Posted by
Georgetwin on Monday, August 24, 2009 9:18:21 AM
I can’t recall when watching Idiots at Work has been so entertaining. The Liberals have WAY overreached and are in DEEP Kim-Chi now. Nazi Piglosi apparently polls ONLY her constituents in Metro San Francisco. HOW else do you explain the MASSIVE disconnect that is unfolding every day? The same for Schmuck Schemer in NYC and ESPECIALLY for Fairy Reid in NV. MOST of the people in NV live in the Las Vegas area. But Fairy Reid DOES NOT take into account the Agrarian/Stock Raising Nevadans that make up the rest of the state. As for the Sail Eared Simpleton, EVERYDAY he gets a little closer to coming UNGLUED! GONE is the toothy grin. GONE is the “soaring” rhetoric that he was credited with. They have been replaced by Campaign Style Attacks on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Tea Parties. I’ll cover ANY bets that behind closed doors, it is ANYTHING but smooth sailing on the Good Ship Obamapop.
My reading has been somewhat sporadic. We had Mrs. Georgetwin's daughter for the summer and my duties as bicycle mechanic, BP pitcher, storyteller, horse riding partner and nature guide precluded me from keeping up with my reading. However we recently went camping in South Central PA for a few days. I packed along “Conagher” by Louis Lamour, it is basically a treatise on standing on your own 2 feet, standing for what you believe in against all odds and taking responsibility for your own actions. It is only about 180 pages in paperback and MUCH of it is Lamour explaining WHY the main character, Conagher, believes in these things and HOW he arrived at these beliefs. I HIGHLY recommend that you read it and THINK about what you read and HOW it applies to us as Conservatives. BTW the campground, Codorus State Park, was in South Central PA. Roughly 75% of the campers were from PA, 20% were from MD and 5% were from elsewhere. Red or Blue, DNC or GOP, Liberal or Conservative, 95% of the folks in the campground were PI$$ED OFF about what the Sail Eared Simpleton has done to America. Chicken Obama is trying the same old "The Sky is Falling" routine AGAIN and NOBODY is buying it! I look for Obama’s numbers to go down faster than a Fat Intern at the Clinton White House in the coming months.
Lastly since we are within range of the Sept 12th Tea Party, I think it behooves us to start making plans to meet in DC. It is time we TH Bloggers had a little medicine talk. My suggestion is that we meet at the foot of the West Side of the Capitol Complex or at the Washington Monument. Both of these are VERY big, VERY visible and VERY easy to spot. Since DC fills up FAST for such events and is VERY expensive. I suggest you consider the area just north of Baltimore where I live. It is right off I-83 and there are hotels and restaurants at both ends of it. It is close to the Light Rail and we can be in DC in 90 minutes for $20 a head. You WILL NOT find anything in DC cheaper. Also we would be able to move as a group into what is QUICKLY becoming a hostile political climate. The link for any who desire to take this option is http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/1/en/hotel/baltn?rpb=hotel&crUrl=/h/d/hi/1/en/hotelsearchresults. Should you decide to stay in the Metro DC area, you should factor 2 things into your plans. DC runs on the Metro and as such, driving in DC is IMPOSSIBLE. DO NOT come into DC from the East or the West. The West side in inconvenient and on the East side, the Metro goes through the DC slums. As things have turned violent at such demonstrations, I IMPLORE you all to go prepared for it. We should coordinate with each other and travel in groups whenever possible, ladies should carry pepper spray and gents should carry a hand held weapon of some sort. Two things that come to mind are a taped up roll of coins or a wooden tool handle cut down to size. Both are easily carried and concealed. Now ONWARD to the fray!
Ann Coulter has opined that since LBJ, Americans elect Republicans for 8-12 years. During that time, Republicans get drunk on power and screw up. Americans get ticked off at the Republicans which opens the door for the Democrats again. Americans say “The Democrats can’t be any worse than the Republicans” and this leads to the likes of Jimmy Carter. Due to the phenomena, Life is Littered with Liberalism. What I plan to do is to document instances in MY life where this has occurred and I suggest that ALL bloggers do the same. I am curious to see if this hypothesis of Ann Coulter is true.
I was born and raised on a dairy farm hard on the confluence of Washington County, PA and Ohio and Marshall Counties in WV. Sunup and sunset were milking time for Dad. The milk was kept in aluminum milk cans and was stored in a springhouse. This was a stone building built into the side of a hill with trees planted near the front 2 corners. In the rear of the building an under ground compartment was constructed and the cans full of milk were stored there until the dairy truck came to get it. We also used this milk and it was SOOOOO cold and delicious that I remember it to this day. Then came the Great Society and the rules changed. A Government Bureaucrat told dad that the springhouse was unsanitary and that to continue as a Commercial Dairy Farmer, he was REQUIRED to install a refrigerated holding tank. Dad was making $100 a month from selling milk and was supplementing his income by working for the county as a mechanic, snowplow driver and heavy equipment operator. The cost to purchase and install a refrigerated holding tank was 1 YEAR’S WORTH (give or take) of his milk income. That day, my Dad gave up Commercial Dairy Farming. We continued to use the springhouse to store our milk for personal use, so HOW unsanitary could it have been?!?!?! Without the milk income to offset operating expenses, it was only a matter of time before we left the farm. I had an uncle who was told the same thing by the same Government Bureaucrat. He bought and installed a refrigerated holding tank and he went bankrupt within a few years. So 2 self supporting farms were DESTROYED by Know Nothing, Liberal, Do Gooders!
When I was just a boy, Dad would wake me up early on Saturday morning and make the 2 of us breakfast. We would eat breakfast while watching Bugs Bunny blow up Yosemite Sam, the Road Runner blow up Wile E. Coyote and Jerry blow up Tom. Then in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s that all changed. All of a sudden, the cartoon than ran the most was about 4 dopers and a talking dog in a van who drove around exposing EVIL/CORRUPT businessmen. WHY the sudden change in an art form that is ENTIRELY subjective? There have been businessmen around since shortly after mankind was created. Were there no corrupt businessmen before this cartoon? Did ALL businessmen ALL OF A SUDDEN become corrupt? In the space of a few short years, a CLASSIC Art Form was DESTROYED by Liberal Bias.
In the late 1960’s, 2 highly rated QB’s came into the NFL. One was a loud, brash, cocky, playboy from Western PA via the University of Alabama who was drafted by the NY Jets aka NY Titans. The other was a Heisman Trophy Winner and Naval Officer who attended the Naval Academy and did a required tour of active duty in the Navy before he reported to the team that had drafted him, the Dallas Cowboys. The playboy has 2-3 great years and retired after a decade leaving behind a legacy of injuries and inconsistency. Yet he starred in SEVERAL big money, nationwide, TV commercials for which he was handsomely paid. The Naval Officer also played for a decade, was happily married and his NFL career was NOTABLE for its excellence. HOWEVER he did not star in big money, nationwide, TV commercials. HOW can you explain this disparity? Were these advertisers selling products or a lifestyle? One was a swinger in NYC and one was a homebody in Dallas. OBVIOUSLY the one in NYC had higher visibility, but he couldn’t hold a light to the one in Dallas as a football player. Say hello to Joe Namath, Roger Staubach and the first glimmer of Cherished Liberal Values. BTW there is a famous interview where Phyllis George is razzing Roger Staubach for being such a straight arrow. Roger shuts her up by saying, “I enjoy sex as much as Joe Namath does, I just enjoy it with the same girl!”
My mother is a VERY petite woman. 5’5” at most and at the present time about 140 pounds. However at the time of my birth, she weighed 100 pounds at most. At birth I weighed 10 pounds, so she was carrying 1/10 of her body weight around. The problem was that she had a tumor of some sort that was blocking the Birth Canal. So therefore she had both my sister and I via C-Section. Her doctor, whose name escapes me, was a Doctrinaire Liberal who HATED children. He STRONGLY advised my parents to ABORT both my sister and myself. Mom and Dad BOTH quoted me the conversation SEVERAL times:
Doctor: “You REALLY should abort this child, otherwise you might die!
Dad: “WE talked it over and WE have decided we are going to have it!”
Doctor: “But WHY? It’s only a baby!”
Dad: “It is not just a baby, it is OUR baby and I said we are KEEPING it and if you say one more word, I WILL put you through that window!”
For the record, the Maternity Ward was on the 8th floor. I of course heard all of this WAY after the fact. My sister was born 1 and ¾ years after I was. The tumor was still there, but the surgery to remove it was EXTREMELY dangerous and invasive. It didn’t seem to be bothering Mom any, so Mom and Dad decided to leave well enough alone. Then on New Year’s Day of 1976, my Mother announced that she was PREGNANT! Sometime in the late winter/early spring of 1976, the tumor BURST and Mom’s assistant came into her office and found her lying on the floor in a pool of blood. She was rushed to the hospital and Dad was hard on the heels of the ambulance. Believe it or not, Mom had the SAME pediatrician who had STRONGLY advised that I be aborted nearly 17 years before. Later Dad told me the conversation went like this:
Doctor: “You KNOW what I think you should do!”
Dad: “You KNOW that this ward is still on the 8th floor!”
After they had this conversation, Dad took us to the hospital to see Mom and they sat us down and explained things to us. The tumor would be OK for now. If they took the tumor at that time, they would have to take the baby too and Mom would likely be OK. OTOH if they waited until the baby was full term and took the tumor, the baby would be OK, but the tumor was touch and go and there was a chance that Mom would die on the operating table. I remember Dad saying, “We believe it is wrong to kill the baby and your mother and I agreed that we wanted to wait and have both operations at the same time.” That was my introduction to the Pro-Life Philosophy some 3 years after Roe v Wade. No High Minded Rhetoric, no Libertine Self Centeredness, just a man and a woman saying, “We believe abortion is WRONG!” That moment has echoed throughout my life from that day to the present.
That summer of 1976 when Mom was pregnant, Dad was on strike. Dad had ALWAYS been on the Negotiating Committee. But since Mom was in the middle of a problem pregnancy and might need him at any time, he declined to be on it that one time. Dad always felt that he was on the Negotiating Committee to serve the interests of the workers, but that he should also hear out what the company had to say and strike a middle ground that would satisfy both parties and keep MORE workers employed. The result of this philosophy was 1 strike in the 32 years that Dad worked at this company and the 1 strike they had was the first time Dad was on the Negotiating Committee and he said they were just testing him to see if he was a reasonable sort. The ONE TIME that he wasn’t on the Negotiating Committee, the Union Local PACKED it with Young Radical Liberals and pumped their empty skulls full of USWA Bravo Sierra. The result was a strike that lasted 3 months and cost MANY workers their jobs. What ended the strike was Dad and a few others going around the Negotiating Committee and striking a compromise with the company. Shortly thereafter Dad got out Grandpa’s 20 gauge shotgun, loaded it and kept it behind the front door. Now keep in mind this is 20 gauge, NOT 12 gauge. All it lacked of being a cannon was wheels. When I asked Dad about it, he said he put it there in case anyone broke in?!?!?! If they broke in, it would likely be THROUGH THE DOOR that the shotgun was behind?!?!?! As I mentioned, my youth was spent in 2 VERY small towns where nearly EVERY man was a hunter or a vet. So while guns WERE commonplace, crime was NOT! As crime was VERY rare, any crime would be the topic of conversation for MONTHS. I lived in these environs for 20 years and I only recall 1 murder, a couple of break ins and a fistful of domestic disturbances. Given this state of affairs, it is FAIRLY obvious that Dad had been threatened by Union Thugs and had made sure that he had a suitable greeting ready for them should they decide to come calling.
Shortly before Ronald Reagan was elected I spread my wings and left the nest. In the Reagan Era, the influence of the Left seemed to wane as Ronald Reagan was on center stage enacting Conservatism for the first time from the White House. But IMHO Liberalism seethed, bubbled and gnashed its teeth, waiting for its chance at the limelight again. Said chance arrived in 1992 after Bush-41 RINO’ed America into a recession. Bill Clinton was effectively held in check by Newt Gingrich. Therefore MUCH of Liberalism’s force was BLUNTED in Washington during the 90’s. HOWEVER since they had been out of power for SOOOOO long, the Liberals seemed DETERMINED that if they COULD NOT make the mark on American Public Policy, they WOULD make their mark on American Culture. This desire manifested itself in the rise of Political Correctness. As the 90’s dawned, my tumultuous 1st marriage came to an end and I reentered the Dating Scene with GUSTO! But I was CONSTANTLY Tap Dancing in the Political Correctness Minefield and since I was living in a VERY Blue State, I was CONSTANTLY having PC Mines EXPLODE around me! I won’t go into detail other than to relate 2 of the FUNNIEST encounters I had with PC Liberals of Various Stripes.
I was dating a Social Worker (BIG Red Flag), her sister and her sister’s fiancée worked for the W.H.O.
and had just returned from an assignment in Africa. While there they had gone on a safari. In the area that they were located, there were legends of a GIANT white pillar and the object of the safari was to locate this pillar. With my tongue FIRMLY planted in my cheek, I opined that something tall and WHITE in Africa would stick out like a sore thumb and if it hadn’t been found by then, it probably didn’t exist! I could’ve goosed their mother and not received such a STRONG backlash :)! I was informed that my RACIST comment was UNACCEPTABLE and that I was INSENSITIVE to the suffering of the Black people of Africa. Whose suffering they brought on themselves BTW. So much for that romance!
On another occasion I went to dinner at a Chinese Restaurant with a Veterinary Assistant. It was our first date, so we were making small talk and getting to know each other. She ordered beef with broccoli and I ordered sweet & sour chicken. This led to conversation about our favorite foods. The waiter had just bought our food when I opined that venison was among my favorite foods. She stopped with the fork halfway to her mouth and said, “You mean you hunt deer?!?!?!” I said that I did and she said, “YOU’RE A MURDERER!” I asked her if she thought the cow on her plate had committed suicide and then she REALLY got mad. She got a container for her meal and left. I finished my sweet and sour chicken in peace. Shortly after that, President Bush was elected. Which brings us to the present.
In my case, the evidence supports Ann Coulter’s argument. Liberalism LITTERS the Landscape of our lives. It is REBUKED time and time again, yet every time it returns with GREATER ferocity! This current incarnation is BY FAR, the most VIRULENT strain of Liberalism EVER unleashed on America. I fear that American will be SEVERELY damaged by Liberalism this time. But if that is what it takes to consign Liberalism to a WELL deserved grave, it WILL be WELL worth it in the LONG RUN!
God Bless You and Thank you for Your Time,
J. Allen Frye