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THIS IS SO RIDICULOUS ... NOT TO MENTION DANGEROUS

There are nine people running for the Democratic nomination for president.  Two of the nine, Al Sharpton and Carol Mosley Braun, are absurd footnotes.  That leaves seven.  Can you name them?  Come on, give it a try.  Before you read any further, see how many of the not-so-magnificent seven you can name.

OK, you probably got Howard Dean and John Kerry.  They're the front runners.  You also probably got Joseph Lieberman and Dick Gephardt.  That leaves three.  There's John Edwards and Bob Graham, and that leaves one.  Now I'm not referring to any list here, and I'm stumped on number seven.  So ... a few seconds to think.

OK .. Got it!  It's that weasel Dennis Kucinich. So, how did you do?  Did you manage to get all seven?

Now .... get this.  A new CBS News poll shows that two-thirds of American adults ... that's 67% or almost seven out of ten ... can't name one single democratic candidate for president.  Not one.  Come on folks.  Think about this.  You're walking down the street and seven out of ten of the people you pass can't name even one person running for the Democratic nomination.

How can this be?  These men (and that woman) all want to be in charge of that one entity that can use deadly force to accomplish its goals ... our government.  They want to run the show!  They want to have a say in how much of the money you earn you can keep.  They get to decide where our military goes, and what they do to the people when they get there.  Most of the Democratic candidates want to preside over a grand new socialized health care plan that will nationalize about 18% of our economy ... and we can't name them?

That 67% of people who can't name one Democrat candidate ... what do you want to bet that most of them can name one of the three judges on American Idol?  I'll guess that you'll find a higher percentage of people who can name the head coach of their state university football team and the NASCAR points leader.

They say people generally get the type of government they deserve.  What a frightening thought.

By the way; everybody knows who Hillary Clinton is.

LOOKS LIKE I CALLED THIS ONE

Last week while discussing this matter I commented on the protestors who had gathered out front of the Judicial Building.  I mentioned that these people were lying face down on the ground.  Others were sitting around crying.  It suddenly dawned on me that these people weren't there to protest a court ruling.  They were there to worship.  Not to worship God, but to worship that monument.  That 5,300 pound slab of granite was their God, their Golden Calf.  It was as if their God was being loaded up and hidden away in a private room out of public view.

Last night I was watching O'Reilly.  He did a bit on the removal of that Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Judicial Building.  At the beginning of  the segment he showed a video clip from that protest last week.  In that video clip I saw something that I hadn't seen before.  A man was standing there in the crowd angrily yelling "Put it back!. Put it back!"  Then he screamed "Get your hands off our God!"

Did that man make my point, or what?

By the way ... there have been more than 1000 e-mails over the past week on this incident.  Once again my e-mail staff tells me that the most vicious, hate-filled and threatening e-mails came from those who make the strongest statements about what great Christians they are.

POOR JESSE.  PEOPLE JUST AREN'T INTERESTED IN HIM ANY MORE

Jesse Jackson is desperately trying to get into the news again.  His string of PR failures stretches back to 2001 when he came up with that whopper about the Taliban wanting him to mediate their differences with the Bush Administration.  Then came his 2001 Halloween scare campaign.  And who can forget his memorable participation in Martha Burk's campaign against Augusta National.  When the time came for the demonstration Jackson's advance weasels told him that the crowd was going to be so pitiful that he backed out at the last minute.

Now The Sloganmaster finds himself in New Haven, Connecticut.  He's there to demonstrate for striking workers at Yale.  Are these workers being exploited by this evil university?  Yesterday I told you what these workers made and what they were  being offered, an offer they have refused.  Here's that partial list again.  This is what the increasingly pitiful Jesse Jackson is protesting.

Striking Yale workers:

• Already make an average of $32,000 a year.  Yale has offered them a 44% salary increase over five years.
• They have  pensions that, combined with Social Security, cover 85% of their salary after just 30 years. Most people work for 40 years and get nothing near this for a pension.
• Yale workers have totally free health care for themselves and their families.  What do you think this is worth a year?
• They have seven weeks of paid vacation every year.  That's right ... SEVEN.
• They get $46,000 in subsidies for college bills for themselves and their families
• They also get a $25,000 grant to help in getting mortgages in neighborhood housing.

Sounds like a pretty lousy deal to me, right?

AN ESPRESSO TAX

Yeah .. you got it.  An Espresso Tax.  This one in Seattle.  Seattle citizens are going to vote on a dime-a-cup tax on all espresso drinks on September 16th.  The money is supposed to pay for preschool and daycare programs.  In other words, the money is going to be used to further relieve parents of the obligation they assumed when they brought children into this world. 

One of the backers of the espresso tax says "It's nothing.  It's just a dime."  If it's nothing, then how is it going to generate millions of dollars in revenue?  Millions of dollars is nothing? 

This "It's nothing, it's a dime" nonsense is just how so many Americans have put themselves in financial peril.  They pull out their credit card for a $19 purchase here, a $5 purchase there, and soon they find themselves sitting on a $6000 credit card bill that they can't pay.  Then  the interest payments start to build up.  A dime here, a dime there.  This is also how government spending grows.  A $60 hammer here, a 25-cent raise for garbage workers there ... and soon you're hammering the citizens for "just another measly half a percent sales tax!"

But ... this is Seattle.  It's a city that prides itself on its enlightened liberalism.  So let them tax themselves into oblivion.  And why stop with a dime on every cup of espresso?  Why not lattes?  Why not just every cup of coffee?

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BILL JANKLOW AND TED KENNEDY?

Well, let's see.  Both are politicians.  Both were involved in automobile accidents that resulted in the death of an innocent  person.  Both were reported to have been drinking at the time of the accident.  So ... where are the differences?  Well, Bill Janklow will be charged with manslaughter and could go to jail for a while.  Ted Kennedy, who stood by the side of the road fretting over his political future while a young woman perished in his partially-submerged car, went unpunished.  Janklow is a Republican.  Kennedy is a Democrat.  Oh ... and Janklow isn't a member of America's political royalty, the untouchable Kennedys.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

So, you don't think things are going well in Iraq.  Read this, it might make you feel a bit better.  Democracy, it seems, is taking root in Iraq.  You can bet a lot of Muslims aren't all that thrilled.

Howard Dean is so very far to the left that he's frightening Big Labor and other Democratic allies.  Some are worried that Dean is going to create a new generation of Reagan Democrats.

Mark Steyn of the Chicago Sun-Times is so frightened of Howard Dean that he wants Hillary to step in ... right NOW!

Israel has declared an all-out war on Hamas.  Who could have a problem with that?  Didn't Hamas declare an all-out "until the last Jew is dead" war on Israel first?  It may well be that there will be no real peace in the Middle East until the Islamic radical movement is thoroughly defeated.

American Muslims are upset by federal government scrutiny of their community.  Well imagine my distress. A lot of other Americans are a bit tired of Muslims targeting them for death.

Just in case you don't have enough to worry about right now, there's an asteroid out there screaming toward earth.  The British government has some outfit called the Near Earth Object Centre.  They say that this asteroid could smack us on March 21, 2014.  That's eleven years away.  It's not a sure thing ... more likely it will miss ... but let's all panic anyway.

The Wall Street Journal's John Fund doesn't think Hitlary will run in 2004, but he does have an interesting take on just why Hillary is opposed to a Howard Dean candidacy.  Hint:  It's because he'll loose, big time.

Gasoline prices are way up there, and people, of course, are demanding that the government do something.  How about some gasoline  price controls!  Never mind that gasoline, adjusted for inflation, is not much more expensive than it was thirty years ago ... bring on the government!

I know I've brought this up before, but it's just too amazing to leave alone.  The governor of Alabama, a Republican, is seeking tax hikes in the name of God!  You didn't know that God wants higher taxes, did you?

Order the book.  Know your enemy.

NEALZ LINKS FOR NUZE

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Real Clear Politics
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