Unchecked Baggage

For those of you who have decided you are going to vote for John Kerry next Tuesday.
Many people do not realize, or choose to ignore, a candidates baggage: his partys platform. Remember that when you elect a candidate you get his party's platform as well. The platform is what is susposed to define the candidates actions once he takes office (although not always the case). Here are a few items taken from the 2004 Democratic Party platform, things I see as un- or anti-American, contrary to our founding fathers belief's.
(from the 2004 Democratic National Platform (2004platform.pdf) available at http://www.democrats.org/ Resources/Party Platform)

• recgonize only China and not Taiwan as a soverign country. (page 10, Promoting Democracy, Peace and Security : Asia)
• make US taxpayers responsible for the health care of 3rd world nations. (page 16, Promoting Democracy, Peace and Security : Global Health)
• forgive debts owed by 3rd world countries to the US taxpayer. (page 16, Promoting Democracy, Peace and Security : International development)
• require neighbors to snoop on other neighbors under the guise of strengthing homeland security. (page 18, Strengthing Homeland Security : Domestic readiness)
• will require US taxpayers to pay for retirees health costs. (page 23, Creating good jobs : Promoting small businesses)
• will require businesses to unionize regardless of the effect on business. (page 24, Creating good jobs : Standing up for workers)
• will freeze the cost of college tuition as a solution to rising costs. (page 25, Standing up for the great American middle class : Helping families cope with rising costs)
• oppose privatizing social security (even tho all leading experts disagree) and willgive benifits to those who have not earned them. (page 26, Standing up for the great American middle class : Protecting retirement security)
• raise the minimum wage as the answer to reducing low income earners. (as if simplying paying more will solve the real problem, and history shows raising the minimum wage hurts low income earners)(page 26, Standing up for the great American middle class : Expanding the middle class)
• equates health insurance with health care, insisting that those without health insurance can not get health care so will provide taxpayer funded health insurance for low income families (only). (page 30, Strong healthy families : Reforming health care : Expanding coverage)
• refuse to privatize Medicare, contrary to recomendations of experts. (page 30, Strong healthy families : Reforming health care : Helping seniors)
• repair minority education by repairing foster care programs (huh??). (page 33, Strong healthy families : Improving education : Securing high achievement)
• against school vouchers and true competition in school quality. (page 34, Strong healthy families : Improving education : Making schools work for children)
• supports affirmative action privileges for minorities. (page 37, A Strong American community)
• supports abortion and abortion funded by U.S. taxpayers. (page 38, A Strong American community)
• supports illegal aliens as though they have not broken the law. (page 38, A Strong American community)
• supports the gay and lesbian agenda. (page 38, A Strong American community)
• will require ownership of media to be culturely diverse. (page 38, A Strong American community)

Other comments:

Interestingly, page 20 and page 28 are completely blank.
Lots of WHAT but very little content of exactly HOW the DNC expects to make their goals.
Poor grammar, many sentences start with "And", written to a high school level or lower.
Neither Global Crossing or Whitewater are mentioned, but Enron is.
Many assertions/accusations without any supporting evidence.

Bill of No Rights

"We, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt-ridden, deluded, and other liberal bed-wetters. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim that they require a Bill of No Rights."

ARTICLE I: You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV or any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.
ARTICLE II: You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone - not just you! You may leave the room, change the channel, or express a different opinion, but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.
ARTICLE III: You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful, do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.
ARTICLE IV: You do not have the right to free food and housing. Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes.
ARTICLE V: You do not have the right to free health care . That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we're just not interested in public health care.
ARTICLE VI: You do not have the right to physically harm other people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.
ARTICLE VII: You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If you rob, cheat or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big screen color TV or a life of leisure.
ARTICLE VIII: You don't have the right to demand that our children risk their lives in foreign wars to soothe your aching conscience. We hate oppressive governments and won't lift a finger to stop you from going to fight if you'd like. However, we do not enjoy parenting the entire world and do not want to spend so much of our time battling each and every little tyrant with a military uniform and a funny hat.
ARTICLE IX: You don't have the right to a job. Sure, all of us want all of you to have one, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful.
ARTICLE X: You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American means that you have the right to pursue happiness - which, by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an overabundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.

"Bill of No Rights" was written in 1993 by Lewis Napper, mistakenly attributed to Mitchell Kaye.

Perpetual Lies

It seems whenever it suits the Democrats agenda they trot out a lie to try and convenience some voters that their approach is the correct one or to demonize the Republicans in some way.
Lie #1: Bush (43) was selected not elected.
We hear this one alot especially during elections, and I've even seen some "Re-defeat Bush" bumper stickers. The facts: In the 2000 election, George Bush received more votes in Florida than Al Gore and never trailed by a single vote even after a variety of recounts.
Although the Democrats want you to think the outcome of the election was ambiguous, it wasn't. Florida counted the votes as it normally would and Bush won. Counties then recounted the votes using their normal tabulation methods and Bush was verified as the winner. However, after the election, Gore wanted to change tabulation methods in Democrat counties and have yet another recount in order to find more votes and overcome George Bush's victory (changing the rules after the game was over.) Gore never asked for a state wide
recount, only a recount in known Democrat counties. This phrase ("selected, not elected") is designed to convince you that Bush's "buddies on the US Supreme Court" saw to it he was elected. It ignores the fact that Bush received more votes than Gore. It ignores the fact that it was Gore who turned Florida's election process up-side-down. As for the issue of spoiled ballots, in 24 of the 25 Florida counties with the highest ballot spoilage rate, the county supervisor was a Democrat. In the 25th county, the supervisor was an Independent.
Lie #2: Blacks will be intimidated into not voting, just like Florida in 2000.
According to The WSJ: In June 2001, following a six-month investigation that included subpoenas of Florida state officials from Governor Jeb Bush on down, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a report that found no evidence of voter intimidation, no evidence of voter harassment, and no evidence of intentional or systematic disenfranchisement of black voters.
Lie #3: There must be a "separation of church and state."
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I dont see that phrase or anything close to it in there. What are those judges smoking?

Circle of life?

So.... You send your children to public school, do you?

Public school, where teachers are required to belong to the NEA.
The NEA, founded in 1857 "to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States."
In pursuing its mission, the NEA has determined that it will focus the energy and resources of its 2.7 million members toward the "promotion of public confidence in public education."
Huh? Not dedicated to improving the quality of education? Not dedicated to enforcing higher standards?

So what do we get from the NEA?

• Schools that complain about money but insist on teaching Kindergardeners Spanish.
• Schools that want to lower their standards so their graduation rates will be higher.
• Schools that turn out students who don't have the skills necessary to apply for a job.
• Schools that turn out students that can't go on to college without being taught remedial math and reading.
• Schools that don't teach American history and have kids in high school that don't know who the current president is.
• Schools that support mandatory community service before graduation.
• Schools that teach that Western civilization (ours) is bad for the world.
• Schools that teach the socialist theory of "sharing" what we as individuals earn.

According to Forbes magazine, the NEA fields "the largest army of paid political organizers and lobbyists in the U.S., dwarfing the forces of the Republican and Democrat national committees combined." But in one sense, the NEA is the most powerful constituency of the Democratic Party - 95 percent of political expenditures go to the Democrats, and the union enthusiastically endorsed John Kerry at the NEA convention.

So is it any wonder that the Democrats want to register college kids to vote?

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AMENDMENT XIII - Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865.
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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NEA website: http://www.nea.org