HidingTreats

I hide treats. I would hide my flea pills if I could find them, but for some peculiar reason, I only hide my treats.

It isn't that I don't like or want them, so I must derive some perverse pleasure in rediscovery. I must admit I also find it amusing to see my humans in the morning as they wake up to crumbs in their beds. Did I also mention I am the night security guard around here? My nightly travels around the house bring me back to those hidden treats, where I just can't resist chewing on a few.

The hard, crumbly treats are for hiding, the soft ones are for immediate gratification. I equate the soft treats to good, the hard treats to the unknown.

In America we also have the choice of soft treats vs. hard treats. The soft treats are the good things that happen to and for our country. The hard treats are the unknown things that happen to our country when we are not paying attention:

• Progressivism-“Barack Obama is the final piece of the map in the progressive movement’s century of steady destruction of the U.S. dollar, income taxation, and massive liberal intrusion into the lives of all Americans from birth to death.” The roots of progressivism lie in the pronouncements of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as outlined in the Communist Manifesto. These governing principles were adopted and implemented by men such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro and Chavez. (Alan Caruba in the Canada Free Press)
• Extremism-(represented on both sides of the political spectrum) is any ideology (particularly in politics or religion), considered to be far outside the mainstream attitudes of a society or to violate common moral standards.
• Defense Budget-At a time for demonstrating “peace through strength,” the president’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget blueprint instead suggests America is on the retreat, with fewer resources to engage as a global leader. The president is mistaken to suggest that modernizing America’s defense capabilities is an excuse to gut them. Like many of my colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee, I was appalled to learn that the president’s budget shifts Washington’s financial burdens onto the backs of our men and women in uniform. (U.S. Senator Roger Wicker)
• Hatred-there is no room for hate. We must all come together for this country.
• Division-we must ignore the rhetoric coming out of Washington; they are trying to divide us.

"The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism."

Frank H. Underhill