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Archive for November 17th, 2007

The San Francisco Chronicle should be ashamed to have a writer on their staff who produces an article entitled “Bush Death Watch: Countdown”.

This gentleman, (ahem), is well within his right to speak or write whatever he chooses. However, there was a time that a headline such as the one above would have drawn harsh criticism from not only a paper’s editorial staff but other journalists. That very well may have led to the piece being shelved. Not so today, as a matter of fact this behavior is championed by many.

Just look at the list at Texas Rainmaker (who also receives the HT for the above link), of those who have wished our President dead or that harm in some form would come to him.

The liberals just never seem to get enough when it comes to fantasizing about the death of the President of the United States. Whether it’s a liberal protestor fantasizing about murdering him or a political candidate favoring the death penalty for him or artists memorializing assassination in print or entrepreneurs trying to sell merchandise endorsing his assassination or the latest example… right from one of our own American newspapers, the San Francisco Chronicle:

I too am ready for this President to retire to Texas, but for none of the same reasons these individuals cite. I want a decent man and his family to finally have the peace they so deserve after almost eight years of venom and disgusting displays of immaturity and disrespect.

It would do us all well to remember one thing about this man and his so despised (in many corners) administration. It has been a little better than six years since those towers collapsed in NYC and you and yours have remained safe since. That, in my humble opinion, is no accident.

If that in and of itself does not deserve a little credit, then I do not know what does. But then again, these days when it comes to politics in this country, I really don’t understand much.

A few days ago, I wrote that I was swearing off anything but feel good stories, at least until after the Thanksgiving holiday, but this was one which I could not in good faith allow to pass.

We really need to stop it. We need to put an end to the hatred toward each other over idelogy, or nothing, and I mean nothing good will come of it.

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The NYT did themselves proud by allowing this sixteen year old young man to tell his story of adoption, rebellion and love without editorial correction.

I’d bet there are many young people his age who have many of the same feelings…I think I did and know my own children did.

I hope you enjoy reading his story.

Maybe not all adoptive parents are great, but mine are — pretty much. More than anything else, I love to play music and my parents support me in that all the way. I have an older brother and sister. My mom calls them “home-mades” because she and my dad are their birth parents. I am the “gourmet take-out,” in her words. When people ask if she is my “real mother,” she asks, “What do I look like, a hologram?” I just don’t like it when my parents make me study and I get grounded for not doing what I am supposed to. But I guess that’s what parents who care do. Anyhow, that’s what they tell me.

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For those who look to purchase a live tree each year for Christmas, you may want to have a look at this video.

Certain areas of the country will be facing shortages this year due to several different conditions and it would be a shame, if you are looking to locate a great tree, to wait too long and find supplies very limited.

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