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They Play The Fiddle While A City Burns
Last night on the Ed Show I was introduced to a story about a city in our nation that is in crisis. The city is Detroit and apparently for the last year Detroit has become literally a warzone. There...
View ArticleInto the mind of a conservative today
So this momentous day has come and having now been partially passed, I felt compelled to share something. Especially so having had a conversation with my faux news watching mother. After having this...
View ArticleShe got another hour at least
I'm writing this diary nearing the end of what has been a tiring week. To be fair to the parties involved I am not even directly involved in the events to cause the weariness, I am but a side causality...
View ArticleIt's Such a Dirty Word
So there I found myself, maybe thirty minutes ago....Okay maybe not exactly thirty minutes ago.I had to write and then edit this diary immediately as I got home, and that included requisite break time,...
View ArticleGet Ready For A Wild Ride
Its no secret anymore to most folks, we're in the midst of record breaking temperatures and drought conditions. The county I live in right now in Indiana just had a state of emergency declared, along...
View ArticleSo I Finally Mustered the Willpower
...to sit through church.I did so at my wife's request and honestly, I'll be frank here, it really didn't take that much will power. My father in law had request that everyone be there for Sunday lunch...
View ArticleFun At The Movies : American History X
As it seems I've been lax on this diary series and let it go just a wee bit to far. So many movies with so many points of view its difficult to point them all out. Just so many great movies with so...
View ArticleLets Get Something Straight
I am slow sometimes, I often miss stories or overlook them. I blame those nagging things like, I don't know, work family and responsibilities that keep my attention away from what goes on in the world...
View ArticleOn The Road to See Death
For those that might follow me, or those that might have read my previous diary regarding my parents its pretty obvious which line my parents have fallen.I don't hold them to task for it, I think...
View ArticleHow One Humbles Themself
I recently shared a story with my parents, one I kept close to my chest. I kept this close to my chest mostly because up until recently I really never felt necessary to tell them. I hadn't even shared...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Lie
I'm a huge fan of the series called Lie To Me.The basic premise is a man who can read ones body language and then read their true actions or intentions based on said language. I honestly was hooked...
View ArticleThe Digital Cold War
I preface this diary stating that I myself am a systems administrator. What that means for your lay folk not intrenched into the details of the IT world is that I am the keeper of the rainbow bridge...
View ArticleWhy I Vote Democratic - It's a Girl!
Well not yet anyway, those that follow me know I'm having a baby soon. We thought perhaps yesterday but alas...false alarm. Darn you mother nature!...anyway I've seen a lot of diaries about why folks...
View ArticleIts Personal Now
I've had a moment of an epiphany recently. Such things come with great upheaval in ones life. They come when moments of reality come bearing down on you like a freight train. Now this freight train is...
View ArticleKill The Root Before it Takes
It was a typical day, well semi typical in that my wife had still yet to come home with our brand new daughter. Both are doing well in case anyone is curious, little one is sleeping and eating well and...
View ArticleElections Matter, State Edition: Where Judges Comes From
hungrycoyote has a good write up regarding the The 1965 Charles Cotner Case, and it provides a great brief into the case and some good details. What I would like to focus on in this diary is the...
View ArticleYeah, I'm on Food Stamps...What of it?
I really really need to keep my mouth shut more often, but there comes a time when you hear something so idiotic and slack jawed that one must say something. I like to call those my Lewis Black...
View ArticleThe Fight of our Lives
Tonight marks the starting line. Sure we've seen the race coming, we've seen who we're running against but honestly tonight is game night. With the kick off of the DNC we've heard the gun shot in the...
View ArticleYou're gonna eat lightnin' and you're gonna crap thunder!
This diary is in response to one on the wrecking list right now titled We are going to CRUSH them by DelilahFollowIts a good reminder of where we are in polling right now and where we are in the...
View ArticleIN-2 and the Senate - We can do this
I'd like to take a quick focus on two elections that are vastly important this year in both holding the line in the Senate and getting the gavel back into Pelosi's hands. That is the Indiana Senate...
View ArticleI've Paid Into It For 18 Years
So apparently I'm a victim. I am a victim because just recently I enrolled into the medicaid system. This medicaid system ensured that the birth of my daughter, an unplanned bonus, would not send my...
View ArticleLet's Not Get Cocky, Let's Get Fire Up
I'm a rabid hockey fan. I used to play the sport some years ago and I would like to relate to you a tale of a game I played, the results from said game, and finally how it relates to this election...
View ArticleDebating With Insanity
On Maddow last night something was said that got me thinking. In the first segment nearing the end of the interview she said and I'm not quoting but summarizing, that much of the moderates and the left...
View ArticleCut The Appendage Off
So it appears that with Obama's sizable lead in the polls, what many of us thought would come to pass?Is now coming to passMany of us predicted that as Mitt failed in his campaign, much of the donor...
View ArticleShame on you Jim Lehrer
Seriously I expected better. I hate doing short and sweets, I know many people here frown on said diaries but really? Seriously?I've seen better moderation at Occupy General Assemblies.I mean I've been...
View ArticleMinutes to Learn, Lifetime to Master
I got asked to do an introduction along with a teach and learn for a board game that I hold very fond memories of playing, strong enough that it keeps me playing it to this day. Even if it is a simple...
View ArticleIt Wasn't Me
Going over the litany of lies from Romney last night is for lack of a better term, exhausting. He literally has lied from the roof to the floor. I swear if I had the time I could write a thesis paper...
View ArticleI've Slain The Mythical Beast Today
What beast might I be speaking of? What giant of politics, what hugely insurmountable hill have I climbed, and traversed the crevasse to lay to waste a beast so sought out by both parties?I converted...
View ArticleReflections on the Cold War
I was born between generations, not quite child of the 80's but not quite Gen X and never really a Millennial either. I was born in 1980 and my immediate childhood I can remember a little, even at a...
View ArticleEvery Vote Counts
This diary goes out to those of you in red states, or states that tend to lean red sometimes.I live in Indiana, an at times unabashedly red state. We have however had our moments of sanity, like in...
View ArticleHows The Pie
Yes, yes today feels good. Hell today keeps getting better and better as the vote tallies come in. Today feels awesome.So to everyone who donated, called, knocked doors, and in general worked our asses...
View ArticleOne Occupiers View on This Election Cycle
I am going to try and keep this mostly short, those who read me know that...well I tend to get pretty damn wordy. I promise you I'll try not to go there.This diary is going to be a quick retelling of...
View ArticleWhat's Destroying America
I found it, I found the mythical thing that is destroying this nation and indeed even other nations. Its insidious and horrible, and threatens all our safety and is the most evil thing I have ever set...
View ArticleStaring Down The Barrel of a Gun
So those who might follow me, this is going to be a pretty short diary; or maybe long..idkI've had something recently happen that has me thinking that the odds are always in the house's favor,...
View ArticleGuns, what guns?
The title is the attitude that many who wade into the gun control argument have when discussing guns in their neighborhoods. Its the attitude and pervasive nature amongst primarily non urban middle...
View ArticleI Hugged Him A Little More Tonight
I'm still a little teary right now. I was so busy today at work that the first I heard of the terror wrecked upon small town America today was during a break in during my NPR's stations news update...
View ArticleWhere I Give Thanks To All You Tax Payers Tonight
Tonight is Christmas, and so many families across the nation are celebrating family. Huddling close together amongst the many presents and gifts that have been given today. Indeed my family's Christmas...
View ArticleWe Need That Protection
That's the phrase, well part of anyway, that was used in a recent conversation with someone over gun restriction and regulation. More specifically we were discussing the merits and needs of someone...
View ArticleWe're still arguing this, really?
I haven't written for awhile...in fact a long while. Life sorta took me on a roller coaster of fun. I mean it wasn't exactly fun, but we're not talking Mr Toad's wild ride either. In any event despite...
View ArticleFun at the movies - Frozen
I think I have literally watched this film more times than any parent should be subjected to. My 2 year old daughter adores it and constantly clamors for more of "Fro?" as she proclaims.In any event...
View ArticleOwning your green spaces, even in Suburbia
So a few weeks ago, there in my neighborhood I got to watch a house literally torn asunder with an excavator. It was a pretty crazy event to watch from my front window. A company named Indiana Recovery...
View ArticleA New Home For Me Professionally
Those that had followed me, might have seen me drop off the radar for a bit. This is because, I had a major life changing moment. You see, do to the attacks on the public sector and major budget...
View ArticleLet's Not Mince Words
I had planned to publish this last night, but I was late in coming home from a job site and combined with getting the kids together for the next day and what not, had just forgotten about it.The point...
View ArticleThe Acrid Smell of Gunpowder
Today is our nation's official birthday, though to be fair we as a nation have gone through several rebirths in our short history as a country. Many times I think we lack that perspective, that as a...
View ArticleTime to shut up or put up
I live in the second district of Indiana; an area represented currently by Jackie Walorski. Now I think that ultimately most people are decent and good, including our current representative, however...
View ArticleFun At The Movies - Mad Max Fury Road
It's been, well it's been years since I've written anything here. Life tends to get in the way of sharing and you just sort fall into a slow idle. One of my favorite things to do here was to share my...
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Fun At The Movies- Tomorrowland
I remember when Disney movies had genuinely terrifying moments but also a deep message to convey. I remember watching Disney movies that though they might have had a PG-13, PG or even G at times,...
View ArticleThe Dangers and Benefits of Populism
I want to first apologize. I haven’t written here….hell in years at this point. However after this election I think something needs to be put into perspective, and to some degree I need to get back...
View ArticleTake It Back
Many of us are angry. Many of us are sad. Some of us are in still a period of mourning. I would wager a good majority of us are still in wonder and amazement at what might transpire in the coming...
View ArticleOn Violence and Fascism
Let’s preface this by saying that I am...was..at this point I don't know.I wish I could be a pacifist?I haven’t blogged here in.. well lets check? Dang it, was just over a year ago. I think at that...
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