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Simple

Almost everyone who knows me, whether in "real" life or on Facebook (or elsewhere) knows how I lean politically. I don't rant and rave about it and never will -- I tune out when people start using insults and name-calling as a substitute for intelligence. I don't understand how so many people demand that their viewpoints be tolerated and respected while not bothering to extend the same to others. Many, many times I let my opinions fall to the wayside because it's not worth it to me to hurt another person's feelings over what is important to them, no matter how much I might disagree with it. But, for the record, in case you didn't know, I am a conservative, capitalist, constitution-loving Christian. Today, though, I just want to say one thing and this is it -- I believe that all people who love each other should be together -- and that includes being married. In a complicated world, this is just that simple to me.

2013 Reading List

Another year, another reading list...

The Very Thought of You
The House at Tyneford 
Year of Wonders

The Other Eden
The Owl Killers 
Surrender 
The King's Grace 
Three Maids For A Crown 
The Unseen
The Shadowy Horses 
The Innocent 
The Exiled 
The Uncrowned Queen

God Help Us

Disappointed this morning...but life goes on and God is in control...but I'm afraid the road to ruin just got a little shorter and narrower...my generation will be okay...the one after not so much...but who I really worry for is my grandson (and grandchildren yet to come). Our freedoms are being taken from us and replaced with constraints...and, eventually, people won't remember how it used to be...and, before long, saying the name of God or Jesus (but probably not Allah) will be banned entirely from any public discourse...we have become the entitlement generation(s)...why work if the government will pay you to sit on your ass? And, for the people who do work their asses off, why work harder if the government is just going to take more and more? I don't think most of this country even knew about the horror of Benghazi...four Americans died and we were lied to about it all...our military will become weaker and weaker...and our bed bigger because we have to make room for Iran to be in it with us...and Israel, oh, Israel...I am so, so sorry... 

Drivel

I will never understand, no matter where you stand on the political spectrum, why this is okay with some people -- and why there is so much silence -- especially from women's groups who ought to come out swinging no matter who -- liberal or conservative -- is on the receiving end of such an attack. Any discussion of a "war on women" (which, in full disclosure, I've never experienced) should also include this type of discourteous, disrespectful drivel.

 

 

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/380616/20120904/jason-biggs-paul-ryan-janna-twitter-misogynistic.htm 

Enough

I'm pretty well sick of this but...I love Chick-Fil-A...I also love another local restaurant which is run by people who are not of my same faith and who have differing ideas and opinions. I guess, since they hold even stronger beliefs against same-sex marriage, they ought to be boycotted, too? Right? Wouldn't that be the politically correct thing to do?

Personally, I really don't have an issue with anybody getting married, as long as it's between consenting adults -- I think we have a lot bigger problems in our country than who marries who -- but I will defend Dan Cathy's (or anyone's) right to state his beliefs, especially as it has nothing to do with whom Chick-Fil-A hires or serves.

What you believe is up to you so if you don't like what he had to say, then go somewhere else. Easy as lemon pie.

And more chicken for me.

And, don't forget that each Chick-Fil-A restaurant is operated by an individual who is trying to make a living. So, boycott all you want but just remember who you might actually be hurting.