10.18.08
Yes, I too, am Joe!
This is a wonderful meme, and I give props to Joe and to Iowahawk for these words! Spread the word! What the media and the democrats have done to this man is unconscionable.
I. AM. JOE.
09.30.08
We don’t want no stinking bailout . . .
It seems that the country has spoken - and their congressmen heard them! The proposed bailout has failed, and the next few weeks could be verrrry interesting.
Some of us have seen this as a very political ploy from the very beginning - all the doom and gloom - not that there isn’t plenty of that to go around, but the timing of the reporting of a looming financial disaster seems to be particularly telling.
It seems that one party, in particular, that has control of the house - and seemingly had enough votes to carry the bailout on their own - decided instead to become chummy and try to “reach across the aisle” to their “opposition”. When that failed, it gives them just the excuse they wanted to be able to lay blame.
There is just one problem - the facts don’t jibe with their version of reality.
For an absolutely fantastic video on what caused all this . . .
09.25.08
Is there any doubt we have at the very LEAST a socialist running for president?
If only the so-called main stream media were really on top of their job, and looking for real issues rather than running down rabbit trails trying to pin some really gnarly dirt on Sarah Palin!
It’s really kinda disgusting how interested they are in her private life and actions, yet how disinterested they are in thoroughly checking out Barry. If the shoe were on the other foot, and she or McCain had spurious connections with - I dunno, say Timothy McVeigh, or the Unibomber, do ya think they’d be getting the pass that Obama is being given? Come on, folks, lets get real. What on earth has happened to journalistic integrity?
Obama-Ayers: Partners in Revolution
09.22.08
Oh. My. Gosh!
This is just absolutely unbelieveable! Nice investigative work to all involved!
Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated “Grassroots” Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them
This really must be picked up by the MSM - not that they have any credibility anymore either . . .
09.10.08
Left Brain Female agrees with . . . Camille Paglia?
Who’d have thunk it? I never would have guessed that I would be in agreement with one of the left’s most articulate voices - but surprisingly, I am! In everything but ideology, I have to give a “right on” to Ms. Paglia to her article on Gov. Sarah Palin, Fresh Blood for the Vampire.
A few of the gems here:
Gee whilikers, the McCain vampire just won’t die! Hit him with a hammer, and he explodes like a jellyfish into a hundred hungry pieces.
AND
I may not agree a jot with her about basic principles, but I have immensely enjoyed Palin’s boffo performances at her debut and at the Republican convention, where she astonishingly dealt with multiple technical malfunctions without missing a beat. A feminism that cannot admire the bravura under high pressure of the first woman governor of a frontier state isn’t worth a warm bucket of spit.
AND
The witch-trial hysteria of the past two incendiary weeks unfortunately reveals a disturbing trend in the Democratic Party, which has worsened over the past decade. Democrats are quick to attack the religiosity of Republicans, but Democratic ideology itself seems to have become a secular substitute religion.
Step into the light, Ms. Paglia! Some of us have seen that happening for many years!
Since when did Democrats become so judgmental and intolerant? Conservatives are demonized, with the universe polarized into a Manichaean battle of us versus them, good versus evil. Democrats are clinging to pat group opinions as if they were inflexible moral absolutes. The party is in peril if it cannot observe and listen and adapt to changing social circumstances.
All I can say is that this woman (Ms. Paglia) has her finger on the pulse, and Mr. & Ms. Democrat, if you refuse to take the lesson, you are truly doomed to (and deserve) total annihilation. Let’s hear Camille Paglia’s final words on the subject:
But the one fundamental precept that Democrats must stand for is independent thought and speech. When they become baying bloodhounds of rigid dogma, Democrats have committed political suicide.
09.06.08
So much for a “green” democratic convention!
Republicans in Denver are apparently recycling the castoff flags from the Democratic convention at an event in Colorado Springs today, according to a post on the Denver Post Blog.
According to David Harsanyi, he received the following note from a “Republican Official”.
I reckon they can recycle plastic bottles and aluminum cans, but those used flags are just too difficult to find a recycler!
An Article from a Sleeping Giant
Just have to link to an article from my all time favorite writer, Bill Whittle. Like me, Bill takes time between his posts - but when he writes, all I can say is WOW! He says the things I want to say - so much better than I could say them.
In Proud of the GOP he starts by saying “For the first time, I feel like we deserve to win more than they deserve to lose.”
I was hooked. That’s exactly how I felt last week when John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his running mate. Energized. Excited. I may have dropped out of visibility on the blogosphere, but I have been here, hanging around, reading, learning, agonizing over this election season. I was so depressed when Fred Thompson dropped out of the race, I thought I’d never see anything to be happy about again in this year’s election.
Sometime, though, in the early summer, I read a few words about Gov. Sarah Palin - and began to think, “what a great choice she would be for McCain’s running mate.” But I held little hope that it would come to pass. So, imagine my surprise when her name popped up again last week as a serious contender.
She’s just such a lovely, feminine woman, that she’s already been underestimated in so many ways by the left - they seem to have the mistaken impression that by leveling bilious charges against her and her family that she will curl up in a fetal position from the poison of their collective breath.
They fail to comprehend the steel hand beneath the velvet glove. This is no shrinking violet. She’s womanly, yet not afraid to get her hands dirty in order to clean up a mess. That is true feminity, folks. If you think it’s not, you’ve been sold a bill of goods. True womanliness is more inspiring to true manliness than all the self help books in the world combined. And make no mistake, this country needs a resurgence of MANLINESS.
Men have, for too long, been the butt of feminist jokes. They have been marginalized, treated as second class citizens - despised by ex-wives, maligned as buffoons, subjected to derision and reduced to apathetic and pitiful creatures.
Will a woman - a strong, feminine woman, help to restore their manhood?
She’s Alive . . .
It has been almost two years since I made a post on Left Brain Female.
A LOT of water has rumbled under this bridge - lots of things I’ve had thoughts about - lots of articles written in my head, but generally only written sporadically in comments on the blogs of others. Up ’til now, nothing has stirred me enough to shake me awake from the seeming futility of writing about all that is frustrating and beyond my control.
Until now.
And I give you two words for why I’m waking now. Sarah Palin.
No, my life experience is not hers exactly, but she is who I could be in another life. Don’t get me wrong - I don’t wish for that life - but what I recognize is a kindred spirit - someone who has lived, and raised a family outside the political/celebrity sphere. An intelligent, warm, and genuine woman.
Few may have missed me - few even knew of my existence, but it’s time to wake from sleep. I’m shaking the dust off my feet.
Thank you, John McCain and Sarah Palin!
09.10.06
2,996: Honoring the 9/11 Victims - Luke A. Dudek
2,996 is a tribute to the victims of 9/11.
We will honor them by remembering their lives,
and not by remembering their murderers.
I never knew Luke A. Dudek, but when the 2,996 website hit my radar, I knew I would like to participate. I don’t know personally anyone directly affected by the tragedy that is 9/11, but in some ways, I think I know them all, because we were all affected. I know that they were my countrymen - and that they had lives that were taken from them without warning.
Luke Dudek grew up in Livingston, NJ - a college friend described him as someone who was “gentle and warm and harmed no one.”
Luke was 50 years old, and the Food & Beverage Controller at Windows on the World atop One World Trade Center. He was friendly, gregarious, and loved his work, his hobbies, his life partner George Cuellar, and his dalmations Barney and Gypsy.
Luke liked tinkering with cars, was a connoisseur of fine wine, food, and cuban cigars. He often used the expression “my tide is out” to express to a waiter that his wine glass was empty. He had refurbished the home he grew up in - a 1930’s bungalow in Livingston, NJ and turned it into a modern sculpture. He was good with numbers and details like turning off lights to conserve energy to save money. Working hard, he understood the value of a dollar.
In 1985, Luke and George opened a flower shop, Coqui Designs, Inc. in Cedar Grove, NJ. Luke loved every aspect of the flower shop - and enjoyed delivering flowers for weddings or floral displays on weekends and during his time off. In the spring of 2001, they bought a building in Cedar Grove for Coqui Designs and the week before 9/11, Luke had spent his vacation in finishing the renovations for the new location. September 11 was his first day back on the job.
Luke was a caring man who died too soon, and he will always be missed by those he loved and those who loved him.
05.23.06
Carnival of Liberty XLVI
Time sure flies when we’re having fun - and thankfully, as I like to add - even when we’re not! Somehow, it seems the older I get, the faster days pass - here we are, almost halfway through 2006! Well, without further ado, here (in no particular order) are the posts from Carnival of Liberty XLVI - that’s 46 for those who are roman numerically challenged.
In his submission Army chief backs off of war documentary because it has all that pesky war stuff in it Steven Silvers of Scatterbox takes Secretary of the Army Dr. Francis Harvey to task for his lack of support of the staff of the 86th Combat Support Hospital in Bagdhad ER.
Israel and the U.S. by James at Ruminating Dude questions the U.S. Committment to Israel.
Dan Melson of Searchlight Crusade says he can see no reason why Real Estate Boycotts would be an effective method of bringing down housing costs.
Interesting essay on Freewill over at Generative Transformation which reminds us that freewill is illusory if our decisions are made without forethought or with incomplete or inadequate information.
The Pubcrawler reports on A Civil Rights Victory which was won (as it should have been) but with the wrong reasons given.
Mark Rayner “The Skwib” gives us a political parody with Beijing Olympic Mascots: Press Clubbing.
Francois Tremblay of The Radical Libertarian argues in Market Anarchy and Arbitration that Protection Agencies and Dispute Resolution Organizations would represent political freedom by replacing governmental monopoly.
OK, so I’m not really a cowboy gives us a delightful essay which is well worth the time to read in Liberty in a Statist World.
Anonimity - Hiding your Identity in 2006 comes to us from Darknet in the UK.
Ogre yearns for freedom from governmental interference in NC State Workers Want “Free” Cash Too.
Rick Sincere News and Thoughts had his tongue planted firmly in his cheek when he titled his article on the cost of housing in Charlottesville, VA Slavery is Freedom, Too . . .
Uganda - Children on the Frontline, an article on child soldiers in Uganda is brought to us by Polo’s Bastards.
Stephen Littau of Fearless Philosophy for Free Minds gives us Update: The Plight of Cory Maye in which he points to a number of curious inconsistensies which deserve to be addressed.
Cape Cod Porcupine believes that “Academe knows that its silken walls are gossamer thin, and one sharp remark will rent their feeble superficiality asunder.” He takes schools to task regarding their rejections of commencement speakers in Pomp and Circumspect.
From Lisa at The London Fog, we read of Canada’s census demands in Census 2006 - Sealing our fate for the next five years.
While I’m not generally a pessimist, admittedly my own submission to this week’s carnival is a bit more negative than usual - but I’m including it as I know I need to keep my priorities straight - and perhaps it may help another reader to give some thought as to how many of us have become the ultimate American Idle.
