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		<title>8/28 shows off America&#8217;s true colors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sandhillsis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  (Thanks to BlogHer Pic App for this photo) The 8/28 Restoring Honor rally brought well over 300,000 people from around the world to Washington D. C. to well&#8211;restore honor. (Some people are puzzled by all of this and have mistakenly call it a political rally. It&#8217;s been a long time&#8211;maybe never since honor was synonymous with [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://view.picapp.com/pictures.photo/news/glenn-beck-hosts/image/9621936?term=restoring+honor" target="_blank"><img title="Glenn Beck Hosts Controversial Restoring Honor Rally At Lincoln Memorial" onmousedown="return false;" src="http://view.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9621936/glenn-beck-hosts/glenn-beck-hosts.jpg?size=380&amp;imageId=9621936" border="0" alt="WASHINGTON - AUGUST 28: Thousands of people fill the National Mall from the Lincoln Memorial to the World War II Memorial during the " width="380" height="257" /></a><script src="http://view.picapp.com//JavaScripts/OTIjs.js" type="'text/javascript'"></script> </p>
<p>(Thanks to BlogHer Pic App for this photo)</p>
<p>The 8/28 Restoring Honor rally brought well over 300,000 people from around the world to Washington D. C. to well&#8211;restore honor. (Some people are puzzled by all of this and have mistakenly call it a political rally. It&#8217;s been a long time&#8211;maybe never since honor was synonymous with politicians. I think our founding fathers were true leaders, andwould have been highly offended to be called politicians.)  The rally focused on faith, hope and charity encouraging people to become their best self. The idea being the person who are their best self&#8211;can govern themselves just as the founding fathers had hoped.</p>
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<p>The above picture was not taken from another website, it was sent to me by my friend, Marlin. Marlin had made the hard choice to give up his tickets to the 8/28&#8211; restoring honor rally on The Mall in Washington, D.C., to the guy who took his family and took this picture. The man who took this picture got to The Mall early on the morning of the rally&#8211; 7:30 a.m. and this was as close as he could get to the stage. This was as close as he could get because there were too many &#8216;God fearin&#8217; neighborly folks&#8217; in the way.  A great day for America.</p>
<p> <a href="http://view.picapp.com/pictures.photo/news/glenn-beck-hosts/image/9621790?term=restoring+honor" target="_blank"><img title="Glenn Beck Hosts Controversial Restoring Honor Rally At Lincoln Memorial" onmousedown="return false;" src="http://view2.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9621790/glenn-beck-hosts/glenn-beck-hosts.jpg?size=380&amp;imageId=9621790" border="0" alt="WASHINGTON - AUGUST 28: Thousands of people fill the National Mall along the Reflecting Pool from the Lincoln Memorial to the World War II Memorial during the " width="380" height="253" /></a></p>
<p>(another thanks to BlogHer Pic App for this photo)</p>
<p>More of this is just what Washington needs&#8211;a bunch of God fearin&#8217; neighborly folks in the way. Wouldn&#8217;t it be cool if there were so many God fearin&#8217; neighborly folks in Washington that the politicians would be voted out and leave the running of the this country to God fearing neighborly folks. Just so we&#8217;re clear, the United States Constitution calls God fearin&#8217; neighborly folks&#8211; We the people. To be even more clear &#8230; that is us&#8211;me and you.</p>
<p>We are in an age in America where we are losing freedoms daily to power-hungry politicians who thinking we are too dumb to govern ourselves. I think this rally is evidence that there are plenty of great, God fearin&#8217; neighborly folk in America who love their country and aren&#8217;t ready for a handful of pompous, power-grabbing politicians to take our freedoms. Take heart and know, Neighbors, we&#8217;ve got them surrounded and ONE person can make a difference&#8211;your vote counts. Keep up the great work, America.</p>
<p>Simply,</p>
<p><strong>Sis</strong></p>
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		<title>Sometimes You Just Gotta Get Your Hands Dirty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sandhillsis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  (Thanks to BlogHer Pic App for the photo.) I had an interesting conversation with a beautiful and creative young lady the other day. She had grown up in this area, in a rural community, with good family values and a strong work ethic. After attending an artsy design college she landed a job in New York City on [...]]]></description>
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<p>I had an interesting conversation with a beautiful and creative young lady the other day. She had grown up in this area, in a rural community, with good family values and a strong work ethic. After attending an artsy design college she landed a job in New York City on Fifth Avenue designing store fronts, a job she enjoyed for three or four years before moving back to the Midwest. Her part of the design process was taking an idea from sketch to reality.</p>
<p>I had to <a href="http://reclaimsimplicity.com/2009/03/how-to-put-fun-in-funerals/" target="_blank">giggle at this</a> and ask, &#8220;Did you ever have to change the plan to fit reality?&#8221;</p>
<p>She admitted, the plans changed daily, from paper to store front and said, &#8220;I would look at the plans, and then say to the designer. &#8216;Alright, now this is how it&#8217;s gonna go down.&#8217; &#8221;</p>
<p>It reminded me of when <a href="http://reclaimsimplicity.com/2009/09/the-day-my-world-fell-apart/" target="_blank">my brother</a> was alive and building grain handling systems. He used to talk of educated idiots with grand schemes and ideas who didn&#8217;t know anything of the real world. They were shiny, though, when it came to engineering degrees and pomp and circumstance. He recalled a story of one day when he told the engineers &#8216;how it was gonna go down&#8217; and they were standing around scratching their heads, pounding on their calculators and finally admitting, &#8220;It just can&#8217;t be done.&#8221;</p>
<p>To which my brother retorted, &#8220;Put your calculators away, Boys. Sometimes you just gotta get your hands dirty.&#8221;</p>
<p>To say the least, he wasn&#8217;t very popular with the suited engineers, especially after he built it the way he designed it to make it function better in the real world.</p>
<p>I said all that to say this. It reminds me of our President, his czars, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and others. It&#8217;s not necessarily just Democrats, there are plenty Republican idiots too. Many have degrees and accolades that take up walls and walls but lack common sense. They spend hours in their offices, pounding on computers, building their perfect world but know nothing of the real world. They look good, smell good, can rally crowds, and have no dirt under their fingernails.</p>
<p>Maybe that&#8217;s the problem, no dirt under their fingernails. Somewhere along the way we&#8217;ve traded the value of a good work ethic and common sense, for degrees and initials after our name. And even worse, rewarded laziness with free food and health care. Is that what America is about? I don&#8217;t think so. America was built by hard working forward thinkers, some highly educated, some not. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, there is much importance in education. When combined with hard work and real world experience, it&#8217;s unstoppable.</p>
<p>Some of the finest folks in America got their start by scooping poop to dig the foundation for a great thing. It&#8217;s those folks that can tell you want your building your plans on&#8230;sand or rock. Yes, they have dirt under their fingernails and smell funny when they get home with their meager paycheck. But, they shouldn&#8217;t be discounted. They have pride and knowledge, pay taxes and vote. They are We the People. I am one of them. We are the ones that have great real world ideas. We go on to build small business, employ other good people and make this country America.</p>
<p>Mr. President, Congress, House of Representatives, Governors:  Instead of surrounding yourself with more Ivy League educated idiots with crazy ideas. Take off your smoking jackets, put your peace pipes and brandy down, quit talking philosiphy and get out in the real world. Embrace the working and tax paying American people by LISTENING. Now is the time to <a href="http://reclaimsimplicity.com/2009/07/make-hay-while-the-sun-shines/" target="_blank">make hay while the sun shines</a>. If you want to build something functional, sometimes you just gotta get your hands dirty.</p>
<p>Simply,</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Sis</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">PS ~ If you agree with this, you are not alone. Join others like us by joining your local<a href="http://www.the912project.com/" target="_blank"> 9/12 project</a>, read the book<em> Arguing With Idiots</em>, and <em>Common Sense</em>.</span></p>
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		<title>I Smell A RATT</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sandhillsis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got this email this week, entitled, &#8220;Born Again American&#8221;, with a link that took me to a website with this video. Have you seen it?   The song is played and sung by many different and talented people across America. It seems very &#8216;founding fathers&#8217; patriotic&#8230; Keep listening. It goes from a patriotic &#8230;&#8217;my country tis of thee&#8230;&#8217;  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I got this email this week, entitled, &#8220;Born Again American&#8221;, with a link that took me to a website with this video. Have you seen it?</p>
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<p>The song is played and sung by many different and talented people across America. It seems very &#8216;founding fathers&#8217; patriotic&#8230;</p>
<p>Keep listening.</p>
<p>It goes from a patriotic &#8230;&#8217;my country tis of thee&#8230;&#8217;  to this CAT smelling a RATT. </p>
<p>I just got one of those gut feelings that whispered <em>something&#8217;s not right.</em> (The same gut feeling I should have listened to before I went <a href="http://reclaimsimplicity.com/?p=263" target="_blank">flying</a> the other day.) Anyway&#8230;</p>
<p>The more I listened, the more I thought, I bet whoever is behind this is a flaming liberal. A liberal who supports the BIG spending, even BIGGER government, and probably even loves the socialist living in MY White House.</p>
<p>Turns out, I wasn&#8217;t far off. This is another Kum-by-ya moment, brought to you by Norman Lear, a very liberal democrat, who has given thousands to support Obama and friends. Lovely!</p>
<p>Norman Lear and friends, want to get some far right conservative support by doing a bait and switch, cloak and dagger move. They do this by, taking something good, like I don&#8217;t know, maybe<strong> the truth </strong>and twist it. Twisting ever so slightly, then run it through the <em>&#8216;make it look more like a conservative and Christian machine&#8221;</em> and this song/movement is what you get on the other side.  I&#8217;m telling you be wary, my friends, be very very wary.</p>
<p>Before you sign up to support this, without knowing who is behind the scenes, do some homework. It really only takes a few seconds on Google to uncover this is nothing more than a big fat WOLF in sheep&#8217;s clothing.</p>
<p>If you watched this video and wanted to support this idea, and are now crying because there must be no like-minded people out there. Hold on. There is hope<strong>, Patriot!</strong></p>
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<p>Wanna learn more? Check out Glenn Beck&#8217;s 9-12 Project <a href="http://912projecttest.com/">http://912projecttest.com/</a>. This isn&#8217;t the liberal left. It&#8217;s true Americans: democrats, republicans, independents and otherwise, coming together on what America, We the people, really stands for. FREEDOM!</p>
<p>Now that, is worth committing to.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget we have a <a href="http://reclaimsimplicity.com/?p=478" target="_self">date</a> on April 1st.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s Unite!</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Sandhill</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">Sis, <span style="color: #ff0000;">Patriot</span></span></p>
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