Here is where the Democrats screwed up.
First of all, in the election of 2008, the grassroot efforts by the Democrats motivated 23 million young people to vote. The largest number of youth votes in the history of elections. In these 2010 elections, only 9 million of those same youth showed up. Once Obama took office, this grassroot movement was left to wonder, what now? … Continue Reading
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By: Vince Yanez
A young lady said something to me today I found interesting. “I’m not really into politics,” she said, “but why are conservatives so angry and liberals seem to be funny or sarcastic about things, but generally in better humor?”
She got me thinking about it, and you know what, she’s right. … Continue Reading
By: Vince Yanez
Contract: A legally binding agreement between two or more parties which, if it contains the elements of a valid legal agreement, is enforceable by law or by binding arbitration.
Pledge: A solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something.
On September 23rd, 2010, the Republican Party unveiled their ‘Pledge to America’. They open this ‘pledge’ with these fine words. … Continue Reading
By: Vince Yanez
GOD AND COUNTRY
A few weeks ago I saw this bumper sticker on a 4×4 that had just finished tailgating me:
God and Country is all I need to know. … Continue Reading
By: Vince Yanez
Last Sunday I was excited to see the talking heads concentrate only on the proposed Mosque in New York, as if nothing else was happening in our world. Apparently, when a President shows his support for the Constitution he was sworn to protect, this somehow makes him an enemy to his own country.
So let’s see how each side is doing, just for fun, first the Democrats and their huge failings:
Defending Freedom of Religion makes you an enemy of the state. Defending the right for everyone to be EQUAL, including marriage, makes you an enemy to the sanctity of marriage. Defending the right for a woman to choose makes you an enemy of the unborn. Defending the Constitution saying ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ makes you a law-breaker-lover. Showing respect to another country means you are ‘apologizing’ for America. … Continue Reading
By: Vince Yanez
Here are some horrible numbers for you to look at:
In one year over 700,000 people are injured due to an alcohol-related accident.
In the last ten years, 250,000 have died in alcohol-related accidents.
That means in one year, approximately 25,000 people die in alcohol-related accidents.
500 people are killed every week due to alcohol-related accidents.
71 people a day die in alcohol-related accidents.
One life is lost every 20 minutes due to alcohol-related accidents.
1 out of every 2 of us will be involved in an alcohol-related accident.
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On August 1st, in a Virginia town just outside of D.C. a woman was killed by a drunk driver. She was one of three people killed that hour in the U.S. She was one of 70 other people that were to die that day of alcohol-related accidents. She one of 500 people that were to die that week due to someone driving drunk in America, and yet, she made headlines.
Not just because she was a nun, because nuns die all the time.
Not because she was killed by a drunk driver, because as you see above, that happens all the time too.
She made national headlines because her drunk driver was an illegal immigrant. … Continue Reading
The other night I accidentally watched Fox News. I say accidentally, because watching Fox for actual news or facts would be like licking a picture of a cow to know what a steak tastes like.
Now, it’s common knowledge that when Obama took office we were in the middle of two wars, in a steep nosedive of a recession (heading toward a possible depression), were $10 TRILLION dollars in debt and we were nearing 7% unemployment.
These are just facts, things that were occurring the DAY BEFORE Obama took the oath of office. The day AFTER he took the oath of office the most amazing thing happened. The Republicans were suddenly crying that Obama and the Democrats were trying to BLAME our countries problems on his predecessor.
By: Vince Yanez
Oddly, these people somehow thought that when a new president is sworn in, his country becomes a clean slate. They failed to understand that he INHERITS all the problems and bad decisions of the guy before him (which is why McCain lost by such a huge margin, because thinking Americans knew that ‘more of the same’ was just a recipe for total self-destruction). … Continue Reading
By: Vince Yanez
I find it interesting how the word ‘Hero’ became used so often after 9/11. We called the firefighters who ran up those stairs to their deaths, heroes. We called the police and port authority officers who risked their lives saving others, heroes. We call those who are serving in our resulting two wars, heroes.
I remember the first days after the towers fell. I was living in Manhattan, and like the rest of the country, we waited every day to hear news that survivors had been found. Every morning, hundreds gathered along the highway as the rescue workers were bused in. They held signs that said God Bless You, Don’t Give Up and You Are Heroes. These wonderful people knew that these men and women were doing a job no one wanted to do, in 12 hour shifts that stretched on for weeks and even months, never giving up.
One night, walking home, a line of city buses drove by. One by one they rolled past, the lights on inside, a scene I will never forget. Firefighters in every bus, talking, sleeping or just staring back at me. They were the night shift, those men and women who were risking their lives, and their sanity, to go back to Ground Zero and dig for the remains of their brothers and sisters. Twenty-three buses drove past me that night. … Continue Reading
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