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Charitable donation (no, not to me!)

This is a modified re-post of something I wrote a couple of years ago, and I decided to do it again after listening to the radio at lunchtime.  Please indulge me for a moment:

As most of you know, I do not post a great deal of personal information (beyond my profile) here due to the fact that some people who come here end up not liking me. I know, I know…how can that possibly be? With my disarming manners, my gentle nature, my folksy Tennessee charm, and my Southern hospitality, it’s hard to imagine how anyone could possibly think I am a juvenile, boorish, lewd, sarcastic pinhead. But believe it or not, some people do! ;-)

Anyway, this post is neither partisan nor political in nature. It is a simple request to you fine folks who grant me a moment of your precious time by stopping by here, many on a periodic basis. My request is that you please make a donation to a charity…any charity…that you feel does wonderful things that personally effect you in some way.

I received a piece of mail from the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. A family member of mine passed away a few years ago as a result of this heinous disease, and I have donated to this foundation since then. She remains in my thoughts, my memories, and my heart to this day, and I am blessed that she was allowed to touch my life for over three decades. As such, one way that I choose to honor her is by donating to MMRF to help them find a cure. When the cure is found, I will take pride in my small contribution’s role in the discovery.

Anyway, I have interpreted the receipt of the letter from MMRF as a sign to invite each of you to donate to a charity. I’m not asking you to donate to MMRF, but I am asking you to donate any amount (small, medium, or large) to a charitable organization to which you feel a connection. After all, I’ve known (and still know) people affected or afflicted by various cancers, autism, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), muscular dystrophy, AIDS, diabetes, and many other illnesses, and I would donate to find cures for all of them if I could. So all I ask of you fine folks is to pick just one charitable organization, even if not related to people (such as the Humane Society), and make a donation of any size. Believe me, they’ll take a $5 donation just as soon as they’d take a $500 one.

Donating is a personal choice and personal matter. I don’t need or want to know which one you chose, unless you want to tell the world in the comments section.  That’s completely up to you. I just thank you for your time, and your patronage here. God bless.

April 18, 2008 Posted by | non-political, public service announcement | 2 Comments

Left ticked off that ABC questions Obama during debate

The reactions from the left and the MSM (pardon the redundancy) over the Obamessiah’s performance (or lack thereof) during the debates with the Hildebeast the other night are hilarious.

These same people who for a decade have defended former Clinton mouthpiece and current ABC News “journalist” George Snuffalupagus are now going all “Dawn of the Dead” on him, trying to devour him alive.  Allah has details, plus makes the following observation:

To appreciate the dishonesty of their reaction, ask yourself this: If Gibson and Stephanopoulos had spent the first 45 minutes raking Hillary over the coals about Tuzla, Whitewater, Monicagate, and whatever else they could scrounge, would there be similarly high dudgeon about the dearth of “real” issues broached? Of course not. There’d be a few “gee, rough night for Hillary” reactions, a few “good, maybe this will convince her to get out” responses, the obligatory uproar from Jeralyn Merritt, Taylor Marsh, and the rest of the left’s dwindling pro-Clinton wing, and that’d be that. It’s entirely a means-ends analysis. ABC hurt the Savior, which is, and can only be, unfair.

Ace properly nails the “why the gossip, can’t we talk issues?” (kinda like jen) whining crowd:

The whole why-don’t-we-talk-about-the-issues whine is childish. Obama and Hillary have extraordinarily similar declared programs by this point. The only real surviving differences between them are what parts of their declared programs do they really intend to follow through on, and which unstated agendas will they also pursue.

Simply allowing them to blather for an hour each about nearly-indistinguishable programmatic posturings does not advance the debate whatsoever. If you want to know what crap they’re claiming they’ll push as President, check their websites.

What distinguishes them among Democrats are issues of character (Hillary’s lying, Obama’s discomforting comfort with radicals and terrorists) and the widespread belief on the left that Hillary is a “neocon” moderate who lies about her liberal leanings, whereas Obama is the general article and really believes in old school big-L Liberalism, and is in fact lying about his moderation to preserve his electability. Only by asking about issues of character and background and a candidate’s real, unexpressed political thinking can possibly shed light as to whether those readings on the candidate are true or not.
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But when an actual debate breaks out at a presidential debate — one that is somewhat effective in exposing Obama’s character flaws and also hints at his real political agenda (not-moderate-at-all left-liberalism), he shrieks it’s all so “Rovian” and that we should talk about the “real issues.”

Right. A debate on the “real issues” where both candidates say they agree with each other for two hours, except on the point of who can better execute the exact same program.

Pass…the…popcorn!

April 18, 2008 Posted by | Hillary, hypocrisy, media bias, moonbats, Obama | 5 Comments

Dems: McCain’s too old

Boy, that Howard Dean sure has a good hold on his party, doesn’t he?  After saying that Dems didn’t need and weren’t going to make an issue out of McCain’s age, the Dems get Abscam Jack Murtha (who is four years older than McCain) to publicly say that McCain’s too old to serve (which, by logical extension, makes Abscam Jack too old to serve in public office, no?).  And then there’s this:

Despite a recent promise from Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean not to make Sen. John McCain’s age — he turns 72 in August — an issue in the presidential campaign, a senior Democratic operative has started a new website designed to draw attention to just that fact.

Called “Younger than McCain”, the website is being run by Steve Rosenthal, a former political director at the AFL-CIO and executive director of America Coming Together, a massive soft money effort organized around the 2004 presidential race. Rosenthal is now a partner in The Organizing Group.

The current content amounts to a 90-second video listing the things younger than McCain — a list that includes the Golden Gate Bridge, plutonium, Coke in a can and Velcro among many, many other things.
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The video comes on the heels of comments made by Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Pa.) yesterday that McCain is too old to be president. “This one guy running is about as old as me,” Murtha, 75, told a group of union members in Washington yesterday. “Let me tell you something, it’s no old man’s job.” (The name Ronald Reagan ring a bell, dipsh#t? – Ed.)

Why, if I didn’t know any better, I’d say that Dean is (a) a liar; (b) incapable of leading his party; or (c) all of the above.

April 18, 2008 Posted by | Howard Dean, hypocrisy, McCain, Murtha, shameful | 6 Comments

Stop the press! I’m (gulp) siding with Pelosi!

Before you think I’ve gone off the deep end (more so than you already think I have), read this excerpt first:

The Senate has approved a measure requiring the Department of Justice to investigate the controversial Coconut Road earmark connected to Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska).

Senators voted 64-28 to add the amendment to a bill making technical corrections to the 2005 highway bill, despite opposition from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who on Thursday said the House ethics committee, and not Justice, should investigate the matter.

“I think that’s something the ethics committee should look at,” Pelosi told reporters.

 

The $10 million earmark for the Coconut Road interchange in Florida was placed in the massive 2005 highway bill after the House and Senate passed the bill but before it reached the president’s desk. The original language called only for improving and widening Interstate 75 in Ft. Myers, Fla. …

That is despicable!  Congress votes on a bill to send to the president, and someone sneaks in and adds something to the bill that was never voted on!  I’m not positive, but I really think that’s illegal.  You’d think that a guy under investigation for bribery, extortion, and corruption would be a little more careful and keep his nose clean.

I have to call it like I see it, and I see this as a quid pro quo between Don “$250 Alaskan Bridge to Nowhere” Young and developers in Florida who stand to gain from this pork project.  I mean, the citizens and their elected leaders there don’t even want the interchange.  If they did, I’m sure they could have gotten a Floridian in the House or Senate to take up the cause.  But some FL developers pony up $41,000 to AK Young’s campaign, and as sheer luck would have it, the Alaskan works on a FL earmark.

Pelosi is more than likely just acting out of political spite instead of principled beliefs.  Be that as it may, her motives are irrelvant in this matter, because she’s absolutely right: Young needs to be investigated by the House ethics committee.

April 18, 2008 Posted by | Pelosi, pork | Leave a Comment

   

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