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Posted on 05.20.09 by Danny Glover @ 12:24 pm
My friend Melissa Clouthier, an expert on men if ever there were one among women, has captured thinks she has a grasp on the three stages of manhood:
I posted this comment in response:
As for the fourth stage, call me selfish, but I’d rather die before my wife because I can’t imagine living without her. Filed under: Family and Human Interest Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.19.09 by Danny Glover @ 11:11 am
We enrolled our oldest daughter in Girl Scouts for a couple of years but pulled her from it last year over various concerns with the organization, both locally and nationally. If we hadn’t made the decision then, we would have made it now. Here’s why:
Those developments are enough to make the Girl Scouts unwelcome in our home in any way, shape or form — including cookies. We won’t financially support a once-respectable organization that now seems intent on corrupting the hearts and minds of young girls with religious and political hogwash. We’re just going to say no to Girl Scout cookies and hope other parents will, too. P.S. Our son decided to leave his Bear Scouts pack last year, too, and we didn’t object. The pack leaders’ wishy-washy approach to religion was most disappointing. Filed under: Culture and Family and Religion Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.19.09 by Danny Glover @ 10:23 am
We don’t want our children being forced to endure politically correct lessons that equate moral opposition to homosexuality with “homophobia” — or being forced to endure any sex education in kindergarten. Heed the wisdom of Pundette over at Hot Air: “If parents are serious about passing their values on to their children, they might want to consider whether they’re undermining their own cause by sending them to public schools.” (Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.) Filed under: Religion and Why We Home-School Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.18.09 by Danny Glover @ 6:01 pm
Uncle Jay has a talent for putting seemingly complex topics into terms that even the simplest of children can understand. Now if only the simpletons in government would watch and learn. Uncle Jay’s analogy for the deficit: Imagine that you get a $5 allowance and then go buy “a complete home theater system with surround sound” … for everyone in your school … make that your entire congressional district. You’re now in so much debt that you’re great-great-grandchildren will have to pay it — and you’re qualified to serve in Congress! Filed under: Government and Just For Laughs and News & Politics and People and Video Comments: 2 Comments |
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Posted on 05.18.09 by Danny Glover @ 8:10 am
The misguided emotional message of this anti-gun advocacy ad misses it’s mark — you can’t “stop the bullets” or “kill the gun” as long as there are criminals in the world — but the slow-motion imagery of bullets exploding fruit, bottles and other products is something all gun-lovin’ rednecks can enjoy: Filed under: Advertising and Hunting & Guns and Video Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 05.17.09 by Danny Glover @ 4:34 pm
The federal government mailed up to 10,000 stimulus checks at $250 a pop to dead people last year. That’s potentially $2.5 million worth of bureaucratic stupidity — plus postage and the administrative time that will be required to fix the error for the honest folks who don’t try to find a way to cash the checks. We’ve known for years that dead people vote in some places. I suppose it’s only fair that they be subsidized for the hassle of coming forth from the grave to keep our incompetent government running. Filed under: Government and News & Politics and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.15.09 by Danny Glover @ 8:38 pm
You’d think a guy who covers sports for a living would know that and thus would know better than to single out one team as a bunch of “goobers” because they all are. Yet that’s exactly what Dan Shaughnessy of The Boston Globe did this week — just before his home team, the Boston Bruins, lost to those goobers from Carolina, the Hurricanes. Citing an alleged Hurricanes’ scoreboard boast before losing Game 6 at home that “we have won one Game 7 and we will win another, he wrote: “Swell. What a bunch of goobers. Imagine playing at your own rink and seeing a message that basically states that the game you are playing is already over.” Luke DeCock, a sports writer in Raleigh, N.C., took the slam personally on behalf of all of us rednecks and smacked down Shaughnessy:
The Hurricanes did one better and upset the top-seeded Bruins in Game 7. Carolina will be playing the Pittsburgh Penguins in the next round. Shaughnessy and the rest of uptight Boston can eat Goobers at the movies to pass the time instead. Filed under: Hatin' On Rednecks and Media and News & Politics and People and Sports Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.15.09 by Danny Glover @ 7:44 pm
That’s what Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., is in the eyes of fellow North Carolinian Mel Watt, a Democrat. But that’s OK because it’s better than being “an inflexible redneck kook.” You never know what you’re going to hear in the esteemed corridors of congressional power. Hat tip to The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room, which obviously needs a refresher spelling class on the difference between “cook” and “kook.” Who’s the redneck now? Filed under: Government and Just For Laughs and News & Politics and People and Rednecks and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.15.09 by Danny Glover @ 6:27 pm
Last month, I posted a video that put President Obama’s proposed budget in context by presenting it in video as a 1/4-cent budget cut from a pile of 10,000 pennies. The creator of that video is back with two more budgetary math lessons that real people can understand. The first examines Obama’s vow to cut $17 billion from the budget — a pittance of the $3.5 trillion he hopes to spend next year. The second video takes taxpayers on a national debt road trip through history to illustrate how relatively little progress we made under every president from 1900 through 2009 when compared with the fiscal journey Obama has planned through 2016. If the idea of driving halfway across the country at 174 miles per hour nonstop is your idea of fun, you’ll like the upcoming joy ride on the taxpayer dime. But you won’t enjoy being stuck in California when it’s over. Ironically, the Golden State isn’t so golden these days. It’s on the verge of bankruptcy and begging for a federal bailout. The road trip is posted on a new blog called Political Math. Bookmark that blog, all you rednecks in search of enlightenment. Or if you prefer Twitter, start following @PoliticalMath. Filed under: Government and News & Politics and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.15.09 by Danny Glover @ 5:27 pm
As a teenager, I loved most any music that was popular in the 1980s. I listened to a “Top 40″ radio station, which meant I heard everything from pop country and soft rock to heavy metal and rap. But punk rock is one genre that never appealed to me in the least. That explains why, until I got my latest “redneck” news feed, I had never heard of the band Green Day and its vile 2004 hit, “American Idiot.” The lyrics, too coarse for my linking tastes, hold the average Joe in contempt and decry the “redneck agenda.” Perhaps that’s where Barack Obama got his “bitter” inspiration — well, from there and Jeremiah Wright. “Punk” is an appropriate descriptor for a band that chose to make its mark by bashing a large swath of the population as “idiots” and “rednecks.” Filed under: Hatin' On Rednecks and Music and People Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 05.15.09 by Danny Glover @ 12:08 pm
This redneck recipe is likely to give the nannies at the Food and Drug Administration a heart attack: The hat tip goes to Michelle Malkin, who has been covering the FDA’s “Druggios” controversy this week. She tweeted the fried Cheerios recipe. Fried Cheerios don’t stand a chance in the Glover family, though. All of the grandkids prefer the cereal snack Mammaw makes. It has a fitting name — “white trash.” Fruit Loops and melted white chocolate are the key ingredients. Our kids would eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner — and between-meal snacks — if we let them, but it’s sugary rich for my middle-aged tastes. I can’t find the exact recipe Mammaw uses — my brother introduced her and all of us to it when he lived in Memphis — but here’s a recipe for white chocolate nuts and bolts that sounds similar. Filed under: Family and Food and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.14.09 by Danny Glover @ 11:29 pm
How President Obama is spending our money (and his):
The Republican National Committee tells the story in a political satire, whose production is mediocre at best but whose storyline packs a big and amusing punch. (Hat tip to my friend Ed Morrissey of Hot Air.) Filed under: Just For Laughs and News & Politics and Pets and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.13.09 by Danny Glover @ 5:36 pm
I read an article yesterday where one analyst suggested that at some point in the future, economists will look back and pinpoint April as the month that our recession ended. After hearing a report today about consumer spending in April, I’m thinking that analyst needs to change jobs.
If personal experience is a good economic indicator, our household shouldn’t be surprised by the news. We tightened our belts in January 2008 after my first layoff and again in December after a second layoff that threw our family for a financial loop. I had to replace a computer back in February so I could continue working from home occasionally in my new job, but other than that, we pay our bills and that’s about it. We don’t go to movies; we’re not taking road trips; and we rarely eat out, which has always been the biggest financial temptation for our family. We budget enough per month for a Costco pizza and one restaurant experience — but usually fast food. And when we get the bill, it strengthens our resolve to eat at home even more. In short, we have adjusted to a more frugal lifestyle, and we intend to keep it that way for a long time to come. Apparently so have most Americans. And that’s not a bad thing even if it means the economy takes longer to rebound. Our profligate ways got us into this mess, and returning to them is not the way to get us out. Filed under: Family and News & Politics Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.11.09 by Danny Glover @ 9:49 pm
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Posted on 05.11.09 by Danny Glover @ 9:42 pm
The specter of tobacco regulation hasn’t been a big news story in more than a decade thanks to a settlement between state attorney generals and the tobacco industry, and the subsequent election and re-election of a Republican president. But now that Democrats control the White House and Congress, their itching for another fight with America’s tobacco titans. Smoking killed my grandmother and has wreaked havoc on the health of my aunt and uncle, who didn’t learn enough from the suffering of their mother. Smoking also isn’t one of those bad habits that affects only the people who choose to pollute their lungs. The health impact of secondhand smoke is real. I know from childhood experience. Tobacco’s history in my family makes me friendly toward the idea of regulation despite my general animosity toward government interference in the marketplace. The “liberty” argument against such regulation isn’t the least bit persuasive to me, either. Remember, I’m an enlightened redneck. But my coverage of the great tobacco debate of the 1990s does make me a wee bit cynical about the new push to regulate the industry. I covered the infamous 1994 congressional hearings that featured sworn testimony of tobacco executives and the subsequent fallout. I read every tobacco-related book I could find, amassed a filing cabinet full of research and news clippings, and learned enough about the subject to ponder writing a book of my own. My takeaway after a half-decade of covering the story is that it’s a debate that will never end. I made that very point in an essay for The Day, a newspaper in Connecticut, after the 1998 settlement. The historical perspective seems timely now, so I’m reprinting the essay here. You can read it in the extended entry. Filed under: Business and Family and Government and Media and News & Politics and People Comments: None |
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