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You are welcome. This post got a lot of hits, hopefully, they will listen to the full presentation. I challenged the shallow reader to get past the length so they would hear what we did.
America is STILL an exceptional country as are the people.

Chris Matthews under the breath curse before Gov. Jindal spoke last night is evidence of his anti-Indian bigotry and he must go. There is no excuse and the lame attempt to qualify and not apologize later was the straw that broke the camel's back. Time to go Chris. Crawl back under that neanderthal rock you came from.

Obama made the case, along with McCain (and unfortunately, Sarah Palin was forced to say the same thing) that those evil people on Wall Street got greedy and overspent and overindulged and basically ripped the consumer off to line their pockets. So, what happened on Wall Street since then, it has tanked. Congratulations men, you were the standard bearers of the two party system and you managed to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. Not Wall Street robber barons, but the companies that use Wall Street and the Exchanges to build and grow their businesses. You have essentially killed many of these companies through no direct action, but by your intention to punish people who make the economy run and those companies realize you had no intention of letting them make a profit, so better to get out of business now and avoid a disastrous closing and larger loss to themselves and the companies they do business with.

Now you are attacking the banking system with the same vigor and false premises. You want them to stop making a profit by limiting the people who run them to some arbitrary income level. If a man or woman CEO is worth to the people who write their paychecks a million dollars a year and a corporate jet and stock options, who are you to limit that bank and it’s board of directors. You may be asking a major bank to have to turn to a second or third string college quarterback in the Super Bowl against any of the pro teams. You may not be aware or don’t care, but the banking system is in the world arena and it doesn’t get more Super Bowl like than that. The banks are living it daily, trying to adjust for the craziness that exists in world finance, like Hugo Chavez, Osama bin Laden, and Putin. You have brought down the markets and now you’ll bring down the banks.

Thank you, Darkwolf377. I had no idea it would become this popular. My 3rd attempt to post a random thought while at work (I'm the boss so I can do what I want, lol) and the response is overwhelming.
I think the thoughts I had were along the lines of sarcasm when you try to generalize about a generation, but what the h... the media do it.
I was born in ‘53 in a Midwestern college town, bought into the Left’s complete diatribe, voted for McGovern in ‘72 as an idealist, never voted again, laughed at my 2nd wife in ‘80 when she voted for Reagan and campaigned for months for his reelection, started voting and put my idealism into my entrepreneurship, conservatism, Christ, family and minor writing.
So, change is possible. In 2004, my entire family voted conservative (a net gain of 6) and all have voted since. I have one son who lives in a different college town and voted Obama, but he'll soon learn his mistake.
I'll try to write more thought provoking threads and if my computer cooperates, get the paragraphs where they belong. Believe it or not, I was an English major in college, so NOT using paragraphs is not in my vocabulary.

I could have written that post.
Tho mine said she had to find her own identity, not just Mrs. sldghmr
No complaints

It’s Friday the 13th. I don’t believe in superstition, since it is bad luck. But, apparently it is the day the return key no longer works.
Also, the fear came before the music of the 60’s, the music was the echo of the fear. Like “Eve of Destruction”, maybe.
Elvis was a creation of other peoples demons...

Paragraphs are my friend, but sometimes the computer is not. LOL

Growing up in the 50's brought a definitely skewed vision of life for the kids who's futures were molded at the hands of their parents generation (the Greatest Generation) and the world events that shaped the actions/reactions of the institutions touching each and every child. The move from a local/state/US-centric view of life to a new world view and the growth of an entire generation of young people dominated by a generation of very conservative parents and grandparents (who grew up during the depression) created a generation of rebels, as most children reject the teaching of their parents, that went too far in that rebellion. How did it happen? Since I am not a child psychiatrist/psychologist, I can't offer guarantees of accuracy, but see if you don't ask the same questions I did when I reviewed these observations. When we were kids, during the school day, once a month or more, we had nuclear drills. Where I went, we had to, on command from a loud siren, stop, drop, get under our wood and metal desks, on our knees in a weird type of fetal position and cover the back of our heads with our hands so the radiation from the atom bomb would not burn through our hands and damage our brains. The Russians put nukes 90 miles from our shores, satellites above us and missiles in submarines. Well, I wonder where those children's phobias found an outlet. Perhaps the peace movement/nuclear freeze movement... We had bomb shelters around town and had to know where it was, how to get there, and what was there to eat and drink and how many beds. If our parents weren't in the military, most of our neighbors were or had been. The other neighbors were the older, childless couples who lived through the depression. Both groups were VERY strict on the one hand and like every parent, wanted their children to have more than they did. Our parents gave us latitude, but demanded strict adherence to rules. We could leave the house in the summer time, no watch, no phones, no cell phones, no parents, play all day without our parents able to see or hear us and make it home by 6 for dinner. Everyone of those neighbors watched out for us and when we stepped out of line, we caught hell (corporal punishment) from the neighbors and no one thought twice about it. What mental trauma over the years was wrought from the discipline of the parents and the neighbors? Perhaps, a generation of nor rules, liberal philosophy and personal self interest? I'd say that generation developed neurosis and fear that fed a lifetime of undiscipline, selfishness and a severe lack of responsiblity.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs
is the source for this post...

The real question is - now that you know, what will you do with the information? Will sit around and do nothing or will you make some noise and call the talk shows, write a letter to the editor, call Congress?

In the spending bill called the Stimulus package, the Head of Health and Human Services gets to decide what treatments will be allowed for patients to receive and which will not be allowed. The author, Tom Daschle, believes that the elderly should get used to the fact that when they get older they get sick and unfortunately, they die. If you are younger, you get treated, if you are infirm or elderly, you don't. So... WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU AARP???

For the uninformed, the “small” state was a dig at the media.
Thank you for your kind replies.
Please pass this along to as many as you can, post it freely.

It was in paragraphs in the original. Talk to freerepublic.

November 7, 2008

Open Letter to Governor Sara Palin,

I wanted to take a moment to thank you for standing in the gap between the conservative movement and the Republican Party. I, like millions of others, am a conservative first since the Republican Party moved away from the principles of conservatism and tried to moderate the message of hard work and self reliance, smaller government, personal responsibility, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and securing the country from all threats foreign and domestic. You fought the good fight, defending even ideas that appeared to have been voiced through bitten lips and clenched teeth in order to honor the man who brought you to his side. You did it with integrity, a smile, enthusiasm and optimism that brought MILLIONS of people to the polls and pull the lever for the Republican ticket. This contest was lost several years before you ran for Governor when the Republican Party turned from listening to the conservative wing of the Party and tried to move to the middle. When I was asked to contribute to the RNC by Tom Reynolds, I politely declined sending instead a short note declaring I would no longer support the RNC until it pursued actually building the border fence, cutting government spending and defeating attempts to expand the role of government in people’s lives. I have not contributed to the RNC since. I am not alone. I would have pulled the McCain - (fill in the blank) lever no matter the running mate because I knew Barack Obama and more importantly knew from my college days, the Students for a Democratic Society and their terrorist wing the Weather Underground. That was all I needed to know about the President-elect. As a parent, we all know you become like those you associate with and so the radical past is now ensconced in the present. This was the first election where I actually voted for the lesser of two evils and not for someone I believed in. But then came you. Your selection ignited the quiet masses of conservatives in the country and for the first time since 2000, we were excited, motivated and hungry for victory. We knew you were not running for President, but to the optimistic of us, you would have been our voice in the White House. You were our voice in the campaign, on television and on the internet. I never had the opportunity to see you while campaigning, but would have gladly stood in line like thousands did all over the country. Without you, Governor Palin, John McCain would have lost in the worst landslide since George McGovern. Without you, disaster was in the bag for the Republican Party. Without you, the national Republicans would have had to hang their heads in shame for the loss it would have been. Because of you there still is hope among the majority of traditional conservatives that sometime in the future, Governor Sara Palin will run for higher office on her own, carrying her own message, our message, and defeating radicalism in every corner of this country and abroad. You have withstood the onslaught of the mainstream media, the Party elites, and the back benchers of the Republican Party with humility and integrity. We all admire your grit, determination and character. Character matters, it always has. You were and are a class act, not one easily followed. Jimmy Carter gave us Ronald Reagan, and I believe, Barack Obama and the moderates in our Party, will give us you in 2012. Whether you run or not, your mark has been made on us and we will not forget, we will not be silent, and we will not sit in the back of our Party bus waiting to be dropped off in the next moderate/liberal wilderness called the Minority. Today, the war begins anew against the tyranny of the left, wherever it resides. Lastly, should I ever get the opportunity to visit the small State of Alaska in the future, I trust and believe the door to your office will be open so my family and I can shake your hand. God bless you and your family and an admiring movement of millions thanks you.

Sincerely,

Bill Elsasser

I respect your disgust with the Presidential candidates, just remember if you spend time, effort and money on them, it is a waste. However, INVEST it in the local, county, state and national conservative candidates... DON’T LEAVE AMERICE UNDEFENDED.

Since putting the 8 Promises for 2008 together, I have watched with great anticipation of one candidate to announce drilling in Anwar and using the show on cable - Ice Road Truckers- as proof that you CAN move people and equipment for years and leave the area pristine. I don’t watch that much tv, but can’t someone put out this proposition...