After letting it stew for sometime now, I have decided that I shouldn’t waste my time or your vote.

I am not a fund raiser, which seems to be the most prominent feature people want in a leader.

All I could offer was common sense and accountability for actions.

Both of which appear to be in record low-demand.

I wish to thank everyone for pointing people to my blog, and helping get the word out.

With the exception of one person in the midwest, I do not have enough people helping me to get my name on the ballot of states that do not allow write-in candidates. Without my name on the ballots, there are not enough states that allow write-in candidates to get elected that way.

May God have mercy on this country, and the souls of those who wish to turn it into North Mexico or West ShariaLand.

As for the rest of us, fight the good fight. Stand tall, and be counted loudly. Do not vote for an incumbent ever again. Run the bums out, and let real Americans run the country.

UPDATE: 11:15am

I almost forgot.

Doug Gibbs, thank you for having me on Political Pistachio so often. And Jenn of the Jungle (with dtodeen), thank YOU for being the first one to interview me as a candidate.

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Yesterday (Wednesday) was possibly the third most fun day in my life.

The first most fun ever had was when a Naval Dental Surgeon, three sheets to the wind, managed to break an unbreakable needle off in the roof of my mouth during a cavity expedition. The only thing that kept me out of the brig after slugging him was his blood test, which came back at .13 BAC.

The second most fun was the day I got my upper plate. Twilight sleep, my butt. They put me completely under, yanked what was left of my upper teeth, and mis-placed a temporary denture. My gums healed funny, not all of the parts of my teeth were removed, and they forgot to mention that “temporary” meant I needed to revisit them in six months to have a permanent appliance installed. (I finally had a permanent plate made, about three years ago, after a couple more sessions with an oral surgeon to fix what the temporary plate screwed up. I’m fine now, thanks for asking.)

Yesterday I had a crown installed. For whatever reason, I’m still jumpy with needles in my mouth. The added bonus of still feeling everything once the drilling started was special. I mentioned it to my dentist, and she added more anesthetic. As it turns out, my body like the anesthetic and processes it very quickly. No, the teeth don’t numb – just the jaw and tongue. So, the drilling went on with several breaks for me to gather in my “mind over matter” abilities, until another batch of nerves was hit. Yesterday afternoon, I felt as if I had gone five rounds with Ali – my jaw just plain hurt. However, the temporary crown is in place, and the permanent one is scheduled.

My permanent plate and this crown were done by what have to be the best dentists in the world. Dr. Ed Babits (denture) and Dr. Karen Hilsabeck (crown) practice in Phoenix, and TMBWitW has been seeing Dr. Babits since forever ago. So, once we got married, I started seeing them. My mouth has been in the best shape ever since then.

Just thought I’d share with you all.

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Remember that little question? A lot of the liberals today are quaking and bleating that we can all get along, and to do so would make the world a better place.

The short answer is “no.”

The longer answer is “NNNNOOOOOO!!!!!!!”

The reason? Let’s think about it for a minute, in different areas of the public scene:

POLITICS:
Well, we all get along, so no one disagrees. Good for incumbents, bad for innovation. Since everyone gets along, and there is no disagreement, everyone votes the same way. With the exception of the President, politicians are installed for life. Since the President has been doing such a great job since everyone got together and talked out their differences, let’s go ahead and let the President serve for life also. No new bills are introduced, no laws are passed, the Supreme Court dies from boredom. All the lawyers die from starvation, since everyone agrees and gets along, and no one is suing anyone else. Wait – what happens when an incumbent dies? No young politicians have been in training, since the incumbents were doing such a magnificent job, so now there is no one to replace the deceased statesman.

FINANCIAL:
On Wall Street today, everyone agreed that all the stocks were quite attractive. No single stock was singled out, as there is no reason to make a particular stock feel differently from any other stock. Volume was zero, since no one wanted to buy or sell their stocks, in order to avoid making any particular company feel compelled to change their course of action. After all, everything is perfect the way it is, right? And, in order for you to sell a stock, someone else has to disagree with your assessment of how it will do in the future and want to buy it.

RELIGIOUS:
All religious groups have come to agreement. All citizens of all nations are members of the same religious group, in order for all people groups to live in peace and harmony one with another. Since no one needs to be recruited, the focus is now on strengthening everyone’s faith. All meetings of religious groups are identical, so as to avoid any misinterpretation of the message. Dissension is unheard of, discussion of differing points of view is prohibited.

ENTERTAINMENT:
Everyone must view the same movie before a new movie is released. Can’t be watching things out of order, that might change your viewpoint. All game platforms are the same, manufactured by the same company. (Badly manufactured, by the way. But, since they are the only company, and their stock is doing so well, they don’t feel the need to improve, or even release any more games.) Everyone plays the same video game, and everyone has the same level of ability. Game competitions are a stupefying gathering of equally talented players, and all games end in a draw. The prize is always split between all the “first place” winners. Any truly breakout players are drawn aside, and instructed in the fine art of total agreement on all sides. Further outbreaks result in banishment from the tournaments. After careful consideration by the entire population of the world, tournaments themselves are banned, since they only encourage and foster competition and the desire to prove oneself to be better than another, or, at the very least, to let you see how you stack up against the other players.

TECHNOLOGY:
Everyone uses the same computer. Not the same machine, but the same type. The same software. The same browser. Everyone’s blog looks just like everyone else’s, since everyone now thinks exactly alike. Even the entries are the same, and traffic has dropped to zero, since everyone already knows what every blog is going to say. Everyone drive the same type of vehicle. Police are not needed to enforce traffic laws, since everyone drives the posted speed limit and obeys every law on the books. There aren’t really that many laws on the books anymore, since everyone has agreed that limiting anyone is not acceptable.

So – can we all get along? Yes, but forget trying to get everyone to agree. Disagreement is the reason there are changes, and why we continue to move forward in our development.

At the same time, we must have change in order to avoid stagnation. Which brings me to my point: Make a Difference. Write in Cary Cartter for President in November 2008.

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I can’t believe how fast time flies.

Seems like just yesterday MEG came down with a cold and passed it to us. Now, she has an ear infection. She is being treated for that, and hopefully we can stop passing this germ back and forth. My nose is stuffed right now.

The business is moving slowly – because I am moving slowly.

I’ve added two more blog rolls – in the left margin, page down to see them – Gunz’ Blog Roll and American Truckers At War. Check ’em out.

Blog Radio update – my interview with Doug Gibbs on Political Pistachio Radio is being rescheduled – at my request, this time – due to a family event that I was reminded of just last night. So – I have been penciled in on October 6, 2007, at 4:00 pm Pacific.

Here in Phoenix, there is a week-long “walk-out/protest” by supporters of the illegal immigrants/invaders, to show that they have an economic force. Well, duh. That’s not the issue. The issue is that they are here illegally. I saw some protesters at Arrowhead Town Center in Peoria last night – their signs (in Spanish, of course!) said “We are workers/We are buyers/Don’t shop this week.” The supporters are also staying away from their places of employment. I have no problem with this protest. Makes it much easier to know who to question for deportation.

And, if you are a supporter of these illegals? Yeah, you can leave, too – and take your philosophy with you. Maybe another country wants an underground, illegal force to usurp their authority, but the United States does not. Try Mexico. Calderon seems to think we’re doing it wrong, maybe you can take lessons from him and do it in his country.

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Well, I was paging through the paper over lunch (fresh-baked cinnamon bread, and a glass of cold whole milk) and noticed two news items that I just had to talk about.

The first is the blurb about Leona Helmsley’s will. She left two grandchildren in the cold, for “reasons that are known to them” and favored her brother and two other grandchildren with tidy sums of money – in the millions.

To add insult to injury, she left a twelve million dollar trust for her dog. $12,000,000.00. To take care of a dog. At the outside, the dog will live about fifteen years, if it’s not too old or too big now. That’s well over a million a year, considering she probably left the trust with a method of generating interest as it went.

So, she who has all this money and a really sour disposition from what I’ve seen, can’t find it in her heart to forgive her own children but will take care of a dog for more than it’s natural lifespan. Lovely.

A house without the Lord is a cold place indeed.

The second item reveals that a panel of professional second-guessers (my guess is that they hired the 9-11 panel, since they weren’t doing anything) says that the officials at Virginia Tech didn’t do enough to warn the students of the shooting by Seung-Hui Cho, and that the university did not intervene in Cho’s mental health issues.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the “police state” that the libs would have us all believe the current administration is trying to force on us all?

Isn’t knocking on dorm room doors, or calling the dorm phones, the kind of intrusion that these college students are protesting against, at the behest of their oh-so-enlightened professors?

Isn’t stepping in and intervening on someone’s behalf the sort of “draconian measures” that the feel-goods would have us think is the aim of the Christian right?

The liberals cannot have it both ways – they have to choose.

Choose either total interference by a big-brother like entity, or accept that life has many twist and turns and no one, except the Good Lord above, knows when you will be leaving this earth.

Choose either knowing one another well enough to be able to pass on information quickly and efficiently or be surprised by the occurrences that develop.

One thing you don’t have a choice about – time travel is not possible, so going back to “fix” a blown call, or “do-over” a missed sign, is not possible.

However, to mitigate most of these issues, we all have to take a very important step – the one that a lot of us “Right Wing Christian Conservatives” have already taken – act responsibly, and take responsibility for your actions.

I know, it’s a radical and, to most liberals, FOREIGN concept, but one that is imperative if this country wishes to remain at the forefront of civilization.

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