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While Googling on another matter I chanced upon a short biographical sketch of Girolama Cardano a person I had never heard of before and found his life so interesting and eventful that I thought that I would give you a few items from his life . Cardano was a very unusual man. He was born in Padua Italy on 24 September 1501,. He was the illegitimate child of Fazio Cardano and Chiara Micheria.. He had three siblings all of whom died of the plague in childhood. Girolama grew up and attended the University of Padua where he eventually was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He was during his lifetime a physician, a mathematician, an inventor, a gambler and an astrologer. Of all those skills he seems to have spent the greatest part of his time honing his skills as a gambler.
Cardano was married and had two sons and one daughter. His eldest son married badly and ended up poisoning his adulterous wife. He was convicted of this act and beheaded in Padua. His daughter sank into prostitution and was not heard from. His youngest son denounced Girolama to the Inquisitionn for publication of what was purported to be the astrological horoscope of Jesus Christ. The son requested to be appointed public executioner and that his father be subject to execution for this heresy. He was sentenced only to a short prison term which he served and was then released so the son did not get to officiate at his death.. So it appears that Girolama did not have a pleasant and tranquil life.
Cardano published a number of important and famous mathematical treatises. He also invented what we currently call "the universal joint" and invented the combination lock. By some means he returned to the good graces of the Church because he was rewarded by Pope Gregory XIII with an annuity for life. Cardanno died on 21 September 1576 which was the exact day he had predicted for his death in a publication issued thirty years prior. That he had committed suicide was suggested by many.
Since I had never heard of Girolama Cardano I felt that he had likewise escaped your notice and that you might want to know who it was that invented the universal joint and the combination lock. He was not a particularly enviable as a man but he did have an active life. One meets all kinds of people on Google.
Love
dad, granpa, ami
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Just to let you know what fills my days---important stuff.
My new dog Sally (SO NAMED BECAUSE SHE WAS THE FIRST TO "SALLY-FORTH" FROM THE LITTER) is 51/2 months old and of indeterminant geneology. She is possessed with boundless energy and appetite and has not learned that everything doesn't need to be chewed by her--and she has a good start on chewing everything in the house. For over a week she has managed not to mess up the house and to save that sort of thing for outside activities and I had come to the conclusion that we had crossed a major hurdle
in her training but last night I had a guilty conscious I guess and did not get to sleep until about 3 AM and thus missed the usual 4 AM invitation for her to cruise the back yard and I awoke at 5:30 AM and instantly knew that I was late on putting her out. So I had that to clean up just before breakfast and then asked both dogs if they wanted to go to the vast postal hub of Dennis TX to mail some articles and they acted very excited about that . We went outside and I arranged the sheet which covers the back seat of the SUV and the German Shepherd (Sara) jumped into the car and lay down across the full back seat which left no place for Sally except the floor of the car. Sally considered this a social snub and even though she has been following my commands to the letter for several weeks now she decided that she would NOT go in the SUV nor would she go in the house nor would she come within several feet of me. Sara and I started off for The trip to Dennis and she decided that she would follow a pied. So I turned around and drove back home and coaxed her into the house and into the back yard which is securely fenced (I hope). Sara and I went on to Dennis and did our mailing and returned to find Sally a chastened and responsible dog who after drinking vast amounts of water went into my study/bedroom and lay down on a battered and chewed old blanket which is her normal sleeping place and I went about my business of washing dishes and clothes and watching TV but after about an hour or so felt that I should check on Sally and compliment her on her status as a "good dog". When I went into the bedroom it was instantly obvious that no compliments were necessary. The room reeked of all manner of canine excrement which was hidden from view by the tattered remains of two boxes (large boxes) of band aids which I had purchased the day before to cover up the scratches on my arms from where Sally had jumped up and called something to my attention wiuth her razor sharp claws. Sally crawled under the bed and refused to discuss the matter.I got the mop and a mop bucket and spent the rest of the morning cleaning up my bedroom and used up two bottles of air freshener trying to make the bedroom smell a little different. By this time it was lunch and for some reason I just wasn't very hungry and I lay down in another bedroom and read on a mystery story. About this time it started to rain and both dogs were afraid of the thunder and did their best to convince me that they should get ON the bed--but discipline prevailed and so they both got under the bed.
So see my life is not all roses and pink lemonade. I am still determined to make responsible citizens of Sally. Sara helps and usually comes to tell me when Sally is doing something wroing. I am considering cleaning my shotgun tonight
Love
dad, granpa, ami
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My grandfather, Walter Thomas Hamilton, was a man of settled habit and ritual. He did the same things every day. Coming into the farmhouse from the field or cow lot he would always stop on the backdoor step and stomp the dirt and cow manure off his shoes before coming on the back porch where he hung his hat on a nail there for that purpose.. Then he would put a bucket full of water into a wash pan on a small stand and meticulously wash his hands, arms, face and his head including the back of his neck in water directly out of the windmill at 55 degrees F and usually using Lava soap.. This ritual he always observed whether he had been out of the house all morning or for just a few minutes. I am sure that Grandad used the front door of the house on some occasions but I cannot ever recall him doing so except to meet guests arriving there.
Saturday morning was his time to go to town and he rarely went at any other time. After all it was 12 miles to Plainview and Grandad did not believe in wasting gasoline unless it was really necessary. It would take one gallon of gasoline selling at the outrageous price of thirteen cents per gallon for him to make the round trip . If he absolutely had to go to town in the week he would usually hitch the team to a wagon and go to Lockney which was only five miles away. Thirteen cents was not to be sneezed at and I have known times when Grandad stopped at the Aiken service station and got his one gallon of gas and promised to pay for it on the way back after he had sold his cream and eggs in Plainview.
Grandad had a flock of about 150 laying hens and had from four to eight Jersey cows. The cream and eggs he got from these were about the only source of money that Walter ever saw except for a small share of the cotton harvest in the fall which had to be used for major expenses. There was therefore a lively debate between my grandmother and Walter about what the money should be spent for. This debate was usually held just before his departure for town on Saturday morning and I remember that there was one item that frequently came up that I did not recognize. My grandmother would frequently say with a resigned tone in her voice "and if you can afford it I need a couple of yards of unbleached domestic". I finally asked my grandad what "unbleached diomestic" was and he said that it was an inexpensive type of cotton cloth that was not shiny white because it had not been bleached after machine weaving. I asked Grandad why she wanted it and he said "For many things. She makes quilt backings, cup towels, underwear , baby clothes, handkerchiefs, nightgowns, pillow slips and table cloths as well as many things that I don't even know about."
I don't know what unbleached domestic cost then or even if it still exists as an item but I do remember that Grandad crossed something off the grocery list that day and bought my grandmother two yards of unbleached domestic which made my grandmother very happy. It has been a very long time since I have heard of unbleached domestic and I wonder if it still exists as something that would make a woman's day brighter.
Love
Dad, granpa, ami
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I have been doing a bit more reading about the Hamilton clan history in Scotland to see if I should be lucky enough to identify the parents of Thomas Hamilton Sr. who came over to the United States sometime between 1725 (his birthdate) and 1750 when we find him in Guiliford County, North Carolina getting married to Jane McCracken. Unfortunately I am not able to find any Scotch or Northern Ireland connection as yet. But I shan't give up. I may yet stumble upon some reference to Thomas which will lead back to the old country. Everybody addressed in this email is a desendant of Thomas and Jane to some degree or other.
I did learn a bit about the Hamilton clan of Scotland in general such as:
Name: The Hamilton name is said to have originated from Hameldone a small town in the north of England where a very ancient ancestor of the the clan lived. He was Sir Walter Fitz-Gilbert and was known generally as Sir Walter Fitz-Gilbert of Hameldone and over time came to more frequently be called Sir Walter of Hameldone and over time the Hameldone changed to Hamilton.
Don't get to feeling too proud of the Fitz-Gilbert ancestor because the prefix of "Fitz" was normally applied to the surname of the parent to designate a son born out of wedlock.
The Coat of arms of the Hamilton clan was an oaktree with a saw partially through the trunk of the tree and the motto of the clan was "Through" indicating the result of a charge against the line of a foe.
Walter Fitz-Gilbert of Hameldone acquired large land holdings in Renfrewshire with his marriage. After the Battle of Bannockburn Robert the Bruce granted to Fitz-Gilbert large land holdings of Dalsey and in 1445 elevaqed Fitz-Gilbert to the Barony of Cadzow and throughout the 16th and 17th centuries the family were heirs presumkptive to thue Scottish throne and were also the hereditary keepers of the the royal Holyroodhouse.
Patrick Hamilton (1498-1528) died a protomartyr of the Scottish Reformation. (I will have to do a bit more research to determine whether he was a catholic martyred by the protestant Presbyterians or a protestant martyred by the Catholics--I'll get back with you on that.)
Line of descent known to me to date:
Thomas Hamilton Sr.(1725--1803) married Jane McCracken (1725-????)
Children of this union were:
Elizabeth Hamilton --b1775 in NC, d12-15-1856 in TN
James Hamilton--b5-1-1757 in NC, d4-27-1801 in Carroll Co TN, mJane Gwinn
T homas Hamilton Jr.--b2-24-1762, d2-14-1841 in Galatian IL
Robert Hamilton---b2-8-1766, d11-15-1846, m-Sara Agnew--b1769--11-29-1827 **
**Children of this union were:
Euphema Hamilton--b7-12-1795, d ???? m-Thomas Shaw
Robert Agnew Hamlton--b9-19-1799, d ????, m-????
James Harris Hamilton--b5-7-1802, d????, m--????
Sarah Hamilton--b2-23-1807, d???? , m-Joshua Hudson
William McGee Hamilton--b11-19-1807in TN, d5-15-1848 in Clarksville TN, m-Nancy Gwinn
Henry Harry Hamilton-b9-28-1792, d5-20-1837,m-Margaret Jane Frazier b1795**
** Children of this union are:
William F. R. Hamilton--b1817
Ashley Shelby Hamilton--b1820
Margaret Jane Hamilton--b1829
Malberry Thomas Hamilton--b5-9-1819, d????,m-Mary Jane Patterson on 12-13 1843, d????**
**Children of this union were:
William J. Hamilton--bca 1847 in TX
Henry J. Hamilton--bca 1850 in TX
Dewitt Hamiulton--bca 1857 in TX
Malberry Adalbert Hamilton b2-1-1859, d 12-23-1863,mLiza Ann Miller b2,23,1863 in MO **
**Children of this union were:
James Elmer Hamilton--b10 -20-1887
Robert Franklin Hamilton--b12-6-1889
Maud Hamilton--b10-16-1891
Claud Hamilton--b10-18-1891
Mattie Hamilton--b10-31-1894
Ruth Hamilton--b3-3-1897
Ruby Hamilton--b3-3-1897
Hubert Hamilton--b1-24-1900
Ernest Hamilton--b12-12-1902
Ernhie Hamilton--b12-12-1902
Walter Thomas Hamilton--b10-31-1885, d11-29-1957, m Mary Ellen Dennis--b2-15-1886, d3-13-1973,**
**Children of this union were:
Luvena Hamilton,
Christine Hamilton
Ouida Ethel Hamilton
Weldon Hamilton,
More great Geneological Enlightenment to be added at a future time. I am still spernding days before a hot computer looking for a Scoittish or Irish connection with these Hamiltons.
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I have been asking myself some serious questions today and since there is no one here but my dog Sara and I there have not been very many answers forthcoming. So I have decided to share these self-asked questions with you and the answers that I have dug out to save you the tedium of searching through literature and the internet for answers.
1. How many of the seven dwarfs can you name?
Ans. Well, Disney's seven dwarfs were Dopey, Happy, Bashful, Grumpy, Sneezy And Doc. The Brother's Grimm who created the seven dwarfs even before Disney never did give them any Christian names . But now I'll get down to the real question—all of the dwarfs had beards save only one—which one? (The answer is Dopey)
2. So you know poetry? Then I am sure that you have read or heard the poem that begins:
"Half a League, Half a league, Half a league onward,
Into the valley of death rode the...
Rode the who? Of course you knew, "The six hundred". Actually there were 673 of them but we have to allow Tennyson a little poetic license when he wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade".
But in the spirit of the true trivia nut that is not good enough
. The real question Are you ready? How far is half a league? (The answer is that a league is not so easy to define. It originally was intended to be I/20th of a degree of latitude but by the time Tennyson wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" different systems were in use and a league could vary from 2 ½ miles to 4 ½ miles. So to determine what Tennyson meant we sought a measurement of the length of the valley down which the Light Brigade rode and found that the valley was only 1 1/4 miles long so Tennyson was thinking of a League as 2 ½ miles when he wrote the poem. Actually there is a curve in that valley such that the Light Brigade only had to face the Russian cannon for only a third of a league—but accuracy doesn't always make good poetry so lets just let Tennyson have his "Half a League". Oddly when Texas joined the Union it retained its mineral rights for "seven leagues from low tide" which would be 21 miles by the then recognized length of a marine league to be three miles so we got 21 miles of oil land whereas the other states mostly only got three miles. I am a trivia nut. Now I am off thinking about the fact that Mexican Law allowed early emigrants to Texas to settle on a "league and a labor" of land which was 9 square miles plus all the ground a man could plow in one day (which incidentally was reckoned to be 146 acres.) That was with an ox-drawn plow and a long summer day. See what all you can get into reading poetry?
3. I used to have a couple of horses out here at the farm. Actually they belonged to Frank and to a friend of his who was a farrier. For the life of me I can't remember their names. We actually got rid of them because they spent most of their time on the front porch of the house. But to get to the question—would you be surprised if I told you one of those horses was 22 hands high?
Answer; Yep horse height is measured in :"Hands" and a hand is 4 inches and is measured from the ground up to the point between the shoulder blades called the "withers" at the base of the neck. And if I told you I had a 22 hand high horse you could laugh because the world record high horse was an English Shire Horse foaled in 1850 that measured 21.5 hands high or 86 inches. Sixteen hands high is considered quite tall for a modern horse.
But now for the trivia lover's question: what was the name of Festus' mule in Gunsmoke?
(The answer is "Ruth") and the name of U.S. Grant's horse in the Civil War? (The answer is "Cincinnatus").
4. Most of us Texans and poker players the world over know that Wild Bill Hickock was shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall while playing five card draw in a poker game in Deadwood Gulch South Dakota and I'll even bet that most of you know what hand he was holding when he was killed. What was it?
Answer–He was holding two aces and two eights which is almost universally called "a deadman's hand" in poker. But the real trivia nuts will want to know what was the fifth card in his hand? ( it was the jack of diamonds)
5. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as explained in Revelations 6th Chapter appear on four horses of different color . The rider of the black horse carries a set of scales, the rider of the white carries a bow and a crown, the rider of the red horse carries a sword. But what does the rider of the pale horse carry?
Answer: Nothing. The significance of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse has been explained to me several times by as many different people and I am not sure that I have ever really understood what any one of the people was trying to say so in about fifteen minutes before I go to bed I am going to read the sixth chapter of Revelations once again and see if it all becomes clear in my mind. Don't wait up for me to call and explain it all to you.
Now just so you won't think that I am cheating I did not make all this up. I got it from a book called "Did The Corinthians Ever Write Back?"by Ken Weber which is a most interesting book .
And just so you will know we don't really know whether the Corinthians ever wrote back or not
or where they sent their answer if they did. It is a fun book.
Love
Dad, Granpa, ami
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I have always thought that an extensive and well stocked vocabulary was the indicator of a well educated , experienced and interesting person. To that end I keep a spiral notebook at hand when reading and copy down words that I do not know or feel uncomfortable with and search diligently for a place to use them so that I can truly add them to my vocabulary. A word not used is after all hardly lodged in one's vocabulary. Today on the last day of 2007 I am forced to admit that I have failed to add a few words to my vocabulary by using some that I have copied down in my reading and must further admit that they have been there dormant in my Commonplace Book for most all of this year. The problem is that they are words that have just not come up in my conversation this year. The words and their meaning are below:
catapan: The officer who governed Calabria and Apulia under the Byzantine emperors.
bolluschickie: Young males of the Pribolof fur seals
spetch: A piece or strip of undressed leather trimmed from a hide used in making glue
turdiform: Having the form or appearance of a thrush
denariate: A portion or piece of land worth only a penny a year in rent
I guess that I am travelling in the wrong crowd because I just haven't found a place to fit these words into any conversations that I have had this year. Maybe my life will be more exciting in 2008.
love
dad, granpa, ami
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There are definitely some things that we used to say or to hear that are no longer in vogue. I had to be reminded of some of them by a book I have called "Dewdroppers, Waldos and Slackers". All of the ones below are expressions or names that I remember from that time.
A lot of the language centered around the itinerant jobless people who called everyday at our BACK door and asked if they could do a bit of work for a bite to eat. These people always approached the house at the backdoor and would make their request with hat in hand. Mother nearly always had something in the pantry or in the stove to feed these men. There were "Hoboes", "Tramps" and "Bums" and nearly everyone used those terms interchangeably but a few insisted that there was a difference:
hobo-----Many insisted that a hobo was not a hobo unless he was away from home.
tramp---tramps were held to travel but lived by begging and did not work
bums---neither travelled nor worked
The request for food was nearly always put as "Ma'am could I do some work for you for a bite to eat?"
I don't put a lot of stock in those definitions. We used the three terms interchangeably for anyone down on his luck and out of a job--of which there were many.
There was a general alphabet soup of government agencies after FDR took over as President:
WPA--Works Progress Administration
CCC--Civil Conservation Corps--organized on miitary lines and used to improve national parks and scenic spots.
NRA--Nationasl Recovery Act
and many many more.
The most colorful language was that of the soda jerks and restraunt waitresses as they took ones order and shouted back to the kitchen , cook or to the soda jerk any one of the following: (these were remarkably the same over the area I lived in)
A barrel of mud--a chocolate milkshake
A barrel of red mud--strawberry shake
a black cow--a root beer float (these are still available in small country towns in West Texas)
a black stick--a chocolate ice cream cone
a blonde stick---a vanilla ice cream cone
shoot one red---a cherry Coca Cola (some times it is "Hang one red")
shoot one yellow--- a lemon coke
shoot one green---a lime coke
shoot a sissy---a vanilla Coca Cola
punk and gut---a sausage and biscuit sandwich
98---a warning from the soda jerk that a parent of someone in the store had just entered
Bossy in a bowl---beef stew
flop 'em---two eggs over easy
cat beer---milk
a freak--Orange coke
Adam's ale---water
nervous puddin'---Jello
hold the hail---no ice
87 and one half---Wow--Just look at that doll!
95---a customer is walking the check
98--the boss just drove up
pull two on the city--two glasses of water
Hoover flags--pockets turned wrong side out to show that they are empty
First lady--spareribs
Of course there were many many more but this will give you some idea of why you would not have instantly understood everything in the thirties. Sort of silly I guess but I miss 'em sometimes.
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Most of those addressed will not know or at least not remember Betty Brown. I got a Christmas Card from Betty this morning. She is the widow of my Dad's half brother (Willie Elven Brown). She lives now and has for years in a house near Lancaster High School in Lancaster Texas. Frank and I went to visit her there about four years or so ago. I would guess that Betty is about 85 or maybe a bit older and she lives all alone in that same house where she and Willie lived when he was alive. It was something that Willie and Betty did once that I think was a very noble and caring thing . They had an acquaintance who had a family of five children. Four girls and a boy I think. One night the friend couple went out on a date of sorts and left the children at home under the supervision of the eldest (a girl12 years old) and they never came back. They were involved in a deadly automobile accident that killed both of them leaving the five kids all alone. Willie and Betty went over to that house, bundled up the kids and took them home, made the preparations to adopt all five kids ---which they followed through. Willie was a welder at a Dallas tank manufacturing company and was already feeling the effects of the occupational lung disorder which caused his death within the next five years leaving Betty all alone with five kids. The story has a happy ending. They all reached adulthood, married and moved away and are now fine citizens. No Child Protective Services, no court supervision that I know of, no insurance from the dead parents---juist Willie and Betty to take care of them and not even Willie for very long.
Betty was a nurse for a local clinic and finally had to give that up due to her health. She is still the same bright and cheerful person that she was thirty or forty years ago. Her Christmas Card that I got today said that her Parkinson's disease had progressed to the point where she could only navigate around her house with a walker but that everything was all right. Imagine that--everything was all right!
Just thought that you should know.
love
dad, granpa, ami
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Listed below are a number of items concerning immigrants and your (and my) feelings about immigrants in the US. I would be interested in knowing what you think about each of the following situations and whether or not you would be bothered (or to use that awful word "prejudiced" about each of the situations below. So as not to influence your feelings at all I will send you my answers to these questions tomorrow explaining how I feel about each of them. I have made a study of each person trying to become our next president and I find that none of them would be significantly bothered by any of the incidents or conditions below. 'Fess up.
How would you feel?
Situation 1:
There are presently in the US a total of 25 foreign nationals convicted of heinous crimes who have been sentenced to death under state laws. One of these persons convicted of rape and murder of an 11 year old girl is a Mexican national and he confessed to the crime during his trial. He was advised of his rights under the Miranda doctrine when apprehended and there is no question of the adequacy of counsel which he was provided at trial. This inmate has now sued
to the Supreme Court of the US asking that his sentence should be put aside and a new trial held because he was never told during the trial that he had a right to seek the counsel of the Ambassador to the US from Mexico. He does not contest the fact that he never asked to have the counsel of the Ambassador during his trial or after his apprehension. If the US Supreme Court finds in favor of this defendant the other twenty four prisoners sentenced to death will have to be re-tried. All 25 of the prisoners have already exhausted their rights to appeal on other grounds.
The Supreme Court has agreed to rule on this appeal. President Bush says he agrees with the prisoner.
Situation 2. You go into a department store to make a small purchase and are waiting in line to pay for your purchase when another employee comes up to the cashier's desk and engages the cashier in discussion in Swahili dialect (at least you think it is Swahili) and frequent use of the word "nguruwe" at which they always look directly at you and giggle. This goes on for several minutes then the cashier turns to you and says in perfect Oxford English "May I assist you now Madam? ( or Sir?). Are you affronted? Do you think that Sears should allow this? Will you do anything about it? Or will you bask in the diversity?
( "nguruwe" incidentally means "pig" in Swahili) but you don't know that.
Situation 3. You are walking down a crowded city street and the two teen age (late teen age–about 19) walking directly behind you are conversing loudly in an Oriental language (you think) and giggling after each time they use the word "bakkhu-shun". Does this get on your nerves? Do you cross the street and walk down the other side of the street? Or do you just accept it and wish that you spoke their language? "Bakkhu-shun" in Japanese means "a woman who is much more attractive when seen from the rear that when seen from the front"—but you don't know that.
Situation 4.
Your eighteen year old son just graduated from high school and you have sighed a great sigh of relief, but he told you this morning that he has been turned down for entry to your state's university because their allowable freshman entries whoops–I forgot that you don't call them "freshmen"–the allowable number of "first year students" has been admitted. This is bad news because that means he will have to go to Texas Hindu University which has a good curriculum and faculty but costs at least four or five times as much as the state university because it does not have the tax support of the state school–your taxes. Then you find out that the state university admitted twenty three first year students from the Easter Island of Rapa Nui in order to achieve greater student body diversity and "culturally enrich" the school—these admissions without regard to the testing scores of the twenty three. You go to the registrar of the state university and stand in line to see someone and the two girls in front of you are talking in an unknown language and you catch only the frequently repeated word "Tingo" but this time you have time you smile. You know what "tingo" means in Pascuense , the language of the Easter Islands—it means ":the practice of taking all of the objects one desires from the house of a friend by borrowing them one at a time and never returning them". You know that because you were the sole survivor of a US submarine which dived in the Easter Islands in WWII–you were too slow to get down the hatch.
But what do you think about the act of the University in allowing the Easter Islanders to enroll as First Year Students in a school supported by your tax dollars when they did not make testing scores as good as our darling child —or even if they did for that matter.
Situation 5.
You land at DFW airport after a tough flight from Teheran Iran and you are already seething mad at Iran because of some things that happened to you in Teheran and you don't notice that your cab driver got his driving lessons from a camel. He stops at the side of the road just off the airport and hands you a small card which says in passable English "Please print in block letters the name of the street and number of your destination. Thank You. May Allah bring you peace".
So you print "904 Rindie St., Irving" on the card and hand it back to him. He thumbs through a MAPSCO and a bright light turns on when he finds the street and he smiles and takes off at about 90 miles per hours When you reach your destination you glance at the meter and hand him a generous tip just because you have been thinking of garotting him with your belt during the entire trip. When he sees the tip he screams "kill", "kill" I realize that he is not Iranian at all but rather Saudi Arabian where "kill" means "friend". But what do you think about the fact that a large percentage of the taxi drivers in New York City and other metropolitan centers are Muslims from Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen, Egypt and Iran as well as quite a few from India. This is purely and simply because the Taxi cab franchise owner can get these immigrants to work for a fraction of what he would have to pay an American citizen but the cab fare is the same or more than when the drivers were American citizens meaning that the franchise owner is making a much larger profit than before he hired all immigrants to drive his cabs. This OK with you?
I could go on all day with other examples but I will let these suffice. I will send my further thoughts tomorrow. What do YOU think about these things which are not exaggerated in the conditions they set.
Let me hear from you.
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An old friend (not quite as old as I but nearly) that I used to work with in the electronics business recently sent me a listing of eight reasons why he thought that Fred Thompson should be our next president. I read them carefully and decided that I could and did support most of the reasons and with just a little modification I could adopt them as the reasons that I was going to vote for Fred Thompson for our next president if I and he live that long and the creek don't rise.. Here are the reasons. (in reverse order):
8. Because Fred Thompson's voting record in the U.S. Senate shows that he is a staunch supporter of the Constitution of the US as written and including the second amendment which guarantees our citizens the right to bear arms, he is against abortion on demand, against higher taxes,for a balanced budget, for a strong defense, in favor of ANWR drilling, for limit capping foreign aid, for private property rights, for the Iraq war resolution and for welfare reform.
7. Because among the special interest group ratings Senator Thompson earned and received:
A score of zero from the National Abortion Reproductive Rights Action,
A perfect 100% score from the U.S. Chamber of Congress,
A perfect zero from the American Federation of Teachers,
Only 11% from the ACLU,
A strong 85% from the American Conservative Union,
A strong 86% from the Center For Security Policy,
A very weak 6% from the National Education Association (an organization I once refused to join),
A valid 90% rating from the League Of Private Property Owners,
A strong 97% rating from the National Tax Limitation Committee,
An 88% rating from the National Taxpayers Union,
A beautiful ZERO mfrom the Americans For Democratic Action,
He supported the "Contract For America Actions" 100% of the votes (as compiled by Vote Smart ),
6. Because under his Chairmanship the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee pursued an aggressive agenda aimed at reducing the size of government and making it more accountable to the voter. He was also active in efforts to make the government computer systems more resistant to attempts to violate their security.
5. Because when Thompson makes a mistake he admits it and learns from it. He did vote for the McCain-Feingold Bill but has admitted publicly that the bill was inadequate and was a poor attempt to solve the problem of influence peddling and just plain old bribery. He now favors FULL disclosure of all monies received by any Congressman from any source other than the US Treasury.
4. Because Thompson has the admiration and respect of his fellow Congressmen on the Hill and is the most likely candidate with the ability to acheive some semblance of cooperation between the Executive and Legislative branches of government.
3. Because he scares the Devil out of Leftists, Socialists and Big Government advocates. Democratic strategist Bob Beckel stated in an Interview on Fox News
that Fred Thompson for president would be their worst nightmare" because of his communications skills and his ability to swing voters across party lines. Fred Tompson is much more "Issue aligned" than he is "party aligned" and the voters instantly recognize this. Thompson is not a Ronald Reagan but he is an astute student of Reagan's political tactics. Like Reagan Thompson is more than "just an actor."
2. Because he doesn't scare Independents and Reagan Democrats. Like Reagan Thompson is that rare sort of conservative who can sell conservative ideas to moderates and independents. Thompson may well be the only candidate who can fully mobilize the Republican party at this time. The Republican party made a knowing shift under Bush of recognizing and promoting "Big Government" which turned off a significant segment of their traditional base. The old "pools of dependency" idea where every one depending upon the government will vote for incumbents has not worked for the Republicans and won't work ever. The principal bulwark of the Republican Party always has been and will continue to be the "family values, Christian right, low taxes" which the Republicans deserted under Bush.
1. Because he will beat Hillary Clinton like a rented mule----thats why Fred Thompson should be our next President and a good enough reason to vote for him.
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