"Don't be economic girly men." BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Laura Bush - A warm hearted, sincere, honest, classy lady.
Hillary Clinton - A cold hearted bitch. The eyes tell it all.
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I'm not gonna write much tonight. I'm still in a state of shock. I was in my library reading my e-mail and I heard someone speaking at the convention saying, "Welcome to my city." in a New York accent. It didn't sound like Guiliani. I rolled into the living room to see who it was. Omigawd! It looks like uber-liberal Ron Silver! What would he be doing speaking at the Republican convention? It turns out that he has had a Dennis Miller conversion and realizes that the most important issue this year is the War on Terror and John Fonda Kerry is not the man to lead it. Even some liberals get it.
I was at a liberal site today and he was deriding compassionate conservatism. I must admit I had to agree with that person. I'm not very enamored with compassionate conservatism either. I don't know what this liberal dude had against it. It is socialism lite. Steel tariffs? Yep! Bloated agriculture bill? Yep! Increasing domestic spending at a higher rate than Bill Clinton? Yep! Jesus H. Christ! Bush and the Republicans are outspending Dimocrats. This guy should be loving compassionate conservatism!
As much as I'm against all of Bush's domestic policies, I am a one issue voter in this election. Evidently so is Ron Silver. We are fighting WW IV and I think the Poodle is unfit for command. I can understand why he is running on his 4 months in Viet Nam. He cannot run on his record in the Senate since he has voted against every major weapons program. He has consistently voted to cut intelligence spending and let's face it, it was our lack of intelligence that led to 9/11. He's a freaking appeaser and he wants to be in charge of this war. I don't think so.
Just watched John McCain's speech. Loved the zinger against Michael Moore. Speaking of him, let's see if his column in USA is the liberal version of Ann Coulter's and if it is if he will get canned. I got an informal bet with Robin on that.
Guiliani gave a great speech.
That's it for tonight. I'm gonna jump in the pool tomorrow night and get ready for my dive trip to Cayman Brac in another few weeks so I don't know how much I'll write after I get home.
Howza 'bout a caption that picture contest? Go here for that.
An end of summer Monday Pun from PappouDrew
A couple lived near the ocean and used to walk the
beach a lot. One summer they noticed a girl who was
at the beach pretty much every day.
She wasn't unusual, nor was the travel bag she
carried, except for one thing; she would approach people
who were sitting on the beach, glance around furtively,
then speak to them.
Generally the people would respond negatively and she
would wander off, but occasionally someone would nod and
there would be a quick exchange of money and something she
carried in her bag.
The couple assumed she was selling drugs, and debated
calling the cops, but since they didn't know for sure they
just continued to watch her.
After a couple of weeks the wife said, "Honey, have
you ever noticed that she only goes up to people with boom
boxes and other electronic devices?"
He hadn't, and said so.
Then she said, "Tomorrow I want you to get a towel and
our big radio and go lie out on the beach. Then we can find out
what she's really doing."
Well, the plan went off without a hitch and the wife was almost
hopping up and down with anticipation when she saw the girl talk
to her husband and then leave. The man walked up the beach and
met his wife at the road.
Well, Is she selling drugs?" she asked excitedly.
"No, she's not," he said, enjoying this probably more
than he should have.
"Well, What is it, then? What does she do?" his wife
fairly shrieked.
The man grinned and said, "She's a battery salesperson."
"Batteries?" cried the wife.
"Yes," he replied.
"Do you mean...?"
"Yep!"
"She sells C cells by the sea shore ."
While perusing the Sunday Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, I came upon this article.
Silver Spring, Md. --- For a moment, the Ethiopian-born activist seemed to melt into the crowd, blending into the sea of black professors, health experts and community leaders considering how to educate blacks about the dangers of prostate cancer. But when he piped up to suggest focusing some attention on African immigrants, the dividing lines were promptly and pointedly drawn.The focus of the campaign, the activist, Abdulaziz Kamus, was told, would be strictly on African-Americans.
Hu? WTF?
"I said, 'But I am African and I am an American citizen; am I not African-American?' " said Kamus, who is an advocate for African immigrants here, recalling his sense of bewilderment. "They said, 'No, no, no, not you.' ""The census is claiming me as an African-American," said Kamus, 47, who has lived in this country for 20 years. "If I walk down the streets, white people see me as an African-American.
Yet African-Americans are saying, 'You are not one of us.' So I ask myself, in this country, how do I define myself?"
Whose term?
Evidentally this has been going on for a while. The first I heard about this was when Terence Moore, a black racist sports writer for the AJC bemoaned the fact that the Atlanta Braves had only one African-American on their team. Funny, I had seen a lot of black faces but Terence said they weren't African-Americans. It seems that to be a real honest to God African-American you needed to have been born here.
Let me state upfront that I have always abhored the term African-American. To me it means someone of African descent and not solely black African descent. For example, Tuh-RAY-sah Kerry is an African-American. So is Kim du Toit. They were born in Africa, came here, and became American citizens. To me, that makes them African-Americans. Kim would deny this and say, "I am a fucking American and damn proud of it!"
I am of mixed German and English descent. I don't consider myself a German-American or an English-American. I don't consider myself an European-American. I consider myself an American.
I know, African-American grew out of the Black Pride movement during the 60's and 70's. It's the "I am someone" bullshit that Jesse Jackson was selling. At the same time that blacks had finally achieved civil rights and were now equal to whites under the law they decided they wanted to be different. Hence the African-American bullshit.
Back to the article. Alan Keyes spouted some of the most inane crap I have ever heard. He has finally gone completely off his rocker.
"Barack Obama claims an African-American heritage," Keyes said on the ABC program "This Week With George Stephanopoulos." "Barack Obama and I have the same race --- that is, physical characteristics. We are not from the same heritage.""My ancestors toiled in slavery in this country," Keyes said. ''My consciousness, who I am as a person, has been shaped by my struggle, deeply emotional and deeply painful, with the reality of that heritage."
GMAFB!
Some black Americans argue that black immigrants, like Kamus, and the children of immigrants, like Obama and Powell, are most certainly African-American. (Obama and Powell often use that term when describing themselves.) Yet some immigrants and their children prefer to be called African or Nigerian-American or Jamaican-American, depending on their countries of origin. Other people prefer the term black, which seems to include everyone, regardless of nationality.Keyes' comments reflect the views of a number of black Americans, including those who challenged Kamus at the meeting on prostate cancer earlier this year.
Many argued that the term "African-American" should refer to the descendents of slaves brought to the United States centuries ago, not to newcomers who have not inherited the legacy of bondage, segregation and legal discrimination.
So let me get this straight. The only way you can be an African-American is if one of your ancestors had been a slave? This is getting even more ridiculous. Let's milk this victimhood bullshit for all it's worth.
But now we find out the real reaon for this bullshit.
Bobby Austin, an administrator at the University of the District of Columbia who attended the meeting in Washington, said he understood why some blacks were offended when Kamus claimed an African-American identity. Austin said some people feared that black immigrants and their children would snatch up the hard-won opportunities made possible by the civil rights movement.
Aha! I'm starting to understand.
Several studies suggest that black immigrants and their children are already achieving at higher levels than native-born blacks. A study based on 2000 census data conducted by John R. Logan and Glenn Deane at SUNY-Albany found that African immigrants typically had more education and higher median incomes than did native-born blacks.
And do you know why this is happening? These immigrants haven't been told by the black "leaders" and the Dimocrat Party that they are too stupid to make it without gummint assistance. They haven't been hit by the bigotry of low expectations. They know they are just as smart as anyone else and they do not need to be told by the black "leaders" that whitey is holding them back.
My friend Cindy worked with one of these immigrants. This lady was totally disgusted that blacks who had been born in this country were bitching about how bad conditions were. When another black would speak ebonics to her she would tell them to speak English. She and her husband make sure their children do well in school. They make them learn how to read and write proper English and they tell them that doing well in school is not "acting white" it's acting smart.
And earlier this year, officials at Harvard pointed out that the majority of their black students --- perhaps as many as two-thirds --- were African and Caribbean immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracial couples. Sociologists say foreign-born blacks from majority-black countries are less psychologically handicapped by the stigma of race. Many arrive with higher levels of education and professional experience.
In other words, they haven't been indoctinated into the cult of victimhood and gummint dependence.
Here comes a whine.
''We've suffered so much that we're a bit weary and immigration seems like one more hurdle we will have to climb,'' said Austin, 59, who traces his ancestors to slavery."These are very aggressive people who are coming here," said Austin. "I don't berate immigrants for that; they have given up a lot to get here. But we're going to be in competition with them."
That's right but rather than whining about it why not get up off your ass and be all that you can be. Don't buy the bullshit that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are selling. If black immigrants can do it you can too. Don't be passive and wait for opportunities. Use the immigrants as role models. They don't let their children believe that doing well in school is acting white. They demand excellence. They don't ask that educational standards be lowered just because the color of their skin is black. They are not competing with just you, they are competing with whites. They are competing with Asians. They are competing with everybody. And they are winning.
Barak Obama has it wrong.
"For me the term 'African-American' really does fit," said Obama, 43. "I'm African --- I trace half of my heritage to Africa directly --- and I'm American."
No! No! No! You are an American! What is wrong with being a non-hyphenated American?
Sheesh!
I started using the term, PFM after Ironbear put in the comments on one of my posts. Now he has just put up a post that explains it further. Go there and read it! Now!
Woody sent me this one.
Hillary Clinton and Janet Reno were having one of those girl-to-girl talks,
and Hillary said to Janet, "You're lucky that you don't have to put up with
men having sex with you. I have to put up with Bill, and there is no
telling where he last had his pecker."
Janet responded, "Just because I am aesthetically challenged (that's
"politically correct" for ugly) doesn't mean I don't have to fight off
unwelcome sexual advances."
Hillary asked, "Well,... how do you deal with the problem?"
"Whenever I feel that a guy is getting ready to make a pass at me, I muster
all my might and squeeze out the loudest, nastiest fart that I can",
expressed Janet.
Omigawd! I know where this is going.
That night, Bill was already in bed with the lights out when Hillary
slipped into bed. She could hear him start to stir, and knew that he would
be wanting some action. She had been saving her farts all day, and she was
ready for him! She tensed up her butt cheeks and forced out the most
disgusting sounding fart you could imagine.
Bill rolled over and asked, "Janet, is that you?"
There is another version of this joke.
Jimmah Carter and Andrew Young were in the men's room taking a piss, when Jimmah asked him why black guys were more endowed than white guys in the manhood department.
"It's simple Mr. President. Right before we get into bed at night we whap it against a bed post."
Jimmah thought that was silly but he decided to give it a try.
Betcha know where this is going.
That night right as he was getting into bed with his wife he whapped his little Jimmah against the bedpost.
Just then Rosalynn cried out, "Andy! Is that you?"
Some people at a forum that faithful reader Jesse had me check out and post a rebuttal to an asshole took offence at me calling Max Cleland Stumpy. Why am I so mean to him? Because as a disabled person who has never used my disability as a crutch (pun intended) I despise him for the way he has decided to politicize the fact that he is now a unidextrer. I could maybe understand if he had been injured on the battlefields of Viet Nam like the Dimocrats would like you to believe, but he lost his limbs behind the lines when he was getting in a helicopter, after having a few beers with his buddies and he saw a grenade on the ground and bent over to pick it up. There is a conjecture that it fell off his belt as he was entering the helicopter. Whatever. It exploded and that is when he lost his limbs.
Up until a few years ago he was an honorable man and was the first person to say that he was not a hero. He did not receive a purple heart, nor did he want one, because this was not a battlefield accident.
After he was elected to the Senate he changed from a moderate to a liberal and became a Tom Daschle Dimocrat. He started playing up the war hero bullshit when his opponent in the 2002 election pointed out that he was more interested in union jobs than national security. That's when the Dimocrats started with the "war hero" bullshit and "questioning the patriotism of a man who lost three limbs on the battlefields of Viet Nam". Now he is running around as Kerry's mascot saying "Look at me! I'm a crippled war hero." As a cripple myself I am disgusted that he is politicizing his behind the lines accident.
The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation had a write up of his political mail delivery stunt. And that is what it was. A calculated political stunt. Send the crippled "war hero" down to shame Bush. This from a party that for eight years said military service didn't matter and ran a draft dodger against two genuine heroes who didn't brag about their military service. Senator Kerry, real heroes don't brag. You are a fucking despicable fraud as is your political party!
What did Stumpy have to say to the presss?
"What they are doing is unconscionable," Cleland said of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group running the ads. "And George Bush is behind it."
Prove. It. Bush has said absolutely nothing about Kerry's service other than saying it was honorable. You and the rest of your party, including Flipper, has accused Bush of being AWOL in the National Guard. He has released all of his records. Your candidate has not.
And let's talk about the 527's. The only link between the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth and the Bush campaign was Benjamin Ginsberg who to avoid any appearance of impropriety resigned from the Bush campaign
.
Let's look at the 527's on the Dimocrat side and their links to the Dimocrats.
But this is OK because they are Dimocrats and the media gives the Dimocrat Party a pass. Media bias? Naw!
Let's continue.
Cleland then dodged Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, a Republican who offered to deliver the letter to Bush if Cleland would accept a letter of response."He would not face me," said Patterson. "He kept rolling away from me. He's quite mobile."
Just damn, that Stumpy is fast!
"We're having to go through Vietnam again," Cleland lamented.
Who the fuck brought Viet Nam up Stumpy? Who decided to make his four months in Viet Nam the centerpiece of his campaign? He refuses to run on his record as an anti-war protester and member of a communist front organization Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. He refuses to run on his record as Michael Dukakis' Lieutenant Governor. He refuses to run on his record of 20 years in the Senate where he authored no major legislation, he voted against every major weapons system, he voted to cut intelligence spending, he missed over 70% of the meetings of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and his liberal record has made Ted Kennedy the conservative senator from Massachusetts.
I would love to hear where he stands on the issues rather than hear him answer every question with "I served in Viet Nam" and "I would do a better job than Bush". He is a fucking empty suit who is playing up a four month tour of duty where it is beginning to look like he exagerated his exploits and down right lied about other stuff like having spending Christmas in Cambodia "seared" in his memory while being shot at by drunken South Vietnamese allies celebrating Christmas while his president (and he meant Nixon) lied about US soldiers being in Viet Nam. Three, count 'em, three lies. He wasn't in Cambodia, Nixon wasn't president Christmas of 1968, and the Vietnamese don't celebrate Christmas. This guy lies more than Clinton. He's just not as good at it.
Clinton without the charm. Algore without the charisma.
Stumpy, your buddy Flipper is the one who wants us to go through Viet Nam again because that is all he has. And he is using you and you should be ashamed of yourself.
By the way, has anyone read this letter? This paragraph just jumps out at you at being the height of hypocrisy.
"Our pain from seeing these slanderous attacks stems from something much more fundamental, that if one veteran's record is called into question, the service of all American veterans is questioned," they said.
"the service of all American veterans is questioned". This is the party that demeaned Viet Nam veterans during the war. John Kerry, by the standards of Dimocrats, told lies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Remember the 16 words in the State of the Union that started out "British intelligence has told us..."? Bush was stating what British intelligience had told us. The Dimocrats say this is lying. Kerry testified what Viet Nam "veterans" (many of the members of VVAW were not evern veterans) had told him. By Dimocrat standards these are lies.
And to hear the Dimocrats who hate the military, supported a draft dodger who in his own words "loathed the military" talk about how much this disturbs them is total bullshit!
Howza 'bout the letter that Stumpy refused to deliver to the Poodle?
The Bush-Cheney campaign responded with a letter to Kerry signed by seven Vietnam veterans, including Patterson and GOP Reps. Duke Cunningham and Duncan Hunter of California and Sam Johnson of Texas.The letter, which Patterson said was drafted by the Bush campaign, expresses respect for all veterans but complains about Kerry's anti-war activities after he returned from Vietnam.
"We served honorably in Vietnam and we were deeply hurt and offended by your comments when you came home," they said. "You can't build your convention and much of your campaign around your service in Vietnam and then try to say that only those veterans who agree with you have a right to speak up."
But you don't understand, only Dimocrats are allowed free speech. Conservatives are not allowed to voice their opinions. Dimocrat 527's have spent over $60 million so far. Good. Swift Boat Veterans have spent les than $1 million. Bad. The Dimocrats have sent out lawyers to television stations trying to stifle free speech. They have tried to suppress the book, Unfit For Command, and I bet they'll try to supress the upcoming TV documentary about Kerry.
Farenheit 9/11. Good. Stolen Honor. Bad.
No word on Stumpy's current whereabouts.
The Statue of Liberty and the Statue of ... nothin'
Shamelessly stolen (caption and all) from Rich Galen.
I wanted to write some more about Stumpy and how he refused to deliver a letter to the Kerry campaign asking them to stop their 527's from smearing Bush but my friend Cindy told me that C-Span was gonna broadcast the Poodle's testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from back in 1971, so I watched it. I could not watch the whole thing. I am now sick to my stomach. It is far worse than any of the excerpts you may have read. What is even worse is the posturing of the Dimocrat senators like Fullbright and Symington. Even then, the Dimocrats loved the communists.
You are all aware of the war crimes that our troops supposedly committed and to which Lurch claimed he committed also. Why is he not in jail for those war crimes?
I wish I had taken notes. Here are some of the low points that I remember.
He played the race card. He said that more blacks overwhelmingly paid the price of this war. Fortunately that was a lie. Just one of the many that he would tell in this testimony.
He also claimed that the unemployment rate among returning veterans was 33%. I don't know how it went with the ground pounders (alto' I went to school with a whole shitload of them), but most of my Navy buddies went to school on the GI Bill when they got out. If we're in college, I guess that means we were unemployed.
He also said that the VA health system was underfunded. Excuse me, but which party controlled both houses of Congress? It is Congress, after all, that appropriates money. Maybe the anti-war, anti-military Dimocrat Party didn't want to fund the VA Administration.
Another thing he said was that he met with Madam Nguyen Thi Binh in 1970 who was one of the North Vietnamese negotiators. This, by the way, was a direct violation of United States law, but what does that mean to a Dimocrat? Jane Fonda went to North Viet Nam and gave aid and comfort to the enemy, also a treasonous act, but what the fuck, who cares? She's a Dimocrat also. Murder, treason, sexual harassment, rape. Hell you can get away with anything if you are a Dimocrat. Rules? Ethics? Standards? Patriotism? Love of country? Being a Dimocrat means that you can do anything you want and get away with it and the lamestream media will not call you on it. You Dimocrat supporters must be so proud of your party.
Kerry tesitified that Madam Binh had assured him that if we announced a withdrawal date all POW's would be released and our troops would be allowed to retreat without any problems from the North Vietnamese or the Viet Cong. This turned out to be a prelude to Jimmah Carter's agreement with North Korea.
Lurch also testified that the South Vietnamese would be much better off after we left as we were more oppressive than the North Vietnamese would ever be. After the boat people, the re-education camps, all the Vietnamese who just disappeared, and the killing fields in Cambodia I'm surprised Flipper can even sleep at night. Shit. I forgot. He's a Dimocrat. Being a Dimocrat means not having a conscience. You don't have to worry about how many people your policies have fucked over. So what if your policies don't work. You meant well.
The Poodle wanted to cut and run from Viet Nam, which we did, and history shows what happened after we left. The Dimocrats were on the wrong side of history during the Cold War.
We don't really know Flipper's position on the War on Terror cause it keeps changing. Remember, this is the guy who voted for the war and then voted against funding it. If past history is any indication, the asshole will cut and run. He will do all he can to appease the terrorists which will have the same effect as Dimocrat policies during the Cold War. Unfortunately, I don't see another Ronald Reagan on the horizon. The Dimocrat Party will have the same effect on the War on Terrorism as they had on the Cold War. They will prolong it.
If you get the chance to watch this "testimony" make sure there are no breakable objects near by.
Or get ready to buy a new television.
Kerry has finally found sumpin' useful for his mascot Max Cleland to do other than playing war hero on the stump with him. He's now a letter carrier. It seems like the cry baby Poodle sent Stumpy down to Crawford Texas to deliver a letter decrying the mean tactics of Swift Boat Veterans For Truth who have their own version about what went on in the war.
Obviously Swift Boats must be a member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
Stumpy and the Poodle want Bush to condemn the two Swift Boat ads, but I don't recall Stumpy and Lurch condemning Farenheit 9/11. I don't recall Stumpy and Lurch condemning all the bullshit put out by Moveon.org.
Bush has condemned all of the 527 organizations' ads since most of them are aimed at him. Flipper has only condemned the Swift Boat ads since they are the only two aimed at him. D'ya know what this reminds me of? It reminds me of the class bully who picks on everyone and as soon as one of the students has the balls to strike back, the bully goes crying to the teacher.
"Boo hoo. Those mean old Swift Boat guys are picking on me. Make them stop. Stumpy, I want you to go deliver a letter to George and tell him he has to stop those guys from picking on me. I can dish it out but I sure as heck can't take it. I'm a pussy. That's why I'm a Dimocrat."
The rules are different for Dimocrats. Kill a girl in a car accident (Kennedy) and you become a revered member of your party. Kill a motorcyclist (Janklow) and you resign your seat.
If you are a Dimocrat president all the rules for sexual harassment change or disappear. Pointing out that there is a pubic hair on a Coke can or talking about Long Dong Silver is blatant sexual harassment, but having an airheaded intern give you a blowjob is OK, even though it would be grounds for dismissal in the armed forces or private industry. The feminists used to say if anyone in a position of authority had sexual relations with an underling even if it was consensual that constituted sexual harassment. I gues they forgot to say that it didn't apply to Dimocrats. Wait until a Republican is caught doing this. The harpie chorus of Barbara Boxer, Rosa Delaurio, Hillary Clinton, and Eleanor Smeal will be in full throated banshee mode, in four part harmony, on the Capitol steps.
Let's not forget the One Free Grope Rule created by Gloria Steinem to defend Bill Clinton for coping a feel of Kathleen Willey. She told him to stop and he did so that's OK. What do you want to bet that One Free Grope doesn't apply to Republicans. We already have proof! Look at how the liberals were all over Ah-nold for alleged groping.
This must be the different version of reality that I hear Dimocrats mention.
Here's another example. The Dimocrats' claim that the RNC is running Swift Votes is based on a lawyer, Benjamin Ginsberg, who works for the Bush campaign giving advice to Swift Boats. To avoid the appearance of impropriety, Ginsberg just resigned from the Bush campaign. On the other hand, a lawyer named Joe Sandler works for both Moveon.org and the Kerry campaign, but that's all right. He's a Dimocrat and the rules are different for Dimocrats.
Likewise, some members of Kerry's campaign came from Moveon.org and some former members of Kerry's campaign now work for Moveon.org. Double standard? Naw. No standards. These are Dimocrats. The rules are different for them. Plus the media is on their side so the media holds them to different standards. Standards are only for Republicans.
Having a draft dodger run for president is OK as long as he is a Dimocrat. Someone who served in the National Guard is not OK if he is a Republican. The media gave Quayle grief for serving in the National Guard.
Let's not forget, Bush has said absolutely nothing about Flipper's military service other than to say it was honorable. The Poodle, on the other hand, who defended Bill Clinton for being a draft dodger, has gone after Bush about his National Guard service many times. This is on the Kerry campaign's web site. Try to find sumpin' comparable on the Bush campaign's web site.
It's the Dimocrats who have spent over $60 million on a smear campaign with their 527 organizations, partially funded to the tune of $15 million by a foreigner, billionaire George Soros. Meanwhile we have Swift Boat Veterans with their paltry $500,000 and Kerry and Dimocrats are crying unfair. Do we want this pussy and his party running the country?
By the way, Stumpy failed his duty as a letter carrier. The Secret Service wouldn't accept the letter. It probably had postage due.
Hey Rob, check out them purty red toenails!
Tonight I went to a monthly Sommelier Guild of Atlanta tasting. It was held at Sage in Decatur. Here is the menu and the wines we drank.
So Rivrdog commented on my previous Dream Team, BOTOX/DETOX, why didn't I post BOTOX/NOFOX? OK Rivrdog, your wish is my command. Here it is:
I hope this didn't make anyone barf on their keyboard.
Sent to me by Alan.
Just think, do you know how many Swift Boat Veterans have to be lying for the Poodle to be telling the truth? Why doesn't he release all of his records?
Y'know I hate whiners. I hate cry babies. I think that's why I hate Dimocrats so much.
I have a friend who has a sister who has a PHD. She is now in her 50's. She has never held a full time job. Every car she has ever owned has been bought by her father. Even now, she continues to sponge off of her parents. Wanna guess which political party she supports?
I have a cousin who is my age. He was in the Army and in Viet Nam about the same time I was. When he returned to civilian life he grew his hair long and dropped out. He has never held a full time job. I remember my uncle saying that he wished he were more like me. My cousin had this little three room house. I asked my uncle who made the payments? Mostly my uncle did. When I asked him why, he said if he didn't my cousin might lose the house. There ya go. Guess which political party my cousin supports?
Ya see, the Dimocrats cater to losers, people who are too lazy or too stupid to make it on their own so they want to take my hard earned money to support them. It's never their fault that they're failures. They didn't make bad choices. It's their right to have all those children they cannot afford. Just because they cannot read, write, and speak proper English is no reason for them not to have a $100,000 a year job. It's we evil rich people who took advantage of them. It's all our fault.
The latest example of a cry baby is John Fonda Kerry. Those mean old Swift Boat Veterans For Truth are picking on him. Boo fucking hoo! How unfair! He claims the Republicans are coordinating this attack and Bush should denounce it, which, by the way, he did today.
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth has raised a little over $500,000. Constrast that with Moveon.org and all the 527's on the left that have so far spent $60 million bashing Bush. I haven't heard Kerry denounce any of those ads. I haven't heard Kerry condemning the Bush is Hitler ad with the Seig Heil.
Remember the fundraiser in New York when Whoopi Goldberg compared Bush to her genitals and Kerry said that this was real American values? Yep! Those sure are my values.
Howza 'bout Farenheit 9/11 which is nothing but a full length bash Bush propaganda piece? I didn't hear Kerry denounce that. In fact, lardass Moore got a place of honor at the Dimocrat convention sitting right next to the most incompetent president of the 20th Century, Jimmah Carter.
Moveon.org and the Kerry campaign have had workers move back and forth from their organizations and they are accusing the Republicans of coordinating the Swift Boat ads? This is a classic example of projection.
The Dimocrats can dish is out, but they sure as fuck cannot take it. Here they are accusing a Republican donor of giving $200,000 to Swift Boats which is bad and they have George Soros, a freaking foreigner fer chrissakes, donating over $15 million to their 527's.
The Republicans didn't threaten to sue Michael Moore for any of his books or threaten legal action against his publisher, or threaten legal action against television stations that aired Moveon.org's ads. The Dimocrats sure did, the whining cry babies.
We have $60 million on the Dimocrats' side versuus $500,000 for Swift Boats and the Dimocrats are screaming foul. Kerry is whining. Bush, who has been the brunt of the most negative campaign I have ever seen in my 57 years of life, is calling on all negative ads to stop. You think that will stop the Dimocrats?
Bush has shown a lot of class throughout this. Kerry has shown a lot of class also, unfortunately it has all been low.
Here is the seal of the Dimocrat Party sent to me by Toren Smith of the late lamented Safety Valve.
And ya know Kerry is really getting desperate. Here's his new spokesman.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
This one is from z.
It seems that there was a little old church out in the countryside:
picturesque with it's painted white clapboards and high steeple.
One Sunday, the pastor noticed that his church's paint was getting a bit
shabby and peeling. He checked out the Sunday ads and found a paint sale at
the local hardware store, and the next day, he went into town and bought
three gallons of white latex, then went back to the church and began the
job.
Having completed the first side, he stood back and admired his work. It was
looking great. But he noticed that he had already used over one gallon. He
didn't want to go all the way back into town, so he figured that if he just
thinned the paint a little, it might last long enough to finish the other
three sides. So he added a gallon of water to each of the remaining gallons,
and continued painting.
It worked out great. He finished the last three sides with the remaining
paint.
That night, it rained: and it rained HARD. The next morning when he stepped
outside of the parsonage to admire his work, he saw that the first side was
still looking great, but that the paint on the other three sides had washed
away.
The pastor looked up in sky in anguish and cried out, "LORD, What shall I
do?"
A voice came back from the heavens saying,
"Repaint, and thin no more!"
Just when I think we are getting though to young Matthew he posts sumpin' like this:
look at it as follows: some people are rich, while others are poor - how is this fair when they work the same amount? Some people work bloody hard mining, cleaning etc while others earn lots by doing relatively little. This is all down to luck, and to say that it is down to hard work I view as an attempt to justify your desire to keep your money to yourself. This is selfish, and an attemp to shut out the world so you can keep your conscience clean while others starve.
This really reminds me of sumpin' little Dickie Gephardt said about people who are not winners in life's lottery. The difference in people who do very little and people who have to work hard for the same amount of money is not luck. Pumpman's father was a coal miner. Pumpman was the first one in his family to get a college education. It was not luck. Luck had nothing to do with it. He worked hard and put himself through college.
Matthew has had bad luck. He was born with Cerebral Palsy and unfortunately he was in the UK so he wasn't able to have Baby Face sue everyone involved with his birth. Yeah, that was bad luck, but life isn't fair and it is not the gummint's function to make it fair. The gummint can pass laws to give the people equal opportunity and equal access. We have the ADA here in the United States to make buildings and transportation accessable to people with disabilities. I have not found any country more accessable than the United States. We also forbid discrimination of people with disabilities.
Caution! Boring story follows.
I was born in 1946 in St. Louis and I grew up in a suburb called Webster Groves. I am at the leading edge of the Baby Boomers who are gonna bankrupt the Social Security system. My family was lower middle class. My father's drinking problem got worse in the middle 50's and that is when my mother had to go to work to help support the family. Bad luck! I was poorer than my friends.
My sister studied hard and made good grades. She was lucky that she was smart, but she also used those smarts. I didn't. I was an average student. I did well in Math, History, and English. I flunked Physics. (In college I got A's in Physics because I had the math to understand it. You gotta have calculus to understand Physics.)
Both my sister and I started working at an early age. She babysat. I mowed lawns, raked leaves, shoveled snow, and worked in the school cafeteria. I guess I was lucky that there were people in my neighborhood who wanted yardwork done. I was lucky to live across the street from a lady who worked for the school system in the cafeteria and she got me that job.
I guess my sister was lucky that she won a four year scholarship to Washington University in St. Louis. It had nothing to do with her straight A's all through school, the honors classes that she took, or her high scores on the National Merit Test and the SAT. Nope. The hard work didn't matter. It was all luck.
I didn't win a scholarship. I had to attend junior college and I promptly flunked out. This was bad luck. It had nothing to do with me not being ready for college. More bad luck followed. My mother welcomed me to the real world by telling me I had better get a job 'cause I was gonna have to start paying room and board. My father told me I would also have to start paying my own car insurance. This was real bad luck! None of this stuff was my fault.
I got a job working in the mailroom of an insurance company. This was entry level. I was paid 10 cents an hour above minimum wage. Most of the other people in the mailroom were also unlucky. They had decided not to go to college and to work this deadend job and maybe eventually become a supervisor. There wasn't much of a future.
More bad luck was to follow. My draft status was now 1A. I was almost certain to get drafted so I decided to join the Navy. I was lucky and did well on the aptitude tests and was guaranteed an electronics school. Yep! It was all due to luck.
After boot camp I attended electronics school at Great Lakes Naval Training Center in North Chicago. I did very well in school. My average was very high.
It was all due to luck. It had nothing to do with my studying real hard.
I related in another post how much fun I had tracking down my first ship. My specialty was communications, but since I had become an inquisitive fellow, I learned how to repair the radar gear. This was also a stroke of good luck because in the last year of service when I was on the Iredell County, I was the only ET who could fix anything. The other ET, who outranked me couldn't. It's amazing all of the stuff you can get away with when you are the only person who possesses a critical skill. For the rest of my working career I was gonna somehow have the good luck to be in this position. It would have nothing to do with me deciding to learn things on my own and take advantage of opportunities. It would all be luck.
When I got out of the Navy I attended college on the GI Bill. I stayed at home and paid room and board to my mother. I attended the junior college and this time I was lucky. I made mostly A's and a few B's. It had nothing to do with me studying. It was all luck.
I also had a part time job delivering flowers. Once again I was lucky. We had four routes: north, south, west, and around the park (Forest Park for those who know anything about St. Louis). I was the only driver who could run all the routes. It had nothing to do with me learning the city and the fastest ways to get around. It was all luck. Because I was so lucky to have learned the city so well the owner of the flower shop allowed me to fit my work around my school schedule.
On weekends I delivered Where Magazine. It's a magazine delivered to hotels every week that would tell visitors what was going on. I was lucky to get this job. Actually I was. A friend of mine got the job managing the Where office in St. Louis and when the previous person quit, he offered me the job.
I also stayed active in the Naval Reserve and got paid for attending a meeting every Wednesday night. It was pure luck that I had been in the Navy so I was able to stay active in the Reserve.
My first car when I got out of the Navy was a piece of crap. I was lucky. Since I couldn't pay anyone to fix my car I had to do it myself. Wasn't that luck? I had a lemon and that taught me how to work on cars. I was to continue doing all my routine maintenance until my accident.
I burned out in my junior year of college. I was able to continue my job at the flower shop full time while I looked for a job. I was lucky that I was the best driver. That allowed me to continue working until I found a better job.
In 1973, I was hired by TCIDNN (The Company I Dare Not Name). It was pure luck that I got hired. It had nothing to do with me scoring high on the aptitude tests. I had been looking for work for seven months and every company had a similar aptitude test. I got lucky. I asked every company that administered the tests to go over my wrong answers with me. By the time I took the TCIDNN test I had seen most of the questions so I scored very high. Sure was lucky I had reviewed all those previous tests. It was all luck.
In 1988 I experienced some real bad luck. I fell out a tree and broke my back leaving me partially paralyzed from the waist down. The accident had nothing to do with me doing sumpin' stupid. Nope it was all bad luck. Not my fault. Bad luck.
But I was lucky. I got enough return that I was able to walk again with braces and crutches. It took me a long time. It had nothing to do with me working my ass off. It had nothing to do with me measuring my driveway and seeing how many times up and down the driveway I had to walk to walk a mile. It had nothing to do with me walking up and down my driveway to walk a mile every day. Nope. It was all luck that I was able to walk again.
When I went back to work, we were experiencing problems with our system support staff. My group needed more programming work done and the people who were supposed to provide it would not give us what we wanted. I saw an opportunity. I taught myself how to be a systems programmer. It had nothing to do with me working 12 hour days and some weekends. It was all pure dumb luck.
Another reason I worked my butt off was I didn't want anyone to say that the only reason I had a job was because I was a cripple. I outworked my peers. I got good raises and awards every year. It had nothing to do with my performance. It was all luck.
All through my working life I have always saved money. When I was out at sea I sent money home to be invested. After I was hired by TCIDNN I took advantage of every savings program offered. As a result, I am now a very wealthy person. I live in a house twice the size of the house I grew up in. My sister's house is just like mine, only bigger. (Inside joke) I own two BMW's and a pickup truck.
All of this is totally due to good luck. I didn't have to work at anything. Everything just fell into my lap. I had choices to make along the way and I guess I'm just lucky that I made a lot of the right choices. It had nothing to do with hard work and planning. It was all luck.
I was lucky to survive all the downsizing. I guess I was lucky that I had taught myself critical skills that TCIDNN needed. Once again, I was the only person in my group who possessed those critical skills. Pure dumb luck.
My sister and her husband are the same way. He was the first person in his family to attend college. They are wealthier than I am and you know why? They're luckier than I am. It had nothing to do with them getting an education and working hard at their jobs. It was all luck.
My story is not the exception. Anyone in this country, if he/she has average intelligence and is willing to get an education and work hard can make it in this country. The dirty little secret that the liberals/socialists in this country don't want the losers to know is that many of the people who are now in the top 20% of inccome level started out int the bottom 20%.
Look at Baby Face. His father was a millworker and now he is a millionaire lawyer who is responsible for driving many doctors out of business and driving up the cost of health care. He made it by suing doctors who didn't perform C-sections on women who delivered babies with Cerebral Palsy. Had Matthew's parents lived in the United States they could have had Baby Face sue and they would probably be millionaires.
As for the taxes. I realize taxes are a necessary evil, but we are overtaxed. Our gummint is too large. The Great Fucking Society was/is a disaster. It turned 40 years old last Friday. With all the trillions that we have thrown at poverty, it still exists. I have said it many times. 90% of the poor are poor because they made poor choices. The two most egregious ones are dropping out of school and having children they cannot afford.
I do not mind helping out people who have had genuine bad luck like accidents or disease. I resent having my money seized from me to support people who are irresponsible. I do not like supporting welfare brood mares.
This is the land of opportunity. I know many people like me who started out with nothing and are now doing very well. I guess they were just lucky also.
Oh and as to feeding starving people, the United States doles out huge amounts of foreign aid. We were gonna give a bunch of grain to an African nation, but it was the EU who put a stop to that because the grain was genetically modified.
How is your conscience about that, Matthew? Don't lecture the United States about helping out starving nations. And why should we give money to nations that hate us? Why should we give money to the United Nations where the majority of the countries hate us?
Is it our fault that failing nations are so unlucky to be ruled by incompetent gummints where the officials steal the money we give them as aid? Look at Zimbabwe. Because it is now a country embracing Matthew's beloved socialism it has gone from a net exporter of food to a net importer of food. Ooops! More bad luck. Has nothing to do with an incompetent gummint.
Yep! It's all due to luck. Luck, that's the ticket!
Another gem from Charlieb
Unfortunately Kennedy is right. He's a murderer and the people of Taxachusetts keep electing him. And howza 'bout him being on a nofly list. They are probably flights over water.
This picture was taken in June of 1988 when we went sailing in the Grenadines. The little guy is my nephew. The other guy is yours truly, before I was grouchy, old, or a cripple. A few months after this picture was taken, I became a cripple.
Two rednecks, Bubba and Cooter, decided that they weren't going
anywhere in life and thought they should go to college to get ahead. Bubba goes
in first, and the professor advises him to take math, history, and logic.
"What's logic?" asked Bubba.
The professor answered, "Let me give you an example. Do you own a
weed-eater?"
"I sure do," answered the redneck.
"Then I can assume, using logic, that you have a yard." replied the
professor.
The professor continued: "Logic will also tell me that since you have
a yard, you also have a house."
Impressed, the redneck shouted, "GAWL-LEEE!!"
"And since you own a house and a house is tough to take care of by
yourself, logic dictates that you have a wife."
"Sally Mae! This is incredible!" (Bubba is obviously catching on.)
"Finally, since you have a wife, logically I can assume that you are
heterosexual rather than homosexual" said the professor.
"You're absolutely right! Why that's the most fascinatin' thing I ever
heard of. I can't wait to take this here logic class."
Bubba, proud of the new world opening up to him, walked back into the
hallway where Cooter is still waiting.
"So what classes are ya takin?" he asks.
"Math, history, and logic," replies Bubba.
"What in tarnation is logic?"
"Let me give you an example. Do ya own a weed-eater?"
"No."
"You're a queer, ain't ya?"
I have to get up real early tomorrow as we are doing some testing. I've just created a base sysplex between our main MVS system and our new development system and we're doing our first IPL of the new configuration at 7:00 AM in the morning. We get to see if all my definitions work and if not what I have to do to fix them.
So, I don't have time to look or respond to any comments tonight. I closed the thread of We Got Us A Troll because the little troll kept repeating the same moonbat conspiracy theory arguments and he kept getting bitchslapped. It was no longer amusing.
Saturday Boobage will be posted on time.
One of the things I enjoy doing with trolls is editing their comments. It drives them crazy. Unfortunately, I shouldn't have edited the first three comments of my latest troll, some fuckwit who calls himself MeowMix, which one of my readers pointed out is the first stage of catshit. Addison told me that I should have left his original comments stand because he, Addison (the other one), and xCavTrooper bitchslapped him much better than I could ever hope to. Hey Addison, how would you like to write a post a week for this site? The offer is also open to Addison (the other one) and xCavTrooper. They all know how to debate lucidly and use facts to back up their arguments. I will post at the end of this entry three excellent comments.
Facts. They are annoying little things aren't they? That's why liberals usually lose arguments and have to resort to name calling when facts are involved. Like the talking point about how many jobs have been lost during the Bush administration. I addressed it in an earlier post by going to the Department of Labor's web site and actually looking at the statistics. Addison did also and the links will be posted later in this post. With the internet and Google it's amazing all the neat stuff you can find out. It's a shame the lamestrem media is too lazy or too biased to do that.
Blarney Gumball was an annoying troll, but at least he posted links, albeit bullshit ones, to back up his talking points. Here is a typical unedited entry from MeowMix.
Guess you guys like a president that was never anything in school, went a-wol for a year, got a score of 25 on his aptitude test...the government spent 1 million dollars training him how to fly a jet, goes on vacation 30 times a year, puts the national deficite at an all time high, then is booed by the nations african-americans, cheated his way into office by hiding votes for gore, (if you want I'll post a link in Flordia that shows 35,000 votes for gore hidden in a warehouse) the first president ever to be booed with protestors when he took his walk down the street, etc etc etc,But i know you people will just eventually end up making this post into "I
like masturbating to john kerry" because you cant handle the facts.... oh well.And why is it so important to put my real name? Are you going to find out who i
am and egg my house? Whatever
Didja notice he throws out all the talking points that he probably got from the Moveon.org website? We have gone over this shit time and time again. He didn't cut and paste this time because he misspells words (deficite instead of deficit) and seems to have no conception of capitalization or rational sentence structure. Obviously a product of a gummint school and a poor one at that. Probably has a job flipping burgers somewhere (if he even has a job), lives at home, and uses his parents' computer. Then he says we can't handle facts and doesn't present any. He promises to post a link for 35,000 missing votes rather than posting the link. And dude, if you are proud of what you write and your positions, be like Addison, Addison (the other one) and Robin Palm (He and I disagree but he is confident enough in his positions that he posts his real name and email address) and post your real name. You don't because you are a troll.
Had I left his other three posts intact you would see just how incredibly stupid this dipshit is, and I'm not engaging in an ad hominem attack here, I'm just stating a fact. Let his own words bear witness.
Yeah, I'm real lazy tonight and I want to answer a comment by Robin so I just want to present three comments from yesterday's post.
This was a comment by xCavTrooper who must have obtained a copy of the How to Be a Troll Handbook.
MeowMix, Your other "points" have been refuted time and time again. Educational spending, enviromental impact, jobs lost, etc... We have already spent quite a bit of time refuting trolls who seem to always follow the same pattern:1) Wake up, decide that their DU handbook and massive ego are enough to convince the evil right-wingers of the error of their ways
2) Locate GOC's site, skim last topic
3) State latest leftist talking points as 'facts', fail to follow up with sources or numbers.
4) Attack rebuttals of leftist insane points by a) insulting other posters b) arguing over inane details (i.e. spelling), c) claiming all contrary evidence is fabricated by neocon conspiracy/Bushitler/Karl Rove/Haliburton/aliens d) ignoring rebuttal and sliding to different point, acting if the rebuttal is ignored, it will somehow go away and not 'count'.
5) Argument from troll eventually reduced to "uh-uh - i'm right, and no matter what you say I must be right"
6) Normal visitors realize that troll has moved from amusing to pityable to painful. Silence from normal posters for moment. GOC takes troll out and (electronically) whacks troll in back of head with Banstick.
If you want to be taken seriously, first, read the FAQ for the site. Then, bring up actual facts and attributations with your claims. Treat everyone else with respect, and you will also be respected. Respond to the rebuttals of your points with more facts and polite arguments.
Conversely, act like a spoiled child and we will laugh and poke fun at you.
And now, we have Addison who refutes all of his talking points with facts.
Fine. I thought it was self-evident that you are a troll by the seemingly breathless and exasperated run-on sentence non-period-using style of your post.I'll elaborate:
1) The President cut $200 million from his own No Child Left Behind Act
That is not true. The $200 million was from a program called "Impact Aid", not No Child Left Behind. Impact Aid falls under military housing and facilities. It seems odd given the 2004 budget had the following in it:
- Military Personnel - $98.6 billion (6 percent increase)
- Operations & Maintenance - $117.0 billion (3 percent increase)
- Military Construction - $5.0 billion (21 percent decrease)
- Housing - $4.0 billion (5 percent decrease)
It looks more like disinformation than an actual event (looked through seven pages of Google results and found no links to pages other than ones simply asserting this as though it were fact). I am looking at an article by a "Ron Edmonds" that states that "military family housing and medical facilities" funding was cut by $1.5 billion. However, when I look at the 2004 bill highlights (link), it points out pay raises from 2 - 6.25%, a reduction in out-of-pocket expensives for private housing from 3.5 - 7.5% and the above noted increases in spending in exactly the places where there were supposedly cuts. The 2005 bill (link) gets an additional $200 million in family housing and $400 million more in family housing construction.When searching for "military family housing" + "1.5 billion", the links all go to self-referential Leftwing sites (link) with no external links to an actual government report or bill. The story exists within a microcosm of the political spectrum (the fringe Left) but damned if I could find a link to reality where the story was true. What it looks like is the reduction was something perhaps proposed that never went into affect--and even then, had nothing to do with No Child Left Behind. If it the $1.5 billion cut did happen, it looks as though it was quickly remedied.
What I did find concerning education was:
- A GAO study from May 2003 found that Congress is providing more than enough money for states to design and implement the statewide achievement tests required under No Child Left Behind. The report also shows education reform opponents are exaggerating estimates of NCLB's state testing costs by as much as $5.1 billion between fiscal years 2002 and 2008. (link)
- 2000 Education Spending: $38,447,366,000
2004 Education Spending: $63,270,657,000 (link)Education seems well funded. I would not criticize an increase in spending of 64.6% in four years if federal undercutting of education is your concern.
2) The Bush Administration's regressive environmental policies have lowered cleanliness standards for our air and water.
A link would be helpful to an EPA report or the like.
Went over to the EPA's site and found the "Draft Report on the Environment" (link) and found reports, under the listings "Cleaner Air, Purer Water, Better Protected Land, Human Health, and Ecological Condition" that everything is on the, shall we say, up and up. Some of their data only goes to 2002 but I have a suspicion that were the environment in the midst of a downturn, they might have chosen to mention it on their--what was your term?--"main page". Looking through six months of news headlines (link) did not show anything noteworthy (e.g., "Environment doomed, minorities and women hit hardest).
3) The Bush Administration's Patriot Act threatens our constitutional rights and civil liberties.
An example would be nice. Platitudes are not arguments. First, supply an example of exactly where constitutional rights and civil liberties are "threatened" and an example of their being violated. I have a sneaking suspicion that not one case exists, as I have yet to see one (and I've been looking) in two years. The DoJ even has a Question and Answer section that addresses such hysteria (link)
4) Bush's Tax Cuts only benefit the rich
They benefit anyone who pays income taxes, as they went to everyone who paid income taxes. That the rich are able to retain a larger quantitative amount of money than you or I is immaterial, as they put significantly more money in, as they earn more. I am in the next to lowest income tax bracket and I noticed the tax cut. I'm not rich but I benefitted, ergo your argument is bunk. I know people who opened IRA accounts with their tax refund and they make in the mid-$50,000; they are, by few people's definition, rich. Yet, oddly enough, they benefitted from the tax cut.
5) ...3.3 million jobs (93,000 in August of 2003 alone) have been lost since Bush took office...
The employment in December of 2000 was 135,836,000 (link). In February 2004, it was 138,301,000 (link). One thing that stands as odd is that the talking point now is "number of jobs", not unemployment rate. The unemployment rate is currently 5.5% (link) and was 5.6% when Bill Clinton began campaigning for his second term--CNN noted that the unemployment rate was dropping from an "already-low 5.6%". As a point of interest, South Korea has an unemployment rate in the threes (link). Interesting but beside the point.
6) Bush is underfunding homeland security.
Who are you to say? How can you make that determination? Homeland security funding goes as such:
- 2001: $0 (did not exist)
- 2002: $19.5 Billion
- 2003: $33.5 Billion + $6.71 Billion in supplemental funding
- 2004: $36.2 billion (link)
- 2005: $40.2 billion (link)
Homeland Security funding has increased 106% since its creation. Underfunded?This is why I called you a troll. You provide innuendo, falsehood, and a laundry list that you copied and pasted from somewhere, but provide no facts, as though the words themselves will make reality as such. And don't try to say you wrote it because no one who writes without punctuation marks takes the time to capitalize words that mark the beginning of sentences. It looks like a list copied from an ordered list and pasted, as the beginning of one comment butts against the end of the previous.
I have thusly appended my "useless comment" with fact, unlike your posts that are all completely useless.
I gotta quit looking at my site at work and let the smart people take care of the trolls. Seriously, Don't you wish Addison would start his own blog?
I just gotta post what Addison (the other one) posted since he had an excellent take on tax cuts.
Meowmix: "Bush Administration Patriot Act?" (Actually, it would be PATRIOT act).This shows why the "left" can't be allowed back into government - they don't understand how it works, and don't care.
There are several problems with the "PATRIOT" slanders you're committing. One, you did not detail what parts were a problem (I've got a sneaking suspicion you don't actually know what they are, or if they're part of the act or not). Two, it's hardly the Bush administration's. It was passed by the US House and Senate.
Holy shit! Facts No fair!
98-1-1. That looks pretty damn "bipartisan" to me.
Well, at least Kerry didn't.. Oh. Wait. Well, Edwards.. Oops. Well, surely Clinton...
YEAS: 98
Clinton (D-NY)
Edwards (D-NC)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)But as usual (for trolls), you're using the "PATRIOT" act as a ad-hom. With specificity, _what_ is wrong with it? (if you want to escape the appellation of "troll")
"Bush's Tax Cuts only benefit the rich. Bush claimed that his tax cut would “reduce tax rates for everyone who pays income tax.” He failed to mention that this “relief” program would put half of the tax cut's dividends into the hands of our nation's wealthiest 5%, while 8.1 million citizens in the bottom half of the income bracket receive approximately $300 a year,"
Well, it's normal for trolls here to not really make sense, so I'll attempt to figure out what you mean. As for the tax cuts - I certainly noticed them. I don't even own a house. Nor am I that "rich". (Hint: the _really_ rich? They don't pay taxes. They can afford $100k for a guy to make sure their tax bill is close to nothing).
A large part of your problem is you want something to be true, so you're going to make it true in your head.
If we have a tax system set up. Denny pays $1 in taxes. CavTrooper pays $2 in taxes, addison pays $6 in taxes, and I pay $10 in taxes. We have a "tax cut" and reduce taxes by 1/2. Who gets the most "benefit?" Well, I do - I save $5! Denny only saves $.50! What injustice! I'm getting "more" of the "cut" (actually, the government is _taking less_. When you talk about "giving" cuts in government seizures, you give yourself away)
Now, let's set it up similar to how we have taxes. If you make under a certain amount, you don't pay taxes... Now, Denny and Cav trooper are not paying *any* taxes. But when we get the tax cut - they don't "get anything" out of it (actually, they'd probably get tax credits, thus MAKE MONEY, but that's a longer issue). So I "get" $5! And Denny gets $0. That's so unfair, right? Denny "gets" nothing and I "get" $5! That's exactly what the "tax cut" did.
50% of the "wage earners" pay 96.03% of federal income tax. That's right. 50% is paying for almost everybody else.
Omigawd! More facts!
"The top 50% were those individuals or couples filing jointly who earned $26,000 and up in 1999. (The top 1% earned $293,000-plus.)"And I won't even bother pointing out the BS inherent in "The Bush Administration's regressive environmental policies have lowered cleanliness standards for our air and water". Yeah. arsenic. Now you only have to have a fraction of the amount that's harmless, as opposed to even less of a fraction, which would have bankrupted small towns and municipalities nationwide. But that's right. you like paying taxes. Want to just send me some money? Same thing, right?
Do I have good commenters or what?
Sent to me by Charlieb who said this picture was taken on Route 38 in Racine County Wisconsin.
Once again we see the only two items that John Fonda Kerry is running on: He served in Viet Nam and whatever Bush does is wrong.
Bush announced that we are gonna bring home 70,000 troops from Europe. As if he were one of those talking dolls with the little string in the neck, the Poodle immediately decried that policy.
Pull the string. "Bush is wrong."
Weasley Clark had to chime in and say it was wrong also.
Why are the troops still there? The two main reasons they were there in the first place was to prevent another European war and to protect Europe from the Soviets. It doesn't look like France and Germany are gonna fight each other and the Cold War is over. I think we might be able to downsize the troop strength we currently have in Europe.
Lurch does want to bring the troops home from Iraq six months after he is elected which is ironic since Flipper has said that we don't have enough troops there in the first place. Oh! I forgot. He's somehow gonna get France and Germany to send troops so we can bring some of our people home. How is he gonna do that? Oh wait, I remember. Poof! PFM!
If you believe that Kerry is gonna somehow be able to get France and Germany to send troops to Iraq, I have some trailer homes in Punta Gorda Florida to sell you.
But back to Europe. The reason that France and Germany have been able to create their lavish social welfare states, with now growing budget deficits which are larger than the EU allows and 10% unemployment (and the liberals are bitching about our 5.5% rate), is because they have not had to pay for their own defense. We've been doing it for them. It's time for them to help out. We really have no need to maintain that many troops in Europe. Bring them home or rotate them through Iraq.
As for bringing troops home from Iraq, way to go Kerry. Tell the insurgents that we're gonna cut troop strength. That's gonna encourage them to quit.
Once again, whom do you think the terrorists want to win? Do they want someone who is gonna cut and run? Well to be fair, Flipper is partial to the French. And Dimocrats are good at cutting and running, when they're not cutting defense and intelligence budgets.
Do they want someone who is willing to take the war to them? Do they want someone who is willing to fight on foireign soil rather than having terrorists attack us here in the United States?
The world is too dangerous to put Flipper in charge of our foreign policy. He's likely to make Jimmah Carter Secretary of State, and, by golly, he pronounces nuclear 'nucular'. Oh, I forgot. If a Dimocrat does it it's OK.
Walt's spinning in his grave. This X rated stuff is pissing off my sister.
What in the wide wide world of sports is a going on here? - Mr. Taggert Blazing Saddles
Tom Harkin just called Dick Cheney a coward because he made fun of John Fonda Kerry's statement that he wanted to fight a "sensitive war".
What in the wide wide world of sports is a going on here? Senator Harkin, you spent 8 years kissing the ass of and defending a fucking cowardly draft dodger who specialized in sexually harassing women and now you have the unmitigated gall to call Dick Cheney a coward? Remember in 1992 and 1996 when the draft dodger ran againt two genuine patriotic war heroes? These were men who did not make their military service the cornerstone of their campaigns. Even so, you and the rest of the hypocritical Dimocrat assholes said military service didn't matter. Viet Nam didn't matter. Now, all of a sudden, it's important again. You hypocritical buttwipes make me sick to my stomach.
The Poodle wants to fight a "sensitive war". What in the wide wide world of sports is a going on here? What exactly is a "sensitive war"? Does that mean our soldiers have to go through sensitivity training?
Please don't kill your enemy because that would be insensitive. Try to understand why he hates you and then you can identify with him. Then you can sit around a campfire with him and sing Kumbaya.
This sounds like sumpin' one of my commenters Robin Palm suggested. There is no such thing as a sensitive war. You kill the bastards before they kill you.
Swiftboat Veterans for Truth is airing ads against John Fonda Kerry and the Dimocrats are calling for Bush to condemn the ads. What in the wide wide world of sports is a going on here? Moveon.org has called Bush Hitler and called the Republicans Nazi's. I haven't heard Kerry or the Dimocrats condemning those ads. Michael Moore produced a propaganda film filled with lies, half truths and innuendo and I didn't hear the Dimocrats condemnn him. In fact, Michael Moore had a seat of honor at the convention right next to Jimmah Carter. George Bush actually said Lurch "served honorably" in Viet Nam. Dubya has more class in his little finger than the entire Dimocrat Party.
Kerry's entire campaign is based on four months in Viet Nam. What in the wide wide world of sports is a going on here? We're supposed to elect someone because he was in Viet Nam for four months? Two of his Purple Hearts are suspect and he won't release his records. And what about his anti-war demonstrations and his Senate testimony about made up atrocities? He threw away the madals that he is now bragging about. Real war heroes do not brag about their exploits. See Bush 41 and Bob Dole. What about his serving as Michael Dukakis' lieutenant governor? What about his mediocre twenty year record in the Senate? What about his missing the majority of his Senate Intelligence Committee meetings? And he talks about Bush taking a lot of time off? He's missed over 80% of the votes in the Senate this year. When Dole was chided for not fulfilling his senatorial duties while running for president in 1996 he resigned his seat. That's the difference between Republicans and Dimocrats. Republicans have honor. Dimocrats don't. It's as simple as that.
There is another truce in Najaf. What in the wide wide world of sports is a going on here? Are we really trying to let the insurgents win this uprising? Every time it looks like we're starting to get the upper hand against this al Sadr dickhead a truce is declared to negotiate with him. He and his followers are holed up in the Imam Ali Mosque and, of course, we are so respectful of all of Islam's holy shrines. We are oh so tolerant. How come they aren't tolerant of our religious shrines? Look at how they crapped all over the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. I read that we let water trucks through to the mosque. Who allowed that to happen? We don't have to do anything except surround the mosque with tanks and not let any food or water through. How hard is that? When they get hungry and/or thirsty they can surrender. Why are we not doing that? We can defeat them without firing a shot or destroying the mosque.
What in the wide wide world of sports is a going on here?
Here's a fun link for y'all sent to me by Charlieb.
Oh. Wait a minute. He probably doesn't own this. It's probably owned by "his family" like all the SUV's "his family" owns.
Sent to me by many readers.
This is just wrong.
I tot I taw a puddy what?
As said in the previous post, I now have MT Blacklist installed. I ran despam and found some comment spam that I had missed in my manual deletion process. I also found out that for some reason MT Blacklist has Kim and Connie du Toit in it. Strange.
I opted to have Blacklist installed rather than go to a registration process because I didn't want to have to make people register to comment. I enjoy comments and I wanted to make the process as simple as possible.
Hurricane Charlie sure laid waste to Punta Gorda didn't it? I have some land down there and over the last three weeks I have had four offers for it. I figgered some developer is trying to assemble enough land to build a bunch of houses. I have a feeling there's not gonna be too many workers available to build new houses. They're gonna be busy rebuilding the old ones. I really feel sorry for all the old retirees who've lost their homes.
Bush went down to Florida, and naturally Lurch had to accuse him of playing politics with Charlie. Kerry said that Bush should have waited to visit, because Bush's visit would divert the efforts of "first responders." GMAFB! Bill Clinton was on site as fast as he could be after natural disasters and the Poodle would be too if he were president. The Dimocrats gave Bush 41 grief in 1992 because he waited to go to Florida after Hurricane Andrew so he wouldn't divert the efforts of first responders. Just another example that Kerry is running on two things: He served in Viet Nam, and whatever Bush does is wrong.
Howza 'bout them Germans? It turns out they're not too happy about us moving some of our troops out of Germany.
"Base closures would hit us very hard," fretted Ole Kruse, spokesman for the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg, home of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division.
Tough shit! You should have thought of that when you were actively opposing us going to war with Iraq. Hey! My nephew was in Wuerzburg before he went to Iraq.
Baumholder, a town in rural western Germany, will lose $150 million a year if the U.S. military training area leaves, Mayor Volkmar Pees complained today to the Associated Press.
Awwww! I'm crying real tears here. Go talk to Schroeder about it you sour Kraut.
"We view this with great concern," Bamberg spokesman Steffen Schuetzewohl chimed in.
Boo fucking hoo! Payback's a bitch! France's wine industry is hurting and now Germany is gonna lose money and jobs with base closings.
Hey Germany, what do you think of Hurricane Rumsfeld?
Dear Bob,
FOAD! I got MT Blacklist and your bullshit is on the list. My site is now despammed!
Up yours,
GOC
C'mon guys! Get a room! On two of these pictures I almost expect to see some tongue action. Sheeesh!
A group of astronauts are on the moon. They've been mining the surface, and
have discovered that it really is made of cheese.
One particular area of cheese that they're quite interested in is a large vein
of brie, and they've already been there twice, and collected samples to be
returned to mission control.
All of a sudden, the radio crackles into life: "Mission control to
cheese-base-one - we need you to get a third load of that brie!"
But the astronauts are unhappy with the idea. They try to come up with all
sorts of excuses why they shouldn't dig any more...
"It'll spoil the environment if we take too much. We don't want to leave this
place looking bad.
"After all - have you ever seen such a site in your life as brie mined
thrice?"
Here's sumpin' that doesn't happen too often. I don't have anything to write about tonight. Normally when this happens, I just sit down at the keyboard of my computer and the next thing I know I have created a post out of nothing.
For example, I went to my friends' (Michael and Cindy) for dinner on Saturday. We had takeout Thai food. As is usual we killed three bottles of wine: a white, a rose and a Syrah that I brought. The reason we had carryout was because Cindy had had a birthday part for her best friend's adopted Chinese daughter.
There's a demographic time bomb going on in China with the one child per family policy. Since most people want sons, they are aborting female children or abandoning them. Now, there is already a shortage of women to marry and families have to pay a lot of money to the family that has a daughter to marry. Meanwhile, there are a lot of Chinese girls being brought up by single American women.
In the small world department, I dated a woman who was in the process of adopting a Chinese girl. I offered to put her in touch with Cindy's friend who was further along in the process. Our relationship didn't work out and she never got in touch with Cindy's friend, Carol. This was over seven years ago. Now, Carol's daughter's best friend is Emily, who just happens to be the adopted daughter of the woman I dated seven years ago. Amazing.
Anyway, as we were watching television, Michael asked me if I wanted to drink another bottle of red. Uh...sure. He opened a $130 Bordeaux that someone had given him! Whoa! It was delicious. It's nice having a friend in the wine business.
See? Five paragraphs of bullshit. I could probably go on but, I'm gonna send site info to the person who is gonna upgrade me to MT 2.61 and install MT Blacklist to help fight the comment spammers. I don't know what the availability of my site will be and when the upgrade will be done. So here's another joke that I have altered somewhat to fit the way we tell it at TCIDNN (The Company I Dare Not Name).
A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a
brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban
sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the shepherd, "If I
tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will
you give me one?"
The shepherd looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his
peacefully grazing flock and calmly answers, "Sure. Why not?" The
yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it
to his AT&T cell phone, surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he
calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his
location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the
area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the
digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing
facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on
his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored.
He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel
spreadsheet with hundreds of complex formulas. He uploads all of this
data via an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives
a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his
hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the
shepherd and says, "You have exactly 1586 sheep."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my sheep," says the
shepherd.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on
amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the shepherd says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you
exactly what your business is, will you give me back my sheep?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why
not?"
"You're a consultant." says the shepherd.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the shepherd. "You showed up here even
though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already
knew, to a question I never asked; and you don't know anything about my
business...
..Now give me back my sheepdog."
We tell this joke as the consultant being a manager for TCIDNN. but then I realized that our managers couldn't do all the computer stuff. That's why they're managers.
This picture was taken around Christmas of 1986 at Lake Tahoe where we were skiing at Heavenly Valley. It is a picture of my mother, my nephew, and me.
This was my very first time skiing. On my second day of lessons my sister decided to take me up on an advanced slope and have me ski down a cliff. I survived, but just barely.
Kerry's campaign manager visited the Cardinal and said to him, "We've been getting a lot of bad publicity among Catholics because of Kerry's position on abortion and the like. We'd gladly make a contribution to the church of $100,000 if during your sermon you'd say John Kerry is a saint."
The Cardinal thinks it over for a moment and agrees to do it."
Kerry and his entourage arrives at the National Cathedral.
The press is in full force.
As anticipated the Mass progresses.
The Cardinal begins his homily: "John Kerry is a petty, self absorbed hypocrite and a nit-wit. John Kerry is a liar, a cheat, and a thief. John Kerry is the worst example of a Catholic I've ever personally witnessed. But, compared to Ted Kennedy, John Kerry is a saint."
Sent to me by Charlieb.
Toren Smith, of the late Safety Valve sent me this excellent boobage that I can place on the front page for a change. He says that she has yet to pose nude. Too bad. This is a girl I know the Lady Jessica would like.
Ralph Gizzip sent this to me.
Redneck Etiquette
1. Never take a beer to a job interview.
2. Always identify people in your yard before shooting at them.
3. It's considered tacky to take a cooler to church.
4. If you have to vacuum the bed, it is time to change the sheets.
5. Even if you're certain that you are included in the will, it is still
considered tacky to drive a U-Haul to the funeral home.
DINING OUT
1. When decanting wine, make sure that you tilt the paper cup, and pour
slowly so as not to "bruise" the fruit of the vine.
2. If drinking directly from the bottle, always hold it with your fingers
covering the label.
ENTERTAINING IN YOUR HOME
1. A centerpiece for the table should never be anything prepared by a
taxidermist.
2. Do not allow the dog to eat from the table...no matter how good his
manners are.
PERSONAL HYGIENE
1. While ears need to be cleaned regularly, this is a job that should be
done in private using one's OWN truck keys.
2. Proper use of toiletries can forestall bathing for several days.
However, if you live alone, deodorant is a waste of good money.
3. Dirt and grease under the fingernails is a social no-no, as they tend to
detract from a woman's jewelry and alter the taste of finger foods.
DATING (Outside the Family)
1. Always offer to bait your date's hook, especially on the first date.
2. Be aggressive. Let her know you're interested: "I've been wanting to go
out with you since I read that stuff on the bathroom wall two years ago."
3. Establish with her parents what time she is expected back. Some will say
10:00 PM; others might say "Monday." If the latter is the answer, it is
the man's responsibility to get her to school on time.
THEATER ETIQUETTE
1. Crying babies should be taken to the lobby and picked up immediately
after the movie has ended.
2. Refrain from talking to characters on the screen. Tests have proven they
can't hear you.
WEDDINGS
1. Livestock is usually a poor choice for a wedding gift.
2. Kissing the bride for more than 5 seconds may get you shot.
3. For the groom, at least, rent a tux. A leisure suit with a cummerbund
and clean bowling shirt can create a tacky appearance.
4. Though uncomfortable, say "yes" to socks and shoes for this special
occasion.
DRIVING ETIQUETTE
1. Dim your headlights for approaching vehicles; even if the gun is loaded
and the deer is in sight.
2. When approaching a four-way stop, the vehicle with the largest tires
always has the right of way.
3. Never tow another car using panty hose and duct tape.
4. When sending your wife down the road with a gas can, it is impolite to
ask her to bring back beer too.
5. Do not lay rubber while traveling in a funeral procession.
We finally know how Kerry and Edwards are gonna win the War on Terror. If Edwards can do as much damage to terrorism as he has done to the United States health care system, we'll have nothing to worry about.
Thanks to Charlie for this one.
Geez! The Dimocrats sure do like to whine. Do you remember the day Clinton was impeached and he came out to the Rose Garden and whined about the "politics of personal destruction"? There has never been a slime machine like the one run by the Clintons. For example, when they fired the White House travel staff they were well within their rights, but then they showed their mean spiritedness by siccing the FBI on the ex-employees, who, by the way, were cleared of all charges. From the 1000 FBI files to politicizing the IRS there has never been an administration like the Clintons. Nixon had to wonder why he couldn't get away with half the shit the Clintons did.
But now we have the Dims whining again. This time it is about the book Unfit For Command and the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth. The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation had an article about it in Thursday's paper. Listen to the Dimocrats whine.
Kerry's campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, released a statement Wednesday suggesting that O'Neill's book, along with television ads sponsored by the organization he heads, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, is part of an orchestrated attempt by President Bush's supporters to "tear down John Kerry . . . with lies.""We knew it was coming: the Bush campaign and several allied right-wing groups are using August to launch a vicious smear attack against John Kerry," she said. "They're taking this opportunity to go for the jugular. . . . It is a new low for the Republicans."
Yep. They're almost down in the gutter with the Dimocrats. Let's see we have moveon.org that aired an ad on its website comparing Bush to Hilter complete with Seig Heil and the Dimocrats are talking about Republicans taking the low road?
We also have Farenheit 9/11 a movie filled with lies, half truths and innuendos whose creator was welcomed at the Dimocrat convention. He even sat in a place of honor with Jimmah Carter one night (Two of the biggest assholes on the planet sitting next to each other.) and the Dimocrats are whining about Republicans taking the low road?
The Dimocrats are also demanding that Bush condemn the ads. When is the Kerry campaign gonna condemn the hatred spewing from moveon.org and democratunderground? When are they gonna condemn Farenheit 9/11? I'm waiting. The silence is deafening.
Oh, and speaking of Farenheit 9/11, Kerry said he would have handled the news of 9/11 differently than Bush did, when, in fact, in his own words he said he sat in Tom Daschles' office with Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid "unable to think" for 45 minutes.
The Dimocrats are also claiming a (Are you ready for this?) Vast Right Wing Conspiracy funded by a shadowy man from Houston who donated the ungodly sum of $100,000 to Swift Boat Veterans For Truth. Omigawd! George Soros has donated over $15 million to 527's that are against Bush and they're bitching about $100K? Whine on. Whine on.
We have this little 527 with a budget of less than $300K competing with 527's with budgets of millions and the Dimocrats are sending out lawyers threatening television stations who are running ads paid for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The ads are only running in three states but the Dimocrats are running scared.
I guess the truth really does hurt.
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I mentioned in the previous post that wars are fought by kids. Let me elaborate.
I joined the Navy when I was 19 years old. This was in 1965. I had flunked out of college and was due to get drafted so I decided to join the Navy to learn electronics. Between boot camp and electronics school, it was a year before I even saw a ship.
I caught the USS Constock in Da Nang in October of 1966. The path I took to get to it was rather circuitous. It was like the Navy didn't know where it was.
I started my journey from Travis Air Force Base which was in Fairfield California, midway between San Francisco and Sacramento. I spent the night there and the next day I got on a plane going to Japan. At this time, the military contracted out these flights to commercial carriers. Besides military personnel there were military dependents on the plane. Lots of kids. It was the flight from hell.
We flew from Travis to Anchorage Alaska. We refueled and flew to Japan. We landed at Yakota AFB and I got on a bus and went to Yokosuka and spent two nights there and then was off to Subic Bay in the Philippines. I went on a smaller plane this time and it was military. Transit in Subic Bay sucked big time. You mustered in the morning and if you were unlucky, as I was, you got put on an all night working party at Cubi Point Naval Air Station loading and unloading airplanes. It was brutal work. I learned to skip muster, but to check in at the transit office every day to see if I got orders. I spent three days at Subic Bay, was robbed of my wallet, found my wallet (It was thrown in a toilet, and now I had no money. I had travellers cheques but when they get wet they are ruined and there was no place to replace them), and had an all around good time.
When I got my orders, I took a bus across the island to Clark AFB and caught a plane to Okinawa. This plane was even smaller and the seats were backwards. Funny. The Comstock wasn't in Okinawa either. I was beginning to feel like Odysseus and was wondering if it was gonna take me 10 years to catch the Comstock.
After spending two days in Okinawa I got orders and flew to Da Nang, Viet Nam. This plane was even smaller and insead of seats we got to sit in webbing attached to the fuselage. There was a Naval officer on this flight and he let me tag along with him. We jumped in the back of a pickup truck and went from the airport to Da Nang itself. There we caught a boat across the river and I found out that I was supposed to check in on the other side of the river. I went back to the boat, but was informed that was an officers' boat and since I was no longer with an officer I had to take the boat about 100 yards down the river. I took the boat and checked in where I was supposed to and they sent me off to the transit barracks.
Since by now I was a seasoned transit dude, I knew better than to attend muster in the morning 'cause I would be assigned to a bullshit working party.
My first morning there, I went to the transit office and was told that the Comstock was in port and to go out to the dock and to ask for a Bos'n's Mate Prince and he would get me out to my ship. I did as I was told. Unfortunately, there was no Bos'n's Mate Prince and no one would take me out to the Comstock. I spent all day there cussing out the Navy.
I went back to the transit barracks, went to bed, got up the next morning, skipped muster, and went to the transit office. Nope! The Comstock left that night. Two days later it was back in port. The transit office gave me the same instructions. I told them there wasn't a Bos'n's Mate Prince and no one would take me out to my ship. They told me I was wrong and to go back to the dock and try again. I spent all day there with no luck. No one had ever heard of Bos'n's Mate Prince and no one would take me out to my ship. I was beginning to see why we weren't winning this war.
I went back to the barracks, spent the night, skipped muster, and went back to the transit office. Nope. The Comstock had left. Check back tomorrow. Two days later the Comstock was back in port. Same instructions. I dutifully went back out to the dock. By now I figgered I was gonna spend my remaining three years in transit in Da Nang.
This was in October. It poured down rain every morning. By the afternoon all the rain had evaporated except for the puddles and since all the roads were dirt it got real dusty.
As an aside, this was when I started reading Lord of the Rings. I made it about halfway through the first book and thought it sucked big time. My frustration could be one reason. Haven't tried to read it since.
This time I was on the dock and a Second Class Bos'n's Mate showed up and asked the dude in charge if he would take him out to that LSD out there. The guy said sure. I asked him if by any chance that was the Comstock. It was. I tagged along. I told the guy I had been trying to get a ride out there for over a week and the buttheads ignored me. He said I just didn't rate. Obviously.
I had just spent over two weeks flying over the Western Pacific chasing (or so I thought) the Comstock. When I got aboard, I found out that the entire time it had been in Viet Nam. But, I did get to see Japan, Okinawa, and the Philippines. I would see all three many more times in the next three years.
I was originally gonna write about how the wars are fought by kids, but I wound up detailing my wonderful odyssey chasing the USS Constock. I'll write about kids another time.
Recently via a military web site I hooked up with one of my old shipmates from when I was on the USS Iredell County, LST-839. His name is Harold Hamilton, but I always called him George 'cause when he was on the deckforce one of the Bos'n's Mate petty officers said he reminded him of a shiteating dog he had named George. The name stuck. We were kids. Wars are fought by kids but it turns them into men.
Here is a series of car paint jobs that Harold sent me.
Dammit! It's only been a day and I really miss comments! I'm exploring options to remedy the situation. In the meantime, long time reader Dan sent me an email with what he was planning to put in comments. There are ten points. Here they are with my comments.
1) I was a Quantico Marine at the time that Kerry was throwing medals over the storm-fence; I was daytime 'riot control' and was a major party-fellow after dark. I personally bought $45 worth of medals & ribbons at the Quantico PX to bring back up to DC. I was 20 years old and already back from 13 months in Viet Nam.
The fact that Kerry was ashamed enough of his medals that he threw them over the fence, or whatever he did with them totally disqualifies his Viet Nam service. In a similar vein to what I said to a commenter earlier this week, how fucking dare he use his Viet Nam service as a qualification for the presidency since he stabbed his "band of brothers" in the back when he returned and gave false testimony to the Senate. Max Cleland, John McCain and all the dudes traveling around the country in his entourage should be ashamed of themselves! After what he did after the war, John Fonda Kerry has no right to claim war hero status!
2) On a given Saturday afternoon in Quang Ngai Province, over a Sunday morning, 2 Viet Cong nurses and a male escort attempted to take a shortcut behind our outposts and along the edges of the CP group. They were caught, shot, and before dying, I personally saw a Marine use a 'pop flare' on one of the nurses. Other Marines kicked his ass and he was court-martialed for the offense.
No matter what the rest of the world thinks, we are the good guys. We don't put up with shit like this. I like to think that Abu Ghraib was white trash gone bad. They will be punished.
3) I think everyone has the right to own a weapon & I think they need to respect that right & that weapon. I have seen a civilian close friend wounded in the neck by another civilian 'playing' with a gun. Weapons are a serious extension of the Will of the one wielding it. It is NOT 'power' but does demand 2-way respect.
I see nothing wrong with that. I totally agree.
4) Abortion, while personally repugnant, is the responsibility of the ones who are directly involved -and no other. I would punch the face of the one who would wear a tee-shirt proudly-proclaiming that they have had an abortion. You can have an abortion, terminating a life before it reaches wondrous-promise, but you cannot spit in my face and claim that it is merely raining.
I have stated before that I am morally opposed to abortion but would not outlaw it. I took a lot of grief for that. Maybe I should be happy that comments are off. My solution to preventing abortion is preventing the main cause of abortion: pregnancy. I think health insurance should cover birth control. I think sex education should be taught in the schools.
5) One cannot spend more than one makes and hope to be free of being in economic bondage.
A truism.
6) Service to others -cheerfully rendered- will never have any long-term negative consequence. Manipulation of others for one's own gratification will & always has ended badly.
This brings to mind all of the failed social policies of the Dimocrat Party.
7) When suddenly hearing unexpected hoof-beats, think horses first, ... rather than zebras.
Uh...OK.
8) "Kill them before they kill you" implies a total lack of any faith in anything whatsoever.
Nope! That is a tenet of warfare. You want to kill them before they kill you.
No one ever won a war by dying for his country...
you win wars by making the other dumb SOB die for his country!!"
--- George S. Patton Jr.
9) To use the materials of the unborn to extend the lives of those who can see the end ahead is much akin to eating your own seed-corn; it gives you a day at the expense of our unexpected blessings ahead. Thanks for sharing.
Umbilical and adult stem cells are readily available. Also, believe it or not, the market place usually goes where the money is and they seem to think that adult and umbilical stem cells are a more viable option. Here's a link you may want to check out.
10) Strive, ceaselessly, perhaps even mindlessly, to do 'the next right thing' and your immediate path ahead will always be clear.
Yet another truism.
Thanks Dan
I haven't catbombed Pumpman in a while and I thought I would actually do sumpin' about cats that he would like. Sorry Rob, you cannot comment until I find a solution to my latest comment spammer. You can thank Rick for this one.
I am royally pissed off tonight.
First, I have just spent over an hour cleaning up comment spam from the most annoying comment spammer who has ever hit my site. I had to turn off comments yesterday to clean up his shit. I had to turn comments off again tonight so I could do cleanup. Is there anyone out there who would like to earn some money by upgrading my Movable Type and installing MT Blacklist for me? I don't have time to try it myself and I'm afraid I would just mess up my site. I enjoy comments and I even enjoy some of the dissenting opinions as long as they are presented properly. I don't want to turn comments off because of comment spammers.
The second reason I am pissed off is something Matthew put in the comments on my Letter From Iraq post. I vented in that thread and I expect an apology to my nephew, my sister, her husband, me, and every American fighting man. I know he thinks that we should just surrender in the War on Terror, but unfortunately, he doesn't understand that we have no choice but to fight. If he had been alive in the 1930's he would have been one of the people who thought appeasing Hitler would have worked. Appeasement didn't work then and it won't work now. We have to take the war to them and kill them before they kill us. I do not want to see another 9/11.
OK. To lighten things up a bit, here's a joke from Woody:
Ahmed came to the United States from Iraq. He was here only a few months when he became very ill. He went to doctor after doctor but none of them could help him. Finally, he went to an Arab doctor.
The doctor said, "Take dees bocket, go into de odder room, poop in de
bocket, pee on de poop, and den put your head down over de bocket and breathe in de fumes for ten minutes."
Ahmed took the bucket, went into the other room, pooped in the bucket, peed on the poop, bent over and breathed in the fumes for ten minutes.
Coming back to the doctor he said, "It worked! I feel terrific! What was wrong with me?"
The doctor said, "You were homesick."
Only a few more from Jeannette and then I go back to Richard.
I once had a friend who was a renowned clinical psychologist. He used to tell
me about all the patients he had seen. One of the most interesting cases he
told me about involved a schizophrenic with multiple personality disorder.At
times this person believed himself to be a temptress in a Bizet opera. At
other times he was convinced that he was the head of the German Luftwaffe in
WW II.
The concensus of the practitioners was that the poor fellow didn't know if he
was
Can you guess what's coming?
Carmen or Goerring...
Long time readers know that I have a nephew serving in Iraq. I got a letter from him recently thanking me for his birthday present. Unlike thank you notes I have received from him in the past, this was a full fledged letter. The lad is growing up. I don't know if the Navy was better at mail service or if overall military mail service sucks now, but when I was in Viet Nam (You were in Viet Nam? Didja know that John Kerry was? Didja ever meet him there?), mail service was much better. When we were on station in 'Nam, it never took any longer than a week for mail. And once I mailed a letter in Danang that got home to my parents in two days (It was actually three, but since it crossed the International Dateline it went back a day.) My sister told me mail service to her son is like three weeks. Go Navy! Anyway here are som excerpts from the letter.
Hey, I got your card. Thanks! The Army has been weak with the skin magazines lately.
I sent him a card with a hot chick on the front. When I went to war, Playboy went with us, and Playmates went on USO tours. That probably doesn't happen now that they are serving in a Muslim country. Pity!
Anyway, I am hanging in there. I am the gunner on my Humvee (.50 cal) and the loader on my tankcrew. Fun cruising through cities on 70+ tons of pure firepower. Our body armor is heavy. It starts to wear on you after 8 hours of standing, but it is way better than getting shot. When I write home I can't say much due to operational security (OPSEC)
Ah the wonderful military acronymns. In the Navy we had stuff like BUPERS and BUSHIPS. My favorite was NAVSUX.
Yeah, I do get broken news from the States. Most of it doesn't inspire me; I mean these naysayers (I prefer to call them assholes - GOC) and politicians (buttheads - GOC) should live out here for a few months. (John Fonda Kerry could probably pick up a few more purple hearts - GOC) I'm sure they would change their tune. Most Iraqi's love us. We give jobs, and we treat them better than their own people, and their women actually have a chance to learn and get educated. When we drive by the schools, the girls wave to us because we gave them a chance to learn and get out of their burkha's. (Iraqi chicks are hot, too!)
But Michael Moore told us all the Iraqi's are suffering. Before the invasion they were happy and flying kites. Now everything is awful. Did Michael Moore lie to us? Are the reporters who are cooped up in a hotel sending us false news from Iraq to discourage the war effort by not telling us the truth? Media bias? Nah!
I heard about Tillman. Bummer! But he answered the call and was a hero; much more than those reporters (assholes - GOC) can say. It's easy to talk trash about Iraq and Afghanistan when you don't actually have to go there. I'm sure it was like that in Viet Nam for you. (Yep! - GOC) Just the media talking out their asses as always. Just like the whole "Prisoner Abuse" scandal. They worry about that and not how insurgents torture and maim their victims. I think putting a terrorist face to face with a vicious attack dog is a good way to get info. It may not be the "morally right" thing to do.
Reid - The lamestream media wants this war to be another Viet Nam. They want us to lose and they want Lurch to get elected so he can bring the troops home and crawl on his hands and knees to France and Germany begging them for forgiveness. He wants to put our foreign policy under the auspices of the United Nations. He wants to try to appease the terrorists so he can get back to the Dimocrats' goal of turning this country into a socialist utopia. If he gets elected he will make Jimmah Carter look like a great president.
Yeah, I feel old now. I am still the youngest in my platoon. I got my E4 when I was still 19. I still like it in the Army. I got the best tank driver so it's all good. We learned how to fishtail the Abrams. That was fun. We scared some Haji (Iraqi nickname) taxi driver. I saw pure unbridled fear in his face. Maybe next time he'll get out of the way.
Uh oh! Scaring Iraqi taxi drivers. That's probably gonna create an international incident.
Other than that it's getting really hot. 101 degrees by 0700 sucks cuz I'm on guard, but at least I'm not on the personnel search detail.Being out here just helps you realize how much better the USA is over every other country.
Well, take care.
Reid.PS. Sorry about my handwriting. It's slowly gone the way of the buffalo these past two years.
He should see mine. It really sucks. He' right about the USA. I've been all over the world and nothing can touch the USA. For example, you can drink the water everywhere you go in this country and not have to worry about getting sick. Americans dirnk bottled water by choice, not necessity.
Lest you think I'm full of crap, here is a map of all the places I have been. I have been in all 50 states of the good ol' USA.
create your own visited country map
or write about it on the open travel guide
I got the link to this site from Connie du Toit.
As a public service I am providing you an ad translator so you can see what people really mean in those presonal ads you see in the newspaper or on the net.
The Women's Edition Personal Ad Translator -
The real meaning behind the abbreviations in women's personal ads:
40-ish: 48
Adventurer: Has had more partners than you ever will
Athletic: Flat-chested
Average looking: Ugly
Beautiful: Pathological liar
Contagious Smile: Bring your penicillin
Educated: College dropout
Emotionally Secure: Medicated
Feminist: Fat; ball buster
Free spirit: Substance user
Friendship first: Trying to live down reputation as slut
Full-figured: Fat
Fun: Annoying
Gentle: Comatose
Good Listener: Borderline Autistic
New-Age: All body hair, all the time
Old-fashioned: Lights out, missionary position only
Open-minded: Desperate
Outgoing: Loud
Passionate: Loud
Poet: Depressive Schzophrenic
Professional: Real B*tch
Redhead: Shops the Clairol section
Reubenesque: Grossly Fat
Romantic: Looks better by candle light
Voluptuous: Very Fat
Weight proportional to height: Hugely Fat
Wants Soulmate: One step away from stalking
Widow: Nagged first husband to death
Young at heart: Toothless crone
The Men's Edition Personal Ad Translator -
Here's what men say about themselves in their personal ads -- and what it really means:
40-ish: 52 and looking for 25-yr-old
50-ish: 65, but dyes his hair
Athletic: Never misses "ESPN Sportscenter"
Well-read: Also has a subscription to "ESPN Magazine"
Ambitious: Constantly dreams of getting two women in bed at the same time.
Average-looking: Bald
Educated: Will always treat you like an idiot
Free Spirit: If you start going out with him...he will eventually try to sleep with your sister
Friendship first: As long as friendship involves nudity
Fun: Big drinker
Gentle: Still lives with his mother.
Good looking: Arrogant
Gourmet cook: Can work the can opener and the microwave
Honest: Pathological Liar
Huggable: Fat guy with tons of body hair.
Like to cuddle: Insecure, overly dependent -- possibly gay
Loves candlelight dinners: Doesn't pay his electric bill
Poet: Has written on a bathroom stall
Spiritual: Goes to church with his grandmother on Easter Sunday
Stable: Occasional stalker -- never arrested
Thoughtful: Says "Please" when demanding a beer
Adventurous: Peeping Tom at the neighborhood apartment complex.
Committed: Currently institutionalized...but due to get out soon.
Secure: In prison.
New on the dating scene: Just out of prison.
Well-traveled: Sees his picture on America's Most Wanted and moves on to the next town.
My all time favorite Playmate from back when they really were girl next door types and very few of them had fake boobage.
The Bad Day Series was courtesy of Ralph Gizzip.
So Bruce is goin' on tour to help out John Fonda Kerry. I never liked him. I don't have any of his albums. Who's goin' with him?
The Ditzey Clucks - I have two of their albums. My mistake.
Bonnie Raitt - Never liked her.
Jackson Browne - Got one of his albums. Bought it for Red Neck Friend. David Lindsey is a good slide guitar player.
Pearl Jam - Don't have any of their albums either.
I hear these guys are really gonna stick it to the fans for over $50 per ticket. I wouldn't pay $5.
I really want to listen listen to a bunch of crappy musicians talk left wing politics. I've never really understood rich celebrities' fascination with socialism. If we had the system that they wanted, they'd be poor like everyone else. Stupid assholes!
Laura Ingrahaam said it best about these buttheads in her book: Shut Up and Sing.
Dear Sherry,
Get a goddam cellphone that works!
Love,
Denny
Ben Afleck is touring the country with John Fonda Kerry. Ben, I know you're still upset at being dumped by J'Lo. Don't be. This is what she'll look like in ten years when she's all washed up and shilling for Jello.
Before I start, I've got a few links. I don't link much because that's Glenn's job. But just in case you haven't seen this you might want to go watch it.
Addison (the other one) demanded that I link to this rant over at Cold Fury.
And via Jane (Good luck in Spokane sweetie. Keep in touch!), comes my Mastercard commercial. I've got this one on my PC, but don't have the bandwidth to put it up on my site. Swallow all liguids before watching it. It's priceless!
The Dimocrat Party has completely lost its mind! They're a little upset with Fox News.
The latest target is Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel, which 38 left-leaning congressional Democrats accused Tuesday of being "unfair and unbalanced" in the way its represents liberals and Democrats.
They report and we decide. Poor widdle wiberals are upset. Boo! Hoo! Mommy, make that mean old Fox News Channel quit picking on us! Waaahhhh!
In a letter to Murdoch, they asked for an opportunity to meet with him to pressure -- sorry -- to discuss their concern that his news network, which has become America's primary source of news on cable television according to its market share, "has a deliberate bias in favor of, and often serves as an extension of, the Republican Party's policies and ideology."
As opposed to ABCCBSNBCCNNCNBCMSNBCPBWPBR which serves as an extension of the Dimocrat Party's policies and ideology.
I remember one night O'Reilly had a Jesse Jackson spokesman (Jesse Jackson will not appear on O'Reilly. He only likes to appear on programs that throw him softballs. Hillary Clinton is the same. She will appear on Hannity and Colmes as long as Hannity is not allowed to ask any questions.) on his program and he asked him to give one example of FNC's bias. The guy replied that he could give hundreds. O'Reilly asked for just one. He could give hundreds but he could not give just one. Amazing.
I, on the other hand, can give examples off the top of my head. During the Clinton administration when referring to Larry Klayman and Judicial Watch, CNN always called them a right wing activist organization. Now that they are suing the Bush administration for release of records, they are a "watchdog group". Liberal bias? Nah!
Never mind the possibility, however small it may be, that it is the signers of the letter -- including Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., Pete Stark, D-Calif., and John Conyers, D-Mich., who are inarguably among those farthest to the left among the Democrats in Congress -- who have a biased viewpoint.
These folks are so far to the left that to them even CNN is a right wing news organization.
They want a meeting so that they can introduce a chilling effect into Fox's coverage of U.S. politics. Before an argument starts that this is nonsense, imagine the reaction if senior Bush adviser Karl Rove asked the owners of The New York Times to come by the White House for a chat about its coverage of the Iraq war.
Exactly. These people are not used to a media outlet that actually shows the other side of the issues. I'll admit that Fox News leans to the right. The liberals, and that means the news readers like Blather, Jennings, and Brokaw will not admit that they lean to the left. As I say, I can give examples off the top of my head of the liberal bias of the left wing media in this country. I remember on election night Blather fucked up and when he called one of the states he said "We won in ......". Oooops! The bias showed there didn't it?
Who is more in touch with us rubes in flyover country? By the ratings, those of us with cable choose Fox. Maybe it's because they have the best looking babes. Or, maybe it's because they are more in touch with what we believe.
Another example of the Dim's losing it is the dingbats who want the United Nations to oversee the elections in Florida. The left wing is going crazy.
In the Fat Liberals Against Guns department, remember when Rosie O'Pigo railed against guns, but had bodyguards who carried guns? Well guess what? Fatass Michael Moore has armed bodyguards too.
Toto I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
Hi honey. I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is I bagged my deer. The bad news? I think I'll wait until I get home to tell you.
I can't believe that not only did I listen to John Fonda Kerry deliver this piece of crap but I also read through the entire speech just so I could do these five posts. I do this stuff just for you, my faithful readers.
We value jobs that actually pay you more than the job that you lost. We value jobs where, when you put in a week's work, you can actually pay your bills, provide for your children, lift up the quality of your life.
Maybe if you bastards didn't tax the shit out of us to fund your misguided social programs we wouldn't have to work so much. For many two income couples, the second income is to pay all the farkin' taxes.
We value an America where the middle class is not being squeezed, but doing better.
Squeezed by an incredible tax burden. Income tax. Sales taxes. Excise taxes.
Social Security taxes. Medicare taxes. Gas taxes. Ad valorum taxes. Real estate taxes. Registration fees. All sorts of hidden taxes. Check out your telephone bill for those.
So here is our economic plan to build a stronger America:
This oughta be good.
first, new incentives to revitalize manufacturing;
Howza 'bout tax cuts? There's a good incentive. By the way, evil business doesn't really pay taxes. They just imbed them into the cost of their products.
second, investment in technology and innovation that will create the good-paying jobs of the future;
All you have to do is get gummint out of the way and that will happen by itself.
third, close the tax loopholes that reward companies for shipping jobs overseas.
Isn't it ironic that the Poodle's owner's money comes from the Heinz Corporation that has shipped many of its jobs overseas? Dimocrats and hypocrisy go together so well don't they
Instead, we will reward the companies that create and keep good- paying jobs right where they belong, in the good old USA.
How are you gonna reward them? Lurch doesn't say. More empty rhetoric from an empty suit. Sorry, I used that line once before but it so fits this asshole.
We value an America that exports products, not jobs. And we believe American workers should never have to subsidize the loss of their own job.
Then quit over-regulating business!
Next, we will trade, and we will compete in the world. But our plan calls for a fair playing field, because if you give the American worker a fair playing field, there's no one in the world that the American worker can't compete against.
By this I bet he means tariffs. Tariffs are counterproductive. Much as I dislike Clinton, he did believe in free trade. Unusual for a Dimocrat.
And we're going to return to fiscal responsibility because it is the foundation of our economic strength. Our plan will cut the deficit in half in four years by ending tax giveaways that are nothing more than corporate welfare, and we will make government live by the rule that every family has to live by: Pay as you go.
Pay as you go? Gummint? GMAFB! This guy will outspend Bush. My biggest knock on Bush has been his rise in social spending. Compassionate conservative must be liberal lite. The spending that the Poodle and Babyface have in mind will make Bush look like a piker.
Let me tell you what we won't do: We won't raise taxes on the middle class.
The last Dimocrat who said this was Bill Clinton and then he and the Dimocrats passed the largest tax increase in history. If Lurch gets elected, hang on to your wallets.
You've heard a lot of false charges about this in recent months. So let me say straight out what I will do as president: I will cut middle-class taxes.
That's what Bill Clinton said.
I will reduce the tax burden on small business.
I got a bridge for sale here.
And I will roll back the tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals who make over $200,000 a year, so we can invest in health care, education and job creation.
Tax the rich! Tax the rich! Dimocrats remind me of those little talking dolls that have the string in the neck that you pull to make them talk.
Pull the string. Tax cuts for the rich.
Pull the string. Bush lied.
I did a post on this last year.
Our education plan for a stronger America sets high standards and it demands accountability from parents, teachers and schools. It provides for smaller class sizes, and it treats teachers like the professionals that they are.
What a load of crap. The Dimocrats and the teachers unions have all but destroyed what was once a great public school system. They have turned our schools into socialist indoctrination centers.
Let me tell you sumpin' about class size. I was on the leading edge of the baby boomers (born in 1946). Our class sizes were around 30 students and we learned. We didn't learn self esteem. We learned how to read and write. We learned how to add and subtract. If someone couldn't keep up, he repeated the grade. There was no such thing as social promotion.
Starting in junior high (back in the 50's that was grades 7-9) we were tracked. That means students were put together according to aptitude. That way the bright students were grouped with bright students so they could have additional challenges. In high school English the brighter students like (ahem) me (Oops! I sprained my arm trying to pat myself on the back) had to read the unabridged version of Moby Dick. What a boring book! The less bright students got to read an abridged version.
And there was discipline. Part of the lack of discipline stems from parents not wanting the schools to discipline little Jason and Jennifer. If I got in trouble at school, I got in more trouble at home. Once I got thrown against a bank of lockers by the assistant principal, Mr. Schaum. Do you think I complained to my parents? Are you kidding? My dad would have had his belt off so fast it would have made my head spin.
Gummint is the problem. Parents need to demand discipline and accountability. They won't get it from Dimocrats or the teachers unions.
And it gives a tax credit to families for each and every year of college.
Cut taxes overall.
When I was a prosecutor, I met young kids who were in trouble, abandoned, all of them, by adults.
The products of Lyndon Johnson's Great Fucking Society.
And as president, I am determined that we stop being a nation content to spend $50,000 a year to send a young person to prison for the rest of their life, when we could invest $10,000 in Head Start, Early Start, Smart Start, a real start to the lives of our children.
Start me up! Head Start doesn't really work. I doubt if the other Starts do either. The people you are talking about are members of the permanent underclass that your party's social programs created. You don't solve poverty by giving money to poor people.
And we value health care that's affordable and accessible for all Americans.
Here it comes. Socialized medicine.
Since 2000, 4 million people have lost their health insurance. Millions more are struggling to afford it. You know what's happening.
Thank Babyface and his trial lawyer friends for pushing up the cost of health insurance. Here's a novel idea. Since you are so fond of tax credits, howza 'bout a tax credit (A credit not a deduction) for health insurance?
Your premiums, your co-payments, your deductibles have all gone through the roof.
As I said. Thank Babyface.
Our health care plan for a stronger America cracks down on the waste, and the greed and the abuse in our health-care system, and it will save families $1,000 a year in premiums. You'll get to pick your own doctor. And patients and doctors, not insurance company bureaucrats, will make medical decisions.
Bill Whittle wrote in one of his essays about someone having an idea and making that idea work. When he asked what the process was in between he was told, "That's when the magic happens". I prefer to use Ironbear's term PFM (Pure Fucking Magic). We're about to see that now.
Under our health care plan. Medicare will negotiate lower drug prices for seniors. And all Americans will be able to buy less expensive prescription drugs from countries like Canada.
As soon as we are able to do that, the drug companies will no longer give the price break to the Canadian health system and the price will reach an equilibrium, unless the drug companies are able to buy enough politicians to prevent that from happening. I'm actually in favor of us buying drugs from Canada. Let the marketplace work it's magic and the Canadians can help subsidize the rest of the world like we do.
The story of people struggling for health care is the story of so many Americans. But you know what? It's not the story of senators and members of Congress, because we give ourselves great health care, and you get the bill.
And you assholes give yourselves raises every year. And about that bill? We ain't getting our money's worth.
Well, I'm here to say tonight: Your family's health care is just as important as any politician's in Washington, D.C.
Here it comes....
And when I am president, we will stop being the only advanced nation in the world which fails to understand that health care is not a privilege for the wealthy, and the connected and the elected; it is a right for all Americans.
And it says so right in the Constitution. That attorney general I'm gonna appoint that will enforce the Constitution will show me where it is.
And we will make it so.
Poof! PFM!
We value an America that controls its own destiny because it's finally and forever independent of Mideast oil. What does it mean for our economy and our national security when we have only 3 percent of the world's oil reserves, yet we rely on foreign countries for 53 percent of what we consume?
That we use a lot of energy? Maybe it's because we are the richest country on this planet.
I want an America that relies on its ingenuity and innovation, not the Saudi royal family.
Wait for it.
And our energy plan for a stronger America -- our energy plan will invest in new technologies and alternative fuels and the cars of the future, so that no young American in uniform will ever be held hostage to our dependence on oil from the Middle East.
Poof! PFM! This is from a party that will not let us build dams for hydropower because it might kill a fish. This is from a party that will not allow us to drill in ANWR because it might harm the environment. This is from a party that will not allow us to drill offshore because of the aformentioned environment. This is from a party that will not allow us to build nuclear power plants because they are evil. This is from a party that has not allowed us to build a new refinery since the late 70's. This is from a party that has put up a roadblock to almost any rational plan to help us decrease our reliance on foreign oil. This is from a party whose energy plan is Poof! PFM!
I've told you about our plans for the economy, for education, for health care, for energy independence. I want you to know more about them.
<rachellucas>And. It. Was. All. A. Crock. Of. Shit.</rachellucas>
So now I'm going to say something that Franklin Roosevelt could never have said in his acceptance speech: Go to johnkerry.com.
If the bullshit in this speech wasn't enough for you, there is more there.
I want to address these next words directly to President George W. Bush.In the weeks ahead, let's be optimists, not just opponents. Let's build unity in the American family, not angry division. Let's honor this nation's diversity. Let's respect one another. And let's never misuse for political purposes the most precious document in American history, the Constitution of the United States.
Build unity by honoring diversity? WTF? Misuse the Constitution for political purposes? Is that like all of a sudden, for the first time in the history of the Republic judges now have to be approved in the Senate by a super majority? Is that the kind of politicizing the Constitution that you're talking about Senator? Your party only wants judges who can read things in the Constitution that are not there like the "right" to health care. Like the "right" for cheap prescription drugs. Your party is the party that thinks the Constitution is a "living document" and if there is sumpin' in there that you disagree with but can't get passed in the legislature, you go find a liberal judge who will all of a sudden find some magical words in the Constitution. Poof! PFM!
AUDIENCE: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry...
I just left that audience part in so you could see that the Dimocrats were just eatin' this speech up.
My friends, the high road may be harder, but it leads to a better place.
That really touched me.
And that's why Republicans and Democrats must make this election a contest of big ideas, not small-minded attacks.This is our time to reject the kind of politics calculated to divide race from race, region from region, group from group.
Have you talked to Michael Moore and Whoopi Goldberg about small minded attacks? Howza 'bout Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Howza 'bout the NAACP?
And a big part of your campaign is based on class warfare. Y'know that "tax the rich" stuff.
Maybe some just see us divided into those red states and blue states, but I see us as one America: red, white and blue.
Baby face sees us as two Americas. You guys better start getting your stories straight.
And when I am president, the government I lead will enlist people of talent, Republicans as well as Democrats, to find the common ground, so that no one who has something to contribute to our nation will be left on the sidelines.
Now he's stealing from John Kennedy.
And let me say it plainly: In that cause, and in this campaign, we welcome people of faith. America is not us and them.
Y'see, he's a Catholic who doesn't agree with most of the doctrines of the Catholic Church. So I guess it all depends on what your meaning of faith is.
I think of what Ron Reagan said of his father a few weeks ago, and I want to say this to you tonight: I don't wear my religion on my sleeve, but faith has given me values and hope to live by, from Vietnam to this day, from Sunday to Sunday.
What a fookin' hypocrite!
I don't want to claim that God is on our side.
Then why bring it up?
As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.
If He is, then you won't win this election.
And whatever our faith -- whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.
Yep. Figgered out how to get out of 'Nam in four months. Then stabbed in the back all of the people he left behind.
These aren't Democratic values.
That's for sure!
These aren't Republican values. They're American values. We believe in them. They're who we are. And if we honor them, if we believe in ourselves, we can build an America that is stronger at home and respected in the world.So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"
What if there were no liberals?
Two young bicycle mechanics from Dayton asked, "What if this airplane could take off at Kitty Hawk?" It did that, and it changed the world forever.A young president asked, "What if we could go to the moon in 10 years?" And now we're exploring the stars and the solar systems themselves.
Wrapping himself in the mantle of John Kennedy again. We knew John Kennedy Senator. You are no John Kennedy.
A young generation of entrepreneurs asked, "What if we could take all the information in a library and put it on a chip the size of a fingernail?" We did, and that, too, changed the world.And now it's our time to ask, "What if?"
What if this speech will never end? Horrors!
What if we find a breakthrough to cure Parkinson's, diabetes, Alzheimer's and AIDS?
What if?
What if we have a president who believes in science, so we can unleash the wonders of discovery like stem-cell research and treat illness for millions of lives?
We have stem cell research. It turns out that the most promising areas are in adult stem cells and umbilical stem cells and not embryonic stem cells.
What if we do what adults should do, and make sure that all of our children are safe in the afternoons after school? What if we have a leadership that's as good as the American dream, so that bigotry and hatred never again steal the hope or future of any American?
It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood. Why don't you muzzle some of the hatred coming from the left like your fellow Dimocrats calling Bush Hitler and the Republican Party Nazi's. I'm sorry Senator, but there is much more hatred and bigotry spewing from the left than there is from the right.
I learned a lot about these values on that gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta with Americans -- you saw them -- who come from places as different as Iowa and Oregon, Arkansas, Florida, California.
He was in Viet Nam? No shit?
No one cared where we went to school. No one cared about our race or our backgrounds. We were literally all in the same boat. We looked out, one for the other, and we still do.
Uh. That's not true.
That is the kind of America that I will lead as president: an America where we are all in the same boat.
The Titanic?
Never has there been a moment more urgent for Americans to step up and define ourselves. I will work my heart out. But, my fellow citizens, the outcome is in your hands more than mine.
Do you want to fight terrorism are appease it? If you want to appease them, vote for the Poodle. Ask yourself whom the terrorists would prefer as president.
It is time to reach for the next dream. It is time to look to the next horizon. For America, the hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are still to come.
He's channeling Ronald Reagan!
Thank you. Good night. God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
Thank God the speech is over!
In case you cannot make it out, the name of the boat is Temporary Insanity.
Tonight I've been fortified with some wine so maybe this won't be so painful to get through.
Before I start, didja hear the latest bullshit from John Fonda Kerry? He wants Bush to call a special session of Congress to implement all the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. I wonder if this asshole would bother to attend? After all he's already missed 80% of the votes in the Senate so far this year. Do you remember in 1996 when Bob Dole was running the press bitched about how he wasn't performing his duties in the Senate? What did he do? He resigned. The press has been silent about Lurch's dereliction of duty. Bias? Nah!
So now the Poodle decides to talk about patriotism.
And tonight, we have an important message for those who question the patriotism of Americans who offer a better direction for our country. Before wrapping themselves in the flag and shutting their eyes to the truth and their ears, they should remember what America is really all about. They should remember the great idea of freedom for which so many have given their lives. Our purpose now is to reclaim our democracy itself.
Reclaim our democracy? WTF? Oh I get it. It's only a fair country when Dimocrats are in power. I mean, the buttheads at Moveon.org think Republicans are Nazi's and Bush is Hitler.
We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.
Unless it is conservatives on the internet. Then they are, in Algore's words, "digital brownshirts". Yes, to a Dimocrat, only they should be allowed to speak their minds. Conservatives are "goons" as Kerry called some demonstrators at a campaign stop on Monday.
You see that flag up there. We call her Old Glory, the stars and stripes forever. I fought under that flag,
He did? He was in the military? No shit? I didn't know that.
as did so many of those people who were here tonight and all across the country. That flag flew from the gun turret right behind my head and it was shot through and through and tattered, but it never ceased to wave in the wind. It draped the caskets of men that I served with and friends I grew up with.
But after 9/11, liberals, like Michael Moore for one, ridiculed people who displayed the flag. Many of them said that it offended foreigners who were in this country. It just makes me puke listening to a fucking liberal like the Poodle and all the un-Amercian (Yes, I said un-American) Dimocrats at the convention wrapping their sorry asses in the flag. Bastards!
For us, that flag is the most powerful symbol of who we are and what we believe in: our strength, our diversity, our love of country, all that makes America both great and good.
I just wonder how many of the aging hippie delegates at the convention burned the flag during the 60's?
That flag doesn't belong to any president. It doesn't belong to any ideology.It doesn't belong to any party. It belongs to all the American people.
I agree. I wonder how many of the socialists at the convention agree? Howza 'bout Barbara Lee (Communist Party, Kalifornia) or Cynthia McKinney(Communist Party, Georgia) or Maxine Waters (Moonbat Party, Kalifornia)?
My fellow citizens, elections are about choices. And choices are about values. In the end, it's not just policies and programs that matter; the president who sits at that desk must be guided by principle.
The party of Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton talking about values and principles?
I do not believe what I am hearing. It's about this time the Poodle started to sweat. Let's face it. When you're shoveling as much bullshit as this asshole is you're gonna break out in a big ol' sweat.
For four years, we've heard a lot of talk about values. But values spoken without actions taken are just slogans.
Here is a classic example of projection. We had eight years of values spoken without actions during the Clinton administration. Now we have this asshole accusing someone with more integrity in his little finger than Clinton (and Kerry) for that matter of having no values.
Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.
And doesn't the Poodle just know that. He came home from Viet Nam and stabbed his band of brothers in the back by giving false testimony of made up atrocities that the North Vietnamese used against POW's. He threw away his medals and then he didn't and then they were someone else's. He was ashamed of his Viet Nam service and now he's not. He knows the difference between values and words and like Bill Clinton, he prefers words. That's why he's a Dimocrat.
Here comes the class warfare.
You don't value families by kicking kids out of after-school programs and taking cops off the streets, so that Enron can get another tax break.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Business is bad! Bad! Bad! Evil business!
We believe in the family value of caring for our children and protecting the neighborhoods where they walk and play.
We saw what forty years of your social progams have done. It's only since the 90's when Clinton was forced to tack to the center and passed welfare reform that we have started to see improvement. Don't give me any talk about family values you socialist hypocrite!
And that is the choice in this election.
Capitalism versus socialism.
You don't value families by denying real prescription drug coverage to seniors so big drug companies can get another windfall.
Bash the drug companies. Evil, evil drug companies. By the way, exactly where is it in the Constitution that says cheap prescription drugs are a right? I've read and reread the Constitution and I can't find that in there anywhere. Maybe that attorney general that you're gonna appoint who will uphold the Constitution can point out the article that states "cheap prescription drugs for the elderly".
We believe in the family value expressed in one of the oldest Commandments: "Honor thy father and thy mother."
Wait a minute. Now I'm really confused. The Dimocrats are the people who want to take religion out of our life and now we have their presidential nominee saying we should obey one of the (gasp!) Ten Commandments? Next thing they're gonna say is that presidents "should not commit adultery".
As president, I will not privatize Social Security. I will not cut benefits. And together, we will make sure that senior citizens never have to cut their pills in half because they can't afford lifesaving medicine.
Poof! PFM! Good fucking luck Gen X'ers and Gen Y'ers. To do what he says means you guys are gonna be taxed out of your asses.
And that is the choice in this election.
Fuck the kids! They don't vote.
Here comes some real bullshit!
You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service,
This from the guy (and Babyface) who voted against the $87 billion that would have funded the body armor. Anyway, 90% of the people in the audience don't give a fuck about the troops. They want to see caskets. That will stop the war.
if you deny veterans health care, or if you tell middle-class families to wait for a tax cut, so that the wealthiest among us can get even more.
The middle class got a tax cut you asshole. And if you and Ter-Ray-sa and Bill Clinton thought your tax cut was too large, you don't have to accept it. Write a fucking check and STFU!
We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the true face of America; not narrow values that divide us, but the shared values that unite us: family, faith, hard work, opportunity and responsibility for all, so that every child, every adult, every parent, every worker in America has an equal shot at living up to their God-given potential. That is the American dream and the American value.
Are you talking about the American values at the fund raiser in New York (that he will not allow the tape to be shown) that has Whoopi Goldberg making jokes about Bush while pointing at her genitals? Those values?
Howza 'bout the values of a drunk driving a car into the water and leaving a girl to drown and he is now he an elder statesman of your party? Those values?
Howza 'bout an ex-member of the KKK, a Kleagle no less, who wrote that he would rather see the flag run through mud than serve with a black in the military, who is another senior member of your party? Those values?
Howza 'bout a president who committed perjury, suborned perjury, was a sexual harasser and an alleged rapist? He was the first elected presdent to be impeached and he is proud of it. Those values?
Howza 'bout a Viet Nam vet who returns early from the war and then joins a communist front group, VVAW, supported by the treasonous Jane Fonda, and gives false testimony about made up atrocities to the Senate? Those values?
How dare you lecture us on values Senator! How dare you!
Help is on the way rant.
So tonight we come here tonight to ask: Where is the conscience of our country?
It sure as fuck ain't in the Fleet Center in Boston.
I'll tell you where it is. It's in rural and small-town America;
Yep! In the red states.
it's in urban neighborhoods
Nope. That's the blue part of the country.
and the suburban main streets;
Red.
it's alive in the people that I've met in every single part of this land. It's bursting in the hearts of Americans who are determined to give our values and our truth back to our country.
Dimocrats and truth in the same sentence? Make him stop! Too much bullshit for one session! I'm gonna have to stop and finish this tomorrow. I'll wrap up the rest of the speech then. I promise.
Back to the speech.
I forgot to ask when he said he was gonna appoint an attorney general who will uphold the Constitution I wonder if that also applied to that pesky Second Amendment that the Dimocrats are trying to abolish with all of their gun control laws?
And next January, Americans will be proud to have a fighter for the middle class to succeed Dick Cheney as vice president of the United States.
What? Mike Tyson's running? I thought Kerry's VP was gonna be an ambulance chaser.
And what can I say about Teresa?
The less said, the better.
She has the strongest moral compass of anyone I know. She's down to earth, nurturing, courageous, wise and smart. She speaks her mind,
"Shove it!" comes to mind.
and she speaks the truth,
She denied saying un-American in her speech and then she told the reporter to "Shove it!"
and I love her for that, too.
But most of all I love her because she's worth over $500 million dollars. That is why I, a man of the people, can live in any one of five mansions. I have my own airplane. I have a big ol' powerboat. I can really relate to Joe Sixpack.
Talks about the kids. Look at me! I'm a great dad!
Here comes some Viet Nam bullshit.
And in this journey, I am accompanied by an extraordinary band of brothers led by that American hero, a patriot called Max Cleland.
First off, Stumpy is not a war hero. He did not lose his limbs in battle. He lost them in an accident behind enemy lines. Up until two years ago he denied being a hero. Now, since he's claiming he lost the last election in Georgia because the Republicans questioned his patriotism (They didn't), all of a sudden, he's a hero.
Seccond, d'ya know where the phrase "band of brothers" comes from? No, it wasn't the HBO special. It comes from the St. Crispen's Day speech from Shakespeare's Henry V. Henry made this speech the night before the Battle of Agincourt. The English army was outnumbered, but they prevailed over the French. (Insert obligatory French joke here.) There's a line in the speech that reminds me of John Fonda Kerry.
That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse; We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
You have your three purple hearts. Run home.
And that he did and then he stabbed his "band of brothers" in the back by testifying in front of the Senate to made up atrocities. Band of brothers my ass!
And here is the part of the speech that "band of brothers" comes from.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
I have actually considered giving this speech the same treatment that I gave Mark Antony and Hamlet.
Our band of brothers doesn't march together because of who we are as veterans, but because of what we learned as soldiers.
I know what I learned. You don't stab your "band of brothers" in the back.
We fought for this nation because we loved it, and we came back with the deep belief that every day is extra. We may be a little older, we may be a little grayer, but we still know how to fight for our country.
Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullsht! Bullshit! Bullshit!
And standing with us in that fight are those who shared with me the long season of the primary campaign: Carol Moseley Braun,
An imcompetent corrupt boob.
General Wesley Clark
An asskisser.
Howard Dean
Yeeaaarrrrgggghhhh!
Dick Gephardt
A washed up politician. He couldn't even carry the union vote.
Bob Graham
Huh? He was running? No shit?
Dennis Kucinich
A space cadet.
Joe Lieberman
The best of a sorry lot.
Al Sharpton
A RWPP (Race Warlord Poverty Pimp)
To all of you, I say thank you for teaching me and testing me. But mostly, we say thank you for standing up for our country and for giving us the unity to move America forward.
What he really meant to say was, "Fuck you you bunch of losers. I won and you lost. Nyah. Nyah. Nyah. Nyah. Nyah."
My fellow Americans, the world tonight is very different from the world of four years ago. But I believe the American people are more than equal to the challenge.
Unlike me. I'm looking for someone to surrender to.
Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran up stairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.
But it didn't take too long for the liberals to start sniping. It seems like only yesterday that all we heard about Afghanistan was "quagmire".
I am proud that after September 11th all our people rallied to President Bush's call for unity to meet the danger.There were no Democrats. There were no Republicans. There were only Americans. And how we wish it had stayed that way.
Yeah. Me too. Remember to a Dimocrat bi-partisan means Republicans compromising, not Dimocrats.
Now, I know there that are those who criticize me for seeing complexities -- and I do -- because some issues just aren't all that simple.
Nuance.
Saying there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq doesn't make it so.
But weapons have been found.
Saying we can fight a war on the cheap doesn't make it so.
You and Babyface voted against funding for the war so I guess you oughtta know.
And proclaiming "Mission accomplished" certainly doesn't make it so.
Maybe it's nuance. The mission may have been to topple Saddam Hussein. It all depends on what your meaning of Mission Accomplished is.
As president, I will ask the hard questions and demand hard evidence. I will immediately reform the intelligence system, so policy is guided by facts and facts are never distorted by politics.
Spoken by a man who voted to cut intelligence funding during his entire career in the Senate.
And as president, I will bring back this nation's time-honored tradition: The United States of America never goes to war because we want to; we only go to war because we have to. That is the standard of our nation.
And there are some people in this nation, and I'm one of them, who thought we had to go to war both in Afghanistan and in Iraq. If your party had been in power, we would still be negotiating with the Taliban for bin Laden and Jimmah Carter would probably be the lead negotiator. We saw how effective he was in dealing with North Korea.
I know what kids go through when they're carrying an M-16 in a dangerous place, and they can't tell friend from foe. I know what they go through when they're out on patrol at night and they don't know what's coming around the next bend. I know what it's like to write letters home telling your family that everything's all right, when you're not sure that that's true.
What? Kerry served? Really? No shit? That's news to me.
As president, I will wage this war with the lessons I learned in war.
Get the fuck out of the war zone in 4 months.
Before you go to battle, you have to be able to look a parent in the eye and truthfully say, "I tried everything possible to avoid sending your son or daughter into harm's way, but we had no choice we had to protect the American people, fundamental American values against a threat that was real and imminent."
So by that definition we shouldn't have fought the Civil War. There was no threat from the South. We shouldn't have fought World War I. There was no threat from Germany. But as this asshole seems to overlook, we were attacked on 9/11. The only way to prevent that from happening again is to wipe out the vermin who attacked us and defeat the states that support them.
So, lesson number one, this is the only justification for going to war.
You flunked lesson number one.
And on my first day in office, I will send a message to every man and woman in our armed forces: You will never be asked to fight a war without a plan to win the peace.
Huh? What a bullshit line that was! An empty phrase that means nothing, but it sounds good.
I know what we have to do in Iraq.
Figger out a way to cut and run?
We need a president who has the credibility to bring our allies to our side and share the burden
By "allies" he's referring to France and Germany. He, and the rest of the Dimocrats, do not consider England, Australia, Italy, Poland, and many other countries allies. Only France and Germany count. And how is he gonna get France and Germany to join up?
I know. Poof! PFM! (Pure Fucking Magic)
"Jacques, my name is John Kerry. I speak French. Will you be my ally."
"Mais oui, John. Kiss. Kiss."
Poof! PFM!
Gerhard, my name is John Kerry. Will you be my ally?
Jah, John.
Poof! PFM!
reduce the cost to American taxpayers, reduce the risk to American soldiers. That's the right way to get the job done and bring our troops home.
Yep! Poof! PFM!
Here is the reality: That won't happen until we have a president who restores America's respect and leadership so we don't have to go it alone in the world.
And quite frankly, the Poodle ain't the man to do the job. And we are not going it alone!
And we need to rebuild our alliances so we can get the terrorists before they get us.
What he means is we have to suck up to France and Germany.
I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.
Kerry was in the military? Really? No shit?
Let there be no mistake: I will never hesitate to use force when it is required. Any attack will be met with a swift and a certain response.
After getting the permision of France, Germany, and the UN.
I will never give any nation or any institution a veto over our national security.
Except France, Germany, and the UN.
And I will build a stronger military. We will add 40,000 active duty troops, not in Iraq, but to strengthen American forces that are now overstretched, overextended and under pressure.
This from a man who has voted against every major weapons system. He has consistently voted to cut the defense budget. Now, all of a sudden he's a hawk?
We will double our Special Forces to conduct terrorist operations, anti-terrorist operations, and we will provide our troops with the newest weapons and technology to save their lives and win the battle.
Let me repeat myself. He has voted against every major weapons system. He has consistently voted to cut the defense budget. He has been weak on defense for his entire career in the Senate. That is why he keeps talking about Viet Nam, to try to distract us from his weak record on defense.
To all who serve in our armed forces today, I say: Help is on the way.
I'm from the gummint. I'm here to help you. What was really funny was when he delivered this line the delegates, of whom 90% are against the war (and probably the military) applauded. They were probably saying to themselves, "Why are we applauding this bullshit? We're Dimocrats. We don't believe in any of this crap. Neither does that asshole on the podium. We'll do anything to win. We can't tell the American people how we really feel or we'll get clobbered in the election."
As president, I will fight a smarter, more effective war on terror. We will deploy every tool in our arsenal: our economic as well as our military might, our principles as well as our firepower.
Empty rhetoric. Poof! PFM!
In these dangerous days, there is a right way and a wrong way to be strong. Strength is more than tough words.
You damn betcha! And the Dimocrats are the party of tough words. I can remember Jimmah Carter threatening Iran and they just gave him the finger. And who can forget Bill Clinton biting his lip and saying after the embassy bombings, the Khobar Towers, and the USS Cole, "We will find those responsible and bring them to justice." Then he went back to the Oral Office and got a blowjob. I think we've demonstrated in Afghanistan and Iraq that we believe that strength is more than tough words.
After decades of experience in national security, I know the reach of our power, and I know the power of our ideals.
More empty rhetoric from an empty suit.
We need to lead a global effort against nuclear proliferation, to keep the most dangerous weapons in the world out of the most dangerous hands in the world.
Put Jimmah Carter in charge of that. BWAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!
We need a strong military and we need to lead strong alliances.
Then why did you, and most of the rest of the Dimocrats, consistently vote to weaken our military. And quite frankly it doesn't take France and Germany to make a strong alliance. I'll take the Brits and the Aussies over the Frogs and the Krauts anyday.
And then, with confidence and determination, we will be able to tell the terrorists: You will lose, and we will win." The future doesn't belong to fear; it belongs to freedom.
Poof! PFM!
And the frontlines of this battle are not just far away. They're right here on our shores.
Yep! The left wing of the Dimocrat Party comes to mind. Think Cynthia McKinney (Communist Party, Georgia) and Barbara Lee (Communist Party, Kalifornia).
They're at our airports and potentially in any town or city.
And political correctness is gonna be our downfalll.
Today, our national security begins with homeland security. The 9/11 commission has given us a path to follow, endorsed by Democrats, Republicans and the 9/11 families. As president, I will not evade or equivocate; I will immediately implement all the recommendations of that commission.
Hold on thar Baba Louie! I'm not too sure about all them thar recommendations. I'm afraid we might be putting too much power in the hands of one person with this intelligence czar dude. I think we might want to give this a little thought and make sure some safeguards are in place.
And once again we come to the close of bullshit for tonight. This is taking longer than I thought. I'm hoping I will be able to finish up tomorrow night.
This was caused by the prop of another airplane. A while back I saw the series of photos of that event. I bet the guy who owns this plane was royally pissed.
Yet another groaner from Jeannette.
My aunt's beloved cat Ginger had grown seriously overweight, so she decided to
take him to the vet to find out if there was anything wrong with him - and
more to the point, whether anything could be done about it.
So she put him into the kitty-carry box, and drove to the surgery.
The doc prescribed a course of pills, and my aunt left, happy in the knowledge
that Ginger would soon be his slim old self again.
But after a few weeks of taking the pills, there was no change: Ginger was as
fat as ever. Soon months had gone by, and still there was no difference. In
fact, if anything, it was getting worse.
The other problem was the invoices from the vet - these pills were costing a
fortune.
It soon became clear to us all that Ginger had become ...
Are you ready for this?
a doc-billed fatty-puss.
Veryalda posted the Kerry drinking game in the comments. It goes like this:
Take one drink for everytime he says "veteran," two for everytime he says "Viet Nam," and three for everytime he says "band of brothers."
I don't enough booze in the house to play that game.
Anyway, back to the speech
I left off where he was spouting the bullshit about being born in the Left west wing of the hospital.
It's time to talk about his mother.
She gave me her passion for the environment. She taught me to see trees as the cathedrals of nature.
Cathedrals of nature? Have you hugged a tree today?
And by the power of her example, she showed me that we can and must complete the march toward full equality for all women in the United States of America.
I dunno. I think we're prettty close to that now. I think my friend Cindy thinks she has equality. I think my sister feels the same way. They achieved everything they did on their own. They didn't have to marry a scumbag who humiliated her and her daughter in front of the world to achieve power like a former first lady who is somehow held up by feminists as a role model. Cindy has already told me what she would do to Michael if he had done any of the crap Bill Clinton did.
More platitudes. This time about his dad.
And when I was a young man, he was in the State Department, stationed in Berlin when it and the world were divided between democracy and communism.I have unforgettable memories of being a kid mesmerized by the British, French and American troops, each of them guarding their own part of the city, and Russians standing guard on that stark line separating East from West.
On one occasion, I rode my bike into Soviet East Berlin, and when I proudly told my dad, he promptly grounded me.
Even then he gravitated towards the communists.
But what I learned has stayed with me for a lifetime. I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up "Stars and Stripes Forever."
And in spite of all of that, he still sold out the South Vietnamese and preached appeasement and toleration of the Soviet Union and its satellite states. He was against anti-communist movements in Latin America.
I learned what it meant to be America at our best. I learned the pride of our freedom. And I am determined now to restore that pride to all who look to America.
By allowing France, Germany, and the United Nations veto power over our foreign policy. Thanks, but no thanks.
Mine were Greatest Generation parents. And as I thank them, we all join together to thank a whole generation for making America strong, for winning World War II, winning the Cold War and for the great gift of service which brought America 50 years of peace and prosperity.
T.D. posted in my comments asking why Bush and Dole didn't tout their war records when running against a draft dodger. It's because that generation didn't brag about their military exploits the way the Poodle does. They had a job to do and they did it. And I love his line about winning the Cold War. We won the Cold War without much help from the Dimocrat Party since they opposed most of Reagan's policies that led to the downfall of the Soviet Union. Kerry and the Dimocrats were on the wrong side of history during the Cold War and they will be on the wrong side of history during the War on Terror. If Lurch gets elected maybe he will be the Jimmah Carter to the next Ronald Reagan.
My parents inspired me to serve, and when I was in high school, a junior, John Kennedy called my generation to service. It was the beginning of a great journey, a time to march for civil rights, for voting rights, for the environment, for women, for peace.We believed we could change the world. And you know what? We did.
And not always for the better. We now have a permanent underclass dependent on the gummint. The Department of Education and the teachers unions have screwed up our education system. Trial lawyers like Babyface have driven up medical insurance costs and driven doctors out of business.
But we're not finished. But we're not finished.
Nope. We won't be happy until we've destroyed our health care system and turned this country into a socialist nightmare. We want to do for the entire country what the liberals have done to California.
We have it in our power to change the world, but only if we're true to our ideals. And that starts by telling the truth to the American people.
The irony of a Dimocrat telling the truth to the American people boggles the mind. This after all is the party of Bill and Hillary Clinton, two people who lie as a matter of course and they lie about the most mundane things like saying Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, when Edmund Hillary was an obscure beekeeper when Hillary was born in 1947. Farkin' amazing! And John Fonda Kerry, berating people about lying, keeps changing his story about throwing his medals or ribbons over the White House fence. C'mon Senator. Tell us the truth. Just once. Release all of your military records like you asked Bush to do. And think of all the lies you told when you testified in front of the Senate about Viet Nam war atrocities. Tell us the truth about your voting record in the Senate, how you're weak on defense. How you voted for the war and then voted against funding it. How you voted to gut intelligence. Run on your record in the Senate where you are the most liberal member. Tell the truth to the American people what you are really gonna do if you get elected.
As president, that is my first pledge to you tonight: As president, I will restore trust and credibility to the White House.
Once again, the irony of a Dimocrat, especially one as craven as this butthead talking about trust and credibility just boggles my mind. People actually believe this shit.
I ask you, I ask you to judge me by my record. As a young prosecutor, I fought for victims' rights and made prosecuting violence against women a priority.When I came to the Senate, I broke with many in my own party to vote for a balanced budget, because I thought it was the right thing to do. I fought to put 100,000 police officers on the streets of America.
I fought to cut military spending. I voted against every major weapons system. I voted to cut our intelligence. I did everything in my power to weaken the military and make this country vulnerable to attack.
And then I reached out across the aisle with John McCain to work to find the truth about our POWs and missing in action and to finally make peace in Vietnam.
Not everyone believes this claim. Some POW/MIA familes are royally pissed off at this bastard. The North Vietnamees love him. His picture is in a musem in Ho Chi Minh City war museum honoring Viet Nam war protesters. So not only was he an American war hero, he was also a North Vietnam war hero.
I will be a commander in chief who will never mislead us into war.
I will immediately surrender and appease the enemy. Since I look French and speak French, I may as well act French.
I will have a vice president who will not conduct secret meetings with polluters to rewrite our environmental laws.
Instead he will have secret meetings with other lawyers like Hillary did to figger out how to destroy the best health care system in the world.
I will have a secretary of defense who will listen to the best advice of the military leaders.
And tell them to cut and run at the first sign of trouble like we did in Somalia.
And I will appoint an attorney general who will uphold the Constitution of the United States.
That's a laugh since the Dimocrats are the ones who call the Constitution a "living document" and are always finding ways to circumvent it or appointing liberal judges who will legislate from the bench.
My fellow Americans, this is the most important election of our lifetime. The stakes are high. We are a nation at war: a global war on terror against an enemy unlike we've ever known before.
And I want to hurry up and surrender so we can go back to what we Dimocrats do best: Destroying the economy by raising taxes, passing unfunded mandates, over-regulating businesses, and working toward the glories of a socialist state.
And here at home, wages are falling, health-care costs are rising, and our great middle class is shrinking. People are working weekends -- two jobs, three jobs -- and they're still not getting ahead.
Blame Babyface and his ambulance chasing friends for the rise in health care. The middle class is not shrinking. And some of us are getting ahead.
We're told that outsourcing jobs is good for America. We're told that jobs that pay $9,000 less than the jobs that have been lost is the best that we can do. They say this is the best economy that we've ever had. And they say anyone who thinks otherwise is a pessimist.
No one said this was the best economy we've ever had you lying sack of shit! They said the economy has turned the corner and is coming back. You're the one comparing Bush to Herbert Hoover and saying how bad the economy is. And maybe if you Dimocrats had not insisted on over-taxing and over-regulating businesses they might not be going offshore as much as they have.
Well, here is our answer: There is nothing more pessimistic than saying that America can't do better.
Holy shit! The Dims are gonna shed their gloom and doom label?
We can do better, and we will.
Not if you get elected.
We're the optimists. For us, this is a country of the future.
Have you told Michael Moore that? Have you told the libs in Hollywood that? Have you told Al Sharpton that? He thinks we're still back in the 60's and he's the second coming of Martin Luther King.
We're the can-do people.
And I'm worried about what you can do if we give you the chance. Surrender in the War on Terror. Surrender our foreign policy to France, Germany and the UN.
And let's not forget what we did in the 1990s: We balanced the budget.
Actually we didn't. You politicians (and I'm blaming the Republicans here also) used the Social Security surplus to mask the deficit and then you spent the Social Security surplus and put IOU's in the "trust fund".
We paid down the debt.
No. We. Didn't. The national debt increased every single year during the 1990's. Jan 29, 1993 at the start of the Clinton administration it was $4,167,200,410,899.83. On Jan 31 2001 at the end of the Clinton adminisration it was $5,716,070,587,057.36. Don't believe me? Go here and plug in the dates. Just damn! I love the internet. I'm so glad that Algore invented it.
We created 23 million new jobs.
Gummint. Does. Not. Create. Jobs.
We just need to believe in ourselves and we can do it again.
No you need to get gummint out of the way and let the private sector create the jobs.
Thank you. I am proud that at my side will be a running- mate whose life is the story of the American dream, and who's worked every day to make that dream real for all Americans, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina and his wife Elizabeth and their family. Thank you.
Yep. An ambulance chasing lawyer who made his fortune suing insurance companies, driving up the cost of malpractice insurance and driving OB/GYN's out of business.
This son of a millworker is ready to lead.
Yeah sure. That's right. He can go sue bin Laden.
This is taking longer than I thought. I'm gonna have to stop for tonight and continue tomorrow. My bullshit meter is pegged and I connot take anymore at this time.
