So I managed to sneak a peak at the t.v. last night . . .

I was at my mom’s and caught a blip of the convention.  Some blonde woman I didn’t recognize was speaking and she said the funniest thing!  I mean, the absolutely funniest thing!  She said that John Kerry was . . .

TENACIOUS!  Yes!  Tenacious.  Can you believe it?

According to my American Heritage Dictionary, “tenacious” means:

1.  Holding or tending to hold firmly; persistent; a man tenacious of his opinions and averse to new ideas.  2.  Holding together firmly; cohesive.  3.  Clinging to another object or surface; adhesive.  4.  Tending to retain; retentive; a tenacious memory.

I don’t know about you, but I just find it absolutely hysterical that anyone would use the word “tenacious” to describe John “Flip Flop” Kerry. 

I honestly think that’s the first time I’ve ever watched/heard a Democrat speak and walked away with a smile on my face.  The absolute hilarity of the moment overcame me . . .

I’m not allowed to watch t.v. . . .

Or at least the Democratic National Convention.  My husband has forbidden it.  With formidable authority he has threatened to leave if I but even act as though I might flip the channel to catch the coverage.  Who can blame him?  Would you want to suddenly find the woman you thought was your sweet wife foaming at the mouth and sweating bullets of bloody frustrated fury when Hillary or Bill or Al or Ted or John or John took the stage?  Even now as I think about it, small knots are forming in my shoulders with the anger and frustration I feel towards people determined to destroy my country, in the name of progress.  Progress my eye! 

Now, when the Republicans take the stage in a few weeks, now that’ll be t.v. worth tuning in for . . .

Thanks to Miss O’Hara for another fun quiz . . .

The Pride and Prejudice type: Truly an Austenite, this type is a Romantic at heart, but they always keep their head and are wary of melodrama. Lively, clever, and independent. These people are easily amused by their own foibles and the quirkly foibles of others. They lament society today, and dream of the time when guys were gentlemen and girls were ladies. http://quizilla.com/users/sensefille/quizzes/Jane%20Austen%20novel%20quiz/ This is too funny, and fairly close to the mark!  I’m not sure that I always keep my head, but I certainly try to do so (unless I’m watching political commentary by some raving liberal, and then I am in danger of becoming completely out of my head with frustration and unladylike longing to knock some sense into the head of said liberal . . .) The last comment about longing for days past is 100% on target.  I wish there were a way to slow down our society, yes, even rewind it back to the days when things didn’t move so fast, we actually got to know our neighbors, and manners were considered a good thing, not something just for old fuddyduddies and geeks. Sigh.

Betcha’ thought I’d disappeared . . .

I’ve been really busy the last few days.  Busy good — as in, spending time with the family and measuring lots and lots of windows for window treatments! 

So because of the busy state of my life right now, I’ve not heard much news.  Until today when I heard that ultra-super-duper classified documents had somehow inadvertently jumped into Sandy Berger’s jockey shorts.  With no help from Mr. Berger, those devilish documents managed to skinny their way right past his belt and into the most unusual briefcase I’ve ever heard tell of.

Of course, the libs are putting their usual spin on it, whining “Foul! Foul!” and claiming suspicious timing in relation to the release of the 9/11 commission’s report in a couple of days.  Of course, there was nothing suspicious about the timing of Clinton’s overseas bomb raids and the Lewinsky matter here at home.  No, siree . . .

Maybe the Republicans are playing dirty pool, and I say, “It’s about damned time!”  A huge part of the party’s problem is that they’ve always played by the rules, gentlemen’s rules, and they always get burned.  While I have to confess that I would prefer that we could all behave like gentlemen and women, some of the folks across the aisle just won’t allow it.  And so I say, take off the gloves, and let’s have at it!  Knock some of that snide attitude out of Daschle and his ilk and get on with the business of the country . . . confirm some judges (I hear that yet another has been blocked, and this one because he didn’t sit around the environmental campfire singing Kumbaya . . . ), do away with our insane tax code and come up with something that doesn’t have a majority of the tax department’s employees as puzzled as the rest of us.  There are many more things I could list, but I have to go now.  I’ve got appointments tomorrow and I need to get some sleep!

I find this simply fascinating!  I would have never thought that I would match up with Gandalf . . . I’m somewhat honored, I am.

Just finished reading this book — it was a pretty good lazy-day read.  I’ve got to do a few chores around the house and then meet with some clients at 6:00 p.m. to discuss quotes for their window treatments.  I’ve been having a hard time getting motivated about doing much the last few days.  I mean, I’ve been doing things that need to be done — but I can’t seem to get past this feeling of exhaustion.  Everything seems to be a monumental effort . . . even the slightest things.  I just want to sleep!  I need to exercise more (ha! — I say “more” like I exercise at all).  I need to start exercising.  That would probably help with the energy levels AND mild depression that I struggle with.

Off to do my chores.  Will write more later, if I can think of anything interesting to write.

Just another way the liberals play fast and loose with the truth . . .

Kerry Wrong on “Sneak and Peek” Searches

Kerry’s Claim: The Administration conducts “sneak and peek” searches (delayed notification searches) that can be conducted “without any judicial oversight” and “without ever telling anyone.” (“Kerry Campaign Statement on New False Bush Ad,” http://blog.johnkerry.com/dbunker/archives/001782.html#more, 5/25/04)

The Truth: Kerry’s claim is false. A court order is expressly required before a delayed notification search can be conducted. Moreover, the statute requires that the subject of the search be notified after a reasonable period of delay. The amount of delay is determined by a judge. The Patriot Act requires standard judicial oversight – a search warrant or court order – before a search can be conducted. (PATRIOT Act § 213) And as Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) acknowledged in October of 2003, there have never been any reported abuses of the Patriot Act.

Kerry’s false claim that searches can be conducted “without any judicial oversight” and “without ever telling anyone” is just another example of John Kerry playing politics with the War on Terror.

One more for the road — this made me laugh and laugh:

Found this lovely little snippet at www.kerry-04.com:

Join the Jihad for John Kerry

I’ve not had a great deal of time to check out this website thoroughly, but it’s courtesy of The Federalist, and so I’m confident that it’s on target.  Looks like there’s a good bit of information about the true Kerry agenda, as well as the far left ties of Heinz Kerry and how she could be another Hillary in the making.  I’m looking forward to spending more time checking it out when I have the luxury.

Just a quick recap of our July 4th holiday — with more details to follow later:

Saturday (the 3rd), we had our annual cookout at our house.  My sister was scheduled to work on the 4th, and so we celebrated early so that she and my niece and nephew could be with us.  It was great, with good food, good family and friends, good fun.  I love having people over, and we had a great turnout with 17 people (including the three of us).

Sunday (the 4th), some of our other friends invited us to come out to their house on the canal.  Once again, lots of food, lots of fun — we took a boat ride out to the Surfside Bridge and watched fireworks, just a great time.

It’s late and I’ve got to run — but I will definitely write more soon. 

Rather than simply quote, perhaps I should expound . . .

Yesterday I posted several quotes from other authors that I felt expressed important points that we are not getting through the liberal (though the liberals deny it) media . . . I’d like to comment specifically on Neil Cavuto’s column.

I’m so grateful that Mr. Cavuto wrote this column, because it brings to light the double-standard of the media and many Americans’ views on violence and how we relate to it.  For many years now, we’ve been desensitizing ourselves to violent behavior — through the movies and t.v. we watch, the “songs” we listen to, the video games we play.  While I am no fan of rap music and I don’t play video games, I have to confess I’ve watched my share of “blow ’em up/shoot ’em up” movies over the years.  Yesterday I watched a fairly “family friendly” movie with my 8-year-old daughter — “Stranded” based on the Swiss Family Robinson story.  It was a Hallmark Entertainment feature — and the violence was fairly mild, except for when an island native saved the Robinsons’ lives by slaying a pirate with a well-aimed spear.  My daughter asked me, “Did he die in real life?”

I have always thought my daughter to be a pretty sophisticated child — not because she is “adult” in her behavior, but because she excels academically.  I was embarrassed to have the revelation that she’s still looking at this world through 8-year-old eyes, regardless of vocabulary or reading level.  I explained to her the “wonders” of movie making and how they have pretend spears that make it look real.  She believed me, but then I wondered — “When confronted with REAL life, will she have a difficult time differentiating between real and make-believe?”

Many Americans have a difficult time differentiating between real and make-believe.  They also have a difficult time differentiating between people who REALLY need help and people who need to help themselves. 

If we’re not confronted with the truth of what happened on 9/11, with the truth of the beheadings and the many other vile acts by terrorists over the years, it is much too easy to stick our heads in the sand and/or forget about the spectacular horror of each event.  And if liberals would like to say, “these things happen because Americans are arrogant and the world hates us” — well, I’d like to know why that plane fell out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland.  I don’t know for certain, but I’ll wager a bet that it wasn’t an “Americans Only” flight.  Not to mention that the most recent beheading to-date was a South Korean gentleman.

We have to wake up and realize that this is not a movie, it is not a video game.  It’s too easy to put the horror of it out of our minds when we’re not confronted by it — when it’s not shoved in our faces.  Then it becomes easy to say — we shouldn’t be over there.  We should mind our own business.  We should leave those people alone.

Well, 3,000 people were minding their own business and they should have been left alone.