Archive for December, 2006

An Open Letter to Mark Pryor

CaseyP| December 14, 2006 4:12 pm
I recently received a survey request from Mark Pryor asking for opinions on things such as Iraq, National Security, an minimum wage.  I was hesitant to answer several questions because they seemed unfairly skewed.  For instance, one question was, "Do you believe we are on the right track in Iraq?"  Well… things aren’t getting any better there.  It’s an obvious no.  But I don’t believe we’re wrong for being there.  I don’t believe we’re on the wrong track.  I think we’re on the right track, we’re just going about it in a wrong and ineffective way.  I, for one, am pretty darn excited about new leadership at the DOD.  The next question was whether or not we should get neighboring countries to help rebuild Iraq.  Sure!  But what neighbors are you talking about?  Here’s the letter:
 
Dear Senator Pryor,
I want to thank you for your survey that I recently filled out.  I trust that you will take to heart what your constituents tell you regarding future policies.  I would like to make a minor complaint about the survey though.  I believe that you answers are being unfairly skewed towards responses that you want to hear on a few points.  Most notably in regards to Iraq.  For instance, is it not possible to believe that we are on the right track in Iraq, but that we’re doing it the wrong way?  I do not want to say we are handling Iraq correctly, because I don’t believe we are.  But I don’t think we’re totally on the wrong track either.  I do want you to know that I do not support any immediate plans on withdrawal.
I also think that anyone would be a fool to say that they did not wish for neighboring countries to help rebuild Iraq and reform it.  But I know that the inclusion of Syria and Iran are hot button issues right now, and I believe that is what you are referring to.  Senator Pryor, please know that we can not deal with nations who harbor terrorists within their countries, and who fund terrorist organizations.  Especially not Iran, who has been developing nuclear weapons and who has vowed to destroy our ally, Israel.
That being said, I would hope that the less extreme countries in the region, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, and Jordan would be encouraged by our leadership to join in the reformation of the Iraqi government and economic system.
Again, Mr. Pryor, I thank you for your service to our state, and your willingness to listen to the voters.  I am praying for you.
Sincerely
And there you have it.  I’d like to encourage everyone to take this survey.  It was only sent out to recipients of his mailing list, which I doubt includes many conservative voices.  Even though he’s a libby, he’s still OUR representative.  He’s a servant of the people.  Let us all make our voice heard!

Boy-Girl-Boy-Girl . . . eh fuhgeddaboutit…

CaseyP| December 6, 2006 3:14 pm

From the AP:

NYC rethinks gender rule: The Board of Health withdrew a proposal Tuesday that would have allowed people to alter the sex on their birth certificates without sex-change surgery. The plan would have put New York at the forefront of a movement to eliminate anatomical considerations when defining gender.

You have got to be kidding me.  What other definition of gender is there than anatomical differences?  Is this where we have come to as a nation?  Is this the state of our morality?  I can put on some lipstick and waltz into a women’s restroom because I just decide I’m a girl now? 

While this was brought up and dismissed with little notice, I predict that it will be the next great debate on sexuality.  Liberalism has already quieted the morality of America with the "if it feels good, do it" mentality.  Now we should redefine gender on how feminine or masculine people "feel."  Let’s just forget about the ethics of sex-change surgery.  Listen up sex-change wannabe’s…you were born the way you are.  Deal with it.  You’re not a girl deep on the inside, if you have guy parts.  Even after the surgery, you’re still a man.  You can’t change your XY chromosomes.  In the words of that crazy bald shrew from the 80’s "STOP THE INSANITY!"

Or maybe I should call her a shrew… maybe she whited out the F on her birth certificate and wrote in M and now she’s  man.  If we can’t legislate morality (or so the first church of liberalism says), we can’t legislate gender.  If I change my M to an F on my birth certificate, does that mean I can go to the women’s locker room?  To an all female prison?  To join the girls in the shower in the army?  Heck…how many single guys would take advantage of that?  Sorry, I don’t mean to be crass…but it’s something to think about.

Hmm . . . I don’t think I’m feeling particularly human today, anyway.  I think I’m gonna change my birth certificate to say I’m a llama.

The Inertia of Productivity

CaseyP| December 5, 2006 4:39 pm
I am lazy.
There, I said it.  The first step to getting over something is to admit you have a problem, right?  It’s not really that I want to sit around on my bum all day and do nothing, it’s just that that’s what I’ve been doing, and getting started seems so easily . . . procrastinated.  Well, today, I finally got started, and it seems that nothing will stop my freight train of productivity.  It would lead me to believe that inertia applies to laziness as much as physics.  My body at rest, REALLY wants to stay at rest.  Others (my wife, for one) find themselves sitting with nothing to do and simply cannot WAIT to get up and do something.  She’ll tap her foot, wring her hands, and finally get up and clean the same flipping thing she cleaned 3 times yesterday, just to have something to do.  It’s and illness, I think.  We’re at rest, dang it!  STAY AT REST!!!
And God, if only osmosis worked the same way inertia does in these instances.  I’d never have to worry again.  I would literally suck the energy out of her until we were levelized and could enjoy free time and work times.
Good thing is, I suppose, that now that I’m moving, I just can’t quit.  Maybe I’ll end up like her . . . nah.
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