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Robin Williams, wearing a shirt that says “I love New York ” in Arabic.

You gotta love Robin Williams……
Even if he is a nut! Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.
Robin Williams’ plan.

(Hard to argue with this logic!)
“I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here’s one plan.”
1) “The US will apologize to the world for our “interference” in their affairs, past and present. You know, Hitler, Mussolin i, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those “good ole boys”, we will never “interfere” again.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , and the Middle East . They don’t want us there, anyway. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.
3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We’ll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remaind er will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They’re illegal!!! France will welcome them.
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don’t like it there, change it yourself and don’t hide here.

Asylum would never be available to anyone.

We don’t need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5) No foreign “students” over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don’t attend classes, they get a “D” and it’s back home baby.
6) The US will make a strong effort
to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilde rness.

The caribou will have to cope for a while
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don’t like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)
If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not “interfere.” They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army

The people who need
it most get very little, if anything.
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don’t need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us “Ugly Americans” any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH…learn it or LEAVE…

Now, isn’t that a winner of a plan?
“The Statue of Liberty is no longer
saying “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.” She’s got a baseball bat and she’s yelling, ‘you want a piece of me?’ “

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This just in from a college buddy of mine…

Great idea

Here is one of the better ideas. Let’s all get behind this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are less than eight months until the election, an election that will decide the next President of theUnited States.
The person elected will be the president of all Americans, not just the Democrats or the Republicans.
To show our solidarity as Americans, let’s all get together and show each other our support for the candidate of our choice.
It’s time that we all came together, Democrats and Republicans alike.

If you support the policies and character of Obama, please drive with your headlights on during the day.
If you support John McCain or Hillary, please drive with your headlights off at night.

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No one is complaining about the Clinton’s Pastor

> IF A PASTOR IS KNOWN BY THE COMPANY THEY KEEP!
>
> When the Rev. William Procanick put his hand on the Bible during his
> sex-abuse trial in Oneida County Court earlier this year, he swore to tell
> the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But as the former Clinton
> Pastor was sentenced Friday, January 22, 2008 for three years in prison
> for first-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child
> [inappropriately touching a 7-year-old girl at his home March of 2007],
> Judge Michael L. Dwyer said Procanick sacrificed his honesty the day he
> testified.
>
> Okay, so now that Bill and Hillary Clinton’s pastor has been convicted of
> child molestation, will we see the same furor directed a t Hillary that
> O bama has had to endure these last few weeks? I don’t think so!!!!
>
> IF A CANDIDATE IS KNOWN BY THE PASTOR THEY KEEP……
>
> Then you need to email this article to everyone you know. Here the
> CLINTON’S former Pastor is convicted of unspeakable Child Molestation. So,
> if Obama bears the guilt for his former pastor’s comments, then Hillary
> h as to be equally tainted by this guy’s crimes.
>
> For proof, please see: http://www.uticaod.com/homepage/x1637676857

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Someone forwarded this to me earlier and I found it to be very interesting about Rev. Wright. I knew he had been in the Marine Corps but I didn’t know the whole story.

This is thought provoking…

1961, a young African-American man, after hearing President John F.
Kennedy’s challenge to, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but
what you can do for your country,” gave up his student deferment, left
college in Virginia and voluntarily joined the Marines.

In 1963, this man, having completed his two years of service in the
Marines, volunteered again to become a Navy corpsman. (They provide
medical assistance to the Marines as well as to Navy personnel.)

The man did so well in corpsman school that he was the valedictorian
and became a cardiopulmonary technician. Not surprisingly, he was
assigned to the Navy’s premier medical facility, Bethesda Naval
Hospital , as a member of the c ommander in chief’s medical team, and
helped care for President Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery.

For his service on the team, which he left in 1967, the White House
awarded him three letters of commendation.

What is even more remarkable is that this man entered the Marines and
Navy not many years after the two branches began to become integrated.

While this young man was serving six years on active duty, Vice
President Dick Cheney, who was born the same year as the Marine/
sailor, received five deferments, four for being an undergraduate and
graduate student and one for being a prospective father.

Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both five years younger
than the African-American youth, used their student deferments to stay
in college until 1968. Both then avoided going on active duty through
family connections.

Who is the real patriot? The young man who interrupted his studies to
ser ve his country for six years or our three political leaders who beat
the system? Are the patriots the people who actually sacrifice
something or those who merely talk about their love of the country?

 After leaving the service of his country, the young African-American
finished his final year of college, entered the seminary, was ordained
as a minister, and eventually became pastor of a large church in one of
America ’s biggest cities.

This man is Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the retiring pastor of Trinity United
Church of Christ.

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I recently heard a white radio host who appears to be leaning towards supporting Barack Obama that many of his white friends and associates are also openly and enthusiastically supporting Obama.

He went on to say that he believes that many white people in America are supporting Obama out of some sense of white guilt. He pointed to predominantly white neighborhoods where he lives that are lined with “Obama for President” signs and bumper stickers on minivans and SUV’s parked in the driveways.

When he asks his friends why they are supporting Obama, many of them can only respond with “it’s time for a change…” or “I like his message about hope…he’s so inspiring” and so on. Precious few of them can point to specific policy issues or plans that they like about Obama. They seem to indicate their affection for him on the basis of his inspiring message. The radio host openly wonders if it is really because of some sense of white guilt. They can quickly point to their Obama signs and say “see I’m not a racist!”

Being black myself I won’t pretend to understand or know what “white guilt” can feel like so I won’t phony myself up and say “I understand…” when I don’t. I can only imagine that it can’t feel good to believe that you have to vote for a black candidate just to prove that you are not racist. I feel that if anyone is voting for Obama from a sense of white guilt that they are supporting him for the wrong reasons.

We should all continue the evaluation and vetting process of the candidates that we are considering and not vote for anyone simply because of their color. I am still considering who I will ultimately pull the lever for in November.

Even though it is immensely tempting for a lot of reasons to blindly vote for a black man (those reasons I do understand) I still have the responsiblity as an American to vote for the best candidate regardless of race. Barack Obama still has to earn my vote. I think that is how he would want it also. Blindly voting for anyone out of some sense of emotion, race or white guilt can in my opinion lead to disastrous consequences.

Make Obama work for it and if he earns your vote on the merits of his plans to improve our way of life then by all means, cast your vote for him. I may vote for him but if I do I will be able to articulate specific reasons why I support him and none of them will be “I just had to vote for another Brother…” That sort of decison making process would be reckless.

Obama still has some work to do to help me understand how he could sit under Jeremiah Wright’s teachings for as long as he did. I’m somewhat conflicted here. I’ve been to Trinity UCC two or three times years ago but didn’t join because it seemed like the message focused on political topics and I was hungry for hearing the Word of God. I didn’t hear any fiery invective as we’ve all heard on the news lately but I just didn’t feel compelled to keep going. I got the sense that Rev. Wright was more interested in preaching about then President Clinton than the Bible.

Not being a supporter of President Clinton that should have been ok with me but I just didn’t get enough Bible teaching so I didn’t return.

Here is where the conflict comes in: many churches black and white sometimes deliver what could be deemed to be political sermons or say something that is “anti-government”. Notice I said “anti-government” and not “anti-American”. There is a huge difference. In my experience many preachers do occassionally say something that is “anti-government”. If this is the case does that automatically disqualify anyone who belonged to a church that delivered “anti-government” sermons? Didn’t our founding fathers attend “anti-British” sermons or even deliver some “anti-British” sermons of their own.

Constructive criticism of one’s government can be a good thing. When done correctly it can get our elected officials to take notice that ‘We the People’ are not happy with their job performance.

So, attendance at Jeremiah Wright’s church doesn’t automatically disqualify Obama in my opinion but I would like to get a better sense from him about the frequency of Wright’s most inflammatory messages and what level of “buy-in” he may have.

The Wright Episode did however set the stage for Obama to deliver the most brilliant speech on race since MLK. When you separate the speech from the political arena, I think history will view it as profound and groundbreaking. Our nation still needs much healing on race and blacks and whites, all Americans have a responsibility to make it better for the next generation of Americans.

And this is why I hope white Americans don’t vote for Obama simply out of some latent sense of white guilt. You don’t owe us anything. We’re all square. Don’t offer me some reciprocity for slavery or anything wierd like that. Black Americans live in the greatest country on Earth and I for one am grateful to be an American. If you vote for Obama, please think long and hard about why you vote for him. If you believe in his message and the merits of his platform by all means, pull the Obama lever in November. Don’t vote for him to repay a debt or because you believe you may have discriminated against someone in the past.

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…”

No one is perfect bro. Forgive yourself and vote for the best candidate on the ticket.

God Bless America and God Bless Americans in 2008!

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If you’re a frustrated CPA or tax attorney, you’ve come to the right place. I don’t know of any real blockbusters yet except for some questions about a missing $18M.

I’m sure they’ll find it by Monday. That’s why the returns were released at the last hour of the news week.

Ok guys here it is…found it on Ben Smith’s blog…

Download and enjoy to your little hearts delight…

Hill’s taxes…

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I guess Al Gore didn’t show these guys any love…

He better put these dudes on his Christmas list…

They’re off the reservation!

Get busy Al!

Someone dared to disagree with you! We can’t have any of that! I mean you’re a Nobel Prize dude and everything…don’t they know who they’re messing with?!

The nerve of someone to think for themselves!

Get busy!

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I said it before and now even Hillary admits it…remember, you heard it from the Brother first.

What she still doesn’t get is that even if she STEALS Obamas delegates, many of her key demographics will turn against her for stealing the nomination from Barack.

If she can’t win fair and square, she’ll win any…way…

She has to.

Watch Grand Larceny in progress…read here….

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Found this story yesterday…this one is right in my wheelhouse.

Don’t be a victim…

Be victorious!

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I’m not an economics expert and have never pretended to be. However, I still retain a basic understanding of macro economics from my college days and that is enough to make me feel qualified to opine about our current “recession”.

The attached story is an excellent insight into the “recession”.

I began wondering some time ago, (see my earlier post) if our economy is controlled by other shall we say “forces” or “influences”. After reading this story my belief is even stronger that our recession is real only because the media made it so.

Oh, yes real money is being lost and real lives are being affected. But it’s all caused by a media scare that became real.

Read on…

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