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If I had to pick a NAME of someone that best represents the word "Downfall" my choice would be without hesitation and without the slightest reservation,,,,

Micheal Vick..

ONLY a couple of YEARS ago his name was mentioned ALL over the place..He was an ICON.. A celebrity of the highest order..A REAL American Hero to Some.. a Nemesis to ALL who played against the Atlanta Falcons..Recognized wherever he went..

ONE of the best THIS and THE Best That..YOU couldn’t watch a Little League baseball game without HIS name coming up..I heard him being talked about during a GOLF Tournament in which Tiger Woods was playing..And forget about Football..Geez..A half hour at LEAST of EVERY game was devoted to him no matter WHO was playing..

Well..I heard his name ONCE again and I was STRUCK at WHAT a difference a couple of years can make in a person’s life..How a SINGLE decision can change EVERYTHING..

No more QB Stats or Yards gained..Nope..It was instead an example of a LIFE LOST..

I heard his name on a commercial for the National Geographic Channal’s

"The Saving of Micheal Vick’s Dogs"

THAT is the enduring Legacy of the Once GREAT Micheal Vick..

OH how the MIGHTY have fallen..GOD save me from such a fate..

I am ASTOUNDED at some of the STUPID comments that I’m hearing from the Obama Camp and reflected by SOME ( we ALL know who THEY are ) on here..

If ANYBODY had ANY doubts that the Liberals and the Democrats at LEAST THINK that they have INFILTRATED the Republican Party those doubts should be COMPLETELY dispeled by the ARROGANT expectations of the Left as expressed by their COMPLAINTS over McCain’s VP pick....

So far I’ve heard,,

"HE Screwed Up..HE won’t get the Hillary votes"

And NOW I’m Hearing..

" He’s a Pawn of the right because he DIDN’T pick Leiberman"

Now..IF the IRONY excapes ANY of you I’LL Elaborate a bit with a FEW questions..

WHEN exactly did it become Necessary for a Republican running on a Republican Ticket to NEED Democrat votes to win an election FOR THE REPUBLICANS and WHY is it SO bad for that SAME Republican to listen to his OWN Base and try to win THEM over???

WHEN did THAT become a BAD thing??

And of ALL things,,WHO NEEDS HILLARY VOTERS..NOT McCain for SURE and with the way those 18 MILLION Voters were Betrayed BY Hillary and they STILL want to support her,,,

WHO WANTS ‘EM..

They are IRRELEVANT..MADE so by their OWN Candidate..They have been relegated to the status of being the Palistinians of American Politics… NO home of their OWN to go to and NOBODY willing to take them in on THEIR terms..

And WHAT’S all THIS about Lieberman???

WHEN exactly did it become Necessary for a Republican running on a Republican Ticket to NEED a Democrat ( Independent or Otherwise) ON THE TICKET to win an election FOR THE REPUBLICANS and WHY is it SO bad for that SAME Republican to Pick a TRUE Republican as his/her VP???

WHEN,, exactly,, did the DEMOCRATS’ get the Power and Authoriity to DEFINE the Rules for EVERYBODY???

Of COURSE you’ll NEVER hear the MSM ask these questions..THEY have a VESTED Interrest in the acendency of the Democrats..They’ll regain their LOST Monopoly through them..

So,, it is left to US to ask these questions and KNOW that no matter the answer ONE thing remains abundently Clear..WE must NOT forget this!!!

Whether it’s Sports ,, WAR,, Chess,, A Debate,, a Conversation or ANY other endeavor that pits one against the other,,, when you CEDE to your adversary the RIGHT to make all the rules,,

YOU’VE ALREADY LOST…

Palin

Here's a woman who went to work,, established a SUCCESSFUL Carreer,, raised a family at the SAME time and NOT under Sheltered circumstances but by facing REAL Life Issues and problems..She OUTSHINES her Husband and rose to the Pinnacle of her State Carreer..NOW she’s making a bid for the Highest Office that a Woman has EVER gone for..

By ALL rights SHE should be a SHINING example to "Liberated " women EVERYWHERE..Hell,,, Toss in a couple of abortions,, especially with the DOWNS SYNDROME CHILD,, and a severed penis or two here and there and SHE could have been the President of the National Organization for Women..

Change that ( R ) behind her name to a ( D ) and Howard Dean would’ve been running,, while frantically protecting his Crotch,, as SHE bacame Installed as the NEW head of the DNC..

But Noooooooo..No Abortions and that pesky little ( R )…

THAT makes ALL the difference in the world..

We ALL sat tearfully as Biden’s son recounted the events of their family’s tragedy..We were ALL so touched..

ME particularly because I know what it’s like to suffer such a loss..

But..I am STRUCK with the Contrast here..In what bacame a ONE Parent Household NOBODY questions BIDEN for taking HIS job because HE had kids..Indeed..HE was about to GIVE UP that Job and was talked into NOT doing so by the VERY same people who’re Denouncing Palin NOW for doing the SAME thing and SHE has a HUSBAND to boot..

I remember when Al Gore’s son was arrested for DUI in the run-up election of 2000..HARDLY made the news..NO talk about ole Al NOT being able to "Control" his Kids then..Oh No..it was,,if there was ANYTHING .. sympathy oozing out of EVERY MSM pore for ole Al AND his son..

And Let’s get back to Biden..We all saw his son at the convention but did YOU know that he has ANOTHER??Do you KNOW his name??Where he IS??Why he WASN'T at the Convention???

Well,,His name is Hunter Biden and HE’S too busy waiting with his UNCLE,, Joe’s Brother,, to find out if he’s going to JAIL for his part in a Hedge Fund Scam..

And you KNOW what..NOBODY asks WHY it is that Obama’s mother,,who was SINGLE while carrying HIM,,Why SHE didn’t abort he child..And according to his OWN book,, when Obama was Palin’s DAUGHTER’S AGE,,HE was using Drugs "Enthusiastically" and drinking heavilly..And WHO knows how many children might have resulted from THIS period of time…Obama sure as hell don’t..

What strikes me here is the OBVIOUS Double standard that ALWAYS exist when it comes from the Left..

So QUICK to Condemn Others,,So Quick to EXCUSE their OWN...

A WHOLE Cut ‘n Paste article trying to associate Palin to attempts to fire a State Trooper and the article ITSELF makes NO Credible Links between the two..

THEN..right on the HEELS of the First,,ANOTHER "Cut ‘n Paste" article on the bridge to Nowhere..

First of all..THIS is a Woman who ROCKED Alaskan Politics..Do ANY of us think that she didn’t make Political Enemies in DOING so???

Do we NOT expect SKEWED and Spurious accounts to come from THIS direction??

What does it matter that she wants a bridge there anyway,,she probably STILL does..She just refused FEDERAL Funding to be DIVERTED to this ONE purpose at the expense of the REST of the State....

In SO doing she benefitted the ENTIRE State of Alaska..

ALL that matters is that SHE enjoys an 80% approval Rating from the State of Alaska..The other 20%,,living in Ketchikan,, can GO take a LONG walk off a SHORT Bridge..And they can take ALL these PANICED Liberals WITH them...

Well..we NOW know the McCain VP pick..A choice that will no doubt infuriate the Democrats as it was no doubt intended to do..BUT,,MUCH as SHE will be Villified as a "token woman" in a Republican attempt to outclass the Democrats,,  THAT is NOT her ONLY reason for HER BEING there..She’ll be the ONLY person on EITHER ticket with ANY Executive Experience..She’ll be the HIGHEST woman ever to hold Public Office in American History from EITHER party..SHE will serve as the President of the Senate and AS such will provide a CLEAR and Unmistakable Contrast to the Bumbling and Fumbling mistake that IS Nancy Pelosi..Beyond ALL that,, there’s at least ONE other THING that I like about her..

WE keep hearing from the left that the Republicans NEVER criticize their OWN for ANY wrongdoing.. Of Course we ALL know this to be an OUTRIGHT LIE..We HEAR this primarilly because we Defend against the Slander and the LIES that are passed around and presented as "Facts" but are really nothing more then Political and Character Assassination attempts by the left..I won’t go into detail..We ALL know what I’m talking about and we ALL know who they are..

On the other hand..The Republican Revolution of ’06,, born out of a PERCIEVED impression,, SOMETIMES accurate,, but MORE often then NOT the result of SLANDEROUS attacks by the Left,, are CLEAR evidence and PERFECT examples that Republicans are MORE then willing to BOTH recognize any wrongdoings on the part of their REPUBLICAN representatives and are even MORE willing to DO something about them..

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU NEVER SEE,, AND CANNOT EVER SAY,,ABOUT THE  DEMOCRAT PARTY OR IT'S MEMBERSHIP....

THAT which gets a Republican in trouble,, sometimes even Jailed,, gets a Democrat PROMOTED and WE are comstantly being told,,"It’s NONE of OUR business".

Sarah Palin rose to primacy in Alaskan Politics fighting Corruption along the way..Exposing the Corruption of the ruling leaders of the Political Machine and sending them packing.. She put a HALT to the INFAMOUS "Bridge to Nowhere" right off the bat..Besides breaking all the records JUST by becoming Alaska’s First Female Governor she broke a few heads and managed to get PASSED an ANTI-CORRUPTION Bill to boot..

And THOSE that she went up against  were REPUBLICANS……

An Anti-Corruption Bill,,Something PROMISED but YET to be SEEN from the Democrats in Washington after TWO YEARS....

It is so interresting that these Leftist Liberals are always pointing fingers at the right.. After all..

It took a REPUBLICAN Governor in the Republican State of Alaska to send Corruption Packing..AND,,,

It took a REPUBLICAN Governor in the DEMOCRAT State of Louisiana to send Corruption Packing THERE..

Again..THIS is something that you’ll NEVER be able to say about ANY Democrat…

Immigration reduces wages by 4 percent for all workers and 7 percent for those without a high school education; Between March 2000 and March 2004 the number of unemployed adult natives increased by 2.3 million, but at the same time the number of employed immigrants increased by 2.3 million; Analysis shows little evidence that immigrants only take jobs Americans don’t want.

For one thing, immigrant job gains have been throughout the labor market, with more than two-thirds of their employment gains in jobs that require at least a high school degree;

In job categories such as construction labor, building maintenance, and food preparation, immigration added 1.1 million adult workers in the last 4 years, but there were nearly 2 million unemployed adult natives in these very same occupations in 2004.

About two-thirds of the new immigrant workers in these occupations are illegal aliens; Not only is native unemployment highest in occupations which saw the largest immigrant influx, the available evidence also shows that the employment picture for natives looks worst in those parts of the country that saw the largest increase in illegal immigrants..

So,,ONE of the reasons for unemployment among Natives who can FILE for Benefits is that their Jobs are going to Illegal Invaders who CAN’T ..

There are MANY reasons why the Rate of Unemployment Fluctuates from time to time but of ALL of them,,

TAX cuts have NOTHING to DO with this..

I LOVE Fox News and I’ll TELL you WHY..( which incidently is the SAME reason the FAR Left Whackos HATE Fox News..)..

Since Friday when Emporess Pelosi shut down Congress to AVOID a stunning Defeat,, I have been watching Democrat after Democrat try to get on FOX News and try to AVOID explaining their position on this drilling Issue..

WHY they shut down Congress without allowing a Vote..

EVERY one of them tried to do their BEST to make the discussion STRICTLY about ANTI- Republicans,, Anti-Oil Companies and Anti- Bush and the reporters are having NONE of it…

NONE will answer a STRAIGHT question and it’s SO apparent that THEY are USED to being catered to and fawned over by the Liberal Hack MSM..

It is refreshing to see that at least ONE News Organization isn’t a Puppet dancing to the SWAN song of the Democrats….

( BTW---They’re JUST as tough on Republicans too )…

Maybe the Democrats should just stick with Chris Matthews and Dan Rather….LMAO..

Prepared by the National Rifle Association of America and the Unified Sportsmen of Florida.

July 31, 2008

The Florida Chamber of Commerce and The Florida Retail Federation argued for three years that business owners had an absolute right to control their employees. That’s why they kept calling it the,

"Take-Your-Guns-to-Work" legislation.

They claimed they could search employee vehicles and ban firearms from those vehicles in the employer’s parking lot.

When the argument came up about CUSTOMERS’ rights under the law,, They claimed businesses didn’t care if customers had guns in cars, they only cared about their right to control employees.

When the legislature passed the law protecting the rights of workers, The Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Florida Retail Federation filed a lawsuit in federal court asking the Court to throw out the law.

They argued that the law requiring businesses to allow guns in vehicles in their parking lots constituted an unconstitutional "taking" of their property.

In court, the federal judge ruled against them – THEY LOST.

They argued that OSHA regulations require them to provide a safe work environment for their workers, which required them to ban guns in parking lots to comply with OSHA requirements.

In court, the federal judge ruled against them . – THEY LOST.

They argued that, as employers, they had an absolute right to control the conduct of their employees and could ban guns from employee vehicles in company parking lots while employees were at work.

In court, the federal judge ruled against them – THEY LOST.

Those are the three points argued by the Chamber and the Retail Federation.

The ( DEMOCRAT ) Senate Ethics Committee report said that McCain's,

"actions were not improper nor attended with gross negligence and did not reach the level of requiring institutional action against him.

Senator McCain has violated no law of the United States or specific Rule of the United States Senate."

On his Keating Five experience, McCain has said:

"The appearance of it was wrong. It's a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators, because it conveys the impression of undue and improper influence. And it was the wrong thing to do." ( WRONG but NOT Illegal )

Several accounts of the controversy contend that McCain was ONLY included in the investigation in the FIRST place so that there would be at least one Republican target. Glenn's inclusion in the investigation has been attributed to Republicans who were angered by the inclusion of McCain, as well as committee members who thought that dropping Glenn (and McCain) would make it look bad for the remaining three Democratic Senators.

Regardless of the level of their involvement, both senators were greatly affected by it. McCain would write in 2002 that attending the two April 1987 meetings was "the worst mistake of my life".Glenn has described the Senate Ethics Committee investigation as the low point of his life.

So what do we REALLY have here..WE have McCain saying that ATTENDING the MEETINGS was the "worse mistake of my life" ONLY because it gave the APPEARANCE of something wrong..

He did NOT admit to,, NOR WAS HE FOUND TO HAVE BEEN DOING ANYTHING Illegal or unethical..

ONCE again the Left LIES through Distortions and out of context quotes..

Now THAT'S it..THAT'S the WHOLE story..The WHOLE truth..

All this other BS is NOTHING more then Slanderous RUMORMONGERING..

The Keating Five were five

After a lengthy investigation, the

At the SAME time,D-OH) and John McCain (R-AZ), were CLEARED of having acted improperly.

Senators John Glenn

The attacks on John McCain can be traced largely to the work of one man, Ted Sampley, of Kinston, NC. The following is a direct quote of the entire chapter about Sampley from Ms. Keating's book;

*** Shortly after war broke out in the Persion Gulf, I received a call from longtime POW activist, Ted Sampley. " Did you hear what happened to Wetzel? ", he asked, " I mean, what really happened to Wetzel?"

Navy Lieutenant Robert Wetzel was an A-6 Intruder pilot shot down on the first day of the war. At the time of Sampley’s call, the airman was listed as missing in action. According to Sampley, that designation was just a cover for the grisly truth:

Wetzel had survived his shoot down, only to parachute directly into a mob of angry Iraqis. Sampley said that the anti-Semetic crowd had assumed from his nametag that Wetzel was Jewish. They had all happened to be carrying knives, so they had carved him up on the spot. Bits of Wetzel’s body had been doled out as souvenirs.

" Tha Pentagon doesn’t want anybody to know about this.", Sampley confided. " But I already told the family."

Wetzel eventually came home, alive and intact. Sampley later admitted he had never entirely believed the story but had told it anyway to publicize the plight of POWs.

Fortunately for Sampley, he did not wake up one morning to find himself surrounded by a crowd of angry Wetzels. In fact, over the course of his long carreer as a MIA rumormonger, Sampley has never received a thrashing either from the Wetzels or from any other family whose grief he has co-opted. ***

To Sampley's way of thinking, that is as it should be. He presents himself as somewhat culpable, but always forgivable; just a likable, big-hearted oaf who sometimes gets carried away by the POW crusade.

Unlike his colleagues who uncover POW "evidence" and solicit funds to embark on rescue missions, Sampley specializes in media manipulation and public relations. He has been invaluable to the activists, who rely on him to fan the flames of existing MIA stories, either through phone calls to legitimate journalists or on the pages of his own newspaper broadsheet, U.S. Veteran News and Report. In addition to his work in support of fellow activists, Sampley specializes in orchestrating stunts that are dramatic and at times dangerous.

See the REAL story of Ted Sampley at the link below…

www.miafacts.org/prankster.htm

So NOW he has decided to take his well documented " Ends Justifies ANY and ALL means " approach and use his talents against John McCain, launching a Wetzel style Smear Campaign that the Left has SO eagerly picked up on..

A LONG drawn out and desparate attempt is being made by the left to discredit McCain in light of the COMPLETE and UTTER FAILURE of Obama’s Trip overseas to produce the desired effects..Indeed,, As Obama seeks,, in his MONUMENTAL ARROGANCE,, the recognition by world leaders as the Presumptive "PRESIDENT of the United States" ( POTUS ) and WE at home watch in AWE as he makes speech after speech reflecting the moveon.org/Micheal Moore view of AMERICA and AMERICANS,, HIS numbers in the polls ACTUALLY continue to drop as a result..

We sat and we WATCHED and listened as he REFUSED to admit that the Surge,, which HE opposed and McCain PUSHED for,, was successful and had ANYTHING to DO with the "Positive" news coming out of Iraq these days..We WONDERED at the News Blackout for the past year and MANY of us posted comments that to the Liberal MSM,,"NO news must mean GOOD news" and we were IMMEDIATELY attacked and called names like Right Wing Nut Jobs,, Bush bootlickers and other more profane labels..We were CONSTANTLY berated and harranged that the War was LOST and that Iraq was a waste of Time..

Obama STILL preaches that EVEN as the MSM distorts the Truth and attempts to Hi-Jack the news from Iraq by placing credit,, by DISTORTING the quotes of Iraqi Officials,, on the shoulders of a Senator with 143 ACTIVE work days behind him..

The contention that McCain is somehow inelligible as a leader based on his experiences as a POW nearly 40 YEARS ago is a BLATANT exploitation and distortion of the facts at hand and is PURELY a result of an extremely Biased and Politically Motivated Agenda..

As far as the reprinting of Sampley’s conclusions are concerned,, it JUST goes to show how FAR the Left is willing to stoop to distract from Obama’s inadequacies as a LEADER and his inept blunders with regard to world affairs..They CANNOT possibly raise Obama above the level that HE’S capable of so the next best thing is to SMEAR the other guy..

In THIS case, a REAL American Hero by the name of John McCain…

And Hey,, I say this and as I have posted MANY times,, I don’t EVEN like the guy.. But I HATE Liars even MORE…

Another Gaffe or Fruedian Slip

In a never-ending string of mis-steps showing that Barack Obama isn't ready to be President, he has chosen to give a major campaign speech at a monument set up by Hitler to symbolize German dominance over Europe, a monument that celebrated Prussian victories over other European countries.

Still, even as the issue of his speech's location has now been settled, a number of politicians in Berlin continue to be dissatisfied with the site. The Siegessäule -- or Victory Column -- was erected in memory of Prussia's victories over Denmark (1864), Austria (1866) and France (1870/71). The column originally stood in front of the Reichstag, Germany's parliament building, but was moved by Adolf Hitler to its current location in 1939 to make way for his planned transformation of Berlin into the Nazi capital "Germania."
The Siegessäule in Berlin was moved to where it is now by Adolf Hitler. the deputy leader of the Free Democrats, Rainer Brüderle, told Bild am Sonntag.

Obama previously was going to campaign at the Bradenburg gate, forcing the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to "dissuade" him (another of Obama's many acts which put our allies in a bad situation). Apparently he didn't think it important to actually LEARN the history of the countries he is visiting BEFORE he Dictates HIS policies to them….

"He saw it as a symbol of German superiority and of the victorious wars against Denmark, Austria and France,"

I LOVE the way the Liberal Media headlines this…

"Maliki Embraces Obama’s Timetable for withdrawal"..

Turns out that the German Newspaper ( and our OWN Liberal MSM ) isn’t any better then Jimmy Carter when it comes to reporting the TRUTH accurately about what Foreign Prime Ministers say…

Here’s TODAY’S headlines.;

"Iraqi Gov’t Statement Released Claiming Prime Minister Does Not Endorse Obama Withdrawal Timetable."

"Ali al-Dabbagh, the chief spokesman for al-Maliki, said in a statement Sunday that the prime minister's comments were "not conveyed accurately" ( and REPEATED here ) by Der Spiegel. "

"Al-Dabbagh said al-Maliki did not endorse a specific timetable but instead discussed "an Iraqi vision" of U.S. troop withdrawals based on negotiations with Washington and "in the light of the continuing positive developments on the ground." "…

In other words,, he wants ANY Timetable to be predicated on "positive developments on the ground."..

That was NEVER Obama’s Plan,, it has ALWAYS been Bush’s….

It was NEVER Obama’s plan to remove our troops as a result of a VICTORY..He has ALWYS said that Victory was IMPOSSIBLE…

HE VOTED AGAINST THE SURGE THAT EVEN MADE THIS INDICATION OF AN APPARENT VICTORY A REALITY…

He was calling for this withdrawal when EVERYBODY,, including HIMSELF,, was still saying ,, FALSELY,, that we were LOSING..

HIS timetable was part of his SURRENDER strategy..THIS is NO secret..We’ve ALL been HEARING this and commenting ON it for a LONG time..

The Democrats seem to think that they NOW own the term "Timetable" and that ANY use of the term HAS to signify THEIR plan and ALL credit must be given to THEM…NOT SO…

The FACT of the matter is,,, a timetable of SOME kind was ALWAYS an inevitable conclusion here..The argument has ALWAYS been WHEN to execute it and under WHAT conditions,, and when NOT to execute it as part of a SURRENDER...

Despite the FACT that the Democrats have been against this war almost from the very day that they VOTED FOR IT and have claimed ALL along that WE were LOSING,, it NOW appears that they are trying to Hi-jack whatever CREDIT there may be from this irrefutable evidence of a VICTORY…

On TOP of THAT.. They’re TRYING to INFLUENCE an upcoming ELECTION by CLAIMING that ALL this was done by a FIRST term Senator who has spent roughly 145 Days ACTING like a Senator instead of being a candidate..

In Other words..OBAMA had NOTHING to DO with this...In Fact,,HE and his Democrat Cohorts have done EVERYTHING Possible to SEE that THIS day should NEVER come..