Obama supporter gets first hand experience at redistribution of wealth, doesn’t care for it.

Funny story (also true) a guy goes into a fine restaurant with some friends and orders a large and fairly expensive meal. He learns that the waiter is an Obama supporter and they talk some about the issues. The waiter claims to be all in favor of all of Obama’s ideas, including the redistribution of wealth.

When the meal is over and the check comes, he pays with credit and tells the waiter that he was planning on leaving him a $50 tip. ‘The reason’, he explains ‘that I’m telling you about the tip is because you have earned it, but you cannot have it. See, there is a homeless guy outside who needs the money more than you do. So I’m going to redistribute your wealth to him.’

The homeless guy was very thankful, the waiter was not.

Be careful for what you wish for, you might get it.

FUNNY!

God was missing for six days. Eventually, Michael, the archangel,
found him, resting on the seventh day.

He inquired, "Where have you been?"

God smiled deeply and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, "Look, Michael. Look what I've made."

Archangel Michael looked puzzled, and said, "What is it?"

"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put life on it. I'm going to call it Earth and it's going to be a place to test balance."

"Balance?" inquired Michael, "I'm still confused."

God explained, pointing to different parts of earth. "For example, northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth, while southern Europe is going to be poor. Over here I've placed a continent of white people, and over there is a continent of black people. Balance in all things."

God continued pointing to different countries. "This one will be extremely hot, while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."

The Archangel , impressed by God's work, then pointed to a land area and
said, "What's that one?"

"That's Washington State, one of the most glorious places on earth. There are beautiful mountains, rivers and streams, lakes, forests, hills, and plains. The people from Washington State are going to be handsome, modest, intelligent, and humorous, and they are going to travel the world. They will be extremely sociable, hardworking, high achieving, carriers of peace, and producers of software."

Michael gasped in wonder and admiration, but then asked, "But what about
balance, God? You said there would be balance."

God smiled, "There's another Washington. Wait until you see the idiots I put there."

Ashamed to be a Conservative?

The conservative party of NY has on issued a Legislative Alert to tell New York Governor Paterson to uphold New York States Law on Cigarette Excise tax on Native Americans.

Not even getting into where the Nation of Native American's should or legally stand on their Reservations, I have a REAL problem with this!

If you take this entire issue down to the basics what the Conservative Party has asked the Governor to do is to insure fairness (i.e. equality) by limiting liberty (i.e. freedom).

Hey guys, is this not a Liberal stance? Why are we not fighting to help the Native American's keep their liberties and limit the control of Government?

The issue that Conservatives should be concerned about is that, once again, New York State has TAXED it's own industries out of a competitive advantage.

How as conservatives can we possibly think the proper course of action is to INCREASE A TAX BURDEN to make things more fair?

This issue has taken us away from our core beliefs as conservatives. Let us refocus on the real issues here and work to limit government and stop taxing ourselves and our industries out of existence!

Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights? By Orson Scott Card

Check this article out!

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This is a great editorial, made perhaps even better by the fact that the writer is a democrat!

Media bias has been prevalent for years, I've excepted it for what it is and come to the understanding that they just cannot help themselves. Partisanship is a natural state and it's almost impossible to be un-bias on a subject like politics. Fortunately for us, the media is at last coming right out in the open and admitting it.

OK, not really. Dan Rather DID say straight out when questioned about the recent Biden gaff, that the mainstream media was giving it some coverage as a minor issue but admitted that it would have been front page news on every paper in America if Palin had said the same thing!!!

Even in an interview with Sara Palin when she was asked if she thought Biden was getting pass on his '6 month international incident' comments and she responded with a statement along the lines of 'you guys (speaking to a reporter) would have blow this story sky high rather than bury it', to which the reporter who was conducting the interview for CNBC laughed and AGREED with her!

A study conducted by the media for the media (found on Drudge here) finds that the McCain coverage has been FAR more negative that that of Obama. It does not go as far as to blame media bias (rather it blames McCain himself, go figure), but the fact that they published such a report shows they have no shame!

Obama Test

"Mark my words," said Joe Biden at a Seattle fundraiser on Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy…And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."

Rush Limbaugh had a field day with Joe Biden today, to the point of even having former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani on for a segment to talk about it. A number of theories as to why on earth Senator Biden would bring this kind of thing up now have already been batted around. I have a different theory than those put forth by others.

Every President is tested, not just John Kennedy. The Obama campaign has already decided that they won the election and are already prepping for their up coming administration. They know that George W. Bush passed the test of 9-11, even if they won’t admit it. They also know that William J. Clinton did not pass the tests of his administration. The Obama camp cannot have their administration ruined by terrorist attack after terrorist attack like occurred during the Clinton administration. Such occurrences would ruin the Obama claim that he is the great unifier. So, they have to adopt the policies of George W. Bush in order to make sure they don’t suffer the same fate as Clinton.

The problem is the Democrats have spent the last 8 years convincing the press and American people that Bush’s policies are wrong! Biden is starting to prepare for the time when Obama is tested and he reacts like Bush with military force.

A Historical Note - 2

Why are the political party symbols the Republican Elephant and Democratic Donkey?

An 1860 issue of Railsplitter and an 1872 cartoon in Harper's Weekly connected elephants with Republicans, but it was Nast who provided the party with its symbol.

Oddly, two unconnected events led to the birth of the Republican Elephant. James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald raised the cry of "Caesarism" in connection with the possibility of a thirdterm try for President Ulysses S. Grant. The issue was taken up by the Democratic politicians in 1874, halfway through Grant's second term and just before the midterm elections, and helped disaffect Republican voters.

While the illustrated journals were depicting Grant wearing a crown, the Herald involved itself in another circulation-builder in an entirely different, nonpolitical area. This was the Central Park Menagerie Scare of 1874, a delightful hoax perpetrated by the Herald. They ran a story, totally untrue, that the animals in the zoo had broken loose and were roaming the wilds of New York's Central Park in search of prey.

Cartoonist Thomas Nast took the two examples of the Herald enterprise and put them together in a cartoon for Harper's Weekly. He showed an ass (symbolizing the Herald) wearing a lion's skin (the scary prospect of Caesarism) frightening away the animals in the forest (Central Park). The caption quoted a familiar fable: "An ass having put on a lion's skin roamed about in the forest and amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met within his wanderings."

One of the foolish animals in the cartoon was an elephant, representing the Republican vote - not the party, the Republican vote - which was being frightened away from its normal ties by the phony scare of Caesarism. In a subsequent cartoon on November 21, 1874, after the election in which the Republicans did badly, Nast followed up the idea by showing the elephant in a trap, illustrating the way the Republican vote had been decoyed from its normal allegiance. Other cartoonists picked up the symbol, and the elephant soon ceased to be the vote and became the party itself: the jackass, now referred to as the donkey, made a natural transition from representing the Herald to representing the Democratic party that had frightened the elephant.

--From William Safire's New Language of Politics, Revised edition, Collier Books, New York, 1972

McCain Kills at the Al Smith Dinner

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