2. Is there really nothing else going on in these parts that we should spend our time answering questions about a dog-park that most have never seen?

3. Should we really be surprised when no invites are forthcoming for a news event when the journalism has left the desktop?

4. Is this now a competition to see whose title gets the most interest because it is more interesting than the content?

5. If I am critical enough will my account be terminated by the blog-police?

6-7000. D, all of the above?

Bonus round going by the name of ‘Bob’

Bob 1. Could the powers that be please stop asking retarded questions and put some posts from other members on the front page? I read most of them and some are very worth while.

Bob 2. Could we please be done with the laughable concept that asking stupid questions makes up for the fact that the author can’t be bothered to find some subject matter?

Hillary Clinton has been telling America that she is the most qualified candidate for president based on her ‘record,’ which she says includes her eight years in the White House as First Lady - or ‘co-president’ - and her seven years in the Senate. Here is a reminder of what that record includes:

As First Lady, Hillary assumed authority over Health Care Reform, a process that cost the taxpayers over $13 million. She told both Bill Bradley and Pat Moynahan, key votes needed to pass her legislation, that she would ‘demonize’ anyone who opposed it. But it was opposed; she couldn’t even get it to a vote in a Congress controlled by her own party. (And in the next election, her party lost control of both the House and Senate.)

Hillary assumed authority over selecting a female Attorney General. Her first two recommendations (Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood) were forced to withdraw their names from consideration, and then she chose Janet Reno. Janet Reno has since been described by Bill himself as ‘my worst mistake.’

Hillary recommended Lani Guanier for head of the Civil Rights Commission. When Guanier’s radical views became known, her name had to be withdrawn.

Hillary recommended her former law partners, Web Hubbell, Vince Foster, and William Kennedy for positions in the Justice Department, White House staff, and the Treasury, respectively. Hubbell was later imprisoned, Foster committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.

Hillary also recommended a close friend of the Clintons, Craig Livingstone, for the position of director of White House security. When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of up to 900 FBI files of Clinton enemies (Filegate) and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, both Hillary and her husband denied knowing him.
(FBI agent Dennis Sculimbrene confirmed in a Senate Judiciary Committee in 1996 both the drug use and Hillary’ involvement in hiring Livingstone. After that, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office, after serving seven presidents for over thirty years.)

In order to open ’slots’ in the White House for her friends the Harry Thomasons (to whom millions of dollars in travel contracts could be awarded), Hillary had the entire staff of the White House Travel Office fired; they were reported to the FBI for ‘gross mismanagement’ and their reputations ruined. After a thirty-month investigation, only one, Billy Dale, was charged with a crime - mixing personal money with White House funds when he cashed checks. The jury acquitted him in less than two hours.

Another of Hillary’s assumed duties was directing the ‘bimbo eruption squad’ and scandal defense:
She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit.
She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor. After $80 million dollars of taxpayer money was spent, Starr’s investigation led to Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs.
Then they had to settle with Paula Jones after all.
And Bill lost his law license for lying to the grand jury
And Bill was impeached by the House.
And Hillary almost got herself indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice (she avoided it mostly because she repeated, ‘I do not recall,’ ‘I have no recollection,’ and ‘I don’t know’ 56 times under oath).

Hillary wrote ‘It Takes a Village,’ demonstrating her Socialist viewpoint.

Hillary decided to seek election to the Senate in a state she had never lived in. Her husband pardoned FALN terrorists in order to get Latino support and the New Square Hassidim to get Jewish support. Hillary also had Bill pardon her brother’s clients, for a small fee, to get financial support.

Then Hillary left the White House, but later had to return $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork she had stolen.

In the campaign for the Senate, Hillary played the ‘woman card’ by portraying her opponent (Lazio) as a bully picking on her.

Hillary’s husband further protected her by asking the National Archives to withhold from the public until 2012 many records of their time in the White House, including much of Hillary’s correspondence and her calendars. (There are ongoing lawsuits to force the release of those records.)

As the junior Senator from New York , Hillary has passed no major legislation. she has deferred to the senior Senator (Schumer) to tend to the needs of New Yorkers, even on the hot issue of medical problems of workers involved in the cleanup of Ground Zero after 9/11.

Hillary’s one notable vote, supporting the plan to invade Iraq , she has since disavowed.

There is one experience that might be useful. She knows which draw to go to in the Oval Office if she needs a paperclip, unless that pesky Dubya moved them!

While I have your attention, check out this video from a renowned academic (20 minutes long). if you are still unsure of which way to go with Clinton vs Obama, it might well clear your thoughts.

For the best thought out and documented thoughts on the subject, please read THIS by my virtual friend James.

The other day I was driving in Schofield behind a guy in a huge 4wd truck who must have been local due to the Packer plates. At 10 mph he was fishtailing so badly that he took up both lanes! First opportunity I had I blasted past the moron, figuring it safer to have him crash behind me rather than in front. As I gassed up my 27yr old station wagon (2wd) here came the same slaloming behemoth of a vehicle, all wheels spinning, direction ascertainable.

This was just one instance. As I travel up and down Grand Ave twice a day, and various other roads, I am amazed at the total incompetence displayed behind the wheel, the moment the weather is anything but sunny. Those in big trucks and SUVs seem to be the worst, even without cell phones clamped to their numb skulls. While some refuse to slow to within 10mph of the official limit, others slow to 20mph at the first sign of a cloud! Where does one learn to drive in this manner? How can they afford such expensive vehicles when they are so determined to destroy them?

These are the people who force the vehicle insurance rates so high. These are your friends and family members. Some of them must be drunk, a popular driving mode around here.

Sometime I wonder if these inbred, 4 wheeled, death merchants actually grew up far South from here, where there is no snow or ice.

P.S. Please would y’all stop complaining to me about the cold! This is Wisconsin. It is now Winter. Learn to deal with it, I have!