Andrew Barss wrote in message ...
Imagine someone wants to set you up with a woman (if you're female, please
reverse genders here) who:

a) charges huge purchases to your credit card with no plan to pay them
off, other than vaguely implying your kids will take care of it;

b) goes over to a neighbor's house and hits him in the head with an axe,
based on an unsubstatiated rumour that the neighbor had been planning to
buy an axe;

c) decides your dad would be better off if we threw away some of his
benefit checks, calling them "wasteful";


d) pretended to have served a full term on the local PTA, when in
fact she spent half her claimd PTA time doing her nails;

e) decides she should have access to the complete records of what you,
your family, and your neighbors have said on the phone, checked out of the
library, and said in private, and that the content of that can and should
be used to deter anyone suspicious in jail, without being charged, and
without having access to an attourney.


Would you marry her?


-- Andy Barss


point by point:
a)while I agree that Bush has spent like a wild man and needs to
attempt a slow down in spending, please remember that a huge amount of
this spending has had to do with 911 and the resulting military
actions. War costs money, defense costs money. And congress had to
approve the spending. Before you say they had no choice, and that
democrats couldn't stop the majority, please take note that they were
certainly able to stop Bush's judicial appointments...

b)if that neighbor had a history of invading his other neighbors
houses, and a history of killing people in his own household, and if
there was undeniable evidence that he possessed axes, I really
wouldn't care what he was going to buy, I would fire bomb his house
purely as a safeguard.

c.) boy will this **** you off... it is a waste. If my dad would be
self responsible in the first place, he wouldn't need the government
teat. Social Security is a huge Ponzi scheme, and I am one of the
suckers who will be left holding the empty bag. So I say get rid of
the sorry socialist program, and let me invest my money rather than
have it stolen from me by the government, who never intends to pay it
back. I for one am tired of being used as a slave to people who fail
to plan, or don't want to work, or aren't even citizens of this
country. All people of my age group believe they will never see Social
Security benefits, and that is one of the biggest reasons liberals
(read socialists) are continually failing to impress us, let alone
getting our votes.

d.)Regardless of what was done while in the NG, he has all he needs.
It is called and honorable discharge, and they are not given away.
BTW, Clinton received his draft notice and ran. Kerry, though he may
have served honorably (maybe) turned Hanoi Jane on us upon his return,
which is also known as giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Let him
push this issue, more of the truth will come out. Did you know that
some soldiers have refused their 3rd Purple Heart, because they know
it will take them out of the field. Kerry put in his own requests for
those purple hearts, and immediately requested to be reassigned after
his 3rd purple heart (officers can do such things). Tours in Nam
lasted 1 year, Kerry was there slightly more or less than 4 months.
His first two purple hearts were for wounds that were fixed literally
with band-aids. His last purple heart was also minor and kept him from
his duties for less than 2 days. This could be viewed as cowardice,
but I would prefer it not be. It is only because Kerry and his cronies
took it upon themselves to attack Bush's service, that people have
looked more closely at Kerry's service and called it into question. I
served my country the first time around against Saddam, and my service
to my country, no matter how small is something I am most proud of,
and no one, AND I MEAN NO ONE, can belittle it, or take it away from
me, or make me feel bad about it. And I am sure Kerry and Bush feel
the same way. In 1992, Kerry stood on the senate floor and defended
Bill Clinton's lack of service, saying in effect, that it was a low
thing to resort to questioning the actions of people during the
Vietnam War. Kerry has apparently decided that the same standards do
not apply to Bush.

e)if you have nothing to hide, why do you care? If slight invasions of
my privacy are made to keep another 3,000 Americans from dying, I'm OK
with that. I have nothing to hide.

Do not let my calm exterior belie my inner turmoil,

David