Who didn’t see this one coming? Details are still sparse on exactly why Sarah Palin has ‘decided’ to resign, but rumors are spreading across the internet that it could be related to a yet to be announced indictment.

This is no loss for the political community as a whole, and in the end probably the best thing to happen to the Republicans since the election.

Why do people insist on ‘faith’ in Religion? If God, or the Gods, are so special, and care about humans so much, why would they refuse to make themselves known?

Using your definition of a ‘miracle’ and saying that is the way the Gods make themselves known is fallacy. Every one knows so-called ‘miracles’ have no relation to a higher power, if you believe they do then you are a pretty cruel person.

If a plane crashes and 300 people die, one child survives, and you call that a miracle, you’re basically telling the families of the 300 that their God didn’t find any of them worthy enough to survive. Or that in a strange bit of happenstance it was time for 300 people to go to the “After-life” but not for that 1 child, even though 10 other children were on the plane.

Countless times it has been pointed out that almost every religious story is a repeat of an older religions story. Everything from the resurrection to walking on water has been told before. With different casts of characters.

People are more likely to follow the beliefs of their parents and not some belief that comes to them in a vision or a feeling, yet people still like to claim that God talks to them. But then they call others wrong for having their beliefs even those that never claim to ‘talk directly to God’.

One problem with religions is that they are all mutually exclusive. If you believe in one way, you cannot believe in another. So which one would be right? None of them. They all spring from some human urge to feel they need a purpose. They can’t accept that their life could just end when they die. Even if there is an afterlife and a “God” there, do you really want to meet him? The ‘being’ would like you to worship him every day. You’re supposed to believe in him without anything in return except supposedly when you die, if you believe then he will be kind enough not to send you to a fiery hell for all eternity.

God really must have wanted to test the Catholic’s faith when he thought it best that his men molest young boys.

Maybe he wasn’t home at the time and couldn’t see it happening, he was visiting his neighbor planet Kolob and just couldn’t stop it in time.

Or he was providing the 70 virgins for a terrorist that had died that day.

It could have been that he was working up the right words on how to tell the President of the United States that he needed to invade Iraq.

Oh those that wish to keep living their happy little lives, write off all of the ‘bad things’ that happen related to God, or told by God, or supposedly ‘done’ by God, to different things. Satan made them do it. Those people weren’t true believers. We don’t follow the old testament anymore. The list goes on.

Religion is a farce.

It’s getting a little old hearing hourly about the supposed ‘Swine Flu’ sweeping the nation and world.  A strain of flu that is misnamed after Swine that shows all indications of not being very deadly, is moving slowly through the nation.  We all feel for those that have died or have family that have died during this ‘outbreak’, but for something that does not appear to be any more deadly the the common flu, and actually maybe even less deadly,  the media really needs to stop scaring the public.

You tell people it’s the ‘Swine’ flu so everyone stops eating pork when they have no reason to.  Some countries ignorantly discuss slaughtering all of their pigs.  People run around wearing masks and freaking out.  Has anyone heard of the boy who cried wolf?  Sars, Bird Flu, Swine Flu..  The H1N1 flu has shown no indications of being something the average person needs to worry about.

Shut up already CNN, Fox etc. and go back to reporting real (or in Fox’s case Fake) news.

Tea-baggers have been out in force today promoting their ignorance to the public.  An interview of an organizer in Syracuse revealed that she was currently on medicare and had retired on disability, but didn’t want this nation becoming a nanny-welfare state where people accept government money.  I’m guessing she doesn’t include herself as one of the participants as she doesn’t understand that all of her programs are government subsidized as she didn’t pay enough taxes over her lifetime to cover what she is now receiving monthly.

Most of these “Tea-baggers” also fail to realize that they aren’t protesting Obama’s “Tax” but George W. Bush, whom many of them approved of while he was in office.  Obama hasn’t made a single change to this years tax code, he also wasn’t the only President to sign a stimulus bill.

As the country slowly moves toward recovery, it’s nice to see people still getting out there to claim that they know the stimulus plan will not work.  Because they are all economists themselves, obviously, except most economists say the best way out of a recession, when everyone else stops spending is for the Government to spend.

If everyone stops spending at the same time, which would have happened if the Government hadn’t upped their amount of spending, then NOTHING would be spent and the wheels of “Capitalism” would grind to a halt.

For those that claim that giving the money directly back to the taxpayers is the best plan, you also need to re-think things in the eyes of a larger economy that doesn’t necessarily include you getting everything you would like. Giving “Joe the Taxpayer” the money directly doesn’t help very much in the overall picture.  Having an extra $500 in your pocket when everyone says times are “tough” would cause you to place the money away for a time when it is really tough, which doesn’t help the economy one bit.

Giving the money to banks so that they don’t collapse, and can turn around and lend that money out to current and new businesses will help create jobs or retain jobs that would have been lost.

Once the widespread panic slows down, companies will also stop using the excuse of a recession to fire people they wanted to fire before, but didn’t have a good enough excuse, and they will start hiring as sales pick up again.

Fox news promoted this Tea-Bag Initiative and took it as their own, whether they started it in the first place, or just used the Pirates to take over the steaming ship, it has now become a Fox Right-Wing Media Extravaganza.

Nice going participants.

So far every indication is that Barack Obama will be a good President.  We’re all hoping for great, and that may end up being the case as well. He hasn’t even stepped into office yet, and has accomplished more then a majority of all incoming Presidents before him.  His approval ratings are high, and he seems to be willing to compromise on both sides of the isle. Let’s hope for a continuation of this throughout his Presidency.

Well it’s good to see there are enough people in the United States willing to vote for a black person for President.  It’s not good to see how much this has brought out the rest of the racist population in full force.  Maybe one day people will stop being ignorant and learn to live life instead of hating everyone.  Just because daddy beat you as a child and told you it was all because of the big bad black people, doesn’t mean you can’t grow a brain and realize it was a lie.

I would have thought people were enlightened enough these days to get over their idiotic notions.

Barring any strange Cheating, this election is over.  Obama will win it and most likely when the count is done, in a landslide.  Finally no more Bush policies.  Picked up more Democrat senate, and house seats as well.   Here’s to a great election night.

As a Republican analyst put it:

” All we need is 9 votes on the Supreme Court and we could pull this thing off! “

So true, so true.    Although I don’t think that will happen this time.   But we’ll see what happens through out the rest of the count.

By Sam Jones

Update:  Police are now saying she confessed, and that she made the entire story up.  Imagine that….

“Todd” a self-proclaimed McCain supporter and member of College Republicans was supposedly “Attacked” In Pittsburgh today.   Her story claims she was robbed of 60$ after using an ATM in a “bad part of Pittsburgh” and when the “6′4″ Black Man” noticed her McCain-Palin sticker he became enraged.  Hit her in the back of the head and then carved a perfect little backwards “B” in her face.

That’s some pretty decent “Knife work.”  Amazing how rounded it is eventhough that’s nearly impossible to do with a knife on skin, also not even deep enough to draw blood or make a cut of any kind?

I’ll go ahead and leave caution to the wind here, like the other blogs and posts out there, and say she is full of crap.   100% Hoax.    And really whats the point?   To scare more people into voting McCain?  Like McCain and Palin haven’t been attempted to do the same thing for the last month!

Heres a link to the Far Right agreeing that it’s a hoax:

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/23/why-that-mccain-volunteers-mutilation-story-smells-awfully-weird/

or how about TMZ:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/10/23/politically-motivated-mutilation-real-or-hoax/

By Sam Jones

Couldn’t have expressed her plans for America better myself…

By Sam Jones

Sarah Palin has been the bulldog used by the McCain campaign to get the message out there about Obama “Pallin’ around with Terrorists.” Maybe they should have looked more closely into her actual ties with the Alaska Independence Party before using her as their stooge. When the story first broke around a month ago, Palin claimed her only tie was a video that she made as her “Duty as Mayor” to welcome them to the town.

That doesn’t seem to make sense, as a Mayor is not required to recognize a political secessionist party, and no one would have looked down on her for turning her back on them.

So why did she do it? Maybe it was because Palin’s husband was a member of the group until 2002? Maybe because she grew up in Alaska and hates America herself? Until we have actual documented talk of her true feelings, we can obviously only speculate.