Monday, August 15, 2005
About Me
- Name: Snave
- Location: La Grande, Oregon, United States
I am a native eastern Oregonian, and have lived here 50 of my 62 years. I left at 20, but was back by age 32 to be near my parents to help them in times of need. I don't fit in politically here because I view things from a decidedly left wing perspective... but that's o.k. because I love the people, I love the area and for the most part I like living here. I enjoy family time, listening to music, reading books, traveling, bird watching, hiking, backpacking, watching movies, keeping up on politics, watching sports, sitting at the computer so much I get sores on my ass, and playing music... if you need a band for your party or celebration, let me know; I play keyboards and sing for a rock and roll band, and we do mostly "classic rock". (I also like to play guitar and bass and other instruments, but those are for my private enjoyment only!) I am mainly an agnostic/skeptic, but would consider myself spiritual. I work in schools and in clinical settings as a speech/language therapist. It is enjoyable work and it pays some of the bills. I have a rather unpredictable sense of humor, which can get me in trouble at times, but hey, is life worth living without laughter? I think not!
3 Comments:
One of the few nice things about no longer being on earth is... that I am no longer on the same planet as George W. Bush.
Personally, I'd be far happier if the United States didn't have a Senator who is a former recruiter for and member of the KKK. He excused it by saying that he was young and didn't know what they were all about. He's from West Virginia, joined them when he was living in Virginia, and claimed that he didn't know what they were about. He was born only a very few years before my grandfather, and he was in the South, and he didn't know what they stood for when they had been in existence since the early 1870s and were responsible for quite a bit already by that point. In short, bullshit. My grandfather knew enough about them to steer well clear of them, and he was a white man from Alabama. And now he claims to be interested in minority rights, while dropping the n-word in public as recently as 2001. That is one of the most offensive things I have ever heard. Where is the outrage of the Democrats against Senator Robert Byrd? If he were a Republican, he would've been long gone as happened with Trent Lott, who had done and said far less to offend. Fucking hypocrites.
MC, see my comments aboaut Byrd in the comments section of the "Fun With Dubya" post. I'm not a huge fan of Byrd either... I don't consider myself a hucking fypocrite in that regard (trying to keep this blog semi-family-friendly here!) At least not like some folks on the other side of the fence who support Bill Bennett, Newt Gingrich and Henry Hyde regardless of their "indiscretions". As you have correctly pointed out in the past, nobody really seems to be on the up-and-up in our national political scene.
I think some people are resigned to the fact that few if any politicians are honest, and are therefore content to stick with their party based on what it purports to believe according to the platform. Unless I felt that way, I would probably be voting for nobody in presidential elections.
I can't speak for you, Donald, as to how you feel about Byrd or if you care at this point, but I think that not living on the same planet as Bush might have its disadvantages. I don't think you are a hucking fypocrite just because you don't like Bush. I don't like Bush either.
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