The Armstrong Files

How do you decide who to vote for?

That seems to be a good question, especially when asked in today's political climate.

In regards to Kerry's war record (or Bush's...whichever you so choose). It's a complete waste of your and my time to debate these issues...unless you feel that a 4 month time frame in a war that happened over 30 years ago is somehow relevant to how you are going to base your decision on who is the most able to lead our nation in it's most crucial period of existence in the last 50 years.
If you want to attack Dubya...I would suggest laying of the National Guard record and going against something more recent...more relevant.
If you want to attack Kerry...again, I would let Vietnam go, ...If you want to attack Kerry, just attack what has come out of his mouth over the last few years.
I could care less about either candidate's war record. I dont think Dubya is the most intellectual president that we have ever had...nor do I think that he is the best communicator. The thing, though, that strikes me about Dubya is his swiftness in decision making. I really dont get the impression that he studies Gallup polls before making policy. I really dont get the impression that he targets the needs of swing-states before making policy. Now, whether I agree with everything he does or not...I am, at the least, impressed with his ability to lead. If he were making policy on the basis of anything other than his beliefs then it wouldnt be "leading" now would it?
Kerry, on the other hand, strikes me as a "career" politician. He will say anything and everything necessary to meet the ends that he desires. I am not an economics major but I am not an idiot either. Have you really paid attention to what he has been "promising" in his campaign? The Bush administration is actually doing Kerry a favor by attacking John Kerry's "war-record" instead of going after this man's platform.
John Kerry is promising more "new monies" to alternative fuel R&D and will pay for it from the royalties received from the off shore drilling rights granted to business by our federal government...and he says this as if that money is just sitting and taking up space somewhere, like its actually not already earmarked for somewhere else in the budget...it actually sounds poetic doesnt it? I mean, alternative fuel R&D paid for by royalties from off shore oil rigs. Hey, it sounds nice, but...like I said, I may not be smart...but I'm not that stupid either.
He is all for education. Great!! I am all for education too...well, thats really a no brainer. Have you ever heard of anyone running for office with an "anti" education platform? Anywho, Kerry is promising to earmark more "new monies" specifically designated for Ivey League scholarships. Nice.
Also on the education front, Kerry is pledging ...to ANY high school graduate that performs 2 years of community service...a full paid scholarship to an inner-state university or technical school. Bravo J.F.K...I will not ask how you will fund not only the scholarships themselves with new money but neither will I ask how will you regulate it and how you will prevent the local good ol' boys from taking advantage of a system like that. It sounds good, so I am going to go with it.
Kerry is also promising to "do away" with the tax loopholes which allow companies like Heinz to outsource jobs to other companies...loopholes which include no incentives to repatriate the American enterprise's monies back to the United States. Bravo Mr. Kerry, and I will give Mr. Kerry the benifit of the doubt in realizing that food products, such as those produced and marketed by Heinz, are perishable goods and therefore will agree that outsourcing is legitimized to a certain degree in this instance. See, I am not a party hacker...hehehe.
Ok, even though John Kerry voted against the 87 billion dollar investment in our Iraqi ground troops before voting for it...(or however that thing actually went)...he has recently stated, rather clearly, that...having knew then what he knows now in regards to WMD's ...he would have still went in. (um, not really sure where he can actually go in this particular debate)...nevertheless, IF elected president he would "stay the course" in Iraq...(are you getting the jest' here?...everytime he opens his mouth he is spending money but what closet is he going to pull it from??)

Which brings me to my next point. You say, ahh, but Kerry is going to repeal the tax cuts.

Repeal the tax cuts.

Umm, anyone ever heard of former CA Dem. Gov. Davis? Gov. Davis tripled the wheel tax of automobiles in CA in a hastily conceived attempt to bring the CA budget back into the stratosphere...anyone know what happened? Well, the wheel tax was passed. Anyone know what else happened? What happened is that, as a result of the outrageous wheel tax, CA citizens decided that it was too expensive to go out and buy that new SUV or that new Hummer and auto sales plunged....they plunged so hard that....over a 3 week period, the state of California had lost in three weeks in sales what it had hoped to have gained in the increase in the wheel tax for THE WHOLE YEAR. Let me say that one more time, the state of California had lost in the revenue in new car sale taxes what it had hoped to have gained with the increase in the wheel tax for THE WHOLE YEAR.
Folks, repealing the tax breaks will only slow down spending...and what happens when you slow down spending? Less spending=Less tax revenue for LARGE government.
But I am not quite thru. We have heard what Kerry promises to do (but havent quite heard how he is going to pay for it) and we know that he is going to stay the course in Iraq...(well, no money there either)...
Well, Mr John F Kerry also wants to provide universal healthcare to all Americans. I am sure that all that will take is about, 2 to 3 cents on the tax dollar...wait a minute...maybe more like 15 to 30 cents on the dollar...and thats for mediocre healthcare...and wait, how do you regulate that??...what will that cost??...and that is an allocation of 15 to 30 cents of every tax dollar that is already earmaked to some other project, benifit, ...whatever.
Kerry is promising all of these things but you know what?? He is not telling you what programs he is going to cut in order to make these things happen. Now, that can mean one of two things. Either he is telling you what you want to hear, knowing that he will not get any of it to pass thru Congress in an attempt to "snow" the American public into voting for him, ...or he is not telling what programs and benefit packages he is planning on cutting in order to make these "dreams" become realities in order to snow the American public into voting for him.
Folks, one other small point I have yet to point out. Not only is Kerry going to "give" you all of these nice promises...but, ....BUT....he is going to cut the deficit in half while doing so.

He is going to cut the deficit in half while doing so.

I dont think "Dubya" is perfect by any stretch of the imagination...but...He is better than the alternative that I see that is blowing bull up my backside every single day and who is just dying for me to fall for his baloney.
Dubya, do yourself a favor. Let Kerry's military record go...and just attack this man on what comes out of his mouth.

"Are you really ignorant??"

Folks, honestly...I am a bit dumbfounded. The main story over the last several weeks has been John Kerry's war record. True, when the man pays millions of dollars to send commercials into your living room telling you what a "war-hero" he is then...yes...he is opening the door to criticism on his war record. IE; once you open the door...you cannot close it.

My disbelief is central to the whole issue...Why attack this man's war record when all you have to do is attack his presidential platform?? All you have to do is capture the words that come out of this man's mouth and and the debate is over....

...trouble is...people are not aware of what Kerry is campaigning on. They are not aware of the BS that is coming out of his mouth. Plain and simple, all Kerry supporters are sure of is that they hate Bush.

If you dont understand what I am trying to tell you then you are a victim of both parties. They are mocking you. Both of them. I am a Bush supporter but I honestly wished he would cut the BS and state the real reasons that John F Kerry should not be our next president...

Forget the commercials you are seeing. Forget the partisan interviews you are reading...listen to what is coming out of the horse's (or jackass's... if you are a liberal) mouth.

I am afraid that neither party has the confidence in the American public to put the real issues on the table...instead, they resort to smears and self gratification of irrelevant topics to make their case.

Attention: Announcement!

Folks, if you have ever listened to anything I have said in the past please listen now....and please listen closely!!..

I would consider it nothing more than an honor to myself if you would turn your speakers on and your minds open and .....click this link.

I have changed my politcal stance...

...due to nothing more than fiscal responsibility...and my ability to know what would harden my presidents weiner!

..that of course, coming from a man who's wife made him sign a pre-nup' and only took his last name 19 months ago! You go tiger! I am voting for Kerry!!!

It was a beautiful day for baseball...

I met a friend in Chattanooga, TN a few weeks back. He goes by the name "Justin" and he is a little younger than I am but his passion for baseball easily equals yours truly.

...the only fault I can find in the little feller is that he wears the dreaded Yankee's hat....ho' man! Gotta save em while they are young I always say.

Anywho, this post is for my new friend.

I, my son, and a few good friends went to Atlanta's Turner Field this Saturday and witnessed the best live ballgame I have ever been to in my life. We saw Pujols and Chipper Jones go deep twice in the same game. We saw a squeeze play, we saw Larry Walker lose a big can of corn in the sun, we saw both managers come out on the field and fight for their teams, ...we witnessed a fantastic game and I only wished that you could have been there to see it with us.

I have included some special pictures of the game, I only hope that next time you can be there with us.

]]> ...as I said, it was a beautiful day for baseball.

...the manager I love to hate was unhappy and had just expressed his emotional displeasure to the umpires on duty.

...the best closer in baseball recorded his 29th save to a standing capacity crowd.

...a hip pre-teen attended the game with me so I didnt feel completely out of place.

...all in all, it was a great day!

During my exploration of "the future stars of baseball" I have come across an absolute phenom! Pay close attention to this youngster folks. I am sure that one day you will be in the Braves' tunnel waiting on him to come and sign your baseball card. Sky is the limit.

911 report examined

Bill O'Reilly breaks down the report recently released by the 911 commission and puts the highlights in layman's terms. This is a good read and bypasses the finger pointing...Bill just gives you the facts.

DNC avises Kerry/Edwards to...

Call Dominoes instead....

Matt Drudge is reporting on a funny story and, in the process, giving an independent Pizzaria owner the best free publicity that controversy can buy.

I luv it...hehehe

Another Side of the President

I received the following via email and figured I would share this with you...

Above is a picture of Mike McNaughton of Denham Springs, LA. He stepped on a land mine in Afghanistan Christmas 2002. President Bush came to visit the wounded in the hospital. He told Mike that when he could run a mile that they would go on a run together. True to his word, he called Mike every month or so to see how he was doing. Well, last week they went on the run, 1 mile with the president. Not something you'll see in the news, but seeing the president taking the time to say thank you to the wounded and to give hope to one of my best friends was one of the greatest/best things I have seen in my life. God bless him.

Why, do you think, have we not have seen this in the media?? Certainly, if this had been John Kerry, this image would have been plastered all over CNN and just about every news publication in America.

...Just something to consider.

November

I know some of you hate GW Bush so much that there is no debating the issue, ...you are going to vote for Kerry/Edwards in November.

I know some of you respect GW Bush for his work on national security and the economy since 911 that there is no debating the issue, ...you are going to vote for Bush/Cheney in November.

The ones I am addressing are the undecided. I hope to be able to help you. I have recently become privy to a short (approximately 1 minute) audio/visual that could make things clear for you and that can help you choose the correct candidate to suit your beliefs, ...thereby allowing you to vote in November with a clear conscious.

Just turn your speakers on, ...click here and enjoy!

Braves alone in 1st place

For the first time this Season the Braves are alone in 1st place in the National League East after beating the Philadelphia Phillies Monday night at Turner Field.

Most sports publications and broadcasters had already written the Braves off recently, ...foreseeing the end of their unprecedented 13 year reign atop the NL East division....but, a true Braves fan knows that you don't count these guys out, ....especially with these two guys running the ship.....

John Schuerholz and Bobby Cox still dont get the credit they deserve. As far as I am concerned both should have reservations in Cooperstown.

Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry

Here is a little tid-bid of info that you might be interested in...

Maria Teresa married young American, H. John Heinz, III in Geneva in 1966 and returned to Pittsburgh where his family ran the giant H.J. Heinz food company. He was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the first of three terms in the United States Senate.

A Republican, he wrote a burning diatribe against some of the causes backed by young House member (John Kerry).

Several years later, in 1991, he was killed when his plane collided with a Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia suburb. The senator, his pilot and copilot, and both of Sun's helicopter pilots were killed. He was survived by his wife, Teresa, and their three young sons.

Four years later, having inherited Heinz's $500 million fortune (and after requiring Kerry to sign a prenuptial agreement) she married Senator John Forbes Kerry, the liberal junior senator from Massachusetts....although she only took his name 18 months ago. She became a registered Democrat and the process of her radicalization was set in motion.

...So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz's money?

]]> Just one example: According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4 million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does the Tides Foundation do with John Heinz's money?

They support numerous antiwar groups, including Ramsey Clark's International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein when he's tried.

They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the Tides Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros. The Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration from "terrorist" states.

They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose leaders are known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.

They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist front during the Cold War era. One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart, has been arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

They support the "Barrio Warriors" a radical Hispanic group whose primary goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to Mexico.

These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through the anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity of our would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican senator John Heinz, and now the wife of the Democratic senator who aspires to be the 44th President of the United States.

Hope to see you at the polls in November.

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...Are you??? hehehe

Worst President in History??

The following appeared in the Durham, NC local paper as a letter to the editor.

Liberals claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war.
They complain about his prosecution of it.
One liberal recently claimed Bush was the worst president in U.S. history.

Let's clear up one point: President Bush didn't start the war on terror.
Try to remember, it was started by terrorists BEFORE 9/11.
...Let's look at the "worst" president and mismanagement claims.

]]> FDR led us into World War II.
Germany never attacked us: Japan did.
>From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost,
an average of 112,500 per year.

Truman finished that war and started one in Korea.
North Korea never attacked us.
>From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost,
an average of 18,333 per year.

John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.
Vietnam never attacked us.
Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire.
From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost,
an average of 5,800 per year.

Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent.
Bosnia never attacked us.
He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing.
Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
Over 2,900 lives lost on 9/11.

In the two years since terrorists attacked us,
President Bush has liberated two countries,
crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida,
put nuclear inspectors in Lybia, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot,
captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.
We lost 600 soldiers, an average of 300 a year.
Bush did all this abroad while not allowing another terrorist attack at home.

Worst president in history? Come on!

The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but...

It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation.

We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Teddy Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.

It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!!

NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM

Guns of August...

To many people, W.W.I seems like ancient history. To me, it is the most fascinating of wars. It is when the modern world began, or, in Barbara Tuchman's opinion, when the 19th Century ended. My late Great Uncle Jimmy, a Brit, joined the Army at the age of 16 by lying that he was 18 after being encouraged to do so by a recruiter. Where did they send him? To Ireland, to train horses for the cavalry! This was the same war that saw the debut of the airplane, submarine, tank, poison gas, machine gun, flamethrower, and hand grenade!

Doug Grad, Editor

42 years later.....

Hilton Istanbul
Istanbul, Turkey

5:04 P.M. (Local)

PRESIDENT BUSH: This man is doing a great job, and we're proud to call him friend. He believes in freedom and peace. And I really appreciate what you've done, sir.

SECRETARY GENERAL DE HOOP SCHEFFER: Thank you. It's a challenge, but NATO is worth it.

PRESIDENT BUSH: It is worth it.

SECRETARY GENERAL DE HOOP SCHEFFER: NATO is worth it, and the transatlantic relationship is worth it. More than just in words, but all in deeds.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Right. I was hoping to change the mission of NATO so it meets the threats of the 21st century, and we're going to work together to help make sure NATO is configured militarily to meet the threats of the 21st century, as well. But you're the right man for the job, and we're honored you took it. I really appreciate working with you.

SECRETARY GENERAL DE HOOP SCHEFFER: We're defending values, and values never come out. And I think they should be defended every single day and every single hour. We see examples of that everywhere around that NATO is -- it's about values, has always been about values, and it's still about values. But Turkey has changed. We have terrorism everywhere. There's fights everywhere, be it here in this city, be it in New York, Uzbekistan, Mombasa, Yemen, you name it. This alliance has to participate in fighting it first, and winning it.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you

Q Does the kidnapping of the Turks cast a pall over this meeting?

PRESIDENT BUSH: (Shakes head, indicating no.)

END 5:07 P.M. (Local)

Hey Leahy !!!

Ya wanna get cute ?!?

Folks, I dont know about you...but I dont want a wuss in the White House. This man had it coming.....and he got it !!