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$25.00.  That's all my wife would let me give so far.

on both parts.

And let it be said - this is our last .06 effort. .02 was so much easier. :)

It is 2006 after all.

But can anyone explain Taylor's position?  A quick Google site search for abortion doesn't reveal anything.  Ditto for cloning and stem cell.

Van Taylor is prolife.

How can you say Taylor is pro-life?  Do you have evidence?  I looked for endorsements and questionnaires by single issue abortion groups, and the only thing I found was a questionnaire for the Brazos Valley Coalition for Life.  As you can see from reading it (.doc), he didn't respond while his primary opponent did.  The questions weren't extreme... a sampling:

"Should pro-life Christians have the same rights to free speech and public assembly as anyone else in Brazos County?"

"Do you support the Brazos County Health Department using tax dollars to refer women to abortion providers?"

"In a hundred words or less, describe how, if elected, you will work to ensure that Brazos County becomes a community that respects and protects, rather than destroys, human life in the womb."

All I'm asking is for independent confirmation from an organization or top tier pro-lifer, or the words from the candidate's mouth.  If this district is as conservative as they say why can't he come out as proudly pro-life.

(BTW, how can someone with an almost exclusively Virginia blog be so confident about a Texas house race?)

I linked to the wrong document in my above comment.  Here's the candidate survey that I reference:

My wife unfortunately doesn't know of my activities yet, because I don't have one.  :(  On the other hand, considering who my previous wife-to-be was, that may be a good thing. :)  In any case, I hope we see more of this kind of effort here on RedState.  Any future wife I want to have will agree.  ::))

Could she be ANY more pro-life?

No.

and her organization, the Texas Eagle Forum has endorsed Van Taylor.

Thanks for the free link though!

http://vantaylor.com/press_021706.asp

My husband is out tonight and so has no control over the situation.

That's funny, because a search of the Texas Eagle Forum website does not have anything for "Van Taylor".  Neither does their national site.  Infact, their candidate questionnaire doesn't even list any federal races.  So what we have is the candidate claiming an endorsement with the group saying nothing.  That's just a tad suspicious to me.

(BTW, you're welcome to the link.  That's what the blogosphere does.)

Does he ever have control? <wink>

I just did a quick Nexis and Google News search for "van taylor" and "eagle forum" and neither search came up with any articles.  The Nexis search was refined to search only Texas news sources, so it would have picked up a local paper (which would be most likely to run a story on it.)

I don't have anything against Van Taylor from what I read now, but I'm not going to give any money to a candidate unless I know they're prolife.

The answer is no about 90% of the time.  It's that last 10% that really counts, and smart women know it and don't fight it.

It's just the illusion of control for that remaining 10%  

:)

In terms of ideas, not in terms of any overtly risque practices.  As a man, I know that about 90% of my ideas are probably going nowhere, but I will keep coming up with them anyway.  It's the other ten percent that really counts, and that's why you need a good wife.

Are you mad, Kowalski?  Do you have any idea how much chaos and destruction would be caused if he were in control 10 whole percent of the time?  Civilization would tremble on its foundations.

Vince Micco is also an Iraq War vet running against a Democrat in NJ!

A quick google will tell you a bit about him, his site www.votevince.com is not up yet. Hopefully we can help him out in the near future!

But even 1% of those ideas are so blindingly brilliant that they at least have to make you laugh.  I put the 10% figure out there as my first offer, but usually I'm prepared to compromise.  ;)  All in the name of saving humanity, mind you.  

Also this link may help you decide:

http://vantaylor.com/press_releases.asp

The eighth one down is from the Texas Eagle Forum.

If a man speaks and his wife is not there to  hear him is he still wrong?

the answer, my wife told me :-)

RedState only endorses pro-life candidates.

If a man speaks and his wife is not there to  hear him is he still wrong?

In fact, even if he doesn't speak he's wrong. Taking it further, even if he isn't there and didn't speak, he's wrong.

I have been married for 36 years and I have never been right yet, except in my polotical view.

but you get used to it.

I can still remember the last time I was correct and that was the evening I proposed to my wife. All downhill since then, but the upside is you don't have to peddle as hard.

We need Republicans in Congress who have the guts to be a conservative. I just donated $500. This is important. This man could prove to be the anti-Murtha.

Chet Edwards is a good campaigner, with a solid organizational structure.  While there are a lot of things working against Chet Edwards, such as his anti-Bush rhetoric, which doesn't play very well in Bush's home district and his stance on abortion, there are also things that he's done that play well in the district such as his attempt to save the VA hospital in Waco, which employs 600+ people, making it one of the larger employers in the area- of course if the VA administration decides to close the hospital it won't play well for Edwards - not that I'd wish the loss of 600 jobs on my friends and neighbors (I live in TX-17) just to scuttle Edward's rep in the district.

Having said that, I'm optimistic about Taylor's chances.  The demographics of the district continues to change to favor Republicans.  The two largest counties in the district - McLennan and Brazos trending Republican in the last few elections (actually Brazos has been pretty solidly Republican for a while now - those Aggies are reliably conservative).  Another thing that really benefits Taylor is that he's not the previous Republican candidate, Arlene Wulgemuth (sp) who alienated many of the Republicans in Waco over a water quality dispute by siding against the city a couple of years prior to '04.

I like this guy.

He will win big.

I see marketing opportunity here.  :)

But I'm just a poor enlisted slob   :/

He's kinda cute!

Too poor for more now, but maybe later.

One of these days you will realize that you barely have control over your bladder and none over anything else.

None.  Take a deep breath.  Practice smiling and saying "Thank you, hon"  

...even if he doesn't speak he's wrong.   Please!  After 36 years I can't believe you got that so wrong.

• If you speak you're wrong.
• If you remain silent, you don't care.

It's like a minefield.  The awful part is when you put your foot down and hear "click".  The boom doesn't happen until you move your foot.  The question is, do you stand there and take fire or try to run?  Please rank the options based on anything but "least bad".

:>)

I was introduced to the married concepts of our money (which means joint acct) and her money (her acct).  I kept asking about the one labeled my money but it never materialized.

not that kind of time left in the universe.

The wife and hav gone out to buy a clock.  While we're looking at them, she asks me which one I like.

I see one that reminds me of the wall clock in  elementary school; it brings back pleasant nostalga, God knows why - if Dante had ever experienced the third grade he would have given it its own bolgia - and so I point it out and say "That one."

She keeps going.

I repeat.  "That one."

She stops, blinks for a moment, realizes that for once in my existence I have actually given my input on home decor and we get the clock.

We then go by the curtains section.  She asks for my opinions on them, hopefully.  I shrug and tell her that whatever she likes is fine.  

She looks at my head.  

She looks at the clock, which is - truth be told - not that attractive.

She visibly avoids violently connecting the two.

No moral.

It's a kind of funny mythologocial storytelling that's a sort of common currency -- everyone knows the joke.  But people in good, functional and healthy relationships share their ideas pretty well, IMHO.  My parents would never have been able to stay together for 41 years if they didn't.  And my grandparents played the Abbott and Costello routine even longer than that, and more successfully.  Even in my worst relationship, we did a great job of understanding and debating ideas roughly 50/50 right up until things got sour, for reasons I won't go into right now.  But when it does go sour, it becomes 99/1 on both sides, people start keeping very, very accurate score, and that's when you know it's over.  2% of agreement between people in love (and fighting over those 2%) doesn't a happy or long-lasting situation make.  But people who are really in love with each other and still happy tend to agree and bounce productive ideas off each other much more often than they don't.

Unnecessary.

A tale all too well known to every man who has been married more than 90 days. There comes a point in the life of a man where his existence on Earth no longer has any significant impact. For most men that day occurs with the pronouncement of the phrase "I Do." A truly wise man knows when to simply accept what life has handed him. It is not possible to make lemonade from every possible lemon.

you stop being serious :-)

we just establish our comfort zones.  Shirley doesn't comment on what kind of motorcycle I should be riding (other than it's color and chrome content and she doesn't get upset when I ignore her), and I don't comment on home decorations (see the discussion on wall clocks - been there) and I don't get upset if she ignores me if I do overstep my bounds.

And I feel as though it's my duty to qualify jokes like the one I made last night.  They're funny, sure, but it's not how I really feel about women and relationships.  :-)

You say , "I don't care, whatever you like is fine." and in your head add after that because this is your thing, and I love you, having promised to do so forever, and I want you to have your thing.

She hears "I don't care" as long as we can leave soon so I can get back to RedState.

Everyone knows your wife :-)

But its because she is the same as every wife in modern America, they are programmed by the same factory. Their psyches are all interchangeable...

Seriously, my wife finds this entire blogging thing just a touch strange.  Although she's not as disapproving as she was during the 2004 elections...

I doubt she's ever visited a blog despite being a IT professional. She generally treats my affliction with solace and kindness because that's the way she is. Although I suspect she thinks I belong in a bottle in a lab at Harvard or somehting :-)

Of Love.  Here it is:

50 percent of the area on each side is the part where "you're wrong."  In the middle is the 100% where you overlap and you're both right.

See?  It's simple.  :P

"When my wife and I got married, we decided that she would make all the little decisions, and I would make all the big decisions.  In 40 years of marriage, there hasn't been a big decision yet."

                        -- My old gaffer

My Dad told the same story. I'm beginning to detect a pattern here :-)

$35.06.

Wouldn't it just be sweet if we had rock-ribbed Iraqi vet in Congress?  Ooh, boy.  The sound you hear is journalists rushing to interview someone else, anyone else.