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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
I got an email from Raven at "And Rightly So saying say it isn't so. At first glance I would agree, why on earth would we turn our port security over to terrorist friendly organizations but, once I saw the Democrats were opposed to this chills ran up my spine.
Seiously, could I actually be agreeing with Democrats on this? Could it possibly be that Democrats are actually right? It's been my experience that whenever I agree with Democrats, it turns out that I was wrong for agreeing with them.
Think about it folks, when was the last time that Democrats, on the whole, actually stood up for the right thing in America? Think hard, name one thing where Democrats have put America first above all? It's a universal rule, no matter how good something is for this country, Democrats will point to another country and say their's is better. Canada's healthcare is better, Rwanda was a better war than Iraq, even the dictator Hugo Chavez is a better "president" than George W. Bush. Europe's gas prices are better than ours, French people know how to fight a war, even though they can't win one. When have Democrats ever stood for the right thing for America?
On the other hand,
Jimmy Carter supports George Bush's plan. This can only mean one of two things, either it's a horrible plan because Jimmy Carter supports it, or it's a great thing and Jimmy Carter has finally realized that nobody respects his opinion and he's trying to undermine Bush's plan by supporting it.
Fact of the matter is, most Democrats are opposed to this, which can mean only one thing, the plan is good for America. I say take a closer look, if it was really bad for America, Democrats would be praising it.
Austria has banned free speech
Can you believe that a man jailed for being a non-believer? I don't believe Pittsburgh really won the superbowl, should I go to jail? Well, If you don't believe this article, Austrians might just through you in jail for not believing they throw people in jail. Do we really want to follow the rest of the world? Do we really want to follow their lead?
And finally, with the "Liberal church" on the road, I want to clarify why I am doing it. Since Hurricane Katrina, I've had a very difficult time taking Democrats seriously. Well, to be truthful, I was onhaving a hard time taking Democrats seriously before that, but whatever respect for the party I had left, was lost after the hurricanes.
Yes there are some decent Democrats out there, somewhere, but it doesn't seem to be the majority of them. It seems to me that the Democrats over at the
Devil's playground represents what about 80-90% of the Democrat view.
There's also a problem in politics today, a cult like mentality that whoever one votes for is excused for murder while the guy you didn't vote for should be executed for passing gas the wrong way. The "liberal church" could easily have been a "conservative church", but I do think that there is a much bigger problem within the left wing of this nation. Liberals know a few things, Bush is worse than Hitler, they can't win elections so they need to overturn an election, and a yellow dog still is better than a Republican. Those three traits drive their every last belief.
Don't believe me? Go to their blogs, look at them, half of them have a strip in the upper corner that says, "we can't win an election, so we must overturn the people's will", the other half are calling him Hitler, and 95% of them are repeating what they saw their Democrat leaders saying on the television. Sure the same can be said about Republicans, but the Democrats are horrible with it.
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Sunday, February 19, 2006
1984!
Is it just me or is big brother watching you? Not me, yet. After all, the city I live in does not have camera's all over the place, but in Chicago, Houston, and other cities, who knows when your on candid camera. New Orleans had the spy cameras but I think they got washed away a few months ago. Even if they did still exists, they didn't do what they were supposed to do. The only cameras that caught any crime was filmed by the media, not the police.
What's so amazing is the number of people that support this. I find it hard to believe that people love cameras watching their every public move, monitering the books they check out from the library, and scanning their conversations on the internet, but somehow get jittery when the government moniters their telephone calls to Islamic terrorist. Is there something wrong with this picture?
I don't get it, it makes as much sense to me as liberals crying about pictures of a prophet while praising a crucifix in a jar of urine as art. If liberals were consistent, and truly believed in freedom like they claim to, then they would be outraged over cameras.
What makes these cameras worse is that they want to put them in private businesses. I have absolutely no problem with businesses putting cameras to moniter their private property, but for government to come in a moniter it for them? Shouldn't places of business be considered an extension of ones home? It is, afterall, private property.
Reference articles
CHICAGO MAYOR WANTS POLICE CAMERAS IN PRIVATE BUSINESSES
Houston eyes cameras at apartment complexes, homes
Surveillance Cameras To Monitor Santa Monica Promenade
Will somebody answer this one question for me: What's the point of fighting for freedom if we're just going to surrender it to our government?
And Kathleen Blanco's poll numbers are at an all time low, which no longer matters unless she gets recalled. The way I see it, the only way we can remove the governor now is to recall her, now that the incumbent security and voter disenfranchisement bill has passed. You can now vote from anywhere in the United States, even if you never voted before in Louisiana. Now polls are great for incumbents, they tell them exactly how many out of state first time voters they need to win. I'm sure they'll be able to drum those votes up somehow, someway. Louisiana politicians used to have to summon dead people to vote. Now, they just need to look for people from other states that claim to be evacuees.
Our elections are a sham now. Nobody likes the governor, but I gurantee with the voter disenfranchisement and incumbent protection act now law, I garuntee Blanco will be Governor for the next 7 years. Louisiana - the Banana Republic.
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Saturday, February 18, 2006
This week, the Fight On campaign travelled to the land of Ogre's Politics and Views. Please visit and help OGRE spread the word.
A Few Thoughts...
There aren't many things out there that are more agonizing than hitting every red light while 'Radar Love' plays on the radio.
Sometimes real power is not to be in a powerful position.
The desire for greatness often screws things up, but the desire for humility often leads to greatness.
The people that complain the most about how bad the world is, usually are the same ones that contribute the most to make the world a bad place.
Dealing with Democrats is like dealing with drunks and terrorists. The nicer you are with them, the more they try to take advantage of you and treat you harshly. The meaner you get with them, the nicer they will act towards you.
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Friday, February 17, 2006
Two Very Important Stories
First I want to say that I just finished my "Liberal church sermon" and I personally think it's my best one yet. Since Dick Cheney's gun accident was the only thing that Liberals had to talk about all week long, Sarah Brady gives the sermon. As soon as it is posted, I'll let you know where you can find it. This one actually made me smile!
Cheerleaders jailed because...
they spoke about their trip to South Korea. Imagine a world where speaking about a country that is considered "enemy territory" is so taboo, you go to jail. Liberals would have you believe, it's George Bush's America, not one of their favorite countries...
Read the story
SEOUL, South Korea - Twenty-one members of North Korean cheering squads who traveled to South Korea for international sports events are being held in a prison camp for talking about what they saw in the South, a news report said Friday...Citing another unnamed defector, the newspaper said the cheerleaders had pledged before going to South Korea that they would treat the country as "enemy territory" and never speak about what they saw there, accepting punishment if they broke the promise.
This is going on in other countries, yet liberals think America is bad? How can people say that this country is a dictatorship? Though I agree that we are marching down that road, we are not there yet. England and France will be dictatorships first. Don't believe me? How about this?
England prohibits public- almost entirely.
In England, smoking in public will get you a £50 fine... Wow, that's enough to buy a whole lotta smokes...
But since businesses can afford more money, there's a £200 fine for not posting a "No Smoking" fine and if it goes to court, possible penalty £1,000. So if you choose to contest it, you risk paying 5 times as much? What's a person to do, even if falsely accused? Pay the £200 fine of course. Why risk paying 5 times as much, plus legal fees, plus loss time at work? Simply pay it.
Here's where England really rakes in the big bucks- Non-Smokers. That's right, if you are a non-smoker and you see somebody smoking in a non-smoking section, the fine for you? £2,500
But wait, there's more! You can still smoke in your car if you have passengers... at least so far. They have yet to make a decision on whether or not you can drive in your car and smoke a cigerette if you have a passenger. I wonder if that includes a smoking passenger? What if both the driver and passenger smoke, are they now prohibited from smoking?
Read the story Here's a few passages from the story...
Smokers lighting up in banned areas will face a fixed penalty notice of £50 and spot fines of £200 will be introduced for failing to display no-smoking signs, with the possible penalty if the issue goes to court increasing to £1,000.
Caroline Flint, the Public Health Minister, also announced that the fine for failing to stop people smoking in banned areas would be increased to £2,500 — more than ten times the £200 originally proposed.
The Bill also allows the Government to increase the age for buying cigarettes. Ministers will consult on raising it from 16 to 18.
Smoking could still be banned at outdoor locations that are “substantially enclosed”, such as football grounds and railway platforms. The details will be contained in regulations after a three-month consultation.
No decision has yet been made on whether smoking will be banned in cars carrying passengers.
Before I used to rail against anti-smoking regulations, saying that it's radicalism running amock. I never believed that it was about public health, but always about infringing on people's freedom.
I used to say that Non-smokers needed to beware all ye who enter here, that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Obviously I have seen the light, there is absolutely nothing radical here. This is normal for governments to punish the people who didn't commit the crime much worse than the people that do.
I like this bill. I think all American cities should adopt this exact bill... we can have a smoke free America... Freedom from smoke. Like one Baton Rouge city council woman said, "it's not radicalism, it's a world wide trend."
Hat Tip Ogre
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Thursday, February 16, 2006
The problem with Louisiana Politics
Too many chiefs, not enough indians. It seems that Louisianas leadership is filled with people too arrogant to get things done. Too many people in this state get in a position of power, and suddenly they are convinced they are the kings and queens of the world.
Kathleen Blanco thinks she's more important than the President, yet somehow blames Louisiana's problems on the President.
The Louisiana black caucus thinks they are the most important people in the legislature. Louisiana doesn't want to make it much easier for voter fraud to exist, so the Louisiana black caucus walks out?
Bob Odom wants former Senator John Breaux to run for Governor and replace Blanco, saying that she can't turn the state around, but Bob Odom also thinks he's so important that he deserves his own $85 million dollar sugar mill at the taxpayers expense.
Even the small fries, the pee-ons, thinks that the world wouldn't turn if they didn't hold the office they have. Whether it's the top of the mountain, or the bottom of a barrel of monkeys, these people are so concerned about getting the credit, but won't do anything to get something done.
You people around the nation are laughing at Louisiana because we elected Governor Blanco, but the truth of the matter is, Louisiana's dirty little secret is, that's pretty much the way Louisiana politics works. Nothing gets done, but everybody wants credit for it, and at the same time, blame everybody else for the lack of accomplishment.
What they don't understand is that accomplishing objectives helps all that are involved, don't getting anything done, hurts both.
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Monday, February 13, 2006
GM of GM's Corner is back from the hospital and hopefully he'll so be back online making the internet interesting. Though I have to say, both Woody and Raven have done a wonderful job of filling in for him. Fight on!
It's only been two days and I'm already sick of the Dick Cheney jokes. Here's a bunch of self righteous people preaching about Dick Cheney not being safe with a gun and nobody even knows what happened. Listening to these people, you'd think Dick Cheney maliciously did it and that accidentally shooting somebody is a fun game.
I don't care for hunting, I'd rather pay money for somebody to kill my meat for me. It's not something that I care for and why it's called a sport is something that I don't understand. However, who am I to criticize hunters because I'm not man enough to kill my own food? Still, in order for all of us to survive, something must die. That's a fact a life, even vegetarians kill, they just pick on helpless vegetables.
One thing liberals have to admit, Dick Cheney's gun still has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car.
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Sunday, February 12, 2006
I thought I would pass this story of a Libertarian candidate that's running for Governor. I haven't decided if I am going to vote for him or not. So far his main qualification is that he helped hurricane victims.
A Louisiana man who helped many evacuees from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Louisiana coast on Aug. 29, 2005, is running for the Libertarian Party’s nomination for governor.
T. Lee Horne is a resident of Franklin, La., the community to which many Libertarians sent money and relief materials after the townsfolk made it clear they would not seek or accept government assistance for hurricane refugees.
In fact, when volunteers with the Red Cross got lost on their way to New Orleans, they were sheltered by Franklin volunteers. The Red Cross workers said the town was doing a fantastic job, and that the Red Cross wouldn’t be needed there.
Still, can we get any more inept than our current leadership? Kathleen's Blanco main qualification was that she was a school teacher - for an entire year. Let's give her a standing ovation for that, most teachers don't even last a year. Then she was in public office for several years, is that even a qualification?
Let's take a look at what our office holders are doing here in Louisiana. Levee Board reform, the most needed thing in a post-Katrina Louisiana, can't even pass. Consider this, our Governor went in front of congress and whined about the levees breaking saying over and over that they "wouldn't be here if the levees never broke". This bill should be a slam dunk and our politicians can't even get it passed? And they want expect the United States Congress to give a fortune to them? What the United States Congress should do is collect cardboard boxes and blankets. Then they can send it to the legislatures in Louisiana along with Jesse Jackson's phone number and tell them to give him a call, the rest of the United States has done enough.
In fact, all these politicians around here are complaining that President Bush only said 160 words concerning Katrina in his State of the Union address, as if the rest of the United States really wants to hear him go on and on about it. How people in the other 49 states tolerate the whining and crying from Louisiana officials is beyond me. I live in this state, I can understand it to some extent, but I can barely stand it anymore. It's nearly been 6 months since Katrina and the only thing that Louisiana officials seemed to accomplish is perfecting their whining.
We have the Lt. Governor, Mitch Landrieu, running for mayor of New Orleans. Why would anybody leave a position that's just a heartbeat away from being the most powerful man in the state, to run for mayor instead? Sounds like somebody is looking to line his own personal pockets.
Those of you that gave to Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, you might want to consider sending real aid down here, we'd be much better off if you gave money to a third party candidate and help change this system down here. I'm not so sure that either party will put up a quality candidate. I guess time will tell if Louisianans actually wants a change. Please help GM Fight On
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Saturday, February 11, 2006
GM Roper of GM's Corner is fighting cancer. A group of bloggers silently known as the South Park Republicans have joined GM in his fight. Over the next few weeks, the Liberal Church will be travelling from blog to blog and all donations made will go to aid GM in his fight against cancer. If you would like to donate by snail mail, we are working on a way for you to be able to do that. Cancer can be a very costly battle and your help is greatly appreciated. Please add a "Fight On" ribbon to your blog. Donations can be made during this post.

First Church of Democrats
Bringing liberals closer to God since 2006
proudly talking liberalism in the bible belt
Worship songs play -
"(George Bush is a) Fortunate Son" - Choir
"Blowin in the Wind" - Sean Penn
"Impeaching Satan from the Whitehouse!" - Choir (Barney Franks- Bongos)
What a great day for Democratics! Impeaching Bush always is music to my ears. I'm Hillary Clinton, daughter and
Isisin the flesh. As you know, my mother is female divinity.
We have a couple of announcements today, first, our missionaries in Afghanistan and Iraq have successfully committed 4,206 acts of protest against Bush's Islamic Holocaust. Please keep the insurgents in your prayers and please donate when the plate is passed around.
Great news! Notice we had a couple of songs from the Sixties. Weren't those wonderful days? I remember the good old days when the youth stood up and spoke out against the unjust war, just like today. Oh how young, handsome, and full of conviction Bill was back then. I can tell you, he hasn't changed a bit. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs?
In the sixties, we travelled, oh how we travelled to stand against an unjust war. From Washington D.C. to San Francisco. We would just load up the VW bus and go. Sometimes we would sit on the side of the road and sing for money. Now we are taking a trip down memory lane. For the next few weeks, the Hippie Sermons will be travelling from blog to blog, bringing protest of the Republicans to far away lands! If you ever get lost, you can always dial up Louisiana Conservative to find out where we are going to be next.
We'll now pass the plate whilst U2 sings a song of worship. For those of you who have yet to return your unwanted tax refund, you may do so now.
Let us bow our head and make a payment. Mother Iris, we know that the time hath come that ye shalt send thy holy child to walk among us once again. Blessedeth are we to have been in your guidance, and that of the Holy Spirit, Che Guevara. We ask that you send more guidance, so that we may be great socialist. Let us not be tempted with selfish monetary desires such as tattoos, piercings, drugs, alcohol, fast food, SUV's nor homes. Bless us with the desire to give whole-heartedly with other people's money. Let us rise up in with compassion and force other people to give as we see fit for them to give. Oh great mother, give us the wisdom to take a proper amount from other people so that we may live healthy lives.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
♪♫ 'War! Uh!' ♫
♫♫ 'What is it good for?' ♪
♪♫ 'George Bush's pockets!' ♫
♫'Say it again!'♫♪ ♪♫ 'War, Uh' ♫
♫♫ 'What is it good for?' ♪
♪♫ 'Dubya's oil buds' ♫
Many people have made much adu because I spoke out against George W. Bush spreading fear. I'm sick and tired of people saying that we are unpatriotic for speaking out against the regime! We need to stand up and say "We are Americans and we have a right to point out that the dictator spreads fear". Bush uses fear to swindle the American people out of their freedom. Bush's plays the fear card to get everything passed.
Democrats NEVER, EVER, use fear to pass policies! I saw one Rethuglican Blogger insinuating that protestors of George Bush's illegal war are hypocritical or even dangerous because we support the great pacifist, Che Guevara. When Che stood up and spoke against the ills of the government, he did so without a shread of violence! The capitalist Government, which was funded by the Bush family, divided the country and turned brother against brother, father against mother, and grandmother against their grandchildren! They spread fear just as the Bush administration does today. Che was a great pacifist that never resorted to violence and the Bush regime type government slaughtered him needlessly!
Bush used fear to get elected! He won votes by convincing people that they need to be afraid of another 9-11. He spread fear in 2000 by scaring blacks away from the polls! Everybody knows just how afraid minorities are to stand up for theirselves, where would they be if it were not for white Democrats to hold their hand and help them up? In caves! Bush winning has set our nation back all the way to the 1930's, if the Rethuglicans win again, he'll send minorities back into slavery!
If Rethuglicans win again, minorities will have to pay $100 an hour just to breathe air. You'll have to move into caves just to survive, always living in fear that if the Rethuglicans win, you'll be crucified worse than Jesus Christ was. Bush uses fear to advance his agenda.
The Rethuglicans love to use fear to manipulate the American people! I'm afraid for the elderly if the Rethuglicans win again. They'll hold your social security hostage if you don't vote for them. They'll wire-tap your phones and listen if you are voting for Democrats, and if they find out you are, they'll send spies into your house to steal the medicine right out of your bottles! If they see you as a real threat, they could even switch the medicine in the bottle. How are you going to be able to complain when your dead? This can happen because the Rethuglicans use fear to advance their agenda!
You single mothers will be singled out as well! Bush will try to put fear into you by holding your welfare check back. They can be wiretapping you at this very moment! Listening in and if you support the Democratic party, watch out from spies. Imagine going to the mailbox to get your monthly government assistance check, only to see the lock on your mailbox broken. Your check isn't there, it's been stolen and cashed by the Bush administration to start a war in another country, maybe even Canada! Bush needs to make people afraid to win elections, he thrives on fear!
Bush has already spread fear in the Democratic party. Most Democrat elected officials are too afraid to show up at these anti-war rallies! We know just how scary this administration is, we deal with him directly on a daily basis. We expect him on any given day to outlaw abortion and gay people. He's holding us hostage and if we don't follow certain orders, he's will sign those executive orders. They are sitting on his desk right this very moment, right next to his nuclear option, the red phone. He keeps the house in fear! He keeps the control of the senate through fear. He runs congress like a plantation Bush plays the race card exactly like any dictator does. Can you ever think of a time, ever, in your life, EVER, when Democrats EVER tried to play the fear card? Never! Never Ever!
They are involved in illegal wiretaps and listening in on every single Americans conversations. The entire Rethuglican party won't even speak out because they aren't smart enough to resist. They don't have the intelligence factor to listen to reason. You are, and you must push on with your resistance! We can't allow Bush to bully us around with fear. If we allow that, America loses every last freedom.
Bush's fear doesn't stop at our borders. He's needlessly killed thousands of people with his war for oil. He bullies all the other nations. Some resist, but that only means their next. Bush will not tolerate freedom anywhere in the world. No country is safe from this administration, no one iis safe anywhere in the world.
This next election, the Rethuglicans will try to use fear to to make sure that they stay in power. I say to you, if you want to keep freedom, if you want to be safe in your homes, if you want privacy in your homes; if you're a minority, gay, woman, or elderly be brave and vote Democratic. The choice is clear give into fear and let Bush ruin everything from civil rights to enviroment. He'll cost more lives in needless wars and lose American's respect across the globe. He'll do more ethnic cleansing like we saw in the aftermath of New Orleans. Elderly people will pass away because without their social security check and medicaid, they won't have basic necessities. If the Rethuglicans win, they'll drill for oil so much that the earth will collapse because it's empty inside.
Please don't give into Bush's fear, don't let them destroy any more lives. Vote for a party that never, ever uses fear to win elections, vote Democratic.
Let us bow our heads and don't forget your payment. Holy Mother Iris, We ask for you divine feminine guidance and lead us not into temptation of listening to right wing talk radio. Do not let our people fall into the sin of want and desires. Lead us from selfish temptations such mutilating our arms with ink while denying starving children of something to eat. Keep us far from fast food so that we may be fit and healthy. Bless us with tofu plentiful. We pray for the souls of those caught in the ills of capitalism the tempts people with selfish desires like car and home ownership. Help them seek salvation, in the name of the holy spirit, Che Guevara.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Last Weeks Sermon (III)
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Friday, February 10, 2006
that it was safe to stick my head up and say "I live in Louisiana", this story sends me back into a state of embarrassment. When two women attack a fast food employee and slash him with a razor, I have to wonder, do I live in Louisiana, or in the State of Embarrassment?
Instead of mayonnaise, she instead received tartar sauce, which is the traditional condiment on a Rally's fish sandwich, owner Ronnie Stevens said.
"We replaced her sandwich immediately," he said.
But that apparently wasn't good enough.
The passenger got out of the dark blue or black late-model Kia Sportage, went up to a second drive-through window at the business and continued yelling. A male employee, 30, who was not identified, went outside to calm her down, Stevens said.
"When he went out, things just got worse," Gallagher said. "He didn't see that she had anything in her hand."
When he couldn't soothe her, the employee turned to walk away and was attacked, Stevens said. The woman slashed his face and forearm with a razor blade, Gallagher said.
You know, sometimes I look at people and wish that I could just pop their head open and fix whatever is wrong with them up there, but this? Whatever it was that she paid for that brain, she got ripped off. She doesn't have a few screws loose, loose screws is all she's got left.
What is it with people that go into a place of business and think that by putting on a show, the rest of us appreciate it? I remember I was in K-mart around Christmas time and no, I don't buy cheap Christmas presents from K-mart, I'm too cheap to buy Christmas presents. Anyway, I'm waiting in line along with the other 50,000 and this one lady started yelling and screaming about the service at K-mart, the intelligence of the employees, and saying she was going to Wal-mart if they didn't hurry up. Yeah, like that was a brilliant thing to do.
Let's take this one by one, everybody is Christmas shopping, every place is packed. There are long lines everywhere, and K-mart is supposed to be different? What does she think she's going to accomplish? That K-mart clerks would magically appear and give her a box of Christmas cheer? Does she really think that the rest of us standing in line, agonizing over the long wait, knowing full well that once we get into our cars, the traffic will just add an additional 45 minutes to our drive home, actually will thank her? I'd rather go on a date with Hillary Clinton than hear some woman.... uh, no, I take that back. I just don't want to hear some woman yelling in the supermarket, unless it's at her husband or boyfriend, then it's hilarious.
I never could understand why some people would go in and insult the intelligence of the employees. If I went into a fast food joint and called the employees stupid, I wouldn't be stupid enough to eat there too. You might get a burger with extra special sauce, and I don't want that. Just be nice, make your order, and make your little bit of time as pleasant as possible. Remember, that person working behind the register, or in the kitchen has been there longer than you, and will still be there long after your gone. If you want to go insult somebody, try calling your mechanic an idiot while he's working on your brakes, or try telling your lawyer what an idiot he is while he's defending you in a court of law.
As for the people that threaten to go somewhere else, just shut up and go. Nobody cares....
Sheesh, it's raining so bad that thunder struck and I felt the vibrations in my chair... twice. Sorry about that, never had that happen before...
Just go to Wal-mart and do your shopping there. That's the great thing about Capitalism, if you don't like how one business conducts its affairs, you can shop anywhere. It's not like some socialist country where you stand in line all day waiting for the surprise the Government's got for you. Wal-mart's even open 24 hours, you could go there at 2 am and not worry about the long lines. Why is that so hard for people to understand?
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Good news and Good News!
First of all, I want to take a moment to explain part of the reason why I haven't been nearly as critical of Republicans as many of my long time readers have known me for. Since February of last year (2005), I and a group of fellow Republicans have been busy organizing the Pachyderms of Greater Baton Rouge and I was vice-chairmen. It's been an interesting experience. We had two guys sort of, but not really, helping us out with it. I'll call them Phil and Buster and I won't talk about them.
As of midnight, I am no longer the Vice-Chair. I resigned my position on the board. As a board member, I really couldn't speak out against my fellow Republicans. Can you imagine that? Me, keeping my mouth shut? If you think it's impossible for me to keep my mouth shut, you're right. I didn't but I was so much more kinder to Republicans, especially around March, than I should have been.
The beauty of no longer being vice-chair is that I can be more vocal with my fellow Republicans, and this time, I just might vote for a Libertarian candidate. We got one running for Governor. Quite frankly, it makes sense to vote for a Libertarian Governor. What have we got to lose? Send a message to both parties, why not?
Secondly, as many of you know, I've been blogging off and on over the past year. I've been so overwhelmed with so much and the Pachyderms was just an additional burdern. Today, I can focus more on both my job, blogging, and still have more time with my wife.
I have personal goals that I want to achieve as well, but something more important needs to be done. This past week it has been called to my attention that one of our fellow VRWC bloggers has lung cancer. He's recently had surgery and hopefully they got it all out. A few bloggers took note, and I'll get to that in just a few seconds.
Many of you probably aren't aware just how expensive cancer can be, even if you have good health insurance. Your non-medical cost of cancer can exceed your medical cost. Cancer can break you, even if you are financially secure and have good health insurance.
☼ Nearly one out of every two men will be diagnosed with cancer.
☼ More than one out of three women will be diagnosed with cancer.
☼ One out of seven women will have breast cancer.
☼ Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in children under the ages of 14.
Think cancer won't strike you because you don't smoke? Think again, most people that get cancer will be non-smokers.
Think you won't get cancer because there's no family history? Not true either, most people diagnosed with cancer don't have a family history of cancer. Think you're two young to contract cancer? Not true either, I know of women in their twenties being diagnosed with breast cancer. However, good news concerning cancer is that 63% of those diagnosed with cancer will live beyond five years.
I mentioned a minute ago that a few bloggers took note. We have decided to start a "Fight On" campaign for our friend. Over the next few weeks, we'll be doing a series of post to help raise funds for our friend.
If you would like to be notified and keep track of this, you can either subscribe to this blog by entering your email at the bottom of the side bar, or keep checking back to this blog and find out where you will be able to donate at. Each week, it will be at a different blog. The "Fight On" campaign will last a couple of months.
Please help spread the word, it's for a great cause.
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