Who would be a better Vice Presidential candidate for Republicans than Sarah Palin? I ask with all sincerity.

This candidate supports her president, her future boss with a loyalty that has been lacking in previous administrations.

For the democratic party to complain about the “old boy network” in Washington D.C., and then, in the next breath complain about the supposed inexperience of the VP candidate, seems rather hypocritical.

Why am I for John McCain?

1. He had the outright political balls to pick a VP candidate that was who he wanted. Period!

2. He served his country as a soldier for decades, including spending five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, and never betrayed his comrades.

3. John McCain has a proven dedication to his country and what is in the best interest of it’s citizens.

4. The senator from Arizona has years and years of experience working to solve America’s challenges, including working closely with those across the aisle in congress, including Hilary Clinton .

5. McCain has an energy policy that is practical and includes the need to free ourselves from our dependence on foreign oil, right now, solving numerous geopolitical challenges that have plagued our nation for decades. McCain’s energy policy is practical, solving the immediate threat to our national security from that dependence, as well as developing alternative fuels and renewable energy for the future.

6. John McCain understands the struggle with extremists and terrorists. The threat to America’s safety and our future from extremists and fundamentalists throughout the world is not a new problem. The next president understands this threat and is prepare to do what is necessary to ensure the safety and security of Americans.

There are many more reasons I support the Republican candidate for president and his VP choice, but these would be the top six reasons for my choice.

Barack Obama, while a very likeable fellow, does not have the experience running anything. Change? Change is wonderful. But what are we changing? I watched the Democratic convention and I still don’t quite have that answer.

End the war? That’s not likely to happen for years, even during an Obama presidency. And, why would you want to end the job before it’s done? This job needs to be done. I want to be safe! I want my family to be safe. I think we need to protect ourselves from people who hate us only because we like to listen to rock and roll music and say what we think without having to worry about it.

We have ideas that the whole world should be free. We believe in the rights of each individual to do as he or she pleases as long as it does not threaten the common good, public safety, and so on.

Republicans want government out of our lives and our business. For several years, long before the contract with America in 1984, the conservative platform was built around the idea that government has a limited role, including national security and helping the truly needy. Thats all. Otherwise, the government doesn’t really have much we need them to do.

When did the political parties start inheriting the parts of the others platforms that seem to appeal to the middle? It really seems like Democrats and Republicans are so much the same, supporting whatever side of the issue seemed popular at the time.

I think that happened during the Clinton years, when whatever way the wind seemed to be blowing at the time was what the administration supported. On the other hand, Clinton was as good at reaching out to Republicans to get the job done as Reagan was and I think John McCain and Sarah Palin will be in working with those in the other party.

The bottom line is this. The presidency of the United States of America is a job. I want to hire the most qualified, experienced, proven candidate that I have to choose from.

The bookmakers in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, a few days ago anyway, have Barack Obama as a heavy favorite to win the general election on November 4th, 2008.

But, my money’s on John McCain and Sarah Palin!

In my opinion the presidential election is simply a marketing campaign. Whoever gets their message to appeal to the widest number of people in the middle, is going to win. There’s a committed last and committed right that are firmly set in their ways and could not be swayed under any circumstances to vote for the other party.

However, I believe that the vast majority are in the middle, and would be willing to listen to rational arguments from both sides and make an intelligent decision from there.

I would sure love to know the thought process behind McCain picking his running mate. One of the huge advantages he may have had over Obama was his experience. Now he’s chosen a one term governor, who was previously the mayor of a small town. Is she really qualified to be the first person in line for the presidency, and if something happens to currently 72-year-old John McCain.

Sometimes political campaigns make the absolute stupidest mistakes, and I just can’t help thinking that this is one of them.

A helpless young man, wearing sandals, shorts, and a ‘Bush Lied’ T-shirt was screaming while struggling frantically, thrashing around trying to free himself from the jaws of a 10 foot grizzly.

As the Pope watched horrified, a group of loggers came racing up. One quickly fired a 44 magnum into the bear’s chest. The other two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semi-conscious tree-hugger from the bear’s grasp.

Then, using long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck while the other tenderly placed the injured tree-hugger in the back seat.

As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. “I give you my blessing for your brave actions!” he told them. “I’ve heard there was a bitter hatred between loggers and environmental activists, but now I’ve seen with my own eyes that this is not true.”

As the Pope drove off; one of the loggers asked his buddies, “Who was that Guy?”

”It was the Pope”, another replied. “He’s in direct contact with God and has access to all God’s wisdom.”

“Well”, the logger said, “he may have access to all God’s wisdom but he sure doesn’t know crap about bear hunting!

By the way, is the bait holding up or do we need to go back to Eugene and grab another one?

This is a pretty funny video, that’s not leaning either to the left or to the right side of the political spectrum…

It’s just funny

Right now, the welcome mat is out for analysts who claim that out-of-control speculators are responsible for $4-a-gallon gas.

I confess to seeing OReilly mention it enough, that I’ve believed it too, and so have a lot of people in this country…

Somewhat surprisingly, Republicans have been at least as willing as Democrats to denounce evil speculators. But it turns out that conservative faith in free markets somehow evaporates when it comes to oil. For example, National Review has been publishing articles blaming speculators for high oil prices for years, ever since the price passed $50 a barrel.

Reading this article opened my eyes to some other possibilities, and this country really needs to develop some renewable power sources before we’re paying $10 a gallon, which is undoubtedly coming. Read the entire article and see what else might be to blame…

Now, with the benefit of plenty of preparation time, can someone please add some accomplishments here as comments? What has he DONE to deserve to be President? Not what he’ll promise, not what he’ll “inspire” but what has he actually accomplished so far? Surely in his term as US Senator, he must have done something, right? So… what?

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The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about
whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it’s releases.

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let’s take a look at New Orleans…
It’s amazing what you can learn with some simple division.

Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D)  is presently asking Congress for 250  BILLION DOLLARS to rebuild New Orleans.

Interesting number… what does it mean?

A. Well… if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans every man, woman, and child) you each get $516,528.

B. Or… if you have one of the 188,251 homes in  New Orleans, your home gets  $1,329,787.

C. Or… if you are a family of four, your family gets  $2,066,012.

Washington, D. C  < HELLO! >  Are all your calculators broken??

• Accounts Receivable Tax
• Building Permit Tax
• CDL License Tax
• Cigarette Tax
• Corporate Income Tax
• Dog License Tax
• Federal Income Tax < BR>Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
• Fishing License Tax
• Food License Tax
• Fuel Permit Tax
• Gasoline Tax
• Hunting License Tax
• Inheritance Tax
• Inventory Tax
• IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
• IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
• Liquor Tax
• Luxury Tax
• Marriage License Tax
• Medicare Tax
• Property Tax
• Real Estate Tax
• Service charge taxes
• Social Security Tax
• Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
• Sales Taxes
• Recreational Vehicle Tax
• School Tax
• State Income Tax
• State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
• Telephone Federal Excise Tax
• Telephone Federal Universal Service Fe e Tax
• Telephone Federal, State and Local Su rcharge Tax
• Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
• Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
• Telephone State and Local Tax
• Telephone Usage Charge Tax
• Utility Tax
• Vehicle License Registration Tax
• Vehicle Sales Tax
• Watercraft Registration Tax
• Well Permit Tax
• Workers Compensation Tax

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt. We had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.  What happened?
Can you spell ‘politicians’?

And I still have to press ‘1′ for English.

Talk about putting your most valuable where your mouth is! Apparently this was not “newsworthy” enough for the media to comment about. Can either of the other presidential candidates truthfully come close to this? … Just a question for each of us to seek an answer, and not a statement.

You see…character is what’s shown when the public is not looking. There were no cameras or press invited to what you are about to read about, and the story comes from one person in New Hampshire.

One evening last July, Senator John McCain of Arizona arrived at the New Hampshire home of Erin Flanagan for sandwiches, chocolate-chip cookies and a heartfelt talk about Iraq. They had met at a presidential debate, when she asked the candidates what they would do to bring home American soldiers - - soldiers like her brother, who had been killed in action a few months earlier.

Mr. McCain did not bring cameras or press. Instead, he brought his youngest son, James McCain, 19, then a private first class in the Marine Corps about to leave for Iraq. Father and son sat down to hear more about Ms. Flanagan’s brother Michael Cleary, a 24-year-old Army First Lieutenant killed by an ambush … a roadside bomb.

No one mentioned the obvious: In just days, Jimmy McCain could face similar perils. ‘I can’t imagine what it must have been like for them as they were coming to meet with a family that ……’ Ms. Flanagan recalled, choking up. ‘We lost a dear one,’ she finished.

Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months patrolling Anbar Province and learned of his father’s New Hampshire victory in January while he was digging a stuck military vehicle out of the mud.

Two of Jimmy’s three older brothers went into the military. Doug McCain, 48, was a Navy pilot. Jack McCain, 21, is to graduate from the Naval Academy next year, raising the chances that his father, if elected, could become the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower with a son at war.

I chose to share this with those who I believe will pass it on, to others who will pass it on. We hear so much inflated trash out there. How about a simple act of kindness … and dedication to others placed above oneself?

Has anybody heard if Barack Hussein Obama has served in The American Armed Services?

This is for all you Barack voters.

From Barack’s book, Audacity of Hope:

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

HE DID NOT SAY STAND WITH AMERICANS!!!

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Huh! did Obama really write that in his book? Has anyone read it and can they cite what page it’s on?

Ahh, this blog says this…

The actual quote from the book is from page 261 and is as follows: “Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging.They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

So, I guess it’s sorta true?

A recent study conducted by Harvard University found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year.

Another study by the American Medical Association found that Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year.

This means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon.
Kind Of Makes You Proud To Be An American.

DOOR NUMBER ONE: BARACK OBAMA

Here is a man that insists on ‘change’ in the way Washington does politics.  He wants to change the system with new, young and fresh blood.  The only problem is that the man is a ‘walking contradiction’ (thanks Kris).

He is partly deception and ‘partly fiction.’  They say you can judge a person by who he associates with.  Well Barack’s first endorsements came from: Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Chris Dodd, John Rockefeller, Tom Daschle, Bill Richardson and it is hinted Jimmy Carter may join the club just to mention a few.

Where in that group is anything but old school liberal wing Democratic politicians?  The more disturbing associations are Jeremiah Wright, Louis and Farrakhan, Malcolm X.

These are no Martin Luther King, Jr. protégés.  So what we are getting with Mr. Obama seems to be an extremely left-wing liberal Democrat with the Black Militant undercurrents.  Have you noticed how determined his supporters seem to be?

Chris Matthews tells us he doesn’t know about Obama, but when he went to an Obama campaign rally he ‘felt a tingle go up his leg’.  Well now that’s special.  Just what we need, a President who sends tingles up our legs.  Bill Richardson is not much better.  He doesn’t know, there is just something about him.  That’s nice.  He’s ‘Special’.

They also tell us that most of Obama’s supporters are from 19 to 29 year olds.  Well now that’s just dandy.  If the 19 to 29 year olds are so smart, mature and knowledgeable about who should be our president then we should make all our college professors, corporate CEOs, judges, school teachers, attorneys and doctors from 19 to 29 year olds.

What a ‘Great Society’ that would be. Oh I forgot somebody already tried the ‘Great Society’.  I think he was an Ultra Liberal Democrat.  Not that there is anything wrong with that!  But they just lost two recent elections (granted both were stolen.)
So if you want a black militant social war and all our institutions run by 19 to 29 year olds then by all means vote for Obama.  I understand Michelle will be leading the charge and be his chief advisor.

DOOR NUMBER TWO: JOHN MCCAIN

So you don’t like the black revolution/war then how about Big John?  Big Bad John will not only start a war with Iran but the rest of the Muslim world as well.  Did you notice Senator Lieberman hanging on to his arm and whispering in his ear?

He says he used to be a Democrat.  The only problem with him is that he is in the wrong legislative body.  With his Foreign Policy agenda, he should be in Israel’s Legislature not ours.  The man votes pro Israel every time.

He wants to kill as many Muslims as he can before they kill any more Israelis. Dah!!!  Have you checked his voting record on the Iraq war, warrantless wiretaps, Guantanamo, torture of Muslims and his 99% voting record to support the Bush Agenda?

No thank you to another four years of the Bush Doctrine - kill, rob and destroy – (we can now add torture to the list.)   He will get McCain to do the same.

DOOR NUMBER THREE: HILLARY CLINTON

As she has said, which part of the 90s did you not like the Peace or the Prosperity???

Some say she is not qualified. I would venture to say that she knows on a personal basis more members of Congress (both houses) along with half the governors and their families on a first name basis.  She probably has shared coffee and family pictures with most of them.

She probably has campaigned for most all of the Democratic ones for sure – yes including Barack Obama.  I understand she went to Illinois and met the family, campaigned for him there and then came back with a picture of the Obama Family which I believe is still in her office.

So we can see that on a personal level she could probably get along with most congressional leaders just fine to promote a peace and prosperity agenda.  Let’s consider, probably what is, her greatest asset - Bill Clinton!  Why???

Let’s say you’re a novice small commuter jet pilot and you have to fly a 747 out of the path of an impending Tsunami.  However there are several problems.  Three of the engines are out; the fourth is running at 80% capacity.

The good news is that there is a guy on the plane who help build and test flew the 747 many years ago and quit flying about eight years ago - but he still knows how to fly.  Do you want that guy sitting in the co-pilots seat in case of another catastrophe?

Or would you rather have the other option; a novice pilot who just graduated two years ago from pilot school and has never even flown a 747 but he says he can fly us out just fine with making a few ‘changes.’  Let’s get real.

If Hillary ever needed any assistance what better advisor could any Democratic President have at their disposal?  What kind of question, issue or crisis could come up in the white house that Hillary would not have at her beckon call Bill Clinton.

Have not all presidents, except maybe Wonder George (‘w’ for short) called upon former presidents for consultation regarding a crisis?  Hillary would have one very, very successful and talented one living with her.

Bill Clinton is the very asset that will make Hillary two, three or even four times more prosperous and productive a president of the United States Of America than Bill Clinton.  No offense Bill.  This is an undisputable fact and even Bill knows it.

In the words of the great LBJ, ‘my fellow Americans’ the choice is simple - Hillary Clinton with her staff, consultants and advisors simply must be the next president of these United States of America or God help us all for nobody else will.

THE CRITICAL FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED:

• The National debt is at an all time high.
• The U. S. Dollar is at an all time low.
• Oil is at an all time high $114.00 per barrel.  (of course if the U.S. dollar was worth more than 50 cents that would make oil only $55.00 a barrel.
• The home mortgage business has just collapsed.
• We are spending in excess of $3,000,000,000.00 per week in Iraq.
• Produce and dairy products just went though at least a 20% to 30% increase.
• 401Ks and IRAs are off about 20% to 30%.
• Medical costs are exorbitant and unaffordable to most Americans.
• Unemployment is drastically rising - 60,000 last month. Etc, etc, etc,

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He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA), designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA).

After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet(MADE IN INDIA) he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO) to see how much he could spend today.

After setting his watch (MADE INU> TAIWAN) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA) he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY) filled it with GAS (from Saudi Arabia) and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.

At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his Computer (Made In Malaysia) (with tech support in INDIA), Joe decided to relax for a wh ile.

He put on his sandals ( MADE IN BRAZIL) poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN FRANCE) and turned on his TV (MADE IN INDONESIA), and then wondered why he can’t find a good paying job in… AMERICA….

A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Mid-western’s snow belt area. It’s in the South.

House # 2
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.

The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville , Tennessee ; it is the abode of the “environmentalist ” Al Gore.

HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford , Texas; it is the residence of the President of the United States , George W. Bush.

An “inconvenient truth.”

You can verify it at: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

1. You have to be against capital punishment,

<<Hey Cons, waaaaay too too costly. Thought you Con(men) didn’t believe in government waste.

but support abortion on demand.

<<Hey, Cons, you think the right to choose, the right to PRIVACY, should be infringed? Hey Cons, choose NOT to have one.

2. You have to believe that businesses create depressions

<<Hey Cons, they do. Look around your myopic world. Read a newspaper. Without adequate regulation we get what we have now. How’s that economy working for you Bushie-con?

and governments create prosperity.

<<Hey Cons, didn’t the Pentagon CREATE the Internet?
And NASA create TANG? to name just a few in this wide range.
Isn’t BLACKWATER International and Halliburton doing pretty good last time we checked too.

3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more
of a threat than Nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Iranians and North
Korean communists.

<<Hey Cons, name me one American that harmed by a North Korean nuke? No? Didn’t think so.
<<Hey Cons, you want a list of the thousands of people that die every year from gun violence?
<<Hey Cons, how many of those guns STARTED in the hands of “law-abiding Americans.”

4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.

<<Hey Cons, isn’t ones life is supposed to be a “work of art” why deny Art is important to life?

5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical documented changes in the earth’s climate

<<Hey Cons, yes, climate change does occur, over thousands of years, not over two hundred, SEE answer below.

and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV’s.

<<Hey Cons, why do you think global warming is a hoax? Answer: Cons don’t believe in science either.

6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.

<<Hey Cons, why do you think someone would CHOOSE to be part of a reviled, hated minority? People of color have no choice.

7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.

<<Hey Cons, it is because of the cuts to funding prevention, LOL, you could look it up!

8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can’t teach fourth graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.

<<Hey Cons, sex is healthy.
<<Hey Cons, why do you cling to your guns and religion?

9. You have to believe that hunters that pay for wildlife management don’t care about nature, but loony activists who have never been outside of San Francisco
or Portland do.

<<Hey Cons, We hope they ALL do.

10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.

<<Hey Cons, Huh?

11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make “The Passion of the Christ” for financial gain only.

<<Hey Cons, duh, Gibson is a sado-masochist torture freak who DID make MILLIONS on this torture flick.

12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.

<<Hey Cons, read a book, the ACLU supports and defends the ENTIRE Constitution.

13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.

<<Hey Cons, do all CONS work for banks? ATM fees ROB people blind, and are WAY too high

14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and A.G. Bell.

<<Hey Cons, Huh? Liberals and Progressives can’t admire these inventors too?

15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.

<<Hey Cons, a wee bit of compassion here. After 270 years of slavery and 80 years of segregation, a little help isn’t untoward. Is it?

16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal and is a very nice person.

<<Hey Cons, She is a Wellesley College and Yale Law School graduate. No, she’s not normal.

17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn’t worked anywhere it’s been tried is because the right people haven’t been in charge.

<<Hey Cons, Corporate socialism is happening here in the US. Don’t get your Larry Craig panties in a bunch. We’ll get to your fascism one day soon.

18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liar and a sex offender belonged in the White House.

<<Hey Cons, I forgot, everything is Clinton’s fault. Oh man, sex offender? Conservatives can begin a war, kill thousands of people and wreak havoc with the economy but get a blow job? For Conservatives it seems to be the blow jobs are being given mano on mano. That’s OK. But a real man getting a blow job WHILE he’s working? Because he’s TOO BUSY WORKING to stop?I want that MF’n multi-tasker working for me.

19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying transvestites in drag should be constitutionally protected,

<<Hey Cons, you guys are dodo birds, truly (Cons also soon to be extinct because of the way they think), it is called the first amendment.

and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.

<<Hey Cons don’t YOU believe in the Constitution? They should be off … if they’re on government property. Delusions shouldn’t be approved on my tax dollar.

20. You have to believe that illegal Democrat Party funding by the Chinese Government is somehow in the best interest to the United States.

<<Hey Cons, what? Prove it

21. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right-wing conspiracy.

<<Hey Cons, it is. You don’t see these types of Goebbels like propaganda pieces from free, progressive, forward thinking liberal. Why? Because we have facts, history and truth on our side. We don’t need a Nazi-type propaganda machine to fool simpletons. Too busy for that.

22. You have to believe that it’s OK to give Federal workers the day off on Christmas Day but it’s not OK to say “Merry Christmas.”

<<Hey Cons, this one is new, is it due to that wacko Bill-O?

This happened to me recently after a particularly trying day. I said, “Jesus, why do people work so hard?”

And I got this reply: “Men find many ways to demonstrate the love they have for their family and friends. You work hard and earn money to have a peaceful, beautiful place for everyone to gather.”

“But”, I said, “I thought that money was the root of all evil.”

He replied: “No. It is the LOVE of money that is the root of all evil. Money itself is a tool; it can be used for good or bad.”

I was starting to feel better, but I still had one burning question:
“Jesus”, I said, “what is the meaning of life? Why am I here?”

And Jesus said: “That is a question many men ask. The answer is in your heart and is different for everyone. I would love to chat with you longer, but for now, Señor, I have to finish your lawn.”

The Americans With No Abilities Act (AWNAA) is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills, education or ambition.
“Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society,” said California Senator Barbara Boxer.

“We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing.”

In a Capitol Hill press conference, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 74 percent of postal employees lack any job skills, making this agency the single largest U.S. employer of Persons of Inability.

Private-sector industries with good records of nondiscrimination against the inept include financial advisors (73%), retail sales (72%), the automotive industry (70%), the airline industry (68%), and home improvement “warehouse” stores (65%). At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has a great record of hiring Persons of Inability (63%).

Under the Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million “middleman” positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.

Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given so as to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees.

The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability into middle-management positions, and gives a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.

Finally, the AWNAA Act contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the Non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory interview questions such as “Do you have any skills or experience which relate to this job?”

“As a Non-abled person, I can’t be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,” said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint, Michigan due to her lack of discernible job skills. “This new law should really help people like me.”

With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. Said Senator Ted Kennedy: “As a Senator With No Abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her adequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation.”

A website called Wikileaks published leaked documents about a crooked bank, and a US district court judge apparently ordered their domain name (Wikileaks.org) deleted from the DNS (domain name server) by its Californian host Dynadot.

Even MORE amazing, was that it was actually done!

Yeah, never mind the truth of the story, lets shut down the website that supposedly obtained the internal documents in an illegal manner? Are you kidding me?

Fortunately, being smarter than the judge that’s apparently in the banks pocket isn’t that hard. and the site is still up at other domains and IP addresses, here,  here, and here and likely more too. What a naive and pompous jackass this Judge Jeffery S. White is.

Other news stories about this travesty

“The fact that McCain makes short, blunt statements does not make him straight-talker

There are short, blunt lies — and he told a big one on the eve of the Florida primary, when he claimed that Mitt Romney had advocated a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.

Wow, that doesn’t sound like they’re very happy, does it?

Sowell goes on to say that when he was confronted with a twisted facts about Mitt Romney, “McCain blustered and filibustered in a manner reminiscent of Captain Queeg in “The Caine Mutiny,” when he was caught in a lie during a navy inquiry.

The circus is heating up…

Read the whole thing here

I’ve watched this twice, and I’m sorry, i just don’t get it. I WANT to like him - I WANT to, really. But I’ve yet to hear him utter a single PLAN of ACTION. He’s not responding, he’s complaining. What’s he going to do better?

Listen carefully here, and tell me what he is going to DO? Anything? Nothing? This is total bullshit, sound bytes and talking in circles, isn’t it? The scary part is that a lot of people are going to vote for him! I might too if he would TELL US SOMETHING of SUBSTANCE!

GOP sources tell us that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani plans to drop out and endorse McCain, which would give McCain added momentum heading into a debate Wednesday and next week’s Super Tuesday.

Personally, I think he’s one of the few candidates on the right side (sort of) that have a chance of beating either Obama or Clinton, but I still wish he had the balls to say that the “economic stimulus” plan being considered now is total bullshit.

A single payer system would leave those in the most urgent need of treatment lined up behind averyone else, wouldn’t it? How can we prevent this from happening?

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Got links to other cartoons?

An obvious choice can be unnerving. When the apparent perfection of one option or the unspeakable awfulness of another makes a decision seem too easy, it is human nature to become suspicious.

This instinct intensifies as the stakes of the given choice are
raised. American voters know no greater responsibility to their country and to the world than to select their president wisely. While we do not yet know who the Democrat and Republican nominees will be, any combination of the leading candidates from either party will make for the most obvious choice put to American voters in a generation. To wit, none of the Democrats has any business being president.

This pronouncement has less to do with any apparent perfection among the Republican candidates than with the intellectual and experiential paucity evinced by the Democratic field. “Not ready for prime time,” goes the vernacular, but this does not suffice to describe how bad things are.

Alongside Hillary Clinton, add Barack Obama’s kindergarten essays to an already confused conversation about Dennis Kucinich’s UFO sightings, dueling celebrity endorsements and who can be quickest to retreat from America ’s global conflict and raise taxes on the American people, and it becomes clear that these are profoundly unserious individuals.

To be sure, there has been a fair amount of rubbish and rhubarb on the Republican side (Ron Paul, call your office), but even a cursory review of the legislative and professional records of the leading contenders from each party reveals a disparity akin to adults competing with children.

For the Republicans, Rudy Giuliani served as a two-term mayor of New York City , turning a budget deficit into a surplus and taming what was thought to be an ungovernable metropolis. Prior to that, he held the third-highest rank in the Reagan Justice Department, obtaining over 4,000 convictions.

Mitt Romney, before serving as governor of Massachusetts , founded a venture capital firm that created billions of dollars in shareholder value, and he then went on to save the Salt Lake City Olympics. While much is made of Mike Huckabee’s history as a Baptist minister, he was also a governor for more than a decade and, while Arkansas is hardly a “cradle of
presidents,” it has launched at least one previous chief executive to national office.

John McCain’s legislative and ilitary career spans five decades, with half that time having been spent in the Congress. Even Fred Thompson, whose excess of nonchalance has transformed his once-promising campaign into nothing more than a theoretical possibility, has more experience in the U.S. Senate than any of the leading Democratic candidates.

With just over one term as a Senator to her credit, Hillary Clinton boasts the most extensive record of the potential Democratic nominees. In that time, Senator Clinton cannot claim a single legislative accomplishment of note, and she is best known lately for requesting $1-million from Congress for a museum to commemorate Woodstock.

Barack Obama is nearing the halfway point of his first term in the Senate, having previously served as an Illinois state legislator and, as Clinton has correctly pointed out, has done nothing but run for president since he first arrived in Washington. Between calling for the invasion of Pakistan and fumbling a simple question on driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, Obama has shown that he is not the fellow to whom the nation ought to hike the nuclear football.

John Edwards, meanwhile, embodies the adage that the American people will elect anyone to Congress — once. From his $1,200 haircuts to his personal war on poverty, proclaimed from the porch of his 28,000-square-foot home, purchased with the proceeds of preposterous lawsuits exploiting infant cerebral palsy, Edwards is living proof that history can play out as
tragedy and farce simultaneously.

Forget for a moment all that you believe about public policy. Discard your notions about taxes and Iraq , free trade and crime, and consider solely the experience of these two sets of candidates. Is there any serious issue that you would prefer to entrust to a person with the Democrats’ experience, rather than that of any of the Republicans?

Now consider the state of debate in each party. While the Republicans compare tax proposals and the best way to prosecute the War on Terror, Democrats are divining the patterns and meaning of the glitter and dried macaroni glued to the page of one of their leading candidate’s kindergarten projects.
Does this decision not become unsettlingly simple?

The Honorable Tom Harkin
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Phone (202) 224 3254
Washington DC , 20510

Dear Senator Harkin,

As a native Iowan and excellent customer of Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.

My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted.

If my understanding of this bill’s provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for three of the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out.

Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I’m excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that can I apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005.

Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures I could save almost $10,000 a year.

Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as “in-state” tuition rates for many colleges throughout the United States for my son.

Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver’s license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me given that I still have college age children driving my car.

If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal (retroactively if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative. Thank you for your assistance.

Your Loyal Constituent,
Donald Ruppert
Burlington , IA

Please send this to as many people as you can…

You’ve got to read this all the way through to the bottom.

I HEREWITH FIRMLY STATE THAT I WILL NOT VOTE FOR ANY POLITICIAN, REGARDLESS OF THE OTHER ISSUES, IF HE OR SHE DOES NOT SPONSOR AND SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING LEGISLATION. THAT INCLUDES EVERYONE WHO IS A CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION OR REELECTION IN 2008.
LET US SHOW OUR LEADERS IN WASHINGTON “PEOPLE POWER” AND THE POWER OF THE INTERNET. LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE WITH ME ON THIS BY FORWARDING TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK.

IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT!
KEEP IT GOING!!!!
2008 Election Issue!!
GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC. SEC.
This must be an issue in “2008″
Please! Keep it going.
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SOCIAL SECURITY:
(This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.)
Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years.  ur Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it.

You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan.

In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan.  or all practical purposes their plan works like this:

When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die.   xcept it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments..

For example, Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7,800,000.00 (that’s Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand Dollars), with their wives drawing $275, 000.00 during the last years of their lives. This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries.

Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives.  Their cost for this excellent plan is  NADA..! ZILCH…$00.00

This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan . The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds;
“OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK “!

From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into, every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer). We can expect to get an average of $1,000 per month after retirement.

Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one month to equal Senator Bill Bradley’s benefits!

Social Security could be very good if only one small
change were made…

That change would be to:
Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the members of Congress. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us.
Then sit back and see how fast they would fix it!

Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage
of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.

But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the
patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue.

Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the
chairs, the table…everywhere.

Then some of the birds turned mean: They would dive bomb
me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my
own pocket.

And others birds were boisterous and loud: They sat on the
feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and
night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.

After a while, I couldn’t even sit on my own back porch
anymore.

I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were
gone.

I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they
had built all over the patio.

Soon, the back yard was like it used to be……quiet, serene and
no one demanding their rights to a free meal.

But that doesn’t apply to white people, and he was stupid for thinking it did.

My Fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of the Iraq regime has been completed.

Since congress does not want to spend any more money on this war, our mission in Iraq is complete.

This morning I gave the order for a complete removal of all American forces from Iraq This action will be complete within 30 days. It is now time to begin the reckoning.

Before me, I have two lists. One list contains the  names of countries which have stood by our side during the Iraq conflict. This list is short. The United Kingdom , Spain , Bulgaria , Australia , and Poland are some of the countries listed there.

The other list contains everyone not on the first list. Most of the world’s nations are on that list. My press secretary will be distributing copies of both lists later this evening.

Let me start by saying that effective immediately, foreign aid to those nations on List 2 ceases immediately and indefinitely. The money saved during the first year alone will pretty much pay for the costs of the Iraqi war.

The American people are no longer going to pour money into third world Hellholes and watch those government leaders grow fat on corruption.

Need help with a famine ? Wrestling with an epidemic? Call France .

In the future, together with Congress, I will work to redirect this money toward solving the vexing social problems we still have at home . On that note, a word to terrorist organizations. Screw with us and we will hunt you down and eliminate you and all your friends from the face of the earth.

Thirsting for a gutsy country to terrorize? Try France , or maybe China .

I am ordering the immediate severing of diplomatic relations with France , Germany , and Russia . Thanks for all your help, comrades. We are retiring from NATO as well. Bon chance, mes amis.

I have instructed the Mayor of New York City to begin towing the many UN diplomatic vehicles located in Manhattan with more than two unpaid parking tickets to sites where those vehicles will be stripped, shredded and crushed. I don’t care about whatever treaty pertains to this. You creeps have tens of thousands of unpaid tickets. Pay those tickets tomorrow or watch your precious Benzes, Beamers and limos be turned over to some of the finest chop shops in the world. I love New York

A special note to our neighbors. Canada is on List 2. Since we are likely to be seeing a lot more of each other, you folks might want to try not pissing us off for a change.

Mexico is also on List 2 President Fox and his entire corrupt government really need an attitude adjustment. I will have a couple extra tank and infantry divisions sitting around. Guess where I am going to put ‘em? Yep, border security.

Oh, by the way, the United States is abrogating the NAFTA treaty - starting now.

We are tired of the one-way highway. Immediately, we’ll be drilling for oil in Alaska - which will take care of this country’s oil needs for decades to come. If you’re an environmentalist who opposes this decision, I refer you to List 2 above: pick a country and move there. They care.

It is time for America to focus on its own welfare and its own citizens. Some will accuse us of isolationism. I answer them by saying, “darn tootin.”

Nearly a century of trying to help folks live a decent life around the world has only earned us the undying enmity of just about everyone on the planet. It is time to eliminate hunger in America It is time to eliminate homelessness in America . To the nations on List 1, a final thought. Thank you guys. We owe you and we won’t forget.

To the nations on List 2, a final thought: You might want to learn to speak Arabic.

God bless America . Thank you and good night.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.

1973 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack’s rifle, goes to
his car and gets his to show Jack.
2006 - School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and
never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized
students and teachers.

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1973 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up
best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.
2006 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge
them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
++++++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ +

Scenario: Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.
1973 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits
still in class.
2006 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets
extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
++++++++++++ +++++++++ +++++

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father’s car and his Dad gives him
a whipping.

1973 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college,
and becomes a successful businessman.
2006 - Billy’s Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster
care and joins a gang. Billy’s sister is told by state psychologist that
she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy’s
mom has affair with psychologist.
++++++++++++ +++++++++ ++++++++

Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to
School.

1973 - Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking
dock.
2006 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car
searched for drugs and weapons.
++++++++++++ +++++++++ ++++

Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant.
1973 - 5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a
special school for expectant mothers.
2006 - Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the
ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without
her parent’s consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more
careful next time.
++++++++++++ +++++++++ +++++

Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1973: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2006: Pedro’s cause is taken up by state democratic party. Newspaper
articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a
requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit
against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned
from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns
for a living because he can’t speak English.
++++++++++++ +++++++++

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July,
puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1973 - Ants die.
2006 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic
terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers
confiscated, Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed
to fly again.
++++++++++++ +++++++++

Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee.
He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary, hugs him to comfort him.

1973 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2006 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She
faces 3 years in State Prison

Since 1994, the Republicans have had a chance to accomplish some, or even all of the things that they first started crowing about in the early 1990’s, and they completely blew it. Frankly, I’m surprised they hung on this long after the all of the runaway spending, and business as usual politics and scandals.

When George Bush took over in 2000, with control of both houses of congress and the presidency, I thought there was going to be no stopping the Republican juggernaut, but I was wrong.

The Republicans managed to screw up their mandate, and lost the trust of the American people by being every bit of the corrupt and self serving politicians that their critics claimed they were, and now their party is over.

Special interests and money talk louder than ever in todays Washington DC, and it’s enough to make you sick. The Dixie Chicks aren’t the only ones that are ashamed to be American.
The sad part about this Democratic victory yesterday to me is that instead of coming in with new ideas, and an honest intent to right our misguided direction, I suspect that Nancy Pelosi and her crew will now set out to “investigate” supposed past misdeeds by previous (and current) officeholders, including the president.
Rather than productively trying to get their own agenda passed, and adding some intelligence to the discussions, I predict that 2007 will see Democrats on the attack, holding pointless hearings, dwelling on ancient history, and trying to further blemish the record of more Republicans, so that the democrats will do better in 2008.  This will only serve only to further disgust the American people, and drive a deeper wedge between the left and right.

The media keeps telling us that Democrats hate Republicans, and Republicans hate the Democrats, and that the country has never been more divided. That may be true, but I think we’re seeing a common loathing for politics and politicians in general, and unless something changes, we’ll continue to see voter turnout drop, and the country generally lose interest as we continue the decay of our society.

Well, this woman actually says in her blog -

The fact is that the Republican leadership didn’t want to acknowledge the possibility that one of their own was gay (Log Cabin Republicans, notwithstanding) and are now trying to find an excuse for their own inept handling of the situation. Don’t blame Foley’s behavior on his being gay. The man is a sexual predator, the leadership knew it, and they must all be held responsible.

Excuse be, but what kind of crap is that? In one paragraph, she manages to call the Republicans homophobic and dishonest, with absolutely no evidence.

Can anyone yet prove that Hastert or others knew about this inappropriate, (but not illegal as far as I know) behavior?

Was this handled inepty? I don’t know yet. At least Foley had the decency and common sense to resign immediately, which is more thaan can be said for some others.
Where were the calls for the resignation of Tip O’Neil when Democratic congressman Gerry Studds actially had sex with a page after flying him out of the country? For that matter, where were the calls for HIS resignation?

Not only was Studds not forced to resign, but he actually got reelected!

To suggest without proof that Republican leaders had such poor judgement as to cover up for this pervert is simply laughable to me.

However, if it is proven that there was an attempted Republican cover up, then yes, I agree, whoever tried to cover it up should go, for excersising incredible stupidity! But shouldn’t there be some proof first?

What a sad world we live in today…

Since our country has an abundance of undocumented immigrants, and no shortage of people in the world that wish us to die like dogs in the street, can anyone give me one  reason why requiring ID’s is not a good idea?

Pope Benedict XVI apologized in person on Sunday for offending some Muslims with a recent quotation from a medieval text that said Islamic teachings on holy war were “evil and inhuman.”

Wow! The Pope’s outragious comments seemed have sparked some unrest. According to the CBC - 

• Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono described the Pope’s reference as “unwise and inappropriate” 
• Palestinian Muslims firebombed two churches and shot at five others in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Saturday
• In the town of Tulkarem, a church built 170 years ago was torched before dawn and its interior was destroyed
• In the village of Tubas, a small church was attacked with firebombs and partially burned, Christians said, although Neither church is Catholic

Egypts Muslim Brotherhood, who had earlier described the Pope’s remarks as a “sufficient apology” now says this, according to Austrailias Herald Sun - 

“It does not rise to the level of a clear apology and, based on this, we’re calling on the Pope of the Vatican to issue a clear apology that will decisively end any confusion,” 

For the Pope to suggest that Muslem killing might be evil, more people must die, right? So that’s why an Italian nun and her Somali bodyguard were shot dead in Mogadishu Sunday?

Don’t Muslems have any sense of irony?