This article in the Macon Telegraph about letting felons votes really bothers me. Since I have started taking the idea of voting more seriously, it really bothers me when they toy around with something like this. When you see who is sponsoring the bill, it makes you shake your head even more. State Reps. Tyrone Brooks and Bob Holmes, both Atlanta Democrats are behind this.
I think Jimmy Carter needs to just sit back in Plains, GA and enjoy his retirement. I know why he is causing trouble but come on. He is trying so hard to stay in the political spotlight like Bill Clinton. Our voting arrangments don't meet "basic international requirements." Why should it meet international requirements? I thought that it should meet requiremenst of The United States.
Here is a good article from Neal Boortz on Townhall.com about the fair tax plan.
Nick Berg's father speaks out on his views of how should be. This is from the Phoenixville News. Personally this little bit bothers me.
"I challenge anyone deep in your hearts to realize that Kerry isn't like Bush," said Berg. "Bush is like Saddam Hussein. Bush condones rape and murder, and does it with a wink of an eye. Bush says he does it in the name of economic policy."
I know his son was murdered and I have no idea what that would be like, but to say that "Bush is like Saddam Hussein. Bush condones rape and murder, and does it with a wink of an eye" seems a little overboard.
Neal Boortz gives a good explanation of how job numbers are broken down and how they can be viewed.
HAVE WE REALLY LOST JOBS UNDER GEORGE BUSH?
John Kerry is responding to a slide in his poll numbers by stepping up the rhetoric against George Bush on issues economic. Kerry is saying that Bush has created "more excuses than jobs." Very clever. Kerry is now calling the last four years the "Excuse presidency."
Let's play with jobs numbers a bit. If you're new to Nealz Nuze, or if you aren't a listener to my show, you're going to learn a few things you didn't know before.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics produces two separate jobs reports. One is called the Establishment Survey, the other is the Household Survey [pdf]. These two surveys use different methodologies in measuring the number of people working and the rate of job growth or job loss. The Establishment Survey questions a set list of established businesses every month on their employment numbers. The Household Survey questions thousands of American households to see if household members are working, not working, looking for jobs, retired, etc.
There is a fairly big problem with the Establishment Survey. Since the list of businesses canvassed every month for this survey is fairly static, any new businesses out there that have started in the last year or so won't be included. Let's say you have a mythical town with three employers. One large manufacturing plant that employs 1000 people, and two small businesses that have a combined employment of 60. The large manufacturing facility has been in operation for 20 years and is a part of the government's monthly Establishment Survey. The two small businesses were only formed late last year and are not on the Establishment Survey. So ... let's say that in August the plant dismisses 5 people, but the small businesses hire those five people and about five more. Additionally, four other residents have started businesses from their homes. The Establishment Survey would show a net job loss in this town of five jobs in the September report. The Household Survey, on the other hand, would show a net job increase of nine jobs.
Remember now, politicians generally like to use government statistics to prove the need for more government or to prove that their political foes are doing a bad job. This means, of course, that the Democrats and the Kerry campaign will eagerly point to the Establishment Survey to prove that George Bush is losing jobs, not creating them.
By now I would bet that you're just screaming for me to get to the point. What figures do we get from the latest Household Survey?
Hold on ... let's go back to Kerry for a moment. Kerry says that Bush is the first president in 72 years to record a net loss of jobs during his term. Kerry puts that number at 900,000 jobs. NOW is the time to compare the two survey totals.
On September 3rd the Bureau of Labor Statistics published it's numbers. The Establishment Survey showed that 131.5 million people were employed in non-farm jobs during August. The Household Survey showed a total employment figure of 138.7 million. That's a difference of 8.2 million jobs ... 8.2 million more Americans actually working than the numbers Kerry cites. That sort of wipes out Kerry's 900,000 job loss, don't you think?
Come on, folks. How in the world can you ignore small businesses when you report job numbers? Most of the jobs in this country are in small businesses, the very businesses that can take up to two years to register on the government's Establishment Survey. Job growth numbers in the small business private sector lag for a year or more behind than job numbers in large employers. In other words ... the numbers Kerry is relying on are meaningless in the short term.
One more thing ... Bush inherited an economic recession that began under Bill Clinton --- then you had the dot-com bust and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. By any measure that's a tough hand to play. I wonder how The Soufflé would have performed?
This advertisment is just insane. This is from Barcepundit
In looking at the Chrenkoff blog, I see that the Austrailians are wanting to be talkers and not action takers. It is the idea of the "loopy left" as he calls it. It is good to see that all people on the left all over the world are out of their mind. People who are willing to die for a cause are simply not going to just stop b/c somebody tries to talk some sense into them.
Breaking news, Jay Leno is not a conservative and has never been. Who cares what Jay Leno thinks or what anybody else thinks in Hollywood. I do not understand why people actually put some thought into what famous people think. If they were so correct on what political thoughts they had, wouldn't they be politicians and not actors?
Does Mr. Middle-of-the-Road Lean Left?
Jay Leno talks about the tragedy and comedy of politics
I always knew that Kinko's was a great place to alter memo's. Here is a story from the Washington Post about that the Bush documents.
This is From the New York Observer: Dan Rather should listen to himself here, just answer the questions.
"With respect: answer the questions," said Dan Rather, the CBS News anchor. He was asking a direct question to President George W. Bush, his re-election campaign and his political allies in the press and on the Web. "We’ve heard what you have to say about the documents and what you’ve said and what your surrogates have said, but for the moment, answer the questions.
"I say that with respect," he added. "They’d be a lot stronger in their campaign if they did do that."
Doesn't the old saying come to mind here about not being smart enought to come out of the rain.
Lightning Injures 40 Texas Football Players, Coaches
GRAPELAND, Texas -- About 40 players and coaches with the Grapeland High School football team in East Texas were hurt when the lightning struck as they finished up practice Tuesday evening.
Twenty high school football players have been hospitalized from injuries. Another 20 players and coaches from Grapeland High School also were hurt.
Superintendent Buddy Sumrall told The Associated Press that one of the players was in guarded condition after being taken to a burn center in Galveston. Nineteen others were spending the night in hospitals under observation.
Sumrall described the incident as "a freak thing." He said it started raining as the players were running sprints and the team was preparing to head for their locker room when the lightning struck. He said no previous lightning had been seen.
Police Chief Roger Dickey said there were thunderstorms in nearby towns, but that they hadn't yet reached Grapeland when the strike occurred. He said coaches and players had no warning.
The force of the electrical charge was powerful enough to knock players down -- or backward several feet.
What in the hell are these people thinking?
Barry In, 3 D.C. Council Incumbents Out
Ex-Mayor Ousts Allen; Chavous, Brazil Also Lose
By Lori Montgomery and Yolanda Woodlee
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, September 15, 2004; Page A01
Disgruntled voters in the nation's capital ousted three veteran members of the D.C. Council yesterday, voting by overwhelming margins to replace the incumbents with two fresh new faces and a familiar old one -- former mayor Marion Barry.
Barry defeated council member Sandy Allen in Ward 8, the city's poorest ward. With 140 of 142 precincts reporting in the Democratic primary, Barry had received about 57 percent of the votes cast. Allen trailed with 25 percent and conceded the election to the former mayor.
I have to agree with Neal Bootz on this item.
"Is there a skill in life any more useless than the ability to diagram a sentence?"
Got this off of Michelle Malkins Blog. The people at MS are always coming up with great software.
This is from the Opinion Journal - Best of the web. Why do these democrats think that throwing money at our education deptartment means that things will turn around. Restructure the dam thing and cut the fat out.
The Price Is Wrong
Lately John Kerry has taken to whining about how expensive the war in Iraq has been, and how that has meant less money for such pressing needs as "afterschool programs." Kerry doesn't exactly live up to the real JFK's determination to "pay any price, bear any burden . . . in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty." And now it turns out that KERRY LIED!!!! about the cost of the war.
"Kerry is . . . claiming in the latest version of his standard stump speech that the war in Iraq has cost '$200 billion and counting,' " reports Factcheck.org, a Web site of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania:
But so far, the bill for the war is still under $120 billion, according to the Office of Management and Budget. Kerry runs the figure up to $200 billion by counting money scheduled to be spent next fiscal year, plus additional funds for the future that haven't even been requested yet. He also is counting money projected to be spent for operations in Afghanistan and to protect US cities, not for Iraq.
I knew that playing cards in my youth is getting me prepared for something. I figured it would have been bankruptcy not good health.
This from the Drudge Report
"In last week's WASHINGTONPOSTWABCNEWS Poll, John F. Kerry was viewed favorably by 36 percent of registered voters, down 18 points over the past six months.
But just how low Kerry's standing has fallen cannot be appreciated fully without comparing his standing with that of other household names in GALLUP polls over the years, the POST's Dana Milbank reported on Tuesday.
Kerry finds himself in a dead heat with Martha Stewart and Joseph McCarthy, and behind Herbert Hoover -- although he narrowly beats O.J. Simpson."
I am so happy that people are starting to realize what this man could do to our country.
I wonder which way Ivan will go. I know Frances didn't act like they thought she would.
This picture from Drudge makes Al Gore look like he just woke up from a bad dream. He is getting more and more desperate.
A neat little place a friend told me about. http://www.80stees.com/
They sell shirts w/ all 80's items. One of my favorites is the Mary Moose shirt from National Lampoons Vacation.
The bulldogs pulled through another victory. USC is always a tough win for UGA. I like the way this team consistently pulls together. Marshall will be another tough game. i will be ready when we can get everybody healthy and back from suspensions.