Mark,
I admit I have not followed up with you as much as I should have. I just learned today through your posts that you have the big “C”.
Thanks for sharing the experience through your posts. Stay strong, you can beat this.
My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Freedom of Speech is freedom from the governments interference in said speech. And there are exceptions to even that.
From the constitution:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Congress shall make no law…
Like I have heard said before, freedom of speech is not also the freedom to be heard. Only the government is restricted from suppressing free speech. It does not include me or anyone else or entity, business or otherwise.
Please Algore run again. Take another stab at it. You can do it. Please!
I would love another chance to vote against you in the general election. I would love to see you defeated again. It was so great the last time.
Please Algore, run again.
Paulnuts, That’s Funny.
Paul officials deny involvement in Giuliani Mackinac ferry taunting
Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul does not believe that 9/11 was an “inside job” and his campaign distanced itself from a raucous pro-Paul demonstration on a Mackinac Island ferry Friday night, a Paul spokesman said Monday.
In the incident, Paul’s supporters taunted former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani for alleged complicity in the attacks.
Spokesman Jesse Benton said the campaign was aware of Internet reports about the demonstration, which occurred late Friday when Giuliani boarded a ferry loaded with Paul supporters leaving a Michigan GOP conference. No Paul campaign officials were involved, Benton said.
According to one eyewitness, Giuliani was beset by dozens of Paul enthusiasts as he was leaving the island, some of whom shouted taunts about 9/11, including: “9/11 was an inside job” and “Rudy, Rudy, what did you do with the gold?” — an apparent reference to rumors about $200 million in gold alleged to have disappeared in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.
Ed Wyszynski, a longtime party activist from Eagle, said the Paul supporters threatened to throw Giuliani overboard and harrassed him as he took shelter in the ferry’s pilothouse for the 15-minute journey back to Mackinaw City.
“It was awful,” said Wyszynski, who supports Mitt Romney for the GOP presidential nomination.
In an effort to clarify my position on the role of Hollywood celebrities. I thought I would post it for all the world to see.
Hollywood celebrities, you where placed upon this earth to entertain me. Make me laugh, cry and cringe. Scare me and on occasions provoke fantasy and thoughts of grandeur. You were not placed here to give me advice on what I should think, do or say. For all practical purposes you do not exist except on the big or small screen. That is to say, I don’t care what you think about anything because you don’t matter.
You are worth no more and serve no greater role than the jester in the Royal Court of old. Just do your job and entertain me Bitches!
I hope this clears things up.
So let me get this straight: Columbia University won’t let the Military Recruiters or ROTC on campus because of the military’s position on “the Gays” but will allow the president of a nation that executes “the Gays” just because they are, well gay, come and speak in a forum at the said university.
Sounds like liberal hypocrisy to me. I am sure they will get what they deserve in the end. No pun intended.
Now credit where credit is due. I am certainly not smart enough to put all of this together, so I am thankful for smart people.
Michelle Malkin has a big round up on protesting Columbia University and this bastard Ahmadinejad.
Well I ran across this post (Progressive blogosphere MIA on Jena 6) from this guy (Instapundit), from him all things are known, about the silence across the blogoshpere on the issue of the Jena 6. Well after reading the thoughts posted, I have a few thoughts myself in no particular order.
First, I agree with Glenn Reynolds “as I was discussing with a colleague whose work on the “school-to-jail pipeline” has had him following the case closely — one big problem is that the facts have trickled out, and it was hard to get a clear narrative that made sense of what was going on.” This story has been evolving out of a bunch of little happenings that have now ended up with 6 people in jail for beating the shit out of another.
Second, with Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton now involved, it is not going to end pretty. No one will win with this one.
Third, this is very hard for me to relate. I have lived in a diversified community all of my life and have interacted within that community on many different levels. I live, love and respect people as people. I know no other way.
I am usually happy to lend my opinion on most anything, qualified or not, but on this I think not. I am the whitest of white guys. It is my opinion that my opinion does not matter, so why bother.
So I won’t.
This is really how I see Hillary Clinton. Taken from the front page of Drudge. It captures perfectly how I see her presidency playing out. Thinking her dumb ass actually thinks she knows better than me on how to run/ruin my life. The ultimate socialist dictator. Ultimately becoming the Chavez of the United States.
God please never let this wreck of a politician, this evil agry woman/beast become President.
UPDATE: Here’s a story from AP where she invisions her/Hillarycare healthcare program being mandatory.
She said she could envision a day when “you have to show proof to your employer that you’re insured as a part of the job interview — like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination,” but said such details would be worked out through negotiations with Congress.
Clinton unveiled her health care plan Monday in Iowa, promising to bring coverage to every American by building on the current employer-based system and using tax credits to make insurance more affordable.
God help us all.
Well, it has already come and gone. This is simply the first time I have had a chance to make a post since my blog went to an unavailable status.
So to the one or two stragglers that tend to stop by on an absolutely irregular basis, I apologize.
For everyone else that have either found this blog by mistake or heard about the horrible writing that goes on around here. Welcome, everything has been going great and this blog has NOT been down over the weekend.
Thanks to this guy for what he does.
I was listening to Rush Thursday when he started talking about Laura Ingraham’s new book, Power to the People.
Radio Equalizer explains what happened next.
The power of Rush Limbaugh, the leader of America, is unmatched. I know it, you know it, he knows it.
Oh, and just so we are clear. I have no delusions that anyone else will read this post. I merely thought it would make for a great post that I won’t even read.
Hey, if no one else visits this joint, why would I want to be seen hanging around. 
that he is an idiot? You can’t, because he’s an idiot.
That is basically the same answer I would give to the question from Michael Graham in the Boston Herald about governor Deval Patrick.
This is the question: How do you explain to someone who just doesn’t get it, that the problem is that he just doesn’t get it?
The answer is, you can’t. He’s an idiot. It also sounds like he is a democrat. It does not hurt to keep telling him he’s an idiot, but he will only ever get it, through self-realization to the problem. Then and only then will he realize the solution.
This is why Michael was asking the question in the first place:
In his 9/11 commemoration speech, Patrick observed that while the attack on the World Trade Center was “mean and nasty,” (that’s telling ’em, Deval!) the real tragedy of six years ago was the “failure of human understanding.”
Yes, 9/11 was, Patrick said “a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other.” [Emphasis added.]
He might be very smart and have a rather distinguished career to this point (worked as a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit), but that is not enough to keep him from making such idiotic statements.
With congress back in session today, it is time to start protecting anything and everything that you hold important.
God Bless The United States of America and hasten the next recess of Congress so we can all rest easy once again. Then again considering the sheer lack of progress for the first part of the year by the democrats, maybe we won’t have much to worry about. Fingers Crossed!
This Labor Day marks the “2nd Annual Milby Family Labor Day Cookout and Festival”. Just as with last year the only invited guests were the next door neighbors and their kids.
New this year, we had it in the front yard between the two houses, and red white and blue balloons were added. Just as in last year Italian and smoked sausage, hamburgers, kosher hot dogs, roasted corn, sodas and beers were enjoyed. This year, M&M’s, bread sticks and cheese sauce, roasted potatoes, chips and salsa and jello cups have been added.
Next year I look forward to adding a bounce house for the kids and inviting more friends.
I say help the Sick and the Lame.
Kick the Lazy in the ass and tell them to get a freaking job. Cause you ain’t getting a single thin red dime form me. Ya Bastard!
I feel secure, even though I don’t own a gun, I am glad to here that so many other of my fellow Americans have so many.
U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people
The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.
U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world’s 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.
Now if we could only up that rate, I will feel a lot better. It should make anyone think twice before trying to start something.
There of course is a direct correlation between high crime rates and cities that have gun control policies that take guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens. This of course only puts a liberal into a raging frenzy. Facts are like kryptonite to liberals.
According to this report in the New York Post, “A surprising 94 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with their lives”, well I must be within that percentage.
Let’s say back in 2000 I was making 30 dollars a day. Remember this was when the dot com bubble burst, it was just not realized at the time. (To liberals it did not get bad until Bush was finally sworn in. That’s when they think it actually happened, but history will get the story straight.) Then I went to trying to survive on an unemployment checks starting in January of 2001. I eventually got back to work in 2002 making about half that 30 dollars a day after surviving on some contracting work during the period in between. Since then I have managed to work my way back to where I was in 2000, me and the beloved had another “tax deduction“, bought and moved into our first ever home and things have been improving ever so slightly the whole time.
As I look back upon things, it has been much like watching my boys grow up. They have certainly been growing little by little and life has certainly been getting better and better. Not in leaps and bounds but as I look back upon the years, we are certainly a lot better off today than we were when we first got married almost 13 years ago.
Congratulations to Glenn Reynolds on the 6th anniversary of his blog Instapundit.
I have been fortunate to have been linked from his site on more than one occasion and absolutely visit his site dozens of times a day, every day of the week.All of those hits that he gets from Political Blog Digest, that’s me.
So, here’s hoping the posts on politics, science, opinion, nano-technology, cats, food, cameras and whatever else he feels important to blog about, continues for many years to come.
As heard on Rush Limbaugh earlier this week and again today, The Peoples Cube seems to be a really cool satire site of the twisted sort. Hint: Liberals don’t get an easy go it on this site.
Morning Glories
These I have forgotten the names of and it is probably best because they have been a disappointment. Out of the 21 that were planted these are the only two that bloomed.
This is one of four Peonies plants that bloomed back in May.
This I will remember. The day I transitioned to Word Press. I am so glad I did. The process was somewhat painful because I transitioned from dasBlog and I had a lot of clean up with the categories, but overall it went rather smoothly especially with the help of my friend Ben Timby.
So here’s to better days with Word Press. I can actually receive comments now. Not that I will be getting any.
That is the first thing that came to mind when I tuned in to Bravo. Donuts!
Yes it is true, there is nothing that these magical sugary concoctions can’t do.
To include making Algore look 30 years younger. Can you believe that this is the photo that these losers are using on the Live Earf site.
It is tragic to see Algore and all of his looney friends depreciate in value right before our very eyes.
OK, I was reading this post over at Instapundit about this post over at Charleston Daily Mail by Don Surber (Big Fan) when I saw the word “Imbibe” used and had no clue what it meant. Here’s the quote Glenn Reynolds used:
Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin got his long overdue comeuppance in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. The court ruled the senator is not above criticism before an election, no matter what law Feingold may author.
And three justices even reminded him that Wisconsin is not Morocco. . . . A key provision of this “reform” is a restriction on political ads just before an election.
Oh, not on the ads of the politicians. Senators can run all the TV ads their fat-cat supporters are willing to buy.
No, the politicians restricted what ads the citizenry may run on TV before an election.
This “campaign reform” is like a drunk “curing” his alcoholism by telling his wife she cannot imbibe.
So I Googled it and came with the definition from Answers.com
im·bibe (ĭm-bīb’) pronunciation
v., -bibed, -bib·ing, -bibes.
v.tr.
1. To drink.
2. To absorb or take in as if by drinking: “The whole body . . . imbibes delight through every pore” (Henry David Thoreau).
3. To receive and absorb into the mind: “Gladstone had . . . imbibed a strong prejudice against Americans” (Philip Magnus).
4. Obsolete. To permeate; saturate.v.intr.
To drink alcoholic beverages.
This just goes to prove once again, Don Surber is smarter than me and I am OK with that.
When I get home this evening I look forward to imbibing a tall glass of water with my dinner then sit back, relax and enjoy another episode of The Simpsons.
“It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late. Accordingly, I’m readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I’ll, in turn, do my best for the cause by writing editorials – after the fact.”
Robert E. Lee, 1863
Not just because it is of Nancy Pelosi but because of the way it appears that she is cupping her eye ball in the palm of her hand.=
41st
The lovely and talented fixed the meal I asked for (Chicken Fried Steak and Gravy, Hash Browns and Mixed Vegetables), the White Cake with Butter Cream Icing and a special birthday card.
It was truly a nice day.
OK, just added American Legends to my Blogroll and every other place I could link them. Seems like a lot of baseball stuff which I really don’t care about but with quite a bit of the stuff I do like mixed in. Hey if I can put up with Instapundit’s cat blogging I guess I can read past the baseball stuff.
I sure hope they don’t expect a lot of links to be coming from this least visited place. Well except from me of course, but I don’t even come here that often.
Best of wishes.
Oh, and one more thing while I have this post open. Internet Explorer 7 SUCKS! Worst Tab Browsing of them all. Also, I will be damned if M$ thinks I am installing that piece of crap Vista Upgrade when it comes in.
This is just to say hello to all those from that other place I frequent.
Welcome, bookmark me, check back often.
You can also check out this guy, Robert Jadah - Voice On!
democrats/liberals = Give a man a fish
Republicans/Conservatives = Teach a man to fish
Which one are you?
Today President Bush toured the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and is only the second president to ever do so. The first was Ronald Reagan.
How cool is that?
I am somewhat sad, but only because of the missing laugh factor. I am sure though a trusty democrat will step up.
Kerry won’t run for president in ‘08
“WASHINGTON –An emotional Senator John F. Kerry today said he will not run in the 2008 presidential race and vowed to use his Senate perch to hasten an end to the war in Iraq, saying he would work with lawmakers from both parties to reverse President Bush’s troop “surge” and force him to withdraw virtually all troops from Iraq by early next year.
Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, used the unusual forum of the Senate floor to announce his political ambitions. Choking up as he harkened back to his service in Vietnam, Kerry said he would work to make sure the next president doesn’t have to cope with the consequences of a “wider war” sparked by the failed policy in Iraq.”
What a loser!
Update: I just realized, that this is about the smartest thing this guy has done. Probably in his life time. With exception to marrying a rich widow of course.