Saturday, May 14, 2005

YOU have to start somewhere, YOU have to start sometime!

Greeting and Salutations,
I just wanted my first blog to be short and to the point. It is going to be a little bit about me and a small agenda (a non exhausted list) of what I will be writing about over time. Finally, what I expect out of my readers. With that said here goes...

As you may have guessed, I am an American. I feel blessed that I was born in this country. (side note (sn): the last statistic I heard is you only about a 3% chance of being lucky enough to be born in America) I believe in JFK's words of wisdom when he uttered "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." I believe we live in the greatest country in the world. I believe that it is a privilege to live in this country NOT a right! I believe that if everyone held those last two statement close to their hearts and taught their kids the same we would be an even greater nation. When my wife and I bought our house, one of the first "landscaping" jobs we did was to raise our beautiful flag. I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics and in philosophy. (sn: Philosophy is not all just about Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, it also has a lot to do with logic. How arguments can be constructed and easily riped apart, truth tables and truth trees etc...)

But if you will come back from time to time, or you can be alerted via email when I post a new blog I am going to discuss the following topics.
About Me (This is one of my favorite topics, as I am usually right)
Then I will start off light with some fluff:

  • Celebrating America
  • Celebrating Mans best friend: Dogs

I will move to some more robust discussions:

  • The American Flag -- Whether or not we should have a law to protect it.
  • Abortion
  • MinuteMan Project (Illegal Immigration)
  • The Pledge of Allegiance
  • Senator Zell Miller
  • Voting


Now for your part. Sure you could just read and grin, but I want more. I want discussions, facts, intellectual stimulation. If I am wrong, tell me why and how I am wrong. If you agree, share you thoughts. But the most important thing I want you to do is whether you agree or disagree CALL YOUR CONGRESSMEN!! Almost all day I listen to talk radio, (mostly slanted to the right) all the hosts no matter who they are, all get fired up, red hot about some political topic then move to commercial or to another topic. This really makes me agry. They have this huge audience and they never put them to work. They never call them to action. Maybe they know something I don't. Maybe they know what I am about to ask you will never happen. But what I want is for America to join back together and take back our country. I want you to be engaged enough to email, fax, write or call your congressmen up and let them know what you're thinking and that you are a voting AMERICAN! I want you and I to be part of a the largest "lobbist" group in America. This may be just a utopia or a mirage, but you have to start somewhere, you have to start sometime!

3 Comments:

Blogger Larry said...

Dougie, I am lookin forward to seeing what you got. Most of the blogs I read are from people far more liberal then yourself so it will be a huge change of pace to see what you have got to say.

That being said I will be posting a link to your blog in the near future(when I get back from Philly and have highspeed internet cause this dial up crap is killin me). Hopefully some of the bloggers I read will come over, because, if nobody takes it too personally I think there is potential for quite a bit of spirited converstions here.

Sat May 14, 08:00:00 PM CDT  
Blogger Kristi said...

I posted a link to your blog on mine: http://openseas.blogspot.com.

Mon May 16, 05:15:00 PM CDT  
Blogger Larry said...

jeez are you ever gonna update this thing

Wed May 25, 10:52:00 PM CDT  

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