This was the original post put up on this blog. Since some changes have been made I am reposting the purpose statement with the update included.

This is the first post for J’s Cafe Nette .

The intent of this blog is to talk about current events, which will naturally involve talking about politics.

We will have a conservative Republican (me) and a liberal Democrat (a user name as yet to be chosen) along with a very fair-minded conservative Republican, Sue.

The intent is to have debate without fights on this blog. We want you to feel at home here and understand some debates will get strong, but we don’t want it to get into a name-calling contest.

We will refer to elected officials by their real names or title and last name. We may refer to them by their last name only, but we will not be using common slurs for any of our elected officials.

It is my hope that conservatives as well as liberals and those in between can come together and find some common ground.

Just as I don’t believe all Republicans are good I don’t believe all Democrats are bad. If our elected officials in Washington cannot act as the adults they are supposed to be, then let us show them how it is done on the grassroots level.

There will be no swearing of any kind on this site and there will be no dirty jokes or postings of photos that make someone look unflattering.

I will also be mixing in some posts having to do with faith and invite you to join in those discussions as well.

I had a blog that was strictly a faith blog and abandoned it because I was too heavily involved with a strictly political blog. I found I wasn’t happy with talking about just politics and circumstances arose that made my exit happen.

As more posts get added, I pray the items you now see at the bottom of this post will move to the sidebar where they are supposed to be.

I wish to thank kimsch of Musing Minds and Schratwieser Consulting for doing such an excellent job of getting this blog set up.

With that I bid you a very warm welcome to J’s Cafe Nette.

Update 9/14/07 Although we started out with good intentions in March, hoping to show Republicans and Democrats could reach some sort of consensus to make our country better by working together, it just didn’t work out.

We found ourselves bickering and throwing political jabs at one another, so I decided the best solution would be to get our one Democratic blogger his own blog, which is under the umbrella of this blog.

Guss at Guss’ Coffee House has his own blog to address issues of interest to Democrats/liberals.

Although it is under the umbrella of this blog, it is totally written and managed by Guss, and I have nothing to do with the writing on that blog. My only role over there is to help him with coding issues he may have.

Our goal is still to present both sides of the story, but to do it on separate sites.