https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emeraldballot/Thoughts on politics and culturehourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emeraldballot/579054Actually... that post was meant for the Emerald Ink blog... terribly sorry!:( I'd say something political, but I'm happy with politics at the moment. The economy is still scary, but I think I know how to get my writing going again. I'll be back:) When I can pay for my blogit again:) Nixhttps://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emeraldballot/578120What an awesome and generous speech:) I am sure he's a good man.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emeraldballot/578111The country is saved! The world is saved! The rule of law will return! *screams and runs around in circles!*https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emeraldballot/577810I've been pretty quiet around here... but one more day! Tomorrow! I'm very hopeful. I'm afraid too. I want America to mean justice, reason, freedom, law, and ingenuity again. I don't want to see another gilded age.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emeraldballot/575284I'm so sorry you feel that way. You seem very angry. I'm also very angry, but in completely the opposite ways. Just a couple things... the people who 'Swiftboated' Kerry admitted they were lying. John Kerry was an eloquent, decent man, whose main flaw was that he overestimated the American...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emeraldballot/575139When I was younger and very Christian I identified as American because my church group valued being American. That was so long ago though that it was perhaps at the first echoing wave of religious people trying to take over the political system. The idea at the time was that our country was...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emeraldballot/575057When I was younger and very Christian I identified as American because my church group valued being American. That was so long ago though that it was perhaps at the first echoing wave of religious people trying to take over the political system. The idea at the time was that our country was...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emeraldballot/574984I listened to rallies by both of them this morning. (An aside, looking at the way the word rallies is spelled, while I know this is an uncommon word in our culture, unless you're in high school, the word just looks like it's spelled wrong to me and somewhere in the oxygen deprived sponge that is...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emeraldballot/574791You know what I love about capitalism? I'm gonna write a short story today, then I'm gonna sell copies of it. It's gonna be a darn fine story too, seeings how I haven't written anything in a couple of weeks and all that mystical writing energy is all stored up. I have the ability to make a...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emeraldballot/574670I am so excited! The debate is just about on! Baking banana bread scents the house and I should be writing, but I'm very excited about this debate. I am a fervent Obama supporter. I hope he does really well and we are restored as a country. This gentleman is going on about how negative ads work...