error) bought a house with his parents when we got here. We're starting from a year and a half ago. We're starting from 45 years old.

Open Letter to President Obama

Mr. President,

I've been thinking lately about what you're asking of me, and it's a bit much. I just can't do it. Right now, I may just be a stay at home mom, and you may think of me as a "stupid American" that you need to tell me everything and protect me from everything, but that has not always been the case. You see, between the years of 1984 and 1988, I was protecting your butt while I served in the United States Navy. I protected my country from the Russians. I had it drilled into my head that it was bad Communists/Socialist/Marxist....good Capitalist. I grew up with a whole generation of people who fought Hitler and his ilk who were taught the same thing. Communism bad....Capitalism good. I was taught that in school. I did miss the 1950's when they did the nuclear drills and had to duck under the desks. I'm 2 years younger than you are. So while you used college as an excuse not to serve your country, I was out there tracking Russian Submarines and making sure they didn't vaporize us.

Maybe that's why when you first ran for president, I realized you were not a Democrat. You see, I was raised a Democrat. I became a Republican in the navy. That's why in every other election, I didn't get upset when a Democrat won, and "my guy" lost. How could I? It meant my dad's guy won. My vote didn't really count, because it was just canceling out my dad's vote. When Bill Clinton won? I just went on with my life. Did I complain? Oh sure, sometimes, but I didn't run out and get a blog and complain that the world was coming to an end, he was going to destroy the US, and was deserving of treason charges. I was embarrassed with all the scandals, because it wasn't becoming of a President, and I was SO glad that he didn't sign MY discharge papers.

But when I saw you, all charges of where you were born aside, I knew you weren't a Democrat. I don't care that you ran as a moderate Democrat. You are neither moderate or a Democrat. Like I said, I was raised a Democrat. I also fought the Russians for 4 years. I know their tactics and I recognize them. The Navy taught me to recognize patterns. They just don't always click right away. Sometimes the patterns I see I don't get until they stew for a while. I know them in the back of my head, but I can't put them into words. I just know they're wrong, with every fiber of my being. You, Mr. President, are wrong. You're wrong for America and America knows it.

America is finding out fast because there are others like me that smell a rat. I know because I worked with Russians. There are LEGAL immigrants from Russian who fled that, who know. There are Vietnam veterans (even Democrat ones) who fought communism who are just as familiar with as me and know it. There are the WWII veterans who fought against communism/socialism/Marxism who are just as familiar with it as me, who know it. You can't silence all of us. We know. We feel it. And every time you cram a policy down our throats without us approving it, you prove just how fascist you are. Every time you silence dissent, you prove it. Every time you use another tactic out of the Alinsky play book, you prove it.

You have to realize, America doesn't want to spread her wealth. We want what we worked for and we want everyone else to work for what they get. America doesn't want anyone telling her what is best for her. Especially some spoiled brat who was raised by a Marxist/Communist and is taking on the dreams of his socialist father from Africa who isn't even an American. A man who's father hated Great Britain, our greatest ally. A man who is bent on destroying every thing we stand for out of some twisted idea of social justice.

I leave you with this thought: We can see November, 2012 from our back porch. How's the view from your porch? America is more resilient than you may think. And we won't fall to chaos as easily as you think. Prayer is a powerful tool. We are not the destructive left you are used to working with.

Lori Ann Smith

My Weekend

I had an interesting weekend. I spent it in the emergency room and the hospital. I've been pretty open about my medical history (probably more so than I should be). I have epilepsy - oh, excuse me, the politically correct term these days is "seizure disorder." I had an "incident" that didn't match up with a seizure on Friday. I had run an errand, and when I got home, my face went numb, my left arm went tingly and my legs went weak/heavy. That's not the symptoms for a seizure. I have a bit of medical background (mostly through my mother being a nurse, some because my son has been in the hospital so much), so I looked up TIA's on line. That stands for Transient Ischimic Attack. Now I was a bit wrong it exactly what it was. I thought it was a mini-stroke, I was a bit wrong. It is more like the body's warning system that a stroke COULD occur. My symptoms matched. While I was checking the differences between the two (stroke vs seizure), my son called from school. He was having another migraine, and wanted to know if he could take another non-aspirin pain reliever. I said yes and hung up. I was considering calling the school back to talk to the nurse and tell her that he had an appointment scheduled with the pediatric neurologist, when she called me back. She wanted me to email her a permission slip because this was the second time this had happened and they didn't have anything formal saying they could do this. I asked for her to give me her email address and had trouble spelling a simple word in the address. I realized I was confused, another big indicator.

At this point, I called my husband at work. NOW, at this point, I have to defend my husband. I was confused, and used medical talk to a mechanic. I told him I was either having a TIA or a seizure and needed to go to the ER. He had no idea what a TIA was, knew I had had seizures before and don't have grand mal but simple partial, and I didn't sound impaired. He told me to call his mother because he was swamped. I called his mother and she didn't answer her cell or house phone, so I called him back. He still argued with me so I hung up on him. By this time, my arm had quit tingling, but my face was still numb. My MIL called back. She had been in a doctor's appointment. She didn't hesitate, without even knowing what it was for, but I did tell her. Of course, she didn't know what a TIA was either, until I told her mini-stroke, once I was in the van.

After the CT, they said all the symptoms couldn't rule out a TIA, but they were inconsistent. So they checked me in for the night and scheduled an MRI. They said what was inconsistent was that both legs went weak/heavy. Usually a TIA is one side of the body. So after the MRI on Saturday (not until 3:00 PM), they ruled it a complex migraine.

I had found myself hoping it was a TIA because I didn't want to lose my driver's license due to a seizure. I had never even thought of a complex migraine. I didn't know you could have such symptoms with a migraine. They told me to get an appointment with my neurologist. Funny thing is, that morning, right before the errand I ran, I had made an appointment with my neurologist. They have me on Topamax. It causes severe short term memory loss. I used to hold the entire Russian fleet statistics in my head; I used to have the movie collection of my son (close to 100) plus his cd's, DVD's and cassette tapes so that when he wanted a new one I could say, "No, you already own that one." Now, I can't remember when to pay the mortgage, or IF I payed the mortgage. I can't remember to balance the checkbook at the end of the month when the statement comes in. I can't remember to get something out for dinner. I can't remember the surgery dates of my son. Things are falling out my ears. I know it's the Topamax, because I can remember other things if I sit down and try. I lose names, but they eventually come to me. I feel like an Alzheimer's patient sometimes. Given enough time, I can come up with it. But sometimes I don't have that time. For someone who considered herself fairly intelligent, it's somewhat a slap in the face.

I try to think maybe it's a God thing. God uses even our weaknesses to show how powerful He is. Not that I've done anything great, but what I've done for Him, He's done. I never would have been able to have done it on my own, in my own strength. My memory abilities only prove that.

Hopefully, changing medications will alleviate some of the problems. I would even put up with migraines again to have my memory back. I can now sympathize with Alzheimer's patients, though. Early stage get combatant because they know they should know....and they morn who they used to be.

A Walk Down Memory Lane

Well Glenn Beck asked us to go to Ancestry.com and trace our roots. I got the free trial and did just that. I have found some really interesting things. First of all, if you listen to my mother-in-law, my mom is just an in-bred redneck from Arkansas. Now I can prove her wrong. My mom's dad has a direct line to the daughter of Samuel Adams' daughter, Rebbecca. The ancestor's name was John Waldo. And apparently, his brother Daniel married Rebbecca's sister. And his other brother, Cornelius, was in George Washington's regiment.

I was so buried in research that I decided I couldn't do it all in two weeks. I bought a one month subscription. My housework, blog, and children were beginning to suffer, not necessarily in that order. My husband was beginning to feel neglected, too. Glenn, the left is right, you are capable of creating monsters! This genealogy is addicting! But the monsters you create don't destroy America, like the left wing nuts do.

So, I'm related to Samuel Adams. I realized just how easy it is to get off on a wrong branch. At first, I thought I could trace the Robinson side all the way back to the Norse vikings, but then I realized that a branch married brothers, or something to that effect, and it's like Glenn said: read the original document. There was a census where Martin J. Robinson moved his mother in with him (Martha) who was 79 years old. They had scratched out her age so it was a bit hard to read. The person who transcribed it, had her name Marta, and her age as 7. So they had her as being his mother, his sister and his daughter. ALWAYS go to the original document.

This is killing my mother-in-law, who always thought my mother was an inbred redneck from Arkansas. Now, she has roots back to Samuel Adams and the founding our our country. And my mother-in-law? She can only trace back to her grandmother because she was adopted. I imagine that makes her feel inadequate. Not the being adopted part. But it does explain a lot about how she treated her two adopted daughters, as somehow substandard. Not saying *I* feel that way....she does. I've tried to search my Father-in-law's side and I came across stories from the civil war that are really interesting and a family portrait that looks exactly like him. I find that fascinating, too. It IS my children's family history.

You see, that's the difference between my MIL and me. I would be thrilled if she could trace her family tree to the founding fathers or even royalty. I would probably tease her if it was royalty, but I would be proud for her. I would bow to her, in jest, "Shall I get your coffee, m'lady?" But that's just me. I can't believe someone would hold a grudge because someone else can trace their roots to the founding fathers and you can't. How petty.

Any way, I'm having fun doing the research, and my family can't wait until I'm done. Especially my mother.