Quotes of the Day

"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men." --John Adams


"If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs." --Theodore Roosevelt


"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too." --W. Somerset Maugham


"He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has." --Epictetus

Useless Words

Here is a list of useless words that are used in everyday language.

Usually. This stupid word is used as an absolute. Why? Here's an example, "usually we don't do that..." When what they mean is, "we DON'T do that." What is the purpose of 'usually'?

Kinda. Self explanatory. Why is it used as a comparison when it doesn't compare? Talk about STUPID!

Actually. This is the ultimate use of stupidity. If it isn't already ACTUALLY, then what is it? C'mon, what's the purpose of it?

The English language is so abused. Why do we allow these things to continue?

Why?

Why do people say...

It's Ameeeeezing?


Why can't they say it's amazing?

This is something I will never understand.

THIS JUST IN...

FROM CNN AND NPR...



THOSE ON THE democrat VOTE PROGRAM (welfare) WILL
RECEIVE EXTRA CREDIT ON THEIR democrat VOTING CARD INCLUDING BEER,
SNACKS AND CIGARETTES IF THEY WAIT UNTIL NOVEMBER 5TH TO VOTE.



REMEMBER, VOTE NOVEMBER 5TH!

Bill Ayers is a College Professor

"Bill Ayers is a professor of education in Chicago; 40 years ago when I was 8 years old he engaged in despicable acts with a domestic group. I have roundly denounced those attacks."

That's BO's story and he's sticking to it. (BO because his policies stink)

BUT, and it's a big but, when BO was 40 Bill Ayers said he didn't regret what he did and that he should have used more dynamite.

Come on, BO, you're in league with an unrepentant terrorist and you know it.

Is Marriage a Right?

Many people believe that marriage is a right. But is it? Let’s think about this for a moment and look at some of the ramifications if it was a right.

Who’s going to marry the 300 pound slob?
Who’s going to marry the jerk who won’t get a job?
Who’s going to marry the ugly duckling? I mean the ugly duckling!
Who’s going to marry the womanizer? Who’s going to marry the female equivalent?
It doesn’t make sense to say that marriage is a right.

While it certainly makes sense that everybody has the right to TRY to get married it doesn’t make sense that anybody has the right to be married.

Let’s stop calling things rights that aren’t rights.

Democratic is a process,
democrat is what they are...

The Bail Out

Any solution should observe three guiding principles.

• Restore the stability of the financial system quickly and and at the lowest possible cost to the taxpayers.
• Address the root causes of this crisis, i.e. the price collapse in the residential real estate market.
• Punish those who are responsible for the losses.
  

Here are some of the problems with the bail out bill.

1. How will the assets be priced? Efforts in the past to establish a price have not been successful. In fact, markets have frozen up largely due to the difficulty of pricing them.

• If the Treasury pays to close to par, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke alluded to at the Senate hearing, it's going to pay too much.
• If it pays the current prices, no one will sell due to the impact on their capital.
• If it pulls a price out of thin air, it will be acting arbitrarily. The proposal needs to create a price setting process.
  

2. Are we better served by buying assets or institutions? It's obvious that the purchase of mortgage related assets from struggling or failing financial institutions is necessary. But why should the taxpayer, instead of the shareholders and debt holders, bear this burden of debt
for financial institutions that are solvent? I think not.

3. How much is this really going to cost the taxpayer? $700 billion is a lot of money. But what if it isn't enough? Some economist are saying the price could be over $1 trillion.

Before anything is consummated the solution should respect the rule of law by spelling out the proposal in sufficient detail for the Congress and the voters to pass judgment. It should follow proven precedents.

Sarah Palin

This is from an article written today by, CNS News senior editor, Susan Jones.

Who is She?

Palin was born Feb. 11, 1964, in Idaho, but her parents moved to Alaska shortly after her birth to teach. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho in 1987.

The Palins have five children: Track, 19; Bristol 17; Willow 14; Piper, 7, and Trig, who was born in April with Down syndrome. Track enlisted in the Army in 2007 on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and has been assigned to Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks.

In just two years, Palin has moved from suburban hockey mom and small-town mayor to governor and vice presidential contender, the Associated Press reported.

She is the first woman to appear on a Republican presidential ticket. She is Alaska’s first female governor, and she ran on an anti-corruption, ethics platform.

During her first year in office, Palin distanced herself from the powerful old guard of the state Republican Party, even calling on Sen. Ted Stevens to explain to Alaskans why federal authorities were investigating him, the Associated Press reported.

However, the Alaska Legislature last month voted to hire an independent investigator to look into allegations that Palin abused her office by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from his job as an Alaska state trooper.

Palin has said she welcomes the investigation: "Hold me accountable," she said. She denies allegations that she pulled strings in an attempt to get her sister's ex-husband fired.

She also successfully took on the oil industry, leading to a tax increase on oil company profits that have swelled the state's treasury.

Bumper stickers and blogs have proclaimed Alaska and Palin: "Coldest State, Hottest Governor." Last year, the former beauty queen posed for a photo shoot in Vogue, the Associated Press reported.

She lives in Wasilla, a town of 6,500 about 30 miles north of Anchorage, with her husband, Todd, a North Slope oil worker who competes in the Iron Dog, a 1,900-mile snowmobile race. He is part Yup'ik Eskimo.

Her previous political experience consisted of terms as Wasilla's mayor and councilwoman and a stint as head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

She is solidly pro-life, reports say, and is expected to have strong appeal to social conservatives.

This says it All!

Just a thought...

I'm sitting here in the rain enjoying the day and I'm also listening to the news.

There's something that's very wrong. The democrat party isn't democratic, in fact, they're against the process. Does anybody remember the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004?

algore hates the process. He did everything he could to avert it. He lied. He cheated. He cried like a baby.

John Kerry, on the other hand, was disgusted with the process. The democrat party did everything they could to make him president. They lied. They cheated. They cried like babies. John Kerry did a noble thing. He walked away knowing the George W. Bush won the election.

Remember these words of wisdom,

DEMOCRATIC IS A PROCESS,
democrat IS WHAT THEY ARE!!!!!

Any questions?

The Classic List Changed... Already?

That's right.

I had to think hard about Catcher in the Rye. It's not a book I can recommend because of the language.

If it was a movie, I wouldn't watch it.

Classic Literature Must Reads

This is such a touchy subject. As soon as I post this list I'm going to change it or somebody is going to criticize me for not including their favorite 'Classic Must Reads'.

Let me know what yours' are so they can be included. Don't think I'm so arrogant to suggest that my list is definitive. There are many classics I haven't read, 'A Brave New World' comes to mind, however, I just requested it from the local library. I should start reading it by the end of the week. To tell you the truth I love short stories. My mind rarely allows for novels because I drift and have to start over. These are a list of those which kept my attention from start to finish.

The list I concocted will be revised, and revised, and revised... As indicated, any book that can keep my attention is worth the read.

Here it is.

1884 - a frightening reality of a paperless society (memory holes) and liberal rule.
Tom Sawyer - this and Huck are simply awesome
Shane - the book is better than the movie, duh.
Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane's descriptive writing is remarkable.
Huckleberry Finn - See Tom Sawyer, above.
To Kill a Mockingbird - incredible.
Edgar Allen Poe - A wordsmith with an unbelievable imagination.
Sherlock Holmes - The plots are fascinating.
Agatha Christie - The queen of short stories.
Dairy of a Rat Man aka Willard - WHAT!? You scream in horror. Yeah, I liked it. Summer of '71!

This is it for the moment. The usual Shakespear and Sophocles are givens, however, I really don't care for them that much. Shakespear is great for understanding the King James Bible because you'll use a dictionary. You won't when you read the KJV and that's a shame.

Quotes for Today

Quotes from Thomas Jefferson.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

[W]hen all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another. He noted correctly, The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Jefferson was clear on his disdain for taxes,

To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

But the Left adheres to a very different group of economic philosophers.

Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev said of Roosevelt’s New Deal paradigm shift,

We can’t expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.

Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas (the grandfather, incidentally, of Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas), echoed that sentiment,

The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

Don't vote for democrats.

Democratic is a process
democrat is what they are

Don

Democratic is a process,

democrat is what they are...

Sancutary City

San Francisco has a "City of Refuge" policy.

Because of this caring (barf) policy Danielle Bologna's husband and two sons were senselessly and brutally murdered last month by Edwin Ramos.

Edwin Ramos is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who has remained in the United States despite two prior convictions for gang-related felonies. He was also arrested on a gun charge in March, but authorities again failed to place an immigration hold on him.

Liberal policies don't work. They never have and they never will.

Don

Democratic is a process
democrat is what they are…

A Reminder

Let's remember a few things about 'big oil'.

1. When 'profits' are reported by the media they don't mean profits. They mean GROSS income.

2. 49% of all so-called profits go to government retirement plans, i.e. teachers, police, firemen, stupid politicians etc...

3. The other 51% goes into research, drilling, losing money drilling, the cost of drilling, the cost of business THEN it goes to salaries.

Democratic is a process,
democrat is what they are...

There's Justice to be Had!

This just in...

U.S. District Judge James Robertson on Thursday rejected an effort by Usama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, to postpone his trial. Hamdan argued he would suffer irreparable harm if his was tried before he could challenge the legality of the process.

Robertson's ruling is a victory for the Bush administration, which plans to use the military commission process to prosecute alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others charged in the 2001 attacks.

These terrorists are not citizens of the United States of America and don’t have the same rights and privileges of those who are.###

The hard-lined, left-winged extremist, knee-jerk reactionary liberals, who want to cram their dogma of intolerance and hate down our throats, have be dealt a major blow.

Don

Democratic is a process
democrat is what they are…

A Lesson from around the World

Maybe there's something to learn afterall.

London (CNSNews.com) – London and Berlin may soon join other cities across Europe in hosting memorials to the late President Ronald Reagan.

Since the death of America’s 40th president in June 2004, a handful of parks and streets across the continent have been named after him, and a bust of Reagan was installed in a central Budapest park in 2006.

With plans already underway for memorials in Prague and two cities in Poland, a spokeswoman for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation confirmed Monday that the organization is involved with plans for a proposed statue in the British capital.

Spokeswoman Kirby Hanson said that her foundation is helping a local group with funding and installing a statue in historic Grosvenor Square in central London.

I hope this catches on in the United States of America.

Democratic is a process,
democrat is what they are...

Thoughts for the Day

There is more money and votes in prolonging the prolem than in providing a solution. Ancient liberal proverb

If you believe that a nation can tax itself into prosperity you might be a liberal. A wise proverb

Every time I argue with a liberal, I'm reminded of quarrels I used to have with my parents. The battles never seemed fair because my folks decided what the rules were and what was out of bounds. Pat Sajak

Arthur C Brooks, a professor at Syracuse University and a former democrat, has written a book that includes extensive data that proves that liberals are less charitable than conservatives in every way imaginable. From cash donations and volunteer hours to donated blood.

Democratic is a process,
democrat is what they are...

Where's the Plan?

In her July 8 letter to Bush, Pelosi insisted that tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is “more than justified” by the “destabilizing impact” that gasoline price increases are having on the economy.

She's admitting that MORE OIL PRODUCTION will lower the cost of fuel.

Republicans note that oil prices have more than doubled since Pelosi herself took over the speaker’s office, promising that “Democrats have a plan to lower gas prices…”

Where's the plan?

Democratic is a process,
democrat is what they are.