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Friday, January 16, 2009
John Hawkins :: Townhall.com Columnist
A "You Suck" List Part Two
by John Hawkins
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More constructive criticism aimed at idiots who are too dumb to ever take it: (See part 1 here) America's colleges: Why is it that it seems like every former terrorist, communist, and kook with an IQ over 100 seems to be able to get a job teaching our kids in a university? Meanwhile, Jay Leno's show is out in the street interviewing people who think Fred Flintstone was our first President. What do we expect when our colleges are hiring moral degenerates like Ward Churchill and Bill Ayers to shape the minds of our college students?

The Slanket: Is there a worse product in all of America than the Slanket? How much money do you need to have burning a hole in your pocket to look at a "blanket with arms" and say, "Oh yeah, I gotta have that!" In all seriousness, if you want a Slanket, grab your coat, turn it around backwards and put it on. Congratulations, you now have your very own Slanket!

Sarah Palin Haters: Know who I really hate? Sarah Palin! I mean, who does she think she is trying to get ahead based on her abilities -- as opposed to moving up because she married the right man or because she's part of the right family? She's certainly no Hillary Clinton or Caroline Kennedy; that's for sure!

Plus, she isn't rich, she has never been to a Washington dinner party, and who ever heard of having a President who didn't go to Yale? That's just ridiculous, because as everyone knows, all wisdom either comes from Ivy League schools or from Inside the Beltway.

Moreover, obviously the woman is dumb as a rock -- which is quite a coincidence if you think about it, since liberals characterize every Republican who runs for President or Vice-President as either weird or dumb.

Worst of all, she actually excites conservatives and as the Republican Party's incredible winning streak at the ballot box lately proves without a shadow of a doubt, the key to electoral success is completely demoralizing your party's biggest supporters by selling them out on key issue after key issue that they care about.

The New York Times: If an employee of our intelligence agencies gave the same data to Al-Qaeda or the Chinese that the New York Times publishes on its front pages, Americans would be clamoring to hang him for treason. Meanwhile, the Times is revealing that same classified information to the whole world so they can sell a few thousand extra copies of their failing newspaper. If you want to see Americans dead, you have few finer allies on the planet than the New York Times.

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Few people better exemplify what's wrong with American politics than Arnold Schwarzenegger. He ran as a fiscal conservative and turned out to be a bigger spender than the guy he replaced. He ran as a Republican and yet he has governed to the left-of-center on almost every issue. He has been a complete and utter disaster for California; yet he's a political juggernaut because he has charisma and star power. Schwarzenegger just goes to show that you can have no principles whatsoever, be terrible at your job, and still be a stunning success in American politics if you're slick and shameless enough.

John McCain: Let's see -- there was campaign finance reform, the Gang-of-14, amnesty for illegal aliens, his support of the global warming hoax, his desire to coddle terrorists at Gitmo, sucking up to the liberal press, backing the bailout -- and to top it all off, he lost the White House for the GOP in 2008 and then kept his mouth shut while his staff trashed Sarah Palin. Hey, John McCain, here's a suggestion: if you really want to put "Country First," the best thing you can do is retire in 2010 before you do any more damage.

The Democrats in Congress: At its highest levels, the Democratic Party of Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Harry Reid, and Ted Kennedy has become so radical, so unmoored from reality, and so oblivious to the real world results of the things they support -- that they would literally turn America into a ramshackle, Third World sewer within a few decades if they were able to do anything they wanted. Granted, it would be a third world nation with government sponsored abortion on demand, but the Democratic Party can only continue to survive and thrive because of the very Christians, capitalists, and conservatives that they regularly disparage.

Billy Mays: You got money? Good, then I will hawk your crap while I yell! Look at this product! It's the best ever! That's the Billy Mays guarantee! Call now! We'll double it! I'm not done yet! Buy now and get 11 free! Why am I still yelling!?!

Rough toilet paper with a picture of a puppy, angel, or teddy bear on the front: If you're going to sell rough tissue paper, you should have to take the picture of the fluffy bunny hugging an angel in a pile of feathers off the front of your packaging and replace it with a wire brush. That way, people will at least get a little truth in advertising.

The "Europe Is So Wonderful" Crowd: There are so many people in this country who desperately want to turn the United States into Europe -- but, they never stop to ask: what's so great about Europe these days? Western Europe is full of nations with stagnant economies, sky high taxes, anemic militaries, below replacement birth rates, and they are in cultural turmoil. Britain is practically a police state. Immigrants in France burn cars for sport and Spain's population is halving every generation. Asking the United States to copy Europe makes about as much sense as putting Barney Frank and Chris Dodd in charge of fixing the mortgage crisis....uh, wait a second. Maybe that explains a lot.

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Vacuum Bottle = vacuum tube!
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Hi Slabsides!
I think I brought it up before, but about 1995 an American girl was accosted on the Tube by a hulking oxygen thief who also outweighed her almost 3-1. She held him back with a tiny 1" penknife. Probably the kind you get in a gumball machine.

The Bobbies took both of them in and the magistrate was livid that she dare defend herself!! The scrote was given immunity so he could testify AGAINST HER!! Only timely intervention by the U.S. Consulate got her out of the country albeit as persona non grata. As if she would ever want to return.

-Ray

Wrat Wrangler:
A few years ago a 20 year old girl in England had a man break into her apartment. She was about 110 lbs and had a pepper spray can. He was about 295 lb and a lot taller. He received one year in prison (sentence, not served) for attempted rape. She got a TWO year sentence for "using undue force to subdue an unarmed man." All she did was spray him and call the police.

I don't think either of us have any interest in moving to England. I just hope the laws hold on long enough here to allow me to stay safe until I die of old age.

koolmuse
The Bible does not say God created the earth 5000 years ago. It says he created it in 7 days except to God time does not exist, to him a day could be a million years to us. No scientist has ever been able to prove evolution because it does not exist. If it did there would be evolutionary fossils and there are not. The dinasaurs could have existed while God was in the process of making the world the way he wanted it.

I retired computers, long ago

Rich D. Location: PA
Reply # 1
Date: Jan 18, 2009 - 6:33 PM EST
jim
From the early 60s to now. Heck, my school had a Bendix G10 and a drum memory sitting around, but I never played with them. The machine used vacuum bottles.
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I knew a little about the Bendix computers, but I don’t get the vacuum bottle. What was that?

Since I retired from the computer business in the late 1970s, these days I say I am like a Model T Ford mechanic looking at your new Caddy.

jim
From the early 60s to now. Heck, my school had a Bendix G10 and a drum memory sitting around, but I never played with them. The machine used vacuum bottles.

cost less than a sheet of toilet paper.

Rich D. Location: PA
Reply # 112
Date: Jan 18, 2009 - 3:01 PM EST
jim
You: Not sure why you are asking - CDC, IBM, designed my own analog cmputers for process control, early microprocessors by Motorola, junk from Intel, PDP anything, VAX, Windows servers, PCs...

Me: I was a CDC 6600 salesman, and one was bought by my customer, but after I left CDC.

I worked with the IBM 601, CPC, 604 and more, the 650, 701, 704, and on and on, and I ordered a 360-65-50-40-and 2 30-’s, built the computer facility, and installed the whole bunch. And many more. Many pages athttp://www.travel-tidbits.com/tidbits/003673.shtml, if you care.

You: Why such a focus on memory usage? Right now you can't ever seem to have enough for Microsoft feature-bloated junk, and the memory (mis)management under Windows is terrible. The garbage collection is woefully nadequate.
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I asked the years, just for fun. When?

I am not concerned about the use of memory, since the cost and the bulk has been reduced. I remember when there was a thrill in the computer business, when a memory location first cost less than a sheet of toilet paper.

I installed a disk system, that took 50 disks, each 2 feet in diameter, to hold 10,000,000 characters.

My comment is not about the use of memory anymore, but what is in there. The other day I lost some important data because one of those programmer nightmares took hold, without me asking, or even knowing it was there.

Even the technical person I called, could not give a reason for it to be there. Just a programmer nightmare.

jim
Not sure why you are asking - CDC, IBM, designed my own analog cmputers for process control, early microprocessors by Motorola, junk from Intel, PDP anything, VAX, Windows servers, PCs...

Why such a focus on memory usage? Right now you can't ever seem to have enough for Microsoft feature-bloated junk, and the memory (mis)management under Windows is terrible. The garbage collection is woefully nadequate.


Cruel Moose has been corrected on that
"Africa" myth, but either refuses to confirm that Palin did not say that, or just likes to lie. After many corrections, what do you think - stupid or liar?

Hey MuleCooze!
I'm a Roman Catholic NOT a resident of the Bible Belt. We are taught evolution THEORY as early as the 5th grade. It is still only a THEORY or else it would be called "Darwin's Law".

Darwin wanted to let his THEORY stand or fall on the fossil record. The problem is two-fold. First the Laws of Thermodynamics reject the idea that order can emerge spontaneously from chaos. Second WHERE are the THOUSANDS of intermediate fossils you'd need to prove a gradual evolutionary process?

IF Darwin were absolutely right there should be thousands of levels of development shown in the fossil record but none exist.

-Ray
NRA Life Member
Soli Deo Gloria!!

introduced to IBM machines in 1944,

Rich D. Location: PA
Reply # 1
Date: Jan 17, 2009 - 8:55 PM EST
jim
Sorry you had such a bad experience, but all of my programs and engineering products work, including my patent.

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What years and what machines did you work with? I was introduced to IBM machines in 1944, and got off the payroll in 1978, over 30 years ago.

I didn’t say they didn’t work, I said that so many of them are worthless, and needless. I am glad to hear your efforts worked.

I would like a program to operate on PCs and the MAC, to keep track of all memory locations in the Operating System that are read or written during a day, a week, a month, whatever. Just to see what is not needed or used. Millions, I bet.

I know such programs were written and used 40-50 years ago, just to find out what was happening in the very scarse and expensive memory. We would have a programmer work for a day or two, just to reduce the memory his program used, just a few hundred locations.

I do recall RENTING something like 250K characters of memory for $20,000 per month. So memory was more expensive than a programmer. And a 32K or a 64K, 36 bit word memory was huge.

Seems the first electronic calculator I used had 56 characters. Not 56 thousand, or 56 million, but just 56. You programmed the machine by rewiring it.

(I lived in PA, near Altoona, in the '30s and '40s.)

jim
Sorry you had such a bad experience, but all of my programs and engineering products work, including my patent.

The sales guys just took me to the meetings or let me talk to the customer on the phone. Every product I did was custom, as is all of my software.

Detroit was notorious for giving the car to the engineers after the stylists and marketers got done with it and telling them, "OK, fit the works into this."

Bruce_TX
Bruce, my Man, I'm gonna have to re-read Ur blurb a couple more times! I can't really figure out whether or not to agree with most of what U say...
I almost wish I had not QUIT drinking several years ago..But I believed a lot of things then that I have since come to discount!! CHEERS

Don't knock the slankent
All dissenters will be issued not one but two Slankets upon arrival at the labor camps!

I was too dumb to know how smart I was.

Reaganite Location: MO
Reply # 4
Date: Jan 16, 2009 - 10:08 PM EST

I believe you're thinking of the marketing people. … …They put their programming-ignorant heads together and come up with useless things to add to otherwise good programs.

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Back in the days I was talking about, marketing people generally just went out to shake the bushes, and a technical person would then try to convince the prospect to buy this and do that. The problem was, in those years most prospects had never seen a computer, and had no idea what the business-ignorant technical nut was talking about, so they made a great pair.

At one company where I worked, over a period of months, I went to the Chief Engineer and proposed three different products we should check into. He liked the ideas and assigned engineers a week or two to look into the ideas of this non-engineer pain in the neck.

Each time the engineers said, “How stupid.” Within 5 years in each case, some other company was making millions following my idea, that they also thought of - they didn’t hear it from me. I was so stupid that I believed the engineers when they said my ideas were useless.

As I said, I was too dumb to know how smart I was.

Arnold is cut from the same cloth as GWB
Arnold is cut from the same cloth as GWB so he and Bush are out to kill the Republican Party. What's wrong with that?

Agreed on all
Including John in VA's addition of the UN. I say boot them out. And throw shoes after them.

Good column, Mr. Hawkins.

Another "you suck" addition
The UN and its former Secretary Kleptocrat Kofi Annan. Remember the arrogance and total indifference to public outrage that was shown once the widespread corruption known as "Oil for Food" was revealed? I recall no serious investigation/convictions or other meaningful sanctions that might deter future corruption. They merely waited until the news cycle displayed its usual brief attention span. Send the whole bunch of thieves and washed up third world politicians to Geneva and convert the NYC real estate into a homeless shelter (to be used by a higher class of human beings).

jim
"I have found that true of both Engineers, and Programmers. Now if they both could only gather a little common sense, and create things and programs that have the customer in mind. Their problem is, their supervisors are former engineers and former programmers."

I believe you're thinking of the marketing people. You know, the big talkers who golf with their non-technical counterparts in client companies. They put their programming-ignorant heads together and come up with useless things to add to otherwise good programs. Alternatively, they come up with useless entire software programs that their programmers are forced to waste time coding.

Sucks
This past election cycle sucks.
PEBO sucks. Biden sucks.
Demoncrats and RINOs across the board suck.
Left Wing Liberals and Socialists suck.
The Gay and Lesbian movement sucks.
Abortion sucks.
Aetheists suck.
This economic cycle we are now in really sucks.
Right now I feel like almost everything sucks.
Sad.
I need a vacation from life.

One "you suck" to add
Get Out and Vote effort: how many stupid bumper stickers are out their that tell you to just get out and vote? Compare that to how many that say: get educated about a topic, come to a conclusion that you are willing to fight for, then cast your vote. I guess the latter is just not catchy enough; of course if the people who the Get Out and Vote effort is aimed at actually did that, the people funding the Get Out and Vote effort wouldn't get elected. Vote or Die, right?

As for Billy Mays:
I actually like Might Putty!! Fixed a ton of cr@p with it already. Maybe we can shut Kathleen Parker's yapping mouth with it? Now that Aussie with the "slap chopper" can take a flying leap into a cesspool.

-Ray
NRA Life Member
Soli Deo Gloria!!

Well said Raven!!
Steven Malzberg observed years ago that "Europe has no future so they trade on their past." What has changed? NOTHING!!

-Ray
NRA Life Member
Soli Deo Gloria!!

Remember de Tocqueville?
If I'm not mistaken, Beowulfe he said that "Liberty in America will only survive until the politicians realize that the public can be bribed with their own money."

We lost because TOO MANY baby boomer idjits learned how to vote their grabby hands into the cookie jar and too many "victims" have learned it also.

-Ray
NRA Life Member
Soli Deo Gloria!!

I love your message board.”

Raven Location: NJ
Reply # 92
Date: Jan 16, 2009 - 7:44 PM EST
Europe Is So Wonderful??
As I saw on a T-shirt:

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One day I was playing tennis with a well endowed lady from Yugoslavia. She was wearing a T-shirt with a bunch of words, about something.

She asked, “Do you like my message?”

I said, “No, but I love your message board.”


“We like it this way,”

Melissa Location: PA
Reply # 85
Date: Jan 16, 2009 - 5:27 PM EST
- I worked with -- lawyers, architects, engineers, etc., engineers were the nicest --

And this is from one tough, smart, African American "chick" who likes Sarah Palin!
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WOW Melissa, since you like my Alaskan Sweetie, don’t take is as a complaint, but as a compliment.

I have found that true of both Engineers, and Programmers. Now if they both could only gather a little common sense, and create things and programs that have the customer in mind. Their problem is, their supervisors are former engineers and former programmers.

There are so many gadgets, and so many so-called features in computer programs, that are there just because the Programmer or Engineer said, “This looks like fun.” I just had some files destroyed because of one of those "fun" items. Even the technical person I talked to, could not give me a reason for that "feature."

For example I have never met even one car owner who wanted a Tachometer in his car. Few know what it is, and no one, absolutely no one that I have asked, wants one. But the auto makers have spent billions of dollars putting them in a hundred million cars.

The car horn blows when you lock your car, because some programmer said, “This looks like fun.” I have asked many, many, people, and have yet to meet anyone who wants that.

When I was working with computers used to put the men on the moon, I had to fight off both programmers and engineers. I didn’t care how much fun it would be to do it their way, this is how it had to be.

I can tell you of one assembly line of a major manufacturer that needed to be rebuilt because the engineers said, “We like it this way,” and wouldn’t listen to that “kid.” And a furniture factory that burned to the ground because the engineer said he liked it just like he planned it.

Europe Is So Wonderful??
As I saw on a T-shirt:

The new Europe . . . constantly reminding us why our ancestors left the old Europe.

Palen For Pres.
Hawkins For Vice Pres.

No more good Republicans(except maybe 2
Where have all the good Republicans gone? Gone to the Democrat side I fear, all except maybe two or three. I can name Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal as two of the best. Wish Anne Coulter would get into the fray, but she is making millions with her enligtening books. Rush would be great too, but he says never. I do not even believe Newt Gingrich is as conservative as he was. I thing alot of these conservative men marry vicious liberal women and they change to get along. We have alot of work cut out for us. The lefties want us to just give up and go away. Over my dead body and it just may come to that some day.

Mellissa of 5:27
Maybe you like engineers because engineers are the most likely profession to like smart tough chicks.
Congratulations on going back to school. I was 37 when i finally got my BSEE. You ARE going to be an engineer, aren't you? :-D

The saddest , most innocent
and most numerous memberts of the You Suck list is the majority of the American adults. I'm not talking about the Imavictimgettingeven group, or the Starreyeyed PC group. I'm talking about the 50 percent of adults who didn't even bother to register. I'm talking about the millions of well-meaning left leaners whose closest thing to a political thought is some idiot cliche like the Democrats are the party of the little guy, its only fair to spread the wealth. These lazy unaware fools are letting a unique and precious conception get away from them. Pity.

The Good News......Brian
"Being the 'lesser of two evils' is setting the bar pretty low."

The lesser of two evils is after all the lesser of two evils.

"And by cowardice and submission, a whole host of evils". Thomas Paine

Good Riddance to John McCain
Hawkins provides the sine qua non of bare-knuckled political truth for conservatives in 2009:

"John McCain: Let's see -- there was campaign finance reform, the Gang-of-14, amnesty for illegal aliens, his support of the global warming hoax, his desire to coddle terrorists at Gitmo, sucking up to the liberal press, backing the bailout -- and to top it all off, he lost the White House for the GOP in 2008 and then kept his mouth shut while his staff trashed Sarah Palin. Hey, John McCain, here's a suggestion: if you really want to put "Country First," the best thing you can do is retire in 2010 before you do any more damage."

AMEN

Let's vow never to let a leftist (faux) Republican like John McCain divide and conquer through multiple conservative candidates the overwhleming number of conservatives who form the strength of the party.


Engineers
Before I went back to college to get my degree, I worked as an administrative assistant in various professional organizations. Of all the professionals I worked with -- lawyers, architects, engineers, etc., engineers were the nicest -- down to earth (perhaps that comes from the fact that many come from blue-collar backgrounds not arrogant (unlike many lawyers), hard-working, and friendly. In other words, most of them that I met were nice people.

And this is from one tough, smart, African American "chick" who likes Sarah Palin!

A parallel??
Many have seen the future sci-fi movie Blade Runner years ago. Forget the androids and focus on the pictures of the population types in many scenes. Looks to many of us like many of our big cities look like now. Can anyone say without question "third world". This IMO will continue to escalate unless the lib losers are sent on vacation to the surface of the sun.
Real conservatives unite!!!! And yes, Socrates was correct.

550 Tons of Yellow Cake!

But will it be served at the inauguration?

Hawkins Rant
Right on big guy!!!

Conservatives will never rise again until we:
Stop apologizing...we found 550 tons of yellow cake..anyone know what this is used for? It ain't birthdays!!!
Stop kissing up to liberal BS
Stop playing across the aisle games
Tell McCain he's a Dem and GTFO
Stop worrying about what the damn press thinks
Stop thinking about getting along with Dems

The and only then, will the people back conservatives

wishing corruption on the corrupt
Now that's poetic justice.

Change we can believe in
And if you belived that...voted in by the uneducated for the unemployed, so no one who dosen't want to, will ever have to work again. Just give me the free hand out. I don't want to work or be responsible for any thing or any body including myself.
I can't believe the sheeple that voted for this fraud. Our biggest mistake is when we think that electing a lawyer to govern our country is the right thing to do.
I would vote for the one person out there that seems to be using their God(yeah I dared to use the word)given common centwhoever that turns out to be.
Since when is it the courts job to reverse the will of the people.
Are gay marriages allowed in Europe?
If so then they all can go there for their weddings That way we don't have to throw out all the corrupt judges too.

add tom hanks
shut up and act!!

roy

Lee can't handle the truth...
Lee, you were sold down the river by the "Madison Avenue Candidate" and now the truth hurts. Billion-dollar bailouts, Clinton crony appointees, same old same old. It's starting already and the man hasn't even been sworn-in yet. WHERE'S THE CHANGE?? WHERE?????

G'wan and call us what you will as long as you include the words "correct" OR "right" in that equation.

Don't believe me? Just wait. The truth will bear-out...although you STILL won't be able to HANDLE it.

Bruce in TX
"Out in my neck of rural America the Sarah Palin loving, flag waving, bible thumbing uneducated, Obama/Black hating hayseeds think that stocking up on guns and ammo is the answer."

So according to you, if you don't agree with Obama, then you hate blacks?

KKat...
Gotta agree with you on the ShamWow guy...but whatta great product!!!

Change that's more of the same...
The whole Sarah Palin-hatin' crowd makes absolutely no sense at all and they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that liberalism is a disease (filed under "MENTAL")...

Consider...they all gasp in delight as BO waxes poetic about "Change we can Believe In" and yet along comes Sarah, a true CHANGE from the political "same as it ever was" crowd - and you could literally hear the collective panties of the libs gathering in a bunch as she spoke...

Meanwhile - their "change" candidate is about to dump another 800 billion down the toilet in bailouts, and he nominates more Clinton Cronies to his cabinet than you can shake a stick at...

Change? My A$$...

Lee, liberal mantra
name calling and name calling. Ever care to discuss any ideas, or just call names when you don't like what's said? Ya, thought so...

A few others
Seattle Sutton - For he love of all that is holy, find someone to be your spokesperson who does not make The Snapple Lady sound like a Shakespearian actress. I can't hit the mute fast enough when she comes on with a radio commercial.

Family Guy - If I want to watch a fat, woman abusing idiot atonally drivel on about leftist dogma from Boston, I'll tune in Teddy Kennedy on CSPAN.
(During the tribute at the DNC, someone pointed out that his tribute video began and ended with him on a boat on the water. Not an image you really want to associate with Teddy. He bested them by releasing a children's book about his adventures with his water dog "Splash". There is nothing more morally, verbally, or mentally tone deaf than a Bostonian).

The ShamWow Guy - Less irritating than Billy Mays, but that's like saying five percent less damaging than a pack of pit bulls with rabbies in a day care center.

Wayward1
We've only had paper money for a short period of time. You can still St. Gaudens $20 gold coins that were minted in the 1920s. The you mentioned sound monetary policy. I agree with you and think the only way to stop the Feds from destroying the dollar is to do what President Jackson did in the 1820. He eliminate the equivalent of the Federal Reserve, the Central Bank of the USA. We also need to eliminate the fiat currency the Feds unconstitutionally push upon us. Article I, section 10 establish gold and silver coin as the only legal tender because our Founding Fathers saw paper money become worthless on numerous occasions. We are seeing today in the US. The dollar has lost over 90% of its value since the creation of the Federal Reserve, and about 85% of its value since leaving the gold standard.

Engineering isn't that bad
Father is an engineer, works for a German company though. If you come up with some good work, they'll defenitely compensate you. He just created a system that will boost power output in gas turbine power plants by .25%, that's a huge deal. Got a 9% raise, a nice bonus and a 10 week stint in Germany for it. Do what engineers do, invent things, and you'll do fine. Plus, you get the bonus of actually doing something productive.

But, I'm an accountant with a degree in financing and economics as well, which is defenitely a field you can't go wrong in, especially in today's regulation fever.

Egon, The Plagiarist
How does it feel to take the work of others and pass it off as your own?

jim in Ca
I didn't say it was caused by the britons. I did say that the Englands transformation into a police state over the past 15 years that I have either lived in or traveled to is mindblowing.

To say that political correctness has gone mad, is an understatement....it has flipped it's proverbial lid.

DVangura
I have read Article 1 and I would like to point out that when our paper notes were backed by gold and silver, we were the most prosperous nation in the world, and each individual had a net savings, not a net debt, which we have today. Let's be honest here, the only way that we can keep our economy thriving is by accumulating more debt.

The pyramid is crumbling.

NEWSFLASH this just in

Liberals are planning the dirtiest trick in history.

Rumors are, that Liberals have stolen the entire Republican mailing list.

Liberals are planning to send a nude picture of Helen Thomas and a picture of Barney Frank giving a lap dance (both nude) to all registered Republican and Conservative voters the night before the Mid Term elections.

Liberals are theorizing that it will take days for Conservatives and Republicans to get their eyesight back and they will be unable to vote.

Wayward1
Hey, you should read Article I, section 10 of the US constitution. Its quite interesting in what is the only constitutionally mandated tender of debt.

escaping from their sandy cesspool,

wayward1 Location: IL
Reply # 23
Date: Jan 16, 2009 - 8:10 AM EST

Hawkins isn't too far off the mark. The progression (into a police state) has been mindblowing,
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Come on now, we know that the police state is not because of Britons, but by the Arab scum that is escaping from their sandy cesspool, instead of fixing the problem.

What they need in the sandy area, is a civil war fought with 50 atom bombs.

The countries in the good part of the world should eliminate all residents who can not prove years of residence, or complete assimilation of the culture.

Beverly Hills is turning into an Iranian slum, even the mayor has sand in his shoes, and it isn't from the beach.

Larry writes:
It seems like "we the people" have lost control of our government! How do we get this damn conservative train back on the tracks?

Larry, trying to get the conservative train back on thr track would be like trying to pump the Atlantic into Lake Michigan. What we need to unite the nation is a single cause that effects us all.

That cause HAS TO BE a sound monetary policy. We have to start marching in the streets, abandon the Federal Reserve which is the cause of the financial mess we are in.

Returning our nation to sound monetary policy will null and void the liberal, globalist ambitions which are denying our god given rights to the people and driving us into economic bondage. When that happens, conservative principles will happen naturaly.

Population un-growth

When the population of one of the “good” countries continues to go lower, cheer that the population growth will hopefully continue in that direction.

BUT DO NOT LET IN PEOPLE FROM COUNTRIES WHO HAVE POPULATION GROWTH, ABOVE A MAINTENANCE LEVEL.

There would be no immigration, and be careful who you invite to come live there.

If we get our population under control, as has some of the European countries, we do not need more people, we need to adapt our living style the to population we have. Not add to it.

There is no harm to the population if some high school kid does not go to college, and has a job harvesting crops. Just quit brainwashing people that the only good people, the only good job available, are college grads, or at least college attendees. I would bet that at least 50% of college attendees in the past 50 years learned nothing of value that they apply to their daily living.

Think of all the time and money spent on colleges, the most unproductive area of resources in the world. Let's see you run your company with a billion dollars worth of plant and buildings, when most of them are empty most of the time. Let's see your best employees work a few hours a week, then take off a year here and there.

Let's see you permit the majority of employees say they don't want to work before 9:00 AM, and want a three day weekend, and special time off, called spring break, where drunkenness', sexual promiscuity and pregnancy are the most popular results of their time off.

Think of the money not needed to be spent on useless facilities such as more highways and utilities. When someone wants to build residents for the overpopulation we have now, there are screams from the enviornuts, don’t build there, you might step on a mouse.

What value are large downtown areas, filled with high rise office buildings and apartments, while the complaints are that we don’t have enough parks, I want to see a tree.

And on and on.

Republican PArt "Leaders"
GOP leaders need to go back and reread the Contract with America (did they ever actually believe it?)
For the last eight years, Republicans have spit on everything in that document, while offering slavish devotion to an incompetent open borders neocon globalist President and U.S. Senate (there are some good congressmen).
Anyone who objected to the way they ran the country was told "the Democrats are worse, you have nowhere to go" (Karl Rove's exact words), or even accused of being Democrat moles. Being the "lesser of two evils" is setting the bar pretty low.
Even now, they are trying to rehabilitate GWB, while touting the inevitability of his brother's Presidency.
Will the last conservative leaving the Republican party please bring the American flag?


The Good News for 2009
Michael Moore will have to develop a whole new set of paranoid ideations, or go back on meds.
President Obama will realize - (and seems to already) - that Medicare is going to explode, and part of the problem is that so-called "Free Market" pharmaceuticals run the FDA. Not only that, but they think every schoolgirl under 13 ought to be on Gardasil, an unproven vaccine that makes floridated water seem like a conservative plot. Worse yet, they want EVERYBODY to be a consumer of their products, especially the mind-rotting statins. Even Obama isn't that foolish, believe it or not.

Bush haters will begin to lose their teeth - either to age, or a public who is sick of hearing about how bad he supposedly was.

We'll find out - once again - what happens when the anti's are in charge. They are anti-war - but had no credible solution to Saddam. They're anti-Guantanamo, but they have no viable alternative (I would suggest northern Alaska.) They bad-mouth business, but they sream bloody murder when their investments head to the crapper. Expect a new conservatism to hit Hollywood, as even THEY recognize the need for a sustainable economy and real growth - (I hope and pray that George Clooney and Sean Penn invested big with Madoff.)


Hey RickV404
I'll bet your momma is a whole lot uglier and dumber than Sarah Palin.

Thomas
states: Something has been lost in America when people, particularly conservatives, in public discussions routinely use language that was once relegated to boys pulling off their jockstraps in smelly high school locker rooms.

Very true. But abortions used to be relegated to back alleys where all evil belongs. Not promoted and worshiped unto itself as if the torture, maiming and killing of babies was a sacrament. Same with homosexual behavior. It was something to be dealt with and cured, not promoted as a "good" thing or treated like living in sin is the highest possible calling known to humankind. "You Suck," in comparison, seems extremely mild in these times.

Nate
Both items exist. Snuggie and Slanket--usually the Slanket is a bit cheaper.

Marie
You are right. Most of my friends who voted for Obama only did because he was black, 'different from the usual politicians,' or because everybody else was doing it.

I told them I have as much experience as Obama in politics. Except being age 23 I could not run for president, but maybe someday I'll become a Senator and vote present for a couple years before running for president trying to reach the entire US's emotions and run opposite views of what the current president is. I just saw Obama running as the anti-Bush, since the MSM destroyed Bush and most people bought into that.

As for most people wanting our society as Europe, why don't you guys move there. This is the U.S.A. I want our society to remain what it is, (without the current congress) and be the envy of other nations. Why is it that legal and illegal immigrants come here?

Right on
You rock! It seems like "we the people" have lost control of our government! How do we get this damn conservative train back on the tracks?

come on, hawkins!


You nailed a few good ones. However, in all of TV huckstering, only Billy Mays is grand; as grand as grand opera. Billy is the Pavarotti of the Boob-Tube.

Let's hear it for Billy Mays! (I will have to admit, I'm not one of his customers.)

'You Suck'
Something has been lost in America when people, particularly conservatives, in public discussions routinely use language that was once relegated to boys pulling off their jockstraps in smelly high school locker rooms. Yes, liberal Democrat leaders do want to turn America into a teeming third-world anthill, in agreement with the two Presidents Bush and John McCain and the president-elect and the incoming vice-president and the incoming secretary of state...

Eh, Crunchy

Palin got saddled with the Republican Party "support staff", a total pack of incompetent idiots. They'd make anyone look bad.

Socialized Health Care by a Socialist

Wonder why Barack Obama wants all of our health records computerized and available to his administration?

The Nazis established eugenic courts to ensure that the eugenic laws were enforced.

To identify the unfit, German eugenicists compared the individual health files of millions of Germans with medical records from hospitals and the National Health Service.

After Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, the Nazis became even more aggressive toward the weak.

Approximately 100,000 Germans, labeled "useless eaters" by the Nazis, were killed.

The victims were patients in nursing homes and medical facilities, as well as Jewish mentally disturbed and disabled.

The Nazis ordered all of these exterminated. Ultimately, some 11 million people (and possibly more), six million from Jewish descent, were killed by the Nazi death machine.

hey
I bought a slanket for myself and my fiance for Christmas. Those things are awesome! Turning your coat around is no substitute!

Also, it was called a Snuggie, not a slanket.

What is with this guy's disdain for infomercials? It's funny reading about how the Democrats are evil(what an original thought!) and then reading about how Billy Mays is evil.

Marie
Not quite true Marie. Conservatives (and I am being generous with the term here) lost mostly because they failed miserably at being conservatives. Instead they opted to try and be Democrat lite. Silver lining is that a lot of them needed to go and now we have an opportunity to get some REAL conservatives back in office. After 2 years of silliness by the current crop of what passes for leadership, a lot of people will be ready for some 'change'.

Frightening facts.
Who wants to know why conservatism is dying?

I'll give you a hint, it isn't the canards that the America-hating fascist Democrats (but I repeat myself) keep quacking about.

Consider this fact: 4 out of 10 people who voted in this past election received more "free stuff" from the government than they paid in taxes. Whom do you think each and every one of those people voted for? The party that, at least ideologically, wants to take away all that "free stuff", or the party that relies on that "free stuff" to bribe stupid people to vote for them?

But, alas, it is going to get far, far, FAR worse. It is predicted that if Der Fuhrer Obama gets everything he wants passed, it will increase to 6 out of 10 voters receiving more in "free stuff" than they pay in taxes.

Our only hope to save this once-great nation is for Atlas to Shrug. Don't count on that happening, however.

Who remembers the reason for the Berlin Wall being built? The Berlin Wall was built because Atlas WAS Shrugging, and the Communists knew that the only way they could survive is if they enslaved the productive workers and prevented them from fleeing to someplace where they wouldn't be slaves. I predict that within the next decade, we will have our very own Berlin Wall, our very own gulags, and a return of slavery of the productive...all in the name of paying for someone else's "free stuff".

Schwartzenegger
Let's try to remember that there is a Kennedy in his woodpile also.

Lon Pa. 9:11
HeeHee!
Lon, go back and reread your post.It perfectly illustrates why Barry Dunham is PEOTUS!

It is people like YOU who voted for him.His campaign targeted the naive young, the ill informed, and the just plain dumb amongst us!

He was not ushered into his current status with a mandate.He takes his 44 position because the ill informed and the dumb n' dumber crowd outnumber the rest of us.

You are so awesome!
I laughed out loud when I saw that you wrote a Part Two!!! Excellent! Of course, with democrats, there is so much fodder that the list can go on and on. Here's one more. The inauguration of the dumbest, teleprompter puppet with big ears. Talk about the Emperor's New Clothes!!! This guy could come out and take a dump on stage during the inauguration and people would still gush all over themselves to get their nose in it.

PJ O'Rourke was RIGHT!!
The Congress of the United States (or is it Untied Flakes?) is a "Parliament of Whores"!!


-Ray
NRA Life Member
Soli Deo Gloria!!

The truth is awesome to read
Those practicing social justice will hate every word you wrote, bnecause it is what they do. In Texas, Texas Civil Rights Project and the Texas
Rio Grande Legal Aid prefer to promote pedophlia, rape, racism, torture, starvation, and all the oppressions Obama administration will be releasing upon the nation.

Boss' Letter to Employees
Click on my name to read my recent letter to closest employees, it's one of the painful consequences of liberal policies over the past few decades.
You don't have to be Democrat to be liberal, Republicans have been quite busy at it too!
I am glad that McCain lost because conservatism would be blamed for his liberal positions. He is about as liberal as Democrats are.
I do hope he is either thrown out of the R party or he retires as you suggest John.

Just like the proverbial frog in cold water which is now at a boil and you don't feel it.

Your article Mr.Hawkins is right on the money. In the same vein I could come up with quite a few pages more...

I agree
Bulldog 74 is right on the money.
Engineers are overworked and underpaid. I know one who worked for almost 30 years at a major corporation, an absolute straight arrow and diligent employee who was "walked out" one day because of he misinterpreted what was a ridiculously vague policy.

You would NEVER see that happen to the lousiest of teachers!



Hey SJ Doc and Bruce
Why don't you guys tell us how you really feel?

I detect a little anger coming from you guys. Do you think maybe it's time for a little group hug?

By the way SJ, I didn't vote for Paul because he is a winer and he talks funny. Oh, wait a minute, that describes McCain too!

Jindal/Palen for 2012.

Bulldog74
You are as dumb as I! I broke my a$$ to get an engineering degree too. Big mistake. If your experiences have been anything like mine and other engineers I know you have enjoyed zero job security, no respect, being worked like a dog, making crap money considering the difficulty of earning your degree. And in the end you enjoy that pension with all the zeros in the amount, except that the first digit is a zero.

OR

You could have taken a teaching program specializing in finger painting. Then you would be living in fantasy land inside the magic kingdom as a Kindergarten teacher. You would be over pampered, overpaid, over perked and over pensioned with a fat pension check every month and free or almost free health care for you and your spouse for the rest of your lives.

If you are middle aged or younger, get the hell out of engineering and into a classroom.

Losers
Quite a list. Is there any hope for the USA?
Donald W. Bales

You forgot one . . . or two
You forgot one—Joy Behar from "The View."

How in the world did she become a regular on television?
The woman has zero talent. All she's good for is being the the resident liberal zealot and Obama/Hillary flag-waver on the show.

And add Barbra Walters, too. She used to be a real journalist , but now she cannot even conduct an impartial interview.




Palin Clinton debate
Are you for real?Palin cant spell debate, she probably thinks debate goes on da hook...Who in Gods green earth would put a woman who had to have her closets raided by a Gop supporter who ended up with a mid 6 figure bill when the Palins got into the big city and went shopping?Who would want this ""warrior for family values"" in office when her teen daughter gets knocked up by a thug whos mama is a narcotics dealer??She wants to save America,she should start in her own backyard(she can see russia ya know)....Ya,this pitbull with lipstick is a fraud and every single time she opened her mouth mccain lost a point in the polls,since when do pitbulls whine about media coverage,something Mrs Palin just cant stay away from...It isnt so ez now mrs palin,oil has hit the skids and the good people of alaska are going to demand some actual answers as opposed to winks and the classic You betcha's...

Lon, PA
Conservatives lost this election based solely on the ignorance of the voters. Let's look at them....the young who have no clue today since they are the "entitlement generation" ...want something from the government because they deserve and the evidence shown in videos and interviews the blacks only voted for Obama because he is black! God Help Us! Such ignorance is the downfall of the democratic party and America! Just wait and see...don't come crying to us when all is lost. Obama has no clue what he is doing....just being led by the radical marxists with the money. Oh, and where are the republicans fighting all this?

RW

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Bruce –TX
Love your take on the horrible two legged creatures that exist on this planet. You would have loved my late Uncle Ray (as I do). He sums up your, and my, attitude in five words in #1 below.

His two enlightened observations:
1)People are no damn good.
2)What this country needs is a good depression.

He must be looking down (I hope not up) and laughing his a$$ off about his observation #2.

RIGHT ON, JOHN
Hit the nail on the head again and will be waiting for Part 3.

Re: "Europe is so wonderful Crowd" Having worked and lived in Western and Eastern Europe, most Americans would soon rebel against some of their laws and regulations. I saw a road block in France when the federal police was searching for someone, they carried machine guns. However, gun control is very very strict for the citizens. Taxes are very high. One French CPA I knew was paying 40% in taxes. The cost of living is high and to purchase a home a 30% down payment is required to get a loan. But the food and wine is good!
Eastern Europe is still making the transition from a state controlled market to free enterprise. The communist control of the Eastern Bloc countries was a disaster for their economy and it will take another generation to recover from the pollution.

While I enjoyed living in both countries, I am glad I that I am an American citizen. Right or wrong, we are still the best and still admired by other nations. They copy many things we do. Example, in Eastern Europe I saw a lot of people wearing jackets and tee-shirts with the names of American football teams on them. They did not know who the teams were, only that they were American. I attended a ceremony where fallen Americans were being honored.

True Hurts!
All I can say is . . . the truth hurts!

A couple of thoughts...
I'm proud that I graduated from a school of Engineering where, unlike the colleges of liberal arts, it's pretty tough to BS your way to a PhD or a tenured position.

As far as being like Europe goes, didn't most of our ancestors come over here to get away from the Old World?

Mr. Hawkins
There are any number of great schools, that need teachers. Please familiarize me, with your reasons for not teaching? No PHD? No real talent in the art of teaching? The low pay? The less than grateful attitude of parents? I have on many occasion been asked; "Why Don't You Teach"? My reply;"Let Them Teach Their Own Kids". The republican party will not win many converts with this approach.

Re: The List???
How come you really don't slam that elitist Reid?? This guy sucks like the mother earth!!! Of all the people who should not be a servant of the people this guy should not be anything of the sort!! As a matter of fact this guy needs to be driving a refuse truck in NYC!!! That is what would be a good thing for this chump to be doing with himself, Lord knows he has really screwed up the job he is doing now!! The only thing that would get him fired on the refuse truck if he hit someone and that would be good for him to experience the unemployment line!!!

Hee Hee
Wow, reading what idiots liberals are one wonders how you guys ever lost this last election. Very mysterious. Everyone you oppose had no idea what he or she was doing, and yet they wiped the floor with your guys and your ideas.

Anyone who thinks...
Britain is a "police state" hasn't been out and about in New York or DC lately (and certainly hasn't passed trhough one of our airports). Still, when I was in London last year, I noticed that they'd removed the Cadbury's vending machines from the Underground stations, which smacks of nanny-stateness to me.

As to Billy Mays, every time I wonder aloud whether it might be time to dye out some of the grey that's invading my hair, my wife asks "Do you want to look like Billy Mays?"

Finally, have any other TH posters had a problem with cookies lately? I now find that I have to re-login here in a couple times a day. I have this problem on no other site with cookies.


Doug,SJDoc,wayward1
Spot on on the Fed....now take it a step further and look at the appointment of Susan Rice to the UN....Law of the Sea Treaty,International Criminal Court....by years end all our troops will be wearing "Blue" helmets.....lock and load....

Camp of the Saints
In 1973, Jean Raspail wrote a novel named Camp of the Saints. It is an eery vision of how Europe would become what it is today. He was concerned about "political correctness" even before the word was coined.

Europe
Read Tony Blankleys book "The West's Last Chance, Will we win the clash of civilizations" he clearly documents how sharia law is making headway in Europe and even Canada. To make it worse Mark Steyn's book "America alone: The end of the world as we know it" shows how the demographics in Europe are changing dramatically. Europe cant replace their populations because the birth rates are so low but guess which group has the highest birthrate in Europe? Do yourselves a favor and read

To the Point and True
This by far is one of best columns that I have read in long time, and it is so true and to the point. I hope some of the liberals read this column and have an a epithany. But lets pray that BHO is only in for one term, and the republicans get off their duff and start now working on getting some of them elected and re-elected in two years.

Surfgrill

Pennsylvania Yankee
I lived in London from 94 through 99, and have went back several times, as recently as last fall for a friends wedding.

Hawkins isn't too far off the mark. The progression (into a police state) has been mindblowing, and had not the liberal indoctrinators brainwashed a couple of generations, Guy Fawkes part 2 would be the order of the day.

Sad but true.

Jolly Good Show, Hawkins
This one is far better than Chapter 1. To LC, Barney Fwank does have two slankets - he purchased a his and his slanket. Don't be left without one, or two. Hopefully you will have a Chapter 3 to cover the bonehead mistakes of our prez, Jorge Bush, and why the voters did not vote for the loser McShame instead of the half person BHO.

You are Dead on Right
Whle I laughed reading this, the harsh reality is that it's all true.

To the person who questioned is Britain a police state - been to London lately? It's probably the cheapest place to go to have yourself photographed from 80 different angles. No picking your nose there - it's all on film.

As we move closer to PREZ-BO the tough times we are having economically now will seem like a Boom era once this Empty Suit is sworn in as President.

But we shall see if those nasty cruel left wing comedians will tear him or his wife to shreds - they will continue to wave those palms over their empty and inflated heads.

BUCKLE YOUR SEAT BELTS, HIDE YOUR CASH, IT'S GOING TO BE A BUMPY RIDE.

Doug and SJDoc
Dr Paul has also been warning us of the dangers of the Federal Reserve and the central bank for most of his career. It is the Federal Reserve which is the cause of our economic meltdown, and not the paltry 4% of homeowners in foreclosure which has captured center stage in the MSM.

Spread the word, end the Fed at http://www.endthefed.us

And for those who use the standard talking points on why we need the fed, treat them like the lying scum of the earth that they are.

RickV404
As apposed to Obama who is a lightweight, an opportunist and a Democrat. Obama has done nothing, accomplished nothing, ran nothing and yet boneheads like you elected him. No executive experience, nothing to show for his time in the Senate, except for being late for most of his meetings. Talk about a lightweight. God help us.

Good rant Mr. Hawkins! /Penn.Yankee
I don't know if it's true but,I heard that Barney Frank has two slankets.

AND PENN.YANKEE
Well Penn..., they call it Londonstan now. The civil courts have adopted Sharia Law.
Merry Olde England has big problems. Most of them brought on by P.C. to the max and appeasement.

I do not think it would be too hard to find info on your own that would corroborate what John said.

Anti-Liberal all the way
Right on on both Parts 1 & 2, it is good to know I am not alone out here....

Confederation of Fools
I'd rather be governed by an average member of Townhall or Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber even than the Ivy League graduates who have so screwed up our country. Congress is a confederation of fools. It's up to us voters to throw everyone of them out of office, including the Anointed One, and vote in the first few hundred people listed in the telephone book. Guaranteed we'll get better results and rationality!

Excellent article!! Bravo
Kudos to you for not being afraid to speak the truth. Why have we been so scared of the liberals?

Road to Ruin
Mr. Hawkins, you hit this one out of the park! We don't have a shortage of oil: we have a shortage of commonsense.

The Democrat leaders and their mind-numbed robots are hellbent on turning America into a third world country. And I can just see all the mind-numbed Obama-mites saying, "Wha happened?"


Palin scares liberals, especially
liberal men.
They can't handle tough, smart chicks like Sarah who has more common sense than the entire crowd in DC and can handle a rifle as well.

If she was such a lightweight, why did they do all they could to destroy her?

I'd love to see her debate hillary who has no business being secstate, who is she going to look out for, the country or slick's business interests overseas while she undermines bambi looking to unseat him in 4 years.
A dog in the manger, shows me that ole barrack ain't as smart as he would have us believe.

AMEN! AMEN1
Best article written. All is true. Liberals can't handle the truth as the saying goes. But RIGHT will win out in the end. Thank you LORD.
Keep your Change- Give me my ammunition and my guns to protect myself against these fools the liberals are going to let loose on us. The dirty politics of Chicago has spread all over the nation now.

Proving a point
RickV,

Thanks for proving John's point about Palin haters. For you all real conservatives are lightweights aren't they?

Police State across the Pond!!
In Britain you have NO right to self-defense. If mugged you are to assume the "victim position" (fetal) and scream for help. IF you resist the attacker will get immunity from prosecution to testify against YOU in YOUR trial for "vigilantism".

I know from long ago how it happened to an American girl on the Tube who drove off an attacker with a 1" pocket knife.

-Ray
NRA Life Member
Soli Deo Gloria!!

SJ Doc
Right on, brother! Ron Paul seems to be the only one in Washington who understands economics. His predictions are always correct, yet his advice is always ignored. It's frustrating to watch. He predicts that Obama's economic plan will worsen the problems we are experiencing. Based on his track record, I am preparing for complete societal breakdown. Call me a pessimist, but I consider myself a realist. Anybody who can't see what,s coming has his head in the sand.

If Europe is so wonderful,
why have people been leaving Europe to come to America for more than two centuries? Rarely does the reverse occur, and when it does, it's always some mega-rich celebrity who became rich IN AMERICA, and doesn't have to make a living in Europe.

Evil is in control now
Hillary Clinton, the "Smartest Woman in the World," who couldn't even pass her bar exam on the first try, has no experience at anything other than being married to a highly successful corrupt and philandering politician, yet is touted by the Democrats and mainstream media as a "tough and experienced choice" for Secretary of State. In truth she's nothing but a vicious, power-mad harridan who will either cry or belt shots of whiskey on demand, depending on who she's trying to ingratiate herself with, while self-made Sarah Palen, who got where she is on merit and accomplishments, is straightforward and without pretense or lust for power, is trashed as "inexperienced" and "unqualified" to hold office in Washington.

The forces of evil are in the driver's seat now, and defining people and things their own way.

Socrates was right when, thousands of years ago, he said that the kind of people who pursue political offices are exactly the kind you don't want in them.

They all Suck
So what are you going to do about it? Out in my neck of rural America the Sarah Palin loving, flag waving, bible thumbing uneducated, Obama/Black hating hayseeds think that stocking up on guns and ammo is the answer. What they really want is an all white Christian authoritarian conformist theocracy that tells eveyone exactly how to live so we can all be free. They Suck. Back in the urban sprawl the Obama loving, socialist leaning, climate mongering, gay codling, delusional, supposedly educated, cubical clones believe that government is the answer. They believe this in spite of the fact that they have a piece of paper that says they should know better. They want a government to provide them with total security under the rule of a bureaucracy that tells us exactly how to live without offending anyone on the planet so we can be free. They Suck. 96% of everything and everyone sucks. 30% of the population is just plain stupid. They Suck. 60% are conformist followers who do as they are told and have no free thinking capacity.They Suck. Another 6% can't agree on anything and have no common ground other than that they spend a great deal of energy screwing the other 90% and each other as often as they can. They Suck. 4% actually own and control most everything, everyone and anything that matters and employee the 6%ers to do all their sucking for them so they can be the only ones who don't suck.

Europe
I think I can explain the obsession of the left with us being like Europe. It's an inferiority complex.

If you read my location you'll see it says MS for Mississippi. We, along with the rest of the South, are usually looked down upon by people up north especially the elite from universities who think we are backwards brainless hicks. This tends to foster a kind of inferiority complex among some Southerners.

I have a sister-in-law who will practically kill herself to prove to some Northern relatives of ours how intelligent, refined, and well off she is. She will show off her nice home, hold elaborate tea and crumpet parties, and brag about her husband's salary. And for all her effort, the Yankee relatives will still think they are better than her.

She would do better to accept herself the way she is and to heck with what the relatives think.

Now: For my sister-in-law and other Southerners like her substitute "liberal Americans". For the Northern relatives substitute "Europe".

I think we would do better not to care what Europeans think of us and to spend our energies on what will make a better society both here and abroad. Then the Europeans may think better of us or not but we will have the good conscience of a job well done and not that of craven suck-ups.

John
Can you back up your assertion that "Britain is practically a police state?" I'm just wondering.

you bet
What amazes me is that Sarah Palin was not even running for president, yet she was criticized on her "experience." Now let me get this straight, the media covered this extensively, while PEBO's experience of voting 'present' or Caroline Kennedy's family name create better politicians? Liberalism is hypocrisy.
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