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August 30, 2004
GOP convention
The GOP convention (which the 3 broadcast networks did not carry and I had to watch on C-SPAN) was fantastic. It was nice to see people saying what was right with the country rather than whining about what they thought was wrong with the country.
The stories by the 3 women touched by the 9/11/01 tragedy, the passerger's wife, the pilot's sister, and the firefighter's widow were quite moving. What inspiring stories of courage and selflessness. Each of those men is indeed a hero. Remember what makes this nation strong, it is not the UN it is not France, it is not Germany, it is Americans.
Tomorrow is primary day in Florida. I know for whom I am going to vote as I have researched the candidates, read about them, read their campaign material and consulted the questions and answers at the Florida Catholc newspaper. Pro-life candidates are those getting my vote. While that is not the only issue about which I am concerned, all of the candidates for whom I conidered voting share my view on abortion.
It is growing clearer every day that the nation is not as liberal as the media would have us believe. We are entertained by Hollywood, but we don't want to be them nor emulate their disgusting ways.
The Passion of the Christ comes out tomorrow. My library has its order in, does yours?
Posted by Matthew at 11:38 PM | Comments (3)
Pot: Kettle: Black
Bill (BJ) Clinton thinks that the SwiftVets ads bear false witness. What a hoot coming from the guy who forgot all about the adultery commandment when some husky chick turned him on.
Do what I say, not what I do is not a motto for a president. Why anyone cares what Clinton has to say I don't know. His eight years in office brought shame on our country. Sure he was popular, but so is the dad who gives the high schoolers booze: popular, but a jerk.
Posted by Matthew at 12:14 AM | Comments (0)
August 29, 2004
All the news that is fit to print my arse
The NYT ran an article about a woman who aborted two of her three children because it cramped her lifestyle. The article has been passed around on the internet and in email messages.
What the New York Times failed to not initally is that Ms. Richards is an champion of baby murdering. She works with planned parenthood, the nation's largest baby murder machine. Planned parenthood makes Hitler look like a Scout when the number of innocents murdered is compared.
The NYT added what it called an editor's note which any self-respection editor would have called an apology and a correction. That drivel which clarifies the views of the baby killer Amy Richards is available here.
I hold the National Enquirer in higher regard than the New York Times; Jason Blair, leftist lies and pro abortion policies have ruined what once was a respectable newspaper. How sad.
Posted by Matthew at 12:02 AM | Comments (0)
August 27, 2004
Mental illness?
This is just my personal opinion, and of course I am not a psychiatrist and I have not examined John Kerry in any way nor would I be qualified to do so, however I think that he is mentally ill.
It seems that he has memories that conflict with reality, and he seems to hear voices.
He remembers being in Cambodia on Christmas; indeed he notes it is seared into his memory. It never happened.
He recalls being the only officer present when he received the injury that made him request his first purple heart. He was not Adm. Schachte was there (a lieutenant at the time).
Kerry insists he threw his medals away, but then he recalls he didn't.
He speaks to foreign leaders who want him to win the election, but he won't release their names. Of course he was not out of the country and the idea is simply nutty, unless of course he was chatting with Saddam Hussein. I think he is hearing voices. Hillary Clinton admits to having conversed with Eleanor Roosevelt when her husband was president. The fact that Mrs. Roosevelt was dead did not seem to matter to Mrs. Clinton. Perhaps Mr. Kerry has the same problem.
So Mr. Kerry perhaps you should get to some sort of physician -and soon! There could be a myriad of things that are causing these memory problems and voices you are hearing. Get a check up before it is too late.
Posted by Matthew at 03:52 PM | Comments (0)
August 19, 2004
Morons
Many morons have been writing to my local newspapers, including this pinhead who feels that the meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center (a great number of whom have doctorates ) were criminally incompetent.
I guess this pinhead does not understand the definition of forecast . He is not the only one to write in complaining that we did not have a direct hurricane hit on the Tampa area. I think that is good news for those of us in the Tampa area, but these people are angry that their houses were not damaged and that they were not killed.
Most amusing was his final paragraph: "The intelligence agencies of this nation are undergoing a complete overhaul since 9/11. Hurricane Charley will be the 9/11 for the National Weather Service in general and the National Hurricane Center in particular."
NOAA, the NWS and the NHC/TPC are not part of the intelligence community to suggest that they are demonstrates the ignorance of the letter writer. The area that was hit by the hurricane was under a hurricane watch, and then a hurricane warning well before the storm arrived. The failure of people to keep themselves informed cannot be caused by the NHC. Those that chose to ignore the warnings, those that chose not to evacuate, those that failed to secure their property against damage are the only ones culpable. The NHC did its job admirably. They evaluated the data, the models, and created the best possible forecasts. To suggest that they were criminally incompetent is to demonstrate only the accusers ignorance.
Meteorologists, and librarians are similar (besides being underpaid government employees with long educational histories); we both provide information for the public. We can only make the information available, we can’t control how it is used.
Posted by Matthew at 09:13 PM | Comments (0)
August 14, 2004
BFD
The governor of New Jersey is gay. Big deal.
The governor of New Jersey cheated on his wife. Scumbag
The governor of New Jersey used influence to have his homosexual partner hired into a position of authority and lied about his homosexual partner’s experience working with anti-terrorism organizations. Treasonous.
I guess some people, generally Democrats elected to state and federal executive offices, don’t care what they lie about or how it affects their office or for that matter the safety of our country. As long as they have an interesting sex life all is OK?
I would not have resigned, then again I would not have engaged in perverted extramarital sex, nor would I have lied to get my fellow adulterer hired. I guess I’m just old school.
Posted by Matthew at 04:33 AM | Comments (1)
August 10, 2004
Freaking fantastic
I have been made been made head of the disaster committee at the PL where I work. I'm not sure if that is good or bad. However the town is on track to be hit by a hurricane Friday night. Yipee, frying pan -fire sort of thing. I'm also the acting adult services department head since the department head (who would have been my boss) quit. On the bright side I have a nice office with a door and a mini fridge and a staff of 4. On the other hand I have more work to do. Well at least the day goes by quickly.
Posted by Matthew at 11:32 PM | Comments (2)
Frogs, murder, super-8
I'm back after my hiatus. It rained.
I began my new position as a reference librarian at a medium sized public library. My first reference question was: Do you have anything on frogs?" Poor kid is going to turn in a PhD dissertation in 4th grade.
I'm opposed to killing people, thus I'm opposed to the death penalty. Some scumbag in Florida killed six people because he was mad that they saved his stuff for him from a house from which he was tossed out because he was living there illegally (the owner went up north so he moved in). He beat the young woman who took care of his things, including his X-box until she could return them to him.
He recruited 3 co-conspirators and beat six people and a dog to death. He was recently released on parole after serving prison time for a myriad of crimes. The sheriff in the county said in a news conference that these people deserve the death penalty. It is remarkably hard to believe otherwise.
If I were to go into combat I would not take a super-8 movie camera to restage battles for film. Then again I am not a self aggrandizing liar.
Posted by Matthew at 02:14 AM | Comments (0)
August 04, 2004
Hiatus
The weblog is on hiatus.
Posted by Matthew at 08:19 PM | Comments (0)
August 03, 2004
Class (noun)
The Soares family, the parents of Lori Hacking are the definition of class. We all know a terrible tragedy has affected them yet they still think of the Hacking family. While the legal process must run its course, I think we all know what happened and what will happen.
How terrible it must be to lose a child, how terrible it must be to lose a loved one in a violent crime. Lori’s family had been doubly hurt by someone they trusted, someone they loved. When others would have turned away from others, who would have thought only of themselves and their own loss the Soares family thought also of the parents and family of the man accused of killing their beautiful daughter. Truly there two lives lost here, Lori has lost her life, and Mark Hacking has lost the life he once knew. The Soares family has lost a daughter and the Hacking family has lost a son although in a completely different way. None of us will ever know what compelled Mark Hacking to take Lori’s life- something so disordered that he lived his life as a lie.
The compassion the Soares family has shown to the Hacking family is remarkable, yet it is what we all hope our families would do in similar circumstances. While I don’t know a great deal about the LDS Church I can say with certainty that compassion is a value they share with other faiths. The Soares are certain they will meet their daughter again. So am I.
To the Soares family: in your time of grief you showed us how to act, you showed us what love means and you showed us what compassion is. Thank you for showing us how to act, how to live, how to love one another. Lori’s life was cut short, but the lessons we learned from her and her family will endure. God bless you, God bless us all.
Posted by Matthew at 03:10 AM | Comments (0)
August 01, 2004
Again I am a hater.
I was told again that I am a hater. I was told that I must hate 10% of the population if I am opposed to gay marriage. I was told this by someone who I have never seen before in my life.
A friend and I were discussing the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution (Art IV § 1). I said that I’ll recognize same sex marriage when Massachusetts recognizes my state issued permit to carry a concealed weapon. (Which of course will be never.) We discussed the fact that the right to own a gun is guaranteed in the Constitution but the right to marry someone of the same gender is not.
Thank goodness the PC police were nearby and could tell me that I was a ‘hater’ because I was opposed to same sex marriage. I didn’t realize I hated gay people, I guess I have to be much nastier to the gay people I work with. Do you think I am required to hit them, or will simply being rude and throwing things be OK?
In case you don’t understand sarcasm I don’t hate gay people I just don’t feel that two people of the same gender should be ‘married’. I don’t think people should do heroin either but I don’t hate them. I don’t hate anyone. I dislike and even avoid some people, but I don’t hate anyone.
The same PC policeman also told me he didn’t believe in guns. I find that very odd. I don’t believe in a lot of things: ghosts, astrology, feng-shui, phrenology, auras, psychic healing, psychic anything for that matter. However if I can see something, if I can feel something, if I can hold something in my hand I believe in it. I may think its nutty, like I think about Chiropractic and cold laser therapy – the newest quack fad around here, but I still believe it esists. Saying that he doesn't believe in guns sounds like he doubts their existence.
I should have asked this odd little interloper if he believed in gunshot wounds. Instead I told him to go the feck away. Oddly he did.
Posted by Matthew at 11:43 PM | Comments (0)