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WOW 5 years at Redstate

By: George Neitz (Diary)  |  December 1st, 2010 at 08:49 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

back in 2005 I decided to sign up so I could read and understand more fully the true meaning of conservatism, having lived the majority of my life in the Peoples republic of Massachusetts a lot of the things I was reading on this blog thingy were rather new and novel to me.
Seeing that a few years prior I had moved to sunnier climes (Florida) I found myself in a rather conservative area of the state and I thank all the posters at Redstate for providing me with an education in conservatism and its many different types and varieties.
I have watched and only very occasionally written while many of the greats have come and gone to and from the halls of this blog some have left in a fit of anger while others have passed this mortal coil and others yet have left to create something more on their own personal style my thanks go to all of you
Happy birthday??

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  • danduck

    I as well joined this blog to find out more from the conservative viewers. I have never been one who has wrapped my life around politics. I honestly find myself confused and lost on what the overall message is from certain political stand points.

    Any advice?

    • JSobieski

      This site is more than a political site in the sense that conservatism is a philosophy that is broader than politics.

      Welcome.

      • danduck

        So you’re saying that Conservatism is more than politics. But does that mean that Liberal views are also a philosphy which is much more than politics?

        • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

          Leftists tend to follow more rigid ideologies than philosophies.

          • danduck

            Neil Stevens can you provide me with an example?

          • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

            I’d direct you to Chapter 1 of Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind, though. It’s an excellent definition of conservatism, in my view.

        • conservativemusician

          It is also the way life is supposed to be lived, but has been bastardized by the libs. Libs are primarily reflexive in their reactions and base their judgements more on emotion than logic and reason, in my view. They do not have core principles in the way most of us here understand them as conservatives.

  • JadedByPolitics

    I hope you have many, many more because the FIGHT has just begun and WE NEED as many soldiers as possible :)

    • George Neitz

      Only the Lord knows how many more years I will be here but I will be a conservative until the time he calls me home

  • Tbone

    5 years and 5 months here. LOL

  • http://www.facebook.com/BigGator5 BigGator5

    Happy Five, my friend! Here are some five facts:

    In Math:

    *The third prime number (Interesting Fact: Five is the only prime number to end in the digit 5).
    *There are five solutions to Zn?m’s problem of length 6.
    *A polygon with five sides is a pentagon.

    In Science:

    *The atomic number of boron.
    *The lightest atomic mass (the sum of protons and neutrons) for which no stable isotopes exist for any element.
    *There are five Lagrangian points in a two-body system.
    *Almost all amphibians, reptiles, and mammals which have fingers or toes have five of them on each extremity.

    In Religion:

    *There are traditionally Five Wounds of Jesus Christ.
    *The book of Psalms is arranged into five books, paralleling the Five Books of Moses.
    *Muslims pray to Allah five times a day and there are five basic “pillars” of Islam.

    In Music:

    *A Perfect fifth is the most consonant harmony, and is the basis for most western tuning systems.
    *Modern musical notation uses a musical staff made of five horizontal lines.
    *Using the Latin root, five musicians are called a quintet.

    In Technology:

    *In radio communication, the term “Five By Five” is used to indicate perfect signal strength and clarity.
    *On most telephones, the 5 key is associated with the letters J, K, and L, but on some of the BlackBerry phones, it is the key for G and H.
    *The Pentium, coined by Intel Corporation, is a fifth-generation x86 architecture microprocessor.

    Other:

    *”Give me five” is a common phrase used preceeding a High five.
    *An informal term for the British Security Service, MI5.
    *The number of Justices on the Supreme Court of the United States necessary to render a majority decision.
    *The number of permanent members with veto power on the United Nations Security Council.
    *The number of Korotkoff sounds when measuring blood pressure.
    *The drink Five Alive is named for its five ingredients.
    *The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989.
    *The Committee of Five was delegated to draft the United States Declaration of Independence.
    *The 5th U.S. President was James Monroe.

  • George Neitz

    Who knew that so many things were related to 5, I am truly surprised

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine