......The taking of Polls during this political season is big business. There seems to be dozens of them. The one poll result that has interested me was that College students overwhelmingly favor Senator Obama. When I think about this, these kids are our future. Why would they support someone who is very liberal and inexperienced? The only conclusion I can think of is that our College and University professors exert their beliefs to the students........As I read the latest attempt from the University of Massachusetts to offer College credits to students who would go to the neighboring State of New Hampshire, which is leaning toward John McCain, and work for and canvass for Barack Obama. In an Email to students A UMass Chaplain offered 2 course credits from the History Department if Students would work for Senator Obama in New Hampshire......Outrageous you say? Sorry its true. The University quickly rescinded when the Associated Press started to inquire into the matter. I wonder if they would have if the Press had not sought information about the situation.......Of course this pales in comparison to the University of Chicago who has on its faculty an avowed unrepentant terrorist William Ayers who can influence the young minds of our future generation. The same William Ayers who raised the funds to kick start Senator Obama's political career.
........There are some in SFF that view me as un-caring, have no compassion and have very little morals. I even have been told by many that they will no longer read my blogs. Well thats OK as there are many that I don't read. If the blog title does not interest me I seldom open it. Well I do believe I need to define my belief system as many seemed confused about me. Each one of us are what we believe in, no more no less. I am no exception.
.......#1 I believe America is the most exceptional Country the world has ever seen. We do more for others around the world than anybody. No where in history has a Country been this benevolent.
.......#2 I believe that we are a Judeo-Christian Society that has a values system superior to any other. We tolerate other value systems to the extent that they do not compromise ours.
.......#3 I believe our Government has gotten way to big to the detriment of the individual. Excessive taxation is legalized thievery.
.......#4 I believe that affirmative action for minorities is wrong as it mocks the real achievement of members of those minorities.
.......#5 I believe that the sorry statistics of our educational system is the direct result of liberal policies, Teachers unions and not allowing prayer in Schools.
.......#6 I believe America is not a racist society. Those that blame crime, out of wed lock births and education failures on racism are the only racist we have.
......#7 I believe the Military has done more to preserve freedom and liberty, fostered more goodness than all the University professors and Artist combined.
......#8 I believe that a good Man and a good Marriage does more to a women's happiness and fulfillment than any career could ever do.
......#9 I believe in Bilingual education. Many countries in the world speak at least 2 languages. To not do so further insulates us in the world. English needs to be our primary/business language but not our only one.
......#10 I believe Abortion on Demand is wrong. Along with same sex marriages, schools giving out condoms, and flag burnings.
......Finally I am in the opinion that America is a Right-Centrist society. No far left politician has ever been elected President. The far left are so out of touch so elite they have no clue of what Americans are and what they hold dear.......
.......Those disagreeing with my beliefs are certainly entitled to and I welcome any and all input as I have never banned or deleted or said your comments were not welcome. There are many more beliefs that I believe in but these were the biggies.....
......When LBJ ascended to the Pesidency and his subsequent election in 1964, he wanted his Hallmark to be the "Great Society". The pandering of the poor began. Well in the 44 years since then the Democrats have only occupied the White House for just 16......Now along comes their best hope in a candidate who will "change" the poor pander. Now they are pandering to the "Middle Class". The poor no longer apply anymore as they seemed to be satisfied with their lot. Why not. They get welfare payments, free medical care, subsidized food and housing and best of all dont have to punch a clock or pay taxes.....The Middle Class are now told that they now have it bad so tax cuts and credits are needed for education and health care. The gap between them and the "evil rich" is widening. Unless they get Government assistance they will never become one of the "evil rich". Why work harder, why put in extra hours, why try and better your education? We the government will step in and make your life better. After all look what we did for the poor. It is so terrible now that a person making a mere $100,000 a year has to live payday to payday........After all its only fair for years we took from you and gave to the poor. Now its your turn, we will take from the "evil rich" and give to you........Elect the Democrats and pretty soon we all will become the "evil rich". The poor and the middle class will all become "rich". There will be only one class left, the "evil rich". Isnt Income redistribution wonderful? All the wealth in this country goes in one big pot. At the end of the year we divide it all up and give everyone their "share". Go ahead friends lets get those socialist elected dont you want to become the "Evil Rich?"........Who will they pander to then?
uThe following comments are from Charles Krauthhammer on his recent interview with President Bush.................
......For the past 150 years, most American war presidents -- most notably Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt -- have entered (or reentered) office knowing war was looming. Not so George W. Bush. The 9/11 attacks literally came out of the blue............When I asked President Bush during an interview Monday to reflect on this oddity, he cast himself back to early 2001, recalling what he expected his presidency would be about: education reform, tax cuts and military transformation from a Cold War structure to a more mobile force adapted to smaller-scale 21st-century conflict.....But a wartime president he became. And that is how history will both remember and judge him................In the hour I spent with the president (devoted mostly to foreign policy), his equanimity was everywhere in evidence -- not the resignation of a man in the twilight of his presidency but a sense of calm and confidence in eventual historical vindication.......It is precisely that quality that allowed him to order the surge in Iraq in the face of intense opposition from the political establishment (of both parties), the foreign policy establishment (led by the feckless Iraq Study Group), the military establishment (as chronicled by Woodward) and public opinion itself. The surge then effected the most dramatic change in the fortunes of an American war since the summer of 1864........That kind of resolve requires internal fortitude. Some have argued that too much reliance on this internal compass is what got us into Iraq in the first place. But Bush was hardly alone in that decision. He had a majority of public opinion, the commentariat and Congress with him. In addition, history has not yet rendered its verdict on the Iraq war. We can say that it turned out to be longer and more costly than expected, surely. But the question remains as to whether the now-likely outcome -- transforming a virulently aggressive enemy state in the heart of the Middle East into a strategic ally in the war on terror -- was worth it. I suspect the ultimate answer will be far more favorable than it is today................When I asked the president about his one unambiguous achievement, keeping us safe for seven years -- about 6 1/2 years longer than anybody thought possible just after Sept. 11 -- he was quick to credit both the soldiers keeping the enemy at bay abroad and the posse of law enforcement and intelligence officials hardening our defenses at home.......But he alluded also to some of the measures he had undertaken, including "listening in on the enemy" and "asking hardened killers about their plans." The CIA has already told us that interrogation of high-value terrorists such as Khalid Sheik Mohammed yielded more valuable intelligence than any other source. In talking about these measures, the president mentioned neither this testimony as to their efficacy nor the campaign of vilification against him that they occasioned. More equanimity still.................What the president did note with some pride, however, is that beyond preventing a second attack, he is bequeathing to his successor the kinds of powers and institutions the next president will need to prevent further attack and successfully prosecute the long war. And indeed, he does leave behind a Department of Homeland Security, reorganized intelligence services with newly developed capacities to share information and a revised FISA regime that grants broader and modernized wiretapping authority. ..........In this respect, Bush is much like Truman, who developed the sinews of war for a new era (the Department of Defense, the CIA, the NSA), expanded the powers of the presidency, established a new doctrine for active intervention abroad, and ultimately engaged in a war (Korea) -- also absent an attack on the United States -- that proved highly unpopular.So unpopular that Truman left office disparaged and highly out of favor. History has revised that verdict. I have little doubt that Bush will be the subject of a similar reconsideration.
.......Who is at fault? Where does the blame fall with the current financial crisis on Wall Street? With the CEO's, with President Bush, with the evil Rich, with congress? with Republicans or with Democrats. If you selected any one of those sorry no cigar. The blame lies with those who took out mortgages and other loans and refuse to pay them back. The blame lies with Main Street not Wall street. The "I must have it now" generation has screwed up. The affordability of a purchase is no longer its price but what its monthly payment is. A recent poll says 47% of Americans live pay check to pay check. A whopping 18% of those make in excess of $100,000 a year. We as a society are purchasing more than we need. You see it all the time. I want to see the latest movie instead of waiting 6 mos when you can rent it for a couple of dollars from Blockbuster. I want that 60" flat screen TV. I want that blackberry and I pod. I want I want I want and I want it now. Both candidates are pointing fingers and offering solutions at the wrong problem. They need to tell John Q Public, Hey dumbo pay your debt. Raise interest rates so high no one can afford to borrow any longer. Its gonna be painful for those who have not saved, who have no capital, but so what it needs to be. People will not walk very far with a rock in their shoe. Sooner or later they will take it out. Life is full of choices and when you make stupid ones expect stupid results.
......I was born in 1923 85 plus years ago. Just as the signature song of Frank Sinatra the end is near but through it all I did it "My Way".....I have a couple of older siblings one in Boston and one in Chicago and I am sure they will feel saddened by my passing, for it will mean to them that they will feel older and will worry about how much longer they have left. I led a full life and have been a witness to many historic and memorable events. I have seen Nelson Mandela, The Beatles, Marilyn Monroe. I saw Joe Louis knock out Max Schmeling. I saw Mohammed Ali and Sugar Ray. I was there when Knute Rockne won one for the Gipper. My favorite events have to be the American pastime BaseBall. The games I have seen are too numerous to mention. I have seen 3 perfect games and I was there when Roger Maris hit his 61st home run. Today will be my last but don't shed a tear for me for my life has been full. It will be very fitting tribute for me that when I draw my last breath tonight Frank Sinatra will draw the sheet over my face and close the lid on my coffin with his rendition of "New York, New York", for I am Yankee Stadium, the house that the the greatest player ever to play the game built...................
I see that Candidate Obama is bringing his teleprompter with him on the campaign trail because without it he stumbles and mumbles so many inaccuracies its becoming amusing. Even rivaling "Bushism's" This particular conservative columnist from a very liberal paper gets it now I hope the readers will too.....
.........On Sept. 8, Fox News broadcast an interview between Obama and Bill O'Reilly that focused on taxation and the economy. Obama repeated his pledge to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans, while raising taxes on the tiny fraction who earn more than $250,000.............. "That's class warfare," O'Reilly objected. "You're taking the wealthy in America, the big earners . . . you're taking money away from them and you're giving it to people who don't. That's called income redistribution. It's a socialist tenet. Come on, you know that." "Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill," Obama replied. "Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax." He acknowledged that he doesn't enjoy paying taxes either - "you think I like writing the check?" - but that "there are certain things we've got to do." His tax proposal, he explained, was a matter of civility:..............."If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, I'm going to pay a little bit more? That's neighborliness." If that is Obama's rationale for making the tax code even more steeply progressive than it already is, it's no wonder voters are having second thoughts about his economic aptitude............"Neighborliness." Perhaps that word has a nonstandard meaning to someone whose home adjoined the property of convicted swindler Tony Rezko, but extracting money by force from someone who earned it in order to give it to someone who didn't is not usually spoken of as neighborly. If Citizen Obama, "sitting pretty," reaches into his own pocket and helps out the waitress with a large tip, he has shown a neighborly spirit. But there is nothing neighborly about using the tax code to compel someone else to pay the waitress that tip............Taxation is not generosity, it is confiscation at gunpoint. Does Obama not understand the difference?.........Perhaps he doesn't. Eager though he may be to compel "neighborliness" in others, he has not been nearly so avid about demonstrating it himself. Barack and Michelle Obama's tax returns show that from 2000 through 2004, when their adjusted gross income averaged nearly a quarter of a million dollars a year, their annual charitable donations amounted to just $2,154 - less than nine-tenths of 1 percent. Not until he entered the US Senate in 2005 and began to be spoken of as a presidential possibility did the Obamas' "neighborliness" become more evident. (In 2005-2007, they gave 5.5 percent of their income to charity.).........Obama claims his proposal would lower taxes for 95 percent of Americans, but well over 43 million tax returns, one-third of all those filed, already reflect an income tax liability of zero. In fact, Obama says, his plan would eliminate income taxes for an additional 10 million taxpayers. What he is really proposing, therefore, is not tax relief but a bald transfer of cash - $1,000 per family, he pledges - from the wealthiest Americans to everyone else. In 1972, George McGovern advocated something similar - a $1,000 "demogrant" for every US citizen. Just last year, Hillary Clinton suggested that the government start off every new baby with a $5,000 savings account. Voters didn't take the bait when McGovern and Clinton offered it. Here's betting they won't take it now.......Why not? Because you don't have to be rich to be skeptical when a candidate argues that the top 1 percent of taxpayers, who already pay 40 percent of federal income taxes, aren't being taxed enough. Nor do you have to be an economist to wonder about the grasp of a nominee who tells 95 percent of the public that they can have something for nothing. Obamanomics may look pretty at first glance. But voters are focusing more closely now, and they can see beyond the lipstick.
.....At first when Hank Williams Jr tried to start a career in Country Music he was in the shadows of his famous father and everyone wanted him to sing his fathers songs. An unfair position for anyone to be in. Well to counter this he made it known to all that he was only his fathers son not his father. He started singing his own songs and a lot he wrote himself. So as you read the following verse you can sing or hum his song "Family Tradition"
All my critics get on me, and all of them want to know, 60min why do you blog? Why do you fight? Why do you blog about the things that you write? Over and over they all make this prediction. If I get smoked Im just carrying on a long standing blog tradition.
All the blog posters are a real close family, but lately some of my friends have disowned a few of my Blogs and me. I guess its because they have another direction, and believe I broke an old blog tradition. Stop and think it over as I mean no harm, I just want for them to see my position........
If Heaven don't have a Grand Ole Opry like they do in Tennessee Just send me to hell or New York City it would be about the same to me ...............Hank Willams Jr.
....Here it is the middle of the month and its been 2 weeks since Stillwater has posted. Is there something I am not aware of? Did I miss a post giving the reason for him not to be blogging? I certainly hope nothing is amiss and that he is just "cooling" it for awhile........ When I went on my Reunion trip I didnt blog for about 8 days and I know blogland rejoiced over that, but I am not rejoicing about this. I miss his frequent tales about life and the "King of Nothing". Can anyone tell me if there is a problem? or if they know he is OK? I would appreciate it.....Thanks
.......A senior citizen was in the checkout lane at his local Wal-Mart. While putting a 50 lb bag of Purina Dog Food up on the counter a lady behind him asked "Oh so do you have a dog?" ....."No"" the old fella replied "actually Ive just got out of the hospital and am resuming my Purina dog chow diet. I just fill my pockets with the pellets and munch on a few whenever I get hungry. Lost 25 lbs before being hospitalized". Everybody behind them in line were now interested.....Quickly the lady said "were you poisoned by eating the dog food"?.........."Oh No" replied the old fella "The pellets are nutritionally sound and very safe to eat" ......."But you were in the hospital" said the lady...."Oh That" said the old fella " Actually I stepped off the curb to smell an Irish Setters ass when a truck hit us both. I survived but the poor Setter didnt.". The people in line erupted in hysterical laughter and one almost had a heart attack................Be careful whenever asking a Senior Citizen a stupid question because they have all day to think up fantastic answers........
