In time for the debates. Unfortunately due to unusual personal and professional circumstances, I had to take a short hiatus.

But, I have had a couple of my customers tell me that I look like Jim Shannon of WAFB

So Do I?

Anyway, there are a lot of things I want to talk about, I'll be giving my inputs on the debates, filesharing, and of course more free speech issues.

Before I begin, I want to say that every word in this post leads you to a different blog. It isn’t done in any particular order.

In Blog We Trust

I know, I know, it’s blasphemy. But as I drove down the street today, thinking about what movie I was going to rent from Blockbuster Video, the radio caught my attention. Many days, while driving around, I don’t pay too much attention to what’s going on, after all, I am busy working. But tonight Michael Savage said five words that caught my attention. ‘What is it about blogging?'

He went on to say that bloggers can just say what ever they want to, that bloggers ‘can just make stuff up’. This wasn’t the first time that I heard somebody say it and it won’t be the last. Bloggers seem to be developing a reputation in the mainstream media as being dishonest, even though the majority of bloggers are not.

I have that those who accuse others are usually the guilty ones. If you know someone who blames others of theft quite often, keep an eye on them. It’s most likely that they will steal from you. The guy who comes home and accuses wife of cheating, guess what he’s been up too. People project their own guilt onto others.

It’s that way in the professional world as well as your personal world. It’s just the way many people react. The reason this is, its because people see the rest of the world as being just like they are. It’s why liberals call theirselves ‘moderates’ and conservatives proudly call theirselves ‘conservative’, and both insist that the other side is ‘out of touch’ and is extreme. They see the rest of the world being as normal as they are while those who are different are just weird.

So when I hear people complain of widespread lies, I have to wonder if they aren’t the ones who are lying. The reason they accuse so many people of lying is because they think it’s the norm, everybody lies just like they do. Why do they assume that so many people are dishonest and that the internet is mostly unreliable? If one is an honest person, wouldn’t he consider himself honest on the internet as well? Does the internet really turn you into an evil goon? Certainly with so many people on the internet, one would think that it’s also a vast source truth.

Another one of the reasons for such distrust is because of the anonymity of the internet. There is an attitude that you have to see it to believe it, that if it’s on the internet it’s automatically false. Yet, we won’t take this same approach to other aspects of our lives. Movies often cite figures that don’t necessarily prove factual, yet, so many times people take this a truth.

An example of this is a recent movie called “The Day After Tomorrow” in which “facts” were written into a script of a movie that was made in part, according "raise consciousness about the environment." How many times do we see things presented in facts during a movie and we never question it.But we are expected to question everything we read on the internet.

It’s rampant in our entertainment, yet we take their unwanted knowledge and store it away. We hear radio talk show hosts spew out facts, and are expected to believe everything they say. On Sundays, we open up our bibles while we believe the guy preaching to us is a good upstanding citizen. We believe in our presidents when we go to war or when they say they won’t raise our taxes.

We are expected to trust our politicians with new laws even after they were less than truthful of their intentions when they were campaigning. Yet, we are not supposed to go on the internet and believe neighbors, our colleagues, or friends or our family members, because suddenly what they say isn’t truthful because they said it on the internet.

It’s easy to say that the blogosphere is anonymous, that the person behind the computer sitting in his living room wearing his Batman pajamas with a Dick Tracy hat is living out some twisted heroic fantasy. That the blogger in question needs to lie about their own views. Listening to the mainstream media, you’d think we were all professional daytime talk show analysts waiting around for our checks.

But that isn’t the blogosphere.

What we are witnessing isn’t just pamphleteering that Michelle Malkin spoke of. It’s more than that; it’s a new form of communication. It’s the new telephone, only now, you can tell everybody the great news, or the bad news, and it only takes a few minutes.

You can come home and vent, let it all out, scream at the world, and not hurt anybody’s feelings. You can tell your friends everything, at your convenience and they can listen at their convenience. You can be who you really are; you are free to be who you are.

You can talk about what interests you and those who are interested will read what you say. Bloggers are just people with web sites who give it a little more care. It’s everything you wanted to say after you hung up the phone. You can say what you really believe and you can say it public or in private. It’s your own diary of your thoughts, only it’s on the internet.

But it is the polibloggers who are making all the waves these days, especially this election year. It wasn’t the Bush campaign that crumbled the walls of iCBS it was the bloggers. will be more instances, especially if the media keeps misunderestimating the bloggers.

You see, bloggers are many things, but dishonest? No, bloggers are not. Whether we are talking about the left-winger or the right-winger, when given the opportunity he’s going to tell you what he really thinks. The blogger is the guy who used to sit in front of his television wondering why the commentators are a bunch of bozos making silly arguments. He’s the guy who should have been there making the case for what he believes, not some guy who’s been trained to argue both sides of the debate.

Bloggers also have put some blood, sweat, and tears into the style of their blogs and the longer the blog exists, the more important it becomes to the owner of the blog that he is honest. He earned his readership, and wants to keep it that way.

The blogger may be anonymous his audience is even more so. The blogger does not know if his sister is reading it nor does he know if his boss is reading it. He is hanging himself out there and has no choice but to be honest.

When I decided to start a blog, I decided to give my real name out. I was somewhat nervous about it. Why shouldn’t I be? Who knows what kind of freaks are out there? I could become a victim of identity theft. I can get some strange phone calls in the middle of the night, or somebody could really air out some embarrassing information aboutme.

But I did it anyway in large part because I wanted to create an atmosphere that I had to be honest in. My beliefs, my work, everything about me can be verified much easier. Many of the people that read my blog I see any where from&

The Black Eye peas have really been influential in 2004. First they released a single that did well for them. So well, that their hit single was slightly changed into "Let's Get It Started In Here" and became the theme song for the NBA Finals. Then the Black Eye Peas were spotted getting a groove out of the delegates on the final night of the DNC convention.

The song has gotten so big that a Baton Rouge area lawyer wants to get back to the original lyrics, "Let's Get Retarded In Here." That's the defense your honor, Derrick Todd Lee is mentally retarded.

He must have seen the evidence against DTL. In other words, the attorney doesn't think he can win. He believes his best bet is to argue tha DTL is retarded and should not have his life on earth eradicated. We know he's guilty and was intelligent enough to get away with murder for a couple of years, but he's retarded.

My personal view on it has changed. Since they are now admitting guilt, give him the death penalty. He's killed 5 or 6 women and now wants to hide behind retardation?

If an intelligent man killed 5 women, he'd be executed. If an animal killed people, we'd kill the animal. Why should a serial killer be any different?

Question for the war protestors, Exactly which of the wars that the United States have won, do you disagree with?

***Coming Soon---In Blog We Trust***

I've had it! I am so sick of hearing about how Iraq is such a terrible quagmire that is just as bad, if not worse than Vietnam. It's like opening up the help wanted ads in your newspaper and seeing the plethora of jobs while John Kerry talks about us teetering on the Great Depression. We are no where near Herbert Hoover days.

By the same token, we are no where near Vietnam. We've been listening to the the left tell us what a mess Iraq is since day one. Well if that's what they think of it, then what on earth do they say about these other wars?

I am sick enough to run the numbers, if anybody has any doubt, run the numbers yourself and then tell me if you get something different.

Since March 22, 2003 the United States has lost 1041 American lives in 550 days as of 9-22-04. 247 or 23.72% are considered Non-Hostile according to Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

WAR-------------------------Total deaths----------Time
Revolutionary War-------------------4,435---------6 years 8 months
War of 1812--------------------------2,260---------2 years 6 months
Mexican War-------------------------13,283--------1 year 8 months
Civil War: Union---------------------359,528-------4 years
-----Confederate-------------------- 198,524------4 years
--------Combined---------------------558,052------4 years
Spanish-American War--------------2,446---------4 months
World War I--------------------------116,708-------1 year 7 months
World War II-------------------------407,316-------3 years 8 months
Korean War--------------------------33,651---------3 years 1 month
Vietnam War-------------------------58,168---------7 years 6 months
Gulf War------------------------------193------------1 month

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The amount of time it would take for us to lose equal amount of American lives in Iraq by war.
War-----------------------------Amount of time to equal casualties.
Revolutionary War------------------- 6 years 153 days
War of 1812-------------------------- 3 years 99 days
Mexican War------------------------- 19 years 83 days
Civil War: Union--------------------- 520 years 155 days
-----Confederate-------------------- 287 years 134 days
-------Combined--------------------- 807 years 289 days
Spanish-American War-------------- 3 years 197 days
World War I-------------------------- 168 years 338 days
World War II------------------------- 589 years 218 days
Korean War-------------------------- 48 years 259 days
Vietnam War------------------------- 84 years 72 days
Gulf War------------------------------ 102 days

Method used:
Total number of American Deaths in Iraq (1041)/number of days (550) = 1.8927 average death per day
Total casualties of wars Ex.--Vietnam 58,168 / 1.8927= 30,732 (Total number of days)
Total number of days (30,732)/ number of days in year (365) = 84.199 (84 years)
Total number of years (84) x number of days in a year (365) = Total number of days in years(30660)
Total number of days (30,732) minus total number of days in years (30660) = days left over (72 days)

Since day one, liberals have opposed the war in Iraq. It's time for them to just shut up and back the men and women serving the United States.

Last Week 8-8
Season Record 15-17

Sunday, Sep. 26

Arizona at Atlanta -
Durty Burdz fly high. Leave Cards bloody red.
AV~Picks Durty Burdz 34 Cards 21 (55)
Final Score Durty Burdz 6 Cards 3 (9)
Week Record 1-0
Season Record 16-17

Baltimore at Cincinnati -
The Ravens pick up where they left off
AV~Picks Ravens 24 Bengals 17 (41)
Final Score Ravens 23 Bengals 9 (32)
Week Record 2-0
Season Record 17-17

Chicago at Minnesota -
Bearsclaw out a victory.
AV~Picks Clawing Bears 25 Vikings 14 (39)
Final Score Vikes 27 Bears 22 (49)
Week Record 2-1
Season Record 17-18

Cleveland at N.Y. Giants -
Army ants march on.
AV~Picks Army Ants 19 Browns 17 (36)
Final Score Army Ants 27 Browns 10 (37)
Week Record 3-1
Season Record 18-18

Houston at Kansas City -
More battle of the defeateds, Chiefs scalp Texans.
AV~Picks Chiefs 38 Texans 28 (66)
Final Score Texans 24 Chiefs 21 (45)
Week Record 3-2
Season Record 18-19

Jacksonville at Tennessee -
Titans used to be oilers but the Jags D are a well oiled machine.
AV~Picks Jags 23 Titans 10 (33)
Final Score Jags 15 Titans 12 (27)
Week Record 4-2
Season Record 19-19

New Orleans at St. Louis -
Saints got (Joe) Horn but get rammed.
AV~Picks Rams 28 Saints 17 (45)
Final Score Saints 28 Rams 25 (53)
Week Record 4-3
Season Record 19-20

Philadelphia at Detroit -
Eagles fly high, avoid big cat bite.
AV~Picks Eagles 28 Lions 20 (48)
Final Score Eagles 30 Lions 13 (43)
Week Record 5-3
Season Record 20-20

Pittsburgh at Miami -
Fins got no swim, no rythum. Fins get sunk by a ton of steel.
AV~Picks Ton of Steel 27 Fins 13 (40)
Final Score Steelers 13 Fins 3 (16)
Week Record 6-3
Season Record 21-20

San Diego at Denver -
Buckin broncs bolt San Diego. It's an electrifying night in Denver.
AV~Picks Buckin Broncs 38 Bolted 16 (54)
Final Score Bucking Broncos 23 Bolted 13 (36)
Week Record 7-3
Season Record 22-20

Green Bay at Indianapolis -
Indy 500 gets packed by GB-D
AV~Picks Packers 28 Colts 24 (52)
Final Score Colts 45 Packers 31 (76)
Week Record 7-4
Season Record 22-21

San Francisco at Seattle -
Seattle has stuck gold, it's blue and size D
AV~Picks Hawks 23 Niners 9 (32)
Final Score Hawks 34 Niners 0 (34)
Week Record 8-4
Season Record 23-21

Tampa Bay at Oakland
SB rematch, loser wins draft position. Buccs lose big prize
AV~Picks Buccs 19 Raiduhs 14 (33)
Final Score Raiduhs 30 Buccs 20 (50)
Week Record 8-5
Season Record 23-22

Monday, Sep. 20 Dallas at Washington-
Game 1 of cowboys and injuns, jes like the olden dayz.
AV~Picks Boize 30 Skins 24 OT (54)
Final Score Boize 21 Skins 18 (39)
Week Record 9-5
Season Record 24-22

Open date: Buffalo, Carolina, New England, N.Y. Jets

After visiting several blogs over the weekend, I've had it with the Dan Rather story. I made some jokes about it, but for the most part, I stayed away from it. There was other things going on besides Dan Rather.

However, if there was any question of liberal bias in the media, it was laid to rest as average liberals, knowing one of their own was about to fall, came to the defense of Rather. To them it was irrelevant whether or not the documents were real, what matter is that Bush was being accused of something.

And how pathetic is it that liberals who think they have a war hero on their side, have to belittle the service of a National Gaurdsmen because their guy can't stand on his record. We the people would rather have George Bush leading our men and women in uniform than John Kerry and the liberals know this.

And speekun of John Kerry and his service in Vietnam, I want to remind each of you liberals of another American who fought in a war, only to turn and aid the enemy. His name was Benedict Arnold, although, I wouldn't question his patriotism if I were you. That's what makes Bush's National Gaurd service so much better than Kerry's.

And if Kerry didn't have enough troubles along comes Football Fans for Truth a 527 that is taking a stand against John Kerry's athleticism. As was so eloquently stated by these two gentlemen...

Dino Panagopoulos, Chairman: "John Kerry is a menace to sports fans everywhere. Can we take four years of this? I don't think so."
Jeff Larroca, Director: "He is not fit to be our sports-fan-in-chief."

Click on their website and find out where "LAMBERT FIELD" is.

And Kerry's troubles continue with the outspoken Buffet King releasing more comments. It's bad enough that Mikael Moore led the liberal media in falsifying information for pure propaganda purposes. Not only did Propaganda 9-11 help push people into Bush's corner, but also led other liberals to believe that they too can get away with forging documents in order to have a story. Who can blame Damned Rather? Mikael Moore did it, why couldn't he?

So after helping Bush beat up Kerry, Mikael Moore came out with more comments on his website that express the desperation on behalf of the Kerry campaign. Some of the highlights from his "message"

¤Geez, this is embarrassing! The Republicans are laughing at us.- Yes, we are.

¤They are relentless and that is why we secretly admire them -- they just simply never, ever give up. Only 30% of the country calls itself "Republican," yet the Republicans own it all - Don't hate us cause we're beautiful. And yes, we do own it all, which makes liberals in America insignificant.

¤It's because they eat you and me and every other liberal for breakfast and then spend the rest of the day wreaking havoc on the planet. - Yes, it's true. I had a tasty liberal cooked medium rare for breakfast, but the fun didn't begin til I bought 15 gallons of oil and poured it out on a tree. That made my day.

¤ Suddenly it's like, "THE END IS NEAR! THE SKY IS FALLING!" - Buddy, the sky hasn't even begun to fall yet. Just wait until the debates.

¤ Dammit, of COURSE he's a lousy candidate -- he's a Democrat, for heavens sake! - Liberal, you meant liberal and I couldn't agree more, liberal candidates just suck.

¤ My friends, it is time for a reality check. - It's about time, next time, do a reality check before you release a propaganda film.

¤ The polls are wrong. They are all over the map like diarrhea - Have you noticed the polls never favor Kerry by much?

¤One, they are polling "likely voters." - Right, we should be polling Cubans, French, and Bulgarians. They aren't likely to vote, but......

¤Kerry has brought in the Clinton A-team - As if Kerry needed another kiss of death.

¤Traveling around the country, as I've been doing, I gotta tell ya, there is a hell of a lot of unrest out there. - Yes, after 7 months of Kerry, who isn't anxious to go vote for Bush?

¤Conventional wisdom says if the election is decided on "9/11" (the fear of terrorism), Bush wins. - Which reminds me, isn't your propaganda film due out right before the election? As if Kerry needs any more problems...

¤that "job," you might have noticed, has descended into the third level of a hell we used to call Vietnam. - Um Mikael, where have you been? We've just recently lost our 1,000^th person in Iraq. How long ago was it that we went in? Wasn't it over a year and a half ago? Was there any year during Vietnam that we lost less than a thousand soldiers? What kind of pot are you smoking buddy? We are no where near 58,000 and at the current rate it's going to take us 87 years before we lose as many lives as we lost in Vietnam. Seriously, put the crack pipe (and crab cakes) down.

¤The Bush people need you to believe that it is over. They need you to slump back into your easy chair and feel that sick pain in your gut as you contemplate another four years - I don't know about other Bush people, but that ain't me. I want you liberals to put every ounce of energy into this election. I want you to drain every blood, sweat, and tear for the duration of this campaign. I want you to put your heart and soul into it. That way, when George W. Bush is re-elected, not only will it sting, it'll crush you. I want to see you libs devastated on November 3rd.

¤WAKE UP! The majority are with us! - Mikael, you forgot to say "of Al Qaeda is..." right after 'majority'

¤how you wish Kerry was still that long-haired kid who once had the courage to stand up for something. - Wouldn't you just rather have Benedict Arnold?

Arguments for.....

Though I am for free speech I do think that it is important us to have sensible speech legislation. We can not continue to allow organizations such as Swift Boat Veterans and Moveon.org to have unchecked free speech. We put our children at risk everyday by allowing assault speech on the streets.

When they come home, they are subjected to hate speech from cruel newscasters, hence the title of the bill

This is not about infringing on your free speech, it's about sensible free speech laws. We would follow similiar laws on the books which will guide who should not be allowed to have speech, much less assault speech.

¤In 1998, hurt speech speech was used to hurt Monica's feelings, as well as the well known damage to the first family. In Iraq, nobody accused the President of sexual immorality. 16 cases of hurt speech and 0 cases of assault speech in Cuba, 13 cases of hurt speech and 2 assault speeches in North Korea. 16 cases of hurt speech and 1 case of assault speech in Canada, while there were 29,685 cases of hurt speech and 9390 cases of assault speech in the United States.

¤Homes that have speech are 22 times more likely to be used in domestic arguments, while hate speech notes often accompany suicide-related thoughts. When someone is home, a hurt words such as 'get out' often don't have the same impact as assault speech words such as "move an inch and I shoot. Only two percent of criminals overcome the psychological impact of assault speech during crimes.

¤A study that compared 26 industrialized countries reported that the unintentional hurt feelings rate for children 0-14 is nine times higher in the U.S. than in the other 25 countries combined.

¤During 1999, 52% of all free speech victims under 18 in the U.S. were hurt by assault speech. In 1998, a total of 3,792 Americans ages 19 or under cried because of hurt speech, assault speech and mean thoughts. For every child devastated by assault speech, four are hurt by hurt speech.

Millions of children are subjected to hurt speech in the classroom, while teacher take a potty break. How can our children even learn in the classroom with hurt speech so rampant?

And if that is not enough, many children are forced to walk home or ride the bus with a distracted driver. This is were unmonitered speech turns into assault speech. Many children come home crying because they were subjected to assault speech. What's worse is that assault speech leads to even more violent behaviour. Our children are becoming addicted to assault speech at an alarming rate and school suspension have risen 33% since 1943. This is mostly due to fighting which sprung up from assault speech.

We cannot allow Dan Rather and other assault speech addicts corrupt the minds of our children. We are seeing forged test on the rise. Children in states that the SBVFT Ads were played are now questioning whether or not their parents graduated high school, and just last week, BobInNY spanked his son because his son called him 'Hitler' after watching a Moveon.org commercial on the internet.

How It Works
McCain Fiengold did not do enough, we must do more for our children, we can do better!" Assault speech ban to include five day "cooling off" period. All speech should be applied for through the FBI. When you feel like saying something, you submit it to the FBI assault speech division where it will be analyzed and a background check will be done to see if you have abused speech and/or prohibited from owning a gun. Of course, if you weren't responsible enough to own a gun, why would you be responsible enough to have speech?

After five days, your speech is either approved or rejected. If rejected, you may submit speech two more times. The three strikes and your out rule is enforced. If your speech is approved then you may take the speech and use it at your free will, however, it will expire 30 days after approval.

This is not about infringing on anybodies right to free speech, but we don't believe that a nine year old should use a bazooka of assault speech in his backyard either. If parents can not raise their children properly, then the government needs to do something.

All speech will have the same restrictions as gun laws. Source of information

I am going to try something that's very difficult for me to do. Understand that as a conservative it's very hard for me to reach out, I was born bigoted. Despite my silver spoon, Neanderthal, trailer park, hateful Republican upbringing, I'm going to try to be open-minded. I want to understand sexual perverseness freedom.

Let's start with necrophilia, after all, it seems to be a popular California liberal tradition. What is it about necrophilia that one would try it? Is it the eerily cold flesh? Is it the blurry eyes? Is it the Wrigley maggots?

What about rapist? Being a bigot, I don't understand rapist either. I know, I know, how do I know I'm not a rapist until I try it, but I'll continue to be bigoted in my Neanderthal way. I just don't understand it. Tell me, why should I accept that sexual freedom?

What is it about child molestation? Is it the hairless skin? Is it the S&M with out the leather whips that makes this activity so attractive?

I couldn't possibly get into the whole farm thing; I'm not even going to get into the discussion of that. It's true, I'm the biggest beastialiphobe you've ever seen. I've got to draw the line somewhere, and hopefully when we get there, my fellow citizens will join me in standing up against that.

I know it's not the same ballpark but at what point do you think people should stand up for some type of standard? The American public is not Neanderthals, we're not stupid trailer park hicks, we're not elite moralists who wants the government to rule with an iron fist on the bible. We are just common people who are sick of being offended by you leftist on a daily basis.

What you liberals don't understand is that the majority of Americans don't care whether you are gay or not. It's not important to us, it's not important to me. In fact, I'll be so bold to say that it's none of my business if you lead a homosexual lifestyle. I don't care.

Yet, it isn't the public that keeps your lifestyle in our lives, it's you. Nobody cares to peep into your bedroom; it's not our business, quit making it our business.

The public is preached homosexuality in what seems like every movie, television show, album, and news channel. We see pride parades, gay day, and we are told that homosexuals should be accepted in the military. The homosexual community suffers an AIDS epidemic and instead of blaming the activity of unsafe promiscuous sex, we're told it's Ronald Reagan's fault because he didn't mention AIDS to the public for sometime. And today, one of our most sacred values, the institution of marriage is now under fire. It's inescapable. Yet many of us don't complain because we tolerate it. Yes, they make fun of you, they laugh behind your back, but they tolerate you. But let's see how tolerant you are

Why don't we do this, start demanding that Hollywood preach tolerance towards Christianity? We could change their scripts slightly, instead of showing homosexuals being discriminated against by some bigot, show a Christian in his place. The tolerance line could change slightly from "So what? What's wrong with two men in love?" into "So What? What's wrong with a man loving Jesus?"

Instead of Republicans being the butt of jokes, use Democrats once in a while. Let the conservatives dominate Hollywood for awhile. Don't worry, we'd only use it to forward our agenda as much as liberals currently do.

Why don't we organize a straight parade? We could march down the streets, half-naked, celebrating our bodies in all its heterosexual glory. What's wrong with hetero-pride? We could chant "I'm straight, I know it. I'm not afraid to show it!"

Why don't we take over a block in the middle of San Francisco, wave the confederate flag from every building, and let the world know that some people are proud of their southern heritage? No? Why not? Go down to bourbon street, there are a ton of pride flags, and it's tolerated. Couldn't you tolerate hundreds of confederate flags on Haight & Asbury? Do you have a problem tolerating that?

Yet, you expect the majority of Americans to sit back and take the constant barrage of homosexuality. Yes, it offends them, but they understand that this is a free country and allow it to go on. They say nothing about it.

We watched and let it go further and further, but when the laws become irrelevant by one Mayor in San Francisco, then the people begin to wake up. People understand that our laws are instituted for a reason and that reason is to keep order in society. Even I, an anti-government freeper, understand that. Would you have it that a judge in Nebraska throw out every case before him that the perp had beaten up a homosexual, just because he disapproves of homosexuality? You won't respect the laws, yet expect the laws to be respected by others?

And when does the agenda end? Does it end with homosexuals being allowed to marry? Does it include throwing people in jail for hate crimes because they quoted the bible? Should it even end with homosexuality? Should it include a 35 year old's Right to marry a 14 year old? If so, then shouldn't Mary Kay Letourneau be given forgiven? After all, what's wrong with love?

If love is a crime, she's guilty!

Would NAMBLA be excused then? Isn't NAMBLA a variant of homosexuality? Exactly when does the assault on our values stop? For a growing number of people, it stops now.

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Despite voter irregularities in New Orleans (see previous post), the One Man One Woman marriage amendment passed in Louisiana. However, New Orleans would not have made much of a difference on this issue. The amendment passed with 79% of the state vote for passage.

No word yet whether Louisiana has been dubbed the 'Hate State' or if there will be a boycott by the gay community on Louisiana. Hopefully any boycott will include not giving campaign donations to Democrat candidates.

Cleo may have won his PSC campaign but he obviously doesn't have the pull with African American votes that he used to have. Fields, known from driving African Americans down to the polls while handing out his 'Vote the Fields Ticket' that contains the names of other Democrats was unable to get the African American community to vote for Winfield. Byron Sharper, who ran against Fields during the last election, won handily.

It is not yet known whether Cleo supported the Marriage Amendment and his supporters voted for it, or if he opposed it and just could not deliver the votes on this issue either. I'm betting that Cleo Fields is just no longer an influential player.

Oops they did it again, they've taken our votes, and screwed it up again. In the city known for its sexual freedom, Mardi Gras, and Superbowls, New Orleans has put itself on the map again. This time, many voters were not allowed to vote during the morning. The did have the opportunity to come back in the evening and vote.

The problem, according to Nola.com is that Elections machines were not in place at 52 voting places in New Orleans when polls opened Saturday for a vote on a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and numerous important local races. It looks like Kip Holden is going to be first and Bobby Simpson is in second. The runoff will be in six weeks.

Anyway, I voted. I had a running joke today,
"I'm going to go vote later as a homeless person."
Yeah, it was a bad joke.

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I was out having fun this weekend bloghopping. Yeah, I know, whoopee, but it beats getting a DUI ticket. Anyway, I came across this post from some blogger. As soon as I find it I will post it.

I obviously took this as a sign that he would approve of us conservatives posting sharing this information with other conservatives. You see, it's free speech to know personal information and go to their house and stage a protest. Although I could not participate in a protest, I do wonder if these folks would like to be greeted by a welcome home party.

In all honesty, I do not advocate going to their homes and causing a stir, I'll leave that work to the brownshirts.

Peaceful protest at the residence of John O'Neill, co-author of Unfit for Truth. O'Neill's charges against John Kerry's Viet Nam service are proven lies, discredited by the men who served with Kerry.

Saturday, September 18,2004 10:00 am - Noon 2208 Devonshire, Houston, Texas (corner or Kingston and Devonshire - off Westheimer, between Sheppard and Kirby)

Veterans and military families respond to the attacks on the military record of John Kerry and ALL U.S. veterans. SUPPORT Veterans� rights. STOP the slashing of Veterans� benefits and services. Respect the honor of our military veterans.

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