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I have no idea where I saw this yesterday (or I’d give credit), but it made me giggle.

Got this email today. Take no offense. I like political humor regardless of the target party.

I was talking to a friend of mine’s little girl the other day. Asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, and she replied, ‘I want to be President!’ Both of her parents are liberal Democrats and were standing there.

So then I asked her, ‘If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?’

She replied, ‘I’d give houses to all the homeless people.’

‘Wow – what a worthy goal.’

I then told her, ‘You don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I’ll pay you $50. Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where this homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward a new house.’

Since she is only 6, she thought that over for a few seconds.

While her Mom glared at me, she looked me straight in the eye and asked, ‘Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?’

And I said, ‘Welcome to the Republican Party.’

Her folks still aren’t talking to me.

When I first heard the talk of a $700 billion bailout of the housing market, my initial thought was that it sounded like we are creating SOEs (State-owned entities). In other words, a step toward a socialist economy.

I’m still not sure where I stand on the issue. I don’t think it is certainly the best option, I also don’t know that it is best to do nothing. I can’t pretend to imagine the economic impact doing nothing might have. Tonight I came across an article about how Sweden rose from a very similar situation in the early 1990′s. If you like economics and want to see what may be a better idea than turning companies over to the government without giving anything back to shareholders, here is the article.

Politics is so much more fun with the World Wide Interweb and technology. If you are familiar with RickRollin’, you will love BarackRollin’. Actually, it’s pretty great even if you have no idea what I am talking about.

This is a bit of a return to the well, but after McCain delivered his acceptance speech in front of an alternately green and blue screen, it was too good an opportunity to pass up.
-Hugh Atkin

Update: The video was not available because YouTube was working on their site. No videos were viewable without going to the site itself. All is right with the world again.

Politics is so much more fun with the World Wide Interweb and technology. If you are familiar with RickRollin’, you will love BarackRollin’. Actually, it’s pretty great even if you have no idea what I am talking about.

This is a bit of a return to the well, but after McCain delivered his acceptance speech in front of an alternately green and blue screen, it was too good an opportunity to pass up.
-Hugh Atkin

Update: The video was not available because YouTube was working on their site. No videos were viewable without going to the site itself. All is right with the world again.

The United Nations Highest court, (supposedly highest court in the world), ORDERED the United States to stay the executions of five Mexican citizens on Texas’ death row until their cases can be reviewed. Mexico appealed to the UN to intervene because they claim the US is “defying a 2004 International Court of Justice order to review the cases of 51 Mexicans sentenced to death by state courts”. “That order was based on the Hague-based court’s finding that the condemned prisoners had been denied the right to help from their consulate following their arrest.”

Jose Medellin is the first scheduled to be executed for his part in a gang rape and murder of two teenage girls. So John Bellinger III, the U.S. legal adviser, made it known that Texas needs to wait on jamming down the plunger on the needle. President Bush told the state courts to hold up.

Texas said, “let us think about it…uh, no.” Seems if you come to Texas (illegally no less) and decide it might be a fun way to pass time by raping and murdering a couple of kids, you die. What do people expect when they pull this kind of thing in Texas?

The US Supreme Court upheld Texas’ decision with a 6-3 vote that the President lacks the authority to tell states what to do about a judgment from the UN’s court.

Don’t mess with Texas.

There was a story on the news this week about a reflection in Dick Cheney’s sunglasses. Curious if the picture was still up, I went to his page. Of course, the picture is gone. What I did find interesting is an option available on the page. Is this a commentary on the government’s seriousness on illegal immigration?

A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below.