We decided to go out for dinner tonight after spending hours-on-end updating web information we thought we would treat ourselves and go out to one of our favorite neighborhood restaurants. When we go there we noticed a sign that read we will be closing as of

November 2, 2008 because of the economy but we will still be catering small and large events no event is too small for us to cater, as I read the sign my stomach shrunk.

We were seated at our table with our favorite homemade potato chips fresh in the basket, as we discussed the restaurant closing we felt the crunch on the economy not knowing where tomorrow will really lead us, not to mention November 4^th Election Day.

Even the ride seemed kind of gloomy to think that Obama could possibly be our next President of the United States we both thought that America must be reaching its Judgment Day with even the terrorist endorsing Senator Obama. Is he even a true citizen of the United Sates with his personal relationships with known Ayers he would not even qualify to be his own personal body guard what makes people sure that he is qualified to be the next president just because he is a good speaker and orator. He sounds like the devil in lambs clothing!

We were very pleased with the Vice Presidential Debate tonight!

I even took time to shop at www.lipstickforpitbulls.com after the debate to bring more encouragement! I cannot wait to get my new lipsticks, case and T-Shirt.

We have great respect for Sarah Palin and we are praying that they slip right through the media bureaucracy into the White House.

As a lipstick slips comfortably back into the case.

America is ready for a change, and a change is what Sarah Palin brings with her own track record how she turned Alaska around! I pray that the American people have the wisdom to see through all the lies and promises and see that McCain and Palin are the right ticket to follow. America has suffered enough it is time now to rebuild, and to rebuild with wisdom and not put our President or Vice President in harm’s way! As Sarah said, no one of threat should be met without preconditions. It is naïve to believe that we can meet with people that hate Americans. We have to have our sanctions lined up! We cannot expect our President to sit with our enemies and put his life and our country in jeopardy, it would be a double jeopardy.

America changed 9-11 and we will never be the same there are people that hate and despise us and want to see America fall, we need to make sure on November the 4^th that we choose the right candidates that can lead and protect our country without putting our country in harm’s way!

America is that great beacon of light that says 

Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

I sadly found out that in the State of Oklahoma that Grandparent Rights have been abolished!

I lost my daughter July 16, 2008 and now I find out that I not only suffer the loss of her, but her 4 children as well!

In 2006 a bill was passed that ended Grandparent Rights in Oklahoma.

I was naïve enough to believe that if God made you a grandparent, you were a grandparent for life, not so in Oklahoma.

I spoke to two local attorney that fought for Grandparent Rights, and they both informed me that you have to prove that the children could possibly be in danger if you are not a part of their lives to keep it monitored to make sure that the surviving parent does not allow trash in his house that could put the children in danger!

Are you kidding I asked, we have reported to DHS three consecutive times about the children being neglected, abused, and sexually abused.

Not enough, the attorneys replied if DHS did not find anything on the surviving parent you could be considered a nuisance by the Oklahoma Judge.

Wait a minute didn’t I help elect that judge?

The attorney informed me that Grandparent Rights in Oklahoma are as hard and sometimes as costly as Child Custody cases.

I just have to say we have come a long way Oklahoma

You should be proud!

I have a gift and trade that I wanted to pass on to the next generation, but I am told that I may never see my Grandchildren again, not until they can start driving and make their way to our home, but I am sure by then that enough time will pass and they will forget about the Grandparents that went to Wal-Mart in the wee hours for cold medicine, or the Grandparents that were there to pay the utility bills when mom and dad could not pay them, and the many celebrations we celebrated as a family on Birthdays and Holidays.

I will have to answer to these children one day and tell them why we never got to see them again, but what about you Oklahoma what will you say, when the child comes up with another cigarette burn on her arm, or one of the boys tells you that the girlfriend will not stop touching him on his private, the child that cannot eat and is under weight 24lb 4 year-old because her teeth are rotten, the little girl with Lazy Eye that was never taken to a doctor. “Abuse” “Neglect”

What will be your excuse Oklahoma when they had loving Grandparents praying for them every night to keep them from harm’s way!

How will you look these 4 (four) children in their eyes?

God bless Oklahoma

Patricia & Brian Kelley

When I read Esther, I see the many qualities in Sarah Palin that shows a woman sent by God. When I study and read the Bible I see how God used women in the Bible, and placed them to be powerful women that really gave the orders to kings. I see this in the story of Esther. I see this same quality in Sarah Palin not that she is going to out shine John McCain, but that a woman with her caliber can hold her place in such a position. Only a true woman sent by God could really make the changes that need to be made.  She is a woman of faith that all the previous women in history dreamed of that would one day step into this position, and thank God it is not Hillary Clinton. When I look back at history and see how women were jailed and beaten because they wanted the "Right to Vote."

The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed 
nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking 
for the vote. 
And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. 
Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing 
went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 
'obstructing sidewalk traffic.' 

They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above 
her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping 
for air. 

They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her 
head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, 
Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. 
Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, 
beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, 
when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his
guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because 
they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right 
to vote. 
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their 
food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. 

When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks 
until word was smuggled out to the press. 
So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because- 
-why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? 
Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?

Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new 
movie 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic depiction of the battle 
these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling 
booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder.

All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the
actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote. 
Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege. 
Sometimes it was inconvenient.

My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history, 
saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talk 
about it, she looked angry. She was--with herself. 'One thought 
kept coming back to me as I watched that movie,' she said. 
'What would those women think of the way I use, or don't use, 
my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just 
younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn.' The 
right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her 'all over again.'

HBO released the movie on video and DVD. I wish all history, 
social studies and government teachers would include the movie in 
their curriculum I want it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhere 
else women gather. I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing,
but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think 
a little shock therapy is in order.

It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.

The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.' 

Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know. 

We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so 
hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party - remember to vote.

History is being made.

Sarah Palin is fresh and a spirited individual that I will say 10 years from now I will proudly say, that I voted for her and what she stood for.  I feel a new era for the women of the United States and I think every woman should get off her couch and vote, so what if the cookies are in the oven, turn the oven off and vote.  You may never have the chance again to make a difference in this world, now is the opportunity it is Sarah. I think it is going to be an interesting change that takes place and one that we will all be eager to follow. I think she is a great role model someone that all young girls and women alike can all look up to! Thanks, John McCain for showing that behind every successful man is a woman! Cindy is a keeper too!