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October 24 Deputy Mayor of Dallas, TexasWell, it seems that I'm not the only one tired of seeing jeans around peoples' butts. The Deputy Mayor of Dallas, Texas is tired of it too. He tired to pass a law making folks pull up their pants; however, since that violates the Constitutional rights of Americans, he's started a campaign to get pants pulled up. He's even got a local rapper involved and a new rap song called, "Pull Them Up." I wish him success in his campaign--Pull Those Pants Up People. October 23 Can Someone Tell Me?This isn't a political subject--but, can someone tell me where to buy a pair of jeans that doesn't let your stomach and your butt hang out? I'm really sick of going shopping and to work just to see some way over weight person (Usually female) with their fat gut and butt hanging out of their jeans. It's disgusting!!! Do you people ever look in the mirror????? I've looked in every clothing store in Albuquerque and they just do not sell jeans that come up to your waist and cover what needs to be covered. I swear if I see one more fat butt hanging out of a stranger's jeans--well lets just say it isn't going to be "hello and have a nice day" that comes out of my mouth. October 05 I'll Be BackI'm leaving tomorrow to go back to my hometown to visit my mother who recently found out that she has cancer. I'll be back around the 14th of October. Maybe we all need a rest. Before I go I'd like to comment on the Marian Jones' confession.
If an athlete is given performance enhancing drugs by a coach or trainer, without the athlete's knowledge or consent, I don't think that they should be held responsible. But, if the athlete knows, and lies about it, they should suffer the consequences. I do respect Ms. Jones for coming clean, telling the judge that she was a liar and a cheat took guts. Guts seems to be something that this world has very little of.
Ms. Jones--I cheered for you in the 2000 Olympics and held my breath watching you run your races. I joined all Americans who beamed with pride at our athletes winning all those gold, silver, and bronze medals. I'm very disappointed that you cheated to give us that pride. But, you have guts girl and don't let anyone say you don't. Keep your head up and take your punishment, and people will respect you for that. October 03 Our CongressI'd like to know why it is that our Congress has nothing better to do than write letters about the talk show host, Rush Limbaugh. Of all the things this country's Congressional members need to take care of, Limbaugh should be last, if even on their list.
I'm not a fan of Rush Limbaugh, but usually when I go out for lunch, his show is what is on talk radio. I did hear his remarks about "phony soldiers." He was talking about the guy who washed out of bootcamp, going around making speeches about being a Medal of Honor, ex-Army Ranger. I'd call this guy something more than a phony, but; the point is--I want my Congress member to get down to business fixing this country and to heck with Rush Limbaugh. Local ElectionsYesterday was local election day here in Rio Rancho and Albuquerque. There were bond issues to vote on to build schools, roads, housing for the underprivileged, etc.; local council seats to fill; one councilman was about to be recalled; a ballot to give the council members a raise from $10,000 a year to $30,000; and various other local issues to resolve. These election issues have been well advertized and important. Bond issues that needed to be resolved and would affect everyone.
Out of the local eligible voters, approximately 550,000, what percent do you think turned out to vote? 10% That's right. A really sad turnout. So folks, when your property taxes go up to pay for all the things that the minority voted for, the majority of you have no room to complain. If you think that these local issues, that will affect you and your families personally, are not good enough to get off your butts and go vote--then you all deserve what you get. October 02 America AloneThe following are pieces of Mark Steyn's book America Alone, The End of the World as We Know It. "Many of the developed world's citizens gave no conscious thought to Islam before September 11. Now we switch on the news every evening and, though there are many trouble spots around the world, as a general rule it's easy to make an educated guess at one of the participants: Muslims vs. Jews in "Palestine," Muslims vs. Hindus in Kashmir, Muslims vs. Christians in Africa, Muslims vs. Buddhists in Thailand, Muslims vs. Russians in the Causasus, Muslims vs. backpacking tourists in Bali, Muslims vs. Danish cartoonists in Scandinavia. Why? Because they've got the manpower. Because in the seventies and eighties, Muslims had children (those self-detonating Islamist in London and Gaza are a literal baby boom) while Westerners took all those silly doomsday tomes about "overpopulation" seriously. The secret is demography."
"What does it mean when the fastest-growing population on the planet is a group that, to put it at its mildest, has a somewhat fractious relationship with the characterists of a free society? Can the developed world get more Muslim in its demographic character without becoming more Muslim in its political character? And, what consequences does that have for art and culture, science and medicine, innovation and energy---and basic liberties?"
"....Europe will be semi-Islamic in its politico-cultural character within a generation. By 2050, Italy's population will have fallen by 22 percent, Bulgaria's by 36 percent, Estonia's by 62 percent, seventeen European nations are now at what demographers call "lowest-low" fertility; 1.3 births per woman. As fertility dries up, so do societies. Forget the Jews and the gays and the women and reduce it to its most basic: In most Muslim jurisdictions, there is simply no culture of inquiry. No notion that challenging, questioning, testing the assumptions of that society has any value. For Islam's first two or three centuries, scholars busied themselves figuring out what the divine revelations of the Koran actually meant for the daily routine of believers. But by the eleventh century all four schools of Isamic law had concluded they were pretty much on top of things and there was no need for any further interpretation or investigation. No Islamic nation could have flown to the moon or invented the Internet, simply because for a millennium the culture has suppressed the curiosity necessary for such a venture."
"Anyone who's traveled in the Middle East will recognize that moment--not with the wacky death-to-the-Great-Satan guys but with the hot-looking Westernized Bahraini lady doctor you're enjoying a little incendiary flirting with. And then--ten, twenty, forty-five minutes into the conversation--she says something nutty. You can be perfectly assimilated when it comes to clothes, sports, pop music, the state of the economy, the need for transport infrastructure spending, and a million other issues, but on one of the central questions facing the world today 83 percent of the fastest-growing demographic in the UK does not accept the same reality as their fellow British subjects. And, competing versions of reality is never a good recipe for social stability. Western Muslims are playing their own 24/7 version of the children's game "Opposite Land."
"Russia today: "the sick man of Europe," with falling life expectancy, riddled with HIV and tuberculosis and heart disease, its infrastructure crumbling, its borders unenforceable, and kleptocracy draining its wealth Westward--a nation all but "sans everything." "Russia, for example, is in an accelerating vortex and, for Washington and other interested parties, the question is what Moscow will try to grab on to in order to slow the descent." "Russia will become a nation of babushkas, unable to deploy enough young soldiers to secure its borders, enough young businessmen to secure its economy, or enough young families to secure its future. So, the world's largest country is dying and the question is how violent its death throes will be."
"Russia...a potentially African-level AIDS crisis and an Islamist separatist movement sitting atop the biggest pile of nukes on the planet. What would you do if you were the fellows in the Kremlin? You've got an empty resource-rich eastern hinterland--which the Chinese are going to wind up with one way or the other. Facing extinction, Moscow doesn't have much to barter with--except dangling the Chinese an offer that could solve several of their structural problems. ...Russia might offer a solution to the People's Republic's most distinctive structual flaw....Since China introduced its "one child" policy in 1978, the imbalance between the sexes has increased to the point where in today's generation there are 119 boys for every 100 girls. Unless China's planning on becoming the first gay superpower since Sparta, what's going to happen to those young men? ....Given Russia's own imbalance--between sickly men of low life expentancy and long-lived robust women--it's not hard to see some mutual advantage in bilateral mass hook-up for Slav women and Chinese men..."
"That's the danger for Washington--that most of what Russia has to trade is likely to be damaging to U.S. interests. In its death throes, it could bequeath the world several new Muslim nations, a nuclear Middle East, and a stronger China. In theory, America could do a belated follow-up to the Alaska deal and put in a bid for Siberia. But Russia's calculation is that sooner or later we'll be back in a bipolar world and that, in almost any scenario, there's more advantage in being part of the non-American pole. If a Sino-Russian strategic partnership has a certain logic to it, so, in a darker way, does a Sino-Russo-Euro-Muslim alliance of convenience. So a combination of factors is bringing about a remarkable event: the death of a great nation not through war or devastation but through its inability to rouse itself from its own suicidal tendencies." |
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