Happy Birthday Ashley!

Happy Birthday to our favorite daughter-in-law! We will be sending you a card with a gift shortly, but in the meantime, here's a rose for your enjoyment. We have a ton of rose bushes, as you know, but even then only occasionally do we have a flower that is really unique, such as this one. I happened to notice it a couple of evenings ago while saying good night to Jennifer and the grandkids, and while there was still some light, I grabbed my camera and took several shots. Only three came out the way I wanted, and this one is the best one. It's a very beautiful rose, Ashley, kinda like you are to us. Again, Happy Birthday and we hope your day is a great one! We love ya.

By the way, did you notice the rain drop?

Call your congressman

I was listening to talk radio on the drive into work today, getting my mind filled up with all that evil conservative propaganda I like to listen to when the substitute host for Neal Boortz put out the phone number for the congressional switchboard in Washington, D.C.. The guest host's name was Herman Cain, by the way, just in case anybody asks you. Anyway, Herman wanted people to call their congressman and tell them to vote against the next big socialist government power grab boondoggle disguised as national health care. He said if you call the switchboard and give them your zip code they will connect you to your congressman's office. The funny part was when he gave the phone number, and he swore it was the correct number. He didn't give the digits, he gave the letter equivalents for the digits.

Are you ready for this? The number for the congressional switchboard in Washington D.C. where you can call your congressman is (drum roll please), 877-SOB-USOB!

Somebody in D.C. has a sense of humor. I haven't tried the number yet. Maybe I will.

The constitution was made only for...

...a moral and religious people.. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. Benjamin Franklin.

I have wondered why so many of the citizens of America are so willing to let the federal government meddle in almost all aspects of their lives. It seems like the citizens of our nation in these last days are willing to give up their freedoms to a massive nanny government. It is because morality and religion are scoffed at by a lot of people, especially those who consider themselves the elites. We are in the last days and men have become lovers of their own selves, without virtue or honor, and their focus is on little else. "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. Matthew, 24:12.

I would love to see freedom make a comeback, but with the lack of honor of many of the people in power, and a lot of the regular people in this country too, I am not very optimistic, and I am almost always optimistic. I think I am making this post a downer, but I believe that we as americans are on the downhill slide. We are doing the Nephite thing, and the only way the nation can return to greatness is for its people to become moral and virtuous again, especially its leaders. Again like the Nephites.

Ya think that'll happen?