Friday, January 30, 2004
A Day Like Any Other
To show those of you who think I'm a fire-breathing, Maureen Dowd-hating, ideologue, I offer the following:
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard
People do not care how much we know until they know how much we care.
Anonymous
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Jessamyn West
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility on him and let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maureen Dowd's latest trip to The Hamptons proved she really, really hates screen writers (and people like me).
Andrea M. Hall
BBC Heads Continue to Roll
This isn't your grandfather's shame. Andrew Gilligan, the writer who drove Dr. David Kelly to suicide, resigned today but offered his own ideas of how the Fourth Estate should respond. "Hell, he (Dr. Kelly) told me he thought Tony Blair was an idiot." retorted Gilligan. "I read between the lines."
NAFTA
Next time some Democrat gets all high and mighty about "jobs," and the seeming lack thereof, use this:
A total of 24 Democrats bet on (I mean, voted on) Bill Clinton's baby, the North American Free Trade Agreement. Of those 24, you can cite names like John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, Tom Harkin, David Pryor.
NAFTA is one of the worst, most ill considered pieces of legislation to come out of Washington since environmental laws that caused California to burn down.
Ten years after NAFTA's passage, manurfacturing jobs have flown far, far away.
I blame the Republicans as much as the Dems. This was a deal made with the devil and it has caused more than just a loss of jobs; it has created a major safety issue with substandard semi rigs rolling across my tax-paid-for highways.
I think this legislation should be looked upon as an "experiment" that failed. The sooner we can regain control, the sooner we can move forward with border security.
But, then, I could be wrong.
Thanks for the read.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard
People do not care how much we know until they know how much we care.
Anonymous
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Jessamyn West
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility on him and let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maureen Dowd's latest trip to The Hamptons proved she really, really hates screen writers (and people like me).
Andrea M. Hall
BBC Heads Continue to Roll
This isn't your grandfather's shame. Andrew Gilligan, the writer who drove Dr. David Kelly to suicide, resigned today but offered his own ideas of how the Fourth Estate should respond. "Hell, he (Dr. Kelly) told me he thought Tony Blair was an idiot." retorted Gilligan. "I read between the lines."
NAFTA
Next time some Democrat gets all high and mighty about "jobs," and the seeming lack thereof, use this:
A total of 24 Democrats bet on (I mean, voted on) Bill Clinton's baby, the North American Free Trade Agreement. Of those 24, you can cite names like John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, Tom Harkin, David Pryor.
NAFTA is one of the worst, most ill considered pieces of legislation to come out of Washington since environmental laws that caused California to burn down.
Ten years after NAFTA's passage, manurfacturing jobs have flown far, far away.
I blame the Republicans as much as the Dems. This was a deal made with the devil and it has caused more than just a loss of jobs; it has created a major safety issue with substandard semi rigs rolling across my tax-paid-for highways.
I think this legislation should be looked upon as an "experiment" that failed. The sooner we can regain control, the sooner we can move forward with border security.
But, then, I could be wrong.
Thanks for the read.
