ONLY 16% FOR THE HILDABEAST

There just may be hope for the American electorate yet. With George W. Bush down in the polls in his second term, you would think somebody on the Democratic side would ascend to the top of the heap. Only it hasn't happened. And a new poll shows just how much work Hillary Clinton has cut out for herself if she expects to occupy the Oval Office come January 2009.

According to a CNN/Gallup poll...a majority of voters say there's no way they'd vote for Hillary Clinton for president. It's a slim majority, to be sure ... just 51% ... but it still doesn't speak well for the chances for The Hildabeast What about the other 49% Well, 32% say they might consider it, and only 16% are in the diehards camp...they'd definitely vote for her. This is all an encouraging sign.

Have people finally figured out Hillary Clinton? Do they realize that she is a power-hungry socialist, willing to do whatever it takes to grab power? Have more Americans finally realized that Hillary holds most of the common-folk in absolute disdain? Do they realize that she is a liberal elitist who earnestly believes that she has a better handle on how we should live our lives than we do? Have they realized that she is fundamentally mean? Have they seen through her attempts to repackage herself as a moderate on issues like religion, terrorism, the military and illegal immigration? We can only hope so.

She may have the '08 nomination sewn up, but Shrillary is far from a slam-dunk in the general election. Allah akbar.

BUSH'S STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH

I just love meddling in other people's affairs ... so stay tuned to this website. I've never written speeches for a president, though I have for a governor. So ... I'm going to give a shot to writing President Bush's State of the Union Speech for him. What fun! I'll try to have it posted at the beginning of the week.

Dog caught in victory dance with handler at dog show, fark photoshoppers get a hold of it, hilarity ensues.

TEENAGED DRIVER

OK .. so the driver wasn't at fault in that tragic dump truck-car-school bus accident yesterday. Seven children were killed. Seven. All in one car. The children were all the adopted children of one couple. Here's the kicker. The driver of the car .. .the driver of the car with six child passengers ... was only 15 years old. There were originally seven passengers. The 15-year-old had already dropped one off. Now it is true that the driver of the car ... the 15-year-old driver of the car ... did not cause the accident. The blame for the accident goes to the dump truck driver who smashed into the car while the car was stopped behind a school bus. No skid marks. The dump truck never hit the brakes. The point here is that if the 15-year-old were not driving these seven children may well be alive today. If an adult had been driving that car it is quite probable that something would have changed ... the time spent dropping that one child off .. the time spent loading the kids into the car ... a small delay in hitting the road ... a change in speed .... something would have changed to move that car out from between that truck and that school bus. Some adult made a choice to allow a 15-year-old girl drive a car with seven child passengers on an errand ... and all but one of those kids are dead. The tragedy gets worse ... much worse. Barbara Mann is the mother of these adopted children. When her father learned of the tragic accident he had a massive heart attack and died. Barbara Mann lost her children and her father ... and none of us can even begin to comprehend the sadness this woman feels. I can't help but wonder, though, how things might have been different if Barbara Mann had not let her 15-year-old daughter drive .... illegally.

TWO MILLION. NOT BAD.

The University of Georgia has signed a contract with head football coach Mark Richt that will pay him a guaranteed salary of $2 million a year. There's reportedly another $400,000 in incentives buried in there. Now you probably think that I'm going to go off on some sort of tear about how horrible it is that a university .. an institution dedicated to learning ... would pay a football coach so much more than it would pay a Nobel Prize winning professor --- if, that is, UGA even had a Nobel Prize winning professor. Well ... I thought about it, and figured out that I would be off base. Don't blame the university, and don't blame Richt. He's done one helluva job, and some other college would love to have him. Blame the alumni. Blame those Georgia graduates who, not unlike graduates of other colleges and universities, judge the worth of their alma mater based on the record of the football team. The more the football team wins, the more the money starts flowing in from the alumni. In the final analysis, Mark Richt and the Georgia Bulldogs serve as a glorified squad of fundraisers. It's sad that alumni gauge the worth of their school on the record of it's football team ... but that's the way it is, and UGA has to play that game.

By the way ... Richt is great guy. More power to him.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

What is it with rednecks and inappropriate loads? More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

A gunman in California that held a hostage in a bank he was robbing was done in...by his own filthy cigarette habit.  SWAT offered him some smokes and he took the bait...coming down to get the cigarettes by himself.

A father, upset about his daughter's statement that she was molested by a teacher's aide...marched into the teacher's class and decked him.  That's one way of doing it.

'Survivor' winner Richard Hatch is about to be shipped off to prison...for tax evasion.  The reason?  He didn't pay taxes on his million dollar winnings.  We may have just found ourselves another supporter of the FairTax plan!  Remember...under the plan, everybody pays taxes.

WHAT THE HECK ARE THOSE POINTY HAND THINGS?

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