tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36343923940337637662011-04-21T19:31:33.995-07:00<CENTER>"We Stand on Guard for Thee"</CENTER> <BR> Musings and occasional unhinged ranting of a thirtysomething childfree American (for now and not by choice) geek-boy itching to chuck it all in and escape this Bush-league country for the True North Strong and Free.M. Yasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06751406880254649570noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634392394033763766.post-21527831608384271902007-09-22T17:04:00.000-07:002007-09-22T17:08:42.953-07:00

I've been Snopesed.I wish to make it known that my previous post was wrong. Reagan never said that in his diary. The quote attributed to Reagan's diary was actually from a satire article in the New Republic written by Michael Kinsley.

M. Yasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06751406880254649570noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634392394033763766.post-69136415536610929252007-08-28T19:45:00.000-07:002007-08-28T20:01:01.362-07:00

Despite being accurately described as an "amiable dolt" and despite being in late stage Alzheimer's while in office, Reagan knew the truth about the Shrub. This is how Reagan, in his recently released diaries, described our current President: May 17, 1986"A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the

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"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion."-- Steven Weinberg, Nobel prize-winning physicist.By way of background, I was raised Catholic in a family that had a healthy dose of convert zeal. Of course, I was force-fed all of the usual Catholic dogma

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Many of my progressive brethren have responded that I should not leave the country. They say that it would be be better for all concerned if I and others like me stayed here and fought the good fight for what we believe in.There is a big part of me who feels that way. After all, opposing things like the erosion of a woman's right to choose, the gutting of our consumer protection statutes, and

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This post started life as a "why I want to move to Canada" one.Then, I saw this story. Read the article. More importantly, read the comments. They illustrate much better than I can how far the country of my birth has fallen. I came away feeling like if this is what my country has been reduced to, then I know I'm making the right decision. My hand remains firmly wrapped around the ejection

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So this is where I tell a little about myself and why I'm publishing this damn thing. I think I read somewhere that's what this whole blogging business is all about.Here's a bit about my background. I've lived in Seattle since 1995. Prior to that, I lived in Spokane, where I grew up. I started school at Eastern Washington University. Eventually, I used those credits to get an Associate of

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