this video is incredible but also troubling at the same time. Incredible that we have this technology and abilities. Troubling that if we were ever to have to rebel against our own government this is what we would be facing.
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I have to admit it, I really needed this extra day off from work. I am feeling just worn out. I hope to get the brakes done on my truck today and I slept in until 8:45. Sorry it took you dedicating your life to a cause and getting shot for me to have the day off.

Yesterday the family and I watched a documentary on the Apollo moon trips and the significance of having human beings stand on another heavenly body. The one person they could not get to be interviewed was Neil Armstrong. He is perhaps one of the top 10 most famous people of all time and he does not like publicity. He lives quietly and does not want the status of Hero, or Legend or anything. Amazing.
When Apollo 11 came back they had a parade with 2 million people there to cheer on those brave, crazy men who went a quarter million miles away for the first time and actually stood on what is for most of us, a disc in the sky.
He seems pretty humble for a person who had mankind united for a time saying “We did it!” I just don’t think we have heroes like this any more. There don’t seem to be any 2 million people ticker tape parades anymore.
There was one thing about the film which struck me. One of the people who went to the moon, Charlie Duke, became a Christian after he returned and in the documentary he said: “My walk on the Moon lasted three days and it was a great adventure, but my walk with God lasts forever.”

You hear it every day; we, as a country are too far in debt. Our current deficit for this year is already four times higher than it ever was before, which in and of itself is a pretty scary thing when you consider that the last president had doubled our deficit in his last year in office from any time before that (yes this means that we have spent eight times more money that we don’t have this year than we did just two years ago). So we get this wondrous news recently that some of the banks that we gave hundreds of billions of dollars to earlier this year are paying it back. This should be a great thing (and it would be if it were not for the fact that they got that money from the Federal Reserve Bank so they could pay it back to the Treasury. If that sounds like moving money from one pocket to another that would be… because it is) So, despite that, our glorious Leader had a great idea of what to do with all this new found money. He wants to pay down some of that deficit we built up with what he himself called “unsustainable spending” right? Um, no. His thoughts on what to do with all that money we just found by shuffling debt from one agency to another is… I kid you not “spend our way out of this recession”. That is right. Spend even more money that we do not have (but we are pretending we have by changing what we write down in our books). Is anyone in Washington seeing the Chinese grin as they think of how they are going to divide up our country when we collapse and they call in our $800B loan? Is there no one in the press who is willing to confront the games being played and actually report this idiocy? They sure seemed willing a year or two ago.

When people say that free speech is obtained by limiting what others can say to make things more “fair” is that really free speech? I don’t think so.