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Archive for November 15th, 2007

A little something from Johnny Cash to remind us what is really important as we head in to the holiday season.

Hope you enjoy!

For those who will travel this weekend to spend their time with family and friends, have a safe journey and enjoy every moment!

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Well, it’s Thursday and I have searched the news sites, read through the blogs I frequent and looked through the on-line news magazine articles offered.

Maybe it’s me, but I have found nothing which is not old, rehashed news laced with a new opinion here or there.

Seriously, how many ways can you say we have won/lost in Iraq?

Can your head handle one more day of Iowa and New Hampshire apparently being the only two states in the Union?

Is there life beyond the Bush Administration and will the next President undo all the evil this one man has bestowed upon this country?

What did Hillary, Fred, Obama, Mitt, John, Mike, Ron, Rudy etc….say yesterday. Did they say/do it to everyones satisfaction? What was their “body language?”

Do I want Hillary as the next President of the United States, no way, but I don’t see anyone out there at this moment who excites me much. I am tired of polls, candidates, speeches which are filled with empty words and promises tied to these endless campaigns. No new news, just the same old tired stuff.

Will we have a full blown energy crisis in this country..one where people cannot afford to heat their homes or put gas in their car and still afford to buy groceries or medicine? Beats me, I haven’t heard much from our elected officials on this issue.

Social Security..nah, leave that alone. It’s almost Christmas..we can’t act on this hot button issue lest we upset an important voter block in this country..instead when it is ready to go belly up, well maybe then we’ll have to deal with it, but certainly not now and not while this President is in office.

Poverty in the US. Dare not touch that one. We need those people to be poor so we can exploit them in the next election.

Immigration, , whoa boy. I’d like a nickle for every word written on this issue just within the last six months. But action, nah, those are “voters” too. Complaining is paramount, let’s just make the “other guy” look bad.

Maybe Wolf Blitzer will make some news in Las Vegas. I can’t imagine it will be anything new but it will be written and over written and explored to infinity.

Thanks to those who will do it, as I will read but if it is anything like what I’ve seen of late, the words may become another big blur. Excuses made for some, others faulted for the tiniest mistake. Ready, set, pounce. Same old, same old.

I’m as guilty as the next guy of this. I admit there have been times I have waited for that next mistake or that gaffe..gee that makes a good story..but how many times can it be told?

Guess what I’m trying to say is that I will wait..wait for something positive to come out of this Congress so I have my faith restored that the electorate did the right thing in 2006. Wait for the nominees to be selected by their respective parties and then scrutinize them further.

I’ll wait for the day when collectively we can respect the Office of the POTUS, not because the press tells us to do so due to their bias but because we know it is part of the strength of America.

I’ll continue to read until I find something fresh and new that doesn’t have the words OJ, Britney, Lindsey or some other “famous” person as the headline.

As we head into this week before Thanksgiving, I’ll wait, but I won’t be writing on events political which have been written a hundred times. I will look for stories of compassion and which are uplifting.

After all, that’s what I thought made us so great as a nation.

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It seems CNN reported a story on John McCain and a question that was asked of him by a crude person in his audience. The audience laughed when the woman said, “How do we beat the *itch?”

McCain looked sort of embarrassed and referred to his potential opponent and fellow senator as Senator Clinton.

McCain’s camp is up in arms about the way CNN’s Rick Sanchez reported it.

The campaign laments that CNN portrayed the event as though McCain did not defend Clinton forcefully enough. The senator, in the short video clip, expressed his respect for the former first lady.

“The CNN Network, affectionately known as the Clinton News Network, has stooped to an all-time low and is gratuitously attacking John McCain for not sufficiently defending Hillary Clinton enough when a South Carolina voter used the ‘B’ word to describe her when John McCain stopped into a luncheon yesterday at the Trinity restaurant in Hilton Head, S.C.,” Davis said in his e-mail.

The McCain campaign manager portrayed the CNN report as an attempt by the liberal media to stop the surging Arizona Republican.

Watch the video and notice McCain didn’t join in the laughing but put his hands over his eyes at one point as though he were trying to figure out how to address the question without alienating the woman with no couth.

Here is what upsets Sanchez:

Setting up the video, Sanchez haughtily intoned: “You’re going to hear a McCain supporter. She refers to Hillary Clinton using really what is a horrible word that is used to do nothing but demean women. Well, at the time, it was a supporter who said that. It wasn’t until later on, when we watched the whole tape, which is what you’re about to see, that you see McCain’s reaction, or lack thereof, that we decided that this is both relevant and newsworthy, and important information to this campaign.” An older woman at an event in South Carolina had asked: “How do we beat the bitch?” An appalled Sanchez complained: “He says ‘that’s an excellent question,’ after somebody refers to Hillary Clinton as a B-word which rhymes with witch.”

McCain is not responsible for what the woman said, and probably should have corrected it immediately, but to say he didn’t defend her is absurd.

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After 39 votes that didn’t pass to bring the Iraq war to an end by a date certain and one veto that was sustained on the same topic, the House has decided to go for it one more time.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats pushed through a $50 billion (euro34 billion) Iraq war bill that would require President George W. Bush to start bringing troops home in coming weeks with a goal of ending combat by December 2008.

The legislation, passed 218-203 on Wednesday night, was largely a symbolic jab at Bush, who already has begun reducing force levels but opposes a congressionally mandated timetable on the war. And while the measure was unlikely to pass in the Senate — let alone overcome a presidential veto — Democrats said they wanted voters to know they were not giving up.

“The fact is, we can no longer sustain the military deployment in Iraq,” said Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “Staying there in the manner that we are there is no longer an option.”

The White House pledged to veto the bill, and Republicans said they would back the president.

“These votes, like the dozens of previous failed votes, put the interests of radical interest groups ahead of the needs of our military and their mission,” an administration statement said.

The bill represents about a quarter of the $196 billion (euro133 billion) Bush requested for combat operations in the 2008 budget year, which began Oct 1.

At what point do we call this insanity? Didn’t someone define insanity as doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result?

I feel as though I’m living through “Groundhog Day” when I read this junk.

All I want from Congress at this point is a real budget for the fiscal year we are already almost two months into.

The rest I want from Congress is to see every representative and every senator up for re-election defeated and replaced by citizen-legislators as envisioned by our Founding Fathers.

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