Didn't We Fight a War Over This?

Read in a "Director's Notes" from a local production of "Ragtime:"

"In this machine-aged world of richness and technological advances, we are still surrounded by our legacy of slavery and social injustice..."

I'm not sure where this director lives...well, I do but that's beside the point...but I am not surrounded by "our legacy of slavery." Honest Abe took care of that from war standpoint and Congress took care of slavery with an amendment to the Constitution. Slavery and its legacy have been abolished in this country...rightfully so. This heinous, abomination of humanity was rectified over 125 years ago.

I THought Smoking Was Bad?

Finally, a photo I can believe in...

Who Should be Tough?

So, PBO tells Washingtonians that they need to be tougher...Is that Rush I hear cackling?

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1585670

More Reason For ElBorak...

...to dislike the Packers! :-)

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_012109/content/01125106.guest.html

Something Good from NPR?

Surprise, surprise!

While Juan Williams is part of the NPR crowd…which makes me wretch…I usually see him when he is on one of the various radio shows I listen to daily (Boortz, Ingraham, Crowley and Rush, of course). Throughout the election process, I found him to be one of the few who actually questioned PBO (President Barack Obama for those of you in Carter Lake) and was searching for genuine honest answers. Of course, he never received them but I applaud him for asking. This article is one for the masses where he hits the mark dead spot on.

I would further opine that it matters not whether our president is black, white, green orange or purple. The color of a man’s skin is NOT what should be debated…and is not what I will debate or discuss. It is irrelevant. Am I naïve enough to think that racism does not exist? No. Do I believe that we (the media and the usual race suspects, Jackson, Sharpton, et al) perpetuate the problem? Absolutely. Adding the phrase “African-American” to a story or report is superfluous. Kind of like putting a “D” or “R” behind an elected official. Let’s stop doing that, report the facts and leave the mind making to the reader or listener. We’re pretty smart.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123249791178500439.html

They Can Dish it Out...

...but they certainly can't take it.

How DARE you queston "the chosen one!"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17831.html

Hat Tip: Vox Day

Raining on PBO's Parade

I thought Europe was going to like us now? Guess not.

Unfortunately, he will be demonized as an "old fart" who is not in sync with the workings of a modern world.

I'll bet he doesn'teven know who Ryan Seacrest is.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/01/20/barack_obama_inauguration_this_emperor_has_no_clothes_it_will_all_end_in_tears

Help, Police!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/18/obama-whistle-stop-tour-brings-chance-bush-bashers/

Well, if it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander. Let's add to the list, shall we? Feel free to add your own names.

Fat teddy (The most heinous...a murderer seated in the Senate. Google Mary Jo Kopechne or Chappaquiddick and you'll know what I mean.)
Timothy Geinhart(sp) (When I fail to pay my taxes this year, I'm using his excuse.)
Charlie Rangel
Barney Frank
Rahm Emanuel

Sarah Who?

Calling Peggy Noonan.

More proof of "do as I say, not as I do."

Move along....there is nothing to see here.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01192009/news/columnists/caroline_the_certain_pick_for_dave__riva_150822.htm

Bit the Bullet

"I've had all I can stands and I can't stands no more!!!" - Popeye


I shake my head more and more everyday and wonder what happened to the world I am living in? How did we get here? WHY did we get here and how in the h-e-doublehockeysticks do we get out of this?


Why do people put so much trust in a government that has proven time and time again to be a worse choice than our own personal convictions? We look to government to save us from all the evils that we "think" exist. When did we stop thinking and acting on our own? When did we stop knowing that what is best for me is NOT best for my neighbor? When did we lose sight of "Thou shalt not covet?" When did we lose our way to solve our own problems within our OWN households and communitites? When did government become mother and father?


It is maddening to think that we continue to forego our freedom to a group of men and women in a city far away (Ronald Reagan's "shining city on a hill" is a distant memory there today) in hopes of something being returned to us. Have we not learned anything of the past? Can anyone see the similarities of this in the world today? Yesterday? Tomorrow?


Now that I have that off my chest, A little about me and what I expect to accomplish here. I am an actor striving to be a computer systems analyst. As the name suggests, I am a tenor (for those of you in Carter Lake that is a vocal range associated with singing)...a first tenor as a matter of fact. Are there any others? Real men sing tenor. Deal with it. I have been acting for the better part of 20 years on stages in Kansas City and Omaha. Btw, I ABHOR Shakespeare. Talk about a self-important, self-loathing, author who has NOTHING to say. Sheesh. Originally from Iowa...so, yes, I can make fun of my own state...I have been in the KC area for over 15 years and am employed by a major transportation carrier. I also am a part-time dj for a country music station here in Kansas City as well. For thsoe of you who loathe country music, I'll see you in 10-15 years. I was born with a radio attached to me when I came out of the womb and still believe in the power and magic of radio. For those of you with .mp3 players, they make great workout accessories, but nothing beats live, personal and relative radio broadcasts. The .mp3 is just another in the long line of self-gratifying, self-obsessed, "I want it now" pieces of equipment that make us more important than we really are. I have no issue with the technology, it's simply the attitude that goes along with it. Hey, I'm to impatient and too important to wait to hear my favorite song or group...or to converse with you. E-mail is another. Why have we become so afraid to be personal? Why are we afraid to talk to one another?


But I digress...I am not the sharpest pencil in the box but I have a lot to say. You may agree, you probably won't but hey, it's a free (maybe for a little while longer) country. I don't care if you don't like me. I don't care what you think of me. I just don't care. My job is not to be liked. I am an I-N-D-I-V-I-D-U-A-L. I am not a conformist...far from it. I do not "go along to get along." I ask questions. I probe. I try to understand folly and wonder why we go to so much trouble to live with folly. See, to me life is simple; we make it difficult by inventing all the "gray areas." To me, it's black and white. The bit is either or off...a little computer lingo there. When we start looking for gray, we get all caught up in analysis/paralysis and forget to look at the real, bottom line problem or issue.


So, you'll see a lot of just about everything that interests me here...politics, government, life, love, sports. Feel free to post away. I will NOT partake in any flaming wars...life is too short for "you're stupid" arguments. So, if you're lurking for that, please pass on by. There is nothing to see here.


So, sit a spell and enjoy the surroundings...or not.