...about just *lurking* instead of responding to posts like this.

Anyways... great to see you posting! I had wondered what happened to you. Please check in more often to let us know you're still around. I love your sense of humor

I know that you won't be applying for a government loan-modification loan for those who have maintained their mortgage payments - but would like a lower interest rate. Since 'government' money is 'your' money, as a respected taxpayer - you would rather have it go to someone else. Very generous of you. Somewhere along the line - too many people in this country have allowed themselves to think that they are not the government! You allowed the elitists to win! The younger generation has read the Constitution - and using technology and their own common sense, they are taking rightful control of 'government' - by actively participating and monitoring. Try it - you may like it!!

Specifically in that Amendment that gave women the right to vote. The Founders wanted men who were property owners and taxpayers to have the right to vote under the theory that that they had more practical experience and of course a financial investment in the government because they paid taxes.

Obviously we have lost our way, but the women's right to vote started the decline. Women were responsible for Obama and Clinton getting elected and the almost got us John Kerry. To be fair they also helped elect Kennedy and Eisenhower.

Yep, we gave up freedom for security and as the great man (Franklin, I think) said.When you do that you have neither. And that's where we are today.

Whoa, Bobby, way over the top...I bet yer just spoofing. Remember when Father Oops praised you as a real guy until he found out you were a dead guy. Our wives may doubt your central point about women but you can also factor some of these elections on minorities. But middleaged white guys have not been defenseless--- guys like Dubya and Chris Dodd had Enron and AIG and levelled the playing field. Yeah, women are nurterers and don't mind tax and spend and the minorities and Gen-X'ers weigh in but there are plenty of rich corporate Kenny-Boy's left to keep slobs like Kennedy, Dodd, Dubya in the game.

Don't fret because it is ultimately a done deal anyway. We will be sucked into the European Union in a decade or so, with the same loving tolerance of Muslims and their gang rapes because, heck, that's their culture. They get to rape white women because they dress provocatively.

And in 50 years when a multiracial candidate like Obama runs, folks won't identify him as black they will say "I'm voting for the white guy."

The only question in my mind---- will the Mexicans get the Southwest back? Heck, we may just give it to them.

I really believe the suffregette movement opened the door to irresponsible voting. We are now at the point where about half the voters will vote themselves a paycheck. Women are certainly not the only cause of this, but they were the first.

The next election - congressional off-year - will be the most important one ever. The liberals in Congress need to have their ranks thinned so that there is a check and balance on this idiotic socialistic spending spree that Prezbo (or his handlers) promote endlessly.

Beyond that he's playing fast and loose with our national security on his "I'm the anti-Bush" world tour. Any day now I expect to see him sit down the whackjob from Iran. After that - maybe the one from North Korea.

And I am a real guy - just currently dead. Being dead has it's advantages, I don't pay any taxes and don't worry about when or where the next terrorist attack is going to happen. I do feel sorry for the rest of you because just like 9/11, the ones that die will be completely innocent.

I am sitting here watching A.M.C Two Minute Warning (1976) starring Charlton Heston is on. This is a classic movie in which one man with a high powered rifle sends a sunday afternoon football game in to chaos. This classsic is a case study in human nature, and exposes mankinds animal instinct to flee in mass in time of crisis. In the movie the sniper scores random hits on the crowd, turning them into nothing less than a stampede of cattle, scurring like ants towards the stadium exits. The sniper at this point is free to shoot at will as the police are powerless to stop him while being caught up in the subsequent exodus... Anyhow ask yourself this why wont the government release the actual number of people recieving unemployment???? Or the actual number on government assistance programs????? Anyone???? All they want to do is give phony assesments and percentages. Its astronomical Millions of people... Lets kick the ballistics here folks, according to Washington, cars and Wall St. Are more important than Main St. It does not get more crystal clear than that, when it comes to priorities... They are grasping at straws at this point and have no clue what to do... When people get hungry they get desparate.. When people start to panic, as they will as these programs start to fail, this animal instinct will prevail, when the only thing left is day to day survival fighting for that next loaf of bread, listing to your children cry cause the are hungry.... What would you do if money was no longer accepted for trade, What if there was no more Wal-mart, Electricity, Running water, sounds crazy ehh?? If people only knew what a fine line exist bettween order and chaos. We are already starting to see the coming plunge into madness, with crime on the increase, while local governments go bankrupt, and have to cut back on police and other essential services necessary to maintain an orderly society... Any how as this movies shows in the end it will be every Man, Woman, and Child for itself, as always in time of crisis.. Check it out. Good Morning everyone its going to be a great day, go ahead and stop by Starbucks on the way in to the office, and grab that $5.00 latte, gas up the Hummer, and enjoy those heated leather seats, as you head on down the motor way.. Go ahead and slip off them loafers as you drive, the carpet feels nice on your feet ehh?? Better check in on the wifey and see if she got the kids off to school O.K., before she heads off to Pilates, in her Benzo.. Ah mankind at he beginning of the 21st century in all his glory. This will definately be a time well recorded in history for future generations to study and wonder what were we thinking.... BLESS..

We must be reading the same papers and reports.

When I have time I also watch Closing Bell on MSNBC. Last week they interviewed several economist and investment bankers. The one from Zurich spelled it out the best when he told the reporter the smartest investment right now would be a tractor. He pointed out that during the first depression we had more family farms, we had the ability to grown our own food. None of the people interviewed painted a good picture for America if we continue on this course of increased spending and higher taxes. They all denounced the cap and tax.

It's going to be an interesting ride.

Well you get the idea, heck theres no where left to run to anyway, better strap in cause im afraid you are correct, it going to get ugly real quick like.....PEACE enjoy it while you still can....BLESS