No Man's Land

Thoughts on Condi and Iraq

Dear Gunther [local radio host],

I'd like to make a few points:

   1. Our past support of Iraq wouldn't have been an issue if we'd listened to George Washington's Farewell address, which warned us against "entangling foreign alliances."
   2. The "War on Terrorism" is unwinable, just like a war on guns, bombs, or missiles would be.  Terror is a tactic. We can win the war on Islam, but we have to accept the enemy for who they are.
   3. Condi and Bush claim to fight Terror, but recently fought to send taxpayer money to Hamas.  This does not compute.

Thanks for the show!

--Josh ####

[Was read on-air.  Hope it got some people thinking.]

Closed Primaries Suck.

The price you pay for being disenfranchised in either party is that you lose your primary vote in PA.  I got turned away from a poll for the first time in my life today because I'm registered Libertarian, rather than as an R or a D. 

You arrogant SOB's who tell us that we third-party voters are wasting out votes (when we could be voting for your guy) need to have a taste of your own medicine.  It's hard to waste one's vote when one isn't able to vote.

It is time that we have an open primary so voters can shop for the best candidate in ANY party, not just in the Republicrat Monopoly Party.  Until you have open primaries, you are doomed to elect the lesser of two evils. 

Pork Barrel XXX.

This story had me in a regular tirade today.  How would you fritter away $454,000,000.00 ?  That's just this side of half a billion dollars.  Would it take you a while?  Would you plan to make sure that such a blessing didn't get misspent?

Then you are in the US Senate.  This is the amount being spent to build two bridges in Alaska for very small populations, so they don't have to use their ferries anymore.  No one seems to have been complaining, it just happened to be a good pork addition to the collosal highway omnibus bill passed by a GOP congress and signed into law by a GOP president.

That's right, true GOP believers, your government, under your party's management, is literally hemorraging money...your money.

Enter Sen. Coburn (R-OK), who tried to divert some of the ridiculous pork from useless bridges in Alaska to much needed repairs to a bridge in Louisianna that was damaged in Katrina.

Threats and attacks followed ensued, and only 14 senators voted for the amendments.  Notably, my two senators, Santorum (PA-LOSER) and "Spectre" (PA-LOSER) were absent from that list.  Huh, go figure...  Read about how your Senate is buying votes and racking up the federal credit card balance.

The next time some GOP hack tells you that they're compassionate conservatives, ask them about this number:

National Debt Clock