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Things Better Left Unsaid

March 22nd, 2010

By Larry Ennis I loved my childhood. My memories of growing up have made for many stories both here and at my own blog site. Children, if brought up correctly, are not or at least should not be exposed to things in life that take away from being young. Innocence and youth are fragile and [...]

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Tags: children, families, family, poverty, relatives
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Special People vs Lazy People

February 17th, 2010

By Larry Ennis I recently posted an article about the way our language gets constant modifications so that no one is offended by a wayward word. The Washington Post has an article by Timothy Shriver concerning “the language of bigotry.” After reading his opinion and concerns I’m confronted with mixed emotions. As much as I sympathize with [...]

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Tags: dropouts, intellectual disability, retarded, university
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Ambush at Blair House

February 14th, 2010

By Larry Ennis President Obama wants to meet with Republican leaders for a supposed health care summit, to be held at Blair House on February 25. This choice of meeting places brings back memories from long ago. Two people calling themselves Puerto Rican nationalists tried to ambush President Truman as he was leaving Blair House in 1950. [...]

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Tags: Blair House, Democrats, health care, Obama, polls, Republicans
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Telling It Like It Is

February 11th, 2010

By Larry Ennis I make no secret of the fact that my political views are conservative. I’m a Republican because it’s the party that best aligns with what I hold as my political philosophy. I am by no means completely satisfied with the Republicans, but for the present it is my only choice. Like a [...]

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Tags: condescension, Democrats, elitists, liberals, radicals, Republicans
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Summit? What Summit?

February 10th, 2010

By Larry Ennis The President’s invitation to the Republicans for a health care summit is, I suppose, an attempt at humor. The idea that a thirty-minute spot on television is enough to gain acceptance of the health care fiasco is ridiculous. After a year of shutting out the opposition, the President proposes a thirty-minute fixer-upper. I hope [...]

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Tags: Congress, Democrats, health care, Obama, polls, Republicans, summit
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The What Word?

February 8th, 2010

By Larry Ennis Having walked this earth for a while, I’ve seen and experienced my share of life. I’m astonished at some of the nit-picky things that mark our current times. One of the most laughable is the attempt of some people to dictate what can or cannot be said in public. One of the [...]

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Tags: chicken, hen, obscenities, PC, rooster, words
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Term Limits and Pandora’s Box

February 7th, 2010

By Larry Ennis I think term limits are needed if we are to ever break up the logjam in national politics. However, the only recourse is to amend our Constitution. Such an action is very controversial. The chance of having something be made worse and not better is a genuine concern. Everyone knows or should know [...]

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Tags: amendment, Constitution, Supreme Court, term limits
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How Sweet It Is

February 4th, 2010

By Larry Ennis In recent years U.S. auto makers have from time to time had to recall their products for numerous reasons. Some of the recalls were used to address serious issues, but far more were to address less than life-threatening items. Probably the most well-remembered were both fuel tank related issues. The vehicles involved [...]

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Tags: Detroit, GM, publicity, recall, safety, Toyota
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We’ve Come a Long Way

January 30th, 2010

By Larry Ennis How many reading this will remember the old crank telephones that hung on the wall? I remember the crank phone my Grandpa Cole had at his farm in Lamar County, Alabama. Cole was not the telephone type, and he was tight with his money to boot. The old man was pretty well-off [...]

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Tags: computer, Facebook, MySpace, technology, telephone, Twitter
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Second Time Around

January 28th, 2010

By Larry Ennis President Obama gave his first State of the Union address last night, effectively beginning his second year in office. The speech wasn’t anything special in my opinion. A little less arrogant but far from humble, Obama in effect offered little but a promise to do better. He mainly tried to get his [...]

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Tags: Brown, Democrats, Massachusetts, Obama, SOTU, Tea Party, transparency
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Like It or Not

January 24th, 2010

By Larry Ennis The election of Scott Brown to the Massachusetts Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy marks the beginning of a major turn-around in our political system. This reversal didn’t come about overnight. There were ample warning signs, but the Washington crowd has long ago stopped fearing the voters. Many of them (both [...]

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Tags: Democrats, FDR, liberal, progressives, Scott Brown, socialism, tea parties
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How Much Is Too Much?

January 15th, 2010

By Larry Ennis Somewhere between health care reform and pay raises for politicians, I lost all track of the non-stop Obama tax machine. I’m surrendering myself to the reality that my descendants will have to pay for taxes imposed during my lifetime. The thought of such a hateful legacy is best ignored lest I go [...]

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Tags: bailout, banks, Haiti, health care, stimulus, taxes
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What Harry Said

January 13th, 2010

By Larry Ennis Another writer asked if Harry Reid should resign for comments he made about Obama in 2008. As much I would enjoy seeing Harry go down, I don’t see his comments as the vehicle to cause his demise. After all, his comments were true. We have in this country a segment of the [...]

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Tags: Lott, Obama, Reid, resign, resignation
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Mo Gitmo

January 8th, 2010

By Larry Ennis With the promise of increasing attacks on America, terrorist or otherwise, the question of how we deal with these people continues to beg for an answer. In times past people who committed acts of war against us were considered our enemies and treated as such. For reasons unexplained, the present Administration has chosen [...]

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Tags: Constitution, Guantanamo, terrorism, terrorist
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Getting to Catalina Island

December 13th, 2009

By Larry Ennis I’m a lover of days past. I could go on about my youth in Alabama, but my youth was more diverse than just Alabama. How about my life in California? Southern California as seen through the eyes of a youngster from rural Alabama. Oh, wow! With encouragement from my cousin Shela (her [...]

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Tags: Catalina Island, SS Catalina, Wrigley
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Smiles and Frowns

December 7th, 2009

By Larry Ennis There is so much going on that it’s hard to comment on everything. The climate and global warming fiasco is playing out to be much more fiction than fact in my opinion. The recent discovery that many in the scientific community were less than truthful on the climate change situation only reinforces my [...]

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Tags: abortion, Gene Simmons, health care reform, Susan Boyle, Tiger Woods
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Judgment Day

December 1st, 2009

By Larry Ennis Today our President has promised to deliver his very long-awaited decision on how his Administration will conduct the war in Afghanistan. Owing to his lack of experience in this area of policy making, he would be smart to throw in the towel. The cost in life and resources makes on-the-job training for this [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan, Obama, strategy
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ACORN

November 29th, 2009

By Larry Ennis I’m not sure if any of you are following the ongoing political saga of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and the efforts being made to make it look legal. ACORN is a group of activists who have openly tried to steal elections and bring undue pressure to bear on mortgage banks, [...]

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Tags: ACORN, Beck, Brown, Holder, Obama, SEIU
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In Search of a Tractor

November 27th, 2009

By Larry Ennis In Search of a Sears, Roebuck David Bradley Garden Tractor I’d bet good money that a lot of folks don’t know that Sears was originally called Sears, Roebuck and Company. It was, if I recall correctly, the largest company of its type in the world. Using the U.S. Postal Service and the [...]

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Tags: collector, garden, Sears, tractor
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Tosh, Travis, and the Widemans

November 26th, 2009

By Larry Ennis They were four close friends who time and distance separated, but throughout life they were never farther apart than the blinking of an eye. We are often tempted to wonder if God is real. I’m guilty at times of falling prey to such blindness. Thinking back, we are often amazed by recollections we [...]

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Tags: dry creek, firewood, fishing, snake
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