State park, graphics, Washington Post, genius, & a white flag

To begin, welcome to my blog! So nice of you to stop in. I'm trying to find ways to live on less and get out of debt. Living like college students (my husband and I) is what we are trying to do. So I like to find things that cost nothing that are fun to do. One of those things I love is taking pictures. I met up with a couple of friends, just getting to know them so I feel a little precarious in the situation, but we had a good time. We went to Weldon Springs state park near Clinton, IL. BEAUTIFUL! I can't wait to take Bob there. There are tent, trailer and RV camping spots, day camping areas and group camps. There is a large...huge lake, (bigger than Pollmiller, smaller than Lake Michigan and Lake Decatur). We first met and had hotdogs for lunch over a fire then s'mores. After that we took off on a hike. I didn't realize just how big the lake was and we went all around it.

Great walking trails, places to fish, checked out some camping spots and found a couple of snakes. Baby ones. Down one creek on the shore were John boats and paddle boats. I used to use a John boat to preserve what sanity I had at the time by rowing out on Pollmiller lake in Westpoint, IA. But this lake is one I could really get a workout in and float about for hours. I don't know how much these will rent for, but the ones at Pollmiller cost $5 an hour or $10 per day. It also cost $1 to get in. This park is free admission. I look forward to more hikes, boat rides and photos in the future. I'd like to go to see the Chevrolet car museum soon. I'm not crazy about cars, but my husband says it's amazing. Two forms of entertainment for little or nothing.

I got up at 6 a.m. this morning and checked out a couple of terms in graphics so the company I applied to wouldn't think I'm an entire idiot if called in for an interview. I haven't worked with RIP raster image processing or large digital UVCurable flatbed printers, so I looked them up and feel confident that given a short amount of time that I would be able to work with both. We'll see if they actually have a short amount of time in which to have someone learning on the job. But I sent off my resume this morning. The job is in Arthur, nine miles away and is a well kept secret because it sounds like they do quite a big job in that tiny town of a mostly Amish community.

And now I need to set up a small soap box on the corner of my blog here. I read an article by Cal Thomas who was refering to the attitude of mainstream media and how out of touch with people they are. He went back to a 1993 column where he commented on Michael Weisskopf who said in the Washington Post that evangelicals were "largely poor, uneducated and easy to command." This is taken out of context, but many so called uneducated evangelicals who are professionals wrote in to counter his claim where upon he changed his statement saying he meant to say that "most" evangelicals were "poor, uneducated and easy to command." This triggered several more protests so the Post ombudsman at the time, Joann Bird tried to defend Weisskopf by saying that readers needed to understand that most journalists don't know any of "those people." And, Cal Thomas says, "And the big media wonder why they are losing audiences, money and credibility."

Sarah Palin on facebook had the heading of her article, which I didn't read, as: "Mainstream media, should we wave the white flag or persist?" It is so disheartening to know that the mainstream media is so liberal, does not show both sides, like a pile driver hammering their points into the collective head of Americans who actually believe their propoganda. It makes one feel like throwing up ones hands and saying, "go ahead, lets be socialists, I believe Obama, of course we aren't up to our necks in debt, the stimulus worked, healthcare isn't going to cost us anything, we are much better off than we were two years ago, Obama has created a million jobs! (don't know where they are) possibly they are in the billions of dollars of redundancies in Washington..." I don't want to give up. But when the left throws out its epithets no one in the media gives a crap! Try putting any of their words in a Conservative's mouth and they would be stoned! Double standards everywhere.

NPR supporter George Soros donated $1 Billion dollars to the tax payer funded radio outlet. And the tax payers are still paying in spite of their decreasing staff due to outrageous statements unfortunately caught on tape. A ficticious person claiming to be part of the Muslim Brotherhood was caught on tape offering to donate $5 million and the person with NPR said they didn't necessarily have to report that to the IRS...(I am not in favor of secret taping)

South Park's creators' toilets have finally overflowed and they have a new broadway musical out called "The Book of Mormon." Athiests trashing the "cheesy" church and its members. "We could have picked anyone, Muslim, or mainstream Christian but Mormons just smile and their commercials are so cheesy it was an easy pick." Touting four letter words in the lyrics and bathroom humor which so many high school sophomores and younger appreciate, they should be in line for a Tony.

Crossroads GPS organization has filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration for failing to respond to their FOIs (Freedom of Information act requests) which every American citizen has a right to file. They wanted information about the cost of the Andy Griffith ad that touted Obamacare. It cost the taxpayers $3,600,000 for that advertisement. And the administration was not forthcoming about the cost. It should take 20 days after a FOI request is filed for that information to be processed and then received. The Obama Administration has not been complying with that law on several accounts from both Liberal and Conservative standpoints. Crossroads also wants to know where $120 million dollars and more that was donated to the Obama and Democratic campaigns were from labor unions and why are these entities entitled to waivers allowing them to not participate in the Healthcare plan. Who exactly is eligible for waivers?

There is a 12 year old University student (He was a University student at the age of 8) is trying to disprove the big bang theory. An incredible genius he learned all his high school math including trigonomotry and Calculus in one week, he has turned to the astonomical scientific question of how the world began and has some intelligent ideas backed by scientific fact. I'd like to see him work on disproving global warming personally, but proving God exists is a much more worthy cause.

As I have said here in so many words before, I am in the process of defining my beliefs. I believe in an all-knowing, all-powerful, Almighty God whose son is Jesus Christ. He died for my sins and all who have ever lived on the planet. I worship Him and try to live His words. I believe that these are the last days and the line has been drawn in the sand. I want to be standing on the right side of equation here. I don't think trashing Mormons is the way to go, I don't think trashing evangelicals in general is the way, I don't think withholding information when you are an administration is the way to get into God's graces either. I admire a genius who questions the believed theory that we came from utter nothingness. His question: "I'm not worried about the hydrogen and the helium, it is the carbon that is lacking." His IQ is higher than Einstein's and he is expanding on Einsteins theory of relativity, but in his spare time is solving this problem. There is talk from one of his professors that this child could win the Nobel prize, and there are some who say, well, give it to him now if we give the award out to those with good intentions, i.e. Obama.

I don't want my taxes to go to corrupt organizations which I think NPR is, or a Healthcare bill that had to be passed before we could know what was in it.

Off my soap box. I just want to manage my life, do a little good, get out of debt, enjoy my family, do honest work and worship God. When I get up at 6 a.m. and see this mess, not the genius I think that is incredible, but the corruption and arrogance, it makes me want to go back to bed and give it up. Put up the white flag so to speak. But this is still a free country and I'm not shutting my mouth.