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Anytime someone sends me an email about McCain or Obama I immediately question the truth behind it, which there is usually very little. Usually it is a crap forward supporting McCain. Anyway, what is most bothersome to me is that so many people are wanting to accept these bullshit forwards and other misinformation’s because it supports their man… or woman. The sad thing is that its so damn easy to check if something is authentic and people just don’t do it.

Here is the BULLSHIT letter that I recieved followed by the actual letter with this title. I took the actual letter off of  Thomas Sowell’s own archives.

 ”The article below was written by syndicated columnist, Thomas Sowell, a
 black man. He wrote it in a humorous way this past week in a column
 titled ‘Random Thoughts’ and published it in newspapers nationally, so
 maybe you’ve already seen it. If not, be my guest:
 
 Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary
 Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.
 
 After long and serious thought, I have decided to endorse Senator John
 McCain for President.
 
 I have always voted for the person and have not voted for anyone because
 some political party was telling me who I should vote for.
 
 We all know the choices by now and, that said, I do believe that the
 process of selecting a chief executive is deeply flawed. The words ‘money’
 and ’special interests’ come to mind, among many others.
 
 Here’s the way I see it:
 
 Barack Obama, you are a fine public speaker. You are also an extremely
 liberal Senator from the State of Illinois, which has a long and rich
 history of political corruption of the first magnitude. You are indeed a
 child of that system.
 
 You have finally insulted my intelligence far beyond my capacity to
 tolerate your insults. It has nothing at all to do with your skin color.
 As a matter of fact, it would be so COOL to finally have an
 African-American for President. What a great statement that would be to
 the entire world that we are indeed the greatest country on earth!
 
 But, unfortunately, General Colin Powell is not running, and YOU are NOT
 the man for this job !
 
 Barack baby, you want me to believe that you have never heard the sermons
 of your own pastor, the Right Reverend ‘God Damn America’ Jeremiah Wright.
 It is a matter of record that this has been your church for over 20 years.
 It is a matter of record that you were married there by this very pastor,
 and that your children were baptized there.
 
 The good Reverend saw fit to visit Khadafy in Libya with you and to give a
 lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, of all people.
 
 We have all now seen excerpts of his sermons all over the airwaves by now.
 And you have publicly stated that this man IS your ’spiritual mentor.’
 
 BUT, your pastor is NOT the reason I am NOT voting for you. His words were
 disturb ing enough, but it is your own HUGE church congregation, seen
 jumping, hooting and howling to his words in the background that disturb
 me the most. And please don’t tell me you attended church there and never
 once heard a ‘discouraging word’ in the 20 years you attended there. Don’t
 tell me, that in addition to the good reverend, that you are now not
 having anything to do with all those other people seen hooting and howling
 out in the audience in the background of his fiery tirades. Even Oprah
 Winfrey got disgusted and walked out on your campaign. I am no Oprah fan,
 but still she did the right thing.
 
 Now you look me in the eye and ask me to believe that you never heard such
 language in all the years you attended there! This is like me telling you
 that I attended dozens of Klan rallies and never once heard the ‘N’ word.
 Yep. And Bill Clinton ‘did not inhale’.
 
 Yes, Mr. Obama, we all have friends who have said stupid things that
 embarrassed us, but NOW you have asked me to believe something that is so
 incredibly stupid that you are telling me that I am just stupid enough to
 believe you. THAT is the main reason that I will never vote for you.
 
 I am deeply sorry, that in a country teeming with enormously talented
 African Americans who would make a good President, that the political
 system has chosen YOU. You are a pathetic and plastic excuse for an
 American, who will not even salute the Flag during the Pledge of
 Allegiance . God forbid you ever get near the Oval Office.
 
 Which leaves us with Senator John McCain.
 
 John, you are a flawed man. You are a bit old, a bit looney, and you have
 a notoriously bad temper. This perfectly qualifies you, in my humble
 opinion, to lead us for the next eight years. I WANT your trembling hand
 on the nuclear button.
 
 Think about it.
 
 We have Kim Jong IL, Chavez and Ahmadenijad all running around like
 lunatics, threatening America and threatening to plunge the world into
 nuclear Armageddon. We have Putin and the Chinese blustering and rattling
 their sabers at us. I want John McCain in the Oval Office and I want him
 to be really ticked off at all these other nut jobs around the planet.
 
 John, once you are elected, I want you to go into the Oval Office and
 throw one of your perfect FITS. Jump up and down and throw something
 through a plate glass window. Rip the drapes down and foam at the mouth a
 bit. And I want the whole thing on camera so that Ahmadinejad can see it.
 I want ALL of these ‘world leaders’ to lay awake at night and to break out
 in a cold sweat every time they think of messing with the United States of
 America.
 
 I want the nuclear button sitting right next to the alarm clock on your
 night stand. I want pictures of this to be sent to Iran, Russia, China,
 Venezuela, Cuba, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, and those other dopes in the
 sheets, the Saudis.
 
 On the domestic front, poor John did try and reach across the aisle to the
 opposition in a desperate effort to compromise and to get the Congress to
 do something. You may not agree with his efforts, but at least he TRIED.
 For all his efforts, all he got handed to him was his head in a basket.
 The liberals are ticked at him and the conservatives are ticked at him.
 Just my kinda guy.
 
 Finally. John McCain knows on a most personal level what it is to suffer
 horrible torture for years and to see others die, right in front of you,
 for their love of America. When you ask him about it, he will tell you
 that what he did was ‘nothing special. ‘ Even more incredibly, he states
 that ANY American who truly loves his country would do exactly the same as
 he did in that situation. You and I will have a hard time believing that,
 but the real point is that John McCain believes that about the ‘average
 American,’ and that, dear friends and neighbors, is why I will cast my one
 poor ballot for on election day for John McCain –.”

Jewish World Review April 8, 2008 / 3 Nissan 5768

Random Thoughts

By Thomas Sowell

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |

Some people actually think that televising Congress gives us information. What it really does is give politicians millions of dollars worth of free advertising, while they play charades on camera to fool the rest of us.

Alfred E. Neuman of Mad magazine said: “What, me worry?” During election years, Democrats running for office say: “What, me liberal?”

Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

What is more scary than any particular candidate or policy is the gullibility of the public and their willingness to be satisfied with talking points, rather than serious arguments.

One way to reduce illegal immigration might be to translate some of our far left publications into Spanish and give everyone in Mexico subscriptions. After they read how terrible this country is, many may want to stay away.

Whenever I see one of Barack Obama’s smooth performances, it reminds me of a saying from my old neighborhood in Harlem: “An eel is like sandpaper compared to you.”

Most people on the right have no problem understanding people on the left because many, if not most, were on the left themselves when they were younger. But many, if not most, people on the left find it inexplicable how any decent and intelligent person could be on the right.

It is amazing to me that there are people who still take seriously claims by some candidates that they are against “special interests.” All politicians are against their opponents’ special interests and in favor of his own special interests.

Nothing is more fraudulent than calls for a “dialogue on race.” Those who issue such calls are usually quick to cry “racism” at any frank criticism. They are almost invariably seeking a monologue on race, to which others are supposed to listen.

The same people who have gone ballistic when some prominent figure is found to belong to some all-male social club are full of excuses for why Barack Obama remained a member of a racist and anti-American church for 20 years.

Among the many wise things said by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was that you are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts. Yet an incredible number of people make up whatever “facts” are needed to support whatever they choose to believe.

Rachael Ray is showing up in so many places on various television programs, on magazine covers, on boxes of crackers that the question must be asked: Are we sure that she is not twins, or perhaps triplets?

The way to get people’s votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will stop those other people from giving them trouble. But if you really want to help, then you can tell them the truth and risk losing their votes.

The idea behind giving professors lifetime tenure is that this will enable them to speak out freely. But it would be hard to name any other occupation with a more cowardly record than academics, who have been giving in to politically correct campus bullies ever since the 1960s.

There is no question that Barack Obama is a clever and glib fellow. There is also no question that some of the most foolish, dangerous and horrific things done around the world in the past hundred years have been done by clever and glib fellows.

God damn, what am I going to learn about next that I have to post on here.

Check this shit out! Unbelievable!! Disgusting! Sad…

The Giant Garbage Patch = 1500 miles wide!

http://www.physorg.com/news112248742.html

Feast or Famine around here when it comes to me posting on the skunk.

I’m sure you all must think I don’t do anything else, but sit on the skunk. Not true, I just have to post ideas when they are fresh and sometimes I will have to stop and come back to one post several times throughout the day to finish it. I choose to make the time… “it’s like my pleasure in other peoples leisure”.

Anyway, tonight I was driving and listening to the local AM radio and heard a very interesting interview.

The guy being interviewed is a physicist (don’t know who just caught this briefly) and they were talking about several ideas, but they touched briefly on the weakness of the big bang theory. They weren’t suggesting creationism, but what the guy said was very intriguing and something that I haven’t really considered before - therefore very skunkworthy.

The first thing relating to this is the “Horizon Problem” which is based on the fact that the temperature across the universe is uniform and how we presently understand galaxies and time isn’t in accordance with the big bang theory. The 2 important points are: 1) If the Big Bang actually happened this would have created a massive influx in temperature, essentially creating a high gradient of temperature across space that could not have evened out by our present time. 2) The way we view and understand galaxies is based on the speed of light, the basic connection and its confliction with the bang theory also relates to the fact that the lack of variation of physical properties within our univerese is inconsistent with the bang. Since these are the case and there is only very, very speculative suggestions as to why these things do exist, it seems reasonable to me that the big bang didn’t happen.

The other problem with the big bang is that it says that there was nothing before the bang and what I’m about to say isn’t my original thought. By saying there was nothing before the big bang theory it inadvertantly imples that there was “time” before the bang. So, the big bang theory contradicts itself.

Through my searching I did find some other very interesting ideas which really deserve their own post, but I’ve done enough already.

Check this out, Look at the “the string theories“.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy all these thoughts, they were new to me. Hopefully they are intriguing to you as well.

I just got this email today, interesting. Biased of course, but just shows how out of touch all presidential cadidates are with the average person - especially McCain.

Yeah Yeah, I hear it already - Not Obama he is for us, the middle class. He can relate.

To that I say listen close… NO, he cannot possibly relate to you or me or anyone who is reading this (all 2 or 3 of you… lol). Anyone who has a worth in excess of 100,000 million cannot possibly relate us, or even the lower end deci-millionaires, as McCain clearly points out.

Anyway, here it is and I removed my state and put insert yours here. That and removing an internet address “to make my voice heard” on Barack’s site is the only change I made.

______________________

Dear Friend,

John McCain said in an interview yesterday that he’s lost track of how many houses he has.

Think about that: he actually has so many houses that he actually can’t remember how many he owns.

Every day that goes by, Senator McCain shows just how out of touch he is with the struggles of everyday people—whether it’s offering billions more in tax breaks for the oil companies or declaring that multimillionaires are members of the middle class.

We can’t afford another president who doesn’t get it.

That’s why it’s so important to tell your friends, family, and neighbors more about Barack – who he is and where he stands on the issues that matter most to (insert your state here).

You can make a difference right now by writing a letter to the editor of your local paper and sharing with your community why John McCain is simply out-of-touch with the struggles of everyday people and why Barack is right on the economy and right for (insert your state here).

Make a difference and write a letter to the editor today. [http://my.barackobama.com

As president, Barack Obama will put the middle class first. He’ll pass a middle class tax cut that gives 95 percent of working Americans a tax cut of up to $1,000—and he’ll give families an emergency energy rebate to help folks cope with rising prices. He’ll offer students a $4,000 tax break to pay for tuition in exchange for doing 100 hours of community service. And he’ll raise the minimum wage and index it to inflation.

John McCain’s tax plan leaves out 101 million middle class families—and gives tax breaks to the oil companies and multimillionaires instead. And he’ll offer more of the same tax breaks and giveaways to companies that ship jobs overseas, leading to the loss of millions of American jobs.

The choice is clear. Barack Obama will be on your side. John McCain won’t.

Not that you need more than 1, the one being to just look at him.  If you want to know what I’m talking about go to his site and the first picture you see of him standing there with a smart ass smirk on his face holding a cigar makes me want to spit in his face.

Rush is an asshole and this is a nomination for the loser of the year… or perhaps loser of earth’s existence. Whenever he makes one of his many asshole comments (which is at least 1 every 5 minutes) I can just picture thousands of business men sitting in their vehicles smiling, noding their heads in agreement and even giving their own additional commentary to themselves as they listen to him.

For example, this topped the cake for me today. He played one of his biased, taken out of context sound bites of parents and childeren talking about how the gas prices are effecting the childeren of low income parents this year and the parents ability to purchase new school supplies and new shoes, etc.

Of course Rush scoffed at this and made it sound like they were complaining about not having the “new” supplies when the old ones are just fine, almost sounding like “when I was a kid all my shoes had holes in them, I had to walk 7 miles each way in 50 below weather, and I didn’t complain” type bullshit.

Not that I actually believe it is possible, but just in case, somehow I get the luck of winning a lottery and  Rush Limbaugh himself reads this I want to say with the deepest sincerity… Fuck you Rush Limbaugh, fuck you.

And no, quite honestly I don’t really care about Obama or any other political figures Rush bashes on his show. These are not the reasons I dislike Rush Limbaugh. Even though I’m sure almost everything he says about them is B.S.

So, for my 5 …

1.) He presents slanted BS as though it were fact and for some reason otherwise intellegent people belive it.

2.) He bashed druggies relentlessly and at one point said that there should be harsher penalties… then he was busted and admitted on air that he had (or still has for all we know) an addiction to the pain killer oxycontin.

3.) He has a following of people who when calling in to his show say Kudos, or many Kudos to you Rush… they are referred to as dido monkeys.

4.) Rush brags about his extraodinary wealth, his extremely large house, his lavish spending and his vehicle that only gets 8 mile to the gallon 

5.) He gives people just enough information to spread misinformation on rather important topics.

I’m going to try and make this my last post about Rush Limbaugh. He and my posts on him are a complete waste of time.

I have recently started to look into Massachusetts/Boston law regarding firearms ownership for a private citizen with no criminal record whatsoever and this is what I’ve found.

The state requires citizens to acquire a Firearms Identification Card.

This card costs $100.  It lasts for 5-6 years depending on when, during the year, you apply for it.

In order to acquire such a license, you are required to take a firearms safety course - at your expense.  This course costs around $150.

In addition to this, the police have a habit of asking owners to prove membership at a gun club.  This is technically illegal, but who the bleep am I supposed to call when the police break the law?  A gun club membership costs between $150-$250 per year.

Furthermore, provided that you can meet the aforementioned requirements, the police might also ask you to get a letter from your doctor stating that you are qualified to own a gun.  What business a doctor has ascertaining my qualifications as a gun-owner, I am unaware.  Perhaps they have added this to the med. school curriculum.  My friends at Harvard Medical School tell me no, but everyone knows Harvard Medical School is a safety school.

Thus, the total bill for acquiring a firearms license to merely possess, not carry, a gun is$100+$150+150 or $400.  Add to this the inflated cost of firearms on the east coast and owning something as simple as a Remington 870 might run you in excess of $600.

Now, I’m a fan of licensing.  I think that all gun owners should be required to register their firearms and should be required to pass a licensing exam.  But this should not be at the gun-owners cost.  The constitution stipulates nothing about licensing, so if the state wants to mandate it, it should be at their cost.

Oh, and here’s the best part: my girlfriend just got a job working for Senator Kennedy’s office.  I’m hoping she can put in a good word for me, so that maybe, just maybe, this time the cops will stick to the law and not try to railroad me with “additional qualifications.”

Several upper midwest states, including MN, ND, SD, IA, WI & MI are spending a lot of money and effort on research of fragmentation of lead bullets in venison. Any thoughts on how this “lead fragmentation” issue will affect hunting in your neck of the woods or prairie?

Say what you want about Senator Barack Obama’s lack of experience, but remember that George Washington had literally NO experience whatsoever before he assumed the Presidency of the United States. Lincoln as well had little experience before his trip to the White House. And George Bush, sadly, had lots of experience in government and look how well that worked for us. I would rather have a literate (it would be nice to have a President who can speak a goddamn sentence without stuttering and “misspeaking” like a retarded meth-head), extremely well-educated (his tenure as the editor of the Harvard Law Review[1], an accolade shared by only those who inhabit the highest echelons of legal academia, speaks volumes of his intellectual capabilities), but inexperienced man who has new ideas that inspire hope in so many Americans who have looked at the last eight years of this abysmal failure of a Presidency with disgust. Four more years of this, please excuse my francais, ridiculous pseudo-Republican bullshit (try playing the game, “find a Republican who believes in small government” these days) will push this country off the precipice and into a very real and extremely nasty culture war. We live in a time when Conservative Republicans attempt to vilify their Democratic opponents by calling them “latte-sipping” and “arugula-eating” demonstrates the embarrassing devolution of the American political landscape.

What’s perhaps most disturbing about this election is that we are witnessing the biblical fall of John McCain – a man once known as the “Maverick” Republican now panders to the backwards, intellectually bankrupt Christian Right (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/13/AR2006051300647.html) has now run attack ads on Barack Obama that deal with none of the substance of his candidacy; instead these ads amount to nothing more than desperate feces-slinging.

Obama isn’t perfect. We need to know more about his healthcare position. We need to know about his plan to improve America’s security. We need to know the details of how he plans to extricate our armed forces from the quagmire that is Iraq. And on a personal level, I would love for Obama, and for that member, the rest of the Democrats, to change their ridiculous policy on firearms. He needs to remember that shitting on the constitution (secret prisons in Eastern Europe, thousands of detainees held without charges, having the Supreme Court determine elections, the curiously misnamed “Patriot Act,” which could hardly be less patriotic, etc.) is this current batch of Republicans’ shtick. Also, Obama has the added virtue of not having called his wife a “see you next Tuesday” in front of reporters.

Regards,

Jonathan P. Figdor

We are coming upon one of the most interesting and scary elections (based on outcome – either way) in the history of the United States, in my opinion.

I believe this is going to divide our country like few things have since the Civil War. I know this sounds extreme, and I’m not implying that any state is going to secede, but people will surely leave the country over it and I can see it is going to be trouble. The trouble is going to come primarily in the form of distention and anger from the people. There will be areas of this country where Americans will not feel welcome by fellow Americans in ways that haven’t been for decades.

At the core this election is not about a black man vs. a white man, or an old decrepit man vs. younger better educated man. It’s not about a man who will need a genie in a bottle for vice president to accomplish all that he has promised vs. a man who changes his stance on issues so often we don’t know where he stands. And for most its not about loyalty to one party who realizes little about economics (even though they claim to) in how unrealistic they are about paying for the great ideas vs. one party who realizes nothing of the environment and humanity.

So here are my thoughts. If Obama loses this election, there are going to be many groups of people (white, black, and many countries across the world) claiming that the election was fixed and that America is racist.

If Obama wins, the groups of people who will be upset about this are the wealthy, those who gross a lot and take home little (something most who have never owned a business don’t realize possible – and no I do not gross a lot and I still take home little – I just know that many small businesses who have employees fall into this category – because of taxes) and people who are truly racist.

I want to leave you with a few thoughts. When will we acknowledge that the presidency has become a self and cohort serving position that has lost most anything that ever was meant to truly represent the people. The founders of our country left nations of kings and now in an obscure way we have allowed for and created new ones.

The next election will absolutely initiate some big ideas and changes from the people. It is going to leave our country with a lot of questions about our current system of government and what we really need to run this nation.

Finally, what if we didn’t have 2 or more people running against each other, so there is no winner and no 1 group of people who are winners – wouldn’t this be a step towards unification, if we all were in it together?

And for the record, I don’t care for either candidate. I have considered not voting in the next election. I also tend to be an idealist trapped inside a realist body.