Rev. Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A., M.Div.

See ya there, can't wait
I am so happy for our
friend. Couldn't happen
to a nicer southern
gentleman..
 

Oh man, I love this blog! I have found a kindred spirit.
 

Rem 870,
check out the end of the previous post for the "doc" reply.
 

ER I know you not immediately available, but I would like to hark back to your Monday Blog:
Monday, November 07, 2005
Surreality check

Sometimes I'm a little slow.
It took me a while to digest what the president was doing and to find out what was happening after listening to all the pro and con B.S. in print and on the air.
So I tried to looked carefully into what both the president and the vice president were saying and look back at the references their press secretary etc. cited as a basis for the seemingly contradictory statements and came up with this.

UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Article 1
1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity.
.............

Article 16
1. Each State Party shall undertake to prevent in any territory under its jurisdiction other acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment which do not amount to torture as defined in article I, when such acts are committed by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity.

Is it parsing Christian Charity and the Love of Jesus,
when GW Bush said, “We do not torture.” He is saying, we do not do what article 1 above says is torture.
When VP Cheney says we don’t want a bill against torture etc. he is saying we want to do everything up to and including the cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment as prohibited in article 16.
So what GW Bush, the President of the United States, and his administration is saying OUTLOUD is: We don’t "torture" which means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person. But we want to do: other acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment which do not amount to torture.
Sweet Jesus, this man says you are in his heart and that he follows your will.
 

Ok, the cat's away, so I say we, the mice, should play. Anybody else up for it?

I'm open to suggestions, but we've gotta have fun on his blog. I say we get him all excited with the number of posts -- since he gets so excited by that -- but that they say absolutely nothing at all. I'll check back in later to see if y'all're up to it.

I personally think it'd be a blast. Have quotes from well-known folks that make no sense. Stuff like that.

What'cha say?
 

Go for it.
 

"All television is children's television." Richard P. Adler
 

does that include the playboy channel?
 

Reorganization

"We trained hard . . . but it seems that every time we were
beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was
to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation
by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for
creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion,
inefficiency, and demoralization."

from Gaius Petronius Arbiter, who was an adviser to the Emporer Nero
 

"I shall Playboy when the dogs are asleep and Ice-T is locked in the closet." Erudite Redneck.
 

"Free the Bound Periodicals!", a sign seen on a libraian's T-shirt.
 

"Teditor for POTUS!"

League of Women Voters poster children
 

Hello, My Name is Barbra:

If Not Now... When? ...Barbra Streisand
Posted on October 26, 2005
If there was ever a time in history to impeach a President of the United States, it would be now. In my opinion, it is two years too late. We should have done this before the election to spare the country the misjudgment, the incompetence and the malfeasance of this administration. Let us remember that UN weapons inspectors asked for more time to search Iraq for WMDs. Two months into their search, the Director General of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, stated that he found no evidence that Iraq had revived its nuclear weapons program since its elimination in the 1990s. And Saddam Hussein had begun to comply with the administration's demands. Why would you invade a country if there was still a chance for peace? Shouldn't war be an absolute last resort? We went to war because we were misled. And we should be angry because of the 2,000 American soldiers and the 200 armed coalition forces that have died. We should be livid because of the 15,000 American soldiers that have been horribly maimed and wounded. We should be disgusted because of the 30,000 innocent Iraqi civilians that have been killed and the 20,000 that are wounded after administration officials claimed that the US was going to liberate the Iraqi people.

When does it stop? It stops with the indictment and impeachment of this corrupt, power-hungry, greedy group of incompetent leaders. How many more have to die before this happens?

Impeachment will be difficult. People must understand the power of Congress. When one party controls both the House and the Senate, they control the agenda. They control what hearings are held, what legislation gets voted on, whether subpoenas are issued and which investigations can take place. And they control whether impeachment proceedings can be brought.

http://barbrastreisand.com/statements.html#ifnotnowwhen
 

Need better headline writers. This should have added the word "Woman":

Pilot sets world record
10 November 2005

A Boeing 777 plane has landed at Heathrow Airport after completing a record-breaking non-stop flight.

Piloted by American captain Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann, the plane touched down in west London following a 12,000-mile easterly-heading flight from Hong Kong.

The plane, carrying 35 passengers, beat the existing non-stop passenger airline record of 10,823 miles achieved by another Boeing 777.

Painted in Boeing's distinctive blue colours, the aircraft touched down at 1.13pm UK time after a flight of 22 hours and 42 minutes.

Three Heathrow fire crews shot a celebratory water spray over the aircraft as it taxied to a halt after a journey of 13,422 miles.
 

An extreme case of Kiss and tell:

Man Finds His Wanted Poster On Scavenger Hunt
Written by Jon Mills
WZZM
Created:11/9/2005 7:40:57 PM
Last Updated:11/10/2005 1:09:43 PM

A Michigan man on a scavenger hunt gets more than he's searching for after knocking on the door of a police station.

Officer Bryan Rypstra was finishing up some overtime work Saturday at the Fruitport Township police department, when the three scavenger hunters knocked at the door.

Officer Rypstra said, "One of them was a male wearing a long wig and a rock concert shirt, they asked if we would participate in a scavenger hunt."

They asked them to participate by letting the group take a photo of Rypstra and partner Jon Durell eating a doughnut. Rypstra says a woman who was with the man left to get the doughnut. While she was gone, the male scavenger hunter dressed in a Kiss costume, recognized officer Rypstra who responded,” I said you got a costume on I do not recognize you, what is your name, and he says his name."

His name, Louis Jasick, the same name that was posted on the departments "wanted" board.

Rypstra says "Right we recognized the name, and found he has two criminal felony warrants."

He told Jasick, "We got something to talk about, come on inside."

Officer Rypstra and Durell arrested Jasick for failing to pay child support.

"He was shocked at first." says Rypstra. And left him wishing he never offered this police a doughnut.
 

"I shall serve proudly, bringing the high moral standards of Bill Clinton, the integrity of Rafael Palmiero, the honesty of Richard Nixon and the intellectual debate of Carrot Top."
Teditor for PRESIDENT, paid for by the Teditor for President campaign, Anon chairman.
 

There is a dead mouse in my dining room. Someone please come remove it! -- Trixie

Oh fine. I'll do it myself. But I'll be screaming the whole time.
 

Trixie's back!
 

Rem, you can go see pictures of my trip over on my blog if you want to. (Not of the dead mouse, though. I guess Mickey turned suicidal in my absence. Or maybe since I got back.)
 

I doubt if anyone that has a retirement coming to them, be it 401k, IRA, or company paid has really paid anything extra for gas this year. If you took the time to check, the gains you made this year have been mostly due to oil profits. So go ahead and tax yourself to the poor house.
 

Shoot I've been up 23 hours. At least now I know where it went. Sorry for the oil deal on the wrong post.
Keep on Truckin
 

"Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door."

---Jack Handy
 

Say Teditor what party will your run for POTUS be with? How much do you have to get in contributions to get Federal Matching funds? Could we work this into something profitable? ER could be your VP. Wait no, Dr. ER could be the VP.
 

What's this deal about "Dead Indian Lake" You know thatthe lake is on Dead Indian Creek which feeds into the Washita just below where Custer did the People in. You got a thing about dead Indians Mr.ER?
 

A favorite scene:
Inigo Montoya: Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father: prepare to die. Now, offer me money.
[slices Count Rugen's cheek]
Count Rugen: Yes.
Inigo Montoya: Power too. Promise me that.
[slices Count Rugen's other cheek]
Count Rugen: All that I have and more. Please...
Inigo Montoya: Offer me everything I ask for.
Count Rugen: Any thing you want.
Inigo Montoya: I want my father back, you son of bitch.
[stabs and kills Count Rugan]

Can you name the movie?
 

Answer: The Princes Bride.
 

walkingcrow said...
"What's this deal about 'Dead Indian Lake' You know thatthe lake is on Dead Indian Creek which feeds into the Washita just below where Custer did the People in. You got a thing about dead Indians Mr.ER?'

Speakin' on behalf of my friend, ER, yes, he does have a thing about dead Indians. He's a historian, and he's very much interested in learning more about Native Americans. He has this fascination with tribal reporting.

I'm not into it at all, but I know he is, and I'm happy for him. He's done tons of research and likely will do more.
 

Dr. Lobojo,

I love ER to death. Witty, intelligent, a talented writer and a damn funny person, beard and all.

But there's no way in hell I'd want him as my runnin' mate. He'd be all piss and vinegar over the littlest thing. What the hell would he do if we had to invade Florida?
 

"Florida is part of the Rightious South, sir. I shall piss all over the Oval Office should you consider tearing down that Confederate flag."

Erudite Redneck to POTUS Teditor
 

"Piss on the oval office? Hell, ER, you've already crapped yourself."

POTUS Teditor to the Erudite Redneck
 

As for what party, I'd have to go Repub, because in this part of the country, that's where the money is. I'm guessin' $2.2 billion would be helpful.

Know anyone willing to contribute?
 

You'll need a lot of editorial support to raise that kind of money around here.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
 

Oil companies keep makin' these kinds of profits, and Mr. Mulva could take it out of ConocoPhillips' petty cash.

Don't you have enough contacts, Trix?

Hey, I think I fould my Veep! Trix, whatchu doin' for the next few years? With our recent work history, we need somethin'.

:-)
 

HEY!
 

Well, I've thought about it. I want to be POTUS. After all, I had to dispose of that mouse alone. I should be qualified.
 

Every Veep I've ever heard about wants to be POTUS. Take a seat in the back of the room like a good little running mate.

As I slept last night, I wondered what ER will think of this thread upon his return.

Yep, you're right. He'll probably crap himself again.

:-)
 

So Trixie is now VP. How about ER for press secretary?
 

Mr. Walkingcrow, ER just likes things with weird names. I once had a long exchange with him about "Dead Woman's Crossing" somewhere around Weatherford.
Hell, he get's turned on everytime he drives through Slapout, laughs his ass of when he goes to Pumpkin Center, Smiles at Pink, and holds seminars on why Blue was named Blue. The only thing offensive about ER is his....well maybe there's more than one thing.
 

VPOTUS Trixie, if you have trouble with a little mouse how you gonna handle the 300lb 6 ft tall RATS that hang around the White House and Congress.
 

"Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better."
----Dick Cheney
 

Anonymous: Pointy-toed steel tipped shoes.

Hey, if I have to be VICE-POTUS, someone else is going to have to do rodent removal. I have my limits!
 

"Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else."

~Leonardo DaVinci
 

Teditor, as POTUS you'll need a cabinet, so maybe you should appoint ER as Secretary of the Interior. That'd keep him out of any international diplomatic incidents.

Dr. ER would, of course, be great as Secretary of Education.
 

"As Cheney told CNN, he has been 100 percent heart attack free since ascending to the vice presidency. He added, 'In fact, rather than giving me stress, being vice president has actually fueled my blackened soul, allowing me to gorge vampire-like on the bloody nectar of unlimited power.' I'm sorry that should have read 'I never felt better.'" —Jon Stewart, on Dick Cheney's insistence that he is the picture of health.
 

Number of Pork Projects in Federal Spending Bills

2005 - 13,997
2004 - 10,656
2003 - 9,362
2002 - 8,341
2001 - 6,333
2000 - 4,326
1999 - 2,838
1998 - 2100
1997 - 1,596
1996 - 958
1995 - 1439
 

"Beware the Woman that Lives on the Hill, For She is not on the Level."
Hezakiah 12:12
 

"Pork, it's what's for dinner."
- a dyslexic commentator torn between ad copy from the pork council and the beef folks.
 

"Beef, the other white meet."
- same announcer, still confused.
 

"Behold the power of pork."

--same announcer, getting cheesey
 

"Behold the power of POTUS!"

--Teditor on a roll
 

"As far as I can tell "Mad Cow Disease" hasn't hurt a single person in this county. Now "Mad Cowboy" that's a whole other matter."
Sheriff Earl Dickinson, Chugwater, Wyoming
 

"Bird flew. So what? If bird DIDN'T fly, now THAT would be news!"

-- Knightley Higginbotham, editor, Wetupmka, Ala., home of the Holtsville/Slapout Fire & Rescue squad
 

Memorable Quotes from
"That's My Bush!"
(2001)

Karl Rove: The head of the Anti-Abortion group is here, and I hear he's sort of a freak.
George W. Bush: What kind of a freak?
Karl Rove: Well, apparently he was aborted 30 years ago, but survived. He is bitter, he is angry, and he hates being cancelled on.
 

The Plainsman

Wild Bill Hickok:
What started you on the warpath, Yellow Hand?

Yellow Hand:
Where sun rise, white man's land. Where sun set, Indian land. White man come, take our land, kill buffalo, our food. White man promise us food. White man lie. Now Cheyenne buy white man thunder stick. Soon war drum sound in all Indian land. All tribes ride with Yellow Hand. We drive white man, like buffalo, away back to rising sun. Yellow Hand has spoken.
 

"Now, now, now, now, now, now, wait a minute, dadgummit! I say, now, I say, you can still call it THE oval office even if we make it square. It's, it's, it's, it's just a name."

-- Interior Secretary ER, or Foghorn Leghorn, not quite understanding his new role as Secretary of the Interior.
 

A NASCAR theme--just what the Oval Office needs!
 

Good point, Kiki. With that understanding, the office shall stay roundish. Posters and Budweiser flags shall adorn the office of POTUS, I guess.
 

"Gentlemen, start your Injuns!!"

--Interior Secretary under POTUS Teditor, still learning his duties
 

"I giggled outloud at that last comment. Well done, Press Secretary Anon."

-- POTUS Teditor.
 

This is too perfect:

"The novels, by some of Harlequin's bestselling authors, will have plotlines centering on NASCAR and will bear the NASCAR brand on their covers," the companies said in a joint statement.

from http://www.cbc.ca/story/business/national/2005/11/02/nascar-051102.html
 

President Bush Delivers Remarks on the War on Terrorism (excerpted)
Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania
Courtesy FDCH e-Media
Friday, November 11, 2005; 1:13 PM

At this hour, a new generation of Americans is defending our flag and our freedom in the first war of the 21st century. The war came to our shores on September the 11th, 2001………..

In the four years since September 11th, the evil that reached our shores has reappeared on other days in other places:………….

Some call this evil Islamic radicalism, others militant jihadism and still others Islamo-fascism. Whatever it's called, this ideology is very different from the religion of Islam……………

Some have also argued that extremists have been strengthened by our actions in Iraq, claiming that our presence in that country has somehow caused or triggered the rage of radicals…………

I would remind them that we were not in Iraq on September the 11th, 2001…………

And our debate at home must also be fair-minded. One of the hallmarks of a free society and what makes our country strong is that our political leaders can discuss their differences openly even in times of war………..

I also recognize that some of our fellow citizens and elected officials didn't support the liberation of Iraq. And that is their right, and I respect it………….

While it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began……….

Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war……….

The stakes in the global war on terror are too high and the national interest is too important for politicians to throw out false charges………….

These baseless attacks send the wrong signal to our troops and to an enemy that is questioning America's will………..

As our troops fight a ruthless enemy determined to destroy our way of life, they deserve to know that their elected leaders who voted to send them to war continue to stand behind them.

(APPLAUSE)
 

“I am ready,” said the emperor. “Does not my suit fit me marvellously?” Then he turned once more to the looking-glass, that people should think he admired his garments.

The chamberlains, who were to carry the train, stretched their hands to the ground as if they lifted up a train, and pretended to hold something in their hands; they did not like people to know that they could not see anything.

The emperor marched in the procession under the beautiful canopy, and all who saw him in the street and out of the windows exclaimed: “Indeed, the emperor’s new suit is incomparable! What a long train he has! How well it fits him!” Nobody wished to let others know he saw nothing, for then he would have been unfit for his office or too stupid. Never emperor’s clothes were more admired.

“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last. “Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child,” said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. “But he has nothing on at all,” cried at last the whole people. That made a deep impression upon the emperor, for it seemed to him that they were right; but he thought to himself, “Now I must bear up to the end.” And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist."

Hans Christian Andersen
1837
 

Now Teditor,
I've been gone all day. What's this about invading Florida? I know we've got some issues down here, but we are indeed part of the "Righteous South". As I recall, our capital was the only one that did not fall during the War for Southern Independence. Now, we've got some parts that need an attitude adjustment, I'll give you that. As the great Bocephus sang,

We'll put Florda on the right track, 'cuz we'll take Miami back.
If the South would'a won we'd'a had it made . . .
 

How much of Florida will still be there after all the ice melts and the sea water expands from global warming? Are you sure we need to invade something that's going to be an gator invested wading area in the near future? Why not Canada?
Let's invade Canada?
 

"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
 

Okay, Folks, Let's tighten up...

ER will be back tomorrow, and we need to get this thing up over the 100 mark.

Great idea, Teditor! I wish I had been able to participate earlier...
 

I'm thinking maybe bacon and eggs for breakfast today. How about the rest of you?
 

I have a swimming pool chemicals swimming pool site. It pretty much covers
swimming pool chemicals related stuff.

Come and check out swimming pool chemicals if you get time, Nice going !
 

"The mentality that I have, my greatest strength can also be my greatest weakness," Owens said, reading a statement outside his house. "I'm a fighter. I've always been and I'll always be. I fight for what I think is right. In doing so, I alienated a lot of my fans and my teammates.

"This is very painful for me to be in this position," he said. "I know in my heart that I can help the team win the Super Bowl and not only be a dominant player, but also be a team player. I can bring that."
Terrell Owens
 

"Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a — you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities."
— G.W, Bush
Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004
 

I don't see how you can lead this country to succeed in Iraq if you say wrong war, wrong time, wrong place. What message does that send our troops? What message does that send to our allies? What message does that send the Iraqis?
George W. Bush
 

A generation shaped by Vietnam must remember the lessons of Vietnam. When America uses force in the world, the cause must be just, the goal must be clear, and the victory must be overwhelming.
Source: Speech to Republican National Convention Aug 3, 2000
 

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
- Dick Cheney, speech to VFW National Convention, Aug. 26, 2002
 

No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
- Donald Rumsfeld, testimony to Congress, Sept. 19, 2002
 

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard, and VX nerve agent…. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
- George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, Jan. 28, 2003
 

The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder.
- George W. Bush, address to U.S., March 19, 2003
 

Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly…..All this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.
- White House spokesman Ari Fleisher, press briefing, March 21, 2003
 

There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. And….as this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.
- Gen. Tommy Franks, press conference, March 22, 2003
 

We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat.
- Donald Rumsfeld, ABC interview, March 30, 2003
 

But make no mistake - as I said earlier - we have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about. And we have high confidence it will be found.
- White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, press briefing, April 10, 2003
 

You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons....They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two. And we'll find more weapons as time goes on, But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong. We found them.
- George W. Bush, remarks to reporters, May 31, 2003
 

I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.
- Donald Rumsfeld, Senate appropriations subcommittee on defense hearing, May 14, 2003
 

We believe [Hussein] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.
- Dick Cheney, NBC's Meet the Press, March 16, 2003
 

This is about an imminent threat.
- White House spokesman Scott McClellan, press briefing, Feb. 10, 2003
 

I think some in the media have chosen to use the word 'imminent.’ Those were not words we used. We used 'grave and gathering' threat.
- White House spokesman Scott McClellan, press briefing, Jan. 31, 2004
 

For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, [as justification for invading Iraq] because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.
- Paul Wolfowitz, Vanity Fair interview, May 28, 2003
 

If you think the President Bush statement about Inidans is wierd try out this one by President Reagan when he was answering question in the USSR back in 1988.

Q: Mr. President, I've heard that a group of American Indians have come here because they couldn't meet you in the United States of America. If you fail to meet them here, will you be able to correct it and to meet them back in the United States?

The President: I didn't know that they had asked to see me. If they've come here or whether to see t hem there{laughter]— I'd be very happy to see them.

Let me tell you just a little something about the American Indian in our land. We have provided millions of acres of land for what are called preservations—or reservations, I should say. They, from the beginning, announced that they wanted to maintain their way of life, as they had always lived there in the desert and the plains and so forth. And we set up these reservations so they could, and have a Bureau of Indian Affairs to help take care of them. At the same time, we provide education for them—schools on the reservations. And they're free also to leave the reservations and be American citizens among the rest of us, and many do. Some still prefer, however, that way—that early way of life. And we've done everything we can to meet their demands as to how they want to live. Maybe we made a mistake. Maybe we should not have humored them in that wanting to stay in that kind of primitive lifestyle. Maybe we should have said, no, come join us; be citizens along with the rest of us. As I say, many have; many have been very successful.

And I'm very pleased to meet with them, talk with them at any time and see what their grievances are or what they feel they might be. And you'd be surprised: Some of them became very wealthy because some of those reservations were overlaying great pools of oil, and you can get very rich pumping oil. And so, I don't know what their complaint might be.
 

"Who will save the world from all the strange people who think only they can save it?"---Ashleigh Brilliant
 

Q. "Who will save the world from all the strange people who think only they can save it?"
A. Time, inertia, indiference, bread, and circus.
 

Speaking of Presidential Indian policies, look at Jefferson's "secret" policy announce to Congress within the context of the "secret legislation" authorizing Lewis and Clark to undertake a miltary expedition into the foriegn territories of Spain and England.
The Lousinana Purchase was an unknown and fortuitus future event when the Lewis and Clark expedition was first approved by Congress.


"In order peaceably to counteract [their] policy [of refusing absolutely all further sale of their land], and to provide an extension of territory which the rapid increase of our numbers will call for, two measures are deemed expedient.
First: to encourage them to abandon hunting, to apply to the raising stock, to agriculture and domestic manufactures, and thereby prove to themselves that less land and labor will maintain them in this, better than in their former mode of living. The extensive forest necessary in the hunting life will then become useless, and they will see advantage in exchanging them for the means of improving their farms and of increasing their domestic comforts.
Secondly: to multiply trading-houses among them, and place within their reach those things which will contribute more to their domestic comfort than the possession of extensive but uncultivated wilds. Experience and reflection will develop to them the wisdom of exchanging what they can spare and we want, for what we can spare and they want. In leading them thus to agriculture, to manufactures, and civilization; in bringing together their and our settlements, and in preparing them ultimately to participate in the benefits of our government, I trust and believe we are acting for their greatest good."

--Thomas Jefferson: Confidential Message on Western Exploration, 1803. ME 3:490
 

Say Teditor, as POTUS what will be your Inidan Policy?
 

I'm not even going to pretend I read all these comments, but I can't be left out! :)
 

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
 

"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003
 

Are we having fun yet?
 

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
 

I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry. And that's extra scary to me, because there's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run. He's fuzzy.
 

A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.
 

I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off me, you two!"
 

Yo, ER.

S'up?
 

"There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history."

~ Wilma Mankiller
 

Will ER be offended that he gets more comments when he's NOT here? :)
 

Well, Anon, We can hope so...
 

Who's ER?
 

An observation:

There have been three crimes committed in reference to starting the war in Iraq.

The first crime was by the ones who told the lies to justify it.

The second crime was by the ones who believed the lies when they should have known better.

The third crime was by those who knew they were lying and went along with it anyway.

Damning any one crime can not justify the commission of other two. Because a criminal is aided and abetted does not make him innocent.

No one guilty of any of the three crimes should escape their proper punishment.
 

"proper punishment"?
The ghost of Mary Jo has been looking over Ted Kennedy's shoulder waiting for the "proper punishment" now for over 35 years.
 

One of ER's first duties as Interior Secretary under POTUS Teditor will be an issue close to his heart -- eminent domain. It will involve digital TV signals.

To wit: "Americans own an estimated 70 million TV sets that rely on free over-the-air analog signals. Without converter boxes that are expected to cost $60 apiece, those sets will go dark when the analog signals are shut off.
"Those converter boxes will add up. So here's the billion-dollar question: Is this government-mandated transition to digital TV the equivalent of an eminent domain taking? By shutting off the analog signals, is the government required to pay for the converter boxes that will allow analog TVs to keep working?"

--from Boston Globe 11-13-05

Get ready for some righteous indignation!!
 

She should have her own National Holiday.

MJK day.

She gave her life, so that Ted Kennedy would never be president.
 

What in the world is the Senate doing meddling in what kind of TV signal we get, anyhow?

That's about as stupid a thing as they have ever done...
 

Yes, it is Tug.

Sort of like:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm schizophrenic
And so am I.
 

What about your outdated analog television set?
When the analog signal goes away, you don’t necessarily need a new TV to watch the digital signal. If you have cable or satellite, those companies will make the conversion for you within their equipment. If you receive television over-the-air you will need some conversion equipment; either a new television set with a built-in digital tuner or a conversion box to plug in between your antenna wire and the set.
 

So Congress is pushing the analog drop dead date from Dec 31, 2006 to Dec 31, 2008. On that date when several hundred million analog TVs become obsolete, will become the date known in history as the day that Class Warfare began in America between the Analog have-nots and the Digital haves.
 

Will Walmart sell analog TVs for Christmas in December 2008?
 

Hey Techrep will my analog VHS work on a dgital TV?
 

Will your cat bark if you feed him dog food?
 

What this is going to cause (is designed to cause?) is the end of "Over the Air" broadcasting. Won't this make it easier to control content, should anyone ever decide to do such a thing?

And yes, Wal mart will sell Analog TV's until they run out.

Be sure YOU don't buy the last one...

Let the buyer beware.
 

ER hath reurned, yet he hath yet to make a comment. I wonder.

As POTUS, my Indian policy will be such: Take care of 'em like I would anybody else that needs help, whether they be Native American, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, etc.

As my Interior Secretary, ER will be in charge of educating me on the plights of those who are in need of presidential assistance. I suspect I'll be catering to the Sons of the Confederacy. :-)
 

First thing I'd do is point out to POTUS Teditor that our Indian friends (Walking Crow: Glad to meet ya. I don't know where you are, but the Oklahoma American Indians of my acquaintance prefer "Indian") are NOT in the same boat as other minorities.

American Indians have specific rights under the law that minority races do not.

As Sexytary of the Interior, my Indian policy would be based on one main plank, or two:

1. We the People of the United States will not begrudge those Indian trbes who have found such their wealth and their recent business success; nor will we legislate against it.

2. Indian tribes and nations get to decide who their members are.

--ER
 

More on status of American Indian tribes under the law:

http://www.usdoj.gov/otj/sovtrb.htm
 

Well, shivver me timbers!

Ol' ER fell right into place with the new administration under POTUS Teditor!

I had a feeling he'd be thinking: Geez, I go away for a few days and my best friend hijacks my blogspot from under me!
 

I think Sexytary of the Interior would fit right in with my interests. .... and I can't imagine why anybody would want to be POTUS.

I do fear, however, that under POTUS Teditor, the inaugural balls would all be in rodeo arena and involve roughstock of some description. Which would be cool, actually.

LOL. "Inaugural Balls" -- hor d'ouvres at POTUS Teditor's swearing-in ceremony (calf fries)!

Speaking of ... has anybody heard Garth Brooks's new song??? An ode to Chris Ledoux. "Good Ride, Cowboy." It so rocks. Garth is still a class act, all the way.

--ER
 

"That ER, he sure knows how to roll his balls in the right direction. He'll keep me gigglin' through both terms."
-- POTUS Teditor
 

As Interior Sekertary, ER will be the one charged with dispatching any rodents. I have spoken.
-- VPOTUS Trixie
 

Only on public lands. That is, unless POTUS Teditor wants to give me a dual appointment: Sexytary of Interior and Sexytary of Agriculture, under whose auspices critter gettin' and such like usually falls.

--ER
 

Under the current administration, then, if Ag Sexy gets the rodents out, he'd then have to be POTUS on the succession list!!