My Own Dose of Passionate Conservatism

Statesmen, Federalism, what happened to my “Young Conservatives”?!  I miss them, and have been having withdrawals since leaving Springfield last fall.  

I finally, FINALLY, found the man of my dreams who listens to my heart, my opinion, who is patient, kind and a great leader and confidant.  I can tell him the things I think about politics, economics, finance, stewardship and the things that weigh heavily on my heart.  And today the floodwall kind of broke.  The levee broke and I have found my passion once again.  

I do still want to run for office and more this evening on why I have not done that thus far.  I believe in truth, justice, impact, verification, accountability, responsibility, individuality, improvisation, overhauling the Constitution.  Remember the Young Conservatives?  Everything I wrote about education, religion in politics, religion AND politics, politicians, pork, spending, Federalist values, economics, FLAAPLs, etc (thanks for that one, Vince).  

Black markets, black magic?!  What in the world have we gotten ourselves into?

Ahem, so listening to Rush, reading Buchannan, our discussion about Compassionate Conservatism (Marvin Olasky), comments about the Peace Prize and why Israel is NOT at peace.  Also, the great piece in the WSJ weekend edition.  

More tonight.  I have a barrage of ideas to run by you, my readership and audience, and will probably split running and studies tonight to further elaborate and post my draft of a Letter to the Editor………coming this evening.  

Back in the game?  Hopefully, but I don’t want it to be a game, just a passion.

 

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New Beginnings

My journey of the New Year has been off to a great start, uh, sort of.  I have learned several things:

NO job is secure, so you’re better off to work for yourself.

NO dream is too small.

THERE IS NO WAY YOU WILL EVER BE TRULY HAPPY unless you pursue and whittle away at your own success.

THE WORLD doesn’t care how kind-hearted you are or how much altruism and knowledge you contain, but rather is full of vain and preposterously offensive alter-egos and huge egos alike that would just as soon chew you up and spit you out than see you at the top with them….

UGLY PEOPLE can’t get much done.

NOT ALL gorgeous women are vain and unkind.

MONEY can’t buy happiness, but it buys peace of mind and time doing things that make you happy.

EVERYONE has to grow up sometime.

more thoughts……I need to jot down about a billion ideas, this is exhausting.  But, I will say…..I loved the article on the journal section of the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal…on A-Rod, Phelps, Simpson, Maadoff and the state of things in the Adult World.  I suppose this is the Real World.  YUK!  Where can I sign up to be a kid, sweet/innocent/naive/free and careless again?!

Under Cover

Okay, so my contributions have been null for the past month.  Apologies, readership!

So, The news:

I’m getting married

Yep, that’s pretty exciting.  I went home with Justin for Christmas…to Oklahoma…and enjoyed his family, which will soon also be my family.  We attended the Christmas Eve service at one of the largest Presbyterian churches in OKC and followed that up with a night of acqaintance-making and laughter.  It was a grand time, and I write this as we’re sitting at the Mac crafting wedding invitations.  

I’ve evaluated taking Calculus to get into UT Med School and that may be a long way in the future, but I’m not giving up.  I’ve also started studying for the MCAT and training unofficially for Boston, which is…YIKES!…two and a half months away!  I feel totally inqadequately prepared for the marathon, but have also recently been laid off so I suppose that leaves plenty of time.  Ahem, laid off.  The current economic situation is not, I repeat NOT, my friend!  But, in that time I have also taken on Day Trading.

 

 

 

That fits!  I have a strong case of ADHD, so Day Trading, much like running, requires my focus and actually is fairly compelling, requiring my constant knowledge of the world, which has always been and does in fact remain a passion.  I like journalism, economics, finance, foreign policy, current events, politics, free markets, enterprise, commerce, trade, history…..and my new career requires all of the above.  I’m tossing my risk capital into it, because….on 819 billion dollars plus the other half of 700 billion, the only place one can expect to go from rock bottom is……straight back up to the top.  No, I’m guessing it’ll be a while before we reach 14,000 on the DJIA again, but below 8,000 is about ballpark to sit at 45 % of the best expected in a down market.  

I will elaborate more on this later, but have become engrained in the WSJ, ETRADE, ING, stock watching, news, and am entertaining myself also with a new Benchmade and several guns in tow for the future:  Justin takes me hunting, which just makes my day:)

More on the events as they proceed later, as now I’m getting, uh, distracted

 

 

meanwhile, check out this link:

 

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Christmas came and went, all too soon.  I