Individual Liberty — Individual Responsibility 

Short lived blogs - and other stuff

As I was browsing through random blogs on Blogshares today, I noticed a pattern. A lot of the "dead" blogs either have only one or two posts before they're abandoned, usually a "hello world this is my blog" post and an occasional followup. A lot of the other "dead" blogs start discussing the motivations for blogging. Then suddenly there's no more posts.

I don't think I want to talk about that anymore. I want to keep this blog active.

The Seattle Sonics retired Spencer Haywood's number 24 jersey last night. Now if only their dreams of a publicly funded stadium in Renton would be retired. Of course Haywood doesn't think that way. He said "Don't let the Sonics leave town" during his acceptance speech.

Why shouldn't we? They obviously don't have any loyalty to the area. It's all about the money for them, and for me. I don't watch basketball, but I do eat in restaurants. Why should I have to pay to build a stadium for a team I don't want?

A suspect has been named in the Darfur genocide. Apparently it's somebody pretty high up in the Sudanese government. Sudan immediately rejected the charges, and said they won't be handing over Ahmed Muhammed Harun or Ali Mohammed Ali Abd-al-Rahman.

The two men are charged with 51 counts of crimes against humanity and other war crimes. It seems to me that there should be a lot more people charged, but this is a start. Don't expect much to come of it though.

At least one Congressman is optimistic about our chances of victory in Iraq. Norm Dicks (D. WA) appears to be breaking ranks with the other Democrats in Congress. According ot the A.P. and the Tacoma News Tribune he said that the "surge" could work– if Iraqis believe in it and participate fully.

What's his biggest source of optimism? Gen. David Petraeus.

The left's sure to be disappointed about this one. Apparently a suicide bomber in Afghanistan missed his chance to kill our Vice President. Personally I'm glad he missed, but the left's sure to be upset.

I thought the Taliban was supposed to be a group of "Teachers" and "Students". Thank God they haven't learned how to aim.

John Edwards isn't satisfied with running for President. I think he wants to be the first President of the United States to surrender before being sworn in to office. Here we are, with more and more evidence that Iran is behind a lot of the violence in Iraq and "the Breck girl" wants to sign a non-aggression pact with Tehran.

Iran has sworn its enmity with the West, and with the U.S. and Israel in particular. Now this slip-and-fall lawyer with the carefully managed hairdo has said "I'm just not willing to say that" when he was asked whether the U.S. would not tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran.

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Or at least, nothing that passes for news these last couple of weeks. You won't find anything here about Anna Nichole Smith. I'm not posting about Al Gore's Oscar winning mockumentary. Nope, not in this post anyway.

I'm not going to tell you how sick and tired of the lies and hypocrisy of our Democratic leaders, not in this post. I'm not going to tell you about the latest rantings of the madmen in Iran.

You don't really want me to tell you yet again about digging tunnels in the mud and lining them with greenbacks. The multi-millionaires that want to live off of the public dole aren't going to be mentioned here.

Instead, I think I'll remember that despite all of the foolishness that goes on in the world these days, there's still good stuff that happens.

I came home after a relatively long day at work to a quiet evening at home with my family. Dinner was waiting for me, simple, but tasty (chili dogs with cheese and onions).

The dogs were happy to see me. Especially when I had a little bit left over for them to munch on. It was cold outside (34 degrees) but nice and toasty inside. The fireplace was cheery. The electricity was working. The cats were curled up on the couch sleeping.

There are lots of people that can't come home to that every night. A lot of them probably wish they could do it just once in a while.

I like to think that I work hard to earn the things that I have and the comforts I enjoy. I suppose without the work I wouldn't have them. But I remember too that the work isn't enough.

I've been truly blessed to live the life I live. I'm fortunate even to have been born. I didn't have to face the chance that a big spoon would come into my small wet, warm home and scoop me out before I even had my first chance to taste the air.

Any number of circumstances in my life could have gone differently. When I was young and very foolish, I could have found myself in jail, incarcerated with other young and foolish men, strung out and unaware of my surroundings until the nightmare struck home.

I could have had to pay the price for my mistakes in so many ways. I could have been killed or killed someone else in a drunken excursion down the highways after a particularly hedonistic outing following a long day at work in Florida.

None of those things happened though. I've been particularly blessed. I stumbled into my career after rebelling against my own talents. Now, I live a comfortable life, with many material blessings, as well as the blessing of a loving family.

Yes, despite the fact that I don't deserve it, God has been very good to me. I hope He's just as good to you.

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