politics with a side of fries

it's a sad thing to finally come of the age where you have finally completed school (all 19+ years of it), gotten a job that you can be proud of and have started to slowly make a dent in all the debt that said 19 years of school has provided...only to realize how significant we as Americans can be taxed. reading my pay stub has given me a heart attack on a number of instances. it's not even that the percentage of the whole is so great... it has to do more with the fact that I've worked VERY hard for that money and in order to make sure everything I'm responsible for gets covered I would really appreciate the use of every cent of it. The worst is 'social security' tax...which the harsh reality is, I'll likely never see again. I know there are those out there that feel like taxes are the dues we have to pay to live in this great nation. And while I'll fully support our country through thick and thin, I see waste at every level of our government and I want ...

I have been on a huge eating bad kick recently. I usually try to keep it good and healthy for the most part, although I do enjoy my fair share of fried foods (and other unhealthy things! but recently I've been veering into uncharted territory- burgers and fries for lunch, pizza for dinner... It's getting out of hand. I'd promised myself I would 'be good' this week, and had been good until last night. When we went to BRC gastropub... It was a good friend's birthday so when I heard that we were going, I'll admit I wasn't super stoked at first. I'd heard it was crowd, obnoxious and nothing special. I'd also heard that it was amazing. Parking was a pain, as everything close to Washingon is...walking in, was like walking into a wall of sound. It was loud and harsh, the acoustics are just terrible- concrete floors, low flat ceilings and nothing to cushion the sound. The deco was really fun though- dark woods, bold red damask wallpaper. I told the H tha...

my grandmother sent me this in an email... aside from the fact that my grandmother is now emailing like crazy (itself a weird thing), i think it's just another 'sign of the times' that even earlier generations are getting into politics in a big way. I know that over the course of their lifetimes things have changed greatly, and it has to be unsettling at times to see how far we've come (or fallen as the case may be). What's reassuring though is that they still feel like the best way to make a change is to get out and do something - share their values, make their voices heard and trust that there is still hope for America's future. Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907. 'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such m...

I am at a loss... the more I hear things from this woman, the more I am confused as to how she continues to be elected. Her sentences rarely make sense, and yet people applaud her! Below is something I took from John Faulk's newsletter... he's a great candidate and a strong conservative who should help district 18 get rid of queen Shelia once and for all! Last Sunday afternoon Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) was part of the panel for a legislative workshop titled "Engaging Congress: the NAACP's Legislative Agenda to Achieve One Nation, One Dream". Representative Jackson-Lee spoke on the tea party movement among other issues: "Representative Sheila Jackson Lee: ....And I thank you professor very much. I'm going to be engaging you with those very powerful numbers that you have offered on what the tea party recognizes, uh, or is recognized as. Might I add my own P.S.? All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and star...