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EDUARDO VERASTEGUI DANCES WITH (CELEBRITY) DEATH

Will wonders never cease? An entertainer supports John McCain?

Even if he isn’t an American entertainer, Eduardo Verastegui is a star in his own right in Latino circles and his pro-life film, Bella, won the 2006 Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award: http://cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=38458.

Needless to say, Eduardo has come under fierce criticism, moreso now since he has produced yet another pro-life, anti-Obama film and because he supports McCain for president.

That’s anathema in Hollywood where such “stars” as Whoopie Goldberg have bragged about how many pre-born babies she’s killed and where even born babies’ first words are, “Who’s my daddy?”

Verastegui, who has also criticized homosexual “marriage,” endorses McCain for president “because of his commitment to end abortion, protect traditional marriage and reform immigration fairly.” Honestly, I’m not sure that McCain’s plan for immigration reform is the best thing for the nation but in most other respects Eduardo makes a great and brave call.

A devout Catholic, Eduardo Verastegui gets my nomination for taking the most honest and courageous position in all of entertainment. His new flik, attacking Obama’s penchant for killing both wanted and unwanted, pre-born and living babies, won’t win him an Oscar but it does win him my award as Outstanding Entertainer With Gonads of 2008!

May God bless him.

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That cartoon is spot on. Just like the one where Obama take candy from the kids on Halloween and says he is giving it to children who have less candy.

The wealth is already being spread around by the massive federal programs that already exist - enough already. Not to mention people who give to charities. Im sure charities will be hopping mad if their donations from "the rich" drop dramatically due to tax increases on their donors.

Under Bush, the wealth was distributed too. Bush took candy from the ones who had the least of it and gave it to the ones who had already too much candy. :)

Actually, Missy, Bush took LESS candy from EVERYONE. Check your fly; your class envy is showing.

On a different note (pun intended)... anyone have a musical bent? I suddenly had a variant on an old Spike Jones favorite pop into my head.... I'd love to hear it recorded.

When Obama says
Your wealth is a disgrace
We Heil! Heil!
Right in Obamas face!

When he says, "of freedom,
we will leave no trace",
We Heil! Heil!
Right in Obamas face!

Und when ACORN says
We've got to steal this race
We Heil! Heil!
Right in Obamas face!

When Pelosi says,
"El Rushbo we'll replace"
We Heil! Heil!
Right in Obamas face!

Is not Cuba paradise?
Free health care, oh so nice?
Ja, that Cuba's paradise!
(they just wish they had some rice).
Are we not Progressive Folk?
Throwing off the Bourgeois Yoke?
Ja we ist Progressive Folk!
Hey Bro, can you spare a toke?

... etc.

Missy said: "Bush took candy from the ones who had the least of it and gave it to the ones who had already too much candy"

How ignorant. The bottom one third of America that works at all does not pay any income tax. In fact they get "refunds" that are actually someone else's money paid in actual taxes. The bottom half pay only 3.6% of the tax take. So how the hell does President Bush 'take' from the poor and 'give' to the rich? The poor didn't put anything in in the first place. What he did was lower the rip off of the successful folks in America.

Wait a minute. Bush cut taxes for everybody. The only people whose taxes (Candy) was taken away in greater quantities were people who lived in states like California, New York, Michigan, Maryland and such where Democrats enacted massive tax increases.

Missy is an idiot.

Now now, V, let's be nice. Missy isn't an idiot; she's worse. She's a parrot. She hears the 'talking points' and spouts them back without thought. Her Kommisars say "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer", so that's what she says. They say that's what to believe, so that's what she believes.

Never bothers to look at facts, investigate the actual numbers, or figure out how wealth is created. Remember, facts are to liberals what Kryptonite is to Superman. They tend to avoid or ignore such petty bourgeois concepts as "fact" or "truth".

Please don't insult the garden-variety idiots :)

Missy wanna handout
Missy wanna handout

Missy,
It is always the use of words that confuses.
We are all for equal opportunity. We are not for equal results. Everybody is entitled to an opinion. Everybody is not entitled to their own facts. People who are most vocal about having rights have an inordinate interest in taking those belonging to other people. I think we need a new word for people such as you, Missy. I suggest dysthinkia.

In his basketball column on ESPN.com on Tuesday, Bill Simmons was talking about how the NBA is better off when you have some good teams and some crappy teams, as opposed to parity where every team is mediocre. Purely by accident, there are greater collections of talent on a few teams, resulting in a more entertaining product. The reason for this, he says? (Fifth paragraph)

It's like anything else -- the rich can't get richer unless the poor get poorer, right?

*AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!* Wrong, Bill! WRONG WRONG WRONG!

This is what we have to put up with on a daily basis from the left: the misguided notion that if one person is doing better, then someone else must necessarily be doing worse. That there is a fixed pie that everyone takes from, and that pie can never grow. They only see that the "gap" between the "rich" and the "poor" is wider than it used to be; they conveniently don't notice that both groups are also better off (in absolute terms) than they used to be. Now Simmons is a journalist, meaning he isn't very good at math or economics, and a sports journalist, meaning he probably failed math and/or economics, so I don't expect that much from him. Besides, he's funny, and that's what he gets paid for. What kills me is that there are people at these media outlets who 1) should know better, and 2) are paid to know better (we call them "editors"), and yet this kind of stuff shows up in the media all the damn time, and no matter how many times economists try to explain that this isn't how things work, they either don't get it or they don't want to get it. I suppose the "fixed pie" scenario fits into the left's class-warfare storyline, so why speak the truth when the truth is inconvenient?

The sad thing is that there are so many people that believe that the rich got rich by stealing someone else's "share", and just don't understand that wealth can be created and destroyed. If wealth can not be created, then as population increased, everyone would be worse off. Either that or only a very few would be rich, and the rest would be starving. And yet we create new millionaires all the time (usually out of undeserving young leftists who completely don't appreciate their good fortune) without losing millionaires we already have - it's not just a transfer of wealth from one to another. That would not be possible without new wealth being created from somewhere. Think, people! It's not a difficult concept.

Missy had some time to kill in her Computer Arts class between posting nudie shots of herself on her myspace profile and chatting with xX_N0WH3R3MAN420_Xx on AIM. Everyone knows a large chunk of the trolls here are bored highschoolers who just LOVE the taste of the Obama Brand Grip'n'Sip that's given to them in class to quench that deep down thirst for social equality.

"So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head."
(Last four lines of “Richard Cory,” by Edwin Arlington Robinson)

Those lines for some reason remind me of Erica Jong.

Erica Jong, best known for her 1973 feminist novel Fear of Flying in which she coined the memorable term, “zipless f*ck,” hasn’t had a best seller in 35 years despite churning out seven other novels, eight works of non fiction, and six books of poetry over those three and a half decades.

Undeterred and undiscouraged, she keeps plugging away but lately must be gobbling up more Valium than she customarily consumes. She’s terrified that Obama might lose!

Currently on her fourth marriage, (multiple marriages must be a consequence of modern feminism, which hates the male of the species), Erica is upset beyond measure at the prospect of those Wascally Wepublicans perpetrating yet another election sleight-of-ballot next Tuesday.

Poor Erica. She admits to having developed an “obsession. A paralyzing terror. An anxious fever that keeps you awake at night” over the thought of an American war hero and long time United States Senator besting her hero, an inexperienced political novice and long time advocate of left wing causes.

Whatever can Erica do?

Well, main thing she seems to do, outside of hiding under her bed, is call and email her good buddies, two other true blue patriots, Jane “Hanoi-Jane” Fonda and progressive feminist Naomi Wolf.

They commiserate over many nasty realities of existence, of course, but lately over all the horrors that beset America’s...
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THE MUCH LESSER OF TWO EVILS

That old saw, “the lesser of two evils,” works fine when it comes to choosing between that calorie-laden creme brulee or that filling amaretto cheesecake at your favorite eatery. Either way, you’ll enjoy.

It works well in deciding between two horses in the seventh at Pimlico when you have to place a final bet with five minutes to post time and it works with political candidates for minor offices when you know both are bums but one is more bummy than the other.

Where choosing between two evils doesn’t cut it is when you’re choosing for whom to vote in a presidential election.

If a voter believes both Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama are evil, he would be better off going with Bob Barr or Ralph Nader or writing in some nonentity not on the ballot, or your mother-in-law.

Being an old fashioned senior, seasoned citizen, I still have the quaint notion that voting is a sacred privilege. I may vote for some clod for dog catcher despite the fact that he plays the ponies, whether he’s good at catching dogs or not, over the guy who beats his wife, but my vote for the man or woman running for president is still a sacrosanct privilege.

Because of that firm belief, I don’t abide these “Get-out-the-vote” drives and efforts to register people to vote when those same people would much rather chug a quart of Ripple in a back alley or walk their dog than drag themselves to a voting machine.

If that be deemed un-American, then so be it.

I just don’t think that being coerced to vote or being bribed to vote, whether that coercion involves warnings that if I don’t get myself to a polling location my welfare checks would be reduced, or whether it involves being furtively slipped a couple Marlboros if I registered, is the American ideal.

I happen to be a guy who seriously weighs my presidential options. I research the candidates, listen to or read their speeches, and arrive at what I feel is a considered and reasoned decision.

I don’t see how Howie the Hobo or Marvin the Marlboro Man should get to cancel out my vote...

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Obama decries McCain and Palin's opposition to more taxation as SELFISHNESS

"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic," Obama continued. "You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."

Wonkette wonders if Trig wishes he were aborted

Little baby Trig must be so glad he wasn’t aborted for this, his first Halloween, because his parents dressed him up like a political party symbol to be carried around at snarling political events. Aww. Isn’t life just grand?

Obama throws heretical reporters under the bus... Er, off the plane

Journalists from three major newspapers that endorsed John McCain have been booted from Barack Obama’s campaign plane for the final leg of the presidential race.

The Washington Times reported Friday that it was notified of the Obama campaign’s decision Thursday evening — even though the paper has covered Obama from the start.

Executive Editor John Solomon told FOXNews.com that the Obama campaign said it didn’t have enough seats on the plane, but “I don’t think the explanation makes sense to us.”

“We’ve been traveling since 2007 with him. … We’re a relevant newspaper — every day we break news,” Solomon said. “And to suddenly be kicked off the plane for people who haven’t covered it as aggressively or thoroughly as we are … it sort of feels unfair.”

He said the newspaper protested but was turned down again by the campaign.

Arnie jokes about Obama's policies being too scrawny

McCain's responsibility VS Obama's freebies, at the grassroots level

EL PASO -- A man who jumped 60 feet to his death from the Spaghetti Bowl on Thursday left a note with a message for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama.

A note to "Obama" was found in the man's car, which was parked on the top ramp of the Spaghetti Bowl.

Officials offered no further explanation nor interpreted the note's meaning.

Police confirmed that the man left behind a note that read, "Obama take care of my family."