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President Bush has been hated for every reason imaginable, such as, he "touted" prayer and said things like

"Americans pray for a number of reasons, such as acknowledging God's sovereignty in our lives and our complete dependence on Him." He concluded his remarks by saying that the "greatest gift we can offer anyone is the gift of our prayers, because our prayers have power beyond our imagining." And. . .

When asked, why we went to war to punish, and liberate Iraq, he answered, "To him who is given much, much is required." And. . .

After being asked what he thought of his popularity rating (much higher than Congress,BTW), he responded, " I could not sell my soul, just to be popular." Far different than the Dems' responses who spent multi millions on popularity polls. Hillary still owes 7 million dollars to pay off her worthless pollsters who stuck their fingers in the air to determine her campaign direction. Too bad, Obama was able to hire so many more fingers. (Insert joke here ___________________)

After Bush's medical physical, it was reported that his body fat was about fifteen percent. Slate magazine then promptly reported that wasn't so great because Bill Clinton's body fat index was calculated (by Slate Magazine) as being similar.

President Bush has mainly been derided for his "too muscular" international diplomacy. The Europeans, the United Nations (only united in their hate for the U.S. like our own leftist media), and communists world over, have consistently criticized Bush for his "warmongering belligerence." IOW he carried a Big Stick and used it - with discretion.

What happens when your President has no muscle? Bill Clinton and, it looks like Obama, are good examples. OK, Obama has less body fat than W, but like Bill Clinton who avoided every battle with Jihadists, and even supported Kosovo where the Taliban was training, Barack Hussein Obama may become the next Bill-like Grand Appeaser.

You will also not find muscularity in Pakistan at present where an old softy like President Zardari (Mr. Ten Percent - Google It) replaced Musharraf who was more aligned with the U.S. in ousting the Taliban and Jihadists in general.
The American press as well as the world demanded that the semi-ally Musharraf be ousted so that Mr. President Ten Percent Zardari could lead Pakistan - right into the terlet.

Since the election of Zardari, the Taliban and other Jihadists have been reencouraged, deadly bombings are on the increase, and there is much more fear, confusion and rebellion in Pakistan. The turmoil has spread to Afghanistan - all because Pakistan has lost its political and physical muscle.
I pray that Obama will put those pects to good use in fighting for truth, justice, and the American way.

Democrats are always brave, unfortunately before wars begin. LBJ chickened out of Vietnam, Kennedy and Kerry were pro communist in Central America, Maxine Waters and the MSM love Cuba, House and Senate Democrats were pro Iraq invasion until . . . , and Clinton defended the Jihadists from the Serbians. How many churches have been burned down in the former Yugoslavia by your peaceful Muslim types, so far?

During the height of the Iraq War (where mistakes were made, and what war is not fraught with a multitude of mistakes?) many Dems wanted us to attack North Korea. Dems only enjoy wars won by the enemy. This is obvious from all the rhetoric and congressional hearings they entertained, which sole purpose was to lose a war and embarrass the United States for merely selfish political reasons.

Our own Mainstream Media, and the world, it seems, is in a sort of an unconscious stupor, not recognizing that a lot of "muscle" has kept another 9/11 from happenning here, but it will continue with Pakistan, yet not Israel.

Israel, despite its unfair share of libs, still has muscle.

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent

I hope this is not taken as a mere anti Jewish diatribe, but as an example of what the law calls "affinity fraud."

The Security and Exchange Commission gives Bernie Madoff's ponzi scheme this very title according to their definition - "Affinity fraud refers to investment scams that prey upon members of identifiable groups, such as religious or ethnic communities, the elderly, or professional groups."

Mr. Madoff has admitted to magically causing up to 50 billion dollars of feeder/hedge fund money to disappear after promising investors such as friends, relatives, (like Tremont Group Holdings and Fairfield Greenwich Group), Jewish charities, and, especially golf club members, unbelievable profits up to twenty percent per year.

According to Canada's Chronicle Herald

His most loyal customers were wealthy Jews who divided their time between Manhattan and Florida. Some, it was said, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to maintain memberships at the Palm Beach Country Club just in the hope of gaining an introduction to this Wall Street wonder boy.

Bernie was most charitable in his giving $238,000.000 to Democrats, but several Jewish trusts have closed due to Bernie's love of giving to himself. The 1 billion dollar Picower fund has had to close down due to Madoff's madness. Just last week a Democrat relative of mine was telling me how he "could not forget that Republican scammer, Kenneth Lay and company," who was responsible for, as I remember, extorting only a half billion dollars via "accounting errors" - very small potatoes, or latkes, compared to old Bernie.

Finally and most unfortunately, another Jewish mishpocha, Jonathan Sokobin, in charge of such SEC investigations, refused to investigate Bernie Madoff depsite warnings for ten years.

From Grennwichtime.Com - Early this year, Markopolos made one last major effort after receiving an email from Jonathan Sokobin, an official in the SEC's Washington, D.C., office whose job was to search for big market risks. Sokobin had heard about Markopolos and asked him to give him a call, according to an email exchange between them. With low expectations, Markopolos got in touch.
"The way I figured it," he says, "if they didn't believe you at $5 billion, and not at $10 billion, they didn't believe you at $30 billion, then why would they believe you at $50 billion?" Markopolos also sent Sokobin an email - with the stark subject line "$30 billion Equity Derivative Hedge Fund Fraud in New York" - saying an unnamed Wall Street pro recently pulled money from Madoff's
firm after trying to confirm trades supposedly done in his account, but discovering that no such trades had been made. It was his last try. He never heard back about his allegations regarding Madoff.
"I felt pretty low," Markopolos recalls.

Finally, finally, where is the money?

We have been hearing from MSM that the U.S. has been suffering an economic recession since 2007 - according to the NGO Non Governmental Organization Bureau Of Economic Research. This is not an official organ of government. IOW this widely quoted "finding" was just made up by a very lib group of economists. (They also predicted better financial times ahead - in 1931- see National Bureau projection).

No wonder the NY Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and every other newspaper is laying off or considering bankruptcy, as are the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. Oh, and Chris Matthews, even with cellar dweller ratings, is considering a run for Congress. All the above have fed off the Associated Press for the most faulty, biased, god-awful news stories. These flunky, liberal news groups promoted Obama beyond human conscience or sensibility, and now they are dying.

They blame the Internet and cable TV, but these hard core leftist publishers will not admit how boring, prejudiced, and inaccurate they are and have been.

The National Bureau Of Economic Research, has a decidedly leftist agenda, according to my research. If you like high oil prices as they do, and more money thrown at education, big government, and other social programs, you should become a member of the NBER. Why else would the AP tout these phony recession pronouncements, prematurely, if the NBER was not lib?

Democrats do not like playing by any rules and the rule for Recession has been "two succeeding quarters of Gross Domestic Product economic downturn."

Why has the NBER and Associated Press decided, and the press accepted, the fudging of facts, time after time? I can answer that by substituting the lyrics in your church hymnal to "All To Obama, I Surrender," from the church hit, I Surrender All. "I Have Decided To Follow Obama" is another good one.

Here is another excellent article on the subject from African American, out of North Star Writers Group, Herman Cain.

Notice one of Deepak's gods with all the arms which could be put to better use if she would only pick up a few - simultaneously, of course - American and world history books.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me
Deepak seems to have accused the Indian Mumbai attacks on the United States for "inflaming moderate Muslims," and that we should reach out and study the "poverty" and "humiliation," which these poor people suffer. He should know that the a large number of Muslims have a divine mandate to manifest destiny over infidels, independent of their richness or poverty.

Deepak also blamed the U.S. support of the Taliban in Chechnya for training the same people who are now are our mortal enemies, and who bring terror to over twenty countries worldwide. How could we have supported such terrorists in Cheknya, the Man Of Higher Intellect and Spiritualism asks?

Come down to earth (or up to earth, Deepak, might be more appropriate) and let me share with the Enlightened One an education in how we have supported past enemies who later became our friends and vice versa. Not as if we can even know the future like Hindu intellects.

Since the dawn of time, countries have made alliances with one another when it was advantageous at the time. Much of America was once allied very closely, as was India, as a colony with England. We, like India, demanded our independence and fought against our former ally in the Revolutionary War and the War Of 1812. We later became friends, and still are.

Historically follow any country's alliances past, present and future. It is obvious that your former friends are your future enemies. Allies today will be fighting us tomorrow. Such is the simplest understanding of history. We had good relations with the Czar and the Communists early in the Twentieth Century. Later, we disavowed all that was considered Communistic (except, today, half of the American electorate has endorsed the Democrats, and they have no clue what their evil intentions are). We were very much allied against Germany with Russia in WWII, and then a long Cold War followed by Perestroika. It appears, unfortunately, that we may be again sharing a cold shoulder with the Russians under Putin.

Looking at any nation's history the above pattern can be observed over and over and over again.

Deepak, please, put down the Vedanta and Bhagavad Vita and pick up any world history book, and may I suggest, the Bible.

PS I do want to credit Deepak for believing in Intelligent Design. He has written more recently a book about Jesus, but qualifies his biography with "I don't want this Jesus to be worshipped."
Deepak is a doctor who fortunately is more spiritual and may be much closer to the Truth than America's atheist radio doctor, Dean Edell.

When the Spanish arrived in the New World they found savages,from the Latin, "they live in the woods," and heathen,"the unconverted." Indians were not considered civilized according to the Holy Roman definition of civilization, and were not very technologically advanced.

The Europeans should not be considered perfectly good, nor should the Indians of old be considered perfectly evil. If you would ask a Native American today if he would like to return to having teepees, syphilitic plagues, no refrigerators, cars, or store-bought meat, they probably would not want to return to the olden days.

My point is, that just as the American Indian was taken advantage of by European cunning and force (they sold Manhattan for $24 in cloth and buttons), American citizens, today, have sold their birthright to the international community, because we Anglos, Afros, and Indians have become neo heathens and neo savages. Indians wore loin cloths and little else, and we modern Americans allow our boys to wear the gangsta droopy-drawers, as girls are show more flesh than "French whores."

Despite our blessing and prosperity, we are aborting more than a million future citizens a year, we promote sodomy, when even Communist China recognizes the damage it causes to the family and to the state, and we have allowed foreign countries to dominate our economy by buying up so much of America - just as the Europeans did starting 500 years ago. Our divorce rate, adultery, and promiscuity causes us to look more savage than Indians, Muslims, Communists . . . you name it.

Our savage lust has directed our no-future interests toward the here and now and the "eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die" syndrome. We have indebted ourselves, much more so, with the help of country crushing liberals, while avoiding the thought of future payments - such as the cumulative, future costs of Medicare and Social Security @70 trillion dollars.

The U.S. owes China, possibly, 3 trillion dollars and owes 10 trillion dollars overall for the national debt. BTW we seldom remember that for all that debt we got a lot of cheap goods in return.

We have foolishly paid our lib, Democrat auto union workers an average of $130,000 per year in salary and benefits, and our lib, Democrat, union teachers are paid far more than countries which actually maintain discipline and graduate literate students.
China produces four times the engineers that the U.S. graduates and Japan twice as many of the same because of sound, disciplined math and science courses which are first encouraged in their elementary schools. Not so in the United States. Global school systems also do not hate boys.

So who are the savages, today? We are. When you see even evangelicals voting for Democrats, you know that their faith has turned toward heathenism.

Globalists can easily take advantage of the the American slavish work ethic. Socialist Europeans cannot afford to hire Europeans to to work like Americans. The average U.S. worker is more productive than any other in the world. This can be good and bad. America workers have not grabbed hold of the more leisurely work schedules of Europeans with their multiple-month vacations, just yet. Wait until Obama's giveaway programs become full force and expect a more socialistic (France has 35 hour work week),coupled with less incentive for enterprenural company builders to invest. However, many Americans have been pushing too hard for the almighty dollar and have suffered for it, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

Just at the Spanish, French, Dutch, and English took advantage of a naive American Indian, we are selling out to a multitude of foreign ReColonizers who are taking advantage of us with our consent. Our great country has a lot to attract foreign investors from around the earth, but what is the cost? We are wearing down ourselves,as well as the U.S. Treasury, as we descend deeper into debt.

The FDIUS (Foreign Direct Investment Into United States) comprises 10% to 20% of our total economy. That is very nice for Americans working here, but profits are still sent to foreign countries.
The USDIA (U.S. Direct Investment Abroad)has not been increasing relative to foreign companies in the U.S. In other words, they are gaining, we are losing.

We forget that the motivation for the Boston Tea Party was that England was selling tea for less than the Americans, because of the duties imposed on American tea. Free trade always costs someone something. The U.S. is profiting from "colonizing" cheap labor,globally, as other countries are colonizing/enslaving us.

Just as the American Colonies fought for freedom from Great Britain's and their Redcoats in the Revolutionary War, we now have to fight another enemy that wears Red - socialist, internationalist Democrats who are progressing the country toward recolonization.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Two weeks after the election, Sarah Palin is still the media's, and some Republican's object of scorn. She must be really good to be the target of those who sit at the gates of hell, to be blunt.

Editorial Cartoonist Mike Lukovich draws a picture of a Thanksgiving turkey handing a hatchet to a pilgrim while Sarah Palin is "blah, blah, blahhing" on a TV screen. Out of shear boredom, The turkey begs the pilgrim to kill him.

Seven year old Piper Palin, who has a gallery of photos dedicated to her on Huffington Post, is commonly lambasted with accompanying pictures showing her licking her hair, etc. Another blogger claims that, "Piper looks sassy in pumps."

David Letterman, former weather comedian, has these very unclever quips for Sarah Palin: "I like that Sarah Palin. She looks like the weekend anchor on Channel 9. She looks like the hygienist who makes you feel guilty about not flossing. She looks like the relieved mom in a Tide commercial." Letterman actually paid his writers during the writers strike. I wonder what religion or ethnic identity they are?

Sarah Palin is the devil to the media while Obama is the resident messiah. Her cheer, femininity, beauty, motherliness, sharpness, and courage may not be divine, but these attributes must be divinely inspired. Quite the opposite are the libs and feminists who are stiff, cranky, dishonest, and are lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, much less man. Yet, they are able to so easily fool the majority of the voting, public school trained public with promises that they never intend to fulfill. Witness Obama who has already retracted and contradicted most of his promises (CHANGE, for one) from a month earlier. And, he's not even in office, yet!

President Bush, Ken Starr, and even Karl Rove have made quiet confessions of faith, and that is enough reason for the media to hate them. How often has the MSM and liberal elite castigated W, accusing him of having a "mission from God?" From where has your mission originated Mainstream Media? The pits of hell?

Democrats have a god in Obama; conservatives only have a friend in Palin. We have not seen a metaphorical June Cleaver, an Aunt Bea, or a Harriet Nelson is so many years very few know who these people were. Of course, they were not real but neither is Nancy Pelosi.

Most conservatives are forever hoping for religious revival associated with a resurrection of a neo Ronald Reagan.
The devil , always in the detail, resists everything and anything that resembles fairness, liberty, and goodness through his MSMinions. If there is anything good coming out of the current economic slowdown, it must be the budget cutting of Hollywood, newspapers, network news, and other members of the MSM.

An economic slowdown may also cause Americans to depend a little more on one another. I may need lessons in how to make mooseburgers.
What part of the cow does that cut come from?

The more I see Sarah and her family, the more I want to move to Alaska - before the libs take it over. They ousted Ted Stevens, yet I am not certain about his guilt.

Too Big To Fail is now generally accepted by Americans as an evil necessity. Where did this Cannot Fail concept originate? Among other places, blame must be pointed at the American Public School machine.

Back in my day, elementary students showed up on time; kept their mouths relatively shut; sat up straight and listened, as the girls kept their skirts below their knees and kept their knees together - relatively - during and after school.

We had no autistic, ADD, or "specially gifted" stupid students which today require enormous amounts of extra funding for paying the specially trained teachers who are usually lib females. Since affirmative action, there has been a greater push for more female teachers vis a vis smaller classrooms. Smaller classrooms, more teachers. The reason girl enrollees into college are outnumbering boys is affirmative action and other modes of favoritism.

In the fifties and early sixties, teachers could maintain order by either threatening or actually using a paddle. Lib female-dominated teacher unions currently are opposed to elementary school corporal punishment and rather prefer suspension, thus giving the student a mini vacation, or detentions in rooms where the students may compensate for the sleep lost from the previous night playing video games. In the day, detention study halls were only used for studying. Imagine no loud, dirty talk, or cursing in the classrooms and halls. American teacher unions partnered with the ACLU have eliminated any semblance of authority and order within the mush minds of today's student. Self esteem has replaced sound academic performance which is not required for graduation.

Students had to pass tests to graduate from their current grade or advance to the next. Truancy was always investigated and punished if there was no valid excuse. A real bad boy or girl, which would be today's average inner city school student, could be taken to Juvenile Hall and read the riot act if other disciplinary measures were not effective. Large city school districts, such as the nearby Cleveland schools, are lucky to have half the city's students show up on any given day. Forget about the percentage of graduates.

Public schools are quite restrained in their expulsion policy, and will keep a student, that I know, on the rolls even with over 100 days absence. State and local funding of public ed, which has risen exponentially compared to other Consumer Price Index quantities, is diminished whenever a non-attending "student" is officially expelled and removed from school rolls.

The parents of the heathen youth cannot be primarily responsible for the behavior because libs have long dreamed to be the effective parents of the students from cradle to grave - even as Obama has promised. Schools have a governmentally enforced loco parentis. In fact, parents are allowed less and less authority over their children as the years go by. Know anyone that has had to battle with Child Protective Socialist Services? I know plenty of some women and many men who "fought the law, and the law won."

The non-competing, heavily union-dominated, pro Public School intellectuals not only refuse to discipline, they have been remiss to employ academic standards for two generations of Americans.

In the day, a student graded with an "F" would be in danger of failing. It is fair to say that yesterday's "F" grade could be today's "A" in many schools. And, there was no jiggling and fudging the SAT scores, which are not even required today by many colleges.
In defense of the parents following the lead of lib educrats, it was not the parents who invented fuzzy math, fuzzy English, fuzzy spelling, or anti-American history courses which have destroyed the patriotism of two generations of U.S. citizens (mainly Democrats).

Japan and China are graduating more Engineering degrees than the U.S. and soon we will be far below the rest of the world in research and development. Lady teachers are not particularly motivated to (A) like boys* or (B) apt to teach basic math and science courses. *However, there does seem to be a trend of young female teachers having excessive liking for young, puerile boys.

Public Ed has pulled and even towed the heartstrings of tax-paying parents for mo' and mo' money,while every politician has made "education my number one priority," thus promising even mo' money that will be invested in the totally dysfunctional enterprise.
China spends less than $500 per year to train well behaved, achievers - over 200 million students - as we are paying nearly $15,000 and more for kids who need remedial schooling in order to enter colleges which have also been dumbed down. After graduation from college, businesses are requiring these grads to take additional remedial schooling.

In short, yesterday's children and today's adults have learned early on that they could not fail. Public Ed has been simultaneously learning that it is Too Big Too Fail. No matter is the underachieving and over expense compared to countries around the globe. Public Ed allows for no competition and is the darling of the Democrats as most Government, tax-soaking unions are.

Too Big To Fail is now generally accepted by Americans as an evil necessity. Where did this Cannot Fail concept originate? Among other places, blame must be pointed at the American Public School machine.

Back in my day elementary students showed up at school; showed up on time; kept their mouths relatively shut; sat up straight and listened, as the girls kept their skirts below their knees and kept their knees together - relatively - during and after school.

We had no autistic, ADD, or "specially gifted" stupid students which today require enormous amounts of extra funding for paying the specially trained teachers who are usually lib females. Since affirmative action, there has been a greater push for more female teachers vis a vis smaller classrooms. Smaller classrooms, more teachers. The reason girl enrollees into college are outnumbering boys is the affirmative action and other modes of favoritism.

In the fifties and early sixties, teachers could maintain order by either threatening or actually using a paddle. Lib female-dominated teacher unions currently are opposed to elementary school corporal punishment and rather prefer suspension, thus giving the student a mini vacation, or detentions in rooms where the students may compensate for the sleep lost from the previous night playing video games. In the day, detention study halls were only used for studying. Imagine no loud, dirty talk, or cursing in the classrooms and halls. American teacher unions partnered with the ACLU have eliminated any semblance of authority and order within the mush minds of today's student. Self esteem has replaced sound academic performance.

Students had to pass tests to graduate from their current grade or advance to the next. Truancy was always investigated and punished if there was no valid excuse. A real bad boy or girl, which would be today's average inner city school student, could be taken to Juvenile Hall and read the riot act if other disciplinary measures were not effective. Large city school districts, such as the nearby Cleveland schools, are lucky to have half the city's students show up on any given day. Forget about the percentage of graduates.

Public schools are quite restrained in their expulsion policy, and will keep a student, that I know, on the rolls even with over 100 days absences. State and local funding of public ed, which has risen exponentially compared to other Consumer Price Index quantities, are diminished whenever a non-attending "student" is officially expelled and removed from school rolls.

The parents of the heathen youth cannot be primarily responsible for the behavior because libs have long dreamed to be the effective parents of the students from cradle to grave - even as Obama has promised. Schools have a governmentally enforced loco parentis. In fact, parents are allowed less and less authority over their children as the years go by. Know anyone that has had to battle with Child Protective Socialist Services? I know plenty of some women and many men who "fought the law, and the law won."

The non-competing, heavily union-dominated, pro Public School intellectuals not only refuse to discipline, they have been remiss to employ academic standards for two generations of Americans.

In the day, a student graded with an "F" would be in danger of failing. It is fair to say that yesterday's "F" grade could be today's "A" in many schools. And, there was no jiggling and fudging the SAT scores, which are not even required today by many colleges.
In defense of the parents following the lead of lib educrats, it was not the parents who invented fuzzy math, fuzzy English, fuzzy spelling, or anti-American history courses which have destroyed the patriotism of two generations of U.S. citizens (mainly Democrats).

Japan and China are graduating more Engineering degrees than the U.S. and soon we will be far below the rest of the world in research and development. Lady teachers are not particularly motivated to (A) like boys* or (B) apt to teach basic math and science courses. *However, there does seem to be a trend of young female teachers having excessive likening for young, puerile boys.

Public Ed has pulled and even towed the heartstrings of tax-paying parents for mo' and mo' money,while every politician has made "education my number one priority," thus promising even mo' money that will be invested in the totally dysfunctional enterprise.
China spends less than $500 per year to train well behaved, achievers - over 200 million students - as we are paying nearly $15,000 and more for kids who need remedial schooling in order to enter colleges which have also been dumbed down. After graduation from college, businesses are requiring these grads to take additional remedial schooling.

In short, children learned early on that they could not fail. Public Ed has been simultaneously learning that it is Too Big Too Fail. No matter is the underachieving and over expense compared to countries around the glove. Public Ed allows for no competition and is the darling of the Democrats as most Government, tax-soaking unions are.

You know you are a Pointy Head Liberal if you have disdain for Jeff Foxworthy.

You know your are a PHL if you believed any of Obama's promises.

You know your are a PHL if you have voted Democrat and still complain about the high cost of energy, including gasoline this past year.

You know your are a PHL if you believe "sharing more of the wealth" is not socialism. IOW give great sums of taxpayer money to those who do not pay taxes so they will "trickle up" prosperity.

You know your are a PHL if you cannot understand that if you drill for more oil, you can actually acquire more oil for the energy needs of your country.

You know your are a Pointy Head Liberal if you believe in the great hoax of the vaguely defined "Climate Change" and want to be involved with Cap and Trade or Carbon Tax. BTW There has been an official timout called on climate change for about ten years since recorded temperatures have been continually dipping.

You know your are a PHL if you are a Democrat and complain about excessive crime in your streets committed by people, usually hooded and under thirty, who voted or supported Obama.

You know your are a PHL if you support public school levies and still wonder why Johnny cannot read.

You know your are a PHL if you are amazed that there is so much disruption in school, but still think there is no need for corporal punishment.

You know your are a PHL if you support public school Sally attending school - most days - with her infant or toddler in the school's nursery.

You know your are a PHL if you think "more money for education" will solve any of the above problems.

You know your are a male PHL if you are in a major city where the judges, prosecutors, and social workers are primarily Democrat women who do not particularly like men; and your wife too easily gets the advantage in court, and has you arrested.

You know your are a PHL if you cannot reason that Barney Frank and a number of Democrats pushed for "affordable" loans for people who could not afford them, thus accelerating the collapse of the economy.

You know your are a PHL if you did not notice that the above Barney Frank,who was ignorant that his residence was the HQ for a male prostitution ring, was the first to demand a series of bailouts for those "too big" to fail.

You know your are a PHL if you cannot see the connection between the push for billion dollar bailouts and the deep dives of the stock market. (The market looks ahead many months and does not like the promised increase in taxes waiting for the American economy)

You know your are a PHL if you like Charlie Rose,Mike Wallace, Keith Olbermann, Chris Wallace, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or any lib academic.

You know your are a PHL if you are new Sheriff Sandra Hutchens of Orange County who is surprised at the reaction from Gun-rights advocates and some permit holders after she promised to invalidate their licenses issued by the former sheriff.

You know your are a PHL if you are David Letterman who was actually a comedian years ago. Dave incessantly called Bob Dole "old," during his presidential campaign. Now Dave looks more withered than Bob Dole, war hero. Letterman did the same with McCain.

You know your are a PHL,and a heretic, if you believe in the solemnization of sodomy through the approval of Gay Marriage, and you think that God (who you don't believe in) does not care.

You know your are a PHL if . . . [fill in the blanks]