Scratcher
11th July 2011, 16:51
As for 'categorizing' myself I guess I am a pragmatic individual stuck in what I refer to as 'Roasting Red Point,' Texas the Republican hell hole.
My late grandfather on my mother's side was an activist minister in Washington, DC who wrote 'The only true measure of a great nation is not how well we take care of the well off but how we help everyone to become better off.' He was accused of being a Communist by Joseph McCarthy and fought at the end of his life swearing he wasn't a Communist; but a true blue American humanitarian. He died in 1954 having lost his career, his health, and his hope that America would ever be a better nation with McCarthyism running rampant.
For myself I started as a non-political type of student while attending uni at American University in Washington, DC. I went into computers (errr computer went into me) and I ended up in major cities working on the 'world changing' machines in Washington, DC, Boston, Toronto, Fairfax, Va., and I was assigned down here in the Dallas area for the last 20 years.
I sold my business in 2001 and worked as a low paid teacher for special needs students finally retiring in 2008 due to health issues. My health issues were the reason I fell out with any of the major parties here in Texas. I was found to have renal cell cancer in 2003 and by 2004 my Blue/Cross Blue/Shield health insurer recissioned me and my family. I then had to apply to the Texas Health Risk Pool run by Blue/Cross Blue/Shield and pay 400 percent above the going rate; along with not having my cancer tests and follow-ups paid for for two years and my entire family uninsured. It proved to me that HEALTH INSURANCE IN TEXAS SUCKS WORSE THAN GEORGE W. BUSH and Texas wants to have the most uninsured because it protects health insurers profits and makes the government pay for coverage! I departed ways with the Republican party and have issues with the Democrats too...But if I had to choose I would take a Democrat over a Republican any day.
I am not what I would call a Communist, Marxist, Anarchist, or Radical Radical; but I am sure not what I look like one of the Tea (brain) Party members that don't question their leadership. I am a Christian, although most the people around me wonder if I have any faith at all for what I believe.
I believe in a woman's reproductive right because all I do is 'cum' and go they are the ones with the follow through.
I believe NO ONE has the right to tell what an adult person should do with their privates. If they love another of their own sex then there should be NO LAW against that.
I believe the wealthy amongst us have a duty to help lift people out of poverty to their level of personal prosperity and one's health should be a right; not a profit center.
Finally I believe that Christ was a radical of His time and faced the same type of questioning I face each and every day concerning what I believe. I follow what 1-Timothy 6:17-21 and John 13:34-35.
This is who and what I am if I do not fit here let me know.
My late grandfather on my mother's side was an activist minister in Washington, DC who wrote 'The only true measure of a great nation is not how well we take care of the well off but how we help everyone to become better off.' He was accused of being a Communist by Joseph McCarthy and fought at the end of his life swearing he wasn't a Communist; but a true blue American humanitarian. He died in 1954 having lost his career, his health, and his hope that America would ever be a better nation with McCarthyism running rampant.
For myself I started as a non-political type of student while attending uni at American University in Washington, DC. I went into computers (errr computer went into me) and I ended up in major cities working on the 'world changing' machines in Washington, DC, Boston, Toronto, Fairfax, Va., and I was assigned down here in the Dallas area for the last 20 years.
I sold my business in 2001 and worked as a low paid teacher for special needs students finally retiring in 2008 due to health issues. My health issues were the reason I fell out with any of the major parties here in Texas. I was found to have renal cell cancer in 2003 and by 2004 my Blue/Cross Blue/Shield health insurer recissioned me and my family. I then had to apply to the Texas Health Risk Pool run by Blue/Cross Blue/Shield and pay 400 percent above the going rate; along with not having my cancer tests and follow-ups paid for for two years and my entire family uninsured. It proved to me that HEALTH INSURANCE IN TEXAS SUCKS WORSE THAN GEORGE W. BUSH and Texas wants to have the most uninsured because it protects health insurers profits and makes the government pay for coverage! I departed ways with the Republican party and have issues with the Democrats too...But if I had to choose I would take a Democrat over a Republican any day.
I am not what I would call a Communist, Marxist, Anarchist, or Radical Radical; but I am sure not what I look like one of the Tea (brain) Party members that don't question their leadership. I am a Christian, although most the people around me wonder if I have any faith at all for what I believe.
I believe in a woman's reproductive right because all I do is 'cum' and go they are the ones with the follow through.
I believe NO ONE has the right to tell what an adult person should do with their privates. If they love another of their own sex then there should be NO LAW against that.
I believe the wealthy amongst us have a duty to help lift people out of poverty to their level of personal prosperity and one's health should be a right; not a profit center.
Finally I believe that Christ was a radical of His time and faced the same type of questioning I face each and every day concerning what I believe. I follow what 1-Timothy 6:17-21 and John 13:34-35.
This is who and what I am if I do not fit here let me know.