Posted: 11/4/2008 7:40:05 PM EDT
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imagine my dismay this morning to learn that apparently there is no God... Did'nt you hear Obama is the Messiah? 
Yeah last night proly put the final straw for my divorce at home. We have been going down hill but got worse when she found out I was not voting for Obama. Last night as I was watching the results come in I started fumming and she was laughing at me getting mad about it. I said your right I can't help what a bunch of mindless drones do. Well needless to say I stayed in a motel last night. 
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This may be a good time to suggest picking up a $20 membership with the GOA.
http://www.gunowners.org/ |
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imagine my dismay this morning to learn that apparently there is no God... Did'nt you hear Obama is the Messiah?
Yeah last night proly put the final straw for my divorce at home. We have been going down hill but got worse when she found out I was not voting for Obama. Last night as I was watching the results come in I started fumming and she was laughing at me getting mad about it. I said your right I can't help what a bunch of mindless drones do. Well needless to say I stayed in a motel last night. Politics has put a stress on my family relationship too. I'm not married, but my imediate family. They just can't give me a reason they support obama other than we need a change . I agree, but this change is going to seriously F*CK UP this country. The only other argument that has been used is that the democrats are for the people .
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Quoted: Guess I'm lucky my wife not only voted for McCain, but suggested we stock up on AR's and handguns! She was never like this when we first started dating, but my family brought her over. Her family is still scared to come in our house I think! Quoted: imagine my dismay this morning to learn that apparently there is no God... Did'nt you hear Obama is the Messiah? Yeah last night proly put the final straw for my divorce at home. We have been going down hill but got worse when she found out I was not voting for Obama. Last night as I was watching the results come in I started fumming and she was laughing at me getting mad about it. I said your right I can't help what a bunch of mindless drones do. Well needless to say I stayed in a motel last night.  |
| The odd thing is that my wifes family are the ones who got me into this. Her dad is head of security at Denver international airport, used to train air marshals, ex swat comander and range trainer for blackwater. All her family members are ccw holders and are never within 5 ft of a loaded weapon. My wife was able to qualify for a ccw with a 1911 at age 8. Now she just does'nt get it I guess. We had a talk this morning and agreed its over and we are going to file and hope to be done by the end of the year. |
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A friend of mine sent me these i figured i would pass them along
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59. So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. 'Since you are all such good customers, he said, I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?' They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay. And so: The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings). The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings). The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings). The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings). The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings). The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings). Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. 'I only got a dollar out of the $20, 'declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, 'but he got $10!' 'Yeah, that's right,' exclaimed the fifth man. 'I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!' 'That's true!!' shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!'* 'Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison. 'We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!' The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill! And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier. David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, University of Georgia For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible Parable of the Ant and the Grasshopper TRADITIONAL VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself! *****MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green." Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer! The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood. |