Night Watchman

Now this is a load of bear!

BLACK BEAR QUINTUPLETS

Black bears typically have two cubs; rarely, one or three. In 2007, in northern  New Hampshire , a black bear Sow gave birth to five healthy young. There were two or three reports of sows with as many as 4 cubs, but five was, and is, very extraordinary. I learned of them shortly after they emerged from their den and set myself a goal of photographing all five cubs with their mom - no matter how much time and effort was involved. I knew the trail they followed on a fairly regular basis, usually shortly before dark. After spending nearly four hours a day, seven days a week, for more than six weeks, I had that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and photographed them. I used the equivalent of a very fast film speed on my digital camera. The print is properly focused and well exposed, with all six bears posing as if they were in a studio for a family portrait.

  

 I stayed in touch with other people who saw the bears during the summer and into the fall hunting season. All six bears continued to thrive. As time for hibernation approached, I found still more folks who had seen them, and everything remained OK.  I stayed away from the bears as I was concerned that they might become habituated to me, or to people in general, and treat them as `approachable friends.  This could easily become dangerous for both man and animal.

We're calling for the Impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama. And if you agree, you can join us right now.

Enough is enough. We're calling for the Impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama. And if you agree, you can join us right now.

Right here and right now, you can add your voice to ours... and join the movement to impeach Barack Hussein Obama.

Why are we calling for the impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama?  Radio-personality Tammy Bruce may have said it best:

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"... ultimately, it comes down to... the fact that he seems to have, it seems to me, some malevolence toward this country, which is unabated."

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Oh... there are many reasons to call for the impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama and there is more than just cause to call for his impeachment.

But as Bruce said, Obama's "unabated malevolence toward this country, which is unabated" makes it all the more imperative that we take action now... without delay.

How long must we wait... how long should we sit back and permit Barack Hussein Obama to rip apart the fabric of this country before we take action?

Are you terrified at Barack Hussein Obama's campaign to change our country into a third-world nation? Are you willing to sit back and watch Obama bulldoze our great nation? Are you willing to let him construct a totalitarian regime... fascism, socialism, Obamaism... take your pick?

  If any of the above scenarios concern you... join us.

At the very least, fire a shot across the bow... a shot that will be heard around the world... and send Barack Hussein Obama a clear and unmistakable message that he does not have carte blanche to ruin the United States of America.

As the late former President Ronald Reagan once said, "If not us, then who; if not now, then when."

If, after reading the Articles of Impeachment against Barack Hussein Obama, you agree that action must be taken right now, then you can do something, right here and right now, to make it happen. I've been down this road before... I know what it takes... I know what needs to happen to get the job done... and I know that it can be done. But we can't do it alone. Quite frankly, this will be a major undertaking. Barack Hussein Obama and his allies have powerful and influential friends with very deep pockets. If we're going to do this right we will need to put boots on the ground... we will need to reach millions of people that cannot be reached by all of us simply forwarding an email to our friends... we will need to set up state-of-the-art nerve centers in every state in the country... we'll need to publicize this movement (and if the Mainstream Media won't give our efforts coverage - chances are they won't - we will need to obtain paid-media). We can make this happen by standing together. So ask yourself, in all seriousness, what is a movement to impeach Barack Hussein Obama really worth to you? Is it worth 100 dollars or 50 dollars or even 25 dollars? And yes, in these very difficult economic times (that will only get worse every day Barack Hussein Obama is in office), we will need a select number of people to step up to the plate. Please pray and search your soul and ask yourself if you might be one of those people who can put 1,000 or 2,500 or even 5,000 into this effort to remove Barack Hussein Obama from office.

  

 

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Real Change: The Fight for America’s Future

Red America and Blue America: Our nation is hopelessly and equally divided between liberals and conservatives -- right?

 

Wrong. In Real Change: The Fight for America’s Future, Newt Gingrich explains that America has a natural, overwhelming conservative majority -- and that the real division is between red-white-and-blue America (about 85% of the county) versus a sickly pastel pink leftist fringe (the other 15%). The pastel pinks have not only perpetuated the myth that the country is equally divided, they have also insisted that their positions hold moral superiority.

 

Neither is true. And yet the Republicans have been so lacking in backbone and conviction that they have accepted these myths, but tell themselves that they can manage big government better than the Democrats -- which really means managing decline and managing failure.

 

That’s why Gingrich believes that neither party is qualified to lead us successfully into the 21st century. And in Real Change, he offers an alternative -- a solid plan for empowering the 70 to 90 percent of Americans who agree on all the major issues that confront the country.

 

 

The Gospel according to Mark Lowry

 

  

The Bible tells this story about God’s forgiveness.

 

A rich man had an affair with his beautiful neighbor and got her pregnant. 2 Samuel 11:4

 

Since this woman already had a husband, the rich man had the husband killed to cover up his sin. 2 Samuel 11:14

 

When a preacher accosted the adulterer about his sin, the rich man repented of his sin and asked God to forgive him for his sins of adultery and murder. 2 Samuel 12:7.

 

The rich man’s name is King David; his beautiful neighbor is Bathsheba. Her husband’s name was Uriah, the Hittite. The preacher who accosted him is Nathan.

 

David’s prayer for forgiveness. Psalm 51

  

Details of God’s Plan for Your Salvation:

 

 

Global Warming is a hoax!

http://inthesenewtimes.com/2009/02/27/global-warming-is-a-hoax-quick-and-dirty/

 

The only reason people think global warming exists is because of Al Gore.

 

The facts that Al Gore’s carbon tax collection company doesn’t want you to see.

CO2 is 3.168% of the total greenhouse effect. Around 0.117% is man-made CO2 greenhouse gas effect. CO2 is an insignificant greenhouse gas, especially in terms of man-made contribution. Water is the only significant greenhouse gas.

Furthermore, you leave out that oceans and volcanoes release more CO2 than humans.

Furthermore, you leave out that CO2 is part of the life cycle.

Furthermore, you leave out that CO2 levels tend to follow warming rather than cause warming.

Furthermore, you leave out the impact of the sun spot activity, which is thoroughly studied, and it’s impact of warming/cooling on the solar system as a whole.

Furthermore, you leave out that the solar system as a whole had been warming.

Furthermore, you leave out that the solar system and earth has cooled down due to lack of sun spot activity this past year.

Furthermore, you leave out that carbon taxes will not solve the problem but will be used to fund global government and bombing of nations.

Furthermore, you leave out that big corporations, especially big oil, actually support the global warming hoax because it helps them eliminate their competition who can’t afford the taxes while big oil gets the big grants from the tax payer to reduce and meet emission standards.

Furthermore, you leave out that carbon taxes will do nothing but hurt the poor.

Furthermore, you leave out that polar bears can easily swim over 100 miles and swim as much as 300 miles. They hunt for seals and beluga whales.

Furthermore, you leave out that the ice caps are always melting and refreezing with the seasons.

Furthermore, you leave out that the government was caught making up temperature data to make it seem the planet was warming rather than cooling this past year.

Furthermore, you leave out that scientists receive tons of funding by promoting global warming scares while skeptics don’t receive funding.

Furthermore, you leave out that the Al Gore hockey stick graph was generated using a statistical analysis computer algorithm that weighted data towards the mean the further out in history you go.

Furthermore, you leave out all the various drastic cooling and warming trends throughout the history of the Earth.

Furthermore, you leave out that global warming is actually preferred over global cooling because food production increases, namely because CO2 helps plant growth, absorbing that 0.117% man-made CO2 like candy. Not to mention that you’re more likely to freeze to death than die of heat stroke.

Furthermore, statistics are lies, lies, and lies. Scientific models don’t represent reality. Any decent college professor in scientific modeling and statistics classes will tell you these things on the first day of class.

In conclusion, you’re being scammed by the New World Order with this global warming hoax to pay carbon taxes to them, and you should be mad as a wet hen.

 

 

Chick-Fil-A: a Christian Business still closed on Sunday

 

http://video.foxbusiness.com/#/9078663/chick-fil-as-philosophy-on-business/?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g4:r2:c0.000000:b26757968:z6

 

Click to View a video interview between Dave Ramsey and Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy on running a successful family business.

   

 

 

Why did Obama receive the Nobel Peace prize?

http://www.examiner.com/x-22698-Celebrity-Politics-Examiner~y2009m10d9-Mike-Huckabee-Conservative-criticism-of-Obamas-Nobel-Peace-Prize-sounds-like-rightwing-whining

 

American conservatives and the Taliban have finally found something to agree on -- both are horrified that President Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday morning. Rush Limbaugh called it an "embarrassment" that proves "God has a great sense of humor." Craig Shirley called it "utterly ridiculous." Michael Gerson said, "At first I thought it was a joke."

 

But Mike Huckabee is warning his conservative colleagues to put a sock in it. He said in a statement:

 

There will be an outcry from those on the right who will say that Obama's nomination, made two weeks into his Presidency, is impossible to justify, but I think such an outcry will sound like right-wing whining."

 

 

 

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Bomber Ayers admits to Helping Obama write "Dreams From My Father" and "Audacity of Hope"

http://www.cashill.com/

 
Last night, I happened to listen to the Rusty Humphries Radio show. The topic of the show was the same as it was a year ago: Obama had literary help in writing Dreams from my Father and and Audacity of Hope from bomber William Ayers.

 

www.cashill.com Jack Cashill is an expert in detecting how and by whom a book was written. It is his learned opinion that Obama ran smack into a writer’s block and had to turn to his bomber pal William Ayers to pull his chestnuts out of the fire.

 

Apparently Ayers now opening admits he helped Obama write his books and is making snide remarks about wanting his cut of the royalty.

 

How long will it be before Ayers is making the rounds of the Sunday hews show with "Dreams From My Father" and "Audacity of Hope" under his arm.

 

 

  

Bill Ayers trampling on our flag!
 

Teddy’s Education

As she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children an untruth. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same.   However, that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard.   Mrs. Thompson had watched Teddy the year before and noticed that he did not play well with the other children, that his clothes were messy and that he constantly needed a bath. In addition, Teddy could be unpleasant.   It got to the point where Mrs. Thompson would actually take delight in marking his papers with a broad red pen, making bold X's and then putting a big "F" at the top of his papers.   At the school where Mrs. Thompson taught, she was required to review each child's past records and she put Teddy's off until last. However, when she reviewed his file, she was in for a surprise.   Teddy's first grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is a bright child with a ready laugh. He does his work neatly and has good manners.... he is a joy to be around."   His second grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is an excellent student, well liked by his classmates, but he is troubled because his mother has a terminal illness and life at home must be a struggle."   His third grade teacher wrote, "His mother's death has been hard on him. He tries to do his best, but his father doesn't show much interest and his home life will soon affect him if some steps aren't taken."   Teddy's fourth grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is withdrawn and doesn't show much interest in school. He doesn't have many friends and he sometimes sleeps in class."   By now, Mrs. Thompson realized the problem and she was ashamed of herself. She felt even worse when her students brought her Christmas presents, wrapped in beautiful ribbons and bright paper, except for Teddy's.   His present was clumsily wrapped in the heavy, brown paper that he got from a grocery bag. Mrs. Thompson took pains to open it in the middle of the other presents.   Some of the children started to laugh when she found a rhinestone bracelet with some of the stones missing, and a bottle that was one-quarter full of perfume... But she stifled the children's laughter when she exclaimed how pretty the bracelet was, putting it on, and dabbing some of the perfume on her wrist.   Teddy Stoddard stayed after school hat day just long enough to say,   "Mrs. Thompson, today you smelled just like my Mom used to."   After the children left, she cried. On that very day, she quit teaching reading, writing and arithmetic. Instead, she began to teach children.   Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy. As she worked with him, his mind seemed to come alive.   The more she encouraged him, the faster he responded. By the end of the year, Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class and, despite her lie that she would love all the children the same, Teddy became one of her "teacher's pets."   A year later, she found a note under her door, from Teddy, telling her that she was still the best teacher he ever had in his whole life.   Six years went by before she got another note from Teddy.   He then wrote that he had finished high school, third in his class, and she was still the best teacher he ever had in life.   Four years after that, she got another letter, saying that while things had been tough at times, he'd stayed in school, had stuck with it, and would soon graduate from college with the highest of honors.   He assured Mrs. Thompson that she was still the best and favorite teacher he had ever had in his whole life. Then four more years passed and yet another letter came. This time he explained that after he got his bachelor's degree, he decided to go a little further.   The letter explained that she was still the best and favorite teacher he ever had. But now his name was a little longer.... The letter was signed,   Theodore F. Stoddard, MD.   The story does not end there. You see, there was yet another letter that Spring. Teddy said he had met this girl and was going to be married. He explained that his father had died a couple of years ago and he was wondering if Mrs. Thompson might agree to sit at the wedding in the place that was usually reserved for the mother of the groom.   Of course, Mrs. Thompson did. And guess what? She wore that bracelet, the one with several rhinestones missing. Moreover, she made sure she was wearing the perfume that Teddy remembered his mother wearing on their last Christmas together. They hugged each other, and Dr. Stoddard whispered in Mrs. Thompson's ear,   "Thank you Mrs. Thompson for believing in me. Thank you so much for making me feel important and showing me that I could make a difference."   Mrs. Thompson, with tears in her eyes, whispered back. She said, "Teddy, you have it all wrong. You were the one who taught me that I could make a difference. I didn't know how to teach until I met you! ."   For those of you who don't know, Teddy Stoddard is the Dr. at Iowa Methodist in Des Moines that has the Stoddard Cancer Wing.          Theodore F. Stoddard, MD. As an adult