Hey y'all! Ya know that a lot of why I have been slacking in my blog postings is because I have been selling on eBay. Another reason is the political environment that has been going on in the "conservative" Republican Party. Most of my regular readers know for a 100 percent fact that I am always honest. I have been spending alot of this time, lately, reading other blogs, reading conservative websites, reading online news and listening to talk radio, hardly any cable news.
Some of what I have been finding out is disturbing me. Disturbing me to the point that if I don't let out all of what's going on in my thoughts, I will end up in a rubber room with a roommate named Britney. So, here's what's going on.
I have kept alot of stuff to myself. Stuff I have kept to myself because of "what will others think about my loyalties to the 'party'?". As I y'all know, I will be attending the Michigan Republican State Convention, this weekend. I have been keeping alot of my thoughts to myself because I didn't want to "offend" anyone before I even get to Lansing this weekend. Well, enough!! This attitude is NOT (repeat NOT) me. Never has been, never will be. I am going to be honest and bring alot of my thoughts to the forefront from here on out. I really don't give a rat's rooty tooty about who I offend.
I am not thrilled with the fact that John McCain will most likely be "our nominee." And y'all know how I now feel about Mike Huckabee. During this period of "self imposed silence" I have been checking on things such as immigration and the economy. I have also been checking on the Constitution Party. I am finding myself agreeing with most everything of what I have read on their website. This is not lock-step with being a "loyal Republican." But again, I don't care. More of what I have found there will be posted soon. Republican Party be damned. If any convention attendees have a problem with this, you can find me this weekend in Lansing. I am the obnoxious redhead who is opinionated and dressed just as loud and obnoxious. You can come up to me to tell me your thoughts. You can throw your martini in my face. I don't care.
I am getting sick of hearing that "We need to stand together as Republicans, regardless of what happens." BULLSHIT! Being a Republican means standing up for what you believe, having principles and doing what is right, and of course courage to not care if you offend anyone. Maybe I should say that is what being a conservative is.
Just a few posts ago I waxed nostalogic about Former Michigan Governor John Engler. Well one thing I did not mention is that after having done some volunteer work, I had attended a few parties and was invited to the governors innaugural ball after he won his re-election in 1994. (Didn't get to go. Blame my stoopid ex-boyfriend who is from a UAW GM liberal Democrat family, who promised me he would take me.) This was not why I got involved in politics. I got involved because I wanted to walk the talk of my oppinionated self. In fact I didn't even know that "regular Joes and Janes" such as myself could even be invited to such events. This goes back to my talking about not caring what convention attendees will think of this post. Sure it is fun to go to "exclusive" events to see, hear, be seen, be heard. Which is rather ironic, isn't it? We want to be heard, but yet we keep silent because we are afraid of who we might offend.
Many people get involved in political party politics to "move up the ranks" and end up getting a fancy title after a while. I don't give a damn about fancy titles. Maybe the only reason I would care about getting a fancy tile is so that I could affect things. But I do not just want to be crowned "something."
Now for the original reason for this post. After having read the Constitution Party website, along with other things, I really felt within me to go on YouTube and see if I could find video of the Billy Joel classic from 1978, "Honesty." I have always loved this song. It is so deep and true, dare I say "honest?". Well I found it. I have played it over and over and over and over and over again... In fact I have been replaying while I write this. While listening to the words got me to thinking. I was thinking, "This blog doesn't have a theme song." I never even thought of having a theme song for this blog. I don't think many blogs have a theme song. I recall a few years ago when Oprah played Ally McBeal's pscycologist, she told Ally to get a theme song. In fact Oprah even talked about this idea on her show. So I figure, why not have a theme song for my blog?
So after all this long rambling, here is the song that is truly in this Michigan Redneck's heart. It is my message to all conservatives and the Republican Party out there. I know this is actually a love song/break up song, but I as a single conservative Republican chick, I am a bit mixed up and confused. My "love life" is about politics. In fact I have given up on having a "love life", for the Republican Party. More on that on my Valentines Day Special (post) I am kinda like Mary Matalin, in that I only date Democrats, except they have to be better looking than James Carville ;). But seriously, if you really listen to the words in this song, you will see how each and every word fits for those who are truly conservative and are feeling the same way as me about the Republican Party, except for "your the one that I depend upon." Just listen to the passion in the words and voice of the "Piano Man" and you will see what I mean...
...Truly, honesty is a "...lonely word..." Those rare people who believe in this word are lonely. Now, which came first, the chicken or the egg...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Michigan Redneck Now Has a Theme Song (HONESTY)
Thursday, January 3, 2008
GM's Centenial Celebration
General Motors unveils plans for centennial celebration
| 1/3/2008, 10:20 a.m. EST By JEFF KAROUB The Associated Press |
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Corp. plans a week of activities in September to cap its 100th anniversary celebration, the automaker said Thursday.
The GMnext Days global centennial celebration is scheduled around Sept. 16 to commemorate the company's founding on that date in 1908 by Billy Durant, owner of Flint's Buick Motor Co.
The company said plans for that event and others soon will be announced. [more here]
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Thank You
I just would like to thank all of you who came to read my live blogging last night during the debate. According to statistics, I had over 300 hits during and after the the debate. And most of those came from the South and GM towns in Michigan. All of you really made it worth the while I worked my booty off. For those of you who were first timers to this blog, I hope you keep coming back for Mike Huckabee news, Michigan news, Rockabilly music, cherry cars and vintage sewing. I would also like to thank Maritime Sentry for mentioning the blogging I was doing about the debate.
I also apologize for the many spelling and grammatical errors. I was in a hurry to get out the info, plus show off the great cars. Cars that great blue collar men like my Grandpa Wells and other men and women in the factories sent off the assembly lines. Men and women, like my grandpa, who came to Flint and other cities from the deep South to find a better life in Michigan. People who traveled on trains, buses and old cars carrying with them not much more than the few clothes they had and possibly a guitar.
I will soon be doing a post about both my grandpas and the time they spent working for GM. Both men grew up in different parts of the country, lived different lives, different levels at GM, different political views, but the one thing they had in common was they loved their families and wanted to give them the best lives they could.
Now it is time for me to get back to my sewing and listen to scratchy Elvis records.
God Bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!
Monday, July 16, 2007
Michael Moore
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Friday, July 13, 2007
I'm Baaack!
Hello, dear readers. I am back to the UP. I missed alot during my hiatus. I hope y'all kept up with Mike Huckabee news. I will try to update this blog this weekend or early next week. I want to thank my readers who sent kind comments.
I got a new toy! My great aunt who gave me my computer also gave me a digital camera. Not only does it take pics, it takes vids! I will post an "I like Mike" video and send it to the campaign. I will let you know as soon as it gets posted on Mike Huckabee's website and also post it here.
I tried to take a vid of Flint while traveling on the bus. Unfortunately, the bus traveled on the e-way instead of going through town. Gee, I wonder why. I will talk about that later, since it is relevant to local government and economy. I will post what I took from the e-way, except ya can't see how dilapidated the town has gotten in the past 20 years, thank you UAW AND General Motors.
God Bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Mike Huckabee at House Party in N.H.
On Sunday, June 3 Mike Huckabee attended a house party at the farm-home of Roger and May Pat Jackson, where he spoke about border control and tougher trade negotiations.
The majority of the attendees said that of the policies Huckabee proposed border security is the most important.
What are people saying of his visit?
"His answer on immigration was good," said Bruce Jackson, 23, a firefighter from Auburn. "He wants to close down the borders and track what is going on."
"He was quick on his feet and knowledgeable," , says Mary Pat Jackson
Talking about American businesses and international trade, he says this, "there is no free trade without fair trade,"
Roger Jackson, who is employed at Merrimack Street Volvo in Manchester, liked these ideas. He said that the domestic automobile industry is dire straights because it builds health care and retirement into the prices of its vehicles, expenses not always included in foreign vehicles.
He also touched on the subject of energy dependence. "The U.S. is being held hostage to foreign oil," he said.
From Fred Noyes of Epson, "I thought he failed to address geothermal resources. This country has volcanic heat beds that can be converted to steam and electricity," said Noyes who asked the candidate to consider this.
"He promised me he would look into it," he said.
Read the full story in the Union Leader.
I would like to get a little off track for a moment and speak from a Michigan perspective regarding the auto industry. Roger Jackson's comment above got me thinking. I grew up near Flint, Michigan. As most people know this is where General Motors got it's start. And of course Ford got it's start in Detroit. In fact, Flint's nickname used to be Buick City. A good majority of the kids I went to school with had fathers who worked in the General Motors plants and mom was a homemaker. Many of those kids, or at least the boys, figured they would follow their fathers into the "shops." By the time we started graduating high school this was not the case.
If you talk to the Democrats and Democrat voters in Genesee County they will tell you that the "Big wigs" in Detroit are evil and greedy. Talk to the Republicans and Republican voters in the county and they will tell you that the UAW is evil and greedy. Talk to me... I will tell you both sides got greedy.
Look at the picture in my header. That photo was taken at the Sloan Museum in Flint, Michigan. The 1955 Chevy Bel Air in the background, there is a 75% chance that my grandfather had his hand on it as it was rolling down the assembly line.
Fifty years ago and longer GM needed so many workers that they couldn't find enough locals, so they recruited men from Down South to come up to Flint to work. My grandfather was one of those men. He was a cotton farmer in Arkansas with an eighth grade education. He brought his family up to Flint so that he could provide better for them, to become what is known as a "shop rat." That is an assembly line worker. My grandparents still live in the same one story two bedroom house, where they raised 3 boys and 3 girls, my youngest uncle came way later. The girls slept in one room while the boys slept in the living room. My other grandfather grew up in Flint and didn't finish college, yet he was made a supervisor as soon as he started working there. This was the era that, "What's good for GM is good for the country." Now Michigan unemployment rates are 7.1%.
I can't say that the employee benefits are bad. I think GM was doing what they thought was right at the time. When the 70's came quality levels of cars went down. While at the same time employee salaries went up. It doesn't take an economic genius to figure how this was going to end. If it wasn't for these benefits neither of my grandparents would be in the financial situation they are. Enough blabbering! I thought I was just going to make a quick note about GM.
God Bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!