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Obama: America's enemy in charge?

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:11:20 AM
Barack Hussein Obama's Stated Ten Point plan to "Change" the Second Amendment if elected:
  1. Ban use of firearms for home defense
  2. Pass Federal laws eliminating your Right-To-Carry
  3. Ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns
  4. Close down 90% of the gun stores in America
  5. Ban rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting
  6. Increase Federal taxes on guns and ammunition by 500%
  7. Restore voting rights for 5 million criminals including those who have been convicted of using a gun to commit a violent crime
  8. Expand the Clinton semi-auto ban to include millions more firearms, including 22's
  9. Mandate a government-issued license to purchase a firearm
  10. Appoint jusdges to the U.S. Supreme Court and Federal judiciary who share his views on the Second Amendment
This Muslim educated, anti-American wants to lead our Armed Forces as Commander-in-Chief.   You have to be really stupid to even consider voting for this enemy...or a Liberal, which is the same thing.

Remember, the framers of our Constitution thought it was so important that they made it the Second Amendment, after Free Speech.
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Hire Obama? How stupid can you be...?

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:19:25 AM
Would you hire me?
If I only had 143 days of experience: Would you hire me to fix your car? 
Would you hire me to run your company? If I only had 143 days experience would you hire me to run the country? Something real Americans should think about.
Just how much Senate and government experience does Barack Hussein Obama have in terms of actual work days? Not much. 

From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. 
That's how many days the Senate was actually in session and working (??). After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, 
and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan. 

143 days -- I keep leftovers in my refrigerator longer than that. 

This isn't taking into account the days he has missed. 
 
In contrast, John McCain's 26 years in Congress, 22 years of military service including 1,966 days in captivity as a POW in Hanoi now seem more impressive than ever. At 71, John McCain may just
 be hitting his stride. 
 
Think about IT!!! 
 
If you agree, share this blog with your intelligent American friends.    Don't bother with his supporters, they couldn't comprehend this logic anyway.
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Sorry Barack, we are tired of hearing it!........... Pat Buchanan

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Friday, May 16, 2008 11:16:06 AM
A Brief for Whitey
by Patrick J. Buchanan


Barack says we need to have a conversation about race inAmerica.  Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.  This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africain slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.

Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants.

Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?

Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks.

Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids.

Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America's fault that illegitimacy in the African -American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent ?

Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.
 
 
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What Happens When Democrats are in Control

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Friday, April 18, 2008 9:10:00 AM
Before you vote in November, be aware you may get more than you asked for:

A   little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a   2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19   a gallon;
3) the unemployment rate was   4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we've seen:
1) Consumer confidence   plummet;
2) the cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate
(stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!


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Ethanol Hoax by Walter Williams

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:12:34 PM
A MINORITY VIEW - Received in my email on 3/11/08
 
Written BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS, Professor of Economics at George Mason Univ.
 
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2008, AND THEREAFTER  
 
Big Corn and Ethanol Hoax
 
One of the many mandates of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 calls for oil companies to increase the amount of ethanol mixed with gasoline. President Bush said, during his 2006 State of the Union address, "America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world." Let's look at some of the "wonders" of ethanol as a replacement for gasoline.
 
Ethanol contains water that distillation cannot remove. As such, it can cause major damage to automobile engines not specifically designed to burn ethanol. The water content of ethanol also risks pipeline corrosion and thus must be shipped by truck, rail car or barge. These shipping methods are far more expensive than pipelines.
 
Ethanol is 20 to 30 percent less efficient than gasoline, making it more expensive per highway mile. It takes 450 pounds of corn to produce the ethanol to fill one SUV tank. That's enough corn to feed one person for a year. Plus, it takes more than one gallon of fossil fuel -- oil and natural gas -- to produce one gallon of ethanol. After all, corn must be grown, fertilized, harvested and trucked to ethanol producers -- all of which are fuel-using activities. And, it takes 1,700 gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol. On top of all this, if our total annual corn output were put to ethanol production, it would reduce gasoline consumption by 10 or 12 percent.
 
Ethanol is so costly that it wouldn't make it in a free market. That's why Congress has enacted major ethanol subsidies, about $1.05 to $1.38 a gallon, which is no less than a tax on consumers. In fact, there's a double tax -- one in the form of ethanol subsidies and another in the form of handouts to corn farmers to the tune of $9.5 billion in 2005 alone.
 
There's something else wrong with this picture. If Congress and President Bush say we need less reliance on oil and greater use of renewable fuels, then why would Congress impose a stiff tariff, 54 cents a gallon, on ethanol from Brazil? Brazilian ethanol, by the way, is produced from sugar beet and is far more energy efficient, cleaner and cheaper to produce.
 
Ethanol production has driven up the prices of corn-fed livestock, such as beef, chicken and dairy products, and products made from corn, such as cereals. As a result of higher demand for corn, other grain prices, such as soybean and wheat, have risen dramatically. The fact that the U.S. is the world's largest grain producer and exporter means that the ethanol-induced higher grain prices will have a worldwide impact on food prices.
 
It's easy to understand how the public, looking for cheaper gasoline, can be taken in by the call for increased ethanol usage. But politicians, corn farmers and ethanol producers know they are running a cruel hoax on the American consumer. They are in it for the money. The top leader in the ethanol hoax is Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), the country's largest producer of ethanol. Ethanol producers and the farm lobby have pressured farm state congressmen into believing that it would be political suicide if they didn't support subsidized ethanol production. That's the stick. Campaign contributions play the role of the carrot.
 
The ethanol hoax is a good example of a problem economists refer to as narrow, well-defined benefits versus widely dispersed costs. It pays the ethanol lobby to organize and collect money to grease the palms of politicians willing to do their bidding because there's a large benefit for them -- higher wages and profits. The millions of gasoline consumers, who fund the benefits through higher fuel and food prices, as well as taxes, are relatively uninformed and have little clout. After all, who do you think a politician will invite into his congressional or White House office to have a heart-to-heart -- you or an Archer Daniels Midlands executive?
 
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
 
 
 
COPYRIGHT 2008 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.  
 

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Ethanol Hoax by Walter Williams

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:10:16 PM

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...The Rest of The Story

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:56:53 PM

A Paul Harvey Story!!! Incredible!!!!!


THIS WILL OPEN YOUR EYES! - or at least make you wonder
By Paul Harvey

Conveniently Forgotten Facts.
Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow black
Panther named Alex Rackley needed to die.

Rackley was suspected of disloyalty. Rackley was first tied to a
Chair. Once safely immobilized, his friends tortured him for hours by,
Among other things, pouring boiling water on him.
When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member, Warren
Kimbo took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head.
Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles
North of New Haven, Connecticut.

Perhaps at this point you're curious as to what happened to these
Black Panthers? In 1977, that's only eight years later, only one of
The killers was still in jail.

The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard
And became good friends with none other than Al Gore.
He later became an assistant dean at a Connecticut State College. Isn't
That something? As a '60s Radical you can pump a bullet into someone's
Head and a few years later, in the same state, you can become an
Assistant college dean! Only in America !

Erica Higgins was the woman who served the Panthers by boiling the
Water for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was
Elected to a California School Board.

How in the world do you think these killers got off so easy? Maybe it
Was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the
Defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to
Shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the
Accused Black Panthers during their trial. One of these people was
None other than Bill Lan Lee.

Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He
Isn't a member of a California School Board. He is now head of the
United States Justice Department's Civil Rights Division,
Appointed by none other than Bill Clinton.

O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? Is this other notable
Panther defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther
Apologist now an assistant college dean? No, neither!

The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at
Yale University at the time.. She is now known as the 'smartest woman
In The world.' She is none other than the Democratic Senator from the
State of New York ---- our former First Lady, the Incredible Hillary
Rodham Clinton.

And now, as Paul Harvey said; 'You know the rest of the story'.

This deserves the widest possible press. (where is our press???)

REMEMBER, 'Hillary Rodham Clinton' IS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .

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Liberals killed somebody I grew up with...

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Monday, February 25, 2008 10:13:46 AM
A LONDON TIMES OBITUARY:

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years.. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.

It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an Elastoplast to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame, and I'm A Victim.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.
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What costs more than the Iraq War?

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Monday, February 11, 2008 9:46:26 AM
WHAT COSTS MORE THAN THE WAR IN IRAQ?


1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of
English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare
and Social Services by the American taxpayers.
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused
by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's
two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in
the US . http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens
 from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth,
heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
Homeland Security Report. http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of
mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to
their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex
Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ".
http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

Total cost is a whooping... $338.3 BILLION A YEAR!!!  *********************************************
Also, Illegal Aliens Cause Massive Cuts For US Seniors
http://rense.com/general79/seniors.htm

Additional banking policies to benefit illegal aliens can be found at:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/bankofamerica.asp
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It's YOUR fault, not the government's!

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:32:43 AM
I am going to say some things here that will make some of you angry...but that has never stopped me before!  So here goes..

The recession that the liberal media is blasting from the headlines isn't happening.  When you get past their attempt to discredit the administration and particularly President Bush, you find that most of Americans are doing just fine and most are improving financially.   However, there are enough ignorant folks out there that actually believe what the media says and so have convinced themselves that they are suffering.  Of course they are suffering from owning more homes, bigger cars, more credit cards, more food availability, fancier vacations, better retirement investments, better education, more freedom, more appliances and more technology than ever in history of this country.  Yes, it is possible to convince yourself that you are depressed if you listen to this news drivel over and over.  If you keep saying: "I'm gonna fail..." repeatedly...well, you will fail because you have convinced yourself, and everyone else is saying you will fail.... so guess what.  YOU FAIL!

Yep, the average American is very well off compared to the past.  Sure there are still some who are deep in poverty but whose fault is that?  They made bad choices by dropping out of school, or not getting training for their future, or by not investing in something besides a new TV or car or by living beyond their means. .  Certainly it's not the government's fault - heck, these folks get more daily handouts than the rest of us who pay for them can really afford.   Ever stand behind one of the  "foodstamp"  users when they use their discount card to buy better food than you can and then use their "profit" to buy cigarettes and beer?  I for one am incensed to see this, and have on occasion been tempted to say out loud: " ...aren't you going to thank me?...after all I am paying for your treats..."  But, fistfights are no longer good for me at age 72.

Anyway, the reason for housing market decline is the lack of responsibility of the home buyers who tried to get something for nothing by buying more than they could pay for IF times got tough.  Well folks, times are tough for those economically stupid buyers who tried to Flip a House, etc.  They got caught and now want to blame everybody else but themselves for the result.  They made a bad choice and must now suffer the consequences. 

These same folks complain about high gasoline prices, all while filling up their 20 mpg gas-guzzing SUV's and pickups.  Remember the word "choice?".  Well, no one forced them to choose an inefficient vehicle over one that gets 30-40 mpg.  They picked it out and now complain that our fuel shortage is "not their fault"!  Saving just 2 gallons a day would make our shortage go away!

We Americans have wandered away from what made our country great - taking responsibility for your own actions and having the courage to fix your own problems.  Quit blaming others for your stupidity.  If you didn't vote in your states primary, Shut Up because you have forfeited your right to complain.  If somehow Hillary were to be elected President, then you have nobody to blame but yourself...you didn't vote at all or you voted for her because you are a Democrat and like a herd of sheep, you do what you are told.  But don't blame others, you failed your country so vow to do better the next time.  Next election, get out and work for a qualified candidate.

And when gas goes up to $5 a gallon, as it surely will, quit blaming the auto makers for selling those guzzling dinosaurs - blame yourself for not having the courage to just say no, and for not buying a vehicle that will help be part of the solution to our energy crisis, not part of the problem.

So, forget any recession - take some of the money you spend foolishly on luxuries and invest in a Roth IRA or other stock market based retirement or savings fund.  Don't buy "name brand" medicine, save by buying the Generic.  Don't burden our health system with post-illness treatment...take better care of your body by good using illness preventive lifestyles.  Loose the 100 lbs that plagues the average American.  Be a smart shopper when it come to buying the right food products.  Learn to "read-the-label"!
 
Remember, if Hillary gets a chance to put her Socialized Medicine into practice, every American man, woman and child will suffer, not only financially, but in lack of timely treatment.  Good Doctors will leave the profession in a rush - doubt it?  Just look at England or Canada. 

And, finally if you are hard up - quit your complaining and blaming others for your failures...pull up your pants, turn your hat around, cut your hair, cover up your tattoos, remove the body jewelry and go out and get a job!  No jobs you say?...Pick up any newspaper because there are thousands of jobs waiting out there every day.  It may not be your perfect choice, but at least you will be able to contribute to the American way of life instead of being a burden to it while you are looking for something better.  Unemployment insurance is a shameful thing to take - No American citizen should be  out-of-work more than 48 hours in this country. 

IMHO, as always
Charly
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Democratic Candidates have no Business experience..

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:46:49 PM
Another Email that I feel is worth spreading around....
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Our Canadian neighbors up north have been observing the three ring circus act known as the US presidential primaries. Divorced from meaningless party loyalties and other hysteria, here's an editorial that addresses ... brace yourself ... the qualifications / experience that the democrats and some republicans offer. From  Hillary's phantom 35 years to Obama's ZERO years of experience and achievements it's absurd that these twits are leading contenders for the US Presidency. WHY HASN'T THE U.S. MEDIA PUBLISHED ANYTHING SIMILAR?
 
Maybe because MOST of the Media is made up orf liberal twits.. says Frank Baillie

Democrat or Republican? The question is shockingly easy!

Theo Caldwell,  National Post (Canada) Wednesday, December 26, 2007
An obvious choice can be unnerving. When the apparent perfection of one
option or the unspeakable awfulness of another makes a decision seem too
easy, it is human nature to become suspicious.

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

This pronouncement has less to do with any apparent perfection among the
Republican candidates than with the intellectual and experiential paucity
evinced by the Democratic field. "Not ready for prime time," goes the
vernacular, but this does not suffice to describe how bad things are.
Alongside Hillary Clinton, add Barack Obama's kindergarten essays to an
already confused conversation about Dennis Kucinich's UFO sightings,
dueling celebrity endorsements and who can be quickest to retreat from
America's global conflict and raise taxes on the American people, and it
becomes clear that these are profoundly unserious individuals.

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

For the Republicans, Rudy Giuliani served as a two-term mayor of New York
City, turning a budget deficit into a surplus and taming what was thought
to be an ungovernable metropolis. Prior to that, he held the third-highest
rank in the Reagan Justice Department, obtaining over 4,000 convictions.
Mitt Romney, before serving as governor of Massachusetts, founded a
venture capital firm that created billions of dollars in shareholder
value, and he then went on to save the Salt Lake City Olympics. While much
is made of Mike Huckabee's history as a Baptist minister, he was also a
governor for more than a decade and, while Arkansas is hardly a "cradle of
presidents," it has launched at least one previous chief executive to
national office. John McCain's legislative and military career spans five
decades, with half that time having been spent in the Congress. Even Fred
Thompson, whose excess of nonchalance has transformed his once-promising
campaign into nothing more than a theoretical possibility, has more
experience in the U.S. Senate than any of the leading Democratic
candidates.

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

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

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

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

Does this decision not become unsettlingly simple?

Copyright © 2007 CanWest Interactive, a division of CanWest MediaWorks
Publications, Inc.. All rights reserved.

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"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan  ....

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The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.


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Social Security - Who is at fault?

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Friday, January 11, 2008 2:12:36 PM
When Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program he promised:
 
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary,
 
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program,
 
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,
 
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent "Trust Fund" rather than into the General operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,
 
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.
 

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to "put away" -- you may be interested in the following:
 
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Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent "Trust Fund" and put it into the General fund so that Congress could spend it?
 
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the Democrats who controlled both House and Senate.
 
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Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
 
A: The Democratic Party.
 

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Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
 
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the "tie-breaking" deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US. !
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Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
 
AND MY FAVORITE:
 
A: That's right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
 
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Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and violating of the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
 
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
 
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If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn't so.  However, that is their normal condition as facts tend to confuse them.  But it's worth a try. How many people can you forward this to? Remember,  actions speak louder than bumper stickers.
 
Please forward this to others, especially Democrats, so that they can be informed of the truth.
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NJ - Stupid is as Stupid Does...

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:56:13 AM

"A convicted bank robber charged with killing two armored car guards in Phildelphia had spotted the vehicle on the road and followed it to an ATM, where he opened fire, a homicide detective said Saturday.

Mustafa Ali, 36, executed the two retired Philadelphia police officers without saying a word, police have said."

Another compelling reason to institute the death penalty for every person committing a felony.  Had My 3 Strikes and You're Out proposal been in effect, these guards would not be dead today because the killer would have been executed long ago.  Tell that to the families of the slain officers! 

However, the State of New Jersey just banned the Death Penalty so that criminals like this former bank robber can return to the streets and do it again. 

Don't be fooled by thinking that Life Imprisonment means they will be in forever.  Goody-Two-Shoes Parole Boards and the "bleeding hearts" will see to that.  It is insane to allow any dangerous prisoner to return to the streets, and stupid to continue to pay tens of thousands of dollars each year to support these criminals for life in prisons.  The Death Penalty solves both problems - simply.

The Liberals are responsible for this outrage as much as the killer, so remember that when you are marking your ballot.  What we really need is More Death Penalty sentences handed down, for every crime above a major felony...3 Strikes and you're Out!  Remove from this planet any criminal who injures a victim while performing a criminal act.  Give them one year to file appeals for new trials, then if all remains the same, ZAPP 'em on the 366th day. 

They're gone!  Kaput!  ...outa here forever!  No chance to get out and do it again!  No worry by the victims families of the first crime about retaliation by the crook!

New Jersey has the 4th highest crime rate in the nation, so what do those governing knuckleheads do for the state residents?  They "feel sorry" for the murderers, rapists, child molesters and serial killers...after all, they are people too aren't they?  Let's not give them what they deserve, let's let them live in relative luxury, enjoying game rooms, Sattelite TV, excersise equipment, telephones 24/7, inmate sex, drugs, etc.  So what if it costs about $40,000 a year of their taxpayers money to support these career criminals, the Governor feels the criminals lives are more important than the safety of their own law-abiding people.

So, now if you want to kill and live in one of the surrounding states, grab your intended victim and haul him across the line into New Jersey before you kill him...that way if you are caught, you don't get executed.  You will spend a few years behind bars, then you will be released into society as "reformed"!

My advice?  If you live in "Joisee"....MOVE!
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Good Advice

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:32:37 AM
Remember this motto to live by:

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

Sure beats saving it all up for some mythical hereafter that has never been proven to exist, doesn't it?
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Americans Don't Seem To Care!

Posted by Buckeye Charly on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 8:59:07 AM
Too many Americans do not seem to care that we are in an oil crisis.  With oil today at over $99 a barrel and gas at the pumps pushing $3.20 a gallon, those Americans are once again being self-centered.  They have taken the attitude that energy conservation is necessary for everybody but them!

Starting today, Americans are traveling far and wide to spend Thanksgiving anywhere but home.   Over 37 million will travel, 31 million of those by car, to visit friends & relatives at distances over 50 miles from home. 

I have to guess that those who fly don't think that the airplanes need fuel to fly.  They ignore the fact that they are driving very fuel-inefficient vehicles that only get a guzzling 20 mpg.  They think that their visits are more important than the country's energy future.  They buy SUV's and Trucks that never carry cargo or go off-road.  Or some of these Americans continue to buy 15 mpg luxury cars just to impress their neighbors - ignoring their responsibilities as good citizens.

I wonder just where this group of irresponsible adults hatched from?  What happened to the parents who should have taught their kids that being a good American is one of the most important values they can ever hold?

With the telephone, internet, e-mail, & video conferencing, why do we have to use up our precious supply of fuel just to see people face to face for a few days? 

I think it can be described in one word:  SELFISHNESS!

We should be ashamed...
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