editor's blog
I'll say one thing for being in an election cycle leading up to the most important election of my life: it's sure bringing the progressives and their ideology out in the open. What I find really interesting about that is how every time some leftist puts forward an extreme progressive point of view, it just seems to invigorate the people on the right and make them more active. It's almost as if the people on the left are shooting themselves in the foot with a fully automatic rifle, and just can't seem to stop pulling the trigger.
It seems that each time the Legislature meets, the issue of school starting dates comes up. While many of us can certainly recall those times when school waited until after Labor Day, they are, apparently, irrevocably in the past! Schools are starting all around us, causing meaning that there are some habits we must change!
With Mitt Romney's recent selection of Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, expect to see the left in general, and The Barack in particular, start trying to "shred" Representative Ryan. This will be old hat for the above group. Since Paul Ryan has long been a vocal opponent of the policies of The Barack, and a proponent of reforming some of the worst financial abuses of our federal government, the left has had him in their sights for a long time (as a conservative, I can use a gun reference).
Myopia. I learned the word when I was ten years old from the optometrist who checked my eyes and told my parents that I was nearsighted. I didn’t know I was nearsighted. I thought everyone saw everything the way I saw it. Trees were green blobs, the landscape blurred into blotches of pink, green, brown and blue, like an Impressionist painting. (Maybe Monet was near sighted and created Impressionism by painting what he saw.) I have to admit I wondered how other kids could catch and hit a baseball. I never saw the ball until it was on top of me.
No one really expected the 2000 elections to be as “exciting” as they were. The issues in Florida involving “hanging chads” added terms to our language and electronic machines to our voting places. Unbeknownst to most people, the stage is set for the elections of 2012 to be more controversial than any in the history of our nation.
I notice the main stream media spent a lot of air time and ink last week telling the whole world, or at least everybody they could get to pay attention to them, that the vote in the House of Representatives to repeal Obamacare was a complete and utter waste of time. I would tell you what CNN had to say about it, but just like the vast majority of the rest of America, I don’t watch CNN. This by the way, is the same media that spent countless hours covering the time Congress invested looking into whether Roger Clemens used steroids or not.
I had my license and credentials as a Texas Realtor but no experience and no business cards. My broker asked me to go out to a home recently sold by the office to make some Polaroid pictures.
The interaction with the new home owners went well as did the picture taking. An extra picture was taken of the family standing together on their front porch. I gave them the picture and pulled a card from my pocket.
I'll say one thing for the Supreme Court: wait, hold that thought, after their decision on Obamacare, I'm not in the mood to say anything for the Supreme Court. Last week's decision was bad. After finding out that Justice Roberts sided with the leftist wing of the court and threw us and the American economy to the wolves, I have one burning question. Is it too late to take another look at Harriet Miers?
It should come as no surprise to regular readers of these musings that I enjoy the company of animals, especially dogs. While I strongly disagree with the current trend to make people the “guardians” of them, or to give them “rights”, I have no tolerance for cruelty.
With all that’s going on in the current events/political world this week, I thought I’d take a closer look at an important issue that doesn’t get nearly enough attention. Right now The Barack and Romney are out on the campaign trail, The Supreme Court is handing down decisions, and don’t forget, mount Joe Biden could erupt in a massive flow of inappropriate statements at any time. With all of that going on, there will be no shortage of commentary on hot topic issues this week.
