Day: August 25, 2009

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10 Honest Things You Never Wanted to Know About Me

*sigh* Woody, of Woody’s Place tagged me with one-a those “Blogosphere Meme Pool Game” thingies: “10 Honest Things About Myself” so, here’s some

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  1. I dislike blogosphere meme pool tag games, but I participate anyway just because
  2. Whenever I’m inflicted with this curse, I share the pain with others (look out; your turn may come)
  3. I have The World’s Messiest OfficeTM. I can clean it up and things seem to crawl out of the walls to mess it up while my back’s turned. My office must be at the intersection of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits…
  4. BTW, my office sometimes serves as my “nekkid room”. Cover your eyes. It’s NOT a pretty sight…
  5. I love music. No, not that crap that’s played on just about any radio station you can find, music. And yeh, I found I was so often bored to tears by the selections on so-called “classical” stations (GET OUTA THE ROMANTIC PERIOD!!! STOP IT ALREADY WITH “CONTEMPORARY *puke* JAZZ”!!!) that I now just find CDs or mp3s or whatever to buy and/or download online. Oh, sometimes a radio station in Australia, but even it has slim pickin’s. Often, I just listen to the best stereo system in the world: the one with a musical memory bank between my ears…
  6. I am a wuss when it comes to “putting down” a pet in pain that cannot be controlled or fixed, but have (had) no trouble taking a shovel (rather than deal with firearm discharge issues in “city” limits) to an apparently rabid ground hog.
  7. I am fully invested in confronting the FACT that our “feddle gummint” has become illegitimate, tyrannical, unconstitutional, and that congresscritters, executives and judicial appointees are simply doing what an illiterate, greedy, enstupiated electorate wants. Of course, “fully invested” doesn’t mean that’s the sum of my life, only that at NO time will I be silenced when I see an opportunity to “speak truth to (illegitimate) power”.
  8. Why? Because I am a curmudgeon at heart. Nope, not misanthropic, just irritated beyond imagination by wilfull stupidity. Not cynical, just healthily sceptical–for cause! I have no problem throwing the bullshit flag at any time, on anyone, anywhere. Period. “Win friends and influence people”? *feh* 90% of people aren’t worth enough to consider as friends, and that same 90% is either too stupid or corrupt to be influenced by reason. A pox on them all.
  9. I watch “chick flicks” with my Wonder Woman to be companionable. Every now and then, one of ’em turns out to be worth watching. Go figure.
  10. I have had vivid dreams wherein The 0! is revealed by incontrovertable evidence to be a native born Kenyan who surrendered his Kenyan citizenship to become Indonesian, is run out of office, prosecuted for his campaign law violations and stripped of his fortune before being deported to Indonesia. Hey! A guy has to have dreams, doesn’t he?

Now, I’ll make time later to tag a few friends (while they still are friends *heh*) and insert the victims’ tags here.

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“I have kept my oath; do you ever intend to keep yours?

The post title comes from a “townhall” meeting held with with U.S. Congressman Brian Baird.

In all the “health care reform” talk, I have yet to see or hear any citation of a constitutionally enumerated power that gives the “feddle gummint” any legitimate reason to be involved in such a thing. Sure, I’ve seen tortured, disingenuous or flat out lying citations of the commerce clause as justification, but nothing yet that has been at all persuasive to me. Of course, with well more than half the “feddle gummint” meddling in areas where it has no enumerated power to do so already, the challenge of the gentleman in the video I link below to “protect and defend the Constitution” resonates with me as I watch congresscritters violate their oaths of office on a quotidian basis.

http://media.causes.com/555066?p_id=60313119 (Sorry, no embedding link provided, and I haven’t dug into a way to download a facebook-only-embedded video.)

Ah, here it is from YouTube. Trust Woody to find it.

No, I am not despairing. Not as long as folks like the gentleman in the video can still speak. But Nancy “they’re un-American” Pelosi and her ilk seem to fully intend on completely gutting the First Amendment with the full cooperation of the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind.

A relevant aside: the folks at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute have a chilling presentation of American illiteracy on the subject of civics, as noted in a post below. The organization’s survey conclusions are no surprise to me or likely to any observant person with ev en rudimentary knowledge of American civics, but the information is nevertheless a disappointing confirmation of my private observations. One completeyl no-brainer observation:

“Of the 2,508 People surveyed, 164 say they have held an elected government office at least once in their life. Their average score on the civic literacy test is 44%, compared to 49% for those who have not held an elected office. Officeholders are less likely than other respondents to correctly answer 29 of the 33 test questions. This table shows the “knowledge gap” for each question: the difference between the percentage of common citizens who answered correctly and the percentage of officeholders who answered correctly.”

Just as with public school administrators, all the politicians I have ever personally known (save one U.S. Senator–and he was eventually corrupted by the political process–and one small town mayor) have been among the least qualified people for the positions they held.

I fear for the nation my grandchildren may have to live in as adults.