Things that BUG ME!
Black and White. Photo by Lee Hinshaw Let me start off by saying I'm not racist. However, according to the current political standards, I must be. From the start of this Presidential campaign, I've complained that you can't say anything negative or question anything about Barack Obama without someone saying you're racist. For this simple reason alone, Barack Obama has been able to run an unfair campaign. I am not alone in this quandary. I was recently listening to a stand-up comic talking about the current state of political correctness. He said that he constantly sees white people afraid to laugh at jokes he tells about black people, until the white people see that black people in the audience are...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on October 19, 2008
Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw donated $100,000 to fight overturning of the court decision in California that legalizes same-sex marriage. California Proposition 8, or the Marriage Protection Act, will be on the ballot in November and, if passed, will amend the California state constitution to limit marriage to a man and a woman. Brad Pitt donated the same amount to the same cause last week. What a huge waste. I'm sure everything over there on the left coast is so fine and dandy that there is absolutely no need for anything more pressing. No charities in need of funds. No hungry children. No sick children. No abandoned children. No orphans waiting on adoption. No abused women or...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on September 23, 2008
Photo by Lee Hinshaw, www.LeeHinshaw.com 8:46am this morning marks the 7th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and flight 93.... America the Beautiful O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern impassioned stress A thoroughfare of freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law! O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife. Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life! America!...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on September 11, 2008
My local paper, The Burlington, NC Times-News has become a pro-Hispanic, pro-illegal-immigrant paper. It seems that every day now they have an article or two, sometimes more on the subject. Usually either written by or contributed to by Keren Rivas. I assume that she's a new reporter with the paper but I really don't know. However, there are a few other reporters that take the same pro-illegal-immigrant view point as she does. Most of these articles are front page articles as well. Last week, the N.C. State Highway Patrol stopped a Mexican bus that was leaning to one side as it traveled Interstate 85. There were several people on the bus who were in the country illegally. The bus driver...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on August 18, 2008
I read a few reviews of Will Smith's new movie Hancock. I doubt I'll go see it after reading the reviews, but in general, I like his movies, he's a good actor. One thing struck me as I was reading the reviews, the writers kept talking about race. They said his character in Hancock represents Smith's own struggles and conflicts of being a successful black actor. That his Hancock character has to be twice as good, because he's black, and they infer that Smith's rise to stardom has been the same. They say that Smith transcended his race and that race is transparent in the characters he plays. So which is it? You can't have it both ways. Most...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on July 8, 2008
Some things you just don't mess with... mama, Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood, Andy Griffith, the facts about history, John Wayne, and Jonny Cash. Politically Correct and Clint Eastwood don't mesh. I'm glad. Thank God some things are stable and you can actually count on them. Some people, like Spike Lee, like to throw stones and stir things up. He's also a Barack Hussein Obama supporter so you know I don't like him too much. Clint Eastwood recently directed two movies, Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. It seems that Spike prompted reporters to ask Clint why he didn't include any blacks in these two films about Iwo Jima. Mr. Eastwood responded by saying that he was...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on June 10, 2008
Steve Pavlina is a smart man. He's owned a successful software company and has now, for several years, authored a successful and profitable blog focused on Personal Development for Smart People. Steve has authored long posts in the past dealing with all types of things from ending dependence on caffeine, forming good habits, to public speaking. He has volumes of posts on consciousness and awareness. Some of his ideas are far out, like Lucid Dreaming for instance, but some offer good solid ideas and advice. Until now. On May 27th Steve posted a rant titled "10 Reasons You Should Never Have a Religion". To be honest, this article seems like it's a deliberate attempt to create controversy: which is a...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on June 3, 2008
Tell Congress that America needs secured borders. Alert: The man honored by the shrine to Jesus Malverde in Culiacan, so often packed with locals, is no ordinary Mexican saint — Malverde was a Sinaloan bandit who has been adopted as a kind of a patron saint by the northern province's drug traffickers. Sinaloa is the cradle of Mexico's narco-trafficking industry, producing the majority of the nation's drug kingpins in recent decades. Their number includes such storied figures as Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who ran the Guadalajara Cartel and ordered the savage killing of a DEA agent; Amado Carrillo Fuentes, alias "The Lord of the Skies," who died in plastic surgery while attempting to change his appearance; and the Arellano Felix...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on June 2, 2008
I read in a news release today that Josef Fritzl says he's no monster. He says that he saved their lives (referring to his captive daughter and incestuous children/grandchildren), that he could have killed them all and no one would have known. In case you don't know Fritzl is the 73 year old monster who kept his daughter locked in his basement for 24 years from the the time she was 18. Not just that, he constantly raped her and fathered 7 children with her. Three of the children remained in the basement prison, three were removed and adopted by Fritzl as his grandchildren, and one died and he burned the body. One of the imprisoned children, 19, is in...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on May 7, 2008
Watch This... The Truth about Obama......
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on May 7, 2008
Above is an ad that Absolut Vodka ran in Mexico. Too bad I don't drink, otherwise I would have the pleasure of pouring some down the drain! Below is the Reuters news report.. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The distillers of Sweden's Absolut vodka have withdrawn an advertisement run in Mexico that angered many U.S. citizens by idealizing an early 19th century map showing chunks of the United States as Mexican. The billboard ad has the slogan "In an Absolut World" slapped over a pre-1848 map showing California, Arizona and other U.S. states as Mexican territory. Those states were carved out of what had been Mexican lands until that year. Although it was not shown in the United States, U.S....
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on April 8, 2008
We should all be shocked and outraged by this treatment of our injured military personal: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070409/kors. It's a long article that details an investigation into the military tricking injured soldiers into taking a Chapter 5-13 personality disorder for pre-existing condition discharge and thereby loosing their medical benefits... all to save the military money because they don't have to provide medical care to soldiers discharged with a pre-existing personality disorder. Soldiers discharged under Chapter 5-13 can't collect disability pay. Also, if a soldier dismissed under Chapter 5-13 hasn't served out his contract, he has to give back part of his re-enlistment bonus. That amount is often larger than the soldier's final paycheck. We should do all we can to bring this...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on April 24, 2007
It's been a while, OK, it's been a LONG time since I've posted anything, but that does not mean I no longer care about this issue. Quite the opposite. Below is an email that I received at an email address I have that is "Hispanic friendly"... in other words I've gotten on email lists that get pro immigration emails. The email below really makes me mad. I think we should do our best to shut this thing down. Until next time, Recoil Below is the email: Subject: Stop breaking up our families! A call to reunite Hola all: Thousands of hard working immigrants are being deported by ICE. The constitutional and civil rights of thousands of immigrants are violated. Thousands...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on January 30, 2007
May 1st came and went. Depending on who you are and where you live, the impact of the "Day without Immigrants" varied from something in the news, to noticeable, to a major event. From my office windows, I could see a buildup starting around the Court House late in the afternoon. By the time I left work, there was a pretty good sized crowd. I found it puzzling that they chanted in Spanish... from what I've read, this was not the case everywhere... if they wanted me to listen, they should have chanted in English. Walking to the parking lot to go home, listening to the chants in the background, passing Hispanic people walking towards the demonstration, all wearing white...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on May 9, 2006
It really bugs me to hear commercials for TV shows on the RADIO. They play commercials of sound clips of what's supposed to be the good part of the show, if you did want to watch the stupid show, they've just ruined it for you! Until next time Recoil...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on May 4, 2006
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