Important Stuff -- Or Not: Oh, Happy Day

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Oh, Happy Day

This is a special day for me on two counts. First, it's the beginning of my weekend. When I walk out the door at 8 am, I won't come back till Thursday at 10 pm. Since it's 28 degrees outside, I plan to go straight home, make a cup of mocha coffee and settle down in front of a crackling fireplace to watch the season premiere of The Closer. Oh, and feed the cats. Secondly, this is the 2nd anniversary of my blog. I can't believe I lasted this long, since my first two attempts at blogging ended in less than a week. I didn't even know what a blog was until I read Michelle Malkin's. I was just thunderstruck. There were conservatives on the Internet who could and did say whatever they wanted! Whatta concept! I remember that night I surfed from blog to blog all night. I am still amazed that people read this blog, much less visit it regularly. Thank you one and all for your loyalty and for giving me a hobby that doesn't involve physical activity -- or money. And thank you, Tonto, for taking on the job of my faithful sidekick and improving my blog in ways that I never could have.

9 comments:

Trader Rick said...: Ah, and thanks to YOU Ranger for bringing us Important Stuff and being part of our daily morning Routine. Your blog is OUTDAMNSTANDING!! --Rick; 5:42 AM
Cathy said...: Kimosabe: I second Trader Rick. I prefer to start my mornings with you. Happy Anniversary... or dare I?? What the heck! Happy Blogiversary!!!; 6:59 AM
Mark said...: It is supposed to be a special day for me as well. Today is my 55th birthday.

Lone Ranger, Your humbleness astounds me. You are my absolute favorite blogger and I am not the only blogger who reads your blog first everyday. There are many others. You are intelligent, thoughtful, logical, humorous, seriously dedicated to fairness, and you are 100% correct, in that you don't have opinions, but convictions, and what is more important, you stand by them in spite of overwhelming odds against you. Happy blogiversary!; 7:30 AM
Lone Ranger said...: Awwww shuckins. Thanks. Happy Birthday! Wish I could be 55 again. Or 45 or 35...; 8:40 AM
Justin said...: You are one of the best, you remind me a little of Rush. When I read a blog I want serious stuff, but you add in a bit of humor and education as well. Keep up the good work!; 9:17 AM
Jim O said...: Darn. I wrote long comment about hard it must be to write a blog of this high quality for two years, and it timed out when I tried to publish! Anyway, congrats!; 2:20 PM
Lone Ranger said...: I'm embarrassed, folks. Like my namesake, I like to ride off before the praises start. This is like a birthday -- except it isn't.; 7:18 PM
Tonto said...: I never thought I could meet someone on the internet that was normal...but instead i have a real friend. Whether through the blog or off the blog I could not get along without your advice and daily wisdom.

As my grandma used to say...you're a keeper. I was on another blog before but I think I did that gig to get to you. Thanks LR.; 8:17 PM
Jim O said...: Oh, and you're right about Tonto making a great blog even better.; 9:14 AM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.