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The Joy of Being Retired

by Big Dog on Oct 30, 2006 at 06:56 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well, for example, the other day I went downtown and went into a shop. I was only in there for about 5 minutes and when I came out there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. I went up to him and said, “Come on, man, how about giving a retired person a break”? He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. I called him a “Nazi.” He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires.

So I called him a “doughnut eating Gestapo.” He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more I abused him, the more tickets he wrote. Personally, I didn’t care. I came downtown on the bus and the car that he was putting the tickets on had a bumper sticker that said “Hillary in ’08.” I try to have a little fun each day now that I’m retired. It’s important to my health.

Tags: Humor

No Surprise, Baltimore Sun Endorses Ehrlich’s Opponent

by Big Dog on Oct 29, 2006 at 21:27 Posted in Political 2 Comments

The liberal rag, the Baltimore Sun, today endorsed Martin O’Malley, Robert Ehrlich’s opponent in the Maryland Governor’s race. The only major newspaper left in the city would have endorsed Adolph Hitler before it endorsed Robert Ehrlich because instead of being an objective reporter of the news, it is a partisan rag that trumpets the liberal cause throughout Maryland and it hates Republicans, especially Ehrlich. The Sun does not like Ehrlich because he stood up to them, he refused to allow his staff to speak with two reporters from the Sun because, in Ehrlich’s opinion, they did not report the facts. One of those reporters quit because of plagiarism so not only was he not reporting the facts, he was reporting someone else’s to boot. The Sun sued because it has this idea that the First Amendment gives specific reporters unencumbered access to the Governor. Ehrlich did not bar the Sun, just two reporters and the Sun lost this case in court because the judge saw it the way Ehrlich did.

The Washington Post, another very liberal paper but one that is better written, has endorsed Ehrlich. I mentioned that they did it early to give Ehrlich time to use the endorsement. The Sun, in order to help their boy O’Malley, did the same thing by releasing their endorsement a week earlier than is their usual custom. One can be certain that this was the Sun trying to help out O’Malley because of the Post endorsement. The Sun published the official endorsement today but it has been endorsing O’Malley for nearly a year by ignoring any story unfavorable to him and trumpeting any story that might show the boy whiner favorably. Despite its year long endorsement campaign, the Sun came in second to another, much better, paper.

The Sun basically lied about both candidate’s records. It reported all the things it thinks that Ehrlich did that has been bad while feeding everyone a load of BS on O’Malley’s record. It lied about crime statistics (but since that is what O’Malley does, they just followed his suit) and it ignores the fact that O’Malley has never run his own budget and that the only reason he has money is because it comes from the state. The Sun also ignored the 87 or so million dollars that O’Malley and the city school system lost and actually credited him with making the city school system financially sound when Ehrlich bailed them out after the loss of such a substantial amount of money. No one knows where it went but given the corruption that O’Malley allows to take place it is not hard to see how they lost it in the first place. The unfortunate thing is that the Sun decided to attribute some of the problems created by Maryland Democrats (including O’Malley’s brother-in-law) to Ehrlich. Items such as the shoddy electrical deregulation bill that was passed by Democrats in 1999, while Ehrlich was in the US Congress. The Sun’s desire to get rid of Ehrlich is so strong it has ignored the truth and conjured up stories to paint him in a bad light. What little journalistic integrity the Sun had dissolved with this hit piece disguised as an honest endorsement.

The city has woefully inadequate schools and a terrible school system that has more administrators than teachers and they still can not get it right despite more than adequate per student spending. The murder rate in Baltimore is high, as it has always been and when O’Malley has a reduction of a few the Sun acts like the world has turned into a greater place because of it. Drugs still run rampant on the streets, people are killed in drug related violence and families get fire bombed to death because they dared to speak up. The city has a revolving door of crime where criminals are back on the street in time to commit a new crime before sun down.

This is the city under O’Malley and it is terrible. He can not lead and he cries about everything. I wonder if he is really a man as much crying as he does and now the Sun wants him to do for the state what he has done for the city. No thanks Sun, we need better than that. If you so called unbiased protectors of the First Amendment could actually see things without the hatred you would know that Ehrlich is the best candidate for Maryland. At least the real newspapers think so. I guess it is hard for you guys to see things since you have your heads so far up your rears that you need to put a glass in your belly buttons to see anything.

No one should pay attention to the rag Baltimore Sun. It backed Kathleen Kennedy Townsend in the last election and said that the only thing Michael Steele brought to the ticket was the color of his skin. How is that for an unbiased view. The Sun hates Ehrlich and does not want him in office because he actually holds them accountable and he exposes their bias. Ehrlich was not going to get the Sun’s endorsement even if Satan was running as the Democrat (come to think of it…) so to those of us who know the Sun this is no surprise. I called this one and I said they would endorse early so they could play catch up with their boy. O’Malley should feel great getting this endorsement especially when you consider that Satan could have gotten it.

I urge people to do two things. Vote for Robert Ehrlich and instead of buying the Sun, save the money and donate it to charity.

Tags: Political

I Can Only Imagine – Powerful Video

by Big Dog on Oct 29, 2006 at 12:56 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments

This is a powerful video about the bond between a father and his son. Many thanks to Kat for bringing this to my attention:

Others showing this:
Cigar Intelligence Agency

Tags: General

Are Clintons Losing Their Appeal

by Big Dog on Oct 29, 2006 at 12:43 Posted in Political 2 Comments

Bill Clinton celebrated his 60th birthday in August and he was all over for gala events. He recently hosted an event to benefit his Global Initiative and raised quite a bit of money. No one can fault the man for the efforts he has made in this endeavor because he has raised money to help people. If there is one thing the Clintons have been good at it is raising money. One only needs to take a look at Hillary’s financial disclosure form to see that Bill is still a top draw earning anywhere from 125 to 500 thousand dollars each time he appears at an event.

Last night there was an event to celebrate his birthday and to raise money for his Global Initiative. The Rolling Stones were to appear and Hillary and Chelsea sent out 10,000 invitations to the elite in America asking them to pay half a million dollars for photo ops, golf, and a premier seat at the concert. The minimum price was 60 thousand and that did not include the frills the half million price brought. Unfortunately for the Clintons, they did not sell very many tickets at the half million dollar price. As the event approached there was a question as to whether the Stones would perform because Mick Jagger was ill. In addition, they had to discount the tickets or face the reality of having a lot of empty seats.

The ticket prices were reduced to 12,500 dollars for one reception and the concert and $5000 for the concert only. There has been no report yet regarding turn out or if there was any backlash from those who paid $500,000 for seats only to find people who paid significantly less sitting with them. This begs the question, have the Clintons lost their appeal?

Perhaps with the election season in full bloom many of the heavy hitters are unwilling to pony up a significant amount of money to see the Stones or have their photos taken with Bill. Maybe, people are experiencing Clinton overload. In the last few months, Hillary has made the circuit in order to raise money for her run at the White House and Bill was out raising billions for his charity. Now that faithful have paid those dues as well as their dues to the party’s candidates, perhaps they are unwilling to throw more money into the pot.

What ever the reason, it will be interesting to see what the real attendance numbers for the event were and how much he raised for charity. If the numbers are low, it will also be interesting to see how the Clinton PR machine spins the results.

Source:
Daily Mail UK

Tags: Commentary, Political

Will al-Qaeda Have October Surprise?

by Big Dog on Oct 29, 2006 at 10:27 Posted in Political 3 Comments

An October surprise in politics is when the opposition releases some news story or similar item that is designed to affect the outcome of the election. According to MSNBC some counter terrorism officials believe that, considering past patterns, Osama bin Laden might release a tape prior to the election as he did in 2004. Big Dog’s Weblog has in fact confirmed that OBL will release a tape and has obtained a transcript of it.

bin Laden: In the name of Allah, the most benevolent who gives us strength for jihad against the imperialist pigs. I come before you tonight to ask you to vote for Democrats in the upcoming election. We wage jihad against the Great Satan because your crusader President, Bush, is a worshiper of the Cross and he is the reincarnation of Satan, as attested to by Hugo Chavez who has a keen nose for sulfur. We fight you and we attacked you on his watch because he is determined to kill off Muslims who are members of a peaceful religion. I know there are Americans who doubt our sincerity because we attacked you for years while Clinton, a beloved brother in the over throw of America, was in charge. We had to do that to help him by taking attention away from his escapades with a woman. Clinton failed to realize that women are Satan’s weapon so we helped him with attacks.

The Democrats will raise your taxes and make sure that your economy is crippled so we will not have to waste resources and the lives of our martyrs in waiting. They will pull your occupying imperialist forces out of Iraq so that we can reinstate brother Hussein, Allah be praised, and ensure that the Muslim brothers are once again kept under tight control. When Democrats take the lead they will allow open homosexuality and gay marriage, more abortions of unborn imperialist babies and the overwhelming unemployment caused by their oppressive taxes will set the Great Satan up for take over by the only true religion, Islam, (sings) Ah la la la la la la.

In addition, the vote for Democrats will ensure that Bush Hitler is tied up in a quagmire so that he can stop killing all my al-Qaeda operatives. We will then be able to join with our brother, Mahmood Amedinejhad, in the effort to wipe Israel off the map. You on the left in America know you do not want Israel to survive so we can work together on this, Allah willing.

I implore you in the name of Allah, the most gracious, most benevolent, highest authority, and Islamic leader, to vote for Democrats in this upcoming election. Therefore, in the words of the Prophet Mohammad, Allah bless him, we will enforce Sharia Law in the world and we will be easy upon those of you on the left. Please tell Jack Murtha and John Kerry that we enjoyed the tea and look forward to their support again in the future.

There you have it….

Tags: Political, Satire