One thing that's consistent whenever a Democrat speaks is their condemnation of the economy. The economy is always "the worst economy in (enter number) years" -- except when they're in power, of course. Well, I happened to stop by our local mall twice today, once at about noon, and again around 4:30, and found a packed full parking lot! And a whole lot of people inside spending money! Yep, I better believe those Democrats... too bad all those voters got suckered by them six weeks ago! Oh well, two years isn't that bad a sentence for getting STUCK ON STUPID!!!

It's been 24 hours now, and I'm still angry, frustrated, and depressed. One of the news shows came on this morning saying, "A new day dawns in America..." Yeah, right. A new day dawned on September 12, 2001, too -- feels a lot like that. The radio talkers I listen to named off all these headlines and columns they were reading -- nobody mentioned the headline I would have written..."Majority of voters reveal their stupidity". According to Hugh Hewitt's show, San Fran Nan was on Fox News sometime today and said that "Iraq is not a war to be won, it's a situation to be solved." If that's an accurate quote, then we need to be very afraid because that kind of lunatic thinking will be only two heartbeats away from the Presidency starting in January! May God help us to figure out 1) what we did wrong that made our base so mad, and 2) exactly how the jackasses cheated their way into power this time. Because if this storming of the gates lasts more than two years, America will be in dire straits because these lefties are the "high taxes, low morals, let's talk to the jihadis who want to saw our heads off" crowd.

I LOVE Politics! And I LOVE elections! And I especially LOVE when a Democrat nimrod like John Kerry rams his foot down his throat a few days before a big election! And the bonus? It gives us all a chance to watch all the Democrats' buddies in the "unbiased" media stumble all over themselves --- "oh, he didn't really say that, he meant to say this" --- "look, his prepared text said this" --- "it was just a bungled joke" --- "an offhand remark" (that was the best one, on ABC's World News Tonight. If it was just an offhand remark, why was it the lead story?) Thanks, John, for reminding the voters that Democrats "loathe the military" (to use Clinton's words) and continue to think we're all stupid if we don't agree with them. Only a few days left until Tuesday --- VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, I don't always talk about politics...this time I'm frustrated about my furnace. I'm waiting for a service call today because the thing failed last night. That's one of my points of frustration -- when it starts getting toward colder days and nights, the furnace runs for short periods of time throughout the day, around the clock. BUT WHY DO THEY ONLY BREAK DOWN AT NIGHT?????????????? Then you call a service place, and find out they have an outrageous night/weekend trip charge, and you have to say sorry, I'll call you back in the morning. AARRRRRGGGHHHH!!! ------------------ Here's the aftermath...as the service guy went down below to check out the furnace, I imagined the horrible things he might say when he came back up. (that's just the way I am about these kinds of events) When he climbed back out, I readied myself for the expensive news -- and then he told me about a minor piece of the whole system that needed a quick fix! Time to praise God for a big save!

HOORAY for the Supreme Court! You have to show an ID in order to vote -- how stupid can some people be to think that's a bad idea? (I know, but they're liberals, what do you expect?...) You have to show an ID to rent a movie, for crying out loud! We're talking about VOTING -- the highest duty of a citizen of this country -- and we have to make sure that only citizens are doing it. So get your ID out when you go to the polls, and don't cry if we send you on your way because you don't have one.

Oh Wow -- I saw the UN Security Council pass that resolution against Kim Jong Mentally Il and the rest of the North Coms today... UN Resolution 1718 -- what FORCE! What Strength! Boy, I bet they're scared now -- their ambassador minion bolted out of the chamber right away. And our guy, John Bolton, quite possibly the best ambassador we've ever had, pointed out to everyone the EMPTY CHAIR! Let's see...how many strong resolutions will there be for this piece of the Axis of Evil before President Jeb Bush has to send in the B-2s in about 10 years?

Let me see if I've got this right. -- Congressional Democrats are saying the page program has to be reformed (again) in the wake of the Mark Foley "scandal" in order to better protect the pages. -- Are they saying that having a homosexual man in a position of leadership over teenagers is a dangerous thing to do? -- Hmmm... -- Could that possibly mean that the Boy Scouts of America were correct when they determined that having homosexual scoutmasters in positions of leadership over younger boys was not in the boys' best interest? -- Hmmm...Just a question...

I'm kind of glad the Foley scandal happened now, so close to the election, because it gives us a GREAT opportunity to point out that the Democrats are behaving exactly as they do normally. They can't run on ideas, because they don't have any (well, they have one idea - just keep saying that Republicans are wrong). They can't tell you what they REALLY stand for and support, because they know the vast majority of people DON'T support higher taxes, more regulations, onerous nanny laws, and being forced to pay for abortions and anything else that you're personally or morally opposed to. They have to wait for something to become a scandal, or be whipped up into a scandal by their media comrades -- then they throw the scandal grenade into a crowd, and when it blows up and causes some to fall, they run over to any downed Republicans (only the Republicans, mind you) and start kicking them while they're down. This is the only time you get to see their "moral outrage" because they have to work it up and make it believable. And hope that you've forgotten or didn't notice the things they've done (like when THEIR congressman, Gerry Studds, was exposed for having affairs with pages -- and they stood with him and supported him and said it didn't affect his job as a congressman...) Come on America -- let's get real, let's care about the present and future of our country. Let's go to the polls and throw all the Democrat charlatans out on their ears this time. No more of their idiocy!!!

I'm having a blast (no pun intended) hearing about all the liberals fussing and fuming because the upcoming miniseries "The Path To 9/11" apparently doesn't paint their poster boy Bill Clinton in the glowingest of terms. Well, that's just too bad, but hey, he WAS (I hate to even say it) the President then. It starts with the first WTC attack, that Bill didn't respond to, carries on with other terrorist attacks, that Bill didn't respond to (maybe the only explosions he was interested in were the ones happening under his desk with Monica...), and ends with the 9/11 attack, that (thank God!) Bill wasn't in a position to not respond to, or his buddy Al. But they are screaming that it's inaccurate, and the big libs in Congress wrote to the head of ABC demanding he cut it or cancel it! All the libs I know tell me they're opposed to censorship! As for me, I'm going by the "film critics rule" -- if they're jumping up and down that much about this film, it MUST be good, and informative, and truthful! Remember 9/11 -- watch this film on Sunday and Monday nights.

It's a sad morning for us, waking up to the news that the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, has gone into eternity. No one expected it -- I'm sure he didn't -- and by the barb of a stingray??? What a strange way to go (only the third one in Australian history, according to the news). Everyone's eulogizing how great it was that he died doing what he loved -- but there's a far more important topic to think about. I didn't know him personally, but all the same, I hope he made a decision on what's there for all to see... "Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him." Hebrews 9:27, 28 "Jesus answered, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.'" John 14:6 It sounds like Steve didn't know what was coming this morning in that water, and it caught him by surprise. I hope he decided, and I hope anyone who reads this decides too, because we all die, and we don't know when it's going to happen. Choose.

I heard a comment on a financial show this morning, and it puts this November's election in absolutely PERFECT clarity: "The Republicans are fighting a war on terror, and the Democrats are fighting a war on George W. Bush." This is a sentence that needs to be memorized over the next 60-some days until the election. Do we want to elect people who will go after the enemy and keep our people (and other countries' people) safe? Or do we want to elect people who only want to hate George Bush and anyone who associates with him, and who cares if another city gets attacked? Voters, make your decision!

Yes, occasionally I write about things that are not political at all. Yesterday, thank God, my health was spared, and my position was strengthened - I HATE SUMMER!!! I'm out driving, stopped at a red light, when I see something in a moment off to my left - then something flies into the car and hits me on the head! I didn't know what it was, but I quickly brushed my head and hair and started to look around the car, because whatever it was had to be still inside. My son was looking too, and then I saw it on the passenger door -- a HUGE yellowjacket! Thank God the light was still red, and thank God the evil monster didn't flinch when I popped the door open and it took the hint and flew out of the car. The light turned green, and I drove away, moderately freaking because that thing flew right into my HEAD!!! I HATE SUMMER -- stingin' things and bitin' things like that yellowjacket thrive in the summer, along with other kinds of bugs, and heat, and weeds! COME ON, WINTER!!!

On this Primary Election day, I think it's a shame that down in Texas, Tom DeLay is having to deal with trying to get his name off the November ballot. He resigned his House seat, but a judge said he can't come off the ballot, which apparently prevents another name from going on the ballot. I say, let's look at some Democrat election history. In recent years, in Hawaii they ran a representative on the ballot who was dead, and she was re-elected. In one of the southern states, they ran Gov. Carnahan, who was also dead - I don't remember if he won or not. Why not apply some of that thinking? DeLay's not dead, he's resigned and apparently not running. So What??? Somebody campaign for him, and if the people vote him in, then he can re-resign if he wants, and the seat can still be filled by a Republican.

One of our local radio hosts made an interesting observation recently, and after thinking about it, I realized it makes an almost perfect teaching analogy. On the Fourth of July this year (2006), we experienced pretty intense thundershowers across the Front Range. At my location, our band concert and fireworks were delayed and our decent-sized crowd of people was evacuated inside the city hall while one of the storms passed. Several miles away, one of my coworkers received a cold shower during the Colorado Rockies baseball game, and waited out a 90-minute rain delay. Needless to say, the metro area was well soaked on this particular holiday. However, the official weather report indicated only 0.18 inches of rain had fallen! Why, asked the host. From a meteorologist came the answer – though torrents of rain had fallen on many places, very little rain fell at Denver International Airport, where the official measuring equipment is located. Out of that comes the analogy… This is how I think the “mainstream” media works. Take, for example, the war in Iraq. For over three years, American and other countries’ troops have been there toppling a murderous dictatorship, freeing a people, enabling a democratically elected government to form, and rebuilding the country’s infrastructure. But, when you sit in front of the television and get your news from the networks (formerly Rather-Jennings-Brokaw, now Couric-Gibson-Williams) and the Sunday morning shows, just what news do you get? Attacks, IED explosions, 2500 dead soldiers, Democratic senators and congressmen belittling the President and calling the whole thing a quagmire, another Vietnam. When you step away from the networks and go elsewhere, to the Internet, to the blogosphere, to talk radio, you learn of the multiple elections that have taken place, and the schools, hospitals, roads and bridges that have been built and repaired and are operating, and the explosions, not of bombs, but of commerce that are taking place throughout the country. You still hear about the violence and the IEDs, but they are in context – not every Iraqi is trying to kill someone, and attacks are not happening everywhere in the country. And, you get the stories from the people who experienced them – the troops who were in the field, not a bunch of reporters who were in hotel rooms most all the time. “But you can’t listen to talk radio and the bloggers, they’re not professionals!”, the lefties at the networks and newspapers say. Yep, a couple of inches of rain dumped on our heads the other night, but because it wasn’t picked up by the rain gauge at DIA, I guess it just didn’t happen!

The Grand Inauguration of the “A Lot Like Herding Cats” Blog So many amazing things have happened in the “blogosphere” over the last few years, perhaps the greatest thing being… they have actually gotten attention! Bloggers have been included in political convention coverage, they have been called upon to co-host and fill-in host when the main host is away (like the Northern Alliance bloggers who sometimes cover for Hugh Hewitt, my favorite drivetime source of intelligent thought), and hardworking bloggers have spread vital information and by doing so, helped break major news stories that the “mainstream” media would never touch because they don’t want to harm a fellow liberal. And then there’s me. I’m out here in the middle of that wonderful field of red Bush country -- I’m a conservative, I’m a Republican, I’m a Christian who actually believes what the Bible says about things, and I love to talk about issues. But with a very few exceptions, whenever I voice a position on something, my coworkers , associates, and acquaintances argue it, dispute it, pooh-pooh it, ridicule it, just don’t want to hear it. If I told them the sky was blue, they’d want peer-reviewed documentation to prove it. Trying to get out an idea and actually have someone consider it?…that’s a lot like herding cats. So when I got interested, and decided it was time to try my hand at blogging, what better name could I use than “A Lot Like Herding Cats”? So here it is, the first try and the first post. I’m not a reporter – I spend my time at a job every day, and I’m not in a position to find and break news like some bloggers do, but I’d be glad just to be a repeater, and pass news around, and do my part to get the word out about things, events, and ideas I think are important. And I’ll be a thinker and commentator too – I’ll put down what I think about an issue, and I know a lot of liberals who will automatically say I’m wrong. But that’s OK – people have the right to be wrong (I’m just glad it’s them!). So, out of all the blogs out there, give mine a try -- you just might like it!