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Friday, June 27, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Where is Sean Penn when we need him?
A couple questions from The National Review:
- Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods?
- Where is all the media asking the tough questions about why the federal government hasn't solved the problem? Asking where the FEMA trucks (and trailers) are?
- Why isn't the Federal Government relocating Iowa people to free hotels in Chicago?
- When will Spike Lee say that the Federal Government blew up the levees that failed in Des Moines?
- Where are Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks?
- Where are all the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes and big screen television sets?
- When will we hear Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to rebuild a 'vanilla' Iowa, because that's the way God wants it?
- Where is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with reports of cannibalism?
- Where are the people declaring that George Bush hates white, rural people?
- How come in 2 weeks, you will never hear about the Iowa flooding ever again?
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Letter to the Texas Governor that was never responded to
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, TX 78711-2428
Dear Mr. Perry,
Illegal immigration has been a problem in this country for many years, though it has only become a topic of real discussion by the people in the last few. I am very disappointed in the lackadaisical attitude of our government when it comes to securing our boarders from illegal entry. As a citizen of this country, who abides by all the laws, policies, taxation, etc., it is appalling to me that it isn’t also required/mandated by those that are not citizens.
Job opportunities are sometimes offered only to individuals who speak both English and Spanish, but when a mandate to speak English is suggested the city will back down because of a fear of lawsuit from LULAC. Isn’t this America, where English is the language? Why is it wrong to say that all business will be done in English, that ballots will be written in English, that schools will be taught in English? Why are those of us that are doing the right thing being punished in order to cow taw to those who broke the law to come here? Why has common sense given way to political correctness and the fear of offending someone? When will some one be strong enough to say ENOUGH!! I shouldn’t have to defend myself by saying that I have no problem with someone who comes to this country legally. Of course I don’t. This country was made great as a “Great American Melting Pot”. But the immigrants that came here did so legally. They tried hard to become Americans. They learned the language. They wanted to BE Americans. So many of those that come here illegally don’t want to be Americans, they want to make American Mexico.
I think we have a serious problem with the way our government is run today. It is my belief that our forefathers had a very different idea of how people would participate in the government. The concept was that a person who saw a problem they shared with their family, friends and community, would run for office, strive for change, then return to their jobs back in that community. They would be close enough to the problem to know how changes would affect the community. They would know that whatever changes they made, they would have to live with when they returned to that community to face their friends and family. They would have to live with those changes when they went back to their job or business. Today we have career politicians who have no memory of what it was like to have a real job and answer to the common man. You have people who are only worried about staying elected and therefore how they appear in the media. As proof, your comment: “There can be no Homeland Security without border security. If the Federal Government won’t act to protect the Texas border, I will.” That was nice for election time, but clearly just talk for the media to pick up.
The media talks all the time about disenfranchised voters. The voters that couldn’t get to the polls because of no transportation or they couldn’t understand the ballot. They harp on the injustices of the electronic voting booths or bad directions to the polls. Well, I have a news flash for them and you. There is a different type of disenfranchised voter. I am one of them. I can drive myself to the booth. I can read the ballot. I can wrangle the new electronic stations. I however, have no one to vote for. I have no one that represents me.
Mr. Perry, I am a republican so I voted for you. But honestly, you haven’t done anything to earn my vote other than be a republican. I wouldn’t count on that getting you much further in your career as politician.
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, TX 78711-2428
Dear Mr. Perry,
Illegal immigration has been a problem in this country for many years, though it has only become a topic of real discussion by the people in the last few. I am very disappointed in the lackadaisical attitude of our government when it comes to securing our boarders from illegal entry. As a citizen of this country, who abides by all the laws, policies, taxation, etc., it is appalling to me that it isn’t also required/mandated by those that are not citizens.
Job opportunities are sometimes offered only to individuals who speak both English and Spanish, but when a mandate to speak English is suggested the city will back down because of a fear of lawsuit from LULAC. Isn’t this America, where English is the language? Why is it wrong to say that all business will be done in English, that ballots will be written in English, that schools will be taught in English? Why are those of us that are doing the right thing being punished in order to cow taw to those who broke the law to come here? Why has common sense given way to political correctness and the fear of offending someone? When will some one be strong enough to say ENOUGH!! I shouldn’t have to defend myself by saying that I have no problem with someone who comes to this country legally. Of course I don’t. This country was made great as a “Great American Melting Pot”. But the immigrants that came here did so legally. They tried hard to become Americans. They learned the language. They wanted to BE Americans. So many of those that come here illegally don’t want to be Americans, they want to make American Mexico.
I think we have a serious problem with the way our government is run today. It is my belief that our forefathers had a very different idea of how people would participate in the government. The concept was that a person who saw a problem they shared with their family, friends and community, would run for office, strive for change, then return to their jobs back in that community. They would be close enough to the problem to know how changes would affect the community. They would know that whatever changes they made, they would have to live with when they returned to that community to face their friends and family. They would have to live with those changes when they went back to their job or business. Today we have career politicians who have no memory of what it was like to have a real job and answer to the common man. You have people who are only worried about staying elected and therefore how they appear in the media. As proof, your comment: “There can be no Homeland Security without border security. If the Federal Government won’t act to protect the Texas border, I will.” That was nice for election time, but clearly just talk for the media to pick up.
The media talks all the time about disenfranchised voters. The voters that couldn’t get to the polls because of no transportation or they couldn’t understand the ballot. They harp on the injustices of the electronic voting booths or bad directions to the polls. Well, I have a news flash for them and you. There is a different type of disenfranchised voter. I am one of them. I can drive myself to the booth. I can read the ballot. I can wrangle the new electronic stations. I however, have no one to vote for. I have no one that represents me.
Mr. Perry, I am a republican so I voted for you. But honestly, you haven’t done anything to earn my vote other than be a republican. I wouldn’t count on that getting you much further in your career as politician.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Men should not wear capri pants
I was traveling recently to San Francisco. While at IAH i noticed an inordinate amount of MEN wearing capri pants. First, let me say that capri pants are not pants. They are a confusion between pants that are simply too short and well..... shorts. Real men wouldn't wear them, and those masquerading as men shouldn't wear them.
I hear regularly that the US is too macho. That we flex our muscles and make grunts.... uh uh uh.... like Tim Allen from Home Improvement. Not physically of course, but the talking heads on the boob tube has the US shirtless (or in a wifebeater) standing on top of the world beating its hairy man chest.
I personally believe that the US has never been more "wussyfied" because of the desire to avoid hurting any one's feelings. We have baned the word loser from our vocabulary. We have taken the red pen away from the teacher and replaced it with something "less offensive". We've baned dodge ball and tag on playgrounds... and the list goes on.
Without any way for our children to learn from their mistakes or, in some cases how to deal with humiliation we are left with a weaker bunch of people and... men who wear capri pants.
I hear regularly that the US is too macho. That we flex our muscles and make grunts.... uh uh uh.... like Tim Allen from Home Improvement. Not physically of course, but the talking heads on the boob tube has the US shirtless (or in a wifebeater) standing on top of the world beating its hairy man chest.
I personally believe that the US has never been more "wussyfied" because of the desire to avoid hurting any one's feelings. We have baned the word loser from our vocabulary. We have taken the red pen away from the teacher and replaced it with something "less offensive". We've baned dodge ball and tag on playgrounds... and the list goes on.
Without any way for our children to learn from their mistakes or, in some cases how to deal with humiliation we are left with a weaker bunch of people and... men who wear capri pants.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Maybe I’m naive, but I thought we had a deal?
Here’s the thing, when I was a kid it was OK to call kids that weren’t white, names that were derogatory. Well… it wasn’t OK, but it was socially acceptable. As I got older (about 9 years old), I realized that it wasn’t OK and calling someone names or treating them different because they didn’t look like me was wrong and I wouldn’t participate anymore.
I felt like, while I never had a slave or oppressed anyone based on the color of their skin, I had taken part in making someone feel less of themselves based solely on the color of their skin. That was wrong and for that, I’m sorry.
The agreement, or so I thought, was to change my ways and raise my children different than I had been raised. I thought when I was in a position to make hiring or promoting decisions I would hire the best candidate not just the white candidate. And I did! When my children wanted toys, I would offer all dolls, not just the white ones. And I did! I would never allow the “N” word to be spoke in my house and tell my children when they heard it from TV or music lyrics that it was a bad word, comparable to the “F” word. We would be respectful of everyone. And I did. Being this person, I am keeping my part of the deal to make the world better and free of color barriers.
This Pastor (won’t call him Reverend because I don’t revere him) Wright comes along and catches me completely off guard. He teaches his children (about 8K in his church last time I looked) that the white man is bad and causes all the ills of the black man. He rants that the black man can’t get ahead because the white man won’t let him. He screams that because my skin is white that I am against him. The media says this is OK. Well…. Not OK but socially acceptable.
Wow! I guess I’m naive, but I thought we had a deal. We would all consider each other equal. We would raise our children to be better than we were. I guess I was wrong.
I felt like, while I never had a slave or oppressed anyone based on the color of their skin, I had taken part in making someone feel less of themselves based solely on the color of their skin. That was wrong and for that, I’m sorry.
The agreement, or so I thought, was to change my ways and raise my children different than I had been raised. I thought when I was in a position to make hiring or promoting decisions I would hire the best candidate not just the white candidate. And I did! When my children wanted toys, I would offer all dolls, not just the white ones. And I did! I would never allow the “N” word to be spoke in my house and tell my children when they heard it from TV or music lyrics that it was a bad word, comparable to the “F” word. We would be respectful of everyone. And I did. Being this person, I am keeping my part of the deal to make the world better and free of color barriers.
This Pastor (won’t call him Reverend because I don’t revere him) Wright comes along and catches me completely off guard. He teaches his children (about 8K in his church last time I looked) that the white man is bad and causes all the ills of the black man. He rants that the black man can’t get ahead because the white man won’t let him. He screams that because my skin is white that I am against him. The media says this is OK. Well…. Not OK but socially acceptable.
Wow! I guess I’m naive, but I thought we had a deal. We would all consider each other equal. We would raise our children to be better than we were. I guess I was wrong.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Robin Hood or Robbing everyone?
Yesterday I heard comments from Hilary Clinton saying that she wants to tax the rich (meaning anyone who makes more than 250,000 a year) and cut taxes on the middle class.. "so that we can cut middle-class taxes on people who get up everyday and do hard work to keep our country going" WHAT???? Just because someone makes more than 250,000 they aren't hard working? They don't help keep this country running? What in the heck does she mean?
Does she mean that if you make more than 250K you don't do anything to keep the country running? What she means is that if you have gone to school (or not) and gotten a great job, or maybe worked hard and clawed and scratched your way up the ladder and now make a decent living you are no longer in her voting demographic and she can safely alienate you.
This Robin Hood approach of taking from the rich and giving to the middle class hurts everyone. As small businesses try to get started these additional taxes restrict the number of employees they can hire. As more taxes are levied against the "rich" the government ends up with money that should spent buying goods and services. As less money is spent - guess what???? Less money spent means that business either can't hire new employees or they have to lay off the ones they have.
The Robin Hood approach of taking from the rich and giving to the poor really just robs us all and gives our money to the government who has proven time and time agan that they don't know how to handle it.
Does she mean that if you make more than 250K you don't do anything to keep the country running? What she means is that if you have gone to school (or not) and gotten a great job, or maybe worked hard and clawed and scratched your way up the ladder and now make a decent living you are no longer in her voting demographic and she can safely alienate you.
This Robin Hood approach of taking from the rich and giving to the middle class hurts everyone. As small businesses try to get started these additional taxes restrict the number of employees they can hire. As more taxes are levied against the "rich" the government ends up with money that should spent buying goods and services. As less money is spent - guess what???? Less money spent means that business either can't hire new employees or they have to lay off the ones they have.
The Robin Hood approach of taking from the rich and giving to the poor really just robs us all and gives our money to the government who has proven time and time agan that they don't know how to handle it.
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