Mrrick's Blog

I have been wondering where Gorbash and Ricky are lately. There have been some posts recently that I though Gorbash would jump on with both feet!  Maybe Ricky is face down in a bar somewhere. Has anyone heard from either of them?

I was raised in the 60's and 70's in a quiet middle class neighborhood in the western suburbs of Chicago. I guess you could say it was your typical Ozzie and Harriet set-up as my dad worked at a corporate job and my mother was a homemaker. I have one brother and one sister. Each child was REQUIRED to take on household chores,lawn mowing,snow shoveling, laundry, dishes, etc. We received no allowance, except for special occasions. If there was something you wanted to buy on your own, say a model airplane or a new ball glove, we had to earn the money for those purchases. My brother and I each mowed lawns, and my sister did babysitting in her older years. All of us had paper routes at one time or another.

Once a year, we would go on a two week vacation to northern Wisconsin where my parents had a cabin on a small lake. Boy how we loved those trips. Everything was basically FREE! We would go fishing with our dad and he would pay for the Snickers bars and root beer. Mom would buy ice cream and pay for go-kart rides! All of this fun, and no work! No school grades to worry about. No papers to deliver. No grass to cut. We were having a blast! We didn't know or care where that money being spent came from.

My point of all this is that I see parallels to these scenarios in the political parties. Conservative Republicans can identify with our family's home life, while Liberal Democrats closely resemble our vacation times. This whole post came to me as I was falling asleep last night and I thought it might be a good comparison. I realize that there should always be a good balance between work and fun, but I also believe that the way our parents brought us up has a lot to do with our survival and comfort today.

I am a child of the 60's and 70's and have seen quite a few things change in our great land since then. I am concerned most about society's current views on what used to be irresponsible behavior but is now widely tolerated. Examples include homomsexuality, wide spread drug use and abuse, child abuse, teenage pregnancy, same sex marriage, and the general acceptance of "if it feels good,do it" mentality.  Criminals nowadays can rape and murder someone but escape punishment because "they didn't mean to do it" and other lame excuses. People don't want to work nor do they need to in some cases because of our welfare system. I was in a convienience store not long ago, and there was a young man with multi colored hair waiting at the checkout ahead of me. Ahead of him was a woman in her 80's. When she went to pay for her quart of milk, she dropped a five dollar bill onto the floor. The young man ahead of me promptly picked up the bill and put it in his pocket. I asked him if he was going to return the money to the lady, to which he replied,"finders keepers,pal".  I offered to take him outside to show him what five dollars of "finders keepers" looks like. He then reluctantly returned the money to the grateful old lady. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG HERE? It seems that we have a problem with core values anymore. Anybody can do anything to anybody and get away with it on the premise of "rights". Parents need to be more involved, each of us has to stand up a say NO MORE! The " silent majority "has been silent too long. It is our obligation to stand up NOW! I know there are bloggers on this site that will argue or pick at what I have written here, and that is your right, but when someone enters your home, steals from you, hurts a loved one, etc., will you be as forgiving and accepting as you are politically? I doubt it.  Is it OK to terminate the life of another human being [abortion] just so as to not inconvieniece the mother? Is it OK to let people across our borders without following the rules? There are laws on our books being broken everyday in the name of enlightenment and blind tolerance.  If someone were to break a law that injured or other wise affected you or your family, you would want that law enforced, would you not? It is time to get back to basics in this country and stand TOGETHER against forces that are trying to tear us apart. From what I am seeing lately, these forces are becoming more and more effective. Thanks for letting me speak my peace. GOD BLESS the U.S.A.!

What a disgrace that Democrats found it necessary to get preventative innoculations before heading to North Carolina to attend a stock car race. This just proves how arrogant and self-centered they really are. Are they really afraid of catching a disease from their fellow citizens, [which could happen at the Capitol], or do they not consider these folks as being equals. You Libs out there, don't try to tell me it's a good idea to take precautions before a trip. This is a trip WITHIN our own borders. I travel 48 states and I don't need innoculations!  If getting sick from being near someone bothers them, then build a fence at the BORDER and stop those people before they come in ILLEGALLY!

   I have a full time job. I am subject to random drug testing as a condition to my employment. I understand and accept this, especially because I don't use drugs. Now, people who work and are subject to these policies generate the tax base of this society, whether it by at the federal or state level.  These tax revenues are used to pay for welfare programs. Shouldn't the people who receive these benefits be subject to the same testing before receive them?    Any thoughts, suggestions?   Am I goofy on this, or will I be accused of being a heartless, right wing, warmonger ,baby killer?

I was just wondering why many authors of Jena 6 posts don't offer a chance to comment. Has anyone else noticed this also?

I saw on the 6 pm news that the authorities are going to go after credit card companies that solicit business on campus. The report says that students can "sign up" for a free pizza or sandwich by filling out a credit app.  One young lady on camera says she now owes 5000.00, "just for signing up for a pizza". I am sure that credit card went shopping all by itself. These are COLLEGE students, not elementary students! It takes a certain amount of intelligence just to attend college. Sorry, but I have no pity for them. I guess this is what's called "The school of hard knocks" -or- "What's a matta U"

Here are some interesting tidbits;
>Hillary's biography.
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>  Remember that this man was Bill Clinton's primary and closest
adviser for
>years and was felt to be the primary reason for Clinton's political
success
>(Clinton's Karl Rove?).
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>                             DICK MORRIS' '08 PLAY-BY-PLAY ANALYSIS!
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>                    BILL CLINTON LEAVES TRUTH OUT OF HILLARY'S
BIOGRAPHY
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>Go to www.hillaryclinton.com <http://www.hillaryclinton.com/>
><http://www.hillaryclinton.com/> and check
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>out Bill Clinton's syrupy five minute ad for Hillary.  He introduces
the
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>commercial by saying that he wants to share some things we may not
know
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>about Hillary's background.  His version of her biography is about as
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>reliable as if it appeared in Pravda!
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>So, I wanted to make a few corrections;
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>Bill says:  Hillary never wanted to run for public office, but she did
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>want to work at public service.
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>The facts are: When Clinton was considering not running for another
term
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>as Governor of Arkansas in 1990, Hillary said she would run if he
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>didn't.  She and Bill even had me take two surveys to assess her
chances
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>of winning.   The conclusion was that she couldn't win because people
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>would just see her as a seat warmer for when Bill came back licking
his
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>wounds after losing for president.  So she didn't run.  Bill did and
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>won.   But there is no question she had her eye on public office, as
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>opposed to service, long ago.
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>Bill says: In law school Hillary worked on legal services for the
poor.
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>The facts are:  Hillary's main extra-curricular activity in law school
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>was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing
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>and killing a federal agent.  She went to court every day as part of a
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>law student monitoring committee trying to spot civil rights
violations
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>and develop grounds for appeal.
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>Bill says: Hillary spent a year after graduation working on a
children's
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>rights project for poor kids.
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>The facts are:  Hillary interned with Bob Truehaft, the head of the
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>California Communist Party.  She met Bob when he represented the
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>Panthers and traveled all the way to San Francisco to take an
internship
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>with him.
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>Bill says:  Hillary could have written her own job ticket, but she
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>turned down all the lucrative job offers.
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>The facts are: She flunked the DC bar exam and only passed the
Arkansas
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>bar. She had no job offers in Arkansas and only got hired by the
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>University of Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville because Bill was
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>already teaching there.   She only joined the prestigious Rose Law
Firm
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>after Bill became Attorney General and made partner only after he was
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>elected governor.
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>Bill says: President Carter appointed Hillary to the Legal Services
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>Board of Directors and she became its chairman.
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>The facts are:  The appointment was in exchange for Bill's support for
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>Carter in his 1980 primary against Ted Kennedy.  Hillary became
chairman
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>in a coup in which she won a majority away from Carter's choice to be
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>chairman.
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>Bill says:  She served on the board of the Arkansas Children's
Hospital.
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>The facts are:  Yes she did.  But her main board activity, not
mentioned
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>by Bill, was to sit on the Walmart board of directors, for a
substantial
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>fee.  She was silent about their labor and health care practices.
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>Bill says: Hillary didn't succeed at getting health care for all
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>Americans in 1994 but she kept working at it and helped to create the
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>Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that provides five million
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>children with health insurance.
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>The facts are: Hillary had nothing to do with creating CHIP.  It was
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>included in the budget deal between Clinton and Republican Majority
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>Leader Senator Trent Lott.  I helped to negotiate the deal.  The money
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>came half from the budget deal and half from the Attorney Generals'
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>tobacco settlement.  Hillary had nothing to do with either source of
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>funds.
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>Bill says:  Hillary was the face of America all over the world
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>The facts are: Her visits were part of a program to get her out of
town
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>so that Bill would not appear weak by feeding stories that Hillary was
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>running the White House. Her visits abroad were entirely touristic and
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>symbolic and there was no substantive diplomacy on any of them
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>Bill says:  Hillary was an excellent Senator who kept fighting for
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>children's and women's issues.
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>The facts are: Other than totally meaningless legislation like
changing
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>the names on courthouses and post offices, she has passed only four
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>substantive pieces of legislation.  One set up a national park in
Puerto
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>Rico.  A second provided respite care for family members helping their
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>relatives through Alzheimer's or other conditions.  And two were
routine
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>bills to aid 9-11 victims and responders which were sponsored by the
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>entire NY delegation.
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>  Here is what bothers me more than anything else about Hillary
Clinton.
>She has done everything possible to weaken the President and our
country
>when it comes to the war on terror.
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>1.  She wants to close GITMO & move the combatants to the USA where
they
>would have access to our legal system.
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>2.  She wants to eliminate the monitoring of suspected Al Qeada phone
calls
>to/from the USA.
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>3.  She wants to grant constitutional rights to enemy combatants
captured
>on
>the battlefield.
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>4.  She wants to eliminate the monitoring of money transfers between
>suspected Al Qeada cells & supporters In the USA.
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>5.  She wants to eliminate the type of interrogation tactics used by
the
>military & CIA where coercion might be used when questioning known
>terrorists even though such tactics might save American lives.
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>I can't think of a single bill Hillary has introduced or a single
comment
>she has made that would tend to strengthen our country  in the War on
>Terror.   But, I can think of a lot of comments she has made that
weakens
>our country & makes it a more dangerous situation for all of
us........She
>goes hand in hand with the ACLU on far too many issues where common
sense
>is
>abandoned.   She is a disaster for all Americans.

> I received this e-mail today, and I felt it is worth sharing!
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>Paul Harvey says:
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>I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue somebody for
>singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December.  I don't agree with Darwin , but
I
>didn't go out and hire a lawyer when my high school teacher taught his
>Theory of Evolution
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>Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be endangered
because
>someone says a 30-second prayer before a football game.
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>So what's the big deal? It's not like somebody is up there reading the
>entire book of Acts. They're just talking to a God they believe in and
>asking him to grant safety to the players on the field and the fans
going
>home from the game.
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>But it's a Christian prayer, some will argue.
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>Yes, and this is the United States of America , a country founded on
>Christian principles. According to our very own phone book, Christian
>churches outnumber all others better than 200-to-1. So what would you
>expect
>-- somebody chanting Hare Krishna?
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>If I went to a football game in Jerusalem , I would expect to hear a
Jewish
>prayer.
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>If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad , I would expect to hear a
Muslim
>prayer.
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>If I went to a ping pong match in China , I would expect to hear
someone
>pray to Buddha.
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>And I wouldn't be offended.
>It wouldn't bother me one bit.
>When in Rome ..
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>But what about the atheists? Is another argument.
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>What about them?
>Nobody is asking them to be baptized. We're not going to pass the
>collection
>plate. Just humor us for 30 seconds. If that's asking too much, bring
a
>Walkman or a pair of ear plugs. Go to the bathroom. Visit the
concession
>stand.  Call your lawyer!
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>Unfortunately, one or two will make that call. One or two will tell
>thousands what they can and cannot do.   I don't think a short prayer
at a
>football game is going to shake the world's foundations.
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>Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek while
our
>courts strip us of all our rights. Our parents and grandparents taught
us
>to
>pray before eating; to pray before we go to sleep.
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>Our Bible tells us to pray without ceasing. Now a
>handful of people and their lawyers are telling us
>to cease praying.
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>God, help us.
>And if that last sentence offends you, well . . just sue me.
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>The silent majority has been silent too long. It's time we let that
one or
>two who scream loud enough to be heard that the vast majority don't
care
>what they want. It is time the majority rules! It's time we tell them,
you
>don't have to pray; you don't have to say the pledge of allegiance;
you
>don't have to believe in God or attend services that honor Him. That
is
>your
>right, and we will honor your right .. But by golly, you are no longer

>going
>to take our rights away. We are fighting back ..
>and we WILL WIN!
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>God bless us one and all ... especially those who denounce Him , God
bless
>America, despite all her faults. She is still the greatest nation of
all.
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>God bless our service men who are fighting to protect our right to
pray and
>worship God

Newworldpatriot, you mentioned that my space is deleting your posts. If you look out your window right now, you will see the black helicopters. Be sure to check your food and beverages for flouride and other mind controlling agents. That person you "met" at the grocery store is really a spy. 

There was no opportunity to comment on Neworldpatriot's blog about this subject, so I had to start the opportunity to comment.  I started to read and digest this blog, and then I re-read the supposed author, Ivor E. Tower. Nice try newworld.

If it is really true that someone will be editing or filtering blogs, then our ability to enjoy this pastime will be lost. Too bad........ it was fun!    Maybe I will c-ya all later.

It is obviously a true fact of life that people with limited income and resources need to purchase an older car, many with high mileage. I fully agree that 60% interest on a car loan is criminal, and the way these folks were treated on the video was nasty. The words "as-is" tho, mean EXACTLY that, AS IS. That part is also a fact of life. I do not believe that a government at any level has the authority to legislate this issue. It would be impossible to have the government protect every aspect of our lives so that we can walk down the street and count the butterflies and rainbows. You would then be a robot with no need to think for yourself. Life is full of risks, no matter what your economic situation. That also is a fact of life.

Kudos to Dick Goddard for his forecast of significant snow that is possible on Monday evening into Tuesday. I watched Dick make this forecast during the evening news broadcast. I am a weather fan and I gather info on pending weather from a variety of sources, including N.O.A.A. weather radio. After hearing Dick's forecast, I tuned in to N.O.A.A. for their opinion and they made NO mention of any impending snow. It is now Christmas eve around 7:30am, and lo and behold, here comes N.O.A.A. weather radio talking about the possibility of snow Monday evening into Tuesday. Great job Dick! I guess there is no substitute for experience! A 36 hour headstart! Thanx

I don't feel that any of those topics are suitable to qualify as a display of any sort, much less a Holiday display.I think it was done primarily for it's "shock value" and really portrays someone looking for attention that he or she is missing from life. I may say tongue-in-cheek though, that with the recent intrusions by the government on our freedoms,one of those displays is very close to the impending truth.