I have and always will be a man of faith, I was as a Democrat, and I am as a Republican. As I have said in a previous post. I considered my Dad, who was a UAW member, a traitor for voting for Ronald Reagan in 1980, and then again in 1984. I voted Democrat in 1984, my first Presidential vote, and Democrat again in 1988. I was disenchanted with both parties in 1992, so as a choice to exercise my right of free speech I voted for Perot. So did alot of other Americans. Seemed to me that the Republican party listened to those people. My conversion was complete(said in my best Darth Vader voice) when soon after Clinton became President he started indulging every special interest that he could. Tax money for Abortion went world wide, “don’t ask, don’t tell” came into effect. Then the Travel office being fired in favor of “friends”, and this list of improprieties just kept growing. I didn’t vote in 1996 or in 2000. I didn’t like any of the canidates that were offered. I did vote for GW in 2004 not so much that I liked him, which I do. I just could not stand the other guy. The more he talked the more I was certain that the lesser of two evils was absolutely GW. I still stand firm in that conviction.

What I really find nauseating is how those of my friends who I left behind see no wrong in present Democratic leadership. I find it hilliarious that they continue to accuse GW of siding with the rich, when some of the richest people in our government are Democrats, Kerry, who had to sell his home in Italy to run for President in 2004, Kennedy, Edwards, Gore, and now the Clintons are multi-millionaries. Seems to me they can’t see the forest for the trees, but what do I really know, after all I am just and extremist right wing conservative christian Republican. LOL

What drives me crazy is if somebody is disgruntled with their side of the political spectrum, why is the action taken always a switch from Team A to Team Z, with no stopping in between. Yeah, go ahead Sister, keep telling people of your transformation. But the reality is while you switched uniforms, you’re still a cultist conformer.

Just posting this so people can see the kind of crap I have to deal with behind the scenes sometimes. These are the kind of comments that I generally don’t post because of their sheer [insert unfavorable descriptive word here] but I made an exception in this instance. Not posting comments like these on my blog leads to laughable cries by the usual suspects of (paraphrasing) “you’re violating my right to free speech!!!!” and “you’re intolerant regarding other points of view!!!!!” emphasis theirs (of course I didn’t include the profanity often included in many of the complaints I get, either). — ST

Ahem Brian, I am from Iowa, born and raised. I have rarely heard some use the term “warsh”. Y’all might be more common with the older folk in the rural areas of Iowa, but it was not something I heard on a daily basis.

Brian: LOL! I’ll keep that in mind – I have heard a few people around here say “warsh” – wonder if they were from Iowa?

Kevin: Heh I was listening to them for about thirty minutes before I went on and heard them talking about the PETA kills animals website. I didn’t know such a site existed. Learn something new everyday.

Denise: Looking back, I really did wish I had more time to go into that … ah well. Hopefully, there will be a next time I’m linked up now on Allman’s Electric Stove and also have gotten some feedback via email about the show too so that’s cool.

AT: I thought about the collection of comic books amongst adults almost immediately after I said that on the show … I had a friend a while back who collected them. Apologies to all the adults who collect comic books out there! ops:

And, I’ll have you know that I have a pretty damn extensive collection of classic comics (which, since they’re $50.00-$75.00 archived collections of 1930s-40s books, I don’t feel to immature buying!) However, yeah, the PETA one won’t find its way to my bookshelf.

Great job, nice to put a voice to the blog!

You mentioned you don’t get a lot of hits per day on your site. I would be interested to hear if your guest speaking on Allman and Smash brings new visitors. I know for darn sure I hit you daily and feel withdrawal symptoms if I don’t have access to a computer for a few days!

You did a great job today. Thanks to Kevin for providing us with this link, because I had issues connecting to their website.

Earlier in the show, someone called in from a special branch of PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals). I’m trying to join

Brian – I’ll keep that in mind about the accent! I’m fascinated by different accents … while we are talking about that, I know I have quite a few west coast readers here and would just like to say to them that it is very hard for me to guess a California accent. I’ve got some friends in Cali and in talking to them I have noticed that they don’t have a southern twang nor thick northern brogue (I guess that is the right word?).

In general terms, sometimes when you are talking on the phone, you can kind of get an idea where the person on the other end is from by their accent – but unless I know for advance that the company I am calling is in California, I can’t place the accent of the person I’m talking to.

If you want to hear “twang”, you have to come to the midwest (Iowa) to hear it: Not quite “southern”, not quite “northern”…but pure “hick”, nonetheless.