June 30, 2008
HOW HOT WAS IT
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ANTHRAX IN THE MAIL. GETTING IT WRONG $5.5 million.
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USE IT OR LOSE IT There is a bill in congress called HR6251 called "USE IT OR LOSE IT". It's a mandate for oil companies to either drill on federal land they have leased or give up the right to do so. The bill was directed at dormant leases of 68 million acres in the west and Alaska. The bill did not pass (Yes=223, No=195). To me this should have been a NO BRAINER but as you see by the above vote 195 congressmen RELLY DON'T HAVE A BRAIN. * - - - - - * Are the Hillary supporters that say they will vote for John McCain or not vote JUST NUTS? How can voting for someone that SUPPOSEDLY is the opposite of what you stand for be a good idea. The same with not voting. I'm for Obama but had Hillary won I would vote for her. It shows that some people will vote against there own self best interest. GO FIGURE. * - - - - - * Man was it HOT YESTERDAY or was it just me? * - - - - - *BILL MOYERS ON OIL AND IRAQ
You knew it really was about OIL didn't you. All that other CRAP was just smoke. Bill Moyers closes the circle. Watch and weep.
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Just this week, a group of Republican senators re-introduced the Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution, which, as we know, would ban gay marriage.
And once again, the language is pretty straightforward:Section 1. This article may be cited as the `Marriage Protection Amendment'. Section 2. Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.'.This isn't especially surprising. Republicans are looking at the political landscape, and they're feeling awfully discouraged. The polls look bad, the base looks depressed, and fundraising looks iffy. Rallying the far-right troops with an anti-gay amendment to the Constitution - even though it has no chance at even getting so much as a hearing - might be helpful to the conservative movement. But the funny part is looking over the list of the 10 original sponsors. Most of the names are predictable - Brownback and Inhofe, for example - but there are two others whose names stand out: Sens. David Vitter (R-La.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho). Yes, two of the principal sponsors of a constitutional amendment to "protect" marriage include one far-right Republican who hired prostitutes and another far-right Republican who was arrested for soliciting gay sex an airport men's room.
THE GREAT ESCAPE - ENJOY
These are really smart dogs. I know some people that aren't this smart.
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Keith Olbermann has listed the various scandles in the Bush administration. Here are three more.
* *WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.
* *DOGS RULE - YOU CAN SEE THE LOVE
THEY NEED YOUR HELP
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PRETTY GOOD JOKES
BUMPER STICKERS FOR LIFE
GEORGE CARLIN'S RULES FOR 2008
New Rule: No more gift registries.
You know, it used to be just for weddings. Now it's for babies and new homes and graduations from rehab. Picking out the stuff you want and having other people buy it for you isn't gift giving, it's the white people version of looting.MY KIDS
My God I love dogs.
BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?
June 29, 2008
WEEKEND FREE 6/29/2008
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DOGS RULE - YOU CAN SEE THE LOVE
THEY NEED YOUR HELP
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OLD FOLKS ROCK
MY KIDS
My God I love dogs.
BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?
June 28, 2008
WEEKEND OFF 6/28/2008
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DOGS RULE - YOU CAN SEE THE LOVE
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OLD FOLKS ROCK
MY KIDS
My God I love dogs.
BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?
June 27, 2008
WOW, IT'S FRIDAY
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Election Fraud -- He knows all about that.
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Here is a chart that shows how much the AVERAGE FUEL ECONOMY in cars has gone up over the years since 1975. NICE JOB DETROIT! ! !
* - - - - - * Bush Lied, Soldiers Keep Dying. 4,113 U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq 535 U.S. Military Fatalities in Afghanistan 30,360 U.S. Military Maimed in Iraq (source: DoD Update as of June 11, 2008) 93,056 Iraqis Reported Killed (source: Iraq Body Count) 1,225,898 Iraqis Reported Killed (source: justforeignpolicy.org) * - - - - - * Yesterday I went to my doctor for a six month checkup. I told him something is going on with my left leg. I have a problem with it feeling like I can't put weight on it. I think it's related to my not getting enough blood to pump through it. That was one of the problems that my heart operation was supposed to help. Today I go get some X-rays and so it begins once again. I wonder if I celebrate a MINUS B-DAY from know on would that work. * - - - - - *
JON STEWART ON PRESIDENT BUSH
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JON STEWART ON THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
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Keith Olbermann has listed the various scandles in the Bush administration. Here are three more.
* *WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.
* *DOGS RULE - YOU CAN SEE THE LOVE
THEY NEED YOUR HELP
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PRETTY GOOD JOKES
LIFE SAVER
GREAT QUOTES
#3. "This record is not tainted at all. At all. Period.
— San Francisco Giants slugger BARRY BONDS, after breaking Hank Aaron's Major League Baseball all-time home-run record with his 756th career homer amid rampant speculation that he has used steroids. Bonds has always denied that he ever "knowingly" used performance-enhancing substances, but he was indicted in November for allegedly lying to a federal grand jury about using them (Aug. 7, 2007)MY KIDS
My God I love dogs.
BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?
June 26, 2008
WORKING HARD TO GET THIS DONE
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K Street Project - Still working after all these years.
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Watch the Jon Stewart videos today they are well worth your time. * - - - - - * Why is it that those on the right are so worried with the recent Supreme Court ruling on so called terrorists detainees. My guess is they just don't trust the power of our Constitution, after all it's only been working for a little over two hundred years. * - - - - - * I've got to get my Blog done earlier. * - - - - - *JON STEWART AND THE LAW
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Keith Olbermann has listed the various scandles in the Bush administration. Here are three more.
* *WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.
* *DOGS RULE - YOU CAN SEE THE LOVE
THEY NEED YOUR HELP
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PRETTY GOOD JOKES
LIFE SAVER
GREAT QUOTES
#2. "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country."
— MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, president of Iran, responding to a question about the treatment of gays and lesbians in Iran during a visit to Columbia University in New York City (Sept. 24, 2007)MY KIDS
My God I love dogs.
BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?
June 25, 2008
MID WEEK NEWS
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Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bath tub.
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JON STEWART COURT RULE
Jon takes on the the right wing about the recent Supreme Court ruling on GITMO.
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Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.
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GAS OR MILK
GREAT QUOTES
#1. "I really am not the kind of guy that sits here and says, 'Oh gosh, I'm worried about my legacy.'"
— President GEORGE W. BUSH, when asked about his falling approval numbers and mounting criticism of the Iraq War during an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes (Jan. 14, 2007) (ME: I'M STILL LAUGHING)MY KIDS
My God I love dogs.
BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?
June 24, 2008
I'M RICH TODAY
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THERE YOU GO AGAIN!!!
I'm keeping a Count Down of the days left until Bush is out of office and a Count Up til I get my Tax Rebate.
Well yesterday I did get my Stimulus check, so the countdown/up is complete.
I'll drop this but the COUNTDOWN to Bush leaving office continues on the lower left column.
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Remember it's not to early to think about the War on Christmas.
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SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME
As I said yesterday this is a story I was unaware of. It is amazing that it was going on up until the second world war. That's why to me the 30 seconds of RANTS by the Rev Wright had some bases in truth unlike what the right wing does they just lie.
Many Americans are not familiar with Juneteenth - but now 29 states recognize the 19th of June as a state holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the 1865 day that General Gordon Granger of the Union Army sailed into Galveston, Texas and read General Order #3, announcing that "all slaves are free." It was a full two and a half years after slaves in rebel territories had been freed by The Emancipation Proclamation. Journalist Douglas Blackmon tells another tale of freedom postponed and denied in SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME. Blackmon's book tells the unfamiliar story of "neo-slavery" that reached beyond the de-facto slavery of tenant farming and debt peonage. Blackmon first became intrigued by this episode of U.S. history while researching a story for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL which documented how U.S. Steel Corp. relied on forced black laborers in Alabama coal mines. He discovered:Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these ostensible "debts," prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations. Thousands of other African Americans were simply seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude.It was a system that Blackmon found carried on in some areas until the early days of World War II. * *
TRACES OF THE TRADE: A STORY OF THE DEEP NORTH
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL presented a special preview of the documentary which opens the 21st season of P.O.V. TRACES OF THE TRADE: A STORY OF THE DEEP NORTH tells the story journey of discovery into the history and consequences of slavery. (see yesterdays post) In this bicentennial year of the U.S. abolition of the slave trade, one might think the tragedy of African slavery in the Americas has been exhaustively told. Katrina Browne thought the same, until she discovered that her slave-trading ancestors from Rhode Island were not an aberration. Rather, they were just the most prominent actors in the North's vast complicity in slavery, buried in myths of Northern innocence.
Browne - a direct descendant of Mark Anthony DeWolf, the first slaver in the family - took the unusual step of writing to 200 descendants. She invited them to journey with her from Rhode Island to Ghana to Cuba and back, retracing the Triangle Trade that made the DeWolfs the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Nine relatives signed up. TRACES OF THE TRADE: A STORY FROM THE DEEP NORTH is Browne's account of the journey. TRACES OF THE TRADE: A STORY FROM THE DEEP NORTH premieres on P.O.V. on June 24, 2008. Check local listings. Here in Bremerton it airs tonight at 10 pm on PBS channel 9.THIS IS FUNNY
My thanks to Debbie.
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Jon Stewart has a few words about Bush.
* *WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.
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PRETTY GOOD JOKES
SUMMER SWIM
GREAT QUOTES
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. == Jerry M. Wright
MY KIDS
My God I love dogs.
BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?
June 23, 2008
LOOKS LIKE A NICE DAY TODAY
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Five Draft Deferments - it's a good thing.
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They voted on the FISA Bill Friday. I asked "Will the democrats SELL OUT"? YEP!!! They did. * - - - - - * I bought some of those GREENBOXES that are supposed to keep your food for years and years. I'll let you know how they work. God I hope I didn't just waste $45 bucks. * - - - - - * WOW!!! They had a BIG ASS ENERGY Conference in Saudi Arabia this weekend and so I see how well that went. Gas prices went up again this morning. Nice job folks. * - - - - - *AND WE ALL THOUGHT IT ENDED OVER A HUNDRED YEARS AGO
How can it be that I'm 71 years old and didn't know this? Tomorrow night on PBS's POV (channel 9) at 10 pm they will air a program that traces the history of one white family's connection with slavery in America.
She created this documentary because she didn't know her history. Here is just a snippet of her film. I swear there is so much that isn't talked about in America. I think it'll take another hundred years to get past the racial divide that truly exists in this country. * *JON STEWART ON BARACKOPHOBIA
Jon talks about the stupid stuff that the right is trying to say about Barack. You know the sad thing is there are people that believe this CRAP.
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The republicans and the right just love to say "We haven't been attacked since 9/11." And we are now safer because we went into Iraq.
Well if you think we are safer maybe you need to take a closer look at this chart. It's a list of the number of terrorists attacks and deaths this years. As for the argument "We haven't been attacked since 9/11" well why should they we are going to them.BUSHED
Keith Olbermann has listed the various scandles in the Bush administration. Here are three more.
* *WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.
* *DOGS RULE - YOU CAN SEE THE LOVE
THEY NEED YOUR HELP
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PRETTY GOOD JOKES
PEE ON ME
GREAT QUOTES
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. -- Charles Dickens
MY KIDS
My God I love dogs.
BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?
June 22, 2008
WEEKEND FREE 6/22/2008
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MEET THE PRESS
MY KIDS
My God I love dogs.
BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?
June 21, 2008
WEEKEND OFF 6/21/2008
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BIRTHDAY GIRL - 8 YEARS OLD TODAY
My Sweet turned eight today. It's hard to believe she is that old. It seems like it wasn't that long ago that My Sweet Girl was just a pup.
She is the love of my life. Happy Birthday Sweet!!!WEEKEND FUNNIES
DOGS RULE - YOU CAN SEE THE LOVE
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WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR STIMULUS CHECK
MY KIDS
My God I love dogs.
BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?
June 20, 2008
NEED TO WORK FASTER
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I'm keeping a Count Down of the days left until Bush is out of office and a Count Up til I get my Tax Rebate.
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NO - Flag-Draped Coffins.
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Q: Is it true John McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time? A: Yes, it's true, according to Congressional Quarterly's assessment of McCain's voting record. * - - - - - * Q: Do the poor drive farther than the rich, as McCain claims? A: No. McCain is wrong when he claims repeatedly that low-income people drive more. In fact, the affluent drive twice as many miles. * - - - - - * They are going to vote on the FISA Bill today. Will the democrats SELL OUT? My guess is they will. What WHIMPS. * - - - - - *LORD, LORD HOW THEY LIE, WHO WOULD OF THOUGHT
Bush And McCain Try To Steal Credit For Webb's GI Bill That They Consistently Worked To Defeat
Yesterday, House leaders in both parties struck a deal on a war supplemental bill that includes expanded college benefits for veterans. The GI Bill is Sen. Jim Webb's (D-VA) version, as well as a provision allowing troops to transfer the benefits to family members. President Bush has promised to sign the legislation. Now, however, Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) - the two most vocal opponents of Webb's bill - are trying to take credit for it. They are claiming that they always supported the generous benefits - their main concern was just ensuring the benefits' transferability:McCain: That has always been my primary concern with respect to the Webb bill. With the addition of the transferability provisions sought by Senators Graham, Burr, myself and others to give service members the right to transfer earned G.I. Bill benefits to spouses and children, we will have achieved in offering vastly improved educational benefit. Bush: Throughout the past five months, President Bush and members of his Administration have worked hard to ensure that an expansion of GI benefits includes transferability. The President is pleased that Congress answered his call.Webb said that he had been considering changing his bill to include a transferability option. But instead of working with him, McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) went ahead and introduced an opposing bill. While it did have transferability, it also had less generous educational benefits. This was never the real reason Bush and McCain opposed the legislation. Their constant complaint was that Webb's version was too generous and would lead to a drop in military retention:
McCain: "I want to make sure that we have incentives for people to remain in the military as well as for people to join the military." Bush administration: "The last thing we want to do is provide a benefit - or the last thing we want to do is create a situation in which we are losing our men and women who we have worked so hard to train."As the CBO concluded, these claims about retention were inaccurate. The Pentagon also argued that it was too generous to confer benefits on troops after "only" two years of service, and legislation offered by McCain and his Senate allies would have reserved the most generous benefits for those who have served at least 12 years, excluding most service members.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT
The dishwashing detergent aisle won't look the same after July 1. Washington state begins ban on dishwashing detergents
Detergent products, including major brands such as Electrasol and Cascade, will be removed from the shelves in some counties as the state begins implementing a ban making it illegal to sell or distribute dishwashing detergents containing more than 0.5 percent phosphorus. The ban is directed toward residential use and does not affect commercial or industrial use, state Department of Ecology spokeswoman Katie Skipper said. The ban will take effect statewide in 2010, but Whatcom and Spokane counties have been singled out to begin the ban this year.DOES IT SMELL LIKE ENRON ALL OVER AGAIN
With all the arrests of the financial big wigs and others does this have the sound, feel and smell of ENRON?
This housing collapse, credit collapse, gas price increase and the bad economy sure seems like it is. Oh well lets talk about something important, like wearing a flag pin.BILL MOYERS
A few words from Bill Moyers
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Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.
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PRETTY GOOD JOKES
WHEN YOU GOTTA GO. . .
GREAT QUOTES
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? -- Satchel Paige
MY KIDS
My God I love dogs.
BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?
June 19, 2008
THIS ISN'T IOWA THANK GOD
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Swift Boat Vets.
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All this BULLSHIT about drilling off shore is just that BULLSHIT. They have plenty of fields that hey will not use right now. Why is that. * - - - - - * I think I've said this before but it's worth repeating. Why not create a prize fund of several millions and have a contest for the BEST improvement for gas mileage improvement that could be used for most cars. * - - - - - *ONE LAST GOODBYE TO TIM RUSSERT
I thought that Keith Olbermann's wrapup was just great. Here it is.
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I wonder why the STRAIGHT TALKING JOHN MCCAIN isn't talking about this little bit of background information.
Watch the video and you'll see why. * *BUSHED
Keith Olbermann has listed the various scandles in the Bush administration. Here are three more.
* *WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.
* *DOGS RULE - YOU CAN SEE THE LOVE
THEY NEED YOUR HELP
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PRETTY GOOD JOKES
DON'T MESS WITH ME
GREAT QUOTES
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. -- John Barrymore
MY KIDS
My God I love dogs.
BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?
June 18, 2008
HALF WAY HOME
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I'm keeping a Count Down of the days left until Bush is out of office and a Count Up til I get my Tax Rebate.
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DICTATORSHIP.
I guess I'm just ahead of the curve. Yesterday I talked about my stimulus check and today I get a notice from the IRS that my check is in the mail (almost).
- - - - - Senator Dodd was right on with his Countrywide refinance. He said he got a 4.25% adjustable rate. It's funny because that's what I have on my house. It's called a 5 year adjustable rate. In my case my adjustment has about 9 or 10 months until I hit that 5 year mark. Dodd is said to have been given VIP treatment that you and I can't get. Well I'm here to tell you I got the same rate as Senator Dodd does that mean I'm special too? - - - - - So McCain and his crew say Barack is Naïve about the WAR ON TERROR. They say we haven't been attacked here in America since 9/11. So I'm thinking we have been fighting this War for over 5 years now and there is NO END in sight. So my question for McCain is "When are you going to stop digging." I say there just might be 4101 reasons for them not to attack us here. Let alone the 29,978 other reasons not to do so. - - - - - The Bush/McSame want to open more off shore drilling and in Alaska. HELL THEY HAVEN'T USED WHAT THEY HAVE RIGHT NOW.I JUST HAD TO WRITE
I saw this letter to the editor in yesterdays Kitsap Sun and just had to reply.
PRESIDENTIAL RACE: Barack Obama Is No John Kennedy There is a considerable amount of comparison between Barack Obama and John Kennedy. In 1960, when he was elected president of the United States at age 43, John Kennedy became the youngest person to hold that office. He was the only Roman Catholic to ever become president. Age and intellect invite a comparison between Kennedy and Obama. Unfortunately, the similarities almost stop there. Kennedy served with some heroism as a naval officer in the Pacific theater during World War ll. His patriotism has never been questioned, even by detractors. Obama has avoided military service. Kennedy lowered the general rate of income taxes his first year in office. Obama has stated his plan to raise taxes. Kennedy negotiated rather unsuccessfully with Nikita Khrushchev, then the premier of the Soviet Union. Later, during the Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy forced Khrushchev to back down and remove the nuclear warhead ballistic missiles which were being installed on that island. If John Kennedy were to run for president today, he would have to run as an independent or as a Republican. He no longer fits into the "Moveon.org" Democratic Party mold. Of course, neither do Harry Truman, Zel Miller or Franklin Delano Roosevelt. John G. , QUILCENEThis is in reply to John G.'s letter on 6/17 comparing Obama to John Kennedy. In his simple mind John equates patriotism to military service. Based on his logic he must really be unhappy with VP Cheney and most of the republican leadership. Don't take my word just Google "did not serve" and read for yourself. Then John uses the same old tired republican talking points that "Obama plans to raise taxes." What nonsense. Have you checked the Nation Debt lately that the Bush administration has left for your kids and grand kids. He says "Kennedy negotiated with Khrushchev unsuccessfully" (your words John). Just how many BOMBS did Kennedy have to drop, how many lives were lost to force Khrushchev to back down. . . you don't explain that. Sounds to me like talking to the Russians kind of worked wouldn't you agree. His last paragraph is just laughable. By the way John did you serve? You didn't say. And Oh, are you wearing that flag pin?
THIS IS TRUE, I'M NOT MAKING IT UP.
The above Button was on sale at the Texas GOP state convention this weekend.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.
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PRETTY GOOD JOKES
YOU LOOKING AT ME?
GREAT QUOTES
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. -- Robert Southey, The Doctor
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June 17, 2008
BACK ON MY GAME TODAY
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Extraordinary Rendition .
Breaking News. . . has your life changed since last night when it became legal for gays to get married in California.
I guess I'm getting my Stimulus check by mail even though I file electronically. The reason is I guess is because I had to pay this year. Go figure.THINK
I'm 71 years old (but still younger than John McCain) and I'm retired. My kids are grown up and out on their own so it's just me and my three dogs Sweet, Buddy and Jada.
I try to contribute a little each month to causes and candidates that I support. I support Barack Obama 110%. I went to breakfast the other day with a friend and I asked him who he was voting for. He said he didn't know. I said how about Barack Obama and he said he's not sure about him. So I said why. He said he did understand why "he stayed in that church for 20 years." How do I answer "he stayed in his church for 20 years." Well I've talked about this before here in past posts. I've talked about the 7 years of military service of the Rev. Wright. How he was the medic for President Johnson. How he took the small church some 30-40 years ago and grew it into the mega-church it is now. I think I am able to give the Reverend Wright some slack because I believe you need to think about what it is he is saying. You need to know and understand where he came from. You need to remember how he grew up. How it feels to be told you need to enter through the back door. How it feels to be afraid that you or a family member or friend could be lynched just for looking at a white women. Yes Rev. Wright used words that taken out of CONTEXT are harsh. But you need to think of his life experience. His style of preaching and the audience he was talking to. Regardless of the words he used it is so unfair to use 10 second sound bites and say that's the measure of a man's life work. The last thing I can say is even if Barack was at ever one of these sermons (which he wasn't) he like you and I can decide for our self what they want to believe.JON STEWART TALKS TO FEAR
Jon Stewart takes on this nonsense that the right is using to put doubt in the minds of voters.
Watch this and see just how stupid some of these people are on the right. * *WHERE THE HELL IS GM?
Honda's new zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell car rolled off a Japanese production line Monday and is headed to southern California, where Hollywood is already abuzz over the latest splash in green motoring.
The FCX Clarity, which runs on hydrogen and electricity, emits only water and none of the gases believed to induce global warming. It is also two times more energy efficient than a gas-electric hybrid and three times that of a standard gasoline-powered car, the company says. Honda expects to lease out a "few dozen" units this year and about 200 units within a year. In California, a three-year lease will run $600 a month, which includes maintenance and collision coverage. I'll say it again. . . WHERE THE HELL IS GM?WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.
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