If we lived closer, we'd be pals. We'd argue and probably enjoy that, but I'd still buy your coffee.

I don't think you can compare the broader military and football. You can compare the infantry and football players. The former is required to lug great loads and the latter is required to stop great loads. However, much of the military is mechanized. Women could drive tanks. Women could fly fighter planes. Women could drive forklifts. Etc. So could 50-somethings. And women, if they were cramping, could suck it up. Everything is relative. If mortar shells were falling and I were cramping, I'd be paying far more attention to the former.

I'm not going to argue that men aren't stronger. That would be silly.

I am going to argue that America should change its narrative about Japan and Germany being bad if we're going to mimic them. Or we'll have to change our narrative about our being a good nation. And we'll certainly need a new God. Jesus, the Prince of Peace, won't work if we're willing to kill for oil. I've suggested Mars, the God of War, in the past and I resuggest Him. As far as doing good by way of being bad, that's been tried and I don't think it's worked. One establishes one's values and lives by them. If we want big homes and cars and we're willing to spill blood into sand to maintain our monstrous appetites, no number of Care packages will change what we've become.

The French didn't just give us one of our greatest symbols of freedom, the Statue of Liberty, they gave us our freedom. Without their support in the Revolutionary War, we'd be British subjects.

Why does Palin, by way of hating the French, hate our freedom and our symbol of freedom?

In return, we let the Nazis overrun the French and didn't join the fray until we were attacked and still, there are Bush voters who believe that the French owe us.

I assume that Palin give birth in the bush. Why would she seek a hospital, where all those icky science types gather?

And I further assume that Palin, when sick, won't go to a hospital. Why would she delay cuddling with Jesus?

Of course, Palin and other Bush voters hate the French because they were right about Iraq.

Let's follow that Bush voter right to the voting booths and do as he does! After all, Bush voters gave us worldwide recession, foreclosures, wars with no closure, and crushing debt.

When Bush was reelected, I wept.

My Bush voting neighbor politely listened and I warned him, "It's going to get bad."

I was wrong.

It's gotten HORRIBLE!

And now Bush voters will vote for McCain/Palin, despite the fact that they've already proven to the world that they elect and re-elect idiots.

I bet you're right! I bet this is Palin's Ongoing Revenge of the Pretty Dullards. She didn't understand that stupid sciencey stuff, so she hated and hates those who do.

Here's what I would have written and to Hell with truth, since Palin absolved herself of wrongdoing in Troopergate and obviously isn't concerned with truth, in science and politics:

"Those liberals in Congress, with their pork barrel earmarks, sent your tax dollars to France, where Bill Ayers is using your hard-earned money to genetically reengineer fruit flies to land on your Christian babies and make them gay pagan babies!"

I don't think our military should be funded by the government. That makes our military a SOCIALIST military. If we want to attack Iraq or Iran, we can do it individually, the good-old fashioned American Minuteman way. That'll even things up over there: their guerillas against ours.

I want you to know, Tumbler, that I'm a good American. Yesterday, my neighbors' house caught on fire. We tried to extinguish the flames. Then these socialist firefighters arrived! I fought 'em off. That was the American thing to do: no socialism. My neighbor and his family slept outside last night. His house is gone and just never you mind that I have two spare bedrooms. I believe in a family standing on his own, or, as was the case last night, sleeping on their own.

We don't hate McCain. We love Obama. It's the fundies and other far Right extremists who hate Obama and his supporters.

Here's who voting for McCain and Palin: Bush voters. If you can vote for Bush two times, you can vote for McCain and Palin.

Great post, except we don't just bomb the shit out of fruit flies, we bomb the shit out of them for Jesus.

Voting for Bush, voting for Bush again, and then voting for McSame.

...Westboro Baptist, Palin's Church, and Pat Robertson's church? They all have a gay fetish.

I've never understood how one can claim three Gods and deny that you're a pagan. Catholicism confounds me further, with its saints, popes, and Virgin Mary, which are mini-Gods.

I was thinking the same: what if the Republicans cheat their way into the White House again and Americans who care about the Republic and the Constitution finally put down their remotes and take to the streets?

"Look at my ring!" she said.

Now, she wore it on the ring finger, but the middle finger would have been appropriate, since she was flaunting her privilege and it was a big "Fook U!" to all the gay people there. If straight people would just keep it in the closet, I'd be okay, but every other damn day in May, they hold their "Just married!" parades, honking their horns and EVEN driving past schools, promoting their lifestyle choice.

Pervs.