I am an unrepetant Goldwalter Republican outnumbered 3-1 by Rats and their cousins in Portland. I enjoy calm, rational discussions which means I pretty much have to seek it out on the internet. I lurked at Free Republic for several years before making the decision to join up and have not regretted it one bit.
I am by no means an authority on anything, but, I do have opinions on many topics. Ihave a BS and MS and have worked as a cowboy, gater hunter, trapper, tanner, field biologist, hunting guide, falconer, plumber, boiler repair, martial arts instructer, and NVA exterminator
I am very patriotic and believe that the USA is the best invention in mankinds history. That experiment is now being threatened from within by hedonistic prophets of failed ideologies and by Islamofascism worldwide.

"Downwind from the billowing fumes of these Demo-gogue traitors and their surrogates, one is left to ponder, as I have previously, what has happened to the Democrat Party of Roosevelt and Kennedy—which championed our national security and honored Patriots? It is now infested with hypocritical, nescient, impotent, reprehensible, gutless, half-witted, asinine, obsequious, meretricious, pusillanimous, indolent, imbecilic, pompous, retromingent, ignominious, duplicitous, ungrateful, socialist, sycophantic prevaricators, who flippantly exploit Operation Iraqi Freedom, as political fodder for their next campaign."
From PatriotPost 9/14/07

“The only ‘crisis’ in health care in this country is that doctors are paid too little. (Also they’ve come up with nothing to help that poor Dennis Kucinich.) But the Democratic Party treats doctors like they’re Klan members. They wail about how much doctors are paid and celebrate the trial lawyers who do absolutely nothing to make society better, but swoop in and steal from the most valuable members of society. Maybe doctors could get the Democrats to like them if they started suing their patients. It’s only a matter of time before the best and brightest students forget about medical school and go to law school instead. How long can a society based on suing the productive last? You can make 30 times as much money as doctors by becoming a trial lawyer suing doctors. You need no skills, no superior board scores, no decade of training and no sleepless residency. But you must have the morals of a drug dealer. (And the bank wire transfer number to the Democratic National Committee.) The editors of The New York Times have been engaging in a spirited debate with their readers over whether doctors are wildly overpaid or just hugely overpaid. The results of this debate are available on TimeSelect, for just $49.95. ‘Many health care economists,’ the Times editorialized, say the partisan wrangling over health care masks a bigger problem: ‘the relatively high salaries paid to American doctors.’ Citing the Rand Corp., the Times noted that doctors in the U.S. ‘earn two to three times as much as they do in other industrialized countries.’ American doctors earn about $200,000 to $300,000 a year, while European doctors make $60,000 to $120,000. Why, that’s barely enough for Muslim doctors in Britain to buy plastic explosives to blow up airplanes! How much does Pinch Sulzberger make for driving The New York Times stock to an all-time low? Probably a lot more than your podiatrist.” —Ann Coulter