I am writing this last blog post from a motel room located nine minutes from my brand spanking new home in California, land of my birth. This site will from this point onward be dark but still accessible by Google and all the other search engines that keep readers coming to this site in a steady trickle.
To my 40 followers, I apologize for abandoning you but I have very good reasons for discontinuing this blog, which has been a labor of love of mine for now onto 7 plus years.
I started this blog in June 2006 in protest to the illegal and immoral War in Iraq. A war based on lies and deceit. A war to enrich the cronies of the Bush Regime.
Which it did.
I enlarged the scope of the blog to include the antics of my soon-to-be indicted congressman, Tom Delay. And further, I included many issues in education. Texas is a hotbed of controversy in education. To be an educator and a blogger, but not to opine on education issues would be a non-starter with me.
I put up with a lot of guff and a lot of hate speech from commenters over the years, some of which I moderated through to publication to meet my own goals and self interest.
And I had fun doing all of it.
But it is time to move on. I have come to the realization that I needn't work any more, and that what I really want to do in life now is enjoy a retirement with my soul mate, plant a garden, help her enjoy her grand children - and maybe, just maybe, stir up some things in my new State Assembly District, my new State Senate District, and my new Congressional District - all seats occupied by Republicans. The difference is, here in California redistricting is done by an impartial panel, not a Klavern of Kontentious Konservatives as it is done in Texas.
So with malice toward none, and charity to all, I close with an acknowledgment that one should not ask what the country can do for you, but what you can do with your country, because I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.
With apologies to Abraham, Martin, and John.
4 comments:
Always enjoyed your unique perspective, Hal. Best to you in your retirement.
Congratulationa Hal..you got out alive...by the way, you thought FB wa!s conservative...OC plenty of fodder
I will really miss this blog. Is there a possibility that we will hear from you occasionally, or is this the last that we will hear from you?
Enjoy the rest of your life...and thank you for sharing you thoughts with us...
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