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A Modest Proposal by Bewildered Bonnie

bewildered bonnie says:

California recently voted against an initiative that would have forced companies with more than 50 employees to give them health insurance.  Thank God this job killer didn’t pass.  California’s economy has taken enough of a beating with the bursting of the dot com bubble and the endless flood of illegals streaming across our border.

This is going to sound crazy at first, but I think I have an incredible idea to solve two problems at once: slavery.  Hear me out… think how great slavery was to the economy of the United States for 250 years.  We wouldn’t be the country we are today if it weren’t for the free labor.  The abolition of slavery was great for the black people but it sent the Southern economy down the crapper.  So what did the Southern plantation owners come up with as a solution?  Sharecropping.  It was just like slavery only it wasn’t called slavery so it was okay.

We could do something like that now with the Mexicans.  President Bush has said numerous times he believes the Mexicans are coming here to work.  I think his guest worker plan is brilliant – at least we can keep tabs on them – but it doesn’t go quite far enough.  What if they could come here and work in the strawberry fields for room and board.  They’d be provided decent enough quarters… maybe like a big hotel where two families could share a room.  It could hold hundreds of them… and that’s hundreds of would-be criminals off the street!  They wouldn’t be actual property of the corporation that owns the strawberry field, but as long as they wanted to live on the land the corporations own, which happens to be the land the hotel is located on, they’d have to work for room and board and maybe a little spending money.  The same corporation could own the “company store”, so they would get most of that spending money back. And by issuing credit, they would ensure the illegal has to stay and work to pay off his or her debt.

Any illegal caught by immigration authorities isn’t deported so they can turn around and come right back… they’re sent to one of these work hotels.  That way only those Mexicans who really want to work will come here and those who are too lazy to work won’t come for fear they’ll be forced to work if they’re caught. 

How would we force them to work?  Naturally the socialist democrats in Congress would scream about human rights, so we’d have to pass laws that it’s illegal to whip the Mexicans.  But then if there are only, say, three enforcement officers for the entire country, they’d never get around to inspect many plantations, would they?  I think "attitude adjustment" might take on a whole new meaning!

See, it’s not actually slavery.  But for all intents and purposes, it would be.  The economic gains would be phenomenal.  I’d be able to have strawberry shortcake after every meal, they’d be so cheap!  And it would take out half the prison population so our tax dollars won’t have to support so many of them.  And it’d be good for the Mexican too…  life as a 21^st century American slave’s life is still better than a Mexican peasant’s brutish existence.

I think we could get it past the democrats because the corporations would pressure them to pass it.  I think it’d get past the Christian conservatives because the Bible completely approves of slavery.  I think it’d get past the radical blacks because it’s not happening to black people.  The only people who’d really make a stink would be the communist hippies and anti-war homosexual white left.  But then again, half a million of them marched in front of the Republican convention and no one gave a rat’s ass, so they’re hardly a force to be reckoned with.

The only part of my overall vision I don’t see happening is federally funded sterilization and abortion on the plantations.  There are enough of them flooding across the border without breeding more of them here.  But the Catholics would probably have a fit about that one.  We can’t have everything.

Of course I know my plan is completely and utterly never going to happen. I just thought I'd have a little fun taking the far right to one of its logical extremes.

Bonnie

Cheney in 2008!

Running turned humans into what they are today

Running turned humans into what they are today, U. of U. biologist says Marathoners: A new study says our physiology proves people gave up trees for running, but it can't explain why By Greg Lavine The Salt Lake Tribune Runners check watches before the start of the first Salt Lake City Marathon in April. University of Utah and Harvard scientists say the ability to run long distances made humans into what we look like today. (Al Hartmann/Tribune file photo) The thousands of runners who step up to the starting lines of marathons each year may be following in the footsteps of our earliest human ancestors. Scientists in Utah and Massachusetts suggest in a new study that the act of long-distance running made us into what we look like today. In a sense, humans were born - or at least evolved - to run. It remains unclear what motivated early humans to start running across the savannahs of Africa 2 million years ago, said University of Utah biologist Dennis Bramble, who along with Harvard University anthropologist Dan Lieberman authored the study that appears in today's edition of the journal Nature. Some possible explanations include running animal prey to exhaustion on the scorching plains or racing other creatures to reach freshly killed carcasses. The link between human evolution and endurance running intrigued Draper marathoner Dennis Simonaitis, who said the "universal challenge" of the sport helps drive him to run. And an arduous training regiment gets him to the finish line. "I've always thought we were not meant to do this," Simonaitis said, noting the body's incredible fuel requirements needed for long-distance running. Bramble agreed that people were not designed to dash 26 miles. But a review of fossil evidence and previous studies point to the idea that early humans were well-suited to run a few miles at a time. About 2 million years ago, early humans developed adaptations that set them further apart from their primate cousins. Changes in the lower leg and foot allowed efficient running, Bramble said. "If we had only walked, we would not look like the people we do today," Bramble said. "No amount of walking would do that." Lieberman said that developments like the Achilles tendon - which essentially acts as a spring - are only used in the act of running. Evolving features, such as longer legs and arched feet, also aided in running. One possible reason researchers have overlooked running is the fact that people are not exactly speed demons on the track, he said. "Your typical Chihuahua could probably outrun a human over short distances," said Lieberman, who runs a few miles a day. "We're pathetic sprinters." But take a longer view of running, and humans start looking better. Bramble first heard of this idea from a former graduate student, and current colleague, David Carrier, in the 1980s. Carrier looked at how humans regulate temperature while in motion, and thought that maybe people were made to run. Perhaps early humans ran animals to exhaustion. "I didn't buy it," Bramble said of Carrier's initial running claims. But the research started Bramble thinking. Why early humans ran stands as a lingering question. Lieberman said while it is possible people could have run down prey, it is a costly way to live. Lieberman and Bramble instead lean toward the idea that ancient humans living on the plains would look for signs of food, such as vultures circling above a carcass. Breaking into a trot would allow people to get to the food source faster to feast on meat, bone marrow and brain, he said. An early human, Australopithecus, had an ape-like appearance but could walk upright. These ancient ancestors, dating back to 4.5 million years ago, could also climb the trees of their forest homes. "This paper shows that Australopithecus was adapted for short distance walking and tree climbing, but early Homo [sapien] had a suite of changes in the body that were adapted to endurance running," said Henry McHenry, an anthropologist at the University of California, Davis, who was not part of the study. Bramble said humans gradually traded in their tree-climbing traits, like short legs and long arms, for the ability to run. "Our hope is that this will help us have a better understanding of human evolution," Bramble said.

I'm back from a business trip to Canada

Sleeplessly, I had to leave the morning after the election and couldn't get my internet connection to work in the hotel Delta Centre Ville in Montreal.

SHEEZ, my Canadian cousins (Mom is an Acadian from Nova Scotia) are totally wacked out by our glorious elections.  Everywhere I went, as soon as they found out I was an American I heard expressions of incredulity and outrage.  The entire Socialist world is angry and upset at us "stupid" Americans.

However, being half French Canadian and a certified lover of that delightful country, I found myself being much kinder than I would be with my American Lefty friends.

I took the position in my responses that they couldn't think any differently given that their news sources are so totally and completely slanted against Republicans and all other non-socialists. They are basically ignorant of how the US really works and how we are so much more successful than they are in every measurable way.

Because of our Republican Party we -

1 - have much better health care than they do,

2 - have 50% higher disposable income per capita on average than they do,

3 - have twice the living space per capita than they do,

4 - are much more entrepreneurial than they are

5 - and, most importantly, we are a much more high achieving population than the under-achievers in Canada and Socialist Europe.

Is there any wonder that the Socialist dominated media in America, Canada and Europe can't afford to tell the truth and thus condemn their readers to a life of ignorance, relative poverty and spiritual emptiness?

Pity the fools, for they are blind to reality.

Republican Red Sox fans must make team ownership apologize and here's how:

I can't believe how my joy at a Sox World Series has turned into gall at the support team ownership has given to John Kerry.

Like a majority of Sox fans I'm a Republican and I can't stand the idea of my money going to support John Kerry.

I COULDN'T EVEN BEAR TO WEAR MY SOX HAT TODAY.

So, here's my plan. I love the team and the players but I'm extremely angry at the team owners, therefore

I WILL NOT BUY ANY MORE LICENSED TEAM PARAPHERNALIA.

I want to hurt the owners, not the team. I will only buy unlicensed paraphernelia to show my support of the team and my iritation at the owners.

If the Red Sox item has an MLB holographic sticker on it DON'T BUY IT! Tell the merchant why you won't buy it and that you would like to be some unlicensed items.

Don't let the team owners use your money to support Kerry and his ilk.

Since John Kerry threw away someone else's medals,

Since John Kerry threw away someone else's medals,
drove someone else's SUV,
married someone else's wife,
and inherited someone else's money,
let's votefor him to be president of
someone else's country!

Kerry cannot defend America even if he wants to.

As a Republican Red Sox fan I am outraged that Kerry is trying to ride their glory, especially in the advertisement aired in the middle of our celebration of our great victory in St. Louis last night. First of all, most Red Sox fans are Republicans as is the great Curt Schilling.

I well remember that LBJ wanted to defeat the Commies in Vietnam but the Pacifist Democrat establishment sabotaged him and the war effort and dishonored all Vietnam Veterans. This same thing would happen to a President Kerry if he tried to prosecute the War on Terror and Americans would die.

After watching Kerry’s 1971 Senate testimony on CSPAN the other night, it became obvious that he is a PACIFIST. Any objective reading of history will show that while Pacifists aren’t evil, that PACIFISM IS DEFINITELY EVIL.

I’m currently studying early twentieth century European history and the parallels to today are clear and terrifying. England was culturally controlled by Bloomsbury Group Leftwing Pacifist Academic Idealists (LWPAIs). These people were committed to unilateral disarmament in the teeth of the frantic military buildups of Hitler and Togo.

For example, a British Labor Prime Minister of the thirties was pushing for total disarmament “come what may,” exactly as Hitler was building 800 bombers with which he intended to pulverize London. This idealistic politician thought it would be “dangerous” and a great waste of badly needed resources to build any fighters at all, much less enough to defend the homeland from the second most vicious killer, after Stalin, in world history.

In another enlightening example, a group of prominent British clergymen wanted to travel to Manchuria and “place their bodies physically between the Japanese and Chinese armies” believing that their pacifist woo woos would somehow stop those murderers in their tracks and bring about peace and harmony to that sadly brutalized continent.

Today we still have LWPAIs and John Kerry is their leader. I fully expect to hear from some historically illiterate LWPAIs incredulously asking me “Do you really compare Osama bin Ladin to Adolph Hitler?” Well the answer is that your ancestral LWPAIs thought Hitler wanted peace and “Uncle Joe” Stalin was the most enlightened leader on the planet. These clowns are so blinded by their “beautiful” ideology that they are totally incapable of seeing the truth.

The work of these beautiful dreamers directly caused the deaths of scores of millions of human beings. How in the hell are they able to blind themselves to the evil they’ve done?

Around three or four million human beings were killed by Southeast Asian Communists directly as a result of the “work” of John Kerry and his supporters. Did anyone hear Kerry mention the wishes of the South Vietnamese peoples in his erudite but wrongheaded Congressional testimony?

The North Vietnamese murderers love John Kerry.

The Khmer Rouge murderers loves John Kerry.

Most of my Vietnamese friends hate John Kerry.

Two thirds of all Vietnam Veterans hate John Kerry.

John Kerry’s pacifist beliefs render him incapable of defending America.

This man is dangerous. He must not only be defeated, BUT HE MUST BE HUMILIATED.

Most Red Sox Fans are Republicans!

Public Enquiry Project has just completed an empirical study using a proprietary methodology of the political affiliations of Red Sox fans. Here are our findings:

1 - 39.8% of Massachusetts residents are Republicans.

2 - The reamaining 60.2% are divided between Communists, Greens, Naderites, Libertarians and Democrats.

3 - 89.6% of Mass Republicans love baseball and are Red Sox fans.

4 - only 48.2% of Mass non-Republicans love baseball and are Red Sox fans.

5 - A little mathematics thus reveals that 55.17% of Sox fans are Republicans and love George W. Bush while 44.83% of Sox fans will probably vote for Kerry.

GO SOX!

GO GEORGE W BUSH!

Some facts about Bush and Kerry that the NY Times is hiding from you...

1 - Bush is significantly smarter than Kerry.

Kerry was dumber than half the Naval officer wannabees according to the test on his website.

Bush, on the other hand, was smarter than two thirds of the Airforce officer wannabees according to his records.

This shows Kerry with a 120 IQ and Bush with 125.

2 - Kerry was also a legacy at Yale.

3 - Bush was honorably discharged from the Guard after fullfilling his military obligation.

4 - Kerry was dishonorably discharged from the Navy after committing treason negotiating with the Communists in Paris while still a Naval officer. He got that changed after he was elected to the Senate. This is why he won't allow all his records to be released.

5 - As Dukakis Lt. Governor he presided over the creation of Taxachusetts (since dismantled by a series of good Republican governors - Thank God)

6 - Not a single charge made by the Swift Boat Veterans has been sisproved or even contested. Their vilification by the DNC and its controlled media is strictly ad hominem.

7 - Real Red Sox fans hate him. Kerry knows absolutely nothing about our Red Sox. He referred to "The Great Manny Ortez" and was booed when his girly throw bounced before home plate when he was asked to throw out the first pitch at Fenway (it was his first time in Fenway).

8 - More than two thirds of his Vietnam Veteran Comrades can't stand him. He could never be an effective Commander in Chief.

9 - Kerry would have to reinstate the draft if he is elected because most military types hate him and will get out at the first oportunity, or not volunteer in the first place.

I'm teaching my daughter that Republican men make much better husbands than Democrat men

This should be obvious to anyone who pays attention. For example, who's the better husband, George Bush (either one) or Bill Clinton? Even John Kerry and TH Kerry's marriage is more of a business relationship designed to use her money to get power than a traditional child rearing family.

Republicans espouse and strive to achieve a life mitigated by the morality and traditions of Western Civilization. On the other hand, Democrats like to point out others' moral failings to justify their own. In fact, at least half of all Democrats don't even believe in personal morality at all.

To most Democrats, morality is a matter of espousing left wing philosophy and has nothing whatsoever to do with their own personal deeds and behaviours.

The only time personal morality comes into Democrat thoughts and words are those occasional times when they think they see a moral failing in a Conservative, and then watch out.

It is becoming increasingly clear in this election cycle that Left Wing Democrats feel a very visceral hatred towards outwardly morally upright Conservatives. This is the only reason they hate George W. Bush so intensley.

How else can you explain the way they bend over backwards trying to justify convoluted explanations of how Bush is a "liar," violating every fashion of common sense, critical reasoninng and pure logic.

To all you single women out there, ,if you want to marry a man you can never trust, marry a Democrat.

If you want to marry a man you can count on, marry a Republican.

Can this Girlie Man defend America?

This guy is a very good Ambulance Chaser and nothing else. He's an expert at conning simpletons and has no background whatsoever that qualifies him to be President of the US. How low has the modern Democrat Party gotten?

George Bush is certifiably smarter than John Kerry.

THIS POST IS COPIED FROM OUR FRIENDS AT THE SWIFTBOAT VETS -

A reporter for a major press syndicate has been interviewing me, and a sneak preview of the story is at http://www.vdare.com/sailer/kerry_iq_lower.htm

Some of you were not in on the hush-hush that led up to this. I didn’t want to make an announcement until it had been documented and nailed down like Florida plywood in September. I didn’t want to look like CBS.

When I had completed my research I contacted a national reporter who enthusiastically began independently validating my work. While he was gathering quotes from IQ experts and writing the story I needed to keep things quiet. We don’t need to keep it secret anymore.

Many people assumed Bush was stupid because he spoke with a regional dialect and exhibited a personable, “down home” demeanor. Likewise many people thought Kerry was smart because he had an East Coast (Boston) accent and a patrician demeanor. Surprisingly, even many of my fellow Mensans share this bias with the general population. Most Mensans think Kerry is smart and Bush is stupid.

I am an Iowa farm boy, and have lived with the bigotry of city people who just assume that a country boy is stupid. The most obvious example of this regional bigotry in America is that many blue state people think the red state people are stupid.

I also serve as Gifted Child Coordinator. In that position I have come to see many gifted children who were also learning disabled in some area. I am a math idiot, but I still belong to Mensa. I am reminded of a brilliant young MENSA Scholarship winner who stumbled painfully reading his written “thank you” at the awards banquet. Over the years I have become sensitive to the cruel stereotypes which imply that gifted children are stupid. I endured this myself as a child. So did many of you. Let’s just say I am sensitized to the issue of calling people stupid because of personal habits or eccentricities.

Being personally irritated with this cultural prejudice, I started to do some research of my own.

Here is what the research shows:

Linda Gottfredson, co-director of the University of Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society, told United Press International: "I recently converted Bush's SAT score to an IQ using the high school norms available for his age cohort. Educational Testing Service happened to have done a study of representative high school students within a year or so of when he took the test. I derived an IQ of 125, which is the 95th percentile." In other words, only one out of 20 people would score higher.

Another IQ expert, Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute, the co-author of the bestseller "The Bell Curve," came up with a similar result when asked by UPI. Noting that everybody except high school dropouts takes the PSAT when they are sophomores, Murray calculated from PSAT scores that "I think you're safe in saying that Dubya's IQ, based on his SAT score, is in excess of 120, which puts him in the top 10 percent of the distribution, but I wouldn't try to be more precise than that." By Steve Sailer - UPI National Correspondent http://www.isteve.com/

I am somewhat disappointed with these results because what I wanted to be able to say is that Bush could join Mensa but Kerry could not. As it turns out, neither candidate can join Mensa.

How do I know that Kerry could not join Mensa? I already had Kerry’s Navy records re his IQ. They are posted on the Kerry campaign website in a document called Officers Qualification Test. http://www.johnkerry.com/about/john_kerry/military_records.html

I am comfortable with the accuracy of saying Kerry has an IQ of 115 to 118 as compared to Bush having an IQ of 125 to 128. While this is not as dramatic a story as I hoped, I still think this will be a slack-jawed surprise to most people, except for the “good old boys”. Yep, you guessed it, some red state people think blue state people are stupid.

Conclusion # 1: George Bush is a man with superior intelligence who is portrayed as stupid, because of the cultural bigotry of others.

Conclusion # 2: Kerry isn’t stupid either. A 115 IQ will do the trick. John Kennedy’s IQ was 117. But no matter how one looks at it Bush is smarter than Kerry.

I know that really goes down hard for some folks. Part of their hatred of Bush is he is stupid. Well, if “W” is stupid, Kerry is stupider!

Sam Sewell
IQ DESCRIPTION PERCENT OF ADULTS
Above130 Very superior 2.2
120-129 Superior 6.7
110-119 Bright normal 16.1
90-109 Average 50.0
80-89 Dull normal 16.1
70-79 Borderline 6.7
Below 70 Defective 2.2

Sam Sewell
Mensa Member # 1061487

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Just this morning a Dad at my daughter's school said "I can't talk to you" because I wouldn't agree that Bush is horrible.

He's an M.D. He's a Psychiatrist who thinks he's so smart.

Yet he doesn't know what a phase change is; he knows nothing about physics; he knows absolutely nothing about economics; he has no "street smarts;" his knowledge of mathematics is very limited.

I know all this from many prior political discussions.

Yet because "I'm a Doctor!" he thinks I should accept his political idiocies without question. He always gets very angry with me when I don't. He then treats me like a very stupid father raper.

He drives a Mercedes, dresses like a professor and is admired by the Upper Middle Class parents at my daughter's school.

YET HIS KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE IN GENERAL AND HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS IS SO LIMITED.

SHEEEEZ, how can these "brilliant liberals" be so STUPID?

Why are the Democrats so nasty now?

I have voted in every presidential election since 1968 (I voted for HH Humphrey by absentee ballot as I was in the Navy) and I have never seen such bitterness and outright nastiness. Not ever.

I can’t talk about the election with my own son.

My wife and I can’t talk about the election with my Mother-in-Law.

I can’t talk about the election with one of my best friends of 20 years.

My Democrat neighbors won’t say hello.

Some of the Democrat parents at my daughter’s school are actually nasty.

When I ask “Give me a reason to vote for Kerry that isn’t based in how bad Bush is?” they shut up.

“Did you see Fahrenheit 911?” is the most common question they ask.

I’m extremely worried that the DNC is going to try again to steal the election no matter what the vote count is. If we have 5 or 6 Florida’s and we don’t have a resolution by Inauguration Day, that will be a great tragedy and Americans might die.

WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?

IS THERE HOPE?

IS WAR A LEGITIMATE ANSWER TO PROBLEMS BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC?

My answer is yes and I cite:

1 – The first great democracy, Athens, was a military state that gained prominence through military conquest and used the spoils to promote the greatest culture of its time.

2 – Aristotle’s most illustrious student, Alexander, spread Hellenistic Civilization throughout the known world enrichening the lands he conquered.

3 – The Romans, most notably under Julius Caesar, further spread their Greek derived civilization, by military conquest, to the Western lands not reached by Alexander civilizing the barbarians of Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Portugal.

4 – The Prophet Mohamed spread his civilizing religion militarily.

5 – Charles Martel, at the battle of Tours, stopped the Muslim invasion that would have turned Western Europe into an Islamic Caliphate and destroyed Western Civilization forever.

6 – William Duke of Normandy conquered Anglo Saxon England enrichening the language and culture of those little islands to the point that English became both the language and wellspring of the democratic capitalism that has done the best job of all competing political systems of alleviating the miseries of the great masses of humanity while greatly enrichening them.

7 – The Medieval Wars of Religion reformed Christianity and removed the deadening heel of the political Papacy from the neck of Christian Europe.

8 - It was the American Colonists military prowess that allowed them to break free of the British Monarchy and create the greatest Democracy ever.

9 – The Civil War eliminated the “original sin” of slavery.

10 – World War I stopped the first German drive to enslave Europe.

11 – World War II stopped the second drive of Germany to enslave Europe and the drive of Imperial Japan to enslave all Asia.

12 – The Korean War stopped the advance of Communism in that peninsula.

13 – The Vietnam War stopped the advance of Communism in Southeast Asia.

14 – The gulf War liberated the Kuwaitis and removed a threat to the petroleum lifeline of Civilization.

15 – The Afghanistan War liberated her people from their Taliban and al Qaeda oppressors making America and the World safer.

16 – The Iraq War liberated her people from a murdering despot, removed an al Qaeda ally and source of WMDs from power making America and the World safer.

Therefore it should be clear that more good has been done by military prowess and war fighting ability than any other aspect of human character. Of course this awesome power is best directed by a legitimate democratic government ruled by enduring humanistic principles.

JOHN KERRY WOULD BE A DISASTER AS PRESIDENT BECAUSE he has no record or, more importantly, no advisors with a record of successfully conducting foreign policy because they are afraid of war and against war as an instrument of foreign policy.

What is the “Exit Strategy” for my beloved Red Sox in Game Seven tonight in Yankee Stadium?

Is that a stupid question? Of course it is. The Sox will either win or lose. My neighbors, family and I will experience either agony or ecstasy tonight. We have no other choice. Only an idiot would ask such a question.

So why is the Iraq War different? We will either win or lose. That’s all there is. Any “exit strategy” Kerry might come up with means we’ll lose. That’s it. This old Vietnam Veteran has seen this all before.

What if Kerry wanted the job of manager of the Red Sox? Can you imagine what he’d be saying about Terry Francona this morning? Here are some interesting possibilities”

1 -“Francona is so incompetent that he has no plan to win the series after he’d won three games in a row. I can do better.”

2 - “Last night the Red Sox made 27 outs in nine innings. Francona is so lousy at his job because he had no plan. I can do better.”

3 - “I know the Sox won, but that’s only because the Yankees got 27 outs before they got five runs. I can do better.”

4 – “Can you believe Francona’s team scored absolutely no runs in eight of the nine innings? I can do better.””

5 – “Curt Schilling allowed Bernie Williams to smash a huge homerun while Francona was managing him. I can do better.”

6 – “Francona allowed Keith Foulke to walk two Yankees in the bottom of the ninth. I can do better.”

The funny thing is Kerry was booed by the Sox fans when he threw out the first ball earlier in the season. He didn’t even know the names of any of the Sox players and expressed admiration for “Manny Ortez” dissing the great Manny Ramirez and the great David Ortiz.

While John F. Kerry knows absolutely nothing about Baseball and the Red Sox, he knows far less about being the President of the United States of America. This guy is the ultimate phony.

My friends, listen to what he says about the Red Sox after tonight’s game and know that he knows absolutely nothing about what he’s talking about.

I would be a much better president than him.

GO SOX!

Here’s the killer argument needed to defeat Kerry…

While John Kerry promises that he will “fight for a safer America;” those of us who weren’t born yesterday know that he’s lying and that he even knows it.

How do we know it? Just look back to the LBJ and Vietnam years. LBJ really wanted to stop the murderous Communists in Southeast Asia, but the Democratic Party power structure lost heart when the going got hard abandoning those of us who actually served when our country asked us to. Anyone who remembers the sixties knows that –

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE DEMOCRATS QUIT AND GET OUT, leaving our friends and allies to pay the price and die. Yet Kerry says “our friends” would give us money and soldiers to help out in Iraq. Kerry knows this is a lie.

We know that each and every one of the Neocoms who support his election hates the military and shares the feelings of “verplanck colvin” who recently posted the following on my site, Public Enquiry Project:

“…Oh, and as for Vietnam, GET OVER IT. This post-baby-boomer is sick of hearing the self-centered bleatings of a washed up generation debate over this war AGAIN. Who cares if Kerry tossed his ribbons/medals? Who cares if Bush snorted coke and missed out on reporting for duty in Alabama? I don't!...
Posted by: verplanck colvin”

These are the sorts of people Kerry would appoint to implement his policies. The fact that these folks hate us is secondary to the fact that they would be responsible for the defense of America.

DOESN’T ANYONE ELSE SEE THE ABSURDITY OF PUTTING MILITARY HATERS IN CHARGE OF OUR DEFENSE IN THIS DANGEROUS WORLD?

The Democrats have absolutely no realistic military thinkers that they pay attention to. Would any Democrat have put US soldiers on the ground to kick Saddam out of Kuwait or the Taliban out of Afghanistan? I won’t even ask about Iraq.

Under a President Kerry, Somalia would be the model for military action – get out if any Americans get killed. People in the know realize that the Clinton Somalia disaster was directly responsible for the emboldening of bin Laden that directly led to the loss of 3,000 Americans on 9/11.

Furthermore, almost all active duty military and veterans know full well Kerry’s traitorous history and would quit before they would serve under such a discredited Commander-in-Chief. Also, the patriotic young folks who would normally volunteer to serve would almost certainly stay at home.

The obvious result of these truths is that a President Kerry (God save us) would have to implement the draft if he is really going to keep his promise to protect America.

John Kerry must be defeated soundly if the American way of life is to continue.

John Kerry has no honor and he endangers America.

Here's why the Bush Tax Cuts Create Jobs and Kerry Tax Cuts Don’t…

When you look at the graph of the value of a stock or the economic activity of an economy you will see that knowledgeable analysts break it down into short term fluctuations around long term trend lines. The short term fluctuations are noise and the trend lines are the real signal. The noise should be ignored and the signal is valuable information to be used in your planning. Modern Republican political speaking always has a much higher Signal to Noise Ratio than modern Democrat Political Speaking.

Trend lines can be up or down, a little or a lot. This characteristic of a trend line is its slope. Tax Rate Cuts increase the slope of long term trend lines, and permanently increase growth. The Reagan tax rate cuts are the real reason the US is so far ahead of the Euro Socialist nations in the wealth of its citizens as measured in GDP per capita.

Noise is all over the place and is fairly meaningless in the long run. Democrat political talking points are almost always noise. Because of this, the spouters of Democrat talking points almost never understand what they’re saying.

Proposed Democrat tax cuts (I say proposed because no Democrat has ever actually passed an income tax rate cut in 40 years although they’ve promised plenty) are always temporary give-aways to their upper, lower and no income constituents and are supposed to “stimulate” the economy when they are spent at McDonalds or Target. From a long term perspective these illusory Democrat promises are merely noise.

Republican tax cuts are real and actually do create jobs. Above all, Republican tax cuts are MARGINAL TAX RATE CUTS that increase the slope of the economy’s trend line. When individuals or companies plan future enterprises, the Marginal Tax Rate is always prominent in the Pro Forma they will use to determine whether the proposed enterprise is worth doing in the first place. If they decide to go ahead with a proposed job creating enterprise, the Pro Forma will be the tool they use to raise the necessary capital to start their new business (or division) that will create new jobs for America’s workers.

This is why the Republican passed low marginal tax rate United States of America is so much richer than the high marginal tax rate Euro socialist nations.

A VOTE FOR BUSH IS A VOTE FOR JOBS!

A vote for Kerry is a vote for noise.

Adrian the commonsense economist

The Dems are going crazy...

Yesterday I had a brief discussion with an older lawyer neighbor. He's passionately for Kerry.

He said he can't stand the "extreme Right Wingers" ranting about their "warlike attempts to build an American Empire and remake the Middle East in their own image."

I asked him to name a single extreme Right Winger and what "empire" are you talking about? And he responded gruffly "All of them are Extreme Right Wingers and the empire is the Middle East." He went on "If you can't see that Bush's people are dangerous extreme Right Wingers then I don't want to discuss it with you."

I responded "Trying to bring Democracy to the Middle East doesn't seem so bad to me." and he responded "You're not open minded, you're brain washed. I don't want to discuss this with you anymore."

WOW. These Kerry supporters have really drunk the Kool Aid. They can't even talk with people who don't agree with them.

“My former mother” – or how Japanese families differ from Western families.

Over the past twelve years we’ve had a few score Japanese exchange students live with our family. I’ve spent uncounted hours eating meals with them, watching TV with them and chatting with them. I love Japan and her people, especially her girls.

I know that Asian families don’t adopt orphans and that when Asians get divorced – which is looked down on and rare - that the children are often irrevocably separated from their mothers. If a divorced mother remarries she usually “leaves” her children in the care of a Grandmother.

Almost without exception we’ve found the Japanese girls who’ve lived with us to be delightful temporary family members. The sweet 28 year old that just moved in this past weekend has an amazing story to tell us. She shared wonderful pictures of her family, including pictures of the traditional Japanese Wedding of her father and “mother” in a magnificent Shinto temple. Her mother wore fourteen kimonos; the top one being just like the one Princess Masako wore when she married the crown prince. But the wedding was only ten years ago.

Her birth parents were divorced when she was eight and her father kept her and her brother. She was told her “former mother” was jealous of her and had “gone away.”

My wife was astounded that she hadn’t seen her birth mother in twenty years, even though we knew this was culturally accepted, even necessary in Japan. Cindy couldn’t imagine carrying a child for nine months and caring for her ‘til age eight and then just leaving.

Yes, Asian “family values” are often wonderful… but they are very different from ours, and in some ways, not as good. Perhaps the best family value system would be a mix of Asian and Western family values.

Vote for Kerry if you want the draft to return

I don't understand how "college students" can be so dumb as to think Bush would bring back the draft and Kerry wouldn't.

The truth is that Kerry is so despised by both veterans and active duty military that thousands upon thousands of career soldiers will not re-up rather than serve under Kerry as Commander in Chief. Furthermore, many more thousands of young people who would otherwise sign up won't for the same reason.

In addition, Kerry says he'd immediately add 40,000 new soldiers to our military. WHERE WILL HE GET THEM?

A President Kerry would be forced to institute the draft if he keeps his promise to defend America. Of course, he wouldn't need a draft if he ignored that promise.

However you look at it, a Kerry victory would be a disaster for America.