Dan and Angi have something to say

Friday, July 30, 2004

Dan says:

Double-plus ungood badthink

This is chilling.



Liberals trying to silence conservative voices and religious people? Unheard of! I thought that only happened at state schools and Massachusetts.

Let me run that by you again "monitoring local pastors and churches."

Any goosebumps yet?

Thursday, July 29, 2004

Dan says:

Just posted on Instapundit

Yes, a comment on INSTAPUNDIT -about Kerry's best line in his acceptance speech. Here's what I wrote:

Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Dan says:

Ok, this is rich

John Edwards just said (I'm paraphrasing), "Aren't you sick and tired of those divisive, negative attacks on John Kerry?"

John Edwards said this to:
Michael Moore - "These b******s who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pr***s who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control."
Al Gore - "He betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place."
Ted Kennedy - "We have nothing to fear but four more years of George W. Bush."
Howard Dean - "John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy. "

The Democratic party has done nothing but relentlessly attack the President and the administration for the last year. No matter what the issue - no matter how trivial, their party is a one trick attack pony. So to hear their vice presidential candidate say "aren't you sick of those attacks?" strikes me as disingenous and patently, ridiculously absurd.

What an absolute crock of excrement.

(By the way - "Soak the rich - Woo hoo!!!" That will solve all of our problems.)

Angi says:

Magic with Adverbs

This has been a tough week for me, fibromyalgically.

(While the above sentence is true, and somewhat sad, I mostly just wrote it to amuse myself with the adverb I created.)

Angi says:

On (finally) getting a few things done

I've been setting a goal for myself to do something every day that I've been procrastinating. Then, once it's done, I'm not allowed to fret about all the things undone. I've done what I can do. I try to get over it.

(At our house, we live in a constant "we're totally disorganized and there's no hope" cycle. I'm tired of living in disorganization but even more weary of the despair. My new rule is to do what we can about it and then let the rest go. You know, give it to God! I think He can handle it.)

I used to be pretty organized. I was one of those people with a Franklin planner attached to my right hand. Like Monica, I used to have lots of helpful lists. But, Elijah didn't come with his own, miniature Franklin planner and isn't much interested in my lists and schedules. I'm sure a lot of mothers of toddlers get tons of things done during the day, but I am happy to get Elijah fed, both of us dressed, and have some great playtime together each day. I do often get a load or two of laundry done and make our bed about 70% of the time.

(That's about all the flylady I can accomplish right now. In fact, as I type my sink is not shiny and I am not wearing shoes. Those Flylady emails can be so bossy! The email lady gets very irritated with people who write her letters with excuses about why they're not following her specific instructions. Here's what makes me laugh: if I am not going to following her guidelines, I'm just not going to. I don't need to write her an email and ask for permission to do it differently. I can just see a harried homemaker, waiting anxiously by her computer to see if her 104 degree fever and broken foot in a cast gets her out of doing her "27 fling boogie" and getting dressed to her shoes.)

(I just went to Yahoo groups to search for a particularly bossy message we got from Kelly, the email flylady. I couldn’t find what I was looking for but I did find these other groups, subcultures of the Flylady universe: Flying with Tupperware, Islamic Flylady, Flying without Shoes (oh my! A rebellious group!), and Flylady CrossStichers. There are 648 other subgroups.)

But, I digress.

Here’s my previously procrastinated to-dos that have been accomplished in the past week:

1. I wrote 49 baby thank you notes. Yes, 49. I still have about 15 to go. Writing 49 thank you notes just reinforced in me how blessed we are. So many people celebrated Elijah with us!
2. I took my wedding ring in to get a baguette replaced. It fell out in ’00.
3. I had the car washed and the oil changed. The last time the car was somewhat clean was October 15th (the day before Elijah came home).
4. I updated the car’s registration. We were only a month late this time.

So, I’m proud. It is very rewarding to take care of something that’s been hanging over my head. The thank you notes will soon be finished and I will breathe an enormous sigh of relief.

Maybe THEN I'll go and put on my shoes. If I feel like it.

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Dan says:

Go Coburn Go!

The last Republican elected to the House from District 2 now faces the last Democrat elected to the same district - but in a statewide race.

The race hinges on Eastern Oklahoma. Can Coburn's enormous popularity woo the blue dog Democrats yet again?

I think Coburn's breakout victory today is a good omen for the race in November. Carson is campaigning for western Oklahoma, but I think that's a quixotic pursuit. He has to win urban OKC and urban Tulsa handily, and pull of a landslide in his own district to win the general election. I don't see it happening.

Dan says:

Kennedy’s Tea Party

Ted Kennedy said tonight about President Bush (and I'm paraphrasing):

"We bear no ill will toward our opponents. In fact, we'd like to invite them to a tea party. And I know just the place - right down the street at Boston Harbor"

Does anyone else find it ironic that Ted Kennedy, who has never seen a tax hike he didn't like, is calling for a tea party?

UPDATE:A little better, and snarkier comment here at The Truth Laid Bear.

Monday, July 26, 2004

Dan says:

Spike This..

There has been much ado in the right wing-nut circles about the spiking of Ann Coulter's Monday column for USA Today. After all, the author of the anti-liberal tirade Treason adds so much to the national dialogue. It apepars that the "liberal fumes" of the Fleet Center have thrown Ms. Coulter off kilter.

She opens with:Comparing one's political opponents to demonic beings always enriches the conversation, don't you think?
Continuing on, as only the beautiful Ms. Coulter can:
Then, of course, the staple of all good political discourse, calling for the death of one's opponents:
As always, Ms. Coulter is funny, caustic, and on-point in many cases. But if I call Michael Moore's vitriol a bilious package of flaming excrement, I must reserve an equal amount of contempt for his analogue on the conservative side.

Ms. Coulter adds nothing to this argument. USA Today should not have hired her. She's pretty, she's witty, and she's brutal. But I can name a dozen bloggers on the right who would have written a better piece for USAToday.

Note that USAToday has hired Moore to bloviate from the Republican convention next month. I predict the same amount of truth and fairmindedness, but much less spiking.

UPDATE:Coulter's ridiculous piece is scaring Michelle away.

Dan says:

Dumbest. Headline. Ever.

I understand the general tenor of this MSNBC headline, but I'm not sure precisely what they're trying to say. To me, this headline seems akin to:
"141 years without slavery. Enough?"

Of course, "Have we done enough?" is the question they're asking. The answer, in my opinion, is "no."

The brilliant headline brings us to this interactive exercise in which they explore gay marriage as a civil right - which is the problem. The Democratic party is so used to taking the African-American vote for granted that they no longer pay any attention to them. Democrats are equating the right to GAY MARRIAGE with an epic struggle of an entire race against a system that treated them as chattel - arguably the worst crime in the history of the United States.

African Americans are generally opposed to gay marriage and abortion, and are pro school vouchers. Ten percent of African Americans in the US are unemployed, and one in three African American men have been, or will go to prison in their lifetimes. Something is terribly, terribly, wrong. Yes, choir (fellow Republicans) it's you're own fault if you go to prison. But let's not focus on placing blame - let's find some solutions! Together!

Democrats side against African Americans with teachers' unions and their radical, increasingly marginal, leftist base. The traditional liberal solutions (basically more money without accountability) to these social ills are NOT working.

Democrats don't care about African American opinions, or African American values, because they have their vote sewn up. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Kweisi Mfume - you should be ashamed of yourselves. You continue to plug the Democrats when they give you no solutions and a bunch of worthless lip service.

More than any other group, African Americans need representation - they need diversity of opinion and practical solutions that work. The increasingly liberal, wacked-out, latte-sipping, hiking-boot-wearin', sodomy-glorifyin', loft-dwellin', pot-smokin', Bush-hatin', protest-marchin', baby-killin', scraggly-beard-wearin' left is not the friend of African Americans. It's time for the NAACP and the African American community to get out of bed with people who take them for granted.

Yes, I am aware that:

1. I'm a lily-white, male, suburban, Oklahoma Republican
2. Nobody's paying attention to me.
3. Republicans are almost worthless at reaching out to African Americans.

I'm still right.

Friday, July 23, 2004

Dan says:

Here, once again, the opposition

Every once in a while, I peruse the left side of the blogosphere - and every time I'm reminded of why I should not be over there, in the muck. Because mainstream leftist blogs host this kind of garbage:



This isn't Democratic Underground or some kind of Trotskyite Moonbat blog. This is Eschaton - He's in the same league as Daily Kos, Andrew Sullivan, and Instapundit. So, no, I choose not to sully myself with this leftist filth. Thanks anyway.

I'll read the WaPo, The New Republic, and the Times for the left side of the argument.

Thursday, July 22, 2004

Dan says:

“Don’t wake up the baby!”

Angi scolded me when I saw this.

Dan says:

Well, I did it again.

She wrote, after having been told, yet again, that one of her forwards was indeed, a hoax.

All I ask is:
1.) Spend the 7 1/2 seconds on Google or Snopes to find out that you've been forwarded a hoax.
2.) If you you just can't resist the urge to send me this tripe - at least put my address in the BCC field, so you're not spreading my e-mail address to thousands and thousands of people I don't know.

And no, I probably don't want to read this very droll, original material either:


If you've heard it, chances are I have too.

I'm

not

interested.

By the way - speaking of the "The English language is the hardest language to learn" meme. Yes, English is hard - but it's no harder than Japanese, Finnish, Korean, or Chinese. Get over yourselves.