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Friday, May 9, 2003

It was bound to happen. Just didn't think it would be this soon. Iran, according to our government may be building nuclear weapons of mass destruction and we need to do something about it. Unfortunately the message that we did do something about it in Iraq is what's driving other countries to develop them. Sort of a Catch 22. The "get them before they come to get us" syndrome. Worked for North Korea and all the other countries in the world who have them. Doesn't seem to work for those who don't.

Posted by donburnshomepage at 10:00 AM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 9:04 AM EDT
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Thursday, May 8, 2003

The Democrats are making a big to-do about the President going in a fighter jet to land on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln on a visit to the troops. They call it an expensive political photo op. The President says he just wanted to get a pilots view of a landing.

The President, being a former fighter pilot who flew missions defending Texas' borders during the Vietnam War , one would have thought this would be 'old hat" to the Chief Exec but I'm not going to be one to be too critical. That plane had to land somewhere, sometime with someone on board and if the President chose to be the one, so what. Sounds like the Democrats are just disappointed he didn't try to land it.

Posted by donburnshomepage at 8:13 AM EDT
Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2003 8:15 AM EDT
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Wednesday, May 7, 2003

After years of careful observation I have come to the conclusion that there is something called Luck and it seems to have it's favorites.

For the remainder of the unfavored the Fates have conveniently provided the salve of concience and moral indignation. With these two instruments of self righteousness we can condemn ourselves on a regular basis and when that burden becomes too troublesome, anyone else who might conveniently be destined to waltz into our gunsights.

Posted by donburnshomepage at 10:22 PM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, May 7, 2003 12:18 PM EDT
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Tuesday, May 6, 2003

Of all the Christian sins, the one that is most troublesome, gut wrenching and downright debilitating is the one that gets discovered.

Posted by donburnshomepage at 4:27 PM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, May 7, 2003 12:11 PM EDT
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Monday, May 5, 2003

Just returned from Massachussetts, otherwise known as the Pilgrim State though I think most of the Pilgrims hightailed it out when the Irish and the Democrats took over. Probably went to Minnesota or Utah or Fiji or some such reverent place.

New England by the way, is where most of our political primaries start and the season is just starting to bud up there. "Course the only show is going to be the Democrats. Governor Dean & Senator Kerry will beat each other up and split their vote. Lieberman will wish he'd registered Republican. Gephart from the "Show Me" state will probably be shown the way home. Edwards, the "money guy" from Carolina, will wait it out and hope to outspend them all in the later primaries in the South and the West. And Al Gore will hope for a draft and the President will probably accomodate him by putting him back in the Army.

Seems we are spending a lot of time just so the Electoral College can give it to the fellow with the fattest wallet, the biggest line and the fewest answers.

Posted by donburnshomepage at 8:28 AM EDT
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Friday, May 2, 2003

Well, they're all starting to talk Presidential Politics. We assume the President's going to run on the Republican line. And the Democrats it seems, are running their entire slate of officeholders for President in the hopes we'll pick somebody out of the litter. Sort of a "Hail Mary" with a scattergun approach to hitting the White House.

The Republicans will cater to the Right to win the primary. The Democrats will cater to the Left to win the primary. Then they'll both go after the eighty percent of us that was left waiting at the alter by telling us what they think we want to hear and it will all boil down to who is the most convincing used car salesman.

See most of us aren't really Democrats or Republicans because we switch our votes around in the hopes we'll get lucky. What we are is Democratic-Republicans who get invited to the party once each November. Then they send us back home to wait for the bill.

Posted by donburnshomepage at 10:33 AM EDT
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Thursday, May 1, 2003

The President and Don Rumsfield came out in the papers the other day in favor of majority rule, direct elections and democracy in Iraq. That's a novel approach. Makes you wonder where they got the idea. Maybe Canada or France?

They've even agreed to let the 60% majority religious Shi'ites stay in the country just so long as they keep quiet, don't elect their own leaders who want to create a Theocracy, run the government or sell oil to the French. They also said we intend to get out just as soon as we get them all registered as Republicans and teach them how to vote, bow to Washington and restart the "Iraqi oil for American food" program again. All they really need is an "Electoral College" to make it all happen. Maybe they can borrow ours seeing's how it's on vacation for another 20 months and needs the practice.

Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:23 AM EDT
Updated: Thursday, May 1, 2003 11:22 AM EDT
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Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Watching the Federal Government is like watching the world's biggest game of "hide & seek". Right now they are looking for Osama, Saddam, Uday & Qusay, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Korean nukes and a satrap for Iraq. Let's hope they have better luck finding the money to pay for the game than they have had finding the players.

Posted by donburnshomepage at 7:22 AM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 8:57 PM EDT
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Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Having come to the conclusion that they have crushed the Ba'ath party in Iraq and the Democratic Party in America, Conservative Republicans are now running tv attack ads against fellow Moderate Republican members of Congress that question the math of the President's proposed tax cut. Apparently these Moderates are just not the Right kind of thinking Republicans. They can Add.

One thing you can say about the Republican Party, through both thick and thin and good and bad times it is always consistent about one thing. It never tires of eating it's own.

Posted by donburnshomepage at 5:49 AM EDT
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Monday, April 28, 2003

Have returned from traipsing around the countryside and have come to one conclusion.

You can tell Spring is here just by checking out the roadsides now that the snow is gone. Over the winter the motoring populace planted a whole new seeding of soda cans, papers, cellophane and bottles which have taken root and are springing up along the highways in a concerted contest with the daffodils and dandelions.

Can't wait for the community service detail from the local jail to pick up this year's bounty but to be honest this is one of those times when you wished the folks that had done the planting would get to harvest their own crop.

Posted by donburnshomepage at 12:19 AM EDT

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