HAPPY BLOGOVERSERY!!!!

Below is my first Blog posting from a year ago.

A Voice In the Wilderness
OK I am 52 years old. Why start a blog you may ask? Well for one thing I saw the movie Julie and Julia last weekend and I was inspired. For another reason I have ideas though sometimes they are hair brained and I want to express them. The traditional outlets for political thoughts from the citizenry are letters to the editors of newspapers. The newspapers are like the giant woolly mammoths who died in the ice age the newspapers as is the rest of the old media is retreating into extinction.

Recently I have tried several times to send a letters on various issues to papers throughout the state of CA. In most instances your letter can only be published if you are responding directly to an editorial expressed in that paper and in many other instances you are limited to less than 200 words in your letter. I must admit that most of my letters have only been published in my local town's paper the Vallejo Times Herald. I have felt like a voice crying in the wilderness ( although I refuse to wear bearskins and eat locusts).

Our political leaders are not listening to us and the old media wishes people like me would just be quiet. I am not a soldier in the mindless army of the beltway GOP but my views tend to be conservative. The name I have chosen for my blog is Barbarians at the Gates. Like the latter days of ancient Rome the USA is a great nation with an increasingly corrupt political system. We have many enemies surrounding us who want to plunder our wealth and we are less and less self sufficient in producing our own products and services.

From time to time I have posted some of my rants to my Face book friends. I know this was not the best format and that is why I am sending this link to you. I am not asking you to agree with me but to pass it on to thinking people both liberal and conservative. To those of you who know me personally I thank you in your prayer and support in this endeavor. I hope I can bring some thought and some humor into all our lives.

That was my post a year ago today.


OK I have been doing this for one year now. I have not changed the world but perhaps I have influenced a couple of minds. That in itself has made this worthwhile.

I have changed my viewpoint and I have come to realize that I am actually not the civilized Roman but indeed I am the Barbarian and all my brethren who belong to the Tea Party movement are the Barbarians. We will not sit idly by and sell our children's birthright nor lose our national soul to socialism. I have always been able to analyze trends and I can tell you the stars are aliening for something special. But that will be another posting.

In the paraphrased words of the late Jackie Gleason (for you youngsters John Stewart's grandfather) " Barbarians at the Gates Fans are the greatest fans in the world.!!!! "


A Voice In the Wilderness