Posted on 06/19/2003 4:17:17 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Good Morning!!
Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
A reading from the First Book of Climaticus, beginning at the fourteenth verse of the Third Chapter:
14 - And so it was that the Lord looketh down upon the Eastern dwellers and observed the state of their activities.
15 - In a town upon the Potomac that goest by the name of Washington, the Lord noticed much activity and much consternation.
16 - The Lord noted there were of His kind which had foresaken the message and imputed that they, his children, were capable of usurping His province and were of thinking they, themselves but small and tiny creatures, were capable of controlling the majesty of the heavens.
17 - These kind referred to themselves as Democrats and Liberals, or a kind taken to referring to all changes in such things as the weather issues that were the results of their own activities.
18 - The Liberals referred to the product of His children by such names as Global Warming and Climate Change, but by all their nature they were saying the children of God were now capable of controlling God's work themselves.
19 - So the Lord sought to provide a message, a message that would surely humble His children and have them understand the power of His Almighty Hand.
20 - God looketh down upon the city on the Potomac and pondered what would be best for these folks, and he remembered the Great Flood once unleashed upon the land.
21 - In His ponderings, God did remember the Promise provided to His children after the Great Flood insofar as He indicated such an act would never again be visited upon the land.
22 - It was decided, however, that a small taste of the Great Flood might serve as a sufficient reminder that it is He and He alone that governs the heavens and controls the weather.
23 - So God decided that it would be visited upon the city on the Potomac and neighboring environs where the kind called Liberals frequent a continous rain, the rain lasting for not just forty days and forty nights, but until the population who had forgotten His message would be unable to remember days with sunshine.
24 - Thus the rains began, and the rains continued. Each day was visited upon the city on the Potomac more waters from the heavens.
25 - The waters issued forth in white form, in ice form, and in liquid form, but the waters came. And the children of God took notice, but those who called themselves Liberal continued to mock the work of the Lord, saying this, too, was the result of the activity of mere people.
26 - The people called Liberals ranted, and they raved. They took to the streets, and the yelled from the rooftops. Notice us, listen to us, they cried, all of this rain is the result of years upon years of human existance.
26 - But the children of God no longer listened, for they had understood all along that climate was the work of the Lord.
27 - The Children of God had come to notice, and so hath the Lord himself, the Liberals were all wet.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
Actually, I prefer only nice dry weather to make that drive. But it is very pretty up there. I hope there was enough clearing in the fog for you to have views of Hell's Gate - the passage of the Hudson through the mountains. Otherwise, you're simply going to have to go there again! ;^
Sun? What's that?
Back later...
Come on down here, and Floridians will show you :>)
And it's HOT too!
We have our huge thunderstorms mostly in the evening.....after sweltering through hot, steamy, muggy, humid days....
The house is still a mess, but we are gaining on it...anyone need about a half a million used moving boxes?
I do not disagree with you.
Sadly, it is next to impossible, in this day and age, to make this system work. Why? Not only because there just aren't enough motivated people left out there who are willing to make those calls, but also because if EACH candidate on the ballot uses this system, the voters are still swamped with calls, and the voters still get honked off the last week before the election with calls from each candidates organization.
Yes, each County and State Party COULD organize and implement a program of this kind. But getting the candidates to agree to cooperate, and NOT swamp the voteres with calls, recorded messages, what have you is just not going to happen.
I've spent the last 15 years inside the WAR ROOMS of various campaigns. The biggest problem I see with the entire system is the "White Knights" sent in at the last two weeks to attempt to save a campaign. Generally, they screw things up so badly, it can't be saved. LOCAL people, who understand the locality, should be making the last minute decisions.
I've seen more candidacies tanked in the last 10 days of a campaign because of some outside EXPERT, who doesn't understand the local mindset, than I care to think about.
All Politics is Local. And successful campaings are local, too.
What works in a metropolitan area does not work in a rural area.
They want to fight dirty .....two can play at their game.....announce the next time a US soldier is wounded or killed we round up the whole village and hold them until they ID the killer.
Let Human Rights Watch scream about that!
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