I love Letterman but lost respect for him last night

• I like what Dave Letterman had to say last - Go Dave!
  • I love Letterman but lost respect for him last night - I will not be watching him anymore
  • I liked Chris Rock's take on the Clintons...sm - ms
  • I saw that episode last night and though I am not - Kiki
  • Letterman - mnmt
    • The way I understand it, he was supposed to tape letterman.... - sam
      • You don't have it quite right, as usual. sm - nm
        • Sorry.....you also have it wrong.... - sam
      • I didn't see Letterman - Chele
        • Why be mad at Dave? His job is to make - Sharon
          • LOL. High regard. nm - sam
            • Have you ever heard him talk about what he - Sharon
              • My point is...if you genuinely hold someone in high regard... - sam
  • Why doesn't Obama let Biden take over for him... - sam
    • Because Obama is not as friendly with Bush - as McSame is, and of course, they are probably
      • Nice deflection to Palin....I am just frankly... - sam
        • Why the huff? The debate will be - what? An hour? - 2 max? The wall-st-blues will
          • What the huff? If a good plan comes out of his going.... - sam
        • Amen to that!!! nm - Chele
    • Actually he did say something to that effct. - Go Dave!
      • Obama has been campaigning since... - sam
        • I stand by my position. Isn't that partly what - Go Dave!
          • why can't the economy be first and we have the debate... - sam
            • If they did that, there's a good chance the - debates would not happen at all.
            • Oh, I don't know, maybe because ...sm - No Chance
              • They are minimal in comparison to what faces us... - sam
            • He also took the time to stop by Bill Clinton's - Go Dave!
              • He also had time to meet with Lady de Rothschild...sm - No Chance
              • It is the Clinton Global Initiative and it does... - sam
                • I'm not bashing Clinton's Initiate at all. It is - Go Dave!
            • The talk is that there is not a lot of time - Kiki
              • McCain did not call for canceling... - sam
                • Of course, I personally don't have a problem with - Kiki
              • I think the country can survive - Chele
                • Personally, I could care less if they cancel - Kiki
                  • Ya, then none of us would have to miss - "Wheel of Fortune"
    • Because Obama is going to DC himself and still having the debate also. - pc
      • The only reason Obamanation - Chele
        • Voting present and not voting, who has - No votes.
          • Some food for thought. - sm
            • Thank you! You just proved the point with the - No votes
    • maybe because Obama knows how to - multitask. nm
      • Multitasking also includes prioritizing - Chele

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so, I called his financial advisor yesterday and told him to put hubby in a "safe" plan. It's now in a money market fund that is part of his IRA.

I have no choice. I have to stay where I am. I have no "safe" available. Neither of us will be able to retire on what is now in our 401Ks and you're not the only one. We couldn't buy a car with Both our 401Ks, let alone live on it.

We are late starters for retirement  not until our late 40s funds (most of our employers did not offer pensions). We are now of the first retirement tier and although we own our home outright, if we live until we are 90, there is no way we can live off retirement 401Ks or SS.

My husband's father told him back in the 50s that we would experience something like what is happening today and stated it would be worse than the ཙ crash. It is sure starting to look that way, but we will survive some way, I hope.

We need to pray for the people on SS now that cannot survive. I, for one, would love to help them, but can't help ourselves at this moment.

the bit about the open microphone on McCain during the debate was brilliant!!! I laughed until I literally cried!!  By the way, Michelle Obama was warm, intelligent, sincere and very much First Lady material!!!

This has nothing to do with how one has voted or will vote in the future.  This is about common decency. 

Frankly, I have found Letterman a bitter pill to swallow for many years.  He's contorted himself into a far-left cocoon.  Watch Conan's ratings blow him out of the water.  I don't watch either of them, but I have never heard that Conan has behaved in this manner.  Leno would not have stooped that low, either.

I'm done.  Thanks.

http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/06/letterman-makes-another-sex-joke-about.html

This must be why you so obviously love Muslims? 

You do realize that you contradict yourself on just about every other post you make?  ROFL..

I dont have to defend my education or knowledge of history.  I know what I have been taught.  This endless attack gets tiring.  Time to go do something more constructive than read your attacks to me.  Later Gator

This is definitely scary.  When we lose control to raise or own children......what else do they want to take away from us.  This is beyond ridiculous.

You people who cry and whine about government staying out of your uterus....well how about stay out of my home and let me raise my kids I decided to have instead of aborting.  What about those rights? 

And they wonder why people are upset and worried?

It's going to be hilarious!

For those of you who miss it, you can see clips at their website.

I don't post under a name, because when you do you are crucified by the drive-by bombers.  It's best to keep the them confused.

And Tucker Carlson is hardly a liberal.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13459509/

But first to a story horrifying even by the coarsening standards of Iraq, the brutal murder and torture of two U.S. soldiers. 

Privates first class Kristian Menchaca and Thomas L. Tucker went missing Friday after an attack on a checkpoint they were manning south of Baghdad.  Their bodies were found on Monday night.  They were reportedly so badly mutilated they were tentatively identified by tattoos and scars.  The corpses were also booby-trapped, an apparent effort to kill recovery teams.

Al Qaeda‘s new leader in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the soldier‘s slaughter. 

In the face of brutality like this, is Iraq worth the cost in American lives?  Here to answer that question, Brad Blakeman.  He‘s the former deputy assistant to the president.  He joins us tonight from Washington. 

Brad, thanks for coming on.

BRAD BLAKEMAN, FORMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you, Tucker.

CARLSON:  So we have spent untold billions of dollars, 2,500 American soldiers killed, all in an effort to bring democracy and prosperity to Iraq.  In return, they torture and murder and mutilate our soldiers.  Remind me why this is a good bargain?

BLAKEMAN:  Well, Tucker, look, this is a tough thing, and our hearts go out to every soldier who has made the ultimate sacrifice so that we can live in freedom. 

But Iraq is worth fighting for.  The region is worth fighting for.  It‘s in our interest.  These terrible, brutal dictatorships must be brought down when they become a threat to our national security.  You know...

CARLSON:  OK.  But that‘s not the rationale the president has offered.  He has said now, because as you know, and not to rehash the whole war, but no weapons of mass destruction were found.  And he‘s said now this is worth doing because it‘s worth bringing freedom to the Iraqi people.  They yearn for freedom, and it‘s our duty to give them the freedom they yearn for. 

My question is how have they earned our sacrifice to bring them that freedom?  What about Iraq justifies the death—brutal deaths of American soldiers?  Why should we feel like it‘s worth it to bring these people democracy when they behave like animals like this?

BLAKEMAN:  We‘re focusing on the animals and not the good and decent people of Iraq.  The vast majority of Iraq is peaceful. 

CARLSON:  Is that right?  I don‘t think—I don‘t think there‘s any evidence of that.

BLAKEMAN:  There are 12 million people who went to—who went to the polls.  They have four successful elections.  They have a new government.  We tend only to focus on the very bad, on the insurgencies, and the evil people.  But the vast majority of Iraqis want to be free. 

You know, if we took your attitude...

CARLSON:  Is that true?  Is that true?

BLAKEMAN:  Hold on, Tucker.  If we took your attitude, we would have turned back at the beaches of Normandy when all those people...

CARLSON:  Spare me the tired, hackney, cliched World War II analogies.  Let‘s get to the war in progress, and that‘s Iraq.  There are decent people there.  I have been there.  I‘ve met decent people there.  I know firsthand. 

However, your claim that most people want peace is bosh as they say. 

Let me show you...

BLAKEMAN:  It is not.

CARLSON:  It certainly is.  A poll undertaken by the ministry of defense from Great Britain, part of the coalition, said 65 percent of Iraqi citizens support attacks on U.S. citizens. 

Our own polling, done by World Opinion, public opinion, 47 percent approve attacks on U.S. forces, 88 percent of Sunnis, 88 percent approve of attacks on U.S. forces. 

These are—are these—these are the people our sons and daughters are dying to make rich and free?  How does that work?

BLAKEMAN:  It is our responsibility.  We brought down this dictator, this evil dictator...

CARLSON:  How are we responsible?

BLAKEMAN:  ... who used weapons of mass destruction against his own people.  Now, it‘s our responsibility to bring democracy to these people.  We can‘t cut and run and defeat the dictator and then leave...

CARLSON:  Why is it our responsibility?  There are countries across the world who live in shackles.

BLAKEMAN:  We are the freest nation on earth.  That‘s why it‘s our responsibility.  We‘re the freest nation on earth.  We brought down the dictator, and now it‘s our responsibility...

CARLSON:  How does that work?  They have not done one thing for us.  Look—look, think of the implications of what you are saying.  I don‘t know if you have thought this through.

BLAKEMAN:  I‘ve thought it through very well.

CARLSON:  Nation after nation after nation, starting with Mugabe in Zimbabwe, moving all the way to communist—still communist, still unfree China, people who are living in fetters who are unfree, who are oppressed, is it our, as you put it, obligation as a free a nation to free those nations?  Do you really want to play this?

BLAKEMAN:  Is it—do you know what our obligation is?  It‘s to bring freedom to those people who yearn to be free.  And China has come a long way. 

CARLSON:  So it‘s your obligation to sent your son, my obligation...

(CROSSTALK)

CARLSON:  ... people I‘ve never met in countries that hate us?  You‘ve got to be kidding.  It‘s my obligation to do that?

BLAKEMAN:  Yes, it is our obligation.  Was it our obligation to go—was it our obligation. 

CARLSON:  Where does the obligation come from?  I didn‘t sign up for that obligation.

BLAKEMAN:  It‘s our obligation.  Was it our obligation to go—was it our obligation to go into Europe where we weren‘t attacked?  No, Europe let a dictator get so strong that collectively they couldn‘t take him down, and we had to come down. 

CARLSON:  We got in war when we were attacked.

BLAKEMAN:  We lost 400,000 Americans in that war.  We lost—a million people were wounded in that war.

CARLSON:  Right.  And there were...

BLAKEMAN:  But was it worth it?

CARLSON:  Let me just remind you, we entered that war on December 7, 1941, when our soil, the protectorate of Hawaii, was attacked by a foreign nation and thousands of Americans died.  We went to war on that day, and not before.  OK?  So the overall principle you are stating here, that we have a moral obligation to free the unfree, think it through, man.  It‘s... 

BLAKEMAN:  I didn‘t say that, Tucker.  I said when we took down the dictator, when we made an obligation to risk our soldiers to free a country, we just can‘t cut and run.  We have to establish a government for them.  We‘ve got to give them the opportunity to succeed.  That‘s our obligation.

CARLSON:  And you may be right as far as that goes.  But the blanket obligation that Bush implies, and you just stated, that we have to go free the world, to send our sons and daughters to go...

BLAKEMAN:  No, we don‘t have to free the world

CARLSON:  ... die for other people‘s freedom, people who hate us, it‘s a scary thing.

BLAKEMAN:  Well, then you know what?  Didn‘t the Japanese hate us? 

Didn‘t the Germans hate us?  Do they hate us today?

CARLSON:  They attacked us first.  We had no choice.

BLAKEMAN:  They‘re our allies.  They our allies, and they stand shoulder to shoulder with us.  Should we have waited to get attacked by the Iraqis?  No.

CARLSON:  You know, I thought—when I supported the war initially, I thought that they were capable of attacking us, and it turns out, as you know, and I‘m sad to report, that we weren‘t. 

BLAKEMAN:  They were pretty capable of attacking us if they wanted to. 

CARLSON:  Brad Blakeman, thanks a lot.

BLAKEMAN:  You are welcome. 

on TV.  I didn't see the whole video clip of them singing but the little bit I did see was enough to show me how eerie and just messed up that is.  This whole thing is just creepy. 

where someone had decorated their house for Halloween and hanging from a rope was a mannequin dressed like Sarah Palin.  They had her hanging by the neck.  How horrible is that?  The authorities said that they couldn't do anything since it was a Halloween decoration.  That is just sick though.  I mean seriously....if they had Barrack Obama hanging by the neck or Joe Biden.....I'd still be sickened by it.  What is wrong with people?

Leaning to the right said it and I want to put it in a separate post.  I think this is one of the main reasons why people are voting for McCain.

I need to be able to sleep at night

about the election.  He's 10 and they're studying this election in social studies.  He told me they were going to have an "election" in class.  I asked him if he knew who he was voting for and he immediately answered Obama.  When I asked him why, he said because he likes him.  I asked him if they studied the issues and the candidates' stances on these issues and he said yes.  I began asking him some general questions -- their running mates, their economic policies, their military stances, etc.  He didn't really know much other than who their running mates were and that Obama was going to "cut taxes on anyone making less than 250 thousand". 

I thought that's not bad for a fifth grader, but when I asked him about their stance on abortion and same-sex marriage, he didn't know how the candidates stood.  I told him that Obama is pro-choice and McCain is pro-life and I explained the difference.  My son didn't know what an abortion was yet, so I didn't go into any graphic detail, just that the doctor could do a procedure on a woman to end the pregnancy.  He was shocked that Obama would believe in this. 

All these kids in his class are so hyped about Obama and yet I wonder how many wouldn't be here today if Obama had been elected 12 years ago.  After I was done talking with him, I asked him what was more important to him:  money or life? 

He chose life.  He said he was voting for McCain, even if it wasn't the popular choice, and when his class asks him why he's supporting McCain, he's going to tell them.  Maybe some of these kids will go home and educate their parents.  It's a shame how many people are going to vote next week without any clue as to how their candidate stands on the issues.