Today I make a quick stop at Rite Aid on the way to pick up Wesley from work. Armed with my shopping list that I got at Southern Savers and my coupons, I purchased these items:
After coupons, I paid $9 out of pocket, but I’m going to get $14.99 back in rebates – $9.99 from Rite Aid Single Check Rebates, and $5 from SC Johnson. So that’s a profit of $5.99! Not bad, huh? I love Rite Aid!
Hey there, folks! Boy it’s been a long time since I’ve posted on my blog. Just thought I’d stop by and say hello in case anyone thought maybe I had left this world or something. Most people that read my blog are also my Facebook friends, so I haven’t felt much of a need to update here, unless there’s something that I really want to rant about. So, if you want to know what’s happening with me and my family, get yourself a Facebook and look me up! I think I will keep posting here now and then, but I can’t decide what I should focus on.
How about all the crazy goings on with our government? I can’t believe that Congress approved that gigantic spending bill. Well, yes, I do believe it. That’s just an expression. Things never change. Today I heard someone on the radio say that our government borrows 43 cents on every dollar it spends. Can you say we’re headed for a train wreck? I really wonder how all this is going to turn out in the end. I just keep hoping that maybe when our economy is totally ruined and our country is in total shambles, maybe people will wake up. Maybe. And I keep reminding myself that God is ruling over all and has a purpose for it. I confess I easily get lost in the details and “can’t see the forest for the trees.” One day He’s going to fold everything up and take His people home to live with Him forever. I can’t wait!
Cartoon by Lisa Benson
Ron Paul, who is a medical doctor, discusses the H1N1 “emergency”. He makes a great point: the government has royally botched this whole swine flu immunization program (hence the need to declare it an “emergency” so that they can try to cut through the red tape), so why would anyone want to turn the whole health care system over to these guys? Food for thought.
AP story out today: Obama declares swine flu a national emergency.
President Obama and friends, we see right through you and your fear mongering. Declaring the H1N1 “outbreak” a national emergency is just another attempt to keep attention on health care and to dupe the public into believing that only the federal government can take care of us. “The national emergency declaration was the second of two steps needed to give Sebelius extraordinary powers during a crisis, ” according to the AP. Just what we need – Kathleen Sebelius exercising extraordinary powers. Lord, help us!
“As a nation, we have prepared at all levels of government, and as individuals and communities, taking unprecedented steps to counter the emerging pandemic,” Obama wrote in Saturday’s declaration. “Unprecedented steps.” What’s that supposed to mean? Forced vaccinations? Who knows?
“‘Many millions’ of Americans have had swine flu so far, according to an estimate that CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden gave Friday. The government doesn’t test everyone to confirm swine flu so it doesn’t have an exact count.” Absolute hogwash! According to CBS News, “In late July, the CDC abruptly advised states to stop testing for H1N1 flu, and stopped counting individual cases.” So if they stopped testing and counting in July, how can they say how many Americans have had swine flu? Tell me that!
The CBS story, which came out just three days ago, states that “If you’ve been diagnosed “probable” or “presumed” 2009 H1N1 or “swine flu” in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn’t have H1N1 flu. In fact, you probably didn’t have flu at all. That’s according to state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News investigation.”
If you don’t believe me, go read “Swine Flu Cases Overestimated?” yourself and tell me there’s not something fishy going on here with this declaration of a “national emergency.”
Went with Steve to my first gun show today – the Dixie Gun & Knife Show at Metrolina Expo. I told Steve as we were going in that it made me happy to see so many people who are gun owners. Just makes me feel more secure knowing that there are lots of armed law-abiding citizens all around us. It was fun walking around looking at all the merchandise. I really enjoyed seeing all the people that were there. What an interesting mix! There were plenty of your typical white male rednecks, to be sure, but there were also black folks, Asians, ladies, boys and girls, guys in dreadlocks, executives (I know because one of them was the president of Steve’s company), and I even saw a kid in a Boy Scout uniform. We also ran into a few young folks from our church. I was pretty tired by the time we left, but all in all it was a fun outing with my honey, and we did get a couple of things that we were looking for.
I don’t know who this guy is, but it’s just soooo funny!
Look at how Steve’s long-sleeve t-shirt came out of the dryer this morning!
Comment: absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize – Times Online
The view from across the pond.
According to Nobel’s will, the Peace Prize should be awarded “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” (Wikipedia)
Let’s hope that our prize-winning President Obama will live up to the honor bestowed upon him by bringing our troops home from around the globe and putting an end to entangling alliances and nation building. As Thomas Jefferson said, one of the main principles of good government is “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none.” Wishful thinking, perhaps, but not impossible.
