REFLECTIONS

My nephew is spending a long weekend with us. This has given us a chance to do what contemporary society says can’t be done: entertain two young boys on a rainy day without video games. It is remarkably easy. A few Hot Wheels, a few feet of track and they are entranced. No whining, no [...]

Hollywood may be convinced that the American people want to despise the soldiers that are defending us, but out here in the real world the story is quite different.  The city of El Cajon paid tribute to a hometown marine wounded while defending his men in Iraq.  Now here is a movie that people would actually [...]

Last Thursday night as I was reading National Review‘s Campaignspot about the Iowa caucus, Hewitt was mentioned as reporting on it from Twitter.com where I found this weblog called techRepublican. [see the list of weblogs in the sidebar on the right.] By the way, I’m dean_m or DeanSMS at twitter.

In recent months I mentioned I will get to vote in a presidential primary this coming April. I just read in the local paper the Wisconsin Presidential Primary was moved us to February 19 which is the same day as its State primary elections. I hope the candidates will pay more attention to it then [...]

Hartman e-mailed me this morning with the suggestion that the meta for logging-in and for registering to this web log should be at the top of the side-bar. As you can see to your right, I took the suggestion. Maybe this quick response to feedback shall lay to rest any idle-talk of my distant attitude.

I caught a Fox news headline about the breakdown of the ”road map to peace” between Israel and Palestine because of “Israel building settlements.”  Excuse Me!?!  How about the fact that Israel is under near constant rocket attacks from the Gaza strip?  How about the fact that the Palestinians still refuse to grant Israel the right [...]

I stand second to no one in my loathing of Hillary Rodham Clinton.  But Barack Obama scares me in a way that Hillary can’t even come close.   Hillary promises the usual chicken in every pot and two doctors making house calls. Obama is promising to heal the world.  Oprah called him “the one.”   He says he can change [...]

Looking at Huckabee’s numbers from last night I have decided to embark on a new career.  I am going to sell beach front property in Iowa.  If those hicks will buy Huckabee as a conservative they will buy anything. The former Miss Ann Thrope had a great comment on Huckabee: I have read enough to [...]

Bill Clinton’s former political adviser from 1996, Dick Morris, has been saying 2008 will be A.B.C. or Anybody But Clinton. Tonight in Iowa the projection is Obama of Illinois and Edwards of Carolina beat out Clinton-Rodham of New York. Also, in the Republican vote the Arkansas former Governor Huckaberry beats out Rommey of Massachusetts. On [...]

Women are flocking to Hillary delighted that “at last” we will have a woman in the Oval Office.  (Insert your own dirty joke about the women Hillary’s husband had in the Oval Office.)  Women don’t care what the woman believes does or thinks, they just want to flock to a successful woman. This particular woman [...]

Some people worry about global cooling in winter and global warming in summer. Other people bunch thoise worries together as global climate-change. Aren’t they just the people who complain the weatherman got today’s forcast wrong? Climate changes every day without man’s help — it’s called weather. I would be more concern of tectonic-change. The earth [...]

     Egad, is the grammar now politically fractioned? Yesterday, Mark Warner who is a diarist over at the Daily Kos blog made fun of the radical left-wingers’ bickering over their Democrat candidates with his post: Sinister Obama uses common Right Wing talking point. I know it is sarcasm or I hope it is because one never [...]

Most days it is Democrats I want to smack in the head and shout “what are you thinking.”  These days it is my fellow Republicans who are driving me up the wall.  Finally realizing that none of the front runners is actually conservative the GOP faithful, searching for another Reagan, elevated to front runner status [...]

When they came for the Jews you did nothing, because you hate Bush. When they came for the gays you did nothing, because you hate Bush. When they came for women you did nothing, because you hate Bush. When they came for the Dutch filmmaker who documented their atrocities you did nothing, Because you hate [...]

     Now with the holy days mainly behind us, we need to return to worldly matters. It came to my attention of a new idea (old if you consider governing-czars for various fashionable-projects are ageless.) Carolyn Raffensperger who is the executive director of something called the Science and Environmental Health Network wants the next president to [...]

Now, the fun begins. This Thursday we get to see how the political party members think of their candidates. I write this on the Thursday before Christmas day when President Bush gave his last press conference for the 2007. If he had performed for the last seven years as he did in this last press [...]

May our hearts be graced with peace that moves the world to it in this new year. May all be right in this new year.