ONE WEEK TO GO

I ranted a bit on the air yesterday about people talking sports.  Who has the best offensive line, who has the best wide receivers, blah blah blah blah.  From a look at some of the email that Web Guy forwarded to me I made plenty of people mad.  It seems that when you attack their devotion to their favorite college football team, you are attacking the very basis for their existence. 

Look .. sports are great.  I'm a big-time Atlanta Braves fan, Falcons, Georgia Football .. the works.  The one spectator sport I love to attend in person more than any other is hockey. Sadly, hockey just doesn't translate to the TV screen all that well. 

The problem here is that I'm about 90% certain that if I waded into the crowd at a sports bar on any given Saturday afternoon I would be hard-pressed to find someone that could name the two U.S. Senators from their own State, let alone the name of their congressman and the person running against him in next week's election. 

Your favorite college team may win or lose next weekend, but the cold, harsh reality is that whatever the outcome of the game, it really isn't going to have any material affect on your life.  Your favorite college or professional football team, or your favorite NASCAR driver cannot put you into debt against your will.  They cannot seize your money or property.  They can't affect your freedoms. 

Are you really aware of some of the things the Democrats want to do if they ever get control of the House, the Senate and the Presidency?  Well ... how about an additional payroll tax?

OK ... try this idea.  I believe this one is from Charlie Rangel.  The proposal is to expand Medicare to include every American.  Not just the old ...everyone.  This, of course, would be very, very expensive.  It would mean new taxes.  So how about a new payroll tax?  How much?  Well, let's say about 8.5%.  That ought to do it ... for now.  But the Democrats know that most Americans buy into this idiotic nonsense about your employers "matching" your Social Security "contributions" ... so the idea is to put a 1.5% tax on your actual paycheck stub, and another 7% tax on your employer's total payroll.  Thanks to generations of government education the politicians know that most voters won't realize that any tax on any portion of an employer's payroll comes out of the money set aside to pay employees.  The result of this socialized medicine scheme?  Less pay for you.

And speaking of government education.  Democrat Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is proposing a constitutional amendment that would take the United Nations declaration on children's rights and make it a part of our constitution.  If this were to happen, and considering the voters in this country, I feel that it could, you would then be violating your child's rights if you took them out of a government school to either home school them or enroll them in a private school. 

And just one more thing to raise a few more hairs on the back of your neck.  Labor unions.  You do know that Democrats just love unions, and unions love Democrats.  About 95% of all union political donations in this country go to Democrats ... and you're about to find out one of the reasons why.

Unions are upset because union membership is declining.  They need a way to increase union membership, and one way to do that of course is to increase the number of union workplaces.  There's a small problem here though.  Workers don't seem to be as inclined to vote to become unionized as they have been in the past.  Why?  Not sure.  Maybe the workers are rebelling against the Democrat-led war on the individual.  Whatever the reason, the unions have a cure, and the Democrats are ready to implement it.

The idea is simple!  Just get rid of union elections!  Instead of allowing workers to vote by secret ballot on whether or not they want to unionize, just pass around a petition!  Once a majority of workers sign a petition saying that they want to be unionized, the workplace automatically becomes a union workplace!  OK .. I hear you.  What's the difference between a vote on whether or not to unionize vs. a petition?  Secrecy, that's what.  In a secret ballot, nobody knows how you voted.  You might not want to stir the puddin' with your fellow workers by refusing to sign a petition .. .but when the election comes around, and you're casting your ballot in private ... you have a chance to make your feelings known without alienating your fellow workers who want the union!  As soon as the Democrats gain the necessary power you'll see this plan implemented.  The legislation is already in place. 

Am I furious at Republicans? You bet.  There is absolutely no excuse for the way they've increased spending on discretionary programs and grown the size of the Imperial Federal Government.  There is no excuse for their failure to curb the Mexican invasion.  There is no excuse for their failure to send people like Randy Cunningham and Mark Foley packing years ago.  Simply put, they do not deserve to hold control of the Congress.  They've betrayed their voter base and have not earned reelection.  The best thing they have going for them is the radical, big-government, socialist, wealth-redistributionist, anti-individualist agenda of the Social Democrat party.

You folks really should check out libertarianism.  Not necessarily the Libertarian Party, but the philosophy.  When the Libertarian Party decides that our borders and our nation are worth protecting from the Mexican invasion and Islamic Fascism, we'll give them more consideration.

JOHN KERRY'S OPINION ON MILITARY SERVICE

The Poodle recently told a group of college students the following:  "You know, education...if you make the most of it...you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well...if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." 

Well isn't that just so very special!  Now we know what The Poodle things about all of your sons, daughters, fathers, brothers and sisters who are "stuck in Iraq."!  They just couldn't cut it in school.  They weren't smart enough.  Now they have found themselves stuck in the military and in Iraq.

If this is the way John Kerry feels about the military, why doesn't he just throw away all those medals he has?  Oh, wait. I forgot.  Been there, done that. 

The Poodle has about summed up his opinion on military service in that statement.  In the coming days, he will do everything he can to backpedal.  He'll tell us that's not what he meant...that he was really saying this or that.  But the fact is, he said it.  What about those who join the military so they can get money for college?  It is an insult for somebody like John Kerry to sit in his cushy office and talk down to those who are risking their lives in Iraq.

The truth here is that this isn't just John Kerry speaking.  This is pretty much the way many Democrats ...especially Hillary Clinton ... feel.  Disdain for the military and for those who serve runs deep in the Democrat mind.

Oh, and John Kerry voted for the war that sent those troops to Iraq.  But he's had amnesia about that for several years now.  And I'm sure the 150,000 troops we have in Iraq are pleased to know that John Kerry thinks they are stuck there because they couldn't cut it in college.

THE CHURCH OF GLOBAL WARMING

More proof today that anti-global warming crowd is not a scientific movement, but a religion.  ABC News reporter Bill Blakemore says he doesn't like the word "balance" when it comes to global warming coverage.  He compares global warming skeptics to the Flat Earth Society....you know, the people who still think the world is flat.  Cute.

This just goes to show you that those who are so sucked into the anti-capitalist, environmental extremist movement refuse to hear any other point of view.  To them, global warming is absolute.  They refuse to accept that there are smart people..scientists even, that dispute the existence of global warming.  They refuse to acknowledge evidence that the Earth really hasn't warmed all that much in the last 100 years.  They refuse to accept that temperature records only go back so far.  The theory of global warming fits in their Leftist, anti-business lexicon all too neatly...and they're not letting go.

Give liberals enough time, and they'll tell you exactly what they think.  When Bill Blakemore reports the news on global warming, he won't be giving you both sides of the story, it will be just one side.  And that's his side, his personal beliefs.  He won't be reporting the news, he'll be serving a political agenda...a pre-conceived agenda that offers no room for any other points of view.

Which is why global warming is not a movement...it is not a theory....it is a religion.

THOSE EVIL VOTING MACHINES

There's just one week to go until Election Day, and already the hysteria is mounting...over voting machines.  After the 2000 debacle in Florida, governments across the country have bought these electronic voting machines.  But the media and Democrats, always pushing the "disenfranchised" lie, are trying to portray them as hard to use and inaccurate.  After all, how can normal people be expected to use a voting machine?  What if they vote for the wrong person?

Think about that position for a minute.  Just about every person walking our streets has used an ATM machine.  We use computers at home....which are much more complicated than any voting machine.  People use self-serve grocery check-out stations.  They pay at the pump for their gas.  The voting machines are not complicated.  They are not hard to use.  But that's not the real issue here anyway.

I want you to consider the possibility that the real issue that Democrats fear is that the machines just might be accurate.  For decades, Democrats have been propelled into office by election fraud.  That is, people voting twice...dead people voting...people being paid off and told who to vote for, etc.  The electronic voting machine gets rid of a lot of that.  Computers are absolute...they only do exactly what people tell them to do...not what some Democratic precinct chief wants.

And then there's the whole issue of the soft bigotry of low expectations.  Shouldn't the people who Democrats say are too dumb to work the machines be offended?  Of course not....not as long as those same Democrats keep the checks coming.

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READING ASSIGNMENTS

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says without a guest worker program, getting control of the border will be very difficult.  Just so we can understand his logic, he's essentially saying that unless you let millions of people violate the border and break in for free, you can't control the border.  Right.

The Internet is taking its toll on the newspaper business...circulations are down all over.  The #1 nationwide newspaper is still USA Today, with The Wall Street Journal being next.  Oh well..they've always got the Sunday shopping ads and people's need to line their bird cages in their corner.

Not only will Dennis Hastert be a goner if the Republicans lose the election next week, but more and more, people are predicting he'll be forced to step aside even if the GOP does win.  Turns out many are none too happy with his performance in office of late.

An interesting trend has surfaced in this year's election cycle:  Republicans running as Democrats.  It turns out many conservatives see the writing on the wall at the unpopularity of the GOP and are simply running on the other ticket.

North Korea has returned to the 6 party talks over their nuclear program, just like they always were going to.  The Norks can ill afford to have their neighbor China mad at them for too long. Which once again proves George W. Bush's policy on North Korea is working.

Christopher Hitchens wants to know what's going to happen to those who support democracy if we just up and leave Iraq?  Hitchens says those who want to cut and run are just afraid of the jihadists...and unwilling to stay and fight.

Thomas Sowell takes a look at the clamor over Barack Obama and wants to know why anyone would want him to be president of the United States.  Not only is he inexperienced, but putting him in power would elevate the agenda of the Democratic party.

Dick Morris says as Hillary Clinton gets ready to run for president, she's updating her position on several issues.  Her latest flip-flop:  gay marriage.  She's now all for it...but not so long ago, she wasn't.  Not only does Morris know this because it's public record, he was there.

David Limbaugh is calling out the Republicans who want to have it both ways.  That is, they want to support the war on terror, yet they are running as fast as they can away from President Bush and the war in Iraq. 

Pat Buchanan takes a look at what happened in the world of politics 50 years ago.  Ike was in the process of being re-elected and the Middle East was blowing up....all while the Cold War was going on.  Interesting how some things haven't changed in half a century.

And now, the final scary video of the day for the scariest day of the year, well besides April 15, this is a clip from the 1932 horror film Freaks. If you haven't seen the whole film, it's, uh, something else. Very high creep factor.

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