12.29.08
Posted in Main at 6:58 pm by Holder
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html
This Russian academic is really crossing the line. This is enough to make a red-blooded American blow his top! But I have to say, that there are problems in this country, such as unimpeded illegal immigration, that do give a person reason to think that we are in big trouble and our politicians don’t seem to understand just how bad it is.
Let me correct that: most of our politicians don’t care how bad it is. It’s not that they don’t understand. They just don’t care to fix it.
So what might the reason be that they don’t care to fix the illegal immigration problem? Could it be that fixing it just isn’t in the agenda?
Maybe these are the people who are really in charge: The North American Forum
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12.19.08
Posted in Main, Computer Art at 3:46 pm by Holder
I submitted this image at Zazzle to be on a United States postage stamp. I got a message saying “Design incorporates material that is primarily partisan or political in nature.” Since when in the United States of America is it partisan or political to study our Constitution? Dr. Benjamin Franklin referred to the rising sun when the Constitution was signed at the end of the Constitutional Convention. He was happy that our young country then had a chance to survive…that the sun was not setting, but rising on the United States of America. I have been reading “The Constitutional Convention” by Michael P. Winship. It is an arrangement of notes that James Madison and others took during the convention. The author put the notes into a more readable form than the original. I recommend the book and I need to read more books on the subject because there is so much to learn.
I came away with some interesting impressions after reading through the notes. 1] I understand why Ben Franklin was so thankful that the document had been signed, because its creation was a very difficult process with many disagreements and compromises. It could easily have failed. One thing they feared was that there would be interference by foreign powers if the states did not stick together. 2] The representatives were so sure that they needed to hang together to survive that they were willing to compromise, even on the subject of slavery. It is truly amazing that we did not become two countries, but the need for the states to have the support and protection of each other was too great. Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania was really upset by the fact that the states which abhorred slavery would be called upon to support and defend the slave states at the same time that those very slave states would have greater representation in Congress because of slavery. 3]There was some doubt that the union would survive and still be in existence 150 years in the future. And yet, they spoke about future states in the “west”. 4] It amazed me that the main purpose of government was to safeguard property. Safeguarding our rights was not in the original document. It was voted down because they thought that these rights were guaranteed by the various states. With some delegates disagreeing with that idea, the first ten amendments were added during the ratification process.
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11.07.08
Posted in Main, Word for the Day at 10:12 am by Holder
Corn: a small hard seed or seedlike fruit, especially the seed of any cereal plant; kernel; in England, wheat; in Scotland and Ireland, oats; grain [Websters 1957]
Maize: a kind of grain that grows in kernels on large ears, also called Indian corn or just corn in the US, Canada, and Australia [Webster’s 1957]
Corn: The various cereal or farinaceous grains which grow in ears, and are used for food, as wheat, oats, rye, barley, maize [Webster’s 1879]
Farinaceous: Consisting or made of meal or flour; yielding farina or flour [Webster’s 1879]
Farina: The flour of any species of corn, or starchy root, such as the potato, etc. [Webster’s 1879]
Of course there is also corny humor and corns which grow on feet, not to mention corn liquor. And there is probably a good bit of all those types of corn in Wayne County, OH. But in this photo it is corn being transferred after harvesting into a truck near Wooster.
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11.06.08
Posted in Main at 11:39 am by Holder
Farming is still big in Wayne County OH. The Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute is in Wooster. We used to call it the Ag Station. This farming country is, “boys and girls”, where you get your food. That is until, at least, all food production also moves to China. I really think that the liberal university educators and students on the coasts with their snobbish attitudes, who just “fly over” the great land in the middle of our country and think that our opinions don’t matter, need to take a driving trip across the US of A so that their thinking can come back to reality. In fact, all college students should have to give one year before college working on a farm. It would do them good.
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11.05.08
Posted in Main at 10:46 am by Holder
Barak H. Obama, President Elect of the United States of America
This is a good thing when we look at our past and think of Martin Luther King and how he helped to keep the peace in a rough time of positive change. It has been a remarkable process of progress through a generation. The equal rights amendment was a positive change that was sorely needed in our country. And now we can look over those years and be happy with what has taken place this week in America.
Stay in the “center”, Mr. President, Elect, and if you’re left of there, please move over toward the right. Protect our right of free speech. Protect our right of gun ownership. Protect our Constitution and don’t look to change it in any fundamental way. It was written so that it safeguards the citizens from abuses of government but was not written to provide for their every need…..that is up to the people themselves if they are healthy and can work. People getting something for nothing will weaken, and in my opinion, has weakened our country. Promote the ideals of education that teach reading, writing, mathematics, history, geography, the sciences and the arts; and teach children how to form their own opinions, not tell them what opinions to hold. Continue to promote the foundation of the family. Promote the ideal of legal immigration and protect our southern border because it will be your duty to provide for our defense.
I wish you the best because this is my country too.
Susie Holderfield
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11.04.08
Posted in Main at 8:41 am by Holder
Election day always brings back memories of Grandmother Walter who was involved in politics in Wayne County Ohio. Here is a photo of the Wayne County Courthouse in Wooster. One of my grandmother’s positions involved vote counting in the basement of this building. That was actual counting of votes on paper ballots with no machinery involved.
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11.03.08
Posted in Main, Word for the Day at 2:39 pm by Holder
“Progress” improvement, advance toward perfection or to a higher state
Sometimes progress hurts. Wooster, in Wayne County Ohio, is one of those old towns in which the buildings were built right next to one another, sharing walls in common. Walmart moved in and built at the north end of Wooster and then many new businesses followed. This resulted in the decline of downtown Wooster in spite of many efforts to keep it going. There are some buildings for sale and some that have had their fronts changed over the years. Recently the new wonderful library was built in the downtown area and there are hopes that will help to anchor some businesses to that area. So far I don’t see that happening. On our recent visit we noticed that the only department store in the downtown was closing. This is very sad to me because I see a lovely little downtown area disappearing.
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10.26.08
Posted in Main, Word for the Day at 12:56 pm by Holder
Censor: to examine literature, motion pictures, [news], etc to remove or prohibit anything considered unsuitable
Ok, I have held back on this rant just as long as I could. But now is the time to speak out. The Democrats/the Left for years were the only ones heard from on issues and elections. Then the silent Republicans/Conservatives finally began to speak up. When they did, the Left was outraged that we should have our voices heard. They want us to shut up and not ask hard questions of their candidates and not question the people with whom they have associated that may have affected their way of thinking. Or was it that the Candidate of the Left has sought out those with whom he agreed and now we are questioning those associations. Well, guess what… We won’t shut up and we will continue to ask the hard questions. What was Senator Biden so incensed about in Florida? Were the questions too difficult for you, Joe? Are you so used to a pandering leftist media asking you easy, fluff questions that you are just overwhemed by the “guts” of someone who asks you tough questions that point out your true politics? You acted as though that news interviewer didn’t have the right to ask you those questions. If the everyday average person dares to ask a question you don’t like, the Left proceeds to try to destroy their reputation and shut them up. Guess what, we have the right to ask candidates questions that WE think are important. And they are not questions about their wardrobe, or their glasses. They are questions about issues, political beliefs, and character!
And here I sit, in Ohio, wondering if my vote will be cancelled out by some moron who came to Ohio from another state to vote for the Leftist Candidate. That is called voting FRAUD! And the Democratic government of Ohio doesn’t have the guts to prosecute the offenders.
Peace and Love,
Holder
Have Courage!
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10.20.08
Posted in Main, Computer Art at 6:37 pm by Holder
Great sticker for sale at Zazzle for the Christmas season.
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10.06.08
Posted in Main at 6:39 pm by lee1990
Note I did not say “alpha males”. The alpha male has a well deserved bad reputation. From the jihadists we fight now, to the Einsatzgruppen of the SS and the marauding armies of Imperial Japan, the uncontrolled alpha male has been the bane of humanity for most of it’s history. The alpha male is something that all men are naturally born as: brutal, lustful, savage and uncontrolled.
However, the revulsion for this creature that has become prevalent in the rational, civilized world has been carried too far and may be its undoing, as suggested by Lee Harris in his excellent book The Suicide of Reason. The need to control the alpha male has resulted in a hideous attempt to exterminate masculinity and feminize society, which leaves us at a great disadvantage in the struggle with our barbarous enemy. John Wayne and Lee Marvin would wipe the floor with the hairless, chinless pretty boys that are now passed off a leading men and examples for our youth.
What we need to do is to begin once again to create the Alpha Men that America in particular used to be good at producing. The alpha man is a matured alpha male. Our country now is polarized largely between grown but immature alpha males (largely in jails and inner city slums) and liberal, emasculated, pencil-necked pretty boys (mostly in New York and LA) who are in the process of civilizing us to death. We must again produce alpha men who have been taught to express their masculinity in constructive ways and have been taught the moral clarity, duty of protection, self-restraint, self sacrifice, and proper direction of aggression (rather than total suppression) that transforms the alpha male which destroys civilization into to alpha man who protects and preserves it.
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