I’m not sure that the weather could have been much better for a day of field work at the end of January. Chase and I GPS’d the trail system in Elsie A. Holmes Nature Park just outside of Ringgold, GA. They’ve created a really nice system of trails for a nice walk that takes you down alongside the South Chickamauga Creek, and has a super nice parking area with bathrooms and a pavilion.
South Chickamauga Creek
I want to thank Whitfield County for the upcoming birthday present of tag renewal taxes! Much appreciated!
Notice no hair gel. It’s surprisingly strange to get used to, but makes getting ready for work a little bit faster. Although I do prefer it much more styled, so this will be short lived.
I picked up some stuff at Walmart today and noticed on the receipt that our sales tax is now 5% instead of 7%. Nice.
The FedEx guy brought me a box of goodies today. Can’t wait to find some new homes for the signs and bumper stickers. The shirts, already have a nice home 
Such a great read. What I would gladly give for one more day with my Mom.
Some quotes that I picked out while reading that I like:
That’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going into every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.
You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
There’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.
After watching the debate on Monday night, I can’t help but wonder where we as a nation are headed. On stage we had 4 pro-war candidates and 1 peace candidate. If you listen to all of the candidates speak about our military and about Iran, save Paul, you can hear the war drums blaring in the background as they without hesitation say that we need to spend more money on our military and we need to intervene with Iran. When Ron Paul mentioned that maybe we should apply the Golden Rule to our foreign policy, the crowd overwhelmingly began to boo.
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew 7:1
Why would that be such a bad idea?
I work with a lady that is, I guess the best way to say it is very involved with her church. Yet she endorses and advocates war after war in the middle east. How can being Christian and having such a pro-war attitude go hand-in-hand? Casualties cannot be discriminated during war. Countless innocent women and children are killed during war, and when a war is unjust, I just don’t see how someone can be such an advocate of the war and at the same time pretend to be such a Christian person.
I just got a thumbs up while riding across town, but I’m unsure if it’s because of the car or the Ron Paul decal. Either way, I’ll take it!
I hear people all the time griping about the people in Washington never being able to come together to get things done. But most people have a hard time realizing that this is by design. Compromise is what we see too much of in Washington—people not sticking to their convictions. The left want social benefits and (with exception of Obama) less war, the right wants war and less social benefits. So what always happens is compromise. The left drops their convictions on less war in order to get the right to drop it’s convictions on less social benefits. So we end up with both parties agreeing to vote on spending measures that appease each other’s wants while turning a blind eye on everything else.
The Constitution, with its system of checks and balances, not only allows for gridlock, it practically guarantees some degree of it. The Founders knew that gridlock can be a very good thing. If nothing can be agreed upon in Washington, harm to the country is limited.
Ron Paul
When you’re at that point, when you feel it’s all pointless… It’s not. The trick is to just keep doing it, that’s how you succeed in the end. It’s the secret to life, do anything often enough, and for long enough, and you get good at it. So keep on. Keep writing. Keep painting. Keep singing. Keep dancing. Keep fighting. Keep. On.
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