She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch conservative, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs.

The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school.

Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn’t even have time for a boyfriend, and didn’t really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, “How is your friend Audrey doing?”

She replied, “Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She’s always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn’t even show up for classes because she’s too hung over.”

Her wise father asked his daughter, “Why don’t you go to the Dean’s office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.”

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father’s suggestion, angrily fired back, “That’s a crazy idea, how would that be fair! I’ve worked really hard for my grades! I’ve invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!”

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, “Welcome to the conservative side of the fence.”

If you ever wondered what side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!

If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one.
If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and Jesus silenced.

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it..
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.

If a conservative reads this, he’ll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A liberal will delete it because he’s “offended.”

Well, I forwarded it to you.

Had to call ComEd today with an issue today for a relative.  I was on hold over 35 minutes before I ever got customer service.  My guess is they have cut back so much on their CS, that the hold times are now ridiculous.  This is the not the first time with this issue either, but this is the longest wait.  All the money we pay for our electric and this is the kind of service they give us.  I wish the ComEd execs had to call this number for help…things would change quickly.

Then to top it all off, I had faxed them a document on 11/15…guess what, they have no record of it.  So now back to square one and calling back yet again in a week or so…dammmmmm.

Come on ComEd, do your jobs!!!!!!!

CNN Breaking News:  In Ohio, 49 freed animals shot: 18 tigers, 17 lions, 6 black bears, 2 grizzlies , 3 mountain lions, 2 wolves, baboon.

Apparently the owner of an exotic animal farm released all his animals and committed suicide.  Also it was stated he may not have properly cared for all the animals.

So who the hell ordered all these poor animals to be shot.  HAVE YOU HEARD OF TRANQUILIZER GUNS!!!!!  The animals have already had a rough life.   They should still be in the wild.  But no, let’s just kill them all.  They should have been tranquilized and moved somewhere where they spend the rest of their lives in peace.  Of course they have lots of excuses why they had to do it.  I know there are zoos in Ohio, they quickly could have gotten help!

I say we send the guy who made this decision out in wild and someone hunts him down.  Stupid IDIOT!!!!

He’s telling it just as it is. Been there!!!! Seen it coming … Get ready!!! He’s right on!!!!!

(Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist, writer, environmentalist, traveler)

DETROIT

By Frosty Wooldridge

For 15 years, from the mid 1970’s to 1990, I worked in Detroit , Michigan . I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash everywhere!

Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps!

With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.

A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ flourish in Detroit . If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing.

Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America, outside of Richard Daley in Chicago, rode Detroit down to its knees… He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he said, “I am the MFIC.” The IC meant “in charge”.

You can figure out the rest Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans.

As  United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.

Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan , but most work in Detroit . As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.

As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife! Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total separation from America ..

Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan , paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC’s Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America .. English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.

Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city. In Time Magazine’s October 4, 2009, “The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell, and how it can rise again,” I choked on the writer’s description of what happened. “If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane, and submerged by a ravenous flood, we’d know a lot more about it,” said Daniel Okrent. “If drought and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we’d see it on the evening news every night.” Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice.

But Detroit , once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country.

Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision making.”

As Coleman Young’s corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kickbacks and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city’s death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit ..

“By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit ’s treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services,” Okrent said. “The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers’ union to reject a philanthropist’s offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans , unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit today, the unemployment rate is 28.9%. That’s worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent.

At the end of Okrent’s report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he said, “That’s because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city’s collapse, it’s also about the erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century.

If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can’t find a way to get up, what does that say about America’s future?”

As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner’s book,”$20 Per Gallon”, the auto industry won’t come back. Immigration will keep pouring more and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit , thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America . If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit . Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs.

You have already seen it in Madrid, Spain, London, England, and Paris, France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers and brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture, country and way of life.

I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON’T STAND UP, AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON , AND OUR STATE, CITY AND LOCAL LEADERS THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA . IF YOU THINK MEXICANS AND MUSLIMS AND OTHER FORIEGNERS WILL EVENTUALLY FIT RIGHT IN THEN YOU ARE AS BIG A PART OF THE PROBLEM AS THEY ARE.

IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I’M SORRY, I DON’T KNOW WHAT IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO STAND AND FIGHT ?

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” — Benjamin Franklin

I would think that many other Democrats share her position…
This was written by Sherry Hackett, Buddy Hackett’s widow

“WE NOTICED”

President Obama:

Today I read of your administrations’ plan to re-define September 11 as 
a National Service Day.

Sir, it’s time we had a talk.

During your campaign, Americans watched as you made mockery of our 
tradition of standing and crossing your heart when the Pledge of Allegiance 
was spoken. You, out of four people on the stage, were the only one not 
honoring our tradition. 

YES, “We noticed..”

During one of your many speeches, Americans heard you say that you 
intended to visit all 57 states. We all know that Islam, not America has 57 states. 

YES, “We noticed..”

When President Bush leaned over at Ground Zero and gently placed a
flower on the memorial, while you nonchalantly tossed your flower onto 
the pile without leaning over. 

YES, “We noticed..”

Every time you apologized to other countries for America ’s position on 
an issue we have wondered why you don’t share our pride in this great 
country.. When you have heard foreign leaders berate our country and
our beliefs, you have not defended us. In fact, you insulted the 
British Crown beyond belief. 

YES, “We noticed..”

When your pastor of 20 years, “God-damned America ” and said that 
9/11 was ” America ’s chickens coming home to roost” and you denied 
having heard recriminations of that nature, we wondered how that could 
be. You later disassociated yourself from that church and Pastor 
Wright because it was politically expedient to do so. 

YES, “We noticed..”

When you announced that you would transform America , we wondered 
why. With all her faults, America is the greatest country on earth. 
Sir, KEEP THIS IN MIND, “if not for America and the people who built 
her, you wouldn’t be sitting in the White House now.” Prior to your 
election to the highest office in this Country, you were a senator from 
Illinois and from what we can glean from the records available, not a 
very remarkable one. 

YES, “We noticed..”

All through your campaign and even now, you have surrounded 
yourself with individuals who are basically unqualified for the 
positions for which you appointed them. Worse than that, the majority 
of them are people who, like you, bear no special allegiance, respect, or 
affection for this country and her traditions. 

YES, “We noticed..”

You are 24 months into your term and every morning millions of 
Americans wake up to a new horror heaped on us by you. You seek to
saddle working Americans with a health care/insurance reform package 
that, along with cap and trade, will bankrupt this nation. 

YES, “We noticed..”

We seek, by protesting, to let our representatives know that we are not
in favor of these crippling expenditures and we are labeled 
“un-American”,”racist”, “mob”. We wonder how we are supposed to let 
you know how frustrated we are. You have attempted to make our protests seem 
isolated and insignificant. Until your appointment, Americans had the right 
to speak out. 

YES, “We noticed..”

On September 11, 2001 there were no Republicans or Democrats, only
Americans. And we all grieved together and helped each other in 
whatever way we could. The attack on 9/11 was carried out because we are 
Americans. 

And YES, “We noticed..”

There were many of us who prayed that as a black president you could 
help unite this nation. In six months you have done more to destroy 
this nation than the attack on 9/11. You have failed us. 

YES, “We noticed..”

September 11 is a day of remembrance for all Americans. You 
propose to make 9/11 a “National Service Day”. While we know that you 
don’t share our reverence for 9/11, we pray that history will report 
your proposal as what it is, a disgrace. 

YES, “We noticed..”

You have made a mockery of our Constitution and the office that 
you hold. You have embarrassed and slighted us in foreign visits 
and policy. 

YES, “We noticed..”

We have noticed all these things. We will deal with you. When Americans 
come together again, it will be to remove you from office. 

Take notice.