That Third Party thing

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“The lesser of two evils”? No WAY!

Letter to the editor;

Hitler and Stalin were running for King of the World.

Everyone was advised to choose the lesser of two evils.

It was pointed out that Hitler had excellent table manners and that Stalin was a slob; that Hitler talked way too long whenever he had an audience and that German mathematicians and engineers were generally superior to their Russian counterparts.

And the voters fell into line, ready to vote for Hitler or for Stalin, grasping at such trivialities to justify their votes.

A very few voters publicly said they would vote for anybody else on the ballot, or even write in the President of Switzerland or somebody.

They were hooted down with choruses of “You must choose the lesser of two evils!” (repeated thousands of times).

We are told our vote will not count unless it is for McCain or Obama.

I tell you your vote won't count unless it is for someone else. Anybody else.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona

You politicians have betrayed us.

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Your attention, Congresscritters!

Letter to the editor:

The all-purpose letter to politicians

You promised clean government.

The people believed you, elected you and sent you to Congress.

When you got to Washington, the nice people there took you to seminars and dinners and speeches and you were taught that everything is not all that simple.

You were taught that you have to go along to get along, and that the more in debt we are, the richer we are.

You knew (and you still know) that this is a bunch of baloney. But you were with people who were used to spending the people's money like it was something nasty to get rid of.

Now the crew of you has bankrupted us. What will you do for an encore? For that matter, what can you do to keep the country afloat for a few more days?

I suggest, if it is not already eternally too late, that you read the Constitution and obey it and encourage others to obey it.

I suggest, if it is not already eternally too late, that you impeach the most spendthrift Members of Congress.

I suggest that you write your own bills, limit them to a single subject and cite whatever clause of the Constitution that authorizes that bill.

Then, on the other hand, it might be too late anyway.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona

The very long perspective

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The really B – I – G picture

Letter to the editor;

This Earth orbits a star and receives life-giving light and heat from it.

There are thousands of millions of stars in this galaxy.

There are thousands of millions of other galaxies.

Each galaxy is neatly arranged to orbit around its own center.

The many galaxies “fall” away from each other so that they will never collide.

Any number of stars may be accompanied by planets. Any number of those planets may be habitable.

Either the Eternal King of Creation made all of those objects just to be passing the time, or He made them with a purpose.

Since the purpose of this planet is to provide spirits with a place to enjoy mortality, it may well be that untold millions (or perhaps even thousands of millions) of planets are, at any given time, not only habitable -- but inhabited.

Since the Lord G-d saw fit to create us in His image on this planet, it may well be that He would create man in His image on each suitable planet.

And why would He do this? For His own Glory, that's why!

Every religious person should form, within his or her own theology, a unified Plan of Salvation that includes not only this planet, but any number of planets that G-d has created, beatified, sanctified and made into homes for His children. (Atheists don’t need to bother with this issue.)

(Planets do not accidentally become habitable. It takes many miracles, over millions of years, to bring a proto-planet of molten iron to the condition of being able to hold oceans and atmosphere, make topsoil, grow grass and trees, and support ants and plankton, to say nothing of sharks, bears and human beings.)

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona

Criminal Congress

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The biggest robbery in history!
Letter to our Congresscritters;If your bank were about to go under, would you go rob other banks in town for the money to strengthen it?No. You're a Member of Congress. You would never commit armed robbery. Instead, you VOTE a robbery. And who would you vote to rob? The entire population. Only there's not enough money among all of us for that. So you vote to rob our children and our grandchildren, too!

“Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.”

“This is the way we always do it.”

“This is an emergency.”

“This is for the good of the nation.”

“The mortgage outfit is too big to fail.”

Your cohorts spent generations putting the fatal pressure on the mortgage outfits by forcing them to lend money to people who could not possibly pay it back -- and to lend money on houses in areas you wouldn't dare to drive thru -- even during daylight hours.

What did anybody THINK would happen?

As near as I understand, the House narrowly voted down the biggest robbery in all of history. Therefore the Money-Boys leaned on y’all to vote on it again and again until you would give them what they wanted.

Italian Fascism showed us what happens when you intertwine government with enterprise. Now that YOU have done it on this gargantuan scale, you should go around apologizing to regular Fascists.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona

Stiffling news of protests

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Suppressing the news of protests

Letter to the editor;

(A guest-rant by Stu Young, former Deputy Leader of the American Fascist Party)

[Here’s] a disturbing trend. We supposedly have freedom of speech, and are free to choose between political parties with clearly different agendas and tactics.

Flying in the face of all this, award winning journalist and host of Democracy Now, Amy Goodman, was arrested while covering a protest outside the Republican National Convention. Though clearly identified as press, Goodman was charged with “obstruction of a legal process and interference with a peace officer.”

Please note that she was not participating in the protest: She was doing a story on it.

Suppressing non-violent protests is not new. It has been happening since the Patriot Acts were signed. (Incidentally, the wording of that legislation can be interpreted as defining as a terrorist any citizen who disagrees with the government.) We Americans are turning our backs on an increase of arrests, tear gas and club attacks on non-violent protesters.

In 2004, Ralph Nader, who had purchased a ticket to the last Presidential Debate, and was planning to attend like any other private citizen, was threatened with arrest if he entered the convention hall where the debate was held (this can be seen in the independent film, An Unreasonable Man). I guess the corporate-controlled organizers of the debate feared a potential protest, as though Ralph Nader, all by himself, could whip the crowd into a frenzy. But now, apparently, letting the public know that such protests are occurring has become intolerable to the [big-shots]. (For more info, I recommend the movie Why We Fight, available in the special interest section of Blockbuster.)

Think Brave New World, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451 are just science fiction books?

If you wonder what you can do, the following website offers [an] idea:
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/dont_arrest_journalists/?r_by=803-1636285-jDjWujx&rc=confemail

Otherwise, we can start memorizing the coming, new slogan of the “American Union” (a.k.a. “Security and Prosperity Partnership;” Google that if you haven’t heard of it):

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. (Sound familiar?).

Stu Young

Generous victor

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From the wreckage of war

Letter to the editor; (A guest-rant by Don Blaster)

As I watched the Olympics, the thought came to my aging mind:

Q. Were it not for the dedication, hard work, sacrifice of life and treasure of the United States from 1941 until 1945, which of the countries represented at Beijing would be there, competing, in AD 2008? Starting with China; would it be China?

Then my mind expanded the vision to ask:

Would Korea still be Korea?

Would Mongolia have entered an athlete from Mongolia? Australia?

Would Poland be Poland? France? England? Scotland? Ireland? Norway?

Would Sweden be Sweden? Denmark? Austria? Finland? Greece?

Would Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania be themselves?

Then, again I broadened the view to ask: Would even Russia still be Russia?

Would Japan and Germany and Italy be the prosperous, sovereign nations they have become if the U.S. had used our power to confiscate their lands as all other conquering armies always did?

How many of their composite, Olympic minds ever gave the above a tiny thought as they enjoyed the various medals and acclaim they received?

Were we perfect then? Are we perfect now? Will we ever become perfect? Hardly! But, c'mon, World, be like the one leper who returned to thank Jesus for being cured. At least NOD a bit toward our flag as you hear our National Anthem played as an athletic victory is recognized.

God bless America. God heal America. God use America to accomplish His will.

Don Blaster
Benton, Kentucky

Telemarketing

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Cell-phone telemarketing?

Letter to the editor;

(Sound of phone ringing)

ME: Glenn Jacobs.

VOICE: This important message is to tell you that your vehicle warra . . . (click)

(Sound of phone ringing)

ME: Glenn Jacobs.

VOICE: There is nothing wrong with your credit card accounts. However, would you like for us to help you to reduce your interest rates and become debt-free?

ME: You said you wouldn’t call me again.

VOICE: We won’t. I will remove your name and number from our list.

ME: This is the seventh time you have promised exactly that.

Don Blaster, an old friend in Kentucky sends word that today (TODAY!) cell-phone numbers will be released to telemarketing companies all across the United States. He warns that now, when a person with an unidentifiable foreign accent calls you during supper to offer an “affordable” health plan – YOU get to pay for the call.

This has some of the earmarks of a hoax. I really don’t know if it’s true or not.

On the off chance that we start getting sales calls on our cell-phones, the antidote is supposed to be to call (from your cellphone!) 1-888-382-1222.

I just now called that number. A voice said it was the Federal Trade Commission Do-Not-Call Registry. (“To register your phone number, press one.”)

Then, thinking it over, I called the same number from my “land-line” home phone.

I still don’t know whether the problem (or the solution) is “for real”.

Glenn Jacobs / Eagar, Arizona