Hello,

First off, let me say that I wouldn't trade Jasper's years with us for anything.

We had a JR for over 15 years and have to say that I've managed through the many warnings and concerns about owning one.

I have not taken him in for training but have done my own, I am the master and he lets me

We have had several small pets i.e. turtles (one died the second time in mouth of Jasper). The child dropped the turtle while sitting and doing home work. Jasper was at his feet apparently waiting? My daughter has had many dwarf hamsters, she dropped one but it was rescued and survived the mouth of Jasper, no casualties.

We also had a rabbit for over nine years. This rabbit (named Nibbles) actually was allowed into our house to visit us and Jasper twice every day. Both the rabbit and Jasper are free as birds in the kitchen. Both the dog and the rabbit got along. They even had eaten or drank from Jasper's dish together. But, if you look real close at Jasper's eyes they wonder a bit and appear tempted by the rabbit to play mostly but that is not allowed much either.

My kids were 2, 5 and 8 years old when we purchased him as a pup. The kids were taught to respect Jasper and how to treat other dogs. He was good with them, didn't have much problem. The only real problem I have with him is in the car or van, he would attack the doors when ever they were being closed. Wanted to get rid of that bad trait but never pursued it. One family member would distract him while another would closed the door.

Jasper was pretty good with kids, he once took the cracker from my little four year old girl who then turned and with both hands opened his jaws and took it back from him. He lost. He also had been bitten (not real hard) on the nose by my other 3 year old girl, I guess he learned from her too. I was watching around a corner as she put her nose up to his and then, well, showed him who was boss. She use to play tug of war laying on her back and a towel in the dogs mouth. He would drag her across the floor giggling all the way.

Just about everyone says you need a fence if you have a Jack Russell. I've never had a fenced in yard at Jasper's two homes. At the new house it took a little while for him to learn the yard. So, I would walk him about the edges and speak "home" while squeezing the collar as he was allowed to drift cross the line. He has learned the yard rules and he is watched for "any" desire of bolting. I see his brain ticking and firmly say "home" when he gets that "far away look" or is running after one of those nasty teasing squirrels or a wild rabbit. He has been able to terminated his bolt when I yell home. Any chipmunks that run into our rain gutters usually don't have a chance, neither do our gutters. He is a bigger JR weighing in at 20 to 22 lbs.

I've taken him hunting in woods, trails and my basement. He's great at reminding me of the mouse in the trap or getting those mice which had dragged the trap into hiding. He has claimed the lives of a few ground hogs, raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks and mice. He chased a cat across the yard once and the cat stopped and turned to face him, I yelled "leave it" and he let it go. He has such great restraint don't you think?

Many also say that you may need an electric collar/fence. I substituted a weak bb gun for an electric fence (the fence isn't worth the money). For example of how weak a gun, you can see the bb arch its way across the yard tagging him in the butt. He comes at that very moment. When he begins to wonder to the edges of the property, I've only to speak "Home" or shake the bbs in the barrel and he understands. When he's hungry the word "supper time" in a higher voice works too. I think a quick sting to the butt is much better than a jolt of amps to the neck. He is very intelligent and even knows how to position a tree between us to avoid being a target sometimes. Very funny.

At first, I would allow him to sit on the couch or bed the first couple years, but that changed after a while because he started to not wanting to "off" when we would sit down. Authority was reestablished and he learned his place again, no more furniture access.

Currently, because he's getting old and maybe a bit soar, he's been unable to get down the stairs and needs a lift from the family. Just recently going up the stairs is becoming problem also.   He's always been a hunter first and when I release him out the door to keep the squirrels at bay he still makes his run about the yard and then circles the air conditioner for that squeaking chipmunk hiding underneath. A thin pole swept under the air conditioner starts a race to the wood pile, too funny. His legs are just too short to catch anything, usually the quarry has to make a serious mistake to loose its life.  .....  Couple years later (2012) now at age 16 almost he's now unable to handle the stairs or even getting out and back into the house. (edited 4/23/2012) We've taken Jasper into the vet to have him put to sleep. Tis a sad day filled with many memories.

Raccoons were another story, he was protecting the kids one night as they slept out in the back yard. While they were sleeping, he was apparently just watching out through the screen of the tent when he bolted through the same screen door and nailed a raccoon. My daughter came up to my bed at 2:00am and said, "Dad, Jasper has a raccoon in his mouth and won't let it go".  Then, another time, he took care of three raccoons that climbed under our deck. I opened the patio door to let Jasper out and told Anna to listen to what happens. There was a brawl for few seconds when one raccoon left the deck climbed the tree and escaped over the roof to the front yard, another one ran for the backwoods and the third never did made it out. Jasper sat at the end of the deck satisfied but no raccoon near him. I looked and saw it under the deck and told him to go get it for me which he did and laid it before me.

One time, I had let the dog out for his late night duty just before bed. I opened the doors he went out and I closed them to sit down. Then, seconds later I got the scent of a skunk and said, "I better get the dog in here before he finds that skunk".  I opened the door and called him in and he came, I was happy. Happy until I realized after he leaped and walked inside to the family room that the skunk smell had become mighty strong!  He was rubbing his neck on the carpet in the family room when I caught up to him.   I picked him up by the short tail and his collar. Took him out to the shed and had to spend the next couple hours cleaning him up. Meanwhile the wife called a friend to borrow their ozone air cleaner for the house. Used a recipe from the web for skunk odor and tried tomatoes also. We didn't sleep well that night nor for a couple nights later. The dog slept out in the shed for the week. The odor was removed from the carpet and the dog recovered from getting THREE skunk shots.  One to the front and two on the side. He lost that war, he was too close to get sprayed in the face apparently. This experience was not the last time for Jasper and the skunks.  My wife says three, I thought "only" twice. Great dog though.

I made one even bigger mistake. Once I let him follow the kids in some remote woods here in Wisconsin. I was with friends on another path and didn't think, and what happened was he got the scent of a porcupine during our hike at Saddle Point. Yes, he nailed it. Anna came running and said Jasper had something and wouldn't let it go. I ran to check it out and what he had were quills in his mouth and was trying to get them out with his paws, giving the appearance of "having something". I just about decided to put him down right then and there.  He was so struggling about.  I tried tugging on a quill or two but they were not coming out at all and he didn't like it either.  I carried him out of the woods and thankfully phoned and found a place to take him on a Saturday in Wisconsin Rapids, 80 miles away. While I sat with him in the car I had him settled down but there was this fly in the car buzzing around, yes, Jasper was watching it. His head was still but his eyes followed it around until it landed on my lap and at which time he quickly tried to catch it too!  This of course caused him to remember the numerous quills in and about his mouth. Finally, after an interesting and stressful jaunt across Wisconsin we arrived at the vet. She was nice enough to come though the clinic was closed. She, put him to sleep in my arms and then took him into the back room. Half hour and twenty six quills later he was back in my arms groggy and wobbly. Let me tell you the doc did a good job but I removed at least six more quills over the next month and a half. These quills were lodged deep. A couple I found over a week and dug out of the thick furred neck, he wasn't happy about me doing that either. Then as the weeks have gone by, get this, I pulled four more quills after they drifted through his muzzle (to the top). Yes, as what appeared to be an extra black whisker poking through his top muzzle I would pull it the rest of the way through! One quill worked it's way through just under the eye where you would sometimes get a sty, just on the lower lid. It showed up and I looked close and couldn't believe it.  The sharp tip of a quill was sticking out and eighth of an inch, I waited a couple days for it to show up a bit more and pulled it out. He didn't mind it and was quite happy. It was like he was looking through bars and getting out of jail was a good thing. That was the last of the quills.

He does know where there's a badger home and I'm keeping him away from that one.

One thing quite interesting is how you may tell your kids to go to bed and sometimes they grumble a little bit. Well, Jasper was the same way, I use to tell him to "get to bed" and he slowly walks away growling, and goes up the stairs then stops. When you say "get to bed" again, he barks and growls finishing his trip to one of the bedrooms upstairs. When I wake up he's there ready for a new day.

Being aware of the issues for the Jack Russell breed, I've been able to make the best of them. I guess because I became aware of them we just worked them out another way.

Jack Russells are a great dog, and to be aware of their intelligence and aggressiveness leads to the ability to deal with them.

I didn't need a fence, worked out the issue of other small pets, and he was great with the kids. Very social dog. Not social with other dogs. More stories there of course.

A picture is attached with Jasper sitting next to me on an old log chair monitoring the yard. File name is "luckydog".

Have a blessed day with a JR,

Todd H.

P.S. There ain't a "squeaking" dog toy that will last an hour with a JR.

Great Britain creates a list of people banned from coming into their country. One listed is a radio talk show celebrity, Michael Savage. He is joined on the list of murderers and terrorists. His so called crime is expressing his ideas on the air. I've witnessed him to be an advocate for freedom.

Next, we have the United States revoking visas for some Honduras officials. Their names are Tomás Arita, a Supreme Court justice who signed the detention order that led to Mr. Zelaya’s removal by the military, and José Alfredo Saavedra, president of Congress. There is afoot a desire to squelch the love of freedom in individuals who truly desire to act on their beliefs. Others may just agree or follow along and if the governments target individuals who truly understand and are willing to act on their beliefs we have a major problem. Past governments noted for standing for liberty and justice are now displaying a liking of unscrupulous governments and groups and denying individuals their rights to freedom.

The next example of displaying of their love live in Honduras. Here we have a small and poor nation being oppressed for the action they took against a wanna-be dictator supported by Chevaz in Venezuela. The people involved in Zelaya's deportation were the unanimous vote in the Supreme court, congress and the people of Honduras. Yet Zelaya came crying to the United States because of our socialist values President Obama, oh how our tables have turned. Zelaya has turned in a list of names for Pres. Obama to take political aim against. These people stood against the tyranny of government officials, i.e. their president, desiring to unconstitutionally take control of a free people in Honduras and lead their country to a dictatorship.

The final example I chose are the two representatives from congress who actually went to Honduras and visited the issues in person. They have a report back to Washington scolding our position of supporting Zelaya. The people of Honduras are shocked by the U.S. supporting of Zelaya. I also just recently read and want to include my support of Senator DeMint who also supports freedom by actually doing something which is a dangerous thing to do now days.

I'm thinking that Obama wants to teach the people of Honduras a lesson for their stance against tyranny in the 80's and now. Pray that Obama would be so humble as to turn his favor towards freedom and against Zelaya. We as a nation seem to be able to claim liberty but do we really promote it in other nations? Only by our examples and respect for independence and national Sovereignty will we truly support freedom for other nations.

Just think, while we were celebrating Independence Day, we as a nation were oppressing Hondurans, and continue to do so. So who is loving freedom more? You decide and take action.

Have a blessed day.

Not qualified for the seat she holds even NOW. She should be removed from the court, not elevated to our highest court in the land.

First off, Pres. Obama made a promise to Planned Parenthood that he would appoint justices who have "the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a teen age mom; the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old." This is a key statement for us to understand, for it denies the blind or unbiased application of justice.

Days after the anouncement, indicating that it was pretty well known already, Sotomayor's own words revealled a bias in her heart. You know the infamous quote by now. It was not just a rare "bad choice" of words or as Pres. Obmama said, "I’m sure she would have restated it".  Nope, it was repeatedly stated over and over by her. This reveals a judicial temperment that we do not need on any of our courts and questions anyones ability to judge impartially. Sotomayor's temperment has also been described by others as being "a terror on the bench," "overly aggressive-not very judicial," "behaves in an out of control manner...makes inappropriate outbursts," just to name a few.

God commands us to find wise men, with understanding and appoint them judges. They are to judge righteously without respect of persons character, status or race. Hearing the great with the small and without fear of any man (Deut 1:16-17). They are to do NO wrong in their judgements, respecting not the poor nor the person of the mighty. (Lev. 19:15)

The judges are to take two oaths of office:

First, he must swear or affirm that “I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me … under the Constitution and the laws of the United States. So help me God.”

Second he must swear or affirm that “I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

A judge is to be wise and understanding. Sotomayor states there is no universal wisdom. This is contrary to human nature. Universally there is common logic and a common law that appeals to all people, it is written in our hearts. God states it in Proverbs 1:20-23. This wisdom comes after one fears God and seeks wisdom through obediance to His word. But, if you reject God and His word, or despise wisdom and instruction, then one becomes a fool, (Prov 1:7). Summarizing this in Prov 16:33, "The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom, and before honor is humility."

Sotomayor doesn't think that the poor or the minorities can get justice unless they are represented by judges who have "experienced" these things. So, you have to have experienced being poor and if your not black you can not judge a black person's plea before the court. This is racist and is contrary to universal wisdom. People came from all around to have Moses judge their cases. They came there because of his Godly "wisdom" not because of his "opinion". He judged impartially, he didn't decide based on experience. If it were simply opinion well then they would simply go to someone else and get another opinion until they got what "they" thought would be in their opinion justice. Moses spent his first 40 years with a silver spoon in his mouth and would not qualify as a justice in Sotomayor's mind.

Sotomayor decisions would differ depending upon sex, race, etc. In the Senate hearings she says one thing to get votes. Here is what she really believes, quoting her, “Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences … our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.” If this is true, that the experiences are "important" to qualify a judge, then lets get to the details of Sotomayor. This is so important as to why a judge has to be impartial and Sotomayor is NOT.

Here is a great point....

"If so, then why should we believe Judge Sotomayor when she tells us that her “gender” and her “Latina heritage” are the two most prominent determinants that shape her judicial opinions. She is not just a woman, but she is a divorcee and childless. And she is not just a self-described “Latina,” but she is a “Newyorkrican,” that is a “born and bred New Yorker of Puerto-Rican born parents who came to the states during World War II.” And she is a diabetic, and has been since childhood, and was raised by a single mother and whose father died when she was young. If law is nothing more than a judge’s life’s experiences, then shouldn’t Judge Sotomayor open the entire book of her life, including her failed marriage, to Senate scrutiny? How else would a Senator know how to vote on her confirmation?"  -  Herb Titus

Sotomayor does not measure up to be a judge when we use God's word to help us to decide. Herb Titus lays all of the following out where Sotomayor FAILS to qualify to be able to judge righteously in our great land.

Sotomayor wrongfully believes:

    “There can never be a universal definition of wise … I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

Sotomayor wrongfully believes:

    ”’[T]o judge is an exercise of power’ and because there is no objective stance, but only a series of perspectives—no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging. I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions.”

Sotomayor wrongfully believes:

    “Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences … our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.”

Sotomayor wrongfully believes:

    “The aspiration to impartiality is just that—it’s an aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others.”

Sotomayor wrongfully believes:

    “We … must continue … to figure out how we go about creating the opportunity for there to be more women and people of color on the bench so we can finally have a statistically significant numbers to measure the difference we will and are making.”

In contrast to Sotomayor's embarassing and infamous quote. Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor who often said that she did not view herself as a female jurist. Instead, she said that a wise old man and a wise old woman would reach the same result as judges.

Sotomayor should not be elevated to this lands highest court.

This has been a summary of Herb Titus's article: Dr. Herb Titus On Sonia Sotomayor: Measured By The Word Of God And Found Wanting by Herbert W. Titus, J.D.

God Bless

Hello,

I've been deeply concerned over quite a bit of issues and just can't find a lot of time to address them.  The reason being is this, that I work and can't be an advocate for my ideas as much as the liberal lefties seem to find available for theirs'.

I read that the health bill may be stalling and that is a good thing. Praise God that that would be true! Please, let us "abort" the whole health bill because it appears that payments for abortion were going to be coming from "We the people". How terrible of an idea that would be when our Constitution states that everyone has a right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". Hey pro-aborts, take notice of the word "life", lets make sure that the kids get a piece of the freedom pie too. If a governing body will not support life, how can it be trusted to protect my liberty? The kids are specifically mentioned in our Constitution as well, it specifically states as follows, "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

We seem to be ignoring the Constitution, for indeed government run health care or insurance is unconstitutional.

Jumping to Honduras, ex-President Zelaya has been forcing the issue in the Honduras talks. So has the EU by withholding their financial aid to Honduras. Shame on them and shame on the U.S. President Obama.  I find it interesting that the people and officials have recognized a dictator and ousted him from office before he could manage to take their county and citizens down the road to serfdom. Whoa is us in the United States, Honduras officials took their President out of the office by constitutional means and sent him packing, or may not packing, but sent him to Costa Rica so that his thug friends won't try to cause trouble in the local jails. So, my question is why can't we do that with our dictator Obama? We should wield the Constitutional powers and oust him from the presidential office and then just follow through and give him a ticket to Venezuela. We have a socialist President here in power wielding support for people such as Chavez, Castro, Muslims in foreign countries and even racist professors in Harvard without hearing the whole story. Sounds just like his quick unreasoned conclusion made about Honduras. It doesn't appear to matter what the problem was he quickly sought to support his cronies, i.e. Zelaya and now Gates.  Go here and read the police report of the fine Havard professor.

Pres. Obama strongly desires to take away our freedoms, not for the sake of making life better here but rather for a much bigger cause and that is to destroy a freedom loving people and their country/government.

To the Supreme Court, the appointee of Obama's for Supreme Court should not only be prevented from being elevated to the highest court of the land but she should instead be ousted from where she is currently sitting as a judge. Of course the Republican political school of jelly fish have few if any backbones to make a worthy stand against her (DeMint is great). Go here and check out this article, I'll try and post a summary later. It is a great article and research of how a person should view the office of a judge, and how someone could actually be disqualified as Judge Sotomayor should be.

And lastly have you checked out the U.N. treaty on the rights of a child. Here's a cause for alarm, it states something similar to the following statement, every child has the right to live in a home that doesn't have a gun. Now tell me what stupid Norwegian leftist socialist added that to the treaty anyway? I had to pick on the Norwegians because they were the bright ones who gave Al Gore that Nobel Peace prize a while back. So, that was just a sample of what that treaty has in store for all American families, with children or without.

Have a blessed day,

Todd

You know that the heart is evil and deceptive...who can know it? Our own hearts deceive us into believing or understand things wrongfully. It is why we need the objective standard set forth in the God's word.

Government is an awesome power and we have those in power such as Chavez, Obama, and now Zelaya in Honduras who conspire to overthrow a government. It is not a small thing what Zelaya was doing in attempting to override the constitution. In any case he was seeking to destroy representative government in Honduras by what he was conniving.

"Zelaya took an oath. In that oath he swore to the following:

    * “to be faithful to the Republic”
    * “to obey the Constitution”
    * “to make others obey the Constitution”

So guess who doesn’t like the Republic, the Constitution, or making others obey the Constitution? President Jose Zelaya, that’s who." - The Lesser Magistrate Today

Ah yes, but we have the rules set forth in the constitution which Zelaya was to abide by, and so is Obama. He decided to provoke the issue of limited terms by having a referendum which would stir the pot of conversation and peace. Sometimes there are no documents of laws which can not conceive of everything a man's heart could come up with in overthrowing standards of a society. Only men of a good heart and character will abide to an oath and a constitution. I don't put Obama in this category either. When the laws get into a bind, ignored, stepped upon and righteousness seems to not have a chance we then usher in the lesser magistrate who says, "I cannot abide by the tyrants rule and must revolt against it. If I abide by the tyrants edict, I will also be in the wrong for obeying him. I am the last hope in protecting the people from this power seeker.

There are a few articles out on this very deeply rooted Christian doctrine which our founding fathers recognized as an important restraint upon an evil government which has broken its constitutional shackles. It was in our Declaration of Independence.

Check out these two articles out about the action called the revolt of the lesser magistrate.

Early Christian America

Truth about the Honduras Conflict

Please understand that lesser magitrates in Honduras threw out a tyrant to protect its people and our Obama is seeking means to get Zelaya back into power. Hmmmm, so is Chavez, and R. Castro. The Three Amigos, are they really enemies of socialism? I believe none of them are and thus are enemies of the American way of life.

May God bless the brave actions of these lesser magistrates of Honduras.  It is because of them that the people can say bye bye to a tyrant who almost was, Zelaya.

Maybe even our lesser magistrates here in the U.S. Congress could use the restraints of the Constitution to keep socialists such as Obama in shackles.

Don't be afraid of being that lesser magistrate that finally takes a stand. Remember though, it is not to be taken lightly going against a higher authority, your cause had better be noble as it was in Honduras on June 28th of 2009.

Have a blessed day

Todd H.

Honduras constitution states that supplanting of popular sovereignty and the usurping of power as "crimes of treason against the fatherland."

So when the president Zalaya is ousted for violating this part of the constitution what part of this descision doesn't our President Obama understand?

The people of Honduras has ousted a man with treason in his heart, good for them!

President Obama has decided that re-instating this socialist buddy into Honduras is a good thing. He's dead wrong and is now causing violence in Honduras with death occurring at the airport which will spill into the streets. Obama obviously desires to cause a major military crisis in Honduras. Create a crisis and mandate a takeover to gain control, that is Obama's way.

Military at the capital of Honduras airport refused the landing of "Venesuela President Chavez's" airplane, which carried the ousted president Zelaya from Washington. So what were the expectations, a red carpet? Violence obviously. Obama is not for peace, he is for tyranny via chaos.

These actions are provocations against the sovereign government of Honduras. Obama states that he is a Christian yet these are not Christian like responses.

It is written, 1 Peter 3:10 "He who would love life and see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit."

Shame on Obama AND those who support him without calling him to task!!

Psalm 2:1 "Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves,....against the Lord"

James 3:5 states that a tongue can burn down great forests, and with his Obama is seeking to burn down the government of Honduras.

"We the People" need to wake up!!

Trusting in Him,

Todd

Here we have Honduras ex-President Zelaya wanting to capture more power and for a longer period of time than what the Constitution of Honduras has allowed in "their" constitution since 1982. This is the constitution which "President Zelaya" has promised to uphold and protect. This desire to override the constitution is the same thing Zelaya's "buddy" Chavez has done to become the current dictator of Venezuela. Hmm, maybe the people of Honduras have better vision and discernment than the people of Venezuela?

After taking many hits on credibility, support abandoning, fellow government office holders saying don't do it Zelaya still decided to make a switch on the referendum question violating Honduras's constitution. At which time the supreme court of that country deemed ex-President Zelaya to be in the wrong and taken to task by mandating an exile of the president for violating their law.  If he returns to Honduras they said that he will be put in jail! Hallelujah! I never thought that there were any people left in this world who would actually hold someone in office accountable for their actions against a constitution. Let us not leave out the drug trafficking being allowed through Honduras by Zelaya, yes we know about it and this is probably another reason the U.S. officials desire the get Zelaya back in office. I say keep him out!!

If only our government officials would hold our President Obama and others accountable to the U.S. Constitution as the people of Honduras has done. Take note that Obama has decided to say Honduras ousting of the president was illegal. According to who's laws Mr. Obama! Maybe President Obama doesn't want any of us to get any ideas that the constitution could actually be held "against" Obama's actions which he and his minions have been doing.

Yes, please congress or the supreme court take the responsibility and exercise your constitutional duty of checks and balances of keeping each other in line with the Law of the Land....our Constitution. Honduras did it and so should we.

Did anyone notice the true color of red being revealed by President Obama siding with Chavez and Castro over this Honduras exercise of self preservation from socialism and communism? I did, wake up people!!

As we seek to celebrate our independence this July 4th, where are we showing this great respect of other nations independence and sovereignty? With a disregard to freedom and independence Obama and the UN have decided to force the issue and get Zelaya back in power against the will of that nations people and government. Why? It's because they do not desire freedom for the people and will govern accordingly.

Oh, and our sympathy goes out to the people of Minnesota for electing a joker to the Senate, Al Franken. Whoa to the rest of us.

Have a blessed day,

Todd

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

I've been wondering how far we have gone down that rode to serfdom and have forgotten our principles and standards. There is a correct name for the document from which this quote was taken. What is it? For those who voted for POTUS Obama or McCain, I'm thinking you don't want to even venture a guess.

Have a blessed day.

Taken from the Scriptures, I Samuel 8:1-22.

"1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. 2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba. 3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. 4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, 5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. 7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. 8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee. 9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. 10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king. 11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. 13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. 14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. 15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. 16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. 17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. 18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day. 19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; 20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. 21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD. 22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city."

America use to be that light upon the hill because of it's morals and standards. America desires no longer what is right but rather the things listed above. The Constitution is NOTHING to apparently most if not all of the politicians and will ignore it to the detriment of us all. From the killing the unborn to the attempts of making Washington D.C. a state. We have been under attack for many years and no one has desired to attend the battles. The churches remain silent! We have been all made Socialist by decree of our socialist leader Obama and his band of thugs. The Beast, which is the Government, has been released from the Chains of the Constitution because the people have abandoned self-government.

Newsweek writer of the article "We Are all Socialists Now" must have been reading my post from Novemeber 1st, 2008.

Where are the righteous in the land?

May God have mercy upon us.

Todd