Quoting Ollie Owl. "Get it quick while the getting is good".

For those who really think that their government is going
to do something constructive for them, may also be interested
in some high and dry swampland I will sell you at a bargain
price. The actions of the current Administration is no
different than the previous Administration. "Get it quick
while the getting is good".

Quoting Ollie Owl. Income Tax.

Income tax is nothing more than paying the government for
the privilege of allowing you to work. Who, then gives it
to those who don't want to work (Socialism). To the
government, it's their money, not yours and they can
do with it whatever they want. So too - the "TARP".

My America?. by Ollie Owl

Plucking the petals,
She loves me?,
She loves me not?;

Searching for answers,
To the reason,
For this earthly plot;

Lost in the reverie,
Of the magic tune;
Waiting for the outcome,
To the trickling flume;

Surrendering my pride,
To the one I hold dear;
Hoping change will come,
In the ensuing year;

Plucking the petals,
She loves me?,
She loves me not?;

Reality of consequence,
To take all of that,
In which I have got;

Quoting Ollie Owl. Freedom's Call.

"Freedom can never be destroyed as long as it remains in a person's mind; but, when
we surrender Freedom for the sake of Security, we have ourselves destroyed that
very thought". L. Donald Oliver.

Quoting Ollie Owl. Freedom Today.

"In today's society, freedom is the symptom of an individual's insanity".

Quoting Ollie Owl. Success.

Success is measured in how others love you for what you are rather than
for what you have!

Change Major College football system, by Ollie Owl

Proposal to change the entire major college football system:

First - Change the major college conferences to ten teams, increase the
schedule to thirteen games for each team.  There would be six major
conferences. ACC, Big East, Big 10, Big 12 (Conf name change), SEC, and Pac 10.
Each team in the conference would play each other for a total of nine games in
the conference.  The team with the best record would win the conference. No
conference playoff games in that each team in the conference would play an
additonal game each year.  The other four games could be schduled with the
customary push over games to gain revenue for the schools. Go back 10 years
and the teams that have the worst won-lost record would be dropped from
the each Conf in football only.  Update the Conference every five years. Those
teams dropped would still play a 13 game schedule. Each conference would have
a uniform tie-breaking rule.

The BCS system was initiated mainly, in my opinion, to increase revenue to the
conferences.

Second - Change the current National Championship system to a playoff system
using the Bowls, by using the consensus of the Writers, coaches and the Harris
polls to decide the top eight teams in the nation, no matter if they won their
conference or not.  Using the consensus of the three from 2008 final regular
season polls:  Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, USC, PSU, Utah, Texas Tech.

By using this proposed system for 2008 the following bowl games would have
been played:

Orange Bowl - Florida vs Texas Tech
Outback Bowl*- Alabama vs USC
Rose Bowl - Oklahoma vs Utah
Capital One* - Texas vs Penn St.
*These bowls were used because they had the highest payouts from last year.

Sugar Bowl - The winner of the Florida/Texas Tech and the Alabama/USC games.
Fiesta Bowl - The winner of the Oklahoma/Utah and the Texas/Penn St. games.

Championship game - The winners of the sugar and the Fiesta Bowls.

Quoting Ollie Owl. Greed

"Greed always over rules Logic"!

JFK by Ollie Owl

It was in the Spring of 196l and I was a 21 year old sailor stationed at the Naval Air Station,
Jacksonville, Florida. The Commanding Officer of our unit aboard the station assigned me
to escort a Secret Service Agent to the top of our hanger. There was an important VIP landing
that day and boarding a helicopter for a flight to an Aircraft Carrier in the Atlantic Ocean.

When I had turned seventeen years old and still in high school, I joined the Naval Air Reserve. I had
a three year active duty commitment and went on active duty in May 1958. In the Fall of 1959 I wrote
a letter to a Senator urging him to run for president. In that letter I explain to him that I recently went on
active duty, was recently married and stated to him that I had joined the Navy not for the benefits, but
rather as the best way of serving my country. Although I know it was nothing more than pure
coincidence when he was inaugurated, when he made the now famous statement, "ask not what
your country can do for you, ask what you can do for you're country". But all through years I've thought
perhaps he or one of his speech writers may have read my letter and used it to write this statement. I will
always believe this.

After escorting the Secret Service Agent to the top of the hanger roof, where he searched the entire
roof. I ask him if it would be all right to stay on the hanger to see the President arrive. He was due
to arrive in a few minutes. He searched me and said it would be okay. Just below us was the tarmac
where we kept most of our aircraft tied down. They had all been moved to other sections of the Airfield.
There was a crowd of several hundred people behind a rope barrier waiting to greet the President.
He landed in Air Force One and taxied up to our tarmac. Departed from Air Force One, went over
to the crowd and shook several hands. Then he walked up to the Presidential Helicopter and as
he was boarding, JFK looked up at me and waved. At that time, no matter how small, I felt a
connection between us.