Today we celebrate the anniversary of our dear and beloved Menagerie’s 29th birthday!  Many of you do not know that Menagerie is famous – she single-handedly pulled the Jack Daniels Distillery out of hard times many years ago, much like her friends Waltzing Mtilda and WeeWeed saved Coors Light from calamity.

But here in the treehouse, she is a fearless and hardworking admin who more than carries her weight in responsibilities, postings, and convivial bantering with visitors. Oh, and if you’re feeling down or lost and need a bit of prayer, Menagerie’s your girl. Her faith is  constant, glowing softly like a candle or blazing like an inferno, depending on the requirements of the situation, but always, always shining.

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FLASHBACK – It was 1:33 am Christmas Eve 2009 when Obamacare legislation was manipulated through the Senate by Harry Reid…… Crisis Control, with the emphasis on control, because he did not want Senators returning home only to have them witness the ire of their constituency because 70% of Americans were against their action…

So fast forward to the faux-Fiscal Cliff Crisis of 2012, and once again Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid keeps the Senators sequestered while he manipulates another legislative construct fraught with flaws, schemes, and manipulations in the dead of night….

The Crisis Bill contains $41 dollars in more spending for every $1 in new taxes, and he, along with President Obama are proud of that…..

Colleague Ed Henry says CBO indicates #fiscalcliff bill has $620 billion in new tax hikes. $15 billion in spending cuts.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) January 1, 2013

and already spiking the football in the face of Republicans claiming they historically forced the Republicans to break their tax pledge and raise taxes…… (more…)

This post is for our very dear friend and fellow Tree House administrator, WaltzingMtilda.  Where would we be without her wit, wisdom, sweetness, and just plain loveliness?  Not to mention her fine taste in tunes!  And actors!

How exciting that some of her favorite actors and singers have chosen to honor Mtilda on her special day!

It is only right that we take some time today to honor Tilda with tunes, cakes and special greetings of all kinds, including videos, original poetry and essays (if you feel so inclined) so don’t hesitate to offer your own wishes – just keep them G or PG, please! (more…)

Today we wish the best of days to our own “ytz4mee”… blogger, warrior, and mighty voice for conservative principles. Yatz is a woman on the go, and you never know from where she may be popping in from time to time as she swings by and grabs a limb on the Tree. She has inexhaustible energy,  and passionately gives voice to the principles we all hold so near and dear. Today, we hope she’ll pause in the pursuits of  battle,  settle down under the Tree,  and join us for some coffee, a bit of peameal bacon, and a generous helping of cake as we join in celebration of her birthday. (I’ll bet someone might even stop in with a Silver Bullet or two and a bottle of Jack a little later in the day, just to keep things going.)

Yatz not only contributes to the Treehouse, she also maintains her own blog, “Stop Shouting”, where she has earned high praise from Prof.  Jacobsen,  and was the recipient of the much coveted “Instalanche” for her article,  “My Rebuttal to a Progressive who Admonished Me to Play Nice ….”.  I think in light of the latest election results, her article deserves to be revisited.  Please, pour yourself another cup of morning coffee, and enjoy…..  (more…)

Treepers…please join with us in celebrating a most momentous occasion. We couldn’t have done it without YOU!

Would you like to see where in the world all the visitors to the Treehouse come from?  LOL…we’ve even got a lone “Wolverine” in Cuba!  (Somehow they’re breaking through the internet ban.  How cool is that?)  WordPress started offering this feature last February, so naturally it registers a little short of the five million mark.  We’ll be celebrating our second anniversary on November 2nd, so if any of y’all are thinking of sending a gift, feel free to combine this year’s traditional gift of cotton with last year’s paper…$  😉

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H/T….to the world’s best research assistant, WeeWeed.  😉

Birthday shout-outs and high fives to our longtime compatriot, the respected and beloved citizen of both Texas and the Treehouse…”Texan59″. 😀

Tex has been hanging around the Treehouse for so long, we can’t imagine what life would be like without him.  Well…on second thought, we can imagine…B-O-R-I-N-G.  He’s the life of our party and a consummate raconteur par excellence.  You’ll usually find him conversing with one of our admins, another proud Texan called WeeWeed.

Two of the things we most admire about Tex are his affinity for Fridays and Bud Light beer, and the other would be his undying loyalty to the “Treehouse Tin Foil Society”.  That’s right….he’s all tin foil hat, and he’s got the cattle that wear ’em too.   (more…)

Today is a very special day – the birthday of one of our best and most faithful friends, WeeWeed! (more…)

And look who we have to thank!

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(Psssst….did anyone spot the “imposter”?)

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BTW…How about helping a Puddy out?  (The glasses are not a good look for me.)  Hopefully, as you scan the gravatars above, some of you will become interested in getting a gravatar of your own.  Waltzingmtilda has all the information you’ll need.

When we tumbled onto the forest trail almost 18 months ago Sundance was high in the canopy overhead, already hard at work on the Treehouse–knowing that a great gathering place would be needed for stouthearted Americans who hungered for plainspoken and open-ended conversation.
In the months since then, his faithful and daily pursuit of what-is-actually-so has become the rich soil in which freedom-lovers of goodwill find a place to expose deception and  fight back effectively.

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