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What many people view as the great mythical battle between the forces of good and those of evil may, in reality, be coming to a rapid close.  That might be considered the good news except for the sorry fact that it now appears that the forces of evil will prevail.
The diversity of human population calling themselves Americans have seemingly allowed themselves to become convinced that President George W. Bush is the worst U.S. President of all time and that they only possible way to correct that problem is to turn the reins over to the Democrats.  Eventually, history and hindsight will correct this perception; unfortunately, by the time this correction becomes possible, it may, very well, be too late.

George W. Bush was inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States on January 20, 2001.     During his campaign he had labeled himself as a “compassionate conservative,” and promised to restore the honor and dignity to a White House that William Jefferson Clinton had turned into his personal bordello.  He proposed lowering the taxes on the American people and promised a balanced budget.  He freely admitted the influence his Christian beliefs had on his decisions and supported participation of religious charities in federally funded programs.  He supported national educational reform and promoted school vouchers.  He pledged to reform Social Security and Medicare, strengthen free trade, form stronger economic ties with Latin America and Mexico, improve the structure of the American military and expand the National Missile Defense initiative.  Nine months to the day after George W. Bush was inaugurated, his presidency was effectively hijacked by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Despite the terrorist attacks that would overshadow the remainder of his two terms in office, George W. Bush worked diligently to accomplish the goals he had initially set out for himself.   On his first day in office, Bush moved to block federal aid to foreign groups that offered counseling or other assistance to women in obtaining abortions. He successfully managed to get the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, enacted in 2003.  He created the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives to assist in the channeling of more federal aid to faith-based service organizations.  With the support of the chief Democratic sponsor, Ted Kennedy, Bush successfully lobbied to get the No Child Left Behind Act implemented.  He increased funding for the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in his first years of office, and created education programs to strengthen the grounding in science and mathematics for American high school students.  He successfully increased de-regulation and investment options in social services and lead Republican efforts to pass the Medicare Act of 2003, which added prescription drug coverage to Medicare and created Health Savings Accounts.  On January 14, 2004 Bush announced a major re-direction for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Known as the Vision for Space Exploration, it calls for the completion of the International Space Station by 2010 and the retirement of the space shuttle while developing a new spacecraft called the Crew Exploration Vehicle under the title Project Constellation. The Crew Exploration Vehicle would be used to return American astronauts to the Moon by 2018.  President Bush supported stem cell research, but only to the extent that human embryos are not destroyed in order to harvest additional stem cells.  He signed the Amber Alert legislation into law on April 30, 2003 and on July 27, 2006 he signed the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act which establishes a national database requiring all convicted sex offenders to register their current residency and related details on a monthly instead of on a yearly basis as it was previously. He also increased the mandatory incarceration periods for newly convicted sex offenders.  Despite facing stiff opposition from the Democrats in Congress, George W. Bush proposed and won a $1.3 trillion tax cut one of the largest in U.S. history. He also sought and obtained Congressional approval for two additional tax cuts: the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002 and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.    Throughout his terms of office, President George W. Bush demonstrated the tenacity of his personal convictions and gave true meaning to the words “compassionate conservative.” 

Without regard for the absence of any true foundation or supporting evidence, the allegations voter fraud and election stealing rode the crest of the media wave that blasted across the nation after the Democratic loss of 2004.  Never really too concerned about substantiation for the “truths” they spread, the Democratic National Party quickly became a morass of die-hard partisan liberals fixated on revenge.  “At any cost,” became the battle cry of these desperately sore losers and they collectively swore to pull in all favors and use any resource possible to achieve the downfall of their hated enemy and return them to their former glory and control of the United States of America. 

The results of public opinion polls pouring continuously from every conceivable media outlet like floodwaters through the broken levees of New Orleans, illustrate the effectiveness of the Democratic Party’s concerted character assassination of our 43rd President and all other Republican office holders in the United States.  Even the smallest bit of good news regarding the U.S. economy or the war in Afghanistan and Iraq is subjected to marginalization and slanted opinion prior to publication while blame and criticism of the Bush administration, often no more than extremely biased opinion, are given two-inch headlines and front page preference.  The ridiculously low death-rate of American soldiers in Iraq is afforded a level of sensationalism that is completely out of all proportion when compared to the death rate of American citizens by violent street gangs coddled like children in large (and predominantly Democratic) American cities like Los Angeles and New York.  Every affront to the greedy special interest con-artists has become a front-page story of government oppression as if the criminal, economy-sapping, illegal aliens actually had a guaranteed right to American Social Security money or the blood-sucking labor unions were really invested with the inalienable right to increase your tax burden to pay for their outrageous pensions.  When the overwhelming forces within the Democratic National Party committed to their desperate policy of “At any cost,” they consciously agreed to not withhold any outrageous lie or blatant fabrication and they agreed that any course of action that brought shame on the country or adversely impacted the U.S. efforts abroad would be acceptable as long as it damaged the credibility of the Republicans.  The security of the United States and the welfare of the American people are merely of secondary importance in the minds of these Democrats who are fanatically committed to regaining their full and absolute control of the American government and, unfortunately, the American public seems to be, not only blind to the entire thing but willing to buy into it.

While the Democratic presidents before him turned the other cheek to the depraved acts of political terror against U.S. citizens, George W. Bush acted promptly and decisively against those who would slaughter innocent human beings in the name of their God.  Where Carter and Clinton felt the burning need to negotiate with the unreasoning madmen who killed so easily the Americans they could reach, George W. Bush launched high explosive missiles and wave after wave of American bombers.  Where the Democratic leaders saw an issue that needed to be discussed at length, George W. Bush saw a nightmare vision of  a very real and very possible future twenty or thirty years down the road if the United States kept it’s head buried in the Democratic sands of politically correct, inoffensive, turn-the-other-cheek diplomacy.  That nightmare vision was our world’s future, a future with the entire western world bent over the barrel of extremist threats and domination by clinically insane, nuclear armed, Islamic fundamentalists intent on world-wide Islamic law or, as their first and only alternative, the complete annihilation of humanity.

Who will stand between the citizens of the United States of America and the psychotic Muslim Jihadists who will overrun our embassies and slaughter our soldiers before coming for us?  Ike Skelton?  Henry Waxman?  John Conyers?  Nancy Pelosi?  Will John Kerry fight for the lives of the American citizens against the Islamic fanatics as hard as he fought for the Communist takeover of Vietnam?  Will Dan Quayle stand up for the people of the United States with as much enthusiasm as he has demonstrated for the endangered kangaroo rat?  Who will stand between the citizens of the United States of America and the psychotic Muslim Jihadists who will overrun our embassies and slaughter our soldiers before coming for us?   Nobody
 

L.A. Times writer, Ron Brownstein, has published his report on a new poll taken by the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg.  In his report, Brownstein indicates that, “Capturing a Senate majority is within the Democrats’ reach, but the party is facing potentially decisive resistance from rural voters in three critical Republican-leaning states.  If Democrats can’t break through on Nov. 7 to win the Senate races in at least two of those three states — Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia — they are unlikely to control the chamber.”
He explains that this latest and greatest poll illustrates the trends in thinking that are creating opportunities for the Democratic contenders.   He then offers the opinion that the push behind these trends are coming from the American citizens perception of the war in Iraq, a vague sense of dissatisfaction with the country’s direction and the essentially much disputed disfavor that the reported “majority” of Americans now have for the entire conservative end of the political spectrum in general and the Bush administration in particular.  These comments appear peppered throughout the story and it is unclear whether they were part of the actual poll or if they are simply unsupported statements of opinion thrown in just to liven up his discussion.   

Some of the deductions made by Brownstein as a result of this poll are that:

The Ohio Democratic challenger, Rep. Sherrod Brown, is leading Republican Sen. Mike DeWine, 47% to 39%.

The New Jersey Democratic, Sen. Robert Menendez, is holding a 45%-41% edge over his GOP challenger, Tom Kean Jr.

The Virginia Democrat, Jim Webb, led Republican Sen. George Allen, 47% to 44%.

The Missouri Republican, Sen. Jim Talent, is leading Democrat Claire McCaskill, 48% to 45%.

The Tennessee, Republican, Bob Corker, leads Democratic Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr., 49% to 44%.

And finally we have my personal favorite; an unnamed percentage of the majority of all American voters polled stated that they preferred that the Democrats rather than Republicans control a majority in Congress after the election.  Where, exactly, this bit of unsupported Democratic wishful thinking came from is unclear.  No numbers appear to be connected to it and no margin of error is reported for this disclosure.  It could be nothing more than a hope or a dream, a wild guess or a blatant fabrication – nobody knows.

All things considered, the reported results of this poll – like other “unbiased” poll reports brought to us by the left-leaning media liberals are consistent in the fact that they smell as bad as last weeks fish, not to mentions being questionably suspect, possibly biased to an extreme and, since the figures given appear somewhat contradictory to the deductions made, essentially worthless and lacking in overall credibility.

This poll is stated as having a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points in Ohio, Missouri and Tennessee, five percentage points in Virginia and 5.5 points in New Jersey.  What Brownstein seems to have neglected to tell his readers is that the margin of error applies separately to each candidate’s support, therefore, the margin of error effectively doubles when applied to the margin between candidates.  Applying this well-established principal of polling science to the deductions reached by Brownstein enables the reader to see a slightly different picture that what is being reported.

In Ohio, with a plus or minus four percentage point margin of error, Sen. Mike DeWine might actually be at 43% while the Democratic challenger, Sherrod Brown could feasibly also be at 43%, which means that they are neck and neck and the probability of who wins or who loses is 50/50 for both sides.

In New Jersey, with a 5.5 percentage point margin of error, the Democratic Senator, Robert Menendez, might actually be behind at 39.5% instead of in front with 45% while the GOP challenger, Tom Kean Jr. could actually be ahead with 46.5% instead of behind with 41%

In Virginia with a five percentage point margin of error, the Republican Senator, George Allen could actually be sitting on a 52% approval rating while the Democratic candidate is dragging up the rear with a mere 39% instead of this race being the other way around.

In Missouri, with a plus or minus four percentage point margin of error, Republican Senator, Jim Talent, might really be trailing the Democratic candidate, Claire McCaskill, in a race that is 44% to 49% in favor of the Democrats instead of the reported 48% to 45% in favor of the Republicans.

The margin of error applies to both candidates equally in both directions.  A rating of 45% with a margin of error at plus or minus 5% could actually be representing 40% or it could be a 50% – nobody can say with any degree of credibility which way it really goes. This is why they call it a margin of error, it’s a fudge factor and if the margin of error is less than twice the difference in percentage points between the two candidates given, any conclusion reached is not only questionable but, more likely than not, the product of the interpreter’s own political bias and, therefore, lacks even the most minimum of requirements for credibility. 

Beyond the dubious results reported, what I find to be even more astonishing is Brownstein’s comments about the impact that church going white people had on the poll results for Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia.  With a sweeping generalization acceptable only when discussing White folks, Brownstein states that the Democratic contenders are in for a tough time if they do not improve their performance among the typically conservative voting bloc characterized by Christian Crackers. Whether he intended this comment as a means to stimulate minority voters or not, I couldn’t say and really don’t care.  The comment itself is a fine example of the politically correct double-standard that allows virtually anything to be said about Christian White people where a similar comment about Blacks or Hispanics would bring on howls of protest.  For this reason it is perfectly acceptable to point out that Christian Whites tend to be more politically conservative but it is not socially acceptable to say anything at all about the way wine drinking Hispanics or Blacks on welfare tend to vote.  Then again, its the Los Angeles Times and the last thing anyone should expect from them is credibility.      

October 24, 2006,

BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Tuesday that things are not all bad in Iraq, citing, among other thing, the growing number of satellite dishes on rooftops and consumers with cell phones as signs of economic progress.

“Economically, I see an Iraq every day that I do not think the American people know about — where cell phones and satellite dishes, once forbidden, are now common, where economic reform takes place on a regular basis, where agricultural production is rising dramatically, and where the overall economy and the consumer sector is growing,” the American envoy told a Baghdad news conference.

While some Iraqi’s would preferred life before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the majority of Iraqi people are enjoying their newfound liberty in spite of sectarian killings, the Islamic mullah’s attempts to spread dissension among the people and all the other problems associated with daily life in today’s Iraq.

The advent of cellular telephones and satellite dishes, prohibited under Saddam Hussein, came as part of the free market economy that spontaneously sprang up in Iraq in the chaos and freewheeling period after Saddam’s ouster, filling markets with everything from South American bananas to South Korean electrical goods, Finnish telephones and Iranian biscuits. Mobile phones proved to be an instant hit in Iraq and there are 1 million subscribers in the Baghdad area alone. In a similar manner, there is hardly a rooftop in Baghdad or any where else in Iraq today that does not have at least one satellite dish mounted on it.

Beyond the immediate gratification of the cell phones and the satellite dishes, the majority of the Iraqi people understand that to achieve long term economic stability their country needs more economic venture, and that this is not going to happen as long as their security forces are plagued by the terrorist insurgents.  Without a substantial increase in the economic activity of the country, the high rate of unemployment and inflation are likely to continue.

Khalilzad rejects the analogy some Iraqis use on life before and after Saddam by pointing out that while innocent Iraqi citizens are being killed by the insurgents, and the current government is doing all it can to stop the slaughter, thousands and thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens were slaughtered during Saddam’s rule and that, back then, there was no hope to be had.

Iranian Government official describes US military maneuvers as “dangerous and suspicious” as Iranian Military gears up for war

October 24, 2006, 3:29 PM

The unnamed Iranian Government official was quoted by Iran’s official news agency as referring to the naval exercises the US is to hold at the end of the month with Bahrain, Kuwait, France and Britain. He described the exercises as warmongering by American neo-conservatives who want to win the mid-term US congressional elections next month. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei speaking at Eid al-Fitr prayers, called for Muslim unity to deal with what he called the “dirty aims” of the US and Israel. He stressed the importance of unity among Palestinian factions.

Meanwhile, DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s military sources have been reporting since late August that Iran’s political and military leaders have resolved not to wait passively for an American attack but to go instead for a pre-emptive strike against US forces in the Persian Gulf and Iraq, as well as targeting Israel.  On October 7, DEBKAFILE reported that Tehran and Damascus were gearing up for a pre-emptive attack on Israel to ward off a US led strike on Iran’s nuclear sites. The possible action is strategically aimed at dividing the attention and military force of the Bush administration across three warfronts simultaneously.

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Many of the Mexican and South American immigrants entering the United States illegally seem to be under the impression that because they are considered Hispanic, whatever that might mean, they have some sort of guaranteed entitlement as far as violating American immigration laws are concerned.  They are motivated by activist groups in the U.S. and Mexico that are entirely without concern for the best interests of the American people or the increasing burden their actions are creating for the taxpaying middle class citizens of this country.  The criminal aliens they openly encourage to violate our laws come here for the money only, the culture they bring with them is their identity and they have no desire to learn our language, our history or the legal obligations of our citizens and they feel no compelling need to ever assimilate themselves into our society as legitimate tax-paying citizens.  The American government has allowed these trespassers to live here unmolested without any regard for their continuing criminal status or the ever growing economic burden their presence has placed on the American infrastructure. While America’s elected officials look the other way, twelve to thirteen million of these uninvited criminal trespassers have crossed into our country and set up their own personal version of Tijuana under the noses of the taxpayers forced to pay for their maintenance and upkeep.  With all the flapping jaws in the US Senate and the House of Representatives and the sensationalistic news media extravaganza over the immigration reforms that never managed to materialize you would think the people of this country would start to get an idea.  You see, the truth of the matter is that neither side really wants true immigration reform and they really don’t want to give total amnesty to twelve or thirteen million uneducated, tax evading, document forging, criminal trespassers whose occupational skills are pretty much limited to mowing lawns, digging holes and washing cars. However, neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have the huevos to tell people that.  Besides that, yakking about immigration reform endlessly and stirring up a big controversy over immigration reform is far more beneficial to their needs than actually giving this new found source of slave labor the same rights as everybody else. 
 

For the Democrats, talking about immigration reform motivates illegal immigrants to further their criminal exploits by illegally voting in America’s elections and it also encourages millions of Americans of Latin descent to get off their laid back butts and vote for Democratic candidates with Hispanic surnames who have promised the illegal aliens everything under the sun including free health care, unearned social security, drivers licenses, fat welfare checks, free education, and amnesty from years of income tax evasion and identity theft.  Is there anybody out there dumb enough to think for one second that Senator Kennedy gives a rat’s ass about what happens to any or all of the illegal Mexicans crossing our borders?  If so you really need to do a reality check.  The pompous sleazebag knows that no matter how many of them cross the border, they wont be moving into his neighborhood in Massachusetts.  He will never have to listen to their insane music blaring through his bedroom windows at three in the morning nor will he ever venture into his local Target store and find that all of the flipping signs have been changed to Spanish.  The drunken windbag has so much money he doesn’t even know what he paid in taxes last year so why would it bother him for even a second if most of your paltry paycheck gets sucked up to pay for his ignorant bleeding heart bullshit? 
 

For the Republicans, talking about immigration reform brings on the big company campaign donors who desperately yearn for cheaper, less Americanized workers.  People who are willing to do an American’s job for less than half the minimum wage, people who will work overtime for straight time pay without benefits and people that the boss can’t yell at and treat like dogs without worrying about EEOC complaints, ADA lawsuits and all the other little problems that come with hiring American citizens.  They want it and they pay their favorite Republican blowhard candidate big American bucks to deliver it for them.  John McCain, the Arizona blabbermouth and the Republican National Parties solution to the nightmare of a President Hilary Clinton, knows all about illegal Mexican immigrants, his state is bulging at the seams with them.  He also knows that the big illegal hiring companies bankrolling his campaign hopes for the future don’t really want amnesty for the trespassing Mexicans.  They just want the government to ignore them.  If the U.S. gave amnesty to all twelve million illegal Mexicans hanging around Home Depot stores across the country, the U.S. companies that profit from their labor would be screwed.  Julio and his cousin Juan might look like they don’t know anything but five seconds after the amnesty bill gets signed their on the phone to the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor asking questions about getting paid back pay and punitive damages for the last six years they’ve had to work six and seven days a week, all year long packing Styrofoam wig heads into cardboard cartons on ten a twelve hour shifts for eighty-five cents an hour.  Within thirty five minutes the switchboard at the Department of Labor becomes so overloaded with calls from these new Americans that it shorts out and burns the entire office complex to the ground.  The Republican Party doesn’t want amnesty for illegal aliens anymore than the large company donors and if the Republicans somehow accidentally got an amnesty bill though the House and the Senate, the entire American business lobby would drop them faster than a used condom and start supporting the Democrats.  Talking about it is one thing, doing it is something else.  The Republicans can talk about it all they want, it might earn them a vote or two and amnesty talk always precipitates swarms of new illegals for companies to take advantage of  
 

The bottom line here is that while a lot of American citizens and probably people in other countries look at all of the talk and political meandering over illegal immigration resulting in a huge zero and they think that it was all very unproductive but that is far from being a true statement because everybody in both political parties grabbed up some big benefits while it was going on and the only ones who lost out on the deal were the Mexicans who were salivating all over the idea and the dumb American taxpayer who got stuck with the bill for the entire charade.

The United States initial assault on Iraq was so successful that all of Saddam Hussein’s plans for systematic resistance immediately fell apart.  He left behind a scattered, undisciplined military force with no coherent leadership. In the three years following the invasion of Iraq, the surviving elements of Saddam’s former military have managed to form a number of networked guerrilla units under the control of Saddam’s key cronies now operating out of Syria.  With the financial and technical assistance pouring in from Syria and Iran, and acting on faulty, often distorted intelligence, the U.S. military leaders more frequently appear to be in a state of confusion about who the enemy really is, American and coalition forces are succumbing to an underlying pattern of predictable error.  The strength of certain confidence, formerly a source of motivating encouragement for the U.S. military forces in Iraq, has been cut to the quick by America’s own news media, sympathetic to the Democratic party’s all out effort to undermine the current President “by any means possible.”  American public opinion, fickle to the core and easily swayed by the slanted misinformation, disclosure of top-secret information and outright lies flooding the country from the presses of the New York Times, has turned against America’s front line troops, slowing their forward progress as it solidifies like concrete around their ankles while giving encouragement and support to the terrorist insurgents we sent our sons and daughters there to fight.  Furthermore, there is little wonder why America’s military, like the American public, seem to be so confused about who they are actually fighting.  George W. Bush initially stated that the American military were engaged in a new “Crusade.”  Overnight, the new “Crusade” became a “War on Terrorism.”  The “War on Terrorism” eventually morphed into a “Global Struggle against Violent Extremism.”  Out of the blue, a little more than a year ago, the President changed his mind again and claimed, “We actually misnamed the war on terror. It ought to be the struggle against ideological extremists who do not believe in free societies who happen to use terror as a weapon to try to shake the conscience of the free world.”  Meanwhile the Democratically controlled press has bent over backwards in their unopposed effort to characterize America’s military effort as an illegal global messianic crusade forced on the American people by a fundamentalist right-wing Christian tyrant posing as the American President.  Whether because of sheer personal arrogance or his misplaced faith in the non-existent tenacity of the American public, George W. Bush, President of the United States and Commander and Chief of the American military, allowed the opportunity for decisive action to slip through his fingers and disappear over the horizon of time without taking the quick and responsive action required by the man who sits behind the desk of final authority.  Fearing outrage at what might have been perceived by the American Public as an attempt to censor the American Press, George W. Bush took no legal action against the New York Times’ repeated and blatant illegal publication of top secret American plans and documents.  He has made little effort to counter their policy of publishing only the worst of all possible Iraqi war related news stories and he has all but ignored the Democratic spin master’s loud vocalization of extreme bias and opposition to America’s war effort carried daily into millions of American homes on the front pages of thousands of American newspapers that are little more than clones of the media controlling New York Times.  Admittedly, no man is perfect, however, while George W. Bush is certainly nothing more than a man like any other, he sits behind the desk in the Oval office of the President of the United States where the final authority resides and, regardless of how history reports the eventual outcome of the American led war in Iraq, if it comes to an end while he is in office, the burden of its success or failure will rest on his shoulders alone.      

The established base level for American troops in Iraq is 138,000. That number was raised to around 155,000 in past months to order to provide additional security for December’s Iraqi elections with the knowledge that terrorist insurgents will do everything possible to disrupt the election effort.  However, in the long term, with the American trained Iraqi forces are becoming more capable of taking over security themselves, the American forces are planning for their withdrawal from the country.  U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has recently been quoted as saying that the number of U.S. troops in Iraq “is clearly going to come down,” and General George Casey, top U.S. commander in Iraq has submitted plans to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq early next year to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
 

In a clear demonstration of cannibalistic fervor by the less than wholesome Democratic Party, Joseph Lieberman, the senior Democrat from Connecticut was forced make a choice between the treasonous anti-American policies adopted by hard-line Democrats and his own personal integrity.  Admirably, Senator Lieberman’s sense of ethics (a rare commodity seemingly unshared by the majority of Democrats), won out and he willingly chose the path of honesty when he sacrificed his position in the Democratic Party by supporting what the Democrats see as “Bush’s War in Iraq.”  Lieberman’s statement that knotted the Democrat’s panties so tightly was that the Iraqi people are striving to “put the nightmare of Saddam Hussein behind them.  They are making progress, but they are not where they need to be yet and that’s what we have to help them to do before we can leave. The cost of successfully completing our mission here will be large in terms of American lives lost and money spent, but the cost of failure here would be catastrophic for us in the U.S. and for the Iraqis, of course and I believe for the entire Middle East. And that’s why we are going to continue to be here until we get to the point where the Iraqis can take it forward on their own, and I think we are making progress in that direction.”  Subsequent to the Democratic Party leadership’s cowardly character attacks and refusal to support Joseph Lieberman he lost the Connecticut Democratic primary election to Ned Lamont and he is now running for Connecticut’s seat in the United States Senate as an independent candidate with his honesty and integrity intact.  Men who are willing to stand up for what they believe in despite overwhelming opposition and condemnation of their peers, or the disheartening  unjustifiable consequences forced on them for their honesty are clearly a refreshing tribute to normally depraved American political scene.  Regardless of his affiliation with the appalling left wing liberals, the actions of Joseph Lieberman are both admirable and inspiring.  Hopefully the citizens of the state of Connecticut can recognize the character of a truly heroic and honest man and give him their continued support. May all the Gods in Heaven smile down on him and good fortune fill the remainder of his days.

• Social Security checks for nearly 49 million retirees are going up by 3.3 percent next year – an average increase of $33 per month.  The monthly benefit for the typical retiree will rise to $1,044 from an average of $1,011 this year. The cost of living adjustment announced Wednesday by the Social Security Administration will go to more than 53 million people. Nearly 49 million receive Social Security benefits and the rest Supplemental Security Income payments aimed at the poor. The 3.3 percent increase compares with a 4.1 percent benefit rise in for 2006, which had been the biggest increase in 15 years.  Benefit payments, which have been tied to inflation since 1975, surged by double-digit amounts in the high-inflation years of 1980 and 1981 but increases have been more moderate in recent years as the Federal Reserve has had more success keeping inflation under control. The COLA amount is based on the change in the Consumer Price Index from the July-September quarter of this year compared with the same quarter in 2005. Last year, prices went in September because of a big spike in energy costs after Hurricane Katrina but this year, energy prices have been falling since late summer. Those declines helped pull consumer prices down by 0.5 percent in September, the biggest drop in 10 months. Falling energy prices should help retirees deal with winter heating bills, which for the first time in a number of years are expected to be lower this winter. The standard SSI payment will go from $603 to $623 per month for an individual and from $904 to $934 for a couple. The average monthly check for a disabled worker will rise from $947 to $979.

• The Unemployment rate is down to 4.6% which is the lowest it has been since June 2001.

•  The crime rate hit an all time low in 2005 and, despite no figures being available for 2006, it is expected that when they are released they will show even more of a decrease.

• The Dow Jones industrials jumped past the 12,000 mark for the first time in history Wednesday.  The 30-share Dow climbed about 0.8 percent about half an hour into the session, pushing the world’s most watched stock market into record territory.

• There has not been a terrorist incident in the United States since July 4, 2002 when Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a 41-year-old Egyptian national unlinked to any known terrorist group, kills 2 Israelis and wounds 4 others at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport.

For a country that’s going to hell in a handbasket things certainly don’t look all that bad.

The State of American Politics

You sit there watching the television when it shifts to a commercial showing an afternoon public park, children playing in the background and a pleasantly modest looking young white woman holding a three year old child in her arms.  With a look of concern she focuses on the camera and says, “Proposition [pick a number] is a bad deal for the people of [where ever].  If [pick a number] is passed by the voters of [where ever] it will: increase global warming, cause millions of deaths due to cancer and aids, drain our economy dry, break the backs of [where ever's] citizens, inundate [where ever] with a relentless floods of violent pedophiles, provide greedy politicians the right to dissolve our brains in acid, force 67% of all [where ever's] citizens into slavery, transform beautiful and brilliant children into psychotic, brain-damaged anarchists, transfer the ownership of your homes to the Church of Satan and result in an overall increase of acne related deaths by as much as 83% in the first 12 1/2 minutes of next July. The citizens of [where ever] don’t need Proposition [pick a number].  Join me and the American Council for The Protection Of Mothers, Babies and All Things Good And Pure in voting No on Proposition [pick a number].  Together we can end this threat.  Vote No on Proposition [pick a number].”  Across the bottom of the screen there appears a the message; “This message is a paid political advertisement by the United Society of Antinomians (USA), Soccer Moms on Drugs (SMOD) and Father’s Educational Council for Undernourished Dwarfs (FECUND).” 

The message, the park, the concerned woman and the kids all fade off of the screen and a brief, nearly imperceptible nanosecond of silence punctuates the message of impending doom before the screen pops back to life and you are returned to the shallow and insubstantial world of Orange County’s richest and most spoiled teenagers engaged in their melodramatic preparation for another titillating Friday night filled with indiscriminate sex and self-inflated egotism. 

You sit through another 12.50 minutes of mind-numbing dialogue and the screen again fades to another paid political advertisement.  This time your attention (such that it is) is focused on a twelve year old boy’s tear-stained face as it appears through a heavily secured chain link fence.  “If Proposition [pick a number] is passed by [where ever's] citizens I will still be able to go to this [pick one]

1. School
2. Church
3. Drug rehabilitation center
4. Sleazy Gay Bar

My life will be fulfilling and good.  I will always get good grades, enjoy playing baseball, avoid drugs and street crime and love my parents and baby sister.  If the voters of [where ever] don’t pass Proposition [pick a number] my life will be a living hell.  I will never be able to return to my favorite [pick one]

1. School
2. Church
3. Drug rehabilitation center
4. Sleazy Gay Bar

because it will be reserved for [pick one]

1. Right-wing disabled pornographers
2. Pregnant serial killers on drugs
3. Left-wing sexual deviants
4. Schizophrenic one-legged illegal immigrants

It will be so unfair.  I won’t have anything left in my life that is wholesome and good and my future will be very bleak.  I suppose I can go down to the corner and score some crack to ease the pain of probably having to sell my ass on the street corner.  A deep vibrant voice emanates from the surround sound system, “Children like little Smedley and others (the faces of smiling children appear one at a time across the screen, boys, girls, black, white, oriental, Mexican) are the future of [where ever].  They deserve our love and undying devotion; we must nurture them and protect them from harm while ensuring that they have the best, cutting edge, educational opportunity we can provide.  Saddling these youngsters with the burden of our irresponsibly slack incompetence is unfair.  Proposition [pick a number] is a great deal for the people of [where ever].  If Proposition [pick a number] is not passed by the voters of [where ever] it will: increase global warming, cause millions of deaths due to cancer and aids, drain our economy dry, break the backs of [where ever's] citizens, inundate [where ever] with a relentless floods of violent pedophiles, provide greedy politicians the right to dissolve our brains in acid, force 67% of all [where ever's] citizens into slavery, transform beautiful and brilliant children into psychotic, brain-damaged anarchists, transfer the ownership of your homes to the Church of Satan and result in an overall increase of acne related deaths by as much as 83% in the first 11 3/4 minutes of next Thursday. The citizens of [where ever] desperately need Proposition [pick a number].  Join me and the American Society of Brain-Dead Personal Injury Lawyers, The Society for the Furtherance of Hopeless Liars and Con-Artists and the World-Wide Association of Professional Pickpockets in voting Yes on Proposition [pick a number].  Together we can make a difference for the future.” Across the bottom of the screen there appears a the message; “This message is a paid political advertisement paid for by the Lying American Bastards Council and Dog-Breathed Winos for Truth, Justice and the American Way.”  The voice, the kids and the chain-link fence fade into two nanoseconds of profound silence before popping back to life with a tight focus on the over-stuffed blouse of an acne-scarred tattooed, multiply pierced, gum popping teenage girl talking about her boyfriend, “Sean is like, you know, so profound sometimes, he’s like a really deep thinker” . . . the screen fades to a under fed, bone thin wraith, rubbing his lice infested crotch as he leans up against the Lamborghini his Daddy gave him last week for his sixteenth birthday, his pierced ear lobes are weighted down with two steel shackles and his spiked lime green Mohawk sticks rigidly up from his buzzard like head in stiff, unyielding spikes like some ancient device used to cripple charging horses. “My mom is like, you know, the coolest ever and she really trusts my judgment.” 

Another Questionable Poll

1400 members of the national media were surveyed about their personal political persuasion in a Freedom Forum sponsored poll.  Of the 1400 members of the national media polled:

• 44% considered themselves as Democrats
• 16% considered themselves as Republicans
• 34% considered themselves as Independents
• 6% were either too confused by the question or too apathetic to respond

• 89% voted for Clinton in 1992
• 7% voted for Bush in 1992
• 4% were too paranoid or ashamed by their actions to respond

Can we derive some pearl of infinite wisdom from this Freedom Forum exercise?  Its probably unlikely but, we can deduce with a fifty-fifty probability, that the 1400 members of the national media surveyed are substantially, more likely than not, to be as screwed up in the head as an equal number of Hollywood’s more politically oriented but, otherwise emotionally stunted, celebrities.  With a slightly better chance of accuracy, we can assume, given the rapid decline in American morality and the complete evaporation of professional integrity from the U.S. News Media, that the individuals polled represent the entire community of U.S. News Media in their willingness to bend, alter and mutilate factual information in a manner that supports whatever agenda a given writer holds near and dear and that this willingness to bend, alter and mutilate factual information is universally shared by all regardless of political, cultural or religious persuasion or diverse sexual orientation.  The only apparently solid, near to infallible truth that bleats it’s way to the forefront of our conscious minds from this collection of junk information is that the word of everyone associated with the News Media is highly suspect and the probability of being spoon fed a passel of lies and misleading information is virtually 99.999% guaranteed.    

A Well-Documented Example:
From January 24, 2003 through December 21, 2003 the New York Times ran numerous polls about every decision and policy that George W. Bush’s administration implemented or spoke about.  These polls overwhelmingly indicated a steady decline in the faith of the majority of the American public in their president.
In January 2004 the New York Times ran another poll on President Bush’s policies.  This was strategically published in the majority of U.S. newspapers just prior to the end of the 2004 Campaign season.  The results of this New York Times poll indicated that the majority of Americans felt things were worse then than they were five years prior, they fealt that their country was headed off on the wrong track, they didn’t approve of the way the President was handling the American economy, the situation with Iraq and that he had divided the people of the country and obviously didn’t have the same interests as the American citizens. Nothing but doom and gloom was expected from anyone in America as far as President Bush was concerned.  You can view the results of this poll by clicking the link below. 

 The Poll

A few short months after this poll was released indicating that every American citizen thought George Bush was the worst thing that ever happened to the United States and that everyone in the country would prefer to have a series of root canals without Novocain rather than see another four years of incompetent Republican leadership, George Bush was re-elected to the office of President by the majority vote of American people.  Within days of his re-election the New York Times started releasing new polls showing that the majority of Americans don’t approve of the way he is handling the American economy, the situation with Iraq and the country’s economy, blah, blah, blah.  Just that quick, the American people went from gagging uncontrollably at the sound of his name to trusting him explicitly and back to  being totally nauseated at the thought of his existence, all in the brief span of less that one months time.  (end of the Example)

For as long as George W. Bush has been in office the New York Times has been telling the American people that the majority of them hate George W. Bush. They are telling us that all (every single one) of the American people with functioning brains want to see full and unconditional amnesty for the illegal aliens flooding into our country so that they can bring all of their relatives and friends up here as well.  The New York Times has been telling us that the majority of Americans are willing to pay higher taxes for social programs to take care of people that don’t want to work, to put the illegitimate gang-banging kids of poor illegal aliens through school and to pay artists to study new ways of combining human waste with common garbage to make high-priced artistic statements about the evils of spreading American capitalism and that the quickest way to solve the problem of world-wide terrorist networks is for America to give up unconditionally, roll over on their collective stomachs and drop their shorts. 

Where do they get this shit?  Is it possible that there are really vast hordes of repressed housewives and suit-wearing American cube dwellers who are actually thinking the things that are reported as the majority held American opinions?  Are the common working class suburbanites in this country actually so embittered and oppressed by their tyrannical unfair government that they are willing to do anything and believe anything that will ease their miserable suffering lot in life?  Are we to believe that the American people are so empty-headed and entranced with dramatic visions of Desperate Housewives that they can no longer focus their brief and overly challenged attention spans on a Presidential election long enough to rid them of a hated scourge?  That apathy and stupidity somehow joined forces in a vast conspiracy tot effectively overcome all instinctual drives for self-preservation and force the majority of American voters to unconsciously vote, against their will and better judgment, for someone they so completely hated and despised?  Is that what the New York Times and the rest of the American News Media is telling us that we universally believe? 
The November elections are getting closer by the minute and the American people are scratching their asses and wondering who the hell they are going to vote for.  Just about the time everybody has resigned themselves to having to vote for the lesser of two evils, the government pulls a fast one.  They have eliminated the lesser of two evils from the ballots entirely and from here on out it will just be two evils – equals in evilness. Researching the candidates and the issues is futile.  There is nowhere to turn for truth and honesty flew out the back window with its shoes in hand, its pants hanging loosely about its ankles.  You’re on your own with the decisions, one way leads to oppression and ruin, the other leads to ruin and oppression.  The political elite, the American affluent, the Labor Unions with their hands in the pockets of your overalls, the pedophile priests and manipulative preachers, the less than dedicated teachers and weasel-lipped lawyers and the over-coming majority of minority self-interest groups are all counting on you to make the right decision for their benefit regardless of the personal expense you suffer or the disastrous effect your decision ultimately has on your meaningless existence.  When you drag that over-stimulated, cholesterol-clogged and gadget addicted body into the voting booth on election day and ready yourself to pull the handle, hang the chad, push the button or black out the box of your choice, pause for a second and give a brief moments consideration to poor dewy-eyed little Smedley, selling his pimple-pecked butt on the street corner, the emotionally hearth-wrenching plea of Mothers On Drugs and the deep sense of sincerity demonstrated by Sean’s spiky head as he bangs away your daughter (or son).  Clear your mind, position your ballot according to the directions taped to the cardboard wall and vote with the absolute certain knowledge that you don’t have the slightest clue what you’re doing or why but, in the long run, it probably won’t matter because it was all going to get worse anyway and you always knew they were going to screw you in the end no matter how you voted.

Study by Newman and Lennon