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What GW SHOULD say

This is what The President should be saying?  It's worth the read!

We all have our disagreements with President Bush.  Immigration,  U.S. Attorney firings,  Iraq,  Darfur, etc...  are all hot topics these days. The following "speech" was written by an ordinary 'Maine-iac.'  While satirical in nature, all satire must have a basis in FACT to be effective.  An excellent piece by a person who does not write for a living.  Sent with the author's permission.
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The speech George W. Bush SHOULD  give:

Normally, I start these things out by saying "My Fellow Americans..."

Not doing it this time.  If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore.  I do know something terrible has happened, and that you're really not fellow Americans any longer.

I'll cut right to the chase here:  I quit.  Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you, there's been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office. The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people.

I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the world.  Or of what's going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.

Let's start local.  You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians and (... read more)

Interview with Actor Jon Voight

Actor Jon Voight is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal.  He is also known to do a lot of charity work, especially with the homeless.  Unlike most of his peers, however, he rarely calls attention to himself or his views.

Recently, he visited Walter Reed Hospital in D.C. to speak to wounded soldiers.  Here's a brief excerpt from an interview that Radar Magazine did with him about the experience:

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You recently visited with wounded troops at Walter Reed. What were your impressions?

I was deeply impressed by them. Most I spoke to were young people, around 20 years old. And they were really very eloquent, very positive, very respectful. You have to be proud of the children we're turning out from looking at this group of people. For me, I would much rather hear from these guys than the people who are presenting the news on television on a daily basis.

Were you able to gauge the mood among the troops—have they lost a sense of mission?

These guys say, well, it's possible to win it. And I'll tell you one thing they said that was very remarkable: the increase in troops that has been recommended by the president, they say anybody who's over there knows the value of backup and we should be behind this. When you're out in that situation in danger, you want to know you've got backup. Only one guy said he wasn't going back to Iraq, and he had been wounded a couple times. But all the other guys wanted to go back. One young woman, a very attractive young woman, had her leg amputated. But she says she's going to find a way to get back into it. She just re-upped and she said they would find something for her to do.

Do you think it's possible to win the Iraq War?

Here's what I think: this is a real war, extended beyond the borders of Iraq.

As in the more general war on terror?

The war on terror is real. People would have you believe it's not real. This is not Vietnam. This particular situation is not the same wherein we can walk away and just leave destruction behind us. No, we can't. Anyone who has paid attention to what [Iranian President] Ahmadinejad is saying, what all the mullahs are saying in this country and in England, and in all of the Arab world, this is serious—they're calling for the destruction of America and all democracy and that's what's going on. We could lose this war.

CHEAP TOMATOES

From a California school teacher - - -"As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:

I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.

Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park , etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.

Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll -- but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for baby sitters or having family watch their kids. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for ... read more

HEY AL, SO MUCH FOR YOUR "GLOBAL WARMING" BALONEY

Area fruit crop gets bitten by cold snap
By Margaret Matray
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
04/08/2007

Flower buds on the trees at Eckert's Orchard in Belleville were starting to show the effects of the cold weather Saturday afternoon.

Fruit growers in Missouri and Illinois face significant losses after record-low temperatures wreaked havoc on orchards.

The growers said this could be the worst damage they've had in more than a decade. And Hal Swaney of the Missouri Farm Bureau's board of directors said the unusual weather has dealt fruit producers a "true economic blow."

The National Weather Service issued several freeze warnings during the weekend, and temperatures dipping into the high teens and low 20s early Saturday broke the 1939 record by several degrees. Temperatures late Saturday and early Sunday also were expected to hit the low 20s.
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Unusual cold weather brings purple martin crusade
By Aisha Sultan
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Monday, Apr. 09 2007

... The area's five-day cold snap, which should warm up to the 50s today, could
devastate the city's tiny population of this species of swallow.

STAY ALIVE, SEMPER FI!

Semper Fi my Brothers!

In response to the news about the Marine who put two rounds ("double tap") in a wounded insurgent's head in Fallujah, here's a response from a Marine:

It's a safety issue, pure and simple.  After assaulting through a target, we put a security round in everybody's head.  Sorry al-Reuters, there's no paddy wagon rolling around Fallujah picking up "prisoners" and offering them a hot cup a joe, falafel, and a blanket. 

There's no time to [mess] around on the target.  You clear the space, dump the chumps, and moveon.org.
Are Corpsman expected to treat wounded terrorists?  Negative.  Hey libs, worried about the defense budget?  Well, it would be waste, fraud, and abuse for a Corpsman to expend one man-minute or a battle dressing on a terrorist. It's much cheaper to just spend the $.02 on a 5.56mm FMJ.

By the way, in our view, terrorists who chop off civilian's heads are not prisoners, they are ...(read more..)

HILLARY, A BRIT'S VIEW

This is an excerpt from an article that appeared on January 26, 2007 in the TIMES ONLINE, a British web publication. As is typical of British writers, Mr Baker uses an abundance of words to come to a simple conclusion. That is, Hillary will do almost ANYTHING to become President!
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The vaulting ambition of America's Lady Macbeth
Hillary Clinton’s shameless political reconstructive surgery
by Gerard Baker

(An excerpt) ... Once in the Senate she published an absurd autobiography in which every single paragraph had been scrubbed clean of honest reflection to fit the campaign template. As a lawmaker she is remembered mostly, when confronted with a President who enjoyed 75 per cent approval ratings, for her infamous decision to support the Iraq war in October 2002. This one-time anti-war protester recast herself as a latter-day Boadicea, even castigating President Bush for not taking a tough enough line with the Iranians over their nuclear programme.

Now, you might say, hold on. Aren’t all politicians veined with an opportunistic streak? Why is she any different? The difference is that Mrs Clinton has raised that opportunism to an animating philosophy, a P. T. Barnum approach to the political marketplace.

All politicians, sadly, lie. We can often forgive the lies as the necessary price paid to win popularity for a noble cause. But the Clinton candidacy is a Grand Deceit, an entirely artificial construct built around a person who, stripped bare of the cynicism, manipulation and calculation, is nothing more than an enormous, overpowering and rather terrifying ego.
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To read the rest of this interesting thesis about Mrs Clinton's politics, please click on this link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article1296179.ece

... for the curious not steeped in  British-Roman history, here's a link that tells the story of Boadicea: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,406152,00.html