Today baby is 11 weeks! I am so excited that the first trimester is almost over. It is so crazy to see pictures of how big the baby is right now. One of my books has actual sizes in it and it is so neat to see that. It is 2 ½ inches big now and weighs 8 grams… Baby really doesn’t have anything else to update you all on, just growing rapidly as now baby has eyelids and hair is growing.
This week, Dennis has been very busy. I thought I was going to get to see him more with the rain but some of his people he is chopping for only had ¼ inch of rain so it dried up enough for him to chop. He was so excited because yesterday they had a record breaking day. He chopped 2400 tons in 24 hours!!! I am like most of you and really don’t know how much that is but it sure sounds awesome!! I guess one of the guys that drives a truck sometimes climbed up a power pole to get some great photographs. He took over 300 pictures.
As for me, I drove back and forth to Sabetha quite a bit this week. It was fun to see Tom again. Uncle Doug’s foreign exchange student when he was in high school. It is hard to believe that it was 13 years ago when he was back from Japan. I remember so much of then. It is interesting to hear some insights of other countries on what they think of our country. I did not talk to him about this but hearing what he said to others was interesting to say the least. Going onto this, I work with a very intelligent man; Lawrence Collins. Larry as everyone calls him, is a retired U.S. Navy and has worked as about anything in the field of police you can. He is on the bomb squad in Topeka, he is a trained sniper, he has been about everything except for sheriff and he also is a fire fighter. The only thing he says he will not be is an EMT. He is fun to talk to as he has so much to say. He wrote a letter to our representatives and to our President to the United States. I know that he would not care if I share this because he may start passing this on in e-mails as well as local news papers and radio stations. So with that said, I would like to share the letter he wrote to our state representatives:
I am a very concerned citizen. This is the first time I have written my representatives, and I am doing so because I have had enough of what I see being done to my country via Washington
I am tired of paying ever greater amounts of money to taxes to people who produce bills and laws that I then have to donate large amounts of money to organizations such as the NRA to fight.
I want to say first off that I too am a public servant. I served 20 years active duty in our military and am now in my 15th year as a full time Police Officer. I have taken the same oath of office you have and know what it is to defend the rights of those who employ me. Our oath of office is first and foremost our word to those we serve that we will ensure their rights as guaranteed in our constitution will not be violated on our watch. We have given those who employ us our word on our honor that the supreme law of this land we will support and defend.
Our Constitution is not to be violated or suspended in any way, not to be politically correct, or to serve the greater good. This document is not a ‘living’ or ‘work in progress’. It is an intended by our founding fathers a protection of the American people from tyranny. Our founding fathers warned us to avoid gun control, a welfare state, a police state, entangling foreign alliances, a grandiose and omnipotent central government, enslaving taxation and the list goes on and on.
I see today violations by our federal government of our 1st amendment rights in the suggestions by some that we enact ‘the fairness doctrine’ The 2nd amendment, I don’t know where to start, what part of ‘shall not be infringed’ do our lawmakers not understand? The 2nd amendment is absolutely an individual right and is the one intended to separate a citizen from a subject. It is the right we have to guarantee all the others. The 4th amendment, intrusion into the jurisdiction of local, country and state law enforcement by federal authorities, and the actions of the American Gestapo also known as the IRS. The 10th amendment, the federal government far exceeding its job description by blackmailing the states with their own tax money.
This buy out of businesses within our country, the government owning these companies, the nationalism of health care, this is socialism!!!! Why are my representatives not jumping up and down on their desks screaming ‘you can’t do that’, ‘this is America’!!!
We are republic; citizens have the right to fail. Let these mismanaged companies go under, its taken place before and we survived. You want to put money where it will do some good, hire thousands more border patrol agents and stop supporting illegal aliens with our health care, education, housing, ect.
Also, what about this government program I hear about where we are encouraged to send in the ‘fishy e-mails’ of our neighbors who may be critical of the governments new programs? Wait! Is the year 1938? Is this Germany? My God! … Remember, ‘Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it’.
I am writing this as a citizen frightened for the future of this country, this Constitutional republic. I will do my part as an honest citizen and public servant and I am sure this is not the first letter like this you have received; at least I hope it isn’t.
I pray that the Lord who guided the hand of our founding fathers in the creation of our countries constitution will provide you with the same wisdom and foresightedness in preserving its liberties today. I thank you for your time and service and welcome any response.
Lawrence K. Collins U.S. Navy (ret.)
Holton, Kansas
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