Waiting. I'll have a snack to pass the time...
:o)
Posted on 09/14/2005 10:39:29 PM PDT by publana
"Goodbye, farewell and amen"
Life's changes are always such that you never expect them, and they take a minute or three to get used to when they occur.
My life is taking a turn now that is forcing me to give up writing Ramblings' Journal.
I've accepted a new position that will preclude me from continuing my writings here. So I'm pulling the plug on R/J in order to focus on the new opportunity that has been placed before me.
Contrary to the opinions of others, I'm not running for office (I don't have the patience), nor am I joining a monastary. But I am turning the page on this chapter of my life, and moving forward. I'm very thankful for the friendships I've developed as a result of the blog, and I'm still going to be around -- you never know when an e-mail from me or a note in your comments section will show up to jab you or give you a thumbs up.
I want to say a special thank you to my Conservative Brotherhood bretheren, and encourage you to take a look at their blogs -- they are each fantastic writers in their own right. Their views are varied and they are each outspoken in their own ways. Their work is beginning to show up elsewhere, which makes me both happy and proud to know them.
The other blogs I've participated in -- Blogcritics and The Dead Pool -- are both worth your time and your thoughts. (Laurence, I'm still in the pool, even though I don't have a bunch of points. And Eric, I'm sorry that I hadn't had the opportunity to do more critiques in the past.)
A huge thank you to the Mu.nu community -- they've been incredibly supportive and fantastic. Pixy, you're the best.
I know I'm forgetting folks, and I apologize to you in advance.
I've asked Pixy to pull the plug next weekend.
Life's changes happen all the time, and for reasons known and unknown. All I can do is to step out on the path that God has lain for me, and know that He is at my side during my journey. I'm also happy to have my wife and my kids with me - they help keep me grounded. After twenty years (it'll be twenty years in a week and a half) of wedded bliss, I'm certainly happy.
Thanks again to everyone. God bless you all, and I'm sure we'll see each other 'round the 'net.
'Bye.
Stay tuned for my insightful comments on Jessica Simpson's slutty music video :o)
LOL good grief!
Very glad to see that the bridges weren't burned.
Remember when the majority of the people here had a basic knowledge of the Constitution?
"Anti-intellectuals".. whom have I heard made that claim of another before..
Ah yes.. JohnGalt liked to throw that around when he was losing an argument.
It would seem, RM, that you are merely illustrating the very thing everyone has been saying.
"I didn't read that thread"
And yet you would have us believe that you know anything at all, and 'have a leg to stand on'?
Shut your noisehole, and read.
Oh yeah, you're banned.
And it's a good thing too after having read your posts here.
"I will agree with that, but unfortunately FR is blighted by your presence."
Such vitriol.
How are YOU not a blight on the forum?
Fortunately, you are no longer a problem.
Thank you for the ping--I'm so glad you're back as well.
I'm so glad you're still around FR :-)
You're telling him BUT GOOD :o)
LOL, literally! :)
I really should be making dinner but I am apparently glued to this thread, reading last night's spirited debate. :)
Welcome home. Ramblings was one of my favorites, sorry to see it go. Are you still doing your ping list. If so, leave me on.
Good grief I got home from Manhattan and couldn't go to sleep. Naturally I found something to do that would not help my insomniatic condition :-)
Wow, I've never really *talked* to you, but I do enjoy your posts. Welcome back to you, too!
I'm still trying to find the new Shakira writhe-in-the-mud video...
Thanks.
He's banned, but I know he'll be reading this and seething.
Perhaps if he's merely suspended, he'll come back and go all 'moon-shot' on me, and make it permanent?
(If it isn't permanently tossed already.)
*fingers crossed*
I saw that video. Shakira has an amazing body.
Waiting. I'll have a snack to pass the time...
:o)
It's also possible to legitimately criticize the non-stop race-baiting and demagoguery of two-legged vermin such as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Cynthia McKinney without being a racist, as well... or, rather, it used to be, on these boards. After having my comment that Al Sharpton's shameless race-pimping, post-Katrina, rendered him nothing more than an oxygen thief inexplicably excised from the thread in question: such a simple, straightforward baseline guarantee is no longer quite the sure thing it once was, sadly.
I see a great deal of sanctimonious, self-satisfied chest-thumping and strutting about on this thread by the newly (self-)appointed P.C. police hereabouts, about how everyone who had comments excised from said thread were/are "Stormfronters," "knuckledraggers" and the like. I'd be overjoyed if any one of these self-designated paragons of intellect and virtue could spell out for me, please, pretty please, precisely WHY it is now considered an act of unconscionable racism -- on a conservative message board, no less! -- to wish ill upon one of this country's most notorious anti-Semites and all-around racial jihadists, as a direct response to his attempting to sow racial discord in a naked attempt at securing more power within the Democratic Party.
If they can, I mean.
Which -- quite frankly -- they can't.
"Stormfronters." Pshhh. Please.
I mean: please.
(Thanks for the loan of the soapbox, Texasforever. :) )
EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!
LMAO!!!! heheheheheheheeeeeeeeee
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