I'm not sure McCain knows how to take advantage of a good situation. He seems more inclined to hand that advantage over to his oponents.

That said, however, when you read the fine print of this possiblity, it still reads -- our decisions will depend on the ground situation. This has been Bush's marching orders all along -- and it's something Obama could NEVER duplicate -- stability, predictability, and a winning attitude. Obama's a loser in all 3 categories.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

"Disappearing bees leading to higher food costs." What about ethanol?How does that effect food costs?

Oh Lord have mercy.

Happy birthday to:

Julius Ceasar (100bc)

 Col. Hogan Crane (1928)

Jean Luc Gandalf Magneto Picard (1940)

Harrison Jones Ryan Solo (1942)

Happy death day to:

Jean-Paul Marat (1793), one of history's more notorious deaths...

Joachim Peiper  (1973), assassinated by angry ex-French Resistance members (none who were named LaBeau!).

Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say `nee' at will to old ladies.

A friend sent me this email that is going around...a good illustration of who loudly talks the talk and who quietly walks the walk...

A Tale of Two Houses

House #1:

A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It's in the South.

House #2:

Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.
The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

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HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville , Tennessee ;
It is the abode of the "environmentalist" Al Gore.

HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford , Texas ;
It is the residence of the President of the United States , George W. Bush.

Shoot 'em all; let God sort 'em out! - Marge Simpson

...during the next four years humanity will likely face several critical, history making, choices.  Either Barrack Obama or John McCain will be at the helm of the ship-of-state during this critical period. 

I am convinced it would be disastrous to choose this moment in history to teach the republican party a lesson (about sticking to core values) by helping to put a neo-Marxist, Barrack Obama, in the oval office. 

As bad as McCain is on some issues (like global warming, arctic drilling and immigration), he has shown a willingness to make fact-based changes in his POVs.  Obama just says whatever to whomever to try to be all things to all people.  

Which Obama will he be if elected - the nice centrist family man of recent weeks, or the radical left Chicago pol who broke bread with unrepentant terror bombers and racist Black-power advocates on his way to the top? 

The dems are hoping that voters will be so disoriented by the bad economy and an unpopular war, that they will actually be able to sneak a radical leftist into the white house for the first time in U.S. history.

I don't think the American people can be this easily fooled, but if the dems actually pull it off, disgruntled conservatives will rue the day that they helped to make it happen. 

Here's some examples of local MSM bias for anyone who is interested:

I pick up the Daytona Beach Journal (I live nearby) and one of the main stories is about our local power companies planning to build several nuclear reactors and plants. Good news right, it's not "foreign" oil and it's clean, but nope, all the paper wants to talk about is how this will raise electricity prices to fund these projects. The headline even read "Clean energy not cheap." And one person is stated as saying going green isn't cheap. Funny how this kind of talk when it comes to ethanol, wind and solar power never comes. Is it because to the left nuclear power is politically incorrect while other forms of 'alternative' fuels are their pet projects? Disgusting.

They also tried to tie in current fuel prices by saying this was add to the rising costs associated with the nuclear changover, which is nonsense. The majority of Florida power comes from coal not oil (which is the fuel whose price has gone up.) Or are liberals trying to claim coal prices have gone up too? Have coal mine profits reached "unfair" levels yet, crikey!

Not to mention how the savings in nuclear power will add up in the long run, unlike say those mercury-filled lightbulbs they foisted on us for the same reasons.

Add in a co-op about McCain will not "keep his promises like his predecessors", a headline saying the housing boom has gone bust (about three months after the fact, but I guess it makes for a scarier headline) and more claims of rising foreclosures in the county where I live (which I see no evidence of personally) using the controversial RealityTrace system of figuring that out I felt nigh disgusted.