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People will vote their appetites. They will vote for whoever scratches their itching ears. They will vote for the person who promises to protect their debaucheries.
 

I’ve lived long enough, have studied plenty of history, to know that our society is getting worse, not better. Because people will almost always choose what is convenient over what is right.
 
The candidate who I believe will win tomorrow, will cause more harm to be wrought upon the United States than any individual in her almost two and a half centuries of existence.
 
But that doesn’t matter. Only that this candidate “wins”. And that’s what’s most important, right?
 
I am almost tempted to say “damn the fools who would choose such evil.” But as a Christian I am cautioned against calling anyone “fool”.
 
Maybe, someday, if we survive what’s coming, some people will remember that I and
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And just as I said that I would do a few days ago, I cast a write-in vote for Chuck Baldwin for President of the United States…

There were a few others that I voted for too, but I’m keeping that information to myself.

There was a surprisingly low turnout at the poll that I went to today. There’s been light rain since this morning. Two years ago when I ran for Board of Education, there was a heavy, steady drizzle and the polls were packed! But I’ve also heard that there was gobs of early voting this year: far more than there had been in previous elections.

So once again, I’ve done my civic duty by casting an informed and enlightened – as best I can muster anyway – ballot....

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To whom it may concern:

The very next “robocall” that comes into this house, I will go out, find the candidate who authorized it, and have him/her hung from the nearest telephone poll by his/her circular reproductive units. With piano wire.

This notice is being made regardless of party affiliation.

You have been duly warned.

Thank you.

EDIT 3:14 p.m. EST: I should elaborate that this only comes after I received four such automated calls from political campaigns within a span of five minutes. So yeah, I’m feeling more than a little honked-off right now…...

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Barack Obama is suggesting a $15 billion tax on the profits of oil companies. That would allegedly be used to provide $1000 of tax relief for families and other “assistance”.

This is a worse idea than George W. Bush’s “stimulus” package… and that’s already the most irresponsible and foolish bit of enacted legislation that I’ve seen in Lord knows how long.

Does Obama believe that his proposal is going to slash the cost of fuel, which is soaring well past the ability of most people to easily afford? If anything it’s going to make those costs increase even more dramatically. The oil companies will simply pass along the expense to their customers.

Obama’s only motivation in forwarding this idea is that he wants to tap into the seething rage that many people are now feeling toward the oil companies, which are enjoying record profits. It’s just a gimmick he’s ...

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Regarding Jonesville Church of God in upstate South Carolina that a few days ago caused a furor with it’s vile church sign attempting to link presidential candidate Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden: today it’s being reported that Pastor Roger Byrd chickened out and removed the message.

And why did Byrd do this in the first place? In his own words…

“His name is so close to Osama I feeling might be Islamic therefore he doesn’t recognize Christ.”

Ummmm… saywhu…?

So simply because “Obama” sounded “Islamic” (whatever the hell that means) that this meant he automatically had to be assigned a religion? Isn’t that fully counter to everything that Jesus, and then Paul and the other apostles, preached?

Roger Byrd can’t get out of this no matter what he tries. It’s obvious to everyone that this was a petty blow, motivated by worldly politics, that did nothing but inflict damage ...

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Could somebody please tell me where there is a scriptural mandate for what the Jonesville Church of God in upstate South Carolina is doing with their sign?

From the story at WYFF in Greenville’s website…

Small Church’s Obama Sign Causes Big Controversy

POSTED: 4:20 pm EDT April 21, 2008
UPDATED: 10:18 pm EDT April 21, 2008

JONESVILLE, S.C. — The sign in front of a small church in a small town is causing a big controversy in Jonesville, S.C.

Pastor Roger Byrd said that he just wanted to get people thinking. So last Thursday, he put a new message on the sign at the Jonesville Church of God.

It reads: “Obama, Osama, hmm, are they brothers?”

Byrd said that the message wasn’t meant to be racial or political.

“It’s simply to cause people to realize and to see what possibly could happen if we were to get someone in

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Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain using WWE Pro Wrestling to pimp themselves.

America really is turning into that movie Idiocracy, isn’t it?

What a contrast. Last night we watched the finale of HBO’s John Adams, which conveyed the virtue and nobility of the Founding Fathers as beautifully as any production that possibly comes to mind. And less than 24 hours later, we see what has become of the fruits of their labors and sacrifice: three of the worst possible candidates for office of President of the United States, using metaphorical bread and circuses to reach out to what is supposed to be an enlightened constituency.

Some smart-alec is probably going to say that this is nothing different than when Richard Nixon appeared on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. But I disagree. Laugh-In was a smart show, and had serious cultural relevance. And that was just a ...

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I’ve a nasty suspicion that this is only a taste of what’s barreling toward us…

So I was headed west down I-40 from a day trip to Raleigh (which I’ll be posting about tomorrow) this afternoon and around Burlington, I started flicking through radio stations.

And as I was going across the AM dial just after 5 p.m. I happened to catch some pastor preaching with all due exuberance and conviction that Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama is “the Antichrist”. This pastor also added that just as the Antichrist does not have “a single Christian ounce in his body” that Obama is going to Hell.

I checked the frequency. It was 880 AM. Which means it was a broadcast of WPIP, a radio ministry out of Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem.

Not that this really surprises me.

Apart from sporadic music, from sunrise to sunset WPIP’s broadcasting is pretty ...

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Me calling into Star Talk on WGSR Star 39 a few nights ago…

I’ve voted in every election for as long as I’ve ever been able to be a registered voter. And more than that, I’ve gone the extra mile and run for public office. Nobody can ever accuse me of being an apathetic citizen.

But I mean it: as things stand now, I won’t be casting a vote for either the Democrat or Republican nominee for President this year. Because none of these people have demonstrated that they sincerely want to serve the American people.

Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. There is no excuse for it.

Not once did I vote for Bill Clinton, and not once did I ever vote for George W. Bush. The two worst Presidents in American history can never claim that I cast a ballot for them. ...

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“Mene, Mene, Tekel, Peres”

To those who think that today’s so-called “Super Tuesday” primary elections actually means something: Feh!

American politics is being told to pick between two separate cages of howler monkeys that are throwing handfuls of dung at each other.

Unless you are absolutely, beyond all doubt, convinced of a candidate’s worthiness to earnestly serve you in office, do yourself a favor and don’t bother to vote today if you’re in one of the primary states. Save your gas and money.

Because the fact of the matter is, America is so screwed-up by this point that the outcome of the election won’t make any difference....

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