Black XXVII: "Dubyuh's Got Faith!!"

Lately Right's been running on Faith...
Searchin' fer Justice and Truth.
But our World will be Right...
When Dubyuh sings our tune.

Lately, I've been wond'rin' why I FReep...
Shrinkin' government's that fer which I pray.
Protect the World from Left's slime...
Please Dubyuh, join the fray!!

Right's always been...
Willin' to help thru taxes that we pay.
Seems like by now...
Right'd find a Prez who cares...fer Liberty!!

Then we'd go running on faith
All of Right's dreams shall come true!!
All the world will be Right...
When Dubyuh loathes Big Guv'ment, too!!

Right's always been...
One to fight fer that fer which we pray!!
Seems like by now...
We'd find a Prez who cares...fer Liberty!!

Won't believe Pubbies on faith...
All of Right's dreams shall come true!!
Lead the world 'cuz we're Right...
George Dubyuh, you can join US, too!!
Yes, you can...
And Rush shall support you...
Then Sean shall support you...
And MUD shall support you...
All of Right's dreams shall come true...
The Right shall support you...
Truth shall see you thru...

"Reagan!!"
(To be sung to Eric Clapton's acoustic version of "Layla")

What did we do to deserve Ronnie?!
Communicatin' fer what's Right...
Gip's been suff'rin' and fightin' much too long...
But now he's sittin' by His side!!

Reagan!! The Champion of the FRee!!
Reagan!! Yer Strength, it produced Peace!!
Reagan!! Gipper showed you win by being Right!!

Gave the Oppressed liberation...
While Dem Leftists just tore you down!!
RATS're fools!! Right fell in love with you!!
Changed the whole world...Righteous Power!!

Reagan!! The Champion of the FRee!!
Reagan!! Yer Strength, it produced Peace!!
Reagan!! Gipper proved you win by being Right!!

Found humor in ev'ry situation...
Yer quips drove DemonRATS INSANE!!
FReepers say, "We'll meet again someday!!"
Heaven rejects the Lib'rals' pain!!

Reagan!! The Champion of the FRee!!
Reagan!! Yer Strength, it produced Peace!!
Reagan!! Gipper showed you win by being Right!!

Reagan!! The Champion of the FRee!!
Reagan!! Yer Strength, it produced Peace!!
Reagan!! Gipper proved you win by being Right!!

Most Reverent FReegards...MUD

"Barrow Skins' New MLB!!"

"Last season, Barrow's quickness helped him amass a career-high 148 tackles (including 109 solo), which led the NFC. It was the third straight season in which Barrow led the New York Giants in tackles. He has accumulated at least 100 tackles in seven of his 11 NFL seasons. Gregg Williams, the Redskins' assistant head coach-defense, was the linebackers coach for the then-Houston Oilers in 1993, when the club drafted Barrow in the second round. Over four seasons, Williams saw a strong work ethic and football smarts that remain. "There's more than being a real pro than just [being] out there on Sundays," Williams said. "It's the things you do off the field too: the way you go about training your body, the way you work in the offseason program, the way you study the game. I'm going to look for an awful lot out of him to teach these young guys how to break down opponents." Cornerback Fred Smoot said: "Playing against him, you don't really get to know him. I just didn't know he was that smart. He's really intelligent and knows what all 11 people are supposed to do on the field."

Can't wait fer football season to start...MUD

FROM A NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA DVM

Some history considerations

At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinburgh) had this to say about, "The Fall of The Athenian Republic" some 2,000 years prior.

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

>From Bondage to spiritual faith;
>From Spiritual faith to great courage;
>From Courage to liberty;
>From Liberty to abundance;
>From Abundance to complacency;
>From Complacency to apathy;
>From Apathy to dependence;
>From Dependence back into bondage."

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the most recent Presidential election:

Population of counties won by:
Gore=127 million
Bush=143 million

Square miles of land won by:
Gore=580,000
Bush=22,427,000

States won by:
Gore=19;
Bush=29

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore=13.2
Bush=2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government welfare..."

Olson believes the U.S. is now somewhere between the "apathy" and "complacency" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy; with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

Time to turn it around...SHRINK the Federal Leviathan NOW...MUD

Just received this in an email from my cuzzin...SPREAD THE WORD!!

"Dear Senator Kerry:

Since it has become clear that you will probably be the Democratic nominee for President, I have spent a great deal of time researching your war record and your record as a professional politician. The reason is simple, you aspire to be the Commander in Chief who would lead my sons and their fellow soldiers in time of war. I simply wanted to know if you possess the necessary qualifications to be trusted in that respect.

You see, I belong to a family of proud U.S. veterans. I was a Captain in the Army Reserve, my father was a decorated Lieutenant in World War II; and I have four sons who have either served, or are currently serving in the military. The oldest is an Army Lieutenant still on active duty in Afghanistan after already being honored for his service in Iraq. The youngest is an E-4 with the military police. His National Guard unit just finished their second tour of active duty, including six months in Guantanamo Bay. My two other sons have served in the national guard and the navy.

In looking at your record I found myself comparing it not only to that of my father and my sons, but to the people they served with. My father served with the 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion in Europe. They landed on Utah Beach and fought for 317 straight days including the Cherbourg Peninsula, Aachen, the Hurtgen Forest, and the Battle of the Bulge. You earned a Silver Star in Vietnam for chasing down and finishing off a wounded and retreating enemy soldier. My father won a Bronze Star for single handedly charging and knocking out a German machine gun nest that had his men pinned down. You received three purple hearts for what appears to be three minor scratches. In fact you only missed a combined total of two days of duty for these wounds.

The men of my father's unit, the 87th, had to be admonished by their commanding officer because: "It has been brought to our attention that some men are covering up wounds and refusing medical attention for fear of being evacuated and permanently separated from this organization..." It was also a common problem for seriously wounded soldiers to go AWOL from hospitals in order to rejoin their units. You used your three purple hearts to leave Vietnam early.

My oldest boy came home from Iraq with numerous commendations and then proceeded to volunteer to go to Afghanistan and from there back to Iraq again. My sons and father have never had anything but the highest regard and respect for their fellow soldiers. Yet, you came home to publicly charge your fellow fighting men with being war criminals and to urge their defeat by the enemy. You even wrote a book that had a cover which mocked the heroism of the U.S. Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima. Our current crop of soldiers has a philosophy that no one gets left behind; and they have practiced that from Somalia to the battlefields of the Middle East. Yet as chairman of a Senate committee looking into allegations that many of your fellow servicemen had been left behind as prisoners in Vietnam, you chose to defend the brutal Vietnamese regime. You even went so far as to refer to the families of the POWs and MIAs as Professional malcontents, conspiracy mongers, con artists, and dime-store Rambos.

As a Senator you voted against the 1991 Gulf War, and have repeatedly voted against funds to supply our troops with the best equipment, and against money to improve our intelligence capability. I find this particularly ironic since as a Presidential candidate you are highly critical of our pre-war intelligence in Iraq. However, you did vote to authorize the President to go to war, but have since proceeded to do everything you can to undermine the efforts of our government and our troops to win. Is this what our fighting men and women can expect of you if you are their Commander in Chief? Will you gladly send them to war, only to then aid the enemy by undermining the morale of our troops and cutting off the weapons they need to win?

Our country is at war Senator, and as has been the case in every war since the American Revolution, a member of my family is serving their country during the war. Now you want me to trust you to lead my sons in this fight. Sorry Senator, but when I compare your record to those who have fought and died for this nation, and are currently fighting and dying, the answer is not just no, but Hell No!

Sincerely,
Michael Connelly February 14, 2004
Dallas, Texas

Forward this to EVERYONE you know--we can NOT afford to have this man as the President of the United States!!

FReegards...MUD

"South Shall Rise Again!!
(To be sung to R.E.M.'s "So. Central Rain")

Clinton's gonna fall!! Dem Leftists try to stall...
Their Lib'ral mis-Directions...are driving RATS insane!!
Our Will shan't bend!! Slick Willie washed away...
The Evil of the Lib'rals...has forced Mudboy to sing.

I'm sorry...Slick's sorry...Left's sorry...Right's always...

Justice is our Right...Third Party calls...the RINOs frown...
The wise man wrote his words upon the rocks...
But MUD's not bound to follow suit!!
The Left shall bend...Slick's ConDamnation's Nigh!!
If Slick's Treas'nous Crimes YOU Condone...yer choice isn't mine!!

Slick's sorry...Left's sorry...

Med'yuh never called!! MUD waited for Left's calls...
Left's lies and mis-directions are driving US away!!
Then Limbaugh sang...Left's Brain-washin' washed away...
Left says that I should "Just Move ON!!"...that Choice isn't mine!!

I'm sorry...Slick's sorry...Left's sorry...Justice's RIGHT!!!

Ooooh...Ahhhhh...Ahhhhhhhhh-EEEEE...Ahhhhh-ahhhhhhh-uhhhhh...

{end very intensely on Am}

Heh heh heh...Mudboy Slim (15 January 2002)

My best memory of Reagan was in the summer of 1984. My family and I were on vacations in our cabin in the mountains of northern New Mexico, and my grandfather spent all day getting an old second-hand antenna on the roof of the cabin, so we could pick up the Republican national convention that evening. My family was full of staunch Republicans, but being nine years old at the time, I didn't really care that much.

But when Reagan got up to the podium to speak, I remember the chants of "Rea-GAN! Rea-GAN!" going on for at least 15 minutes before Reagan could actually speak. It remains the most delirious crowd I've ever seen in my life. I remember listening to him and feeling impressed, about how he seemed to mean every word he said, and how everybody just loved him. It impressed me enough that I voted for him in my elementary school's mock election that November. It's the only time in my life I've ever voted Republican. =)

Rest in peace, Ronnie.

Deficits should serve as an indicator that we are spending too much, not that we are not collecting enough taxes, and if taken to a reasonable conclusion should lead to reigning in spending. In that aspect they are good, but I am not for a state of perpetual deficit, that is stupid.

Good. I'm glad you think perpetual deficit is bad. I was a little worried about you there.

On the other side of the coin, a surplus should not serve as a blank check to go ahead and spend. It should be an indicator that too much revenue had been received (i.e. overtaxing) This is one of the areas where George Bush pisses me off. He appears to be just another spending monkey. Another is the lip service he gives to the 2nd ammendment (but I won't go there now).

Here is an area where we probably agree. The government should collect roughly the same amounts that it spends, no more, no less. A bit of a surplus is good, in case we need emergency spendind for some reason, or for a slight economic stimulus, but too much promotes government largesse.

However, this business of cutting taxes and funding a war at the same time is as ridiculous as if I quit my job and then went out and bought a Ferrari. He's a much worse "spending monkey" than any Democrat I can recall.

I consider the "Clinton surplus" as being a phantom because it seemed to happen overnight, just like magic, and was comprised of "moving" money from the "so called" Social Security Trust Fund to the General Fund. There is no way that you could go from deficit to surplus in the time that it allegedly happened on Clinton's watch. Our government is just not that efficient. What they are really good at is tweaking the books.

The Clinton surplus happened because he was able to defend his tax increases for the wealthy of 1993-94 from the onslaught of Newt Gingrich and the "Contract with America" GOP zombies. And the surplus wasn't just a lump sum of money that could be moved from one location to another -- it was more jobs, increased investment, the strength of the dollar, more businesses being started, and lots of other things.

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