tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:44:50 +0000Yeah, I said it!http://glendean.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Glen)Blogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-98338242910128023Wed, 24 Jan 2018 17:09:00 +00002018-01-24T11:09:33.211-06:00On these visits to see Mama and Aunt Mae, I truly realize how fortunate I was to grow up on this mountain. We didn't have much money when I was little, but man was I ever wealthy! I had all of Uncle Dave's land, plus the entire Talladega National Forest to roam, and roam it I did. As early as I could remember, I would get up and journey into those woods. All of it was mine, every single acre. http://glendean.blogspot.com/2018/01/coming-home-to-mamas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen Dean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-5736872802129518713Sat, 18 Mar 2017 18:15:00 +00002017-03-18T12:15:41.084-06:00It's been two months since Donald Trump referenced the "forgotten men and women" in his inaugural address. Speaking as a non-fan, I must say that it was an excellent speech. It was brief, yet powerful. I was particularly struck though by his resurrection of the term "forgotten man", which was most famously spoken by Franklin Roosevelt in a 1932 radio address. Roosevelt however, did not invent thehttp://glendean.blogspot.com/2017/03/trump-and-forgotten-man-forgotten-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen Dean)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-173161272029641431Sat, 14 Nov 2015 17:09:00 +00002015-11-14T12:06:44.295-06:00When I first heard about the Missouri football players threatening to not play because of a certain "cause", my knee jerk reaction was that these young men should lose their scholarships. When you add up the total value of an athletic scholarship, which includes medical, use of world class facilities, coaching, room and board, food, tuition, and future earnings, the true worth of an athletic http://glendean.blogspot.com/2015/11/missouri-protest-pathetic-example-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen Dean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-6681092924251863245Tue, 27 May 2014 03:44:00 +00002014-05-26T21:45:19.255-06:00"For the lesson of the V.H.A.'s success story -- that a government agency can deliver better care at lower cost than the private sector -- runs completely counter to the pro-privatization, anti-government conventional wisdom that dominates today's Washington."- Paul Krugman, liberal economist, idiot. Sometimes I wonder if the conservative/ libertarians are actually a minority in the Republican http://glendean.blogspot.com/2014/05/va-scandal-is-living-study-on-big.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen Dean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-1289128245307596445Sat, 22 Feb 2014 03:20:00 +00002014-02-21T22:29:14.765-06:00In all my years blogging at numerous websites, I have never, not once, criticized anything written by Professor Thomas Sowell. To a libertarian conservative, Sowell is a rock star. But his latest column on Ted Cruz could not be anymore wrong, not just wrong about Cruz, but wrong about the Republican Party, wrong about everything. It almost broke my heart to read it, and reading Ben Howe's (Red http://glendean.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-rare-criticism-of-dr-sowell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen Dean)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-5322804617140569729Mon, 18 Mar 2013 03:39:00 +00002013-08-10T15:00:18.452-06:00So why would an unpaid blogger, writing on a website that nobody reads, take the time to criticize a book so roundly praised by "church leaders" as David Platt's "Radical". Well the answer is simple. I'm a Baptist. You see, we Baptists do not just follow and trust what out pastor, deacons, or other "leaders" tell us. No, we Baptists, who believe in the priesthood of the believer, actually tend tohttp://glendean.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-critical-review-of-david-platts-book.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)68tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-7748499948858952244Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:22:00 +00002013-01-27T13:27:53.467-06:00The following is a response to a very interesting post, written by what seems to be an extremely nice, but very liberal fellow Nashvillian. I mostly like what Ms. Gibbons had to say in her post, although I don't believe people in this region are still as bigoted as she seems to think we still are. But that's okay, Ms. Gibbons would probably consider me a little bigoted. I didhttp://glendean.blogspot.com/2013/01/southern-lefties-like-cornbread-too.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-6265862856521632017Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:40:00 +00002011-11-12T12:49:11.055-06:00It's really hard to describe how I feel right now. I'm not nearly as angry as I am disturbed, sickened, and saddened for these children. I really just want for this story to not be true. But it is.I visited the Penn State campus a couple of months ago, and I remember thinking how awesome it was to finally see a Joe Paterno coached team in one of the most tradition rich stadiums in college http://glendean.blogspot.com/2011/11/some-thoughts-on-penn-state-and-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-5726839817996618347Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:05:00 +00002011-07-18T22:05:25.639-06:00I wonder sometimes how many Americans understand why we celebrate "the fourth of July". According to at least one reputable poll, almost a quarter of Americans do not even know what country we declared independence from. I would guess that even less understand the significance of this particular day. Well let me tell you.Today is not the day our nation won independence. Today is the day we http://glendean.blogspot.com/2011/07/they-declared-independence.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-7938144059726155778Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:14:00 +00002010-10-07T19:04:49.990-06:00This is one of those posts that put me at odds with many of my friends who call themselves "conservative". These are individuals I agree with most of time.I totally understand why people feel the way they do. In fact, as far as the emotion is concerned, I'm right there with them. My reaction to this behavior, or my reaction to something like a flag burning, is just like most people's. I'm http://glendean.blogspot.com/2010/10/free-speech-applies-to-all-even-phelps.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-3450565712858383039Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:23:00 +00002010-09-29T19:35:17.448-06:00"No matter what anyone says, the Department of Education will not just write checks to local school boards. They will meddle in everything. I do not want that."-Representative Pat Schroeder (D-CO)Once the federal government gets it's foot in the door, you can be 100% sure that eventually, that threshold will be swung wide open. Government is never happy with just a little bit of liberty, with http://glendean.blogspot.com/2010/09/federal-government-should-have-nothing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-9074833888851431661Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:20:00 +00002011-04-10T13:33:14.315-06:00So what is a right? I believe the best definition of a right comes from Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. In that document, Jefferson used the word unalienable, which means "it can't be taken away". Prior to his use of the word unalienable, he wrote "endowed by their Creator", which of course means that rights are not granted by men, but by God, by nature. In other words, we http://glendean.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-is-right.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-548568000349980038Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:07:00 +00002010-08-15T09:59:32.892-06:00I'm watching these left wing pundits wrap themselves in the First Amendment, and I almost want to throw up. The American left doesn't give a rat's ass about the Constitution. The Constitution, in their view, is garbage because it limits the power of government and it affirms the rights of individuals. The American left is all about the state, not the individual. That's why they want to limit our http://glendean.blogspot.com/2010/08/ground-zero-mosque.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-4892132631771249221Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:49:00 +00002010-07-04T11:47:59.286-06:00I took great pleasure this morning in attempting to explain to my five year old, what the fourth of July is all about and why we celebrate it. While my son was somewhat confused and amused by the idea of calling a signature a "John Hancock", I am quite confident that he went to church this morning with a better understanding of our nation's birth than many adults. Sending a reporter out to ask http://glendean.blogspot.com/2010/07/why-we-celebrate-on-july-4th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-5988130507082985225Mon, 17 May 2010 03:31:00 +00002010-05-16T21:59:50.589-06:00My five year old son Frank, is a pretty fortunate fellow. He has all kinds of "stuff" to play with. Not only that, but with a forty year old dad, his upbringing is, to put it mildly, somewhat laid back. He still tends to get bored though.Tonight, after a long rainy day of staying inside and playing video games, he was allowed to watch a little TV in bed. On my way to my own bedroom, I decided I'dhttp://glendean.blogspot.com/2010/05/just-little-time-is-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-7420248924135504515Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:22:00 +00002010-07-03T07:49:53.225-06:00 President Obama, this weekend, said that the passage of Healthcare will be a historic event in American history. He is right. If this disaster passes, it will be historic, just like the trail of tears was historic, or Plessy v. Fergesun was historic. Being historic, or as he puts it, being “transformative”, is not always a good thing. There is such a thing as bad history. This http://glendean.blogspot.com/2010/03/healthcare-bill-passage-will-be.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-3654418552576880434Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:05:00 +00002009-12-24T09:42:12.730-06:00For the last couple of weeks I have intended to write a post about the milestone of my fortieth birthday. It is a particularly important event for me, since my father never lived to see this age, and my brother died shortly thereafter, both of colon cancer. There was a time when I didn't expect to see this age either, but it wasn't because I feared cancer. No I suffered from a completely http://glendean.blogspot.com/2009/12/life-begins-at-40.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-4068607505370808599Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:10:00 +00002008-12-25T11:12:03.303-06:00Merry Christmas everybody.http://glendean.blogspot.com/2008/12/merry-christmas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-644249192234714875Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:44:00 +00002008-10-29T18:48:56.482-06:00I don't know where it came from. But for some reason, there was this really little and shabby looking pumpkin on my counter this afternoon. Even though I had never carved a pumpkin in my entire life, I thought "what the heck" and brought Frank in the kitchen and carved that sucker up. Now I know this is a really amateurish job of carving, but Frank loved it. Notice the mean face he's making. http://glendean.blogspot.com/2008/10/frankies-first-jack-o-lantern.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-335521959196428886Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:25:00 +00002008-09-20T05:33:32.159-06:00What a sweet song! It's definitely one of my favorite Dead tunes, performed here by Jerry and David. Of course, David actually played mandolin on the album version, featured on American Beauty. Excerpt of Robert Hunter's lyrics below.Reach out your hand if your cup be empty,If your cup is full may it be again,Let it be known there is a fountain,That was not made by the hands of men.There is a http://glendean.blogspot.com/2008/09/garcia-and-grisman-ripple.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-5370819208906431018Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:30:00 +00002008-08-28T11:48:43.116-06:00Damn a bunch of sad posts. I just got off the phone with Sanna, and she is going to allow me to pick up Frank from daycare today. Today is her day, so it's her call, you know. I get to spend a couple of hours with him, before I head out to the Flying Saucer tonight to see my old nemesis/friend Brittney.Yesterday, when I was sad, I was sitting around playing blues music. My mom, who was still herehttp://glendean.blogspot.com/2008/08/damn-bunch-of-sad-posts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-915485260144564680Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:39:00 +00002008-12-09T11:15:56.910-06:00No I am not talking about that stupid primary election. Today is my son Frank's third birthday. It is also the fifth anniversary of my brother's death. My brother was also named Frank, as was my late father. I had made the decision to name my son after my dad and brother when we first found out the baby was going to be a boy. It's just so cool that he came into the world on the same day my http://glendean.blogspot.com/2008/02/today-is-big-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-5568050910341563001Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:44:00 +00002008-01-10T22:44:05.560-06:00This rant by Southern Beale got me to thinking that maybe its time to write about how much I love women and why. SB's feelings about what I may or may not be do not really bother me that much. It's her point of view. I respect it.But I am the farthest thing from someone who hates or dislikes women.Let me tell you why. Unfortunately, my father died when I was ten. At that time, my brother was http://glendean.blogspot.com/2008/01/definitely-not-that-word-i-am-tired-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-8015276983172372044Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:35:00 +00002008-01-06T00:43:11.465-06:00George Will on the Populists:Like Job after losing his camels and acquiring boils, the conservative movement is in distress. Mike Huckabee shreds the compact that has held the movement's two tendencies in sometimes uneasy equipoise. Social conservatives, many of whom share Huckabee's desire to "take back this nation for Christ," have collaborated with limited-government, market-oriented, http://glendean.blogspot.com/2008/01/problem-with-populists.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9892807.post-5092897908108877753Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:14:00 +00002009-10-18T12:13:20.580-06:00I had ridden by the place several times over the years, but never dared to enter it's walls. It seemed like a different world, a different culture. I wasn't really that curious about the place though. I don't like coffee and my stereotype of the type of person known to hang out in there was quite unappealing.But then it happened. My wife and I had a little bit of time to kill yesterday afternoon http://glendean.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-first-trip-to-starbucks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Glen)0