The Rant

____________________________ from Tiffany Langton Q: I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true? A : Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it...don't waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that's like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap. Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables? A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable products. Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake? A: No, not at all. Wine is made from fruit. Brandy i...

___________________________ by Bob Clasen I believe that every rational person has already made up his mind about the election on Tuesday, so it is pointless to say anything more. May the best man win. I was disappointed to find out that Osama Bin Laden is still alive. I sincerely hope that his reemergence is not a sign of any impending attack to try and disrupt the election. I think that the fact that some predicted he was dead was an obvious guess based upon his silence for so long. Obviously they were wrong and were perhaps guilty of wishful thinking. Today, Sharie and I went to the Rose Bowl with a couple old friends to watch the UCLA Stanford football game. It was a beautiful Fall day, 72 degrees and sunny. The UCLA fans partied on the golf course (which serves as a parking lot for the Rose Bowl during football games) and then celebrated when UCLA beat Stanford 21 to 0. We enjoyed leftover Honey Baked ham sandwiches and home made brownies and barbecued potato chips an...

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This is for the young swingers? You can find this song rising up the charts on MTV and VH1. It was released this week. I bet it gets in the top 5 if not number 1. Most of his hits do this. Thanks Eminem http://www.musicmen.co.uk/e107_plugins/media/media.php?view.88

Statement from Ronald Green, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2004--The Parties regret that this matter has caused tremendous pain, and they have agreed to settle. All cases and claims have been withdrawn and all Parties have agreed that there was no wrongdoing whatsoever by Mr. O'Reilly, Ms. Mackris, or Ms. Mackris' counsel, Benedict P. Morelli & Associates. We now withdraw any assertion that any extortion by Ms. Mackris, Mr. Morelli, or Morelli & Associates occurred. Out of respect for their families and privacy, all Parties and their representatives have agreed that all information relating to the cases shall remain confidential. _____________________________________ http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20041028006128&newsLang=en

In Sioux City, Iowa, Kerry called the missing explosives "a growing scandal" and said Americans "deserve a full and honest explanation." _______________________________________________________ Here it is: THE MYTH OF THE 'MISSING EXPLOSIVES': A SHAMELESS LIE BY RALPH PETERS (NY Post http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/32832.htm) October 28, 2004 -- SHOULD the United Nations decide who be comes our president? Sen. John Kerry wouldn't mind. He's shamelessly promoting the lies that the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency is telling about Iraq. [Working closely with the NY Times and CBS News]. _____________________________________________________________ A devious IAEA report suggests that 400 tons of explosives were spirited away by our enemies under the noses of our Keystone-Cops troops after the fall of Baghdad. The document just happened to be released in the closing days of our presidential election. Purely a...

Instant Messenger Delivers Political Pop-Ups Welcome to the next great leap forward in online political attack ads: instant messaging pop-ups. Some computer users are reporting a pop-up that appears on their monitors when the only application running is America Online's Instant Messenger. The ad features a sallow-looking headshot of Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards (N.C.), gazing across a wall-to-wall field of $50 and $100 bills. The text reads, "Learn The Truth About John Edwards" and offers viewers the chance to click on a link. That link takes them to a Web site called www.thetruthabouttriallawyers.com . The sites feature two videos excoriating Edwards's history as a trial lawyer. A petition on the site urges people to "Tell John Edwards to urge his friends to: Stop suing our doctors! Stop abusing our courts! Stop wrecking our economy!" The ad and site are paid for by the November Fund , a group supported by the U.S. Ch...

________________________ by Bob Clasen A friend sent me a mock resume of George Bush that portrayed him as a complete idiot, a criminal, a friend of thieves, a coward, a person with no redeeming value. This is how I respond to people who feel this way about Bush (or Kerry for that matter): ________________________ Doesn't it scare you that voters have elected Bush to the governorship twice and the Presidency once? According to polls, he has a good chance of winning again. What does it say about democracy that voters would elect a person whom you feel is fairly represented by this (libelous) resume? Voters must be complete idiots. How can democracy work if such a dolt can become President? I prefer not to think of Kerry in this way because it would speak too negatively about my friends and family who support him. I don't think Kerry is a cretin or an evil villain. I merely think that his strategic thinking regarding the war on terror would likely make ...

_____________________ by Bob Clasen Voter Turnout Everyone from P. Diddley to Madonna is arguing that we need to “get out the vote.” Felons, senile senior citizens, ignorant teenagers, everyone has a duty to vote “or die” as P. Diddley so curiously puts it. I would like to propose another notion. Too many people vote. People who do not follow the news, people who do not know the first thing about Kerry or Bush, people who do not know the first thing about politics. People who are serial criminals. People who are not citizens and who should not have been allowed to register. People who can barely read. Why should an ignoramus vote? If you don’t know anything about the election, stay home, take drugs, watch MTV, but don’t inflict your abysmal ignorance upon the rest of the population, please. Hollywood, are you listening? _____

______________________________ another dialogue posted by Bob Clasen On Oct 24, 2004, at 3:31 AM, Peter wrote: The discussion, to my mind, turns on a key moral dilemma: When is it permissible to do something bad to accomplish something good? When does the end justify the means? In 1939 would one have found it acceptable, morally, to murder Hitler? Okay, so we’re all in agreement there. But hold on, how do we go about implementing this as national policy today? Do we have a CIA assassination squad lining up names to be bumped off? There are lots of nasty leaders in the world today, on many continents, scattered around the world. Do we just get on with it? Send out the assassination squads? Do we worry about the obvious collateral damage of innocent deaths? And if we are morally empowered to start murdering people in the name of our freedom loving democracy (no inconsistency there), what about destabilising other governments? Or conquering other nations? In such cases, when...

__________________ by Mark Steyn Chicago Tribune Maybe I'm getting old. I've been covering politics for 53 years, and that's just since John Kerry's convention speech. I'm sick of this election, even before the Democratic Party's chad-diviners have managed to extend it to mid-December. These are serious times and the senator is not a serious man. And so we have a campaign that has a sharper position on Mary Cheney's lesbianism and the deficiencies of Laura Bush's curriculum vitae than on the central question of the age. Outsourcing the War There are legitimate differences of opinion about the war, but they don't include Kerry's silly debater's points. On the one hand, the Tora borer drones that Bush "outsourced" the search for Osama bin Laden to the Afghans, though at the time he supported it ("It is the best way to protect our troops," he said in December 2001. "I think we have been doing this pretty ...