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OK I'm not going to go into all the rants I have about bad English. I won't go off about how it's  NOT 10 itmes or LESS, it's 10 items or FEWER, or similar everyday mistakes. That's just run of the mill, somewhat understandable ignorance. Nope. Today's topic deals with something far simpler: 2nd person pronouns.

People this is not difficult. He/She Him/Her They/Theirs, I/me.. When do we use each one?

Did her and her friend go to the store? Did she go to the store with her friend and I? Did I get there as fast as her? These are ALL incorrect.

For some reason, when you throw the word AND in a sentence, everything goes to hell in a handbag. Take the above sentences for example. Let's remove the AND and see how they sound.

Her went to the store. She went to the store with I. I got there as fast as her DID (did is implied, but when you add it in, it sounds ridiculous).

But it gets even worse. There's the invention of new words, such as I's. Yes, I's. His car is cooler than my friend's or I's. Does that one really need an explanation? His car is cooler than his friends or MY car?

Ok finally, let's move on to singular and plural. HE is singular, THEY is plural. If A PERSON (one, singular) goes to the store, HE buys something. THEY don't buy anything, unless he has an imaginary friend I guess. There's only ONE PERSON. Got it?

When someone rants about bad English, HE will probably get flamed on the internet. Politically incorrect? Maybe - but gramatically, it IS correct. There is really no word in the English language for generic 2nd person singular pronoun. You HAVE to say HE OR SHE, him or hers, or - like the idiotic politically correct textbooks I read - alternate between the two every other paragraph.

If you're alive and breathing, human, and living in this country, you're about to get stuck with a $2,666.66 bill. That will cost me and my family over $13,000.00. Your government is saddling you with this debt. Why?

The debt ceiling will be raised by $800 billion to pay for a sub prime mortgage welfare package. It's welfare for everyone - irresponsible lenders and borrowers from wall street to main street.

But when every family already owes over a half mil in government debt and unfunded liabilities, what's another $13 grand?

Our financial system is going to collapse. This just puts it off a little longer and makes it a little worse when it does.

Here is the original article

And there's already talk of tax rebate (welfare package) II this year.

I know! We can use that to pay for the sub prime bailout! We'll just borrow our way out of debt.

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This article puts most of the blame for gas price increases the same place I assign the majority of the blame - the devaluation of the dollar.

As I've said many times, you got your stimulus package, the fed bailed out an investment company by inflating the money supply for the first time in history, the federal government continues to borrow, borrow, and borrow, and it's tantamount to theft.

Government sponsored inflation is stealing from you, but you don't see it. It's all a mind game with funny money, and not 1 person in 100 understands it.

Stop blaming the oil barrons, the bush administration, the saudis (we actually get most of our oil from Canada, but it's easier to blame brown people who dress funny and aren't christian), and everyone else.

It's not the economy, stupid. It's the fed, stupid.

OK all you HAM radio enthusiasts - I need some help here.

I just passed my technician license test. I don't have a call sign yet, but should have it tomorrow.

I'll be riding in the "Janie's over the next hill" motorcycle ride this sunday as a road captain and EMT. I'd like to have some other hams out at the event to help us coordinate the traffic of 400+ bikers or at least monitor for emergency traffic.

The event is up north. It starts at the downtown airport and winds up in Liberty. I know there are repeaters all over that area, but can't seem to find out the names of any clubs in those areas.

Can anyone help here?

I came across this video presentation that explains personality types. It's very entertaining!

It explains different personality types in colors, and shows how each interacts.

It's about 40 minutes long, so probably should save it for when you're not at work - but if you're into this sort of thing it's really fun.

Great for sales people and managers!

http://www.pathintze.com

Click on the link at the bottom left of the screen.

Enjoy!

(PS, I'm a RED) LOL....

Post your personality color after you've watched.

Kansas Senate Bill 458, "Comprehensive Immigration Reform", died in committee yesterday.

This bill would enact harsh penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens ("undocumented workers" to the leftist media).

We need to try to push this through again next year.

I'll be campaigning for it all summer. If you live in KS, call your state Rep and Senator to let them know you want it "revived" next year.

Full bill history:

S 0458                
Bill by Palmer, Barnett, Huelskamp, Journey, Ostmeyer                          
Sub for S 458 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs -- Kansas immigration  
enforcement and reform act.   Effective date: Statute Bk.                      
01/22/2008 S Introduced -SJ 1212                                               
01/23/2008 S Referred to Federal and State Affairs -SJ 1214                    
03/12/2008 S CR: Substitute be passed by Federal and State Affairs -SJ 1416    
03/26/2008 S COW: CR recommending sub. bill be adptd; be am.; Sub. be passed as
             am -SJ 1609                                                   
    
03/27/2008 S FA: Passed as am.; Yeas 40 Nays 0 -SJ 1632                        
03/28/2008 S Engrossed -SJ 1660                                                
03/27/2008 H Received and introduced -HJ 1793                                  
03/28/2008 H Referred to Federal and State Affairs -HJ 1794                    
05/29/2008 S Died in House committee 

60 minutes ran an interesting (and depressing) piece last Sunday evening about the "millennium generation". These are the kids who are now beginning to enter the workforce.

They are the 20 somethings who were raised to believe that everyone is a winner, everyone is special, everyone gets a trophy, and probably that everyone should get a paycheck just for showing up to work.

These kids expect to be able to move back in with mom and dad after graduating college, waiting as long as it takes to find that perfect job. Which, from what I saw, was a job that allowed them to wear their backwards baseball hats, t-shirts, dirty ragged jeans and neon pink flip-flops in every day. It also would ideally have a nap room, a break time for little parties and socializing on myspace, and other features of an adult daycare.

The sad thing is, the parents of these kids are STILL baby sitting the kids. They are calling college instructors complaining about the kids' grades. They're even going so far as to call HR departments to chew them out about a poor performance review that their little junior received. When will this madness end?

There is now a new multi-million dollar industry popping up to teach the kids how to dress, eat with manners, and probably even wipe correctly. These same consultants also teach managers how to 'coach" (read: baby sit) these kids rather than give them something to do and expect them to get it done.

Well one of the guests blamed it on Mr. Rogers. He's the one who started all this nonsense of every kid being a winner. Now don't get me wrong, my parents swear up and down I loved Mr. Rogers, and I do recall good memories of watching him. He was a great guy. But that didn't warp me into becoming a thumb sucking dependent at age 26. In fact I was out of the house at 18, before even graduating high school, and never went back.

The scary thing is, we're going to be handing off the largest debt in the history of the world to these kids.

Nope, it isn't Mr. Rogers who corrupted the kids. I suspect he may have corrupted the parents though.

Photographer has a problem with Totally Nude Temptations.

Evidently this photographer has a real problem with Totally Nude Tempations (a strip bar in downtown K.C.). So he decides to offer free family portraits for any man who shows up with his family in tow, to be taken in front of the club.

I guess we men are supposed to run like cockroaches exposed to the kitchen light. We're supposed to pretend that we've never been to strip clubs, that we never go to strip clubs, and never will again, right? Wrong.

This guy assumes that all families are as uptight as his. He assumes that everyone out there is of his nanny state mentality - ban everything you don't like. It's Smoking Ban Part II folks. If you don't like what's going on inside a club, BAN IT. Don't just decide you'll never walk in the front door, make sure nobody else can either!

Are the girls forced to work there? Are the guys forced to go there? Are the girls demeaned? The answer ( to anyone who has never known a stripper) is NO. Unless she already has a moral problem with it, in which case she's in the wrong line of work.

I'm tired of the moral majority folks. I'm tired of people dictating what can and can't be done behind closed doors between consenting adults. Let's all grab the wife and kids and run down to get our pics taken! Support your local strippers!

This article says it could

Who knows, but I don't think it can be completely ruled out.

All you people driving these 50,000 pound tank SUVs that need an extension ladder to get in... 50 miles each way to work by yourself, get out your visa card!

A Fox News story tonight lists a constitution party convention as an underdog that just "might have a shot" in the upcoming election. Well I'd like to ask, how do you "have a shot" when you only have ballot access in 20 states? The constitution party has been nearly defunct for years now. However, by contrast, the Libertarian Party (LP) held its conference in Kansas City 3 weeks ago. Fox conveniently ignored that convention.

I find it difficult to understand why the LP convention was ignored but the constitution party was featured. The constitution party doesn't even have ballot access in Kansas, yet the LP has ballot access in both KS and MO. Furthermore, the LP expects to have access in 48 states again this election cycle, just as it did in the last.

The LP convention featured a debate including former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel, former CNBC Co-anchor, best selling author, self made millionaire and "King of Vegas", Wayne Allyn Root. To top that off, former US House Representative Bob Barr announced his consideration for a run for US President at the convention. Barr is best known for leading the impeachment trials against Bill Clinton. He is currently polling nationwide at 7%, which is huge for a 3rd party candidate.

The LP is the only viable 3rd party in the United States. It is the largest 3rd party, and the fastest growing. But for some reason, it's not newsworthy compared to a party that apparently has nominated a pastor that nobody has ever heard of.

CNN showed up and ran the story nation wide, but for some reason Fox didn't show.

Why?

Every year when "Administrative Assistant" day rolls around, we shower ours with flowers, gifts, and praise. We take up a collection, we buy a card, we all sign it and woo these people into bliss. But I have a question about this practice: WHY?

WHY should I give you a card, give you flowers, do cartwheels and seranade ANYONE just for doing his or her job? We all work for a living. Most of us do the best we can. We all realize that there are both bad and good parts of our job. At some point everyone gets dumped on by someone as part of his or her job description. GET OVER IT.

When is truck driver's day? Or radio disclaimer reader guy's day? Or attorney's day? Or parking lot attendant's day?

This is ridiculous. it's all part of the "everyone gets a ribbon, because everyone is a winner" mentality that the bleeding heart insanity is perpetuating.

Do you job, collect your paycheck, be proud of what you do. You don't need cheerleaders just because you're doing what's expected of you. 

Red light cameras - law enforcement or profit center?

It seems the mainstream media has finally caught on to what many of us have known for some time: the cameras going up at intersections everywhere in the U.S. are more about PROFIT and less about SAFETY.

Although a longer yellow light means a safer intersection, several cities have been caught actually shortening the time of the yellow light after installing cameras in a blatant effort to increase revenue.

Cha CHING....

Once again, his holiness Barak Obama has shown his true colors. This time, it may be a bit more difficult to smooth over since race isn't involved. These comments come from a man who has really never spent much time anywhere other than big government and big insttituions. They show his true view of small town America, and the good people who live there.

Recently the democratic savior said these words during a fund raiser in illionois:

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama was quoted as saying by the Huffington Post.

"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," he said.

How condescending. Yes, many Americans (myself included) cling to guns and the American way of life. It's called self reliance and rugged individualism. It's called mistrust of big government and socialist policies. But I suppose there isn't much room for that Barak's utopian society where people are stripped of their guns and right to self defense, turn to radical (and racist) religions such as his own, and sign away most of thier paychecks to him and his Robin Hood government.

And, predictably, his co-phoney Hillary opportunistically follwed up with John Cougar's (Mellanchamp, whatever his name is this week) song, "Small Town" at her next fund raiser. I thought she was from New York? Or was it Arkansas? Oh, wait... hang on, she speaks with a Southern Accent. Oh ya, that's only when she's in the South.

Hillary has since gone on record as "suppotring hunter's rights". This of course is a perfect demonstration of her lack of understanding of the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (assuming that's what she's getting at) and her revisionist history. Evidently, her reading of the 2nd amendment is, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state; the right of the people to hunt and eat deer shall not be infringed".

Where do we come up with these jokers?

While playing at a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, Elton John called the U.S. a misogynistic country. He went on to say that he is shocked that America has not yet produced a female president

Now, if you don't know what misogynistic means, don't feel bad; I had no idea either. Wikipedia says this:

Misogyny (GA , RP ) is hatred or strong prejudice against women. The word comes from the Greek words µ?s?? (misos, "hatred")

Ok, now pay attention class. Sir Elton John may be a knight in his own country, but he is NOTHING here as far as I'm concerned, other than another leftist celebrity spouting off.. I personally don't care what he thinks of our politics. He has come to this country as a guest and chosen to insult us, and it has exposed his ignorance. But his question deserves an answer.

We haven't produced a female president because we haven't had a good female presidential CANDIDATE. Hillary is not only a bad choice, but I suspect that Elton is not supporting her just because she's female (and even if he was that's an obvious problem). No, he supports her because she is a fellow leftist, who is committed to following his European model of socialism.

So I say to Elton John, if you want us to elect a woman for president, how about you FIND US ONE that is viable. Or, better yet, if you don't like it, GO HOME.

There' s a reason why 10,000 bikers walked out of a stadium in Miluakee when Sir John showed up for Harley Davidson's 100th anneversary. This attitude probably has something to do with it.