May 17, 2008

In the Military? Forget about running for President

OK, this is just ridiculous. Apparently volunteering to serve your country in the military will now disqualify you from being president. At least, according to the Democrats.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain's family background as the son and grandson of admirals has given him a worldview shaped by the military, "and he has a hard time thinking beyond that," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ia., said Friday.

"I think he's trapped in that," Harkin said in a conference call with Iowa reporters. "Everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous."

Harkin said that "it's one thing to have been drafted and served, but another thing when you come from generations of military people and that's just how you're steeped, how you've learned, how you've grown up."

As Powerline says "So it's OK to serve in the military, but only if you're drafted. Given that we now have an all-volunteer military, that standard will rule out everyone currently serving."

Let's apply that requirement to some of our past presidents. We would have to rule out:

  • George Washington
  • James Monroe
  • Andrew Jackson
  • William Harrison
  • John Tyler
  • Zachary Taylor
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Ulysses Grant
  • Rutherford Hayes
  • James Garfield
  • Benjamin Harrison
  • William McKinley
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Harry Truman
  • Dwight Eisenhower
  • John Kennedy
  • Lyndon Johnson
  • Richard Nixon
  • Gerald Ford
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Ronald Reagon
  • George H. W. Bush
  • George W. Bush
25 of the 42 people who served as President were also members of the military at some point. And that does not include those who served in state militias.

And any of you presidential hopefuls currently serving - too bad.  At least, according to the Democrats.

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May 09, 2008

An Al Gore Two-fer

Gore has been promoting global warming as his pet cause for many years. Evidently nothing is sacred to the crusade. Here's Al Gore using a pile of 60,000 bodies in Myanmar as his soap box. Largest cyclones and death count are here. They cover a time span of warm and cool temperatures - not very indicative of global warming.

Of course, that just heightens Al's hypocrisy. I recently received an email I immediately assumed was a hoax. But, Snopes says it's the real deal.

House #1 - A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 12 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in the Northern or Midwestern 'Snow Belt' area. It is in the South.



House #2 - Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every 'green' feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.



HOUSE # 1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of the 'environmentalist' Al Gore. HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas; it is the residence of the President of the United State, George W. Bush.

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