I just took a cat nap, woke up, and flipped on the TV. I got a lot of sun and exercise a bit ago by starting the powerwashing of my fence. Since I moved in to this house, I have wanted that dirty, slimy, algae filled fence to be better looking. I spent several hours washing away and got about 25% or more of my side of the fence done. One thing about power washing is that it goes slowly but sure makes a difference.

It is a 98 to 99 degree heat index outside. If the powerwashing wasn't misting me constantly, I would have been sweating a lot more. I was soaked, however. Combine that with the fact that my doctor has me on an antibiotic that has a warning against being in sunlight, and you have a pink Troy. Even the tops of my feet are burned. I wore sandals. My scalp hurts when I brush my hair. I cut my hair short and am a little thin in some areas. I am not quite a lobster, but I am pink.

What a difference in the clean versus dirty sections. I need to take a few pictures and post them on the blog.

I showered, sat down, talked to the wife a bit, put Patton on the TV, since it was on cable, and drifted off into nap time. When I groggily awoke a bit ago, I put on the TV again and found C-SPAN2 playing a repeat of "The YearlyKos" Blogger Convention from June 9th. Liberals from all over the country came together to discuss issues of political activism.

People from Democracy for America, moveon.org, and others were all spouting liberal twaddle about issues that they say are important. Tom Matzzie from moveon.org had some articulate but incredibly ignorant diatribe accusing the Republican Party and the President of vote fraud (as did others), railed about the need of a living wage (read "raise the minimum wage"), whined about tax cuts for the rich, yadda, yadda, yadda. It was said that the three biggest issues that people are concerned about in America are health care, renewable energy sources, and the war in Iraq. I don't know about those. That sounds a bit off to me. They must have only asked liberals.

These people obviously know little about economics, are socialist, are filled with anger towards conservative leadership, and hate the free enterprise system. I found myself responding to assertions and accusations these idiots were levying.

The only thing that some of the panelists were making sense about was the idea of grass roots activism.

Thankfully, that program ended about an hour ago. Wow, I started this blog entry when that program was still on. I took time out to have leftovers, feed the dog some treats, and teach an economics lesson to the wife purusant to the crap we saw on the Yearlykos Convention.

Right now, I am watching a a debate/conference with two speakers, Pat Buchanan and Tom Daschle. Pat Buchanan is very conservative and is an equal opportunity critic. He will call it as he sees it, whether it is a Republican or Democrat that deserves criticism. Daschle is typically a liberal Democrat and spits out the party line and slams George Bush. In the same monologue, he talks about standing for what is right regardless of the party; being loyal to the republic and not to a party or a president. What a hypocrite.

What I am tired of hearing in this symposium is the U.S. being referred to as a "democracy". WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY! We are a representative republic. I am so tired of people referring to us as a democracy, saying we spread democracy, and need to cherish democracy. I don't. Democracy means mob rule. The majority vote gets what it wants. A representative republic puts that into check. If we were a democracy, only what white Anglo-Saxon Protestants want would rule.

As the program keeps going on, Daschle keeps being more and more partisan in his points. What a liberal.