Oh.......and By The Way..........

Looks to me like you want to keep the battle going! Wouldn't it have been better to write something good for our Holiday instead of bringing up your old battle scars?

Do you have that book Obama wrote?

"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I bean to suspect that by doing so, I was ingratiating myself to whites."

Obama's words.......not FOX's

Wow sweatheart, Obama actually used the word "bean"????

THE MAN TOLD YOU THE FEELINGS OF A 13 YEAR OLD.One without a father and struggling for an identity .Kids in 2 parent households have a hard enough time struggling for that identity without being multi racial and having a father figure present.But if you want to hold that statement up as being some kind of racist help yourself,that premise would be ludicrriss as proof.

FOR SOME REASON IF A BLACK CHILD OR A MULTI RACIAL CHILD DOES NOT IDENTIFY WITH WHITE AMERICAS SENSIBILITIES HE OR SHE IS A RACIST.iS THE SAME TRUE IF REVERSED ???? THAT is a very real question......is the glass half full or half empty........we as a society have said he is black....he could have just as well be white,but see what does it matter ???? except to us WHY ????

FOOD FOR THOUGHT.........if YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE MUSLIM THING ASK.

The 60-70's was not kind to minority kids in this country,nor was it kind to any young people in this country they all searched for a real identity and a sense of bearing ...from hippies,to black panthers,the weathermen,the kkk.the freedom marches nobody was immune those of us born before then had a sense of being 40-50's. There is a kinda never never land for the 60 70' group.Those years were like you had to pick sides .Well enough, look at both sides if you can and deal with what our society was doing then.I could write abook on it.Wrote a paper on it for DRRI, wasnt fun i hurt emotionally after.

GREAT GIG LAST NIGHT AT STOREY PARK MERIDIAN BOTH AND FOOD REALLY GREAT CROWD.......SEE YA.....

Well, it is a well settled fact that Mr. President and the current First Lady are hardly color blind---both of them are racists with Ms. Michelle being the worst kind. Nice blog Bazooka...for a good ole red neck and all. Happy 4th my friend. Be safe and well.

Lets take a closer look at how statements in Obama's 2 books were taken out of context and sent around the internet in email.. If we are going to write a blog please speak the truth in them or at least be more accurate......

Copied and Pasted read below !

The reproduced passages taken from Barack Obama's two books -- Dreams from My Father (1995) and The Audacity of Hope -- with the presumed intent of presenting Obama as a self-declared racist. However, these cherry-picked statements are all presented devoid of context, and some of them are reworded from the original (or apparently non-existent). Below we have identified and reproduced the relevant passages in which these statements appear, with their fuller context:

# I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.

This statement comes from the introduction to Dreams from My Father (p. xv), as part of a passage in which Barack Obama spoke of the difficulties of growing up as the child of mixed-race parents. The statement is actually a portion of a parenthetical remark Obama used to explain that people who did not know him well were often surprised to find that he himself was the child of mixed-raced parents (because he looked black, and he no longer made a point of gratuitously mentioning that his mother was white):

What strikes me most when I think about the story of my family is a running strain of innocence, an innocence that seems unimaginable, even by the measures of childhood. My wife's cousin, only six years old, has already lost such innocence. A few weeks ago he reported to his parents that some of his first grade classmates had refused to play with him because of his dark, unblemished skin. Obviously his parents, born and raised in Chicago and Gary, lost their own innocence long ago, and although they aren't bitter -- the two of them being as strong and proud and resourceful as any parents I know -- one hears the pain in their voices as they begin to have second thoughts about having moved out of the city into a mostly white suburb, a move they made to protect their son from the possibility of being caught in a gang shooting and the certainty of attending an underfunded school.

They know too much, we have all seen too much, to take my parents' brief union -- a black man and a white woman, an African and an American -- at face value. When people who don't know me well, black or white, discover my background (and it is usually a discovery, for I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect I was ingratiating myself to whites), I see the split-second adjustments they have to make, the searching of my eyes for some telltale sign. They no longer know who I am.

# I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.

No such sentence (nor anything close to it) appears anywhere in either Dreams from My Father or The Audacity of Hope. This statement was taken from a March 2007 article about Barack Obama; they are not Obama's own words, but rather those of the article's author (recast in the first person):

In reality, Obama provides a disturbing test of the best-case scenario of whether America can indeed move beyond race. He inherited his father's penetrating intelligence; was raised mostly by his loving liberal white grandparents in multiracial, laid-back Hawaii, where America's normal race rules never applied; and received a superb private school education. And yet, at least through age 33 when he wrote Dreams from My Father, he found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against his mother's race.

# There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.

This statement comes from page 142 of Dreams from My Father, as part of a passage in which Barack Obama was being interviewed by a man named Marty Kaufman for a position as a community organizer in Chicago. Kaufman was specifically looking for a black man to work with him, because he was white and needed someone to help him appeal to both sides in a racially polarized city. The statement reproduced above creates a false impression by eliding the ending to the final sentence: Obama makes reference (in his expression of misgivings) to Kaufman's whiteness being a problem, because Kaufman himself had said it was a problem:

I had all but given up on organizing when I received a call from Marty Kaufman. He explained that he'd started an organizing drive in Chicago and was looking to hire a trainee. He'd be in New York the following week and suggested that we meet at a coffee shop on Lexington.

His appearance didn't inspire much confidence. He was a white man of medium height wearing a rumpled suit over a pudgy frame. His face was heavy with two-day-old whiskers; behind a pair of thick, wire-rimmed glasses, his eyes seemed set in a perpetual squint. As he rose from the booth to shake my hand, he spilled some tea on his shirt ...

He ordered more hot water and told me about himself. He was Jewish, in his late thirties, had been reared in New York. He had started organizing in the sixties with the student protests, and ended up staying with it for fifteen years. Farmers in Nebraska. Blacks in Philadelphia. Mexicans in Chicago. Now he was trying to pull urban blacks and suburban whites together around a plan to save manufacturing jobs in metropolitan Chicago. He needed somebody to work with him, he said. Somebody black.

He offered to start me off at ten thousand dollars the first year, with a two-thousand-dollar travel allowance to buy a car; the salary would go up if things worked out. After he was gone, I took the long way home, along the East River promenade, and tried to figure out what to make of the man. He was smart, I decided. He seemed committed to his work. Still, there was something about him that made me wary. A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white -- he'd said himself that that was a problem.

It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.

This sentence appears on page 101 of Dreams from My Father, as part of a long passage in which Barack Obama talked about his time at Occidental College in Los Angeles. It was another expression of a theme touched on in many other sections of the book -- the difficulties of being expected to associate oneself with a particular racial heritage, especially for those who came from multiracial backgrounds -- prompted by the example of a girl named Joyce, one of Obama's classmates:

She was a good-looking woman, Joyce was with her green eyes and honey skin and pouty lips. We lived in the same dorm my freshman year, and all the brothers were after her. One day I asked her if she was going to the Black Students' Association meeting. She looked at me funny, then started shaking her head like a baby who doesn't want what it sees on the spoon.

"I'm not black," Joyce said. "I'm multiracial." Then she started telling me about her father, who happened to be Italian and was the sweetest man in the world; and her mother, who happened to be part African and part French and part Native American and part something else. "Why should I have to choose between them?" she asked me. Her voice cracked, and I thought she was going to cry. "It's not white people who are making me choose. Maybe it used to be that way, but now they're willing to treat me like a person. No -- it's black people who always have to make everything racial. They're the ones making me choose. They're the ones who are telling me that I can't be who I am ..."

They, they, they. That was the problem with people like Joyce. They talked about the richness of their multicultural heritage and it sounded real good, until you noticed that they avoided black people ...

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling conventions. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated.

But this strategy alone couldn't provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerant. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.

# I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

This statement is a rewording (two separate sentences have been conflated into one, further changing an intended meaning already obscured by the lack of context) of material from page 220 of Dreams from My Father. The material appears as part of a passage in which Barack Obama describes his profound disappointment in learning (from information provided by his half-sister, Auma) that the lofty image he had held all his life of his role model, his biological father (a man he barely knew, because Barack's father had left him and his mother when Barack was just two years old, and Barack had only seen his father once since then), was a flawed, idealized one.

All my life, I had carried a single image of my father, one that I had sometimes rebelled against but had never questioned, one that I had later tried to take as my own. The brilliant scholar, the generous friend, the upstanding leader -- my father had been all those things. All those things and more, because except for that one brief visit in Hawaii, he had never been present to foil the image, because I hadn't see what perhaps most men see at some point in their lives: their father's body shrinking, their father's best hopes dashed, their father's face lined with grief and regret.

Yes, I'd seen weakness in other men -- Gramps and his disappointments, Lolo [my adoptive father] and his compromise. But these men had become object lessons for me, men I might love but never emulate, white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela. And if later I saw that the black men I knew fell short of such lofty standards; if I had learned to respect these men for the struggles they went through, recognizing them as my own -- my father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up, black man!

Now, as I sat in the glow of a single light bulb, rocking slightly on a hard-backed chair, that image had suddenly vanished. Replaced by ... what? A bitter drunk? An abusive husband? A defeated, lonely bureaucrat? To think that all my life I had been wrestling with nothing more than a ghost!

# I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

This statement is a rewording of a passage from page 261 of The Audacity of Hope, in which Barack Obama spoke of the importance of not allowing inflamed public opinion to result in innocent members of immigrant groups being stripped of their rights, denied their due as American citizens, or placed into confinement, as was done with Japanese-Americans during World War II. The original contains no specific mention of "Muslims":

In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Last updated: 4 May 2011

ZOOK.........smooth explanation for the white powder bags ????????? Stand with the muslims ???

LETS get something straight.....My concern about the saudi's comming here is that we are sopposed to be ALLIES yet based on what i have read here on this BLOG the animosity i hear is hatefull and could cause and incident with grave consquences.

Now here is a (slick explanation)A LOT OF BLACK KIDS BORN IN THE 60-70' HAVE MUSLIM NAMES, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE CHANGED THERE NAMES.THEY CONSIDERED THERE NAMES TO BE SLAVE NAMES.HIS NAME IS NOT UNCOMMON NOR UNIQUE.MY GUESS WOULD BE HIS FATHERS BASIC RELIGION WAS ISLAM,AS IS MOST OF AFRICA,MOST PEOPLE DONT KNOW THAT.

You want to know read the book,Guns have nothing to do with this and for the life of me what adversaries?ARE they posting now?

THE implications is that because he is black he uses drugs ,and because he is black he will smuggle them and because he is black we will find and albi.......SO WHAT I SAID BEFORE IS TRUE WE ARE STEREO TYPING.FAMILY HISTORY that is in hawaii

but that is not what we want,we want to find something about someone we can link to his family history that HE probally doesnt even know.THEN WE CAN SAY SEE i TOLD YOU SO.That has been tryed already,he doesnt know them and they dont know him.WE are talking about the folks in AFRICA.IF it was there and they could make it stick it would be out there.

DID SOMEONE TELL YOU YOU NEEDED TO CHOSE WHICH SIDE OF THE FENCE YOU ARE ON? This post says a lot of things that are very much in left field.THE THINGS POINTED OUT TO BE OUT OF CONTEXT WERE NOT JUST EXPLAIND BY MS.M BUT BY OTHERS IN THE MEDIA SO IF YOU WANT TO READ THEM AS THE GOSPEL THAT IS UP TO YOU.BUT BE SURE ABOUT THE CHARGES YOU LEVEL...THIS POST HAS THE PARTY LINE ALL OVER IT FROM THE FAR FAR RIGHT...... NOT GOOD!!!!!!!!THESE KIND OF STATMENTS ONLY SERVE TO OPEN WOUNDS AND CLOSE DIALOGE RAISES BARRIERS AND GUARDS.QUESTIONS ARE LEGIT THIS IS NOT...MY OPINION.......WHICH I AM SURE NOBODY BASED ON THIS CARES ABOUT..........OH YEAH........WHAT IS THE WORST KIND ???????????? 3 CHOICES ..WALLAC,MADDOX,FAUBUS ....I FIGURED IF WE WERE STARTING A LIST I WANTED KNOW FROM AND EXPERT WHO I SHOULD PUT ON TOP.......AND YES DUKE IS A CANDIDATE

Zook when I posted my lengthy comment I was not trying to debate with you. We do not share the same opinion and that's the way it is. I know where you stand on Obama you don't like him or any thing he has tried to do for our Country from the time he was 1 month in office. I'm not beating my head against a brick wall debating with you or with your side kick Hommer.

You guys wouldn't see the truth if it slapped you in the face.

You have posted in the past things that I have proven were not true and had been taken out of context, but here you go again and I think I proved you wrong once before on these very statements.

If your going to write about Obama at least research what your going to write about before blogging it. Stop blogging garbage and do us all a favor by blogging the truth not trash passed around in emails taken out of context, words twisted or omitted. You pick parts of what he talks about so it looks like he is saying something that will stir up the pot of emotions and I find that to be very wrong and very harmful..

I asked you if you had read Obama's books and you didn't answer....

Go to the library, (don't buy his books) read them and then do a blog on what he wrote in his books.

Ps. did you ever ask your minister what he would of done with Bin Ladens body?

ZOOK.....you must be gearing up to fight the world for the most part.Did you know that islam is the largest religion in the world, to consider or call that a cult does nothing but insult.

I know what side i am on and will advocate fighting any NATION STATE with no problem.If you take the time you will see a lot of name changes and names that are (MUSLIM) speciffically from the era I speak of. IT went along with the awakening of root causes such as black pride,pride sanctioned by blacks not by whites.You dont like him but Mahommod Ali is a prime example(cassius clay).KARREM ABDUL JABBAR (lew alacindor) IS ANOTHER.and there are millions of others.You would not know that, it is not part of mainstream culture but it is part of ours.

About my caddy,I dont care if they had said that because i feel someone wanted to but didnt post exactly what you said

My duke comment was NOT aimed at you.When the FIRST LADY,can be called a RACIST OF THE WORST KIND my resoning says COMPARED TO WHAT?? and that is why I left a list.

Slow down zook and make sure you are were you say you are,and yes implications and insinuations work both ways.I would be the first to admit that.No i am not immune.

ME personally i try to deal with people on and individual basis i am not always succesfull but i try.THERE is a sytem for any forgien national who enters this country LEGALLY,it tracks them problem is the administration of that system,passports,visa etc.

IS THIS ABOUT GUN RIGHTS???BECAUSE IF IT IS THAT IS A SUBJECT ALL ITS OWN.THE HATE AND DISCONTENT HERE TAKES IN A VERY BROAD SPECTRUM,THAT CONNOT BE ADDRESSED IN ONE WIDE SWATH......WELL ITS TIME GO.... GRASS IS CALLING.

Wow, I have been away for a couple days. We are still slapping each others dogs and stepping back to see what reaction we are going to get from the owner. It is very simple, just read below.

We have a horse in the sale ring. The auctioneer is trying to sell it by pointing out all of the attributes that he thinks that the horse has. Some of the buyers are bidding on it, but some of the older and wiser cowboys are keeping their counsel and holding back from bidding.

In reality the horse is not a quality breed. Not because of his blood-lines, but because of his temperament. What seems to be a tame and biddable horse is really a kicker and a biter.

How do the old cowboys know this? They watch his ears, they watch his eyes and they see how carefully the guys in the sell-ring are keeping their distance from the horse at all angles.

This country is in big trouble and if we keep trying to sell the same horse in the sale barn, someone is getting rooked.

We cannot cling to someone who offers no support for the AMERICAN PEOPLE and willfully ignores their true plight by printing more money and scolding us for questioning his motives.

I say this for all politicians. Your job evaluations are coming and it won't matter how much money you spend producing mud-slinging ads, people are wise to the horse that keeps getting sold with a pack of lies.

The real truth is that we are dealing with a gang of liars who pick candidates and groom them for office. Those candidates have sold their souls for this honor.

If we could all just recognize that that the sale barn personnel changes every 2-4 years, but the auctioneer still tells the same lies to sell you a grade horse, we would all be better off.

I believe everyone has a right to their opinion even if you don't agree to their opinion.....However I believe if you take someone else's words you shouldn't take those words out of context or twist them around to your own liking. People can so easily read those sentences Zook posted and believe them to be true. Had they read the books they would of seen how they were actually said.

I have always preached to my kids to tell the truth...

No problem 'Bro'. I'm down with it. lol

No need to apologize to me Sugar Bear.

However, you should apologize to our President for misquoting him and taking that passage out of context.

MsM, I know you been watching this blog and I been back on mine and saw the questions on the Dump Cake so I put your answers there.

Is he going to apologize for some of the things he has misquoted or misrepresented?

I kinda don't think so. If we are all going to be contrite about our comments, let it start with the one who tells us that we actually didn't hear what we just heard him say. We only thought that we did.

Like you only "thought" you felt the knife go in, but really, you aren't bleeding at all.

The example needs to be set and someone needs to be held accountable and it shouldn't be some small town blogger or two.

As Reagan would say politely to the media, "Now there you go again".

When things become misrepresented or spoken that's how rumors start......I heard it through the grapevine so its gotta be real

MsM your question was on the Elephant Stew blog about the Dump Cake so the answer is on the Dump Cake LOL

MsM:

I could have posted several replies to your posts, but I am choosing to keep my fingers still and my mouth shut.

I hope that you have a good holiday tomorrow and enjoy the life that America has to offer all of us.

An Appaloosa horse is a color breed. You can have a beautiful horse with perfectly round spots and a terrible temperament. They might be pretty to look at but terrible to ride.

The Quarter Horse is a beautiful animal. They are useful and powerful. They rise to the occasion when you are out herding cows, roping or any other activity. There are some bad ones out there, but too few to mention if you asked my Dad.

The Thoroughbred is graceful and fast. They are the refined breed and the choice of the wealthy set. They are fast, but don't have that much endurance.

Arabian horse are high-spirited and can run for long distances.

When you really want the work done. The Quarter-Horse will get your cattle in the pen. They will carry you for miles and help you find your way home.

Choose your horse and live with your choice. Remember that the rumors and starting of rumors go both ways.

If you aren't a judge of horseflesh at the sale barn, chances are that you will go home with a horse that will never live up to the praise of the auctioneer.

I am not criticizing your comments about Obama I am criticizing that you are spreading untruths of what he wrote in his 2 books. Stop changing it around to fit whatever your agenda is.

I am not the judge I only want truth..... You are not doing our country justice no matter if you are a democrat or republican by passing on garbage that is not the truth.

Read his books and then write your blog.

I am done debating with Republicans that spread untruths and then keep it going. Its wrong.

AND who ever is the next President I will defend them If I see words taken out of context, words twisted around and untruths told. I am only after truth to share with every one who reads this blog.

Don't think because we are a small town that people all over this country don't read this blog they just don't leave comments.

ps If its a democrat spreading lies on this blog I will correct their errors too.

Bonnie the truth of what he wrote is in his book.

Read his book and then critique it......

I am not saying what he wrote in his book is the truth I don't know him to be his judge but what he wrote was not what Zook wrote...

Zook I wasn't commenting on any thing wrote in these blogs until the first part of 2009 and that's when I seen all the names you and kim were calling Obama. I didn't want to bring up old memories but you opened the door. 2009 is when I started leaving my opinions of the name calling and then it snow balled.... I disliked calling a sitting President HITLER, COMMIE,IDIOT and etc when he had only been in office for a very short time......

Bonnie don't stop your fingers from responding to what I have to say. I'm a big girl I will respond back !

SO ....lets try a right side solution........dont raise the dept ceiling, default and go from there.

Bush said that the surplus we had proved we taxed to much so he gave us money and lowered taxes. it worked in the very short term everyone thought we were in hog heaven taxes are still at that level and lower and we are saying they are higher how can that be????We did not pay for the 2 wars and put them on a credit card as we spent and now the cards are comming due and the people who benifitted the most from the war footing(big business) still refuse to pay .Big oil makes 23 billion in profits the 1st quarter of this year but says they still need the taxe payers help of 2 billion dollars.I got a problem with that. We bailed out G.m. they are paying us back with intrest.The banks on the other hand increased there on hand money and sat on it.The housing market goes upside down because of the banking industries lies and some think that is ok and they been doing it for awhile.I know I just got a letter in the mail that stated one of them cheated me and i am due some money.

YES This administration has made its mistakes. But are we really looking at the whole picture did we really expect that we would not have problems based on what it faced or did we think that we were above calamity and could keep on charging.THE BILLS ARE COMMING DUE ON THIS WATCH.

personally i dont see the solution in cutting only....you get behind at home you cut and you get a partime job.Taxes are the lowest since 1950 but we still want lower. OK LETS DO THAT AND LETS NOT FUND ANY SUBSIDIES,CUT REDUNDANCY IN GOV,PRICE FREEZE UNTIL WE GET WELL AND LET EVERYONE ON SUBSIDIES STARVE, I WILL BET WE HAVE ANARCHY IN ABOUT 1 YR. The common guy did not create this neither did this ADMINISTRATION IT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS IT IS JUST NOW CATCHING UP WITH US.

EXAMPLE THE APPRAISELLS ON OUR HOUSES WERE FALSE BASED ON A FALSE PREMISE A LIE CREATED BY THE BANKS SO THAT THEY COULD SELL THERE PRODUCTS.Results local gov raised there evals to suit, taxes went up and now that the market is trying to correct itself we are left holding the bag.and guess what??????? the banks were betting you would do what you are doing. We should be hollering at them not local gov or fed gov but the banks.Spectulators whos only intrest is to make as much money as they can no matter were it comes from is driving oil prices sky high,not the gov,not us(demand is down)So why dont we have a no drive day once a month yes we the people or lets go to every other day gas based on your license plate we did it before lets do it again.LETS STOP TAXE CREDITS FOR COMPANIES TO OUTSOURCE JOBS.......THERE ARE SOLUTIONS FOLKS AND A HECK OF A LOT OF THEM ARE IN OUR HANDS...

NOW somebody is going to say your defending this

PRESIDENT....YES AND NO..I AM TRYING TO LOOK AT THE WHOLE THING. I to am angry but i still try to see both sides.I lost a lot of money the last time this happened and I have lost a lot of equity investment this time,so i am not happy.WE dont need a scapgoat we need to force solutions and get in touch with NO ONE SIDE OF THE AISLE DID THIS AND NO ONESIDE IS GOING TO SOLVE IT TO EVERYONES LIKING......SO LETS GET ON WITH IT....

HAVE A GREAT FOURTH EVERYONE !!!!!!!!!!

But I don't want to fan the flames, I would prefer to step back and think of a measured response. I try to practice what I preach. Sometimes I fail. We all do.

Any criticism I have had for our sitting President is based on what he has said and done during his campaign and presidency. I may compare him to a horse or any other thing that comes to mind, but I really try not to directly attack someone.

I read this blog this afternoon and pondered for a couple hours on what to write in my own.

My style may not be Bazooka Man's style or like anyone else, but I would hope that I have not inflicted any wounds, I just want people to look at things in a different way.

Because I believe in something that transcends politics, I know that this battle is not between political parties or conservatives and liberals.

And the solution is not the next election or the newest candidate. It is our spiritual condition and our lack of balance in this crazy world that will define the outcome.

When we can call good bad and bad good and do so without blinking, we are in bad shape.

We may have it all right now, but as we have witnessed, when a storm passes, it does not discriminate between the rich or the poor.

One day, you might have everything and the next you will be digging through the rubble to see what can be salvaged.

There are some of us who have been storm-watchers and know what is coming. We can utilize tornado sirens and other warning systems, but we cannot make people run for their cellars.

And as long as there are people wining and dining and acting as though our ship is unsinkable, we will not be able to provide enough lifeboats to prevent everyone from going under.

I don't know how many ways that I can say the same thing, personal responsibility, respect and a faith in God that surpasses understanding is the only life preserver that we have now.

K.H.GAL WE ARE BOTH SAYING THE SAME THING.ALL THE FIGHTING IN THE WORLD IS NOT GOING TO SOLVE THIS.

I am tired of the overhead picking,the inuendos etc.i wasnt here when BUSH was in office and i guess there was a lot of things said.that is there business.

I just want people to look at it all and realize that we have the solutions,but we also have people that unless they get credit will do every and anything from bringing those solutions forward.In the meantime you and i pay a price.

You inflicted no wounds here, thanks for the view..........OUR sense of balance got ahaken on 9/11 and we still havnt got it back......you take care

ZOOK......... i hate to bust your bubble put you didnt mention the iran contra affair does that count???????? I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU GO BACK AND BEFORE YOU SAY THESE GUYS LOOK AT ALL THE GUYS. TO INCLUDE YOUR PRES REAGAN.WHY IS THIS ALWAYS SO ONE SIDED???????? HOW about this Hitler was a conservative was he not???I dont like pointing fingers but it just wont stop.

ACTIVIST JUDGES..PARTY LINE WHAT WOULD CALL WHAT WE HAVE ON THE SUPREME COURT RIGHT NOW????HASNT ALL ENTITYS TAKEN OVER BY GOVERNMENT AS PART OF THE BAILOUT BEEN RETURNED TO CIVILIAN CONTROL WHICH IT REALLY NEVER LEFT?????

ZOOK marines are marines reunions are reunions no i was not at khe sahn.....but you also dont know where or what i did.I gave you a hint i guess you didnt hear me ...thats alright.I hope that no reunion is used for a spring board to treason that would be a shame.

do you know any jewish survivors, thats who you need to talk to.So again we are implying that the administration had something to do with what went on in a school miles away that they had no contact with.The old and feeble eliminated and what do you think cutting medicare,medicad and social security will do?????? it certainly wont help them.

YOU WANT GOVERNESS FROM THE RIGHT BECAUSE YOU ARE COMFORTABLE THERE....WHAT HAPPENS FROM THE RIGHT MAKES THE LEFT UNCOMFORTABLE........PRIMARILY THE THE RIGHT SAYS THE RULES ARE FOR EVERYONE... BUT....THEY DONT APPLY THEM THAT WAY.THE PRIVILEGED REMAIN THAT WAY AT EVERYONES EXSPENSE AND THE RULES ARE ENFORCED TO KEEP THEM IN POWER.WE HAVE BEEN RAPED BY THAT GROUP FOR YEARS AND THEY CONTINUE TO DO SO.DID YOU MAKE ANY MONEY IN THIS RECESSION????? I DIDNT.....BANKS,OIL AND SELECT OTHERS MADE TONS WERE IS YOURS ZOOK WERE IS MINE WERE IS THE COUNTRY'S ????????? YOU TALK OF CONTROLS WITH WHAT JUST TRANSPIRED IN THE EDUCATION ARENA WE JUST TOOK A STEP BACKWARDS.ONLY THE PREVILEGED WILL GET TO COLLEGE.OUR kids have been premepted into 2 nd class citizens (non privileged workers) RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES.You will take this no paying job or starve my profits need to remain high so i can pay for my boat,mansion and tiffanies bill.

IF and when we come to CENTER that is when we are the most productive for ALL our citizens.reight now I dont see anyone willing to do that.

Food for thought.........I am not debating this only sharing the link ......

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/revisiting-the-cost-of-the...

WELL YOU GUYS CONTINUE ON...I WILL NO LONGER ATTEMPT TO TALK ABOUT ANY OF THIS.This is a daily and i mean daily same thing Rap at this PRESIDENT and ADMINISRATION.I can deal with the real.When you talk death panels, shear garbage,and some other things,they didnt select a dog racer for feema chief.THIS HAS GOTTEN PETTY TO THE POINT OF RIDICULES. Anyhow post to each other it reinforces your ideaology and that is good for you and you will now have a right wing chat board.

What I did was classified why elese would i work with spec forces...wasnt fun either, even back then. YOU folks have a great day

Whatever Homer knock yourself out ! I guess you don't like me pairing you with Zook........

HOMMERBOY DONT EVEN TRY TO INSINUATE THAT WE DONT CARE ABOUT AMERICA, ....your america is your america....dont try to castigate because we dont see it exactly as you see it.IT IS MY AMERICA AS MUCH AS ITS YOURS AND YOU NEED TO REMEBER THAT.trying TO INSINUATE THAT WE ARE UNAMERICAN FLYS IN THE FACE OF THAT FREE THINKING INDEPENDENT RHETORIC YOU THROW OUT THERE.FACTS ARE WHAT YOU MAKE THEM AS PRINTED,THEY DONT SPEAK TO THE INJUSTICES AND OTHER THINGS THAT ARE PLAYED OUT DAILY,WHICH YOU IGNORE OR FIND A WAY TO DENY.AMERICA BELONGS TO US ALL NOT JUST YOU.....

I am An American and I have been here longer than you have Homer and like you the last time I checked I had my own opinions and the right to free speech!

Your Post speaks volumes also Homer .......And I have my opinions about that .....

And if the shoe fits wear it THINK before you POST !

This is becoming children's play and I am not saying anymore because your nonsense needs to end!

HOMMERBOY ITS CALLED DEMOCRACY.AND IF WE SEE SOMETHING WE THING NEEDS CHANGING WE ARE WITHIN OUR RIGHTS TO SAY SO.PROUD AMERICANS YOU BET.shoe fits wear it ?????does that apply to you hommerboy or just others.feeling guilty not in the least...If you had your way hommerboy we would be in jail so dont tell me about it not meaning much these days.You should not of all people attempt to question peoples patriotism.there allegiance or there americanism,just who are you to do that hommerboy???? who do you think you are to tell me what to do??????? I TOLD YOU ONCE I WILL TELL YOU AGAIN YOU ARE AN ARROGANT,BLOWHARD .YOU TALK A VERY NARROW GAME THAT REEKS OF YOUR BIGOTRY.YOU STARTED CALLING ME NAMES FROM DAY ONE WHY IS THAT HOMMERBOY?????? AND CONTINUED UNIL I SAID ENOUGH.AND YOU STILL DO IT NOW LIKE I SAID YOU ARE THE SIGNIFYING MONKEY....I DIDNT DO NOTHIN.I WAS ON THE COUCH ,I DIDNT DO NOTHIN.....THE JOKES ON YOU ............

HOMMERBOY....WHEN A PERSON DOESNT ATTACK YOU BUT YOU ATTACK THEM FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN YOU FEEL LIKE IT WHAT WOULD YOU CALL THAT???????? me personally i am not a victim YOU ARE hommerboy .....for a person who talks all of the garbage about there own cerfistication,YOU DONT KNOW THE RUDIMENTS OF DECENCY....IF YOU ARE THE EXAMPLE OF THE RIGHT SIDE OF AMERICA MOST OF US CAN DO WITHOUT IT.YOU... YES YOU.... CANT TELL ME ANYTHING ABOUT BEING AND AMERICAN.

HIT DOG is that a name you reserve for someone near and dear to you,you use it a lot ...oh I know somone called you that all the time so it stuck with you.YOU HOMMERBOY are the RACIST you pretend not to be.I will say it again the POST YOU DIDNT post on stand out as glaring testimony TO HOW YOU REALLY FEEL.I told you before hommerboy perch and rotate .....I AM SURE YOUR RIGHT WING CHAT ROOM WILL BE VERY INFORMATIVE.FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO REINFORCE THE PARTY LINE.......ITS CALLED INDOCTRINATION

I HAVE LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND I WONDER WHO IT IS THAT IS DEAR TO YOU THAT CALLED YOU SUCH NAMES,......gO LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND EXPLORE THAT FEEBLE MIND OF YOURS ......NAME CALLERS........ FEEBLE MINDS TRYING TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES FORCEFULLY.....IN THE END THE ARE SIMPLY BULLIES WITH NO CLUE.........I DIDNT DO NOTHIN I DIDNT DO NOTHIN........GO BACK TO THE COUCH HOMMERBOY.....YOU SAT OUT EVERYTHING ELSE SIT THIS OUT TOO. WE DID FINE WITHOUT YOU THEN AND WE WILL AGAIN..........SO GO AHEAD HOMMERBOY RANT YOUR GARBAGE...... THEN TELL YOURSELF HOW AMERICAN YOU ARE.....ASK YOURSELF WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO STAND IN JUDGEMENT......OTHER THAN SAY IT....JOKE IS ON YOU EVERY TIME YOU GET TO NAME CALLING........HAHAHAHAHAHAHA WELL YOU MADE A LITTLE IMPROVEMENT.........NO THREATS.......HMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!YET ILL STILL BE AROUND,WHEN YOU FIGURE IT OUT AND YES I GET OLDER BY THE DAY SO DONT WAIT TO LONG YOU WILL DEPRIVE ME OF THAT PLEASURE........wether you like it or not there is always another side to the story........problem is you dont want to hear it. You think you have all the answers.......YOU DONT remember that and i am not the only one to point that out.......HOMMERDOG...THAT FITS HOMMERDOG EVEN HAS A NICE CIRCUS RING TO IT.......YOU BRING OUT THE WORST IN PEOPLE.OF THAT YOU ARE CONSISTENT......THAT ALONE SHOULD TELL YOU SOMETHING HOMMERDOG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WELL HOMMERDOG YOU WILL HAVE TO DO BETTER THAN THAT........Bucko you just stepped in it again showing how ignorant and bias you are.......coined for ME well truth comes out doesnt it.....you have been crying for help for two days and none came... wonder whY ?????? COULD BE THAT ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH YOU GETS ATTACKED WITH NAME CALLING SO THEY DONT BOTHER......YOU KNOW YOU HAVE DONE THAT TO ALMOST EVERYONE ON THE BLOG .......BUT OL;D BUCKO YOU DONT CARE .....YOU ARE DADA...HOMMERDOG THE RIGHTCHEST.......AND BASED ON YOUR SELF ADMITTED COMMENT ABOUT YOUR NAME CALLING IT IS OK FOR YOU.... AND EVERBODY SHOULD TAKE IT ......BUT IT IS NOT OK WHEN IT COMES BACK AT YOU.......YOUR JOKING RIGHT?????? OH I FORGOT YOU ARE THE ANNOINTED ONE HERE........DONT need printed facts and figures to exspress feelings HOMMERDOG ANYONE CAN CUT AND PASTE ITS WHATS IN YOUR HEART THAT COUNTS.i have lived my exsperiences so what you glean from a paper is fine but you dont have a clue what to compare it to.I didnt spend any time on the couch gloating......and yes HOMMERDOG I get victimized on a regular basis and im not alone. YOU STARTED VICTIMIZING ME FROM DAY ONE REMEBER????? THE NAME CALLING .You wouldnt survive it,because you are WEAK.And as long as people like you think they can BROWBEAT others there will always be a battle.IF YOU THINK your display of thinking is the way of the world you are in for a schock and for your info to classify me a liberal would be a misnomore. You wouldnt recognize that but see i dont care what you think I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE....BOGOTS CANT HIDE VERY WELL.....ABOUT THE TIME THEY THINK THEY HAVE ALL BASES COVERED THEY DROP SOMETHING........LIKE YOUR LANGUAGE JUST FOR ME......RIGHT OUT OF YOUR MOUTH. HOMMERDOG the only time I get frightened is when I look at my medals and think back.

YOU are not black in America you would not have any IDEA WHAT FEAR IS ON A DAILY BASIS .YOUR are part of the creaters of that fear,you are part of the problem ,you are the problem.You are the police officer who walks up to my car with his weapon drawn,you are the clerk who accuses me of stealing without cause ,you are the person who says oh we couldnt find you when the job came available,lost your phone #. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.INSIGHT I LIVE IT. YOU SEE HOMMERDOG YOUR THE PERSON THAT THINKS THOSE THINGS ARE OK.THATS THE AMERICA YOU WANT.

DONT WASTE OUR TIME HOMMERDOG JUST ADMIT WHAT YOU ARE AND GO AWAY.I TOLD YOU BEFORE YOU KNOW NOTHING OF DECENCY,DIGNITY AND RESPECT OF YOUR FELLOW MAN......YOU MAY FOOL SOME PEOPLE HERE BUT THE BIGGEST FOOL HERE IS YOU.

HOMMERDOG.....SOMEBODY IN YOUR FORMATIVE YEARS MUST HAVE CALLED YOU A LOT OF NAMES BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY THING YOU ARE GOOD AT. I was thinking you showed everyone what you are all about. I did not start this you did as always.I DID NOT NEED TO DO ANYTHING HOMMERDOG FOLKS ALREADY KNOW ABOUT YOUR NAME CALLING SELF.DISAGREE WITH HOMMERDOG AND BE READY TO BE DEGRADED,CURSED AT AND ANY OTHER MEANS OF DENERGRATION HE CARES TO HAND OUT.I JUST HAPPEN TO BE THE ONE THAT SAID NO.and SEVERAL OTHERS TO INCLUDE MS M.and it is still NO.Willfull yes, the will to say NO.YOUR DONE WITH ME IS THAT SOPPOSED TO MEAN SOMETHING.GET THIS WILL YOU..... I DONT NEED YOUR BLESSING THOSE DAYS ARE OVER HOMMERSTUPID,OVER.

YOU take the thing about REDNECK TO ANOTHER LEVEL.......I HOPE BY GOD YOUR PROUD.......LIKE I SAID IF YOU ARE A POSTER BOY FOR THE RIGHT,THEY HAVE A PROBLEM......YOU........I KNOW SOME GREAT REDNCKS AND YOU AINT ONE OF THEM.....CLIMB DOWN PRETENDER,WE KNOW ALREADY YOU TOLD US ......HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

REALLY!!!!!????? WOW!!!!!!!!!!

Go back and ck I respond in kind to the insults hurled.....like I said you would say.....i didnt do nothin .... RIGHT.