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McCain's Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree

It appears that John McCain's son, Andrew K. McCain has resigned his cushy position as Director at Silver State Bancorp in Nevada.

I seem to vaguely remember Andy's Daddy being involved with some Banking issues years ago...hmmmmmm...

I'm just saying...

McCain KNOWS How To Win Wars!

On July 22, John McCain attended a GOP fundraiser in Baltimore, Maryland. His selling point? "I know how to win wars!" His secret strategy?

1. Fly an airplane several miles in the sky dropping incendiary bombs on civilians;

2. Get shot down;

3. Spend the rest of the war in prison.

By the way, John...We LOST that war.

Thoughts On McCain

Listening and watching John McCain speak is akin to watching a train-wreck--you just can't turn away. His intellectual and political gaffes seem to grow larger every week. Now, John McCain, already confused about Sunnis and Shiites, now is confused about geography and recent history. The guy is too old to be trusted with the presidency.

The press has been kind to McCain, not even reporting some of his gaffes, apparently on the grounds that "Well, he's an old guy, so he'll occasionally misspeak." On his last trip to the Middle East, he got his Sunnis and Shiites confused three times in one day. More recently, he referred to the Iraq-Pakistan border, which, of course, does not exist. Now trying to claim credit for the misnamed surge (actually, it was an escalation of troop levels), he's got his history confused. He claimed the Sunni tribes' decision to fight al-Qaida was part of the surge.

The Sunni tribes turned against al-Qaida before the extra troops were even authorized, much less had arrived. Incidentally, the sheik that McCain claimed we protected was assassinated. The presence of the extra troops can probably be credited with encouraging the Mahdi Army to stand down. That certainly contributed to a lessening of the violence.

As Sen. Barack Obama freely and publicly acknowledges, while the extra troops helped quell the violence, it was not the sole cause of the drop in violence, which is what McCain and some members of the press want Obama to say. One of the big flaws of American journalism today is the urge by many to play "gotcha" games over semantics.

As for McCain's rhetoric, it's pathetic. He demonstrates no sound knowledge of the Middle East or of any other part of the world. He showed bad judgment from the beginning by backing an invasion that was, lest we forget, illegal, unnecessary, horribly mismanaged, wasteful of American lives and treasure, justified with lies, and a strategic blunder of the first order. If that's what people want in a commander in chief, then God have mercy on this country.

Forty years ago, McCain was shot down and made a prisoner of war. In refusing an early release, he acted with courage and honor. Being a fighter pilot and prisoner of war, however, does not qualify anyone to be president. One of our greatest fighter pilots who also went into politics is sitting in a federal prison for taking bribes. Some of the greatest fighter pilots of all time, measured by their number of kills, wore the uniforms of America's enemies. Proficiency in arms has more to do with eyesight and reflexes than with strategic thinking and general knowledge of history and economics.

The presidency is a civilian job. The Founding Fathers included the duty of commander in chief precisely to ensure civilian domination of the military. The president seeks advice from his generals and admirals, but he is not bound by their advice. One should remember that our professional warriors are technicians whose vocation is killing people and destroying property. But they can kill and destroy only on the orders of the civilian president and the civilian Congress.

If we had a president who would slavishly do everything his generals suggested, then we would no longer have a civilian government but instead a military junta. The military people have only to concentrate on their mission. The president has to concentrate not only on the mission, but on the world at large, and on domestic problems and priorities. We don't want idiot civilians making tactical decisions, as happened in the Vietnam War, but we also don't want generals setting strategy and policy for the United States. The generals in Iraq are there because the civilian government sent them there. When the civilian government decides they should leave, then their duty will be to shut up and leave.

Harry Truman reminded Americans of that when he fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War. MacArthur was a lot more famous than any general in Iraq or Washington, but he was insubordinate, and Truman canned him. That's the duty of a commander in chief – to make sure the generals don't forget that the boss is the civilian president.

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We have a lot of work to do. It's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border.---referring to a border that does not exist, ABC News interview, July 21, 2008.

Best Of The Week..

Courtesy of inyork.com:

Football player pleads guilty to headless deer prank
Recent Red Land grad Aubrey Moore left the deer carcass at Red Land athletic fields.

A standout football player was charged and pleaded guilty to placing a dressed-up, headless deer carcass at the athletic fields as part of a prank at Red Land High School.

Aubrey Lewis Moore, 18, of Fairview Township, was ordered to pay a $433 fine for unlawful possession of game and failure to secure a permit for a roadkill deer charges filed by the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

Moore was part of a July 9 prank in which he dressed the headless roadkill in a blue graduation cap, white muscle tank top and shorts. He then chained the carcass to the turnstile of high school track, according to game commission officials.

A football from Cedar Cliff High School, the West Shore school district's other high school, was found between the deer's legs, according to game commission officials. The carcass was discovered by the high school football coach and about 20 others who arrived for preseason conditioning, school officials said.

Moore, a recent Red Land graduate, was named to the Associated Press Class AAA all-state football second team as a defensive lineman. He receive that honor the previous year.

Moore pleaded guilty to the charges Monday before York County District Justice Scott Gross.

The head of the eight-point buck was later found at Moore's home, said Jerry Feaser, game commission spokesman. The deer was not shot; it had died after being hit by a vehicle, he said.

Under state law, anyone who wants to claim roadkill must call the game commission for a permit number first, he said.

"The law is there to discourage the misuse of the Commonwealth's natural resources," Feaser said.

The carcass was too far decomposed and had to be disposed of, he said. The head was confiscated, he said.

The Game Commission investigated the complaint at Red Land after an anonymous person reported the incident to Fairview Township police, he said.

Moore placed the deer at the athletic fields as a prank, Feaser said. Similar pranks, though "distasteful," are not uncommon, he said.

Game Commission officials investigated a similar senior prank in Susquehanna Township a few months ago when someone dragged a deer onto a hillside at the school, Feaser said.

"We hear about this from time to time," he said. "For some reason, people like to use roadkill wildlife for pranks."

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CBS Helps McCain Cross The Street

CBS has done it's best to earn a merit badge this week.

After all, when John McCain doesn't know the difference between Sunni and Shia, thinks Social Security is a disgrace, thinks 100 years in Iraq is just dandy, gets his economic advice from the architect of our mortgage meltdown, thinks the Iraq government is strong but not strong enough to oust an occupier, doesn't even know how to use email.... why shouldn't CBS edit an interview with him to keep him from looking like the fool that he has proven himself to be?



If his base doesn't help McCain .. the terra-rists will win!

Wednesday's Music Video: Matt Bianco

For some reason, I woke up with this tune in my head...

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Congressman Fred Upton: Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire!!!

While making my exhaustively long morning commute from bedroom to in-home office today, I listened to Lansing, Michigan's WJIM 1240AM radio morning comedian and pseudo non-partisan talk show host Mike Shiels (aka Lansing, Michigan's version of Star Jones) interview Congressman Fred Upton.







First, just a little background on Freddy. Congressman Upton, the multi-millionaire grandson/heir to Whirlpool Corporation co-founder Frederick Upton, is an unabashed supporter of Socialist/Fascist Presidential candidate John McCain. Upton is a good foot-soldier for the GOP: he can be counted on to show up for virtually every vote, voted with a majority of his Republican colleagues 90.3% of the time during the current Congress, and favors big-business over individuals 93% of the time. Congressman Upton spent this past Friday with John McCain touring GM plants in the Detroit area and drooling over the too-little, too-late Chevy Volt.

This morning, the discussion focused on the topic of energy. Congressman Upton favors putting windmills in Lake Michigan and a nuclear power plant in the 6th Congressional District. Fred also favors the expansion of offshore drilling saying "...if we can start looking at, uh, a real movement towards allowing for offshore drilling--remember, we haven't had an oil spill in more than 40 years. Uh, these rigs survived Katrina, they survived Rita, big hurricane before that. No spillage there." Oops! I guess Fred didn't get the memo from headquarters that the "no spillage there" line was found to be a lie.

As a matter of fact, there have been more than a few spills involving offshore drilling rigs in the last 40 years. Like the one that happened on January 26, 1969 off the coast of Santa Barbara, California involving 200,000 gallons of crude oil that eventually spread out over 800 square miles and killed numerous birds, seals, dolphins and other marine life. How about a little recent history, Fred? Like Katrina and Rita where--according to United States Minerals Management Service (MMS)--"the number of pipelines damaged was 457, and the number of offshore platforms destroyed was 113, with a total of 146 oil spills recorded." A study of environmental impacts written for MMS by Det Norske Veritas and Company and published March 22, 2007 told an even more detailed story. "As a result of both storms, a total volume of 17,652 barrels (or roughly three-quarters of a million gallons) of total petroleum products, of which 13,137 barrels were crude oil and condensate, was spilled from platforms, rigs and pipelines. 4,514 barrels were refined products from platforms and rigs."

Only 750,000 gallons of oil and petroleum products spilled due to Katrina and Rita, Fred.

Maybe Congressman Upton needs a better research staff.

Or maybe Congressman Upton should learn to represent those whom he was elected to represent, not just big-business.

Or maybe Congressman Upton is like John McCain in that he doesn't know how to use a computer or access the Internet and therefore is unable to stay up-to-date with the news.

Or maybe he just missed the memo.

Or maybe Congressman Upton should learn the difference between a lie and the truth...

John McCain: I Should Be In The Old Soldiers Home

As John McCain prepared to release his medical records in a very limited fashion, I found a clip back from back on 08/01/2000. In an interview with Jim Lehrer on News Hour and admits that he would be too old to run for President of the United States in 2008.


Lehrer: Finally for the record, you have not lost your desire to be President of the United States have you?

McCain: Certainly it’s been put in deep cold storage. haha..

Lehrer: You haven’t lost it?

McCain: Well, in 2004, I expect to be campaigning for the reelection of President George W. Bush, and by 2008, I think I might be ready to go down to the old soldiers home and await the cavalry charge there.

John McCain, his campaign handlers, and the GOP should not complain if McCain's age becomes an issue since the candidate made it an issue as far back as 2000 all by himself. Americans polled are sure worried about it anyway...

John McCain On Fiscal Responsibility: 25.99% Credit Card Interest Is Fine By Me!

From msnbc.com:

McCain, wife owed $225,000 in credit card debt

Senators John McCain and Barack Obama released their Senate financial disclosure statements on Friday, revealing that Mr. McCain and his wife had at least $225,000 in credit card debt and that Mr. Obama and his wife had put more than $200,000 into college funds for their daughters.

The bulk of the McCains’ obligations stemmed from a pair of American Express credit cards that are held in Cindy McCain’s name. According to the disclosure reports, which present information on debts in a range rather than providing a precise figure, Mrs. McCain owed $100,000 to $250,000 on each card.

Another charge card, held by what was described as a “dependent child,” had also accumulated debts of $15,000 to $50,000. In addition, a credit card held jointly by the couple was carrying $10,000 to $15,000 in debt, the filing indicated, at a stiff 25.99 percent interest rate.

Under Congressional reporting rules, spouses of senators need not specify the exact amount of income they earn from employment, only whether that money exceeded $1,000. Neither Mrs. McCain, an heiress of the Hensley beer distribution company, nor Michelle Obama, a lawyer turned hospital administrator, provided additional information on their salaries in the disclosure form.

Mrs. McCain’s filing, however, indicated that she had substantial holdings in property and stocks — including shares in Anheuser-Busch, which this week became the target of a takeover bid that is expected to send its value climbing. Her land holdings included parcels in Arizona and California, one of which was sold last year for a profit of more than $1 million.

In other filings, the McCains have reported total household assets of $24.6 million to $39.5 million. In recently releasing a summary version of her 2006 tax return, Mrs. McCain reported income that year of more than $6 million, some $300,000 of which was derived from her salary as the chairwoman of Hensley, which was founded by her father.

Information provided in the name of Mrs. Obama, whose 2006 tax return indicated income of $273,618 from the University of Chicago Hospitals, showed that she also earned at least $1,000 for work done for Treehouse Foods, where she was a salaried board member. She relinquished her position at that company, a major supplier to Wal-Mart, in May 2007, after her husband criticized Wal-Mart’s labor practices.

In addition to his Senate salary, $165,200 last year, Mr. Obama reported book royalties of more than $4 million in 2007. Those figures reflect the vigorous sales of his two books, “Dreams From My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope,” in the months leading up to and after his entry into the presidential race early last year.

Mr. Obama and his wife have invested those earnings in a variety of ways. In May, for example, they put at least $1 million into a money market fund, and in July invested $100,000 to $250,000 into college savings accounts for each of their two daughters, who are in elementary school. The Obamas have often noted on the campaign trail that they had only recently paid off their own college loans.

Mr. McCain also reported income from book royalties and signings, though significantly smaller than Mr. Obama’s: $176,488. That money is reported to have been donated to charity. In addition, as a retired Navy officer, Mr. McCain receives an annual pension of $58,358.

McCain Quote Of The Day

Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, "Where is that marvelous ape?"---John McCain in 1986 while speaking before the National League of Cities and Towns in Washington D.C.

John McCain: Bad Memory Or Panderer?

John McCain recently visited Pittsburgh, PA to do a little campaigning. While on his visit, McCain said that while he was a POW in Vietnam, he really loved the Pittsburgh Steelers!

"When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information… I named the starting lineup, defensive line, of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron-mates!"

Trouble is, McCain has also said the same thing about the 1967 Green Bay Packers.

As Newsweek states: For John McCain, memories seem to be malleable things.

But given that McCain’s misremembering was so politically convenient–what better way to curry favor in a key swing-state city, really, than by slotting a beloved local sports squad into a moving personal tale?–it’s worth recalling that the senator has claimed to have made exactly the same sort of “mistake” repeatedly in recent weeks.

ABC:

In McCain’s best-selling 1999 memoir “Faith of My Fathers,” McCain writes:

“Once my condition had stabilized, my interrogators resumed their work. Demands for military information were accompanied by threats to terminate my medical treatment if I did not cooperate. Eventually, I gave them my ship’s name and squadron number, and confirmed that my target had been the power plant. Pressed for more useful information, I gave the names of the Green Bay Packers offensive line, and said they were members of my squadron. When asked to identify future targets, I simply recited the names of a number of North Vietnamese cities that had already been bombed.”

In 2005, A&E ran a movie version of “Faith of My Fathers.”

And McCain discussed that precise clip on CNN.

The actor playing McCain, asked to name the men in his squadron, says: “Starr; Greg; McGee; Davis; Adderly; Brown; Ringo; Wood.”

Cut back to real life. The CNN anchor asks McCain: “For those who don’t know the story, were those NFL football players?” “That was the starting lineup of the Green Bay Packers, the first Super Bowl champions, yes,” McCain responded.


Will this story come back to hurt McCain as we move forward in the general election? I think it gets at the truthiness of his character. I’m not sure what we can call this. It’s not flip flopping, is it? And is he starting to use his war record just a little to much to promote himself? Does McCain’s pandering to his Pittsburgh audience cheapen his POW experience so much, he needs to refrain from mentioning it?


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Big Brother At It's Best

Courtesy of Telegraph.co.uk:

Pubs in Yorkshire have been ordered to ban people from wearing flat caps or other hats so troublemakers can be more easily recognised.

The Park Hotel in Wadsley, Sheffield, is the latest to be asked to impose the rule by senior police officers.

Mark Kelly, the landlord said: "Police asked us to ensure that everyone removes headgear.

"With pensioners, by the time they sit down their hats always come off anyway because they were brought up with manners so usually take their hats off indoors."

The measure, designed to prevent people from obscuring their faces from CCTV cameras, has been questioned by Barnsley's former Test umpire Dickie Bird, 75, well-known for his favoured white flat cap.

He said: "Asking a Yorkshireman to take off his flat cap - whoever heard of anything so silly.

"It's a Yorkshire tradition, men wearing flat caps. Although youngsters don't bother these days, older men still wear them and should be allowed to continue.

"I still wear a flat cap when I go out shopping and often leave it on when I get home and end up sitting watching TV with my cap on They look smart and they keep your head nice and warm."

A South Yorkshire Police spokesman said bans on people wearing headgear in public premises had been operated in banks and post offices for years.

She added: "There have been incidents both in pubs and other establishments when it has not been possible to identify offenders captured on CCTV because hats were hiding their faces."

McCain Supporters Unite!

Need I say more?

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Wayne Gretzky is one of the all-time best American athletes!--McCain proclaimed about the Ontario, Canada-born hockey-great Gretzky when a writer for The New Yorker was interviewing him in 2007 about his book.

Best Of The Week...

From reuters.com:

Women arrested in sex competition

Nine British women were facing prostitution charges after being arrested at the weekend for taking part in an oral sex competition in the Greek holiday island of Zakynthos, police said on Monday.

Six British and six Greek men, including two bar owners, were also charged in the incident, which took place at Laganas beach in the south of the Ionian island, which lies off the west coast of mainland Greece, police said.

The women, who came to the popular resort on holiday, had been paid to take part in the competition, which was video recorded and was to be posted on the Internet, police said.

The men were charged with encouraging obscene behavior.

In recent years, Laganas has established itself as one of Greece's most popular destinations for twenty-something holidaymakers and is known for its wild party scene.

Around 15 million people -- a fifth of them British -- visit the eastern Mediterranean country each year, drawn by its soaring summer temperatures, azure waters and sandy beaches.

In Response To The New Yorker...

So who hasn't seen the cover of The New Yorker this week?




In honor of "fair play," here is a preview of The New Yorker cover for next week depicting John McCain from his Hanoi Hilton days...

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Music Mike's Flashback Favorites: Tim Moore

Music Mike reminds me of coming home from elementary school for lunch and watching "Bowling For Dollars" while eating a bowl of buttered elbow macaroni...

Titties, Toes And Tater-Tot Tuesday

McCain Supporter States Differences Between John McCain And George W. Bush

John McCain Loves Big Brother

John McCain says he, "didn't really love America until I was deprived of her company [as a POW during the Vietnam War]."

Sean Hannity asked, "What does that do to a person, to spend that much time in solitary confinement?"

McCain responded, "I think it makes you a better person. Obviously, it makes you love America."

Now I understand McCain's support of the Iraq War. He wants all our soldiers to be captured so that they too can become overzealous patriots and "better" people. Kind of reminiscent of 1984 where Winston is tortured into loving Big Brother. Surely if America is so great, then people would love her without being tortured...right?

So Your Kid Won't Eat Tamales? Damn Racist!

From Telegraph.co.uk:

Toddlers who turn their noses up at spicy food from overseas could be branded racists by a Government-sponsored agency.

The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.

This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.

The guidance by the NCB is designed to draw attention to potentially-racist attitudes in youngsters from a young age.

It alerts playgroup leaders that even babies can not be ignored in the drive to root out prejudice as they can "recognise different people in their lives".

The 366-page guide for staff in charge of pre-school children, called Young Children and Racial Justice, warns: "Racist incidents among children in early years settings tend to be around name-calling, casual thoughtless comments and peer group relationships."

It advises nursery teachers to be on the alert for childish abuse such as: "blackie", "Pakis", "those people" or "they smell".

The guide goes on to warn that children might also "react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying 'yuk'".

Staff are told: "No racist incident should be ignored. When there is a clear racist incident, it is necessary to be specific in condemning the action."

Warning that failing to pick children up on their racist attitudes could instil prejudice, the NCB adds that if children "reveal negative attitudes, the lack of censure may indicate to the child that there is nothing unacceptable about such attitudes".

Nurseries are encouraged to report as many incidents as possible to their local council. The guide added: "Some people think that if a large number of racist incidents are reported, this will reflect badly on the institution. In fact, the opposite is the case."

From Our Friends At Homeland Security

The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new web site aimed at preparing children for terrorist attacks and natural disasters. Ready.gov’s new "Ready Kids" program features the Mountain Lion Family of Rex, Purrcilla, and Rory who will undoubtedly guide your child to maximum preparedness.

In case your child wonders what exactly we are all supposed to be preparing for, the web site offers a convenient list of emergencies including tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and – look carefully – terrorism. Briefly mentioned at the bottom of the page, terrorism is explained for the young folks in the broadest possible terms as "the use of threat or violence to scare governments into changing their policies." (Fortunately, they don’t bother teaching much about the American Revolution in the public schools anymore, so children won’t be confused by the colonists’ use of threat and violence to scare a government into changing its policies.) Interestingly, the list of threats on the "grown-up" section of Ready.gov is reversed with the terrorist threats at the top, and the natural disasters down at the bottom.

Rex and Purrcilla and the Mountian Lion Family are cute and all, but they don’t really have much on their predecessor, Bert the Turtle. Bert, of course, is the friendly animated Turtle that teaches us all what we "must learn to do" in case of nuclear war: duck and cover. Duck and Cover, the "educational" video produced by the Civil Defense Administration has achieved a certain degree of renown in recent years for its campy qualities, but when one considers that Duck and Cover was actually presented to the public as a practical defense against nuclear war, the film quickly becomes a horrible farce.

The worst part of it is not that the United States government insists in the film that global nuclear war is "survivable" in any meaningful sense. No, the most appalling part of the whole thing is that the American people were so willing to go along with it. Just thinking through a basic scenario should be enough to make one disgusted with the whole affair. For example, even if little Tommy does get lucky and survives with only a few third degree burns, what happens when he gets home and finds out that the rest of his family has been incinerated? Bert the Turtle isn’t looking quite so helpful anymore. The duck and cover strategy would no doubt work against injury for some people far enough away from an actual nuclear detonation to avoid being vaporized, but Duck and Cover forgets to mention the very real likelihood that the rest of one’s family would be obliterated, and that starvation, sterility, and radiation poisoning are what await the survivors.

Duck and Cover offers some other helpful tips as well. For example, we learn that "We must always obey the civil defense workers" and that "The civil defense workers and our men in uniform will do everything they can before enemy planes can reach us." That’s good news. And, if you’re caught in the open when the nukes hit, the film informs us that "Sometimes – and this is very, very important – the bomb might explode without any warning. That means duck and cover fast wherever you are. There’s no time to look around or wait!" And, just for some added protection, "Make sure and cover your head with newspaper or perhaps a picnic blanket." The images of small children jumping into rain gutters hoping that the coming nuclear blast won’t turn them into hideous burn victims really has to be seen to be believed. Had the feds really wanted to give the population a feel for what to expect from nuclear war, they would have included a few photos of charred corpses from Hiroshima.

If there is any proof that we Americans abandoned our alleged independence and aversion to government control long ago, Duck and Cover is it. The willingness to embrace the annihilation of America’s cities and a substantial portion of the population therein seems rather short sighted at best. The end of Western civilization doesn’t appear to be much of a victory, either, but clearly, 1950’s America disagreed.

While the feds insisted on poking the Soviets with a stick and speaking publicly and glibly about "winning" a nuclear war, they naturally had to rely on a hapless public that would believe that such a war could actually be won, and to convince them that after retiring to the bomb shelter, it was only a matter of waiting a few months and then everything would be okay.

Fortunately, the risks today from terrorist attack nowhere near rival the sort of global devastation we were facing during the Cold War. Yet, given the Federal response to Katrina, do informed people seriously think that the Department of Homeland security will do anything other than make things worse? If New Orleans had been the victim of terrorism instead of a hurricane, it’s really quite ridiculous to think that the Feds would not have reacted in the exact same way, turning away truckloads of water and food, and sowing discord among local law enforcement.

As with Duck and Cover, Ready.gov and all the other "preparedness" training is just a governmental public relations ploy through which the government tries to convince us that it can protect us from the very threats it has created. The color-coded "Security Advisory System" is quite useless since ever allowing it to go below "elevated" will make the feds look asleep at the switch if anything does happen. Homeland security’s most emphatically delivered preparedness plan to date, the Duct Tape Plan For Total Safety hit the skids when it became clear that sealing up one’s house with tape makes it a death trap.

If the history of emergencies has shown us anything, it is that it is generally good advice to do exactly the opposite of what "the authorities" recommend. The June 2005 report from the National Institute on Standards and Technology reported that those who survived the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center were those who disobeyed official orders to stay put and wait for help. The fact that the hijackers had such a fine time of taking control of the jets on that day is no doubt due to the fact that the FAA’s policy on hijacking was to not resist the hijackers in any way. The passengers on flight 93 obviously disregarded FAA regulations and saved a lot of lives on the ground. Advice from the Department of Homeland Security will no doubt continue to be just about as useful. Just as the Pentagon is always fighting the last war, the "civil defense" agencies are always preparing for the last disaster, or, as in the case of Duck and Cover, just making it up as they go along.

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Maybe that's a way of killing them. ---responding to a report that $158 million in cigarettes have been shipped to Iran during Bush's presidency despite restrictions on U.S. exports to that country, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 8, 2008

McCain Can't Explain Voting Against Birth Control

Duh!!! How anyone--especially women--could possibly vote for John McCain for President of the United States is beyond me!!!

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