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		<title>Fire Bob Beckel!  Fire Bob Beckel!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was visiting the Christian Coalition website to sign the Pray and Vote Pledge, Very simply here is the pledge. Simply put, we ask that you pledge to: Pray about the coming elections Vote on Election Day Help educate others by receiving and distributing voter guides!  The voting guides have been infamous for years. Voting guides are nothing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was visiting the Christian Coalition website to sign the <a href="http://cc.org/prayandvote">Pray and Vote Pledge</a>, Very simply here is the pledge.</p>
<p><strong>Simply put, we ask that you pledge to:</strong></p>
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<li><strong><em>Pray about the coming elections</em></strong></li>
<li><strong><em>Vote on Election Day</em></strong></li>
<li><strong><em>Help educate others by receiving and distributing voter guides!</em></strong></li>
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<p> The voting guides have been infamous for years. Voting guides are nothing more than a truthful report of the voting records of sitting politicians.  The problem is that truth shining on politicians is like sun shining on vampires.</p>
<p>While at the site I followed a news link to this story &#8220;<a href="http://cc.org/blog/donald_trump_right_fox_news_should_fire_bob_beckel">Donald Trump is right:  Fox News Should Fire Bob Beckel</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bob Beckel clearly has gone way over quota for profanity laced comments.  While his loose tongue would clearly be sufficient to can a conservative it is insufficient to dismiss a liberal.  It is a known fact that liberal&#8217;s goals are noble, their hearts pure and their hands in constant motion doing their good deeds.  That will earn a pass every time.  Conservatives on the other hand have a dark heart, kick puppies and don&#8217;t believe there are free lunches.  They deserve to be fired,</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t be jumping on the &#8220;Fire Bob&#8221; bandwagon.  It is very difficult to &#8220;like&#8221; Bob he is such an irritating progressive liberal mindless twit.  I can&#8217;t understand anyone so blindly political that they refuse to see the truth and reality of certain situations and drone on ignoring truth and reality.</p>
<p>What if Fox News fired Bob Beckel and replaced him with the prig&#8217;s prig Alan Coombs?  What a disaster that would be for the viewership.  Coombs is the polar opposite of the lively and entertaining Beckel.  Plus Beckel has serious real world experience in politics.  Sometimes his observations are like the burning bush speaking.  Beckel listeners have to be adept at separating the wheat from the chaff and not stepping in that stuff on the stable floor.</p>
<p>The reality of &#8220;The Five&#8221; is that it may end up as a time filler destined to fade.  While its charmingly chaotic format is very entertaining plugging it in to Glenn Beck&#8217;s old slot is like trying to plug a basketball hoop with a tennis ball.  I do not believe it will last.  Fox News will still have the even more charmingly chaotic &#8220;Redeye&#8221; with the brilliant Greg Gutfield.</p>
<p>I hope to continue to see Bob Beckel on the Fox News Channel.</p>
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		<title>Critical Labor Shortage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President, Barack Hussein Obama, has totally sucked the wind out of the critical village idiot job market. All the traditional sources of village idiots such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Boston and others have struggled to keep up with the exponentially increasing demand from Washington, D.C. People think that village idiots just [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><strong>The President, Barack Hussein Obama, has totally sucked the wind out of the critical village idiot job market. All the traditional sources of village idiots such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Boston and others have struggled to keep up with the exponentially increasing demand from Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>People think that village idiots just fall out of the skies but that is not in the least true. Behind every successful village idiot there is an American institution of higher ignorance that has invested the time, trouble, and money necessary to turn out the world class level village idiots that politicians have come to expect in our National government. Our American institutions of higher ignorance are totally stressed because of the current demand. Even with support from institutions of higher ignorance in non-traditional village idiot areas, like T.U. (Texas University) they have not been able to keep up with demand.</p>
<p>Several possible solutions to the problem come to mind. Increase our investment in keeping America stupid by tripling funding to American institutions of higher ignorance specifically to educate village idiots. We could also replace an estimated 10-20% of lower level village idiots with functional imbeciles. This would free up the more talented village idiots to engage in important government work like destroying American agriculture or keeping American drillers out of the way of Red Chinese drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Obviously the immediate appointment of a czar for village idiots should be a priority until this problem gets back under control.</p>
<p>I long for the days when my political worries were focused on pseudo intellectual progressive liberal demoracist mindless twits. The huge infusion of village idiots has really skewed the ability of cranky people to comment on politics. It is almost impossible to properly comment when you are rolling on the floor laughing while reading marvelous prose like &#8220;Living Within Our Means and Investing in the Future&#8221; (are they really serious?). It was one artful village idiot who came up with that deceptive title. The government living within its means indeed. Investing? Government? Like that’s going to turn out alright. American retirees would be broke and broke down if we “invested” like the Washington, D.C. “geniuses.”</p>
<p>There is a much easier way out of the dark halls of this epic dilemma that will be obvious to all whose dreams of government service have been shattered by a superior intellect. Vote Barack Hussein Obama out of office in 2012. This should have the village idiots scattering like street hookers when a police car approaches</strong>.</p>
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		<title>Praise the Lord and Turn on Thursday Night Football</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let us count our blessings. God, in his infinite wisdom has richly blessed his people and blessed our nation. Tonight we have the NFL opener to take the sting off of what would otherwise be a stingingly depressing evening of platitudes and accusations. Thank you, lord. He gave us President Hussein to make us realize [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let us count our blessings.  God, in his infinite wisdom has richly blessed his people and blessed our nation.</p>
<p>Tonight we have the NFL opener to take the sting off of what would otherwise be a stingingly depressing evening of platitudes and accusations.  Thank you, lord.</p>
<p>He gave us President Hussein to make us realize that things could indeed be worse.  Praise God.</p>
<p>We have been blessed with a political system that has Presidential elections every four years.  Here&#8217;s your chance America.  If you voted for hope and change and to prove you were not a racist be sure to vote in 2012.  I hope you change from voting for President Hussein and prove you have not totally lost your senses.  Praise the Lord.</p>
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		<title>Al Jazeera Not Welcomed in Texas</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surprised? This here is the Great State of Texas and Al Jazeera is not welcomed in these here parts.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Surprised? This here is the Great State of Texas and Al Jazeera is not welcomed in these here parts.</h3>
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		<title>Urgent Problem in New York City</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg needs to do something about the urgent problem of controlling guns in New York City.  There were a total of 42 gun fire victims in two days in the city.  One fatality, four people wounded at a barbecue shootout, another three at a parade during a long, long weekend.  Bloonberg needs to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg needs to do something about the urgent problem of controlling guns in New York City.  There were a total of 42 gun fire victims in two days in the city.  One fatality, four people wounded at a barbecue shootout, another three at a parade during a long, long weekend. </p>
<p>Bloonberg needs to do something about getting guns off the street so honest citizens stop shooting each other and only criminals have guns.  That way everybody will be safe.</p>
<p>By contrast here in the Great State of Texas(San Antonio specifically)  most of us hayseeds are armed and the criminals as well.  We had a gunshot fatality in a bar over the holiday.  Some honest citizen did not notice the state mandated sign that it was against the law to carry firearms where alcohol was served.  I think they need to get bigger signs with larger letters.</p>
<p>A plus was that there were no barbecue related injuries or fatalities over the holiday.  There were, however, the three dummies armed with a shotgun and a pistol who actually thought they were going to walk into Achmed&#8217;s store and take his money.  Achmed came out of the back with his own gun to save his clerk.  The thug behind the counter got locked in holding the bag.  The other two drove away.  I think that criminals don&#8217;t keep up with the local news.  Achmed had his gun out all four previous failed robbery attempts.</p>
<p>The criminals had two guns and the good guy only one.  I like the way things are in Texas where a freeman can defend his own life and property.  Much safer than New York City.  If there were a cop on every corner in New York City they still could not save you from the random thug with a gun.</p>
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		<title>Liberals&#8217; View of Darwin Unable to Evolve</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ann Coulter Amid the hoots at Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry for saying there were &#8220;gaps&#8221; in the theory of evolution, the strongest evidence for Darwinism presented by these soi-disant rationalists was a 9-year-old boy quoted in The New York Times. After his mother had pushed him in front of Perry on the campaign trail [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>by Ann Coulter</h3>
<p>Amid the hoots at Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry for saying there were &#8220;gaps&#8221; in the theory of evolution, the strongest evidence for Darwinism presented by these soi-disant rationalists was a 9-year-old boy quoted in The New York <em>Times</em>.</p>
<p>After his mother had pushed him in front of Perry on the campaign trail and made him ask if Perry believed in evolution, the trained seal beamed at his Wicked Witch of the West mother, saying, &#8220;Evolution, I think, is correct!&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the most extended discussion of Darwin&#8217;s theory to appear in the mainstream media in a quarter-century. More people know the precepts of kabala than know the basic elements of Darwinism.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a reason the Darwin cult prefers catcalls to argument, even with a 9-year-old at the helm of their debate team.</p>
<p>Complete article at <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45893"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Human Events</span></a></span></p>
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		<title>Grinding America Down.  Are We There Yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 05:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America wake up! The alarms are sounding louder and louder.]]></description>
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		<title>Unreal, But It Is Bloomberg the Savior of New York City</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is your hot link to join me in signing the petition. We are a nation based on Judeo-Christian values and beliefs. We need our Rabbis, Priests and Ministers praying over this site and standing in unity against the abomination that occured there. There have been 55,932 sigbatures as of this post.  Please stand up [...]]]></description>
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<h4><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?c=CHECKOUT&amp;dmy=2BC40A5C-AB19-33C3-BBEBC37D6B5C7812&amp;CFID=20106476&amp;CFTOKEN=ae1b1d89e281709d-D1D77BB6-0CF4-BC79-8F2D8643B80EE9FE"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Here</span></a></span> is your hot link to join me in signing the petition. We are a nation based on Judeo-Christian values and beliefs. We need our Rabbis, Priests and Ministers praying over this site and standing in unity against the abomination that occured there.</span></h4>
<h4><span style="color: #000000;">There have been 55,932 sigbatures as of this post.  Please stand up for God and Country and sigh the petition.</span></h4>
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		<title>Ya gotta luv California</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[California is seeking a $5 billion dollar “bridge loan” to see it through until late August 2011 just in case credit markets are disrupted by Congressional failure to act on the debt crisis. Meanwhile back at the rancho (Los Angeles City College) Governor “Moonbeam” Brown panders to his illegal alien base with the tender image [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>California is seeking a $5 billion dollar “bridge loan” to see it through until late August 2011 just in case credit markets are disrupted by Congressional failure to act on the debt crisis.</p>
<p>Meanwhile back at the rancho (Los Angeles City College) Governor “Moonbeam” Brown panders to his illegal alien base with the tender image of the aging chrome dome using Assemblyman Gil Cedillo&#8217;s back to sign Assembly Bill 130 (“The California Dream Act”) into law.  The really special touch is the picture of Cedillo, head slightly bowed, eyes closed, seems to have his hands together as if in prayer.  Something tells me that his <em>“oración a Dios (prayer to God)” </em>was not for God to lead California through the Red (Ink) Sea to fiscal solvency.</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-brown-dream-act-20110726,0,3203216.story">The tender image of Gov. “Moonbeam” Brown and Assemblyman Gil Cedillo</a>.</p>
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		<title>My Thoughts Late in the Day of our Independence 4 July 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I have spent many hours in the Fort Sam Houston Cemetery.  My last duty assignment was as the Plans &#38; Operations NCO at Headquarters Fort Sam Houston.  Our office had operational responsibilities for some funerals and events at the cemetery including the coordination of requests for detail of the Fort Sam Houston burial squad to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://www.misanthropundit.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/dreamstime_xs_168141301.jpg#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed"> </a></strong>I have spent many hours in the Fort Sam Houston Cemetery.  My last duty assignment was as the Plans &amp; Operations NCO at Headquarters Fort Sam Houston.  Our office had operational responsibilities for some funerals and events at the cemetery including the coordination of requests for detail of the Fort Sam Houston burial squad to support Army funerals.</p>
<p>I have been there for the burials of my father, my mother and numerous friends.  My wife, Martha, has many relatives buried there as well.  I even wrote the Ft. Sam Houston Operations Plan should General of the Army Omar Bradley pass away here (where he lived part-time). </p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.misanthropundit.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/dreamstime_xs_168141301.jpg#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1992" title="dreamstime_xs_16814130[1]" src="http://www.misanthropundit.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/dreamstime_xs_168141301-300x178.jpg" alt="Presenting the flag" width="300" height="178" /></a></strong></p>
<p> <strong>“On behalf of the President of the United States and the people of a grateful nation, may I present this flag as a token of appreciation for the honorable and faithful service your loved one rendered this nation.”</strong></p>
<p>I have heard those words, spoken to the person who receives the deceased’s flag, so many times they have taken up permanent residence in my head.  I heard those words at my father’s funeral.  Someday someone who loves me will hear those words.* I hope whoever hears those words will be the faithful protector of my flag, and my father’s flag.</p>
<p>I really enjoy wearing my Viet Nam Vet hat because I am proud of my service.  It draws handshakes and thank you from strangers.  It also reminds cashiers about my military discount, if applicable.  My favorite hat has something my cousin said, “Duty, Honor, Country” embroidered on it.  It never ceases to amaze me that people don’t seem to connect those simple words with the military.  That hat does give me a break from shaking hands.</p>
<p>Here I sit wearing my hat with those words bouncing around in my head, “On behalf of the President of the United States and the people of a grateful nation, On behalf of the President of the United States and the people of a grateful nation.”  Those words caused me long ago to start thinking I wish there were a way for this old soldier to express his gratefulness to his President and the people of this great nation for allowing me to wear my uniform and serve my nation.  Everything I have is a result of me being able to give my faithful service to the nation as a soldier and in the United States Postal Service.  Thanks grateful nation.</p>
<p>*NOTE:  The words are slightly different for each service.  The name of the sitting President is not normally used, President being the institution rather than the man</p>
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