As a salaried employee I don’t get paid for overtime work. As a devotee of Lee Iacocca, I believe that when you have to work overtime to complete routine assignments, you are doing something wrong.  You are a poor time and resource manager. You, yourself, being the biggest and most important resource that you mange. But I stray from my point. What I started out to discuss was the fact that the House of Representatives decided to close up show for six weeks without doing any damned thing about gas prices. You and I are paying thousands more at the gas pump this year than we did last year, and our representative go on holiday. Most American families decided to cancel their vacation this year because THEY COULDN’T AFFORD IT. They decided to save money because the country is teetering on the brink of a recession. But our representatives didn’t need to do that. I bet most of their holidays were paid for by lobbyists. Now, I want you to look at this: if, at the above mentioned job, I failed, after trying for six months, to find a solution to a problem what was costing my employers thousands of dollars a year, I would get fired. So these indolent, self-serving, morons, who we employ, who have consistently done nothing to reduce gas prices, should suffer the same fate as employees in the private sector, who do not complete the job. THEY SHOULD GET FIRED, en mass. Who needs representation like this?

While I know that both parties are to blame for this ridiculous situation, the Democrats have constantly blocked off-shore drilling, shale explorations, and the conversion of coal into diesel. Now, don’t get me wrong; they did some really important things before going off on summer holiday. They apologized for slavery. My God, I am so relieved that they did that. I have been loosing sleep over it for years. I kept reminding myself that instead of counting sheep I could have been counting the years that have gone by since slavery was abolished. Let’s see…2008 less 1865. That’s 143! We have a black man running for president, a black woman is our Secretary of State, we have a supreme court justice who is black and for heaven’s sake it been 143 years since it was abolished. Get over it, already.

Another thing the House did before going off to the beach, was to give FDA the power to control the quality of tobacco. How the hell they are going to do that is beyond me. About all it will do successfully, is to bloat the government a little more. Then finally, they decided to abolish the use of cell phones while in flight. Isn’t this typical of what congress does best? Erase one more of our freedoms. And the Liberals still haven’t stopped criticizing President Bush for wanting to try terrorists under military legal systems.  It is depriving those bastards in Guantanamo, who have killed thousands of Americans of their rights to Habeas Corpus, etc.

Let’s get together this fall and fire the whole lot of them. Then maybe our economy will get back to where it was a few years ago.

Ken Khachigian of the Wall Street Journal argues, in today's publication, that no one really cares about the VP choice-(read it here). He says that the American people do not choose the main course based on the side dish. He says that the speculation comes as a result of sheer boredom for political pundits, junkies, and other presidential aficionados.

Heather Wilhelm, of Clear Politics, concedes some of Khachigian points but counters that the Veep can make for excitement during the general election campaign. She recalls Dick Cheney devouring John Edwards, during a veep debate in 2004, who looked like the political neophyte that he was and is. I agree with Weilhelm.

We have two candidates who we get sick of hearing from approximately every two weeks, then they make a sudden and unexpected center-ward swing. Suddenly the melee begins and everyone starts the now familiar "flip-Flop" rant. Then we get bored again until the next mind change by either candidate. I believe that some exciting Veep will relieve this boredom.

Let's all admit it.

There really isn't too much difference between Obama and McCain. Both men couch their ideas in language which will make their followers feel good. The Conservatives, while, no doubt, holding their noses and preparing to vote for McCain, will keep chanting the tax reduction themes, the less government theme, the war theme and on and on. The Liberals have their own litany which includes health care for everyone with a measurable pulse, open borders, abortion rights, pulling the troops out of Iraq and on and on.

Barack Obama, when he grows up, most probably, wants to be like Ronald Reagan. That is why he used the "Wall" metaphor in Berlin. It was just enough of a hint of the Gipper to remind everyone of a Great President and a Great Communicator, and another small little hint that he is going to be as great, if elected. Fat Chance!

Unfortunately, in typical liberal progressive fashion, he used the metaphor to talk about America's problems. As though Europeans need to be reminded that America, which we know to be the finest country on the planet, is not perfect, yet. W.S. Gilbert, in one of his satirical songs in "The Mikado," says, "the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, all centuries but this and every country but his own..." is totally unnecessary and can be completely done without. It forces one to recall the liberal, "blame America first" mentality. How could the quintessentially liberal, far-left, totally non-pragmatic, pie-in-the-sky presidential candidate possibly say anything good about America, and especially so, in socialist Europe. Could it be that Europe loves him because of his ideology? They see through the centrist charade, and recognize him for one of their own. And McCain, alas, while a good man, is way too dull to compete.....God Help America!

The following is an e-mail from CPT. Jeffrey S. Porter, who is fighting for us in Afghanistan, right now. He is the father of six, and they are at home worrying and praying for him, as we all should be. This is his take on Senator Obama's visit to "the troops".  Kind of a different take than what you will see on the news. Make of it what you will:

Hello everyone,

As you know I am not a very political person. I just wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram Afghanistan for about an hour on his visit to "The War Zone". I wanted to share with you what happened. He got off the plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to meet with the Major General (2 Star) who is the commander here at Bagram. As the Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand he blew them off and didn't say a word as he went into the conference room to meet the General. As he finished, the vehicles took him to the ClamShell (pretty much a big top tent that military personnel can play basketball or work out in with weights) so he could take his publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk to Soldiers to thank them for their service. So really he was just here to make a showing for the American's back home that he is their candidate for President. I think that if you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here you would thank those that are providing the freedom that they are providing for you. I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball Players or the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than from one of the Senators, who wants to be the President of the United States . I just don't understand how anyone would want him to be our Commander-and-Chief. It was almost that he was scared to be around those that provide the freedom for him and our great country.
If this is blunt and to the point I am sorry but I wanted you all to know what kind of caliber of person he really is. What you see in the news is all fake.

In service,
CPT Jeffrey S. Porter
Battle Captain

God Bless and protect you and your fellow warriors, Cpt. Porter. Thank you for your service. We know very well that freedom isn't free and we are fortunate that we, as a nation, have heroes like you paying the price.

Reagnite (Glenn J. D'Abreo)

In politics today, it just isn't beneficial to tell the truth. The truth hurts. The truth is politically incorrect and unacceptable. If one wants to get elected one must not tell the truth. One cannot remind black men that they have to feed, clothe, provide shelter and mentor their progeny. One cannot tell teenagers that abortion is not a choice, it is murder. You cannot openly say that the top three to five percent of the wealthiest Americans do not deserve to be taxed at higher rates than everyone else just because they are wealthy. You cannot say that people who have entered America illegally do not deserve anything, whether it is health care, or education or a living wage. You cannot say that Islam preaches hatred towards non-believers and advocates their destruction. You cannot remind France that they would be speaking German were it not for thousands of American GIs who lie buried on French soil who gave their all to free that ungrateful country. You cannot say that Americans who complain constantly about the state of the Union, are whiners, while owning TVs, microwave ovens, two cars, nice homes, manicured lawns, air-conditioning, kids in free schools, the freedom to worship as they choose, the freedom to say whatever they want about the government and they freedom to pursue happiness whatever form it takes.

Saying any of that is not allowed. It's telling the truth. The truth will set you free.....from elected office!

Anytime an old guy, a woman and a black guy run for the highest political office in the land, there is going to be a lot of talk about racism, sexism and ageism. Sexism and Ageism rank after Racism. America was not ready to elect a black man to its highest office. One idiot rapper said that someone would kill him if he got elected. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, I think, both hope that a black doesn't get elected, because if he does, that will shatter their premise forever. Then how will they earn a living. Neither has had a 9-5 job ion years. This writer was at a very popular riparian resort this weekend and there were hordes of people enjoying themselves. There were black people, Asian people, Hispanic people, people from the Indian sub-continent and white people, all small groups having fun. Enjoying the weekend, together. These were not people forced to work together, or worship together, commune together, or commute together, or do anything per force of being thrown together by forces other than their own choice to be together. Where, was the racism that is being bandied about all the time? If these ethnic groups truly hated each other would they play together like this? Is this the same country where white people ate and drank in places where people of other ethnicities were not allowed? Where, indeed, is the racism?

How many political Pundits are intelligent, entertaining to watch and good-looking to boot. Having never seen the private side of Tony Snow, we only discovered that he was a devoted musician, after his passing. Add music making to the huge lists of gifts this amazing man was given. The only White House Press Secretary who actually gave back much of what he got in the White House Press Corp. each of whom think they are smarter than they really are. Where questions are asked, not to gain information but to try and establish the intelligence level of the questioner, and how keen his or her insight into shady presidential politics is.

It was short lived. Tony served a very short time and then it became boring again and the idiots in the corp. went back to asking their stupid, mundane, unimportant, redundant questions again without challenge. Too bad. The good die young. We are experiencing it once again as we mourn the loss of a terrific young guy.

Rest in Peace Mr. Snow…..and if there is a Press Corp in heaven….give ‘em hell!

Talk about kissing and making up.

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's campaign announced Friday that he will campaign with former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton next week, a step toward unifying a fractured Democratic Party after a bruising primary fight. So now they will gush over each other. Her high paying contributors will consider paying off her debts and voting for Obama and his internet flock will send in dollars to get her out of the financial hole she is in. The feminists who are still mad that man won over their female candidate will consider accepting the guy who did it.

He has also rejected public financing, some $85 million offered to candidates for the presidential election and campaign. This money comes from checking the little box that give $3 of your taxes to the fund. So here's something that should absolutely infuriate the liberals who checked the little box on their returns.....John McCain is the only one accepting those funds. Think about it. Your $3 will get a Republican elected to the White House.

You and I are paying with blood at the gas pump, because the people selling us crude oil are gouging us at every turn. Sure, most of this is because of speculation but it wouldn't be happening if OPEC and the Middle Eastern oil suppliers were not in this to make as much money as they can, without benefit of conscience. Would you be willing to put your money where you mouth is? Would you be willing to sock it to the ARABS and HUGO CHAVEZ who are stealing the food out of our mouths? I am asking you to boycott the following oil suppliers because they import oil from the Arabs. Chavez is a different matter. He hates us and would do anything to bring down America.

These companies import Middle Eastern oil:
Shell.................................... 205,742,000 barrels

Chevron/Texaco.................. 144,332,000 barrels

Exxon /Mobil....................... 130,082,000 barrels

Marathon/Speedway............ 117,740,000 barrels

Amoco................................ 62,231,000 barrels

And CITGO oil is imported from Venezuela by Dictator Hugo Chavez who hates America and openly avows our economic destruction! (We pay Chavez's regime nearly $10 Billion per year in oil revenues!)
The U.S. currently imports 5,517,000 barrels of crude oil per day from OPEC. If you do the math at $95 per barrel, that's over $524 million PER DAY ($191 BILLION per year!) handed over to OPEC, many of whose members are our confirmed enemies!!!!

Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:

Sunoco....................... .. 0 barrels
Conoco........................ 0 barrels
Sinclair......................... 0 barrels
BP / Phillips........................ 0 barrels

Hess. ..................................0 barrels
ARC0.................................0 barrels

Maverick...................... 0 barrels

Flying J. ..............................0 barrels

Valero.......................... 0 barrels

• I AM GOING TO ADD THE FOLLOWING.

J-Murphy Oil USA sold at Wal-Mart is from South Arkansas and owned USA

-Not only that they give scholarships to all children in their town who finish high school and are legal US citizens.

All of this information is available from the U.S. Department of Energy and each company is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.

Common now, follow me....lets hit ‘em where it hurts.....

When a liberal promises any kind of tax cut, especially a far-lefty, beware! It sounds too good to be true. Sen. Barack Obama shed new light on his economic plans for the country, saying he would rely on a heavy dose of government spending to spur growth, use the tax code to narrow the widening gap between winners and losers in the U.S. economy, and possibly back a reduction in corporate tax rates.

The first two items sound like a left-wing democrat. After all Government spending is a cure-all in the liberal world. Throw money at it and it will go away. Taxing those who are doing well and giving the revenue to those who aren't doing so well o0r just are not motivated enough to do well, is definitely left-wing. You may couch it as trying to narrow the gap between the winners and the losers, but it is still redistribution of wealth.

But a reduction in corporate taxes....that sounds like a right-wing plan. And, how does it jive with a windfall profit tax? So, what the Democrat Messiah is saying is that you can make money, but just not a lot of it. Also, don't work too hard because the government is going to narrow the gap between you and those who don't work too hard. This is a message of hope? This is change we can believe in?

This sounds familiar. It sounds like Jimmy Carter. Anyone remember 1977? Is this the second term that Carter was denied by the Gods?

Written by Debbie Lee....

Hello, my name is Debbie Lee, and my son, Marc Alan Lee was the first Navy SEAL killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. I miss Marc so deeply, yet I am so proud of my Hero, my Mighty Warrior! He loved his country and was so proud to serve in the military and to dutifully undertake the missions he served on - he understood how important it is for America to win the war on terror. I remember his smile, his love, his laughter, his hugs, but most of all his sacrifice.

As a nation we must commit ourselves to honor and remember those who have given their lives serving their country in the military. We can never fully repay their sacrifice.

Move America Forward, the nation's largest pro-troop organization, has launched a drive to send the largest number of care packages to our troops in history! I'm writing to you to ask you to support this effort.

At a time when some political leaders are holding up the funding for our troops, and anti-war radicals take to the streets to denounce our heroic military men and women, it's important for Americans to say loud and clear: YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR US! WE LOVE OUR TROOPS AND WILL HONOR THEM FOR THEIR SERVICE TO THIS NATION.

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Remember the reaction of the people in the pews at Trinity Church when they heard what Rev. Wright had to say. Remember how they reacted with the frenzy of teenage girls at a cute "Boy Band" concert. We haven't heard much about them, have we? I am a Catholic. Fr. Michael Pfleger is a Catholic Priest and I am as ashamed of him as I am of the priests involved in the child abuse cases in our country.

The people of Trinity Church, Barack Obama's erstwhile church, were on their feet when Wright said, "God Damn America!" They were also on their feet when Fr. Pfleger said that Hillary Clinton believed that it was her right as a white American to get the nomination. Isn't the fact that these congregants were patently Un-American by their agreement with and their obvious jubilation at what was said by those two errant preachers? Why doesn't anyone condemn them? More importantly why didn't Obama say that he was leaving the church because it was spreading hate that was catching on among the congregation? Instead, here is what Obama said: "I'm not denouncing the church and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church... The church has been suffering from the attention my campaign has focused on them... I know it's the right thing to do for the church...."

What he should have said is: "Most American people are offended by what was preached, routinely, in this church. Most Americans are offended by the reaction of the congregation to this offensive, anti-American language. I am resigning in deference to the opinions of these patriotic Americans, because I too, value their sentiments and I too love and honor our country and everything it stands for, and I am just as offended by what Rev. Wright had to say."

Instead, we got double-speak.

Good old fashioned political double-speak. You heard it from him. If you were offended, as I was, not by what was spoken by the two idiot preachers (it's easy to dismiss what is said by idiots seeking attention) but by the reaction of the congregation, then it's time to think about Obama's reaction to this church. It time realize that he is not interested in you if your were offended. He's not interested in you if you wanted him to condemn his former church. Think about how he resigned from this church. Think about the spin you heard from him. Think about how Obama is a run-of-the-mill politician, after all. Come to the realization that the man who was going to rise about all this mundane political behavior didn't manage to do that. Realize that the Democrat Messiah really has feet of clay.....

In a five-to-four ruling, the Supreme Court has granted detainees at Guantanamo Bay the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts. This isn't the first time that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of detainees. Several American have had their heads severed from their bodies, while alive, by these same vermin who are being detained. Hundreds of American Soldiers have died in explosions caused by IEDs built by these vermin, fighting like cowards, without a uniform. Many of them have been released and have gone back and been recaptured by the surge against the insurgency in Iraq. Almost 3000 innocent Americans died in two towers in Downtown Manhattan brought down by these pigs in 2001, but they get to challenge their detention in Gitmo in an American Civilian Court.

I hate the decision. If I had my way, we would have kangaroo courts trying these rats and executing them within an hour of their capture.

But this is America.

The last best hope of the world.

This is the country which will come to the assistance of enemies in natural disasters.

This is the country that rescued cowardly France from the tyranny of Nazi Fascism.

This is the country whose noble dead lie buried in fields in Europe, from Normandy to the Flanders, as a silent reminder of America's greatness.

If this is what it takes to prove America's greatness to the world, then to hell with noble motives.

Let the terrorist vermin have their day in court.

America permits it!

If you are a guy who’s had a girl friend or even a mere female acquaintance, you remember having a disagreement and you also remember how long your female friend remembered the spat. You remember how long you got the cold shoulder. This wonderful female trait is going to serve John McCain well in November. All the women who are upset with the way Hillary was treated are going to stay hopping mad. They are going to remember the hard questions asked of her during the debates. They are going to remember how the liberal print media was in the tank for Obama. They are going to remember how Howard Dean and the DNC shafted Hillary with Michigan and Florida. They are going to remember everything negative that Obama said about their Idol. The one chance they had to break the upper limits of the glass ceiling has disappeared, at least for four years. Then they are going to seek pay back. Remember Jackie Gleason and “How sweet it is!”

How sweet it is going to be for these disgruntled females, come November. When they walk defiantly into the polling booth and yank the lever for …yep…you guessed it….the GOP Candidate for President.

Things that are younger than John McCain:

1. The New Deal....1937
2. The New Frontier...1960
3. The Great Society....1964
4. The Department of Education....1977
5. The Department of Energy....1977
6. NAFTA....1994
7. Trade with China ...1997

That's seven things. They wouldn't make David Letterman's list because there are only seven things and you have to have ten things to make Dave's show. But let's take a look at them.

The New Deal. Roosevelt -Democrat. The first time Americans were introduced to the idea that the Federal Government would guarantee success and take care of them if they failed. Cradle to grave big brother protection. There went entrepreneurship and fending for one's self.

The New Frontier. Kennedy-Democrat. More of the same. Cradle to Grave care. Don't worry be happy. Uncle Sam will take care of your retirement, health care, and everything in between.

The Great Society....just a continuation of the New Frontier. Only worse, much worse.

The Departments of Energy and Education. Carter- Democrat. Let see how well those two ideas worked. Our educational system is producing graduates who regularly fall behind grads from many, many other nations on the planet. Americans are paying more than 8 times what they were paying for gas in 1975, two years before the Department of Energy was created. We haven't built a nuclear plant or refinery since 1970 and we are importing more oil now than ever before. Wow, what a success. Another brilliant Democrat idea.

NAFTA. Clinton - Democrat (even his wife thinks this stinks)....how many American jobs have been traded because of this brilliant idea?

Free Trade with China: Clinton-Democrat. China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) has failed to reduce its trade surplus with the United States or increase overall U.S. employment. The US lost production supporting 2,166,000 U.S. jobs since NAFTA was implemented. Nearly three-quarters of the jobs displaced were in manufacturing industries.

Isn't that great...and all these ideas were implemented before John McCain was born 1936.