If you follow this blog at all, you’ve no doubt noticed cobwebs forming in the virtual corners. Life has been crazy busy and quite honestly, I didn’t have much to share that I thought you all would be interested in.

New Church

One major bit of news is that we started attending a new church in December 2009. We absolutely love the church, the people and the teaching of Pastor David Godat.

Birthday Season

My son Samuel turns 11 on March 19th, my grandson Jude turns one on April 1st and my son Tom turns 27 on that same day and my daughter Lyndsay turns 29 on April 17th. So we’re heading into ‘birthday season’ in our family.

A New Kitten

We have a new kitten: Penelope Claire (“PC”). Our other two cats MacGuyver (Mac) and Moses (Moe) have finally accepted that there’s another cat in the house and everyone is doing very well.

The dogs thought we could do without another cat, but they too have adjusted.

Other than that, it’s pretty much life as usual.

Leave it to Glenn to tell it like it is – and with great insight. I honestly do not see how Obama’s new economic ‘stimulus’ plan is going to help anything. It’s wasteful ‘pork’ and nothing more. We need Dave Ramsey to get a hold of Washington and bring them to their senses on all this debt.

I am staunchly conservative. I would say probably more so than Ann Coulter. I respect her right to free speech. On one hand I applaud her for standing up for the right; but honestly – sometimes I think she’s like a bull in a china shop!

If you watch the video below, it shows Ann’s visit to the television talk show The View. It’s a controversial show, one I’ve only watched myself a handful of times. I watched this clip of Ann’s appearance on the show yesterday and honestly, was expecting more. Hoping for more. I know she can be outspoken. However where her and I part ways is her approach to getting the ‘right’ message out to the world and disagreeing with liberal policies and politics.  The way to coming to any sort of agreement, discussion, or the ever hopeful “win one for our side”, is not to engage them in verbal attacks. Can we not rise above all that?

On shows such as this, a guest is only given a few short minutes to speak. Her book, I’m sure (I’ve not read it) has good points to make and information in it that she wanted to discuss. She should have tried to convey her Republican views and those points within the book.  Instead, she spent too much time accusing them of attacking her, when she could have done the bigger and better thing and just talked about her book and stuck to the topic at hand. She looked like a fool and certainly didn’t help the conservative movement at all.  Is it all a farce to sell books and promote Ann Coulter more so than to help the Republican party? Probably.

Now perhaps this is her brand, if you will. To be loud, brash and bold. It’s who she is – and the image she is trying to portray: that is Ann Coulter. Fine, but I will now cringe every time I hear or see her because I believe she could do so much good for the Republican party if she would be a lot less ‘drama queen’ and a lot more, well… conservative.

Watch it and share your thoughts below. Do you agree with Ann’s style? Is she helping or hurting the Republican party? Have you read her book – what are your thoughts on her book? I couldn’t really get any details from it after watching the video – so I’d like to know.