31 January 2012
Listen to this before you vote, Floridians

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27 January 2012
Damn, don't you know this makes me proud to be a Georgia native!
This sort of embarrassing stupidity is reason enough for any native son to move to Washington

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14 January 2012
Kill a varmint for Jesus
Texas' brand of Christianity

An', honey chile, that's what I like about the South!  (Not.)

This is an actual ad that appears on my Gmail page often. How might they have known I so wanted an opportunity to demonstrate to the world what I abhore about the South and Protestant Christians of the variety that live there?

I opened the disgusting ad to give them a piece of my mind about hunting wild hogs.

But I then saw that they have Jesus involved in their cruel schemes and that sent me off in another direction.

They are truly without hope or merit. Many other lifetimes are needed before men who think hunting wild hogs as sport has any relationship to Jesus' teachings; to Christianity; to decency; to honor; to love; to anything that is good or positive or of the Light; will progress out of their Darkness.

D. Grant Haynes
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(Actual ad copy)

Texas Best Hog Hunting

Helping you reach out to your lost Brother is our purpose and ministry. We know that the time to Christ's return is near, and every Christian from every walk of life should be busy about the Father's business, helping to bring in our lost brothers.

God can use anyone who is willing to do his work, and this became our realization when we asked Him, "but what can we do Father? We are in the hunting business, and how could you use us?" This plan of action and website was His answer.

He has directed our family to take our business and be about His business of winning the lost for Him. He has given us this plan.

As of this writing, we are also making our ranch available to the Men's Church Groups of the Christian Faith, and doing so at a deeply discounted rate. This is not about denomination, but about Christ and helping you to be "living proof of a loving God to a watching world."

Do you have a brother, father, son, friend, or neighbor that you have invited to go to church, but they have continually refused? Have you tried to witness to your lost friends or family to no avail? Have they refused to hear about Christ through the traditional means? This is where the Lord has led us to help fill the gap.

They may have continually refused to go to church with you, but would they like to go hunting with you, and do so at a really good price? This will give you an opportunity to spend several days of travel and hunting with them, and let them see Christ through you. The goal being, to win your lost friend to Christ.

To help you facilitate a group hunt that is affordable, we are offering your Men's Group of 12-16 men, the Ranch Hand Hog Hunt Package, valued at $499 per hunter, for free. These group hunts are to be taken from April 1 to October 1 of each year, with check in days of Sunday-Wednesday only. Not included are the guide fee, hunting license, hog cleaning/processing or gratuities.

To reserve a hunt, please call in a credit/debit card for $500. This will be applied to other expenses when you are on the ranch.

Remaining Start dates for this 3 day hunt: May 14 2012 June 11, 18, 25 2012 July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Aug 6, 13, 20, 27

Sept 3, 10, 17, 24 2012

Please call the Ranch to make arrangement for your Men's Group today.

RanchHand Hog Hunt Package: $499 per hunter (regular price)

This is a 3 day, 2 night wild hog hunt package, and includes:

•1 hog of any size; no trophy fees + unlimited piglets under 50 lbs.

•Any 2 predators or varmints per day (Bobcat, Coyote, Fox, Possum, Armadillo, Racoon, Rabbit, Ringtail Cat, or Mountain lion. We only see a few mountain lion per year, but we want them shot on sight!)

• Day & Night hunting sessions

•All Meals and Drinks

•Great Lodging

•Not included:

•Hunting license ($48 non-resident Adult, $7 for under 17 yrs old) @ Walmart)

•Hog Cleaning (up to 100 lbs. is $45.00 to gut, skin, and quarter. Add $10 per 50 lbs thereafter. Example, a 200 lb hog would be $65. Cut and wrap is also available as an optional service. Taxidermy prep to cape $20.

•Gratuity for your staff

•Gun Rentals and ammo are available

•Guide/Staff fee of $100/hunter. This is to be paid in cash, upon arrival

•All non-included services are to be paid in cash only at the ranch.

http://www.hoghuntinghoghunting.com/5.html

(I decided I had best provide the URL for this ad lest you, my readers, think I am spoofing you.  Go to "Ministries" on this site and see the copy.  Tell me too if the young man pictured did not appear in the film, Deliverance.  I think he rocked on the cabin porch and lead in "Dueling Banjos". -- DGH)
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31 October 2011
Philosophizing in the dune grass
My thoughts on mortality, immortality, deep ecology, more
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24 October 2011
'New' Libya begins on disingenuous note
Gaddafi murdered by lynch mob: That is obvious

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/libya-to-investigate-gaddafis-death/2011/10/24/gIQAjuQtCM_story.html

Libya's new regime has introduced itself on the world stage as a cadre of Western-sponsored thugs that are, at the very least, no better than was Muammar Gaddafi. 

They and the world know how Gaddafi died.  He was shot through the left temple by one of the tennis-shoed "rebels" the West supported with countless air strikes for half a year and more.

For the new regime to desecrate the man's remains by continuing to keep them on public display in a meat locker while calling for an "investigation" into his death reeks of disingenuous chicanery.

They have learned their first lesson well from the US and other Western administrations that put them in power:  Lie without reservation whenever such serves the geopolitical goals of your regime or your puppet masters.

D. Grant Haynes

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16 October 2011
Michael Moore visits Lawrence O'Donnell of The Last Word
Moore says Occupy Wall Street cannot be stopped now

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14 October 2011
Why the Occupy Wall Street movement must and will bring change
The time has come for crony capitalism to go
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09 October 2011
Yanks, 9 years and 100,000 or more Iraqi deaths later, you still can't buy them, huh!
What could illustrate more clearly absurdity of Bush's Iraq War?
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05 October 2011
Michael Moore visits occupy Wall Street event
A 'must watch' segment!

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30 September 2011
Lawrence O'Donnell on police brutality in NYC
O'Donnell pulls no punches
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29 September 2011
Masterful segment by Rachel Maddow
If you aren't up to watching all, fast forward to last half

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17 September 2011
Obama disappoints one more time
His jobs bill too timid, middle-of-the-road
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14 September 2011
And now you get mad...
What took you so long?

Now, since Obama's regime, all of a sudden, folks have gotten mad, and want to take America Back...BACK TO WHAT/WHERE is my question?????

After The 8 Years Of The Bush/Cheney Disaster, Now You Get Mad?

You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate Energy policy and push us to invade Iraq.

You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.

You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.

You didn't get mad when we spent over 800 billion (and counting) on said illegal war.

You didn't get mad when Bush borrowed more money from foreign sources than the previous 42 Presidents combined.

You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars in cash just disappeared in Iraq.

You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn't get mad when Bush embraced trade and outsourcing policies that shipped 6 million American jobs out of the country.

You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.

You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.

You didn't get mad when Bush rang up 10 trillion dollars in combined budget and current account deficits.

You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.

You didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.

You didn't get mad when we gave people who had more money than they could spend, the filthy rich, over a trillion dollars in tax breaks.

You didn't get mad with the worst 8 years of job creations in several decades.

You didn't get mad when over 200,000 US Citizens lost their lives because they had no health insurance.

You didn't get mad when lack of oversight and regulations from the Bush Administration caused US Citizens to lose 12 trillion dollars in investments, retirement, and home values.

You finally got mad when a black man was elected President and decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, job losses by the millions, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, and the worst economic disaster since 1929 are all okay with you, but helping fellow Americans who are sick...Oh, Hell No!!

(Thank you, Ces', the most brilliant canuck in North America, for sharing this!)

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10 September 2011
The photo ops are too well planned, orderly and rebels look as boys
Something is missing in Libya story

The photo ops are too staged and perfect.

The "anti-Gaddafi" fighters are too young and are without uniforms in many cases. They lack the look of battle-hardened soldiers.

Something is wrong in this picture.

I don't believe all that the media of the West is peddling about the war in Libya.

If Muammar Gaddafi has been toppled, it was done by NATO aircraft with a lot of logistical support from the United States, if not direct involvement. It was not done by those young men being photographed by the media.

I question what the motives of the West are in toppling this North African Muslim regime. I have always questioned those motives.

Seldom does the United States do anything to avenge "human rights violations". More often than not, as in Iraq, they invent new ways to violate human rights, if so doing will further world capitalism's cause.

I do not doubt that Muammar Gaddafi was a ruthless strong arm dictator, as was Saddam Hussein. But in both cases, I seriously question the alleged altruism involved in the US and Great Britain's enthusiasm for righting wrongs and liberating Arab masses.

Does Libya have petroleum reserves?

Do western companies stand to gain anything monetarily in the Libya shake up?

Again, I am suspicious of all the cheerleading in the West about a rag tag band of non-uniformed young men routing Gaddafi.

I question the factual nature of the reporting and I question the motives of those that have bombed Muammar Gaddafi into oblivion, if that is truly the case.

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16066567

D. Grant Haynes

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September 16, 2011

Please view following report from Russia Today.  It confirms precisely what I anticipated in my commentary above. -- D. Grant Haynes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEvsKv0Tzuo&feature=player_embedded#!

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01 September 2011
Our cowardly president blinked again
Asking or expecting Obama to be bold is pointless

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/31/martin.obama.jobs.boehner/

Democrats begged Barack Obama not to give in to John Boehner on the prime time speech issue, as on many other issues in the recent past.  But the President had blinked and given the GOP another victory before the ink was dry in pleas that he act presidential one time and not be frightened by blue-eyed John Boehner.

When will you accept, Democrats, that Barack Obama lacks the courage or spunk to stand up and defy Republicans on any issue?  Ever?

He will always defer to a John Boehner or Mitch McConnell to the last day of his abortive one-term presidency.  

Obama is a nice guy--too nice to be president of this nation of scoundrels. 

We need a kick-ass president who would have demanded Wednesday night's air time, regardless of a Republican debate.

After all, Barack Obama IS the President and occupies that unique "bully pulpit" of which Teddy Roosevelt spoke. 

Obama seems unable to grasp the potential for good that was his when Americans elected him.  He has frittered it all away.  He will go down in history as a weak president.

D. Grant Haynes

 

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