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WHY WHY WHY HOW??

ALL TEN COUNTS "NOT GUILTY " RIGHT DOWN THE LIST? is this happening... whats going on here.... i need to think more on this... i'll get back to ya... i need to discuss this with my editor and chief

Well I like this site better than new one

Well SEOhhh so bad of a site stinks. I do not know why Hether left this one and went to SEO so bad. . I will blog here if she choses to copy to that site fine. This works for me and has only one step instead of three or four monkey steps. Heather you know I love and respect you. I love your brains,you have great blogs. I give you many manhy way too many e-mails daily when I am around. Sorry about that. But I think they are good stories. It is your job to look at them and be the producer. I will be around next week,yet be at my North Carolina home. Who knows how that will go. I speak with you frequently,on Instant Mess. Tuesday night I understand I am being changed over to another Dsl provider we will se what that mess shows up to be then. So I can blog on SEo fine but the format I think stinks. This is a much better site. It is easy and works. What is SEO a Korean site?? sounds it.. Heather I have done much business and have made some good coin, trust me stop dancing around all the time.stick with one spot .So it's not perfect yet it looked great to me. Stop trying to be ohh so perfect in these sites. You had here penmanship sigs and pictures now what do you have in SEo? JUNK.......... I will continue behind the scene ,just give me an e-mail. Or meet me in a dark parking garage(lol)... Or send the creator of SEO to that dark garage I will gladly beat something into him that moron. Until then see ya .BE good Shctick and Heather... I am out like a fat kid playing dodgeball...

Who wins the race to buy Washington Nationals????

Will it be George I am not an American Soros or Collin Powell group??? So will it be the Sallie May guys or the Soros group?? Humm I cannot stand that Hungarian loser Soros,sorry.He crossed me in a deal once. I am backing the Malek-Jeffery -Zients group personally. I always heard Larry King was in the push to get a team there so I bet his name comes up soon. Price Tag for the team is 400 million with a new stadium in the works worth 535 million... Humm I smell a congressional rip off......... Heather Yanks swept by pathetic Royals...lol... Phillies won........

Social Security price indexing proposal means benefit cuts for workers

Much has been made of the recent Social Security proposal put forth by Robert Pozen, a member of Bush’s President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security, and endorsed by President Bush. Pozen’s suggested changes to Social Security include blending the current wage indexing of benefits with price indexing, a shift that will reduce Social Security benefits for middle-income workers by 22% in 2055 and by 28% in 2085. Indeed, the Pozen proposal will lead to substantial and ever increasing benefit cuts for well over 70% of Social Security beneficiaries, including retirees, widows, and surviving children.

Earlier projections discussing implications of the effects of Pozen’s proposal concern only workers who are either very young or not yet born. As a result, the cost of price indexing for current workers has been missing from the debate. These new estimates focus on current workers and, while remaining consistent with the proposal’s long-run projections, show substantial benefits cuts under the Pozen plan for them as well. These expanded numbers also include estimates for each state for different ages and national estimates for race, gender, and marital status.

Wage indexing versus price indexing

The Pozen proposal cuts projected Social Security benefits by taking advantage of the fact that average wages have grown (and will continue to grow) faster than prices. Because the gap between wages and prices grows over time, the benefit cuts under the Pozen plan deepen over time. Thus, the cuts for those currently employed will not be as large as for those not yet old enough to be employed.

The cuts in benefits for current American workers should be put in the context of other changes in sources of retirement income. Retirement Income: The Crucial Role of Social Security, a recent Economic Policy Institute study by Christian Weller and Edward Wolff, highlighted the declining share of Americans with access to traditional retirement accounts and the dramatic growth of Social Security as a share of middle-class retirement wealth. For instance, for those ages 47 to 55, Weller and Wolff show that about 26% of workers have neither a defined benefit nor a defined contribution pension plan. And, for workers in that age group, the mean value of their private pension plans was less than the wealth they held in Social Security benefits. In that context, the cuts from the Pozen plan would be devastating.¹

The tables below use data on workers gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau on annual income for the three most recent years of data (2001 to 2003). By creating such a large sample of current American workers, we can project the loss of Social Security retirement benefits that specific groups of current workers can expect to receive (see the Technical Appendix for a full explanation of the data and methods). The tables present the proposal’s effects for workers currently married and the expected benefit cuts by state, race, gender, and age.

Under the Pozen proposal, about 6% of workers who earn enough to get the maximum Social Security benefit will have their future benefits calculated using pure price indexing (currently those earning more than $90,000 a year would receive the maximum benefit). The benefit cuts are largest for these workers with the highest earnings. Roughly the bottom 30% of earners—but, importantly, not the bottom 30% of Social Security beneficiaries—will have their benefits calculated using the current method of wage indexing. And the remaining workers—the roughly 64% of those between the bottom and the top of the earning scale—will have their benefits cut, with those at the lower end facing smaller cuts than those at the higher end.

Pozen plan will slash benefits for many current workers

According to testimony by the director of the Congressional Budget Office on May 25 , the Social Security trust fund should be able to pay full benefits another 39 years, through 2044.² Thus, under the current Social Security framework, workers now in their early 40s should receive full benefits in retirement for their expected lifetimes. Anyone older than that would unambiguously suffer from a cut in benefits if Congress passes Social Security reform with the Pozen proposal for indexing benefits.

But while older workers will be hit with reductions in benefits under the Pozen plan, younger workers will take the biggest cuts in benefits. As shown in Table 1, the average cut for today’s 26-year-old workers will be 14.6% compared to current law, and will amount to a reduction in retirement income over their expected retired lives of $71,236 in today’s dollars. Today’s 40-year-old workers will suffer a cut of 7.3%, amounting to a cut of $28,148 in benefits in today’s dollars. Given that under current law, and with current projections, Social Security should be sufficiently solvent to pay full current law benefits, these are substantial and unnecessary cuts.

It is important that policy makers approach any cuts in benefits to current workers with caution. In 1997, the Social Security Trustees reported that the projected 75-year shortfall in Social Security’s finances were equivalent to 2.23% of taxable payroll for the United States. Yet, no changes were made in the program. Over the last eight years, the shortfall estimated by the Trustees’ report has narrowed by 14% to 1.92% of payroll, mostly because the economy performed better than predicted.³ So, if cuts in benefits had been implemented to eliminate the shortfall projected by the Social Security trustees in 1997, those cuts would have been far deeper than necessary, based on what we know about the projections made today.

Marital status and gender under the Pozen plan

Because men have been earning more than women, men will face a greater cut in benefits than women. Young men ages 26-31 can expect cuts in benefits of 13.8%, amounting to a drop in expected retirement income over their lives of $62,686 in today’s dollars (see Table 2). It will be difficult for these men to earn back enough by retirement to offset a cut that large, even with the most generous assumptions about how private accounts might perform.

Married couples will take a bigger cut in benefits than single workers. This is primarily because married men tend to earn more than single men or women. Wives are allowed to claim either their own benefit, based on their work record, or half their husband’s benefit, based on his work record. So, some women who appear to be low wage, actually will take a larger benefit cut. For married couples age 42-54, the cut will be 3.9% each, and will average a cut of $14,373 each in retirement income (as shown in Table 3). Against the backdrop that Social Security would be able to pay these benefits in full, that is a large cut. And, watching the private pension plans of Enron, United, and others vaporize in the wake of the stock markets downturn, those cuts will be difficult to make up from other resources before these workers retire.

Social Security cuts by state

Examining the Pozen proposal through the lens of its impact on individual states yields further evidence of the proposal’s negative effect on Social Security benefits. As Table 3 showed, married couples take a bigger cut than singles. And, as the logic of the Pozen plan protects the bottom third of earners, states with more low earners will have lower cuts than states with more high earners. Part of the reason that some states have deeper cuts than others comes from differences in marriage rates, as well as in incomes.

Projected cuts for states reflect average income for workers, and the share of workers in each state who are married (see Table 4). Among states, current workers in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware will take the greatest loss in Social Security income, though Virginia and Pennsylvania also rank high.

Racial differences in benefit cuts

Again, because the Pozen plan cuts benefits more for workers who make more, racial differences in the size of cuts will depend on racial differences in income. Racial differences in cuts reflect the higher earnings of whites and Asian Americans than of Hispanics and African Americans (Table 5). Despite a smaller cut for African Americans and Hispanics—an average of 2.8% for 42- to 54-year-olds compared to 3.8% for whites and 3.7% for Asian Americans in that age group—the greater share of African Americans and Hispanics who rely solely on Social Security for their retirement income will make these cuts appear larger relative to their total retirement income. (The amount of lost retirement income is projected to be slightly higher for African Americans because a higher share of African Americans are women than is true for Hispanics, and women have longer life expectancies than men.) It bears repeating that the Pozen plan would impose cuts on 42-54 year olds even though projections show that Social Security will have sufficient funds to pay full benefits throughout the expected life of this age group.

Given the certainty that the current work force will face benefit cuts under the Pozen plan, a careful analysis must be made of the impact of those cuts. For instance, 42-to 54-year-olds will face smaller cuts than younger workers, but their cuts are not the direct outcome of Social Security projections showing insufficient funds to cover their benefits. And, cuts for 42- to 54-year-olds will take place when many have been surprised by the sudden drop in their private pension plans and have little time to recover the losses in retirement income that will stem from private plans or cuts in Social Security. Using cuts to balance the Social Security Trustees projections must be weighed carefully in light of the fluctuations in the Trustees’ projections over time. Had cuts been made in 1997 to close the 75-year actuarial shortfall projected at that time, they would have been deeper than what would be required to close that shortfall today.

Research assistance by William E. Spriggs and David Ratner is gratefully acknowledged. Credit for this article goes to Economic Policy Institute Reasearch and Ideas for Working People Thank you!
P.S. I felt the need to post this article on my blog site to help people to understand and underscore the importance of social security and how the Bush Admin. is undermining social security and hurting americans! WAKE UP AMERICA!
Heather

Love letter to Condi [Funny stuff!] Click Here

This is sooooooooo funny!!!!

Another "Bush"in the Whitehouse bushes umm wings????

Well last night on the Larry Zieger Show ,sorry Larry King(his real name is Zieger),George Bush 41 (the father) said he wants Jeb to run. He claims he would be great at it. Well if you think back when asked before GHWB 41 said if two boys ran who would you think would win??He said then Jeb. Today Jeb brushes it off with a laugh and said no I am not running for President. Anyone else notice he never says no I will not be on the ticket as a Vice President???? Humm I see Jeb as a possible VP short list if his silly brother can drag himself out of the fog . Or maybe dump Darth Vader Cheney(who I like) and sign up Jeb as VP now..lol.... Great case of nepotism ,my fault I live in New Joisey were that pay to play brotherly family stuff is common.....

Airline stupidity or a sneaky way to find out your personal credit

Well my mother flew back to Florida yesterday. She flew Spirit air out of Atlantic City(sorry mom I was using my GV SP jet) she had to fly public transportation yuck.....Well to buy a drink on the plane(my mother doesn't drink but lady in other seat did) this is where I think it's strange..You can no longer pay for a drink in cash on Spirit Air,you have to use a credit card or debit card. Wow a bunch of four dollar charges at user fees on your card now. Plus imagine the way this slows down service. The Flight attendant has to swip a card at every seat. Now what is happening to the card reciepts and is there anyway for information to be stolen here????? Or is this a sneaky way the government is trying to find out about people who pay cash at the counter?? I smell a story here and just wonder is all..BTW on my plane ,drinks are free..... But I guess at a 2 mill lease a year I pay for them huh.Plus you can smoke on a private jet... I like Spirit it is an ok airline but,something is strange here I think it has to be a bank kickback for the surcharge fees or big brother is poking his nose in the back door once again.

Laura Bush Presidential Timber? Don't Make Me Laugh!

Op-Ed By Heather

Laura Bush, Desperate Housewife
First Lady Laura Bush stole the show at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner a few weeks back with a surprise comedy routine in which she ripped President Bush and admitted to being a "desperate housewife."

Grabbing the microphone from her husband, the first lady brought the crowd of political heavyweights and Hollywood celebrities to its feet as she let loose a series of one-liners that included digs at her mother-in-law, tales of going to a male strip club, and a colorful allusion to the time George, um, gave a hand-job to a horse, which i found truely insulting, but seemed to pass or perverted humor.

Why do I bring this up? Well it seems the Media, and leaks, perhaps from the whitehouse itself, or the RNC are leaking trial balloons about Laura Bush as a presidential candidate these days and the above prologue is her resumé for the presidency, yes no need to have fiscal training and knowledge, budgeting, knowledge of world events, world history, or even knowledge of world leaders, heck her husbund doesn't either!
On the contrary all you need to be experienced in, is knowledge of timing in delivering one liners on television, charm, a vehicle and the ability to run someone over during your college years, raising two bratty ill mannered daughters that are a belt away from AA and had brushes with the law, and absolutely no knowledge of the military or military training and presto instant presidential candidate for 2008.

Does my bantering sound silly? Yes! You bet it does, about as silly as Laura Bush being a presidential candidate for 2008.

If you want a female candidate try to act serious with a grain of intelligence i know its hard for you right wing extremist neocons but ummmmm duhhhhhhhhh come on thats it scratch your balding heads thats it i see your bulb coming up with an idea that makes sense a little harder now....there you goooooooo yes thats it duhhhhhhh Liddy Dole hey I knew you guys on the right could do it, actually I can think of a few others "Condi" Rice, Olympia Snowe, you may propse an polemic debate over their politics but at least they have a legit political resumé to run on.

Laura Bush may consider herself a "Desperate Housewife" but if she were president we certainly would be a "Desperate Nation".

In ending please spare me any rhetoric replies assumming i am in support of a "Hillary Clinton" nomination and run for the presidency, if you did you would be assumming WRONG! all other intelligent replies to my post would be greatly appreciated. I'm out

Trump/Koreans New York City

Well they are going to sell a big slice of NYC away for 1.8 billion dollars. I knew this but kept my mouth shut sorry Heather yet I have backchanneled hinted this to you a few months ago. DJTE is a stock I can't trust money wise yet I like his practices of telling them like it is.

FEC to take on blogs

WEll move on .org has met it;s match. So have others. It appears the FEC has decided to take on a fundraising issue with blogs. You cannot take money (Soros you scumbag loser) and get a free ride on the internet anylonger. Heather your site is OK if you do not take money for it. I love this law because I have wanted to take out a few sites myself legally(unlike the way I do it now) HEHE....

Katie Couric Proof she is a B@#$%

Well the tapes will be leaked soon here. I have heard them from lets say someone I trust. The truth behind the firing of Tom Touche. Katie pled I knew nothing and had nothing to do with it.Yeah sure you runt hampster looking liberal skank. I heard the cell tape and you are going down(well thats not new I guess for her). She had Tom fired. He was called into an office of his seniors at NBC and was fired. OK no biggie. Well Katie the sly little Whoric she is calls him on his cell phone right after he gets back to his office and says hey Tom I have a Pope story for you. He says wow sounds like a good story ,too bad I cannot help you I was just fired. Her responce??? "what ,that wasn't supposed to happen until friday" That line tells you she ordered it and knew about it. Note to Katie you slutt, never talk on cell phones moron. I speak on cells myself yet I try to keep it short and sweet. You got the Short part but no sweet you 68 million dollar B#$%^

Deep throat Monica Crowley

Well please they have her out tonight as a "Nixon Aid". Come on now. She worked for him from 1990 until 1994. She was not an insider,she worked with him in his last years. She is and probably kept around for eye candy for Tricky Dick Nixon. Hey I can't blame him there in her day I bet she was a piece of tail. In my opinion she was on his later year staff to get a TV job and write a book(which she did) and has recieved that TV job as well. She was on the Nixon staff in his last years to be a piece of "fluff"for the old guy so he could play some grabazz with a young good looking woman. She in my opinion is like an umbrella in a Daqurari ,nice to look at but does nothing for the buzz................. BTW I think Nixon even though before my time was probably onbe of the best we ever have had and the scumbad media caused this...

Hackworth Funeral

Well I attended it today,it was quite a scene.Six hundred plus people in attendance. A few Generals were there ,Emerson,Moore and Falcoln all in attendance. Media scuzzballs wre also there I guess to pay homage for the leaks they got from him. Cathy Crier was there,Cavuto,and G.Gordon Liddy who is all in another TV mess tonight were also there. I flew in and flew out today because I have to attend another azz kissin function the next two days. I will miss a good family friend in Dave and hope all of what he did to bring light to solidiers plights does not go in vain. Godspeed Dave...............

Please Take A Moment To Remember Col. David Hackworth... A True 'Soldier's Soldier'

This nation has lost quite possibly the bravest soldier to ever wear a uniform. Col. David Hackworth not only displayed the heart of a lion in battle, but continued his brave ways long after leaving the Army. He was an outspoken critic of senseless abuses of power on the part of politicians, while remaining a most ardent defender of those who were charged with executing their orders. "Hack" as he was known, succumbed to the ravages of cancer on May 4. Those who were fortunate enough to serve under him and those of us who simply admired his bravery and insight, will never forget him.

Col. David Hackworth was born on Armistice Day in 1930. He became an orphan before the age of one. The only thing he wanted to do was become a soldier. At the tender age of 14, he convinced a stranger to pose as his father and escort him into a recruiting center, where the two lied about his age. In 1944, Hackworth was sailing with the U.S. Merchant Marine in the Pacific. When he turned 15, he joined the U.S. Army and his incredible career began.

Col. Hackworth served in Europe during World War II, the Korean war, and Vietnam. During the Korean War, he received a battlefield commission and before war's end became the youngest captain in the U.S. Army. While serving in Vietnam, Hackworth became the youngest full-bird colonel in that war.

While in Vietnam, Col. Hackworth led a rescue mission to extract several of his own men. The soldiers were pinned down by enemy fire and would have undoubtedly faced death. Hackworth stood on the strut of his helicopter and personally pulled the men to safety, all the while facing heavy NVA fire. The men who he saved that day recommended him for a Congressional Medal of Honor (one of three submissions).

In 1971, Col. Hackworth appeared on the ABC network show "Issues and Answers." In his typical fashion, 'Hack' pulled no punches. He proclaimed to the nation: "Vietnam is a bad war...it can't be won. We need to get out." He went on to predict that the city of Saigon would fall to the communist forces of North Vietnam within the next four years. The colonel had earned the right to say anything he pleased and his prediction was right on the money.

Of course, Hackworth's honesty and candor angered President Nixon and his band of 'yes men' which comprised the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Due to Hackworth's incredible military service, unquestionable character, and overwhelming heroism--neither the President nor the Pentagon could mount a legitimate defense to the colonel's claims. However, following his appearance on "Issues and Answers," he retired from the Army and left the country for Australia.

While in Australia, Hackworth worked tirelessly against nuclear proliferation and for his efforts received the United Nation's Medal for Peace. He returned to the U.S. in the 1980's.

Hackworth was constantly sought out for his great insight on military issues. He became a correspondent and analyst for Newsweek as well as CNN.

As a journalist, 'Hack' was just as outspoken as he had been while in uniform. While giving a speech on his experiences covering the first Gulf War, the retired colonel said: "I didn't see any Japanese soldiers. I didn't see any German soldiers." He complained that American young men were fighting and dying for oil that was "fueling their economy, fueling their industry that's ripping our chops!"

Hackworth was the author of seven books and thousands of hard-hitting articles. For his reporting skills, he earned the prestigious George Washington Honor Medal.

Hackworth wrote a regular column for World Net Daily entitled "Defending America." The column was devoted to exposing wasteful military spending, useless politicians and top military brass, and the lack of military preparedness.

Hackworth described the "battle cry" of his column to be: "No more Vietnams. No more Somalias. No more Koreas. No more fights that see unprepared forces flung onto foreign battlefields to be chewed up like hamburger in a lion's den."

The colonel was also the founder of Soldiers For The Truth. SFTT is a veterans organization which fights for the rights of our men and women in uniform. One of the important causes on which that group is still battling our government is the recognition of Vietnam veterans who are suffering from the affects of Agent Blue. While the Pentagon finally admitted the dangers to which so many soldiers were subjected by the use of Agent Orange--exposure to Agent Blue while just as dangerous, remains officially unrecognized.

Col. Hackworth himself was exposed to Agent Blue in Vietnam and died of bladder cancer. Many Vietnam veterans are suffering from the same form of cancer due to their exposure to the deadly chemical.

Col. David Hackworth was twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, as well as ten Silver Stars, eight Purple Hearts, eight Bronze Stars, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. Of all the medals and accolades Hackworth received, he said that he was most proud of his Combat Infantry Badge.

Hackworth's dedication, toughness, and his soldier's heart distinguished him as one of America's greatest heroes. He will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.

To Col. David Hackworth: Thank you for your fierce loyalty and determination. We will never forget you. Nor are we likely to ever see the likes of you again sir!...Godspeed. At Ease Bloggers

Deep Throat Insanity

By Heather Op-ed
Well with so many other more exigent agendas on hand, it seems as though the media has made up its mind the issue of the day perhaps the next several days will be the cogency of "deep throat a.k.a. W. Mark Felt.
Well this does not provide any consternation to me, seeing how the media has a liberal bias tilt to it combined that there was no love loss between the media and president Nixon, so for a while the media will revel in its glory.
Now as for the wacko extremist left in this country calling mr Felt a hero, ie. Chris Matthews, Tom Brokaw etc I find this totally insane, this man was gutless, dishonest, and disloyal to a president, if this no. 2 man at the FBI and he had evidence he should have called in the grand jury and gone public, not as some slimey shadowy figure feeding intell to two second rate rookie journalists at the Post,
doing what he did came seriously close to being criminal...a hero? lol I think not!
Unfortunately this nation does not know what a hero is, its certainly not a person that hides in the shadows swears two reporters to a vow of silence, allows himself to be nicknamed after a trash porn film and is disloyal to a president, he had two choices if he had problems with President Nixon he could have went public and or resign. IF YOU IDIOTS WANT A REAL HERO, TRY COL. HACKWORTH he contributed far more to this country then Mr. Felt and he did not hide in the shadows!
Also its fact that both although Woodward more so than Bernstein has always had credibility problems.
The timing of this is interesting he is rumored to be in ill health and frail and its also intersting that the daughter was encouraging him at his frail age and perhaps not all that mentally sharp to go public, lol do i detect financial motives here? lol or is it just my fertle creative mind at work, well we will see if my feminine intuition proves me correct, time will tell, speaking of time at 7.00 pm and again at 9.00 pm I suppose i will torture myself and watch MSNBC and dare i say the name Chris Matthews and his extremist idiotic babling about Mr. Felt being a hero I suppose my repreieve will be Pat Buchanan, my guess is he will be the only honest one there and a breath of fresh air, oh well i'm out.

New York Times Breaking News Click Here

By Heather
The New York Times & ABC News is reporting that W. Mark Felt assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may be the infamous "Deep Throat according to family atty. and vanity fair article. Lots of twists and turns here, niether Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward or Ben Bradlee have comfirmed this as of this posting stay tuned

Politics & Crime

By Heather
Political potpourri:

* In Tennessee, the FBI has just completed a sting operation that netted one big fish -- Republican Sen. John Ford, who is just one member of the powerful Tennessee family who has made it in politics.

It never ceases to amaze me how people vote for a name, or a political party, and never consider what the person stands for. For example, Ford has been successfully sued for sexual harassment, lost paternity suits, gave a political job to his girlfriend and was fined for using $15,000 in campaign contributions to pay for his daughter's wedding.

He also is under investigation for receiving $429,000 over two years from a consultant who has ties to the state's Medicaid program. In the latest incident he allegedly took $55,000 to help a fake company get a contract with the state. "You are talking to the guy who makes the deals," he told FBI undercover agents.

How do these people keep getting re-elected? Ford's next deal may be one to stay out of prison, if all this is true.

* Closer to home, in Miami, federal agents seized a 750-pound shipment of cocaine hidden in fake plantains. The fake fruit was hidden among real plantains being shipped from Ecuador.

The fiberglass fakes were filled with drugs and placed among 1,080 boxes of fruit in a refrigerated container. The coke has a wholesale value of $6.1 million.

I don't think the Central American Free Trade Act we are considering says anything about cocaine.

* Have you heard Gov. Jeb Bush may be altering his party's policy on redistricting? At least that's what Democrats are saying after Jeb helped California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to finance a campaign to create an independent redistricting panel in the state that gives us Hollywood, earthquakes and "The O.C."

If Jeb likes the idea in California, surely he'll come back and pitch the same proposal for Florida. Then maybe we wouldn't have a representative who has to make a two-to-three-hour drive from his east coast home to Charlotte County to meet with the other 10 percent or so of his constituents!

Speeders Rewarded with new law.

By Heather
Tallahassee - Gov. Bush vetoed legislation that would have required drivers to move over to the right when other cars are trying to get by them in the left lane. He said the proposed law would have punished people driving at the speed limit who don't yield to speeders...geeeeeeeee Jeb now tell me? who really drives at the limit????, sorry Jeb but vetoing the legislation was a good idea.
I'm sorry but this Lady is putting her high heel pumps to the metal, sorry but I have little time or patience for slowpokes no one, absolutely no one goes 55 mph on I-95 and that includes little 85 year old granny types with their walkers, lol.
Perhaps you would be better advised having the local law enforcement taking brush up courses on thir driving....as they seem to be the worst drivers breaking all sorts of traffic rules in non-emergency situations, now there's a thought!

Congress Passes Compromise Budget Agreement with Medicaid Cuts

The House and Senate have passed a budget resolution for FY2006, setting the stage for $35 billion in entitlement cuts through 2010 and $106 billion in tax cuts. The resolution includes instructions for $10 billion in cuts over the next five years from the Medicaid program. The agreement represents a compromise between the House, which initially passed much larger cuts, and the Senate, which had voted to strip all cuts to the Medicaid program from its version. The budget agreement also calls for the establishment of a federal advisory panel to come up with Medicaid reform measures by September of this year.
I strongly oppose any cuts to the Medicaid program as the budget agreement was negotiated. Please urge Congress to protect Medicaid. While the final resolution does contain instructions for cuts, we should continue to advocate for the most vulnerable of our nation's poorest populations by preserving funding for the Medicaid and other safety net programs. Thanks to those of you who sent letters, and helped to stave off even larger cuts to this vital program for the most vulnerable in our nation.
Although the budget resolution is nonbinding, it is important because it provides a blueprint that lawmakers can use to pass specific tax and spending legislation later in the year. For instance, the resolution assumes $106 billion in tax cuts over the next five years, and explicitly directs Congress to enact legislation providing for $70 billion of those cuts.

On Memorial Day.

Even though this guy did not die in battle a great American hero has checked out of the motel of life. Colonel Hackworth has died. I sent Heather a brief bio on his life. This guy was a great American hero. I will be ta Arlington Tuesday for his full military funeral. I have lost one of my contacts inside. This guy took on all sides he did not like the boot polishers at the Pentegon(often rubbed them the wrong way)yet he always had his boys at heart. I do not know if Hackworth.com is still up as a site but if it is check it out a true military guy who called them like it was. Yes the site is still up and I ask you all to read up on this guy. hackworth.com Wow a great tribute and security for this tuesdays is very high,which tells you there will be some big heavys at the funeral tommorrow. No he did not die in battle. He could take the bullets and the blood and the bombs,the big "C" got him and he died in a clinic in Tiajuanan Mexioco trying any cure I guess. Hey Agent Orange caused it and it was one of his causes. Well Thank you Colonel David Hackworth. BTW Heather Joe Scraborough mentioned him one of the only TV people to have done it.Yet the print media in certain "in the know"papers have mentioned his passing.

Senate games distract from legitimate Problems

By Heather
Neither the far right nor the far left claimed full victory after a group of U.S. senators reached a compromise last week on the use of filibusters.

The agreement, brokered by seven Republicans and seven Democrats, opened the way for up-and-down votes on some of President Bush's stalled judicial nominations.

That would seem like a good thing for those who want more conservatives on the nation's court benches, and a bad thing for liberals.
But the deal also protected the right of Democrats to engage in future filibusters - a technique the minority party uses to block matters from coming to a full vote in the Senate.

So really, really conservative people say the Republican senators betrayed them by letting Democrats have the upper hand.
And really, really liberal people say the Democrats caved in way too easily, opening the door for a bunch of right-wing judges.

Of course, we all know the truth: You won't hear much pontificating about the filibuster deal in the shopping mall, at the local tavern, in workplaces, at sporting events, in laundromats, at Churches or anywhere else where most normal people go about their daily business.

Are we just ignorant and apathetic if we have a hard time caring about this issue?
Maybe so, when it comes to ignorance and apathy toward political machinations in Washington that have no clear link to how we will pay the bills, enjoy more time with our friends and relatives, get or stay healthy, raise our children or do our jobs well.

People shouldn't have to feel guilty for failing to gnash their teeth and bite their fingernails over filibusters and federal appellate court judicial nominees.

Instead, our U.S. senators should feel guilty for focusing so much of their time and energy on the politics of our judges and way too little on serving Americans' real needs.

Somebody has to do something bold in the nation's capital to address the growing disparity between health care costs and what most of us can afford to pay.
We need politicians to get serious and act quickly on a developing energy crisis. They need to get down to business on Social Security reform, protection of the air, land and water, border security and other issues that actually pose a direct threat to the quality of our lives.

That's not to say it's completely irrelevant whether federal courts are loaded with liberals or with conservatives, but the truth is that the vast majority of these judges' decisions have at best an indirect correlation to most people's lives.

It's also true that filibusters are important because they prevent the majority party (Republicans, in this case) from rendering the minority completely meaningless.
But to the regular Joe or Jane, it makes sense that Republicans will set the agenda for the Senate because voters as a whole gave them more seats of power.

What makes less sense is the obsession with power and with winning the political games in Washington.

If Americans could have an up-or-down vote today on whether Congress and the president should quit the games and address our real and pressing needs, you can bet there would be no filibusters among voters.

I just came across this cute cartoon and thought i'd share it.

I just came across this cute cartoon and thought i'd share it.

Muscleman Arnold Politics as usual

I wasn't aware that the cost of living in Sacramento is so high that it warrants giving members of the state Legislature a tax-free per diem of over $50,000 a year. The legislators have accepted a 12 percent pay raise that makes their salary well over $100,000 a year, plus a juicy, bloated pension.

Obviously it was the Legislature that voted all this in, not the taxpayers. Weren't these members of the Legislature the same clowns who were whining not too long ago about public employees' high salaries and pensions being a major cause of the state's financial problems?

Once again, their actions prove that "politician" is just another word for hypocrite, isn't that right Arnold??? No wonder your approval rating is down in dahhhh Callie-furn-neeee-uhhhhh

Memo

Just a reminder to staff and visitors please don't ignore the right side of the blog where my poll is, I appreciate your vote, after all this nation is based on democracy, take advantage of it and please excercise your right to vote, thank you...much appreciated.

"Internet Voting Isn't Safe"

The e-voting saga continues.

Four computer scientists say in a new report that a federally funded online absentee voting system scheduled to debut in less than two weeks "has security vulnerabilities that could jeopardize voter privacy and allow votes to be altered". They say the risks associated with Internet voting cannot be eliminated and urge that the system be shut down.

The report's authors are computer scientists David Wagner, Avi Rubin and David Jefferson from the University of California, Berkeley; The Johns Hopkins University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, respectively, and Barbara Simons, a computer scientist and leading technology policy consultant. They are members of the Security Peer Review Group, an advisory group formed by the Federal Voting Assistance Program to evaluate a system called SERVE, set up to allow overseas Americans to vote in their home districts. The first tryout is scheduled Feb. 3 for South Carolina's presidential primary.

The four say that "Internet voting presents far too many opportunities for hackers or even terrorists to interfere with fair and accurate voting, potentially in ways impossible to detect. Such tampering could alter election results, particularly in close contests." They "recommend shutting down the development of SERVE and not attempting anything like it in the future until both the Internet and the world's home computer infrastructure have been fundamentally redesigned, or some other unforeseen security breakthroughs appear."

The authors of the report state that there is no way to plug the security vulnerabilities inherent in the SERVE online voting design. "The flaws are unsolvable because they are fundamental to the architecture of the Internet," says Wagner, assistant professor of computer science at UC Berkeley. "Using a voting system based upon the Internet poses a serious and unacceptable risk for election fraud. It is simply not secure enough for something as serious as the election of a government official."

In short, the guys are saying the Internet is just not up to handling something like voting. But they also see the way the SERVE program carries the same flaws as the Diebold and other commercial electronic voting systems that have gotten such bad press in recent weeks (some of the four authors have been in the forefront of exposing those weaknesses). "The SERVE system has all of the problems that electronic touchscreen voting systems have: secret software, no protection against insider fraud and lack of voter verifiability," says Jefferson. "But it also has a host of additional security vulnerabilities associated with the PC and the Internet, including denial-of-service attacks, automated vote buying and selling, spoofing attacks and virus attacks."

After studying the prototype system the four researchers said it would be too easy for a hacker, located anywhere in the world, to disrupt an election or influence its outcome by employing any of several common types of attacks familiar to regular readers:

A denial-of-service attack, which would delay or prevent a voter from casting a ballot through the SERVE Web site.
A "Man in the Middle" or "spoofing" attack, in which a hacker would insert a phony Web page between the voter and the authentic server to prevent the vote from being counted or to alter the voter's choice. What is particularly problematic, the authors say, is that victims of "spoofing" may never know that their votes were not counted.
Use of a virus or other malicious software on the voter's computer to allow an outside party to monitor or modify a voter's choices. The malicious software might then erase itself and never be detected.

Bolton the truth behind the documents wanted.

Well here it is for the ones who do not know what these documnets the Democrats want are all about. Well two senators as I have said before have seen all the documents,Rockefeller and Roberts. They have seen these disputed documents concerning Bolton. The same ones Biden and others have cried about not seeing. Guess why? Well these documents contain an illegal practice. It is not really a bad thing though. It has to do with the NSA and Mr. Hayden. The NSA is not allowed to gather intercepts from American citizens inside this country.(Well they are allowed to do it but they cannot publish it,and they are supposed to black out what they find out). I guesss this blog will become one of them,Global waves hi to MR Mike Hayden. Apparently Bolton demanded some of these supposed to be "blacked out" reports from the NSA. So is all a big deal? The No Such Agency listens to everything its called "white noise" but they are supposed to drop all stuff that they get from legit citizens of the USA. I wish they went through it all. This is what is so damaging to Bolton? Please,the democrats just want a panty waist to go to the UN instead of somebody who tells the UN oil for food freeloaders to go pay your parking tickets to NYC(28 million and counting) and stuff it. I say knock the whole Un into the east river Bolton not just the top ten floors. BTW I like Kofin Annan(most inside the know like him as well) but he has lost control there and needs to step down. BTW I hear Newsweek will probably get this article in their June 6th edition. Be a shame if my side intentionally leaked another story huh?????? Nite Heather Yanks are losing.....

Open Memorial Day Wishes From Our Staff, Shlick, Global Myself To All Vet's and Families

Memorial Day is for us to offer tribute and honor the heroes who laid down their lives to preserve our freedom. If you know someone whose friend/ family member has performed this ultimate act of heroism, wish him/ her with a special message on Memorial Day. Memorial Day on our blog site. Memorial Day is also an event when we can gather with friends and family and reach out with our sincere prayers & warm wishes

I came across the following poem and decided to post it:

A soldier is a nobody, we hear lots of people say.
He is the outcast of the world and always in the way.

We admit there are bad ones from the Army to the Marines,
but the majority you will find, the most worthy ever seen.

Most people condemn the soldier when he stops to take a drink or two,
but does a soldier condemn you, when you stop to take a few.

Now don't scorn the soldier but clasp him by the hand,
for the uniform he wears means protection to our land.

The goverment picks its soldier from the million far and wide,
so please place him as your equal good buddies side by side.

When a soldier goes to battle you cheer him on the way,
you say he is a hero when in the ground he lay.

But the hardest battle of the soldier is in the time of peace,
when all mock and scorn him and treat him like a beast.

With these few lines we close sir, we hope we don't offend
but when you meet a soldier just treat him like a friend.

---Author: The youngest survivor of the Bataan Death March.
At Ease.

Vietnam & Biased Left Wing Media

By Heather
First I would like to wish everyone a Happy Memorial Day, secondly, I wish to thank the everyday unknown veteran of all wars, but especially those of Vietnam who came home to a corrupted ungrateful nation at the time, because of a left wing media that had a warped incorrect view of what the vietnam war was all about, and shamelessly promoting a left wing agenda, I am here to say that it was a just war despite the left wing media's revisionoist coverage of that war. The problem was that policy for the war by beaureucratic politicians was incorrect, but the war was just, necessary, and needed our intervention once President Eisenhower yes him not Kennedy, committed us. My personal acessment is that initially the United States was not ready or had on conception or training early on of what a guerilla warfare was all about, the United States also underestimated the resolve of the North Viet Cong who referred to the war as...Chien Tranh Chong My Cuu Nuoc, which literally means "War Against the Americans to Save the Nation".
===Kennedy and South Vietnam===
The Kennedy administration efforts to contain North Vietnam occurred simultaneously with an effort to modernize the regime of the South. Kennedy strongly believed that if South Vietnam was a stable and democratic country, it would largely discredit the North and its Communist rhetoric. Aid to the South was often made on the condition that the government would undertake certain political reforms. Soon, US Government advisors were playing a prominent role in every level of South Vietnam's government. South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem had little time for these reforms, and was quite uncooperative. He would often go through the motions of these US-prescribed reforms, but in very superficial ways that ended up quite embarrassing for the US. For example, when he ran for election, only one opposition candidate was allowed, and there were widespread allegations of vote-rigging. Diem did not believe that US ideas of democracy were applicable to his government, since the country was still so young and unstable. Kennedy was accused of being overly naive and utopian in his belief that US values could be instantly imported into any country, no matter what their culture or history.

Eventually, the Kennedy administration grew increasingly frustrated with Diem. In an embarrassing incident that was widely reported in the US press, Diem's forces launched a violent crackdown on Buddhist monks. Since Vietnam was a predominantly Buddhist nation while Diem and much of the ruling structure of South Vietnam was Roman Catholic, this action was viewed as further proof that Diem was completely out of touch with his people. US messages were sent to South Vietnamese generals encouraging them to act against Diem's excesses. Though there is some debate as to whether or not this was Kennedy's intention, the South Vietnamese military interpreted these messages as a call to arms, and staged a violent ''coup d'état'', overthrowing and killing Diem on November 1, 1963.

Far from uniting the country under new leadership, the death of Diem made the South even more unstable. The new military rulers were very inexperienced in political matters, and were unable to provide the strong central authority of Diem's rule. Coups and counter-coups plagued the country, which in turn served as a great inspiration to the efforts of the North.

Three weeks after Diem's death, Kennedy himself was assassinated, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was suddenly thrust into the war's leadership role. Newly sworn-in President Johnson confirmed on November 24, 1963 that the United States intended to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically.

I could continue to go on about my personal accessment and opinion and chronology about the war but thats not my point here, however I want to shed(pronounced [mi lie]) light on one important issue here and thats concerning The My Lai massacre.
The press got it wrong it was erronously reported as massacre by American soldiers of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children, on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War. Becoming a symbol of US-American war crimes in Vietnam, it prompted widespread outrage around the world and reduced public support for the war in the United States. What was wrong about it was the cover up but the actual massacre was needed and in my personal study and research of it Lt. Calley was made a scapegoat for this, it was also reported that his unit engaged in rape of civillians this is simply not true! Did the Lt. turn a machine gun on a ditch full of villagers? perhaps but bear in mind that these so called civillians were not as innocent as the media would lead you to believe, there are many detailed accurate accounts of many U.S. soldiers brutally killed and tortured at the hand of these so called "inocent civillians" which the liberal anti war media ignored or chose not to investigate. There are cases of young teenage female civillians that were bribed by the VC in some cases family members being held hostage, well these so called female innocents would, and i'll try not to be to graphic here, would hide a weapon called a "sai" like a knife between their legs, and approach an isolated soldier and await an oppurtunity to literally pull out the knife and "shank" the soldier once dead, would continue to sever the head of the soldier, bring it to the VC and receive a months rations of food for their families being held hostage by the VC, the VC would take the severed heads and strategically place these severed heads along "the ho chih minh trail to decrease the moral of the American soldier, of course this was never reported by the left wing leaning, anti war media.
Another scenario is the out and out betrayal by the so called inocent civillians that gave away our troop positions to the enemy, which in some instances led to entire platoons being wiped out by the guerilla tactics of the VC, of course this also wasn't reported by the media. there are many other secnarios that I won't mention. I'm not saying this is a justification of what Lt. Calley did, but one can understand the mindset that may have precipated the event, and just perhaps many or even some of those "civillians" weren't so inocent, we may never know the full truth.
In any event I reserve my tears, my love, my respect for the american veterans first and foremost

Memorial Day, Thanks to our fallen soldiers and others.

Lets not forget why we have a three and four day holiday here(9 days if you are in congress). We as free Americans get this free break becuase men and women some who will never be known (CIA,NSA,and other black ops types) gave their lives to protect our way of life. They allow you and I to be on here typing and being able to cry and moan over trivial issues like a stupid senate vote or what poll numbers mean. These guys and gals do not make policy they follow orders,plain and simple. I know many of these fine people some used to work for me. Many of the guys I had working at my old company were in Somolia where 18 lives were lost that October day(thanx Clinton). Well do not take anything out on the troops for the most part simply thank them and remember people everyday give their lives for our way of freedom.

Thank You Dad....

Yankees Batter Bosox!

Well well well...say hey now, "Bronx Bombers" are back!
Yes, those "Bronx Bombers" that were written off earlier this year off a poor start, now winners of 16 of their last 18 ballgames thanks to good pitching and timely hitting. Rookie hitting sensation Robinson Cano hit a two run home run and gunned down Jerimiah Johnson ooops...pardon me, I meant to say Johnny Damon (I keep getting those two mixed up) at home plate with an excellent throw to Jorge Posada after bobbling a ground ball. Then in the bottom of the sixth inning, Sheffield...A.K.A. "The Iron Sheff" whose tiebreaking, three-run drive wound up in the first row of the rarely reached left-field upper deck, put the icing on the cake giving the Yankees all the runs they needed as they went on to beat the blow-hard bosox 6-3

how do they get away with this???

DAN ABRAMS: And if he is acquitted, and I know we've touched on this before, but I assume that would you say to him, "Michael, you can't ever have a child sleep in your bed again," right?
REV. JESSE JACKSON: Oh, yes. I think that some of what he has done is just on the edge. It is high risk. And now me and his family is very acutely aware of what has happened. And I that this type risky behavior will never happen again. It shouldn't have happened in the first place, but certainly it will never happen again.
'The Abrams Report' airs weeknights, 6 p.m. ET on MSNBC
Can they really do this... its like giving michael Jackson his say on the stand.. without him facing the jury...... sneaky sneaky

More Local New Jersey Corruption Exposed (who cares)

Well in a town two doors south of where I live it happens again. BTW my town actually pays for this school district beacuse they bus kids to my town for classes. So I guess my taxpayer money applies here .(still trying to avoid taxes ) (heck maybe I will get a Los Angeles jury on tax fraud,lol).. A disturbance at a local school here had turmoil last tuesday( I was in Worthlinton D.C when this happened) but it is good. A uprising and fear at a school. There is a 911 call to local emergency operators during the school day. OK so kids are in distress? NO. But there is a teacher in distress because a parent came into the school and went "verbally nuts" So the teacher has a panic attack. It causes her to hyper venilate(sic). and she has the school administrator dial 911 for assistance. OK no biggie. Now here is where it gets good. The crazy parent is ranting a raving about his kid (autistic BTW) for mistreatmeant. Humm OK. I understand this ,I have an autistic, cousin myself. I understand a parent protecting his or her child there if mistreated. Yet this is not the core of the story. So does 911 dispatch an ambulance? Well, NO. First thing they do is call the Cheif of Police. Well gues who the ranting parent was? ???? No other than the Cheif of Police himself... Thats who... Humm they called his cellphone and the emergency responce was called off. That is wrong soo wrong.What if this nut Cheif was shooting kids and went off his rocker? But the local 911 gives first call to him he said nahh don't send anyone I will take care of it. My point really is two -fold, First of all most local cops no matter where you live are below moron below GED level jerks with chips on their shoulders. I understand big city cops get no pay don't get me wrong. But the local morons in small towns suck up waaaaayyy to much taxpayer money. Please thirty five thousand dollars to start ,and they have forty mispelled words in a report of a jaywalking case please. They could not get a job at a freggin Texaco (because they would have to make change) yet they are the judge and jury of who is arrested. This happens all over do not fool yourself. The other point I have is where is the democrat teachers union who allows these dopes and their union to get these morons these big paychecks on an issue like this? Well they certainly are not ever going to stick up for a teacher who(BTW was told to vote for a canidate) . They will never take up for the teacher . They will take up for the moron cops. Why because they make good TV come election time.Funny part is the union will use the teachers to elect the same canidates . Where are these union officials? ARe they there for the people they represent and control their pensions? No they are off raising money and supporting a canidate for Govenor and telling those teachers how they must vote.

Hillary aid aquitted.

Well David Rosen beat the rap. Yes this guy who was accused of raising many many of hundreds of millions of dollars for Ms.Hillary was aquitted of illegal campain funding. My problemwith this is...Well It happened in Los Angles Caleeefooorniiaaaa. This is a problem on both sides of the political spectrum. Why should canidates be allowed to raise funds for a senate or congressional seat in a place three thousand miles away from their home state (wherever that is Hiltlery) ?? This party included Cher,Melissa Ethridge(lesbian), Toni Braxton (has declared bancruptcy yet gets to give $$ to Hillary) Diana Ross(nut case drug addict) and the Pitts or now ex pitts Brad and Jenn fake abortion loving Anniston. Well my point is a democrat or any name of almost any high profile case in Hollywood will never be convicted by a jury in that town. Jackson ,Micheal is in Santa Barbra which is white and rich old money . Heck you could have had video tape of this guy taking a huge briefcase of cash and he could have confessed to the Pope in court he would still have been aquitted. Well heck come to think of it they had a video tape in Rodney(I am a loser King of morons case against cops there) and they were still aquitted. ... Heck in Los Angles you could admit to whacking Hoffa (tell them were the body is buried and still be aquitted). Heck you could have kidnapped the Lindbergh baby on NBC and be aquitted... My point though in general is why do we allow our politicans to raise funds outside their own states.Why does Hollywood have any say in a New York Senate race..???????????????????

Did Jello fire Bill Cosby?

i never see Bill on those Jello commercials... I wonder what happend

Left Wing Law

By Heather
Well well well. the ugly no class hollywood left has crawled out from under its rock, this time its fangs were aimed at Tom Delay, and while I am no fan of Tom Delay I do agree with him on some issues, and I see an injustice here.

U.S. House of Representative Majority Leader Tom DeLay accused NBC on Thursday of slurring his name by including an unflattering reference to him on the NBC police drama "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
DeLay's name surfaced on Wednesday night on the show's season finale, which centered on the fictional slayings of two judges by suspected right-wing extremists.

In the episode, police are frustrated by a lack of clues, leading one officer to quip, "Maybe we should put out an APB (all-points-bulletin) for somebody in a Tom DeLay T-shirt."
In a letter to NBC Universal Television Group President Jeff Zucker, DeLay wrote: "This manipulation of my name and trivialization of the sensitive issue of judicial security represents a reckless disregard for the suffering initiated by recent tragedies and a great disservice to public discourse."
The Texas Republican went on to suggest the "slur" against him was intended as a jab at comments he had made about "the need for Congress to closely monitor the federal judiciary."

Now I have a huge problem with this, because its no longer entertainment but political, its NBC, and the producers, writers etc. trying to influence public opinion and policy in sort of a modified form of stealth, and yes they definately slandered Rep. Tom Delay's name.
Clearly this was done deliberately, with subtle malice and contempt for Mr. Delay.

I find what NBC/ Law & Order did, a form of cowardice, it took absolutely no courage to do what they did, and even less intellect, it was literally, as far as I am concerned an act of juvenile behavior, grade school name calling, with no basis in reality, since in real life thats not a comment real NYC police detectives would make.
I propose that if the network and the producers had any real courage and moxie they might have done the following:

1. Call Brian Lamb of C-span

2. Call Mr. Delay's office

3. Arrange for a forum to be televised by C-span

4. Have the persons involved engage in a polemic discussion and debate their differences on policy issues

5. Now I chose C-span because of nuetrality but I suppose any network would have sufficed


There are many other creative scenarios that are in my mind about this, but the above proposal is the proper intelligent nuetral way to handle this, but deep down, I know this kind of behavior is asking far too much of the hollyweird left.
Anyway Mr.Delay no fears, as far as I am concerned being trashed by the hollywood left is a badge of honor, wear it proudly!

Of Thanks and Blogs

By Heather
I get a kick out of your replies because they are not really replies but actual blogs with their own agenda, lol, but i appreciate them just the same thank you Global

Jeter's Great Catch helps Yanks Roll

The Yankees continued to roll wednesday night, Derek Jeter makes a great catch in seventh inning colliding with teamate Robinson Cano. Once again Jeter shows his class coming off of an injury to his forearm only days before. Yankeees went on to win over Detroit 4-2

Bolton Confirmation S.S. Titanic?

By Heather At this posting i like my chances better in three card monte than Bolton's chances of being confirmed by congress, it seems like some "hawk" dems Lieberman and Feinstein, that were for Johm Bolton seem to be defecting also some key republicans Voinavich, Thune because of base closing in his district my pardon the expression but "bolt" lol from his party against Bolton's confirmation. Dont say Heather hasn't told you so when in an earlier blog i mentioned risks and implications the military base closings would have politically, now the chickens have come home to roost, seems like the base closings came to bite Bush in the backside at least as Sen. Thune is concerned at this posting anyway more to come later.

Heather

Have we lost our American spirit?

30 years ago Bush would never even come close to be considered for President.. this country has lost its fighting spirit and is just taking whats dished out... what the hell is going on ? Our freedom is trickling slowly too slowly maybe too gradually out of our hands.... thats why its more tolerable i suppose... but i know we are aware of it.. but people are too afraid to stand up and get on a soap box.. because people like us tend to have accidents... and disappear. Its sick i tell ya its just sick. Why cant it be like the Charles Ingalls days.. where life was hard but simple at the same time.. i mean... yes it was hard work but.. dont you see.. its hard work that creates the Integrity it strengthens the spirit ... it puts the fight back in. Life is too easy... maybe .. its just too easy... things are too easy to obtain.. and things are just handed out. ..such a sick sick sick thing

Accessing victimology in the Michael Jackson trial

By Heather
Well well well, seems like it did not take long for extremist liberalism to rear it's ugly head in the Michael Jackson trial, victimology 101.

It seems like everyone from lawyers to police to legal panelists on cable all news channels to news anchors and correspondents have adapted this victimology approach to this young accuser in the Michael Jackson trial.
If I hear the statement "you have to be careful how you handle him because he has cancer" i will go batty.
Excuse me and please correct me if I am wrong here but barring mental instability, a disease of the month does not absolve someone of responsibility, while my heart goes out to the child because of his physical affliction it does not allow him to be exonerated from legal and criminal responsibilites.
If Mr. Mesereau believes that the "jackson accuser" engaged in any fraudulent activities then he is bound by his profession, loyalty to his client (Michael Jackson in this case) and as an officer to the court, to examine or cross examine the witness thoroughly to the best of his ability, and yes this can be handled diplomatically, yet tempered with firmness.
I for one am sick and tired of kumbiyah sit by the campfire liberal phychotherapy pyschobabble nonsense of whining bedwetting liberials that want to be apologists for every issue from genisis to the present.
Wake up liberals duhhhhhh take off your tie dye shirts your beads, headbands, peace signs, wake up (tap tap on the head) here is an interesting concept for you its called "personal responsibility" i'm sure you are familiar with this concept at least the 60's hippie radicals generation are, you know the idiots that dropped out tuned out and turned on, you guys that rebelled against your parents, church, dressing neatly, shoes school, and you embraced idiot things like drugs, beads, torn jeans, being filthy, beards, dirty bare feet, incense, nutty cults, abnormal sex thinking the world owed you a living, living off the land driving in a v.w. bus, your phoney bogus protest against the war, only because it was an "establishment war" and you guys wanted to rebel against anything the "establishment" stood for.
Your sick degradation of vietnam vets calling our servicemen cradle killers and worse. treating them like dirt when they returned to the USA, yes I know you liberals, spoiled brats all of you took advantage of the WWII generation parents part of it was not your fault Dr "Idiot" Benjamin Spock can take his fair share of the blame with his idiot liberal approach to raising children, well it turns out the great liberal pyschiatrist turned out to be a failure as a parent, geeeeee why am I not suprised at this! Oh well pardon me while i graciously step off my soapbox

My Humble Thanks

By Heather...Wow what a pleasant suprise to see posts from others besides my own! I love it and i am truely grateful to have such intelligent well thought out creative posts, thank you Shlicktaco and Global i give you both 's for effort and and great insight especially the New Jesery post Global, that was so thourough and perceptive I enjoyed it very much.

Shlick, i loved your sharp wit and humor in your post you really know how to turn a phrase well! LOL! Visions of "Dirty Harry" came to mind as I read the post, lol.

Thank you both so much I am truely Blessed

Heather