This presidential election will be the most exciting election in a long long time. We have a chance to make history. Not by electing the first woman or the first non-white or the person with the most money or the person with party machine behind him or her . But by being the first election in decades that was won by the people. People who have taken back the voting process and made it an honorable way to elect the President of the United States of America.
It is amazing the amount of influence certain people carry. But I don't believe Republicans are going to be led, this time around, like they are following the Pied Piper. I believe that the number of undecided voters represent a surgence of power. The power of the people! People who are going to take the time to explore the candidates and to vote their conscience.
Please take your vote seriously. So many people have told me they haven't even started thinking about the election. It is time to start!! This election could be decided by the middle of February. Let's take back the political process and give it to the people where it belongs.
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee at the Iowa Straw Poll ( I bet she's a quilter!)
Mike in Bettendorf
In Bettendorf
Mike wasn't the only attraction Thursday evening!
Bring Mike to Your City
God Bless America
quilt
Quilters Love Huckabee
I Like Mike
In Loving Memory of My Son Gabriel William Uphoff, 1979-2004
Loving son, husband, dad and High School History Teacher. He would have loved Mike Huckabee
7 comments:
Karla,
Maybe you could auction one of these beautiful quilts off on ebay to raise money for Mike's Iowa campaign. I'd advertise it that way, too. Something red, white, and blue maybe? I know how you feel about not knowing how to help, but it seems to me that you have a God-given talent, and God does want us to use what He has given us for good : )
Blessings, Mary
thanks Mary. I did try and auction one off on e-bay (see a very early post). Unfortunately it did not sell. I'm open to new ideas!
Wow, that amazes me. In our very small rural town (2500 people in our entire county) several civic groups raffle quilts to raise money. We have 3 "events" in town during the year - one in late winter, a fall festival, and a Christmas event. Each one has an arts & crafts show, music, etc. The quilts are shown and advertised around town, with fliers on the windows of shops and such, for a time before the event, then a little booth is set up during the event and tickets sold, with the winner drawn at the end of the weekend. We have lots of quilters!
Maybe you could look around your area for fall events? Just a thought.
Glad to chat with another Miker :)
Mary
In league with the stones...
Every September, I recall that is more than half a century (62 years) since I landed at Nagasaki with the 2nd Marine Division in the original occupation of Japan following World War II. This time every year, I have watched and listened to the light-hearted "peaceniks" and their light-headed symbolism-without-substance of ringing bells, flying pigeons, floating candles, and sonorous chanting and I recall again that "Peace is not a cause - it is an effect."
In July, 1945, my fellow 8th RCT Marines [I was a BARman] and I returned to Saipan following the successful conclusion of the Battle of Okinawa. We were issued new equipment and replacements joined each outfit in preparation for our coming amphibious assault on the home islands of Japan.
B-29 bombing had leveled the major cities of Japan, including Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama, Yokosuka, and Tokyo.
We were informed we would land three Marine divisions and six Army divisions, perhaps abreast, with large reserves following us in. It was estimated that it would cost half a million casualties to subdue the Japanese homeland.
In August, the A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima but the Japanese government refused to surrender. Three days later a second A-bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. The Imperial Japanese government finally surrendered.
Following the 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese admiral said, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant..." Indeed, they had. Not surprisingly, the atomic bomb was produced by a free people functioning in a free environment. Not surprisingly because the creative process is a natural human choice-making process and inventiveness occurs most readily where choice-making opportunities abound. America!
Tamper with a giant, indeed! Tyrants, beware: Free men are nature's pit bulls of Liberty! The Japanese learned the hard way what tyrants of any generation should know: Never start a war with a free people - you never know what they may invent!
As a newly assigned member of a U.S. Marine intelligence section, I had a unique opportunity to visit many major cities of Japan, including Tokyo and Hiroshima, within weeks of their destruction. For a full year I observed the beaches, weapons, and troops we would have assaulted had the A-bombs not been dropped. Yes, it would have been very destructive for all, but especially for the people of Japan.
When we landed in Japan, for what came to be the finest and most humane occupation of a defeated enemy in recorded history, it was with great appreciation, thanksgiving, and praise for the atomic bomb team, including the aircrew of the Enola Gay. A half million American homes had been spared the Gold Star flag, including, I'm sure, my own.
Whenever I hear the apologists expressing guilt and shame for A-bombing and ending the war Japan had started (they ignore the cause-effect relation between Pearl Harbor and Nagasaki), I have noted that neither the effete critics nor the puff-adder politicians are among us in the assault landing-craft or the stinking rice paddies of their suggested alternative, "conventional" warfare. Stammering reluctance is obvious and continuous, but they do love to pontificate about the Rights that others, and the Bomb, have bought and preserved for them.
The vanities of ignorance and camouflaged cowardice abound as license for the assertion of virtuous "rights" purchased by the blood of others - those others who have borne the burden and physical expense of Rights whining apologists so casually and self-righteously claim.
At best, these fakers manifest a profound and cryptic ignorance of causal relations, myopic perception, and dull I.Q. At worst, there is a word and description in The Constitution defining those who love the enemy more than they love their own countrymen and their own posterity. Every Yankee Doodle Dandy knows what that word is.
In 1945, America was the only nation in the world with the Bomb and it behaved responsibly and respectfully. It remained so until two among us betrayed it to the Kremlin. Still, this American weapon system has been the prime deterrent to earth's latest model world- tyranny: Seventy years of Soviet collectivist definition, coercion, and domination of individual human beings.
The message is this: Trust Freedom. Remember, tyrants never learn. The restriction of Freedom is the limitation of human choice, and choice is the fulcrum-point of the creative process in human affairs. As earth's choicemaker, it is our human identity on nature's beautiful blue planet and the natural premise of man's free institutions, environments, and respectful relations with one another. Made in the image of our Creator, free men choose, create, and progress - or die.
Free men should not fear the moon-god-crowd oppressor nor choose any of his ways. Recall with a confident Job and a victorious David, "Know ye not that you are in league with the stones of the field?"
Semper Fidelis
Jim Baxter
Sgt. USMC
WW II and Korean War
Job 5:23 Proverbs 3:31 I Samuel 17:40
http://www.choicemaker.net/
MIKE HUCKABEE is the only 'worthy' in the race! Choose Mike!
Mr. Baxter,
That was truely profound. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. I hope many people have an opportunity to read this.
Sincerely,
Karla
I think Mary has a great idea, about the quilts. I am doing the same thing right now. I have for sale 2 pillows and a hostess apron. I've gotten more views for my items than other items in the same category. One item already has a bid. That means at I can at least contribute $15 to Mike Huckabee's campaign. If you were to do that there is an eBay widget you can display on your blog.
Thanks Redneck, I checked out your site. I will try again. I didn't know there was such a thing out there.
karla
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