These people wear me out. Obama, get busy and win the nomination, so Hillary will drop out of the race!
Monday, January 21, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Another Quiz
Another quiz, with a tip of the petal to BlackFive:
81% John McCain
77% Fred Thompson
76% Mitt Romney
75% Mike Huckabee
72% Tom Tancredo
65% Ron Paul
55% Rudy Giuliani
46% Bill Richardson
36% Chris Dodd
34% Hillary Clinton
33% John Edwards
32% Barack Obama
23% Joe Biden
22% Mike Gravel
16% Dennis Kucinich
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
Friday, January 11, 2008
Quiz: Who's Your Candidate?
Who's Your Candidate?
This is a really cool quiz, and quite accurate, at least in my case.
I have a couple of ringers. I don't approve of a federal Constitutional amendment defining marriage; I believe that's a state's prerogative.
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 | Duncan Hunter Score: 47 | Agree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Energy Death Penalty Gun Control | Disagree Social Security Line-Item Veto Marriage Environment Education |
 | Mitt Romney Score: 47 | Agree Iraq Immigration Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Energy Death Penalty Education | Disagree Stem-Cell Research Line-Item Veto Marriage Gun Control Environment |
-- Take the Quiz! -- | |||
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Katrina General Retiring From The Army
This is Lt. General Russel Honore, who gave us the deathless piece of advice "don't get stuck on stupid!"
Worth another look ...
FOREST PARK, Ga. - The gruff, cigar-chomping general who led federal troops into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina is convinced America hasn't learned its lesson from the storm.
As Lt. Gen. Russel Honore gets ready to retire from the Army and hand over his command on Friday, he says he wants to spend the rest of his life creating a "culture of preparedness" to prevent another post-disaster disaster.
"There's an attitude everywhere else that people are smarter than they are in New Orleans and in Mississippi. They're not," the 60-year-old general said at his office at Fort Gillem, just outside Atlanta. "What happened in New Orleans could have happened anywhere on the Eastern Seaboard."
During his 37-year Army career, Honore commanded troops in South Korea and prepared soldiers to fight in Iraq. After Katrina, the native of Lakeland, in Pointe Coupee Parish, led the vast relief convoy that rolled into New Orleans during its darkest hour. The 22,000-member force was one of the largest federal deployments in the South since the end of the Civil War.
With a green beret cocked to one side, a crisp, take-charge attitude and biting one-liners — "Don't get stuck on stupid!" he snapped at reporters — he impressed politicians and ordinary folks alike. At news conferences, he ended sentences with the word "over," as if transmitting over military radio.
New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, for one, famously called him a "John Wayne dude."
Honore returned to Atlanta after the storm to focus on his main job as commander of the First Army, training National Guardsmen and reservists for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The devastation in his home state — the stranded residents, destroyed neighborhoods and bloated corpses — "left a passion in me to be a champion of something," he said.
His next project is still taking shape, but he wants to see civil defense classes for young people that would teach first aid and survival basics, such as how to purify water. He wants to lobby drug stores and other businesses to keep generators in case of a long power failure. He wants cities to stockpile food and water so they don't have to rely on the federal government.
And he wants to pressure every family to have an emergency plan, right down to backpacks with food, water, essential documents and medicine.
Although he hopes someday to return to Louisiana — he hasn't ruled out a try at politics — he plans to use Atlanta as a launching pad for the project. He said he has discussed the idea with Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue's staff and plans to meet with local business, civic and political leaders.
"In this new normal, with the possibility of terrorist attacks, natural disasters and industrial accidents, we need this culture of preparedness," he said. "A vast part of America still thinks, 'That couldn't happen where I live.' And they are dead damn wrong."
Worth another look ...
FOREST PARK, Ga. - The gruff, cigar-chomping general who led federal troops into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina is convinced America hasn't learned its lesson from the storm.
As Lt. Gen. Russel Honore gets ready to retire from the Army and hand over his command on Friday, he says he wants to spend the rest of his life creating a "culture of preparedness" to prevent another post-disaster disaster.
"There's an attitude everywhere else that people are smarter than they are in New Orleans and in Mississippi. They're not," the 60-year-old general said at his office at Fort Gillem, just outside Atlanta. "What happened in New Orleans could have happened anywhere on the Eastern Seaboard."
During his 37-year Army career, Honore commanded troops in South Korea and prepared soldiers to fight in Iraq. After Katrina, the native of Lakeland, in Pointe Coupee Parish, led the vast relief convoy that rolled into New Orleans during its darkest hour. The 22,000-member force was one of the largest federal deployments in the South since the end of the Civil War.
With a green beret cocked to one side, a crisp, take-charge attitude and biting one-liners — "Don't get stuck on stupid!" he snapped at reporters — he impressed politicians and ordinary folks alike. At news conferences, he ended sentences with the word "over," as if transmitting over military radio.
New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, for one, famously called him a "John Wayne dude."
Honore returned to Atlanta after the storm to focus on his main job as commander of the First Army, training National Guardsmen and reservists for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The devastation in his home state — the stranded residents, destroyed neighborhoods and bloated corpses — "left a passion in me to be a champion of something," he said.
His next project is still taking shape, but he wants to see civil defense classes for young people that would teach first aid and survival basics, such as how to purify water. He wants to lobby drug stores and other businesses to keep generators in case of a long power failure. He wants cities to stockpile food and water so they don't have to rely on the federal government.
And he wants to pressure every family to have an emergency plan, right down to backpacks with food, water, essential documents and medicine.
Although he hopes someday to return to Louisiana — he hasn't ruled out a try at politics — he plans to use Atlanta as a launching pad for the project. He said he has discussed the idea with Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue's staff and plans to meet with local business, civic and political leaders.
"In this new normal, with the possibility of terrorist attacks, natural disasters and industrial accidents, we need this culture of preparedness," he said. "A vast part of America still thinks, 'That couldn't happen where I live.' And they are dead damn wrong."
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Video Of New Hampshire Undecideds
Found this posted on FreeRepublic. These people have some plain talk for Hillary! ...
Friday, January 04, 2008
TEOTWAWKI : The End Of The World As We Know It, Politically Speaking: The Hip-Hop Divide
I posted a message the other day that referred to Hillary!'s Iowa defeat as TEOTWAWKI --- The End Of The World As We Know It.
At the time, I was being sarcastic. Now, after more thought, I'm convinced that we may be coming to the the end of, if not the world, an era, a social evironment, a way of life, that we know.
I'm going to be fifty years old this year. I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, which, though I feel it wasn't nearly as racist and socially backward as other cities in Texas, had its moments. In the early Sixties, "colored people" --- my parents and I --- lived in certain neighborhoods, went to certain schools, attended certain churches, frequented certain businesses and avoided others. It was a segregational minefield of sorts.
Nowadays, when I tell stories of not being able to buy my way into Playland Park, despite the money in my hand, younger people stare at me blankly, unable to imagine such a thing.
Such blank ignorance makes me happy. As the old folks would say, "We ain't where we need to be, but we shore are better off than we were."
I sense that we are at a similar generational threshold in politics. I'll call it the Hip-Hop Divide.
Since the late Seventies, the hip-hop movement has wrapped around the world in several waves, uniting people born in that time period in a unique outlook.
The white hip-hop generation doesn't see race the way we old heads do. We laughed at the wiggas around the younger set: little white kids who wanted so hard to walk black and talk black. But they are the first generation of white kids who saw something in black culture worth emulating.
This wasn't Elvis, peeking into the windows of the black church while Mahalia was singing; it wasn't the Beatles, listening to Robert Johnson and Chuck Berry records; this was full-on adoption and acceptance of another skin color.
At the time, I was being sarcastic. Now, after more thought, I'm convinced that we may be coming to the the end of, if not the world, an era, a social evironment, a way of life, that we know.
I'm going to be fifty years old this year. I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, which, though I feel it wasn't nearly as racist and socially backward as other cities in Texas, had its moments. In the early Sixties, "colored people" --- my parents and I --- lived in certain neighborhoods, went to certain schools, attended certain churches, frequented certain businesses and avoided others. It was a segregational minefield of sorts.
Nowadays, when I tell stories of not being able to buy my way into Playland Park, despite the money in my hand, younger people stare at me blankly, unable to imagine such a thing.
Such blank ignorance makes me happy. As the old folks would say, "We ain't where we need to be, but we shore are better off than we were."
I sense that we are at a similar generational threshold in politics. I'll call it the Hip-Hop Divide.
Since the late Seventies, the hip-hop movement has wrapped around the world in several waves, uniting people born in that time period in a unique outlook.
The white hip-hop generation doesn't see race the way we old heads do. We laughed at the wiggas around the younger set: little white kids who wanted so hard to walk black and talk black. But they are the first generation of white kids who saw something in black culture worth emulating.
This wasn't Elvis, peeking into the windows of the black church while Mahalia was singing; it wasn't the Beatles, listening to Robert Johnson and Chuck Berry records; this was full-on adoption and acceptance of another skin color.
Thursday, January 03, 2008
To Black Americans...And Every Other Citizen
To Black Americans...And Every Other Citizen
Politics
A.J. DiCintio, Featured Writer
January 3, 2008
For years some black VIP’s have insisted upon anointing Bill Clinton “America’s first black President.” In fact, these elites are so determined to have the nation accept their claim that one of them recently asserted not only that “Bill is every bit as black as Barack” but also that the former president has “probably gone with more black women than Barack.”
That last statement deserves a thorough condemnation because it reveals how politicians will obscenely insult even their sisters and brothers for the love of power. But today I’m asking black Americans and every other citizen to spend a few minutes examining the validity of the whole “black” business about Bill Clinton, especially because the VIP’s mentioned above are asking voters to transfer Bill Clinton’s “admirable blackness” to his wife Hillary.
So, let me get right to it by asking everyone to be honest about what would happen to the political standing of any president who did absolutely nothing, including speaking not a word, while 800,000 human beings were slaughtered in an astonishingly efficient 100 day genocide — in Great Britain, Ireland, Italy or Mexico.
We need only be truthful about America’s ethnic and political realities to know what would happen. Yet the fact is that “America’s first black president” did absolutely nothing – including speaking not a word – as in Rwanda of 1994 8,000 black men, women, and children were brutally murdered every day for 100 consecutive days.
Moreover, and unbelievably, that “black” president compounded the injury caused by his abject political cowardice when, four years later, he delivered a vile insult not only to the memory of the 800,000 murdered souls but also to every living Rwandan Tutsi, every one of their brave Hutu friends, and every other black person in the world when at Rwanda’s Kigali Airport he uttered the following lie directly to the faces of human beings he hadn’t deemed worthy of a single word, let alone a speech of many powerful words delivered at the UN:
All over the world there were people like me sitting in offices who did not fully appreciate the depth and the speed with which you were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror.
Now, I’m not asking anyone to listen only to me about one of the ugliest lies ever spoken by an American politician. But I am asking everyone to listen to people such as Samantha Power, the Harvard professor who testified about the Rwandan genocide before Congress and who wrote as follows in “Bystanders to Genocide” published in The Atlantic:
[Clinton’s lie at the Kigali Airport] implied that the United States had done a good deal but not quite enough. In reality the United States did much more than fail to send troops. It led a successful effort to remove most of the UN peacekeepers who were already in Rwanda. It aggressively worked to block the subsequent authorization of UN reinforcements. It refused to use its technology to jam radio broadcasts that were a crucial instrument in the coordination and perpetuation of the genocide. And even as, on average, 8,000 Rwandans were being butchered each day, U.S. officials shunned the term “genocide,” for fear of being obliged to act. The United States in fact did virtually nothing “to try to limit what occurred.” Indeed, staying out of Rwanda was an explicit U.S. policy objective.
I am asking everyone to listen to people such as writer David Corn, who immediately after Clinton’s photo-op stop in Rwanda echoed Ms. Power’s points about what Mr. Clinton knew in “Lying About Genocide” (Salon, March 30, 1998), ending his admirable piece with the following observation:
During his brief stopover in Rwanda -- he never left the airport -- Clinton announced that the United States would contribute $2 million to a survivor’s fund. That’s $4 for each Rwandan slaughtered while Clinton stood by and did nothing.
And regarding Hillary Clinton, I am asking everyone to listen to people such as Patrick Healy, who in the New York Times recently wrote as follows regarding Mrs. Clinton’s “strength and experience” factor:
She did not assert herself on the crises in Somalia, Haiti and Rwanda.
Trusting in the ability of ordinary Americans to think for themselves, I’ll not go on about what their cowardly silence before and during the Rwanda Genocide and their cold-hearted lies afterward say about the Clintons. I will, however, once again ask Americans to consider the full implications of these questions:
What would rightly happen to the political standing of any president if he did absolutely nothing, including speaking not a word, while 800,000 human beings were slaughtered in a 100 day genocide — in Great Britain or Ireland or Italy or Mexico?
What would rightly happen to the political standing of any president if in a brief stopover in London, Dublin, Rome, or Mexico City he failed even to lay a wreath at a memorial to the slain, so eager was he to avoid any connection with those nations?
What would rightly happen to the political standing of the presidential candidate wife of the aforementioned president who touts herself as a person of vast “experience” and as “an agent of change” when the truth is that with respect to Rwanda (and so much else) she willingly embraced the See No Evil/Hear No Evil/Speak No Evil expediency demanded by Politics as Usual, easily and casually casting aside her “devotion” to the world’s suffering souls and her oft-repeated “commitment” to the principle that in world affairs the United States ought to mobilize the power of the International Community?
Black Americans have a special personal and emotional interest in those questions. But they have a pragmatic interest in them as well because the questions prompt other thoughts. For example, is Hillary Clinton likely to exhibit political bravery regarding school choice and other real education reforms; or does history show that she will bow before powerful unions and other special interests and do as much for America’s black children (and, therefore, the future of black America) as she did for Rwanda’s.
As for the rest of the American family, the profound nature of the moral and the practical implications of the questions is clear to all with minds wide open.
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A.J. DiCintio is a Featured Writer for The New Media Journal. He first exercised his polemical skills arguing with friends on the street corners of the working class neighborhood where he grew up. Retired from teaching, he now applies those skills, somewhat honed and polished by experience, to social/political affairs.
Politics
A.J. DiCintio, Featured Writer
January 3, 2008
For years some black VIP’s have insisted upon anointing Bill Clinton “America’s first black President.” In fact, these elites are so determined to have the nation accept their claim that one of them recently asserted not only that “Bill is every bit as black as Barack” but also that the former president has “probably gone with more black women than Barack.”
That last statement deserves a thorough condemnation because it reveals how politicians will obscenely insult even their sisters and brothers for the love of power. But today I’m asking black Americans and every other citizen to spend a few minutes examining the validity of the whole “black” business about Bill Clinton, especially because the VIP’s mentioned above are asking voters to transfer Bill Clinton’s “admirable blackness” to his wife Hillary.
So, let me get right to it by asking everyone to be honest about what would happen to the political standing of any president who did absolutely nothing, including speaking not a word, while 800,000 human beings were slaughtered in an astonishingly efficient 100 day genocide — in Great Britain, Ireland, Italy or Mexico.
We need only be truthful about America’s ethnic and political realities to know what would happen. Yet the fact is that “America’s first black president” did absolutely nothing – including speaking not a word – as in Rwanda of 1994 8,000 black men, women, and children were brutally murdered every day for 100 consecutive days.
Moreover, and unbelievably, that “black” president compounded the injury caused by his abject political cowardice when, four years later, he delivered a vile insult not only to the memory of the 800,000 murdered souls but also to every living Rwandan Tutsi, every one of their brave Hutu friends, and every other black person in the world when at Rwanda’s Kigali Airport he uttered the following lie directly to the faces of human beings he hadn’t deemed worthy of a single word, let alone a speech of many powerful words delivered at the UN:
All over the world there were people like me sitting in offices who did not fully appreciate the depth and the speed with which you were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror.
Now, I’m not asking anyone to listen only to me about one of the ugliest lies ever spoken by an American politician. But I am asking everyone to listen to people such as Samantha Power, the Harvard professor who testified about the Rwandan genocide before Congress and who wrote as follows in “Bystanders to Genocide” published in The Atlantic:
[Clinton’s lie at the Kigali Airport] implied that the United States had done a good deal but not quite enough. In reality the United States did much more than fail to send troops. It led a successful effort to remove most of the UN peacekeepers who were already in Rwanda. It aggressively worked to block the subsequent authorization of UN reinforcements. It refused to use its technology to jam radio broadcasts that were a crucial instrument in the coordination and perpetuation of the genocide. And even as, on average, 8,000 Rwandans were being butchered each day, U.S. officials shunned the term “genocide,” for fear of being obliged to act. The United States in fact did virtually nothing “to try to limit what occurred.” Indeed, staying out of Rwanda was an explicit U.S. policy objective.
I am asking everyone to listen to people such as writer David Corn, who immediately after Clinton’s photo-op stop in Rwanda echoed Ms. Power’s points about what Mr. Clinton knew in “Lying About Genocide” (Salon, March 30, 1998), ending his admirable piece with the following observation:
During his brief stopover in Rwanda -- he never left the airport -- Clinton announced that the United States would contribute $2 million to a survivor’s fund. That’s $4 for each Rwandan slaughtered while Clinton stood by and did nothing.
And regarding Hillary Clinton, I am asking everyone to listen to people such as Patrick Healy, who in the New York Times recently wrote as follows regarding Mrs. Clinton’s “strength and experience” factor:
She did not assert herself on the crises in Somalia, Haiti and Rwanda.
Trusting in the ability of ordinary Americans to think for themselves, I’ll not go on about what their cowardly silence before and during the Rwanda Genocide and their cold-hearted lies afterward say about the Clintons. I will, however, once again ask Americans to consider the full implications of these questions:
What would rightly happen to the political standing of any president if he did absolutely nothing, including speaking not a word, while 800,000 human beings were slaughtered in a 100 day genocide — in Great Britain or Ireland or Italy or Mexico?
What would rightly happen to the political standing of any president if in a brief stopover in London, Dublin, Rome, or Mexico City he failed even to lay a wreath at a memorial to the slain, so eager was he to avoid any connection with those nations?
What would rightly happen to the political standing of the presidential candidate wife of the aforementioned president who touts herself as a person of vast “experience” and as “an agent of change” when the truth is that with respect to Rwanda (and so much else) she willingly embraced the See No Evil/Hear No Evil/Speak No Evil expediency demanded by Politics as Usual, easily and casually casting aside her “devotion” to the world’s suffering souls and her oft-repeated “commitment” to the principle that in world affairs the United States ought to mobilize the power of the International Community?
Black Americans have a special personal and emotional interest in those questions. But they have a pragmatic interest in them as well because the questions prompt other thoughts. For example, is Hillary Clinton likely to exhibit political bravery regarding school choice and other real education reforms; or does history show that she will bow before powerful unions and other special interests and do as much for America’s black children (and, therefore, the future of black America) as she did for Rwanda’s.
As for the rest of the American family, the profound nature of the moral and the practical implications of the questions is clear to all with minds wide open.
=====
A.J. DiCintio is a Featured Writer for The New Media Journal. He first exercised his polemical skills arguing with friends on the street corners of the working class neighborhood where he grew up. Retired from teaching, he now applies those skills, somewhat honed and polished by experience, to social/political affairs.
TEOTWAWKI : The End Of The World As We Know It
aka, "What if Hillary! comes in second in Iowa?"
I plan to pop popcorn tonight and enjoy the returns from the cauci.
Rose
I plan to pop popcorn tonight and enjoy the returns from the cauci.
Rose
Shopper Pulls Gun, Stops Robbery Cold
An armed society is a polite society.
Interesting, how the sound of a semi-auto being racked can get the attention of a thug REAL quick ...
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Shopper pulls gun, stops robbery cold
Held suspect at grocery store until police officers arrived
Posted: January 2, 2008
5:00 p.m. Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
A grocery store customer in Indianapolis is being credited with halting an armed robbery by pulling his own weapon and pointing it at the assailant until police arrived.
According to a report in the Indianapolis Star, Charlie Merrell, 51, was in a checkout line at a grocery store called Bucks IGA on the city's south side when a "masked man jumped a nearby counter and held a gun on a store employee."
The police report cited by the newspaper said the incident happened at 5:17 in the afternoon Monday as Merrell was doing some year-end shopping.
"While the suspect was demanding cash from the workers," according to the police report, "Merrell pulled his own handgun, pointed it at the robber and ordered him to put down his weapon."
(Story continues below)
The newspaper noted that Officer Jason Bockting, in his documentation of the incident, said when the suspect seemed to hesitate, "Merrell racked the slide on his gun to load a round in the chamber."
At that point, the report said, "the suspect placed his gun and a bag of cash on the counter, dropping some of the money … the suspect removed his mask and lay on the floor."
Merrill, meanwhile, held the suspect at gunpoint until officers arrived and took him away in handcuffs.
Police reported Merrell had a valid permit to carry the handgun, and they recovered an unloaded .380-caliber handgun and $779 cash from the suspect.
Police records show Dwain Smith, 19, was being held in the Marion County Jail on a bond of $30,000 on initial charges of robbery, criminal confinement, pointing a firearm, battery and carrying a handgun without a license.
Interesting, how the sound of a semi-auto being racked can get the attention of a thug REAL quick ...
=================================================================
Shopper pulls gun, stops robbery cold
Held suspect at grocery store until police officers arrived
Posted: January 2, 2008
5:00 p.m. Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
A grocery store customer in Indianapolis is being credited with halting an armed robbery by pulling his own weapon and pointing it at the assailant until police arrived.
According to a report in the Indianapolis Star, Charlie Merrell, 51, was in a checkout line at a grocery store called Bucks IGA on the city's south side when a "masked man jumped a nearby counter and held a gun on a store employee."
The police report cited by the newspaper said the incident happened at 5:17 in the afternoon Monday as Merrell was doing some year-end shopping.
"While the suspect was demanding cash from the workers," according to the police report, "Merrell pulled his own handgun, pointed it at the robber and ordered him to put down his weapon."
(Story continues below)
The newspaper noted that Officer Jason Bockting, in his documentation of the incident, said when the suspect seemed to hesitate, "Merrell racked the slide on his gun to load a round in the chamber."
At that point, the report said, "the suspect placed his gun and a bag of cash on the counter, dropping some of the money … the suspect removed his mask and lay on the floor."
Merrill, meanwhile, held the suspect at gunpoint until officers arrived and took him away in handcuffs.
Police reported Merrell had a valid permit to carry the handgun, and they recovered an unloaded .380-caliber handgun and $779 cash from the suspect.
Police records show Dwain Smith, 19, was being held in the Marion County Jail on a bond of $30,000 on initial charges of robbery, criminal confinement, pointing a firearm, battery and carrying a handgun without a license.
In Case You Don't Know About Milblogs ...
... they're blogs that belong to current and former members of the military. Many of these military bloggers write from Iraq, Afghanistan, and other military stations all over the world.
As a conservative, I hang out on the right side of the blogosphere,w here most of the milbloggers also reside. When I want to know the truth about the Long War, I go to the milblogs --- BlackFive and Mudville Gazette and Michael Yon and Major Zigenfuss, among others. For more, there's a
When I get a chance, I'll fix my blogroll and add in the others that I enjoy.
As a conservative, I hang out on the right side of the blogosphere,w here most of the milbloggers also reside. When I want to know the truth about the Long War, I go to the milblogs --- BlackFive and Mudville Gazette and Michael Yon and Major Zigenfuss, among others. For more, there's a
When I get a chance, I'll fix my blogroll and add in the others that I enjoy.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
I Have a Draft ...
... that I didn't complete. It's long, based on John Hockenberry's anti-war, anti-business, anti-NBC, anti-GE rant entitled "You Don't Understand Our Audience."
I'll get it done in the next day or two.
Meanwhile, I have something a little lighter ...!
I'll get it done in the next day or two.
Meanwhile, I have something a little lighter ...!
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Who I Am ...
For those of you who don't know, I'm a member of FreeRepublic, and a card-carrying member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.
For a taste of who I am, here following is an annotated and expanded version of my FreeRepublic profile rant.
Born and raised in San Antonio, living in Northwest Austin.
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Yes, I'm black. Yes, I'm female. Put your doubts aside ...!
Yes, I'm a Texan, fourth generation on my mamma's side, born and bred --- can you tell I'm proud of my native state? Yes, I "do" genealogy --- if Texas genealogy, or black genealogy, are among your interests, leave me a message!
Yes, I'm a computer jockette --- computers are my personal avocation and professional occupation. I started out as a programmer on Big Iron; when it comes to personal computers, I've done just about everything there is to do with them.
Yes, my husband is white. Yes, I like black men just fineYes, we know what we're doing ... we've been together since 1989, and it's gonna last a little while longer. It's lasted a little bit longer than "jungle fever" or "curiosity" or "defiance."
Yes, I love most music. Yes, the only new music I regularly listen to is country --- and yes, I grew up listening to it. Yes, I despise most rap, and the "new" R&B. I went country around 1985, so I probably don't know --- or care for --- much of the music you do. And don't blame my white husband ... my daddy and I were listening to country back in 1968.
Yes, I'm pro-life, and anti-abortion. Your right to choose rests in your choosing to have sex. If you screw up recreational sex and make a life, you and your partner must deal with the consequences. You are, after all, the grownups. Committing murder for the sake of your convenience, your lifestyle, or your waistline is NOT ALLOWED.
And, oh yeah, it's NOT a nasty bit of protoplasm; after ten days, it's a person with a beating heart.
And, yes, I support the death penalty, too. I don't see a contradiction there. When you show me an unborn baby that can wield a weapon efficiently enough to kill another human being, then we can talk about how the two positions --- pro-life and pro-death penalty --- are soooo very contradictory.
Yes, I'm pro-homeschool, and pro-vouchers. No black child --- heck, no child, but especially no black child --- belongs in a government school. That goes triple for black male children --- the system is geared against them in particular.
Yes, I'm pro-gun, and pro-carry. I think we'd all be better off if we carried our guns on our hips, and were ready to use 'em. People are a lot more polite to the armed.
Yes, I think drugs for adults and prostitution amongst adults should be legalized and regulated and taxed like every other branch of entertainment. Involve someone under 18 and I'll help the Big House fall on your head.
Yes, I'm conservative. And, yes, I learned my conservatism from my mamma and daddy, who were church-going, hard-working, money-saving folks who had been through the Depression and understood true privation. What I didn't learn about being conservative from my parents, I learned from Robert Heinlein, my favorite author, whose books I started reading at the age of six. Don't blame my white husband ... I was conservative LONG before I met him!
Yes, I support the United States' prosceution of the Global War on Terror, aka GWOT, aka the Long War. Yes, I enthusiastically support our magnificent US military. Yes, I often support the Bush Administration's positions, with no shame. And, when I don't support the Bush Administration, I won't be ashamed to tell you that, either.
Yes, every day I put my palms together and thank the good Lord that Al Gore was NOT the President of the United States on September 11, 2001. Yes, I vote every chance I get, and, yes, I vote mostly Republican.
Yes, I voted for George Bush, twice. Yes, I'm glad that I did, both times. Beyond my belief that the alternatives to George Bush were unfit to serve, I support many of the Republican Party's platform planks. Even more importantly, I don't support most of the Democrat Party's aims.
Yes, I believe in the United States of America and the principles upon which she was founded. I read the words of the Declaration and the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, and I'm proud to say that my heart swells and my eyes swim. That flag and that song mean something to me.
Yes, I love this country, "my own, my native land!"
Your mileage, of course, may vary.
For a taste of who I am, here following is an annotated and expanded version of my FreeRepublic profile rant.
Born and raised in San Antonio, living in Northwest Austin.
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Yes, I'm black. Yes, I'm female. Put your doubts aside ...!
Yes, I'm a Texan, fourth generation on my mamma's side, born and bred --- can you tell I'm proud of my native state? Yes, I "do" genealogy --- if Texas genealogy, or black genealogy, are among your interests, leave me a message!
Yes, I'm a computer jockette --- computers are my personal avocation and professional occupation. I started out as a programmer on Big Iron; when it comes to personal computers, I've done just about everything there is to do with them.
Yes, my husband is white. Yes, I like black men just fineYes, we know what we're doing ... we've been together since 1989, and it's gonna last a little while longer. It's lasted a little bit longer than "jungle fever" or "curiosity" or "defiance."
Yes, I love most music. Yes, the only new music I regularly listen to is country --- and yes, I grew up listening to it. Yes, I despise most rap, and the "new" R&B. I went country around 1985, so I probably don't know --- or care for --- much of the music you do. And don't blame my white husband ... my daddy and I were listening to country back in 1968.
Yes, I'm pro-life, and anti-abortion. Your right to choose rests in your choosing to have sex. If you screw up recreational sex and make a life, you and your partner must deal with the consequences. You are, after all, the grownups. Committing murder for the sake of your convenience, your lifestyle, or your waistline is NOT ALLOWED.
And, oh yeah, it's NOT a nasty bit of protoplasm; after ten days, it's a person with a beating heart.
And, yes, I support the death penalty, too. I don't see a contradiction there. When you show me an unborn baby that can wield a weapon efficiently enough to kill another human being, then we can talk about how the two positions --- pro-life and pro-death penalty --- are soooo very contradictory.
Yes, I'm pro-homeschool, and pro-vouchers. No black child --- heck, no child, but especially no black child --- belongs in a government school. That goes triple for black male children --- the system is geared against them in particular.
Yes, I'm pro-gun, and pro-carry. I think we'd all be better off if we carried our guns on our hips, and were ready to use 'em. People are a lot more polite to the armed.
Yes, I think drugs for adults and prostitution amongst adults should be legalized and regulated and taxed like every other branch of entertainment. Involve someone under 18 and I'll help the Big House fall on your head.
Yes, I'm conservative. And, yes, I learned my conservatism from my mamma and daddy, who were church-going, hard-working, money-saving folks who had been through the Depression and understood true privation. What I didn't learn about being conservative from my parents, I learned from Robert Heinlein, my favorite author, whose books I started reading at the age of six. Don't blame my white husband ... I was conservative LONG before I met him!
Yes, I support the United States' prosceution of the Global War on Terror, aka GWOT, aka the Long War. Yes, I enthusiastically support our magnificent US military. Yes, I often support the Bush Administration's positions, with no shame. And, when I don't support the Bush Administration, I won't be ashamed to tell you that, either.
Yes, every day I put my palms together and thank the good Lord that Al Gore was NOT the President of the United States on September 11, 2001. Yes, I vote every chance I get, and, yes, I vote mostly Republican.
Yes, I voted for George Bush, twice. Yes, I'm glad that I did, both times. Beyond my belief that the alternatives to George Bush were unfit to serve, I support many of the Republican Party's platform planks. Even more importantly, I don't support most of the Democrat Party's aims.
Yes, I believe in the United States of America and the principles upon which she was founded. I read the words of the Declaration and the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, and I'm proud to say that my heart swells and my eyes swim. That flag and that song mean something to me.
Yes, I love this country, "my own, my native land!"
Your mileage, of course, may vary.
Relaunch!
Well, well ...
As I've always said, life is a spiral --- you often wind up back near where you started. (How's that for a Texanism?)
Hello again!
In conjunction with NaPoBloMo, or Blog 365, I'm relaunching my blog, and will publicize it amongst those who might be interested. That doesn't mean this is a blog-by-invitation-only; anyone can read, and comment; I reserve the right to delete comments that are nasty, rude, or are wack. I get to determine what's out of line.
I have several posts for today ... enjoy, but don't get spoiled!
The Rose In RoseBear
As I've always said, life is a spiral --- you often wind up back near where you started. (How's that for a Texanism?)
Hello again!
In conjunction with NaPoBloMo, or Blog 365, I'm relaunching my blog, and will publicize it amongst those who might be interested. That doesn't mean this is a blog-by-invitation-only; anyone can read, and comment; I reserve the right to delete comments that are nasty, rude, or are wack. I get to determine what's out of line.
I have several posts for today ... enjoy, but don't get spoiled!
The Rose In RoseBear
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