A Quick Rant

It has been some time since I have conveyed my opinions here. With that being said, I’ll keep it brief.

It is estimated that, due to the ice storms the country suffered earlier this week, some 300,000 in Arkansas alone are, or have been, without power. Where are the calls for immediate government assistance? Where are the calls for the national guard to come in and keep out looters? I talked to one fellow who stayed at his business all night last night with a loaded .38 by his side, lest anyone should try to break in due to the powerless alarm system. (Of course, no one tried). If this were occurring in a liberal mecca (ahem, New Orleans, or Nawlans as folks from south LA say it) there would be constant cries of despair and complaints that the government is not doing enough.

But not in Arkansas. These people for the most part are self-made men and women; they didn’t get what they have from the backs of taxpayers. And that’s why you don’t hear them complaining much. Instead of complaining, they get to work and do something about it. That’s how they got to where they are today. That’s how we all should strive to be.

Many great men have been quoted upon this blog from time to time: names such as Ronald Reagan, Aristotle, Friedrich Hayek, and others too numerous to mention.* But perhaps the greatest quote to remember is from an ol’ boy born outside of Shreveport and raised in Alabama.

Hank Williams Jr. once said “A country boy can survive”. Don’t forget that, because it’s true. The fine folks of northern Arkansas are demonstrating it right now in fine fashion.

*I do not know for a fact that all of these people have been quoted, it just sounded like a good respectable list of persons.

Out of Touch

One of my fellow bloggers was on my tail to make a post on here, seeing as I have not done so yet. I don’t really have a lot of time to do so right now, but I would like to make one quick observation.

Democrats never cease to amaze me. 2008 should be such an easy election for them. With Bush’s approval ratings so low, and many having been convinced by a left-wing media that Bush is responsible for everything from high gas prices to fat children to high numbers of stray cats in the inner-city, if the Democrats had a level-headed individual in their leadership they should take this election by a huge margin. But being the numbskulls that they are, they are going to mess around and lose it.

The nomination of a Marxist like Obama, who is mainly worried about what Europe thinks about us, and how the ever-growing government can keep us in small cars or buses in the name of some “global warming” mess, that I suppose Bush caused as well, is going to get the Democrats beat yet again, just like 2000 and 2004. This just truly demonstrates how out of touch they are with the common American.

If there’s any Democrats reading this, here’s some advice: Make it your goal to WIN the war on terror (yes, WIN, the public does not like military defeats), vow to lower gas prices by drilling here (people like their pickups and SUVs), and for goodness sakes, scrap this “global warming” nonsense, I don’t know of any rational person who actually is buying it anyway. All of these things are possible, and you know it.

There’s a few words of wisdom from myself. Hopefully that should do it for me on the blog-posts for a couple more weeks.

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