My daddy is a good man. A little slow on the uptake when it comes to politicaling, but good and smart. That's what Karl says. Karl says he could have been a great President like Uncle Ronnie if he had taken the care to build him a legacy. People remember Uncle Ron for single-handedly destroying the Soviet Union. The "Evil Empire" he called it ( Read more... )

He was clearly agitated, this Republican Congressman, as he relayed to us the following statistics: "Hispanics are the fastest growing segment of the US population. If current trends continue, Hispanics will be the majority in the United States within ten years." And then, breathlessly, he tied it all together "We will be the minority inside our ( Read more... )

In this man's life there are certain skills that I like to call the manley arts: building things; mechanics; electronics; military service; hunting; fishing; lifting heavy objects; satisfying a woman; fighting; skydiving; mountain climbing; airplane flying; truck driving; blowing things up; building a campfire; playing sports (football, baseball, ( Read more... )

So I've been thinking about Russia, and China and all the little piss-ant countries that had a bad experience with Marxist Communism. It really was an evil thing. But it wasn't the communism that made it evil. I mean what could possibly be evil about empowering the worker and paying people what their labor is worth ( Read more... )

Tom DeLay, (R)Texas, is gone, baby, gone. This is the guy who last year complained that "liberal Democrats are criminalizing the way Republicans do politics." Hey Tom, WE weren't the ones "criminalizing" the Republican way of doing politics ( Read more... )

So I read this article:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/wireStory?id=1779420

and it occurred to me that if there is a death penalty for molesting a child, what incentive would there be for a child molester not to kill the child to avoid leaving a

Hi! It's me and I'm LOVIN' THE SUNSHINE, BABY!!!

I'm building a new dam in Labelle, Florida. It's about 83 deg F out there today and I get to spend as much time walking around outside as I want to.

ENVY ME!!!


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Hooray! I have internet at my field office! I'm three months into the project, and it's half built already, but I have internet! Yay! Stay tuned for pictures.

Andrew

It's been a weird two months. I'm still trying to get internet hooked up at the job-site trailer. But we're all settled in, the job is going well, and I keep waiting for Bush to do the thing that will finally turn the rest of America against him ( Read more... )

Greetings all from the land of everlasting sunshine! I've been down here in Florida for a couple of weeks now and it's beautiful. I'm still living out of a hotel without internet access, but that's all about to change ( Read more... )