Almost Everything About this Story is Pretty Much True

My Uncle Helmer and Aunt Clara were married in South Dakota and honeymooned somewhere out in western Montana.

The first night of their married life was spent at a little motel near Red Deer out of town some where near a little creek and a grove of trees.

This is a story about value and how to get it.

A long time later maybe twenty-thirty years or so they had a chance to travel back through that area and longed to find that wonderful little cottage like motel room where they first played house and gained adulthood knowledge of loving one another, in the altogether.

They had a brand new fancy 1956 Chevrolet Bel Aire Green on Dark Green colored automobile with bench seats that were so comfortable you could go halfway across the United States of America in it without getting too tired to drive.

Well; they did that, and looked high and low on every side of that town of Red Deer, or maybe it was Deer Lodge, for that little slice of paradise with that little creek running whole and holy and that grove of trees that stood proud. They were bound and determined to find it and re-live, for just a moment, that wonderful first night of their happy marriage together.

It was dusk 9:00 PM pretty late! when they came over a rise and saw, though very run down, what must just have been the sight of the loveliest little motel anyone has ever laid eyes on! Paradise Motel. Why couldn't they have remembered that name?

The office door was open 6 inches to let a little cool air in for the night. The spring on the screen door was all stretched out to where it couldn't do much good. A bare bulb was on in the back room streaming light on to the front porch. The vacancy neon sign outside buzzed on and off like a bug zapper at fly time.

Ole Helmer stuck his head inside and yelled his inquiry. Is anyone to home?
The lady came out in her summer house dress. Might have been the very same one she wore so many years before.
Helmer said I see you still have vacancies! "We stayed here years ago" and have been looking for your place for hours now, nye on to a day!

"Well we only have two rooms left here at Paradise" she said.
The Juniper Room and The Sagebrush Palace. Well, how much are they Helmer wanted to know?

The Juniper is $20.00 and the Palace is $22.00 bucks a night. "You get coffee and toast, and what have you, right here at the office for breakfast. If you're up early enough!

Helmer asked "well, what's the difference?"

She held up two fingers kind of like a victory sign and replied

"two bucks!"

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AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY-------------------------------"D-I-Y"----------------

Every year on the fourth of July Some Americans that really get it celebrate "DO IT YOUR SELF DAY"

By the mid 1700s, the 13 colonies that would become the United States of America were finding it difficult to be ruled by a King George the Third. They were tired of the taxes imposed upon them. But, Independence was a gradual and painful process. People then as today were accustomed to the expression and practice of "Let George Do It". The colonists could not forget that they were British citizens and that they owed allegiance to King George III.

When George Washington became President many people still didn't get it and asked; is he the new King then? NO! he is the president who presides over a "DO IT YOURSELF" government!

Think of it like a giant Home Depot that makes products, services and information available to the do it yourselfer. You don't hire Home Depot to do it for you if you can help it! You will get a poor job, pay too much and have no recourse for a fair remedy of deficiencies. Use the tools the founding fathers gave you to "DO IT YOURSELF"

Still today many people do not appreciate their Independence to decide for themselves. "Let George do it" still resounds in the minds of these simple little thinkers. "Let George do it"; King George, George Washington, George S Patton, George Bush Sr, George Soros, George Bush Jr, George Carlin, George of the Jungle the list could go on and on.

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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

Do this: Not just today, but everyday, to celebrate your Independence. Continue to reform your government by self determination. Make yourself better, faster smarter than you were the day before. When you are at work at Nike, or the Food Mart, or in a government position, or in a factory somewhere, think of the service you are providing, and if that service could be contracted to the company instead of being done by your employment there. Be a free thinker. Be your own decider. Be your own business. Pursue your own brand of happiness. Operate your own government. Be your own boss. If you're worried about being layed off, but you are very sure you are actually contributing to the success of the operation think of how you could contract the service you provide at a reduced cost to the company and at a better profit to you the provider.

This is the day to remember you have a right and a duty to yourself to do that!

Here is a real simple and true example. In the pre-manufactured roof truss business there is a factory that provides 2x4x22 7/16" precut blocks that fit between trusses or rafters as they are installed in buildings. These stupid little pieces of scrape wood are provided cheaper faster better than companies can provide for themselves! These are companies that cut dimensional lumber in mass quantities yet still can not make little blocks of lumber cheaper than this one guy can make and ship them all over the country and profit on them as well. The individual that decided he could make these blocks at a profit was not a "let George do it" kind of a guy. Celebrate that!

I guess we need government as a necessary overhead to do somethings I suppose; standing army, law enforcement, roads, bridges, water reservoirs, space program etc.
Wait!----- --didn't Bill Clinton decide that contractors at Haliburton run by Dick Cheney could provide for the troops in Iraq better than the traditional army?

Hey wait a minute! ---------Why does the government hire private contractors like Black Water to provide security.
Hold on a bit longer ---------didn't some independent guy Paul Allen shoot a rocket into outer space faster cheaper better and more fun than the government?

I heard Sir Richard Branson was going to ship folks for a fee into outer space as a profitable amusement. English guy, heard about America and it's ability to have it's citizens think independent. Celebrate that.


Hot Dog Traveller asks you to have a safe and sane holiday that does not include blowing off hands and feet.

DH ( heeez govmint man ) I know what you're saying that people just don't want to hear it. But, we at HOT DOG TRAVELLER are helpless to desist. We simply must amble on with the dismal acknowledgement it may not be the message but the inept way in which it is delivered.

Our hopefull mission is after we are shed of this decision to take federal help has been routed and we again are at "liberty" to pusue our own ambitions we pray we will have been blessed with the wisdom to help change the things that can be changed and the wisdom to see the difference. HDT (heezme)