Alex

Celebrate the past but don't beat me over the head with it. I know my history. What is the only group in America it is LEGAL to discriminate against? Answer: White males under 40. Yes, it's legal to discriminate against white trash like me just because I'm white. No big employer says, "Jeez, I've just got too many minority employees, I gotta get more whites in here."

I've never held a slave. Slavery ended over a hundred years ago. I've never discriminated against a person based upon his/her color, creed or religion, only the content of their character.

Even Obama at the 2004 convention said that we shouldn't be hyphenated Americans, we should all be American-Americans.

This is the greatest country on earth and I'd rather not pollute it with people who want to slice it up into a bunch of minority "stans." Blackistan, Mexicanstan, Vietnamistan.

But I don't see you standing up for the legal discrimination against white males under 40.

See you in your Stan.

Palin has more practical experience as a leader than Obama. Palin's rise to power (at least as far as the media has reported) was not fueled by "machine politics" like Obama. As Veep, Palin most likely will not shoot her friends when hunting. As Veep, Palin can clean her own fish and game. When Obama was first running I was duped into thinking he was something special. Now I know that his only practical employment experience has been a law professor. He couldn't hack it at a private firm so he went to work as an organizer?

Come on folks. If I had to choose, is he the messiah or the antichrist, I'd lean towards the latter.

Alex

How about y'all just being "American-Americans" and maybe we won't be so uptight about the whole thing. You can start the "Black Chamber of Commerce" and noone blinks. But if I start the "White Chamber of Commerce" it's racist.

What are you so afraid of?

I agree with Nance's position. This is not rocket science. My Geography 101 professor told us this was happening in 1985. People need to realize that just a scant few thousand years ago this continent, southbound to Wisconsin, was covered in ice. How do you think that went away? We didn't scrape it up and truck it out, it freakin' melted.

We're no more able to predict what the macro-climate is doing than we are able to cure the common cold.

Al Gore has some good suggestions, primarily those to do with diversifying our energy sources. What we need to do is to create the NEXT form of energy that powers modern societies. That way we can extricate ourselves from the oil wars and be the clearinghouse for the next generation of transportation. Thus guaranteeing that the United States will be the premier economic power in the world for years to come.

You know, if folks like Perry Rogers and Geoff Schumacher want to volunteer more of their money to the state so they can flush it down the rathole paying for kindergarten (de facto orphanages) for the children of illegals far be it from me to stop them.

Or, if they want to donate it to the university system so it can maintain its ballroom dancing program, I'll not stand in their way.

I don't like Gibbons (sounds like a type of primate) any more than the next guy, but I didn't vote for him either. If having this nincowpoop in office for another three years means no $1 billion dollar tax increase like we had with our last Gubner, then so be it.

Two quotes to remember: 1) Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it; and 2) Be thankful you're not getting all the government you pay for.

Perry, stick to gravy-training off Andre, you're much better at it.