Tagged by Tweety
April 14th, 2007I’ve been tagged by Tweety. The post is here.
Five bloggers who make me think? Well, there are twenty or more, but I’ll narrow it down to five that immediately come to mind.
Neal makes me think. While he and I have a lot of similar beliefs, he goes in much more detail and spouts off many more facts. If I ever wrote a history book, I’d hire him as a fact checker.
Laura and I disagree on a lot of issues. However, I have utmost respect for her, because she gives her beliefs a lot of thought. Two intelligent people can look at the same facts and come to different conclusions, because we are all different, and that’s what makes this world interesting. If everyone thought like I did, the world would be boring. Plus, Laura’s caught me being a hypocrite on at least one occasion and called me on it.
Yonderincarp makes me think. In some ways, I’m envious. He’s a decade younger than I and he’ll slaughter me in Jeopardy. He’s also a nice guy, having had lunch and dinner with him before.
I know what my weaknesses are when it comes to being worldly. My huge, glaring weakness is the Middle-East. Thankfully, I have Exmi to consult. The guy really knows his stuff, and if I ever make it to Congress, we’ll definitely be on a first name basis. And yes, I will pay consulting fees, because he’s worth it.
And lastly, Lime knows the Caribbean. Having taken a cruise there, I’m in love with the Caribbean. When our finances change, I’m going to do a lot more exploring of those gorgeous islands. What’s really cool is Lime not only knows the region, she’s lived there and knows the culture, and also writes very well.
Here are the rules for those I tagged.
1. Write a post naming 5 bloggers that make you think.
2. Refer back to this post so the previous taggers can read what you wrote.
3. put the thinking blog icon on your post.. optional…
I don’t have the thinking blog icon, and am too lazy to look for it. If you’ve done this tag before, then point to it. You of course don’t have to respond to the tag, but if you want to, let me know you did because I’m curious, and when I get some time, I’ll check them out too.
zombie, thanks. i’m flattered that you’d include me in such a list, truly. i actually did this tag right about the time you came back to blogdom and listed you as a thinking blogger then (though there was no neato award button to give out at that time). i will be doing this tag again, because you’ve tagged me as has someone else in the last week and i had it pointed out to me that i only listed men last time. when i respond to this tag i will include the link to the list i put you on and the button thingamajig too. thanks again, zombie. coming from one who i consider to be a real thinking person i appreciate the consideration. i’d also like to thank all the little people, and my second grade teacher who encouraged my writing, and ….(music swells loudly in the background)
seriously, thanks.
Lol! (at the acceptance speech).
Okay, looking forward to reading your new version of it.
Thanks for the links, señor! Truth be told, I don’t get around much and your recommendations carry weight… good places to check out.
I’ll be freeloading for a while… perhaps a long while, commenting more, but blogging less.
Oops… question. Are you going to import all your posts from Blogger?
Bo - No. Just a few select ones. Or I’ll steal ideas from them when I have nothing intelligent to say.
Ihave the code:
That should pull up the icon and link back to the award originators blog.
mike
OK, try this… replace the brackets with… you know;-’)
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Zombie,
You are too kind, man. If the two of us were on jeopardy we would have a lot of fun, though. That dirty Trebek wouldn’t know what hit him.
I’ve been working on this tag for over a month. I had to keep changing it, as my subjects kept getting tagged by someone else.
I think I’ll just write it with who I want, even if they’ve already been tagged!
Zombie thanks for participating. I enjoyed reading your five. I have seen lime around but havent checked out her blog yet. She has some friends that I have. Thanks again.
You had to go and switch to a complicated website… what are you doing to me?? It’s too early for simple addition
Anyway. Thanks for the tag… I don’t care about the no-tagbacks rule. I’ve never been one to follow rules anyway…
Mike - It’s not showing up. You might want to change the greater than/less than symbols to []’s, and I’ll know to change them back. Thanks.
Yonder - Ben Stein’s smarter than Trebek.
Tshsmom - Yeah, just get it done. I’ve never liked rules anyways.
Tweety - Yeah, Lime’s cool. She’s had some interesting life experiences. I still haven’t checked out the 2 others you mentioned. Too ***** busy.
Laura - I don’t either. Rules suck.
That’s weird, I did that in a post right afterward and it was there for a day or two, now it’s gone. Here it is again:
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Ok, I’ll get to work on this as soon as I finish the post on the NRA and the ACLU in Texas.
I don’t know enough about blogging to tag someone. I used to be a real blog reader. I got kind of disenchanted that my more political writings got left along, nobody wanted to stir the pot so to speak. So I just post my thoughts and leave it at that. I truly am honored that you think I research well though. I just like to make sure I don’t get caught with my pants down.
Now that you’re back in the land of the living I will make a point to check in more often.