How many times have you heard this?

There are lines in movies and songs, which people can't find an original way to say or just think it is cool to put some sort of twist on. Either way, they are used far too often and need to be disposed of.

Example #1

"Are you threatening me?" or "Is that a threat?"

There are really only two ways a person can respond to that..."Yes, indeed I am," or "Oops, I think you misunderstood me."

But still, the writers of so many movies and TV shows try to work out some bizarre contorted phrase in an effort to create a new response.

Example #2

"You are asking questions way above your pay grade."

Generally, this is used in action flicks where an altruistic investigator begins to uncover a multi-leveled government conspiracy. It is my guess, that the authors of such movies (at some point) realize how flawed and implausible their storyline is. So, slap this puppy in there and it's as though you have held up a sign saying "Nasty People Are Plotting, Just Trust Us."

Then, high-fives are tossed between writers, "Oh, that's good" is said several times, and now they can move on to the next scene.

Example #3

"If I knew then what I know now..."

Even in the most absurdly constructed mind, how does that make any sense at all? ...If only I was omniscient, I would have...

By and large, this line is used in music and the singer is whining about a past mistake. It's a grown-up's version of Bugs Bunny saying "If only I took that left turn at Albuquerque!"

Hell, you're writing a song (making loads of money) about the whole damned experience, so I don't think things worked out too badly...your ignorance included.

Example #4

"But we need you. You're the best in the field and know more about this than anyone."

For the most part, this is used in Sci-Fi films, especially where the world is coming to an end. There is always some disenfranchised researcher who had his work shunned by the scientific community, or he was mainstream and fell out of favor any variety of reasons.

This idea is so overly played and used up, it is about as good as ketchup-soiled napkin from a child's Happy Meal. Hearing this line, is a warning of things to come...a sub-plot involving stolen or scoffed at ideas, but in the end vindication...oh, and the world is saved...at the last possible second.

Wouldn't it be nice to once have the person come in and not succeed? Maybe, "Why the hell did we bring you here? The Earth is now doomed because we wasted time on you. Somebody kick this guy's ass before we die!"

Those are a few...feel free to add more.

The Inside Scoop

Because of my considerable political influence and heavy Beltway connections, I have been able to acquire a list of a few of the proposals the GOP/Tea Party intend on putting to a vote.

Here is a sample...in no particular order...

H.R. 101 Effective immediately, the minimum wage is to be repealed.

As a means to protect personal privacy, employee compensation will no longer be a concern of the federal government.

Conversely, businesses may now fine employees (up to and including 6 months Indentured Servitude) for any perceived or projected damages.

H.R. 505 English is to be the only language used in America.

Restaurants may not refer to themselves as having another county of origin.

Example: What was previously known as Mexican Restaurants, may acceptably refer to themselves as "South-western dining" or "Alamonium Period cuisine."

**Addition**

On a date(s) to be determined, hunting of illegal Mexican immigrants will be allowed. At this time, it is planed to be an "open" season. However, if the numbers of illegal Mexican immigrants begin to dwindle, a pool or lottery system may need to be set up.

All hunters must stay in their respective state and request verbal permission to hunt in another jurisdiction.

H.R. 704 In an effort to accommodate H.R. 505, Handguns may be legally sold at convenience stores and all retail outlets. The cumbersome and restricting background checks of the past will be done away with. For citizens who cannot afford such necessities, Firearms may, now, be checked out from libraries.

H.R. 911 All persons wishing to purchase, own, or view a Koran, must first register with the "Community Outreach" division of the Department of Homeland Security.

As well, use of the words "Allah," "Mohammad" or "Mecca" are prohibited while inside an airport or within New York City.

H.R. 1031. Halloween will be changed from its current Socialistic form. Children are banned from knocking on a stranger's door and pleading for a hand-out of candy. Instead, they are to request the homeowner sell them a treat at a reasonable price. If no deal can be reached, the child is allowed to offer a trade for other candies they may hold.

H.R. 401 All Science text books, specifically when talking about the origins of life, will be required to contain the first 6 chapters of Genesis.

In conjunction with this, all tests must offer two, at a minimum, acceptable responses to any single question.

Sample question:

What is the best explanation of how plants and animals came to be in their present form?

A. Through a selective process of mutations, adaptations, environmental pressures, and an inherent desire for all living things to reproduce.

OR

B. God did it.

Either answer shall be correct.

So, there you go.

While I cannot divulge my source...I'll give you a hint.

She's "you."

Why Delaware matters...

A blaring alarm and flashing blood-red sign should be seen in the minds of all intellectual people, when they stop to think the Tea Party believes Christine O'Donnell is the best candidate in all of Delaware.

Not only that, they believe she is one of top 100 people in all of America...out of 310 million... who should be making legislative decisions. In the entire country, she ranks in the top 99.999999998%.

Understand what an insult that is, not only to every American, but to humanity.

1. Christine O'Donnell is in favor of "tort reform." Yet...YET...for her "pain and suffering," she sued a former employer for $6.9 million.

How much suffering does a person have to go through to get 7 million bucks? Hey, you know what? Bring on the rich sadists...give it to me, baby!

2. She doesn't believe in life-saving stem cell research.

3. She says she has read "TOP SECRET" information which reports China is plotting to take over the US...forgetting she has never been in a position of security/authority where information like this would have even passed her in an adjoining building.

4. She said scientists have created mice with functioning human brains....how big are the heads on these rats?

5. She is completely clueless as to where the idea of "Separation of Church and State" originates.

Chris Coons and O'Donnell were having a debate at a law school. When Chris Coons recited the 1st Amendment to her, she questioned him saying, "That's in the 1st Amendment?"

The audience laughed...no, more accurately, the audience erupted with laughter.

To cover her obvious ignorance, she said, "Senators are not required to memorize the Constitution."

...No, indeed, they are not. BUT THEY SHOULD HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT IS IN IT!!!

6. Christine O'Donnell believes that all of science is wrong and that the Earth is only 6000 years old. With that in mind, she thinks Creationism should be taught in schools.

I guess she thinks God wanted the Bible to be some sort of Science text book.

7. ...do I need to go on? Because I can...for days.

Here is the thing. Christine O'Donnell is not some aberration. She is a working model of how many (if not most) Tea Party folks see the world. They act from emotion, rather than reason. They believe something is being taken away from them, but cannot articulate specifics or deny the true factual rebuttals. They see conspiratorial minds plotting American demise and fulfilling infinitely elaborate schemes. They believe the government is run by secret societies, then are angered because a younger generation (which could never be informed) exercised its political might last election.

My friends...and family, you are smarter than this. Do not vote out of anger. Stop and think about what it is you actually want.

Think about how Joe Miller and Mike Lee (to name just two of many) want to repeal the 17th Amendment (which calls for the direct election of Senators by the People). They want you to vote them into office, only to make sure you can never have another say.

Rand Paul wants to repeal the Civil Rights Act because it interferes with a business owner's right to discriminate.

Marco Rubio thinks the retirement age should be raised and part of your Social Security money should go to investments on Wall Street...that sounds safe, huh?

Sharon Angle thinks those evil "Mexicans" are coming to America to take jobs...then join gangs. I guess, the latter is to make sure they kill off the rest of the working Whites.

I ask you to ask yourself this...

Is the person I am voting for capable of understanding the ramifications, both now and in the future, of the policies they create? Are the policies they want to make, good for the country, or good for them? Can I overlook the extreme views this person holds?

More simply...can I, with the only vote I get, endorse this person and feel comfortable with the future of America?

Before you answer that...Remember, if the 17th Amendment is repealed, it may be the last shot you ever get.

Those tricky tea-bagging Conservatives..

The Tea Party is said to be based on the "founding principles" of this nation....hmmm...

With that in mind, I've been wondering how the Tea Party has been able to fool so many people.

They have made many believe, that in a desire to protest, there are vast Republican hoards and countless awakening Conservatives. They have made the case,that somehow, the scruffy faced man wearing a Rebel Flag, is far more patriotic than any liberal leaning slug...right?

How has the TP convinced some rather smart and well-spoken individuals (many I think of as friends...even family) that their extreme views are commonly held with others? How, then, are we not on the verge of a pandemic-like ink shortage from all the signs and posters waiting and wanting to be printed?

To understand the Tea Party's methods, we must go back to the "time" from which our tea-bagging friends draw their name. Why?

You see, this has happened before. Tomfoolery is a common American practice.

In 1776, or around that time, General Israel Putnam pulled off a fantastic hoax against the British...maybe the best of all time. He allowed a British soldier to come into Princeton to take the dying testament of a captured comrade. Knowing this soldier was coming from far superior force and would undoubtedly report on Putnam's strength to the British, a plan was hatched. The general only allowed the Red Coat to arrive at night. Candles were lit in every window, so it seemed that the nearly empty town was full. Then, as the dying man dictated his final words, Putnam had his men march by the windows of the home where the two men were meeting. Putnam marched the soldiers in groups of 10, 25, 30, 20....he regrouped the men and did it again in various other numerical configurations. He did this all night, as long as the two were together. Before dawn, Putnam made sure the soldier was escorted out of town.

When the soldier returned to the British camp, he told the commander that Putnam had an army of 4000 men and Princeton should be avoided at all costs...in actuality, Putnam only had 50.

Thus is the scam of the Tea Party. There are far, FAR, more single and small amount donors to DNC than to the RNC or the Tea Party.

However, the Tea Party/RNC has done a "Putnam." They parade groups of people, often the same ones, in front of cameras and in pictures. They give the appearance of a much larger mass of people than there actually is. 50% of the money the Tea Party has gotten, has come from just a handful of businesses. Over $10 million of the $15 million Carl Rove's group has taken in over the past 6 weeks has come from 4 guys...That's about as "grass roots" as my nose hairs.

Glenn "Putnam" Beck said there was almost 2 million people at his march in DC...but the DC police said it was closer to 80,000....does that sound familiar?

Were it not for the fact they are fooling Americans and not the British, I would say General Putnam would be rather proud of all the Conservative tea-bagging going on.

If only I didn't have to eat...

Grocery stores have always been a place I despise going to. The odd yellowish lighting makes the floors look as though some brown slime has just been poorly mopped up.

Picking your choice of chicken is simply horrific. Slick slabs of meat, wrapped in a clear and air-tight plastic skin...yes, that it what I want to see...my chicken swimming in a pink mucusy liquid. If I walked up to some bird on the street and lopped its wing off (not that I would), I am quite sure I would never see something with the color or consistency in which poultry is packaged.

The dusty fruits are all the more scrumptious being as how every person in the city has found the need to poke and push or, in one way or another, molest something I thought sounded good at one time. I wonder how many people picked their nose or scratched their hole and then said, "Hey, how fresh is this tomato? Let me see..."

It's almost as disturbing as being in a restaurant and wondering how many other people used that same fork to eat with....hmmm.

But back to grocery stores...

Heaven forbid you have to pee...I am guessing people savor the idea of holding it all week so they can take one toilet bowl smearing dump during a shopping trip. I always walk in after a person, either shit out a dead cat or Satan himself chose to sit on the throne, because the smell is horrendous. It doesn't matter what store I go in...the smell...dear lord, the smell! What do people eat that creates such terrifying excrement? Coal? Plutonium?

I am quite sure it takes several days off my life each time I use a grocery store's bathroom.

Today, I was blessed with having a child sneeze on my leg. Yep, my knee got pasted with spittle and snot from some little bastard as I waited to reach for my Raisin Bran. It wasn't one of those quiet and polite ha-choo's. It was an all out blast. A snot shooter...the breed that would have sent crap flying across the room and you need to time to recover from. Good thing I was there to stop it or else some old lady might have fallen from the slicked floor.

My body quivered with equal amounts of anger and repulsion.

"Sorry," said the mother, once she felt the heat of my stare.

Really? Sorry? That's all I get? How about I spit in your ear? Or vomit on your child's head? I need to disinfect my leg and you are sorry...whatever.

If I were a Catholic priest, I'd have had the youngster clean it off. Instead, I shook my head and slowly walked to the bathroom...I could already smell what was waiting for me.

Oh, I how I hate grocery stores.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKzYzo0DQEk&feature=related

So, just who is the Nazi in Washington?

Faisal Shahzad is the guy who is tried to blow up a car in Times Square...and Sen. John McCain (the former GOP choice for President) thinks this man should be stripped of his citizenship and put on trial as an enemy combatant.

...and the crowd cheered, waving American flags and singing the National Anthem....

Can we stop and look at the thinking behind this? Can see how evil this idea is, for just a minute or two?

McCain doesn't think this guy should have been read his Miranda rights and shouldn't be brought up on criminal charges, rather be sent to straight away to GITMO.

The problem is....this guy IS an American citizen. This guy, while more than likely guilty...is ONLY a suspect.

The ramifications of doing what McCain wants are enormous....they may, indeed, be the most anti-American actions taken I will have ever seen. But the problem is, McCain isn't the only person saying this.

I ask this, does the nature of an accusation require some sort of extreme measure be taken? Does the fact that a man has merely been charged with a crime mean he has lost his rights as a citizen?

According to John McCain, and several other prominent GOP leaders, the answer is "Yes." There is no need for a trial here because it is so clear this man is guilty. Just lock him up.

But why?

Is it because he is Arab? Is it because he has only been a citizen for a year? It is both? What is the proper length of time and combination of events a person must fit together before they are a true citizen and before their rights are the same as anyone else? 10 years? 20 years? 15 years and 5 of them in the military? Or do they have to be born here in order to secure those rights? Maybe rights should only be given to those who are second or third generation American citizens...because after all, you can't trust those people whose parents were not born in this country, either. Who knows what evil dogmas or generational plots they have pieced together?

The plan goes like this...Grandpa moves to America. Dad lives the life of a normal man. And it is all setting it up for the grandson, oh yes, to blow up buildings....(insert evil laugh and sinister music here).

It's a matter of National Security. We can't let just anyone have rights...that would be insane.

I never heard a single cry for Charles Manson, David Koresh, or even Timothy McVeigh to be stripped of their rights. So, why this man?

If Faisal Shahzad has his citizenship revoked before any sort of trial or conviction, it will be an obscenity. It will be an ugly stain, graffiti, sprayed across the Constitution and the entire world will know all that hold (or say we hold) dear is meaningless.

Assuming a man's guilt and saying he is no longer an American before he has set on foot in a courtroom is Fascist. It is what happened in the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witch trials, and it is the type of "justice" Hitler used.