Just because I agree with you doesn’t mean I think you would be a good president April 27, 2007
Posted by Karen Joy in Arizona, Christianity, God/Christianity/Church, Interesting Websites, Political Thought.6 comments
Prompted, again, from Kiva’s blog, I had the thought that, just because I agree with a presidential candidate doesn’t mean I think s/he would make a good president.
I mean, I agree with myself 100% of the time. But, do I think I would make a good president? Hardly.
I took a quiz meant to match me up with the candidate most closely aligned with my own leanings. My top match? Tom Tancredo. Who??? 
I’m sure, since Mr. Tancredo agrees with me 80-something% of the time that this makes him lively, smart, and attractive. 
However, that doesn’t mean I’d vote for him.
Right now, I’m leaning towards John McCain. I don’t like the fact that he’s 70. Or 71? And his choice of running mate may seriously sway my preferences. (Though I could say that about virtually any candidate.) I don’t even agree w/ McCain 100% of the time — he came in 3rd on my quiz rankings, but I didn’t really need a quiz to tell me that.
BUT, I think
- McCain is as trustworthy a politician that Washington has seen in a long time.
- He has the both the diplomacy and charisma that is profoundly helpful, I think, in being a leader in world politics.
- Closer to home, it is his intention, I believe, to have smart politics, not just the party platform grandstanding that has been so divisive to the American political scene for at least the last 15 years.
- He’s a Christian.
- He’s from Arizona, so I’m very familiar with him.
- He was a war hero in Vietnam, showing both a physical strength and internal resolve greater than, oh, 99.95% of the world’s population.
- And, I agree with him most of the time, which is good enough for me.
Just to note, Mitt Romney came in 2nd on my quiz, but for better or worse, I find myself 95% distrustful of anyone who practices the inherently secretive Mormon religion.
If you don’t love this photography, something is wrong with you. April 27, 2007
Posted by Karen Joy in Arizona, Art, Interesting Websites, Life in the Desert.add a comment
Well, not really. There’s no accounting for taste, I suppose. But, I love these textural, sumptuous, history-filled, poignant (hey! two posts in a row with “poignant”) photos of John Annesley. Plus almost all of his work is shot in Arizona. And he lives in Bisbee, which is a truly wonderful old copper mining town turned artists’ enclave in southeastern Arizona. And I e-mailed him to make sure I could post his copyrighted photos on my blog and he responded positively within an hour or so. (Inaccessible and unfriendly artists do not help their own cause, IMO.)
Most of these pics you can buy from the artist, which he makes to-order, matted, for $55-95, which seems reasonable to me. My computer screen does not do them justice, unfortunately, and likely, yours won’t either. I saw Annesley’s work in my Highroads magazine, put out by AAA. For a self-promoting publication, Highroads does an unusually fine job, most issues (at the date of this post, though, the website has not caught up with the print publication, and still has the Mar/Apr ‘07 issue up).
He photographs other stuff, too, but my favorite is what he calls Vehiculart.
~sigh~ Anyone have a spare $55?
