Experience vs Inexperience

Someone breaks into your friends home and kills them. Would you rather have a rookie right out the academy on the case or someone with a few years working crime scenes under their belt?

Troops are called into action. Who would you rather go to battle? Someone who's never shot a gun a day in their life or someone who's had the training and understands the equipment they will be dealing with?

You're in trouble with the IRS. Who do you want handling your situation? Someone right out of High school who took a class in economics or a certified accountant?

In what may be the most dangerous time not only in America, but the world, why would anyone want someone who hasn't even served a full term in the Senate making massively important decisions that will effect everyone as opposed to someone with 20 years of service who actually understands the job before him?

The more I think about what's at stake this November the more I think I may have to vote for McCain. Obama, with his lack of experience, scares the ever loving hell out of me. The fight that we're in is far too important to leave in his hands.

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Obama Of Chicago Speaks

He has the power to stop wars with just his Angelic voice. Praise him.


Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God

Wednesday Hero

Spc. Matthew A. Koch
23 years old from West Henrietta, New York
Company C, 70th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division
March 9, 2005


Spc. Matthew A. Koch was on his second tour of duty when he was killed by an IED that was detonated near his vehicle in Taji. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He previously was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Army Service Ribbon and medals for service in the fight against terrorism.

Koch enlisted in the Army in January 2002 after the attacks on September 11, 2001 and re-enlisted because he wanted to help the Iraqi people. "He was a brave soldier who made the greatest sacrifice anyone could make for everyone else's freedom," Diane Worman, Koch's mother, said through tears. "He realized that by being over there, he was going to make a difference in the lives of those people." She said her son once unsuccessfully sought green cards for an Iraqi family that had been threatened for helping Americans.

"He always looked out for the other guy, never thought of himself. He volunteered to go to C Co before our first deployment so that one of the guys from our Platoon didn't have to deploy early and would have a chance to marry his fiance. That's Koch for you, always looking out for his buddies." - David A. "Buch" Buchanan.

"He really loved the service and went back," said James Worman, Koch's stepfather. "He had no problem. He was dedicated to the fact that people over there needed help. He was always concerned about other people. He loved children. He was a nice, soft-hearted kid."

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Global Warming Hysteria Cooling Down

According to a survey conducted by ABC News, Planet Green? and Stanford University, fewer than half(47%) of Americans still believe the world will die in 10 years. That's down from from 52% last year. According to ABC, this fall is due to the media paying more attention to the election and the economy rather than people actually thinking for themselves instead of swallowing what the news media feeds them.

Only 30 percent of ABC News respondents said they trust what scientists have to say about the environment "completely" or "a lot," with 39 percent saying they trust them "a moderate amount" and 30 percent saying they do not trust them. On top of that, nearly 60 percent of respondents said there is "a lot of disagreement" within the scientific community as to how dangerous climate change is.

It's Only A Few Decades Late

Never let it be said that the NY Times isn't thorough. When they make a mistake, which, as we all know, is rare, they are more than willing to correct it. Even if it takes 40+ years.

The Paris Hilton Political Video

We've all seen it. And I'm sure most of us think it's pretty clever. I know I do. But there's some in the media who maybe need to get a clue. I've heard some praise her for the satiric ad. They do realize she had nothing to do with it, right? It's not like she sat down one day after McCain's ad and scripted this thing.

We can do limited offshore drilling with strict environmental oversight while creating tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars.

Do they honestly think she could come up with something like that? The woman's not smart enough to tie her own shoe.

The Loss Of Imagination

What happens to our imaginations as we get older? They seem to just kind of fade away. I was going down the road today, in the passenger seat, and I caught myself looking up at the clouds. I figured I would try to find shapes like we all did as kids. You know, "that one looks like a horse jumping over a car. Now it looks like a face with a long nose. Now it's a fish with a sword." But, try as I might, I couldn't get anything. I thought I had some kind of face for a second but it didn't really look like anything. As a kid I could sit in my backyard with my plastic dinosaurs, green Army men and Matchbox cars and entertain myself for hours. Were I to try something like that today I would just sit there with a blank look on my face. As a kid, my nephew and I would play a game called Daddy And Doggy. One of us would be a dog and the other would be it's master. Just as simple as that. I guess when you have kids that imagination comes back, somewhat, because it has to. But for the rest of us it's just gone for the most part. Getting older sucks.