Pat Ain't Done Yet

Sorry it was Backwards!

Dear Readers,

Please forgive that my two part blogs were printed the first one, last, and the second one, first!  I do not know enough about the workings of these high-tech things to know anything about why it happened that way.  I just hope you read both of them and got the message, anyway.  Thanks for your patience and for giving me another chance to "entertain" you in the future.  "Cause, as you can see, I Ain't Done Yet".   Pat

Proof in History by Dr. Kaiser

Okay, here is part two of the blog from Dr. David Kaiser.  I hope you did read the first blog first, and I hope this second part of his letter that I am giving you, word for word, will answer all questions and doubts you may have about his credibility.  Now, here it is.  Professor Kaisers writings.

As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s in those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking rabble- rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing.  What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory.  Conservative "losers" read it right now.

And there wre the promises.  Economic times were tough people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker.  And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot.  And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission.  Which they did - regularly.  And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression.  Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by  bureaucracy.  The children of German citizens were at first encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think.  Later, they were required to do so.  No Jews of course.

How did he get the people on his side?  He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex.  He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, netter jobs, and promising to re-install once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.  He did it with a compliant media -did you know that?  And he did this all in the name of justice and .....change.  And the people surely got what they voted for.

If you think I am exaggerating, look it up.  It's all there in the history books.

So read your history books.  Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed.  When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker.  He was right, though.  And the world came to regret that he was not listened to.

Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe.  It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities.  And yet, in LESS THAN SIX YEARS (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U.S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors.  All with the best of intentions, of course.  The road to Hell is paved with them.

As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice:  I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust);  I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me...

I choose to believe thre evidence.  No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both.  To some degree, perhaps I am.  But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe - and why I believe it.

I pray I am wrong.  I do not think I am.  Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections.

This was signed by David Kaiser of Jamestown, Rhode Island, in the United States

Well, this is what I felt necessary to share with all of you, no matter how you receive it.  Now it is up to you to live with it, share it, delete and forget it.  Only you know what choices you will make.  I wish you a safe and bright tomorrow.  And God Bless Us, everyone.  'Cause I ain't done yet.

 

History Too Important To Be Ignored

I received this in my e-mail from a dear friend the other day, and it touched me so deeply that I truly felt I must share it with others.  So, here I am, and I do hope you will read it all the way through, then make up your minds for yourselves.  Or head to the library and use the history books there to verify all your questions.  Apparently, this writer did, which is why I have faith in what he is telling us.  So, here I go, writing a copy just as I received it, word for word.  The original author is Dr. David Kaiser, a most respected and highly educated professor in the history field.

History Unfolding:

I am a student of history.  Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life.  I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis.  Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a larger focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening.  I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it.  Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years.  The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back?  Why?

We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms.  That is our money.  Yours and mine.  And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September.  Who has this money?  Why do they have it?  Why are the terms unavailable to us?  Who asked for it?  Who authorized it?  I thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders.  Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy..Why?

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving.  Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate.  Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity.  Why?

We gave now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman.  Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?)  We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic.  To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are falling, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government.  Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth..it is potentially 1929 X ten...and we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.

And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska.  All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders?  No?  Oh, of course.  The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it.  Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)

Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change.  Why?

I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.

This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life.  In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure.  Change is indeed coming.  And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.

And that is only the beginning.

This is Pat now.  The history part of this man's oratory will come in another blog, as this one is long enough for you to read and absorb into your brain.  So, stay turned.  It only gets more factual.  Bye for now.

History Too Important To Be Ignored

I received this in my e-mail from a dear friend the other day, and it touched me so deeply that I truly felt I must share it with others.  So, here I am, and I do hope you will read it all the way through, then make up your minds for yourselves.  Or head to the library and use the history books there to verify all your questions.  Apparently, this writer did, which is why I have faith in what he is telling us.  So, here I go, writing a copy just as I received it, word for word.  The original author is Dr. David Kaiser, a most respected and highly educated professor in the history field.

History Unfolding:

I am a student of history.  Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life.  I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis.  Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a larger focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening.  I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it.  Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years.  The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back?  Why?

We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms.  That is our money.  Yours and mine.  And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September.  Who has this money?  Why do they have it?  Why are the terms unavailable to us?  Who asked for it?  Who authorized it?  I thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders.  Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy..Why?

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving.  Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate.  Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity.  Why?

We gave now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman.  Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?)  We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic.  To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are falling, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government.  Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth..it is potentially 1929 X ten...and we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.

And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska.  All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders?  No?  Oh, of course.  The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it.  Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)

Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change.  Why?

I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.

This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life.  In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure.  Change is indeed coming.  And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.

And that is only the beginning.

This is Pat now.  The history part of this man's oratory will come in another blog, as this one is long enough for you to read and absorb into your brain.  So, stay turned.  It only gets more factual.  Bye for now.

Dangerous Drivers!

Holy Cow!  Where are all these people who do NOT know how to drive according to the rules getting their licenses?  It is getting so that every time you take your car out onto the roads, local or freeway, you honestly do not know if you are going to get home safely, or at all. 

Seventy-five percent of drivers seem to have no idea what the directional signals are for.  At least, they never bother using them before turning!  God forbid the drivers behind you, or those coming at you should know what your next move is!  Is that part of the driving tests no longer taught?  Or is that just a sign that people who should not be driving, ARE??  I don't know whether to blame the DMV for continuing to allow drivers a license no matter how they do the tests, or think it is the drivers who do all the right things at the DMV to get the license, then forget or ignore the rules once they have their license.  Either way, it has made for a dangerous set of roads out there, for the rest of us to drive on!

It is not only the older people behind the wheel causing problems, believe me.  It appears that too many young people have a real need for speed.  Now, in all fairness, would it be too much to ask, in the hope of saving a life, maybe even your own, to leave just a few minutes earlier, when you have to go someplace?  I do not know where we are all going in such a rush, anyway, but like I said, if you left a little earlier, it might just save someone's life, even yours.  Wouldn't that make you feel a lot better about the whole thing?  Showing off in a ton or more vehicle is not cool at all.  In fact, I will go as far as to say, it qualifies you as a demented idiot, or worse!  I doubt if putting another driver at risk for harm really impresses anyone in a favorable way.  So why not smarten up and stop acting like the jerk you prove yourself to be when you drive unsafely?

Here is an example of some young punks driving down Air Base Parkway behind me one day not too long ago.  I was doing the speed limit, and suddenly two cars come racing up behind me going way over the speed limit.  I don't have time to even think if I should pull over or not, when they are on my tail.  At the last possible moment, the one in my lane, the right lane, pulled over onto the edge of the road and slammed past me, as his idiot friend did the same thing on my left, in the fast lane.  You can feel sure I was scared to death and could hardly catch my breath.  They were gone around the curve before I could even see their license plates!  If only a police car had been around to see their display of sheer stupidity!  Meanwhile, I spent the next few minutes on my way home thanking my Lord for saving my life! 

So, I do hope all of you hot rod drivers, inconsiderate drivers, selfish drivers, and just plain stupid drivers out there who will read this, or the growing number of people who have never driven a car in their lives before coming to America, will consider the responsibility they are being given to let them get behind the wheel of a potential killing machine.  When I lived in New York, many years ago, we knew the drivers from Massachusetts were the worse on the road.  But now, let me tell you, the drivers on the local roads are NOT all from Massachusetts!  Many are out of state, and may be in the service, but many more are just local yokels who either do not know, or do not care, about your safety or mine.  So, hopefully, if they are going to continue to drive like maniacs, they will maim or kill themselves, not some innocent person who wants to continue living.  Same goes for you drunks, or druggies.  Make sure your suicide plans don't include me or mine!  I want to live!  As my title for this blog says, "Pat Ain't Done Yet"!

A New Day, A New Chance

Hello, World Around Me,

I am so blessed to wake up each morning to a bright, new start.  I am healthy, for the most part, able to get around and go places and do things that are worthy and fun and exciting.  I have people in my life who are special to me, dearly loved by me, and really spoil me rotten, and I love every one of them!  I love to see the clear blue California sky on sunny summer days, and watch the rolling clouds and dark storm clouds on winter days.  Yes, I would say that each day brings with it new beautiful sights that are most enjoyable to me.  I guess that would make me an incurable optimist, which is a good thing in my book. 

This new chance to blog is great.  I am a transplanted New Yorker, so I am also opinionated!  It came with the territory, since we invented "attitude", so they tell me!  But nature has always turned me on, and as a committed Christian, I think God did a really perfect job creating this earth I live on!  It breaks my heart to see the way many humans abuse it, with never a thought of doing it! But that is another blog for another day.  This one is just to brag that I am grateful to be here to be and do and enjoy this early Fall day in all it's glory.  I hope you are enjoying it too...bye for now.    

Hello World!

This is my first blog, I'm an opinionated lady, so be prepared!  More to follow.