Miss Piggy and Doc Holiday did not get to the pediatrician  today.  He was out doing calls and won’t be back until Thursday.  Doc is resting comfortably in a box on the table.  Piggy is still sneezing.  Redford is too thin.  I don’t like the way he looks.  Rumsfeld spent the day with his grandparents and is sleeping off a dinner that consisted of steak.  Here, he’s lucky to get a cat food treat!

I was going to feel guilty about blogging light today, but then I realized because I blog 7 days a week, I reserve the right to blog light one day of the week.  Today is that day, this week.  I left the condo around 10AM for Roswell.   Arrived back home around 9:30PM.  I have two pieces of good news.  First, we were able to salvage about 90% of the data on the hard drive that I needed.  Contrary to popular opinion, I DID NOT CAUSE the great crash of 2007.  It is in the hardware of this blasted HP notebook, not the software.

Don’t forget my Blog Critics piece on the idiocy of environmental madness.

Oh, goody-goody – a Pravda article about alien DNA!

Tony Snow is my very favorite media person.  I feel so bad about the news today.  Frankly, I am sick and tired of hearing about cancer attacking people I care for and someone needs to do something about it and come up with a cure! Same thing holds true for lupus and a few other diseases.

There is a big dust up right about homework, too much, too little, or the lack there-of.  In my personal experience I came from a school system where we did moderate amounts – or most people did.  My sister studied.  Me, I was one of those who took the easy way out and only took courses I could excel in without having to work.  I detested school and still have nightmares about it.  My Reidhead cousins, on the other hand, went to a system where they had a strict policy of no homework. If a teacher could not accomplish what they wanted during class, they certainly were not going to get their message across during the evening hours when kids needed to be with families.   Well, look at me.  My sister is a nurse.  My cousins who had no homework?

1 – high school graduate

2 -  top honors Yale – huge NYC job

3 -  masters – Cornel

4 -  masters – Cornel

5 -  MBA – minister – UVA

6 -  Ph. D.

Well, I think that says it, right?  The bunch with no homework have excelled.  They loved school and their studies.  We hated it.

Now they want to ban plastic bags in SF.  Don’t you just love environmental liberals.  PETA believes in murdering innocent animals to make them politically correct.  Now the SF libs are going to participate in the murder of innocent trees so they can eliminate the use of petro-chemicals in plastic bags.  You gotta love it.      And – Baby Knut is blamed for a baby panda’s murder.

TODAY’S RANT

 Brendan Minitar’s has an  Opinion Journal piece today about the GOP’s future.  Is the GOP still a national party.  I seem to remember the same thing being said about the Dems maybe…say 2 years ago. They are back, allegedly strong as they skate along on very thin ice.   The greatest problem the GOP faces is the self-absorbed conservative syndrome.  Today’s far right conservative is so narcissistic in his/her political leanings he/she are able to only see their own version of the way things ought to be.  The problem is the fact that the GOP is a big tent with several basic ideals that bind us all together:  Individual rights, lowering taxes, national security and supporting our military.  But, when the self-absorbed conservative thinks individual rights, he/she is thinking only of him/herself and not considering the individual rights of others within the GOP.

Today I had the very good fortune to re-connect with a friend I’ve not seen in at least five years.  We discussed the changes in our lives, hers more than mine.  I asked, “You’re not liberal, are you?” She replied, “I’ve become more moderate.”  “So, have I,” I commented, then we both agreed today’s far right conservative is so off the mark of what Ronald Reagan was that they are causing serious problems for the party.  

I welcomed this discussion because it confirmed my own thoughts and fears.  My friend has a very impressive GOP pedigree.  She has spent much of her life in the GOP as have I and has noted the distressing changed that the average person within the party does not agree with.  After we both confirmed our support of Giuliani, she expressed a feeling that Republicans who have the same ‘leanings’ are going to stand up and take back the GOP.  I truly hope so. 

There are wonderful, good, decent moderately conservative people within the GOP who were once considered stalwart conservatives.  Today we are considered “moderate”.  Some conservative pundits and talk show hosts feel that word is so vile they almost spit on it. We are the backbone of the Republican Party.  We don’t bail and threaten not to vote.  Stalwarts of a political party stand up and, as my RNC friend says, “Vote for the Elephant!”

Even more dismaying is this new vogue for “Political Purity”.  When did this become the status quo?  No one is going to be everything to everyone.  If so, then we have a cult going on with some sort of charismatic leader who can literally brain-wash with a speech.    Sorry, I don’t want that kind or conservative purity. If you do, I think you need to do some very serious soul searching.  I never did play follow the leader.  I hope, as a true Republican, you won’t either.