Sunday, November 30, 2008

When I was younger I favored muscle cars and when I got married I choose large family sedans. After my family was grown, I switched to p/u trucks until gas became too expensive to enjoy my favorite ride. Now I drive a Echo, 41 mpg highway and it's an okay ride. One thing I have discovered is that the small car is actually safer to drive than some of the larger vehicle's I've owned.

Maybe I wouldn't be as fortunate in an actual accident but I've discovered than it is much easier to avoid trouble in the small, more maneuverable car. It stops quicker, accelerates fast, and takes little room to change direction.
"Anna is an outsider here. Her parents are Chinese, but she cannot talk to her schoolmates because she grew up in America"
That quote is from an AP story about Anna He. born in the USA but now reunited with her birth parents in China. Somehow I just don't believe being born in the USA makes one unable to speak Chinese. She doesn't speak Chinese because no one has taught her the language.

Don't you just hate it when the media prints an untruth just to make a point. Shame on the AP and other, so-called journalist who ignore the real truth.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Why do smart peole stumble over their words so much when talking about a subject they are familiar with?
Can Obama save Detroit?

No, but he can walk on water.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Frankly investors, I don't give a damn who Obama picks for this post or if GM is making money or if Wal-mart loses a dollar or two. Please explain to me why the stock market takes these crazy wild swings based on feelings?

Stay home, leave your money alone and we will all get rich.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27738018

I am a WASP and because I am the son of an independent fundamental premillinial country Baptist minister from the deep rural South I was once told I was the worst kind of WASP. I was on a flight from Atlanta to San Diego and my seatmate was a beautiful college student from UCLA and she was uncomfortable sitting next to me on that long flight. She was black and considered me one of her oppressors.

She was shocked when she saw that I was reading "Soul on Ice" and rather flabbergasted when I stated that the book expressed some good ideas. She thought I was taught by my parents to be prejudiced but I learned tolerance and understanding from from Geneva. a young and pretty black lady my parents hired to help around the house when Mom was hospitalized.

No, I didn't vote for Obama. I didn't vote for Gore or Kerry or Clinton and I most certainly didn't vote for Carter either. I could have voted for Hillary or Rice or Powell but they were not nominated.

Has Obama's election effected me personally? Yes, I believe it has. I believe the world has more respect for America now because other countries now believe that we can put aside prejudices and racial bigotry and if we can do that, maybe we can see others in a clearer light. I've always tried to do what is right and to treat everyone equally. But know, I think I go beyond that. I now have a respect and a pride in others as much for their differences as for our similarities.

I read a cartoon when I was young and the cartoonists printed the message that the three things people are most pround of-race, place, and face-are the three things we have the least control over. None of us can choose where we were born, what we look like, or what color our skin is.

I'm tired of the hate.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Alaskan says he accidentally stole car

That could be true. I did once. It was at a Ford Dealership in Hickory, NC back in the 70's. I had dropped my brand new car off for repairs and my salesman told me I could borrow his car. "It's the little red convertible out back. The keys are in it."

Sure enough, there was a little red convertible with the keys in it around back. I drove it to work. Unfortunately it wasn't his little red convertable. Luckily I never got pulled over. I should have though. I worked at the county courthouse and parked in full full of the Newton Police Department and I had to drive past the County Highway Patrol Station three times that day.

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Now that Barack Obama is the President-elect, are political cartoonist and late-night TV jokesters soon to be struggling for material. I've heard that Barack Obama was born in a manger, build a log cabin before he was three, and is now busy constructing his plan to rebuild American in his own image, having grow to a god-like status, equal in stature and importance with the prophet Mohammad.

So I was wondering if one will be able to draw a funny picture of him without facing the indignation of a swarm of supporters and be sentenced to death with a chant of "Die, Christian, Die"?

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Now that Obama is President I am wondering if we now have a President that is more than rhetoric.

One news commentator said tat if Obama won then Democrats shoud be gracious winners. They should reassure Republicans by saying that Obama will not raise taxes except for a good cause like providing wedding cakes to all newlywed gay couples.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

It's election day and in a few hours it should be all over, including the shouting. I've heard Barrack Obama called the devil, the anti-christ, a Muslim, a foreigner, inexperienced, a friend of terroists, as well as the second-coming, a visionary, the leader for change, charismatic, and an insiration. If he wins, and he should as the news media has been shoving him down our throats for a year and trying to shame white McCain supporters in voting for him lest they show their tru bigo colors, it shouldn't take the country long to figure out just wehat kind of leader he is and where he intends to take this country.

George Bush wasn't the worst President this country has ever had. I believe that honor should go to Jimmie Carter. In fact, I believe that once our troops are out of Iraq and Barrack Obama is sitting around a negotiating table chatting it up with our adversaries, the truth of what Bush was trying to accomplish will hit home--and in a very sad way.

How can we trust the word of people who executed a 13-year old girl for because she dared claim she was gang raped? In America you have the right to call me an idiot for believing in Jesus Christ. In many parts of the world you would have the right to put me to death.

Barrack Obama says that we should ask ourselves if we would be better off 4 years from now. I can't see how the answer to that question really matters. The fate of this country doesn't lie in whether we elect a Democrat, Republican, or Libeterian to the Oval office and it certainly doesn't lie in the fact that the person we elect is old, black, or female. The coarse of this country is already set and it is a course that none of us can change.

Saturday, November 01, 2008

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