Boardman Country

Back in July, our President did a most excellent thing for our nation when he lifted the executive ban on drilling along our nation’s coasts.

Now it’s time to thank him again.  Once again demonstrating his spinal fortitude, he threatened to veto the House stopgap spending bill wending its way toward his desk should it contain any anti-drilling measures.

With at least 73% of Americans behind him on this issue, Pelosi and her cronies finally got the wax out of their ears and heard us saying, “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less, Why Wait?”

Meanwhile, it’s expected that the Senate will follow suit within the next few days.

I have been a passionate supporter of the concept of America getting off its rear end and getting the oil and natural gas that is ours as a partial solution to winning the war for energy independence.  For those of you who may actually want to get involved in coming up with and implementing bipartisan solutions for achieving this independence, let me recommend the following link: Solutions Day, September 27th

Obviously, all Americans don’t agree on everything. This has always been the case and will continue to be.  However, there are (you may not believe it, but it’s true!) quite a number of things upon which the majority of Americans do agree!

I realize that whether or not to thank President Bush is controversial and that many of you hate the man.  But since here in Boardman Country everyone’s entitled to MY opinion, let’s get over it and talk about the larger issues.

President Bush, love him or hate him, is on his way out and believe me, the next guy, no matter who he is, will have his fair share of detractors.  But We the People must re-establish and not lose our focus.

I believe that focus should be aimed like a laser toward the things upon which we do agree, even if we agree on them for different reasons.  Let me cite an example.

My friend, Linda, over at Forcedgreen.com of Whole Hog Blogs fame agrees with me that America should be harnessing wind energy.

Why?  Well, I think we should be doing it because the wind is there and it’s free and once the technologies and delivery systems are refined and joined, it seems to me that it should end up being a pretty cost-effective source of power.  Mr. Pickens seems to agree with this position.

Linda, on the other hand, (and I know she’ll correct me if I’m wrong ) is, from what I can tell, motivated primarily by her passion for the environment.  Fabulous!

So I like it because I think it’ll be cheap and Linda likes it because it’s clean.  Good!  We agree! Let’s get ‘er done!

Although this may be an over-simplified example, it seems to me that as Americans if we were to spend more of our time, energy and resource on seeking out the areas of agreement and turning those into solutions, America would be further ahead and the level of discord would be reduced.

So whether you’re a flaming liberal or a far right conservative, check out Solutions Day, September 27th
and see if you can find some little piece of dirt you can stand on together with someone from the complete opposite end of the political spectrum.  You may be surprised!

Meanwhile, thanks again President Bush.

You’re in Boardman Country!

Make yourself at home,

Brad

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As must needs be the case, political candidates are scrutinized - some more than others.

In my effort to find odious facts about Governor Sarah Palin that were untainted by her new-found world fame, I came across the following video from clear back in February, 2008, probably long before she was ever being considered for a spot on the McCain ticket.

Wow!  Unbelievably revealing stuff here!

Take a few minutes and see for yourself.

Can you believe it? She’d never even been to “Southeast” until she had to go “for a school basketball trip”! Good grief! To think that it actually took her fifteen or sixteen years to bust out of Wasilla is almost incomprehensible, especially to the millions of us who have had our passports since the day we were born and have been hobnobbing with world leaders since the day after that.

How could she possibly think herself eligible to run for high office with that kind of baggage in her past?

Fortunately, we have the Obama Nation to keep us on track as to the actual qualifications for Vice President.  Otherwise, I’m sure I’d be at a loss.

Even though I was born early yesterday morning in the United States and English is my very first language, I still feel like I often need help reading the Constitution and its Amendments.  But I’m working on that so I won’t be too much of a burden on those who have so graciously taken it upon themselves to school me.

Don’t get me wrong, I do realize full well that our Democratically-controlled congress is far, far smarter than me, notwithstanding the current state of the financial markets, and obviously they are worlds smarter than Governor Palin.  I mean, PLLLLLLLLLLLLEASE!

Their single-digit approval rating certainly demonstrates that!

Even I know that less is more.

I’ve been relieved to see in the past few weeks that Senator Biden seems to be less and less busy out on the campaign trail because even though I wanted to get with Senator Obama to have him give me some lessons on how to inhale and exhale, it appears that he’s way too busy to help me right now.

I wish I’d had my camera the other day when I saw him out in the barn in his waders with that big shovel.

Crap!!!!

You’re in Boardman Country!

Make yourself at home, but please wipe your boots first!

Brad

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If you’d asked me a couple years ago if I knew my auto insurance agent, I’d have probably snickered.

That was before the morning Dave Keen showed up at the weekly meeting of the Alderwood Business Advocates (one of the many chapters of Business Network International, or BNI).

Dave is one of the Dads at the Just 2 Dads insurance agency in Mill Creek, Washington. I’m happy and proud to say that he’s also my property and casualty agent. Happy because I never knew having insurance could actually be FUN! Proud because Read more…