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This platform has my support!

I'd vote for Jonathon 'The Impaler' Sharkey. After all, aren't most politicians Vampires?

http://www.impalerthemovie.com/

I can appreciate the feeling that things need to change for real and in the past they haven't changed as they should but the choices are Dummycrat or Republican.  That's the reality of the matter.

Choose the lesser of two evils.

A vote for anyone else is a vote for the possibility that a disgusting "Anti-American" and his Anti-American wife would be somehow actually voted into office.

A vote is not only a right... it is a DUTY to try to help your country.

If you want to protest you need to find a better venue for it because no one hears or sees your opinions or ideas in a ballot you throw away.

The best thing you can do is vote for one of the real choices available and I choose to vote for the possibility that a particular candidate will actually do something for my country.

I'm not stupid enough to think my country would particularly do anything for just me as I'm one in how many millions???  But... I know that it will get down to me too when something good happenes to our country.

I spent about ten months in the last year or so living in Russia and I learned a hell of a lot there.  Some good and some not good.

I came back home to America with a new and increased appreciation for my country and the freedoms and liberties we take for granted and so many outright mock while they enjoy the freedoms they are mocking.

One of the first things I saw when I got back to the US was some bimbo on television saying for the first time in her adult life she is not ashamed of her country.  I was wondering who the hell is this????  They said it was the wife of someone running for President of the United States.  I was thinking...  WHAT??????  How the hell can someone so anti-American be running for President and how can so many Americans be supporting such an openly Anti-American to be there in our Whitehouse?

I swore an oath to protect this country and I stand by that oath to this day.  It wasn't just during my almost ten years of service in our military.  I took an oath to protect our nation from enemies externally or internally and it is as valid for me today as it was back then.

I'm a fiercely proud Independent who votes for the person I believe can do the job and my vote for the person I believe can do it is a vote against the person I believe can't do it.

This is a vote.  Vote for something or you're voting against it.  Your choices are vote for Republicans... who it seems want the people of America to succeed and prosper so we can all prosper or you can vote for an Anti-American Dummycrat who only wants power so he can do against America.

I was born into a staunch Dummycrat family and my father was so angry when he learned I was voting to support a Republican but I told him basically the same thing another Dummycrat Professor has said in his article, "Democrats do Poland", by David Green....  Where he too says... Why are the Democratic heirarchy only giving us such morons to vote for?  Give us someone much better that we can actually support.

If the Dummycrats want my vote... Give me someone worth voting for and stop sending criminals up to be voted on.

I'm not a good little communist who will vote the party line as I'm told to do by the communistic Democratic party who thinks they can order us to vote for the trash they put forward.  I'm not a mindless little minion who just votes for the person I'm told to vote for.

I'm an independent who feels forced by the radical Dummycrats to vote for Republicans.  Give me someone worth voting for and I'll vote for them.  Stop sending trash up to be voted for in the Dummycrat party.  Dummycrats seem to think this is just a football game they need to win at all costs.  It's NOT a game.  It's our lives and our future.  It's our civilization and our way of life.

I'm a man who wants my country to grow and succeed and I'm voting for the only candidate on the ticket who wants to lead America toward this goal.  John McCain is the only reasonable choice we have to vote for and he has my support 1,000 percent.

I do not want a radical shady lawyer in office who has ties to extremists and his best friend is a known American terrorist who still says they should have done more even though their bombings did kill people.  I don't want a President who takes the flag out of our Country as this moron Nobama is trying to do.  I don't want a President who is apologizing to the Arabs and other countries, (who are not our allies), for America's policies to help others and defend ourselves.

I want a President who will continue to defend our nation and our way of life so we can keep ou freedoms everyone enjoys here... including all the morons who want to only mock them while enjoying the comforts and protections of them.

It's very clear...  either you vote for something (The best choice available = John McCain) or you vote against the best choice and vote for literally Anarchy (in the case of this white and American hating Nobama).

I'm white, I'm proud.  I served for my country... all colors, races, ethnic groups and all freedoms and I won't give up and throw it all away now.

We need to embrace our differences and celebrate things like our traditions and customs and heritage we share and we should come together to vote for the best possible choice we have available.

The ballot doesn't have a place on it for "PROTEST"  No one understands or accepts that you throw your vote away.  Voting for a choice other then the two viable possibilities is a vote against our country because no other vote is going to win.

If you want to bitch and piss and moan... do it in a better forum.  The ballot is not the place for morons to think they are showing anyone anything except their STUPIDITY.

Vote for your country or vote against your country.  John McCain who has proven he's for our country or Nobama who has proven he's against our country.

Even in his short tenure in the Senate... Nobama is the number two Senator in receiving money from the failed and failing banking systems causing our financial crisis we're in today.  He helped cause it.

Also note...  It wasn't Bush who signed the law for the banking industry... It was Clinton who signed it into law.

Here's a video showing long ago the Dummycrats trying to cover up and hide it so the damage would continue until it came to the crisis we have today.  You can see the Dummycrats in their own words how they worked so hard to prevent anything from being done years ago to prevent this crisis we're now in.  You don't have to take my word for it.  Look and see for yourself....

http://www.teleprompterpresident.com/2008/09/shocking-video.html

My vote is for McCain and I hope to God enough people will see the light to vote for him too.  He is our only reasonable choice and a vote for anyone or anything else is a vote against our country.

There are so many videos you can see where Nobama hasn't got a clue about what he's talking about like visiting 57 states so far and only 1 more to go.  That one more to go being Hawaii and Alaska.  He's openly telling everyone he wants to raise taxes on everyone.  He claims not on 90 percent of the people but when you tax companies you get it passed on to you in higher prices so they can afford to pay the taxes.  So higher taxes is the worst thing you can do in our economy.  We're down enough.  Let's work to get our heads back up above water.  This crisis could have been avoided if the Dummycrats hadn't worked so hard to prevent us from doing anything years ago and this crisis doesn't only affect us in America... it affects the global economy we live in.

The majority of business in this country is "SMALL BUSINESS", not huge corporations.  Nobama wants to tax businesses and this includes our small businesses who are struggling just to survive the tax burdens they already have.

It was entertaining to read a comedian's view on the election, but I am sure he really didn't mean for us to throw our votes away by writing in his name for President.  I am also sure he is aware that being President involves a lot more than the "rules" above.

One of my Brit friends sent me this -

We cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election in the US.



On one side, you have a bitch who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer, campaigning against a lawyer who is married to a bitch who is a lawyer.....



On the other side, you have a true war hero married to a woman with a huge chest who owns a beer distributorship.



Is there even a contest here? "

Bill Crosby's tax return came up under a Capital Gain audit that I did for the IRS.  I was managing the audit.  I had about 30 tax examiners that were working for me.  All were African American or Hispanic.  The team sent Bill Crosby's return back to files before I could review it.

There position was that they would not allow a rich black man to be assessed additional tax when a rich white man could get away with anything. 

I did not challenge my team on this.  I insisted that it not be done again.

I believe that you can measure a man on the content of his character.   I like Bill Crosby and his ideas are great.

We are going to see many write in votes during this election and that is a good thing.  So write him in if you want to be heard. 

I do not want to be heard.  I want to help solve the problem.  I would love to vote for Obama but I can't.  John McCain is not George Bush.

It is an insult to our intelligence to say these two men are the same.  Bush is a draft dodger.  McCain is a war hero.

If you saw the first debate then you saw McCain anxiousness and Obama calm.   Obama was calm because he had no idea what was happening to our economy.  Mc Cain knew what was happening.  He was nervous about what was going to happen and what is still going to happen.

This bail out approved on Friday is not going to help.    Corporate America is going down because it invested big dollars into ERP software that is not working and is not providing the ROI that it needs to be profitable. 

IT professionals can solve our country's problems.  It professionals are the solution not who is President.

I am voting for age and expereince.  I am voting for John Mc Cain.  It takes years to be a strong IT professional.  I want those same years in my President.  In this situation, not in every situation, experience matters. 

Alright, somebody in the IT department get to work on the text editor for the blogs! This is the second time it's messed up the format. Only my responses to Scott's comments are supposed to be italicized, not the whole damned post! What?, do I have to drag out my oh-so-rusty HTML skills? C'mon!

That's it! I'm officially whiney... it's time for bed.

I will leave the issue of this farce we're calling a presidential election behind - you and I could argue our points until hell freezes over, and neither of us would give an inch. Nor would it resolve anything. Though it did make me smile a bit to see you define your political views as neo-conservative. Not that I found it amusing, but that it might surprise you to find how much we may have in common. If anything I would define myself politically as a cynic - I couldn't agree more with Samuel Clemens, "Politics is the last refuge of the incompetent."

There are, however, some issues I had with the rest of your comments. I will lump the majority of them together - that being "family values", children, and same-sex marriage equality. Let me tell you a story, Scott, and then you tell me what you think my family values are...

Many years ago I was involved in a committed, monogamous, loving relationship with a man for 3 1/2 years. His name was Danny. We were introduced at a mutual friend's July 4th party in 1987, and were inseparable from that moment on. We moved in together after 6 months, shared equally in all the household responsibilities, our names were together on the lease and on the checking account that we paid all our bills with. On December 24, 1991 Danny proposed to me and I accepted. We were to be married in the Metropolitan Community Church on June 10, 1992.



Three months prior to meeting Danny, I adopted my first child. A beautiful 9 month old girl of Spanish and Portugese decent. Andrea became the center of my existence from the first day I held her, she was Danny's shadow from the moment she figured out how to make her way across the carpet. She's now a woman grown and has made me a grandfather 3 times over, and she still calls Danny "Poppi." For 2 years we were a family of 3, and then Danny and I co-adopted our second daughter, Melissa. A newborn of the same bloodlines, and as near a twin to her sister as two girls born 2 years apart could be. We adopted her from a teenage mother - barely 15 years old - who had been raped by her own father. If it had been possible to adopt that child as well, Danny and I would never have left the Social Services office until it had been done. We were joyous in our new baby, but our hearts were bleeding for her mother.



For Danny our little family was the dream come true. He had been disowned by his own family at the age of 16 when he "came out" to them about his sexuality. When he told his parents he was Gay, his father beat him unconscious with his fists and dragged his unconscious body out into the middle of the street. He went back in the house and locked the door behind him. It was left to the neighbors to pick up Danny's battered, bleeding and unconscious body and take him to the emergency room. The police did nothing. Danny suffered 3 broken ribs, a broken nose and cheekbone, a major concussion that plagued him with headaches. Thankfully the nightmares that used to wake him up screaming stopped when he and I brought Melissa home. His mother, father, 2 sisters and brother never spoke to him or laid eyes on him again. A total of 9 years - his father was a Presbyterian minister.



When I came out to my family at the age of 14 nobody even blinked. My grandparents raised me after my parents divorced, and the three of us were a tightly knit family until their deaths at the ages of 77 and 84. My father and I are the best of friends and spend hours on the phone - thank the Gods for VOIP! When I told Dad I'm Gay he said, "You're my son, and I love you. Nothing in the world will ever change that. I'm proud of you." When Danny came into my life my entire family - Great-grandparents, Grandparents, Dad, Brother & Sisters, Aunt & Uncle and umpteen cousins (and their kids) welcomed him with open hearts and never treated him as anything less than my spouse. In fact my Dad still calls him his favorite son-in-law.



On January 9, 1992 Danny went to the grocery store to pick up baby stuff and groceries. On his way back across the street to his car he was hit by a large truck and killed instantly. The driver was using cocaine, and driving 50 mph in a 20 mph residential area. All that was left that was recognizable was the contents of his wallet, and the silver ring I'd bought him for Christmas. I still wear that ring, and will wear it to my grave. I tried for two weeks to reach his family. I emailed, wrote letters, called their phone numbers, even went to his older sister's house. They never responded, never came to his memorial service. My entire family came to Danny's memorial - over 50 of them, some of whom had never met him in person.



Nine weeks later Danny's parents showed up at my door with the Sherriff's deputies. They handcuffed me, forced me out of my home with my daughters watching, and stood by while those people stole everything I owned and everything Danny and I built together. They left us with my old pickup and the clothes on our backs. I took them to court to get my property, and my children's property back - the court said I had no right to any of it. Danny and I didn't have a legally recognized relationship, and that our co-adoption of Melissa wasn't valid either. If my name had not appeared on the adoption certificate as primary I would have lost my daughter as well. Our lease, our joint bank account records, even Danny's will naming me sole executor meant nothing. the testimony of eight members of my family and 11 of our mutual friends meant nothing. The court handed over everything to the man who beat his son to a pulp, dropped his body in the street, and refused to acknowlege his existence for 9 years. All I have left of him are my memories, his ring, and two beautiful daughters.



I adopted my sons three years later. Nazareth and David are now men grown, and have children of their own. They never had the blessing of knowing Danny, but through their sisters' memories and mine they have an idea of what they missed. My children have grown, and between them have made me a grampa 7 - soon to be 8 - times over. They are the light of my life, and the bane of their parents' existence. REVENGE IS SWEET!!! LOL Yeah, I take my Poppa duties REAL seriously. Spoil 'em stinkin' rotten - send 'em home. All the years of love, joy, tears, headaches, sleepless nights, working myself sick so my children could eat and have shoes... if you're a parent, you know the drill.



But according to the federal government and the IRS, none of that means shit. I pay my taxes - and disproportionately so, I might add - but the Constitution only selectively applies to me, my children, and my beloved departed. No law protected me from the greed and hatred of those people who stole our daughters' clothes, beds, toys - even their food. If not for the love and assistance of my family, my daughters would have been homeless. My grandparents took us in, we lived with them for 2 years until I could pull things together again. Many thousands of other bereaved Gays and Lesbians are not so fortunate. None of us have the protections, priveledges, and responsibilities the law provides that most heterosexual couples take for granted and many don't even know exist - until they go to divorce court! THAT is what we fight for. For that "equality before the law" this nation is supposed to be founded on. Until it exists "...all men are created equal" are just empty words.

My recent post to another blog format...

"killing of living human embryos"

Stem cell research no longer requires the use of embryos human or any other animal, please try to keep up with advancements in technology and research.

"But I suppose that phases you not."--- This was not addressed to me and perhaps I should stay out of it, But if people learned to use a condom we would not need alternate forms of population control, including but not limited to cigarettes.

"Campaign Finance Reform,"--- All reform in the US is ongoing and constant, and it is not only obligated to campaign finances.

"PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS"------Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life.

For wojek only--

"While the above statement is true, embryos are still getting killed for research in the US. Why don't you try to keep up with what's really going on in the real world rather than trying to educate me in reference to adult stem cells of which I am well aware and have no problem with?"

If even part of it is true You only imply one bit of the agenda to make only you right which is why you are basically telling me to shut up in soo many words.But I am a fighter I refuse to give up my indipendence right or wrong, and would not want you to either.

I don't make deals with strangers. I am sorry you disprove of me being objective and that I like to look at the whole picture and do not use just what I want to to get people to believe half truths to promote an agenda.

"I agree with you wholeheartedly that if people took responsibility for their actions and thought the consequences through before acting, then we wouldn't have a problem."

I disagree as long as there are people like you and me their will always be problems.

"The thing is, though, neither of the two "major" parties cares about instilling individual responsibility in us, as responsible people have little need for nanny government."

of coarse not how can you control people, and who will be the next president if you tell them they have individual identities, people love being told what to do and when they should do it

Just like you here we can write what we want if we feel the need to educate another anyone of us will, is that not what you have been spouting off about. Honestly we cannot learn by me or you together and just because it is learned does not mean one has to believe, agree, aprove, accept, deny, ect. but I do enjoy having these discussions with you, keep em comin.

wojtek says ...

Wow, Scastle,

you appear to contradict yourself.

First you say that "America was founded on wonderful but faulty Ideals..."

and in the next post you use those allegedly faulty ideas (DoI) “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” to substantiate your claims.

I have to strongly disagree with your first opinion (about founding ideas being faulty).  Those ideas were perfect for the government of moral people who adhered to a worldview based on the Bible.  Today, the people in general (including the political party you support)are no longer moral and therein lies the problem.  We traded statesmen, people like Jefferson, Adams (both of them), Dave Crockett, Andrew Jackson, etc., for politicians like Wilson, Hoover, both Roosevelts, Eisenhower, and then for poly-ticks (poly meaning many, ticks meaning bloodsucking parasites) like the vast majority of members of the contemporary Republican and Democratic parties.

Now as far as your use of Declaration of Independence to back up your claim, well, you just can't do it because GOP does not adhere to the DoI anymore (and I have serious doubts it ever did other than in lip service designed to lure the most gullible of conservatives).

Take the first issue - LIFE.  Your candidate of choice, McCain, wants to force us to fund the killing of living human embryos by means of experimenting on them for the purpose of advancing our medical science.  We gave a death penalty to Nazis for doing the same thing to human beings but now are condoning it.  GOP, when it had the majority of both houses of the legislative branch and the command of the executive (2002-2006) did absolutely nothing to stop the destruction of the youngest and the oldest of us; those who are least likely to be capable of defending themselves or even articulating the protests.  But I suppose that phases you not.

Second issue - LIBERTY.  Key word: PATRIOT ACT (both of them).  That's what your party of choice thinks about our liberty.  And the McCain individually, well, he, along with his Democrat buddies, devised the "Campaign Finance Reform," designed, essentially, to silence groups of patriots who want to sound off about the more questionable of the politicians less than 30 days before an election, when ads are most effective and people begin to pay attention to them in earnest.  So much for his stance in regards to liberty.

Third issue - PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.  Originally applied mostly to the concept of sanctity of property (see the original founding documents for the Commonwealth of Virginia, for example).  The government uses Eminent Domain to take property from rightful owners essentially displacing them in order to give it to their business buddies because it will create a larger tax base for them and a lifelong campaign donor...I respectfully rest my case, Sir.

Larkenra says ...

"Add Relaitivism+no personal responsibilty+no God and what do you get? "

I give up, what do you get?

The state of America as it currently is and a Socialist in the White House.  Thats just a guess though.

Interesting points slburkey.

And scastle aren't you a big proponent of Christianity and don't churches support a socialist objective by nature, or does that only apply to members of that church. Please, I am not trying to question your faith here.