Nice Work Cuz

I am proud of my cousin.

This is your warning, to all bamboo shoots of the world .
Watch your back!

I SEE YOU

These are not my words, but I agree with and thank the author.

I see you…
I see you, professional football player, as you kneel down during the playing of the National Anthem…
I see you, with your arm raised in protest…
I see you thinking you are doing something to unite people over social and racial injustice.
I see you…
But, more than that here is what I really see…
I see a man pushing the wheels of his wheelchair as he returns home from a foreign land unable to function as he once did, due to fighting to protect you as you kneel on the ground.
I see a young widow, dressed carefully in black, mourning the remains of her husband, hugging a coffin on the tarmac of an airport.
I see that same woman clutching a perfectly folded flag to her bosom as taps is played at his graveside.
I see her young son, tears streaming down his face knowing his father would never come home again.
I see graveyards full of tombstones, here and overseas, with names of those fallen, with dates showing a much too early death.
I see so many, from so many different wars and conflicts, crosses and stones. They are too numerous to count.
I see the sacrifices made, the hearts broken, the tears shed, the shattered lives all in the name of freedom… all in the name of that red, white and blue piece of cloth that you choose to protest.
Social and racial injustice? You who make millions of American dollars for playing a game in a country where you have more opportunity to make a better life for you and your family than anywhere in the world? Really? The hypocrisy of it astounds me.
First of all, if you really want to protest, give your money and time to make changes.  Give to those less fortunate than you.  Help those people get an education, buy them food and shelter.  Show them opportunities to make better decisions.  Teach them that they have a purpose in life.
And if you really want to protest injustices…
Protest the treatment of veterans, who have to wait extremely long periods of time for healthcare, who are living under interstate bridges, in boxes, who are committing suicide.  Today over twenty of them will take their lives out of hopelessness and despair.
Protest the people whose goal in life is to make sure an unborn baby doesn’t see the light of day.  There will be around 3,500 of them today.  There is no greater injustice than that.
Protest the loss of religious rights as some atheist complained so much that public prayer by a group of young players on an athletic field is not allowed.
When I see that flag, when I hear that song, when I sing those words, I give homage to those who died for this land, who continue to protect this land, who don’t know if and when they will ever see their loved ones again.  Some say that they died for your freedom so that you can take a knee.  I say they died for your freedom so you can stand proudly and be thankful that God has blessed you enough that you can live in a country of so much opportunity.
Go ahead…
Go ahead and kneel…
Go ahead and be ungrateful.
I am watching…
As are millions and millions of others..
We don’t see a protest of unity… we see a protest of disgraceful ignorance.

Golf for beginners by Dustin Johnson kidding

This guy is good!!

Pinky Toe

1920's prediction comes true

Nothing needs to be said...

2017 Solar Eclipse

A friend of ours sent us these photographs from Smyrna, Tennessee of the eclipse.
Great photos Scrounge!!!

Thomas Jefferson

Sent to me by a smart man

His Portrait is on the Two Dollar Bill.

 

This is amazing.
There are two parts.

Be sure to read
The 2nd part (in RED),,,,and really THINK about it.

 

Thomas Jefferson
Was a very remarkable man who started

Learning very
Early in life and never stopped.

 

At 5, began
Studying under his cousin's tutor.

 

At 9, studied
Latin, Greek and French.

 

At 14, studied
Classical literature and additional languages.

 

At 16, entered
The College of William and Mary.
Also could write in Greek with one hand
While writing the same in Latin with the other.

 

At 19, studied
Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.

 

At 23, started
His own law practice.

 

At 25, was
Elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.

 

At 31, wrote the
Widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America" And
Retired from his law practice.
 

At 32, was a
Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.

 

At 33, wrote the
Declaration of Independence.

 

At 33, took Three years to revise

Virginia's legal code and wrote a Public Education Bill and a statute for

Religious Freedom.

 

At 36, was
Elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.

 

At 40, served in
Congress for two years.

 

At 41, was the
American minister to France and
Negotiated commercial treaties with
European nations along with

Ben Franklin and John Adams..

 

At 46, served as
The first Secretary of State
Under George Washington.

 

At 53, served as
Vice President and was elected
President of the American Philosophical
Society.

 

At 55, drafted
The Kentucky Resolutions and became

the active head of Republican Party.

 

At 57, was
Elected the third president of the
United States.

 

At 60, obtained
The Louisiana Purchase doubling
The nation's Size.

 

At 61, was
Elected to a second term as President.

 

At 65, retired to Monticello.

 

At 80, helped
President Monroe shape the
Monroe Doctrine.

 

At 81, almost
Single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first
President.

 

At 83, died on
The 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along
With John Adams.

 

Thomas Jefferson
Knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government.
He understood
Actual history, the nature of God, His laws and the nature of man.

That happens to be way more than what most understand today.

 

Jefferson really knew his stuff.

A voice from the past to lead us in the future:

 

John F. Kennedy
Held a dinner in the White House for a group of the brightest minds
In the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps
The assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in
The White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

 

 

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe,

we shall become as corrupt as Europe."

Thomas Jefferson

 

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those

Who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

Thomas Jefferson

 

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.

A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."

Thomas Jefferson

 

"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."
Thomas Jefferson

 

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government

Results from too much government."

Thomas Jefferson

 

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."

Thomas Jefferson

 

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

Thomas Jefferson

 

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to timewith the

blood of patriots and tyrants."

Thomas Jefferson

 

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he
Disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

Thomas Jefferson

 

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than
Standing armies.

 

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their
Currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the
Banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks

will deprive the people of all property  until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."