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george carlin

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:51:09 GMT

George Carlin on New Orleans

Been sitting here with my ass in a wad, wanting to speak out about the
bullshit going on in New Orleans. For the people of New Orleans... First we
would like to say, Sorry for your loss. With that said, Let's go through a
few hurricane rules: (Unlike an earthquake, we know it's coming)

#1. A mandatory evacuation means just that...Get the hell out.
Don't blame the Government after they ! tell you to go. If they hadn't said
anything, I can see the argument. They said get out... if you didn't, it's your fault,
not theirs. (We don't want to hear it, even if you don't have a car, you
can get out.)

#2. If there is an emergency, stock up on water and non-perishables. If you
didn't do this, it's not the Government's fault you're starving.

#2a. If you run out of food and water, find a store that has some.
(Remember, shoes, TV's, DVD's and CD's are not edible. Leave them alone.)

#2b. If the local store has been looted of food or water, leave your
neighbor's TV and stereo alone. (See #2a) They worked hard to get their
stuff. Just because they were smart enough to leave during a mandatory
evacuation, doesn't give you the right to take their stuff...it's theirs, not yours.

#3. If someone comes in to help you, don't shoot at them and then complain
no one is helping you. I'm not getting shot to help save some dumbass who
didn't leave when told to do so.

#4. If you are in your house that is completely under water, your belongings
are probably too far gone for anyone to want them. If someone does want
them, let them have them and hopefully they'll die in the filth. Just leave! (It's New Orleans, find a voodoo warrior and put a curse on them)

#5. My tax money should not pay to rebuild a 2 million dollar house, a
sports stadium or a floating casino. Also, my tax money shouldn't go to
rebuild a city that is under sea level. You wouldn't build your house on
quicksand would you? You want to live below sea-level, do your country some
good and join the Navy.

#6. Regardless of what the Poverty Pimps Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton want
you to believe, The US Government didn't create the Hurricane as a way to
eradicate the black people of New Orleans; (Neither did Russia as a way to
destroy America). The US Government didn't cause global warming that caused
the hurricane (We've been coming out of an ice age for over a million years).
#7. The government isn't responsible for giving you anything. This is the
land of the free and the home of the brave, but you gotta work for what you
want. McDonalds and Wal-Mart are always hiring, get a damn job and stop
spooning off the people who are actually working for a living. President
Kennedy said it best..."Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what
you can do for your country."

Thank you for allowing me to rant.

louisana

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:23:46 GMT

Character and crisis

As I watched the major media coverage of Rita's aftermath a funny thing hit me. Why didn't I see flocks of Cajuns from West Louisiana on my T.V. screen, whining about the lack of government action? Why didn't I see the syndicated newspapers running stories about the unfair treatment of these people?

Their homes were just as shattered as those who reside in the Ninth Ward section of New Orleans. They had evacuated, been rendered homeless, and had their lives utterly destroyed just like those in New Orleans did. Where was the outcry because these people had to wait 24 hours for their $2,000 debit card?
Perhaps it's because the people of Cameron and Vermilion Parish, in small communities like Holly Beach, Grand Cheniere, and Intercostal City, are used to fending for themselves, and not waiting on a government handout.

Within hours after Rita had passed, the residents of Pecan Island were out in their own communities, searching for those stranded by high water.

Generations of self reliance had conditioned these Cajuns to depend on one another, in times of crisis. They didn't need, or want, a bumbling state government to help. They managed quite well by themselves, without Kathleen Blanco. They like it that way.

Why were the people of Coastal Louisiana handling the crisis of Rita, while the people of New Orleans failed in handling Katrina? Was it a failure of government? The State of Louisiana governs both areas. What's the difference?

The failure of Katrina was a failure of character.

For years the residents of New Orleans wallowed in corruption and government sponsored socialism. Voters sold their self-reliance to any politician who promised to give them a free ride. In doing so, they compromised their character and sold their souls to a corrupt political system which failed them in time of crisis.

Compare the two storms and their aftermath. While the residents of New Orleans waited for another government sponsored rescue, the Cajuns of Southwest Louisiana were out in their own boats, looking for their neighbors, and helping each other. While the residents of New Orleans were looting, stabbing and shooting, the residents of Cameron and Vermilion Parishes were already planing to rebuild. They didn't wait for a FEMA handout.

Character. It's what separates those who depend on themselves, and those who have relinquished their own self determination to a government program.

katrinia

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:05:50 GMT

Moral poverty cost blacks

in New Orleans

Posted: September 21, 2005

1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in. Two questions:

What would you do?
What would you do if you were black?
Sadly, the two questions don't have the same answer.

To the first: Most of us would take our families out of that city quickly to protect them from danger. Then, able-bodied men would return to help others in need, as wives and others cared for children, elderly, infirm and the like.

For better or worse, Hurricane Katrina has told us the answer to the second question. If you're black and a hurricane is about to destroy your city, you'll probably wait for the government to save you.

This was not always the case. Prior to 40 years ago, such a pathetic performance by the black community in a time of crisis would have been inconceivable. The first response would have come from black men. They would take care of their families, bring them to safety, and then help the rest of the community. Then local government would come in.

No longer. When 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city, it was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and waited for the government to bail them out. This, as we know, did not turn out good results.

Enter Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. Jackson and Farrakhan laid blame on "racist" President Bush. Farrakhan actually proposed the idea that the government blew up a levee so as to kill blacks and save whites. The two demanded massive governmental spending to rebuild New Orleans, above and beyond the federal government's proposed $60 billion. Not only that, these two were positioning themselves as the gatekeepers to supervise the dispersion of funds. Perfect: Two of the most dishonest elite blacks in America, "overseeing" billions of dollars. I wonder where that money will end up.

Of course, if these two were really serious about laying blame on government, they should blame the local one. Responsibility to perform – legally and practically – fell first on the mayor of New Orleans. We are now all familiar with Mayor Ray Nagin – the black Democrat who likes to yell at President Bush for failing to do Nagin's job. The facts, unfortunately, do not support Nagin's wailing. As the Washington Times puts it, "recent reports show [Nagin] failed to follow through on his own city's emergency-response plan, which acknowledged that thousands of the city's poorest residents would have no way to evacuate the city."

One wonders how there was "no way" for these people to evacuate the city. We have photographic evidence telling us otherwise. You've probably seen it by now – the photo showing 2,000 parked school buses, unused and underwater. How much planning does it require to put people on a bus and leave town, Mayor Nagin?

Instead of doing the obvious, Mayor Nagin (with no positive contribution from Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco, the other major leader vested with responsibility to address the hurricane disaster) loaded remaining New Orleans residents into the Superdome and the city's convention center. We know how that plan turned out.

About five years ago, in a debate before the National Association of Black Journalists, I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States and let blacks run the country, they would turn America into a ghetto within 10 years. The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly. Now I have to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit. It took a mere three days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into ghettos, rampant with theft, rape and murder.

President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks. Had New Orleans' black community taken action, most would have been out of harm's way. But most were too lazy, immoral and trifling to do anything productive for themselves.

All Americans must tell blacks this truth. It was blacks' moral poverty – not their material poverty – that cost them dearly in New Orleans. Farrakhan, Jackson, and other race hustlers are to be repudiated – they will only perpetuate this problem by stirring up hatred and applauding moral corruption. New Orleans, to the extent it is to be rebuilt, should be remade into a dependency-free, morally strong city where corruption is opposed and success is applauded. Blacks are obligated to help themselves and not depend on the government to care for them. We are all obligated to tell them so.

The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, and author of "Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America."

cajun prayer !!

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:31:51 GMT

Boudreaux was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an important meeting and couldn't find a parking place. Looking up toward heaven, he said:

"Lord, take pity on me. If you find me A parking place I will go to Mass every
Sunday for the rest of my life and give up tequila."

Miraculously, a parking place appeared.

Boudreaux looked up again and said:

"Never mind. I found one."

responsible

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:52:14 GMT

OK guys here is another one !!!!
opinions please
Do FORGET I didn't write this I just want to see your replys

In case you aren't familiar with how our government is SUPPOSED to work:
The chain of responsibility for the protection of the citizens in New Orleans is:

1. The Mayor
2. The New Orleans director of Homeland Security (a political appointee of the Governor who reports to the Governor)
3. The Governor
4. The Head of Homeland Security
5. The President

What did each do?

1. The mayor, with 5 days advance, waited until 2 days before he announced a mandatory evacuation (at the behest of the President). Then he failed to provide transportation for those without transport even though he had hundreds of buses at his disposal.

2. The New Orleans director of Homeland Security failed to have any plan for a contingency that has been talked about for 50 years. Then he blames the Feds for not doing what he should have done. (So much for political appointees)

3. The Governor, despite a declaration of disaster by the President 2 DAYS BEFORE the storm hit, failed to take advantage of the offer of Federal troops and aid. Until 2 DAYS AFTER the storm hit.

4. The Director of Homeland Security positioned assets in the area to be ready when the Governor called for them

5. The President urged a mandatory evacuation, and even declared a disaster State of Emergency, freeing up millions of dollars of federal assistance, should the Governor decide to use it.

Oh and by the way, the levees that broke were the responsibility of the local landowners and the local levee board to maintain, NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

The disaster in New Orleans is what you get after decades of corrupt (democrat) government going all the way back to Huey Long.

Funds for disaster protection and relief have been flowing into this ! city&nbs p;for decades, and where has it gone, but into the pockets of the politicos and their friends.

Decades of socialist government in New Orleans has sapped all self reliance from the community, and made them dependent upon government for every little thing.

Political correctness and a lack of will to fight crime have created the single most corrupt police force in the country, and has permitted gang violence to flourish.

The sad thing is that there are many poor folks who have suffered and died needlessly because those that they voted into office failed them.

For those who missed item 5 (where the President's level of accountability is discussed), it is made more clear in a New Orleans Times-Picayune article dated August 28:

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In the face of a catastrophic Hurricane Katrina, a mandatory evacuation was ordered Sunday for New Orleans by Mayor Ray Nagin.
Acknowledging that large numbers of people, many of them stranded tourists, would be unable to leave, the city set up 10 places of last resort for people to go, including the Superdome.
The mayor called the order unprecedented and said anyone who could leave the city should. He exempted hotels from the evacuation order because airlines had already cancelled all flights.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.
The ball was placed in Mayor Nagin's court to carry out the evacuation order. With a 5-day heads-up, he had the authority to use any and all services to evacuate all residents from the city, as documented in a city emergency preparedness plan. By waiting until the last minute, and failing to make full use of resources available within city limits, Nagin and his administrati! on f**ke d up.

Mayor Nagin and his emergency sidekick Terry Ebbert have displayed lethal, mind boggling incompetence before, during and after Katrina.

As for Mayor Nagin, he and his profile in pathetic leadership police chief should resign as well. That city's government is incompetent from one end to the other. The people of New Orleans deserve better than this crowd of clowns is capable of giving them.

If you're keeping track, these boobs let 569 buses that could have carried 33,350 people out of New Orleans-in one trip-get ruined in the floods. Whatever plan these guys had, it was a dud. Or it probably would have been if they'd bothered to follow it.

As for all the race-baiting rhetoric and Bush-bashing coming from prominent blacks on the left, don't expect Ray Nagin to be called out on the carpet for falling short. You want to know why? Here's why:

It's more convenient to blame a white president for what went wrong than to hold a black mayor and his administration accountable for gross negligence and failing to fully carry out an established emergency preparedness plan.

To hold Nagin and his administration accountable for dropping the ball amounts to letting loose the shouts and cries of "Racism!". It's sad, it's wrong, but it's standard operating procedure for the media and left-wing black leadership.

Mark my words: you will not hear a word of criticism from Jesse Jackson Sr., Randall Robinson, the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, or Kanye West being directed toward Clarence Ray Nagin Jr. Why? Because he is just another black politician instead of a responsible elected official who happens to be black. In the mind set of more-blacker-than-thou blacks, black politicians who are on their side can do no wrong.

whats your reply ???

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:39:52 GMT

I received this letter in my email and I have no reply, but wanted to know yours if you have one.

This is from a guy here in Houston that went to volunteer his time to help the hurricane victims. It is pretty sad and disappointing to think people could be so ungrateful.

SO I VOLUNTEERED..........

I thought I might inform the few friends I have on my recent traumatic experience. I am going to tell it straight, blunt, raw, and I don't give a damn. Long read, I know but please do read!!!

I went to volunteer on Saturday at the George R. Brown convention for two reasons.

A: I wanted to help people to get a warm fuzzy.

B: Curiosity.

I've been watching the news lately and have seen scenes that have made me want to vomit. And no it wasn't dead bodies, the city under water, or the sludge everywhere. It was PEOPLE'S BEHAVIOR. The people on T.V. (99% being Black) were DEMANDING help. They were not asking nicely but demanding as if society owed these people something. Well the honest truth is WE DON'T. Help should be asked for in a kind manner and then appreciated. This is not what the press (FOX in particular) was showing, what I was seeing was a group of people who are yelling, demanding, looting, killing, raping, and SHOOTING back at the demanded help!!!!! So I'm thinking this can't possibly be true can it???? So I decide to submit to the DEMAND for help out of SHOCK. I couldn't believe this to be true of the majority of the people who are the weakest of society. So I went to volunteer and help folks out and see the truth. So I will tell the following story and you decide:

I arrived at the Astrodome only to find out that there are too many volunteers and that volunteers were needed at the George R. Brown Convention Center. As I was walking up to the Convention Center I noticed a line of cars that wrapped around blocks filled with donations. These where ordinary Houstonians coming with truckloads and trunks full of water, diapers, clothes, blankets, food, all types of good stuff. And lots of it was NEW. I felt that warm fuzzy while helping unload these vehicles of these wonderful human beings. I then went inside the building and noticed approximately 100,000 sq. ft. of clothes, shoes, jackets, toys and all types of goodies all organized and ready for the people in need. I signed up, received a name badge and was on my merry way, excited to be useful.

I toured the place to get familiar with my surrounding; the entire place is probably around 2 million sq. ft. I noticed rows as far as the eye can see of mattresses, not cots, BLOW UP MATTRESSES!!! All of which had nice pillows and plenty of blankets. 2 to 3 bottles of water lay on every bed. These full size to queen size beds by the way were comfortable, I laid in one to see for myself. I went to look at the medical area. I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing!!! A makeshift hospital created in 24 hours!!! It was unbelievable, they even had a pharmacy. I also noticed that they created showers, which would also have hot water. I went upstairs to the third floor to find a HUGE cafeteria created in under 24 hours! Rows of tables, chairs and food everywhere enough to feed an army! I'm not talking about crap food either. They had Jason’s deli food, apples, oranges, coke, diet coke, lemonade, orange juice, cookies, all types of chips and sandwiches. All the beverages by the way was put on ice and chilled!!!! In a matter of about 24 hours or less an entire mini-city was erected by volunteers for the poor evacuees. This was not your rundown crap shelter, it was BUM HEAVEN.

So that was the layout: great food, comfy beds, clean showers, free medical help, by the way there was a library, and a theatre room I forgot to mention. Great stuff right????

Well here is what happened on my journey.

I started by handing out COLD water bottles to evacuees as they got off the bus. Many would take them and only 20% or less said thank you. Lots of them would shake their heads and ask for sodas! So this went on for about 20-30 minutes until I was sick of being an unappreciated servant. I figured certainly these folks would appreciate some food!!! So I went upstairs to serve these beloved evacuees some GOOD food that I wish I could have at the moment!

**The following statements are graphic, truthful, and discuss IRRATIONAL behavior**

Evacuees come slowly to receive this mountain of food that is worth serving to a king! I tell them that we have 2 types of great deli sandwiches to choose from - ham and turkey. Many look at the food in disgust and DEMAND burgers, pizza, and even McDonalds!!!! Jason's deli is better than McDonalds!!!! Only 1 out of ten people who took something would say "thank you", the rest took items as if it was their God-given right to be served without a shred of appreciation!!! They would ask for beer and liquor. They complained that we didn't have good enough food. They refused food and laughed at us. They treated us volunteers as if we where SLAVES. No not all of them of course but 70% did!!!!!! 20% were appreciative, 10% took the food without any comment and the other 70% had some disgusting comment to say. Some had the nerve to laugh at us. And when I snapped back at them for being mean, they would curse at me!!! Needless to say I was in utter shock. They would eat their food and leave their mess on the table some would pick up their stuff many would leave it for the volunteers to pick up. I left that real quick to go down and help set up some more beds. I saw many young ladies carrying mattresses and I helped for a while. Then I realized something....... there were hundreds of able bodied young men who could help!! I asked a group of young evacuees in their teens and early twenties to help. I got cursed at for asking them to help!!! One said "We just lost our ****ing homes and you want us to work!!" The next said "Ya Cracker, you got a home we don't." I looked at them in disbelief. Here are women walking by carrying THEIR ****ING BEDS and they can't lift a finger and help themselves!!

WHY THE **** SHOULD I HELP PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT TO HELP THEMESELVES!!!!

I waved them off and turned away and was laughed at and more "white boy jokes" were made at me. I felt no need to waste my breath on a bunch of pitiful losers. I went to a nearby restroom where I noticed a man shaving. I used the restroom, washed my hands and saw this man throw his razor towards the trash can...he missed. He walked out leaving his disgusting razor on the floor for some other "cracker" to pick up. Even the little kids were demanding. I saw only ONE white family and only TWO Hispanic families. The rest where blacks. sorry 20% to 30% decent blacks and 70% LOSERS!!!!!

I would call them ******S, but the actual definition of a ****** is one who is ignorant, these people were not ignorant, they where ARROGANT *******S. The majority of which are thugs and lifetime lazy ass welfare recipients. We are inviting the lowest of the low to Houston. And like idiots we are serving the people who will soon steal our cars, rape, murder, and destroy our city while stealing from our pockets on a daily basis through the welfare checks they take. We will fund our own destruction.

By "US" I don't mean a specific race, I mean the people who work hard, work smart, have values and morals. Only people who want to help themselves should be helped, the others should be allowed to destroy themselves. I do not want to work hard, give the government close to half the money I earn so they can in turn give it to a bunch of losers.

I don't believe in being poor for life. My family immigrated here, we came here poor, and now thank God, and due to HARD WORK we are doing fine. If immigrants, who come here don't know the language can work and become successful... WHY THE **** CAN'T THE MAJORITY OF THE HOMEGROWN DO IT!!! If we continue to reward these losers then we will soon destroy our great country. I just witnessed selfish, arrogant, unappreciative behavior by the very people who need help the most. Now these same people who cursed me, ! refused my city's generosity, who refuse to help themselves are DEMANDING handouts on their own terms!!!!!!! They prance around as if they are owed something, and when they do receive a handout, they say it's not good enough! Well you know what? These types of people can go to hell for all I care!

letter to cindy sheehan

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:35:33 GMT

Here is a letter to Cindy Sheehan
Please comment if you want to
Thasnks
Ed

An Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan From the Proud Father of a U.S. Marine
By Brantley Smith
Posted On August 17, 2005

Ms. Sheehan,

By your actions over the past two weeks, it is clear that you missed an important aspect of Civics 101: With rights come responsibilities. You certainly have the right to voice your opinion against the war in Iraq and the President's policies. You even have the right to camp outside the President's home in Crawford and demand he meet with you. Your status as a mother who has lost a child in the war also gives your words and actions a credibility and a larger audience than otherwise would be the case. Now that your supporters have given you a broad forum from which to be heard, making you a national figure, it's time you considered your responsibilities to all of us. I have a daughter set to deploy to Fallujah in two weeks and I have a serious concern with how your irresponsible and short sighted actions might impact on her. She is, after all, a volunteer, like your son, and she is going in harm's way because she believes it is her responsibility to protect your rights and freedoms.

Well-meaning people like you always seem to forget the law of unintended consequences and, in your vanity and arrogant self-righteousness, you never bother to think through what it is you are trying to do versus what you may actually accomplish. I am here to inform you, Ma'am, that you will not change the policy of our government by sitting outside Crawford making a spectacle of yourself in the name of your rights to free speech; what you will do is provide more propaganda for our enemies and cost the lives of even more brave and selfless American warriors. How long do you think it will be before you become a star on Al Jazeera? For all I know, it may have already happened. One thing is certain, though, and that is that your actions and words will further embolden a ruthless and evil enemy and more American blood will be shed and some of it will be on your hands. I pray that my daughter will not be one of them. If she is, then I will hold you and those like you partly responsible. Yes, my daughter's fate will depend mostly on her own courageous decision to serve, but only the most naive among us can deny the impact our own words and actions here in America have in a world grown smaller by the revolution in communications technology.

I am sure you believe that you are serving some great cause by putting our servicemen and women in more danger and that you can, by your irresponsible exercise of free speech, help end a policy you disagree with. Your emotion may be compelling but the reality is that you will not set in motion any process that will change or undo what has been done. The war will go on because to end it now would dishonor the sacrifice of all of our fellow countrymen who have died in the cause of fighting terrorism. Rational Americans will not allow that. Too much is at stake. Unfortunately, shallow and irrational ones, such as yourself, will continue to put the lives of our sons and daughters in danger by aiding and abetting an enemy who sees propagandizing in the mass media as its main weapon in a war it could otherwise not win standing on its own wretched and evil justification of radical Islam, or by force of arms. You, Ma'am, have joined forces with an evil you neither understand nor apparently have tried to comprehend. You direct your anger toward our country while the enemy plots to kill and maim the innocent. You make a mockery of responsible free speech while thousands of young men and women fight desperately to preserve your safety. Instead of honoring your son's sacrifice you are inspired to comfort an evil enemy.

You clearly do not understand the challenge we face as a nation and have not tried to put it in historical perspective. It is a sad fact that it is those of your thinking that have led us to where we are today. Decades of appeasement to these haters of everything we hold dear has cost thousands of American lives from Beirut to New York and in dozens of other forgotten places. Remember Lockerbie? The Achille Lauro? The USS Cole? We as a people were dragged into this war, much like December 7th, 1941, and we must fight and win it wherever the enemy hides and against whomever would support him. Make no mistake about Iraq. It is both a legitimate and crucial campaign in this much larger, global war of radical Islam's making. These people hate us for who we are, not what we have done. We did not bring this on ourselves, as many would have us believe, by our policies and actions abroad. We brought this on ourselves in 1775 when the Founding Fathers embarked on a course of freedom, tolerance, and liberal democratic and social ideals. These haters of all we hold dear strive to destroy forever a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" that Abraham Lincoln hoped would never "Perish from the earth". They would replace it with an oppressive world theocracy unlike anything modern history has ever seen for its ruthless disregard for personal freedom and liberty. If more appeasement is your answer for an alternative policy, spare us. We have suffered enough from cowardice and inaction.

An historical analogy screams to be let out here. It is one of two men, both named Chamberlain. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a school teacher turned soldier in the American Civil War, found himself in the crosshairs of history on a warm July day in 1863 on a small hill in Pennsylvania. Commanding the 20th Maine Regiment on the extreme Union left at Gettysburg he was in a most perilous position. Should he fail to hold against a strong Confederate attack, the Union could be lost. You see, he was serving in an increasingly unpopular war at home against a resurgent enemy, and for a President fighting for his political life. Colonel Chamberlain, stoic but determined, refused to yield. His small regiment held against an onslaught of Confederate attacks, an action many historians believe turned the tide of the war. He was later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. The other half of this analogy focuses on Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Great Britain in the years preceding World War II His story is widely known. Through his policy of appeasement and a lack of moral courage, he handed Adolf Hitler much of Europe. Which side of history have you chosen, Ma'am?

Your son died in the service of freedom and my daughter will go in harm's way to protect and preserve it. Honor their sacrifice, Ma'am, by exercising it responsibly.

I will pray with you and I will grieve with you but I will not stand by silent while you needlessly and arrogantly endanger the life of my daughter and her comrades in arms. Please bless us with your silence and go home.

Brantley Smith
Proud father of a United States Marine
Tullahoma, TN

food network new star

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:37:24 GMT

food tv star
broussarder
2005-06-27 18:31 (link)
Comment Posted Successfully
personally i think the whole contest was a set up to get either the gay couple or a black person onto the network (which they had neither) i think everyone else competing were doomed before they even got started. which sucks for the poeple who got cut because they didn't really get judged on they're performance, but the network was look for specifics (such as gay or black) i feel buffed on the whole contest, like it was planned just the way

season-all and marinade

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:24:06 GMT

well hello everyone
I need some info from anyone who can help:

I have a couple if seasonings and sauces I have made and have gotton some attention from a specialty shop in my area, the owners want to put my items on his shelf to sell, well I have no clue how to get started on this, what are the steps of me mass producing these products to sell.
I can use any info anyone can provide me with.
Thanks in advance
ED ***BIG DADDY *** BROUSSARD

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the Trip

Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:22:43 GMT

Zac
Tell us about the trip You mother took with The NANNY last night ?????
I'm sure there is something you want to share !!!!!!

Finally Someone he can really give a speech

Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:37:27 GMT

Read this and if you don't get it you probably will soon !!!!

VERY LONG BUT I THINK WORTHWHILE. Don

Neal Boortz commencement address at Texas A&M...
>It is the season of commencement speeches. Many are boringly predictable.
>Neal Boortz, a Texan, lawyer, Texas Aggie, now nationally syndicated talk
>show host from Atlanta is an exception. Agree or not you will find his
>views thought provoking. It would have been particularly entertaining to
>witness the faculty's reaction.
>
>Neal Boortz Commencement Address:
>
>I am honored by the invitation to address you on this august occasion. It's
>about time. Be warned, however, that I am not here to impress you; you'll
>have enough smoke blown your way today. And you can bet your tassels I'm
>not here to impress the faculty and administration.
>
>You may not like much of what I have to say, and that's fine. You will
>remember it though. Especially after about 10 years out there in the real
>world. This, it goes without saying, does not apply to those of you who
>will seek your careers and your fortunes as government employees.
>
>This gowned gaggle behind me is your faculty. You've heard the old saying
>that those who can - do. Those who can't - teach. That sounds deliciously
>insensitive. But there is often raw truth in insensitivity, just as you
>often find feel-good falsehoods and lies in compassion. Say good-bye to
>your faculty because now you are getting ready to go out there and do.
>These folks behind me are going to stay right here and teach.
>
>By the way, just because you are leaving this place with a diploma doesn't
>mean the learning is over. When an FAA flight examiner handed me my private
>pilot's license many years ago, he said, 'Here, this is your ticket to
>learn.' The same can be said for your diploma. Believe me, the learning has
>just begun.
>
>Now, I realize that most of you consider yourselves Liberals. In fact, you
>are probably very proud of your liberal views. You care so much. You feel
>so much. You want to help so much. After all, you're a compassionate and
>caring person, aren't you now? Well, isn't that just so extraordinarily
>special. Now, at this age, is as good a time as any to be a Liberal; as
>good a time as any to know absolutely everything. You have plenty of time,
>starting tomorrow, for the truth to set in. Over the next few years, as you
>begin to feel the cold breath of reality down your neck, things are going
>to start changing pretty fast .. including your own assessment of just how
>much you really know.
>
>So here are the first assignments for your initial class in reality: Pay
>attention to the news, read newspapers, and listen to the words and phrases
>that proud Liberals use to promote their causes. Then compare the words of
>the left to the words and phrases you hear from those evil, heartless,
>greedy conservatives. From the Left you will hear "I feel." From the Right
>you will hear "I think." From the Liberals you will hear references to
>groups --The Blacks, The Poor, The Rich, The Disadvantaged, The Less
>Fortunate." From the Right you will hear references to individuals. On the
>Left you hear talk of group rights; on the Right, individual rights.
>
>That about sums it up, really: Liberals feel. Liberals care. They are pack
>animals whose identity is tied up in group dynamics. Conservatives and
>Libertarians think -- and, setting aside the theocracy crowd, their
>identity is centered on the individual.
>
>Liberals feel that their favored groups, have enforceable rights to the
>property and services of productive individuals. Conservatives (and
>Libertarians, myself among them I might add) think that individuals have
>the right to protect their lives and their property from the plunder of the
>masses.
>
>In college you developed a group mentality, but if you look closely at your
>diplomas you will see that they have your individual names on them. Not the
>name of your school mascot, or of your fraternity or sorority, but your
>name. Your group identity is going away. Your recognition and appreciation
>of your individual identity starts now.
>
>If, by the time you reach the age of 30, you do not consider yourself to be
>a libertarian or a conservative, rush right back here as quickly as you can
>and apply for a faculty position. These people will welcome you with open
>arms. They will welcome you, that is, so long as you haven't developed an
>individual identity. Once again you will have to be willing to sign on to
>the group mentality you embraced during the past four years.
>
>Something is going to happen soon that is going to really open your eyes.
>You're going to actually get a full time job! You're also going to get a
>lifelong work partner. This partner isn't going to help you do your job.
>This partner is just going to sit back and wait for payday. This partner
>doesn't want to share in your effort, you're your earnings.
>
>Your new lifelong partner is actually an agent. An agent representing a
>strange and diverse group of people. An agent for every teenager with an
>illegitimate child. An agent for a research scientist who wanted to make
>some cash answering the age-old question of why monkeys grind their teeth.
>An agent for some poor demented hippie who considers herself to be a
>meaningful and talented artist ... but who just can't manage to sell any of
>her artwork on the open market.
>
>Your new partner is an agent for every person with limited, if any, job
>skills ... but who wanted a job at City Hall. An agent for tin-horn
>dictators in fancy military uniforms grasping for American foreign aid. An
>agent for multi-million-dollar companies who want someone else to pay for
>their overseas advertising. An agent for everybody who wants to use the
>unimaginable power of this agent's for their personal enrichment and
>benefit.
>
>That agent is our wonderful, caring, compassionate, oppressive government.
>Believe me, you will be awed by the unimaginable power this agent has.
>Power that you do not have. A power that no individual has, or will have.
>This agent has the legal power to use force deadly force to accomplish its
>goals.
>
>You have no choice here. Your new friend is just going to walk up to you,
>introduce itself rather gruffly, hand you a few forms to fill out, and move
>right on in. Say hello to your own personal one ton gorilla. It will sleep
>anywhere it wants to.
>
>Now, let me tell you, this agent is not cheap. As you become successful it
>will seize about 40% of everything you earn. And no, I'm sorry, there just
>isn't any way you can fire this agent of plunder, and you can't decrease
>it's share of your income. That power rests with him, not you.
>
>So, here I am saying negative things to you about government. Well, be
>clear on this: It is not wrong to distrust government. It is not wrong to
>fear government. In certain cases it is not even wrong to despise
>government for government is inherently evil. Yes ... a necessary evil, but
>dangerous nonetheless ... somewhat like a drug. Just as a drug that in the
>proper dosage can save your life, an overdose of government can be fatal.
>
>Now let's address a few things that have been crammed into your minds at
>this university. There are some ideas you need to expunge as soon as
>possible. These ideas may work well in academic environment, but they fail
>miserably out there in the real world.
>
>First that favorite buzz word of the media, government and academia:
>Diversity!
>
>You have been taught that the real value of any group of people - be it a
>social group, an employee group, a management group, whatever - is based on
>diversity. This is a favored liberal ideal because diversity is based not
>on an individual's abilities or character, but on a person's identity and
>status as a member of a group. Yes it's that liberal group identity thing
>again.
>
>Within the great diversity movement group identification - be it racial,
>gender based, or some other minority status - means more than the
>individual's integrity, character or other qualifications.
>
>Brace yourself. You are about to move from this academic atmosphere where
>diversity rules, to a workplace and a culture where individual achievement
>and excellence actually count. No matter what your professors have taught
>you over the last four years, you are about to learn that diversity is
>absolutely no replacement for excellence, ability, and individual hard
>work. From this day on every single time you hear the word "diversity" you
>can rest assured that there is someone close by who is determined to rob
>you of every vestige of individuality you possess.
>
>We also need to address this thing you seem to have about "rights." We have
>witnessed an obscene explosion of so-called "rights" in the last few
>decades, usually emanating from college campuses.
>
>You know the mantra: You have the right to a job. The right to a place to
>live. The right to a living wage. The right to health care. The right to an
>education. You probably even have your own pet right - the right to a
>Beemer, for instance, or the right to have someone else provide for that
>child you plan on downloading in a year or so.
>
>Forget it. Forget those rights! I'll tell you what your rights are! You
>have a right to live free, and to the results of your labor. I'll also tell
>you have no right to any portion of the life or labor of another.
>
>You may, for instance, think that you have a right to health care. After
>all, Hillary said so, didn't she? But you cannot receive health care unless
>some doctor or health practitioner surrenders some of his time - his life -
>to you. He may be willing to do this for compensation, but that's his
>choice. You have no "right" to his time or property. You have no right to
>his or any other person's life or to any portion thereof.
>
>You may also think you have some "right" to a job; a job with a living
>wage, whatever that is. Do you mean to tell me that you have a right to
>force your services on another person, and then the right to demand that
>this person compensate you with their money? Sorry, forget it. I am sure
>you would scream if some urban outdoorsmen (that would be "homeless person"
>for those of you who don't want to give these less fortunate people a
>romantic and adventurous title) came to you and demanded his job and your
>money.
>
>The people who have been telling you about all the rights you have are
>simply exercising one of theirs - the right to be imbeciles. Their being
>imbeciles didn't cost anyone else either property or time. It's their
>right, and they exercise it brilliantly.
>
>By the way, did you catch my use of the phrase "less fortunate" a bit ago
>when I was talking about the urban outdoorsmen? That phrase is a favorite
>of the Left. Think about it, and you'll understand why.
>
>To imply that one person is homeless, destitute, dirty, drunk, spaced out
>on drugs, unemployable, and generally miserable because he is "less
>fortunate" is to imply that a successful person - one with a job, a home
>and a future - is in that position because he or she was "fortunate." The
>dictionary says that fortunate means "having derived good from an
>unexpected place." There is nothing unexpected about deriving good from
>hard work. There is also nothing unexpected about deriving misery from
>choosing drugs, alcohol, and the street.
>
>If the Left can create the common perception that success and failure are
>simple matters of "fortune" or "luck," then it is easy to promote and
>justify their various income redistribution schemes. After all, we are just
>evening out the odds a little bit.
>
>This "success equals luck" idea the liberals like to push is seen
>everywhere. Democratic presidential candidate Richard Gephardt refers to
>high-achievers as "people who have won life's lottery." He wants you to
>believe they are making the big bucks because they are lucky.
>
>It's not luck, my friends. It's choice. One of the greatest lessons I ever
>learned was in a book by Og Mandino, entitled "The Greatest Secret in the
>World." The lesson? Very simple: "Use wisely your power of choice."
>
>That bum sitting on a heating grate, smelling like a wharf rat? He's there
>by choice. He is there because of the sum total of the choices he has made
>in his life. This truism is absolutely the hardest thing for some people to
>accept, especially those who consider themselves to be victims of something
>or other - victims of discrimination, bad luck, the system, capitalism,
>whatever. After all, nobody really wants to accept the blame for his or her
>position in life. Not when it is so much easier to point and say, "Look! He
>did this to me!" than it is to look into a mirror and say, "You S.O.B.! You
>did this to me!"
>
>The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact
>that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either
>success or failure, however you define those terms.
>
>Some of the choices are obvious: Whether or not to stay in school. Whether
>or not to get pregnant. Whether or not to hit the bottle. Whether or not to
>keep this job you hate until you get another better-paying job. Whether or
>not to save some of your money, or saddle yourself with huge payments for
>that new car.
>
>Some of the choices are seemingly insignificant: Whom to go to the movies
>with. Whose car to ride home in. Whether to watch the tube tonight, or read
>a book on investing. But, and you can be sure of this, each choice counts.
>Each choice is a building block - some large, some small. But each one is a
>part of the structure of your life. If you make the right choices, or if
>you make more right choices than wrong ones, something absolutely terrible
>may happen to you. Something unthinkable. You, my friend, could become one
>of the hated, the evil, the ugly, the feared, the filthy,, the successful,
>the rich.
>
>Quite a few people have made that mistake.
>
>The rich basically serve two purposes in this country. First, they provide
>the investments, the investment capital, and the brains for the formation
>of new businesses. Businesses that hire people. Businesses that send
>millions of paychecks home each week to the un-rich.
>
>Second, the rich are a wonderful object of ridicule, distrust, and hatred.
>Few things are more valuable to a politician than the envy most Americans
>feel for the evil rich.
>
>Envy is a powerful emotion. Even more powerful than the emotional minefield
>that surrounded Bill Clinton when he reviewed his last batch of White House
>interns. Politicians use envy to get votes and power. And they keep that
>power by promising the envious that the envied will be punished: "The rich
>will pay their fair share of taxes if I have anything to do with it.' The
>truth is that the top 10% of income earners in this country pays almost 50%
>of all income taxes collected. I shudder to think what these job producers
>would be paying if our tax system were any more "fair."
>
>You have heard, no doubt, that in the rich get richer and the poor get
>poorer. Interestingly enough, our government's own numbers show that many
>of the poor actually get richer, and that quite a few of the rich actually
>get poorer. But for the rich who do actually get richer, and the poor who
>remain poor ... there's an explanation -- a reason. The rich, you see, keep
>doing the things that make them rich; while the poor keep doing the things
>that make them poor.
>
>Speaking of the poor, during your adult life you are going to hear an
>endless string of politicians bemoaning the plight of the poor in . So, you
>need to know that under our government's definition of "poor" you can have
>a $5 million net worth, a $300,000 home and a new $90,000 Mercedes, all
>completely paid for. You can also have a maid, cook, and valet, and $1
>million in your checking account, and you can still be officially defined
>by our government as "living in poverty." Now there's something you haven't
>seen on the evening news.
>
>How does the government pull this one off? Very simple, really. To
>determine whether or not some poor soul is "living in poverty," the
>government measures one thing -- just one thing. Income. It doesn't matter
>one bit how much you have, how much you own, how many cars you drive or how
>big they are, whether or not your pool is heated, whether you winter in
>Aspen and spend the summers in the Bahamas, or how much is in your savings
>account. It only matters how much income you claim in that particular year.
>This means that if you take a one-year leave of absence from your
>high-paying job and decide to live off the money in your savings and
>checking accounts while you write the next great American novel, the
>government says you are 'living in poverty."
>
>This isn't exactly what you had in mind when you heard these gloomy
>statistics, is it?
>
>Do you need more convincing? Try this. The government's own statistics show
>that people who are said to be "living in poverty" spend more than $1.50
>for each dollar of income they claim. Something is a bit fishy here. just
>remember all this the next time Peter Jennings puffs up and tells you about
>some hideous new poverty statistics.
>
>Why has the government concocted this phony poverty scam? Because the
>government needs an excuse to grow and to expand its social welfare
>programs, which translates into an expansion of its power. If the
>government can convince you, in all your compassion, that the number of
>"poor" is increasing, it will have all the excuse it needs to sway an
>electorate suffering from the advanced stages of Obsessive-Compulsive
>Compassion Disorder.
>
>I'm about to be stoned by the faculty here. They've already changed their
>minds about that honorary degree I was going to get. That's OK, though. I
>still have my Ph.D. in Insensitivity from the Neal Boortz Institute for
>Insensitivity Training. I learned that, in short, sensitivity sucks. It's a
>trap. Think about it - the truth knows no sensitivity. Life can be
>insensitive. Wallow too much in sensitivity and you'll be unable to deal
>with life, or the truth. So, get over it.
>
>Now, before the dean has me shackled and hauled off, I have a few random
>thoughts.
>
>* You need to register to vote, unless you are on welfare. If you are
>living off the efforts of others, please do us the favor of sitting down
>and shutting up until you are on your own again.
>
>* When you do vote, your votes for the House and the Senate are more
>important than your vote for president. The House controls the purse
>strings, so concentrate your awareness there.
>
>* Liars cannot be trusted, even when the liar is the president of the
>United States. If someone can't deal honestly with you, send them packing.
>
>* Don't bow to the temptation to use the government as an instrument of
>plunder. If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned
>it -- to take their money by force for your own needs -- then it is
>certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward
>and do this dirty work for you.
>
>* Don't look in other people's pockets. You have no business there. What
>they earn is theirs. What your earn is yours. Keep it that way. Nobody owes
>you anything, except to respect your privacy and your rights, and leave
>you the hell alone.
>
>* Speaking of earning, the revered 40-hour workweek is for losers. Forty
>hours should be considered the minimum, not the maximum. You don't see
>highly successful people clocking out of the office every afternoon at
>five. The losers are the ones caught up in that afternoon rush hour. The
>winners drive home in the dark.
>
>* Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by
>definition, needs no protection.
>
>* Finally (and aren't you glad to hear that word), as Og Mandino wrote,
>1. Proclaim your rarity. Each of you is a rare and unique human being.
>
>2. Use wisely your power of choice.
>
>3. Go the extra mile ... drive home in the dark.
>
>Oh, and put off buying a television set as long as you can.
>
>Now, if you have any idea at all what's good for you, you will get the hell
>out of here and never come back.
>
>Class dismissed.

del Carmen Mexico

Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:00:31 GMT

well i am here in del Carmen Mexico, what a shithole hardly anyone here speaks english
there is garbage in the streets and everywhere else you see, most buildings here are never completed, i saw people living here in worse conditions than the homeless in houston.
but not a single person begging for a handout, how fucking amazing!!!, i try my best to speak some kind of spanish, but i must admit i don't know shit, but i trying to learn it.
there is a beach around most of this island but there is more garbage than sand.
the place has no shortage of dogs, there fucking everywhere streets,yards, houses, everywhere!!!!

RECIPES, I WANTED TO SHARE !!!

Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:49:17 GMT

Ingredients: 1 ribeye steak
1 medium onion
1 small bell pepper
Tony Chacheres Seasoning
Tabassco Sauce
1/4 cup of Butter

Procedure: In a black iron skillet melt half butter. Season the ribeye with Tabasco & Tony's and place in hot butter, cook for about 5-9 minutes per side. Remove from pot add remaining butter and melt. Then, add sliced onions and bell pepper to pot. Saute until transparent. Place ribeye back in pot and add about 1/2 cup water, bring to a boil. Next, reduce the heat and simmer for about 20-30 minutes, covered. Remove cover and let the liquid reduce by half.

Serve with baked or roasted potatoes and corn.

DEER BACKSTRAP !!!

Ingredients: 1 deer back strap whole
1 1/2 lbs. fresh andouille
2 large onions
2 bell peppers
6-8 cloves garlic
2-3 table spoons olive oil
Tony Chacheres
Tabassco Sauce
1/2 bundle onion tops

Procedure: First take the backstrap and make a hole thru the center lengthways then stuff all the andouille/sausage inside. Then, season the outside with Tabassco and Tony's. Heat the oil in a large black iron or magnalite pot. Add the back strap and brown evenly on all sides, letting it kinda stick to the pot. After you get it well brown, remove it from pot. Add onions, garlic, bell peppers and the onion tops, (all chopped up fine) and saute until limp and transparent. You can add more of the seasonings. After this is done, put the back strap back into the pot with the other items and add enough water or beef stock to reach about halfway up the side of the backstrap, bring temp to a slight boil. Remove from heat, and place whole pot into oven set at 325. Let this cook for about 2-2-1/2 hrs or until it starts falling apart.

Remove and let the back strap cool then cut into slices, and serve with rice. Instead of rice you can add potatoes and carrots to the pot when it's about 3/4ths done.

war

Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:29:08 GMT

About the best explanation for the war that I have heard so far.

This is long but well worth the read. God bless our troops and President.

A LESSON TO MY SON
by A PROUD AMERICAN Irma S. Chambers

The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know why we were at war.
My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I
were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and
defend our country again today. I knew that my husband would give him a
good explanation.

My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go stand in
our front living room window. He told him:
"Son, stand there and tell me what you see?"
"I see trees and cars and our neighbors houses." he replied.
"OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the United
States of America and you are President Bush."

Our son giggled and said "OK."

"Now son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every house
and yard on this block is a different country." my husband said.

"OK Dad, I'm pretending."

"Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and see that man
come out of his house with his wife and he has her by the hair and is
hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face,
he throws her on the ground, then he starts to kick her to death. Their
children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are crying, they are
watching this but do nothing because they are kids and afraid of their
father. You see all of this son....what do you do?"

"Dad?"

"What do you do son?!"

"I call the police, Dad."

"OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations and they take your
call, listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What do
you do then son?!"

"Dad, but the police are supposed to help!" My son starts to whine.

"They don't want to son, because they say that it is not their place or
your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it," my
husband says.

"But Dad...he killed her!!" my son exclaims.

"I know he did...but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I want
you to look out that window and pretend you see our neighbor who you're
pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same thing to his children."

"Daddy...he kills them?"

"Yes son, he does. What do you do?"

"Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go and ask my next door
neighbor to help me stop him." our son says.

"Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening and refuses to get
involved as well. He refuses to open the door and help you stop him," my
husband says.

"But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by myself!!"

"WHAT DO YOU DO SON?"

Our son starts to cry.

"OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the street saw you ask for
help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He stands taller and
puffs out his chest. Guess what he does next son?"

"What Daddy?"

"He walks across the street to the old ladies house and breaks down her
door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her house on fire
and then...he kills her. He turns around and sees you standing in he
window and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?!!!"

"Daddy..."

"WHAT DO YOU DO?!!!"
Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers, "I close the blinds,
Daddy."

My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks him... "Why?"

"Because Daddy.....the police are supposed to help...people who need
it....and they won't help....You always say that neighbors are supposed
to HELP neighbors, but they won't help either...they won't help me stop
him...I'm afraid....I can't do it by myself...Daddy.....I can't look out
my window and just watch him do all these terrible things
and...and.....do nothing...so....I'm just going to close the blinds....so
I can't see what he's doing........and I'm going to pretend that it is
not happening."

I start to cry.

My husband looks at our nine year old son standing in the window, looking
pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my husbands questions and he tells
him...."Son"

"Yes, Daddy."

"Open the blinds because that man....he's at your front door..."WHAT DO
YOU DO?!!!!"

My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls up
this tiny fists and looks his father square in the eyes, without
hesitation he says: "I DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!! I'M NOT GONNA LET HIM
HURT MOMMY OR MY SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA
FIGHT HIM!!!!!"

I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs my son to his
chest and hugs him tight, and cries..."It's too late to fight him, he's
too strong and he's already at YOUR front door son.....you should have
stopped him BEFORE he killed his wife. You have to do what's right, even
if you have to do it alone, before......it's too late." my husband
whispers.

THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war with Iraq. When good
men stand by and let evil happen is the greatest EVIL of all. Our
President is doing what is right. We, as a free nation, must understand
that this war is a war of humanity. WE must remove this evil man from
power so that we can continue to live in a free world where we are not
afraid to look out our window and see crimes on humanity.
So that my nine year old son won't grow up in a world where he feels that
if he just "closes" that blinds the atrocities in the world won't affect
him. Today the second day of "WAR on IRAQ" I felt compelled to write
this and pass it along. Hopefully, you will understand the lesson my
husband tried to teach our son.

"YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT! EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO DO IT
ALONE!" BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! BE PROUD OF OUR PRESIDENT! BE PROUD OF
OUR TROOPS!! SUPPORT THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA!! SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR
CHILDREN WILL NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS...."

willie nelson

Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:59:13 GMT

one thing that i've wanted to do for a long time is to meet willie nelson!!!
i know that may sound out there but it's something i just want to do , by meeting him i don't mean seeing him at an autograph signing or something like that, i really want to meet him and speak with him and invite him over to my home and cook something really good and really cajun for him and sit around after eating and just hang!!! well i know that may never happen and i don't even know how i could attempt to make this happen but hell why not wish?
well until next see ya
and if i do meet him i will be sure to post it on lj!!!

ed ***big daddy*** broussard

church fish fry

Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:31:13 GMT

well this friday was the third fish fry at my church, which i am supposed to be heading up.
every friday so far has been great, selling almost all we have, this friday i tried a new recipe for grilled fish, it came out way better than i thought it would, we sold out of this, so this friday i will double the amount of fish i have to grill. what a great way to get to cook for a whole bunch of people at once, which is one thing i really love to do. someday i will make a living cooking, somehow somewhere. its funy so many people whant grilled fish because they think the fried is too fattening, but the don't even know or even ask what is in the grilled fish, i use lots of real butter and olive oil, i guess you know thats not lowfat!! but so what fat skinny who cares!!!so if you are ever in spring texas during lent on a friday, come by the st james catholic church for some wonderful fish.
until next time, hope you fing something good to eat!!!

trip

Thu, 09 Jan 2003 16:10:00 GMT

well i'm finally going on a trip for work next week
kinda looking foward to it, it's been a while (seems like dust was settling on my feet, here at the office, going to houma,louisiana
and pascaugula,miss. to look at some offshore drilling rigs

as usual i will eat too much while i'm in la. but what the heck
seem like i get hungry as soon as i cross the sabine river into la. from texas.
well until next time
see-ya!!

holidays

Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:44:48 GMT

well here we are the week after the holidays, my favorite time of the year.
all went very well, now i'm back to work,where i feel i have a little control!
before you know it we'll all have a blank when asked **what did you get for christmas**
ah yes, and now it's just about time for all you males to get back together with your girlfriends, that you broke up with so you didn't have to buy her a gift, or visit her family!!!

relax girls, you know you had time to look at the market during this breakup time!!!
so now everyones happy!!!

on the other hand, i cooked way too much food for christmas and new years day, i actually had to freeze some last night so my wife wouldn't feed it to those two damm basset hounds in the back yard,the ones who eat sleep and shit and shit and shit!!!!

just to end the holidays with a bang, i got a f%$^king kidney stone on saturday afternoon, it hurt like f&^%king hell!!! after about 1-1/2hrs or grueling pain it finally passed, like pissing a marble, i suggest don't try this at home!!!

i must have drank 5 gallons of water to get it to pass, when it did i thought i would never stop pissing!!!

well i better get to work now.

until next time see ya

thanksgiving

Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:44:31 GMT

well here it is monday after thanksgiving!!!

what a great weekend, good food and good people!!
now back to the work grind, i'm glad i love my work, because it is easy to get up and go, i know there are some people out there who don't feel the same!!!then do something about it!!!
now i haven't always felt this way about my jobs. there have been some i just didn't like, and it took me awhile but i left! and i found another, one thing i finally learned is you don't quit a job because you don't like some one there, so far there is someone i don't like at every job i've had, and you don't quit because your angry, wait a month after you get angry and if you still want to quit, start searching for another.and another thing always demand they give you pay for your remaining vacation! trust me you'll have some left.
well i gotta go now, i'm taking a class on excel 2000. good luck with the holidays!!!

ed*** big daddy*** broussard

journal

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:40:47 GMT

well i just spent almost 1 hour trying to get put into this live journal thing, i hope its worth it,
well here we are coming upon these f*&king holidays again!!
i must say the happiest times of the holidays is the second week of jan.
although thanksgiving is pretty good, at least the family you get to see is not expecting to get some kind of f*&king gift, but the wal-marts of the world are likely to change that too!!
after buying for your wife and kids, thats all the people i think i should get gifts for, everyone else gets a hug or something, that way you don't have to see the look on their face when they open the gift and its some kind of crap they don't know what to do with!!!
well unless i get the urge to write, i'll see you in happier times
ie: january!!!