Hello From Tennessee,

Hello From Tennessee,

Tonight I was going to write about the election. I had planned on starting to write again. But after the tornado's moved across parts of our great state Tuesday night, the story below is a reminder that there are more important things in life than politics. So I will save my thoughts on Tuesdays election for another night. Please read the story below and keep the people in your prayers. The twisters killed 32 people in Tennessee, 13 in Arkansas, 7 in Kentucky and 5 in Alabama.

Keith

CASTALIAN SPRINGS, Tenn.

At first, rescuers thought it was a doll. Then it moved.

In a grassy pasture strewn with toys, splintered lumber and bricks tossed by the tornado's widespread wrath, 11-month old Kyson Stowell was lying face down in the mud, 150 yards from where his home once stood.

"It looked like a baby doll," said David Harmon, a firefighter who had already combed the field once looking for survivors. Then he checked for a pulse. "He was laying there motionless ... and he took a breath of air and started crying."

The field had already been combed once for survivors, and finding anyone alive seemed improbable. Hours after the storm, there was devastation everywhere: The body of the boy's mother was found in the same field, houses were wiped to concrete slabs and a brick post office was blown to bits. But except for a few scrapes, Kyson was fine.

Kyson's story emerged as a tale of hope amid spectacular misery as residents in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas tried to piece their lives back together after the nation's deadliest twister rampage in two decades killed 58 people.

There was good news to celebrate. Baby Kyson was discharged from a hospital and was in the care of his grandparents. He had scrapes and gashes on his cheek and by his big blue eyes, but otherwise was fine. Clinging to his grandmother, he fussed a little - something he normally does at naptime.

As word the tornado was coming spread through the community Tuesday, the Stowells called their their 23-year-old daughter Kerri warning her to take cover. In a phone call with her fiance's sister, Kerri said she was bracing for the storm in the bathtub, clutching her baby to her side.

The phone cut out as Kay Stowell and her daughter spoke. Then came an ominous voicemail - no words, just the sound of wind.

It took two hours for the Stowells to drive around the downed trees and power lines and make the four-mile trip to Kerri's home- or what was left of it. It was during that time that rescuers Harmon and Karl Wegner decided to give the pasture one last look.

When the Stowells made it to the scene, the first thing Douglas Stowell saw was a firefighter holding the baby. Not long thereafter, another emergency worker showed Stowell a photo of a body found nearby. He confirmed it was his stepdaughter.

"If it had been both of them, I couldn't have handled it," he said.

Kerri Stowell's fiance, 22-year-old Charles Scott, believed she tried to keep her son safe as the storm closed in. "She would have given her life trying to protect that baby," he said.

The family has set up a trust fund to pay for Kyson Stowell's college education. Checks may be sent to Sun Trust Bank, 1605 21st Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37212. Or call 615-340-0249

Please Remember the People of Tennessee in your prayers. Thank God that in the mist of a tragedy there is hope and there is A miracle.

Keith

Hello from the hills of East Tennessee,

It hot, dry and great to be in East Tennessee, Its been a while since I last updated the blog. It's  been a really busy spring and summer. The kids are now back in school. AND I AM SICK OF PRESIDENTAL DEBATES. Man can't they wait a little longer. Every other day the dem-o-rats are debating, with nothing new to say. Lets run, raise taxes, screw the people and tell them it's what they want. But now I have made my choice on which candidate I am supporting for president. (When and If he announces). I’m with Fred. I will make this bold prediction now. If Fred Thompson runs he WILL carry his home state of Tennessee, unlike the last candidate who called Tennessee home. (Al Gore). Fred was a great Senator for the state of Tennessee. He would be just as good as president of the United States. He is the closest thing we have had to the Great Ronald Reagan in several years. So I’m with Fred. It must be sad to be a dem-o-rat these days. Look at their candidate. Sorry field. But we do have Fred now. Things are looking much better. I am posting a link to his website at the top of my blog. Now that the presidential campaign is getting into full swing, I should be doing a lot of posting. I can tell you now it is going to be fun. The dem’s must know how bad they really suck. Their approval rating is below the presidents LOL. Of course it Bush’s fault that they suck. The first woman speaker of the house, what’s her name? You know the one that made history. Man I can’t think of her name. Well anyway she has really been a failure. This has got to be one of the most do nothing congress I have ever seen. What have they done except complain and bitch about Iraq. I have also noticed that polls are turning in favor of the President. The surge may be working. I know that would really suck for the democrats and the press. But being who they are, living a miserable life I am sure they will find something to tare down. It must really suck being a democrat. I mean look at them, they really are not happy people. The party of gloom and dome. They never smile. Even last November when they won the election they smiled for a few moments then that was it. And they don’t really get it. I mean look at the only things that they have done. OOPS sorry there is nothing. They don’t seem to get it that people DO NOT CARE about the firing of 8 US attorneys. The American people DON’T care about it. People are not standing around the water cooler saying, oh my gosh they fired an attorney. The American people DON’T CARE. And yet the dems can’t seem to get it. Yet they seem to forget that Clinton fired a lot more. Oh and I forgot they bitched about the president’s pardon of Scooter Libby, who should have never been convicted in the first place. He should have NEVER been in a court room to begin with. I mean let’s face it, WE ALL have stretched the truth a little bit, and we all have told little white lies. We are human. The money that was WASTED on this circus should be taken out of the special prosecutors pay. For the democrats to be bitching about his pardon is a joke. If every politician in American was to be tried and convicted on grounds of misleading then there would be NO politicians in America today. Oh and I forgot, the dems are having all kinds of hearings. Hearings to prove nothing. The do nothing democrats are doing nothing.

Have a great Saturday,

Keith

From Knoxville,

It's a cold Sunday night in Knoxville, It stinks that Kevin Harvick won the Daytona 500. Oh well. Now on to the topic of tonights post.

I have to ask, does the democrat party want more of the United State military to die in Iraq? I understand they are on their petals saying they are only bringing up these non-binding resolutions to force the president to change course. They say over and over again that they support the service men and women. However I find it very hard to believe them. Since 1992 the democrat party has been very anti-military. They are anti-military until they need the service men and women to save their sorry butts. Words are nothing more than just that, idol words. Actions do speak louder than words. I would say that next time Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, or any other anti-military democrat goes into Iraq, the US military should let them go it alone. Instead of providing their sorry butts with security, let them fend for themselves. Of course when it comes to protecting them, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha and the rest of the military loving democrats are all military. But then again, our military has more class than that. The US Military is the very BEST. Does anyone realize that since Jan 4^th, this congress has done nothing? They passed a minimum wage increase, that’s caused some to lose their jobs. That’s it. Nothing more. Nothing has been done regarding illegal immigrations. Of course Nancy Pelosi wants a jet to carry her and her family across country at the tax payers expense. I say yes to allowing her to fly non stop from Washington to California. But the taxpayers of the United States should not have to foot the bill to carry her family across country. Hell they wouldn’t do it for you or I. For John Murtha to threaten the Air Force with cutting their funding if they don’t give Pelosi what she wants, shows just how ANTI-MILITARY the democrat party is. Getting back to the question, does the democrat party secretly want to see more of the US military personnel in Iraq die? Do they secretly want the United States to fail in Iraq, just for political gain? I believe the answer is yes. Let me say here that not all democrats feel this way. However I do believe that Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Dickey Durbin, Carl Levin, and Charles Schumer, secretly would like to see Iraq a complete failure for their on personal political gain. That is not only a shame, that is a disgrace to their party. Again I say not all democrats feel this way, but I truly believe the democrat leadership in both the house and senate do. They and their defenders say this is nonsense, that to say such a thing is questioning their patriotism, but again Actions speak louder than words. Their words speak their desire for failure. It is a disgrace and a slap in the face of the greatest military on planet earth. I hope that President Bush has the guts to stand up to the democrat leadership and challenge them to cut funding for the military in Iraq. If this happens you would see a country turn on a party in a heartbeat. As I have said before, the nation DID NOT give the democrats control of both the house and senate because of Iraq. Maybe the northeast did so, but not the rest of America. You never hear about the democrat seats in Georgia that it took several days to determine the winner. You never hear what most of the new members of congress stand for or what platform they ran on. They were republicans running as democrats. Except maybe Jim Webb in Virginia. Every time you see that man he looks like someone spit in his oatmeal. 90 percent of the democrat winners in November ran as conservative democrats. Democrats running on republican ideas. In closing tonight, I am honest with you when I say I believe the democrat leadership wants to see more dead US Service members and a complete failure in Iraq. What are the democrats going to do and say if we succeed in Iraq? What if the troop increase works? What will Harry, Hillary, Charles, Dick, Carl, Nancy and John along with their wacko wonders have to say? Their actions speak louder than their words.

God's Speed

Keith

Happy New Year from East Tennessee,

Winter is in the air, and it is beginning to look alot like Christmas in East Tennessee. The Tennessee Vols had a very good football season this year. That always makes me very happy. I have to admit, I didn't think the Republican's would lose control of the senate this fall. If you look at the new house and senate members elected in November, you will have to agree that most look very much like republicans. It is going to be very interesting to see how well they get along with the incoming Speaker of the House. For Example, Heath Shuler who was elected from the 11th district of North Carolina. Heath is nothing more than a republican running as a democrat. Heath Shuler who was and is one of my all time favorite quarterbacks from the University of Tennessee (and whose autograph still hangs on my wall next to Peyton Manning's) is a very conservative democrats. Heath Shuler is only one of a very few democrats that I would have cast a vote for. He has a very strong faith in God, with very conservative views. It is going to be very interesting to see how he and others get along with the liberal leadership. We all can agree that the ear of lies have began. In the summer and fall, the Democrats big theme was, "we are going to enact every that was recommends from the 9/11 commission. NOW we see that is and was not true.

As a child growing up, my parents taught me some very valuable lessons. A very important lesson they taught me early on was, if you make a mess, clean it up, and do not leave if for someone else to do. . And if you make a mistake, take responsibility and correct it. This lesson I would think applied to the US policy in Iraq. We all know that the intelligent leading to the war in Iraq was bad. According to the democrat party, we made a mistake going to war in Iraq. However their policy is to cut and run. The democrat policy is teaching our children that no matter how bad you mess up, you can just pass the mess onto someone else to clean up. This is not a policy I want my children to learn. For this reason the US should not take up the milk and cookie defense and foreign policy of the democrat party. The US has got to stay the course. We cannot afford to leave this for someone else to clean up. This is will hurt the US more than the “US foreign policy" under the Bush Administration. Now with that being said, lets move on to other topics.

I was amused this afternoon when reading a story from the BBC on former President Jimmy Carter. First let me say that in my lifetime there has NEVER been a more failed Presidency than that of Jimmy Carter. In the past few days Mr. Carter has blast British Prime Minister Tony Blair and now he no longer wishes to see Joe Lieberman re-elected to the senate. Of course this is no surprise. You would think after being a failure at leading the greatest country on earth, Mr. Carter would want the US to succeed in Iraq. Mr. Carter has talked openly about his born again Christian faith. The time has now come for Jimmy Carter to practice his born again Christian faith. In an interview with BBC News night, Mr. Carter blast Tony Blair saying “I have been really disappointed in the apparent subservience of the British government's policies related to many of the serious mistakes that have been originated in Washington."  "No matter what kind of radical or ill-advised policy was proposed from the White House, it seems to me that almost automatically the government of Great Britain would adopt the same policy without exerting its influence.  This was the case "in the Middle East peace process, in the case of the Lebanese/Israeli war in the recent past and certainly in the ill-advised abandonment of the war against terrorism to substitute the war in Iraq", he said.  Asked if he thought Britain was exerting its influence behind the scenes, Jimmy Carter replied he had seen no evidence of that.  "I haven't seen the corrective effect of British disagreement with what the White House has proposed. It may be there, it hasn't been evident to the public," he said. 

Once again Mr. Carter is displaying the democrats foreign and defense policy. Cut and Run. On Joe Lieberman Mr. Carter had the following to say on Larry King live. "He was one of the originators of public statements that misled the American people into believing that the Iraqi war was justified, "He's joined in with the Republican spokespersons by saying that Democrats who disagree are really supporting terrorism," Carter said.” So for all these reasons, I've lost my confidence in Joe Lieberman and don't wish to see him re-elected." Jimmy Carter boasts of his “Christian faith”. Yet his faith is weak. He is a man that rubs shoulders with evil dictators such as Fidel Castro and yet he blast Tony Blair and President George W Bush as being evil and turns on his friend Joe Lieberman. . Former President Jimmy Carter should practice what he preaches, by removing the beam from his own eye before removing them from others. Jimmy Carter should be asking people to pray for these men if they are so misguided or so evil. Mr. Carter is nothing more than a Scribe, Pharisees, and Hypocrite, as well as having the worse presidency in the modern era.

America is safer under President George W Bush.

This is the National defense policy that the democrats are offering to the American people. “Let’s offer the terrorist a cup of tea and some of those little butter cookies and maybe they will like us“. This is the policy Harry Reid, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, and the loony left of the democrat party want to use in fighting terrorist. They want to attack the President and the Republican Party, saying we are not safe, that the president’s policies are making us less safe. The President has the guts to take the terrorist on head to head; he will not back down from threats. The democrats have NO plan to keep America safe. Tea and cookies will not do it. Sitting down at a table and talking will not do it. Having guts to fight them will win.

I hear their words but their actions speak louder. They will not fight the terrorist. If the democrat party takes control America will be less safe. Can you imagine Nancy Pelosi as a defender of the American people? The democrat party and their suggestions that they are the party to keep America safe, is a joke. We need a strong leader. Harry Reid, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean are NOT strong leaders. Thus far the democrat party has failed to put forth a plan or vision for keeping America safe. Their first words are “to put in place everything the 9ll commission suggested". From everything I have read most of the suggestions are in place. If President Bush has made us less safe, then I have to ask what happened last week? Thousands of people are still alive today because the President along with our allies in the war on terror had the courage to go after the terrorist, not offering them Tea and cookies. The democrat leadership is congress is very weak, they have no backbone when it comes to fighting terrorist.

Last week when the terrorist plot was uncovered, instead of the democrat party being delighted that thousands of lives where not blown to bits in mid air, they were upset because it showed their lack of backbone and their weakness when it comes to standing up to thugs. The democrat party with their leadership sought to attack the President and the Republican Party. It is to their shame that they are so weak. They cave in to the loony left of their party. The democrat leadership should have some balls and stand up to the terrorist and the liberals in their party. Protecting America and the American people are more important than any party. This is a lesson the democrat leadership needs to learn.

Now you know my thoughts for this Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Keith

It's Friday Thank God,

According to Time, had the terrorist plot succeeded over 2700 people would have died. Planes would have been blown up in mid air. You can read the article here. (Time.Com). However thanks to “chatter” or intercepts of the group's communications that  US intelligence provided to British authorities over 2700 people’s lives have been spared.

According to the far left and Republican Arlene Specter this is "domestic spying" and violates our civil liberties.  Tonight the domestic wiretapping program has done its job. President Bush has said all along the domestic wiretapping program was to track terrorist only. The left along with Mr. Specter have done nothing but complain. The loony left and Arlene Specter should explain to the American people why intercepting the terrorist communications and saving over 2700 lives is wrong and explain  how this has violated our civil liberties. We must know their intentions and plans in order to keep the American people safe. If intercepting their phone calls will prevent attacks then this is something we MUST do. Many liberals in congress and around the world would like to negotiate with terrorist. Have a dialogue with them, reason with them. You cannot negotiate, reason nor have a dialogue with a bunch of cold blooded killers.

Rudy Giuliani appearing on Hannity and Colmes Thursday night said it best. “You cannot negotiate with them. These are not people — they have demonstrated to us that they despise us. They hate us. They want to kill us. And they want to kill us because we're a modern society. They want to kill us because we give women rights. They want to kill us because we have freedom of religion. They want to kill us because we have elected officials. They want to kill us because we're modern and we can't give that up. What are we going to negotiate away? The rights for women? Are we going to negotiate; we're going to set up this Islamic state?”

I think this also underlined why the effort in Iraq is so important. Engaging the terrorists by being on offensive against them has kept us safe. And we're not going to be safe forever, and we are going to be attacked again.” America’s mayor went on to say. “We've improved but we are not at a level of — certainly not at a level of perfect safety. Probably never going to get there. And we're probably not going to be at the level that we should be. We still have to do more.

But the fact is that we should give some credit to our government. They have kept us safe. And honestly, Alan, I didn't think that was possible.

On September 11 or September 12, you would ask me — I think some people probably did — are we going to get attacked? We were preparing for numerous attacks over that short period and then well into the next couple of years.

Somehow, some way, we've been able to keep ourselves safe for this period of time. And I think some of that was just thank God and some of it, I mean, the policies of the government, including being on offensive against terrorism.”

 Tonight I am sure the 2700 people who may have been on planes that were to be blown up in mid air would say, THANK YOU to US President George W Bush for not allowing the loony left and some in his own party to put an end to the domestic wiretapping program. Democrats do not want the American people to be reminded of how weak they are on national defense. They do not want us to be reminded that the best defense against terrorist attacks in the future is to be on offense.

Have a Great Weekend

Keith