Ruth McClung Vs. Raul Grijalva : The Choice For Our Children
63Happily Ever After
The battle between Ruth McClung and Raul Grijalva for the Arizona CD7 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives is not about them. It never has been. It's about the next generation...and the next generation after that. As in, from Sarah Palin to Bristol Palin to Tripp Palin, etc.
In our family, this was brought sharply home last Sunday when Pam's youngest child and only son, Zach, advised his Mom that he'd be marrying his girlfriend...on Saturday. Said girlfriend, Stephanie, is pregnant--and her side of the family may have had something to say about that. Shotgun wedding and all, sans shotgun.
My sweetie was naturally thrilled, excited, and stressed as all get-out by the news.
"SATURDAY?!! ARE YOU KIDDING?!! THANKS FOR THE LAST MINUTE NOTICE!! HOW AM I GOING TO GET READY BY THEN?!"
Being a guy, "last minute" actually means...last minute. It's a girl thing.
Talk about a few words triggering a plethora of thoughts to process, though. Here are a few:
1. I probably won't be online much (if at all) between the time of this hub's publication and sometime on September 25, after the wedding. To alleviate my Pammie's stress levels as much as humanly possible, the next couple of days need to be dedicated to acting as her slave--uh, I mean husband--running and fetching and soothing and being patient. All that good stuff.
2. Personally intriguing coincidence: We have a dear friend, a prison pen pal incarcerated in Arizona. The wedding is on the same day as Sherri's birthday...but the people getting hitched don't know Sherri.
3. We're even more motivated to see hardcore liberal America-killing politicians like Green Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona CD8 (our District) and Raul "Boycott" Grijalva defeated on November 2, because they're making it ever so tough for breadwinners like 24 year old Zach to provide for their families...and because the human smuggling through this area constitutes a clear and present danger to their welfare. One large group of illegal immigrants was apprehended this year by the Border Patrol just 15 feet from Zach's front door. Incoming!
The Insurance Factor
Obamacare is, as we on the right have known since long before it was rammed up our--I mean, down our throats (or somewhere), one of the great disasters of our times on many levels. One of those levels involves our children in the most direct way.
A piece in the Los Angeles Times begins an article titled Big insurers curtailing "child-only" policies with the following words:
LOS ANGELES--Major health insurance companies in a number of states have decided to stop selling policies for tens of thousands of children rather than comply with a new federal health care law that bars them from rejecting youngsters with preexisting conditions.
With Obama's drive to crush the USA in his Progressive Compactor until it becomes just one more third world country lacking sovereignty and controlled by a global government, such actions by corporations unwilling to slit their own financial throats are undoubtedly marvelous things. Hey, it's a long walk off a short pier and just around the corner to a single payer (government) system from there.
For We the People, it's a call to war. Not against Anthem Blue Cross or Cigna or Aetna, but against those who would steal both our legacy of Liberty and our children's future.
McClung 2010 and Remember in November.
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Coach, sure, I'll be posting a few pics of the wedding, but only in an album on my Facebook page. Since that's under my given name (not Ghost32), feel free to drop me an email if you need to know how to find 'em.
Pam doesn't want the pics out here on a hub as such, and she's probably right about that.
About the Grampa thing, here's the (estimated) tally:
1. Via my two biological daughters, probably something like a dozen or so grandchildren. However, I've not met any of them, since my girls and I've been estranged since 1975 when I allowed their stepdad to adopt them. For good reasons at the time, but after I no longer had any legal standing, Mommy Dearest turned me into an alien in their eyes by the stories she told--learned about that when the youngest was 15. The estrangement is starting to show signs of fraying at the edges, but whether there will be any actual conciliation in this lifetime is anyone's guess. They know where I am and how to reach me, since they DO stay in touch with my siblings.
Word was passed to me, with my daughter's approval, when one of those granddaughters committed suicide at the age of 18.
I'm probably also great-grandpa a few times over in that line.
Regarding my third wife, I adopted her two boys when they were in their midteens. The older, Jason, married a ready made family and added a few more, but I've not had much contact with that batch since Jason dropped dead out of bed at the age of 37 in 2003.
His brother, Dean, has one divorce and (from that marriage) one child.
Pam's daughters have at least 5 kids total, although we can't say more than that--since the eldest, who had 4 boys last we knew, has been cut out from our lives entirely. Toxic. The other girl has one son and is a jewel.
So, this child could possibly be my TWENTY-FIRST grandchild (if we're counting step-grandchildren, since Zach's not in my bloodline but is close to me), but hardly my first.
I've lost track of all the teenagers I mentored in the late 1970s while working as a live-in group home houseparent, so those don't count and aren't included...but even so, you can see why I've got plenty of motivation to take back our country from those who would destroy (and are rapidly destroying) our way of life and our heritage.
Remember in November.
pcoach Level 3 Commenter 20 months ago
Well, congratulations GRAMPA!!!!!! I know your experience with the in-laws will be a memorable one and if not painful, then you will share it with us! Yes? If they don't already, they will love you. Is this your first grandchild? My instinct says yes but I could be wrong?
Enjoy the wedding. Can't wait to see the pics as I KNOW you will be sure we get to see!! (That is probably the worse sentence I have ever hit the "enter" button on knowing how bad it was!)