A readers thought’s.

I received this email tonight from a reader of my blog. Though I have never posted any of your personal emails this one I think deserves some consideration. I do have to say that my intent of the posting ‘Ultimate sacrifice’ was to show how some people honor the men and woman killed defending our freedom. And the remarks about the aclu show that some people do not want any of us to show our religious affiliations. I know for a fact that when I walked through the Arlington cemetery many of the graves did not have any indication as to religion. Yes the majority had either a cross or the star of David, but they were only on the graves of those like myself who’s dog tags read that you were either of the Christian or Jewish religion.

>>>I understand your sadness at what you see as disrespect for the military, but what about the soldiers and soldiers’ families that are not Christians? Many members of my family have honorably served in the army at great personal cost. To put a cross to their remembrance (or on their graves) is showing disrespect to them and their religious beliefs. I am all for loving g-d, and loving others, but it is also time to let everyone pray according to their beliefs- it should be at a personal level not mandated by law. The military is not 100% Christian, although many believe that this is so- or want it to be this way.

The ultimate sacrifice

It is a little over a week until Memorial day and I wish to do something even if only in a small way as a tribute to those who sacrificed there lives for everyone of us. In place of the Alaskan photo of the week, (top right column), I will be placing new photos, every couple days, in remembrance of those who died serving our country.

I hope that everyone takes a moment to remember those thousands of men and woman that have died so we may be free.

I also want to thank Jon, one of this blog readers, for sending me this article. With Memorial day fast approaching the email he sent showing what some people are doing to honor our fallen hero’s was moving, and the news about the aclu quite disturbing.

This picture was taken at the beach in Santa Barbara right next to the pier. There is a veterans group that started putting a cross and candle for every death in Iraq and Afghanistan .
The amazing thing is that they only do it on the weekends. They put up this graveyard and
take it down every weekend. Guys sleep in the sand next to it and keep watch over it at night so
nobody messes with it.



Every cross has the name, rank and D.O.B. and D.O.D. on it.

Very moving, very powerful??? so many young volunteers.. So many 30 to 40 year olds as well. 





Did you also know that the ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed, and that they filed another suit to end prayer from the military completely. Additionally Navy Chaplains can no longer mention ‘Jesus’ name in prayer thanks to the ACLU and our new administration.


It’s hard to think that so many gave there lives so that some people have a right to say and do things like this. It is hard but I have to understand freedom is not a one way street and every person has a right to speak his mind…

But I cannot get it out of my mind how it disrespects those that died giving us this freedom

A goverment threat

This will make your socks roll up and down….

If you happen to be anything like me and visit some “politically wrong” web sites, store more than a few days worth of food, water and medicine, have a rifle, some hand guns and store extra ammo or use certain trigger words when emailing than no doubt you too are considered a threat to national security. And you also are no doubt are on some watch list buried deep in the basement of the NSA or Homeland security building.

The first step…

Life’s journey starts with that first step..

There are times when you meet or hear about people that metaphorically appear larger than life, and the only way to truly understand them is to ‘walk in there shoes’.

Every once in a while during our lifetime we come across people who, in one way or another, rise above all the rest of humanity. Weather through self sacrifice, or shear determination they outshine the rest of mankind. In my routine of searching different news sources I came across one such a person, a Mrs. Claire Lomas. She ignored everyone when they told her she would never walk again after falling from her horse while out riding. This 32 year old woman, paralyzed from the waist down was motivated to participate in the grueling London marathon to raise money for Spinal Research, a charity which funds medical research to develop treatments for paralysis. Reading the news story of her feat can be quite inspiring, when you consider how most of us complain about the simplest of things.

I invite you to click here to read her story and walk a marathon in her shoes…

Area 51 North?

Sometimes it does one good to get away from politics and disasters and just open the frequently stubborn door of our minds.

A slow-moving triangle-shaped craft was spotted on April 28 over Independence, Mo., according to Examiner.com. “It was very odd — a triangular-shaped flying object that had two blinking lights in the rear only,” the witness wrote. “There were no other lights on the craft like you would see on a plane.” The eyewitness and a friend were very intrigued by the craft. “We were amazed at how this big solid object was even airborne and how it was moving so slowly!”

A few years ago a friend, who lives here on the compound, related to me a story about a UFO passing over our cabins. She said it was triangle shaped and moved slowly. At the time I just figured it was a dream she had until a few days later I visited another neighbor a mile from our cabins. This woman related almost identically the same story and that it happened at roughly the same time. She said it seemed to float across the sky blocking out the stars as it passed.

Now one observation could be a dream, but two people with virtually the same story and time frame and I have to believe something was in the sky that night. Now I’m thinking Alaska is the perfect place to test secret military aircraft, with millions of square miles of unpopulated wilderness for them to fly over. It was definitely better suited than down in Nevada at area 51 where just a few hundred miles in any direction and the aircraft would be over populated areas. But unlike the B-2 bomber that was secretly tested down there, this aircraft “moved slowly and floated” and we have no technology that can do this….or maybe we have perfected some type of anti-gravity flight?

So when I read the news reports about triangle shaped aircraft recently flying over England, Australia and the US, I was indeed curious. You be the judge and read the news article on the Huffington post.

End of an era…

Whenever I watched a newscast or saw photographs of the space shuttle being moved on the back of a 747 I had to marvel at the people we have today that could figure out how to do something as monumental as that. However when I saw the photos of the shuttle flying past the Washington monument, the White house, the statue of liberty and our nations capitol it only saddened me. It reminded me of a funeral procession, where the hearse was driven through the neighborhood of the deceased. In the picture below you can see the mourners, in front of the white house, taking a picture of that moment.

Short take’s…

This has to be the biggest all time “you got to be kidding me” ever recorded. We are all paying near the highest price for gasoline that we have ever seen. Most of us are now thinking before we jump in the old car to go and pick something up. Some have taken to coasting while going downhill, or putting the car in neutral at long stop lights, anything to save some gas. This is all because there is a world wide shortage of crude oil right?

Crap…. The oil tanker Alaskan Explorer was sent back to Alaska with 300,000 barrels of crude oil because there is a surplus of crude oil on the west coast. They were told they had no where to put the crude because all the storage tanks are full!

So why don’t we see a drop in gas prices?

Also…it may be May 1st but temperatures are supposed to hit the single digits tonight and even though it is May that didn’t stop it from snowing for a few hours today.