Being a native of Wisconsin I would first like to say that Russ Feingold the spooge monkey is not representative of the people there. His pandering to his superiors in the House with this abjectly stupid censure resolution is a simple matter of an overlooked congressman spending to much time in the shadowy halls of congress without recognition. Everybody on the planet knows that the Bush administration has done an 8 year hatchet job on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and wasting millions of dollars to push through a reesolution that does nothing isn’t going to make that more clear. I don’t know about everybody else, but it’s just going to piss me off that you took my beer, babes, and poker money and spent it on that. Why not just pass nasty notes back and forth? Or doens’t fraulein Pelosi allow that in class?
73% of high school students in Detroit do not graduate on time. Thats I think around 40% here in Indianapolis. I could do a bunch of research and give you more numbers, but I think those two suffice. I have a bunch of ideas on how we can fix this, but the problem is it isn’t broken. This is that vast left/right wing conspiracy in action. It goes something like this.
Leftie: we seriously need the poor, uneducated vote or we have no base.
rightie: hmmm, and since we are converting our society from an industrial nation to a service oriented nation, we really don’t need a whole bunch of smart people running around pissed off at us because we shipped all the high paying jobs off to third world countries.
leftie: You said it, and who really needs good service at starbucks? as long as the machine tells them what my change is were good to go.
Rightie: true, and just to ensure we have a voting base we’ll send our dummies to church, and make every issue about religion. Intolernce is wonderful societal control.
Leftie: cool, so we’ll keep em dumb. what about the technology jobs, and medical, and…
rightie: who cares…you haven’t noticed we’re old? good god man, i have an artery harden as often as I vote on anything. We’ll be dead way before they know we fucked them.
leftie: (big ol conspiratorial smile…you christians are devious)
rightie: yeah and you secular progressives are some real cocksuckers, but we needed a coconspirator.
or something like that.
Chavez, the new grape ape of Socialism in the Western Hemisphere is already driving the Venezuelan oil industry into the ground. this comes as no surprise, since socialism tends to make even the shysters apathetic about productivity. You have to love a guy who can take a failed system, and convince a nation full of no hopers that its good for them. Especially with an Island just to the north that used to be the pearl of the caribbean now a decidedly impoverished craphole. I really like his efforts to stifle the intelligentsia. Nothing makes the poor happier than seeing those actually giving a damn about their plight being beaten with truncheons. For those of you going to school in Detroit that means club.
Just like Solomon, the supreme court decided to split the desegregation baby. A policy that doesn’t take into account many other factors is not allowed, but race as a factor should be permitted. Or some such. I think most parents would say they wish to send kids to school either close to home, or have free choice on where they go, not this government enforced idiocy. Further, what do parents in Lousiana do? Bus their kids to Connecticut? We spend time on this when the above school article is true. Maybe if we spend some time working on what works, rather than what historically has not we would see some progress.
And in my favorite monkey story of the day….one of my pauliac readers was offended by my article about Fred Thompson beating his spank monkey candidate in a totally inconsequential straw poll. I didn’t hear him ranting at other Paul bloggers for going over the top when Ron Paul won the picnic poll, but that’s neither here nor there. In the future, when those of you who peel your bananas with your feet wish to read a post here, you might wish to see if the tags would advise against it. Funny means funny to me, turd chaser, not to you.
Chango’s de revolucion
The illinois straw poll; Ron Paul and Mitt Romney win again
August 17, 2007They rolled out the carpet at the Illinois state fair. They had none of the pomp and ceremony that was in Iowa, so it’s probably a more accurate measure of polularity if nothing else. No matter what the numbers mean, I’d rather have Illinois votes than Iowa. Nothing personal, but Illinois makes election noise based on population. Iowa does it based on tradition.
Mitt Romney: 373 votes (40.35 percent)
Fred Thompson: 184 votes (19.96 percent)
Ron Paul: 174 votes (18.87 percent)
Rudy Giuliani: 107 votes (11.61 percent)
John McCain: 38 votes (4.12 percent)
Mike Huckabee: 28 votes (3.04 percent)
Sam Brownback: 10 votes (1.08 percent)
Duncan Hunter: 6 votes (0.65 percent)
Tom Tancredo: 2 votes (0.33 percent
I don’t count Fred because he isn’t a candidate yet, but even if I did I’d still say Ron Paul beat him. 18.1% shows that people are starting to grasp who he is, and the competition mano a mano isn’t all that important to him. Fred Thompson on the other hand has to beat Mitt. Not right now, but he has it to do. Ron Paul has to beat public opinion and obscurity. He is starting to do that, but may well run out of time.
Mitt’s 40% shows he is the leading candidate. It doesn’t look like anyone put any national level work in here, and the vote was only about 1000 people. He took 40% of that, and more than the two closest competitors combined.
The bottom 5 should just throw in the towel. Including Huckabee. He doesn’t have the cash to work like he did in Iowa, so that was maybe his last good showing. McCain on down drew less than 40 out of 1000 and Tancredo and Hunter didn’t manage 1 percent.
vote counts credit goes to http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2007/08/grasping_at_il_straws.html