Thoughts from my 86 year old father on the election

1918 - the year I was born. 18th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting manufacture, sale, or consumption of liquor adopted cf. with Gay Marriage ban in 10 states today. 18th Amendment repealed by FDR in 1933. I believe much the same core of midwestern and southern states supported both bans 86 years apart.

1932. FDR, I couldn’t vote. Your mother and I remember our fathers utterly despised FDR and were convinced he would ruin the country.

1940. My first vote. I voted for Wilkie. FDR elected to 3rd term. Looking back on those years, there’s no question FDR pulled the country out of a deep depression.

My God, my vote for Wilkie was wrong. FDR along with Churchill were two immensely effective strategists, powerful warriors and communicators, without whose leadership we could have lost WWII. That is a simple fact.

In 1948 and up until the Clinton  era, I was a faithful Republican.

Since 1992, he has been a Democrat.

So, this country has survived 228 years, and will continue to survive. If you have never done so, read a history of some of the country’s previous severe crises. And remember Churchill’s oft-quoted thought, “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

Thanks, Dad!

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The government declared a 60-day state of emergency throughout most of the country Sunday, as U.S. and Iraqi forces prepared for an expected all-out assault on rebels in Fallujah.

Martial law declared, with a huge invasion coming. Have we won their hearts and minds yet?

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The United States has positioned 10,000 troops outside the city of Fallujah. A bombing campaign is being carried out in preparation of a new invasion.

There will be an emergency protest the day FOLLOWING the U.S. invasion.

WHEN: 6 pm - Day following the invasion of Fallujah

WHERE: Westwood Federal Building (Wilshire & Veteran)

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Links to dozens of stories

Exit polls are almost never wrong — Dick Morris

To screw up one exit poll is unheard of. To miss six of them is incredible. It boggles the imagination how pollsters could be that incompetent and invites speculation that more than honest error was at play here.

The Mirror UK on the election

They say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world.

This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation.

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300 children bitten by ‘blood sucking’ monkeys at famous Indian temple.

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