Meet Roxanne Walker…The South Carolina Broadcasters Association named Roxanne Radio Personality of the Year in 2002. She has been honored for her political opinion commentary by the Greenville Chapter of Women in Communications.
Roxanne resides in Taylors, SC with her husband Alan and the best dog in the world Allie.
New Poll Shows What Republicans Believe-Don't Miss This!
I’m trying very hard to be a kinder, gentler person. I’m doing my best to avoid demonizing those I disagree with. I like to think we’re all Americans, we all want to be happy and healthy and there’s hope for peace in the world and among political parties. But I must say the results of a new poll of 2,000 self-identified Republicans shook me to the core. The poll by Daily Kos shows the power of Fox News to perpetuate lies about the opposition and to convince regular Americans that these lies are in fact true. It also shows the deep seated prejudices of Republican Party members.
The poll did help me to understand why it’s nearly impossible for Republican politicians to engage the Democrats in policy negotiations. These two parties are so widely seperated by their morals and beliefs I don’t think Jesus himself could peacefully bring the two sides together.
Click on this link, read the results for yourself and see what you think.
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For anyone who's ever loved a dog...
At the Vet’s
The German shepherd can’t lift his hindquarters
off the tiled floor. His middle-aged owner
heaves his dog over his shoulder, and soon
two sad voices drift from the exam room
discussing heart failure, kidneys, and old age
while a rushing woman pants into the office
grasping a terrier with trembling legs
she found abandoned in a drainage ditch.
It’s been abused, she says, and sits down,
The terrier curled in her lap, quaking
as the memory of something bad returns and returns.
She strokes its ears, whispering endearments
while my two cats, here for routine checkups,
peer through the mesh of their old green carrier,
the smell of fear so strong on their damp fur
I taste it as I breathe. Soon the woman,
Like the receptionist with her pen in mid-air,
Is listening, too, hushed by the duet
swelling in volume now, the vet’s soprano
counterpointed by the owner’s baritone
as he pleads with her to give him hope, the vet
trying to be kind, rephrasing the truth
over and over until it becomes a lie
they both pretend to accept. The act’s over.
His dog’s to stay behind for ultrasound
and kidney tests, and the man, his face
whipped by grief as if he were caught in a wind,
hurries past us and out the front door,
leaving the audience—cats, terrier, people—
sunk in their places, too stunned to applaud.