An email from Ireland to all of their brethren in the States.

A point to ponder despite your political affiliation:

We, in Ireland, can't figure out why you people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States ..
On one side, you had a pants wearing female lawyer, married to another lawyer who can't seem to keep his pants on, who just lost a long and heated primary against a *lawyer, who goes to the wrong church, who is married to yet another lawyer, who doesn't even like the country her husband wants to run!

Now...On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name starts with the appropriate 'Mc' terminology, married to a good looking younger woman who owns a beer distributorship!
What in God's name are ya lads thinkin' over in the colonies!

----------------------------------------------------------------------*-this is one of the best I've heard in a while. How many names can you come up with right off the bat???

An old country preacher had a teenage son,and it was getting time
the boy should give some thought to choosing a profession.

Like many young men, the boy didn't really know what he wanted to
do, and he didn't seem too concerned about it.

One day, while the boy was away at school, his father decided to
try an experiment.

He went into the boy's room and placed on his study table four objects:

A Bible, A silver dollar, A bottle of whisky And a Playboy magazine

'I'll just hide behind the door,' the old preacher said to himself,
'when he comes home from school this afternoon, I'll see which
object he picks up.

If it's the Bible, he's going to be a preacher like me and what a
blessing that would be!

If he picks up the dollar, He's going to be a businessman, and that
would be okay, too.

But if he picks up the bottle, he's going to be a No-good drunkard,
and, Lord, what a shame that would be, and worst of all, if he picks
up that magazine he's gonna be a skirt-chasing' bum.'

The old man waited anxiously, and soon heard his son's footsteps as
he entered the house whistling and headed for his room.

The boy tossed his books on the bed, and as he turned to leave the
room he spotted the objects on the table.
With curiosity in his eye, he walked over to inspect them.

Finally, he picked up the Bible and placed it under his arm. He
picked up the silver dollar and dropped it into his pocket. He
uncorked the bottle and took a big drink while he admired this
month's Centerfold.

'Lord have mercy,' the old preacher disgustedly whispered, 'He's
gonna run for Congress.''

* you may not be crazy but you sure are a hypocrite Michael Moore!!

Michael Moore yesterday called you "crazy" for supporting and voting for Ralph Nader for President.

Michael Moore says we're all crazy.

For supporting a life long crusader for justice who stands with us against corporate control of our society?

Last year, in his movie Sicko, Michael Moore made a passionate argument for a single-payer, Medicare for all health care system.

As he points out, the majority of doctors, nurses and the American people support single payer.

Michael Moore supports single payer.

Ralph Nader supports single payer.

But Obama opposes single payer.

And Michael Moore supports Obama?

And he calls Nader's voters crazy?

No, what's crazy is supporting someone opposed to what you believe in.

(What about the third party voters who supported abolition of slavery and women's suffrage? Were they crazy too?)

Cindy Sheehan qualifies to run for Pelosi's seat
By JUDY LIN, Associated Press Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has qualified to run as an independent against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in November's general election.


San Francisco election officials on Monday said they have verified enough signatures of registered voters on Sheehan's petitions.

Sheehan, whose oldest son was killed in Iraq, became a symbol of the anti-war movement when she began a vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch.

She says Pelosi has failed the country by refusing to cut off funding for the war after Democrats reclaimed the majority in the 2006 elections.

Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill says the speaker welcomes the challenge and has "the highest respect" for Sheehan.

GO CINDY BEAT PELOSI!
LET'S KICK ALL THOSE DO NOTHING CONGRESSMEN AND WOMEN TO THE EFFING CURB!!!
www.cindyforcongress.org

* Oh, I see. Once the white house is out of the question, so is the poverty and college for everyone platform! Why did I ever trust this man? F***ing lying politicians!


Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards is pulling the plug on a scholarship program he started at an Eastern North Carolina high school -- a program he once promised would be a model for the nation under an Edwards presidency.
Edwards' presidential hopes have evaporated. And he recently informed Greene County officials that he would end the pilot program at Greene Central High School.

"We sent a communication out to upcoming seniors and their parents," said Randy Bledsoe, principal of Greene Central High. "Some are saddened that the opportunity is not going to be there for their children. But we've had a lot of positive reaction over the years."

Edwards started the "College for Everyone" pilot program at Greene Central High in 2005, shortly after he was the Democratic vice presidential nominee. It was a privately funded effort designed to increase the number of students at a rural high school who attend college.

The program provided the cost of tuition, fees and books at a public college for one year. In exchange, students had to work at least 10 hours a week while in college, take college preparatory courses in high school and stay out of trouble.

The program cost a total of $600,000 for the first two years and helped 190 students go to such colleges as East Carolina University, Lenoir Community College and N.C. State University. The program will help a third class, Greene County students who graduated this spring, attend college starting in the fall.

Rising high school seniors will not be able to participate.

Pamela Hampton-Garland, the director of College for Everyone, said the Greene County effort was always designed as a three-year pilot.

"The program was a huge success," she said. "The numbers soared. The interest from students and parents and the community rose. It seemed the whole notion of college access changed."

Patrick Miller, Greene County school superintendent, said the Edwards program helped raise the college-application rate from about 26 percent several years ago to 94 percent this year.

Although the College for Everyone Program is being phased out, Miller said he hoped it helped create a culture of college-going in the county. He also noted that there were other programs in the Greene schools encouraging students to further their education.

Edwards had been responsible for raising the money for College for Everyone. It was financed by the Center for Promise and Opportunity Foundation, a Greensboro-based nonprofit organization he started. Edwards' spokesmen had previously declined to disclose the foundation's donors.

During his presidential run, Edwards had said he wanted to extend College for Everyone nationally to 2 million students at a cost of $8 billion. Edwards said he would pay for it by changing the way student loans are made, cutting out banks as middlemen.

"The chance to go to college meant everything in my life, and I want every young person to have the same chance," Edwards said last year during a visit to the high school in Snow Hill.

(News researcher Denise Jones contributed to this report.)

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