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According to a poll released today, active duty military types strongly prefer Bush to Kerry by a 69% to 24% margin. If Kerry wins, many of these patriotic Americans will leave the service rather than serve under a bona fide traitot like Kerry. Then all those lefty college students will have to be drafted if Kerry is to keep his promise to defend America. Hmmmmm. What do you think Kerry will do, draft the cowards or defend America? Hmmmmm http://pep.typepad.com/public_enquiry_project/2004/10/the_draft_will_.html

My brother Al lived in Chicago through several election cycles back in the 80s. I was just remembering that he’d told me back then that – “A Republican can only vote once as long as he lives in Chicago.” I just called him in Dallas, where he now lives, to ask him about that. He just explained to me that right after someone votes Republican in an election in Cook County that the “Ward Healers” would disallow all future attempts by that Republican to vote by noting on their ballot records that that Republican “no longer lived at his given...

"Friday October 15, 2004--The Presidential debates are over and the election is just two-and-a-half weeks away. The latest Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 49% of the vote and Senator John Kerry with 46%. The Tracking Poll is updated daily by noon Eastern. Voters surveyed last night declared the third and final debate a tie, with fans of each candidate thinking their man won. The number of voters who prefer Bush over Kerry on both national defense and the economy has returned to the levels that existed before the first debate" Posted by: Adrian Spidle...

MODIFIED FROM THE INTERNET RESIDENCE: 7 mansions, including one in Washington DC, worth multi-millions. I served in Vietnam (four months). EXPERIENCE: After Vietnam I betrayed my comrades and helped the Communist Vietnamese win the Vietnam War. I then ran for Congress in Massachusetts and lost. After I got out of law school, I then used family connections to get a job as one of many Assistant DAs for a little while in Massachusetts. I served as Leutenant Governor in the Dukakis Administration and helped him turn Massachusetts into Taxachusetts. In my career as a U.S. Senator, I've voted to cut...

Bush should have responded to Kerry's "outing" of Mary Cheney - "You know, Senator Kerry, that obesity is a real problem among working class Americans as, I'm sure, Elizabeth Edwards would agree." http://pep.typepad.com/public_enquiry_project/2004/10/bush_should_hav.html

The Democrat Party that Kerry leads is an organized gang headed by pampered social, academic, professional, elite upper classes, that forcefully extracts hard-earned resources from ambitious and entrepreneurial middle classes, that are then taken as booty by themselves, and the remainder dribbled out in various social schemes to the incompetent, lazy lower classes to buy votes and assuage their guilt. Everything we value is at risk if Kerry and the Breck girl win this November. I will be going door to door for Bush this Saturday and I urge everyone who cares to call the Bush campaign and see what...

As the son of a sea captain who was fascinated by the Islamic World as a result of his numerous working visits throughout it, I grew up learning about that great religion. In my own days as a sailor I also visited numerous Islamic lands and experienced much of its’ rich culture including prayerfully kneeling in several great mosques. My favorite Islamic personality that emerged from my studies of Islamic history is Suleiman the Magnificent, the greatest Osmanli Sultan excepting perhaps Mehmet the Conqueror. Islam divides its morality in two parts. The first is within the LANDS OF SUBMISSION wherein...

MacroEconomics of Humanity in 2004 This chart is composed of data from the CIA, US Treasury, World Bank and other governmental and non governmental sources. GDP figures are based on purchase power parity. We will update this as events unfold and I invite anyone with better, more complete, better methodology or more recent numbers to post them here with appropriate citations and we will update this chart. Even a casual examination of these figures shows that the American Political-Economic system is far and away the best. It far surpasses even the European Social Democracies. Maybe you think the "benefits" of...

I am a collector of Ancient coins and American coins. The following appeared in a post on a chat list today - "... My wife works for a public elementary school, and a couple of years ago they were doing someting about Presidents on coins. Most of the teachers at her school thought that was Washington on the nickel! Tom" This reminded me of a mother in my daughter's Montessori school who was a Public School "science teacher" in the Boston public school system. She complained that "I have to teach the solar system tomorrow and I don't know anything...

Kerry's Military Records- from the internet WHY HASN'T KERRY SIGNED HIS FORM 180? "This is more than an eye opener. Unlike McCain, Bush, and Gore,,,, Kerry has adamantly refused to authorize the release of his military records. Most think it's because of his phony battle medals. I think the real reason is below. He was not granted an Honorable Discharge until March 2001, almost 30 years after his ostensible service term had ended! This is very much out of the ordinary, and highly suspect. There are 5 classes of Discharge: Honorable, General, Other Than Honorable, Bad Conduct, and Dishonorable. My...

Ann Coulter observed, on Fox & Friends, this morning that Edwards hand motions are very girly. I had just said the same thing to my wife a few moments before. Earlier in the campaign I had noticed that John Edwards has a rather limp wrist while on the stump. Add to this his sometimes Nixon-like awkward wave and I'm beginning to question his manliness. This together with his carefully pretty appearance reminded me of a high school prom queen wannabe then. After the debate, his debate style reminded me of my ex-wife. Edwards got rich by becoming an expert con...

I got a fabulous education in the Public Schools of New York City. I graduated from my High School, Brooklyn Tech, in 1962 and it was one of the best in the world. None of my teachers belonged to a union. I went to MIT that September and was able to save the amount of my tuition – $1,700 – during my summer job. None-the-less, when I got there the students were demonstrating and complaining that “Seventeen hundred is too damn much!” Since then our ASS has been degraded by the Leftwing Establishment to the status of Political Indoctrination Camps....

BREAKING NEWS - A public school student was just punished by her teacher for complaining about the teacher making his class watch Farenheit 911 in Attleboro, MA Just heard on the Howie Carr show on WRKO – The father of that student just called to say that his daughter’s teacher brought in a DVD of F911 and told the kids that everything in it was true. He punished the caller’s child for complaining. The attorney father and Howie are going to follow this up with a State Rep and the Governor. It is R rated! A public school student was...

This is very hard for me to say. My beloved Canadian Mom grew up speaking French as her first language. I studied French for three years in high school, read Proust, de St. Exupery and Baudelaire in French in College; and admired Voltaire, Rousseau, Gide, and other great French thinkers. I’ve visited that lovely land three times and loved speaking that magnificent language while exploring its superb train system. Notre Dame, Versailles, the Louvre, the Musee D’Orse, the Pompidou Center, the Place de la Concord, etc are all incomparable. I thoroughly enjoyed riding the Bateau Mouche up and down the...

VOTE FOR KERRY IF YOU WANT A QUAGMIRE IN IRAQ Vietnam really was a quaqmire because an overly sensitive LBJ wouldn't listen to his commanders who wanted to win the war. He didn't want to get "world opinion" mad at him. By the time Nixon was elected the "political support" to win the war was totally lost. My Vietnam Veteran buddies and I were then subject to decades of anger, frustration and ridicule as our reward for doing our duty. Would you like to see this happen again? Then vote for John Kerry. See how Mort Zuckerman sees this... By...

Kerry won the debate in the press. All of my pro Bush friends thought that Bush devastated Kerry by pointing out how ridiculous Kerry’s plan to get France and Germany to help out in Iraq after he called Iraq a “Grand Diversion” and “the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time.” He further buried him by showing how stupid the Kerry Doctrine of not preempting without international permission is. Then we hear and read from the elite media about how Kerry “won” because he’s taller and more commanding while Bush looked tired and smirked. ARE YOU KIDDING...

What percentage of Vietnam Vets do you think hate John Kerry? From my experience it seems to be over 2 out of 3 who hate Kerry. I'd say the percentage is higher among caucasians and lower among people of color. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION RIGHT NOW based on the debate I had with other parents at the coffee held at my daughter's school this morning that's held on the first friday of every month. THEY SIMPLY DON'T BELIEVE ME WHEN I EXPLAIN HOW WE HATE KERRY. They think most Vietnam Vets love Kerry. "Where's your data?" Is the question...

"pentimento n. An underlying image in a painting, as an earlier painting, part of a painting, or original draft, that shows through, usually when the top layer of paint has become transparent with age." As I walked to the office this morning my attention was drawn to the light brown outlines of fallen leaves on the fairly new sidewalk. I thought that the heavy rains from the remnants of Huricane Jeanne must have pounded little bits of the autumnal leaves pretty far into the porous concrete surface of the sidewalk to leave such perfect reflections of the now gone leaves....

JEEZ, Did you hear Kerry accused W of being "all hat, no cattle?" As a Massachusetts resident who knows Kerry very well, I think he's the emptiest suit to ever run for Senate, much less President. Kerry spent a few months in Vietnam and thinks that qualifies him to be Commander-in-Chief? Kerry was the Dukakis Lt. Governor as the "Massachusetts Miracle" turned into Taxachusetts. In a few decades in the Senate he did absolutely nothing of note. All he can say is "I'm smart, Bush is dumb." "I tell the truth, Bush lies." (as his nose grows). KERRY HAS DONE...

Walking Eagle On a recent campaign trip through Wisconsin, Senator John Kerry visited the City of Green Bay and met with the elders of the Oneida Nation. He said he had a plan to improve the income of every Native American, by $40,000 a year. Details of the plan were not presented, despite frequent requests to do so. Senator Kerry also informed the elders that, during his senate career, he voted in favor of every Native American issue introduced. Senator Kerry was adopted as a member of the Oneida Nation and given the name Walking Eagle. After the senator left,...