Guiliani Slapdown!

Regarding capital gains!

This is a good rejoinder for the whole 'focus on the haircut thing'!

John Edwards...

We're not safer now???

The national intelligence estimate is in, and the report is not good. Apparently, Al Qaeda has restrengthened and is as strong, if not stronger than they were before 9/11. How can that be? Was it not the strategy to fight them over there so that we did not have to fight them over here? Have we lost 3000 citizens and around 3000 soldiers just so that Al Qaeda could reform and come back at us again? What the HELL is going on here?

How can the administration say that it has made us safe on the one hand and then play the fear card on the other, by saying the Al Qaeda is stronger now? Either we are safer or we are not. I am so tired of these fear mongering bastards that want us to give up all of our liberties for what they call safety. Their ineptness at all things has become evident over the past six years and I can't wait to vote these sacks of excrement from office.

Poe Quote of the Day

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."
Edgar Allan Poe

Being a fan of self-deprecating humor myself, I hold this quote in very high regard! I couldn't have said it better myself Edgar!

The Debate that Wasn't

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/13/what-if-you-held-a-debate-and-almost-no-one-came/

Unbelievable! The NAACP held a debate for the GOP and only one of the nine candidates even bothered to show up, Tom Tancredo. I did not hear anything about his on the news. Why not? I would think that the entire field of Republican candidates dissing the NAACP would rise to the level of news, but I'm just a lowly citizen. What do I know?

This needs to be made known to the populace at large.

Poe Quote of the Day

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
-- Edgar Allan Poe

Poe Quote of the Day

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we
shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
-- Edgar Allan Poe

Poe Quote of the Day, Monday, 9 July 2007

"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."
-- Edgar Allan Poe

This is a rather bleak assessment of the human condition, but it is
quite hard to argue with. Mankind seems to be dead set on destroying
itself. At each point in history when we have a chance to step away
from the brink, it seems we just edge even closer to it. I hope that
Poe and I are wrong. But I fear that we are not.

Strangely enough, after posting the above quote, Kurzweil.com sent me an e-mail about this story in the NY Times. I think you will notice the synchronistic nature of this.
NY Times on The Case Against Perfection

The Benefits of Big Brother. Seriously!?

I can't believe what I just saw. On an ad for Anderson Cooper 360. Tomorrow night he will air his show with the theme, "Eye in the Sky: Why Don't We Have More?". The ad starts with a bit about how the British cameras have stopped so much crime, and has a stripe title at the bottom that reads "THE BENEFITS OF BIG BROTHER". I can not friggin' believe it! They just come right out and say it! It seems that they've already won if they can announce it to very little fanfare!

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!! YOU WILL NOT BE FREE FOR MUCH LONGER!!!