"IT'S ON YOU: Among the recent e-mails forwarded to me was a set of photographs supposedly taken on the Mexico-Arizona border depicting huge caches of weapons and vehicles. Accompanying the photos was the provocative statement, "Definitely not Jose coming to pick lettuce."
Well, as it turns out, the photos were actually taken several hundred miles from the border, and the weapons and vehicles were connected to Mexico's internal drug wars. So, I e-mailed the person who'd sent me the e-mail, and got a reply to the effect that, oh, well, I'd gotten him that time.
A couple of days later, that same person sent me a seven-page e-mail describing the "three great waves" of tax hikes coming to swamp American families and small businesses. At the top of the e-mail, my correspondent had written, "How can I check ALL this out?" To which I replied that if he hadn't bothered to check it out, maybe he shouldn't bother to forward it.
I say all that to say this: If you're among those people who insist on forwarding all this knuckleheaded stuff, you need to consider what I can tell you is the absolute fact that many of the people you send it to will believe it, and you will have done your sad part in dumbing down the public discourse. As I told my recent e-mailer, if you're not willing to check it out, don't forward it. You just might escape making yourself look like an idiot."
Just in case you don't know it, I'm adding a few things about me and some of my thoughts.
I believe in God and the Federal Government, but religion has no place in government and government has no place in church.
Barry Obama is my President. I didn't vote for him and I don't necessarily approve of his way of handling things, but he is my President. He got elected by promising the world and cannot deliver, but he is still my President. Stop haranguing the man, he is your President, too. If he does something wrong, get on his butt, but don't stay on it for BS stuff. An example is the outcry over his comments about the Muslim center in the neighborhood of the World Trade Center. Read both statements.
Yes, I know we have free speech, but the best way to show ignorance is to continue harping on idiocy - two examples would be the claims that Barry O was not born in the US and that he is a Muslim.
My feelings on Congressional term limits is that they might be unnecessary if we'd stop electing the same people over and over. I've got an idea - lets start voting against the incumbents - you go first.
I am a Republican and I usually vote Republican, because I think a fiscally responsible government is the best way to ensure and perpetuate our way of life. My vote has nothing to do with any stand on abortions nor with any stand on homosexuality. It has nothing to do with Glenn Beck, a former alcoholic and drug abuser, it has nothing to do with college dropout (I'm one, too) Rush Limbaugh, it has nothing to do with washed-up comedian and former bad football announcer Dennis Miller, and it surely has nothing to do with Al Franken, the guy who acted like a politician when he was a comedian and now, as a politician, acts like a comedian. My vote is based on the way I see the way things are going. I'll freely admit that I am embarrassed because I voted twice for Richard Nixon, but when you consider that his opponents were Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace, and George McGovern, I made a pretty good choice. I'm proud of the choice I made with George Bush 1st and 2nd and with Bob Dole.
Now that you know some of the ways I feel, please don't automatically forward every e-mail you get to my address. If they are valid or humorous, I might enjoy them, but if they are BS, I will not. Please be advised that I check with Snopes on everything I deem questionable.
Barry Obama is my President. I didn't vote for him and I don't necessarily approve of his way of handling things, but he is my President. He got elected by promising the world and cannot deliver, but he is still my President. Stop haranguing the man, he is your President, too. If he does something wrong, get on his butt, but don't stay on it for BS stuff. An example is the outcry over his comments about the Muslim center in the neighborhood of the World Trade Center. Read both statements.
Yes, I know we have free speech, but the best way to show ignorance is to continue harping on idiocy - two examples would be the claims that Barry O was not born in the US and that he is a Muslim.
My feelings on Congressional term limits is that they might be unnecessary if we'd stop electing the same people over and over. I've got an idea - lets start voting against the incumbents - you go first.
I am a Republican and I usually vote Republican, because I think a fiscally responsible government is the best way to ensure and perpetuate our way of life. My vote has nothing to do with any stand on abortions nor with any stand on homosexuality. It has nothing to do with Glenn Beck, a former alcoholic and drug abuser, it has nothing to do with college dropout (I'm one, too) Rush Limbaugh, it has nothing to do with washed-up comedian and former bad football announcer Dennis Miller, and it surely has nothing to do with Al Franken, the guy who acted like a politician when he was a comedian and now, as a politician, acts like a comedian. My vote is based on the way I see the way things are going. I'll freely admit that I am embarrassed because I voted twice for Richard Nixon, but when you consider that his opponents were Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace, and George McGovern, I made a pretty good choice. I'm proud of the choice I made with George Bush 1st and 2nd and with Bob Dole.
Now that you know some of the ways I feel, please don't automatically forward every e-mail you get to my address. If they are valid or humorous, I might enjoy them, but if they are BS, I will not. Please be advised that I check with Snopes on everything I deem questionable.
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