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.
Mozie, I have been here for a long time and learned a lot of things. One of the things I have learned is that the democrats don't have a monopoly on jerks.
..I agree with her about the New Jersey gang, and she does say a lot of things that many of us wish we could say....or at least we think...
..yes, she's a provocateur...and that's putting it mildly....
..but she can hold up her end of an argument with a liberal...... unfortunately she flies way past what the rest of us would say.
Yes, it's combative....and no, I don't always agree with her.
But to compare her with Carville.....to me that's a stretch.
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90% of her comments I find witty. It's the other 10% that make me want her to crawl under a rock to catch her breath.
I would love to see just the money they spend on meals on their expense account.
She has made a lot of money from people like me, who sort of felt by buying her books we were supporting the people who think as we do. After her calling the president a drunk, making personal insults about Harriet Miers, and generally causing nothing but controversy, I don't much like to listen to her. She steps too far over the line..
In a 30 minute interview Ann might stick her foot in her mouth once. Carville starts with his foot in his mouth and doesn't take it out until he gets home to Mary. LOL
Believe me, I've learned that too.:(
I'm here for a little while before picking Sarah up.
How has your day been?
I counted two rain drops today, SIL said it was three drops.
SIL goes back to work in two months, he is really looking forward to it.
At the casino? If so...yippee!!
...but, like Peggy Noonan...(who has disappointed me as well)....I can take her or leave her....
..but I'm not throwing her out with the bathwater....
...Ann is strident, to say the least.... I would never have the audacity and sometimes rudeness to express myself like she does....
..but I think she's on our side.
Rush can be strident, audacious and over the top too...but we kept him.
Now to be sure, I rarely listen to Rush anymore...
..I'm not against him, but I'm not setting my clock to listen either....
..I thumbed through Ann's newest book, Godless.....and the part I skimmed over I agreed with 100 percent....
..It was during the Clinton administration...and Everett Koop must have drank the kool-aid, cause he flipped from pro-life advocate and good friend of Francis Schaeffer....
..to sounding like he not only read the liberal playbook, but memorized it word for word.
Ann captured the time and place, and exactly how betrayed I felt when he did this .
I think her mind gets over stimulated and perhaps she is given over to her own flash and publicity.
My opinion.
But I do remember that about Koop, and understand why her words resonated with you.
We need more Ann Coulter-types. Keeps the libs in line.
She drags them into the light....shows them for what they are...paid mouthpieces for the liberal Dems.
I doubt anyone else could get away with it....
...She's hard....she dishes it out, and she takes it....
...but undoubtedly she's a brilliant minded woman...
...but as you say, briliance should be guarded or tempered by wisdom.
I don't know....I'm so reticent and shy about speaking out, I appreciate those who can.
Having said that, I have a good friend...very sharp, very politically motivated, very articulate....
..but sometimes, she simply goes over the edge!!!...and says much more than she should....
..and it's irritating!
Thanks for voicing your opinion. I happen to agree with you.
Ann has done some good work, both with her books and in many of her interviews, but she has also occasionally gone over the top.
I can hardly criticize her opinion of the 4 widows as I have harbored, but not voiced, similar ones. I do believe that they are as hypocritical as Cindy Sheehan and have done damage to the memories of their husbands as Cindy has done to her son.
I am off to play for a high school graduation. Take care all y'all!!
..when we were all beginning to know each other...just a comfortable level of comraderie and easy going dialog
..then, one day, Laz popped on the scene.
How adacious!!...daring, boldness, impudence!!!and yet the conversation was stimulating....lol, at times :)
...we've all changed...through the years...but he's still the provocateur.
Ann is a provocateur....she's testy, combative and won't back down.
We painfully see, on a daily basis, the waffling, weaseling, milquetoast politicians and all their pontificating...
.. and then there's Ann...to burst their well formed bubbles! :)
I think many of us agree in substance with what she is saying about those 4 widows ... but it's a subject that could best be handled with delicacy and finesse ... not a bludgeon.
That's where I must disagree with Ann.
She could have voiced the same thoughts that some of us have felt without using such a heavy weapon and she would have made her point far more effectively.
By doing it this way, she has just provided fodder for the left to carry on with their notions that the right is cruel and heartless. If even many of us found her words about the widows too far over the top, imagine how the left will use them ... and we know what a broad brush they paint with.
Tomorrow will be better, I'm sure, except for lifting that heavy enclosure that I bolted about 200 lbs of parts onto. Sheesh. This is a whole lot like work. I'll bet I stay skinny during the summer heat...
/johnny
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