THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “All the news isn’t bad. Most of it is, but not ALL of it.”
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) plans to hold a fundraiser next week in Atlanta with Ralph Reed, the founder of the Christian Coalition and onetime associate of Jack Abramoff. More and more, McSame is starting to look like he is connected to the Good Old Boy Network just like the rest of ‘em. When you run with the bottom feeders of the U.S. political scene, there isn’t going to be any good news forthcoming.
A group of activists is trying to register tens of thousands of newly eligible felons, stating that “former offenders have been unfairly disenfranchised for decades. Despite massive registration efforts, the presidential campaigns of Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have not designated anyone to go after the group.”
So your next question should be “Who Cares?”
It will be interesting to watch and see if they go after this newly discovered gold mine of voters. We are now pandering to Ex-Con’s for the vote, the rumors must be true. “There is no level that a politician will sink to, in order to get elected.” The ACLU is dismantling America one issue at a time.
Media is reporting that there is a surge of people in the suburbs that are moving back into the cities. Here is what is waiting for you if Atlanta is that city. Police in Atlanta began a long promised crackdown on panhandling, drug dealing and marijuana smoking at a pedestrian plaza. Officers posted fence like barricades around a dozen concrete tree planters outside the MARTA station to discourage idlers. Then they started rounding them up.
The Island of Grenada launched a campaign to persuade tourists not to use the Starfish as Frisbees for their dogs. As unbelievable as that sounds, it is true. A German man who had snuck into a pool with his buddies for a midnight nude swim got busted. The naked suspect fled straight into a hedge of sharp nettles. “The officers just followed the sound of screaming,” and there he was. And in Florida, a man called 911 to complain that Subway had not put any sauce on his spicy Italian sandwich. He was arrested the second time he called to complain, after being warned not do this.
A person, who doesn’t learn from his mistakes, is prone to repeat them.
Here is some good news for you. Iraq is doing rather well, some $80 billion in the coffers now and it is reported that the country is spending less than 1% of that money to rebuild their infrastructure, the U.S. Government auditing agency reported this week.
Isn’t that swell, and you get to pay for it.
Our budget deficit has been widely reported to be $400 billion for the year, but that is not exactly true. It should be around $709-$790 billion but it isn’t being reported accurately. You see, they are using your Social Security and other trust funds to lower the deficit. The Social Security had a nice little surplus of $197 billion this year and they want to spend it for everything BUT social security. Section 13-301 of the Budget Act prohibits Congress and the President from engaging in this deficit deception, but they continue to violate the law.
The law doesn’t mean anything to this Administration; you should know that by now.
And finally: Over the weekend, President Bush met with some American athletes competing at the Olympics, including volleyball players Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh. After a “good play, in the tradition of female volleyballers, May-Treanor turned, bent over slightly and offered her bikinied rear-end for the 43rd president to slap.
‘Mr. President,’ she said, ‘want to?’”
The LA Times reports that Bush “wisely chose instead to brush his hand across the small of May-Treanor’s back.” First smart thing he has done in six months, maybe longer.
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