Miscellaneous update

After studying diligently for my final exams (I know, it's summer - and I'll probably have to go to school next summer as well), my wife and I arrived in Minnesota at around noon today to visit family. On Saturday we are leaving for Wisconsin to visit my side of the family - I am looking forward to that as I haven't seen many of them in several years ("several" means "twenty", right?)

Tonight, my wife and I saw the move "Julie and Julia," which was entertaining, but I was a little peeved by some of the anti-Republican comments peppered throughout the film. One such example was when Julie Powell wrote about calling in sick to work on her blog and her boss warned her not to do it again. He then suggested that a Republican would have fired her for it. Excuse me? Is that to say that all Republicans are ruthless and have no heart and that Democrats have never fired anyone?

So, I went to Julie Powell's blog and found a post in which she writes about her Republican-bashing and says that she doesn't like the world view that Republican hold. Does she even know what Republicans stand for or does she just believe all the usual, typical lies that liberals have been saying about Republicans for the past sixty years? For example, things like: all Republicans are racist, sexist, assault or kill gays, are greedy, don't care about the poor, and have the goal of imposing a police state. What, pray tell, does she really think Republicans' world view is? If she actually did some investigating instead of making blanket statements (read: lies), she would find that most people in America live conservative lives, including herself (who took advantage of the economic opportunity here and received at least several hundred thousand dollars for her book/movie... how much of that did she voluntarily donate to the poor, etc.?) Her ideals are simply just that, whereas Republican principles are what people generally practice and live every day.