I am a long time lurker, infrequent poster. I have one item on the rec list.
Tonight I have two items. I got a invite on Facebook to join a "group of like minded individuals", but I didn't say what kind of like minded. So I go to this guy's Facebook page and he says that he is a Master Chief Petty Officer in the Navy (Obviously), and that makes him a no BS kinda guy. I think that is great, I come from a military family. But he also says that he is a Conservative Christian.
More on the flip.
So I decide to respond to him and I send him this:
We do have in common wanting to have a better America, but we differ on the method. I wait with baited breath for Al Franken to enter the Senate, Norm Coleman is a putz. I salute your service, I come from a military family, grandfather (With Pershing against Pancho Villa), father (USS Missouri, WWII), Brother (Army), and Sister, Marines (South Korea). I am very liberal and think President Obama (Our Commander in Chief), is a great move in the left direction, he will stabilize the USA again after the unmitigated disaster of GWB. He will help the military stabilize and work to provide the service to veterans that Bush failed on. But I think he isn't quite far enough to the left. I would be happier with Dennis Kucinich. Your are a Christian, and I am a Mormon. That makes me a Christian too, but you probably won't accept that. I generally feel that the Christian Right is what is royally screwing up America. I feel that the powers behind this movement are at a basis anti democratic and want a theocracy here, two ideologies that are incompatible.
If you like jazz, blues, Springsteen and Vermeer, then we have something going. If you think Rumsfeld and Rove are without sin, then not so much. If you think families are the basis of American life, I'm on board. If you think gay couples don't qualify as families, we disagree.
If you like a clean environment, great. If you think the Republican party is still the cat's meow, then how far they, and you, have fallen...
On to subject two.
We are have a debate at work about gun control. The guys on the C shift at my station Put up a poster of Hitler, Mao, Stalin, and Kadaffi. and then added a picture of Obama to the list. Then they proceeded to intimate a lot of crap to Obama and made him out as the inheritor of both Fascist and Communist Ideology and about to put all the gun owners in jail and ready to tas guns and ammo out of existence. I have tried to find out what the big O is planning regarding gun control, but haven"t found anything concrete. Please help and suggest references to Obama's plans, if any, on gun control.
Item three.
I live in Austin, and am heading out to SXSW tomorrow. Here comes the free CD part.
I will try and go to the show that is most highly recommended by y'all.
Then I will report on the show tomorrow, and buy two cd's from that band. I will send the other one to a randomly selected commenter that recommends the show I see. There are so many shows, I can't decide, and I don't really know the most of them. Go to sxsw.com for the list. Rec something for Friday. That is Friday. Friday.
So vote away, and we will both get something out of it.
Extra. I have been into Banana Cream Pie lately, What do you like?