Tag: Daily Rants

Veterans day 2008

Today marks Veterans day in America. At this time we like to remember the veterans who have fought throughout our history to preserve our way of life, as well as justice and freedom across the world. As the saying goes, Freedom isn’t free God Bless America

Pella self-closing screen demo

We’re having problems with our Pella Rolscreen door. The screen is damaged and needs replacement. I was poking around and found this video of a demo of the other type they have, which is a self-closing screen, it doesn’t roll up and out of sight. Glad Isaw this […]

Happy 22nd Birthday Joe

Joe, Our middle son turns 22 today. We wish you a very happy birthday son, and wish you all the best as you continue your drive to join the NYPD. Things will work themselves out, just have patience. We love you very much, and are VERY PROUD of […]

Checkout this thing called Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours […]

Socialism: Still a dirty word

Socialism: Still a dirty word Exclusive: Henry Lamb paints dismal picture of potential nationalized oil industry Posted: July 19, 2008 1:00 am Eastern By Henry Lamb In the 1950s, the word “socialism” was as vulgar as the four-letter words, which, when uttered by a youngster, could result in […]

The Liberal Daughter – a primer for the young adult on the differences between liberal and

The Liberal Daughter – A Lesson Learned

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and was very much in favor of the redistribution of wealth.

She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed.

Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the
occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his. One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the addition of more government welfare programs.

The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be
the truth and she indicated so to her father.

He responded by asking how she was doing in school. Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn’t even have time for a boyfriend, and didn’t really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.

President-elect Barack H. Obama

What an amazing election. History making and changing. Congratulations to our new President-elect and his family. We have a unique opportunity in the country and world as we bring younger thinking and ideas to the task of leadership in our country. Now is the time to stand together, […]

11/3/08 – posted Early Musings

11/3/08 Well, after 18 months, the elections are finally here. We’ve heard a lot of crap, there is tremendous emotion surrounding the many ‘firsts’ this will represent for all sorts of folks. I hope in the end, people think and vote as Americans. Americans that see through the […]