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It’s sometimes easy to forget that thousands of US troops will not be “home” for the holidays. Some are in the Middle East – doing what we are NEVER sure, and some are now in Africa, supposedly helping to contain the Ebola disease.

I constantly ask myself why we send our military where we do and for what purpose – but the military themselves don’t ask, they just do. They aren’t paid that well, spend a lot of time away from their families, and are often in mortal risk – on a daily basis.

Please keep them in your thoughts, in particular, as the Christmas season approaches.

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Thanksgiving and for those traveling – please use extra care when rain, sleet, snow and ice are present.

While I’m waiting for my turkey to roast today I’m going to be watching the movie linked below. In a country that seems to have so many nearly insurmountable problems and a president who can’t remember his Oath of Office, I need a break – and a uplifting one.

You can stream it via Amazon for $3.99 or $4.99 for the HD version. Seems like a worthwhile expenditure to me!

UPDATE: It WAS! Worth a watch if you haven’t yet seen it!!!

One thing good about writing your own blog – you can pick what you want to write about and vent a little on things you see that are just wrong. Here’s my “news” for this week…

Say you own your own real estate. We’ll give you a 2000 square foot home on 2 acres of land. Each year your county sends you a property tax notice which you, as the legal owner, are required to pay. There is also home owner’s insurance to pay plus all the bills the property requires for upkeep and maintenance. Any money left over after that is yours to spend as you see fit.

One day you notice someone has erected a structure on your property and they are apparently living there. They’ve tied into your well, your electric, and are using the internet on your Wi-Fi. You call the local Sheriff to complain about trespassers and he comes out to see what’s going on. You show him that your property has been invaded and you also show him that all your utility bills have nearly doubled since the trespassers are illegally riding on your accounts.

He pats you on the head as if you are stupid and informs you that the trespassers “Just want a better life.” And then he leaves.

Welcome to Obama’s version of America.

There is a lot of talk right now that once again, Obama is making laws on his own – or the reverse argument, he’s not enforcing current laws or putting so many restrictions on them that they are all but useless. From where I am sitting it is “all of the above.”

You may not think any of this impacts you because you don’t have a trespasser sitting on your property this morning but actually it does impact you. And you’re about to get millions more trespassers because if you are a US citizen or a legal immigrant, your “property” is the United States of America and Obama just pat you on the head as if you are stupid and told you that millions more illegal trespassers “Just want a better life.” Somehow it is now YOUR responsibility to step aside, pay up, and make it happen.

And that little extra money you had to spend after you paid your bills before? You can kiss that good-bye. Your property taxes will go up because now more schools are needed for illegal children. Auto insurance rates will probably rise because we have drivers on the road who can’t speak or read English and who are prone to driving drunk and/or without insurance. And crime will be on the increase. Why? Because people who break a country’s laws and are caught and not punished no longer fear the laws of that country. What’s yours is automatically theirs because they managed to sneak into this country and were not forced to pay any penalty for doing so.

I think it is completely appalling that the week before Thanksgiving, a totally American holiday, this country’s excuse for a president seems to take delight in punishing America voters for not liking his policies by inflicting more competition for jobs on the 30+ million citizens looking for work and by all but guaranteeing that our costs – both financial and personal and national security – just skyrocketed.

The Federal Government supported by OUR tax dollars is not working for us – it is now funding an invasion. Contact your state governors and attorney generals and tell them what you think about this tax-dollar supported invasion of our own country.

This message is more about not getting a dog if you are just going to tie it outside. There’s no point in you having a dog – and as the message says – the dog is NOT a lawn ornament. Dogs are very social animals and WILL NOT THRIVE in a lonely environment.

Secondly, it is pretty damn cold over most of the US right now. Some areas are looking at 3 feet of snow in the next week or so. This is NOT weather that allows pets to stay outside – particularly overnight. If you even consider doing such a thing – you are potentially planning to murder your own pet – and it will be a painful death for them.

Please be kind to your animals – they only have you to depend on…