About Brainerd's Merrifield

Beautiful Farm & Lake Properties for sale ..........

On my drive up from Minneapolis/ St Paul (Twin Cities) in Minnesota I was driving by Farm Properties like this everywhere. Word has it nothing is selling because once again the Banks don't want to finance anyone interested i purchasing these properties.

If the Banks are not financing people to purchase properties in Northern Minnesota and they go back to the Bank creating a for-closer, what good is this for our economy?

This photograph (above) is just one of hundreds of thousands of Lake properties in Northern Minnesota that will go back to the Bank foreclosed.

Once again all I can say is (Shame on the Banks)!

And this is one of the main reasons I would never use a Bank to purchase property, I would pay cash or go with owner financed!

Here is a photograph of the view from the Lake home (above) and to think it will be going back to the bank makes me sick to my stomach!

All photographs taken by Robert Swetz in Northern Minnesota 9-26-2009

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Chuck Norris is a pretty cool guy. His shows had family oriented content, you clearly knew who the bad guys and the good guys were and the good guys always won. He is a conservative Hollywood star with 40 years in the business. He expresses concern about how the pool of conservative "tough guys" seems to be drying up in Hollywood. He also states that there are those like actor Gary Sinise and others who have been meeting quietly in restaurants and private homes, forming a loose-knit network of entertainers who share common beliefs like supporting U.S. troops and traditional American values. This group is not large in number and they meet rather secretively because they support U.S. troops and traditional American values. What has this country come to?

Below are some quotes from Chuck:

"America's Founding Fathers wholeheartedly believed in the premise stated in Psalm 33:12: "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." But what would they have thought of a nation that removes God from its heritage, classroom instructions, civic ceremonies, buildings, monuments, historic sites, etc.? I believe the words of Thomas Jefferson are as fitting for religious apostasy as they were for slavery; words that are inscribed upon his memorial in Washington: "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.""

"In a so-called age of tolerance, it amazes me just how intolerant some people are of those who stand for traditional values. For example, if I stand against California's memorializing of Harvey Milk Day or stand for California's Proposition 8, which would create an amendment to the California Constitution to safeguard heterosexual purity in marriage (which I do support and encourage Gov. Schwarzenegger and all Californians to do the same), I'm considered by many to be intolerant and a bigot. But if another actor takes just the opposite positions on those measures, he is considered to be compassionate and a liberator. Or when a liberal candidate, such as Hillary Clinton, runs for president, her candidacy is considered a fulfillment of civil rights and women's suffrage. But when a conservative candidate, such as Sarah Palin, runs for vice president, she's considered a radical right-wing extremist who could usurp the Capitol by toting rifles at her side."

My hero and stalwart conservative, John Wayne, once said: "Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway."

~ Above quotes by Chuck Norris

We need to saddle up!

We are soon going to be riding - Revelation 19:

11. I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war

13. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood and his name is the Word of God.

14. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.

15..........He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.............KING OF KING AND LORD OF LORDS

What did our founding fathers say about religion and America?

George Washington
Farewell Address, 1796
"And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

John Adams
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."

Benjamin Rush,
"The only foundation for... a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. "

Yes, Gov. Sarah, if "under God" is good enough for the founding fathers, it is good enough for me.

If you ask most fishing people in the Brainerd Lakes area what their favorite fish to catch is, they will tell you the Walleye. They make great eating and are good fighters on the end of a line. I am not much for fishing, but I agree on the eating part. Several area restaurants serve Walleye dinners.

• Walleye are named for their big white eyes.
  
• Adult walleye are 13 to 20 inches long.
• Walleye weigh an average of 1 to 3 pounds, although some may weigh 10 pounds or more.
• Walleye can live 10-20 years.
• Walleye have sharp teeth. The two long ones in the front look like a dog's teeth.

	The Minnesota State Fish is the Walleye.