April 30, 2007
”You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one,” the student said, loud enough for many of those nearby to hear.
“The young people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon, our spaceships have visited Mars. We have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed processing…and, ” pausing to take another drink of beer…
The Senior took advantage of the break in the student’s litany and said, “You’re right, son. We didn’t have those things when we were young…so we invented them. Now, you arrogant little smart ass, what are you doing for the next generation?”
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April 28, 2007
> Dear God:
>
> Why didn't you save the school children at ?. ..
>
> Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96
> Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97
> Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97
> West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97
> Stamp, Arkansas 12/15/97
> Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98
> Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98
> Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98
> Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98
> Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98
> Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99
> Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99
> Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99
> Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99
> Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99
> Santee, California 3/ 5/01
> El Cajon, California 3/22/01 and
> Blacksburg, VA 4/16/07
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Concerned Student
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Reply:
>
> Dear Concerned Student:
> Sorry,
>
> I am not allowed in schools.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> God
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> How did this get started?...
>
> -----------------
>
> Let's see,
> I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare complained
> She didn't want any prayer in our schools.
>
> And we said, OK.
>
> ------------------
>
> Then, someone said you better not:
>
> Read the Bible in school;
> the Bible that says
> "thou shalt not kill,
> Thou shalt not steal,
> And love your neighbors as yourself,"
>
> And we said, OK...
>
> -----------------
>
> Dr. Benjamin Spock said
> We shouldn't spank our children
> When they misbehaved
> Because their little personalities
> Would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem.
>
> And we said,
> An expert should know what he's talking about
> So we won't spank them anymore..
>
> ------------------
>
> Then someone said
> Teachers and principals better not
> Discipline our children when they misbehave.
> And the school administrators said
> No faculty member in this school
> Better touch a student when they misbehave
> Because we don't want any bad publicity,
> And we surely don't want to be sued.
>
> And we accepted their reasoning...
>
> ------------------
>
> Then someone said,
> let's let our daughters have abortions if they want,
> And they won't even have to tell their parents.
>
> And we said, that's a grand idea.
>
> ------------------
>
> Then some wise school board member said,
> Since boys will be boys
> And they're going to do it anyway,
> let's give our sons all the condoms they want,
> So they can have all the fun they desire,
> And we won't have to tell their parents they got them at school.
>
> And we said, that's another great idea...
>
> ------------------
>
> Then some of our top elected officials said
> It doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs.
>
> And we said,
> It doesn't matter what anybody, including the President,
> Does in private as long as we have jobs and the economy is good....
>
> ------------------
>
> And someone else took that appreciation a step further
> And published pictures of nude children
> And then stepped further still by
> Making them available on the Internet.
>
> And we said, everyone's entitled to free speech....
>
> ------------------
>
> And the entertainment industry said,
> let's make TV shows and movies that promote
> Profanity, violence and illicit sex...
> And let's record music that encourages
> Rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes...
>
> And we said,
> it's just entertainment
> And it has no adverse effect
> And nobody takes it seriously anyway,
> So go right ahead.
>
> ------------------
>
> Now we're asking ourselves
> Why our children have no conscience,
> Why they don't know right from wrong,
> And why it doesn't bother them to
> Kill strangers, classmates or even themselves.
>
> ------------------
>
> Undoubtedly,
> If we thought about it long and hard enough,
> We could figure it out.
> I'm sure it has a great deal to do with...
>
> "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW"
>
> ------------------
>
> Pass it on
> If you think it has merit!
> If not then just discard it...
> But if you discard this thought process,
> Then don't you dare sit back and complain about
> What bad shape this country is in!!
>
>
>
>
> Why is it our children can not read a Bible in school, but can in
>Prison.
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April 25, 2007
That members of the upper echelon of our own military would use such "evidence" provided by our enemy to try to prosecute our own soldiers is bad enough, but then we have them providing baseless accusations to the MSM. And THEN we have Rep. Jack Murtha (Jackass-PA),EXMarine, using that information, without even trying to ascertain it's authenticity.
He was trying to gain political traction on the backs of his former comrades in arms; ensuring that the "court of public opinion" would convict these men and ruin their reputations for the rest of their lives, regardless of the outcome of any legal proceedings......to my mind it demonstrates the self-serving degenerate slime that this EXMarine "War hero" has become. Mr. Murtha even went so far as to PUBLICLY try to convict the Marines involved even prior to reading an official report, which had not even been compiled as yet, relying on hearsay evidence of aquaintances (presumably) in the Pentagon.
Any reasonable person that had done any type of research into the case against the Haditha Marines should have smelled a rat after asking the first question that any investigator worth his pay asks; "what is the source and credibility of the information/evidence used against the accused"?
Mr. Murtha didn't even try to ASK this one simple question. He saw an opportunity to advance his own self-agrandizing anti-Bush agenda and proceded to loudly and publicly convict these Marines in the court of public opinion, with the all too gleeful assistance of the Media.
And he continued to do so even in the light of new evidence exonerating them.
There is a word for publicly accusing someone of serious crimes in public when you have a fair idea that the information you use to accuse them is incorrect, and that word is SLANDER
Mr. Gonzales, please, PLEASE: grow a pair and have the courage to to what is right and demonstrate that NO ONE is above the laws of our land, even those in high public office.
Prosecute Mr. Murtha to the greatest extent allowed by law and show the elites in Washington that they are being watched and WILL suffer the same fate as any other Citizen when they willfully transgress and break the law.
To the Haditha Marines: Realize that there ARE people pulling for you in your corner; maintain your faith and keep your heads held up proud and strong. Try to explore if there are any civil actions you can take against any accusers such as that piece of Murthaslime, and show him that a TRUE Marine NEVER gives up the fight against an enemy, whether foreign OR Domestic.
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April 24, 2007
But if you really listen to his views in this interview, I hope that you too will come to agree with me that Mr. Thompson should lead the ticket for the Republican party in '08:
I especially like his response on what he would do vis a vis Iraq, ie, continuing to do as President Bush has done and maintaining the current military actions, even though it may be a politically unpopular decision.
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As Mr. Hollrah states at the end, I believe that when all is said and done, the Leftists/Democrats will have a lot to answer for when this conflict is finally resolved.
H/T to the Milblogs Archive more...
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April 16, 2007
I can already hear the the calls for newer and stricter gun control laws now...but wait, I believe that as a "school zone", the possession/use of a firearm on the campus was ALREADY illegal? Sure stopped that psychopath from killing those 30 innocents, didn't it?
"Let the Police handle it"....note the first sentence in the story :TWO HOURS elapsed between the first casualties in the dorm and the last victims in the classroom ACROSS CAMPUS. TWO HOURS, GREAT work guys, had to wait on that special order of doughnuts to be baked before you responded to a "shots fired" call? Oh, yeah, they did send out an E-mail, warning students to stay indoors at around the same time that the second round of shootings was beginning.
Just imagine...had at least one student or R.A. in the Johnston Dorm been armed; the outcome could have been very different, say maybe "only" three dead (including the Perp) instead of 31; still a tragedy, yes, but on a far smaller scale.
The Sarah Brady's of the world always declaim concealed carry and general ownership of weapons as a "recipe for a bloodbath", with the blood flowing in the streets, well Sarah, your school property carry prohibition literally did make for blood flowing in the streets....and the dorm....and the classroom. And this was just one deranged murderer, imagine what a dedicated squad of suicide Islamofacists could have done! And lest you think that scenerio farfetched, remember that when they found that cache of terrorist computors in Iraq about a year or so ago?; the ones with the blueprints of several school building layouts?
The terrorists are thinking about how to make a Breslan style attack here in the US, we should do no less than to think about how to forestall such an event, and I believe in my heart that "civilian" assistance at the outset of any such attack could make the difference between a small casualty count and a huge one.
I hear you Sarah, you say, "what about Columbine? Access to guns caused that tragedy!"
All I can say is that in the mid-60's I carried a gun to High School on a regular basis, as did many other students, so as to avail ourselves of the R.O.T.C. firing range in the basement after school. No one panicked at the sight of a 16 or 17 year old walking into school with a .22 slung over his shoulder. (even though possesion of a firearm by a minor was and is technically illegal)
We never had a SINGLE incident of abuse of a weapon in the four years I attended that school...we would never have THOUGHT of firing at our fellow classmates or teachers..well maybe the teachers, but hell, we would have been afraid of what they might have been carrying to respond with...
We knew the possible deadliness of our weapons and we respected it, too bad the children of today don't. They seem to view weapons as a game toy, with the scene to be reset at the end of the carnage, and only ketchup spots on the floor to signify injuries. And why not? The Sarah Brady's of the world have precluded many wimpified parents from passing down their knowledge of firearms, lest they be branded as bloodthirsty child abusers.
The only experience that the kids get is in ultra-violent video games, where they can be blown up or receive multiple high power ammunition wounds and lose in a battle yet still live to fight another day.
We need to rethink the entire gun control scene and go back to our roots, where we were not only allowed to provide for our own self defense, but were EXPECTED to provide for that defense. That is one of the reasons behind the 2nd Amendment; our Founding Fathers were some pretty wise men; certainly they were far ahead of their time.
Update: The Emperor says it better than I ever could, in his own unbounded style, do yourself a favor and go read it.
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April 15, 2007
My take on it?:
"Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both." (emph. mine)
"This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects."
The Logan Act --- USE IT President Bush!
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That voice is forever stilled. R.I.P Don Ho
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Westboro Baptist "Church" WHY do we give these people the attention that they so obviously try to engender with their public antics? The very fact that they can spout their hate, especially at soldiers funerals, without reaping any just reward for it shows that we are really a (overly ?)tolerant society.
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An Internet poll of nearly 100,000 people sponsored by NewsMax.com reveals that Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of Fred Thompson running for president in 2008.
The poll also disclosed that the former senator from Tennessee and “Law & Order” star would trounce all leading Republican candidates in a primary.
Considering that Thompson has not even announced that he would run for the Presidency,The results are somewhat surprising. The good news (to me, and apparently many others) is that he has begun assembling the core of a campaign team in preparation for a possible run.
Here are the poll questions and results:
1) What is your overall opinion of Fred Thompson?
Favorable: 94 percent
Unfavorable: 2 percent
No Opinion: 4 percent
2) Is Fred Thompson your candidate for president in 2008?
Yes: 77 percent
No: 23 percent
3) In the following field, who is your 2008 candidate?
John McCain: 1.66 percent
Condi Rice: 2.64 percent
Mike Huckabee: .99 percent (WHO??)
Mitt Romney: 4.14 percent
Rudy Giuliani: 7.53 percent
Fred Thompson: 62.54 percent
Tom Tancredo: 2.78 percent
Ron Paul: 1.25 percent (double:WHO?)
Newt Gingrich: 12.25 percent
Duncan Hunter: 1.23 percent
Sam Brownback: .97 percent
Other: 1.99 percent
4) In a Republican primary of the following, who would you vote for?
Rudy Giuliani: 7 percent
John McCain: 2 percent
Newt Gingrich: 13 percent
Fred Thompson: 78 percent
5) If the 2008 President race was between Fred Thompson & Hillary Clinton, who would you vote for?
Fred Thompson: 98.7 percent
Hillary Clinton: 1.3 percent
(WHEW! If this ratio would hold true in the election; talk about a MANDATE!!)
For me, the dream ticket would be Thompson/Tancredo, what about you?
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April 02, 2007
In all other respects, I thought that the prank was masterfully done; indeed he managed to garner support from the Moonbat community in defense of his (supposed) views, which is equivilent to the chickens protecting Col. Sanders, and truly fun to watch.
I understand WHY Misha did it, to make his prank as authentic as possible, and I believe it was probably extremely difficult for him to put those words onto his cyber-paper, indeed, he stated in the comments of the reveal post of the prank that that action caused him to want to "bathe in acid to get the slime off".
And THAT is where my anger comes about...it's bad enough that there are those Moonbats honestly stoopid enough to espouse such garbage views...but to put them out in cyberspace in contradiction of every view you truly hold dear, for the furtherance of a prank.....I'm sorry Misha, but that "slimy feeling" you felt was deserved. In one sense, you were using the troops every bit as badly as Cindy Sheet-han did when she put up her "graveyard of the fallen' in Crawford; from a Moonbat, you expect it, but from YOU; it's a far drop indeed.
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PP, March 28, 2007
Taking a wee break from the golf course, Tiger Woods drives his new Mercedes into an Irish gas station.
An attendant greets him in typical Irish manner, unaware who the golf pro is... " Top o' the mornin to ya".
As Tiger gets out of the car, two tees fall out of his pocket. " So what are those things, laddie?" asks the attendant.
"They're called tees," replies Tiger.
"And what would ya be usin 'em for, now? " inquires the Irishman.
"Well, they're for resting my balls on when I drive," replies Tiger.
"Aw, Jaysus, Mary an' Joseph!" exclaims the Irish attendant. "Those fellas at Mercedes think of everything."
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March 23, 2007
> on scaffolding on the 20th floor of a building.
>
> They were eating lunch and the Irishman said, "Corned beef and
> cabbage! If I get corned beef and cabbage one more time for lunch,
> I'm going to jump off this building."
>
> The Mexican opened his lunch box and exclaimed, "Burritos again! If I
> get burritos one more time I'm going to jump off, too."
>
> The blonde opened his lunch and said, " Bologna again! If I get a
> bologna sandwich one more time, I'm jumping too."
>
> The next day, the Irishman opened his lunch box, saw corned beef and
> cabbage, and jumped to his death.
>
> The Mexican opened his lunch, saw a burrito, and jumped, too.
>
> The blonde guy opened his lunch, saw the bologna and jumped to his
> death as well.
>
> At the funeral, the Irishman's wife was weeping She said, "If I'd
> known how really tired he was of corned beef and cabbage, I never
> would have given it to him again!"
>
> The Mexican's wife also wept and said, "I could have given him tacos
> or enchiladas! I didn't realize he hated burritos so much."
>
> Everyone turned and stared at the blonde's wife. The blonde's wife
> said,
>
>
> "Don't look at me. He makes his own lunch!"
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March 16, 2007
I took these pics of my baby at dusk so that if I should ever be killed by a driver of a car who says "I never saw him in the dark"; you'll know he/she's a G-TDAMMED LIAR!
If I can find ever find my camera again, I'll try to get some good daylight pics up soon.
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March 14, 2007
This woman is frightening. whats even MORE frightening is that she is the leader of the majority party, and as such may have some chance of enacting her idiotic ideas in the body politic.
Let's take a good hard look at what she wants:
Nancy Pelosi condemned the new record highs of the stock market as "just another example of Bush policies helping the rich get richer".
Guess she never heard of "rising water raises all ships".
"First Bush cut taxes for the rich and the economy has rebounded with new record low unemployment rates",
Which is EXACTLY the point; lower taxes raise revenues for EVERYONE; government included
"which only means wealthy employers are getting even wealthier at the expense of the underpaid working class".
??? Did this daft cow REALLY SAY this?!? just HOW did she go from "the economy rebounded; with the lowest unemployment rates in 10 years" to "only the rich benefit from this good economic news?"
She went on to say "Despite the billions of dollars being spent in Iraq our economy is still strong and government tax revenues are at all time highs."
HOW the HADES does she come to the conclusion that because we're engaged in a war that our economy must be in a dire strait?! And by the way take special note of the fact that "government tax revenues are at all time highs "...cut taxes, stimulate the economy; tax revenues RISE or as I say, "Reganomics WORKS".
"What this really means is that business is exploiting the war effort and working Americans, just to put money in their own pockets".
Ah yes, the main Progressive meme of the evil HaliburtonBushCoMilitaryIndustrialComplex profiting off of the suffering of the Little Brown People(tm) and the Ignorant Minorities duped into becoming Soldiers,sailors,Marines, and airmen(tm). WONDERED how long it would take her to bring that tired meme up...
When questioned about recent stock market highs she responded "Only the rich benefit from these record highs."
Guess Ms Pelosi considers everyone that tries to save for retirement with a 401K or IRA "rich"!
"Working Americans, welfare recipients, the unemployed and minorities are not sharing in these obscene record highs".
"Working Americans"...lets see, they are employed so that these "evil" companies can actually,you know, provide a product,good, or service;and earn a paycheck, and in turn can invest some of those paychecks into mutual funds,IRA's, or 401K's...you know...that booming stock market Ms. Pelosi is saying doesn't help any but the super rich
"Welfare recipients" Hmmm, government revenues have risen with the economic boom; ergo there are more funds availible to try to assist the indigent...or does Ms Pelosi believe that Leprechans are paying the tab for the welfare rolls?
"Minorities"? IF, as the Progressives hold to be true, that minorities suffer the worst in our economic system, it's obvious that a good economy is, ipso facto, better for minorities than a poor one; economics 101, which Ms. Pelosi must have either flunked out in, or never taken so as to preserve her Progressive purity of illogical thought.
"There is no question these windfall profits and income created by the Bush administration need to be taxed at 100% rate and those dollars redistributed to the poor and working class".
100% tax rate, money redistributed to the general populace from those that earn it.....I've always KNOWN that the Progessive agenda was Socialism, but I have to admit, it's refreshing for one of the top leadership to come out and state it so openly.
"Profits from the stock market do not reward the hard work of our working class who, by their hard work, are responsible for generating these corporate profits that create stock market profits for the rich."
The workers profit by their labor to the extent that they, or their union, negotiate for. Labor is a commodity just like any other, and profit and loss is determined by ability and demand for the comodity. As I stated above, the workers are free to invest any portion of their economic rewards they desire and reap the benefits of a high stock market as well as any high roller does.
"We in congress will need to address this issue to either tax these profits or to control the stock market to prevent this unearned income to flow to the rich."
"unearned income"? Excuse me, but the way the market works, an investor risks available cash funds on the chance that he'll receive a return on his investment. Take away the incentive of profit by overtaxing or trying to control where the profits go to, and you collapse the market entirely.....I suppose that the "poor" and "minorities" won't mind not having any opportunity to raise themselves economically, it's the principle of the thing, after all, and after the market collapses, all those evil rich will be poor too, and everyone can share in the same level of misery together. Incidentally, Ms. Pelosi, government control of the means of production and the profits of that production has been tried before; let's ask the Soviet Union how that worked for them, OH, thats right, the USSR's economy collapsed to the point where the nation became economically unviable. Of couse, failure of any sort is meaningless to the sociallistically minded, they KNOW that they are RIGHT,dammit, regardless of bad outcomes.
When asked about the fact that over 80% of all Americans have investments in mutual funds, retirement funds, 401K's, and the stock market she replied "That may be true, but probably only 5% account for 90% of all these investment dollars."
80% OF THE GENERAL POPULACE ONLY ACCOUNT FOR 5% OF THE TOTAL INVESTMENT DOLLARS?!? I may be mistaken here, but those figures don't make much sense to me, there must be a lot more super-billionaires than I had thought for that to be true.
"That's just more "trickle down" economics claiming that if a corporation is successful that everyone from the CEO to the floor sweeper benefit from higher wages and job security which is ridiculous".
No, Ms Pelosi, that's real world economics. Corporations are operated to make a profit, not to be welfare distributors. I admit that there are inequities, but generally speaking, unless there are profits, there are NO wages for ANYONE, from the CEO on down to that floor sweeper that your so concerned about.
Incidentially, I seem to recall that you were having some labor problems not too long ago...seems that the workers at a vineyard/wine co. YOU own were
dissatisfied with their wages/working conditions and wanted to unionize to better themselves, yet you weren't so eager to help the "working class" (out of your own pocket/company profits) then, were you?
"How much of this 'trickle down' ever get(s) to the unemployed and minorities in our county? None, and that's the tragedy of these stock market highs."
Ms Pelosi? Please, PLEASE. Stop and try to get those two brain cells of yours firing before you speak in public again. "Unemployed" MEANS that you don't get benefits from a company or the stock market, except for how much those entities contribute to the government coffers from which the poor are succored. Higher profits mean bigger contributions to the public coffers, making more funds available for the "poor". Your own contentions/assertions prove to anyone that has more than a passing knowledge of economics, social interactions, and personall motivations that you are incapable of rational thought. If you are the best that your party/movement has to offer for leadership, I weep for the future of our country.
"Wedemocratssocialists are going to address this issue after the election when we take control of the congress. We will return to the 60% to 80% tax rates on the rich and we will be able to take at least 30% of all current lower Federal Income Tax tax payers off the roles and increase government income substantially.
Return to 60-80% tax rates and watch the tax revenues dry up, you silly cow.
Those "30% of the lower level" of tax payers don't contribute much already, but with the loss of revenues by your confiscatory taxes, every penny will count, so I don't hold out much hope that you'll be able to drop anyone from the rolls, in fact you'll probably have take more from the "poorer" taxpayers.
In any case, your suggestions have been tried several times before, and in every case, resulted in bringing our economy to the brink of unrecoverable disaster. Whats the old saw?... something about the definition of insanity being repeating the same action over and over again and expecting a different outcome?
By it's own actions and proposed actions, your party, and by virtue of your being a leader of said party, have proven themselves to be insane.
"We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest."
Very well said, Comrad Pelosi. We of the Proletrariat need to rise up and shake off the shackles of the Bourgeois!
Oh excuse me, I got caught up in the rhetoric of the polemic didactic of the socialistic movement, which Comrad Pelosi certainly seems to be a major proponent of. You might want to read our history Comrad. NOWHERE in the founding documents is there any mention of guaranteeing equality of outcome, just a guarantee of opportunity to succeed, or FAIL, according to our own individual talents and efforts.
When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied "We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities."
1) Under your proposals, there will be a reduction of government revenue.
2) We are each responsible for our own standard of living, NOT the government. I'm all for giving a helping hand up to those in need, but I'm not responsible for providing the poor/minorities/unemployed with every wish they may desire. They have to earn a higher standard of living just as all of the rest of us have.
3) The fact that that the Progressive movement, in the person of one of it's leaders in Comrad Pelosi, insinuates that minorities can't raise their standard of living without government assistance shows that they are perpertrators of the bigotry of low expectations. I would be most offended were I member of one of said minorities.
"For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal (emp mind -D)immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long ways to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as "Americans".
EXCUSE ME?!?! Comrad P., I don't believe that even the MOST socialistic country currently existing on Earth would feel responsible for the "standard of living" of criminals living off the opportunities existing in their country. In fact, in most Socialistic countries, such people would be fortunate if they weren't shot if discovered trying to enter the country, and imprisoned for long terms if discovered inside the country. "ILLEGAL" means just that, these people are breaking our laws just by being here and hence are criminals,NOT "Americans"; and in your proposal to succor them from the public treasury, you are abbetting a criminal act under color of authority, which makes you an accessory after the fact, and hence unfit to hold your position as a leader of the majority party. Somehow I don't think I'll hold my breath until you resign for these actions. Shame doesn't seem to affect politicians like it does those of us with a conscience in the general populace .
Update: Note:according to Snopes, Comrad Pelosi never made all these statements in one single speech, ergo consider this a satiric fisk of Idiotarianism in general.
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February 25, 2007
He asked, "What are all those clocks?"
St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock.
Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move."
"Oh," said the man, "whose clock is that?"
"That's Mother Teresa's. The hands have never moved, indicating That she never told a lie."
"Incredible," said the man. "And whose clock is that one?"
St. Peter responded, "That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands Have moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire Life."
"Where's Hillary Clinton's clock?" asked the man.
"Hillary's clock is in Jesus' office. He's using it as a ceiling fan."
H/T to da Catfish
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February 20, 2007
GuyK and his VERY Sweet Thing took BethA and I on a tour of some of the local sights yesterday, including the ruins of an old cane sugar mill that predated the Civil War; hopefully my photobucket will co-operate with me when I get home and I'll be able to post some pics of the tour tomorrow.
We stopped at a restaurant in Homosassa Springs and I had the chance to try alligator tail for the first time and let me tell you, that was an experience I'd like to repeat at the earliest opportunity, it was so good, it makes you want to slap your momma.
We went to a local tourist trap to get some relics of our trip for those left behind in the snow; I hope they like my choices.
We never did get an opportunity to wet a line, as Guy allowed that it was too cold and windy for any chance of success....I never thought of 57 degrees as cold, but he knows the fish here.
BethA and I are boarding on the friendly skies this afternoon and winging back to the snowbound environs of Indianapolis; it may be home, but I have to admit that the prospect of getting back in the cold is a bit daunting to me, only three days and my blood has already thinned LOL.
I need to go make sure the bags are packed with all our loot and stowed in Guy's red Ram for the trip to Tampa International; maybe there'll be time to wet a line enroute....or maybe see some interesting local sites that'll be blog-pic fodder. Ya'll come back, heah.
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