Will America be free a year from today?

Is that a silly question?  Maybe it was a silly question this day in 2014, but it is serious today  as  ISIS gains more territory, more power, more members, more influence, more  power, and more victories.

Unless our leaders face the threat from terrorists this nation could be subject to control by radical Islam and suffer torture such as being beheaded or burned alive.  Who is going to fight the terrorists?  Not the United States if Obama and Congress agree on a promise to ISIS that we will not oppose them with "boots on the ground."  I am so sick of hearing those stupid words.   We cannot hope to win without troops on the ground.

Plant your Irish potatoes.

Time to plant Irish potatoes and set out onions.  When  I was a kid we seemed to be able to plant a     number  of vegetables in February, but lately the wether has not cooperated  -- too cold or ground too wet.  This year in this area conditions have been suitable to start the spring garden early.

Not that I will be  participating.  I was remembering  my childhood.  Even if conditions   are perfect, I am unable  to physically have a garden or even flowerbeds, and I those activities.

Global warming is bull

I wonder how he feels?  A man looking for a job opens  a   window and sees five feet of snow.   He turns on his radio for the weather report and hears President Obama declare "man-made global warming" is the greatest  threat to America and the world and requires billions of dollars and life changes.

In my opinion,  shared by many, this insistence on global warming   being a threat is bull and borders on being criminal.  Fake, doctored data are used to make the case for people like Obama and Gore. While many millions suffer from lack of  food and energy, the globalists make billions.

Pickens on the way to Iwo Jima

A couple of weeks ago I wrote that the USS Pickens was cooperating with Marines in preparing for an island invasion, altthough I cannot remember when we learned our target was Iwo Jima.  On January 27 of 1945,  the Pickens left Pearl Harbor in company with Transport Divisions 43 and 45 carrying units of  the 4th Marine division en route to Iwo Jima.

We went by way of Eniwetok (Marshall Islands) to take on supplies and on to Saipan where we joined Transport Baker,   then headed out for Iwo Jima.

I seem to remember that Tokyo Rose gave us the date we would attack; it was wrong and she  gave another  false   date before she correctly said we would arrive February 19. 

Why the same old lies, Obama?

Asked in a recent interview what is being done against ISIS, Obama claimed the United States is "doing all we can."   He was immediately called for being dishonest.  It was pointed out that we make seven sorties a day compared to as many as 1100 against Saddam.

Jordan is a tiny country but it is waging  a greater war effort than we are.  Do we want to continue to merely make a show or  will we commit to eliminating ISIS?

Jessica bikes 20 miles

Jessica  bicycled 20 miles a day earlier this week, a step in preparing for the triathlon she plans to run in April.  The triathlon includes one mile swimming, 20 mile bike ride, and several miles of running.  Her biggest test will probably be swimming.

Jessica will complete seminary at Duke this semester.  In addition to her job she is preparing to be interviewed before she can be commissioned.

Yes to enforced vaccinationss

As an individual who has strongly favored parents having the maximum  freedom in dealing with their children,  it is surprising that I take a strong stand in requiring vaccinations against certain diseases.

As a child I suffered from whooping cough, chicken pox, two kinds of measles, mumps,  scarlet fever, colds and influenza, and probably pneumonia.  During the summer I lived in dread of polio, which we knew as infantile paralysis. All of these diseases joined small pox as eliminated or reduced in severity through vaccinations.

Big, intrusive government is abhorrent to me, but I  stand for enforcement of action that can guard us against horrible diseases.