Congratulations Governor Palin

by Jason on June 15, 2009

As many of you know from reading this blog, my wife and I were originally supporters and voters for Senator Clinton who then ultimately backed Senator McCain and Governor Palin in the 2008 election.  Our reasoning were varied, and if you look in the archives you will find out why, so I am not going to rehash it all here again.

What we both find fascinating is the constant obsession of the left with Governor Palin and her family.  Her family can’t seem to do anything without being ridiculed by the “liberal elite” in this country…a.k.a. the mainstream media.  Just look at her recent trip to the baseball game.  Some strange, and many people now think dirty old man, of 61 years has to make some sick remark about her 14 year old daughter getting knocked up.   According to CNN, Governor Palin responded:

“Acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone’s daughter, contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others,” she said in a statement, assuming the joke was in reference to Willow.

It is interesting how most of the groups that work so hard to defend the rights of women seem to be so quiet when it is a woman of conservative principals that gets attacked.  Why do you think that is?  These “entertainers” can’t seem to get enough of Governor Palin.  I posit that the reason is that they are very afraid of her and for what she stands.  We attended rallies where huge groups of people waited in line to hear her speak on multiple occasions.  Her ticket did not win in 2008, but I wouldn’t be so quick to count her out.  The liberal intelligentsia wouldn’t be so quick to criticize and insult her if they were not afraid of what change she might bring.

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Hey Strickland: Our College Students Are Lining Up To Leave

by Jason on June 15, 2009

I had a lot of high hopes for Governor Stickland, but he continues to disappoint.  His education plan is basically a joke.  There are no real changes.  He wants Ohio students to add another month to their school calendar.  I’ve got no problem with that as long as we are compensated.  But just like students in my home state of West Virginia, the buckeye state is full of college-aged students looking for a way out.

As reported in the Columbus Dispatch, this brain drain phenomena is something that many in Ohio considered to be a problem of the poorer states like West Virginia, but according to a new study, our educated are looking to get out.  According to the survey:

• Seventy-four percent of respondents say it is very important that the ideal job should have good opportunities for promotion and pay increases, while 53 percent want work that regularly involves new challenges.

• About 60 percent say they like the idea of a state cash grant for a down payment on a house as an enticement to remain in Ohio after graduation, and 65 percent say a state income-tax credit would be appealing.

• More than half are very interested in internships, co-ops and opportunities to meet with local companies.

• Education is a field worth consideration in the minds of 55 percent of the students surveyed, and almost half of the students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math fields show interest in pursuing education as at least a temporary career.

• Students are more concerned about success and money than about public service.

So as an educator in both high school and college levels, I worry about this problem.  We are doing our best to educate students to be productive, confident, and good citizens.  What can we do to get a few to stick around Ohio?

On a related note, I will soon be posting about why I am strongly considering backing and working to make John Kasich the next governor of Ohio.

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Strange Twitter Posts

by Jason on June 8, 2009

I dabble around a little with Twitter.  But much like my blog as of late, I have not been very consistent with tweeting.  That is another one of my goals for this summer…be a better blogger.  

This morning I read an interesting article in the Columbus Dispatch detailing some very odd tweets from Senator Chuck Grassley.  Apparently, he is upset that President Obama asked the senate to get to work on health care reform while he was in Europe last week.  

Tweet #1:

Grassley’s first tweet: “Pres Obama you got nerve while u sightseeing in Paris to tell us ‘time to deliver’ on health care. We still on skedul/even workinWKEND.”

Tweet #2:

A short time later: “Pres Obama while u sightseeing in Paris u said ‘time to delivr on healthcare’ When you are a ‘hammer’ u think evrything is NAIL I’m no NAIL.”

I’m not even sure how to respond to something so asinine.  I am no fan of Obama’s, but he is our president and he was conducting official business.  Maybe Senator Grassley was trying to make the point that there is not a viable health care plan that has been offered as of yet.  Maybe they could retry “Hillary Care?”

But even stranger, is the manner in which the senator tweeted.  It looks like a text message sent by a high school or middle school student.  

I applaud the efforts by the senator to reach out to the technologically-inclined “younger” generation, but stop acting like a child when doing so.

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Graduation Not So Celebratory In Centerburg, Ohio

by Jason on June 6, 2009

Being a high school teacher, this time of year I am used to all of the graduation parties and the activities that are so important to our graduating seniors.  Today, in fact, I had the honor to give one of my students his high school diploma at our graduation ceremony at Westerville South High School.  I’ve also hit a couple of graduation parties and have had a great time watching these young men and women take a giant leap into adulthood.

It saddned me to hear of the “prank” perpatrated by a student, or students, at Centerburg High School.  According to local reports, and to the Mount Vernon News, a high school senior was caught hacking into the school computer system and attaining access to school tests from one of the high school Social Studies teachers.  But what happened next shocked the community, and I think others across the state of Ohio.

Lynn McCann, school board president, said the board spent four hours Thursday evening discussing options when evidence of cheating by some students on tests administered by world social studies teacher Mike Vargo came to light.

“We toyed with the idea about postponing commencement for a week to keep investigating to see where it leads,” he said. “If you go back through the test scores of, let’s say, John Smith, and it is decided that he cheated on this one and this one and that one, he would get a zero and a zero and a zero. That could knock his grade down enough to fail. He would not pass a required course and he would not graduate.”

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that the school board made a huge mistake.  I cannot understand how the board of education chose to punish all high school seniors for the actions of one, or even several students.  I think it is a shock and an outrage that all seniors were punished in such a way and I hope that the community lets the board of education know how they feel during the next set of elections.

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2009 Birth Announcements

by Jason on June 6, 2009

My wife and I have been talking alot lately about starting a family.  We already have our four dogs and two cats, but we are talking about actually having the human kind of children in addition to our four-legged babies.  I always wondered how we would tell our families and friends that we were expecting and then of course the kind of birth announcements we would choose.

I ran across a great web site called Peach Tree Prints that offers a wide range of baby announcements and many other related items.  You’ve got to check it out.  They are really beautiful.

If you are looking for holiday photo cards then Peach Tree Printing is also a great place to look.  So check it out!  I really don’t think you will be disappointed.  Customers are able to work with their designers to personalize one of their design templates to create something very spectacular!

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A New Car In The Works?

by Jason on June 6, 2009

Even though the economy has been rough for many people, most of us still have to drive, don’t we?  I’d venture to say that most communities across our great country do not offer reliable and competitive public transportation systems.  It is really a shame, but that is the state of  things these days.

I say all of that to let you know about a place where you might look to find car pictures and maybe find that dream car that so many guys and gals out there hold as a possibility one day.  Many of us are looking for something a little more “reliable” like a Chrysler 300.  Who says reliable has to look clunky?  That make of car has always been appealing to me.

Others dream of something that they can jet down the highway in and others will definetely take notice.  What type of car might fit the bill?  How about a Ferrari?  One can dream!

Still probably the majority of us look for something family friendly, especially something for our children to drive.  In my opinion, the Honda Civic always seemed like a logical choice to me.  When my wife and I have children one day, it is a car like this that we will buy for our son/daughter.

So whether you are in the market for something fast, something sexy, or something smart, you can stop by the Car Connection to see lots of great car pictures.  It is a great resource for pictures, information, and more.

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Uninterrupted Cable Service

by Jason on June 6, 2009

If you are anyting like me, you hate moving.  During my college days I think that I must have moved almost every year so a grand total of six times.  I always thought that once I was done with school, I was going to find a place to live and stay there for a long time.  That of course did not happen.  Not until I got married did  I finally find a place where I want to stay for a long time to come.

One thing that I really disliked was having to deal with the hassle of changing utility companies on a constant basis.  Staying at home and waiting for all of those companies to come out to the house to hook up services was aways a big pain.  Who wants to sit around for a five hour window of time to wait on the cable guy?  This is where you might find a service like Direct TV extremely useful.  No longer do you have to wait for endless hours on the cable guy and hope that he keeps the appointment.  Who has time for that?  This is where being able to continue cable service could be a beautiful thing.

There are many reasons why Direct TV claims to have such great service.  According to their website they great signal reliability, the most HD channels, and great customer service satisfaction.  This service is offered throughout the United States.  Direct TV in Florida, Texas, and throughout this country offers an alternative to traditional cable services.  So take a look at Direct TV and see if it might be a service that could work for you.

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The Columbus Dispatch: A Complete Embarrassment To Our City

by Jason on May 24, 2009

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It’s Sunday morning of Memorial Day weekend.  My wife and I are out at a restaurant enjoying the morning and talking as normal.  Before arriving to the restaurant, we purchased a copy of the Sunday Columbus Dispatch at our local Giant Eagle.  Personally, I usually only read the news and metro sections of the paper.  The rest of it isn’t all of that interesting to me.  And truth be told, she only buys the paper to see what ads are in the paper.

Considering it is Memorial Day weekend, I thought that maybe I’d see some stories of patriotism or even heart-wrenching stories of heroes that paid the ultimate price in Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Bosnia, Somalia, or one of the countless other areas of the world where we send our soldiers to defend our ideals of democracy and liberty and justice.

Imagine my surprise when I ran across this story on the FRONT PAGE of the Columbus Dispatch.  It is a ridiculous story about $1 flip flops and the crowds it drew at Old Navy.  Not only were my wife and I shocked, but also repulsed.  What a pathetic display of “journalism” by a paper that is supposed to represent this great city.  What an insult to our veterans all across Ohio and this country.  And what a testament to the dinosaur media and and yet another example of why newspapers across this country are going under.  Perhaps this is a “jump the shark” type of story and we are seeing the beginning of the end of this “newspaper.”

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We Don’t Want Your Terrorist In Our Back Yards!

by Jason on May 21, 2009

Today President Obama declared that some of the terrorists from around the world that were plucked off the battle field will soon be coming to a prision near you.  I say let’s lock them up in the white house basement in some secure cell if he is not worried that the situation could get dangerous.  I bet he wouldn’t want them anywhere near his own children.  Do you want them near yours?

To this day I can’t understand why Obama is so hell-bent on closing the prision at Guantanamo Bay.  Do you?  From what I can grasp, it is to placate some of his left-wing fringe groups like MoveOn.Org.  It certainly does not seem to be out of any constitutional duty that he swore to protect this country.

Quite frankly, I am apalled by the fact that his own democrat-controlled congress told him no, yet he still plans to proceed as planned. According to the AP:

He spoke one day after the Senate voted resoundingly to deny him money to close the prison, and he decried “fear-mongering” that he said had led to such opposition.

Fear-mongering?  Go tell that to some of the people that have had to live through the attacks on this country and others that have been successful.  There are a number of Obama policies that I dislike.  I am quite disappointed in many of his decisions.  But this one makes me furious.

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Time For Pelosi To Put Up Or Shut Up

by Jason on May 14, 2009

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I’ve been so bad about blogging lately.  I don’t know if it is some kind of blogging burnout or just the fact that I’d rather spend time with my wife, but I haven’t been a very good poster lately.  I hope that will change because I do actually enjoy writing, and sometimes even ranting, on this blog.

I was listening to a little bit of the “evil” talk radio today in my car and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was a topic of great interest to many.  I’ve been following in the news the accusations flying about what Pelosi knew and when concerning the enhanced interrogation techniques, that many of the left-wingers are labeling torture.

So we have the CIA stating publicly that they did inform Mrs. Pelosi of these techniques while they were being performed and we have her stating publicly that she was not aware of this.

So who are we to believe?  For me, I tend to believe the agency that is able to produce the documentation.  But that’s just me.

Would this be such a big deal if Nancy Pelosi and the Moveon crowd are so blood-thirsty about punishing the evil Bush crowd that were “torturing” these people that were plucked from the battlefield.

I am not in favor of torture, but I am able to think back to September 11 and remember the horror that I felt when we were attacked.  What makes any of us think that those scenes could not be repeated?  Does the world now love us in this post-Obama world?  Seems like things are still dangerous to me.  I don’t have a lot of problems with these interrogation techniques.  If someone has to experience a little water-boarding to prevent an attack, I think I am OK with that.

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