Terry's Rant....
Terry McKenna
- Location
- Dover, New Jersey, USA
- Birthday
- July 20
- Bio
- Conservative in the Burkean sense. Little tolerance for fools, less for liars (though I regularly vote for them).
MY RECENT POSTS
- Times Square - the Biggest No
Fun Zone of All
May 27, 2012 08:52AM - Another Day, Another Shithead
May 26, 2012 03:44PM - Romney - Obama's Attack on His
Character
May 25, 2012 11:16AM - A Late Mother's Day Note
May 19, 2012 09:41AM - Stupid Voters, Stupid
Commentators
May 06, 2012 09:40AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “thanks!”
May 26, 2012 05:04PM - “It is hard to believe
that these folks, especially
Bolton,
have not hidden
themse…”
May 25, 2012 01:35PM - “Excellent article. Yes,
it is a waste. But, Obama has
sold
his soul to fit
in.…”
May 21, 2012 09:58AM - “Hi Margaret, thanks for
the comment. The only thing
that I
want to add is
that,…”
April 15, 2012 01:03PM - “Weird it pretty much all
one can say.”
April 15, 2012 01:03PM
Terry McKenna's Links
Times Square - the Biggest No Fun Zone of All
I remember the real Times Square, not in its heyday, but in the late 1950s, when as a boy, my parents would take us through whenever we visited New York - which was often, since we lived only 10 miles away, in suburban NJ.
It was the end of
… Read full post »Another Day, Another Shithead
Romney - Obama's Attack on His Character
Character assassination!
That’s what Romney charges upon hearing of the Obama ad that target Romney’s work at Bain Capital. But is it?
And who started? (Started it? Juvenile, yes!)
Remember, campaigns don’t take place in a vacuum. So let&… Read full post »
A Late Mother's Day Note
This piece was meant for Mother’s Day, but time got the better of me. Still, a rumination on my wife as mother is always timely.
My wife’s motherhood began inauspiciously enough with pregnancy. Though we had been married for a little over a year when she became pregnant, the… Read full post »
Stupid Voters, Stupid Commentators
Stupid is never the best word to use, unless you want to start a fight. Its tone is harsh, and its judgment final. So be it, the judgment is deserved.
The first stupid guy was a caller to a talk radio program, a “J…. from Tallassee Alabama” – he is… Read full post »
Stupid Voters, Stupid Commentators
Stupid is never the best word to use, unless you want to start a fight. Its tone is harsh, and its judgment final. So be it, the judgment is deserved.
The first stupid guy was a caller to a talk radio program, a “J…. from Tallassee Alabama” – he is… Read full post »
I Spent $46 Billion and ALL I Got Was This T Shirt
How many jobs can you get for $46 Billion?
The $46 Billion is the estimated cost of the Republican’s Small Business Tax Cut Act. This is a campaign device, not legislation that has a chance to pass. Both parties do this form of posturing, and it is never productive. By… Read full post »
Assisted Suicide, St Joseph and a Happy Death
When I was a child we prayed to saints for various favors, it’s an old Catholic practice and quite widespread. Although we didn’t pray for more money or anything selfish, we prayed for pretty much everything else. For example, if we were taking a test, we might say a little pr… Read full post »
Obamacare, After the Fall, What?
If the questions from the Supreme Court are predictive, the court will overrule significant parts of the law this summer. So then what?
In the immediate aftermath, conservatives will be overjoyed to have stopped America from taking the path to European socialism.
If you… Read full post »
John Demjanjuk died. Was He Worth the Effort?
John Demjanjuk died. If you don’t know who he is, he was thought to be an infamous concentration camp, Ivan the Terrible. His story inspired the movie Music Box (with Jessica Lange). It turned out he wasn’t that Ivan. Still, he probably was a concentration camp gua… Read full post »
The Eucharist, is that all there is?
The Eucharist. Is Than All There Is?
I am a lapsed Catholic, but still attend Church every week in the form of choir rehearsal. I also sing at special services, so get to hear priests drone on about current Catholic concerns. Funny about the phrase, preaching to the choir, for some… Read full post »
The Eucharist, is that all there is?
The Eucharist. Is Than All There Is?
I am a lapsed Catholic, but still attend Church every week in the form of choir rehearsal. I also sing at special services, so get to hear priests drone on about current Catholic concerns. Funny about the phrase, preaching to the choir, for some… Read full post »
Campaign against birth control is religious fanaticism
This is from a piece by John Stoehr – published on line by Al Jazeera (of all people.)
“Dolan and the bishops planned to take on the Obama administration, even though a variation of Obama’s rule had been on the books since the Bush era. About a decade ago,… Read full post »
Sleeping With The Enemy
News Item:
Anti-abortion "personhood" bill clears Oklahoma senate
(Reuters) - Oklahoma lawmakers edged closer toward trying to outlaw abortion on Wednesday by approving "personhood" legislation that gives individual rights to an embryo from the moment of conception.
The Republican-controlled… Read full post »
An Abortion, and then Lunch!
An Abortion and then Lunch!
The Butcher Boy an English folksong
In London city where I did dwell, A butcher boy, I loved right well, He courted me, my life away, But now with me, he will not stay
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain, I wish I was a maid… Read full post »
Thoughts about the foreclosure deal.
My local paper is a the former Morristown Daily Record, now a stripped down Gannet rag. We get a local wrapper affixed to a toned down version of USA today. Less national news, and mediocre local coverage. The worst of both worlds.
Still, I frequent their website often, espe… Read full post »
The Idiocracy Is Here. Republicans Woo The Working Man
If you haven’t seen it, The Idiocracy is Mike Judge’s 2006 satire about a dystopian future where the average citizen is a thuggish, beer-guzzling troglodyte who aspires to nothing more than sitting in front of his TV watching mindless fare. Though set in the future, it is just… Read full post »
Mitt Romney, A Defense (A Tepid One)
No, Romney is not a Vulture Capitalist.
Nor does Romney deserve the criticism he has received from Rick Perry or Newt Gingrich that he was a vulture capitalist (Rick Perry’s phrase). Sure, he deserves other criticisms, especially from conservatives who are right to complain the he preten… Read full post »
The Republican Party Does Not Represent Main Street.
The Republican Party Does Not Represent Main Street. (Don’t worry, it doesn’t represent the worker either!).
Yes, they get the votes of small town businessmen, but they are in bed with the corporate interests that own the large malls that lay just outside of our towns (and which nearly o… Read full post »
Economists, Missing In Action!
Economists, Missing In Action!
With the New Year being an election year, and the election likely turning on the economy, what better time to review the profession of economics? And it turns out, economics has the trappings of a profession, but in actual practice, it is only a shade bette… Read full post »
Goodbye Polonia!
Goodbye Polonia!
Growing up, we were far more Polish that Irish. Sure, I had an Irish surname and so was superficially Irish, but my childish heart was Polish. Irishness was a good cover while growing up, and was of real benefit in the Catholic schools of the 50s. For non-Catholics… Read full post »
Catholics and Birth Control. From My Local Rag
This week in my local paper ran an opinion piece against birth control pills.
Here is its opening:
“You’re paying for the convenience.” It’s a phrase we use to justify why milk costs a little more at a 24-hour store. ….…
What Would Jesus Do. (About Conservative Christians!)
What would Jesus do?
This is the mantra of conservative Christians, but one wonders what, if anything, these folks know of Jesus’ message. And to be clear, in the US, “conservative Christians” stands not for the intellectual faith of men like G.K. Chesterton or C.S Lewi… Read full post »
Happy to be working!
The depth of our economy is such that, this year, I don't feel the need to dredge up a host of things that I am happy for. That I am working is enough. That my wife and son are also working makes me almost ripple with giddiness.
Sure, I am happy… Read full post »
Still a conservative, but by a hair!
Since no one reads these blogs anyway, I thought why not throw in a confessional essay.
Aside from this blog, I also write long letters to our local paper, a very small Gannet rag named the Daily Record. The Record was once a real paper with local flavor. It is now… Read full post »
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