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So enraged at the bailouts I bought myself a nifty yardsign from cafepress. I’ve had several passerby’s knock on my door and ask where I got it. Even a few cars stopped and inquired.

Last Friday night we had just crawled into bed (was a rough week), and there was a knock at the door. It was one of those "Are you kidding me?" moments. Anyhow I went to the door. As I approached it I heard my next door neighbor lady giving a scolding. Now I was curious.

I turned on the porch lights and found her surrounded by 4 teenage boys, and she was still ripping them a new one. She spotted a strange vehicle parked along the road and had observed the teens yanking and ripping my sign from the ground. She basically arrested them, and brought them to my door. Most of them had a "ruh-roh" look in their eyes. She had asked them if they knew what "restitution" meant. One of them who seemed to care less what happened to them attempted to answer.

Then it dawned on me. It was getting colder, and the leaves on my silver maples finally fell, and I have been incredibly busy with life lately. Perfect! I suggested to the young men that 1/2 hour of raking from each of them would cover the expense as well as the inconvenience. However, it was late at night. My neighbor reminded the boys that she got their license plate. I asked them to return the next day on their honor to come and rake. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had my share of mischief in my youth. So in a way I was thinking "awww you are sooo busted". Then I thought about the $30 the sign cost me, and how I don’t work for someone else to throw my work away. So then I was getting upset, especially since the sign was specifically about bailouts.

Much to my surprise 3 of the 4 showed up while I was at work. My wife handed them all rakes and away they went. I just want to say how proud I am of the young men who showed for their correction. These boys will go far in life if they continue to abide by such morals (which certainly means they don’t fit the bill for a congress person).

My wife gave them all bottled water. My toddler even went out and talked with them. One of them was aspiring to be a dentist. Funny how it struck me. At first I could care less.  After the whole thing was finished I realized it worked out exactly how it was supposed to. No bailouts for them, no grudges on both parties. Just facing the music, like men, and moving on.

As for the one that had no spine… I’m quite sure that he will someday be forced to grow one, but it’s too bad that it will probably be in a much severe way later in life. If he doesn’t learn life lessons now, he’ll end up in congress.

I’m so glad there are people like my neighbors and that there are young men like this.

Theres been a recent stink here in WI about war protestors making a stand at the funerals of soldiers. I can’t even beleive this has even come up as a topic. Of course we now have to spend our valuable time in our democratic process to sign laws against this??

IMHO this is rediculous. Those against or for the actions in Iraq have the absolute freedom to express your own opinions on this any time. Thats one of the things that makes our country great.

But lets have some taste here. At a soldiers funeral? These soldiers are only following orders. They have no choice when where or how they surrender their lives for us to have the right to give our opinions freely! I think if your going to do that, just move. If it’s so aweful for you go find yourself a communist country to live in and then see how far your protests will go.

These thoughts were inspired by a former Navy Petty Officer’s blog.

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From Reuters

Bolten said FEMA would control $10 billion of the new funds and the Pentagon would receive $500 million for evacuation efforts, National Guard deployments and other emergency relief.

I guess I’m not quite sure where/why the pentagon gets money. Does this work kind of like the community chest in Monopoly?

This is getting rediculous. On One hand FEMA is looking for more volunteers, yet they are holding back on rescue efforts.

“We have got a mayor who has been pushing and asking but we’re not getting supplies.”
He said the evacuation was almost entirely a Louisiana operation. “This is not a FEMA operation. I haven’t seen a single FEMA guy.”

I understand the dangers, but had we acted sooner with paradropping not only food, but delivering soldiers to the area, this would not be so difficult!

How about an airdrop of skids of MRE’s ??? What kind of planning would it take? 3 more days?!?! What about these people?!

We don’t absolutely need other nations’ help, but golly gee, it sure would be nice! Where are the people? Where is the Untied States of America? Why aren’t we comming to our own rescue, instead of waiting for our ‘Big-Daddy‘ government to handle things?! WE the people!