The Median Sib

OK, so this is a political rant. I promise it’ll be the last one for awhile. I’ll get this out of my system and go back to posting happier and funnier topics.

I’ve posted several times my feelings about the press and democrats and how they’re relentlessly backstabbing the United States, putting our soldiers in danger and encouraging the terrorists with their self-interested shenanigans and rewriting of history. In surfing the net tonight I found other posts that I thought were particularly good. First of all is Blame Bush - a great blog that is hilarious in pointing out the absurdity of the left. Baldilocks had a new post that referred to the Drudge Report. Suitable For Mixed Company compared what’s going on to Animal Farm - a book I need to re-read. The posts I mentioned from The Median Sib are: November 15th, November 14th, November 3rd, and September 26th. Read some of these and get angry. Maybe rational and patriotic Americans are finally beginning to see how duplicitous the left is and how insidious the press is. I think once upon a time the Democratic party was about the people. That was a long time ago. Now they are blatantly self-serving and don’t care what they do or who they hurt in their drive for political gain. The problem is that too many people who have always been democrats have blind loyalty to the party and can’t (or won’t) see the lies behind the rhetoric. Hopefully it’s not too late to save America.

I guess I brought it on myself. For the past few years I’ve done much of my Christmas shopping online. It’s quick and easy, and I loved not having to get out in the suffocating crowds and long lines at the mall. There is a penalty for shopping online, though, and that penalty is catalogs. Every day for the past few weeks, I have received catalogs from all those online stores along with every store remotely associated with those stores — L.L. Bean, Lands End, Herrington, Victoria’s Secret, Puritan’s Pride, Miles Kimball, Barnes and Noble, Gevalia, E-Toys, Pfaltzgraff, Coward’s…and the list goes on. L.L. Bean, in particular, sends out at least a couple catalogs each week - the Christmas catalog, the menswear catalog, the womens wear catalog, the children’s catalog, the outdoor adventure catalog, another Christmas catalog…and that list goes on, too.

I remember when I took a computer course at Vanderbilt about 12 years ago, the professor told us that the time was fast approaching when people would do their shopping online. I listened to him describe how that would happen, and I thought it was absurd. Why would someone buy anything they couldn’t actually see and touch? I was wrong. It didn’t take long for it to happen.

It just seems incongruous that when I buy things online, it results in my receiving dozens of catalogs in the mail.

My LilSis sent me the following quote which goes along with the one above which I had already planned for today’s QOTD. I think these two quotes are so pertinent to what’s going on in the United States today.