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Friday, October 7, 2011
Big Fat Friday Free For All
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Good morning, all! Once again, we've reached that time of the week, that special time of the week, when the blog becomes your bitch-pad. What's on your mind, folks? Your Attorney General got you down? Your life lost all meaning because a man you never met who gave really good electronics show pitches is dead?
The Conservative Wahoo
The Blog: A compendium of thoughts on politics, world affairs, economics, pop culture and social issues, from the center right perspective of me--Bryan McGrath--a University of Virginia graduate who spent a career in the world's greatest Navy keeping my mouth shut about politics and social issues (ok, publicly keeping it shut). Those days are over! Pull up a chair and chime in where you will. Keep it clean, civil, concise and relevant.
The Fish: The fish is a "coat of arms" for the blog, symbolizing three formative influences in the life of the blog founder. The first is his experience at the University of Virginia--symbolized most importantly by the fish itself, or a caricature of a "Wahoo", the fish we have acquired as an informal nickname. Additionally there is the sword, the sword of a Cavalier. It is not wielded in a threatening manner, as this is a civil blog. But it is there, should it be needed. Thirdly, there is the influence of 21 years in the Navy--symbolized by the anchor on the Wahoo's fin (and again, the sword) . Finally, there is the bowler, tuxedo, and monocle, symbols of a refined, intellectual conservatism, or what I seek to encourage here.
The Policy: I take FULL responsibility for what I write. I will not be held responsible for the content of my comments section--as long as it is civil and passes my own inscrutable sniff tests, it will appear. If the comment offends you, that is on you.
The Fish: The fish is a "coat of arms" for the blog, symbolizing three formative influences in the life of the blog founder. The first is his experience at the University of Virginia--symbolized most importantly by the fish itself, or a caricature of a "Wahoo", the fish we have acquired as an informal nickname. Additionally there is the sword, the sword of a Cavalier. It is not wielded in a threatening manner, as this is a civil blog. But it is there, should it be needed. Thirdly, there is the influence of 21 years in the Navy--symbolized by the anchor on the Wahoo's fin (and again, the sword) . Finally, there is the bowler, tuxedo, and monocle, symbols of a refined, intellectual conservatism, or what I seek to encourage here.
The Policy: I take FULL responsibility for what I write. I will not be held responsible for the content of my comments section--as long as it is civil and passes my own inscrutable sniff tests, it will appear. If the comment offends you, that is on you.
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10 comments:
Good Lord man. Center stage at BFFFL. You can Ill afford to lose readers. Get rid of that horrid picture. Who is that fat bastard anyway?
I have to imagine that the current reisdents of the White House are tickled pink over the occupy wall street movement that the liberal news networks (I repeat myself) are giddily calling "viral.". So we have a bunch of SEIU led illegal immigrants, college students who apparently ran out of beer money, and whomever the former ACORN workers could bus in claiming that Wall Street is the root of all their outcomes in life. One of the reasons I loved serving in the Navy is that it was a society where each member was accountable for his or her own decisions and the outcomes of those decisions. One could not claim that a building such as the Pentagon or a street such as Wall made him or her fail to perform his or her assigned duties. Or made her get drunk and trash a taxicab or him get into a fight with a bartender. Or made a ship run aground, etc, etc. I miss being surrounded by that society all the more when I see the depth and breadth of just the opposite in our broader public society.
Is that you Mudge? Lookin' like an old bullfrog.
Damn shame you ain't perdy like me.
You loved being in the Navy because the Government took care of you and you didnt have to make any decisions on your own.
Uncle Willie wants to know why hearing aids still cost thousands of dollars. With the birth of all the new electronic gadits like iphone, ipad, ipod, cell phones that take pictures, smart phones, blackberrys, GPS's, and 4-G's all loaded with electronics a simple hearing aid has only two simple parts a receiver and an amplifier most made and assembled overseas with child labor. None of the big shot congress people want to check into the resoning because any member of congress who is hard of hearing are given sample units for free to use at their needs. This is the biggest scam purpatrated on seniors and veterans. Check out an assisted care facility and see how many of the folks can't hear and can't afford the price of a hearing device.
We'll cover this once again, Willy. The devices you cite each act as delivery mechanisms for future revenue streams. Hearing aids, once purchased, generate no additional revenue.
Hey CW, know anything about material cost? The total cost of all hearing aid parts is not more than $45 and if the FDA allowed WalMart, Kmart and the like to handle sales rather than an a licensed autoiologist (requirement to be an autoiologist-high school grad) one could purchase them for less than $150, and my name is spelled Willie.
COME AGAIN?
You slay me, Anon. Heh heh. Did you come up with that one all by yourself? No decisions in military...wooo! That's so rich Obama should tax it.
Got that from Hammer in earlier comment. He knows you military types are all G Men
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