“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake…”
- Marie Beyon Ray
Archive for July, 2008
Glenn Beck ‘08 Unelectable Tour
Last night DH and I went to watch Glenn Beck’s Unelectable comedy tour live on the big screen. We participated in watching his Houston, TX show broadcast live in 350 theaters through out the US.
I absolutely loved this show, and was very impressed with it. Glenn made sure to make fun of everyone equally, and at times had me laughing so hard that my chest still hurts from all the laughter.
My top 5 favorite parts to the evening were:
5. Hoping for change.
~Glenn sitting on his stool, talked about how we as Americans can always hope for change. In an imitation of either Hero Nakamura from the TV show Heroes or a small child who is constipated, he scrunched up, straining for almost a minute. Yes everyone… lets hope for change… lets leave our future in the hands of the politicians…
4. Build a Fence
~Glenn in his campaign speech we wish all politicians would give… “I have experience building a fence…” You get this half of the audience to distract the loonies and this other half.. all of you go to Home Depot and get wood. We can have the fence built in like 20 minutes…
3. About Federal Spending
~Unlike most of our politicians Mr. Beck has experience in paying bills… He also has a wife. Just like in real life where if he overspends his wife will kick his rear… if he were president and the nation overspent, then she would kick all their rears!! He also gave an interesting fact. For every $19 the government makes, it spends $20. And we wonder why we have a deficit.
2. What is a Conservative?
~I loved this part of Glenn’s show. He had a caller ask him to define a Conservative. His response was… A Conservative is someone who believes that you can be as rich as you want… and not be punished. It is a person who also believes that you have the right to fail, and fail miserably.. and then pick yourself up and succeed without asking for help from the government when you fail. It is a person who believes the power to change things lies not in our politicians, but in the normal people who elect the officials. They believe that business is good, and taxes are bad.. There was a whole lot more to this, but this is most of what I remember. The power lies in the People, not the Politicians.
1. What we have came from God. When we forget that is when America gets knocked to the floor, but we never give up fighting… We can be knocked to the floor several times, but we will always get back up. This spoke true of what we as American citizens need to hear. That we take for granted what others die trying to get. Freedom.
Among the other things talked about were immigration (we can’t block everyone from coming in, but we can enforce the rules. We can ask… Do you have a skill, an education, the ability to contribute to America. Yes.. Welcome!)
If a bank is dumb enough to lend John Doe at the car wash with the shamie 1.7 Million to buy a house, they deserve to fail, and its not the government’s place to “save” the bank. If John Doe looses his job because he lost his shamie, and was caught using his old used underwear to dry the cars off, he has a right to request unemployment, but if hes not taken advantage of the freebies we have provided such as a free education, then we should have the right to tell him.. Sorry, but no more freebies. Use what you have first… If you’ve used it, then by all means we can help you get back on your feet, but if being the shamie guy at the car wash is all you can really do because you didn’t take advantage and get an education, why should we pay for it because you lost your shamie?
Glenn gave probably one of the best quotes I’ve ever heard in my life… “Our power as a nation comes from ‘We the People,’ and truly it doesn’t even really come from there. Power comes from up there, from God, and it is then channeled into us. As long as we follow that path: From there (above), to here (ourselves), to here (the expression of our ideas) we will never go wrong.”
Even as young as I am, I still find it refreshing to have someone who so openly speaks his mind, and says the things that we all want to say.
Today’s Quote
Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow that great teacher.
Eleonora Duse
Today’s Quote
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer
Today’s Quote
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Earl Nightingale
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Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
Robert Browning
Quotes of the Week
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
— Brian Tracy
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”
— Louis L’Amour
“Don’t worry about whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one. We have yet to write the book.”
— Lois Wyse
“The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve….The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
— Albert Schweitzer
Today’s Quote
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
W.Clement Stone
5 Things not to do in the Morning
Last night I headed to bed with a migraine that I would put at a 12 on a scale of 1 – 10. 1 being the worst headache most people have experienced multiplied by 5, and 10 being well say that same really bad headache times 30… Not my worst by far but still pretty bad.
I took a lortab as I was heading to bed, and it took probably a good 30 to 45 minutes for it to kick in and for me to actually be able to fall asleep.
I came up with a list of things not to try the morning after taking this very strong pain killer… or at least not to attempt until you fully wake up…
- Don’t try to restart your computer with the ipod plugged in. I had to go wake DH up to realize my ipod was plugged in and that my computer was trying to boot windows from my Ipod… Awake I would have realized this right off…
- Don’t try to log into any website that requires a password… I kept typing my passwords in all caps this morning…
- Do not decide to pick up your 80 gig ipod which you can not hold onto yet, and drop it on a mirror…
- Do not decide to braid your hair…
- Do not try to pay your bills.
Anyways I am finally awake and able to all of these things I was attempting to do this morning without ruining stuff.
Hope everyone has a safe and wonderful day.
Wall-e
Went to watch Wall-e with DH today. It was a really cute movie, once you got past the you need to take care of the earth, or we will all live in space be fat, and Earth will have piles of trash higher than the buildings in New York City ‘Humans are evil” theme behind the movie.
Wall-e is your typical trouble maker, who is one of the robots cleaning up after humans left earth. One of my favorite scenes with Wall-e is when he found a Diamond ring in a box, and tosses the Diamond Ring away, to keep its box.
Eve is a probe that seeks for organic material on earth.
Wall-e meets Eve and falls in love with her. I thought the relationship between Eve and Wall-e was very cute, and cried when Wall-e got crushed.. but Eve fixed Wall-e and like every good Disney film should end… this one did have a happy ending.
I give the movie one thumb up. Definitely would recommend either renting this movie or seeing it in the dollar theater.
