Chris’s Blog

The fire is crackling, the Christmas movies are going, and except for having to go to work tomorrow, this might just be the perfect evening.

This is absolutely ridiculous.  Come on, people, the deals aren’t even that good this year.

Don’t believe me?  Check out this article.  ”Wait!” you say. “That sounds like good news.”

Here’s the part that proves my point:

The dollar was mostly lower against other major currencies, while gold prices rose.

That means your dollar now buys less than it did yesterday.  How is that different from the government just taking a portion of your dollar and calling it a tax?

So, is it nice that the DJIA rose almost 400 points?  On the surface.  The problem is as the government continues to stabilize banks and claim it’s not costing the American people anything, our dollar continues to fall.  That 3-5% raise you hope for at the end of the year–it probably won’t even cover inflation.  The government continues to lie to the American people and continues to inflate our dollar to pay for things they should not be doing.

I need to go–I hear black helicopters.

Stop whatever you’re doing and take 15 minutes to go listen to this.  It may very well be the most important 15 minutes you will spend all week.

I am quickly becoming a huge Peter Schiff fan.  I really need to read Crash Proof.

We were on-the-go a lot yesterday.  Kayla was invited to a friend’s “bring a friend” soccer class, I had to be in Marietta at the same time for a few hours, then we had a Parent’s Night Out for Kayla at her school and had a friend watch Rebekah for us so we could get a few hours of peace.  We went to see Quantum of Solace and had a nice, quiet dinner.

So, today, we’ve just been enjoying a “family day” here at home all morning.  It’s nice to just slow down, sit around the house, watch a movie, color, drink coffee all morning, etc. once in a while.

We’ll get back to the church search next week, for today, I’m enjoying a Family Day at home with my girls.

Me.  That’s right. Thanks in part to media hype, early voting turnout was ridiculously high.  People stood in lines for 3 and 4 hours just to early vote.  Not me.  I said all along that with 100x the number of voting machines and dozens more locations to vote, November 4 would not be very crowded.

This morning, my wife and I got the kids all set and headed off about 9:05 to vote–figuring that the initial crowds would have died down by then.  It was even better than I thought.  We walked right in, walked right up to each station, and walked right up to machines.  Seriously, we were out in 10 minutes.

So, a big “thank you” to all the people who stood in line for hours to early vote so that I could walk right in and out on November 4!

Also, it felt really good to finally vote for people I could believe in rather than the “lesser of two evils.”