Part I - A Dad recounts preemie twins' struggle

DALLAS - "The speech I was holding should only have been a backup. I knew the words by heart because I'd lived them."

This is a heart-wrenching story that is very uplifting, as a reminder of what it means to be human...

"Eyes widened when I held up red and blue Beanie Babies that were as big as the real boys. Heads nodded when I held up my wedding band—which a dime can just fit through—and described it circling one baby's arm like a hula hoop.

Then I got to the middle of page 3. To the paragraph I'd typed through teary eyes a few days before.

"I'm sorry," I said, my jaw quivering, eyes puddling. I reached for a tissue, trying to stall long enough to regain my composure.

"This," I continued, "is the part where I always give the update ..."

I tried again. And again.

But I couldn't get the rest out."

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Constitutional Right?

Any lovin's good lovin'?

Homosexual activist Frank Kameny thinks so, and makes the case publicly that any kind of sex, including sex with animals, so long as the animal doesn't object, is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Read the whole thing.

Kameny thinks that playing Dr. Doolittle with the furry ones is just a fine idea of "the pursuit of happiness". Sick.

By the way, Justices Kennedy, Ginsberg, Stevens, probably Souter, and definitely ex-Justice O'Connor would agree... Just in case you had any doubts about voting Republican in the next election.

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And if you think there is not a strong effort to normalize bestiality, see Wikipedia's entry on "zoophilia"...

Dangers of older fathers

"The risks of older fatherhood can be very profound, and it is not something that people are always aware of."

The claim is that children of older dads are twice as likely not to make it to 18 from health problems.

Well, there goes my plans for more children!

Then again, why should we live our lives according to phoney statistics and studies that the elites routinely churn out? What about smoking, or other health conditions that are surely as dangerous to the "quality of sperm" as is simple age.

In a world where the elites are finding ever more ingenious ways to convince people not to have children, this strikes me as just the most recent gimmick.

Isn't it interesting how there are commercials every five minutes on TV and radio about better erections, better orgasms, and how should your world stop revolving around sex, you might as well croak? I'm frankly furious that my kids have hear such garbage!

If we don't start making more children and concern ourselves less with the ultimate orgasm (until death) we will have much worse health--moral, economic, social and political--problems on the near horizon.

I guess I'll keep bugging Mrs. Ox for a bit longer on my hopes for a daughter or two...

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I Am A German-American. NOT!

This whole American bending-over-backwards to try to accomodate all peoples according to their desires is ludicrous. Assinine. Nuts. And grossly counter-productive. (see also my post of Dec 21 '07)

Let's play the game: I really am not German-American. I am German-Dutch-French-Irish-Native-Scots-American. Three-quarters German, yes, but my ancestors were clearly not xenophobic. I am an American. My great-great-great grandparents were Americans, the moment they became citizens.

I do not know any Blacks who came from Africa and have not become citizens; ergo, I do not know any African-Americans. I do know a Chinese woman who lives in California. She is not a citizen. She is a Chinese National. She is not American simply by virtue of living here.

The hundreds of thousands of Mexican Nationals living and working in the United States without paying taxes, without documentation is a problem with an easy solution: Allow them. . . (more at www.disneyesque.blogspot.com)

Personal Pistachio - The Night We Met

A long time ago, in a city not far away, Mrs. Pistachio kissed Doug for the first time. It was the beginning of a love affair that continues today. But the road has not always been paved with gold. The beginnings were the first dips of a major roller coaster ride that nearly split the two apart many times, only to smooth out over the last few years.

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Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving 2007. I am thankful for so many things. I am thankful that I am alive after nearly dying in 1985. I am thankful for my wife, after 23 years of marriage that began, oddly enough, like a roller coaster ride, but now has smoothed out into a passionate love affair. I am thankful for my first grandchild, Ezekiel, born on November 7. I am thankful that I have the opportunity to write on my blogs, and talk on my internet radio show. I am thankful for our troops fighting for liberty. I am thankful for my Lord sending His Son to the Cross two thousand years ago.

And even though I am thankful for so many things during this year's Thanksgiving Holiday, I am reminded that my life is also filled with many stresses. It is difficult knowing that there is crime and hunger and war in the world. Family politics, with children bickering and my siblings throwing snide remarks at each other, is disconcerting as well. During this time of year my conversations with my wife are often strained because of the pressures of the season, and the annual slowdown of the construction industry as the rains approach. Sometimes, with all of this, and many more things, going on, it is difficult to be truly thankful.

But then I remember how important it is to keep things in perspective. Not all things that happen in our lives are necessarily good, and often, things that happen in our lives are more often than not difficult and painful. But it is those events that I truly am thankful for, for it is during those storms I learn my lessons, build character, and become strong. Life experiences, especially during the most difficult moments, are what make me who I am.

So I guess, what I am trying to say, is it is easy to be thankful for the blessings in our lives, but don't forget to be thankful for the difficult events as well.

This post is not continued on Political Pistachio as I normally do. But please pay my site a visit anyhow, as well as the many links available for some of my other writings.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Teddy Roosevelt on Immigration

What on earth have we done to this country in the last 50 some years? American greed is undoing us all.... the demand for cheap labor to increase profits to sell stock and please shareholders and make a company look good on paper.... downsizing, outsourcing.... why doesn't corporate America care about where it lives?
Corporate America is no better than the hundreds of thousands, millions of illegals who work under the radar and send their pay to their families .. in their REAL home.... which is not the USA.

The parameters for democracy are far from the parameters of an anarchy, but in the past few generations, we have become sinfully more democratic, too liberal, too tolerant. WE have lost our standards, selling out for a pot of porridge. The birthrights of Americans are in grave jeopardy.

I say, We are a country-- not a free-for-all -- the United States of America is a Nation. And while we welcome those who wish to live here free from political oppression, free from religious persecution, we CANNOT turn over the helm to those who disrespect our Constitution, and that includes Americans.

And while I'm at it, the ACLU has long outlived its usefulness. DISBAND it before it's too late. Let the Constitution of our country do its job.

What did Teddy Roosevelt say 100 years ago? http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/troosevelt.asp

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