The OTNC Reunion

On Saturday October 5th. 2019, a celebration of Old Town National City (OTNC) took place in Pepper Park on the Westside of National City.  What a time we had!  It was so special to see people I grew up with and went to elementary, junior high and high school with.  Most of them I seldom see anymore.  We did much reminiscing.  There was much laughter and story-telling.  What a pleasant time it was.  When a person is old and starts talking about those days with others with similar experiences, it is heart-warming.  I was asked to do the opening prayer.  There was music, dancing, food and above all.........reminiscing.  We had a good time.  I look forward to the next OTNC celebration.  It was pretty special.

Quotes By Herlong, Snyder and Webster

Communist Goals for America- Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”- Control schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda.- Soften curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put party line in textbooks.Control student newspapers.- Infiltrate churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion (i.e. “social justice,” “liberation theology”).- Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”- Discredit American culture.- Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and divorce.- Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy." Albert S. Herlong, Jr.         (1909-1995) US Congressman (D-FL) (1949-1969)

"As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant of the people... The Bill of Rights does not grant rights to the people, such that its repeal would legitimately confer upon government the powers otherwise proscribed. The Bill of Rights is the list of the fundamental, inalienable rights, endowed in man by his Creator, that define what it means to be a free and independent people, the rights which must exist to ensure that government governs only with the consent of the people."
Jeffrey R. Snyder      American attorney, author

"Another source of power in government is a military force. But this, to be efficient, must be superior to any force that exists among the people, or which they can command; for otherwise this force would be annihilated, on the first exercise of acts of oppression. Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive."
 Noah Webster   (1758-1843) American patriot and scholar, author of the first dictionary of American English usage (1806) and the author of the 1828 edition of the dictionary that bears his name.    

A Teddy Roosevelt Quote

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer 
of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is 
marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because 
there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great 
enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the 
triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place 
shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."



Theodore Roosevelt  (1858-1919) 26th US President,  April 23, 1910

Islam And Winston Churchill

"Islam is as dangerous in a man as rabies in a dog.”

Winston Churchill 

Two Quotes: Watts and Reagan

"For the past 30 years our nation’s spent $5 trillion trying to erase poverty, and the result, as you know, is that we didn’t get rid of it at all. In fact, we spread it. We destroyed the self-esteem of millions of people, grinding them down in a welfare system that penalizes moms for wanting to marry the father of their children, and penalizes moms for wanting to save money. Friends, that’s not right."-- J. C. Watts, Jr.(1957- ) US Congressman from Oklahoma (R), former quarterback in the Canadian Football LeagueSource: Feb. 5, 1997http://libertytree.ca/quotes/J..C..Watts.Quote.83F8

"The classical Liberal, during the Revolutionary time, was a man who wanted less power for the king and more power for the people. He wanted people to have more say in the running of their lives and he wanted protection for the God-given rights of the people. He did not believe those rights were dispensations granted by the king to the people, he believed that he was born with them. Well, that today is the Conservative."-- Ronald Reagan(1911-2004) 40th US PresidentSource: 1973http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.20B9

Here Comes September!

September.......you are 6 days away!  You are pretty special to me.  You represent new things.  You represent  new beginnings.  You represent new faces, new places and new experiences.  You represent the Summer taking its last "shots."   Sometimes with a heatwave or two.  But you also represent Autumn.  (at least technically)  Here comes September!   Just like a new chapter of an interesting book!  For some, school has already started.  Books, backpacks, lunches, new clothes,  new friends (probably)) and good times.  Yes.....go ahead and dream!  Students,  have fun!  And if you have just started something new like band, algebra, or tackle football.  Do well!  Work hard! Have fun!

The First Amendment

"The First Amendment was never intended to insulate our public institutions from any mention of God, the Bible or religion. When such insulation occurs, another religion, such as secular humanism, is effectively established."-- Crockett v. SorensonSource:  U.S. District Court stated in Crockett v. Sorenson, W.D. Va,. 1983http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Crockett.v..Sorenson.Quote.DF35