The object of the game is to destroy American capitalism by having the government take over everything!

Tokens include a bus, a teleprompter, a sprig of arugula and a waffle iron.

Wanna play?  

 No???

Too bad, you’re already playing… whether you want to or not; and, quite frankly, in this game,  nobody  wins!

 

NOTE FROM WAYNE:  I do NOT know Scott Walkington… but am simply forwarding a prophecy that was sent to me by a trusted Christian brother…

Scott Walkington experienced a life after death experience. We have talked with him on several occasions and he spoke at our church. When he speaks, he is very articulate and he gives details that would be difficult to relate if this experience had not been real. Jesus gave Scott seven events that were to happen before the rapture.(1st Thes. 4:13-17; 5:1-4.) The following is Scott’s thoughts on the past election. The fulfillment of the following will be the verification of whether Scott had a dream or his life after death experience was real. Whatever happens, this is definitely a time for Christians to pray for our families and our nation.

Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 00:  Dear friends in Christ; Before I start, let me make this statement … I’m just a messenger, nothing more, nothing less.  Many of you asked in the past year or so who might be elected the next president, based on the Seven Signs that Jesus gave me in my heaven experience. And I answered that Obama’s campaign seemed to match many of the issues that Jesus promised in this next candidate.

I would have liked to share this prophecy back then, but I did not want it to look like a political advertisement. So I chose to write about this AFTER the election. I can also tell you that this presidential election based on my heaven experience is prophecy being fulfilled. We’re just one more milestone closer to the rapture.  Just remember…except for local elections, last Tuesday’s election was the LAST presidential election we will ever experience before the rapture. There will be no more! Isn’t that exciting?

Here is what’s yet to happen:  1. Coming in January (inauguration) … Due to a “problem”, Obama will NOT be sworn in as the next president. He will never take that office. Why? I don’t know. This is the missing piece to the puzzle. We must wait in anticipation to see whatever this “problem” might be.

2. Bush will be forced to extend his presidential term until this “problem” can be resolved. Remember, Jesus told me, “The president you know right now (meaning Bush) will be the last president you will know at the time of the rapture.”  3. Violence will erupt within our nation due to this “problem”. What might this be? Rioting? Demonstrations? Terrorism? We will wait and see.

4. Jesus told me, “Your troops will be brought home from around the world, but this does not mean peace.” Then my minister, Rev. John Rice, (in heaven) said, “When this happens, stay off the airplanes, the trains and the interstate highways. If you must cross a river, use a less traveled bridge or a ferry. When driving, use as many back roads as possible.” Then Jesus told me, “Your nation will need all the help it can get to defend itself.”  5. World War III will erupt. All the nations will turn against this nation, blaming Bush for this “problem”, but by the time the world realizes that Bush was not to blame, it will be too late.  6. Missiles will be dropped on cities on the east coast, then the west coast, making 9/11 look very minimal.

7. Then by the time we see missiles and fighter jets flying above us in all directions right here at home and you feel like it can’t get any worse than this, that’s when you know the rapture is about to take place.  Our nation will lose this war badly. It will be the end of the United States. At this time the one world government and the antichrist will take over.  All these things I learned from my heaven experience. Jesus also told me, “These are all in God’s plan. As horrible as these events may seem, these events must happen in order for the rapture to take place. But you must fear not, for as you see these things happen, you must realize these are merely milestones as we get closer to the rapture. Just do your works as normally as you possibly can. Then when this time comes, I will call you and everyone else on My list, in the twinkle of My eye, just that fast..”   Let me finish by saying, I’m just a messenger, nothing more, nothing less.  God bless, Scott

When John McCain selected Governor Sarah Palin, as his running mate, the Democrats and their far-left constituency let out a primal scream that could be heard from sea to shining sea. How dare he choose someone that they and their pals in the media had not had a chance to vet (i.e. libel, slander, and otherwise and otherwise eviscerate). Ah, but it was not too late. These seekers of “a new kind of politics” poured torrents of malicious abuse upon her and her family.

Plane loads of scandal mongers, lawyers and other truth seekers became more numerous in Alaska than the polar bear, as they rallied local Democrats and disgruntled Republicans to their cause.

Here was a woman who chose to have children and a career. Aging Washington socialites weighed in with newly discovered sensitivity for mothers with careers outside the home. Here was a woman who became upset because her ex-brother-in-law had tasered her nephew and threatened her father. The Democrats and their friends had to save the country from a woman like this.

Governor Palin’s every comment was scrutinized by the media and judged against what Jefferson or Lincoln might have said. Never mind that her counterpart, the 30-year-Washington-veteran Joe Biden, apparently is unaware that America relies upon coal for a lot of it’s electricity or that he recently referred to a top level U.S. official’s visit to Iran that never happened. That’s just Joe being Joe – protected by the sheer number of his gaffes and the fact that he is Barack Obama’s running mate.

For a while there it seems the fact that so many uninformed yahoos (average people) love her was going to drive the main stream media nuts. They had a hard time grasping the fact that people like her because she is precisely the kind of politician that everyone has been saying they’ve wanted: Independent, not a captive of the Beltway including a Congress with a 9% approval rating, who will take on hacks of either party; who has the tenacity to win and the courage to fight for the long-term benefit of those she represents.

Apparently what no one counted on was that a politician like this would actually show up on the national scene. The media was caught by surprise. The media doesn’t like surprises.

Naturally, there was a backlash to the treatment of Governor Palin and cooler-headed critics have largely concentrated on what they claim is her lack of qualifications. Of course much of the criticism of her qualifications reveals the application of the same old double standard. Less accomplished governors in times past have been considered to be perfectly “well-qualified” as VP picks.

However, it is a legitimate issue and should be taken seriously. I especially take seriously the criticism of people such as New York Times columnist David Brooks who I consider to be an insightful analyst of the political scene.

He recently wrote that governance is hard. It requires acquired skills. Most of all it requires prudence. What is prudence? Among other things, it is the ability to absorb information and discern the essential current of events – the things that go together and the things that will never go together. It is the ability to engage in complex deliberations and to understand which arguments have the most weight. How is prudence acquired? Through experience. Experience allows a leader to judge what is important and what is not. He added, “Sarah Palin has many virtues. If you wanted someone to destroy a corrupt establishment, she’d be your woman. But the constructive act of governance is another matter.”

One can hardly disagree with the desirability of our leaders having the qualities that Brooks describes (putting aside the question of how many of our leaders who are not Sarah Palin have demonstrated these qualities). But there are other important qualifications, such as will, courage, and determination. Frankly, an infusion of these qualities into our body politic is desperately needed – not just to raise hell with the establishment, but to speak the hard truth about unpleasant choices facing our country. To push for choices that will, in the long term, benefit our country, our children and our grandchildren. In other words, things which “prudent” leaders are all too often reluctant to do.

For many years we have failed to address looming problems that will prove catastrophic to our nation. It’s not because we are bereft of leaders with great experience. And it is not because they do not understand the “essential current of events.” They know these things all too well. It is because they do not have the political courage to do anything about it.

Recently, a Washington Post editorial pointed out that even before the recent financial crisis on Wall Street, the Government Accountability Office issued a report declaring the federal government on an “unsustainable long term fiscal path.” This was primarily due to the projected cost of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, brought on by an aging population. We will be spending $41 trillion dollars more on these entitlements in the next 75 years than we will receive in payroll taxes and premiums, although the crunch will actually begin much sooner than that. And we already owe Japan and China about $500 billion each.

David Walker, the former Comptroller General of the United States calls this problem much larger than the recent financial rescue plan. In fact he calls it the “super sub-prime crisis.” Which bring me to the current sub-prime crisis.

Wall Street and Washington were full of people who were “qualified and experienced” in the field of finance. Sen. Barack Obama, for one, has a great deal of experience in the housing field. So do many of his closest advisers. I would have traded some of that experience for a few more leaders with less experience and more courage to buck the establishment and tell the truth about what was happening.

This brings me back to Governor Sarah Palin, and why I say that courage and political will are at the very top of the “qualification” requirements for today’s leaders. So the question is, how does Sarah Palin compare on that score with Biden and Obama, for that matter? Very well, I’d say.

I met and spoke with Sarah Palin about two years ago at our downtown Park Strip. It is a place for walking, carnivals, political outdoor things and such. She was cooking hotdogs at a fund raiser and introducing herself to the public as a Governor hopeful.

She came by and said the usual “Hi, I’m Sarah Palin and I am running for Governor”… and I expected her to keep on to the next person but she asked me who I was and what I did in Alaska and we ended up talking for 15 minutes about me, Air America (she was all agog!) and my career in the Army and AAM. She is a pilot (Super Cub) I’m told although all she told me about that was that she loved flying.

As I watched her over the next six months as she successfully ran for Governor I was really impressed. I was impressed greatly even before that after she resigned a good position (Alaska Gas and Oil Regulatory Commission) because a fellow Commission member (Chair of the Alaska Republican Party) misused their office and position. He was using the FAX, computers, printing room and all to promote the Republican endeavors while in a State job. That is a huge no-no in any government employment position.

She resigned and made her point and within weeks Randy Ruderich (the above bad guy) found his [butt] out on the street and a subsequent investigation found him guilty and he was fined $12,000. Small change actually but a giant point was made.

Next she went after our most horrible Governor ever, Governor Murkowski, and damned if she didn’t beat him! All of us here in Alaska , except the Democrats, are sick of our State’s corruption. That fact was shouted to the heavens after she was elected with an overwhelming point spread.

After she got into office she started after corrupt legislators and with the FBI’s help we’ve put four of them in prison, indicted six more and the “Corrupt Bastard’s Club” as they arrogantly called themselves (even had hats made with CBC on the front!) suddenly found it no fun anymore. Club membership is now in the toilet!!

The current flap which has cost her a ten point loss of popularity (she’s still 82%!) was over firing a popular Commissioner of Public Safety who is responsible for our Alaska State Troopers. She fired him for no STATED reason which was her prerogative as the Gov. He served entirely at her option. She and her whole family had a bad, bad experience with a rogue Trooper who was married to Sarah’s sister. His name is Trooper Wooten. This dimwit Trooper had threatened Sarah’s father (death threat!), threatened Sarah (“I’ll get you too”), tasered his 12 year old stepson, drove drunk in his AST cruiser, got a pass by a fellow Trooper who stopped him for erratic driving a second time while in civvies and just a host of other things not yet released to the public. He got away with it and got another pass by the Commissioner’s appointed AST Trooper Internal Affairs investigator with a tiny slap on the wrist. Five days off without pay to be exact!!

This maverick Trooper is still on the payroll but only just. The Union intervening saved his malcontent [butt]. He’ll yet get his I’m sure. Incredible heat is being heaped on the Troopers. Public heat, not the Governors office.

The Democrats had the audacity to appoint a obviously biased investigator, Rep. “Gunny” French (so called because he lied about being in the USMC while running for the Legislature) is a staunch liberal and under the orders of Senate President Lyda Green who hates Sarah. She hates Sarah because after being elected Governor Sarah told the whole Legislature in one of her first meetings with them that, quote; “All of you here need some Adult Supervision!!!”.  Sarah was seriously [POed] and not afraid of anyone there. That played wonderfully well with Alaskans after all of our corruption and after all of her successful battles against a seriously entrenched corrupt government here in Alaska . It [POed] the whole Legislature though! They have stayed [POed] but also afraid of her because of her popularity.

She reminds me personally of our Alaska wolverine which will fight anything in it’s path if it see’s fit to do so. No respect at all for size or position. Wife Cindy is in this category too. Unfortunately.

In closing I must tell you that she is the best, most moral and most focused leader I’ve seen since President Reagan. I feel, really strongly, that like Alaska the rest of our country will love her within a few weeks. Put simply, she represents middle America like NO leader we’ve ever had. I think McCain made a totally brilliant move in choosing her. She’s a maverick who is probably tougher and more focused than McCain himself…. and she won’t be a total “Yes Man” or more appropriately, woman. McCain will love her.

In 2012 she will be President.

My best to all of you in the hurricane belt. I hope you are all OK. We just had another mini  Air America reunion here in beautiful Soldotna , Alaska along the Kenai river. We’ll be doing this every year now I guess. Like our Flying Tiger pal’s before us there are not that many Air Ameri ca guys left. I’m 71 myself this September 16. Where the hell did the years go so fast?

My best to you old buddy

Semper Fi,

George W. Murray

Before you dismiss out of hand the importance of Sarah Palin being Commander of the Alaska National Guard, consider this:

Alaska is the first line of defense in our missile interceptor defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire nation from ballistic missile attacks. Its on permanent active duty, unlike other Guard units.

As governor of Alaska , Palin is briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counterterrorism. Her exposure to classified material may rival even Biden’s and certainly by far exceeds Obama’s.

She’s also the commander in chief of the Alaska State Defense Force
(ASDF), a federally recognized militia incorporated into Homeland Security’s counterterrorism plans.

Palin is privy to military and intelligence secrets that are vital to the entire country’s defense. Given Alaska ’s proximity to Russia ,she may have security clearances we don’t even know about.

According to the Washington Post, she first met with McCain in February, but nobody ever found out. This is a woman used to keeping secrets.

She can be entrusted with our national security, because she already is.

This was the happiest convention I have attended.

In seven conventions going back to 1984, I have never seen delegates as happy.

I have seen them eager, energized, committed, determined but the underlying mood last night was sheer joy.

There was joy that Senator McCain had had the courage to pick Governor Palin.

There was joy that she and her family had come through the week of attacks smiling and eager to campaign.

There was joy that Governor Palin’s Wednesday night speech completely vindicated Senator McCain’s choice.

There was joy that 37 million Americans had seen her speech. That is almost as many as watched Senator Obama’s acceptance speech (39 million).

There was deep inspiration from Cindy McCain’s story of adopting a child from Bangladesh and her commitment to the poor and the weak around the world.

There was awe at the film about Senator McCain’s service to country and inspiration from the personal parts of his speech.

There was joy at Roberta McCain saying “he’s a momma’s boy” and admiration for her energy and enthusiasm at 96 (sort of knocks down the age issue).

Finally there was joy that we had nominated two real people of great authenticity to take on the poseurs on the other ticket.

It was appropriate in St. Paul, the city of F. Scott Fitzgerald, that the modern Great Gatsby found himself facing a ticket with a real war hero and a real governor.

Obama’s long voyage of self discovery and posturing may be about to collide with a team that can’t be intimidated and is not afraid to tell the truth.

Now that is a cause for joy.

I am writing this newsletter from St. Paul, MN, where Alaska Governor Sarah Palin electrified the crowd at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night. And I think it’s safe to say she showed the entire country a fresh new face of conservative reform.

There was a lot of build-up to Governor Palin’s speech, both in the media and among the professional Republican political class. Everyone was telling us that the speech was the Governor’s big moment; if she could perform well Wednesday night, she would break free of the despicable, sustained partisan and personal attacks being leveled at her by everyone from the left-wing blogs to the elite media.

Palin Survived. Now the Left REALLY Has to Destroy Her But the pundits and the consultants were wrong. Palin’s success last week doesn’t mean the left-wing is going to give up attacking her.

Palin’s success means that now the left really has to destroy her.

Why? Because she’s proved that she is an intelligent, articulate and mortal threat to the left’s claim that it is the sole, legitimate voice of women and blue-collar, working Americans.

Sarah Palin is a mother of five who is also an accomplished woman.

She is a lifelong member of the NRA who is also an intelligent, articulate professional.

She is pro-life in her words and in her deeds, and she controls an $11 billion budget and 15,000 Alaska state employees.

Simply put, the left has a greater vested interest in destroying her than any presidential or vice presidential candidate the Republican Party has nominated in the last fifty years.

The media will try to downplay her accomplishments as when Ron Allen of MSNBC tried to get me to accept that she had too little experience.

We’ve seen this kind of desperation before, of course.

Those of us who lived through the effort by the elites to destroy Clarence Thomas when he was nominated to sit on the Supreme Court by George H. W. Bush have an unsettling idea of the fight that lies ahead.

The left and the elites regarded Thomas – an African-American who is also a conservative – as a threat to their ability to be the arbiters of what African-Americans and other minorities should believe.

Allowing Thomas to ascend to the high court would show that skin color does not dictate political affiliation – just as allowing Sarah Palin to become vice president would show that being a woman and a blue-collar American does not dictate political party.

So they threw mud at Thomas. They called him a traitor to his race.

Just like what’s happening now with Governor Palin. We’ve seen this before.

The road ahead promises to be bumpy. But the good news is that if Governor Palin survives the next few months as a national figure of competence and reform, then the left suddenly has a tremendous problem.

It’s a problem that is bigger than just losing the election (which is what will happen if she is a star in November).

The left’s problem will be that, at 44, Sarah Palin represents potentially 30 years of Republican Party leadership and transforming the party and America.

The stakes are high, and the race is on.

It’s time to brace ourselves for the coming war against Sarah Palin – and its time to win it.

Your friend,

Newt Gingrich

I’ll be honest with you. I’d been giving consideration to third-party candidates. As a conservative with a renewed pledge to bear the legacy of America’s Founders, I wasn’t going to simply concede to the McCain ticket unless he made a credible (and what might be viewed as a radical) choice for vice president.
   
McCain is a good man, solid in character, and fully capable to lead our country into the future. But America also needs a fresh, reputable outsider who isn’t afraid to confront Washington corruption, government gridlock or partisan paralysis. When I heard Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was McCain’s choice, I knew she was a woman whom Americans could support and trust. Sarah is tough, smart, competent, credible and confident enough to fight those even in her own party. I believe she even will help to keep McCain accountable and in check.
   
Gov. Palin comes from a small town with small-town values. Sarah was sworn in as Alaska’s youngest and first female governor, in 2006. This mother of five was tired of seeing government running amuck and awry and stepped into public service to reform it. And she has a clear and long record of doing just that: bucking the status quo, cutting taxes and government waste, reducing big government, establishing ethics committees, pursuing alternative energy, and being pro-family and pro-life (as witnessed by her choice to cherish her baby with Down syndrome and to support her 17-year-old daughter keeping her baby and marrying the father).

The fact is far-left liberals don’t know how to respond to strong, conservative female political leaders. They hail Hillary but try to impale Palin. But Sarah has sparred them many times before and has come out of the ring without a scratch. Sarah is so tough that she inspired a new tongue-in-cheek Web site (www.PalinFacts.com), which parallels the “Chuck Norris Facts” folklore Web site (www.ChuckNorrisFacts.com). It gives some mythical, yet complimentary “facts” about Sarah Palin’s life, potential, character and career.

Here are three of my favorites:

 – Sarah Palin once carved a perfect likeness of the Mona Lisa in a block of ice using only her teeth.

 – Sarah Palin doesn’t need a gun to hunt, because she can throw a bullet through an adult bull elk.

 – And my favorite: Sarah Palin is courageous and tough enough to shave Chuck Norris’s beard — and face off against his third fist disguised as a chin.

All joking aside, one real fact about Gov. Palin is that both Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are shaking in their boots over her candidacy and prospective appointment to the vice presidency. Obama talks about change, but McCain further lived out his commitment to reform with his choice of Palin to be his running mate. Obama chose government-as-usual Sen. Biden. McCain chose Washington outsider and corruption confronter Gov. Palin.
   
Obama and Biden not only know that Palin supersedes Biden’s finesse and potential but also that (if called to the task) she’s even more qualified and tenured in life and government to assume the presidency than Obama himself. As Pat Buchanan explained: “The lady has more executive experience than McCain, Joe Biden and Obama put together. None of them has ever started or run a business as Palin did. None of them has run a giant state like Alaska, which is larger than California and Texas put together.” And I might add that none is better suited to serve as president of the Senate than “Vice President Palin,” who would keep it more accountable to “us the people.”
   
Forget the cheap talk about change; Gov. Palin is a proven reformer who can help us restore our country and rectify constitutional revisionism and apostasy. Sarah is small-town civil and Texas tough, with a Southern elegance and an urban savvy. If McCain is a maverick, then there’s no doubt that Sarah is (if you will) the maverette! Even Oprah seems to be acknowledging the power in Sarah’s prowess by refusing to have this hockey mom turned VP nominee on her talk show until “after the campaign is over” — though she’s had Barack (and Michelle) Obama on twice.
   
Gov. Palin comes to civil service in the spirit of our Founding Mothers. She represents an early-American patriotic spirit that I believe lies sleeping among millions of Americans today and needs to be reawakened. She is the type of revolutionary who will help to wake up and revitalize America and about whom I write in my new book (available now at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble), “Black Belt Patriotism”: “Today, we see women incredibly active in every arena of society. They are often wearing multiple hats, as mother, homemaker, professional, spiritual leader, and community leader. Many serve God, family and country with the same fervor as those valiant female patriots of yesteryear. Women like Abigail Adams, Margaret Corbin, ‘Molly Pitcher,’ Catherine Ferguson, Dolly Madison, Mercy Warren, Martha Washington, and Betsy Ross.”
   
Well done, Sen. McCain. You have rallied the conservative base and others who were still on the fence. You have thrown a political Hail Mary into the end zone of the District of Columbia and scored a touchdown.
   
So move over, Mr. Smith, because Mrs. Sarah is going to Washington. Give ‘em hell, Sarah! Give ‘em hell!

     Chuck Norris

 Eddie Spalten from San Antonio, fishes at the Wildman Lodge on the Alaskan Peninsula.  The lodge is owned by Butch and Kathy Wildman.  The Wildmans spend their winters in Texas and their summers in Alaska .  Kathy’s father and former husband served in the Alaskan legislature for around 30 years so Butch and Kathy know Alaska politics.   Eddie emailed Butch and asked Butch what the Wildmans think of Gov. Sarah Palin.  Butch’s unedited email is attached below.  Please read it and forward it to your friends.  This is what the citizens of Alaska think of Sarah Palin!

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 Hi Eddie:

  Fishing is good here at Wildman and I rarely have time for politics, but many of our  friends are asking us “Who is Sarah Palin?”  Of course, as Alaskans, Kathy and I are extremely proud of her. We just want to let you know that  Sarah “Barracuda” Palin is a straight shooting, hard charging, get it done gal.  She knows when to listen, how to analyze the facts and how to make a decision, then implement the plan. 

 She doesn’t do a poll before jumping in with both feet like too many of the Washington types.  She has little legislative experience because she has always held the EXECUTIVE position; in private life, as mayor of Anchorage ’s largest bedroom community or more recently as Governor of our State.

  She is a smart, attractive home grown Alaska girl with excellent moral and family values.  She can see what needs to be done and does not hesitate to get it done.

  One of our State’s major problems is that its Capital is in Juneau, 500 miles from the nearest road and 800 air miles from the population base which is Anchorage, Wasilla and Fairbanks. 

  Our legislature and most of the State government is in Juneau and they ALL behave like a bunch of freshmen in a college town.  It has been this way since Statehood in 1959. 

  When Sarah moved to Juneau , so did accountability and responsibility  When the oil revenue started flown and a barrel of North Slope Crude hit $23.00, these people began spending money like drunken sailors.  You can only imagine what was happenings when oil hit $100.00 a barrel, about the time Sarah took command. 

  My wife Kathy has first-hand experience with this fiasco, as her father and also her ex-husband were Alaska Legislators who served in Juneau as Senators, Senate President, or members of the State House for a combined period spanning nearly three decades.

  About the time Sarah took the HELM as Governor of Alaska, about half of the State legislature was in the pocket of big oil companies or contractors doing big projects for Native Corporations around Alaska, all funded by State oil revenue.   Alaska government was nothing but a good old boys club riding the perpetual wave of prosperity.  This filtered down from the legislature, through the Department of Natural Resources,  Department of Labor and even spilled in to the Public Safety who are supposed to “preserve and protect”.

  When Sarah walked  into the Governor’s Mansion, she promptly dismissed the State Trooper detachment assigned to Governor and had her and her husband’s gun case brought in from Wasilla. Then, she got rid of the former Governor’s STATE Jet and told legislators that there were no more free rides, they would have to fly Alaska Airlines, just like her and her family if they wanted to travel.

  Next came the nut cutting (the Barracuda part) the heads that rolled were too numerous to name, but when Sarah finished cleaning house, a number of our legislators ended up in jail for on corruption charges, or tendered their resignations along with numerous department heads and those who have been riding the gravy train for way too long,  AND THEN SHE HAD LUNCH.  By the end of the day, Sarah Palin had saved the people of Alaska millions and has not yet slowed down.

  She has truly brought CHANGE to Juneau .  I personally know several persons in the private sector in Alaska , that hold her in high esteem.  She surrounds herself with smart people, many from my hometown of Anchorage , she listens to them but makes her own decisions.  Sarah Palin is a no B.S. politician.  It is refreshing that there is such a thing anymore. 

  You want to talk about CHANGE?  You should see a before and after picture of the State government in Alaska .  That’s CHANGE! 

  Sarah will bring a number of things to the election.  I am sure she will appeal many voters who my otherwise could have gone the other direction on election day.

  The conservative block will not be for Barack.  We have their vote.  We need what Sarah will bring, first to the election and second, what she will bring to Washington D.C.   McCain has been advised well,  Let’s just hope the American people can get the straight scoop on her in the weeks ahead.

   This is just the opinion of one Alaska Bush Pilot and Guide, who pays attention to national politics, watches the news and is deathly afraid of the direction our nation is headed.  I guarantee that if Sarah gets a chance to dig her spurs into the flanks of the liberal Washington types, they will know that she is in the saddle.

Butch King

Pilot/Guide

ISSUE		JOHN McCAIN	BARAK OBAMA
Favors new drilling offshore US		Yes	No
Will appoint judges who interpret the law not make it		Yes	No
Served in the US Armed Forces		Yes	No
Amount of time served in the US Senate		22 YEARS	173 DAYS
Will institute a socialized national health care plan		No	Yes
Supports abortion throughout the pregnancy		No	Yes
Would pull troops out of Iraq immediately		No	Yes
Supports gun ownership rights		Yes	No
Supports homosexual marriage		No	Yes
Proposed programs will mean a huge tax increase		No	Yes
Voted against making English the official language		No	Yes
Voted to give Social Security benefits to illegals		No	Yes
CAPITAL GAINS TAX
MCCAIN	0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples). McCain does not propose any change in existing home sales income tax.
OBAMA	28% on profit from ALL home sales.  (How does this affect you? If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.)
DIVIDEND TAX
MCCAIN	15% (no change)
OBAMA	39.6% – (How will this affect you? If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes if Obama becomes president. The experts predict that ‘Higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market, yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.’)
INCOME TAX
MCCAIN (no changes)	Single making 30K – tax $4,500 Single making 50K – tax $12,500 Single making 75K – tax $18,750 Married making 60K- tax $9,000 Married making 75K – tax $18,750 Married making 125K – tax $31,250
OBAMA (reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)	Single making 30K – tax $8,400 Single making 50K – tax $14,000 Single making 75K – tax $23,250 Married making 60K – tax $16,800 Married making 75K – tax $21,000 Married making 125K – tax $38,750 Under Obama, your taxes could almost double!
INHERITANCE TAX
MCCAIN	- 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)
OBAMA	Restore the inheritance tax Many families have lost businesses, farms, ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will only lose them to these taxes.
NEW TAXES PROPOSED BY OBAMA
New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet.  New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren’t high enough already) New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water, electricity)  New taxes on retirement accounts, and last but not least….New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!!

Nobel Prizes…

The  Global Islamic  population is approximately  1,200,000,000… ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION, or 20% of the world’s   population.

They  have received the following  Nobel  Prizes:

Literature: 1988  – Najib  Mahfooz

Peace:

1978-  Mohamed  Anwar El-Sadat

1994  – Yaser Arafat (the beginning(?) of the Nobel becoming a political pawn)

1990  – Elias James  Corey

1999  – Ahmed Zewai

Economics:   (zero)

Physics:  (zero)

Medicine:

1960  – Peter Brian Medawar

1998  – Ferid Mourad

TOTAL:  7 SEVEN

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The   Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000… Only  FOURTEEN  MILLION… or  about 0.02% of the world’s population.

They  have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1910  – Paul  Heyse

1927  – Henri Bergson

1958  – Boris Pasternak

1966  – Shmuel  Yosef Agnon

1966  – Nelly Sachs

1976  – Saul Bellow

1978  – Isaac  Bashevis Singer

1981  – Elias Canetti

1987  – Joseph Brodsky

1991   – Nadine Gordimer  World

Peace:

1911  -  Alfred Fried

1911  – Tobias Michael Carel Asser

1968  – Rene  Cassin

1973  – Henry Kissinger

1978  – Menachem Begin

1986  – Elie  Wiesel

1994  – Shimon Peres

1994  – Yitzhak  Rabin

Physics:

1905  -  Adolph Von Baeyer

1906  – Henri Moissan

1907  – Albert Abraham  Michelson

1908  – Gabriel Lippmann

1910  – Otto Wallach

1915  -  Richard Willstaetter

1918  – Fritz Haber

1921  – Albert  Einstein

1922  – Niels Bohr

1925  – James Franck

1925  – Gustav  Hertz

1943  – Gustav Stern

1943  – George Charles de Hevesy

1944  -  Isidor Issac Rabi

1952  – Felix Bloch

1954  – Max Born

1958  – Igor  Tamm

1959  – Emilio Segre

1960  – Don ald A. Glaser

1961 – Robert   Hofstadter

1961  – Melvin Calvin

1962  – Lev Davidovich  Landau

1962  – Max Ferdinand Perutz

1965  – Richard Phillips  Feynman

1965  – Julian Schwinger

1969  – Murray Gell-Mann

1971  – Dennis Gabor

1972  – William Howard Stein

1973  -  Brian David Josephson

1975  – Benjamin Mottleson

1976  – Burton   Richter

1977  – Ilya Prigogine

1978  – Arno Allan Penzias

1978  -  Peter L Kapitza

1979  – Stephen Weinberg

1979  – Sheldon  Glashow

1979  – Herbert Charles Brown

1980  – Paul Berg

1980  -  Walter Gilbert

1981 – Roald Hoffmann

1982  – Aaron Klug

1985  -  Albert A. Hauptman

1985  – Jerome Karle

1986  – Dudley  R. Herschbach

1988  – Robert Huber

1988 – Leon  Lederman

1988  – Melvin  Schwartz

1988  – Jack Steinberger

1989  – Sidney Altman

1990  -  Jerome Friedman

1992  – Rudolph Marcus

1995  – Martin Perl

2000  -  Alan J.  Heeger

Economics:

1970  -  Paul Anthony Samuelson

1971  – Simon Kuznets

1972  – Kenneth Joseph Arrow

1975  – Leonid Kantorovich

1976  – Milton Friedman

1978  -  Herbert A. Simon

1980  – Lawrence Robert Klein

1985  – Franco  Modigliani

1987  – Robert M. Solow

1990  – Harry Markowitz

1990  -  Merton Miller

1992  – Gary Becker

1993  – Robert Fogel

Medicine:

1908  – Elie  Metchnikoff

1908  – Paul Erlich

1914  – Robert Barany

1922  – Otto  Meyerhof

1930  – Karl Landsteiner

1931  – Otto Warburg

1936  – Otto  Loewi

1944  – Joseph Erlanger

1944  – Herbert Spencer Gasser

1945   – Ernst Boris Chain

1946  – Hermann Joseph Muller

1950  – Tadeus  Reichstein

1952  – Selman Abraham Waksman

1953  – Hans Krebs

1953   – Fritz Albert Lipmann

1958  – Joshua Lederberg

1959  – Arthur Kornberg

1964  – Konrad Bloch

1965  – Francois Jacob

1965  – Andre  Lwoff

1967  – George Wald

1968  – Marshall W. Nirenberg

1969  -  Salvador Luria

1970  – Julius Axelrod

1970  – Sir Bernard Katz

1972  – Gerald  Maurice Edelman

1975  – Howard Martin Temin

1976  – Baruch S. Blumberg

1977  – Roselyn Sussman Yalow

1978  – Daniel Nathans

1980   – Baruj Benacerraf

1984  – Cesar Milstein

1985  – Michael Stuart Brown

1985  – Joseph L. Goldstein

1986  – Stanley  Cohen [&   Rita Levi-Montalcini]

1988  – Gertrude Elion

1989  – Harold  Varmus

1991  – Erwin Neher

1991  – Bert Sakmann

1993  – Richard J. Roberts

1993  – Phillip Sharp

1994  – Alfred Gilman

1995  – Edward  B. Lewis

 

TOTAL:  129 ONE HUNDRED TWENTY NINE!

The  Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews  and other non-Muslims!

The Jews don’t hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves  up in German restaurants.  There is NOT one single Jew that has destroyed a  church.  There is NOT a single Jew that protests by killing people.

The  Jews don’t traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the  Infidels.

Perhaps the world’s Muslims should consider investing more in standard education  and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.

Muslims must ask ‘what can they do for  humankind’ before they demand that
humankind respects them!!

Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on  Israel’s part, the  following two sentences really say it all:

‘If  the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.’

-Benjamin   Netanyahu

John McCain may not be my favorite person for a variety of reasons which I will not spell out here, but John McCain is a giant of a man compared to his mental, psychological, moral, moron of an opponent. John McCain is a man of integrity, a man of valor, a man of experience, that his eloquent but infantile opponent cannot imagine much less emulate.

Like so many of his ilk, Obama is a gutless, witless, infantile punk unworthy to walk in McCain¹s shadow, much less on the same platform. Obama has been given, repeat given every opportunity, while the so called, ³mainstream² media are doing every thing possible to give him, repeat, give him victory in the forthcoming general election, but it is not to be, and will not be. It will not be because there is a man whose shoes Obama is not worthy to lick and that man is John McCain; and despite the starts and fits of the McCain campaign, Americans will pick a real President not and empty suit.

Obama travels the world while the American people cry out for relief from oppressive gasoline prices, escalating food costs, and increasing costs for every derivative of crude oil, including: the roads we ride on, the tires on our automobiles, automotive seat covers, fuel for power plants, aircraft, automobiles, tractors, heat for homes, home furnishings, bedding, plastics, toys, boats, airplanes, food stuffs, medicines, lubricants and detergents to name just a small number. All these items have as their source, crude oil, and Obama the Democrat ³Messiah² is on a European and Middle East vacation while the nation is in crisis. Obama, a pied piper leading, as it were a mesmerized group of empty headed reporters eager to announce that the trip has made him an expert in foreign, military and national security affairs. If it weren¹t so serious it would be comical. In fact, it is comical.

By the Obama standard any Marine Corporal should be President and would likely do a better job. Most have traveled more, seen more, done more, sacrificed more, and accomplished more in their four years as Marines than Obama has in his entire life. It was President Reagan who said, ³Most people go through life wondering what they have accomplished, Marines don¹t have that problem.² Obama is seeking the Presidency of the United States, we might just as well have an eighteen year old orator, and trust me there are some good ones, because Obama and they have about the same amount of experience.

This is not the movies where we all root for the underdog because he¹s the underdog, this is for real, it is about the future of the Nation, it is about the American way and way of life; not altogether perfect but a heap sight better than any other country in the world. Go ahead, pick one, and if you prefer to live there, I recommend that you take the next flight out of the United States, and pleasssseeee, don¹t come back.

McCain is not my first choice, in fact he was dead last until tonight.  I read McCain¹s book when he ran for office in 2000, tonight I watched the movie.  I would have preferred Newt Gingrich, but Gingrich is not running and despite the way the McCain came to be the Republican nominee, and although I am not a Republican, I will vote for John McCain because McCain is an entity who has been proven in the crucible of life, overcome the most difficult obstacles, endured the unendurable and despite his personal shortcomings, has serious Americans¹ admiration and respect. He may not be a rocket scientist, a great philosopher, a world-class economist, or any number of other qualifications, but he is an American Hero… warts and all… and he has both the experience and fortitude to lead this country through the present difficult times, and win.

He may not be an eloquent speaker, he may not have a charismatic personality, he may have sometimes questionable political ideas, and although John McCain has manifest human weaknesses and failures along the way, I will support him, I will work for him, I will vote for him and I will salute him in victory!

Semper Fidelis

     Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired

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There are MANY reasons why it matters who wins the next election, but let’s face it.  We are all focused way too much on “ME” and how the outcome changes MY life.  By that standard, look at the following tax consequences:

If you want ‘CHANGE’ this will do it.

CAPITAL GAINS TAX – Current 0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples)

 MCCAIN… does not propose any change in income tax on existing home sales

 OBAMA… 28% on profit from ALL home sales

 How does this affect you?   If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% taxes on your profit (Capital Gain).  
If you are planning to retire and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community 28% of the money you make (CAPITAL GAIN) from your home will go to taxes.
This proposal will adversely affect retiring couples who are counting on the income (CAPITAL GAIN that is currently exempt from income tax) from their home as part of their retirement income.

 DIVIDEND TAX

 MCCAIN… 15% (no change)

 OBAMA… 39.6%

How will this affect you?  If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money
earned on taxes if Obama become president.
The experts predict that ‘higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains
would crash the stock market yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.

 INCOME TAX

 MCCAIN (no changes)

      Single making 30K – tax $4,500
      Single making 50K – tax $12,500
      Single making 75K – tax $18,750
      Married making 60K- tax $9,000
      Married making 75K – tax $18,750
      Married making 125K – tax $31,250

 OBAMA  Reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts  (CLINTON TAX INCREASES WOULD BE REINSTATED)

      Single making 30K – tax $8,400
      Single making 50K – tax $14,000
      Single making 75K – tax $23,250
      Married making 60K – tax $16,800
      Married making 75K – tax $21,000
      Married making 125K – tax $38,750

 Under Obama your taxes will more than double!

 How does this affect you? No explanation needed.   This is pretty straight forward.

 INHERITANCE TAX

 MCCAIN 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)

 OBAMA Restore the inheritance tax

 How does this affect you? Many families have lost businesses, farms, ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will now only lose them to these taxes.

 NEW TAXES BEING PROPOSED BY OBAMA

 * New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet

 * New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren’t high enough already)

 * New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water, electricity)

 * New taxes on retirement accounts and last but not least….

 * New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!!
 
Don’t forget:  ACCORDING TO NANCY PELOSI we also need to increase Social Security payroll deductions FICA so illegals don’t have to pay but can take it back home with them and retire in luxury.

Yes, VOTE IN 2008!  It DOES matter.