jstol3's Blog

Usually the acorns start falling from my oak and my pin oak tree in mid August. At first they are very small but by October they are full size and I have to use a broom or a blower every day to clean them off my driveway but this year nothing. I haven't seen a single acorn this year. My neighbor says that nothing is falling from his pin oak either.

Is anybody else out there noticing the same thing?

Last year my walnut tree didn't produce at all but I attributed that to the hot and very dry summer of 2006. This year the walnut tree was prolific.

For those of you who drive on 71 Hwy on your way to work in the morning and on your way home at night: Every one of you knows that there are traffic lights on that highway. If you don't then you haven't traveled that road before. For those of you who do know about the traffic lights - why are you in such a hurry? I drive that highway every weekday and I watch the rest of you speed, tailgate other drivers, change lanes so abruptly that your cars almost bend in half. You cut into breaks in the traffic that are barely large enough for a motorcycle to squeeze into and then you have to stop because you are now at the tailend of the backup that is caused by other drivers who think that the only way to get to work is to act like driving is a competition instead of a means to get to work.

What are you in such a hurry for? You know the lights are there. Are you in a hurry to stop so you can sit in line burning up the gas you bought with your hard earned money? I just don't get it. If all of you would not only slow down but also keep several car lengths of space between you and the car in front of you you might just keep those long backups at the lights from forming.

Ditto for those heading east on I70 in the evening. You know that those lanes narrow down right before Manchester so why do you race each other until right before the construction area and then have to stop until someone lets you into the other lane, or cause an accident, or literally force your way into the other lane by cutting in front of another car? You should be merging long before the construction area so the traffic flow will be smoother.

I think that at least half the drivers in this area should lose their driving license until they can prove that they have overcome their ignorance of how to drive sensibly!

On October 3rd 2008 the American Congress finally drove a silver spike into the heart of the American electorate by voting the citizen's money into the pockets of the greedy and corrupt financial institutions who made bad loans to ILLEGAL immigrants and who sold low income people on the idea that they could afford to live in mansions. This lunacy was preceeded by the false notion that America and its taxpayers would not be adversely affected by millions of ILLEGAL immigrants being allowed to stream accross its southern border.

R.I.P. America!

They keep trying to frighten us by telling us that credit will dry up and we won't be able to buy anything. The good banks all have money. They make money by lending money to good customers. If you have good credit you will be able to borrow money. The banks are still advertising money to lend. If you have so-so credit you will probably be able to get what you need.

If you have bad credit its time to start tightening your belt and being concientious about paying your bills. If you can't pay your bills don't borrow. Live within your means.

If each of us and if each business lived within our means we would not have the mortgage crisis or the current economic downturn.

A great man once asaid "we have nothing to fear but fear itself'. It is time for us to remember those words and to stop allowing the people who caused our problems to frighten us.

NO BAILOUT FOR THOSE WHO ACTED IRRESPONSIBLY!!!

If George Soros is such a huge supporter of Liberal Democrat causes (robbing from the rich and giving to the poor in particular) why does he still have so much money?

Why does John Kerry still have so much money?

There are many, many, rich Liberal Democrats out there who have tremendous sums of money and who own large businesses. Why do they retain so much of their money?

If they truly believe in the rich supporting the poor why don't they all pool their resources and invte all of America's Liberal Democrats to come live with them on one huge commune and share everything they own and earn?

Why?

If Barack Obama gets his way and sex education is taught in second grade who do you think might be the most likely people who would want to teach sex ed to such a young crowd?

Could it possibly be teachers with an inordinate interest in second grade children?

Parents, you need to be thinking about your children on elction day!

Obama certanly would not wish for children to be harmed by early sex ed but that could be an unintended consequence of putting very young children into such an environment and it shows how little Obama is thinking ahead when he suggests some of his programs.

That is why he is not ready to lead!

Kay wrecked the Kansas City economy with her grandose plans and tax giveaways to large corporations.

Why would anyone want to send Kay to Washington to proceed to wreck our country?

On elecion day I urge you to tell Kay that she should retire from public life!

When I was 50 I started a lawn mowing and landscaping business. After a few years the stress of being on my feet all the time began to take it's toll on my feet and knees so I shut the business down and went to work elsewhere. My business still had debts so for the next four years I put my nose to the grindstone and paid off my business debts. I was never late with any payments. I didn't ask anyone for any kind of help to bail me out.

Why can't the wreckers of some of our financial institutions be required to do the same? What makes them better than me or any of the other thousands of families and small business owners who struggle and who make their families and businesses work?

Why should our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren have to struggle with the enourmous burden that this proposed bailout is going to cost us?

This is my personal opinion - that's what I usually offer when I blog. This is not Fox 4's policy and it, in no way, prevents you from blogging the way you want to, ok?

I read blog after blog on this forum that is made up of links to www.blahblah.com or www. #$^!)&%.com or www.snopes.com or www.foad.com . These links don't mean anything to me. They tell me that you read what somebody else wrote and that you believe it. That's all! What do you feel? Why do you feel that way? Do you have a personal stake in what you blog about or are you an ideologue who feels that way out of hand? Do you really think that everything belongs to everyone or do you really believe that everything you earn by the sweat of your brow belongs to you? Do you have a social concience that says that you should give (not have extraced) to the less fortunate? Do you realy think that any American president could be capable of purposely harming the American people? What do you feel? Don't tell us what someone else said!

Stop the violence? Are you kidding? Not in a million years with rallies and prayer vigils! Dr. King's message was communicated effetively through rallies, prayer vigils, and civil disobedience because his people were unjustly opressed by another race.

That tactic is not going to work against crime. This is not unjust oppression by another race. This is rot from within. This is lawlessness run amok because the perpetrators know that their community doesn't want its own citizens to be targeted (racially profiled) and they take advantage of that to be so bold as to drive by someone's house and shoot it up or to kill someone in broad daylight on the street. They take advantage of it and write graffiti on everything in sight. They take advantage of it to openly sell drugs on the streets and they take advantage of it to prostitute themselves openly along Prospect Avenue. They take advantage of it to roll aound town in their vehicles playing loud music which wakes people up in the middle of the night. They take advantage of it to drive like idiots. They take advantage of the law to do crimes because they know that their own community will come to their rescue with cries of "racial profiling, racial profiling" if they are apprehended and prosecuted.

What will work is snitching! What will work is weeding out the rotten apples by turning them in! What will work is encouraging the police to do their job! What will work is the community getting behind law enforcement! When lawlessness is discouraged by actively fighting against it lawlessness can be stopped.

I don't want racial profiling to occur either but I do want crime to be stopped regardless of the ethnicity of the perpetrator!

One of JFK's most remembered lines is "Ask not what your country can do for you, Ask what you can do for your country".

One of Obama's lines is that "All citizens should have the same access as the rich and influential". I thought that we do all have equal access as long as we can pay for it. He appears to be saying that access should be paid for by the government.

Does anyone else see something faulty with his reasoning?

The infamous (amongst some) George W. Bush has weakened to a category one election stealer. He keps trying to succed in other areas even though his ability to "steal" elections is in decline. Bush has recently loosed hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike at the United States and it is rumored (amongst some) that he was overheard to say " I'm gonna' get New Orleans if its the last act of my presidency". New Orleans mayor Nagin could not be reached for comment.

In an unrelated story it isreported that G.W. recently shortchanged a gas station operator by 5 cents when he filled his tank and was heard to mutter "I have to make some money from BIG OIL, If I don't my critics are going to come up empty handed".