Please check out this article over at Fix4RSO’s site. This family needs your assitance, so I am asking my fellow veterans and those of you who support the armed forces to pitch in. Either contact Fix (Fix4rso AT fix4rso DOT com) or me (carycartter AT gmail DOT com) and your name will be forwarded to the angel coordinating this help. Anything will be appreciated; every little bit in this case will help.

Thank you, and God bless.

The Gunny mentioned this to me in an e-mail, and I thought I would expound a bit:

Gunny and I belong to BlogMad (button on the left), a hit-generator that drives traffic to your site. Basically, you surf the blogs that belong to their exchange, and in turn other people who surf through that site will be directed to your site based on how many sites you visit. Gunny mentioned that most of the blogs he sees on this exchange seem to be left leaning liberal blogs.

My theory on this? As I mentioned to him, I think that it is because the people who have the most time to spend on the blog exchanges, surfing sites in their spare times, are liberals - they have lots of free time to burn, since they are not as involved as their conservative counterparts are in other activities - such as community, church, family, friends, and work.

For example, I don’t get to spend a lot of time on BlogMad because my days are taken up with working forty-some hours a week, my evening are spent either with my wife and our dogs or at church with our friends, I am on the HOA board, and the weekends are for projects around the house (honey-dos, if you will) and church some more. How involved am I in church? We have a Tuesday evening Bible study, a Thursday evening service, and a Sunday evening service. I sing on the praise team, so that means Saturday afternoon practice. I lead the choir, which means Saturday evening practice. I drive the shuttle on Thursday and Sunday, so I need to be at church an hour early and I get to stay an hour after. All this involvement in community, church, family, friends, and work doesn’t leave a lot of time to be surfing aimlessly.

More liberal leaning people do not, generally, involve themselves in matters outside their own little scope of influence. It is my opinion that they are, for the most part, too busy reading their “Liberal Newsletter of Talking Points” and blogging - which also explains why all their posts seem to be pounding the same points at the same time.

Now, quick, everyone put on your asbestos suits - I think I sense a firestorm coming my way.

God bless you all, and get involved in your community, church, family, friends, and work!

Nothing like a young member of the Armed Forces to make you feel old.

To Sgt. Elijah Allen, and all the active duty members out there, thank you for your service.

To all the old salts, thank you for serving during your time, and supporting those who followed us.

Happy Memorial Day, and God Bless America.

My cousin sent me the results of the latest polls on Illegal Immigration.

43% of the respondents said illegal immigration is a major problem.

57% of the respondents said “No hablo ingles.”

Full circle. Back to the beginning. Right back where we started from.

Yes, folks, when they said “If it doesn’t work out, give us a call. We hate losing you and you will always have a place here” they meant it!

I am back at the Great Big Cabinet Shop that I was at before my ‘buddy’ showed his colors. I called, they talked, they called me back, here I am.

Of course, since I gave my notice, I lost all my seniority. At least my pay rate is the same.

I’m still praising Him, in any case.

Blessings!

I have mentioned before how God works events in your life for His will. As I mentioned in Sunday’s post, I was scheduled to sing a “special music” song during service. That song was Casting Crown’s “Praise You In This Storm” and is about the faithfulness God shows to His people, standing by them at all times, and the need for His people to praise him no matter what.

Whitey Alvarez, a senior member of our church, passed away Saturday morning. The congregation was told about it Sunday evening during the service.

I beleive that God wanted me to work on learning that song so I could provide some level of comfort to Whitey’s family. I worked on that song for over a month, and finally felt I had it at Saturday’s praise team practice. Sally, his wife, has always told me that she really enjoys the songs I offer for the service. I am humbled to be able to help in whatever way I could.

God also works in other ways, along other paths. I needed to learn what someone was really like, not letting my blind devotion to my branch of service cloud my judgement. So, the guy I used to work with, who shares a background in the USMC, decided this morning that he didn’t really need me after all. I have learned what he is really like. I have also seen that God moved me in this direction, leaving a stable position at my former employer to follow this dream of working from the house so I could, in fact, learn not to lean solely on tenous “feelings” that things will be good. I have also learned that my career path is paying better than what my former employer is paying, and that may lead to better financial rewards in the future. We’ll see - I don’t know what God has in mind this time, but I praise him anyway.

I will praise you in this storm, and I will lift my hands
You are who You are, no matter where I am
And every tear I’ve cried You hold in Your hand
You never left my side, and though my heart is torn
I will praise you in this storm. - Casting Crowns

Good grief, I just realized I hadn’t posted anything on Thursday or Friday, after I promised I would try to make a daily entry.

Well, now you know why I don’t make daily entries. Some days, I have more real life going on than I have time to chat.

Sorry ’bout that.

Gotta go - church is in 6 hours, and I sing the special music today. Think I ought to pick something out? Just kidding - I’ve been working on “Praise You In This Storm” by Casting Crowns. If you’re in the area, drop by and listen. 23rd Ave. and Campbell, in Phoenix. For more precise directions, e-mail me at carycartter AT gmail DOT com.

Have a great week! I dare you! I double dare you!

First, gentle reader, go here and sign up on Grassfire, a grass-roots organization that allows you to indicate your level of interest in which areas, and you will receive updates and opportunities to fax your representatives.

I’ve made the dump run, and I’m almost finished with the plastering in the bathroom. Next, I need to run to a home improvement store (my favorite rhymes with doughs) and get some makin’s for a couple of sandwich board signs. I am on the board for my HOA, and we use the signs to announce things like meetings, community yard sales, etc. Two of the four I originally made were stolen while we were in a meeting, so I need to replace those; plus this weekend is a yard sale and I need to put the signs out for that.

I think I’ll do the baseboard tomorrow, and finish up the bathroom as much as possible then.

God bless and keep you all.

The boss (my new boss, that lets me work at home) had a series of events yesterday that was a bit much, even for his stalwart Italian demeanor. So, he’s putting out fires and told me to take some vacation days.

Hmm. What to do with myself?

Let’s see - finish the baseboard, make a dump run, clean out the train room/office, call about landscape gravel, call about getting a wall extension built, dig holes for new trees, finish the bathroom remodel - nope, nothing to do here. I think I’ll go play PS2 for a while…

God bless you all, and be sure to thank President Bush for making it tougher to get any kind of wage increase!

I probably should have mentioned that I usually don’t touch the computer on the weekends. If you posted a comment over the weekend, since I have moderation turned on, it didn’t get posted until this morning. I’ll see what I can do about that little bit of nagging inconvenience.

Did you have a good Mother’s Day weekend? I think my weekend was too short, as is usually the case. I called my mother, and left a message, but I didn’t hear back from her. Mom’s not really fond of my wife (called her the devil, actually) and communication has been … strained … since the wedding. Mom’s loss. TMBWitW is really very loving, and was looking forward to having a mother figure in her life again. Mom’s remark kind of put the kibosh on that.

Anyway - we spent the weekend with adopted family, which is really cool, since you know you get along with and really really like the family you pick. we also attended two birthday parties, which blew the diet out the window (like I’m going to refuse cake AND ice cream? get a grip!) but I am being good again as of this morning.

By the way - go to this site and register, then start bombarding your ignorant representatives about their lack of knowledge on the whole “let’s give away our country” program that Bush is trying to sell. Don’t believe the smoke and mirrors he will probably use this evening to push the “enforcement” side of the program; the amnesty is still there with all it’s ugly ramifications.

God bless you all and keep you safe.