NEW BLOG

I think I'm going to have two blogs. This one will appeal to my need to spout off about political & social issues-serious-and the other will appeal to my silly, whimsical, right-brained nature. I think I like this idea!

DOES AMERICA REALLY WANT THIS?

Taken from House Republican Leader John Boehner's blog (gopleader.gov/blog/):
House Republicans, led by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) and House Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee (JEC), July 15th outlined a chart detailing the bureaucratic nightmare of the House Democrats’ $1.5 trillion health care plan that relies on massive tax hikes on small businesses and job creators in the midst of a deepening economic recession - and will cause as many as 114 million Americans to lose their current coverage to boot.

After seeing these quotes in an article I read this afternoon, I HAVE to read this book! “The rise of Idiot America ... is essentially a war on expertise ... In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert.” — Charles P. Pierce, from “Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free”

Charles P. Pierce calls the “Three Great Premises” of America’s decayed TV celebrity culture. First, “Any theory is valid if it moves units,” i..e. sells advertising. Second, “Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough.” Third, “Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is measured by how fervently they believe it.”

UNION JACK-ED UP!

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it." ~Benjamin Franklin