Presidential Candidates Lack Pizazz

There's not a single Presidential candidate who has charisma, charm, energy, or pizazz. None of them stands out in a positive way above any of the others, although some stand out in a negative way below all of the others. Just look at them when they are speaking and listen to the inflections in their voices.... blah. Even they are not being passionate about the 2008 elections.

As for the Democrats, they all sound as if their speeches have been made out of the same mold. As for the Republicans, all of their speeches are moldy. No one wants to take a serious stand on anything..... If one makes a statement today and the other candidates in the field all poop on the idea tomorrow, the one with the stand will waffle within 48 hours. Even my great hope, Fred Thompson, is disappointing.

Maybe Monica Lewinsky should run? Certainly, she must have learned SOMETHING under Bill, if you'll pardon the play on words. And, she had charisma. She could charm the wrapper off of any cigar, believe you me.

So far, this Presidential politcking season is about as exciting as watching grass grow.

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

Liberal Thinking on Double Standards

You've heard the story before.... The punishment is greater for certain drug crimes than it is for manslaughter. Therefore, the argument goes, the punishment for those drug crimes needs to be reduced. And, I say, as many Americans have said before me.... "Horse shit."

I was reading an article in the October 8th US NEWS & WORLD REPORT about double standards, wherein the disparity is between a limit of possession of 50 grams of crack coke vs if he had 56 grams of powder cocaine is that his sentence would be about 1-100th as long for the latter. The article suggests that the penalty for the 56 grams of crack coke possession therefore needs to be reduced.

WHY DOESN'T THE PENALTY FOR POSSESSION OF POWDERED COKE NEED TO BE INCREASED? Am I missing something here? Why do we automatically presume that, if there is a disparity in the penalties of laws, you need to adjust downward? Doesn't anyone understand what damage 56 grams of crack coke can do? Sociologically, economically, ethically, religiously... How can we be so dumb as to suggest that the possession of that much crack coke should result only in a few days of jail time vs years?

Further, if a guy is going to do years in jail for possession of crack coke, what in the Sam Hades makes you think that manslaughter should be days or weeks or months.... Why should it also not be years?

This liberal way of looking at things is totally out of whack with the real world and with true justice.

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

Americans Are Pigs?

Don't know who wrote this, but it's hard to beat....

No Free lunch There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had some Exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Prof noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government.

In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke.'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. While we continually lose our freedoms- just a little at a time.

No Presidential Candidate is Worth Voting For!

On October 13, 2007

That's ...
MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.