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Grab Bag...

And, simply because I'm all wound up after my workout, here's a little Grab Bag replies from this weekend's VOX...

1) “Friday’s letter compared Glenn Beck to Wolf Blitzer. That is the same as comparing Dick Cheney with Mother Teresa.”

Exactly. Beck is an entertainer, like O'Reilley, Olbermann, Maddow and Limbaugh. Blitzer is not only a journalist/reporter, he has a cool name. "Beck" is like a sound someone makes before ridding themselves of too much alcohol or bad sushi.

2) “Curious ... the caller stated that ‘Obama is the wrong man for the job.’ Nicely put. Now, someone please tell me who is the right man or woman for the job?"

The caller is right; Obama is NOT the right man for the job. Neither was Bush. Nor Clinton. Nor anyone who has run for the position. I have often stated that we are given nothing more than a choice between two evils. The right man/woman for the job? One who has gotten the job done, made the tough decisions...and DOESN'T WANT IT.

3) The VOX about the undies-bomber has it all wrong. Sure, this particular individual is singing like a canary without the use of torture...oh, sorry, ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES (I thought only Libs were the ones who changed terms?)...but there are other instances where torture IS needed. This is, as always, my opinion.

4) “How can people who aren’t intelligent enough to stop behind the white line at a stop sign, be allowed to vote?”

Completely agree with this one. That white line is there for a reason, yet far too many me-me-me types HAVE to be completely over it simply to be the first when the light changes green. They should get less suckier cars that have the oomf to get up and go from that white line instead of cheating.

5) “Yellow teeth, what’s with all these old people with yellow teeth? Don’t they realize it makes them look 10 years older, and it’s so easy to get fixed?”

Doesn't THIS person realize that those procedures cost money, and isn't covered by dental insurance (if those with said yellow teeth even HAVE insurance)? Even the whitening strips and toothpaste COSTS MONEY. Sometimes, it's more important to feed one's family than be concerned over the appearance of their teeth. And the caller needs to really get a life if this is something that they felt so strongly about that they had to call the VOX about it.

6) “We need someone to cut back a large shrub for a reasonable rate. Please leave your name and or your number in Vox.”

Lazy much? There's these things called SHEERS and they do a wonderful job. And, the best thing, YOU can cut it back as far as you want and not have to worry about yelling at someone for NOT cutting it back far enough or cutting it back too far. Home Depot has these products.

7) “Obama and the Democrats criticize Sarah Palin for being too ‘folksy’, as if it’s wrong to be that way. When millions of Americans hear that criticism we say it’s ridiculous. There is nothing wrong with being plain, common sense folks. We are proud Americans, just like Sarah Palin. You betcha.”

There's a line that separates those who should be in office and those who shouldn't. As we've witnessed here many times, many people don't want a folksie person in office...or an ideologue. "You betcha" is what comes outta my mouth when I'm in a rush or had a few drinks. I'm not President though. There's nothing with plain, common sense folks, but as several bloggers pointed out many times, do you REALLY want someone JUST LIKE US running this country? I'm all for it...but then again, I think that the entire Middle East should have been glassed over years ago. Want THAT type of person in control?

8) “It appears that our current president, the Commander in Chief of our armed forces and the world’s finest orator, hasn’t the foggiest notion how to pronounce the word ‘corpsman’. Whoa, I can only imagine how the press would have roasted George Bush for such a gaff.”

The media, and many others, had a field day with Bush's "nuclear" pronunciations. I found it silly to hear Obama utter "corpse-man" but knew what he was talking about, same as Bush's "new-cleer".

9) “Sen. Scott Brown was right when he said that the stimulus has not created one job, because first it will have to re-create the seven million jobs lost under Bush in order to create one new job.”

Why do people still think that the President is solely responsible for people losing, or gaining, jobs? The financial markets? Natural disasters? I bet these people are also the ones who drive those sucky cars and stop over the white lines at red lights. They probably also have yellow teeth.

10) “How is it that the Republicans believe they can trash this administration over and over, having no respect at all for the presidency?..."

Because it was done by the Democrats during Bush's years in office perhaps? What's funny is how those on the Right, at that time, claimed anyone badmouthing Bush was "anti-American" or "unpatriotic" yet NOW, it's seen as being the patriotic thing to do, the American thing to do. Three words...

Hy-po-crite. (Yeah, I know it's one word, but it's a paraphrasing of something I heard on "Hill Street Blues" many years ago...)

And finally...

11) “You have to hand it to Al Gore. He is now up for a second Nobel Prize. The first was for his book on global warming. He has written a sequel to that book called ‘Global Cooling.’”

First off, the Algore is not a scientist and he based his beliefs on doctored information. He's an idiot and I'm glad he was never President and I'm doubly glad I voted against him.

Secondly, the computer and mathematical models that the NON-BIASED information was fed into (this has nothing to do with those scam artists in Europe) predicted such things...decades ago. As I've also stated here, those predictions included (in the whole global "warming" aspect) increased weather phenomenon (that includes worse storms over smaller periods of time), increased precipitation (which also includes SNOW, but I expect many to think that precipitation ONLY means rain, and those who think so must drive crappy cars, have yellow teeth and think Presidents control the financial markets), AND colder winters...just not as long.

Thirdly, the raw data shows a trend of warming, so anyone who states that the planet is NOT warming up must also fit the category of the yellow-toothed-crappy-car-over-the-white-line people. That the data showing this warming trend coincides with rises in CO2 is indisputable. That is NOT saying that this is the cause. It's simply, at this time, coincidental.

Then again, it was also "coincidental" that CFC's were found to be abundant in the upper stratosphere when the ozone hole first appeared. And, thinking back to that, the same naysayers were there stating that this wasn't provable, the hole was "made up" and that if we banned CFCs, we would bankrupt an entire industry. Fortunately, science won out, and we had someone in charge who took such information seriously...and acted upon it.

Too bad that man, and the party he represented, is long gone.

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