Posted on 06/07/2006 4:29:28 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Good morning!!
Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
Life was so much simpler...
When you didn't have long-distance choices. You simply picked up the phone and if you got a dial tone, you dialed. If you didn't, you either got the phone fixed, or you asked the other party on the line if they would be finished soon. It wasn't urgent to get the phone line right now, and everyone understood if it took you awhile to return their call.
Now...
You have call waiting, call forwarding, repeat call, do not call, choice of carriers. Who do you call when something breaks? Depends--local, maybe it's your phone company. It could even be your cable company. And with the phone companies, yes plural, willing to park your phone messages for retrieval, no one understands why you didn't return their call--or, for that matter, why you weren't there to take it in the first place.
Life was so much simpler...
When you brought home the TV, plugged it in, futzed with the rabbit ears or plugged it into a flat lead going to an outside antenna, and you got a picture. If there was no picture, you got the set repaired, and everyone understood that you may not get to watch your favorite program.
Now...
TVs aren't even called TVs anymore. They are "monitors". You don't plug in just one wire anymore, you, if you're like what goes on in my house, are plugging in a vitural array of dozens, nay, hundreds of wires. You have choices as to how the sound comes out, how the picture goes in, where the picture goes--does it go in the big view, or the little box on the screen, who sends your picture, and how the picture is sent. Is the picture sent over the air, the old traditional way, or over a cable, or down from a satellite 23,400 miles up there? Now when you don't get a picture--who do you call? The TV repair folks (if you can find any)? Cable company? Satellite company? Then there's TIVO--so now you can time delay your programs and noone understands why you can't watch your favorite program anymore.
How about computing? There was the venerable slide rule--yeah, ok, what's that. My point exactly. But nothing broke, required no programmming, just worked. You did your calcalatuions, and you got your answer. Everyone understood when someone said it would take a couple of days "to figure it out".
Now...
You've got Windows, MAC, XP, 2000, Excel, Word, blah, blah, blah. You have internet, intranet, extranet, and quite probably outernet if you look hard enough. You're lucky if your fancy computational device can stay "up" long enough to complete the required reports, and everyone believes things can be done at the push of a button. Presto, out comes thea answer. Three seconds--what took you so long. And, again, if something breaks, who do you call? Computer repair, network repair, cable company, phone company, satellite company? Aw, what the heck, call them all--get put on their "do not call" lists.
Oh, and coffee. That just used to be put your coffee in the percolator, or run down to your local store and suffer through the results. It still woke you up in the morning.
Now...
You have decaf, flavored blends, Starbucks, boutique coffee shops. It's tough anymore to walk into a place and ask for a "cup of coffee." You're faced with "what kind?" And let's not even go to "what happens if my expresso machine breaks?"
Let's move on to politics.
Then...
You had one party that favored big government, who believed that answers to all of life's problems lay in the response from the central authority. That party also believed that everyone should pay for this and that if there was any money left over--well, that should go into the kitty as well. After all, this party knew best, all we had to do was pay attention to their edicts and missives, and all would be well.
Now...
It's nice to know that there really are some things that don't change.
This November, vote for that other party, the GOP.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
I like the name Chance.
I weeded 2/3 of my veggie garden this morning and now it's raining. Drat!! I wish I could send you our rain.
The real story in the 50th District race was "hoof in mouth" disease.
The DemoncRATS had that won until their candidate suggested that illegal aliens could actually cast a vote in the race a couple of days ago.
She was done.
...UN DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT INTENTIONALLY WITHHOLDING FROM "MIDDLE AMERCIA" INFORMATION ABOUT THE GOOD THINGS THE UN IS DOING...
...AMBASSADOR BOLTON SAYS THE UN DEPUTY SECRETARY MADE "A VERY, VERY GRAVE MISTAKE"
"To have the deputy secretary-general criticize the United States in such a manner can only do grave harm to the United Nations," Bolton said.
Uh oh! Now he's done it. What a dweeb Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown must be. Has he not heard of the internet?
Not much info gets by those who search for it. As for the others? I bet they don't know what the UN is. I'll take that back...They know...The UNcola....7UP.
LOL Thanks for the giggle. I needed it.
Back to the ironing board.
Thank goodness for Michael Bolton who is standing up to the UN.
As you may know, Ann Coulter takes on the Jersey Girl widows in her new book. I don't particularly think it's smart to attack widows in a book about Christianity and how presumably Godless the liberals are, but most freepers don't agree with my take on Ann.
Hillary Clinton reacted angrily to Ann's depiction of the Jersey Girls and released a press statement.
Ann released a press statement to Hillary which read:
BEFORE CRITICIZING OTHERS FOR BEING 'MEAN' TO WOMEN, PERHAPS HILLARY SHOULD TALK TO HER HUSBAND WHO WAS ACUSED OF RAPE BY JUANITA BROADDRICK AND WAS GROPING KATHLEEN WILLEY AT THE VERY MOMENT WILLEY'S HUSBAND WAS COMMITTING SUICIDE.'
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645146/posts
Said Mark Malloch Brown a Briton who is deputy to Secretary General Kofi Annan, there is "too much unchecked U.N.-bashing and stereotyping." He added:
"Much of the public discourse [about the U.N.] that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News," he said.
Malloch Brown also took a swipe at US Ambassador John Bolton. As per the Times article:
"Mr. Malloch Brown did not mention Mr. Bolton by name, but he criticized the working strategy that many diplomats have associated with Mr. Bolton since his arrival last August. "Exacerbating matters is the widely held perception, even among many U.S. allies, that the U.S. tends to hold on to maximalist positions when it could be finding middle ground," Mr. Malloch Brown said."
Hugh Hewitt links video of the Rick Monday moment 30 years ago...pretty cool... scroll down just a tad...
Also you'll see Ann Coulters gone too far...
I'm glad Hugh Hewitt found her comments disgraceful as well; she does our side NO favors when she talks like that.
A freeper on another thread reports this:
Mark Malloch-Brown rents a large home in Westchester County New York (30-45 minutes north of New York City) from George Soros. Hint, hint.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645077/posts?page=16#16
I no longer pay attention to anything Coulter says. She has gone overboard on way too many issues, and is nothing but a rabblerouser. Her last book (a gift) is going in the garage sale for 50 cents.
And criticizing Ann in no way means we approve of what the Jersey widows say about the President.
I rarely read her columns posted on this site or elsewhere and although she has a clever way with words, she has gone too far many times. She referred to the president as a drunk during the Miers nomination and this attacking widows is absolutely disgraceful. I'm ashamed of her as a woman and a self professed conservative.
When my first husband was killed in a car accident, I had amubulance chasers coming after me left and right. I chose to get on with my life with my son and not go through years of aggravation with lawyers, county government and insurance companies. Who needs it? Accidents happen.
Another reason I'm not too fond of the 4(?) 9-11 widows is that they remind me too much of Sheehan and what she is doing with her son's death.
I agree comments like Ann's don't help us one bit. It's best to leave well enough alone....on both sides.
Exactly!
Oh, definitely, Molly. I don't approve of those widows either and detest the things they've said about the administration, but I would never, ever attack them publicly.
It's so unChristian and in a book about Christianity (or lack thereof on the part of the liberals), Ann doesn't see how hypocritical she is acting.
When I see she is a guest on FNC, I change the channel. I'm that embarrassed by her that I can't even stand listening to what is going to come out of her mouth.
She is a Republican version of James Carville.
(((lysie)))
B I N G O ! ! !
I began ignoring her quite some time ago.
Are you having some relaxing time right now?
I agree with a lot of what she says, but remarks like.........
"....And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy".........................
...are just way over the line and do not help our cause in the least.
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