Friday, September 16, 2005

Freakin' Friday, Y'all

Finally the long anticipated end of the week. Yessss...

Hubby and boy going away for the weekend on an Order of the Arrow campout for Scouts. Do you know what that is? Me neither. It is an honor, tho, in the scouting world to be elected to Order of the Arrow by your fellow scouts in the troop. Hubby was elected as he is a co-scoutmaster. They incorporate Indian folklore into this campout and it is to be more primative than usual. I guess I'll get the blow by blow when they return Sunday afternoon. Running around the house this morning making sure the jeans and heavy socks for hiking boots are clean to pack.

Enjoyed watching the Presidential address last night. Nice backdrop for the speech. He said all the right things and now the region will have a chance with real changes made. The Gulf enterprise zone will be a boom for small business and incentive for larger companies to go there. So many things must change in the area, particularly in New Orleans and outlying areas and I hope all involved will take the opportunity to make it happen. It can be a whole new, renovated area without the old "let the government take care of me" attitude. The poor must learn to be self sufficient instead of trapped in the old ways. Education and job skills will make it so. Decent housing and pride in your neighborhood will go a long way for self-respect.

The Roberts hearings are finished and the continuing theme was the class and intelligence of John Roberts. The shrill and bogus Democrats on the judicial committee were exposed for the nation to see just how the democrats have become of so little importance. As long as the party allows the far left moonbat wing dictate to the politicians, they will not be taken seriously by thinking people. Can you imagine what the reaction would have been if a Republican had asked Roberts how a practicing Catholic could be a fair judge instead of Diane Fienstein? This is an outrageous question and shows ignorance, intolerance and bigotry. I know she isn't a lawyer but you would think her staff would have written more intelligent questions for her to ask. The best moment was when Orrin Hatch, from Utah, asked the token feminist on the panel of people speaking for or against Roberts if her group had EVER supported a Republican president's nominee. No, she said, I don't think we have. Oh, ok... The old days of rising above partisan politics and voting on someone for his or her qualifications doesn't matter anymore if you just don't like his political philosophy. I doubt any democrat on the committee will vote for Roberts. Maybe they should take to heart that Ginsberg and Breyer were voted almost unamimously onto the court. They won't but they should.

More ranting later. I'm off to have my hair done.

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