I have a BlogTalkRadio show, called The “O” Word” on Friday mornings at 0700 hours Mountain Standard Time. Sometimes, I go into a show and don’t have the faintest idea what I am going to talk about. Sometimes, it works out, and other times… not so much. I am asking you, my readers who might also be my listeners, to help me out by suggesting stories that I might research and talk about on the show.

They don’t have to be anything deep and thoughtful – the farmer down the road from you who has the two headed calf would be a good story point to start from – and as my listeners know, the rabbit trails get pretty convoluted after the first sentence. So , really, anything would work. Leave a suggestion in the comments here, and I will even credit you with the idea seed on the air.

Yes, this would make you co-producers of the show. I’ll read the credits at the end, if you would like, and you can hear your name on the air then, too. Anything. Anything at all.

(actually, I got this idea from Dirty Jobs – Mike Rowe is always asking viewers for ideas, and they are well over 200 episodes…

Meanwhile, I’ll be working on the family tree some more. Click the “Wisconsin Cartters” tab on the headliner to see how far I’ve gotten.

Chat ya later…

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For the life of me, I cannot remember who I need to H/T for this. I saw a blurb on Facebook, and followed through with it, and now I need to let everyone know about it.

The Demoncratic Party has made it possible for all their loyal unionist thugs to write one letter to the editor and have it sent to as many newspapers and other “news” outlets as the letter writer chooses. Chandler’s Watch published the link, and I think the best thing for us, as conservatives, to do, is to use their own tool to help our cause(s). The site has lovely “talking points” to help those of us not quite sure what we want to say. I used them to my advantage.

Here’s the letter I sent to The Arizona Republic, the East Valley Tribune, the Arizona Daily Star, the Daily News-Sun, The Daily Courier, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Financial Times:

Subject National Health Care
Message Last November 7th, the House of Representative caved in to pressure from Speaker Pelosi and her ilk to pass a form of Government Controlled Health Care. This bill, which was NOT placed before the public in order for it to be reviewed prior to the vote, will increase the national deficit, promises to fine and/or JAIL anyone who does not purchase government mandated coverage, and increase t he cost of doing business for all businesses in the United States.

Representatives who voted for this bill, in spite of being shown what this bill would do to the insurance industry and ignoring what their constituents were telling them, should be put on notice by We The People (remember us? your employers?) that they will not be representing us any more after the next election you are in.

Representatives who voted against this bill should be commended for their right-thinking actions, and assured that their positions will not be under attack.

This one hundred year fight is not over. As long as there are conservative thinking people in this nation, the government needs to be told over and over and OVER again that they shall not institute socialist programs like this one.

And, while we’re at it, get the government out of the automobile and banking business, also. The government is not here to control us, the government is to be controlled by We The People.

The Demoncratic Party was nice enough to send me an e-mail confirming my use of the site, and providing a link to let them know, should my letter get published:

from Democratic Party
to carycartter AT gmail DOT com
date Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 23:30
subject Speak Out: Thank you for writing a letter
mailed-by web.listbounce.democrats.org

Thank you for writing a letter to the editor.

By speaking up, you’ll help shape pubic opinion in your community and ensure that health insurance reform becomes a reality in 2009.

If your story gets published, we’d love to hear about it. Please let us know here:

http://my.barackobama.com/ltereport

Thank,

Mitch

Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America

Trust me, Mitch – I will be letting you know if my letter gets published. Oh, and Mitch? Thanks for providing the tool to do this.

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!

Short show on The “O” Word – there was a Skype Skip right after the show started, and it went downhill from there. BTR thinks I was not interested in continuing the show, so I was on but not streaming – which means that if you tuned in to listen, you got bupkis. Listen to the show (all 21 minutes) in archive.

Speaking of the show – during the birthday listings I asked who two people were. In the comments, if you remember, tell me who Christopher Knight and Philip McKeon are. Their occupations and why they would be listed in the celebrity birthday section…

Be sure to wear red today, thank the next Veteran you come across, and have a great weekend – I’m off to finish a roofing project. Sorry, no pictures for this one.

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!

As this magical hour approaches – magical, for me, since it is the split second shared by both the Marine Corps’ Birthday and Veteran’s Day – I cannot help but stop to think how blessed I am to have had the opportunity to serve my country. A lot of people in the current administration make it seem like it isn’t MY country any more, and in fact they want YOU to feel like YOU don’t own it, either – that you should, in fact, be sharing it with the rest of the poor, undeveloped world because it just isn’t FAIR that there are haves and have nots in this world.

I’ve got news for those who feel it isn’t FAIR – “fair” is a county thing, maybe a state thing, where you show off your livestock and your produce, the product of your own hands and sweat equity and your skills. You know, all those things the intellectuals of the world would have you believe are beneath contempt. If it wasn’t for the ones willing to get down in the trenches, both literal and figurative, the intellectuals would be crying for someone to save them. It is those who are willing, who were willing, and who will be willing in the future to lay there lives on the line for this experiment we call The United States of America that allow the intellectuals the freedom to whine about how unfair it is that we, the United States, have the largest base of manufacturing in the world. Well, we did, until the intellectuals determined that they could make all the icky manual labor jobs go away if the corporations who provided those jobs were forced to pay more for the privelege of operating within our borders.

Sorry – got off track for a bit.

I tend to do that when I think of how many family members, through the years, and tribe members and fellow sheep dogs have forfeited their lives so that We The People could have the life we have, and know that if the intellectuals had their way we would be chasing down the mighty Tofusaurus on the wide open plains for tonight’s supper – since intellectually, farming hurts the earth, and cows hurt the earth, and cars hurt the earth, and breathing hurts the earth…

Sorry, sidetracked again.

To all those who have served and are currently serving: THANK YOU. To the members, the fewer and fewer members, of the Greatest Generation: THANK YOU.

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!

New Corps – I am not slamming you or “dissing” you or anything like that. Tradition is that all Marines are jarheads. Live with it.

Fred – Happy Birthday to you AND the Corps. Figures, a crusty old leatherneck like you would have to share the birthday with our beloved Corps. It fits, you know?

I rent my domain name(s) from GoDaddy.com. I got an e-mail from Bob Parsons (another Marine, for those who weren’t aware) pointing to his annual Birthday Tribute: USMC 234the Birthday Tribute. Quite good. It’s even got my favorite quote about Marines in there, from Ronald Reagan.

Two more things, to all my fellow Marines, past, present, and future:

1. Ooh.

2. Rah.

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!