I've been remiss

I've been remiss in saying something about this guy:
His name is Jared and he's a member of our extended family on Sparky's side. He's her nephew by marriage to be exact. She's known him for longer than I have and I've known him for a long time. He's a nice, smart, hardworking guy and he just became a US Marine. He graduated a week or so ago from boot camp and he's officially a PFC (Private First Class) in the USMC.

For those of you who may not be know, you have to be one tough mofro to make it through boot camp and to become a Marine. We're both really proud of Jared for making it and for choosing to serve his country in this way. Our politics and his don't always match up but just because we don't always agree on political matters doesn't mean we don't love him and that we're not really proud of him, because we are. We love him a lot and we're insanely proud of him.

I hope his stint in the Marine Corps is fruitful and and good for Jared. I hope he serves his country with honor, dignity, and pride. I don't know if he reads this blog or not but I know his sister does and maybe she'll tell him about this post and about how proud of him we are, that he's in our thoughts, and that we wish him all the best.

If any of you were thinking of leaving any snide comments about him or the Marines or his choice to serve in the military in the comments section, then know that I will delete them as soon as I see them.

Here we grow again

Please welcome to our extended family and to the world, baby Evan:
Sparky's niece in Texas finally had this little guy on Independence day. He's a monster, isn't he? And he's a handsome little devil too. Welcome to the family baby Evan!

Stay classy you right wingers!

Here's a truly sick quote from a right wing blog:

Obama dropped everything in the last two weeks of a heated Presidential campaign to visit his sick grandma in Hawaii today (any grandma worth her salt would have said, "don't be silly, win the presidency and visit me in two weeks).

I knew these people could not contain themselves. I knew from the second I heard he was going to visit his ailing Grandmother that they would claim all sorts of crap. I figured it would be that he was going out there to make sure that only he was in the will, but they've gone even lower than that. They're claiming he's going out to Hawaii to quash his old birth certificate that shows he was born outside of the USA, which I find really funny. The man who was born in the USA, no matter how they parse it Hawaii is in the USA, is being challenged by supporters of the man who was born outside of the USA, Bush McCain was born in Panama on a US military base.

If Sen. Obama hadn't gone to see his ailing Grandmother and she died while on the campaign trail they would have claimed he was cold, callous, politically manipulating, and unconcerned with the lives of those around him. They would have said that he cares more about getting elected than he does about the woman who helped make hm what he is today. But in their sick twisted eyes he's not only damned if he doesn't, he's damned if he does because evidently only they know what sick grandma's worth their salt would say.

I wonder if those right wing bloggers ever get tired of being the moral compass for our country? Do they ever get tired of being the only ones who do the correct thing? I hope their heads explode when Obama wins this thing in a landslide electoral college victory.