Remember that little question? A lot of the liberals today are quaking and bleating that we can all get along, and to do so would make the world a better place.

The short answer is “no.”

The longer answer is “NNNNOOOOOO!!!!!!!”

The reason? Let’s think about it for a minute, in different areas of the public scene:

POLITICS:
Well, we all get along, so no one disagrees. Good for incumbents, bad for innovation. Since everyone gets along, and there is no disagreement, everyone votes the same way. With the exception of the President, politicians are installed for life. Since the President has been doing such a great job since everyone got together and talked out their differences, let’s go ahead and let the President serve for life also. No new bills are introduced, no laws are passed, the Supreme Court dies from boredom. All the lawyers die from starvation, since everyone agrees and gets along, and no one is suing anyone else. Wait – what happens when an incumbent dies? No young politicians have been in training, since the incumbents were doing such a magnificent job, so now there is no one to replace the deceased statesman.

FINANCIAL:
On Wall Street today, everyone agreed that all the stocks were quite attractive. No single stock was singled out, as there is no reason to make a particular stock feel differently from any other stock. Volume was zero, since no one wanted to buy or sell their stocks, in order to avoid making any particular company feel compelled to change their course of action. After all, everything is perfect the way it is, right? And, in order for you to sell a stock, someone else has to disagree with your assessment of how it will do in the future and want to buy it.

RELIGIOUS:
All religious groups have come to agreement. All citizens of all nations are members of the same religious group, in order for all people groups to live in peace and harmony one with another. Since no one needs to be recruited, the focus is now on strengthening everyone’s faith. All meetings of religious groups are identical, so as to avoid any misinterpretation of the message. Dissension is unheard of, discussion of differing points of view is prohibited.

ENTERTAINMENT:
Everyone must view the same movie before a new movie is released. Can’t be watching things out of order, that might change your viewpoint. All game platforms are the same, manufactured by the same company. (Badly manufactured, by the way. But, since they are the only company, and their stock is doing so well, they don’t feel the need to improve, or even release any more games.) Everyone plays the same video game, and everyone has the same level of ability. Game competitions are a stupefying gathering of equally talented players, and all games end in a draw. The prize is always split between all the “first place” winners. Any truly breakout players are drawn aside, and instructed in the fine art of total agreement on all sides. Further outbreaks result in banishment from the tournaments. After careful consideration by the entire population of the world, tournaments themselves are banned, since they only encourage and foster competition and the desire to prove oneself to be better than another, or, at the very least, to let you see how you stack up against the other players.

TECHNOLOGY:
Everyone uses the same computer. Not the same machine, but the same type. The same software. The same browser. Everyone’s blog looks just like everyone else’s, since everyone now thinks exactly alike. Even the entries are the same, and traffic has dropped to zero, since everyone already knows what every blog is going to say. Everyone drive the same type of vehicle. Police are not needed to enforce traffic laws, since everyone drives the posted speed limit and obeys every law on the books. There aren’t really that many laws on the books anymore, since everyone has agreed that limiting anyone is not acceptable.

So – can we all get along? Yes, but forget trying to get everyone to agree. Disagreement is the reason there are changes, and why we continue to move forward in our development.

At the same time, we must have change in order to avoid stagnation. Which brings me to my point: Make a Difference. Write in Cary Cartter for President in November 2008.

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You may have to live in a warm region (heh – he said “warm”) like Phoenix, Yuma, or, recently, SoCal, in order to appreciate this next statement –

Ah! Fall! Time to open the doors, let the cool breezes flow through, and take a shower that is not automatically HOT!

The last two mornings, the thermometer was broken – no, really, it was – because it said it was cooler outside than inside. After a record breaking summer of temps over 110 (I think the old record was 28 days, this year we had – I believe – 32) it is glorious to be able to walk outside in the morning and not burn the soles of your feet.

My shower this morning was actually cold. Usually, just turning on the cold tap produces water hot enough for most people’s showers in the winter. I needed to turn it past the normal point to mix in some water from the water heater to get it up to shower temp – not much, in my case, since I really do prefer a shower slightly cooler than most people I have discussed this with – which means the ground is cooling off. That means the pipes, which weren’t buried deep enough to keep the water from being heated before delivery, are no longer being baked. Which tells me, in the end, that Fall has officially arrived.

This brings us, unfortunately, to a very awkward time of year, because now that the temps have dropped at night, we don’t need to use the AC all night. Some of you may be saying, “What’s the big deal?” I’ll tell you the big deal – the electric bill. Even keeping the house at a relatively warm 78 (most businesses in Phoenix keep their buildings around 72 – 74, so most people keep their houses the same) our bill would top $450 a month if we didn’t have a program that allows us to pay the same amount each month. This allows us to run a deficit in the summer, and build up a slight reserve in the winter, so we don’t have to take out a second mortgage to keep our cool.

Cooler weather = starting to erase the deficit and build the reserve. We have electric heat also, but I have only used that once, when we first moved in and we didn’t have all the animals creating so much ambient heat. The last five winters we haven’t turned it on at all.

(Hmm – I can see the Global Warming lemmings lining up here – let me dispel you all by saying that Phoenix is in the desert, and in the southwest, in case you are also geographically challenged. Even in the ‘cold’ years, it’s hot here. Now, go play with your Al Gore trading cards.)

Hope you all have a wonderful week – enjoy the cooler weather!

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It’s Friday. Go here, buy a shirt, and show your support.

Whoops – lost a whole week there. Sorry ’bout that – what with a head cold, a non-sleeping daughter, a bout of insomnia, an eye infection, and trying to actually accomplish things like building samples for the business, the blog tends to be pushed to the back burner on occasion. Oh, and Thursday afternoon – a migraine. Hadn’t had one of those in a while, so it was probably due.

I have come to the conclusion that there is no greater joy than to hold your infant in your arms as they sleep.

That is pure JOY.

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It’s Friday. Go here, buy a shirt, and show your support. Don’t forget to take a picture and send it back, so you, too, can be in the customer files!

Well, number 10,000 came and went, and didn’t let me know who they were. Another milestone, another fabulous prize going back into the prize bin.

MEG has decided that she doesn’t need to go to sleep when everyone else does – she’ll stay up and play for quite a while before laying her head down. This would be fine, if we were independently wealthy and TMBWitW didn’t have a job to go to every morning bright and early. We’re kind of early birds – we go to bed around nine, and get up around five. MEG, however, isn’t going to sleep until 11:30 or midnight, and I get worried to the point where I stay up and listen until she falls asleep.

We are headed north for the weekend – a cousin is having a birthday party, and we’ll be up there, but back in town in time for church. Here’s praying you all have a blessed weekend yourselves.

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It’s hard to believe that it’s been six years since the cowardly attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the aborted attack with flight 93 that ended in a Pennsylvania field.

It still feels like it just happened.

My prayer today is for all the victims and relatives to have the peace of God.