Sarah Palin and the VP Debate

by Amy Stinson | Oct 3, 2008 | Musings

I’m a Libertarian-leaning Republican who has been watching this presidential selection process unfold with great interest. I’m pretty fed up with the way this whole system of government is evolving, but unfortunately Americans do the definition of insanity everytime we as a people stand before the voting machines and elect those who say one thing and do something else.

Enter Governor Palin. New kid on the block. Great looking. Not afraid to speak. Feisty. That’s not my beef with her. My beef about her during the VP debate was her reluctance to answer the questions posed by the moderator. There’s no doubt about it; the questions were not comfortable to anyone who has been defending this hot mess called Iraq, or who thought the financial stability of the country was just fine, but to literally change the subject every time something uncomfortable was brought up was not fair to the voting public. Yes, it is OK to defend Iraq from the perspective of the soldiers who have and are serving our country, and it’s okay to acknowledge the lack of knowledge about the financial crisis, but let’s get honest these things and just come clean.

Not that Joe Biden was that much more willing to let ‘er rip, even though the questions were geared more towards an antagonistic stance against the current administration. Could this be because it’s been a democratic led congress for the past 2 years? I don’t know. He was restrained in expressing his views, when that is clearly not his forte.

Note to Candidates: Main Street just wants transparency. Main Street wants to believe someone and not have its intelligence insulted by talking points.

I Love This Theme

by Amy Stinson | Sep 11, 2008 | Musings

I really love the theme I’ve chosen for this site. It’s calm and classy. The only thing I don’t like about it is that the sidebar isn’t “widget aware” and all my attempts to make it so have crashed and burned. But I want this theme and a widget aware sidebar. So that’s one of the first things I’m going to work on once I’m done with this last class.

Wish me luck.

Michael R. Robison – May He Rest in Peace

by Amy Stinson | Jul 2, 2008 | Musings

Next month I will be going to a class reunion. With an upcoming reunion comes an increased desire to reconnect with old friends and even old boyfriends. Michael Robison, who I dated for several years in high school and after, had started coming to mind more and more, so I did my usual Google search. Ever curious about people who have once been a part of my life and are no longer a part, Michael’s name had been searched on more than one occasion over the years, but nothing had ever popped up. I thought that was unusual as computers would be the perfect way to keep filling his mind with information as it has mine. We were very alike in that way. However, I also knew that if he had a big disdain for something that he would avoid it like the plague. For all I knew, he had a dislike for computers, because I certainly had never found him.
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