Individual Liberty — Individual Responsibility 

Impeach Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi is an anti-American criminal. Never mind that she's the speaker of the house. She's unconstitutionally taken onto herself authority that belongs to the President of the United States and played the role of international diplomat in violation of the Logan Act. Isn't it time someone was prosecuted for undermining our nation's foreign policy?

She ought to be impeached. But as we all know impeachment is a political process, and despite her felonious conduct (violation of the Logan Act is a class E felony) the Democrats and their hypocritical cut-and-run lose the war at any cost ways are in the majority in the House of Representatives, so we won't see it happen.

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Families United For Our Troops And Their Mission

I just received an email from Families United for Our troops and their mission.

Email was as follows:

Dear Wake up America

I am an unofficial representative of a group called “Families United for our troops and their mission” we are comprised of Gold and Blue Star families who demand our voices be heard. We grow weary of the lack of support our men and women need to achieve victory in Iraq as well as other countries where the war on terror continues. We are circulating a petition to urge congress to stop playing political football with our sons and daughters lives. I am urging you to give our little organization a look


http://www.familiesunitedmission.com/


and help us get our word out in any way you see fit. We ask of nothing in return but to counter Cindy Sheehan and her anti war activist groups like the main stream media who erode the purpose of our troop’s mission.

You have a massive audience that for the most part aligns themselves with our cause and wishes of VICTROY. And we wish that you please help us and our cause.

Yours truly Jim and Karen Irwin

Delta Ohio.

Parents of Spec. Mike Irwin member of the US Army serving in Northern Afghanistan ------

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Here is the URL for the petition itself:

http://www.gopetition.com/sign.php?petid=11574

Here is the text of the Petition:

Whereas, we understand the War in Iraq is a necessary and just effort to bring stability to the Middle East and protect America from further attack; and

Whereas, we believe that victory can and will be achieved by U.S. and Iraqi forces fighting together for liberty and democracy in Iraq; and

Whereas, we believe all Americans should be united in our gratitude and appreciation to our military men and women for the risks and sacrifices they endure in the protection of our liberty and unalienable rights; and

Whereas, there exists amongst the citizens of the United States, disagreement regarding the appropriateness of the war on terror being waged in Iraq; and

Whereas, as Americans, we recognize that voicing these divergent views is guaranteed and protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution, granting Freedom of Speech; and

Whereas, we further understand that these views have been appropriately voiced and debated by our Congressional Representatives; now

Therefore be it resolved

We the under-signed are indicating in the strongest of terms that we stand proudly in support of our men and women who are fighting to defend our nation and Liberty and Democracy in Iraq; that we believe victory can and will be achieved by U.S. and Iraqi forces; and we strongly oppose the efforts by some to harshly criticize and undermine the mission of our military engaged in the field -- heightening the danger that our fighting forces face on a daily basis; and

We stand with our men and women in the military to ensure that they and their families receive the support and respect they deserve here at home, and furthermore we support legislative efforts to improve the level of support for military and their families, especially those killed or injured while in action.


The under-signed proud Americans,

SIGN PETITION

End of petition:

This is our military and gold star parents and families asking for our support to send a message to Congress and it would be appreciated greatly to get as many people to sign as possible.

Congress and the Senate constantly claim that they support the troops, our troops and the gold start families are telling us that you cannot claim to support the troops and not support their mission.

You can make the claim all you want, but it is a hollow claim that no one believes and won't unless you start showing your support by ACTIONS not just words that are seen as lies.

I have added the link to my sidebar and would appreciate if everyone that signs could do something on their blog to get these fine people the signatures they are asking for.

Thank you from Wake up America.

I am trying to get as many signatures as possible for these families, so if you agree with the message they are sending to congress, also please DIGG this so it can be spread around

So, what are you waiting for?

A happy, and productive weekend

This has to have been one of the best and most productive weekends at my house in a while. Friday night was fairly quiet.

On Saturday I slept in until 10:00, read a few blogs, created a new blog roll, and then my wife and I went to a friends house to pick up some new furniture for our granddaughter to be. We got a new changing table, an armoir, and a crib. Well, it's not actually new, but it's a matching set, and it's in like-new condition.

After that, we went to the hardware store and bought a tarp. A nice, big, 20' by 25' white, heavy duty tarp. We brought it home and I was all set to put it up on the "temporary" building that we bought several years ago, a large metal pole structure that originally came with a white tarp roof, white tarp sides, and white tarp end panels.

When I first bought my race car, even before I knew it would be a race car, I stored it inside that building. When I started racing, I moved it out to a shop that I rented on a friends property in Maple Valley. We then used the shelter for garden tools, bikes, and our trash cans.

The years weren't kind to that structure though, and the old material gradually rotted away after years of exposure to wind and rain and snow. We replaced a few panels here and there, but a really massive windstorm pretty much tore it all away.

The new tarp completely covers both sides and the top of the structure. It's one piece, staked to the ground every 18" through the gromets in the sides and lashed to the pole structure by a rope threaded through the gromets on both ends, every 18", and wrapped around the pole. I'ts a perfect fit.

Two more, smaller tarps will cover each end, and pretty much ensure that anything I put in there will stay dry and protected from the elements. That's important, since our friends have both died and I'm going to have to move my racecar and tools out of the shop when their estate sells.

Today was another fun and interesting day. This afternoon my wife and I went to Big Lots, a discount and closeout store. We went to get a gift for our oldest son, sort of a combination Easter and Birthday present. He wanted an MP3 player, and Big Lots had a SanDisk C140 on sale for $39.99, or about $30.00 off.

While we were in Big Lots my wife wanted to get some peat pots to plant pumpkin seeds in. As we were wandering through that section we saw a couple of large garden gazebos. There was a 10' by 12' one for about $189.00, and it included screened sides. Then we saw another one, a 10' by 10' one that would be perfect for our deck, and it was $169.00. After thinking about it a bit we decided to get the smaller one.

The store didn't have the MP3 player we wanted though. They had sold out. My wife had the clerk call a couple of the other local stores to see if any had one left. What do you know, the Fairwood store had one.

There was just one problem. It was a return. The customer that bought it complained that he couldn't transfer his music onto it. I figured it was probably user error, and told them if the 30 day warranty was still good I'd buy it. They said it was, so we took off for the other store and bought it.

We came home and I assembled the gazebo. It took a while, what with my dropping the washers and nuts and bolts about every third or fourth time. Finally it was assembled though and the top was on. Just in time for the rain.

I sat out on my deck for a while enjoying being mostly dry while it rained. The top actually leaks a bit, but it wasn't designed for use in the rain so I'm not particularly alarmed by that. Anyway, when it dries out we're going to scotchguard it and that should probably keep it from leaking much for a while.

We mainly got it for shade during the hotter summer months. It's certainly going to be good for that. The screens will keep the mosquitos and other pests away when we want to eat out on the deck too.

After enjoying my new gazebo for a while I went upstairs to make sure the MP3 player worked. It did, but I couldn't get it to download MP3s from my computer. I played with the drivers. That didn't help. I formatted the device. That didn't help. In fact, it didn't even work. The software said it was formatted, but apparently it wasn't really.

I switched USB modes on it. Now I found that it had content, but that the content was corrupted. I couldn't delete the corrupted content either. I was really starting to get frustrated.

I had checked the manual. I had followed the instructions. I had tried syncing it by dragging files onto the device. I had tried syncing using Windows Media Player. Everything failed. I was beginning to understand why it had been returned to the store.

I decided to try a few other features. For one, it has a record mode that will let you record voice messages. I tried it out. That worked just fine. It also has a built-in FM radio. That was working fine too. So did the record feature that lets you record what you're listening to on the radio for later playback.

It seemed to me that if those functions were working that the unit was probably not defective entirely. When I tryed to sync again from Windows Media Player, I noticed that the recordings I had made on the MP3 Player actually showed up on the device according to Windows Media Player.

I still wasn't able to download songs onto the MP3 player though. I tried opening the device like a disc drive again. This time there was a LOT of stuff that showed up. Folders that I had never created, but all of them were empty. I was able to delete them all, but I still couldn't copy music onto the device.

Frustrated, I went downstairs for a while, and then, ate a fabulous Easter dinner. We had scalloped potatoes, cottage cheese and roast turkey. What a meal! My wife is an incredible cook. There wasn't anything left.

After dinner, it was back to the MP3 player. I was able to copy video onto it. I copied one of my drag racing clips onto it. I was able to play it on my PC from the MP3 player. I was able to move it from one folder to another on the MP3 player. I was able to delete it. I just wasn't able to copy music onto the MP3 player.

Finally I switched the USB mode another time. Back and forth... forth and back... and so on...

This time when I hooked up the USB connector there was a file system on the device and it was clean. No corruption. I copied an MP3 file that I had ripped from one of my CDs to the AUDIO folder. It took almost no time at all to transfer. I disconnected the MP3 player. I turned it on and listened to the music I had copied.

I erased the music I had transferred to it, and had my son come in to check it out. I showed him how it worked. I showed him the various features. We transferred a few albums onto his MP3 player. We took one of his favorite CDs, ripped it to MP3 and transferred it on.

The thing works perfectly now. I suspect that the previous customer had tried to copy a large folder structure of music onto it and disconnected it while it was still in the process of synchronising the data. That left the system in a corrupted state. My efforts at cleaning it up were successful though and Zach's happy with his gift.

He even thanked us both. I told you it was a happy and productive weekend.