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John Kerry quickly responded to the right-wing smear machine.

“If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they’re crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.

I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq . It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.

The people who owe our troops an apology are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it. These Republicans are afraid to debate veterans who live and breathe the concerns of our troops, not the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor.

Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they’re afraid to debate real men. And this time it won’t work because we’re going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions. No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq .”

My favorite part was where he said, “doughy Rush Limbaugh”. Rush is off the drugs and is getting fat again. That’s funny.

John Kerry reminded us today just how he lost the 2004 presidental election to George W. Bush. He said the following while speaking to college kids at Pasadena City College:

“You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

Republicans immediately made the leap that Kerry was saying that troops in Iraq are in Iraq because they are dumb. Because they did not try hard in school. Kerry responded by saying that he was not refering to the troops, but to Bush. The man who got us into Iraq under false pretenses and has no plan for getting us out.

Kerry was trying to say that Bush was an idiot.

I highly doubt the Kerry was trying to say that military service members are dumb. He is just an awful public speaker. He says things in a way that Republicans can easily pounce on and misconstrue. This is the man that said, “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.”

If Kerry wants to point out that Bush is an idiot, he needs to clearly say so.

Wolf The Blitzer gives Mrs. Dick Cheney a hard time on CNN about books she wrote a long time ago featuring hot incestuous lesbian loving. Mrs. Dick Chenney responds by announcing that Virginia Senatorial candidate Jim Webb is “full of baloney”.How did she gain access to Webb’s private medical records? How else would one explain the intimate knowledge of what Jim Webb has inside his body?

This is just ridiculous:

NEW YORK (AP) - Exxon Mobil Corp. on Thursday said its profit rose to $10.49 billion in the third quarter, making it the second-largest quarterly profit ever recorded by a publicly traded U.S. company. The world’s biggest oil company said its net income amounted to $1.77 per share for the July-September period, up from $9.92 billion, or $1.58 per share, a year ago. The results surpassed the expectations of Wall Street analysts. On average, analysts expected the company to earn $1.59 per share in the quarter. Revenue fell to $99.59 billion from $100.72 billion from a year ago, which saw then-record oil prices because of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The largest quarterly profit ever was Exxon’s $10.71 billion profit in the fourth quarter of 2005.

I think what bothers me the most about a company like Exxon Mobil making so much money is that they really didn’t do anything to earn it. They didn’t do anything to deserve it. They just drill, pump, haul, process, distribute, and then sell something they happen to control. Something we all need. Something we have no real choice whether we will use or not.

It’s not like they cured cancer or figured out a way to make fat free mayonnaise taste good.

Exxon Mobil hasn’t created anything. They didn’t invent some innovative product or technology. They are being rewarded with record profits because they control the oil. The oil we all need as an energy source. The gasoline we need for our vehicles comes from oil. Most of our electricity is generated from power plants powered by natural gas.

Exxon Mobil didn’t invent oil. They don’t create it. It’s natural resource from planet Earth. They only control it.

Right wing radio talk host and Fox News personality Sean Hannity is encouraging Democrats to not vote. That’s right. He is actually trying to discourage Americans who are Democrats from voting in the upcoming national elections.

This is what he said last week on his radio show:

Now, one other thing here. You know what? I think some of you need to stay home on Election Day. What? That’s right. I think — I know it sounds terrible. I don’t want everybody to vote; I want well-informed people to vote. … look, I think for some, I think you’ve gotta accept — and I want you to stay home on Election Day because you must accept the fact that your party has abandoned you. You’ve gotta accept the fact that your vote doesn’t matter anyway. So all you Democrats, stay home. So, you know, why don’t you stay home on Election Day?

Unbelievable. As though being a Democrat means you are not informed on the issues. My personal experience tells me the opposite is often true. I read books. I read newspapers. I read magazines. I watch the Sunday morning news programs. I stay informed.

I am a Democrat because I am well informed. What does Sean mean when he says that, “your vote doesn’t matter anyway“? That’s creepy. Does Sean know something that the rest of us don’t know? I guess we will find out.

I wish everyone would vote. Not just people who think like me. It doesn’t matter to me if they agree with my positions or not. The less people that vote, the less of a democracy we have. That’s not good.

Sean Hannity is an asshole.

I was looking for software that would allow me to hover my mouse pointer over an area of the screen and give me the hexadecimal code for that specific color. I used to have a small program that did this, but a computer crash a while back caused it to go the place where ones and zeros go when they die. I didn’t have it backed up and I couldn’t remember the name of it. It was just something I clicked on my desktop to find the color of something.

I looked on Google for something like it, but I never found anything that fit the bill. I was fairly picky in my requirements. I wanted it to be free, easy to use, and I wanted it to give me the hexadecimal code in a format that I could cut and paste. I finally found what I was looking for. It’s called Color Cop.

Normally I don’t want anything to do with anything with the word “cop” in it. For this software, I will make an exception.

Give it a try if you are looking for something like this.

I swore I would never by another Windows computer ever again. Staples then put the HP Pavillion dv6000 on sale for $550. What the hell? How can I pass that up? So far, I’m loving this notebook. It has built in wireless so I can sit here in the living room on my recliner while I surf the Internet. Is it still referred to as surfing the Internet?

I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m sitting in the living room in my recliner watching stuff on YouTube. Life’s pretty good.