Great facts to help you make the right choice in November.

http://www.scaryjohnkerry.com/taxes.htm

http://www.scaryjohnkerry.com/convention.htm

http://www.scaryjohnkerry.com/logan.htm

http://www.scaryjohnkerry.com/vietnam.htm

If you agree with these messages, VOTE!! If you don’t agree with these messages, VOTE!!!

Our men and women are fighting for democracy in places that have never seen it. Don’t let your chance to support democracy slip by. Right or wrong, right or left, take advantage of the right you have, bought by blood.

Register here: http://www.eac.gov/register_vote.asp

A conference of “Religion Experts” in Austin, Texas… *Snicker*

Okay, wait. Sorry. I swear I can say this with a straight face if I concentrate…

A conference of “Religion Experts” in Austin, Texas, have come to the conclusion that Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the “the carpenter from Galilee was the original Democrat.” *Chuckle*

Okay, sorry. There’s just no way I can say this without laughing. How unprofessional of me. Please forgive my lack of respect for… “Religion Experts” in Austin, Texas…

*Bursts into convulsive laughter*

“Keep Austin Weird!!”

*Doubles over laughing with tears now streaming*

I can’t… I can’t… Oh, it’s too funny.

Complete Article Here.

The world is so much easier to understand when it’s just a board game. I really like the french reference.

http://www.deadtroll.com/index2.html?/text/risk.html~content

(Ironically, Tammy and I started a game of Risk just last night. Of course it won’t be finished for weeks.)

The Federal Marriage amendment is coming. Read it! Learn what it means! Then, exercise your freedom and contact your representatives in congress. Tell them how much it means to you that they support (or not, if that’s your ilk) this amendment.

This site has plenty of good information about the amendment, the reasons behind it, and the effects it will have.

That which one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

Ronald Reagan

That which one generation embraces, the next generation will cram down the throat of your elementary school children.

Yours Truly

During my lunch time surf, I ran across this link. The page is titled, “DAILY REASON TO DISPATCH BUSH”. As I read the 72 “days”, each one left me cheering more and more for “Gee-Dub”. I sent the following email to the author of the site.

Thanks so much for compiling this compelling list. These jewels of information have renewed my steadfast faith in George W and his administration. I’ve linked to your list from my personal blog and will encourage all of my fellow conservatives to do the same.

Of course many of your entries are indictments of FBI and Homeland Security personnel and policies that have nothing to do with the President, but I suppose guilt by association is allowed when you’re campaigning for hate. Hitler and the KKK sure got a lot accomplished that way.

You also site numerous budget cuts to federal programs. Apparently you’ve not done enough budgeting to know that cuts are sometimes necessary to achieve priority missions. You know, little things like economy boosting tax cuts and new technology to keep our soldiers safe.

Isn’t ironic how all the things you hate about Bush make me and tens of millions of other Americans love him all the more?

God bless you and keep up the good work,

Trint Ladd
www.jesuslovesyouanyway.com

Go and see for yourself: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/bush/

Whatever happened to the good old days when you could go to a brightly painted, plywood shed and buy enough black powder to send your fingers into four neighboring counties (at buy-one-get-two-free prices no less)?

The Fourth of July is just not the same for me since our society has gotten all safety conscious. I remember buying M-80s that would blow a Coke can in two and bottle rockets that could deliver my Star Wars action figures into low Earth orbit.

Now days, the news starts up the pro-pig-anda on about July 1st. Some stern-faced police sergeant shakes his finger into the camera so that everyone knows if you light a sparkler in city limits you’ll be jailed for a couple of decades and routinely have humiliating pictures taken of you by rogue U.S. Marines.

I would like to get my hands on “that one kid” who held a cherry bomb in his hand until it wasn’t his hand anymore. That kid ruined this great holiday for all the rest of us. Shame on him. If it weren’t for him we wouldn’t have constitutional amendments that state no citizen of the U.S. shall purchase any celebratory explosive device more dangerous than “the amazing growing snake”. Now, if your an illegal Mexican laborer, you may feel free to bring several sticks of dynamite across the border with you and celebrate OUR independence (and catch a few fish with out a fishing pole).

Wow. This is news worthy. John Kerry actually showed up to vote on a bill in the Senate. This makes 14 votes he’s cast this session… out of 132!! So, if this were you or me, working an 8 hour day, we would only actually be in the office for 51 minutes. I’m pretty sure if we tried that, we’d get fired.

And Kerry BRAGS about it!

“It’s a particular issue that’s been very critical to me,” Kerry told reporters as he walked into the Capitol. “It’s central to something I want to get done.”

So I guess the normal, daily, boring business of running America is not very critical to him; not something he wants to get done.

God bless America and God save our troops.

My nephew, Sgt. Dustin Ladd, has been serving in Iraq. Nothing glamorous, mind you, as he is in a reserve unit in the Quarter Master Corps. That means they get to do all the dirty work that Active Army doesn’t want to do. Cleaning, loading and unloading trucks, heaving boxes from here to there and back again. It’s not much to write home about. But, if it weren’t for Sgt. Ladd and tens of thousands like him, what would Iraq look like right now? Who would be out there restoring electricity and water to thousands? Who would bring ammunition and arms to the brave men and women keeping peace on the streets?

I’ve been corresponding with my Uncle Robert who served two tours in Viet Nam. He possess that wealth of wisdom that no civilian can understand; that strange and mysterious wisdom that comes from watching death swoop down on the guy standing next you and leave you standing unscathed. I read a great quote that very well explains the awkward relationship between veterans and civilians.

We are all fascinated with war and war heroes. Whenever we talk to one, we want to hear all about their experience. But the irony is that war heroes want to talk about ANYTHING BUT war. We all wish we could have been there, and they all are thankful that we were not.

Robert opened up to me a little after I sent him that quote. He didn’t tell me about his experience, but instead sent me a letter he’d written years ago. I read it with the same fascination mentioned above, but when I was done reading, I almost wished I hadn’t. The mental images I got where pretty disturbing. I can’t imagine having to live with the actual, visual memories.

You hear phrases in the media, like “putting a human face” on some tragedy. That doesn’t really capture it though. We’re so desensitized to violence on movies and TV. My mom took me to see RoboCop when I was 14 because the R rating was “only for violence”. It was cool to see all the special effects were bad guys are shot to pieces. But when someone’s son, someone’s dad, someone’s husband, someone with aspirations, dreams, big plans for life after the war; when someone like that gets shot to pieces, it’s not cool. It’s not even bearable.

I was watching Band of Brothers on the History Channel. It’s a great movie. Very well done. But it occurred to me, during one of the battle scenes that to me this is a great movie, but to someone this is the nightmare that’s been waking them up in cold sweats for 50 years.

Once that sinks in, try reading today’s news again. Then, say a prayer for Sgt. Dustin Ladd and all his comrades. And show your support for our troops.