Happy Thanksgiving!

Yes, another Happy Thanksgiving post. I am thankful for everything in my world. As a beach bum singing sage (whereas he is not much of bum these days) once postulated in a song, "Some of it's magic, and some it's tragic, but I had good life all the way". And I will continue doing so, and I hope you do too.

That said, some of you know I am originally from Cincinnati. So I am going to steal a click from my friend Mike's blog:



Cheers,
~Jeffrey

The value of a smile

There is nothing more free to give in this world than a smile and nothing that brings more joy I have found for the price.

As a test, when driving home from the beach, I will wave to people (it is a long ride in a very slow moving area with lots of people, so you have the opportunity see many pedestrians). Statistically, I found that over 80% of the time, people will look at you like you have a third eye if you just wave. However, if you add in a simple smile, over 80% of the people will smile and wave back (and this is from people that have no clue who I am).

So, I guess in a simple sense, just use a smile to help brighten others day, but be genuine about it. As they called it at school, the "creativity smile" can be seen through if not genuine.

I leave you with a quote that I cannot attribute:

"It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice"

Gandhi Quote

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

Mahatma Gandhi

Movie to checkout: The Counterfeiters

Excellent Movie,

Check out The Counterfeiters. It is about a Jewish artist that turns to counterfeiting. He is captured in Berlin during WWII and is sentenced to a camp. There, the German's have him oversee the largest counterfeiting operation in known history in an attempt to flood the Allied economies. Great film, well done.

Note: the film is in mostly German, with parts in French and Russian (has English subtitles). My lovely bride found it on Netflix by accident.

White Guilt is History

I received this in an email today. I pretty much articulates how I feel. This was pulled from Philly.com without permission. I will take it down if they contact me.

I have to say, I hate affirmative action, but I never cared your color as long as you did what was expected of you.

Taking handouts is BS.

Funny, all the ideals of the sixties were lost, it still took 40 years to make it to this point and race is still a prevalent thing. You know why? People don't like differences nor change.

Instead of burying it, embrace it, talk about it, and get it out in the open. Question is, why would we want to do so? As the pumpkin from the Simpson's said, "We are all racists, I just admit it"... so maybe I am racist, if you define racists as identifying people as being different.

Race is not just the color of your skin, but culture, color, hair, actions, beliefs. This is why it is so different to one another. Some people will never embrace differences and some will only do so. People need to define their preferences logically and defend them. Just be sure to have some logical morals in doing so. Just accepting differences is stupid, and will lead to worse trouble.

To that end:

White guilt? Done; over; history

Tom Adkins

is the publisher of CommonConservative.com

There go my fellow conservatives, glumly shuffling along, depressed by the election aftermath. Not me. I'm virtually euphoric. Don't get me wrong. I'm not thrilled with America's flirtation with neosocialism. But there's a massive silver lining in the magical clouds that lofted Barack Obama to the presidency. For today, without a shred of intellectually legitimate opposition, I can loudly proclaim to America:

The Era of White Guilt is over.

This seemingly impossible event occurred because the vast majority of white Americans didn't give a fluff about skin color and enthusiastically pulled the voting lever for a black man. Not just any black man. A very liberal black man who spent his early career race-hustling banks, praying in a racist church for 20 years, and actively working with America-hating domestic terrorists. Yet white Americans made Barack Obama their leader. Therefore, as of Nov. 4, 2008, white guilt is dead.

So today, I'm feeling a little "uppity," if you will. For more than a century, the millstone of white guilt hung around our necks, retribution for slave-owning predecessors. In the 1960s, American liberals began yanking that millstone while sticking a fork in the eye of black Americans, exacerbating the racial divide to extort a socialist solution to the country's problems. But if a black man can become president, exactly what significant barrier is left? The election of Barack Obama destroys the validation of liberal white guilt. The dragon is hereby slain.

So today, I'm feeling a little "uppity," if you will. From this day forward, my tolerance level for having my skin color hustled is exactly ZERO. No more Rev. Jeremiah Wright's "God Damn America," Al Sharpton's Church of Perpetual Victimization, or Jesse Jackson's rainbow racism. Cornel West? You're a fraud. All those "black studies" programs must now teach kids to thank Whitey. And I want that on the final.

Congressional Black Caucus? Irrelevant. U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.)? Shut up. ACORN? Outlawed. Black Panthers? Go home and pet your kitty. Black separatists? Find another nation that offers better dreams. To those Eurosnots who forged careers hating America? I'm still waiting for the first black French president.

No more quotas. No more handouts. No more complaining that "the man" is keeping you down. "The man" is now black.

It's time to toss that massive, obsolete race-hustle machine upon the heap of the other stupid '60s ideas. Drag it over there, right between free love and cop-killing. Careful, don't trip on streaking. Just dump it. And then wash your hands. It's filthy.

Obama's ascension also creates another gargantuan irony. How can liberals sell American racism, class envy and unfairness when our new black president and his wife went to Ivy League schools, got high-paying jobs, became millionaires, bought a mansion, and are now moving to the White House? How unfair is that? Now, like a delicious O. Henry tale, Obama's spread-the-wealth campaign rendered itself moot by its own victory! America is officially a meritocracy. Obama's election has validated American conservatism.

So ... Wham!!!

That's the sound of my foot kicking the door shut on the era of white guilt. The rites have been muttered, the carcass lowered, dirt shoveled, and tombstone erected. Dead and buried.

Still here

Hello all. I am still here, but took a staycation with some friends that visited from Ohio. So on that note, I am going down to pool and hanging out on Fort Myers Beach. It is a beautiful day!