Sudden Sam

I spoke with a very close friend last nite, it'd been a few months since we'd had contact; Eric and I worked at the Post Office together for over 18 years. It is a real heartbreaker to type this up because I remember when 'Sam' came into Eric's home and he's gone now without my having(or taking)the time to see him before Sam left us. When I got full custody of my son Zach, the daycare I took him to was across the street from Eric's home....in fact, Eric recommended 'Miss Vee' to me. Zach and Sam became close friends immediately, we'd stop after I picked him up and go sit with Eric, his wife and Sam....was a beautiful thing, Sam was far bigger than Zach but ever so gentle and Zach would let Sam have treats from his little hands. On mornings that I worked and Eric was off, I'd find Sam in my van, sitting in the driver's seat as I'd return to go to work....I will miss Sam, as much as I miss Sally and Eric's Son...tragically taken way too early in life. As you can see in the above photo, Sam was as much a 'joker' as the rest of us.....I pray our Lord will embrace Sam along with Sally and Dane until we can all be together again. Below is a letter Eric wrote to the local paper, not sure if it was published because I don't read it any longer, I do want to ensure however, that Sam's passing and the story of how Eric got Sam, will be known. For you Sam, one last 'WOOF!'

Sam gets treats from Zach...they were tight!

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I would like to thank whomever "dumped" the little brown boy dog with the black face, and the too small red collar in the neighborhood north of Lake Margaret and Conway road about thirteen years ago. At the time, I was the mailman that delivered mail in that neighborhood. When I first met the year old puppy, there were two kids screaming in their yard about the dog that (in their minds) was sure to tear them up. I picked the little dog up, and carried it to the next yard. I explained to the dog that the kids didn't want him in their yard, and that he didn't belong there, and that he should find someplace else to be. I put the dog down, and told him again not to go back there, and to be careful where he wandered.

I continued along my route until I came upon a fenced yard with a dog inside the fence barking at me when suddenly appeared that little brown dog with the black face and the too small red collar standing between me and the fence, facing the dog in the yard that was barking at me. The little dog was barking at the other, larger dog, as if telling it to back off. I delivered the mail, and continued on my way. The little dog disappeared, of on other adventures, I thought.
I didn't think much of it, until the next yard where another dog was barking at me, and there again appeared that little brown dog with the black face, and to red collar. This happened at least once more while I delivered mail in that area.

I moved the mail truck up a short street, around the corner, where I had to continue walking, delivering mail. Apparently the little dog had followed my truck, as the next time there was a large dog chained in a yard barking at me, there again was that little brown dog with the black face, and the too small red collar, again facing the offending dog, barking for all he was worth at the larger dog.

I finished walking my route, got in my truck, and proceeded on to my next area. I looked in the mirror as I started down the street, and there was that little brown dog chasing my mail truck. I didn't want him chasing me into the next, larger street, so I stopped, and talked to a man at his house, trying to figure out how to get that dog to stop following me. As I talked the the man, the little dog began eating birdseed in the man's carport, so I slipped back to my truck, and continued on my way.

Throughout the day, that little brown dog started working in my head. By the end of my deliveries, I was sure that the puppy was going to starve, get hit by a car, get picked up by animal control and put to sleep. Something bad was bound to happen to that little, so I went to the place where I had "ditched" him. I went up and down the streets, but I couldn't find him anywhere. I finally stopped at a house where the people there "adopted" many dogs. I explained to them that I was looking for that little brown dog with the black face, and the too small red collar, and that if they found it, The lady on the corner had my phone number, and to please call me.

I finished out my shift, and returned home. When my wife came home, I told her about my day, and the little brown dog, and that I had not been able to find it when I went looking. She told me it was just as well, as we already had a dog (Sally).

I was doing some work out front, when my wife appeared with the telephone, saying it was for me. I answered the phone with a hello, and the lady on the other end said "This is Mrs. K--- I have your dog". Well, I told my wife that we may have another dog, anyway. I got in my car, and headed for the lady's house, not far from my home. Upon arriving, she came out of her house with that little brown dog with the black face, and too small red collar on a leash. I told her that was the one I was looking for, so she took the leash off the dog, and it sat down.

I walked to my car door, with the dog following me. He sat down until I opened the door, and stood aside, he then got in the car, went to the passenger seat, and sat facing forward. He stayed there until I got home, got out of the car, and stepped aside. Only then did he stand, walk to my door, got out, and sat, until I shut the car door. I walked to my house, with the dog walking beside me, got to my front door, where the dog, again sat down. My wife had heard me pull up in the driveway, and came to the front door, looked at me, and then looked down at the little brown dog with the black face, and the too small red collar, and her eyes got big, and glassy.
I had just watched her fall for him, and we had just been adopted by him.

Anyway, the puppy, who was about one year old at the time, eventually named Sam, became an integral part of our family, and our whole neighborhood. He was well loved by everybody that ever met him, family, friends, neighbors, and strangers all accepted Sam as their friend. For the last thirteen, or so years Sam has lived with us, loved us, been loved by us, been my friend, confidant, and protector.

I also did away with the too tight red collar, and he received a new tan one that fit him.
His black face eventually turned white with age.

Nobody, including his veterinarians, could ever tell me what breed, or combination of breeds he may be, so he just became "a brown dog" whenever anybody asked.

He has gone through good times and bad times, the losses of Sally (his sister), and our oldest son (his brother).
He has watched our younger son (his other brother) go off to war, and start a family of his own.
Sam has been by my side all this time, never wanting anything more than to be with his family. He would follow me anywhere, and wait for me to finish whatever I had to do, and want to go with me to wherever I was going next.

When I stood, he would stand. When I sat, he, too would sit.

A month and a half ago, Sam lost the use of his legs, and eventually the use of his back muscles, too. His vet said that we could try this, and that, which, of course we have. My wife and I have been carrying him outside to use the bathroom, carrying him back in, cleaning him up, and sometimes having to spoon feed him when he was unable to eat for himself.

I may be a little slow, but I've been holding out hope that Sam would get up and meet me at the door, as always, when I return home, but it just hasn't happened.
Yesterday I had to make one the hardest decisions of my life, when my wife and I took Sam for his last ride to the vet.
I took him out of my truck, laid him in the grass, and we sat talking with him until they had an open exam room inside...
Sam had a good, safe life with us. Sam went peacefully a little past six o'clock last night.
I am sad. My wife is also sad. His brother is sad, too.
Anyway, I want to thank you for not wanting that little brown dog with the black face, and the too tight red collar.
Thank you for giving me, and us the opportunity to share our lives with Sam.
Everyone Sam has met for the last thirteen years has been blessed to have met Sam, and to have been part of his life, and to have had him as a part of theirs.
Sam has been a great joy to be around. Everybody has always remarked about how polite he is (has been).
He has helped me to be the man I am today.
We have done everything possible to postpone the day that Sam would no longer be with us.
Well, now is that time, and I am struggling to adjust.
I have had people tell me to "Just get a new dog", and I will, but there will be no replacing my friend Sam.

He was ONE OF A KIND.

Give me a couple days, I'll get back to you.

"If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield."


--George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796



Now, with the above words from the Father of Our Country in mind, think about what this pimp to the left is trying to accomplish.He is all upset at AIG about paying bonuses but has he mentioned those in his administration(sic),that received bonuses from CitiGroup before they came into his pack of parasites? Nah, didn't think so even though they knew they were about to join AliBabba and his 40 thieves. He is throwing out the Constitution in an effort to have maximum control over our financial institutions(Lord knows they do need to be better controlled, but not by the government in the fashion the pimp wants), isn't that why we already have the banking oversight committee? Oh yeah, I forgot about chrissy dodd, if this bozo is re-elected I think we should consider throwing Connecticut out of the Union, along with Massachusetts if the barney is re-elected, do ya think caroline kennedy might run for fat teddies Senate seat after the murderer croaks(no, I don't like the SOB!)....talk about a travesty.

But I gotta get back to erkel the pimp, can't afford to get side tracked; this clown has done more to incapacitate the economy than anyone ever could and in less time than many thought it would take....the CBO has figures that show a major increase in our economic defecate, er deficit, the Republicans have another set of figures and the pimp his own set, incredible! I'm missing Johnny Carson from the old TV show...Who do you Trust? The Republicans spent way too much the past 8 years, but that pales in comparison with the pimp's budget in just under 70 days! I guess I'll go along with the CBO, I still remember doing fractions in school and having to choose a common denominator and of the 3, I'll go with the CBO thank you. Of the 3, none show much promise but we, as a people, can voice ourselves and be heard...enough is enough but this is way too much....stop spending and stop now. Insinuating that health care is the major driver in our economic woes is a ridiculous statement pimp, absolutely ridiculous....we spend way too much now with Medicare and Medicaid...making both available to a lot of immigrants, legal and illegal...the legals get SS and Medicare even though they didn't contribute into the Social Security Fund....can someone please, tell me why? Another of the pimp's pets is spending more on education....I have a couple points on this to address, maybe more; for one thing, the school system in place would work a lot better if their administrators had more power to enforce discipline! The kids that go to school to get a good education are cheated from it by the hooligans that disrupt classes, the ones who aren't capable of speaking english properly and insist on bi-lingual classes. Give me a break, let them learn english in remedial classes and if they end up a year or two behind their peers....so what? When I went to school, kids 'flunked' and were held back....this was not a good thing; one, you were made fun of by the other students, big deal...it made you try harder....and two; your parents would tattoo you....send you to summer school and/or ground you for the summer....but oh, now parents don't 'parent' anymore, either because of Dr. Spock or because they will be held as child abusers...one more time...give me a break! So tell me pimp, why did you end the DC scholarship program? Why don't you look into the states that adopted a lottery on the pretense of sending money to the schools? And the lottery brags about how much they've given schools, their operating budget is probably higher than that amount. I pass a lot of elementary, middle and high schools daily when I drive my son to school....all the schools are new, well maintained but all, have a sign out front urging citizens to contact legislators to help with more money....like I'd be a 'bad guy' if I didn't do it, don't try laying' a guilt trip on the Ol P5 Driver pimp, I am not buying into it.


So now I have to finish this and wait for a day or two so the pimp can go over it and then, after he's loaded his answers/explanations into his tele-prompter, he can get back to me or go back on Jay Leno and tell the Americans what the deal really is; and I haven't even called him out on hamass or iran yet....whoa Nellie!


Enjoy your tea pimp, you might want to use sweetener but stay away from the lemon, you sir, are sour enough.

Titanic and our Ship of State

"A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired."

--Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 23 February 1775

When I look out and around and see the direction our Nation is heading, I'm reminded of the Titanic....the unsinkable Titanic....that went to the bottom in just around three hours. What made the ship builders believe Titanic was unsinkable? A series of water tight doors, now you're asking what does Titanic and the USA have in common....first of all, both are and were sinkable!

Imagine if you will, the water entering Titanic as the outrageous spending, Constitutional abuses going on as the water gushing into Titanic; the water went above the water tight doors, sealing Titanic's doom in the same fashion as the pimp in Washington D.C. is doing with all the reckless spending and entitlement programs that he's farming out to lady macbeth and harry Gollum reid to draft into bills, then force votes from Congress and the Senate without even reading the damn things! Like deaf, dumb and blind lemmings, they pass these bills and the pimp signs them into law! Now, the house passes a bill demanding that bonuses(that were know about as far back as 08 November 08) be paid back and if kept, taxed at 90%. We have wolves in the henhouse...geithner lied, dodd lied, the pimp lied and we are going down like Titanic. If the 90% tax bill goes all the way to the pimp's desk for signature, we may as well just flat out burn the Constitution.....enough! I say enough, we need to rise up as a nation and demand our voices are heard....these political hacks running the show are paid a salary by us, the tax payer they work for us but aren't fulfilling their oath to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign or domestic!

I've been hearing about pitch forks, sending tea bags to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave that will ultimately be ignored by those in power, they are refusing to deliver the tea bags because they say the envelopes contain a controlled substance....buffalo chips! They are slapping us in the face and we let them; and in the midst of all the economic tribulations...the pimp sends an I'm sorry video to Iran! What a wuss...Iran then tells us in answer, that WE, have to straighten up.

; more buffalo chis...they are the ones making ready to blow Israel off the map, they are the ones sponsoring terror groups, sending arms into Iraq and Afghanistan to kill Americans...along with training more foreign fighters. Y'all remember when that jerk president of Iran led the take-over of our Embassy in Tehran? Now he has the nerve(thanks jimmy carter)to tell us what the rules are. Taking our embassy was an act of war and nothing was done but botch a mission because the Military and intelligence community had been decimated by Billy Beer's brother, jimmy.

As a country and nation we need to wake the hell up and demand our employees, work for us instead of going on Jay Leno's show and make tasteless jokes...the pimp sits and smiles....why? Because he knows, he has his and we are about to get the shaft. There are so many things to write here but it won't happen tonite; I'm so fed up with the callousness of the politicos in power that I'm unable to put all my thoughts together....like Michael Corleone in GF III, every time I start to feel better....the pimp brings it all back....why is he still in office? He's broken his oath of office, turned the economy into scrambled eggs and this jerk still smiles.....just like a pimp that does nothing, yet collects off his 'working girls'.....yeah barry, I'm talking about you!

Tale of a not so tangled web

"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions."




--James Madison, letter to Edmund Pendleton, 21 January 1792



In the situation the United States finds itself after November's election, James Madison's words are prophetic; our congress is running amok and the senate isn't too far behind. Our elected president possesses no governing experience or skills so he has basically turned the office of president over to the witch of San Fransisco, nancy 'of the jet set'(I think she resembles a jack-in-the-box more)pelosi....even dumbo joe biden was getting irritated by the way the witch kept jumping up as mr. obama gave his quasi 'state of the union' address, it seemed to me that the witch was actually applauding her own words! You see, I believe obama has never had an original thought in his life and appears to have turned over to harry 'Gollum' reid and the witch pelosi, the power to govern in his stead...think about that for a minute, in just 50 days obama has sucked us, as a nation, into a deeper recession(1997 value at 2009 prices), signed an order to close GITMO(where will all the bad guys go?), and deceived the country into thinking he's putting us on a road to recovery(stimulus bills, record setting budget proposals), all in the guise of 'change'. He did promise change campaigning and has in fact, delivered on that promise....but 'change we need', 'change we can believe in' and 'hope' are starting to unravel. Almost every economist has stated publicly that obama has done everything economically wrong but still want to and will, support him, that's the same as renouncing the Devil but welcoming him into your home and life! Anyone who dares to criticize obama or his policies gets a stabbing that would be the envy of every street gang this country has seen. Under this administration, private citizens are being targeted, this is absolutely intolerable! Freedom of speech is being squashed by intimidation tactics; xlinton's started this crap using IRS audits against those on their 'enemy list', this is America people....these rights have been bought, paid for and defended with the blood of patriotic Americans! 51% of democratz wanted G. W. Bush's policies to fail, they wanted...even stated, that the Iraq theatre of war was lost! Now we have a president taking us down the road to socialism....does anyone but me see that? We fought the Cold War from 1945 till the USSR was dismantled and beaten and then turn around and elect the same type people who we fought all those years against!

The president is a master at double talk and buffalo-chips, while the nations economy tumbles uncontrollably downward, he shifts focus on piddly things...merit pay for teachers(actually it's not based on the 'merits' of the teacher, it's based on how much education, the teacher has), embryonic stem cell research.....I gotta find out just where these stem cells come from.....which will, in my humble opinion, only lead to a way devious people can make a quick buck at the expense of an aborted human life. Our borders are as porous as cheesecloth and obama appoints as Homeland Security Secretary, a woman who hasn't done anything as the governor of her state to stem the flow of illegals; drug cartels are conducting an open war against the Mexican government and it's spilling over the border into the U.S., what exactly is being done? And this president wants to close GIMO?

We have a guy assigned the task of Secretary of the Treasury that was guilty of not paying his own taxes! Now he's coming out saying how he's going to make sure what he did will not be tolerated....it never was, has he paid the back taxes along with the penalties and accrued interest? How about charlie rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means committee....has he anted up? How about tom daschle and the rest of the cabinet crooks? Secretary of State is totally out of her level and bumbling everything she does overseas, what a travesty.

These are just some of the examples of obama's 'chickens coming home to roost', political favors owed for political donations and support for this pimp to get elected....yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus and yes America, corruption has reached the highest level in our government than ever before. Makes a person want to gag and puke.

Alan Keyes has this to say....check it out.

So America, you see the web of deceit isn't tangled at all, it's in plain view, all one has to do is open their eyes and stay informed...burying your head like an ostrich will only harm the country and you'll have your head buried forever....without your body attached.